The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

COTTON.

LIVEUPOOL, June 18.—Sales 15,000 bales. Market firm
and advancing. Generally higher.

Earl Stanhope presented on Tuesday night in the
House of Lords the report of the Select Committee
appointed to consider the operation of the Eccle-
siastical Titles Act throughout Great Britain and
Ireland. In the opinion of the majority of the
committee by whom this report has been adopted
the Act of 1851 was just and necessary, as asserting
the supremacy of the Crown, " and it has had the
effect of preventing general and ostentatious as-
sumptions of such titles by the Roman Catholic
prelates." " Any advantage to be gained by the
modification of this enactment would," in the opi-
nion of the committee, "be more than counter-
balanced by the evil of reopehing, without sufficient
cause, the discussion of a question always calculated
to cause much irritation." The Lord Chancellor
had a bill on the subject prepared, but, finding the
majority of the committee opposed to any legisla-
tion, he withdrew it. The committee further re-
port that the Ecclesiastical Titles Act may be re-
garded merely in the light of an affirmation of vari-
ous earlier Acts of the Legislature in the nature of
premanire. The Lord Chief Baron will, as vacation
Judge at Chambers, have the nomination of the
additional revising barristers contemplated by the
new registration measure. Although the bill has
not yet become law, there are some 230 applicants
in the field.

TILE BELL TITAT WILL BE ANSWERED.--WLICE
night sets in upon the Paris Great Hotel, a general air of
desertion prevails ; the "service," which is found in a cor-
ner, disappears, and shuts its doors, and the traveller has
been known to go wandering round and round these blank
circles, looking for the "service," and for his key, meeting
no one, seemiurly destined to "circulate" for ever in those
axial halls. At last he hears a step, and falls in with a
belated traveller, who tells him he must try the " son-
nette," and shows him a little electrical " button" in
the wall, a touch on which sets free a whirring
al irm, and soon brings a boy-waiter in his shirt-sleeves
from one of the doors. The boy-waiter has a precocious
French gruffness added to the gruffness consequent on
being roused from his sleep. The number is not in his
beat, the traveller must go round quite to the other side
of the house, and then ho disappears " grommelant."
There " the button" is again found and rouses another
sleepy waiter, who is equally dissatisfied, but knows nothing
of the key, which is at last found with infinite difficulty.
The administration must have a malicious joy in in-
flaming the natural exasperation of menials when
" they hear the bell ;" and towards this end have hit on the
crafty devic-m of making it jangle oa by electricity in the
most ear-piercing and o lions way, until the servant comes
to stop it by pressing a button. Often do we sae the sum-
moned menial rushing with a look of disgust and fury on
his face to stay this loathsome tintamarre ; otherwise the
alarm would go on to the crack of doom. This notion
might be commended with advantage to our monster Lon-
don hotels, where the impatient guest has to give a good
hard pull, to produce a faint and little regarded twang.
Dickens's "All the Year Round."
VALUE OF FOREIGN COINS.—The following is
" a synopsis of the value of foreign specie moneys in the
money terms and gold of the United States," prepared oil-
cially at the United States Mint, and used at the Treasury
Department in Washington :
VALUE.
Austria Silver Florin, (100 Kreutzers)... $.1803
Belgium Silver Franc
Bolivia Silver Dollar .7081
Brazil Milrei, 1000 Reis
Bremen Thaler, 72 Glotes
Buenos Ayres ...See New Grenada and Mexico
Can. America ....Doübloon
Gold Dollars
Four Dollar Piece, 2 Escudos .3.68
Chili Gold Dollar
China Tael
Mexican Dollar, the Chop Dol-
lar has no standing value
Denmark Silver Rigsdaler, 6 Marks
Ecuador Dollar, 8 Reals .69
Egypt Piastre
England Pound
France Franc, 100 centimes, gold
See Belgium, Silver .19455
Germany Thaler, 30 Groshen
Austrian florin, 100 Kreutzere,
See Austria
.4803
Southern florin, 60 Kreutzers .412
Greece Drachm, 100 Lopta
.17275
Hamburg Mark Banca, 16 Shillings
India Rupee, 16 minas
.452
Italy Lira f Sardinia
.193
Lira of Florence
escudo of Rome . .1.05
Ducat of Naples .8274
Japan ltzebu _ .31

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Mexican dollar .1.05
M e x i co
Gold dollar
Silver dollar .1.05
Morocco Bontqui
Netherlands Guilder
New Grenada ...Peso, 1-110 of a Condor, in gold .965
In silver .973
Peru Same as Bolivia
Portugal Milrei, 1,000 Reis .OB
Prussia Thaler, 30 Gros. see Germany
Russia. Rouble, 100 Copeka 777
Spain Real, 100 Centimos
Sweden liigsdaler-riskmyat, i species
daler
Switzerland Franc, 109 Rappen, see France
Tunis Piastre
Turkey Piastre, 40 Paras, gold
Silver .043

NEWCASTLE Stil
TUESDAY
Weights for the Members'

DIER MEETING,

June 23.
' Plate, Nearly one mile.
Age st lb
Liberal ... ... 4 610
Kingmaker ... 5 6 10
i Sister to Scottish

Age st lb
Honesty ... 5 9 0
Attache 6 8 4
Roderick Random 6 7 10
King Hal 5 7 6
War 5 7 6
Eivire 4 7 4
Palisado 4 7 3
G eaut des Batailles 3 7 2
Caprera 3 7 0
The Priest ... 4 7 0
Minster Bell 4 7 0
Aueltinleck 4 7 0
Ainsley 4 7 0
Dutch Admiral 4 7 0
The Parson 3 7 0
King's Cross 4 6 12

Chief ... 4 6 9
Lady Zetland. ... 3 6 6
The Gleaner ... 3 6 5
Sorcerer ... ... 3 6 5
Russian Bear ... 3 6 5
Affection ... 3 6 2
Scotchinan's Pride 3 6 0
Tabouret ... 3 6 0
Festivity ... 3 5 12
Progress 3 5 10
Savoir Vivre 3 5 7
Lady Audrey f „, 2 5 7