The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, tt69.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

tieing
Share Neam Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 11 12 lla 4
10 Do B lO 24 34 321 3
50 Albion l5 8 6
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 194 2 4 201
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 51 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 12
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 so
10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 18
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, end China all 20 21
25 Chartered Mere. of India.
London, and China all f. 91 301 30
20 City l4 12 121
100 Colonial 25 39 40
10 Consolidated, lim.
50 Delhi and Loudon, lim
50 East London, lim 5 2 1
20 English and American, lint 10 ... •••
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. Urn lO pr 1p
20 English, z.,cottish, and Aus •
tralian Chartered
25; Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 314
281 Du new 5l 14 21
100 Imperial, inn 2O 16 17
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 2 -1 121 1
_5 lonian all 21 26
25 Do new 5 1t 1p
'4O Lnd Mortgage of India, tins 4 31 31
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 75 75
30 London Banks of Mexico
and South America, lint. 20 61 54
VO London and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 51 41
100 London &River Plato Um. 40 9 11
25 Do new 10 21 20 114
20 London Chart. of Australia 211 2'i 26
20 London and County 2O 61 53 5:4 1
50 Do new, iss at 20 pan, 16 pd ll ••• ••• „
London Joint Stock._
London and South African al 84 94 V
00 London & S.-Western, lint, 20 11 9
150 London & Venezuela,•
lint... 124 ••• •••
100 London and Westminster. 20 64 65 61 131
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm. 2O
100 Merchant, lim 25 6 4
10 Metropolitan, lira all 71 71
100 Midland, 1im..,... 2O 11 i
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, Urn l5 id 1p
100 National I'rovinc, of Kng'd 42 ••• •••
10 Do ..
L 0 National.. 3O
20 New South Wales all 41 43 42 li
20 North-Western 74
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 43 44
60 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 6 5 43
00 Provincial of Ireland 25 88 90
10 Do new.. all ••• •••
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 11
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 48 474
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

10 Anglo-American Tel., lim all 24 22f
10 Anglo 3lediter Tel., hm.... 10 111 12*
at Atlantic Telegraph lO 25 28
at Do. 8 per cent.
st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 160 165
st Electric do Inter. Telegraph 100 2 0 2.0
10 Do. New 8 9 lip
25 Indo-European Tel., lira , 10 , ...
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. Inn all 3 34
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent. all
1 ip
10 Mediterra. Exton. fel., lim all 3 4
25 Reuter's Telegram all 50 55
20 Societe Transatlant., lira l4 4 3
at Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 1 If
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 16f 17* lc 17
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 5} 6
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 8i 4 p

THE PRINCE AArD THE PRINCESS OF

WALES.

A correspondent of the Times gives the following descrip-
tion of the opening of the Bitter Lakes to the Prince and
the Princess of Wales :—" Serapium is in effect a small
town of wooden houses, neatly built and painted, with
gardens full of fruit trees and flowers, here and there, and
with restaurants, cafés, hotels, stores, and shops, placed on
a very high ridge above the desert plateau. On arriving at
the bank above the Maritime Canal, the royal visitors
were received by Madame de Lesseps, Madame Borce,
Madame and Mdlle. Guichard, Mdlle. Voisin, MM.
Guichard, C. de Lesseps, Dr. de la Roche, M. Voisin,
director-general of the works, and others from Ismailia.
There was a guard of cavasses at the great flight of
wooden steps which leads from the top of the bank
to the canal, and there below were two of the larger
and two of the smaller steamers of the Suez Canal
Company awaiting to convey the party and their suite
thus augmented to the barrage, which now alone
stops the waters of the Mediterranean from flowing
into the Bitter Lakes in an impetuous and destructive
torrent. It will he understood that from Port Said, on
the Mediterranean, to this barrier, the Suez Canal is
open, so that a vessel can pass through if she does not
draw snore than fifteen feet cf water—at least I was in-
funned that it was only in places that the full depth of
eight metres, or twenty-six feet had not been attained,
and that the minimum depth was four and half metres.
When all was ready, a few days since, the dam at '1 oussouw,
which kept out the waters of the Mediterranean, was cut,
' and the supply of water from the Sweet Water Canal was
stopped. Four millions of cubic metres of water eu;ered in
twelve hours. The current was stronger than had been
anticipated, and the stream, rushing through to the lower
level, swept away some of the dredging machines, over-
turned one, and drowned one, if not two, persons. The
toach of the Sweet Water Canal was thus rapidly emptied
it* SW 3m., level of the newly-formed Maritime Canal,
and there osiLlions of fresh water fish, on which crowds of
gulls are now feeding, met their death in the water coming
fro*t the salt sea. At this end of the Maritime Canal
there is now a reservoir with a wooden barrier apparently
about 200 yards long, parallel to the course of the canal—
not at right angles to it—provided with a great number of
small iclUses or floodgates. A sloping ledge of planking leads
from the level of the canal bed at the bottom of the sluices
to the natural depression of the bed of the Bitter Lakes, and
on the opening of a sluice a stream of water rushes over
this ledge across an artificial mound of rocks and falls into
the lake. When the Prince and Princess reached this
barrier a number of workmen were ready at the sluices
with ledges and levers, and M. de Lesseps conducted the
royal party to a narrow bridge, or trestle work, below it,
extending across the narrow end of the lake, from which
they could see at their ease the rush of water. It may be
remembered that the Viceroy some days previously had
seen the first of the sluices drawn, and ever since water
has been passing through, but it only forms a large pool
in the neck of the lake. Nevertheless, the fish of the
Mediterranean have already found their way to this
pool, and were disporting in the rush of water over
the stones. When the Prince and Princess had seen the
nature of the work, at a given signal some dozen or so
of the sluices were raised, and the salt water spurted forth
in a milk-white gush from as many freshly-opened sources,
and then flowed quietly away to its appointed bed.
Having watched this interesting sight for some time, the
Royal party returned to the steamers on the Maritime
Canal at Serapium, and proceeded northwards towards
Ismailia, about fourteen miles distant, which they reached
at dusk. In the voyage the steamer passed through Lake
Timbal), which has been filled by a process analogous to
that by which the barren bed of the Bitter Lakes is to be
converted into an inland sea. It is nine miles in circum-
ference, with an average depth of six metres (19ft. Gin.) ;
but there are banks and deep depressions in the bed, and
the course for vessels, which is marked out by buoys and
stakes, curves towards the west and north-west before it
reaches the shore on which stands ' the Venice of the
Desert '—lsmailia."

AN UNTOWARD ACCIDENT.
An amusing incident is told of the voyage of the Prince
and the Princess of Wales from Port Said. The journey
was mad in the Khedive's yacht Mohrussa. We are told
that when the royal party come off in a state barge to
their floating palace, they found everything in order—
yards manned, guards of honour of marines on deck, the
officers headed by Cassim Pasha, the Vice Admiral in
command of the yacht, with Jackson Bey, the English
engineer, drawn up on the gangways, a gorgeous valetaille,
a dinner spread in a saloon resplendent with silver lamps
(one of the party took the trouble to emint, and reckoned
220 wax candles), damask walls, and ormolu and papier
macho panels, gilt furniture, flowers, silver columns and
stanchions, and so on. It was intended that the Khe-
dive's yacht, attended by the Pysche, should put out to
sea at once, but her departure was delayed for more than
an hour by fouling the chain of a mooring. At a little
before 7.40 p.m. the great vessel began to steam down
between the jetties out to sea, and all went well till she
arrived at the end of the breakwater, when she stopped
for a moment to land the pilot. The royal party were
seated at dinner, the band of the yacht was playing out-
side, servants were handing round c!afs cneuvres of Euro-
pean cookery, when the sea suddenly t,ok. it into its head
to give a gentle tilt and to raise the counter of the
Mehrussa a little as she slowed her engines.
No. 1 sent a thrill through the glasses, and set them
quivering slightly. No. 2, from the other side of the
ship, caused one or two to skip towards the side of
the table, and numerous bottles placed on the carpet
against the gilt bulkend to rattle discordantly. No. 3
W hish ! There was a thundering crash ! A pile of most
e4quisite Sevres plates on a scagliola side-table flew with
a prolonged grating clatter on the floor, and were dashed
to atoms ; decanters of the most costly cut glass, cande-
labra, and glasses leaped off the dinner table, and there
arose from the company that hard-to-be-described ejacu-
lation well known to those who go down to the sea in
ships when a rude wave breaks in on society for the first
time as each grasped at some volatile object or at the
table ; but the mischief was done in a minute, and the
Mohrussa rolled nothing more into wreck and ruin,
though she could not resist the force of the seas during
the night.