The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

Brazilian 5 per Cent —
03. li per Cent., 1852 —
Do. do. 18.18 —
Do. do., 1841, -
Do. do., 1863 . . GS}
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account
B -enos Ayres 6 per Cont. -
Do 2 per Cent. (DeferrKl 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Cultism 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent —
00. 6 per Cent., B —
Do., 1867
D 0.,. 7 per Cent.,
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C , nibitiii, 6 per dent.
D misti, 3 per Cent., 1825......... —
Panubian Principalities, 7 I,a. Cent 721
111 Do 8 per Cent., 1867 • . 84
uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
E ;yptian, 7 per Cent —
o Secoad Issue ..
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. £IOC Bonds —
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. .£stm. Bonds Bl4
Do. £lOO Bonds ~... 814
I 'English Scrip, 1868 72 14 24
Do do. £l5 pd — dis
Government tilil way Oelwiiture, 964 4
GreeK 5 per Cont., 1824" 5, ex Coups —

Do. Account
Do. Coupona
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
G taremala 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., all pd 911
It littu. 5 per Cent., 1865 —
.-)o. Account ... —
Do Maremmana Railway —
",,xicat 3 per Cent —
0 )itto for Account
Do. 1864 —
iontevicloan 6 per Cent. .. —
vloorish imperial 5 par Cent
New Granada
Do 3 per Can
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Poravian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account B2 li
Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 44 per Cent, 1862 • —
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ot., 1853,'6, 7,'9,'60,'2,'. 371 4
Do. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
R issian 5 per Cent., 1822, .£ St
Oo 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ,....,„. 89 1.
Do. Anglo-Dutcb, 1861, ..£lOO Bonde... 901 1
Do. do. .£Bl 15s. do. ..,
Do., 1866, .£lOO Bonds
Do. do £B4 los. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 6Bl 4
Sardinian o per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen . —
Do. Account
Do. 1867 — i
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred
Do. Account
Do. Passive —
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do de, Scrip 34 pm
Turkish 6 per Cent.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ...
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
Do .£lof Bonds 724
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
D , Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 6f 71
DJ 4 per Cent., Guaranteed ....
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
Do. Acc&ant
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 f —
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do. 5 per Cent. o an. 1873
kinuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Dividends on the above payable ia Lon ot
Austrian 0 psr Cent. Ex 10 Florin~
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, E:... zsf.

Do. Account
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch z per ('Pint. Ex. 12 Gail
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ......
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. lOl 50

Dj Account
TWO O'OLOOK.

Consuls, Money 941
Do. Account, Nov. 5 .......

EXTRAORDIA ARY SCENE AT ASTLEY'S THEATRE

LAST NIGHT.

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Last night being the benefit of two of the mem-
bers of the late Commonwealth, who for a few
days carried on the management of this theatre, a
very strange scene took place. The pieces to
be produced were " The Ticket-of-Leave Man "
and " Oliver Twist," and at a little before seven
o'clock a considerable audience had ass"mbled to
ultiless them. TLe band played two overtures, and
then left the theatre in a body, sending shortly
afterwards for their instruments and music. No-
thing then succeeded to occupy th.a attention of the
audience, who naturally became impatient, and tr 5-
tified it by hooting and hissing, many of them de-
manding their money back, which was refused. Mr.
Stacey at length appeared and stated that the band
refused to play until they were paid, at the same
he deprecated this conduct and said it would take
the wealth of the Bank of England to pay off the
old debt—they would do the best they could
without music. After another long interval,
" Peculiar People" was performed amidst hisses
and commentaries of all kinds. Another
long interval occurred, during which the audience
amused themselves with every description of chaff,
and at length two scenes in " Oliver Twist" were
gone through, when the curtain dropped finally
and the audience dispersed. It was fortunate that
this contretemps occurred on a benefit night, as a
large number of spectators were friends of members
of the company; if it had not been so, mischief
would most prboably have ensued.

THE GUARD-ROOM AT THE HORSE

GUARDS.

To what tortures is poor humanity put for the
sake of appearance ! As if the misery of being
compelled to sit on horseback for hours together,
in a stiff and complicated uniform, for the special
admiration of small boys and nursemaids passing
by, were not sufficient, the splendid fellows who
form our Household Cavalry are compelled to un-
dergo other sacrifices which, if not so public, are
not the less real on that account. Passing from
the office of the Quartermaster-General we re-
quested a tall and bearded Scotchman, who was
lounging about the Hoi'se Guards gate, to show his
guard-room, which, of course, we expected to find
in keeping with the whiteness of his breeches or
the shining of his boot and helmet. Alas ! nothing
of the kind. He offered to show his quarters with
a species of apology. " Take care," said he, as
we passed along the dark corridor, with its
glimmering of gas to replace the daylight we
had left, " take care, for it is sare dark and
ye may tumble up the steps." And so we
groped our way into a wretched guard-room,
with a miserable fire and a few bare benches and
tables, from which the remnants of dinner had been
but just removed. Not a single comfort to be seen.
The windows small and dark, and the place more
conformable to the back kitchen of a pothouse than
to a place where decent men, in a clean and splen-
did uniform, might be expected to abide. There
were 13 men on guard, two corporals being lodged
in separate rooms—one in a solitary cell below,
the other in a dirty and neglected room above,
where, most erroneously, he is supposed to sleep.
Ascending an open staircase we reached a large
and comfortless barrack-room, where several weary
warriors were resting on their beds, encased in
uniform, not, we may reasonably suppose, in expec-
tation of being called to sudden duty, but simply
because the day was cold, and a single gaslight did
scant duty for a fire. Nor was their kitchen in a
better state. Descending below the surface of the
earth, we found ourselves beneath an ancient-look-
ing crypt, reminding us strongly of cathedral vaults.
Three coppers and a table constitute its furniture.
All the food is boiled, and, to our astonishment,
these fine guardsmen, like woodcocks, live by
suction, although our Scotch conductor assured
us that the soup was " vera gude." We were toll
that an oven had been promised several (years ago;
but, alas ! it was:an extravagance bayomithe public
means, and has never yet arrived. Emerging into
the air, we passed the mounted statue in his
canopy, waiting patiently kir the moment when,
like the Commandant in " Don Juan," he might
descend to supper, with the reflection that if the
nation indulges in absurd vagaries, it is bound at
least to see that its victims are housed and fed with
some regard to decency.-7he Lancet.