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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing; Business
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 11 12
10 Do B lO 21 31 3 21
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Auglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lira all 121 2 1 251
'2O Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 51 41
90 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 12
20 Do issued at 2 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 311
10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 18
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, rnd China all 20 21
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
London, and China all 291 301
20 City l2 124
100 Colonial 25 39 40
10 Consolidated, lim.
50 Delhi and London, lim 25
50 East London, lint 5 2 1
20 English and American, lira 10 ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lim lO pr Ip
20 English, ~cottish, and Aus-
tralian Chartered
Hong Bong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 28
281 Do new 5: .14 21
101 Imperial, lim 2O 16 17
20 Imperial Ottoatan lO 2 1
.5 lonian all '24 26
25 Do new 5 1 4p
0 Lud Mortgage of India, lint 4 31 3:
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 75 73
30 London Banki of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 GI 51
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 51 41
100 London & River Plate, lim. 40 9 11
25 Do new 10 2/ 21p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 2 1 25
20 London and County 2O 51 53 4t
10 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll
London Joiut Stock 1 31 33 33

London and South African al 81 94 9
00 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 11 9
150 London & Venezuela, 121
100 London and Westminster 2O 64 65 61 1
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O
100 Merchant, lira 25 6 4
10 Metropolitan, lira all 71 7# 121
100 Midland, lint '2o 11 1
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lira l5 Id 1p
100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42
10 Do . 42 ... 41
t 0 National.. 3O ...
20 New South Wales all 41 43 42
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 43 41
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 6 6
00 Provincial of Ireland 25 88 90
10 Do now. all ...
100 Stand, of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 Is
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 48 471
100 Union of Ireland, Urn
50 Union of London

SHARE LIST.

ORDINARY ciklAtt_elb AND STOCKS.

:Care Railways. Paid. Closing Business
Prise. dens.

t Bristol and Exeter ...... 100 77 79 78
at Caledonian .--..... 100 791 801 791
at Cambrian
20 Cornwall . all 2: 31
it Dublin & Belfast Juno... 100 77 79
st Dun„Yerth,ds Ab.Junc... 100 70 72
2 . East London all 6 7
SO UO 15
2J Do 10
rt Glasgow &S. Western lOO 97 99
it Great Eastern ..
it Do. E. Angl. No. 2 lOO ...
it Great North of Scotland lOO 16 6
at Great Northern lOO 107 108
st Do. A stock
it Do. 11 stock lOO ..
st GtS, and W. Of Ireland OOO 15 :7
Er (It. Western -original., 100 41 191 49; 1
st Do. South Wales lOO 54 56 t 5 6
at Do. W. Md.—Oxford.- 100 25 27
st Do. Newport lOO :8 10
at Lancashire. Yorkshwv lOO 123 21 t2'l 3
et Lon., Brig,h.,& S.Cuast lOO 43 481 47;
OJ Do Scrip - -
st I on., Chat., and Dover lOO 101 17 171 1
it Do. Aletrop. Ex. A lOO -
st Lou. North Western lOO 1151 151 1151 1
t Lon..; South Western lOO 87 /.9 ptie
st Alan.. ,het., Lincoln lOO 501 56/ 061
it >l..tropolitim .
st Do Extonsi.m.
10 Du. New 10 id JP
at Me:rotiolitan District. all 50 52
10 Aletrop at. John's 00 I 6
st Dl.r~ru~l
st 00, llirmin..k Disci) lOO 80 85 051
st N firth British ▪ 100 35 36 351
at 00. Ed.,
2sst \ opr.ol..:atf.t eNrrlt--Berwick.. 10E1 i(3I 103. 21
at Do Leeds..... •
100 58 59 584

st Do York .....
st Do Carli a1e.,,. . 14,0 122 125
et Do Sloe t. & Darling 110 131 131
et North Lon lon
10 Do Aew 18(8 . 2 11 lip
st North Staffordshire .... 100 bi 56 541
st North and S.-W. Junction 100 ili 100
10 Do New £lO shares 7 -• • •
et Ithymney
st Shropshire Union ll'o 57 IS
st South Devon'..
st South Eastern lOO 751 76 76
et Staines, Wok'hane,
all 12 13
& Wok-
et -1 an v ale
Do. C .. •
Waterford & Kilkenny llO
10 Waterloo & Whitelia;l 6 ""
.

RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.

THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF

H'ALL'S.

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 em. 11
town of wooden houses, neatly built and painted, with
gardens full of fruit trees and flowers, here and there, and
with restaurants, cafes, 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 bald:.
to the canal, and there be!ow 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 be 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 dues not
draw more than fifteen feet of water—at least I was in-
formed 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 Toussoum,
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 en ;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
ch of St e Sweet Water Canal was thus rapidly emptied
the lower level of the newly-formed Maritime Canal,
and there millions of fresh water fish, on which crowds of
gulip are now feeding, met their death in the water coming
froill 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
email Muses 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
Timsah, 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."