The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

1,919,100 0 1,958,200 0
1,313,700 0 985,800 0

bullion.
Do. by the branch banks..
Do. on French public secu-
rities
Do. by the branch banks 14,486,400 0
Do. on railway securities 79,062,200 0
Do. by the branch banks 29,138,550 0
Do.on Cr&lit Foncier Scrip 693,300 0
Do. on branch banks Scrip 294,300 0
Do. to the State on agree-
ment of June 30, 1818 40,000,000 0
Govern. stock reserved
Do. disposable
Hotel and furn. of Bank
Landed property of branch

2.5,775,300 0
13,661,700 0
64,427,500 0
30,048,700 0
662,300 0
339,700 0

40,000,000 0
12,980,760 14
53,708,810 38
4,000,000 0

6,394,172 0
1,924,407 22
4,192,610 15

6,577,594 0
1,610,735 0
2,353,655 69

banks
Expenses of management.
Sundries
Rentes Immobilisees (law
of 9 June, 1857)

Total 1,365,350,135 0 1,319,861,170 62

THIS DA riS MARKETS.

COVENT GARDEN.

The show of fruit is moderately good—of vegetables,
somewhat extensive. Generally speaking, the demand
rules steady, as follows :

FRUIT.
e. d. s. d. e. d. e. d
Pine apples, perlb 8 otol2 01 Cherries, per lb.. 0 6to 2 6
Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 01 Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 6
Grapes, per lb 4 otolo 01 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Foreign do 2 oto I 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Itelons, each
Peaches, perdoz 20 0t035 0 i Figs, rer doz ooto 0 0
Nectarines. per dz 18 oto 24 01Strawberries plb 2 6to 4 6
Apples, per hf. BY. 2 oto 6 0 Gooseberries hf sv 2 oto 3 0
Pears, per d0z.... 6 oto 10 0 ICurrants, per do. 0 oto 0 0
Oranges, per 100.. 30to 8 0 Plums, per do.
Lemons, per 100.. 4 oto 6 0 IGreengages,pr do.o oto 0 0
/apricots. per doz 0 oto 0 0 'Raspberries, pr ptlo oto 0 0

VEGETABLES.
Greens, dz bunch 4 oto 6 0, Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8
Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 6 Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 3 0
Savoy do., pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 3
Cauliflowers, pdz 0 4to 0 81 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 6
Brocoli, per dz 0 oto 0 01 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 0
01d potatoes,p ton 90 to 140 01 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
New ditto, per lb. 02to 0 6 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 3
Peas, per sieve 2 6to 5 0 Mushrooms,p pun 1 oto 2 0
Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 6 6 Artichokes, pr dz 5 oto 8 0
Carrots, pr do 5 6to 7 6 ' Cabbage lett,score 0 9to 1 9
Cucumbers 0 3to 1 0 Endive, per score 1 oto 2 0
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, lif sve 2 oto 3 0
Spinaeh,lll.-sv 0 6to 0 8 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Brus. sprouts, h.s. 0 oto 0 01 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 6
Old onions, hf. sv. 3 oto 3 6 ;Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 6
New do., dz bun
French beans, 100 2 oto 2 91 Asparagus, pr do. 3 6to 5 0
Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 01 Seakale, par pun. 0 0 to 0 0

NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL.
Turkeys, os Od to 8s Od; poults, Os Od to Os Od each;
geese, 4s 6d, to 6s 6d ; goslings, 5s Od to 7s Od ; ducklings,
2s Od to 3s 6d; rabbits, 18 Od to is 9d each; wild do., 6cl
to is Od ; pigeons, 7d to Os 10d each; large Surrey fowls,
8s Od to 15s Od ; chickens, 68 Od to Os Od; barn-door fowls,
3s 6d to 7s Od ; capons, 4s 6d ; hares, 2s Od to 2s 6d ;
grouse, Os Od to Os Od each; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od;
ptarmi,gan Os toOs Od ; woodcocks, 2s 6d to Os Od; snipes, Os
Od to Is OS; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od;
widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ;
guinea fowls, Gs Od to 7s Od ; roasting pigs, 65 Od to 9s Od
each; Ostend fresh butter, Os ,
7 10d to Is ld ; English, Os lid
to s3d per lb ; English eggs 6d to 86 Od ; French do.,
7s Od to Os Od per 120 ; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 10d ;
lamb, 4s 8d to 53 10d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 4s
Od to 4s 10d per Sibs.

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 6€l, m'itton, 38 Gd to 4s 10d ;
,imb, 4s Rd to 5s 10d; veal, 46 Od to ls Sd ; pork, 4s Od
:o 4s 10d per bibs. by the earnse.

Vice Admiral Arthur Fanshawe, K.C.8., struck
his flag on board the Impregnable, 104, on Wednes-
day evening at sunset, and went on a month's leave
of absence. The duties of Port-Admiral will de-
volve on Sir T. S. Pasley, Admiral Superintendent
of the Devonport Dockyard.
The trial of the engines of the paddlewheel steam
sloop Geyser, 6, has given entire satisfaction. She
was taken to the sheer hulk at Devonport on Thurs-
day to have her masts put in.
The screw gunvessel Wrangler, 4, Commander
Beamish, is to have her defects made good at
Dcvonport. She went into Hamoaze on Thursday
afternoon for that purpose.
The paddlewheel steam tender Advice, M. Ray-
mond, second master commanding, will have her
defects made good at Devonport, and return to
Queenstown.

The Hecate, 6, paddle, arrived at Spithcad yes-
terday morning from the eastward.
The Lizard paddlewheel steamvessel, Lieut. E.
E. Maunsell, has arrived at Sheerness from Devon-
port and Portsmouth, with supernumeraries for the
Barracouta, 6, paddlewheel steamsloop, Commander
W. Wood, and the Torch, 5, screw steam gunboat,
commissioned at Chatham, by Commander F. H.
Smith.

Admiralty orders were yesterday received at the
office of the steam reserve in Woolwich Dockyard,
instructing the enrolment of first and second class
boys for the navy, at present limited to 20 per week,
to be increased to 50 per week. The days ap-
pointed for the examination and reception of the
recruits have been fixed for Tuesdays and Thurs-
days in each week.
The following transports have been chartered by
the War Department for the shipment of stores
from Woolwich,—the Eliza Nelson, Gottenburg,
Prosperous, Scorfie, and Plover.
Mr. T. 11. Robins, of the store department, Wool.
with Dockyard, has been promoted to the vacant
chief clerkship at the Naval Establishment in
Jamaica.
Capt. Rundell Burgess Watson, C. 8., having
been superseded at his own request, owing to pro-
tracted ill health, the Admiralty have appointed
Captain Charles Wise (late of the Vesuvius), Aide-
de Camp to the Queen, Captain Superintendent of
the Sheerness Dockyard.
An Admiralty order has been received at the
Sheerness Dockyard for the entry of a number of
extra shipwrights, cau'kers, and labourers.
The following Naval Cadets, having com-
pleted their course of instruction, were discharged
yesterday, from her Mkjesty's ship Britan-
nia, to seagoing ships :—Mr. 11. 11. Grim-
fell, awarded a regulation dirk, for proficiency in
mathematics and navigation; A. Ross, second in
mathematics and navigation; E. W. Hciumb,
awarded a pocket compass, for proficiency in
French and drawing combined ; J. L. Isackraft,
C. T. Hodgkinson, awarded a telescope, for proti.
ciency in seamanship ; J. H. Levcnthorpe, A. M.
Ducat, P. B. Aitkens, P. S. Mentcath, J. S. Bi uce,
G. Usborne, C. T. Francis, H, E. Walters, B. H.
Dunn, second in seamanship ; T. Ferris, W. Wise-
man, second in French and drawing; E. T..Dug-
dale, R. B. Needham, A. 0. Tottenham, J. A. Clif.
ton, E. G. Festing, T. J. Hoghton, J. A. Wilkins,
G. La Coste, Hon. E. Browne, B. W. Fielding, E.
Herrick, P. E. Bowly, IL Ching, F. M. Bland, L
Dacres, E. W. Cole, G. I. Bolton, A. J. Booth
P. A. Black, W. Freeland, F. A. Gataker, H. B
Lang, C. J. Prevost, G. G. Boys, R. 0. Webb.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—John E. Knight, master, to
the Wasp; Charles Cettow, chief engineer, to the
Colossus; George Kent, chief engineer, to the
Archer ; Thomas Davies, chief engineer, to the
Blenheim ; C. P. B, Jones, first-class assist:engi-
neer, to the Blenheim ; James Ross and Saundeis,
first-class assist-engineers, to the Colossus; Wil-
liam Roberts and Edwin Ilawkc, second-class as-
sist.-engineers, to the Blenheim ; Edwin Pearce,
secont-class assist-engineer, to the Bulldog; John
Crichton, acting third-class assist-engineer, to the
Colossus; Andrew Templeton, acting third-
class assist.-engineer to the Colossus, for service
in tha Biter ; Albert Joliffe, acting third-class
assists-engineer, to the Asia, as supernume-
rary; Adolphus Andrews, acting third-class
assist.-engineer, to the Blenheim, for service in the
Violet ; David Howarth, acting third-class assist.-
engineer, to the Bulldog; William 11. Tweedy,
third-class assist.-engineer, to the Asia, for charge
of the Grinder; Hugh H. Pulhen, paymaster, addi-
tional, to the Dauntless ; William L. Inch, pay-
master, to be Secretary to Admiral Sir A. Fan-
shawe, Commander-in-Chief at Devonport ; Alfred
\\rhiffen, assistspaymaster in charge, to the Torch ;
William 0. Bignell, assist.-paymaster, to the Blood-
hound ; Ashby N. James, clerk, to the Hero ; and
Henry D. Edgcome, clerk, to the Centurion.

TEE ARMY.

The annual inspection of the Royal Marine
Artillery at their head-quarters, Fort Cumberland,
near Portsmouth, was concluded yesterday by a
display of practice from mortars, guns, and rockets,
such as is seldom witnessed in a single day. The
weather was beAutifulty fine—a southerly breeze
sufficient to cool the sun's glare, but not sufficiently
strong to produce any adverse effect on the flight of
any of the various projectiles fired. Half-past one
was the hour named for the commencement of the
proceedings, and about that time the bugle sound-
ing the assembly in the square of the fort gave the
first note of preparation, and the deputy-adjutant-
general of the corps, Major-General S. R. Wesley,
commenced his inspection, accompanied by Colonel-
Commandant G. Frazer and a staff of officers. The
two Armstrong guns at once attracted the attention
of the general, and their crews were put through a
sharp course of drill, at the conclusion of which
the general not only expressed his satisfaction at
what he had seen, but also his surprise at the cir-
cumstance of no ammunition having been yet re-
c&ved at the fort for these guns. The Laboratory
was next visited, where the first course of practical
gunnery was gone through with a p Arty of men
summoned promiscuously from the rinks. The
principle and formation of Sir W. Armstrong's
beautiful " time" and percussion fusees was also
minutely entered into, and questions put to the
men relating to it, the answers to which and also
to the course of gunnery elici!ed the warmest com-
mendations from the General. The next point
visited was the enclosed battery of 8-inch guns,
reprei.enting a section of a ship's side, and the 10-
inch land service mortar battery. Practice was
first commenced from the ship gun battery at a
target, about six feet square, distant 550 yards.
The target was swept away at the first discharge ;
a pole, which had been left standing, went the 1
second ; and the remainder of the shots displayed
an extraordinary degree of excellence for quick
firing. The mortar 10-inch battery followed suite,
the mark aimed at being a flag at 560 yards. A
salvo from four mortars was fired, and the flag dis-
appeared. Two more salvos followed, and all the
shells fell at the spot where the flag had been
hoisted. This firing was all the more creditable,
as, on the word being first given in the batteries,
" Prepare for action," three non-commissioned
officers stepped in to lay the mortars. The General,
however, ordered them to fall back, and directed
that three younger soldiers should take their
places. The General and his Staff next proceeded
to the beach in front of the fort, where was drawn
up a battery of field guns, comprising one 12-
pounder ihedium gun, one 8-inch howitzer, two
24-pounder howitzers, and three 12-pounder how-
itzers, all ordered for firing with diaphgram shell ;
a rocket battery, consisting of three 12-pounder
tubes, and one 24-pounder. The 32-pounder shell
gun on the south-east portion of the works was also
ready to join Li with solid shot and shell. Splendid
practice was made from all ; the diaphragm shells
bursting over the poles at sea, representing targets,
at 1,000 and 1,600 yards distance. It was the opi-
nion of many officers well known for their skill in
gunnery, and who were on the ground to see the
practice, that better firing could not be exhibited.
The whole closed with the discharge of a 24-pound
rocket at 45 degrees of elevation, the flight of which
was magnificent beyond description. " Cease fir-
ing" was now sounded by the buglers in the rear of
the guns, and the men were marched into the fort
and all mustered, with the officers at their head, on
parade ground, where Major-General Wesley pro-
ceeded, and addressed them in highly eulogistic
terms, alluding particularly to the firing from the
10-inch mortars, and expressing the gratification it
afforded him of being enabled to report so favour-
ably to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
on the thoroughly efficient stete of the division.
The men were then dismissed to their quarters, and
thus concluded one of the most satisfactory inspec-
tions that perhaps has ever been made in the an-
nals of that corps.
The 2d battalion, 11th Regiment, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday from Aldershott.
Capt. Saunders's I Battery of Royal Horse Ar-
tillery arrived at head-quarters, Woolwich, from
Norwich, was yesterday inspected on Woolwich-
common by Colonel D'Aguilar, C. 8., in the absence
of Colonel Lake. C. 8., who was seized a few weeks
ago, on parade, with a sudden and severe attack of
paralysis, which it is feared will incapacitate him
for further service. The troops, whose guns have
been exchanged for the Armstrong, went through a
course of offensive and defensive moyements, and a
general round of field manoeuvres, and acquitted
themselves with marked satisfaction.
It seas yesterday announced at Woolwich that
the Whitwerth 80-pounder gun at present deposited
in Woolwich Dockyard, and which was recently
tired off at Shoeburyness against the iron-elamped
sides of the Trusty, has been purchased by the War

Department for experimental purposes, to be car-
ried on under the direction and supervision of the
most experienced artillery officers. The experi-
ments will take place on Southsea-common.
'The screw steam transport in the service of the
War Department, the Lord Panmure, Mr. H. T.
Moore, commander, sailed yesterday from Wool-
, with Arsenal, laden with the following stores:-
2,500 boxes of Martin's patent shells for firing
liquid metal, 1,600 boxes containing 8 inch shells,
150 ditto 32-pounders, 135 ditto 68-pounders, and
150 boxes of solid shot; together with 1,000 pen-
tagon improvedpowder cases, eight heavy gun car.
riages, &c.

MOB 211BETEVG OF KI

MS.

There are times in the lives of all men when
they have a claim to our pity, and just now the
man with most clalin to it is the Emperor of the
French. He is encountering almost irresistible
temptation. But the other day it was arranged
that he should go to Baden Baden to meet the Prince
Regent of Prussia, in order, it was said to renew
the mutual confidence shaken by some expressions
in a private letter which a busybody had got hold
of and taken to Paris. The Emperor must Fee the
Prince of Prussia, and receive from his own lips the
assurance that no Minister could be authorised to

convey. So the Prince of Prussia arrived at Baden
on Thursday evening, and the Emperor was ex-
pected to arrive last night. The story, as told,
affected nobody else, and there was no reason why
the two should not despatch the business in half-an-
hour, and be gone their several ways. But Ger-
many does not give Emperors so scant a measure of
civility.. When a great pike comes into her waters
every mmnowmust come to greet him. There they
all are—such a conflux as one never thought to seo
till the Archangel gathered them. The Grand
Duke of Baden, the King of Bavaria, and the Grand
Duke of Saxe Weimar had already arrived yester-
day afternoon. There were expected the Kings of
Saxony,' Vtrurternberg, and Hanover, the Grand
Duke of Hesse Darmstadt; the Dukes of Coburg,
Gotha and Nassau. All the Kings, and it is not
said how many other Sovereign Princes, are to as-
sist at the meeting between the Emperor and the
Prince Regent. What can all this mean ? One
certainly has read of the like before. It used to be
said that "history never repeats itself," but an older
authority says " there is nothing new under the
sun." If you open a window in a summer evening
you have a similar result. Moth after moth emerges
from the outer darkness, flies at the candles, wheels
a giddy circle or two, is absorbed in ;he fiery vortex,
and falls to the table writhing and spirmingin un-
availing agony. All there people are just. doing
whet their fathers did before them. It. runs in the
bloat!. A great E:iglish naturalist affirms that
trout inherit from their forefathers a horror of the

hook and a scepticism as to bait. The German
trout love the hook and rise at the coarsest bait..
Nothing deters them. The German crow sees his
father nailed to the barn door, and flies into the
selfsame toils.

The visit of the Prince Regent to Baden is, of
course, casual. lie happened to be going there by
the invariable ill-luck that is always taking a. cer-
tain class of persons into harm's way. The Empe-
ror of the French, hearing of his visit, invites
himself to share the pleasure of the excursion. The
Prince Regent is afraid that the smaller Powers
of Germany will put an ill construction on the in-
terview, and conclude, in fact, that in return for
the Rhenish provinces the Emperor is about to
present Prussia with a sackfull cf little crowns.
Nothing, however, would please the Emperor so
much as a personal interview with the numerous
victims of these morbid suspicions. So they are 01l
to be present—ostensibly to FCC that they are not
sold in their absence, but we should think also with
the idea that positive advantages are not altogether
out of the question, The man who can destroy
them can do them good, if he thinks fit- The mlp
of Europe is disjointed ; landmarks are removed ;
there is giving and taking; a State threatened with
absorption may reasonably plead not only for ex-
istence, but for a modest degree of aggrandize-
ment ; so every crowned head in Germany, except
Austria, is to do honour to the Emperor of the
French. how pleasant it must be to be reminded
of the events not quite two generations back
Would they like another Confederation of the
Rhino? The gambling-tables are opened on that
familiar scene, and principalities are the stake. Is
it to be roulette or rouge-et-noir ? We should like
to see them all put down their title-deeds on the
table, and to watch their countenances as the Im-
perial croupier rakes them all into his heap. It is
scarcely possible to pity those who invoke their own
doom, and commitle/o de se in the act of dishonest
expectation. The Emperoes feelings can only be
those of a modern sportsman as he enters a
well-stocked preserve, and sees the foolish birds
bustling about on all sides. Let us put ourselves
among the bystanders at this new " Conversation
House," as they call the place at Baden, and
bet how many rouleaux the Emperor will win, and
how much small change he will fling back to the
Prince of Prussia. He really cannot help it. "It
is the curse of kings to be surrounded." We need
not say that Austria is delighted. The meeting at
Vil:afranca was nothing to this, for :low could the
Emperor of Austria help the stupidity of his
generals ? Indeed, he made the beat bargain ho
could, and certainly did not court his fate by
obsequiousness. Nothing, however, but an actual
appetite for self-humiliation could bring Prussia,
with a crowd of small sovereigns, to attend the levee
of a French Emperor at Baden ! For our part, we
are sorry to see the material of which Central
Europe is composed. We seem to be surrounded
by illusions. They seem to flutter round a substan-
tial Emperor in flesh and blood as the shades gaped
and gibbered about YEneas in the infernal regions.
It is of no use to have even wishes about such peaple.
they must go their own way, for good or for evil.
If they simply disappear, it cab make no difference,
and certainly will not diminish the stock of Euro-
van virtue.—Times.

THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGR4PH.

TO 311 E EDITOR OF TDE SUN.

you allow me, in reply to numerous
inquires, to state, in very fow words, the progress
and present position of this undertaking P
In answer to the application for a survey of the
seas and coasts on the route of the proposed tele-
grapl,, made by the deputation -which waited on
Lord Palmerston in last, the following l‘Ater
Las been received ftom the Srcrctery of the Admi-
ralty :

" Admiralty, Junv 6, ISGO.
4' Gentleman—ln reply to your letter of this date
requesting to be informed what assistance her
Majesty's Government have decided to give in sur-
veying the proposed route for telegraphic commu-
nication with America via the Fai oe Islands, Iceland,
and Greenland, I am commanded by my Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that
Lord Palmerston was informed that my Lords would
take immediate steps to prepare one steam-vessel
for the purpose of obtaining deep sea soundings en
the proposed line of telegraphic communication
which they consider will be advantageous upon
general grounds , as well as for the advantage of
any company which may hereafter be prepared to
establish such communication with the continent of
America by the route in question; but their lord-
ships are not prepared, nor are the means at pre-
sent available, to enable them to undertake a de-
tailed survey of the costs of the proposed route.—l
am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
" W. G. ROMAINE."
It is understood that the soundings referred to in
this letter will embrace the seas between Scotland
and the Faroe Isles, Iceland, Greenland, and.
Hamilton's Inlet on the Labrador coast. The ex-
pedition will also on its return take a line of sound-
ings fifty miles south of the outward voyage. The
steamer Bulldog, under the command of Sir Leo-
pold M'Clintock, has been ordered for this service,
and will sail on the 20th inst.
To complete the survey of the whole route, the
steam yacht Fox has been purchased, and Captaia
Allen Young, of Arctic reputation, engaged to pro-
ceed in command of her to survey the coasts where
the cables will be laid. Experienced gentlemen
will also accompany the expedition to, determine
trs
the land route. The Fox will sail about the Ist
Jreu,lpyeentefuny
next from om Southampton.-11-W am
M. BEVAN.
6, Old Jewry, June 16, 1860.