The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-28 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The new hops already arrived at market sell but
slowly, and the trade rules quiet for all sorts, at about
late rates.

. COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 28.—Sa1es probably 15,000 bales.
Market held firmly.

Bank of England Returns,

An Account, pursuant to
cap. 32, for the week ending 1

he Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
ffadueaday, Aug. 26, 1368.
kEtTIfENT.

ISSUE DEI
Notes issued .m. 04,617,335

Governmt. Debt.Xll,ols,loB
Other Securities.. 3,981,900
Gold Coin and

Bullion
Silver Bullion

£31,6 i 7,335
BANKING D.

£34,617,335

Proprietors'Capi-
tal X1.1,553,000
3,331,187

4PARTMENT.
Goverung. Seca-
rities(ineluding
Dead Weight
Anunity) £13,730,131.
Other Securities 15,5j7.074-
Nu!es 10,641,764
Uuld and Silver
Coin .... 1,156,766

Public Deposits
(iucludi❑g Ex-
chequer, &W-
-ings Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt. and Div.
Accounts ..... 2,979,410
Other Deposits.. 19,838,830
Seven Days and
othor Bills ..... 502,933

£11,2 )5,63.J

I £41,203,680
;a. FORBES, Chief °:►shier.

Foreign Mail FacteL List.

MAILS DUN.

instralla and New Zealand, via Boathampton.....S4A. 12.
Ditto, via Alarseilles 7.
Ditto, via Panama ....... .......... ...Sep'. 28
.frazll. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3
Ditto, by French packet
Cape Verde, by Brazil packet Sept. 3.
Cape of Good Mope. Ascension. and St. Helena 4ept,
China, Penang. and Singapore, via Soaihampten Aug. 2
.iibrtitar. via Southampton
Soatbamoton
unto, via Marseille',
Meta, kgypt, duo. . Aug.29
Ditto, Marseilles Aug. 6T
Mauritius. Cape of Good Hope. and Natal. via
Scntham►pton
Mai. Marseilles Sept. li
Newfoandlara ...... ..... . Sept. 9
Portugal . . ...Sept. 3.
United States, t lunch, Calilornia, &c., by British

uz. 29
S t. 1.

packet
Ditto, by Canadian packet ....
Ditto, by II iced itates packet
Ditto dittt (Baltimore)
West ladles and l'aAfic texcept Mexico and Baha-
mas) Sept 14.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerin
FAlkland Islands
Uaba and Mexico ... .... .........S .pt 26.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evemng.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 19 ... 11 191

Do 3 Ms.
Rotterdam ... — ... 12 ... 12 1
Antwerp — ... 23 40 ... 25 45
Brussels — ... 23 34 ... 25 45
Hamburgn — ... 13 10i ... 13 11
Paris Short ... 25 20 ... 25 25
Ditto
Jiraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120} ... 1201
Vienna — ... 11 63 ... 11. 74
Trieste — ... 11 63 ... 11 721
Petersburg
Copenhagen — ... 9 19 ... 9 21
Berlin
._27}

Madrid..
Cadiz
Leghorn

... 47} 471,-
... 48} ... 49
... 27 721 ... 27 80

MASKINONGE AND BLACK BASS AT RICE LAKE.—
John S. Wallace, Esq., Secretary of the Fish and Game
Club of Coburg, Canada, intimates that gentlemen who
may desire to fish in Rice Lake from this time forth must
receive the permission of the Club, which will be cheer-
fully accorded to all sportsmen and gentlemen, but not to
those whose proceedings have threatened the extermina-
tion of the maskinonge, and who have lasted their fish
down to make merchandise of them.

THE SANDWICH ISLAND TRADE.—Eighteen ves-
sels, aggregating a capacity of 10,713 tons, arrived at San
Francisco during the first half of the present year. Over
50 per cent. of the tonnage was steam.
UNIFORM WEIGHTS.—We think it a legitimate
subject to be didcussed by the general Government, and
call the attention of th. 3 Co.nmissioners of Agriculture to

the necessity of a uniform, invariable standard of weights
4for grain and produce all over the country. In nearly
every State there is a difference from that of its neigh-
bour in some article sufficient to cause much confusion
and serious inconvenience. In Missouri a bushel of oats,
as fixed by law, is 35 pounds ; in lowa it is 33; in Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, and Milhigan, it is 32 pounds, as
fixed by the laws of each of the States. For barley,
the 10 gal bushel, as fixed differently by different
states, is in some 36 pounds, and in others 38. A bushel
of wheat in Missouri is 66 pounds, while in all other
Western States it is GO pounds, and in Connecticut 56
pounds. Corn is 56 pounds in nearly all the States, but is
58 in Now York. Clover seed is mostly 60, but 64 in
Ohio and New Jersey. Beans are generally 60, but are
62 in New York and 56 in Ohio. The United States have
adoptod a standard bushel and gallon. Either let us mea-
sure according to this, without reference to weight, or else
let us sell by the 100 pounds. But we aro most decidedly
averse to the State system of def.:emitting .the Weight
per bushel or barrel of each kind of produce.—Springfield'
RePultiiatt.