The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-29 00:00:00

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araek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups l2l
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Honduras Gov. Rail. 1.•0an., 7p. Ct., £l5 pd pin
lt3iian 5 per Cert., 1865
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Moorish imperial 5 per Coot
Now Granada
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Perrvian 5 per Cent. 1865
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Ports 7uese 3 per Ct., 1853,T, '7, 391
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Do 3 per Cent., 1839
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
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Senn Ali 3 per Con
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Do. 1863
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Venezuela, 3' per Cent.
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian o per Cent. En 10 Florins
4} per cent., Ex. 25f.
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ALBION BANK (LIMITED).—At a meeting of
shareholders, held yesterday at the offices of the com-
pany, 18, West, Smithfield—Mr. John Hall, jun., in the
chair--it was reported that the gross earnings for the past
half year amounted to £4,322 18s. 2d., which enabled the
directors, after paying the current expenses, to declare a
dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, carryi'g
forward £575 19s. 10d. to the profit and loss account of
next half year.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES IN THE CITY.—It is under-
stood that notice has been given to the effect that the Lord
Mayor does noc at present consider it necessary to con-
tinue the enrolment of special constables for the City, but
should any occasion arise a special day will be appointed
for that purpose. It may be added that the distribution of
staves to those who have been already sworn in will be
commenced immediately.

ALTERATION IN THE NEW MAIL SERVICE.—The
time-table originally prepared for the new postal service
having proved in some respects unsatisfactory as regards
the Australian mails, a now table, slightly altered, has been
issued by the Peninsular and Oriental Company at the re-
quest of Government. Under the previous arrangement
the inward Australian mail would have arrived three or
four days after the despatch of the outward one, causing a
delay of more than three weeks in answering the home-
ward letters. In order to obviate this, the second outward
China mail under the new contract, which would have
been despatched on Friday, the 20th March, is postponed
until Friday, the 27th. There will thus be an interval of
three weeks instead of a fortnight between the two March
mails for China, but after that they will leave London
every alternate Friday, in accordauco with the original
scheme.—London and China Telegraph.

PRESENTS TO SUIT EVERY PURPOSE, TASTE, AND
POCKET AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—Photographic Albums
a choice of 3,000; despatch boxes, writing cases, dressing
cases, travelling bags, envelope eases, blotting hooks, ink
stands, desks, book slides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand
bags and reticules, card cases, purses, stationery cabinets,
scent bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, &c.; cigar
cases, card baskets, pocket books, electro-gilt and elegantly
mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser.
vices, in every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford-
street. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new
and fresh, consequent upon a rapid saIe.—(ADVT.)
CATIIBIZIDGESIIIRE AND ISLE OF ELY AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY. —The annual meeting of this society was
held on Monday, at Cambridge. Lord Royston,
M.P., occupied the chair. The Duke of Rutland was
elected president for the year; and Colonel Duncombe,
S. Newton, and 11. Thurnall, Esqs., vice-presidents.
The report spoke of the success which attended the
show held at Wisbech last year, and that there was
now a balance in favour of the society of 0£43 Gs 10d,
while the arrears were £9O 123. It was agreed that
the next annual show of the society should be held at
Newmarket, in July, the day to be fixed upon at a
future meeting.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE—DAMAGES
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Ogilvy,of r marriage,g
Cowden House, Perthshire, was defendant, and Miss
Fanny Pugh, residing at the North Western Hotel,
Stafford, was pursuer, was tried before Lord Barcaple
and a jury, in the Court of Session, at Edinburgh,
yesterday. The pursuer is daughter of the late
Ben-
jamin Pugh, of Treberth, Pembrokeshire, gentleman
she was managing the Crewe Arms Hotel, at
her,
and, when the defender became acquainted with
and, as she alleged, not only promised marriage, but
wrote to Mr. Halsey, in whose employment she then
was, a letter announcing that he was to be married to
Miss Pugh, and that he hoped he would be able *to
dispense with her services under the usual month's
warning. The defender subsequently broke off the
engagement, and in 1866 married Sarah Boyden,
daughter of the late Henry Boyden, of Bir-
mingham, pew-opener at the Jewish Synagogue.
Damages were laid at £5,000 ; the jury returned a
verdict for £1,200.
003131ITYAL OF PRECOCIOUS CRIMINALS.-011 Satur-
day a suns of about £24 was stolen from a butcher's
shop at Castletown, Stafford, under extraordinary
circumstances. It seems that during the morning the
manager hung up his coat in the shop, there being in
one of the pockets a bag containing the sum in ques-
tion. Shortly afterwards the bag was found to have
been stolen. In the course of Sunday nine lads (eight
of whom are under thirteen years of age, and one or
more only eight years old), a young girl of fourteen, and
her mother, were apprehended upon suspicion of being
concerned in the theft. The accused were brought
before the magistrates yesterday, when it was
shown that two of the lads, Thomas Emery and John
Keeling, were in the shop on the day named, and stole
the money bag. The whole of the prisoners were
proved to have been at various public-houses together
on Saturday night and Sunday morning, and to have
been served with brandy and other drinks. They
also amused themselves by gambling. The children
next visited the house of the elder female prisoner,
where they again engaged in drinking and gambling,
and one of the lads was seen to give the woman,
whose name is Jane Kelly, some money. The pri-
soners, with the exception of one of the lads, were
committed for trial. Upon the delinquents being
handed into the prison van, they were loudly cheered
by the rabble congregated.
MR. MILNER GIBSON AND nrs CONSTITUENTS.—
The Right Hon. Milner Gibson addressed a large
meeting of his constituents at Ashton last night, the
Mayor presiding. The right hon. gentleman expressed
his views on all the prominent topics of the day, his
speech occupying an hour and a half. He believed
our commercial difficulties were but temporary, and
attributed them in part to our neglect to stipulate for
free exchange in our colonies when we granted them
self-government. He feared the new Confederation
would extend the Canadian protective duties to
the adjacent colonies. Referring to Reform, Mr.
Gibson characterised personal rating as a delusive
attempt at restriction—the £l2 county franchise to a
limit that could not be maintained ; and the minority
vote an unconstitutional innovation which he hoped
would speedily be removed. After advocating the
ballot as urgently required, he proceeded to review
the education questions, and expressed his desire
to co-operate with Mr. Bruce, preferring for
his own part a rating system and secular
schools. Respecting Irish affairs, he would favour a
closer union than ever with England. He would
abolish the useless vice-royalty. He deplored the un-
due ascendancy of classes in Ireland, and regarded
Fenlanism as the bitter fruit of Irish misgovernment,
and of our mistaken course during the American war.
He believed the Alabama controversy would be re-
served for settlement by a new government both in
America and England, who would be unpledged and
unfettered by the past utterances of their predeces-
sors in office. The right hon. gentleman received a
, 411441494 yote 0 co4fi4iNce.