The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-24 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 19} ... 12
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 2 ... 12 2t

--....—..- ...
Antwerp — ... 25 40 ... 25 45
Brussels
Hamburg ti — ... 13 111 ... 13 111
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main: ... 1211 ... 1211
V ienua — ... 12 65 ... 12 7t)
Trieste — ... 12 6.i ... 12 70
Petersburg
Copenhagen.. — ~ 9 24 ... 9 27
Berlin

Madrid.
Cadiz —48 j. ... 49}
Leghorn

Miran ... 26 40 26 45
Gonna 26 40 26 45
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N aples

26 40 ... 26 45

Palermo..
Mossina
Lisbon ...,

- 26 40 ... 26 45
- 26 40 ... 26 45
- 511

The Inconstant, wooden-casei, iron built, screw
frig►te, Captain D.'o. Aplin, left Spithead on
Saturday morning to join the Channel Squadron
at Plymouth.

The Monarch, armour-plated turret ship, Capt.
Cotmuerell, V.C., left Spithead on Saturday even-
ing for Plymouth to join the Channel Squadron.
She took a few men from the Royal Marine Artil-
lery and Light Infantry for ships on the Mediter-
ranean station.

The North German, armour-plated screw frigate,
Capt. Werner, went out of Portsmouth harbour on
Saturday, and proceeded direct away for Kiel,
without anchoring at Spithead. During the stay
of this ship at Portsmouth she was an object of
great attraction, and the visitors received the most
courteous attention from the officers.

Wo understand that their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess Teck aro to be the guests of the Dirl of
Scarborough, at Sandbeck Hall, at the approaching Don-
caster Races.

ROYAL CALEDONIAN HUNT AND EDINBURGH MEETING.—
The programme of Handicaps for this the greatest of
Scottish meetings, has appeared, and it will be observed
that the unprecedented "sum total" of added money is
promised to verge on 1,500 sows, which is ample evidence
of the prosperity of the Turf over the Border; and as it
so far exceeds all previous efforts, there can be little doubt
but the meeting will secure that amount of patronage from
owners and trainers which it so worthily deserves. A now
T. Y. C., with fully five furlongs straight, is ono of the
latest improvements, an extension of paddocks being also
in progress.

SPIRITUAL T RANSPORTATI ON. —A gentleman of
Indianapolis visited Mrs. Kergwin, at Jeffersonville,
Indiana, recently, and, while there, was informed by the
spirits that they would carry a bouquet to his mar-
ried daughter, who resides at Terre Haute. He accord-
ingly prepared a bouquet, and attached to it a letter, and,
when all was ready, he states that the letter and bouquet
were taken from his hand and suddenly disappeared. In
a short time a report was returned stating thtit the mes-
sage and flowers had been delivered at his daughter's re-
sidence, and laid upon a bureau in her bed-chamber. The
gentleman is now awaiting a latter from his daughter by
mail to corroborate the statements of the agents of this
new express line.
The cotton and woollen factories of the United
States are, it is said, estimated to amount to the number of
3,500. Of these 87 are cotton mills, with about 224,000
spindles, in the cotton. raising States. Georgia has 21 mills,
with 60,782 spindles; North Carolina, 17 mills, with 24,219
spindles ; Virginia and Tennessee, 10 each, with an aggre-
gate of 49,780 spindles. Of the Northern and Western
States, Massachusetts has 593 cotton and woollen mills;
Pennsylvania, 517; New York, 365; Rhode Island, 292 ;
Connecticut, 284 ; Now Hampshire, 150; Illinois, 133 ;
New Jersey, 116 ; Indiana, 115 ; Ohio, 114; Maine, 100 ;
Vermont, 69 ; Michigan, 55; lowa, 52 ; Wiscouln, 42 ;
Oregon, 8 ; -Kum, 7 ; azi Q6liforaial 6.