The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, Auousr 4, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Share' NAME. Paid.
10 Agra Limited, A
10 Do 13
00 Alliance, Limited
50 Albion
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim .... all 21 22 p 221
20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 11 21
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20 Auglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian ..' ... ... .... all 53 155
20 Bank of British Colun;bia.. all 101 11
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt .........
...... all 41 43
20 Bank of Otago, Rm.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 16 17
50 British North American ` all 501 511
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, end China all 18 19
25 Chartered Mere, of India
London, and China all 321 301
20 City lO 11 12
100 Colonial 25 38 44
10 Consolidated, lim
50 Delhi and London, lien
50 East London, lien 6 21 11
20 English and American, lint 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro, lim lO pr ip
20 English, ri;cottish, and Aus-
tralian Chartered a all Gf 11
281 Hong Long and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 38
281 Do new ll/ 4 5
100 Imperial, Urn 23 15 16
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 24 141 f
us lonian all 19 22
25 Do new 5 0 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, lien 4 31 31
100 Do 5 p.e.Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Banks of-,.Xsatto
and South America, lim. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 70 27
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London &River Plate, Rm. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 21/
20 London and County 2O 491 501 501
50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... . .
Loudon Joint Stock 1 311 321
London and South African al 8 9
100 London &S.-Western, lira, 20 13 1.1
50 Loudon & Venezuela, Rm l2l ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 61. 62 53
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm. 2O ... ...
100 Merchant, lim 25 61 53
10 Metropolitan, lim all 71 71
00 Midland, 1ien.,,,,, 2O 14 4
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, Rm l5 a, t 1p
00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do . 42 ... ... 41
50 National.
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western 7l ... ...
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc.Bank;Corpo., lira lO 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 94 92
10 Do now all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, Hill 25 11 14
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 45 16 45}
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London
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TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

t3Piitl'l' UE 'LILL 12 ULLIU .1 UR.N ALS

"Verdict, Temporary Insanity." Such, says the Time;
must needs be the conclusion many persons will feel
tempted to come to upon reading the account of such
catastrophes as the one of which the Schreckhorn was
lately the scene. There is suicide in the London fog, some
people think, in November; and, possibly, the same
instinct of self-destruction may be lurking in the pure au
of the upper Alps at Midsummer: The Alps must have
their yearly complement cf victims. The thrift and enter-
Prise of the Swiss have arranged their mountain region
into so easy and open and everywhere accessible a show
that it has become almost impossible to associate the idea
of enjoyment with that of risk. There is no more peril
in a three months' tour in Switzerland than in a canter in
Rotten-row. But there are men to whom the chance of a
broken neck is a supreme bliss ; who live danger as virtue
ought to be loved-- for its own sake, and against whose
rashness it is as difficult to provide as against the morbid
gloom that snakes others seek in a razor, a rope, or a pinto:
refuge from the weariness of life, whether that life be the
most valnsble or the most utterly worthless. Men
of real pluck and enterprise, in fact, already hold
Alpine climbing in sovereign contempt. The run this
year is no longer to Switzerland or the Tyrol. As you
walk in the Strand, or as you lounge in your club, you
hear of fellows rendezvousing in the Caucasus. That h
the ground to try a man's mettle; with paths so steep
that by the side of them the Gemini is only a garden
avenue ; with peaks that " remind us of two Matterhorn:,
one piled up o-a the other." If we bear of a luckless slip
or of an awkward stumble on those great heavenward
stairs, we shall at least console ourselves with the notion
that there is some virgin ground to break through, some
of Nature's darkest mysteries to dive into ; but to throw
away one's life on the mountains of the Oberland or of the
Pennine West, to climb one familiar top after another,
only to end by leaving one's bones at the foot of the last
of them—Cui bond?

Gold closed at 136 ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 136; the lowest, 134.,
Sterling Exchange on London llO.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 125.
" 1885 1231.
ig " 1867 l22i.
10-40 "
Illinois , • 1411.
Erie 2B/.
Cotton—Mid. upland 33lc.
Petroleum—Standard IVhite 32c.
Flour, extra state, $6.70e. to $7.30c. Corn, old
mixed, $1.12e.

BREsT, August 3.

The Transatlantic Company's steamer St. Lau-
rent, from New York, arrived here at 7 this even-
She brings 178 passengers and $343,283 in

ing.

specie.

QL'EENSTOWN, August 4

The National Steamship Company's steamship
France, from New York, arrived off hera at five
this morning, and hav:n2; landel pazsengers she
proceeded for Liverpool. All well.