The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

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Edwin Hawker, ten dealer, Above Bar-street, Southamp-
ton, to surrender, Jan. 23, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
John Stoate Date, flour merchant, Cardiff, Jan. 24 and
Feb. 21, at 11, at the Bristol District Court.
John Dyke, grocer, Birmingham, Jan. 23, and Feb. 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John ltoss, draper, Truro, Jan. Ziand Feb. 15, at twelve,
at the Exeter District Court. _ .

Robert Nuttall and Nathan Crossley, machine makers,
Halifax, Jan. 27 and Feb. 24, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.
Edmund Thos. Shadwick, shipowner, Penarth, Glamor-
ganshire, Jan. 24 and Feb. 21, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Jeremiah Joyner, grocer, Cromarty.
David Robertson, mason, East Kilbrido.
Hugh Joyner, farmer, Glen-Urquhart, Cromarlyshiro.
John Finlay, carver, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tuts DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 141 11 15/
Antwerp
Brussels — '2.5 221 25 271
llamburgh
Paris

Ditto

25 35

Marseilles

25_
_321,

25 37}

Frankfort on Maine
Vienna
Trieste

11l
12 SO
12 85

1171:
12 9•i
12 95

Petersburgb
Madrid

Cadir ...
Leghorn
Genoa

49-1
30 25
25 40

50-
30 30
25 45

Naples
Palermo
:Messina

Lisbon

Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York

4o
121
1211

40a
121 k
1211

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Foreign Gold in BArs (Standar(ll per oz. El 17
Mexican Dollars ...
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doublons

SPORTING NOTE".

THE READING MEETING.

Mr. Hibbard may calculate upon a large and successful
gathering to-morrow. His programme is very attractive,
and doubtless sporting men from all parts of the country
will partake of his bill of fare. Their appetite for sport
must bo keen enough, for they have had little lately to take
its edge off. I have not seen the cuurse, but it is described
to me as being admirably suited for steeplechase pur-
poses. A commodious stand will be erected, and
from it a good ♦iew of the entire route may be obtained.
Speculation on the Open Steeplechase has been very slow.
At the Club it has been scarcely mentioned, and as Mr.
Nowcome has not yet reappeared in the lane, not even a stray
sov. has been invested by the outsiders. Hazard has been
talked about, and was once supposed to be a good thing for
the Manchester Steeplechase. She is in well enough, and
now belongs to a party who very seldom make a mistake.
I, however, cannot fancy anything but Roscommon (who,
by the way, is not liable to the 'Ms. extra which Bell's Life
places on him). This horse is a good jumper, and if the
ground bo of the character described, he appears to be quite
capable of getting over it. To him and Physician I shall
leave the race. Roscommon has a penalty for the Bal-
mershe Plate, for which event I shall be surprised to see
him brought out. Estella is not good at a distance, bat in
the company which she is likely to meet she may perform
with credit. One of Mr. Darling's may win the Erleigh
Stakes. The 5 Sove. Sweepstakes I shall place to the credit
of Brunette. THE FRESH MAN.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-( THIS D.11'.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING A GENTLEMAN'S GOLD WATCH. - Mary
Preece, an "unfortunate," of 69, Regent street, Pimlico,
was charged with stealing a gold watch, of the value of f.. 5,
the property of Mr. Edward Henry Simpson, of 8, Kendall-
place, Brixton.
The prosecutor said he met the prisoner at six o'clock on
Christmas-eve in Coventry-street, and went with her to a
coffeehouse in Castle-street, called the Great 'Western. He
stopped a short time with her to partake of some oysters,
and returned to the house. She toOk his gold watch, which
was on the mantelpiece, and said she was going to tell a
friend the time. He told her to bring his watch hack, and
she said she would. She, however, went out of the door,
and though be followed her immediately he lost sight of
her. Having gone since to the house for some things she
left behind, she was given into custody.
Prisoner here asked if he would press the charge if he
got the watch back.
Mary Ann Brown, of 68, Castle-street, having corro-
borated a portion of the prosecutor's statement, said the pri-
soner came on to the stairs and called a friend of hers, who
left directly. She told the prisoner she would not let her
leave without she knew that it was all Tight, and the pri-
soner then rushed through a side door and got away. The
prosecutor said he had been robbed of his watch.
Mr. Beadon said ho should remand the prisoner for a
week.