The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 10.

STOCK EICHSNOB. The market has been dull to-
day, and prices have been the turn lower. Midlands, 82
—London and North Western, 100i—Shrewsbury and
Herefords, 81—Eastern Counties, 111 11A—Shropshire
Union., 49k.

ASCENT OF MONTI ROSA.—Mr. R. W. Elliot Foster
has communicated to a contemporary an account of a
recent ascent of Monte Rosa :—" We left the Riffel
Hotel at 2.26 a.m. on Friday, the 28th of August, cod
reached the plateau in two hours. Here the guides took
some refreshments and the real business of the day be.
gan. The snow was in excellent order, and the day
having dawned, we walked at a tolerably rapid pace for
three hours. We breakfasted oa the snow, under in
impromptu tent made of plaids, supported by Alpenstocks
—and atter the halt of an hour punned our upward
course until we reached " the saddle." From this point
the snow lies on a ridge as steep as the roof of a house,
Here we were tied together, and we had to grind away
in the snow for 20 minutes, when we arrived at the arete
or crest of the mountain. The rocks which compose this
crest are so pointed that the snow cannot lie on them,
and occasionally you have to stand on a ledge scarcely
wide enough to put your foot on, with a precipice of
1,500 feet on one side, and 3,000 or 4,000 feet on the
other, After having threaded our way for some hun-
dred yards along this erste we gained the object of (tr
ambition, " the Hochete Spitze," at 10.30 a.m., and
thus reached the summit in 8 hours and 13 minutes
—one of the quickest ascents that has been made. Our
party at the top consisted of Mr. Darrocb, Mr. Parker,
a French gentleman, and myself; three other gentlemen
who started with us we left considerably behind, but two
of them eventually attained the summit."
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By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for va'uable and ex
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Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
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can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles
distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist-
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powers aceerdingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. --A valu-
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known one and a-half mile distant They answer every pur-
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eiureliand at public assemble; ; the unpleasant sensation of
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