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 bo a fair one. Continental advices
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 declined 10s to
15s per cwt. We quote :
Kid and East Kents 2oos to 220 s per cwt.
Weald of Kent
Sussex
Farnham and country
Yearlings l2os to 150 s
Olds sss to 1005 „

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7—This Day.

Market quiet at yesterday's low rates, but rather
better iuquiry. 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. 29e. per 41 sterling.
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
£3 15s.10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight is about 104 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 New York; loft on the
31st August.
CARDIFF, Sept. 9.—Wind N.U.—Sailed—Rosebud, for
Salonica.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 10.—Wind 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.
liuLL, Sept. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—llenreicb,
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 ; Geertje
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; Adana, steamer, from Odessa;
II olland, steamer, from Ostend.

Sailed—Sir Robert Peel and Fusileer, steamers, for
Dunkirk; William Le Lacheur, for Punta Arenas.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Alexandra, for Alexandria; Blair Athol,
bark, for Port de Gallo—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 Rajah of Cochin, with
several others, for the westward.

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The North German
Lloyd screw steamship Bremen, Captain H. 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, boon giving food
for gossip. At Chichester, after being fastened in the
stable of a tavort for tho 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. Tho
inn door was bolted inside, and opened outwards ; neverthe-
less the 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 he proceeded to help himself to
a bag of bran ; and while eating this sot 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 somo trouble, he got the
animal out of the house again. At Brightoa the elephant
was lodged in a stable on the outskirts of tho 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, the animal passing the coin
on to his keeper ; Ito then pet out his trunk again.
Road felt in his pockets for more money, the
elephant meanwhile steadily watching him ; finding ho
had only silver money in his pockets, Read put back
the coins, and would give no more. Tho elephant
immediately rushed at Read, and, getting the poor fellow
against a wall, drove its tusk deep into his shoulder. Read
was at once taken to 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 newspaper :—" He was certainly in the upper
story a complete combination of stamina, strength, and
motive power, though from the knee downwards rather
light-looking ; yet this was to a groat extent compensated
for by his short shins and the large epiphyseal develop-
ment of his phalaugeal bones !"