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

POTATOES.

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

HAY AND STRAW.

The supplies at Smithfield aud,Whitechapel wore mode-
rate, and for best meadow hay the demand was better,
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 Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

---- _
australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. ...March 28
Ditto, via Marseilles . ..,,,,, . .Mares 22.
Ditto, via Pitne.lll3 ....... ......... ......... ...Feb. .6
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .. .. SlarJi 5.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape Vexds, by Brazil packet
Uape of Good hope. Ascension. and :A. lielena....Feb. .:7
Uhina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. March 5.
Ditto, via Marseilles ..... .•.......
Falkland Islands ...... ...... ...... March 5.
ilibraltar, via Southampton . Feb. 23
india.via Southampton ...... ......... ..... Feb. 2)
Ditto, via Mused. es
Ilalta, p;gypt, &o. rob. 2i
Ditto, Marseilles Feb. 22.
ilauritius, Cape of Good II ve, and Natal, via
Southampton
• Ditt ), alareeLkes s:arch 15.
S ewfoundla Lc: ...... .... .
Portugal . „. March 5
Ditto, by pr 1 1 le ship to Oporto ..
Ditto i tto to Lisbon
United States, t scads, California, &0., by British
packet
Ditto, by L i ited 6 tates packet
Ditto ditto 'New York)
Ditto ditto New York)

Ditto (Int( (Baltimore)
Ditto, by Canadian packet .... Feb 21.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife March 4
West Indies and Paz.ific (except Mexico and Baha-
mas)
Cuba and Mexico Feb. 2S.
Bahamas, via New Y
.... March 2.
Bermuda, via Halifax .

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, 21 American, 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, 1867, and
411 in the corresponding month of 1866.

C lIAN C ERY E UNDS. —The accounts 3 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
£438,000 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 fun.' (including the above £103,412)
amounted to £235,008, and the payments for salaries and
expenses being £157,725, left a balance iu 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, the horse-
power of each engine, and the price per ton each ship is
chartered at; also the namo 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 aro the ships : —City of Manchester (1,919 tons), 455.
per ton allowed ; City of Dublin (1,998 tons), 455. par ton;
England (3,307 tons), 355. and three mondis' additional
pay Queeh (3,517 tons), 375. Gd. per ton and three months;
Peruvian (2,245 tons), 505. additional pay ; Kangaroo
(1,719 tons) 45e. per ton ; California (1,831 tons) 355. per
ton ; West Indian (1,804 tons), 365. par ton ; American
(1,831 tons) 355. per ton; Bosphorus, lost (2,130 tons), 50s.
per ton; Golden Fleece (2,708 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
tons), 305. per ton ; Bolivar (1,179 tons), 355. per ton ;
and Venetia (757 tons), 445. 6d. per ton.
'The 'muse of exchange at New York on Loudon for bills
at 60 days' sight is about 1091 per cent. At this rate there
Is no profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

PREFERENCE SNARES.
North Eastern, York. H. and Selby purchase, 10}

FOREIGN RAIL WAYE..
Central Argentine, 12t
,), t Luxembourg, 011
San Paulo, lira.,gua. 6 per cent., 18k

10031,11GN MIN EH.
Chontales Gold and Silver Mining,
;
,on Pedro, Nor. h lid Rey. 2 I,
St. John del Hey, lila , is
BANES.

Agra, lim.,_ A,
Ditto, B, Si
Imperial Ottoman, 91
Loudon and County, 5 1
London and 11, estininster, 6SI
Ditto, Scrip, 4t.
Union of London, s 4 1
MISCELLANICOUti.
Anglo American 'telegraph, 191 1
Atlantic Telegraph, 49
Ditto, 8 par cent., F 5
Berlin Water Works, lam., 131
Ceylon Company, 7
Ditto, A shares, 21
City ot Moscow Gas, lam., 83 9
Colonial, lim, 13
Commercial Union, Insurance..,;
Credit Foncier ot Entflan.i. Pm. 2 3 1-16
East India Irrigation and Canal, 161
Egyptian 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua by Egyp t. Govt., 884
Fore-street Warehouse, lim.,
Gen. Credit and Discount, lam, 41
Hudson's Bay, 141
International FinancialSociety,lim., 3
London Financial Association. lim., 6
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lim., 41
United Kingdom Tel graph Co., Bin., 23
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan) 741

PROGRAMME OF NOTTINGHAM SPRING
MEETING.

WEDNESDAY,

A Selling Stakes of 5 sevvs each, with 40 added ; two year
olds, 7st 71b ; three, 9st 71b ; four, 10st 71b ; five, list ;
six and aged, list 31b ; m and g allowed 31b ; maidens
having started twice, allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold
for £lOO ; if for £BO, allowed '4lb ; for £6O, 91b; for
£4O, 141 b ; for £3O, 181 b ; half a mile.
The Juvenile Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added
for two year olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b; the
winner to be sold for £lOO ; if for £BO, allowed 51b ;
for £6O, 101 b ; for £4O, 141 b ; for £3O, 181 b ; half a mile
straight. _

The Great Annual Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 sous each,
with 50 added ; winners of any handicap steeplechase or
hurdle raco aftor Feb. 7 (at ten a.m.) 71b, twice 121 b
extra ; two miles and a half, over night hurdles ; 12
subs.
The Newcastle Plate of 100 sous; a winner after Feb. 21
at ten a.m., of 100 sees, rilb; 200 or more, 121 b extra ;
one mile.

The Forest Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft. (to the fund),
with 50 added; winners of any
,handicap after Feb. 7
(at tea a,ui.) Ilk atra,; it4l9l3ge,