The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

BRITISH MINES.

Cam. Consul. cold, ilia.
Chiverton
Clifford A malgamated.
Devon G. Cons. (Tavist
Drakewalls
East Bassett (Illogan)
t,;ast Caradon

East earn Brea
s.ast G:enville
East G unnislake ..
East Love.) • • •
B. W't ltussell (Tavistk
Gam.& StAubyn(G wen.
L xey, limited..
Great South Tolgus
Great Wheal tswv.....
G. Wheal Vor (Heist • •
Grenville
ilerod's Foot ••••
flingston Downs
Margaret (Uny Lelan
narke Valley
'iwyndy iron Ore,
New Seton
North Roskear
Bassett (Mogan
North Wheal Crofty
Prosper United
Pr..videnee UnyLlant
S. Caradon (St. Cleer)
south Condurrow
S.Wheal Frau. (Mogan
Stray Park
Tin Croft
Vigra and Clog-an, Ilm
West Bassett (Mogan
W. Caradon (I,skeard
West Chiverton ....... .
West Seton.
Wheal Bassett 'Mogan
Wheal Buller (Redruth
Wheal Mary Ann (Men.
Wheal Setou
Wheal Trelawney (Lis

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125 135
80 85
123 174
195 205
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rEE.I, Eltliasitau stiAtcEs
reat Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 11'4 5
London rnd S.W., Portsmouth perpet. aims. or Ls. 6d, 21
AOrtil Eastern, York, 11. and Selby purchase, 01
North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 79

vitti:FERENCE SHARES AND STOutz-,
London and S.-Western 44 per cent., 914
FOREMN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco, gua. 7 per cent., 14}
Dutch Rhenish, 181
Great Luxembourg, 3,4
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin),
San Paulo, ihn., gua. 6 per cent., If
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 11

PO HELGA MIN Et,.

Cape Copper, Um., 10

BANK
gra and 31asterman'8, 11w.,
U.,— I'i 19i
anglo Eg,yptian, Bin., 24
Australasia. 6it
flank of Victoria, Australia, 41
Bartered ,filer. of India, London, and China, 35f
City, 15i 16
t ;onsolidated Bank, lim., 2 1
European Bank, lirn., 3
imperial Ottoman, 9}
Lard Mortgage Bank or India, lim.,
London Chartered Bank of Australia, (12
London and Couuty, 65} 6j
London Joint Stock, 45
London and South-Western, lim., 15
London and $‘ estminster, 94.
Union of Australia. 4S 7,
Union of Ireland, 15
Union of London, 5049
DOCKS.
East and West India, 130

MISCELLANEOUS.
Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 2f 3
Australian Mort. Land and Finance. Inn. 4
Credit r'oncier and ilobilier of England, 21 i
Ev,yptian Corn. and Trading, Inn.,
Fore-street Warehouse, Jim, 101
Gen. Credit and Fluanae of Loudon. lim.. If
International Financial ,ociety, inn., 31
International i_and Credit, lira., 3;
London Financial Association. lim 51 6
Nr.tional Discount Company, 12
Peninsula and Oriental steam, 74

The Chinese, to whom we must look for the initia-

tion of many so-called European ideas, have, time
out of mind, been in the habit of collecting the impregnated
eggs of fish, and of depositing them in the clear streams
irrigating their rice fields. Nay, they have even anticipated
our eccaleobion in a most ingenious manner for the pur-
poses of pisciculture. In order to facilitate the hatching of
fish eggs, they are in the habit of making a small aperture
in a fowl's egg, sucking out its contents, and replacing it
with fecundated fish ova. The egg is then placed under a
hen for a few days, and the ova are thereby so far ripened
th•it it is only requisite to break the egg into sun warmed
water in order to speedily produce—not a chicken, but a
brood of young fishes ! In China, notwithstanding its
enormous population, fish is so cheap that it forms a very
important part of the food of the people, and nothing, we
aro told, more astonishes the Celestial than the high price
of this kind of food in England. Once a -)1747:.