The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-22 00:00:00

Marseilles advices to the 18th inst. report con-
siderable arrivals of wheat from the Black Sea and
Danubian ports, which had slightly checked busi-
ness, but that prices still remained firm.
The proposed conversion of the Tunisian debt is
encountering considerable opposition in Paris, and
its success seems to be doubtful. Part of the plan
includes the creation of a National Bank of Tunis,
with a capital of £400,000, with power of increase
to £2,000,000, of-which the present holders of the
debt may subscribe one-fourth.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
OCVEUNMENT FUNDS.
3 per ()enc. Consols
Do. Account, March 5
per Cent. Reducod q3l
Now 3 per Cent 931
Now 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cent. .) an. 1873..•
Inauitics, 50 vrs, expire sth Jan , 188 e —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Rod Sea Televaph), Au ..., 1908 —
E :chequer Bills, .£l,OOO, 2 per Ct. — Pm
Do £5OO — pm
Do. £lOO tic £2OO — pin
ank of England Stock. 41 por Cent —
Do. Account ...
iNDIAr dOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India 'hock, 104 per Cent., April 1874

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Do. Account
Do. 5 per Ceut..fuly, 1880 -
Do. 4 per Cent.. Oct. 18M

Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cont., Jan. 1872
Do. 5,% per Cent., May 1879
Do 5 per Cent., Rap. Deb., 1872
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 --
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Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do.. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICI S.
Ar ;entine Republic, 6 per Cent
Au Arian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859
B:a2.ilian 5 per Cent
-13. 41 per Cont., 1852
Do. do., 18-8
Do. d 0.,. 18 ;o
Do. do., 1863
D. 5 per Cent., 18.65
Do Account
BueLos Ayres 6 per Cent
DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cents;
Coba, 6 per Cent.
C“dian 6 per Cent
Da. 41 per Cent
Do. 6 per Cent., B .
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per ,Cent, 1866
Do., Scrip £32 paid
O inbian, 6 per Cent.
Detnisti. 3 p it Cont., 1825
D cnnbian Principalities, 7 per Cent .... . .
Do 8 per Cent, 1867 671
E trador Now Consolidated, 1 per Com—
6gyptian, 7 per Cent
)0. Sec odd Issue _
D .C5)O Bonds
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Do. xioe Bonds 891-
Do. 1861 " B7 .1
Do. £s'io Bonds BB*
Do. £lOO Bonds B9t
Government Railway Debentures ..... 92
Greek, 5 per Cent., 182415, ex Coups. —
I Do. Account
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Do. Coupons •
Do. Account •
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G iateinala 5 per Cent ..
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., .£25 p
It hail 5 per Cent., 1865
Do, Account .
Do..l.laremmana Raiway
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account • 151

Dn. 1864
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French
Montevideau 6 per Cent.
Moorish imperial 5 per Cent
Now Granada

Do 3 per Cen —
. Do. :Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account 761 6 i
Do 41 por Cent. (Uribarreu)
' Do 44 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'11 394 1
Do. do., 1' 67 39
Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid. I4 pm
Russian 5 per Cent., 18zz, £ St —
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 'per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864 £lOO Bonds —
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Sardinian, 5 per Cent —
. Spanish 3 per Cen
Do Account ..
Do New Deferrail —
Do Account
Do Passive —
Do Account
Do Com. Cert. of Cou,:. not funded
Do Account
Tu .kish 6 per Cent. - .
Oo Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 694
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do ACColltle,
Do .£IOC Bonds 63- 4
Do. ' 1863
Do 5 per 'lent., 1865
Do Account • 33 21 -
Do 6 per Cent., 1865
D , I por Cent., --Guaranteed ....,.. ...
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. "
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I'o 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1t64
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..,„
Divideuas on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., E. 251.
Austrian a par Cent. Ex lu Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,. —
D,, Account
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, E:-. 25f.
464 i 54 61 51
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THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 93 1
Do. Account, March 93 4

was burned
which was one
efinAelsbt
darnaTmaAticcasdtrueturl
of the
built by the late Mr.
to the ground recently. It was
was managed
Trimble, and st the time of its destruction
i n our Music, country,
by his daughter, Miss Trimble. The lady possessed great
administrative ability, and would have made her mark as
one of the leading managers in the profession. Loss about
$10,000.-IVilkes' Spirit af the Times
Brigham Young once offered Charles Kean a
al tour.
fabulous sum to visit his dominion on a profession
the
Kean declined, dreading the hardships and dangers of
overland trip from California. -
Tim BniTisri INSTITUTION. —A project is on foot,
and with good hope of being realised, for re-establish-
ing the British Institution on a new footing, and
thereby continuing the highly interesting annual exhi-
bition of works by old masters and by deceased
British artists, of which we were in danger of being
deprived.
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT. —John Carter, cashier,
who has been for fifteen years in the service of
Messrs. Laird Brothers, shipbuilders, was charged
before the Birkenhead magistrates, yesterday, with
embezzling upwards of £BOO. The examination
showed that the prisoner had been a defaulter for
several years. He stated that he had been
induced to take the money to eke out his salary, which
was at first very low, hoping in time to make good
the deficiency. Some of the money had been spent
upon houses in Chester-street, Birkenhead. Mr. J.
Laird, jun.., said that his firm did not wish to press the
case hardly against the 'prisoner, as he had been a
long time in their service, and he asked whether it
could not be dealt with summarily. Mr. Preston, the
stipendiary magistrate, said the amount was too large
to justify him in dealing with the case summarily, and
the prisoner was committed for trial. Mr. Laird said
that for several years Carter had been receiving • a
salary of £lBO ner annum.
RAILWAY ACCOUNTANTS. —We are glad to be able
to announce that the attention of the directors of the
leading lines of railway has been directed to the
necessity of adopting some improved and uniform
system of presenting the accounts of railway com-
panies. The chairman of the Midland Railway
stated, at the meeting on Wednesday, that the
accountants of the great companies were now con-
ferring together to devise some better form of
accounts, so as, if possible, to give them greater
similarity in plan, and thus render them more valuable
for the purpose of comparison. We have reason to
believe that the next half-yearly accounts will show
the result of this eonference.—Railway News.
ALLEGED RAILWAY . CARRIAGE ASSAULT. —On
Thursday,. a young man named 'William Owen Jones,
who is the son of a large farmer and an articled pupil
to a solicitor, was charged laefore the magistrates at
Corwen, with indecently assaulting Mrs. E. Edwards,
the wife of a watchmaker in the town. The com-
plainant was travelling in a second-class carriage on
the night of the 10th instant, between Denbigh and
Ruthin, and the defendant was her only fellow-pas-
senger. Some time after the train had started, the
lefendaut, it was alleged, began to joke improperly
with Mrs. Edwards, proposed an • elopement,
and at length, after taking various slight
liberties, assaulted her as complained. At Gwyd-
delwern, a roadside station, he left the train,
as he was courting in that neighbourhood ;
but being told by the station-master that "a certain
party was at Corwen," lie re-entered the train, though
he took his seat in another carriage, and travelled to
Corwen. On the one hand, it was alleged that the
complainant reached home in a greatly disordered
state, and complained of ill-usage at the hands of the
defendant ; while, on the other hand, it appeared
that, with one exception, she did not complain to
any of the company's servants. A railway policeman,
who lodged with the complainant, stated that on
arriving -at Corwen she complained to him of having
'been treated in a " dreadful way ;" but she did not
name any person. The' .case. was adjourned to