The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-02 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

New hops continue in fair, though by no means active
request, at late rates. Yearling and old parcels, however,
are a dull sale. Duty, £115,000.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam.. — 12 3 12 1
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 70 25 75
flamturgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 72f 25 773
Frankfort on Maine — 1191 1191
Vienna . — 13 86 13 95
Trieste . - 13 90 14 0
Petersbixrgh — 323 333
Berlin.... —
Madrid . — 481 48f
Cadiz .... — 481 483
Leghorn — 25 80 25 85
Milan.. — 25 773 25 82f
Gen0a.......; — 25 773 25 85
Naples . —39 i
Palermo.. — 1183 1181
Messina — 1185 1183-
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York — • • ..

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) PI 0 0 0
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

REMARKABLE PRODUCE OF HONEY. MTS.
Parker, of Station-street, Lewes, who has kept bees for
years, and during 1860 w‘ts very unfortunate (out of three
hives only saving 61b. of honey and three sets of bees), has
now had the wonderful produce of 761bs. of honey from
one hive. This is the more remarkable, as bees generally
have been so very unproductive this year. They were fed
all the winter upon sugar and honey.
HARVEST IN HUNGAI ty.—The corn harvest has
been most abundant this ye ar in Hungary, and enormous
quantities are in consequence, being sent off by railway to
the countries of Western E,arope. The advantages which
Hungary will derive from these exports are exceedingly
great. According to a statistical return, drawn up by the
Minister of Agriculture, the. value of corn exported from
Hungary since the beginning: of the month of August is
nearly 18,000,000 f., being only about a third of what can
be sold. The abundant harvest has been important in a
political point of view ; it bias had the effect of making the
rural population better di:sposed to pay the taxes to the
Austrian Government.

A NEW USE FOR A PPLES.—We are threatened
with a cider famine, not from the failure of the apples,
although a partial crop, but because they are likely to be
applied to a more profitable purpose (so far as the growers
are concerned) than in making a household beverage. It
seems that the Manchester calico dyers and printers have
discovered that apple juices supply a desideratum long
wanted in making fast colours for their cottons, and num-
bers of them have been into Devodshire and the lower parts
of Somersetshire buying up all the apples they can get, and
giving such a price for them as in the dearest years hitherto
known has not been offered. We know of one farmer in
Devonshire who has a large orchard, for the produce of
which he never before receiv,ed more than £250, and yet he
has sold it this year to a Manchester man for £360. There
can be no doubt that the discovery will create quite a revo-
lution ill the apple trade.

MEMORIAL TO EARL RUSSELL ON THE AFFAIRS
OF MEXlCO.—Yesterday a memorial, very numerously
signed by the leading merchants of London, Liverpool,
Manchester, Birmingham, and other towns, holding rela-
tions with the republic of Mexico, either in commerce or as
creditors of the state, was presented at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Layard, M.P., the Under-Secretary, received it, is the
absence of the noble earl, to whom he intimated it should
be forwarded forthwith, for consideration. The memorial
recapitulates at considerable length the state of. affairs as at
present existing between Mexican and British interests in
that state ; and the memorialists suggest that, with a view
to remedy the evils that prevail, a joint protective force
should be thrown into Mexico by England and France, in
order to maintain tranquillity, and for the restoration of
social and political order.