The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-16 00:00:00

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 2 -},
Prem.; the Thames and Mersey, i I prem. ; and
the Universal, I I, prem.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :-
1860. 1859.
(treat Western £38,675 £36,547
North-Western
Mouth-Western
Brighton 22,355 20,445
Midland
south• Eastern
Great Northern 27,421 26,723
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter
Worth-Eastern
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
North British
West Midland
Dublin and Wicklow 2,477 2,312
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 7,268 8,116
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada
The above returns show a steady improvement in
the receipts of most of the principal lines. On the
Great Western, the increase is £2,128 ; the North-
'Western, £8,407 ; the South-Western, £2,366 ;
the Brighton, £1,910 ; the Midland, £3,667 ;
the South-Eastern, £1,544 ; the Great North-
ern, £698 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire,
£5,049; the North-Eastern, £2,901 ; the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, £1,540; the
West Midland, £B7l ; and the Grand Trunk of
Canada, £2,076. On the Edinburgh and Glasgow
there is a decrease of £B4B ; and on the Great
Western of Canada, of £627.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
inactive, and the f©w dealings entered into have
been at reduced rates in most instances. Great
Western have declined ss. ; Caledonian, Eastern
Counties, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Eastern
(Berwick), and South Eastern, 10s. ; London and
Blackwall, 155., and Great Northern, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings are flat.
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have re-
ceded ss. ; and Dutch Rhenish, 55.; Grand Trunk
of Canada, ss. to 10s. ; Great Western of Canada
and East Indian realised previous rates.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
inactive. City Bank declined ss. ; Colonial Bank,
ss. Great Ship Company's preference shares realise
; English and Australian Copper, 21 ; and Lon-
don General Omnibus Company, 11.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93- 3 /
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 8 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 1858 96
Ditto, 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 4 d
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account, 6th Sept. 92 1
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
D t re, £5OO 2 6 pm
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Russian 5 par Cent. 1822, £ St
Ditto 41 per Cent. Scrip, 1860
Ditto II per Cent., 1859
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Spanish Cora. Cert. of Coup. not funded si I
Turkish 6 per Cent • •
Ditto Account 74i
Ditto New Loan
69i I
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent... 65
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 92f 1
Ditto Account. September
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THE NEW GAME ACT.—Yesterday the new Game
Act was printed. From and after the passing of the act on 1
Monday last the new duties coramenced. For a licence in
Great Britain or a certificate in Ireland to kill game, if the
same be taken out after the sth of April and before the Ist of ,
November, to expire on the sth of April in the following
Year, £3. To expire on the 31st of October in the same year
r
in which it is taken out, £2. If the licence o the
r certificate be
taken out on or after the Ist of November, to expn
6th of April following, £2. For a gamekeeper to kill game
on the lands of a person having the right, a. For every
licence to deal in game in England, Scotland, and Ireland,
to be granted under the act, £2. The new duties are to be
Excise duties under the Inland Revenue Commissioners.
In default of a licence to take or kill game the offender is to
forfeit £2O. Several exceptions and exemptions are set
forth in the act, including any of the Royal family. No-
thing in the new act is to alter the 11th and 12th Vict., C.
29 and 30, except that a " game certificate" in those acts,
and also in th, lst and 2d Will. IV., e. 32, is to be read as
g der
eetpatoneir or
s
a " licence to kill game." Licences may be taken out on
behalf of assessed servants acting as gamekeepers for per-
sonso having the right to kill game, or under
from lords of the manor. On the change of am
the revocation of deputation the licence may
be n
to the successor. Persons doing any act requiring a nitiieneut
to kill game are to produce the same on demand, or declare
their name and residence, under a penalty of £2O. A licence
is to be void on a party being convicted. The Inland Re-
venue Commissioners are to publish lists of persons licenced
to kill game, and licences to deal in game are only to be
ranted to those who have obtained licences from justices.
very licence to kill game, and not as a gamekeeper or
servant, is to be available for the killing of game in any
Part of the United Kingdom.
GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING'S- CROSS.—
Number of patients for the week ending llth August, 805,
of which 337 were new cases.
The number of patients treated at the Samaritan
Free Hospital for Worsen and Children, Edwards-street,
Portman-square, during the week ending Aug. 11, was 723,
of which 164 were new cases,