The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
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A Do B lO fq 4 3k
60 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egy pilau, lira
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited laoBll 215424221) 22i
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40 Australasian .... ....
20 Bank of British Columbia all • 101 11
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all :;0 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 34
19 Bank of Aew Z ealand all 13 17
50 British North American
20 - Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, .nd China all 18 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India
London, and China all 324 3CI
20 City
100 Colonial
10 Consolidated, lim.
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50 East London, lim. 5 21 11
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20 English Bank of Itio de J 9.-
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tralian Chartered J all 61 17
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bak Corporation all 36 38
281 Do new lll 4
100 Imperial, lim 2O 15 16
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 2k zi 14 i
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25 Do new.
Lnd Mortgage of India. lim 4 3i 31
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30' all 76 76 10 84
100 London Bank, of .11exico
and South America, lim. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 5 11
100 London & River Plate, lim. 40 6 8
25 Do tie iv 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 211
20 London and Ooanty 24 191 501
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10 Metropolitan, lim
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at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 172 177
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25 Reuter's Telegram all 75 73
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ART AIVD LIT.E.UARY GOAVS.LP.

There aro several items of interesting gossip in the
Athencrum:=Simultaneouslywith the meeting of the
British Association at Exeter, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science will commence its annual
gathering. The American Association meets this year at
Salem, Massachusetts.—Mr. George Dennis having been
appointed by her Majesty's Government Consul in Crete,
has a wide field, not only for professional service, but for
archmological researches.—The G eologists' A ssociation are
continuing their useful and pleasant excursions this season,
and have announced a special visit of three days to the
Isle of Wight in September, during which they propose to
examine carefully all the chief geological features of the
island. Professor Morris, of University College, is the
President of the Association, and under his guidance there
is no fearof practical work being neglected.—At a meeting
of the members of the Newspaper Press Fund on Satur-
day, Lord Houghton in the chair, the question of the
qualification for membership, as to which there has been
for some time a discussion, was settled. There has long
been a desire on the part of some members to widen the
qualification, and admit those engaged in the trading de-
partments of newspapers. The rule as now modified dis-
tinctly requires that the members shall be literary con-
tributors receiving remuneration, but within that qualifi-
cation the title for adMission includes all classes of
writers, reporters, proprietors, and managers. A
suggestion was made for the representation of
the provincial press on the committee.— The Silk
Supply Association has determined to start a Sil:
Supply Journal, on the model of the Cotton Sum ,ly
&porter cf the Manchester Cotton Supply A ssociation. Some
talk has taken place among the Indian tea companies of
publishing a journal on tea culture, to follow up the pro-
ceedings of the tea conferences of the Indian Committee
of the Society of Arts. The society gives a medal for a
book on the promotion of tea cultivation, and the Indian
Government are likely to produce a manual on the same
subject.—We regret to announce the death, at Lisbon, on
the Bth ultimo, of a veteran, both in literature and science,
Dr. John Mai tin. So far back as 1817, he was the editor
of " Mariner's Tonga Islands," a work which has been
always held in high estimation, and in our own pages we
have had occasion to record his labours durinc.r the last
twenty years in the observation of atmospherical phew).
mena, especially with reference to pressure, temperature,
and moisture. Dr. Martin laid down meteorological
charts representing the varyingaspects of months, seasons,
and years from daily observation. lie also made careful
observation with reference to ozon', as well as on the
characteristics and circumstances affecting cholera and
yellowle ver. These labours are the more commendable as the
work of an old man, executed in different colours with
scrupulous neatness, and mostly at night after the
fatigue of practice. Dr. Martin died at the adianced age
of 80.

The Orchestra has also some noticeable items :—Costes
operetta, " Les Horreurs de la, Guerre," has been pro-
duced at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with complete
success.—The manner of Mr. Pechter as an actor
furnishes, we understand, the subject of an article which
Mr. Dickens has written for the Atlantic Monthly, and
which will appear in its next number.—An organisation
for the encouragement and protection of authors has been
formed in New York. It aims to secure a hearing and fit
recompense for deserving writers who have nct yet
achieved popularity and the admiring regard of pub-
lishers.—The nom d'artiste flourishes as thickly in Paris as
it does among. us. Ilerv6 is a pseudonym of the author of
" Crev6." His real name is Rong6. Nestor
Roqueplan was born Roceplan. Nadar the photographer
was originally called Tout-nacho% Saint Marc-Girardin
has himself added the Saint Marc. George Sand was
baptised A urore Dupin. Champfleury, the realistic
novelist, is named Husson. And (to drop suddenly)
Ther6sa, before she became notorious, was known as
Valladon.—A lively indication of the ropularity in
which Mule. Nilsson is held was afforded on Saturday
at the Crystal Palace. After the usual acclama-
tions bad been lavished upon her, the Swedish Diva
retired from the platform and attempted to make her way
from the artist's room to her carriage. But this was no
easy matter ; the way was blocked by an admiring throng
anxious to get one look at close quarters, and perhaps a
smile from the Queen of Song. The police had ultimately
to make a way for Mdlle. Nilsson, and " keep the ground"
in military fashion. Through this helmeted avenue the
lady walked to her carriage, while hats were raised,
handkerchiefs waved—in short, an ovation offered analo-
gous to the homage which we are wont to pay to royalty.
Mdlle. Nilsson could hardly have received a wanner
tribute if she had been a Princess of the Blood.

The Frcenzan's Journal of yesterday Frya it is nur-
rcritiv reported that Mr. Cthiectrwn ii.c.nde to v:O4
during the autumn. '1 ho Dublin parer proniL es Lim u
hearty welcome.

BM FAL MINC. —Another of those very sad
baby farming" cases was before the derufy colonel- for
Central Middlesex on Friday. A n other who had several
illegitimate children sent them away to be fed by hand,
and nursed other children on her milk. The children
died. It was on the dead body- of the last of them that
the inquest was held. The coroner said the conduct of the
mother made Ler guilty of what was next dour to man-
slaughter. The jury returned the verdict—" Death from
natural cause's, accelerated by the chTrivation of linast
milk through the mother going out as avet nurse to
another child."

THE STORY OP A DISCOVERY.—The electric
telegraph plays an important part in the engagement of
artists, but until now we do not remember of an artist
having been actually olitained Ly wire. Within the last
few days, however, electi icity has kindly yiele:ed one
of her votaries to art. Herr vcn Il ulsen, the
Intendent of Theatres at Berlin, was takirg a
walk at Karlsbad, when passing a telegraph office
he heard the sound of an extraordinarily sweet tenor
voice. Entering the office he found a clerk sing-
ing over his work. M. von Il ulsen put some leading
questions touching the young man's knowledge of music,
and requested him to sing a few roulades, which were
given ad satisfaciendunt. 7he result was, the Intendent
engaged the clerk then and there, and the happy official
had the gratification of telegraphing on the spot to Prague,
before sending in his resignation, " Have just been found
out by Hulsen—taken off to Berlin—two thousand thalers
a year provisionally." The clerk's name is Pavilicele, but
they will probably find him one more euphonous.
AN IMPUD ENT SWINDLER.— The Sam acker family
in Paris wid, no doubt, be remembered, with its lawsuits
and criminal trials the father, a cabman, suing the
daughter, a woman of the dctni•ntonde, who had become
the Marquise d'Orvault, fur alimony, and the son
condemned to the Bagne, from which he subsequently
escaped, for shooting at his sister to extort money
from her. The parents Lave now just appeared again
in publi.) to prosecute a female swindler, calling herself
the Countess Jordan Poninska, nee Countess d'esten-
Sacken. This woman, shortly after the trial of the son,
called on the Sehumackers, and pretending to have great
influence with the Empress and personages of rank, offered to
solicit a pardon for the young man. The cabman and his
wife readily became the dupes of this great lady, who,
although, according to her representations, possessed entire
villages in Poland, condescended to borrow sums of money
varying from £4 to meet the costs on a draft for £3,200,
which she was expecting, down to a shilling to pay for
mending a pair of shoes. The soi-disant countess,
of course, could not call en great people to intercede
for the son without wearing jewellery, and as she had none
herself she borrowed from the Schumackers a gold chain
with a diamond worth £l6, a pearl ring, and a coral brace-
let, but which, as might be expected, she never returned.
She likewise took Madame Schumacker into her service as
cook, and allowed the latter t..) advance money for market-
ing. But the famous draft for £3,200 not arriving, the
cabman and his wife lost patience and denounced their
protectress to the police, who discovered that she had been
already condemned for swindling in Baden, Saxony, and
England. The spurious countess was sentenced to three
years' imprisonment.

"BLUE Gowv."—Rumour' has it that Blue
Gown, winner of the Derby in IE6B, is to be sold for
£6,000 according to some accounts, and £5,000 according
to others, Say £5,000, and calculate what he will have
been worth, exclusive of bets, keep, and travelling
expenses, to his owner. At two years of age he won

(having been diaqualfied for the Champagne Stakes, for
which he came in first at Doncaster) the Sunning Hill
Stakes of £315 at Ascot Spring Meeting, the Fern Ilill
Stakes of £240 at Ascot Summer Meeting, and
the Clearwell Stakes of £9lO at Newmarket
Second October Meeting. At tl:ree years of
age he W.ll the spring Stakes of £155 at New-
market Spring Meeting, a sweepstakes of £l;',o at the
same meeting, the Derby Stakes at Epsom of 213,850, the
Gold Cup at Ascot of £B4O, tha Fitzwilliam Stakes at
Doncaster of £125, walked over for the Royal Stakes of
£650 at Newmarket Second October Meeting, won (carry.
ing Ost.) the second place for the Cambridgeshire, walked
over for the All-aged Stakes of £250 at Newmarket

Houghton Meeting, and won the Free Handicap of
.21,100 at the same meeting. At four years
Of ago he Las hitherto won the Trial Stakes of
£135 at Epsom Spring Meeting, walked over for the
Craven Stakes of On at Newmarket Craven Meetiiig,
won the Tenth Newmarket Biennial Stakes of £OO2 at
the same meeting, won the Queen's Plate of 105 at Win-

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chester, and won the Craven Stakes of i!'7o at Goodwood.
He does not, perhaps, come up to the greatest winners of
the Derby, but he,has won by his own legs.. .132,5 V, and
the second place (carrying 9st.) for the Cambridgeshire
Add to his pecuniary winnings £5,000, and the result
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