The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-31 00:00:00

MORTALITY IN THE PEERAGE.

The mortality in the ranks of the peerage during 1870
has been considerably less than in the course of last year,
when the deaths of 32 lords spiritual and temporal were
recorded. This year one bishop and 18 temporal peers have
died, as follows :—The Earl of Onslow, 93 years of age ;
the Bishop of Chichester, 84 ; the Marquis of Headford,
83 ; the Earl: of -Itedeii, 81 ; the Marquis of Chohnon-
deley, 78 ; Earl Howe,, 74 ; Lord Tenterden, 74 ;
Viscount Midleton, 72 ; the Earl.if Clarendon, 70 ; Lord
Auckland, 70; the Marquis of Hertford, 70; Lord
Henniker, 69 ; the Earl of Haddington, 68-; Lord Hawke,
67; the Marquis -of Ailsa, 54 ; Lord Byron, 52 ; Lord
Willoughby .d'Eresby, 48 ; the Marquis of Lothian, 38 ;
the Earl of Aberdeen, 28. It will be Seen that both the
hereditary Grand Chamberlains of England, the Marquis
of, Cholmondeley and Lord Willoughby caresby, have
been removed by death. The title of the latter peer is at
present in abeyance, while the successors to the earldom
of Onslow and the barony of Byron are minors.

Scotchman, Mr. Toomas M'Pherson, has been
elected Mayor of Melbourne.
A committee has been appointed, with Captain
Beaumont, ILE., M.P.' as president, and. Lieutenant
Grove, RE., and
.Mr. Abel, F.R.S., as members, to
carry out experiments on thp ,utilization balloons for
reconnoitring purposes. The former experiments on this
subject, which were carried out at Woolwich and else-
where a few years ago, were not attended with any useful
results, and we beli6ve the attempts, which have
been made during the present war to reconnoitre with
balloons—an application not to be confused with the use
of ballo-ons for postal purposes—have not been more satis-
factory.
HUNTING keqEDENT.—During the past few. days
Mr. Henry Tory, of Newton-farm, in Dorsetshire, has
been lying in a dangerous condition from the effects of an
accident a few days ago, while out with the East Dorset
hounds. The meet was at Critchell. Mr. Tory's horse,
on passing by Dean-court-farm, in, the parish of Witch-
ampton, fell at a gate, and the rider was pitched on his
head; he was found in a pool of blood, covered with dirt.
Besidas severe injury to his head, two of his ribs were
broken.

CROPS
WITHOUT MANURE.—What will our great
seedsmen, our manure manufacturers, and sewage farmers
say to this? A Norfolk farmer, whose modesty prefers
that his name should not be blarmed before the public,
though his credit as an excellent manager is well known
beyond the limits of his own county, has this year grown
76 tons, good weight, per acre of yellow globe mangolds,
without any artificial manure, and the seed of his own
growth and selection. This farmer has grown seeds, for
his own use only, for the last forty years, and no doubt the
present stock has been very carefully selected. The pecu-
liarity in the case is that no artificial manure whatever
was applied, and only about ten two-horse cartloads per
acre of good farmyard dung. The seed was drilled, 6th.
or 71b. per acre ; the plants were singled out by children,
without the hoe being previously used to gap the rows,
and the land was kept clear of annual weeds by hand-
hoeing. The soil is a black fen peat earth that has been
recently clayed.—Chamber of Agriculture Journal..

-
LORD •EDMOND FIT7,3IAURICR, M.P., AND HIS
CONSTITUENTS.—HiS lordship met his constituents on Wed-
nesday evening ; the Mayor in the chair. The Town Hall
of Calne was filled from end to end. After reviewing the
changes on the Continent, and justifying his change of
sympathies from Prussia to France, the noble lord, in
speaking of home politics, hoped in the next session to pass
the Tests Abolition Act, a useful Trades Union Bill, the
Parliamentary Elections Bill, and the Licensing Bill.
All of these would have his vote and earnest aid. His
lordship further said th it he should vote for Mr. Miall's
motion for the disestablishment of the English Church.
He believed the days of Church Establishments were
numbered ; the English clergy, however, deserved all
praise, and he hoped Mr. Miall would bring forward the
question in an unsectarian spirit. As to again opening
the Education question, although he was a member of the
Education League, he should oppose opening the question
until the present measure had had a fair trail. His lord-
ship, alluding to Mr. Gladstone's turning to his enemies
rather than his friends, hoped that the Liberal Ministry
would neither coquet with Conservatives nor with the
Roman Catholic party in Ireland. He also trusted that
Mr. Stansfeld would succeed to office, and that Mr.
Fortescue would not betray the party in the matter of
primary education in Ireland. A vote of confidence was
passed most cordially, on the motion of Mr. Dowding.
FARMING IN VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—I have been
down to the north coast of the island, through a country
which I have never before visited. I had a very pleasant

irii),73a;;great deal, made myself master of the mystery
of cheese-making, which, just at present, is a most pro-
fitable part of a farmer's business, looked into sundry
establishments newly commenced for working coal, saw-
ing timber, &c., and rode back at the end of the week.
The country through which I have been is peculiarly favour- !
able to the dairy farmer; the ground is very rich, and as
soon as it is cleared, there is a spontaneous growths of white
clover, so that after the crop of corn is harvested there is
clover sufficient to feed cattle of every kind ; and this •
food comes in at the worst time of the year, when all
other grass is burnt up. Then, again, the prices which
are paid for cheese and butter shame our English
ideas. The gentleman with whom I was staying
sells his cheese wholesale, as soon as it is fit to move, at
thirteen pence per pound ; and a cow, only an
ordinary milker, should make two pounds of cheese
per day, or return 2s. 2d. per day for about 200 days
during the year. Butter is not so profitable, for on an
average it takes four gallons of milk to make a pound of
butter, which sells by wholesale in casks, slightly salted,
for ls. 6d. per lb. The immense immigration into Mel-
bourne is at the bottom of these high prices, which will
not, of course, last very long. The profit to be made by
dairy farming will soon lead other people to compete for
' their'share, and, just as the gold mania is ceasing, as the
amount of the attraction to these colonies is lessened, the
supply of every kind of produce will be enhanced five or
ten fold. Prices will then fall ; many who have borrowed
money or purchased land, under the idea that the present
state of things will last for an indefinite time, will be
ruined, and we shall have the usual period of depression.
As Port Philip was the proximate cause of our former
distress, so it will be now. The gold is producing very
much the same effect as the demand for sheep and cattle
did ten years since. The price of every article is enhanced
to an unnatural extent, and I see, even now, traces of a
disposition to consider these prices as permanent, and to
calculate the returns from a property accordingly ; so that
the prices which are paid are not such as would be
warranted by the ordinary market value of agricultural
produce, but by such as a sanguine mind calculates on
realising. In the meantime, however, we are benefiting
greatly, in several respects, by the overflow of gold, and
I look forward to the investment of large amounts in land
in this colony. The greater part of the land through
which I rode had been taken up within the last 12 months,
since the promulgation of the new regulations, and more
land has been purchased or taken for purchase in the last
12 months than has been sold by the Government during
the previous 12 years.—Sir W. benison's Varitries of
Viceregal Life.

Artrika firmness its treen ifeltaratiri4.
money market. Capital has been somewhat sparingly
.ffered, and three months' paper has been charged 2:1, 21

I)er cent.

LoNnoN sTora ExcHANGE.—FRIDAY.

The prices under the lines indicate the business done.

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

Vince i.er 043111 C 0.0115,. 912 915 DC/A{.l'li &Oct 1883-45- 111.1125
911, 5, i x d 112
Do for Account
Three per Ceutlteduced 915 91/ 1045
911, 1, / Brazilian. 1865, 5p a .... 91 93
New 3 per Cent
911, .. Egyptian 1362. 7 n 0.. .. 79 81
Exchequer Bills, March 10 15pm im Rail Deben 7 p a .. 101 103
14s, lOs pin Italian, 1305. 5p a - -
Do, June lO 15rim Peruvian, 1805. 5p c .... 93 94
les pin Portuguese 1869 Ipa .. 32 33
Bald, Stock - - 321
232 Russian, 1332. sri a.. .. 83 85
India 5 per Cents - - I(o Nicolas 41) 0
1105, 5 x (1 Spanish. 1867. 3pa
li.dia Bonds .. - - 31, 5
put Do, 18119, .1 p a
Can 6 pc Jail &Julyll77-84 106511,75 31
Do March & Sept. 103 105 Turkish. 1854, 6p c 7B 80
Do 5p c Jan & July .. 9911011 Do. 18.15. 51) c
Do Inscribed Stock .. 98 100 43,! 1
1)om of Can 5p c 1903 ' . 98 100 Do, 1865 6p a
Ceylon 6 p c May and . 615
November 1878 lO6 108 U. 5.5-20 Bonds,6 p c 1332 881 885
Mauritius I pc Jan and 885
July 1873 lO3 105 • Do do 1885 881 88
S
New Walessp clB7l-76 102 103 Do 10-40 Buds, Spa Mk 875 87f
New Zealand 6 1101891 lO9 111 875
Dospc - -
1)o 5p c Consolidated 9351005 Illinois Central Shares .. 1125113
1)0 6 p e Mar &SeptlB9l 108 110 1131
Po June & DeclB9l 107 109 Atlantic and GW R Con
Vitt 6p c Jan &July 1891 115 117 Mortgage Bonds - -
RAILWAYS.
Bristol and Exeter 3l 83 D. 2nd an Scrip
885 Do Ist l'ref Bonds
Caledonian
86 Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Eastern
391 1)o 3rd Pref Stock
Great Northern
Du A 13351345 4th Pref Stock
1355, 41 171
Great Western 7l/ 711 areat 'lndian Pen g 5, c 107 103
. 711, 25 Great Western of Canada 141 15
Lancashire & Yorkshire 174 I:'s Ire 6p c Bonds, 1373.. 98 100
Lou, Brigh. and S Coast 41 411 Do 51 do, 1877-8 ii4 96
415, 1 Do 5 p c pref. issued 81 sdis Sum
• Lou, Chat, and Dover .. 135 135 Madras guar 5p a
In, 1 N. Railway of Ca.nada
Lon and North-Western 1281129 6p c Ist Pre Bonds
1285, 9, 81 Oude and Rohilkund g
Lon and South-Western 90 91 • spa
Man, Shef, and Lincoln 45 455 Saluda,- Punjanb, and
Metropolitan
635 Bahia and San Francisco
Midland 129 1291 g 7 p c
1295, 5 Belgian E Junction
North British
North-EasteniCousols- 144 145 Ihnialourg and Witepsk 185 19
1441, g Dutch-Rhenish 22 22/
South-Eastern 741 741 Eastern of France - -
4 tlantic and St Lawroce 75 77 Great Luxembourg
Sombay, Baroda, and 115
Central India. g 5 p c.. 105 106 Lemberg Czernowitzgua
1035 7' pc
Buff and Lake Huron - 4 45 Northam of France - -
1)o 55 pc 80nd5,1872-3-4 79 81 0 ttom(Smyrna to Aidin) 5 51
Cape guar 6p c
East Bengal guar 5p a 10451055 (Limited) guar 7pa ~ 141 14
East Indian, g 5 p a
Grand Trunk Canada
Do Equip Al ort Bnd 1 South Austn & Lom-Ven 141 141
charge 6p a -
BANKING COMPANIES.
Pd Pd
I Agra Bank IL) A
25 Alliance (L)
10 Anglo-Austrian .
20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 202 211 231
214 20 London and County 491 505
50 British N American 53 55 15 London Joint-Stock 33) 345
20 Ch of India, Austrlia 14 15 34
25 Char Merc of India 225 231 20 Lon andWestinnster 03 64
10 City
25 Colonial
51 20 New South Wales .. ::1 36
4 Consolidated (I 4 .... 11 pm 25 Orntal Bank Cornorn 394 405
4 15-16 25 Union of Australia.. 415 421
20 Eng. Scot. and Aus 0 155 161 15 Union of London .. '8 39
20 Imperial a()

ldis
57 58

33 40
30 32

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.
Pd Pd
100 Analo-American Ll 73 75 10 Great Northern .... 111 111
741, 4 6 Great N. China, and
10 Anglo-Meditru (L) ll2 116 Japan Extension.. 21 2 ills
113 5 Indo-European (Li. • 10 12
100 Atlantic — 10 Marseilles, Algiers
100 1)0 8p c — and Malta (L) .... 51 51
13 British Australn(L) 5l 41dis 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 4'. 5
10 British Ind Eaten (4. 54 6 21 Pmna and S. Pcf c(L 4 3 dis
10 British Indian Sub- dis
marine. (L)
6 7-16. 4x d 20 Soc Trans France (LI 134 13R
ChinaSulimarine(L) 6 51dis 100 Submarine 237 24
10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, Do Scrip
and Malta (L)
82, 7-16

MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES
Pd Pd
An 10-Austrian Bnd- 100 Do 6p c Bonds. re-
holders' Certificate 2 4 deemalde 1870 64 66
10 BerlibWMerworks(L) 141 158 20 London Fin Assoo(L118117)dis
30 Bolckow-Vaughan L) 30 35pm 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 21 3
100 Boston City (U.S. 2 Lou & Prov Marine L) ) 1 pm
p c Sterling Loan 93 95 28
4 Brit & Egli Marine( Ll 2131 pm 100 Madraslrrig. &Canal
15 Canada Company. 73 75 gsn c by Ind Gov. 102 103
10 Ceylon Company L) 31 31dis 2 Mauritius Land (L) i 1 the.
35 City Offices (L) 251241 die 5 Natnl Disct Comp LI 11 118
20 Colonial (L)
5 Com Union Assurnce 3) 4pm Merc Agency *LI .. I limn
10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 2 28 5 N Zealand Loan and
100 Crystal Palace
18},18 a d 61 N Britsli and Mere (L) 281 282
100 Do l'ref
100 Do 6p c Perp Deb ll2 117 50 P and 0 Steam 45 47
57+. Ebbw Vale Steel L).. 9 88dis 10 Do do New. 1807 4 2 dis
100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p c 50 Rhyinney Iron
Mortgage Loan.... 79 81 15 Do New 8) 98
79) 60 Royal Mail Steam
100 ityp 9 p cV'roylJoan, 53)
guar by Egyp Gay.. 94 96 12 Tel Con and Main L) 24 248
11 Fore-stWarehouse(L) 7 Bpm 24, 8
100 Egn and Colonial Gov 2 Themes and Mersey
Trust 6p c Bonds.. 98 100 Marine Insur IL
7) Gen Credt &Dislt (L) ) 1 dis St. Tobacco 6 p c Loan
7 3-18 guar by Italian Gov 58 90
14 Gen Sun Navigation 27) 28) 5 Trust and Loan Co of
7 Hooper's Tel Works I }dis Tipper Canada
6 5-16 5 fT Marine. Lvpool IL 4) spm
17 Hudson's Ray 8 8) 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25
45 Indrlffir,Gut Per.aud 6 United Dis Corpru (L 1) )(Ms
Tel Works 1.1 . 43 44 5 Univ Marine lnsur (1., 617 pm
5 'intend Finan SocA) 2 lidis 12 3Var7a.nt Finance.... 9 7 dis
20 It Irrig Can Cavour 3) 4