The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-30 00:00:00

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Iln°iness in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets during the last few days has continued
611. Sugars have declined about 6d„ per cwt.,
while tea, coffee, and snices have barely sustained
former quotations. Rice has been in fair request
at steady rates, but only limited transactions have
taken place in saltpetre and tallow. P.Y.C. on the
spot is quoted 475., and for last three months' deli-
very 475. 611. per cwt.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, a
large amount of business was transacted, at fully
previous rates. The %ales were about 15,000 balm
A meeting was held to-day of the shareholders
111 the Australian Agricultural Company, and the
proposed dividend of 15s. per share were agreed to.
About £53/109 in gold was sent into the Bank
of England yesterday.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Atlantic
Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company has been
convened for the 14th proximo, to authorise the
iBslie of shares on stock for increasing the capital
of the company from £500,000 to £1,100,000, and to
receive the directors' report upon the present posi-
tion and future prospects of the company.
The inquiry for money continues moderate, and
the rates remain without any change of importance.
There has been very little animation in the mar-
ket for Public Securities to-day, and the improve-
'llent which took place yesterday has not been
fully maintained, Consols being 901 for money
11,11(1 the 7th proximo. The New Threes and the
Reduced are firm at 89; 90. Bank Stock is
steady at 230 and 232; India ditto at 219 and 221;
ditto 5 per Cent., 99, ¶ ; and ditto New Loan
'Scrip, 100 k.
An average amount of business has taken place
to the Foreign Stock Market, and prices in some
instances show increased heaviness. Turkish 6 per
have
are 7811 ; ditto, 1858, 671 ; Mexican
oave receded to 22/ ; Grenada Active to 14i- ; and
Spanish to 481 ; Sardinian remain at 781, and
Russian 4/ per Cents. are firmer, at 904.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
Moderately active, the dealings, however, have been
chiefly in connection with the liquidation of the
account. Eastern Counties, Great Northerns, North
Westerns, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Mid-
lands, and North Easterns (Berwick), have ad-
vanced 55. ; and North British, 15s. ; Great
Westerns, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South
Pasterns have improved ss.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the
dealings have been limited. South Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian have advanced to 16i, Grand
Trunk of Canada to 184, and East Indian to 99i.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re-
mained in fair demand. Bank of Australasia im-
proved £1; London and Westminster, 15s. ; and
Royal Mail Steam, ss.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Batik Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9* 90 891
z Per Cent. Consuls Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
, Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885,. 15!
•it,lia Stock . , ..... ~.. 221 19
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Loan Scrip, per cent
ns • 5
..
...)Itto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.
Ditto 0 per Cent.
....

1-)itto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 961
Ditto 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Litto under £l,000
Gaols for Account, Aug. 7 9Ol 90
2d Mar. p. day June 31 p. ct
Izehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d — 3 dis
D tr. £5OO ..
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 Per Cent
Ditto, 1839 & 1859 OBl
ritto 4t per Cent. 1860 ..
Equador New Consolidated
Mexicali 3 per Cent 221 2 1
New ciren,ada Active, 32 per Cent. . 141
ft
Peruvianper Cent
Diito Account .... 974,
Russian 5 pet Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 41 per Cent.
ardinian 5 per Cent.
11Ptnish 3 per Cent.
lurkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Ilearnenise, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25 francs 7l
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols Money 9O A
Ditto Account 9O A

impo.RiANT DISCOVERY.

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, r. T. Dawson, Medical Officer, North Isles, in a
tMter. to a contemporary, says—On the 28th of
June last Captain Rhodes, of the cod smack Resolu-
tion,
t,aoifn London, accompanied by the Adventure,
fom Gardener, of Gravesend, returned here
tri the Faroe Islands and Iceland, clean, after a
.r 0
°f six weeks, reporting that the fishing at
e
this year was a failure, and all the smacks
aniall gone to Iceland, where the fish were very scarce
the wrier
and in very poor conditioninformed
,e writer that he now intended to go and try ea
place called Rockall, 360 miles west by south of
:118 island, and his reason for going there in prefer-
tice. to remaining in Iceland arose from the follow-
ingconversation he had with the mate of an Irish
'easel about 15 years ago. They had been mess-
mates together some years before that, in a man-of-
war, and upon Captain Rhodes informing his old
vorarade that he was captain of a cod smack and went
North
summer to the North Sea to fish cod—" The
INorth Sea be blowed !" says the ancient mariner,
You don't know where to catch cod, you don't.
o to Rockall, where there is a bank, 80 miles in
length, swarming with fish. I have been two or
three times becalmed there, and caught cod as big
as donkeys and as plenty as blackberries." Upon
that information Captain Rhodes acted. He had
often thought of trying it, but it is a lonely place to
go to alone, St. Kilda being the nearest land, and
that 130 miles off; so he persuaded Capt. Gardener
to accompany him. Accordingly the two vessels
sailed from here on the 2d of July, and to the
astonishment of the curer to whom they consign
fish here and all conversant with cod-fishing, they
returned again on the 13th of July, the one having
caught nearly 15, the other 12 tons of the largest
'A-fish ever seen, many of them weighing when
-.aught lcwt., thus having (in value here) each
!aught about £lOO worth of cod in five days'
Captain Rhodes informs me that they caught the
fish as fast as they could bait and haul, and when
any of the cod escaped from the hook great mon-
t darted
sharks, as blue as if painted with a brush,
`:arted round the ship's side, and swallowed them
‘,4 an instant. The very sea-birds were tame, evi-
dently never having been disturbed there by man,
of them flying abroad and eating the offal.
The livers of the cod, he states, were also very
t
I°l, and produced large quantities of oil. I have
tc,,atnined the cod ; they are very large and very
hick ; the tusks are very thick and fat, but shorter
v
'mu usual, while the ling are the same as those
Zaught at other places. This solitary rock in
El ocean, which will for a time become the
Dorado ot our cod smacks, rises about the
eight of a ship above the sea, and over it in a
'cst°l3l the waves leap wildly, singing the requiem
is„, Many a gallant ship whose fate has been un-
trwn, or for whose loss an iceberg has no doubt
en falsely accused.
The two vessels have again started for the fish-
tg
;g'g'round, and when they return I will forward
cire particulars of their success, and Captains
lihOdes
and Gardener will be most happy to give
ell"' information for the guidance of others.
think it would pay a company to send
4' a vessel along with the smacks for the purpose
in collecting the offal, tons of which must be thrown
the sea. The heads, back-bones, and intestines,
Zees
up with the peat dust of Ireland, would make
-rere in the course of a few months far surpass-
g in richness the best guano ever tried.

a understand that, according to present ar
'ngeraentp the Queen and the Prince Consort, accom-
panied b
Y the Princess Alice, will leave Osborne on the
2°4- proximo for their tour in Ireland.
.110--LiB Royal Highness the Prince Conso"t and his
to Yal
Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia are expected
arrived at Buckingham Palace to-day from Osborne.
4listxcelleney the Belgian Minister and Madame
L:4 de Weycr and family leave town on Thursday for New
Ledge Windsor Forest.
u-,„
ramicue OFFICES EXTENSION.—The work of de-
ail,' I:4 for the new public offices has been commenced,
are rapidly
inDuke-street and Charles-street,Westminster,
izig-e-13`cilY disappearing. Yesterday workmen were busily
retlZ(l, in Pulling them down. The buildings in course of
the 41coraprise a portion of the east side of Duke-street,
north side of Charles-street, and the south side of
a:LIZ-street. 'l his will open a large space of ground to the
of where the Foreign-office now stands, and which
beA rendered available for the proposed new buildings.
,et7teci massive silver snuff-bog was last night pre-
by his brother Quartermaster-Sergeant James Conroy,
8 brother non-commissioned officers, on his re-
tiring, after a service of 21 years.