The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-25 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

Computed from the Returns made in the week curling
Oct. 22, 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : per cwt.
Muscovado, the produce of British America 24s Bid
Muscovado, the produce of the Iviauritius .. 26s Od
Muscovado, the produce of tho East Indies.. —s —d
Average price of the foregoing .. 24s 11d

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This DAY.

9.nisterdam
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1
Rotterdam — 12 1
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 65
Hamturgh
Paris
Ditto
Nfarseilles — 25 70
Frankfort on Maine — 1191
Vienna
Trieste
Petorsburgh 32
Berlin
Madrid

11 191
12 it
12 1i
25 70
25 70
13 101
25 372
25 722
25 75
1191
14 25
14 25
321

Cadiz,
Leghorn
➢lilan

48a
481
25 80
25 80
25 80

48a
48a
25 85
25 85
25 85

39/
118-
118 f
52

39:1-
118 t
118 k
51/

Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York •• •.
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
0 5 0/
Silver in Bars (Standard) t
0 0 0
South American Doubloons

A proposal for a church rate at Bridlington has
been defeated by a majority of 45.
_

The James'• Wilson, from Melbourne, 'with
£76,000 in gold, has now been at sea 106 days, and the
Anglesea, with £291,500, 73 days. The Roxburgh Castle,
which was to leave Melbourne for Londan on the 28th
August, is known to have £115,000 in gold on board. A.
farther sum would be shipped by her.

A Paris letter, in the Independancs of Brussels,
states that the marriage of the Princess Anna Murat with
the Prince of Orange is much talked of, and that if such an
event should take place, the Emperor would give the
Princess a dowry of two millions.
SERFDOM AND EMANCIPATION IN RussiA.--There
are amongst the Russian nobility some who possess from
70,000 to upwards of 100,000 serfs. Count Sehermetyeff is
considered the richest nobleman in Russia. He possesses,
120,000 serfs, amongst whom are several whose wealth
amounts to millions. His annual income is estimated at
If million silver roubles (E 250,000). Every serf pays to
his master from ten to fifteenes sor roubles ann
000ually serf at
that
the annual income of a poss eau.
not be less than £400,000, independent of the
income he derives from forests, mills, fabrics, &c. The
ani,
total number of serfs now in Russia is upwards a
23,000,000, and taking the value of each serf at only 300
the loss
y notsustainedl
es than
b y the owners, by the
emancipation, ore
r ouhl
e5(1.50)
is certainly
half as much again as the National Debt of this countz
Taking the interest at 5 per cont., the loss of annual income'
to the nobility cannot be less than £67,000,000, re oemo than
double the interest we pay for the
National Debt —Once a
Week.

THE POPE AND LITTLE CHILDREN.—A corres-
pondent of the Temps, in a letter dated Rome, Oct. 17, de-
scribes the following scene as having been witnessed by
himself :—" On one of the many fine days with which we
have been blessed this autumn, the Pope, in a special good
humour, was walking in the country, and saying all sorts
of kind things to little school children, who were allowed to
kiss his feet. A chamberlain by his side carried a box laden
with little paper packets in the form of horns of plenty,
filled with medals which his Holiness had blessed. The
Pope benignly distributed there among all the children who
approached him, after having asked them some little ques-
tions from the catechism, or about the Immaculate Con
was
tion, the number of gods, &c. One very littleboy,
the
__a pe
not tall enough to reach the cornucopia whiffs
_,o‘i.rness,
held in his hand, attracted his atteudteioL
said the
and at the
turning the three-cornered PaPerdudg so as to prevent any
same time squeezing it in the mtt
Itheeeceh;ild, Oh,
of the medals from tunablingeroeu.,
ydotos,
dear, you see there are nom
the Holy Father, if you love
boy, ' Well, now,' resumed
much she will make some come.'
the blessed Virg, very .ed the young shaver, who appears to
Evviva Afaria • cried 'he
exclaimed the Head of
been a sharp one.
have taking hold of the cornucopia by the point,
fall t h they
on t, ere are. The Pope,
and
turning round to the prelates following him, laughed at his
the Glob:Thug
the
medals
own wit. Such mild jokes as these please him, and essen-
tially belong to his character."