The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-26 00:00:00

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; Mexic
22i I; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 77 78; Portuguese
4,
" Per Cents., 45i 6 ; Russian 5 per Cants., 105
107 ; ditto 4i per. Cents., 96 98 ; :3 per
'its.) 41} ; ditto Deferred, 2'4 ; ditto Cetti-
h.eatea, 6?, 7 ; ditto Passive, 51 6.
In the Railway Share Market this morning busi-
ness has been inactive, many of the dellers
,being engaged in making the usual arrangements
for the settlement of the lialf-monthly account.
There is little change to report in prices, but one or
two of the lines have exhibited a slightlydownward
tendency. Eastern Counties, and LancaMbire and
Yorkshire, declined 5s ; and North-Eastern (B r wick)
10s.; Norfolk improved 10s., and South-Eastttrn ss.
The French mid Canadian, and East Indian lines
were inactive. Northern of France improved about
ss. East Indian declined 10s., and GrAnd Trunk
and Great Western of Canada realised former quo-
tations. _ _

Mining Shares are at nominal values, the only
transaction reported being in Great Wheal Alfred
at 6k
Joint-stock Bauk Shares are rather firmer.
Bank of Australasia improved ss. ; and Ottoman
liank, declined ss.
In Miscellaneous Shares no change of impor-
tance has taken place.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
(From the Oflkvil Ltst.)
Businesq done.

- Bank Stock
Pe- Qom. Reduced Annuities
311 per Cent. Consols knivities V34 i
%," 1 per Cent. Annuities tl2s 4
eievf 21 per Cent. Annuities 774
140.1 - Anunities, expire sth tan. 166 D...
Ditto 30 Years, exnire sth April, 1885 lB 1-16 13
India Stock
11tdia 'tondo, .elit+,o
Ditto, under £lOOO
c
olleols an. account • •
Etellegaer Bills, z4d
ElOOO
h:500
''...,kli
Ditto Advertised
bitto Botid,,, tryory, .-,6 per Cent.
Ditto, 1859
14111813 FUNDS.—CLOSIN(I PRICE 6 —THIS DAY
Brazilian 5 per Cent......... 1008 100
.
Ditto 5 per Cent. (Rothschild's)
Dittop Nev, 1852, 44 per Cent.
°rtliguese Bonds, 5 per Cont., Con. 1841
bate. 1853, 3 per Cent. 46i 51 6
4ttssiau Bonds, 1822, t St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto,244 per Cent. 974
.nrkudi Bonds, 6 per cent
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
'Venezuela Bonds, 4k per Cent
wends on ~. above , cae in bunion.
French Routes, 44 per Cent. —
Ditto 3 per Cent 69f. 75c. ex 25f. 30c.
7HREB 711I1'UA.
. 931 i
931 4

4d
93t
• March. I June.
6 4 p
6 4 p
6 4 p
3 p

Consols, money
Ditto, Account guns 4)

THE CHOIR BENEVOLENT FT:MD.—A grand choral fei,
tival is to be given in Westminster Abbey on ThurodaY,
June 18, on behalf of the Choir Benevolent Fund, which
was established some years since for the purpose of rang-
ing a fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans of
lay clerks connected w'th the various cathedrals.
DOG POISONING.—The North British Agriculturist
says :—Strychnine is sill waging war against the canine
species. Notwithstanding the recent .deci,ion of the
Sheriff Substitute at Perth, the gamekeepers in the south

are laying down strychnine as abundantly as ever. V./
BOILED AND FRIED.—The Toronto Globe states that 2
great excitement prevails among the lumbermen of the 2
Ottowa ,in consequence (4 a manifesto again.t the 1
wasteful practice of frying pork which the employers who l
pro.i4on their labourers have issued. The employers
say :—" We desire to furnish to th, se in our em; loy an
abundance of good food suitable for their nourishment
and maintenance in go ,d health and strength, but being I
convinced that fried pork administers no more to thee
ends than boiled, and in view of the great loss sustained
by the practice of frying it, and the unusually high price
of this article at the present time, do most emphatically
protest against a farther continuance of the practice,
and have instructed our foreman that it be whoLy
abolished."
THUNDERSTORM IN PARIS. —A. thunderstorm, even
more violent than that of Thursday last, burst over
Paris yesterday. The morning was fine, though clouded,
Without much sultriness. At 3 o'clock the sky became
completely overcast and lowering, and the lightning be-
gan to dart from the heavy mass of clouds. The wind
rapidly rose, and grew to almost the fury of a hurricane,
and the thunder-peals were loud and frequent. The rain
rushed down in a deluge, and in a few minutes torrents -
Swept along the streets. This storm of thunder, wind,
and rain was, indeed, most violent, though it did not
last more than half an hour, but' the thoroughfares were
completely flooded. After a short interval the rain
aRa n came down in abundance, and contiuuel for some
time.
BILLINGSGATE FISH MARKET.—A correspondent, who
?as long advocated for deep-sea fishing, and fish market
Improvements, has brought under our notice the present
filthy state of Billingsgate fish market. He says—
" With water pumped from the river Thames by a
Powerful steam engine into a fountain erected in the
Midcle of the market, sufficient to wash the whole of
Lower Thames-street from one end to the other clean in
the course of about an hour, has a system been
adopted it is still my unpleasant task again to complain of.
The whole of the paint work about the market is so un-
clean,
filthy, and studded with fish scales, that, now the
warm weather has set in, when all public market places
should receive sanitary dressings, but more particularly
fish markets, it Is to be hoped the proper authorities
will at least see that the paint !Fe, rk is properly scrubbed
and washed, it they do not think it necessary to give it
a new coat. In the heat of day, and close weather, the
"ell Proceeding from the filthy paint work is most
Sdensive. :*
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