The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-12 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening,

Amsterdam Short. 11 16-} 11 17f
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19 11 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45 25 50
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 15 25 25
Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 120+ 121
Vienna — 11 30 11 35
Trieste — 11 30 11 35
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid — 471 •••
47
Cudiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 25 522 25 57
Naples — 25 524 25 57
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon — 514 51
Oporto — 514 51
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per 0z.... £3 17 9

THE VOLUNTEERS. —LONDON SCOTTISH.—On
Monday evening, No. 3 Company met at the Wel-
lington Tavern, Spring-gardens, on the occasion of the re-
tirement from the company of Captain Conway, who had
recently resigned his commission in the regiment. The
chair was taken by Ensign Puckle, who, after proposing
the various patriotic toasts, gave the toast of the evening,
" The Health of Captain Conway," in a highly eulogistic
speech, and at the close presented him, on behalf of the
company, with an album, containing the portraits of all
the men under his command. The toast was drunk
with Highland honours. Captain Conway replied in feel-
ing terms, and said that, though he had resigned his com-
mission, he had. not entirely severed himself from the
corps, but was enrolled on the list of honorary members,
and ho should continue to take an interest in all things
connected with his late company. He thanked them sin-
cerely for the handsome present they had made to him,
and he should treasure it up to the last day of his life. A
vote of thanks to Ensign Puckle closed the proceedings.
SCULLER'S RACE FOR .2.50.—A rowing match, in
outriggers, for the above sum, took place yesterday,
from Putney to Mortlake. The men were both well known
in boating circles, and were Thomas Wise, of Hammer-
smith, and John M'Kinney, of Richmond. Mr. Marsefield
was referee ; Mr. Wilson umpire for Wise, and Henry
Kelley for M'Kinney. Citizen L accompanied, with a
large freight. The betting was 2tol on Wise, who had
the station. Wise, soon after the start, obtained the lead,
and held it all the way ; and although APlCinney rowed a
desperate stern wager, and was game from first to last, his
opponent, who is his junior by 16 years, possessing youth
and strength, was too good for him, and beat him by three
lengths. Time, 25 min. 30 sec.

THE PRITCHARD CASE.—On Saturday, Mr.
Gemmel, Procurator-Fiscal, was engaged examining
Mr. Henderson, of the firm of Burton and Henderson
grocers, Sauchiehall-street, and the teller of the Charing-
cross Branch of the City of Glasgow Bank, not in connec-
tion with the serious charge against the prisoner, but with
reference to a cheque which he presented to Mr. Henderson
on the morning of Monday, the 20th March, for a small
sum which he had no effects to meet. It is said that the
prisoner called for Mr. Henderson on Monday morning
previous to proceeding to Edinburgh with the corpse of
his wife, and gave Mr. Henderson a cheque for a small
sum, stating, as a reason for asking the money, that the
banks were not open. Mr. Henderson afterwards discovered
that the prisoner had no funds in the bank to meet the
cheque.—Glasgow Herald.

AN UNFORTUNATE CONSTITUENCY.—The London-
derry Journal draws attention to the continued
absence of Mr. Conolly, one of the members for Donegal,
from his parliamentary duties, and sympathises with the
electors on the fact of their being represented by the
hon. member and Viscount Hamilton. Lord Hamilton, the
eldest son of the Marquis of Abercorn, was returned for
Donegal in 1860, when something over 21; and the news-
paper sarcastically remarks, that, notwithstanding all the
trumpeting of the noble lord's precocious ability, his
greatest feat since he became a member of Par-
liament was his going out to India on a shooting ex-
cursion with somebody else. Viscount Hamilton stayed
in the jungle a year or so, " attending to the interests of
his Donegal constituents." Shortly after his lordship
returned to Europe, Mr. Conolly, the other member,
" thought there was no way in which he could serve the
Donegal people so much as by going out to America as a
blockade runner. He will soon be away a twelvemonth,
as nearly as we can recollect. Nobody appears to be quite
sure of Mr. Conolly's whereabouts; and, in the meantime,
the free and independent county of Donegal mourns its
absent member." "To us," says the article, in conclusion,
" it seems a pity that the county of Donegal cannot afford
to grant both members permanent leave of absence."

ELOPEMENTS TO AMERICA.—In referring to the
emigration from Cork—during the past week it amounted
to fully a thousand persons—a local journal mentions a
new phase of the passenger trade. Elopements to Ame-
rica have become, it would seem, a leading feature of the
national " exodus." We are informed that this week's
emigration " includes a fair proportion of runaways, the
motive in most of these cases being of a tender nature.
Indeed, the increased facility for elopements which this
ready means of flight affords promises to become alarm-
ing. Three cases of the kind are known to have occurred
within a fortnight, and how many may have remained
undiscovered we can only surmise. The last of those re-
ferred to was a runaway match between a well-to-do
farmer's son and the fair daughter of another still better
off, both being from Maryborough. The young woman
had provided herself with the respectable sum of £BO of
her father's money, and brought a maid-servant with
her. The pair were traced to Queenstown by their
respective fathers, and were surprised in their preparations
for embarkation. Romeo had a sound thrashing from his
indignant parent; he was deprived of his passage ticket,
and was torn from the arms of his Juliet, the latter being
permitted to proceed with her female companion. Another
somewhat similar case, in which the parties wore from
Tullamore, King's County, had a similar termination."
The Wexford People announces a discovery of
treasure trove. Some children, playing on the sands at
Saline, coast of Wexford, found an earthenware vessel
which contained about 600 silver coins. The vessel Nras
embedded in a small declivity about a stone's throw from
the ancient ruins of Kilgorman Church. The coins are said
to be Roman. A local numismatist, however, has inferred
from the circumstance of " VIII." being discernible on seve-
ral of them, that the entire collection is English, and be-
longs to the period of Henry VIII.
SOUTH SHROPSHIRE.—The writ for the election of
a meinber for South Shropshire, in the room of
Viscount Newport, who is elevated to the Upper House,
through the death of his father, the Earl of Bradford, has
been received, and the election will take place next week.
At present there are no indications of a contest, the only
candidate being Colonel the Hon. Percy E. Herbert, C.B.
formerly M.P. for Ludlow. The hon. candidate in his ad-
dress to the electors refers them to his votes when member
for Ludlow as the best indication of the general line of
politics which he should pursue if elected. He adds :
" Should you favour me with your confidence I shall en-
deavour to secure for the agricultural interest a fairer share
than has of late been allotted to it in the remission and re-
duction of taxation. I shall support such measures as are
necessary for the maintenance of our naval and military
establishments in a state of efficiency as one of the best
securities for peace.. At the sane time I shall be opposed to
extravagant and unnecessary expenditure."