The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONIX;S, THURSDAY EVENINd,' OCTOBER 11, 1869.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Closing
Share Railways. Paid nice. (Business done
100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 81 83
stk 100 931 94/ 94 1 4
Cm. 5 per cent..
t Bo,m.,Baroda&Cent Ind
18 Do, Do. B 16 11 1 d
201 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 5 51d 51
20/ Do. New
10 Do. Preference .... all 61. 71
f Buffalo,Brant&Gedric.l.l 100 78 82
100 ? 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
110000
DD
oo
..
ddoo. . . l
Juneu l y
11:
11887743
110000
7703
7758
5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim) I. 30. 5 d 5p
20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s.
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s. 2 11 d 31
29 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. C. 71 11 1 d
171 Demerara. all
20 Eastn. Bengaigu. sp. c 71 1; 11 d 54
stock East Indian, u. sp. c. 100 99/ lto 991 4 100
20 Do. F Shares Ext..... 15 1 d pr
20 Do. Jubbulpore l5 1 d pr
100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs all 94 99
100 Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864 all 101 102
20 • Gee'ong, & Melbourne —
sto.
Geelong Corporation 6 /00
percent. Bonds
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 26 27 204 1 7
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 85 /1 85
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 51 53 52 1
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1802 all 55 60
100 Do. do. 1807 all 48 52
100 Do. do. 1872 all 48 52
tock Gt. IndiaPenin.g,ua.sp.c lOO 95 97 961 6
20 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 11d 4 d
Gt. South. of India (Lim) 13
20 24 1/5 111
guaranteed 5 per cent.
204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 131 134 131
20/ Do. New
Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
100 all 100 102
opt, till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 100 102
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 100 102 100
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do all 92 94 93
stock Madras, guar., 41 p. c lOO 83 65
stock Do. do. 5 per cent
stock Do. 44 p. c. Extension 100 86 88
20 Do. Fourth do. .. . 10 1/ 11 dBl /
20 Do. d 0......
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds lOO
Newßrunswick & Canda
20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc
Class A Capital Share all 5 7
.. Do. do. Land do..
20 Do. do. B Capital do all 5 7
Do. do. Land do.
20 Oude (Limited)
stock Scinde .......... 44 100 99 100
20 Do. Punjaub .... ,0 2
g 7 14 1 111
f
20 Do. Do. ... -I all d
steak Do. Indus. St. Flo. ?,,,a, 100 93 94/
20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 18
10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip 1 1 1 d
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
10 • ntwerp & Rotterdam all 51 6 55
20 Ardennes.... ...... -
20 Bah.&S.Fran...Lim.7 p p.c Bl 101 .1
5 Belgian East. Junction all i 1
20 Beziers to Graissessac all
6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 21 21
100 Copiabo , ......& all
10 Ditto Extension ...• all 21 2 ri, 7/
20 Dutch Rhenish .... . • 15 31 Sd 13 121
20 Eastern of France .... all 25 26 );
20 Grand Rua. Guar. 6p. c. 6 _
20 Do. do. All --
20 Great Central of France
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... 61 7 4
20 Italian Junction .. ...
20 Lake Constance & Bale.
20 Lierre & Turnhout .... all
20 Lyons & Geneva . . all
331 Maria Antonia
10 Do. New ... .. ••• • • • all
20 Namur & Liege ........ all 8 81
20 Do. 6p. c. Pref. ...... all 191 201
16 - Northern of France— all 88 39
20 Do. New Shares ....• 15
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 71 81
20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter all 36 37
20 Paris & Orleans all 53 55
20 1 Recife & S. Fran. (Peru,)
gua. 7p. ct. Rm.. l3 3 24d 101
20 Riga & Dunaburg l4
10 Rome & Frascati
20 Royal Danish.
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all
20 Sambre & Meuse •
10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref all 81 81
20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c 2 4 id
20 S.Aust. &Lomb Veuetin 12 / 1d 11
20 Southern of France all 191 201
84 West Flanders
10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference all 91 91
20 W. St N.W. of France
23 Western of Austria 6 —--
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden ... . .
6 Do. 8 per cent. lief.. all
20 Zealand

T. I) EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' clock.

.AT.E 117.211. A RK_E T RAGES.—(This Day.)

EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAFIr.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 300 SOPS.
Walloon
£5O PLATE. R.M.

-
Gallus
Malta
Styria ..

Nine ran.
BRET BY STAKES.

Sister to Roesia
••••

Cantatrice
Vaga 3
Three ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Mousetrap .
If enhaur Lass
Pomona ,

Thirteen ran.
CURZON SWEEPSTAKES.

Cowley
Gaberdine
SWEEPSTAKE, T.Y.C.

Caliban
Weatherwitch 2
Eight ran.
£lOO HANDICAP PLATE.

Moorcock
Gladiolus 2
Newstead
Nineteen ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 500 SOVS.

Eda
Largesse
SWEEPSTAKES FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS.
Jessie Brown 1
Zingari
Five ran.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DA} .)

TEE LEBANON.

The following are some details respecting the
natural history of this part of Syria at present
attracting so much interest. Wheat, barley,
maize, lentils, and peas are produced, but not
in sufficient quantities for more than seven or
eight months' consumption ; and the deficit has
to be made up by imports. Potatoes would
succeed very well, but only small quantities are
planted, and the crops are generally sold to
Europeans ; the population, with that horror
for innovation, for which they are remarkable,
prefer, to potatoes, -the beans of Egypt, of which
they make wretched bread, and which they have
always used. In the lowlands, and especially those
in the direction from Beyrouth to Seyde, large quan-
tities of oil,grapes, figs, almonds, and nuts are pro-
duced. Most of these fruits, however, are far from
equalling those of Europe; they are, in fact,
_little better than the wild ones of the West,
and the Orientals eat them before they are
ripe. The apricots, grapes, and figs are good,
especially the sort of the latter called Bey-
routh. The town of that name and its neigh-
bourhood are infested with large bats which com-
mit, at night, much damage. The cactus plant
grows largely in Syria. but the inhabitants have
not had the idea of turning it to account in bret ding
cochineas ; they content themselves with using it to
make hedges, and gathering the fruit. Pine trees
flourish in the country, and the Persian lilac is
planted in avenues and much esteemed ; but, except
these two, all shrubs are plucked up to make room
for mulberry trees. The mulberry justifies the
preference shown for it; in addition to feeding
silk worms on the leaves in spring, its branches
' supply fuel ; its bark serves the purposes for
which willow is employed in other countries;
the second crop of leaves feed cattle, and its
wood is used by carpenters. The pasture grounds
in the upper part of the mountain are good but
not extensive, and consequently the production
of oxen is limited. Every year 30,000 or 40,000
sheep are imported from Mesopotamia, and fat-
tened on mulberry leaves. Camels are obtained
from the Arabs of the Desert ; asses, mules, and ,
common horses from the isle of Cyprus ; oxen
and goats are bred in the country. There is not I
much game in the Lebanon, owing to the de-
structive manner in which sporting is carried on.
The chiefs of the mountain employ falcons to catch
partridges, but the common mode is to tempt the
birds to certain spots by spreading grain, and
then to surprise them. The ounce, hyena, wolf,
chacal, for, gdzelle, bear, wild goat, wild boar,
and very large porcupines, are the wild or savage
animals found in the country. In the Lebanon
there is a great quantity of fossil coal, but it con-
tains so much sulphuric acid as to be only fit for
large manufactories. Iron is abundant, and several
mines are worked, but unfortunately in an imper-
fect and very expensive manner. The iron, how-
ever, obtained is preferred to foreign, on account
of its malleability. It is said that mines of gold,
silver, and copper, also exist in the country."

FLEET STREET AND TILE STRAND
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

The bridge we are just-Crossing is built over the
river Fleet, a tributary to the Thames, into which
it flows not far from the Black Friars' house. It
rises in the heath of Hampstede, certain miles
north of the City. The vessels near the bridge
are laden with sea-coal, charcoal, and lime, which
they carry to or from the wharves on the Fleet
banks. The street into which we have entered is
also known as the Fleet-street. Though without
the walls it is yet a Liberty of the City, and within
its jurisdiction, which extends in this direction
to yonder posts, linked together with chains, known
as the " Bars." This street is chiefly in-
habited by brewers of ale—who, in this country,
are mostly women—and makers of felt hats, yet has
a few notable buildings. First on the left is the
royal palace of St. Bridget's, or Bride's, near the
well dedicated to that saint. It is an ancient resi-
dence, and little used. Next comes the Bishop of
Salisbury's Inn. The monastery beyond it is that
of the Carmelites, or White Friars, and has of late
been rebuilt for them by the munificent hand of the
Earl of Devon. That large building with the round
church, still further on near the Bars, is the New
Temple. You know, doubtless, that it derives its
name from the Knights Templars, who removed
hither from the Old Temple in the street of Ould-
burne. On the recent suppression of that order, the
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, called " Hos-
pitallers," shortly became its possessors, but having
a larger establishment in Clerkenwell, they not
long since leased the New Temple to the students
of common law, who have converted it into an Inn
of Court. Opposite thereto, you see another Inn
of Court, called " Clifford's" from the lessor thereof,
Dame Isabel Clifford. Beyond the Bars is the
river-side road, called " Strand-street." It was
sorely in need of paving until lately, when a tax
for its repair was levied on all goods carried along '
it to the Staple at -Westminster. Here, many
lords, spiritual and temporal, have goodly inns, of
which you can see but two or three; the Bishop
of Exeter's close on the left ; the Bishop of
Bath's beyond it; and the Bishop of Chester's,
with the old stone cross beforo it. At that cross
the judges have sometimes sat to try pleas. The
palace which you can just see to the left is the
Savoy, so called from Peter, Count of Savoy, who
built it in the reign of our Henry the Third, whose
queen was the count's niece. Now the Duke of
Lancaster is the owner thereof, and John, the cap-
tive King of France, lodged there not long since.
The bridge over the lane in the centre of the road
is called " Strand-bridge." On the right of St.
Clement's Danes Church you see the wells of St.
Clement's and Holy Well ; and, beyond them the
vineyard and convent garden of the Abbey of West-
minster, skirted by the woods of Long Acre. The
church among the fields, in the distance, is St.
Martin's.-411 the Year Round.

TBIS DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

bit Einar, WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 58s 3d ;
barley, 39s 8d ; oats, 25s Id ; rye, 39s Id ; beans, 48s
Ild ; and peas, 39s 10d.
THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 60s Od ;
barley, 37s 3d ; oats, 26s 5d ; rye, 39s lld ; beans, 49s 2d ;
peas, 40s 2d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 71,701 ,
barley, 15,608 ; oats, 5,831 ; rye, 446 ; beans, 932 ; peas,
565 quarters.