The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-17 00:00:00

Course of Exchange,—Yesteray,

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 181 12 19
Antwerp ~ .. 25 521 25 571
Brussels — 25 521 25 571
Hamburg .. ,-- 13 71 13 8
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 52/ 25 571
_ _ .

Frankfort on Maine
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan

1201- 1201
12 5 12 12f
12 5 12 12f
291 304

46 46%
• 47 471
25 7) 25 771
25 70 25 77i

Genoa — 25 70 25 75
Naples
Palermo — 25 70 25 75
Messina — 25 70 25 75
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......per oz., £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars.
Sther in Bars (Standard). 0 0 0

Foreign Mail Packet List.
MAILS DUE.

,wstralia e.nd Mauritius, via Southampton ..Dec. 19.
v!a Marseille9; Jan. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 5.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 29.
-Ihina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southamptun.Dec. 19,
via Marseilles Dec. 27.

1 Falkland Islands •
Gibraltar, via Southamptt n Dec. 19,
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 19.
via Marseilles Dec, 27,
India (Bombay), via Southampton , Dec. 27,
via Marseilles Dec. 21,
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec.l2.
via Marseilles Dec, 19.
Ne rfoundland
Op irto and Vigo •
U.' 8. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec 21.
by U.S. packet
by Canadian paoket Dec. 16.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 10.
West Indies and Pacific
Bahamas (via New York) Dec. 15.
Bermuda (ditto)
Cuba and Mexico ..Dec. 29.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865.
JANT:ARY.

Manchester 2

FEBRUARY.
Lincoln spring Nottingham Spring 28
_ _

MARCH.

Derby Spring
Liverpool Spring
Shrewsbury Spring

Doncaster Spring
NVarri ick Spring
Chelmsford Spring .. 23
Catterick Bridge
Thirsk 2l
Epsom Spring .... 25

Northampton 4
Croston Park 7
Durham
Newmarket Craven

Newmarket Ist Spring.. 1
Chester
York Spring

Salisbury
Bath
Epsom Summer
NE.
Hampton
Newton
Newcastle
Worcester Summer . ,
'LY.

Epsom Summer (con.) 1
Manchester 7
Ascot
Alexandra Park.. 2O

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Pontefract ..

Nottingham Summer .. IS
Chesterfield
Goodwood

AUG

Huntingdon
Reading
Egharn
Oxford l7
York August

Plymouth • • 24
Lichfie:d . 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summer .. ;i0
Weymouth
'EMBER.

SEPT.
Weymouth (continued), 1
Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon

OCT

Northall2rton
Newmarket Second Oct. 95 I
NOYE:

Worcester Autumn

Richmond . l9
Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist October, 26
IBEX

EALING STE]
Weights for the Middlesex I:

Newmarket Houghton.. 23
I Worcester Autumn .... 31
:MBER.

st lb

Serious Case l2 7
Ironsides
Portland ll 10
Sly Fox ll 7
Globule
I)obbyn
Premier
Gorsehawk
~ ~

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Piggy Wiggy
Bravo ll 2
Fenton
Ivanhoff ...

(continued) 1

PLECIIASES.
[andicap• Three miles and a

et lb
The ROgno
Yeller Gil
Shuttlecock
Agag
Old Squire lO 7
Bracknell
Little Dick .. 10 7
Attaman
Overton
Aggressor .......... 10 4
Ned of the Hills .... 10 0

SIIAKSPERE AT NEW PLACE.---The "Squire" of
New Place, during the last three years of his life,
seems to have cast no lingering
look behind him on the
h
stage he kid quitted. Beyond
a scrap of his handwriting, and, during his lifetime, besides
the low impressions of seine of the separate plays, evidently
little else Una "the book of the play," to be sold within
the walls of the theatre during the performance, not one
of his great masterpieces was seen by himself through
the press. Strange, too, that we have no origi-
nal play-bills of the performances of the players at the
Globe or at the theatre in Whitefriars, seeing that the fact of
play-bills being printed by English performers at the period
in which be flourished is placed beyond doubt by ono issued
iu Germany by an itinerant company of English comedians
of his day with whom it has been attempted to associate
him, by some recent critics, which is preserved in the town
library of Nuremberg. A facsimile of this lherary curio-
sity will be given in Mr Cohn's faihconaing volume of
Shakspere in Germany," some of the sheets of which we
have been permitted to inspect. The performers there un-
dertake to give representations daily, punctually at two
o'clock, of cwnedies, histories, tragedies, and drolls—a sub-
' division of plays which has a true Shaksperiau ring about
it,—The .Reader of To day. •