The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The accounts from the hop districts are very favourable.
Picking has commenced in many grounds, and notwith-
standing the trials to which the plant has been put the
yield is pronounced to be a fair one. Continental adviees
report the crops to be large and of excellent quality. The
market here is very dull, buyers not operating beyond their
immediate requirements, and prices have docliaed 108 to
15s per cwt. We quote :
Mid and East Kents 2oos to 220 s per cwt.
Weald of Kent
Sussex
Farnham and country
Yearlings l2os to 150 s
Olds sss to 1003

LIVERPOOL COTTON II Day•

Market quiet at yesterday's low rates, but rather
better inquiry. Sales probably 10,000 bales.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25f. 20c. per XI sterling.
On cOnsparing these rates with the English Mint price of
• l'is.lold. per ounce for standard gold, it appeArs that
gold is about 1-10111 per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris.

The couree of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 00 days' sight is about 10n per cent. At this rate there
is no profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LONDON, Sept. 11.--Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy. •
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—City
of Antwerp, screw steamer, from Now York; loft on the
31st August.
CARDIFF, Sept. 9.—Wind N.lV.—Sailed—Rosebud, for
Salonica.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 10.—Win,d W.—Sailed—Norseman,
screw steamer, for the Cape of Good Hope. Put back—
Rosina, for Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 10. —Wind N.W.—Sailed—St. Ber-
nard, for Rangoon; Mary Wood, for Rio Janeiro; Cairns,
for Bombay.
HULL, Sept. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrivad—Henreich,
from Belize.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Sept. 11.

Arrived, Sept. 10—Cambrian, from Jamaica; Veritas
and Pearl, from Guernsey; John Stanton, jun., from Sin-
gapore; Queen of the Bay, from Table Bay; Geertjo
Dykstia, from St. Petersburg; Borgenejsen, from Ade-
laide ; Ruggiero, from Barletta.
Arrived, Sept. 11—Waterloo, steamer, from Rotterdam ;
Victor, steamer, from Brussels ; Ann, steamer, from Cepha-
lonia; Concordia, steamer, from Boulogne; Batavier,
steamer, from Rotterdam ; Blanche and Lord John Russell,
steamers, from Dunkirk ; Adalia, steamer, from Odessa ;
B olland, steamer, from Ostend.
Sailed— Sir Robert Pool and Pusileer, steamers, for
Dunkirk; William Lo Lacheur, for Punta Arenas.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Alexandra, for Alexandria; Blair Athol,
bark, for Port de Galle—both from Shields ; Rondinella,
from Sunderland, for Odessa; White Eagle, for Newport;
Spartan, screw steamer, for Palermo—both from London;
Simoda, from Cadiz, for Hamburg.
Passed—Daniel Webster, from New York, for London;
Simoda, from Cadiz, for Hamburg.

Sailed, Sept. 10.—Sea Breeze, and Rajali of Cochin, with
several others, for the wostward.

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The North German
Lloyd screw steamship Bremen, Captain IL A. F. Neyna-
ber, sailed for New York at 1 p.m., with English, French,
and German mails, a full complement of passengers, jew-
elry from Havre, value 23,000 f., and a large cargo. Among
the passengers are the Hon. Mrs. Randall, of Washington,
and party.
FREAKS OF AN ELEPHANT.—The Circus of
Messrs. Sanger, from the Agricultural Hall is
exhibiting on the South Coast, and the performing ele-
phant connected with the collection has, been giving food
for gossip. At Chichester, after being fastened in the
stable of a tavern for the night, the animal opened the
door, and so got into the yard. A fence and a
bolted door thence separated it from the inn, but
he put his trunk over the fence, drew the bolt, and
passed through the door to the back of the tavern. The
inn door was bolted inside, and opened outwards; neverthe-
less tho elephant managed to pull open the door, and so
made his way to the tavern kitchen. Instinct led the strange
burglar to the pantry, where ho prcceeded to help himself to
a bag of bran ; and while eating this set the surrounding
crockery in motion. The landlord, thus aroused, rushed
down in the moonlight, and was not at. all comforted on
ascertaining the character of his visitor. The keeper was
at once summoned, and, after some *trouble, he got the
animal out of the house again. At Tirighton the elephant
was lodged in a stable on the fiutskirts of the town.
Just before starting thence for one, of the performances a
man, named Read, entered the yard with several other
persons. The elephant put out his trunk, and Read
dropped a halfpenny therein, ',lie animal passing the coin
on to his keeper ; he tb.en. put out his trunk again.
Read felt in his pocixots for more money, the
elephant meanwhile steadily watching him ; finding he
had only silver money in his pockets, Read put back
the coins, and would. give no more. The elephant
immediately rushed at, Road, and, getting the poor fellow
against a wall, drove its tusk deep into his shoulder. Read
was at once taken 4,,0 the hospital, where he was found not
to have sustained, any serious internal injury, and he is
now in a fair way of recovery.
FINE WRITING.—The first prize thoroughbred at
the recent agricultural show at Dublin has been thus de-
scribed in a neiwspaper :—" He was certainly in the upper
story a comp'.ete combination of stamina, strength, and
motive power, though from the knee downwards rather
light-lookin g ; yet this was to a great extent compensated
for by his abort shins and the largo epiphyseal develop-
ment of flits phalangeal bones !"