The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-11 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

AmsOrdam Short ... 11 18i ... 11 19
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 11 ... 12 n
Antwerp — ... 25 3i ... 25 42/
Brussels
Hamburgh — ... 13 101 ... 13 11
Paris Short ... 25 15 ... 25 2211
Ditto
Marseilles
_35 ... 25 40

—.—
Frankfort-on-the-Main 1204 120 i
Vienna — ... 12 6a ... 12 70
Trieste — ... 12 65 ... 12 70

Petersburg

281 ...

Copenhagen — ,„ 9 18 ... 9 22
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — ... 49 ... 49
_ _

Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 73 ... 26 77
Genoa — ... 26 75 .., 26 77i
Naples
Palermo — ••• 26 75 ... 26 771
Messina
... 26 73 ... 26 77i
Lisbon — . 511 ...„. 52
Oporto
... •511 ... 52
Rio Janeiro
New York ....... — .., --- ••• ---

Some interest has been excited by a $lO National
bank-note plate sent from Philadelphia by express from a
repentant counterfeiter. It is in four pieces, two for the
face, and two for the back, beautifully engraved ou the
finest steel, bearing the imprint of "John Sellers and Son,
Sheffield." The counterfeiter says in his accompanying
letter that it was executed by ono of the best engravers in
the United States, to whom he.paid $2,000 for it, that the
engraver no longer dwells on this earth, that the counter-
feiter was about to follow him, after defrauding his fellow-
men for twelve years. He had paid many thousands of
dollars to keep out of prison. Now poor in purse and
broken in spirit, upright before the world, though guilty
in his own conscience, he abandons the pursuit, and de-
stroys all vestiges of guilt. Colonel Whitley believes that
he writer of the letter and the engraver are identical.

The Emigration Returns for Liverpool during
1869 show the largest exodus which has occurred since
1852. If the number of Irish emigrants embarking in
Irish ports were added, as in 1852 all embarked from the
Mersey, it is possible that even the 229,099 emigrants of
that year would be exceeded. To the United States there
sailed during the March quarter 78 ships, with 1,241 cabin
and 17,574 steerage passengers; of whom 8,160 were
English, 1,060 Scotch, 3,884 Irish, and 5,714 foreigners-
total, 18,818. 86 vessels sailed during the June quarter,
with 2,147 cabin passengers and 58,923 steerage passen-
gers; of whom 20,261 were English, 2,326 Scotch, 13,902
Irish, and 24,581 foreigners - total, 61,070. In September
quarter the number of ships sailing was 68, with 2,903
cabin and 34,186 steerage passengers; of whom 18,180
were English, 2,516 Scotch, 7,528 Irish, and 8,835 foreign-
ers-total, 37,089. During the December quarter there
sailed 70 ships, with 1,736 cabin and 19,669 steerage pas-
sengers ; of whom 10,719 were English, 1,299 were
Scotch, 3,742 were Irish, and 6,645 foreigners . total,
21,405. The total number of ships which sailed therefore
during the year to the United States was 291, with 8,030
cabin and 130,352 steerage passengers; of whom 57,320
were English, 7,231 Scotch, 29,056 Irish,and 44,775 foreign-
ers, making a grand total of 138,382. No passengers sailed
for Canada during tbe first quarter ; in the second there
were 15,414 ; in the third, 7,397 ; in the fourth, 1,450
1 making a total of 24,261. To Victoria, Australia. there
sailed but 1,296 persons. The total number of
passenger ves-
eels sailing under and not under the Act which loft the Ifer-
say during 1869 was 627, with 172,731 passengers ou
board. This number when compared with they ear 1868
shows the enormous addition of 43,394. The striking
feature is the increase in English emigration to the Unit - '
States, which would be shown to be still greate' '
itatistice of London and of the Channel porta r,