The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-06 00:00:00

Course of Exchange,—Yesterday,

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 2
Antwerp
Brussels .—. 25 70 25 75
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 70 25 SO
Frankfort on Maine — 120/ 120/
Vienna
Trieste
,Petereburgh
Bailin —
Madri..l
48/ 48/
Cadiz
25 72 / 25 80
Leghorn
25 75 25 80
Milan . . .
Genoa 25 75 26 80
Naples ... .
25 72/ 25 82f
Palermo — 25 75 25 82/
Messina — 25 77/ 25 82/
Lisbon
52 621
Oporto —
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Foreign Mail Packet Lot.

MAILS DUE.

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Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Aug. 18
via Marseilles Aug. 12.
cirazil and Cape -Verde, by British packet. Sept. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. Z.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.A.ug. —.—
via Marseilles Aug. 12.
Falkland Islands.
Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. —.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via 'Southampton Aug.
yia Marscilles Aug. 12
India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 10
via Marseilles Aug. 20,
P0rtuga1..........
Nlalta, Egypt, and Adon, via Southampton ...... Aug. ._—
via Marseilles ........ Aug. 12
Newfoundland ........................... Aug. 17
Oporto and Vigo .... .. • . ........
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 11
_ by U.S. packet....
by Canadian pmket.Aug. 12
" Parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Aug. 13
A" - "
Cali.tornia. and British Columbia.. ....

. yr. E. T. Smith has a senoation in
ASTLEY
Astley's, in the parson of Mi,.qs Adah
store for the patrons°.
Alaa.Tican actress and equestrien.ne of
Isaacs Meuthen, an play Mazeppa, which ,she
(as its
.call.ed in theatrical par-
dist;Aotion, who is engaged
erse, and executing
does without a "double"
lance), dashing up rocks, lashed to a n,
by male repro-
a variety of bold feats not even attempten.
on foot to
eentatives of the part. Great preparations at:'
make " Mazsppa" a theatrical success.—Orchestr,:.
A STATUE TO TUE CELEBRATED FRENCH PAIN TER
GREUZE, the favourite of Marie Antoinette, is to be erecter;
at his birthplace, Tournois, in Bourgogne. Greuze, the
author of the "Broken Pitcher," was once in very high
renown and state in France; but he die 1804, neglected
and in deep misery. When Napoleon din
accidentally heard
of his death, he said, " Why was he too proud to apply to
nja ? I should have given him a pitcher of &lyres filled
with gold, wherewith he might have mended all his pitchers
again 1" It is the Emperor's wish that the dead master
should now be honoured by a statue.---The Budder.
OUR LONDON COSTERMONGERS.—TaIking about
the joys of a quiet street, reminds me of the eoster•
mongers, who, like lawyers and other " necessary
haunt all quiet neighbourhoods. These men, women, and
children are sui generis. They are evidently elastic—all
lungs. Who can say that he ever heard any one of them
hoarse, out of voice, or out of tune? No stress of weather
daunts them ; no amount of cold or heat. They are proof
against wind, rain, and storms ; they are never ill—no ;
nor ever ailing. Any one of their stentorian voices would
infallibly wake up " the seven sleepers." 1 need not enu-
merate all their " cries." Here comes one of the noisy
squad, the rabbit dealer. L istenßab, rabbee."
There, sure enough, the poor flabby rabbits are, ranged
cross-legged, side by side, and strung upon a long pole,
Balanced on that awful looking man's shoulder, I see
them now, dangling behind and before him. The agonis-
ing emphasis the fellow sometime places upon the last
syllable of the word " Rab-BEE," goes through you like a
darning-needle. Having "done" the street on one side
he lingers a while at the remote end ; he then returns to
"do" the other side of the street, and is generally, by this
time, in finer voice than ever. ,Next follow appalling
shouts of all dimensions; among the most conspicuous,
41.5-harr, mack-her-rell, yer 1" " Ould ehee-heers to
meal"" Hany,hornamantz for yer fire stoove ?" ,"llinny-
bons 1 hinnyons 01 I" " Buy my lettisa—fine curse
Lett-iaes 1" &c. If any man doubts whether his sex
or the other be the more powerful in the use of their
tongues, and in making themselves the more widely heard,
let him come and pay me a morning visit in myicked quiet
was u
street. Much of my philosophy, by the by, p p
in quiet west-end streets. But the cost of my wisdom
_Oa 1 what a volume I could write—aye, and readable
too—about "The Nerves and Nervous System."—WiL
LIAM KIDD, ire "Every Month."
A commission has been formed, under the pre-
sidency of M. le Baron Taylor, to erect a monument (o the
eslebrated Froach poet, 13ranger,