The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-03 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im.
portance in the Gazette :
John Delany, merchant, Islington
Alfred Lion, commission merchant, Old Broad•street
J ohn Ogden, cotton spinner, Oldham
Charles Hunt, brass caster, Birmingham
James T. Richards, grocer, Dalston
Thomas Slatford, builder, Holloway
John R. Cain, hosier, Leicester
Frederick Spurr, hosier, Nottingham
Auguste Daniel, water and electro gilder, Frith streets
Soho

Henty A. Ringo, grocer, Ipswich
William Stein, baker, Shevills-buildings, Mile End
Robert B. Howard, dealer in curiosities, Migh Holborn
Thomas Pool, jun., bricklayer, Harrow
Wm. Kaye, builder, Sutton- street, Soho
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Charles Bird, chemist, Worcester
Matthew Porter, beer seller, Baycliffe
John Roberts, land surveyor, Merionetb.

SCO ICH BANKRUPTS.
J. and J. Martin, grocers, Glasgow
James Murdoch, grocer, Glasgow
William Robertson, plumber, Leith
John Fitziimions, fishmonger, Edinburgh

Course of Exchange,---Yesterday,

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 If 12 1:
Antwerp - 25 65 25 70
Brussels — 25 65 25 70
Hamburgh
25 25 61 13 oi
Paris ... Short. 25 30
Ditto ..........
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine.. 1204 120 k
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 31 311
Berlin —
Madrid

Cadiz

Leg horn
Milan

25 75 25 80
25 77. 25 82f

Genoa
Naples
Palermo

25 77i 25 824
25 774 25 82i
25 774 25 80

Messina — 25 77i 25 80
Lisbon
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) ..per oz., £3 17 9
Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 5 Of

BERNE, Sept. 2.—The election of M. Cheneviere
to the Geneva Council of State was declared valid
by the Federal Council to-day. Geneva is quiet.

A GENTLEMAN ATTACKED BY BEES.—Oa Thurs.,
day, while Dr. Bonthron, of West Linton, Peebles'
shire, was being driven along the road leading from Gar-
vald to the railway station at Dolphinton, he was attacked
by a swarm of bees, apparently newly " cast off," and so
severely stung on the face and head as to be unable to
attend to his duties for the present. His face and head be-
came dreadfully swollen and disfigured an hour or two
afterwards, the eyes being firmly closed, and the face and
throat greatly swollen and discoloured,while a considerable
amount of fever has set in from the effects of the poison—
in fact, but for the precautions taken, it is probable that
the case would have proved fatal. The driver of the vehicle
was also stung cn several parts of the head and neck, and
only escaped further mischief by a timely use of whip and
rein. The queen bee of the cast must have flown directly
on Dr Bonthron's head, from the instantaneousness with
which he was perfectly covered by the bees ; and it is sup-
posed that the motion of the vehicle mast have irritated the
insects to use their stings. upwards of 30 bee-stings were
taken out of Dr Bonthron's face, neck, and head,—
Scotsmen,
AMERICAN
WHEAT CROP.—The Cincinnati Ga.
:ette gives the "summing up of the wheat harvest"
as follows : —Minnesota, an increase of 2,800,000 bushels ;
NVinconein. one-third of an average crop; lowa, a de-
ficiency of about 1,100,000 bushels ; Illinois, two-thirds of
an average crop, or a deficiency of 600,000 bushels. But
the /Vc.to York World represents that the deficiency of
wheat and Indian corn will be very great, and that the loss
upon all crops in the Stites this year, comparing it with a
year of good harvests, may reach 175,000,000 dole.
MAKING HER FORTUNE.—A celebrated Russian
countess appears decidedly to have got the clue to the art
of winning at roulette ; she is to be seen every day, and
from morning till night, seated at the Baden-Baden table,
where she wins fabulous sums of money.

GOLDSMITH'S GREEN ARBOUR-COURT, says the
Athenceunt, will soon belong only to memory, and pilgrims
will look in vain for the old " Breakneck-steps" by which
the court was gained on the west side, and which marked a
portion of the steep face of old London-wall.
THE COST OF THE ERECTIoN OF THE ENORMOUS
HOTEL AT CHARING-CROSS TERMINT:3, ROW in course of
completion, is above £120,000, A sum of £20,000 is allotted
t:of furnishing the hotel.