The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-13 00:00:00

Do. do., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
. . Account —
Bnenos Ayres 6 per Cent

Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
C•Lnian 6 per Cent • —
Do. 4} per Cent B3
00. 6 per Cont., B •
Do.; 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 931
Do., Scrip £32 paid
C,)lembian, 6 per Cent.
I )anisu, 3 p3r Cent. 1825
D tnubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 691
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 6B
E-tuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Ogyptiar, 7 per Cent .--
Do. Second Issue —

D.,. £5OO Bonds
Do. XlO6 Bonds 931
Do. 1864 ..
Do. .fsio Bonds —
Do. £lOO Bonds ~... 92 11 2
Govorutreut Railway Ottb.uttiros .... 93i 3
Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups —
Do. Account
Du. Coupons
Do. Account —
G.tatemala 5 per Cent . —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p
Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do, Account

Do: Maremmana Itai way
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account -
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French
Kontevidsau 6 per Cent.. .. —
M.oorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada ' —
Do 3 per Can —
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account 761 f
Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 44 per Cent.. 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2,'S 391 40
Do. do., 1°67
Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid —pm
Russian 5 per Cent., 18'22, £ St BBl
Do 44 por Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds B9l 1
Do, do. £B4 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B9l
• Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Sardinian, 5 pbr Cent ... 71 70
Spanish 3 per Cen .
Do Acez•unt ...
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
. Do Passive —
Do Accaant
Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent...,
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account .••
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent, 1862 62 11
Do Account
• Do XVII(' Bonds 634 4
Do. 1863 -
Do 5 per-Oent., 1865
Do Account '
Do 6 per Cent., 1865
Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
1 livideuas on the above payable Ili Loncl,,
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. —
Austrian 0 per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,
Do Account BSZ
Italia?, 5 per Cent. 1831, Ea. Z51.
Do. Account 44 31
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 934
Do. Account, March
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LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

APPLICATION TO COMMIT THE CHAIRMAN
OF THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

An application was made to-Vice-Chancellor Wood to
commit Mr. Parson, the chairman of the Metropolitan
Railway Company, for acting in contempt of the injunc-
tion granted by his Honour in the suit of Bloxam V. the
Company, by the declaration at the late meeting of a
dividend on the consolidated stock of 54 per cent. The
actual order made by the Vice-Chancellor on the motion
for the injunction was, that the court, being of opinion
that the charges for half payments of directors and
auditors and office expenses have been improperly-
charged, on former occasions when dividends have' been
declared, to capital account, that the interest on the
difference between £1,333,000 and £449,000 is not in
any part thereof properly chargeable to capital account,
and that the statements of account' issued by the directors
are founded on aceou,-,4 z;tille enarges
capital account, restrain the company and their
directors from declaring or paying any dividend except so
far as the profits and other income of the compa.ny may
be applicable to such dividend, regard being had to
the provisiors of the special Acts authorising the
several undertakings of the company and those
f the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act. This decision
the Vice• Chancellor prefaced by a reference to the ac'
taken by the directors in connection with the contract en-
tered into with Mr. Kelk for the execution of the Tower.
hill Extension Line, by which contract it was provided that
in order to secure the punctual completion by the 31st of
December, 1867, and instead of penalties, the contractor
s'tould till the line was completed pay the directors .half-
yearly su ^s equiva7ent to interest upon so much of the
00, hare ox.t 1 as shohld be called up and paid at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum until the 31st December,
1865, and 6 per cent. for subsequent half-years until the
completion of the line, which has not been commenced ;
stating that it Would be well for the directors to
reconsider the accounts, as it was clear to him
that it was not a proper thing to regard the sums
thus received from the contractor as profits from which
an income was derived. It was contended in support of
the motion to commit, that his Honour substantially
included that and another item of a somewhat similar
kind in his injunction, and that the chairman in declaring
the di, id n the clidl a 3 ac4.ed up n ac milts-- which were not
notified as the court suggested; and had thereby brought
himself into contempt. The motion also asked that the
dividend might not be paid on Saturday as intended.
The ,Vice-Chancellor, without hearing the other side,
decided to dismiss the motion. He certainly 'was
of opinion that the money received from the con-
tractor could not be regarded as profit. As, however,

it was a matter that was passed, he bad refused to deal
with it in his injunction, his object being to prevent future
mischief. He reserved the question of costs, as an appeal
is set down for hearing before the Lord Chancellor.

ANOTHER DISAPPEARANCE.—Wonder and anxiety

have been raised during the past six or eight days in con-
sequence of the sudden and mysterious disappearance of
a man named William Stewart, foreman to Mr. Owens,
manure merchant. The missing man, who was a careful,
and, as far as known, trustworthy servant, attended to
his master's interest up to the evening on which he disap-
peared. After coming home and taking tea at the usual
time, he changed his clothes and wont out to make two or
three calls at friends' houses. He spent a short time with
the friends he had intended to call upon, and left one of
their houses on the east side of the town at a late hour
with the avowed intention of going home. He did not
reach home, and on inquiries being made it was ascer-
tained that he had been seen early on Sunday morning
passing his own door on the Shore and going to the East-
pier. This led to the supposition that he had fallen into
the harbour, and repeated search has been made for him,
but without success. Stewart, it has been discovered, did
not take out his watch, which he usually carried, that
evening, but it is not known whether he had any money
with him or not. He is about 45 years of ago, a widower,
and has left three of a family.—Edinburgh Courant.

THE PRESENTS TO MR RASSAM.—There is no
one, we are sure, net even Dr. Beke himself, who will
not be glad to hear that Government have received an
official letter, placing it beyond all doubt, on the highest
possible authority, that the money which Mr. Rassam
was charged with improperly receiving from King Theo-
dore was at once credited by him to the State, and duly
entered as such in his public accounts, with a memoran-
dum setting forth that $6,800 were taken back by the
King when Mr. Rassam and his comrades were imprisoned.
We never entertained a doubt upon the subject ourselves ;
but we rejoice to find that the question has now been set
at rest in such a manner as to convince the most sceptical
that the charges brought against this meritorious but un-
fortunate public servant had as little truth as generosity
in them.—Pall-mall Gazette.

THE TRAMWAY MOVEMENT iN LIVERPOOL.--Tho
Liverpool Corporation, at their meeting yesterday, agreed
not to oppose the bill of the Liverpool Tramways Com-
pany, if the promoters consent to the insertion of such
clauses, provisos, and amendments as may be recommended
by the officers of the corporation. Some objections were
raised yesterday on the ground that it would be imprac-
ticable to work tramways in the crowded thoroughfares of
Liverpool ; but it appears that the company have agreed
to make the experiment at their own cost, and to remove
the mile also if the scheme is a failure. They have ar-
ranged, however, for a Imp wheel, which will compel
all other companies using the line to pay a royalty. The
general feeling of the council was that if tramways could
be established without injury or inconvenience to the
public, a cheap and pleasant means of access would bo
afforded to the publie-parkq, which are at the extreme ends
of the town. Mr. G. P. Train has written a letter of advice
to the Liverpool Corporation on the subject of tramways.
It was mentioned at the meeting yesterday, but no action
NY4fi t 0.411 111)04 it

BRIT.IBII
Control. Gold, lira. 1—
4..
IChiverton
fl 1 4‘o 430
C—
liffordGa
.A 1
tcsmo Amalgamated. a(
(Taoist.
23.10.0 5:
;66
Fast Bassett (Illogan) 294 10 12
Aa st Caradon 2.14.6, 5 6
!Ei,:ast Carn Br.a. 3t 2 24
'o.ast Grenville
last Guniaislake 8.3.(, 6
'East Loved 3.0.0 8 9
W'l Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 1* 2
,:zana.tie StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 5
4 Great Laxey, limited all 17 IS
Great South Tolgus —
Crest Wheal Isasy 14.90:
Wheal Vor (Helst.o 41 20 21
9.0.6 11 14
Herod's Foot 5.10.0 35 37
liingston Downs 5.10.6 2t
Margaret (I.Tny Letant 13.17.6 6
Marke Valley
4 wyndy Iron Ore, fina 34 21 11
ew 8 ton .. 501 60 70
north leskear . 354 5 7
4.W11 Bassettallogan
_ North Wheal Crotty 2.13. e 2 3
- Prosper 3.11.0 2 21
_ Pr,:videnee ,Uny Lelan 1 10.0.; 29 11
jS. Caradon (St. Cleer).. 11 390 410
!South Con durrow ......
-ls. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 374 421
tray Park . ........... 35.11.6 6
'Fin ......... b la 14
_ Vigra. and Clogan, lint. all
_ ‘Vest Bassett
.. 1 I /1
W. Caradon (Liskeard It. 1) i 2
'-
WestChivertOn ....... . 11 67 69
I West Seton ...... . ..... 471 115 205
—. Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 85 95
Wheal Buller (ftedruth 10 16 11
Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 18 20
Wheal Seton
Wheal Trelawnev Lis 5.17.0 6 8

PREFERENCE STARES.
Great Northern, 5 percent. rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 107
:teOREJGN.KA.II.W.t
Sambre and Meuse, 5i per cent. pf., p

FOREIGN MIN NS.

Port Phillip, 1 5-15
St. John del Rey, Urn , 201
BANKS.

Agra, lim., A.
Ditto, B, 9
Imperial Ottoman, 91
Loudon Chartered bona of Australia, 231
London Joint Stock, 34
Loudon and 11 esttainstcr, 681 7
Ditto, Scrip, 4 1
Union of London, 341
11IISCELLANICOU11.
New Consolidated Discount, Um ,
Oriental Gas, lirn..
Ditto, new, 1 7-16
Peninsula and Oriental steam,
Dito, new, 1887, 51
Viceroy of Egypt, 7per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 771

ACCIDENT ON THE CALEDONIAN RAIL,NAY.—The
aight mail train from the' south, due at the Caledonian
Railway Station at 25 minutes past 12 o'clock yesterday
morning, was detained at Mid-Calder for several hours,
owing to a block of the line, occasioned by a goods trai n
having got off the metals. On the accident being tele-
graphed to Edinburgh, an engine was despatched as
speedily as possible to Mid-Calder, which brought the train
to Edinburgh. Until the cause of the detention was ascer-
tained, the occurrence caused some alarm among parties
who were expecting friends by the train.
" SHIRKING" AT ETON.—The abolition of this
strange usage is, we believe, the only one of the numerous
recommendations of the commission that has been, as yet,
effectively carried out. Although defunct, it deserves
recording, as a specimen of what Eton boys, and masters
too, once thought " right and honourable." This was
shirking:—lf a boy was seen by a master out of hounds,
or going into any prohibited place, or doing any prohi-
bited act, and he, seeing the master, avoided him, if only
in the ostrich fashion of hiding his head behind a furze-
bush or post, while his legs were all the while visible—
he shirked" the master, and th' latter by a legal fiction
did not " see" the boy ; and what was, perhaps, still
more amusing (if it is amusing at all) was that if the boy
honestly and courageously went forward to meet the
master, he got punished—for disrespect ! The master
would say, "What do you mean by this impertinence in
not shirking me"?—that is, "as the assumption is that
you have a right to do wrong, why don't you avail your-
self of it ?" One of the masters gave it as his deliberate
testimony that this practice was " at the bottom of a
great deal of evil at Eton," inasmuch as " a boy might do
what was wrong, but the fault often seemed to consist in
his being fouud out."—Britith Q um-krill Retior, new
:lumber.