The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-21 00:00:00

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Manchester Autumn 24
Newmarket Ist October 26
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The biddings for £350,000 bills on India took
place yesterday at the Bank of England. The pro-
portions allotted were :—To Calcutta, £225,800 ;
to Madras, £2,420 ; and to Bombay, £lOO,OOO.
The minimum price was as before-Is. Hid on Cal-
cutta and Madras, and Is. 110. on Bombay. Ten-
ders on Calcutta and Madras at ls. 111,-d. will re-
ceive about 62 per cent., and on Bombay at.2s.
about 13 per cent. ; above these prices in full. The
terms thus obtained indicate a reduction in the
demand for means of remittance to the East.

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Thursday, 28th inst., a special settling day in the
shares of the Chontales 'mold and Silver Mining
Company, which are to be marked.
FOURTEEN HUNDRED IRONWORKERS THROWN
OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.—A dispute has arisen at Middles-
borough between the workmen and the employers of the
firm of Hopkins, Gilks, and Co. (Limited). On Monday
the whole of the works were lying idle, and some 1,400
men who depend upon the rollers for a supply of metal
ceased work.
THE ALPINE CLUB.—The Rev. Leslie Stephen,
M.A., who has been elected president of the Alpine Club
for the ensuing year, was educated in Trinity Hall, Cam.-
bridge, where he graduated in 1854, being 20th wrangler.
Shortly after taking his degree he was elected to a fellow-
ship in his college, which he now holds.
FEES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS.—An Act of
Parliament will take effect from and after the 31st inst., to
collect all fees in the superior courts by adhesive stamps.
Last year the fees received in the three Common Law
Courts amounted to £96,778 Is. 9d.
In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday a Aliss
Saunders sued a Mr. Short, a money-lender, for breach of
promise of marriage. Letters about as absurd as are
usually read in such cases were put in, and the jury found
a verdict for the plaintiff for £2OO.
BUSINESS IN NEW ORLEANS. -- The Picayune
says As evidence of the great business transactions in
this city we may state two facts. One house in Canal-
street, engaged in the wholesalse and ready-made clothing
business, sold for the month of October last goods to the
amount of $450,000. During that month one banking-
house paid over its counter an average of $1,400,000 pg
day. Last Saturday, to this bank, twelve hundred cheques
were paid between bank hours, the total amount of which
was 61,700?000. We doubt if as large a business as this
wasever done before in this city by one bank."
FENIANISM IN THE KITCHEN.—A " Citizen,"
writing to the Montreal Herald concerning the circulation
of "Fenian bonds," in Canada says :—" The writer was
shown ono recently in the hands of a servant girl. It
was a $4 bond, and most beautifully got up. lam in-
formed that these bonds aro selling freely in this city
and at Quebec, and that there can be no difficulty in dis-
posing of a vast amount of them. Although these bonds
will never be ;redeemed, the infatuated purchasers are of
opinion that it will free Ireland from the yoke of British
rule, and they would be willing to sacrifice the last shilling
_ to accomplish this object."