The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-25 00:00:00

POTATOES.

At Smithfield and Whitechapel the potato trade con.
tiuuos steady at previous quotations.

HAY AND STRAW.

The supplies at Smithfield and,Wilitechnp,l were mode-
rate, and for best meadow hay the demand was bettor,
with rather firmer prices, £4 4s being more generally paid
as the top price, down to 75s for fair quality.

- - COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 25.—Market opens flat—easier. Sales
probably 8,000 bales.

Foreign Mall Packet List, 1'

MAILS DUE.

&astralla and Now Zealand, via Southamptoa....,March 29
Ditto, via Marseilles ... • ........March 22.
Ditto, via Panama Feb. ./8
Brasil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video March 5.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ......
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Ilelena Feb 7
China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton March 5.
Ditto, via Marseilles Southampton.. be 27
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar. via Southampton ......•••• Feb. 25
Indla.via Southampton . ..... ....Feb 2)
Ditto, via Marseil es
Malta, Egypt, Jo. Feb. 2i
Ditto, Marseilles Feb. 2Z
Mauritius, Cape of Good Rape, and Natal, via
Southampton
Ditt ), Marseilles March IS
Newfoundland
Portugal
. . . . _

Ditto, by priN tie ship to Wort° ...
Ditto e At° to Lisbon
United States, t anada, California, &0., by British
packet
Ditto, by L i ited States packet
Ditto ditto 'New York)
Ditto onto NLw York)
Ditto ditt, (Baltimore)

Ditto, by Canadian packet
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriff, /larch
West Indies and PaAlin (except Mexico and Baha-
mas)
Cuba and Mexico Feb. 23.
Bahamas, ♦ia New Y Starch 2.
Bermuda, via Halifax . . . . March 11

MARINE DISASTERS.—The monthly report of the
Bureau Veritas of Paris shows that in January last 264
vessels were lost, of which 141 bore the English flag,
while 35 were French, 24 A.morican, 12 Prussian, 8 Dutch,
7 Norwegian, 5 Danish, and 32 of various other flags.
The list of casualties compares favourably with preceding
years, there having been 421 losses in January, 1857, and
411 i❑ the corresponding month of 1866.

CHANCERY FUNDS.—The accounts for the year
ending in October, 1867, show that the salaries of
officers and expenses of the courts paid out of the suitors'
fund in the year amounted to £51,494, and, keeping a ba-
lance in hand of £16,813, there remained £103,512 sur-
plus interest of the fund to be carried over to the suitors'
fee fund account. In the course of the year £483,270 stock,
part of the surplus interest fund, was sold to raise
£138,000 pursuant to the act for building new
courts of justice, and at the close of the year the stock
had thus been reduced to £3,735,719. The year's receipts
of the suitors' fee fund (including the above £103,1112)
amounted to £235,008, and the payments for salaries and
expenses being £157,725, left a balance in hand of £77,283,
which by the balance from the previous year was raised
to £162,944.
THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.—A Parliamen-
tary paper published yesterday gives a list, with
the names, of every merchant vessel or steamer engaged in
the Abyssinian expedition chartered in England, with the
net and gross register tonnage of each ship, Use horse-
power of each engine, and the price per ton each ship is
chartered at; also tle name of each registered owner of
such ship as appeared upon the register when the ship was
tendered to Government for hire, and the name of each
owner as now stands upon the register, &c. The follow-
ing are the ships :—City of Manchester (1,919 tons), 455.
per ton allowed ; City of Dublin (1,998 tons), 455. per ton;
England (3,307 tons), 335. and three months' additional
pay ; Queeh (3,517 tons), 375. 6d. per ton sad three mouths;
Peruvian (2,245 tons), 50s. additional pay ; Kangaroo
(1,719 tons) 455. per ton ; California (1,831 tons) 355. per
ton; West Indian (1,831 tons), 365. per ton; American
(1,831 tons) 355. per ton ; Bosphorus, lost (2,130 tons), 50s.
per ton ; Golden Fleece (2,76§ tons), 305. per ton, one
month's additional ; Mauritius (2,134 tons), do. ; Queen of
the South (2,090 tons), do. ; Empress (780 tons) do. ;
Parana (1,320 tons), 255. per ton ; Coumoundouros (969
11 tons), 305. per ton ; Bolivar (1,179 tons), 355. per ton ;
and Venetia (757 tons), 41s. 6d. per ton.
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The eourse of exchange at New York on London for hills
at 60 days' sight is about 109 j per cent. At this rate there
is no profit on the importstwa of gold from the United
States.

I'ItEFERENCE SHARES.
North Eastern, York, IL and Selby purchase, 10k

trORNIGN KAIL wArr.
Central Argentine, 12*
Ltixenlooorg, Ok
San Paulo, lien., gua. d per cent., 181
FOKEIGN KIN xis.
Chontalea Gold and SilTer Mining, 11m., 31
ion redro. N oral Del Rey, 2
Pin
St. John del It.ey, lim , 15 1
DANA S.

Agra, tim., A,
Ditty, 11, 8;
Imperial Ot:oinan, op
London and County, 5:1
London and 11 estminater, 4381
Ditto, Scrip, V/
Unlou of .London, ;A
MISCELLANEOUS:
Anglo American Telegraph, 191
Atlantic Telegraph, 49
Dlt,o, 8 par cent., P 5 4
Berlin Water Works, 131
Ceylon Company, 7
Ditto, A shares, 21
City of 310800 w Gas, 11M., E# 9 8!
Colorial, lira, 13
Commercial Union, Insurance. 51
Continental Union Gas, lira... 111
Credit foncier ot 2 3 1-'6 3
East India Irrigation and Canal. 161
Egyptian 0 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egypt G
Oirr.,gett
Fore-street Warehouse, lira., tut If
Gen. Credit and Discount, Um., 41 5
Hudson's Bay. 341
international Financial Society.llm., 3
London Financial ABROCIatIOII, 11111., 61
Thames and Remy Marine, Insurance. lira.. 41
United Kingdom Tel graph Co., lin, 2j
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan) 711

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ACCIDENT TO SIR HENRY BOYNTON.—A very
similar accident to that which befel Lord Middleton last
week, occurred to Sir 11. Boynton on Friday. in riding
carelessly on the road the horse fell, and Sir Henry was
thrown violently to the ground, receiving a serious
wound on the head and causing concussion of the brain
Consciousness returned on Saturday, and his condition is
now viewed with less alarm. Lord Middleton is nearly
well again.
DEATH IN THE STREETS.—Vu Wednesday even-
ing last a respectable shoeing smith, named John Thomas,
living in Red Lion-yard, Gray's-inn-road, was coming
home, when lie fell down, and when picked up ho was
discovered to be quite dead. Ho had been in delicate
health for some time, and was a sober man. An inquest
on the body was held last night by Dr. Lankester, at the
Red Lion Tavern, Gray's-inn-road, and after hearing the
medical testimony, the jury found that the deceased died
from a rupture of a blood vessel is the lungs, produced by
natural causes.
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