The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

Railways.

Business done
to-da.
..4

Cent. France (0.V.) all
Charl. & ErqueL all pd
Demerara all pd
Dijon & Besancon, 4 pd
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pd
East Indian all pd
GL Indian Penin. all p
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Great West. of Canada
Shares pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg ...141. pd
Do.
Do (Railway) 1
10/. pd
% pd
Do. (Canal) —.2% pd
Lyons & Avignon, 5 pd
Madras pd
Maria Antonia 27% pd
Do. New
Namur & Liege all pd
Do. ex int all pd
North. of France, all pd
Do. 20/. 3p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans & Bor 111. pd
Paris & Lyons 10/. pd
Do. Bonds ... 12 pd.
Paris & Orleans all pd
Paris & Rouen ...all pd
Paris & Stras. all pd
Paris, Caen, and Cher-
bourg 4 pd
Rouen & Havre...all pd
Sambre & Meuse all pd
St. Andrew's & Qaebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd
West Flanders all pd
West. of France 31. pd

Agua Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 21. pd
Australian 5/. Austr. Freehold all pd pd
Ave Maria all pd
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 131. ss. p
Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 151.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobre Copper —4O/. pd
Colonial Gold 1/ pd
Copiapo 141 pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p I
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd
Grd. Duch. Baden, all p
Great Polgooth all pd
Lake Batharst all pd
Liberty all pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Cora all pd
Mariquita.... all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 91. p
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde, all pd
Port Philip all pd
Quartz Rock all pd
Santiago de Cuba 103
South Australian, all pd
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pd
West Mariposa all pd
Yuba 1 paid

iLiA - 16

134 2 p
3/, 3i die.
% 8 p
2 21/a p
1 % 1 % p

par 1 p

_
7 -7%
4% -4%
I -1%
l',i - 13/8
5%- 6% p
7
3 - 3Y413 - 3
2 - 3
7% - 8
6 - 7

30 -30 tA
137/8 - 1414
Thl4 - I'i Pp

57 -59
35 -36
30 -30%

2 - 21,i p

16% -17
9% -10%

diL.
4,;4 i 34
Gi4 7 p.

MINES.
% % P
%dig. % p

JOIN]
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial 251. pd
Com. of London 201. pd
London Chart. Bank of
Australia
Lon. & County 201. pd
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd
Lon. & Westm. 201. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 351. pd
Do. New lOl. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22% p
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd'
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd.
Do. New all pd
Roy. Aust. Bkg. & Gold'
Importing Corn. Ipd
Union of Austral. all pd
Do. New 2% pd
Union of London 101. p
Union of Madrid all pd'

1 p
34
dis.
3/4 dis.
%
5 6
74_ 7%

...
%dis. par
43 —45
6 6
i,
% 3i3 p
% iii dis.

.'" •••

4 4 die.'
%dia. par
13,4 2 p
1.4 % dis•
p

% dis-
% par
4% 43.4
X % dis.
lfi % p
544 p
% dis.
111,E —l2 4
p
1 12 —l3

MIS
Austral. Roy. Mail, 4 p
Canada 32% pd
Copper &liners of Eng-
land . . all pd
De. Preference, 74 pd I
Crystal Palace ... 5 pd
Eastern Steam...2s. pd,
Elect. Tel eg. Ireland
Gen. Stm. Nay. 141. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...so/. p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p
Netherlands Land, 2 pd
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...151. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 601. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p

64913 e

3% }

34 Ai

iv, %

1 %
%

7L4 8
%clic par
% XP
C-STOCK BANKS.

58 - 59%
57 -58
15 -16%
29 -30

•• • N..
18 1,4 ...• 5%
32 - 33%
46 - 46%

18% -20
38 -39
4634 - 4714
16% - 17%

1 - DA
49% - 50%
6 -6%
17 -18

;CELLANEOUS.
3 - 4
50 -51

36 - 37%
29 -30
478 -5%

50 —5l x.d
2

85 -i61,4
41 -V%
79 -80%$

PA-I,i %
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t 174

%

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41 %,4

MARKET NEIVS-(TIIIS DAY)

CORN EXCHANGE,—WEDNESDAY.
Today's market was very moderately supplied "'to
home-grown Wheats, the quality of which was by or
moans fine. Tho attendance of both town and cou,',/s,
millers being small, the demand was in a sluggish lithe
at Monday's prices. For forward delivery very 11
was doing.
From abroad 4,710 quarters of' Wheat have come f5931h1
to hand. Really fine qualities sold to a fair extent, °'
currencies ; but inferior parcels were much negle.c th
We had a very firm sale for all kinds of Barley, 11,,"eir,
extreme rates of last week. Malt was quite es "
with a fair consumptive inquiry. tba
There was a slight improved inquiry for 00f ba;
prices of which were well supported. Beans firta ;
Peas, except fine white parcels, were neglected.
Atli
out Flour trade was tolerably steady. We are o'
out any arrivals from the United States.

ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. 11°
Qrs, Qrs. QT3. Qrs. 14" co
To
I,g
English •• •• •• 1,590 2,060 1,880
Irish •••• •• •• I
20141'
Foreign ...... 4,710 360 4,740 -

BOROUGH nor.
All kinds of new Hops continue to move off freeltoe
♦ery full prices. Picking is now concluded, 102
duty is called 255,0001 to 260,0001.

IVIIITECHATEL.
pi
The general demand was inactive, yet the qttota-tt &oth
were supported. Beef, from 23 Od to 39 2d; gaTa to
2s 6d to 4s Od; Veal, 23 8d to 3s 10d; Pork, 23
45 Od per 81bs by the carcase.

dab'
How HOP GAMBLING IS PRACTISED.....ThrOd
out the year wagers are extensively laid in the couetielbe
Kent and Sussex (but particularly in the former) uPeltol
amount of duty annually declaresthy the Excise in retro,
of all the hops gathered throughout the country. Longoof)
fore anything like data whereon to found a calculi 00
large sums are staked upon the see a,
Trbautrtersall's " which, tege'ere
Y. Rochester, and la,tibef
ot)atoneafnt the crop. a obtained,r
cerot ph.e
with a few of the ancient inns is 'Southwark (w,i,t),
lenntCishan,t'e
the hop factors live, and hold their principal mati-Ocl
comprise the headquarters for hop
,betting. „ of
L
the publication of the duty many thousands
pounds change hands, and every possible scheme TAgii,
sorted to throughout the summer to procure the Plijet
intelligence of the condition of the plant in the ca-oe
districts, so as to enable the more wary to iner-iibe
their stakes or " hedge," as the case may be. sof
system is to give what is called a " scope," the este!
set
which depends upon the time of year. In the °ID, of
quarter the betting man will perhaps give a seer.of
some 20,0001., that is to say, will bet that his adveriot
will not guess the amount of duty to be paid within 0011
amount. But as the year advances, and the hop eliP3`re:
the dangers that beset its progress, the scope eigoa
duccd. Clerks in the accountant's department of I° sat
Revenue are much sought after, and the slightest bed,
greedily devoured as to the gross quantity ofhops weigof
which certain men pretend to know in much the seiner oe
as sporting prophets boast of their "office" or "tip'' ic;orso
Derby. The period between the picking and the dee' the
Lion of duty is usually a full month of excitement tod of
the duty is known about the en
e
ber. The .present is considered an unusually ,go,
October.partiew agLearsintgyear it was issued on the 2d of Novo
season, and the amount of duty is anxiously looked
Kentish Gazette.
..the
DUTCH FINANCE.--The revenue of Holland for, to
first nine months of the present year amounts, accordilitslo
the official roturns, to 41,422,21811., or 140,31211. more
that received in the corresponding period of last year. 4,004
THE DRUSES.—It is stated in a letter from BO' ma
of the 28th ult., that the Turkish army in Syria bat de
some engagements with the Druses, but without any org
cisive result. A portion of the Druses, it is said'
disposed not to continue resistance.
9,1 THE NEW CHANCELLOR.--In a Convocation
-ti °1
fm-
yesterday, at Oxford, the degree of doctor in civil lertbi'
conferred by diploma en the Right Hon. the Earl of 'ado'
Chancellor of the University. At the same time the n 1•
gates gates were nominated by the proctors to deliver the 1,13; to-
ment of election into the hands of the new Chance"-
morrow.
vi" 01; THE FRENCH PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO ROCm-iltb,o-
- Prince President passed in review on the I,;(,"cete
nine o'clock in the morning, the marines quartered at -v",'" 00,
fort, and the deputations of the communes frewrgolsP
country around. The Prince passed through the ;ewe"
amidst cries of " Viva l'Empereur," from the men renv"werl:
and from thespectators, of whom not less than 100,0°,1
present. He then paid a visit to the hospital, 102 10,
went to examine the port and arsenal, where be 0"
received by Admiral Montagnies de la 1101113Ae.'0136
Maritime Prefect, and all the functionaries empleYeu,vet,t°'
port. The Prince went on board the Constantine ev-ea the
about to sail for the Chinese Seas. The crew who Ens°3rjr-i0 °
yards gave him seven cheers, concluding with c. 0119:
" Vive l'Empereur." The Prince then entered a sPhoero`
decorated boat which had been used by the s'"-' va"
Napoleon in 1808, and proceeded to examine P:300
rious vessels on the stocks, some of which vl.lll XIV
be launched, and amongst others the Louis,. IJIOII
of 130 guns; the Turenne. of 100 guns; the the
of 100 guns ; the Alexandre, of 90 .gun frigetej
Semiramis frigate, of 66 guns; the Fiore
of 66 guns; the Lucifer steamer, of 200 horse-polder'ice
AS ale'
the Miduse steamer, of 120 horse-power. The Faiir 113 s
visited the other parts of the establishment, su
foundry, the model-room, the workshops, 81G•