The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

BOROUGH AND IPITALFIELDS.

The demand continues good for the best descriptions.
English regents, 60s to 120 s; York ditto, 70s to 160 s;
Lincoln ditto, 70s to 100 s ; Scotch ditto, 70s to 1205 ;
Dunbars, 80s to 140 s ; French, 40s to 60s per ton.

MONEY IN NEVADA—The Virginia (Nevada) En-
terprise has the following :—" Parties from White Pine tell

it as a fact that in the towas in that region lumps of silver
ore are used as a circulating medium, and are found to
answer very well in the absence of a suffi :iency of coin.
Even at the gaming tables ore goes. The kind of ore used
is the pure chloride, which is so rich as to be quite
malleable. A miner, with a sack of this kind of cur-
rency under his arm, marches up to the faro table,
takes out a chunk and plants it upon a card, call-
ing its value as he puts its down. For instance, the
chunk is supposed to be worth fiva dollars ; the
miner, as he puts down his lump, says—' Five dollars.
The faro man picks up the piece, looks at it, and, if satis-
fied, says—' Five dollars goes ;' then wins the lump and
throws it into a gunny sack standing behind him."

Game is supplied from the market of Chicago to
all the Atlantic cities, and the States from which it comes
are Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Mis-
souri. The first three States send prairie chickens, wild
ducks, and quails. Venison conies from Wisconsin and
Michigan ; wild turkeys, prairie chickens, and quails from
Missouri. The shooting season commences about the 15th
of August, but the game does not begin to come to Chicago
in large quantities until cold weather sets in, when ship-
ments can be consigned to the East. During this autumn
it is estimated that 30,000 quail, 25,000 prairie chickens,
and 3,000 wild ducks have been sold in Chicago. The
Nevada State markets are now supplied daily with fresh
sea fish from San Francisco—bass, tom-cod, smelts,
Rounders, /cc., which are preferred by many to Lake
Tahoe trout.

" Without discussing," says the Pall Mall
Gazette, " the interesting paper on London charities and
pauperism read last night by Dr. llawkeley at the So-
ciety of Arts, we may note one fact for the benefit of
American readers who think we allow our poor to
starve without stretching out a finger to boip
them. In this metropolis alone .£7,ooo,ooo—for the
benefit of Americans let us say 35,000,000 dollars
gold—is spent in the relief of distress every year.
When a visitor from across the Atlantic is accosted by
beggars, he exclaims, Hard-hearted nation to permit
all this.' Let such persons think of that seven millions,
and do their best to prevent the poor-laws in their
own country from ever getting into the plight in which
ours are now. Perhaps, also, these same Americans will
see reason to doubt whether they are doing any vast
amount of good by distributing largesse to profes-
sional beggars as they pass through our streets."
They do not profess to be doing a vast amount of good, but
they believe that if one out or six be a real object of
charity some good may be done, and if they find a pleasure
knowingso reason whythatmos
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The New Nation, a Republican newspaper, of
Richmond, Virginia, has suspended publication. The
Spiritual Light is the name of a new monthly paper just
started in San Francisco.