The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-01 00:00:00

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

William Ancrum, late of Fulham, now of Edinburgh.
John Andrew Smith, baker, Edinburgh.
John Miller, merchant, Springbank, Bonnington,'Ediw•
burgh.
Duncan Leitch, late merchant, Lochgilph.ead.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 16/ 11 17
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 30 25 35
Hamturgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
25 35 25 371
Frankfort on Maine --117- 117 a
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 341 133415
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz - 494 497 r
Leghorn — 30 35 30 40
Milan — 25 ni 25 45
Genoa v — 25 40 25 45
Naples
39 394
Messina — .. • •
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro — • •
• •
New York — • •
• •
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)„ .. per oz. .£3 17 • 9
Mexican Dollars i••,• • 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard)
~
1, 0 0 0
South American Doublons

THE OLD BM:MS.—It will be remembered that a
meeting was held about a month since, at the London
Tavern, to form a rifle corps from among those pupils edu-
cated at Christ's Hospital; but as so few names were en-
tered as candidates for admission, and on account of the
many other difficulties which beset the formation of the
corps the committee thought it advisable to accept the offer
of Viscount Ranelagh to take them into his corps, the South
Middlesex, and make them eseparate company, until such
time as the Old Blues were sufficiently strong to form a dis-
tinct corps of their own. The members now muster in
pleasing numbers for drill in the grounds of Christ's Hos •
pital. The uniforms are finished, and wait only for the
buttons to be cast ; the dress is dark gray, with blue facings
and a narrow edging, a round collar, and cuff of red. The
cap is the same as worn by the-South -Middlesex Rifles,
with the addition of a narw band of blue, much resembling
the uniform of the Eton Volunteers.

THE CROPS IN NORFOLK AND SUFFOLE.—The
wheats are presenting, on the whole, a favourable appear-
ance in Norfolk. The ear is short,, and the lower part on
some soils is not very well developed, but generally it is
thickly set. Barleys, however, look very indifferently,
being thin and uneven on meny farms. Some of the warm
and light soils will, however, probably improve, and the
present week has been ushered in with bright and cheering
weather. The yield of beans and peas will be abundant,
but in many cases the late dull wet weather has reproduced
the potato disease. In Suffolk the wheat crop has improved
considerably in appearance, but the yield is scarcely ex-
pected to be up to the average ; and, as regards barley.,
the statements made are very gloomy, from two to four
coombs per acre being the estimated return upon thou-
sands of acres. Beans and peas will be, as in Norfolk,
abundant crops.
THE LIVERPOOL VOLUNTEERS IN CAMP.—The
Ist Company Lancashire Volunteer Rifles are now
bivouacked in the Sandhills at Crosby, near Liverpool,
where they perform the usual duties of camp life. Other
corps will pass their evenings at Crosby as soon as the
tents, &c., can be procured.
THEINDIAN ARMY.—A Parliamentary return,.
issued yesterday, states that 93 non-commissioned officers:
and 233 privates of the late East India Company's arm ira,
took their discharge with pensions as time-expired irxen,
subsequently to *he order whereby they had granted to
them the benefit of two years' service on account of their
not having already taken their discharge under the above-
mentioned order of the governor .general. Without pen-
sions 69 non-commissioned officers and 292 privates took
their discharge.
CRICKET.—M. C. C. AND GROUND 'v. NINE
GENTLEMEN OF HAMPSHIRE (WITH Two PzATERs.)—
This match was resumed yesterday at Lord's.. There was
good play on both sides; but it will be seen by the follow-
ing score that the Hampshire gentlementost the match by
London
80 runs :—M. C. C., Ist innings, 134 ; 2d innings, 148.
Hampshire, Ist innings, 102, 2d innings, 100.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
short Tlchanea
r: 20-1110ths per
is
25a1a1o2utt
pea:
£lpasrte,
rlasin
gd. the
3°l7sc.ogrii g these rates with the
English Mint price of per ounce for standard
it appears that gold is
gold, Paris than in London. B
cent. dearer in
advioes from
Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and
the short
exchange on London is 13.4iper Z 1 steielkg. Standard gold
at the English Mint price is therefore nearly l-10th per
cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The se of
change at New York on London for la eelir
ex-
frat 60 days' sight
is 1091 to 110 per cent., which, when
Mint par between the two count, . compared with the
nes, shows that the ex-
chan(re is in favour of Englandtwo
•
but, after makinc allow-
ance 'for charges of transport
and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a small
profit on the importation of
gold from the United States.
LOOKING PEOPLE IN THE FA I CE.— have
known
avast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not look-
ing you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea.
Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day
in the week, if there beanything to begot by 'Di 41°8'8
it.— e
"411 the Year Round."
ARRIVAL OF HEENAN IN AMEEICA.—A letter
from New York says :—The arrival of Heenan, in the
Vanderbilt, on Saturday, was signalized by a ludicrous
ovation on the part of the " roughs, but failed to produce
the sensation which his friends had expected. The novelty
of the expedition todeprive Sayers of his bolt created some
excitement at that time, but it has quite subsided, and the
pugilistic furore is now confined to its professors and the
sokoolboys.