The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-20 00:00:00

The Storniontfield Ponds,

Our readers are familiar with the experiment
which has been carried on by the proprietors of
salmon fishing on the Tay during the last 10 or 11
years as to the artificial propagation of salmon.
They are also aware, through our columns, that in
former years the experiment at the Stormontfield
Ponds, in the neighbourhood of Perth, was highly
successful, and that a considerable number of the
marked fish reared in these ponds had been landed
in the Tay, Fe? th, and other Scottish rivers.
We paid a visit to the Stormontfield Ponds
on Tuesday, and Mr. Marshall most kindly showed
LS all the operations under his most efficient
superintendence. The number of ova put
into the breeding-boxes at the end of 1862
was about 200,000, the fry from which,
in March, April, and May, 1563, numbered upwards
of 200,000, and are now in the smolt state in the
large pond communicating with the Tay. The fish
are leaving daily, and it is expected that the more
advanced portion of them will have all left the pond
by the end of the current month. The smolts are in
a most lively and healthy condition, and on their
keeper throwing into the pond a very small quantity
of liver, with which they are fed, hundreds of them
rise to the surface, and devour the liver most
greedily. It may be mentioned that in the bottom
of the pond there is a great profusion of aquatic
plants, the seed of which came through the breed-
ing-boxes from the Stormontfield lade which com-
municates with the River Lay. Owing to the high
floods in the Tay in the months of November and
December 1863, the supply of ova for the breeding•
boxes was not so large as in the previous years.
The number of ova was about 130,000. They were
hatched on the 31st of March last, and the first de•
velopment of complete fish was on the 6th current.
A good deal of ova is yet in the tadpole state at
the bottom of the breeding boxes, which are in 25
lines, 12 boxes in each ; the boxes in all amount to
300. A very large smolt-pond is in course of con-
struction, and the proprietors of salmon fishings on
the Tay who contribute to the promotion of the ex-
periment appear to spare no trouble or expense in
the full development of the scheme.—Scotsman.

01,TEY MARKET

AND
COMMZIWIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Money Market continues to exhibit symp-
toms of a satisfactory character. The charge for
negotiating first class bills is still n per cent., or
under the official quotations. The demand for ac-
commodation is large, but as capital is abundant,
bankers and brokers evince a desire to compete for
the business brought forward.
About £73,000 in gold was taken into tho Bank
yesterday.

The Ceylon which left this morning for Calcutta
and China took out £68,670 in specie.
The alterations exhibited in the weekly return
of the Bank of England are exceedingly favourable.
The bullion and reserves of notes have been largely
augmented, and the other changes also denote that
the position of the establishment continues satis-
factory. Subjoined are the particulars:—

Active Circulation .. £20,819,535
Decrease .. .. 139,315
Bullion .. 13,267,446
Increase 562,195
Rest .. ** ** 3,280,727
Increase 15,907
Public Deposits 7 566 661
Increase .. 267,167
Other Deposits.. 12,962,402
Increase .. 61,242
Seven Day and other Bills .. 493,817
Decrease .. .• 26,320
Government Securities 10,785,267
No alteration.
Other Securities 20,973,429
Decrease 384,574
Notes Unemployed .. 6,431,630
Increase .. 681,920
At a meeting of holders of Deferred Mexican
Bonds held yesterday, at 11, Warnford-court, Mr.
I. Gerstenberg in the chair, the following resolution
was adopted—" Resolved, to appoint, with power to
add to their number, Messrs. I. Gurstenberg, A.
Cohen, Thomas Moxon, Albert Levy, and J. Searle,
83 a committee to represent the interests of the hol-
de rs of Mexican Deferred Bonds, with full powers
to effect an arrangement of the said bonds with
the Imperial Mexican Financial Commission."
A new banking institution for Venezuela has
been announced under the title of the London and
Venezuela Bank. The nominal capital is half a
million sterling, and the first, issue will only amount
to £250,000 in shares of £5O each. Arrangements
have been made for the transfer of the business of
the Bank of Caracas, and the directors of that es-
tablishment have joined the new board. The prin-
cipal control of the bank is to be vested in the board
of directors in England, and Mr. Henry Alex.
Hanhey has been appointed chairman.
During the last few days a firmer tone has pre-
vailed in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Mar-
kets, although business has in some measure been in-
terrupted by the Whitsuntide holidays. Sugar has
advanced 3d. to Bd. per cwt., while coffee has sold
at fully previous rates. In rice and cocoa there has
been about an average amount of business, without
any material change in values, while tallow has
continued in very limited request, and quotations
for both present and forward delivery have shown
a downward movement.

At an extraordinary general meeting of the
shareholders of the Metropolitan and Provincial
Bank, Mr. Gilpin, M.P., in the chair, the resolu-
tions previously adopted for increasing the capital to
£4,000,000 were confirmed.

The biddings for 30,1)0,000 rupees /300,000) in
bills on India, took place yesterday at the Bank of
England, and the folio. ming are the official parti-
culars:—The proportions allotted were, to Calcutta
15,30,000 rupees, to Bombay 12,00,000 rupees, and
to Madras 2,70,000 rupees. The mininurn price was,
as before, le. 11f d. on. Calcutta and Madras, and
ls. 111 d. on Bombay. The applications within the
limits amounted te:l24 lace. Tenders o❑ Calcutta
and Madras at Is. 11i.d, will receive about 5 per
cent,, on Bombay at 2s. about 12 per cent,, and all
above these prices in full.
The proprietors in the London Bank of Scotland
are invited to send in applications for the 10,000
new shares of £lOO each, to be allotted rateably
among the regif itered shareholders, whose names
shall be on the register of members on the 16th
May instant. 'Each share will be issued at a pre-
mium of £4, Brach premium, together with £l3 per
share, to be paid by the following instalments,
viz. :—X4, being the said premium, on the Ist June
next, £5 on the Ist July, £5 on the Ist October,
and £3 on the 2nd January, 1865. The amount
thus received will be carried to a reserve fund
The instalments in advance may be paid, when in-
terest will be allowed at the rate of £5 per cent.
per annum.

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Two O'CLOCK.
At Paris this morning, according to Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentea were 66f. 70c.
Increased depression has prevailed to-day in the
market for the English Funds, which have further
receded to the extent of i per cent., solely in conse-
quence of an unfavourable political feeling. Nume-
rous rumours of a disturbing character are in
Circulation, and although, in some instances, they
bear the impress of improbability, there can be no
doubt that the present situation of affairs at home
and abroad is far from encouraging. Speculators
therefore effect sales almost in a wholesale manner,

cud hence the esisting gloom. Statements affecting
the stability of the Cabinet, together with the
: prospect of a war against Germany, are among the
repoets which have conduced to the altered aspect of
the market. Consols are now 911 for money,
and 90k 1-, less the dividend, for the account. The
New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 841 ;
and India 5 per Cents., 1051
Foreign Stocks are generally flatter, and there
is very little business in progress, Turkish f per
Cents., 1862, are 711- ; do., Ccnsolides, 48 ; Mexi-
can, 43! 141 ; do., New Loan, 1 Oil dis.; Greek,
221 23 ; Spanish Passive,[34l s ; do., Certificates,
111 ; Russian Scrip, 21 I prem. ; Swedish Scrip,
31 prena ; and the Confederate Loan, 66 68.
Business in the Railway Share Market has con-
tinued rather inactive, and prices have not shown
any material variation. Biighton and Midland