The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

COURSE OF r;XCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 19 ... 11 19}
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 * ... 12 1
Antwerp — ... 25 4U ... 25 45
Brussels
Hamburger — ... 13 10i ... 13 11
Paris
Ditto
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 120}
Vienna — ... 11 85 ... 11 9U
Trieste — ... 11 85 ... 11 92}
Petersburg
Copenhagen — ... 9 20 ... 9 23
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — ... 471 ...
Leghorn
Milan ... 27 60 ... 27 67
Genoa — ... 27 60 ... 27 67*
Palorrao .-- ... 27 60 ... 27 67*

Mr. G. W. Martin announces the commence-
ment of the ninth season of the National Choral Society,
next Wednesday, at Exeter Hall, on which occasion Dr.
Sterndale Bennett's Cantata, " The Woman of Samaria,'
Mendelssohn's Motets for female voices (a shilling edition
of which has just been published by Mr. Martin); and
" The Walpurgis Night" will be rehearsed. Ladies and
gentlemen, amateurs, wishing to join the society, should
apply at once at the offices, 11 and 15, Exeter Hall
Strand.

LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—STROJINESS, Orkney Islands,
Oct. 7.—The schooner Victor, of Grimsby, bound from
Liverpool to Christiana, with a cargo of salt, was riding
at anchor in Iloy Sound during stormy weather (says Jas.
It. Garrick, Esq.), when she was seen to be in danger.
The Saltaire lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution,
stationed at Stromnoss, was thereupon launched to her
assistance. On arriving alongside seven of the lifeboat
men went on board, slipped one of the anchors to save the
tide, and brought the vessel safely into Stromnese
harbour.

The death was announced ytaterday morning
of Sir John Brocas Whalley Smythe ardiner. The de-
ceased, who was the fourth barons was born at Roche
Court, Hampshire, in 1814, and succeeded his father is
1851. He was for some time in the royal navy. He
married, in 1861, Mary Harriet, widow of Captain James
A. Forrest. He leaves no son, and the baronetcy becomes
extinct. One of his sisters is married to Mr. Montagu
Burrows, Chichole Professor of Modern History at Ox-
ford. The first baronet was John Whalley, who, on suc-
ceeding to the estates of Sir W. Gardiner, Bart. (title ex-
tinct), assumed the name of Gardiner.

LOSS OF A DUNDEE WHALER.—The loss of the
Wildfire, a Dundee whaling ship, in the Cumberland
Gulf, has been reported by the mate of the vessel, who
arrived in Dundee yesterday. The Wildfire left Dundee
early this year for Davis Straits. On the lbth of July she
got among some heavy ice and was repeatedly struck,
and was so much injured that Captain Henderson, after
making Lovely Island, was forced to abandon the vessel-
After the crew, consisting of about fifty hands, had been
about six weeks on the island, thirty-five of them, in-
cluding the mate, were brought home by the Danish brig
Constantine; and the remainder, with the captain, will
follow in another Danish ship.

A SERVANT INCITING HER MASTER'S CHILDREN
TO STEAL.—On Thursday, at Walsall, a girl named Caro-
line Leyland was charged with having stolen a quantity
of ribbons, gloves, collars, cottons, tapes, and other articles
of the value of 305., the property of her master, Samuel
Roberts. The girl was about to leave on Tuesday, after
having been in the prosecutor's service as domestic ser-
vant about seven weeks, and suspicions of her honesty
being excited her box was examined. It was found to
contain a variety of goods belonging to Mr. Roberts, and
accordingly she was given into custody on a charge of
stealing them. It came out that she had induced her
master's two sons, the one aged 10 years and the other
eight, to givo her the things out of the shop, by giving
them money and fruit, and promising to take them to the
fair. She was sentenced to two months' imprisonment
with hard labour, for aiding, counselling, and procuring
the boys to steal the articles.
"SILENCE THAT DREADFUL BELL !"—An Ame-
rican has invented an advertising bell to be attached to
bulletin boards, walls, fences, and so forth, to attract at-
tention to the advertisements pasted thereon. It is ope-
rated by a coiled spring with clockwork gearing, and when
wound up and set running it will sound at intervals of a
few seconds continuously for a week if desired.—The
Grocer.

Sub-Lieutenant Philip Francis has been promoted to be
Lieutenant in her -Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of 84
instant,