The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

Government Railway Debentures ..... 97-1
Greetc 5 per Cent., 1824.5, ox Coups. —
Co. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd
ltslian 5 per. Cent., 1865 —
Do. Account
Do Maremtuana Railway —
M,iccar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864... —
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-Fronch —
Aintevid.:au i 3 per Cent. .. —
Moorish imporial 5 per Cent
Naw Granada ....., l6l
Do 3 per Cen....1 —
Do. Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Pe:urian 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account .. 811
...

Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4i per Cent., 1862 • —
Do Account - -
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2,'3 391
Do do. 1F67 L9- D.

Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid --
R issian 5 per Cent., 1822, £St .....
Do 44 per Cent. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO BondE , 904
Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0...,
Do.,
.1866, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 654
Sar linian a per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cen . —
Do. Account —
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferred
Do. Account
Do. Passive

Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded —
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial llortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do de, Scrip —
Turkish 6 per Cent.
Do Account
Do 6 por Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account
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Do .£IOC Bonds .
Do 5 per Cont.', 1865
DJ Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865
Do I por Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873
Do. Acctunt
Du 6 per Cont., 1862
Dividenus on the above payable in Loncii.n
Austnan n par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cont., Ex. 25f.
Do. 4 per Cant. Certificates ......
Dutch 'it per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail,
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.

D•, Account
Itg.liah 5 per Gout. 1851, Ex. 45f.
Do. Account 551 61
TWO O'OLOOK.
Consuls, Money 94 1
Do. Account, Doc. 1 94 1

7HE CHAMPIONSHIP OF 7HE THAMES.

GREAT SCULLERS RACE BETWEEN HENRY
KELLEY AND JAMES RENFORTII FOR £4OO.
The contest for the championship of the Thames
is, under any circumstances, a feature of great in-
terest and speculation in the sporting world, and
its interest was materially enhanced on this occa-
sion by the peculiar circumstances attending it.
The last champion from the Tyne was the de-
ceased Bob Chambers ; the present aspirant to the
proud distinction is James Renforth of Gateshead,
of the same calling as Chambers, viz., a puddler in
an iron-foundry, but otherwise there is nothing to
make them assimilate, on the contrary, there is
this marked distinction : Robert Chambers had,
by a series of brilliant victories, climbed the ladder
of aquatic fame before he was backed for the cham-
pionship, while Renforth has literally suddenly
rushed into notoriety. The former gained his posi..
tion by degrees, and by many a hard-earned
victory. The latter, should he win, may fairly
be said to have acquired it in one race,
for two years ago the name of Renforth
was unknown in aquatic circles, neither north nor
south. Until the Thames Regatta of this year he
was an obscure individual ; the Chronicle tells us of
two or three wagers in his native place for insigni-
ficant sums ; but,it was destined that in the Thames
Regatta he should emerge from obscurity and be-
come the leading star of the Northern division.
the sporting men of that part of the world are pretty
good judges of what to back, and his amazing speed
in his triumph at the regatta aforesaid stamped him
as a man whose pretensions fairly entitled him to
the appellation which had been in some quarters
bestowed upon him as " the coming man."
Of Henry Kelley, the resident champion,
Renforth's opponent of to-day, it certainly
is not necessary to say much ; he gained the
much coveted honour of champion from James
Messenger in 1857, lost it in 1859 to Robert Cham-
bers, of Newcastle, and some years after regained
it from the same oarsman, and has since been en-
gaged in a physical and legal contest against Joe
Sadler, of Putney, to maintain it ; and when the
Northerners expressed their desire to put up Ren-
forth for the seat of honour, the Southerners were
not wanting, and willingly backed Kelley to get in
before him.
Both trained hard, and inspired full confidence
i❑ their friends and admirers.
The course was from the Star and Garter at Put-
ney to Mortlake, and the stake £2OO a-side.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

mistralia and New Zealand, via Bouthamptoa.....Doe. 5
Ditto, via Yuseilles .... .... —NOT 30

Ditto, via Piskama ...Nov 28
Small, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Dec. 4
Ditto, by French packet ...... Nev. ,2.
Jape Verde. by Brazil packet ......
(Jape of Good Ilvpe. Ascension, and Bt.
_Patna. Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton.. Nov. 21.
itbraitar, via Southampton Nov 14
India, via Southampton ...... Nov.

unto, via Marseilles Nov. 6.
6gypt, &o. ......... .............. Deo 4.
Ditto, Marseilles NOT. 12
ne.uritlus, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Southamil ton
Ditto, Marseilles NOT. 15

Commissioner Rollins is now said to be on good

terms with Secretary M'Culloch, and Solicitor
Binckley is at his desk in Washington, all forming
apparently a happy family. Supervisors for the
district of Southern New York, the Carolinas,
Indiana, and Tennessee will soon be appointed in
place of those recommended, but rejected. The
Postmaster-General has been trying to disguise, at
least till the elections were over, a very serious de-
ficiency in his department; the year's loss amount-
ing, it is said, to six millions and a half of dollars.
There are few other items of news from Washing-
ton, which even the clerks were leaving in thousands
for their homes to vote. Indeed the capital was
like a deserted city. The court-martial on General
Dyer was to commence on the 2d inst. ; official
information had been received from the Canadian
Government of the removal of all restrictions on
the importation of United States cattle, the Texas
plague which had caused the prohibition having
wholly disappeared.

General F. P. Blair is of opinion that Grant's
military instinct will induce him to remain in the
White House when he gets there. Frank, judging
from his own military instinct, cannot see how a
man with Grant's power could voluntarily surrender
the post, and he argues that if ha could, he is not
such a fool as to give up his present office to take it.
As Commander-in-Chief he occupies almost as good
a place ; it is less onerous, less conspicuous, and
more shielded from the darts of calumny, clothed
with power second only to the chief magistracy,
and permanent. To change this for the four-year term
only of the Presidency, is, in Blair's eyes an act of
which no sane man could be guilty; he cannot com-
prehend a simple sense of duty to his country, dic-
tating Grant's conduct. Bosh ! says Frank ;he
wants to erect himself into an Emperor, and will
never leave the White House alive. Once before,
Grant not only surrendered his command, at the
dictation of some intriguing rascality at Washing-
ton, but lent his best energies to further the success
of the General who superseded him ; and he did
this without a murmur. But Frank cannot see
that the same principle which dictated the one, dic-
tated the other course, and that Grant is acting in
obedience not to his own wishes, but to his simple
sense of duty, moving neither hand nor foot to check
or advance the ticket, but leaving the people to de-
cide as they will, while he merely obeys their re-
cognized decree.