The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-30 00:00:00

GAZETTE NEWS.

Major-Gen. Frederick Maunsell to be Colonel
53rd Foot. Lieut.-General W. Sutherland to be
Colonel 93rd Foot. Lieut.-General Sir Charles
Yorke to be Knight Grand Cross of the Bath.
Major-General W. F. Forster to be Military
Secretary to the General Commanding-in-Chief,
in succession to Sir Charles Yorke, who has
resigned.

At an extraordinary meeting yesterday, the
Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com-
pany was finally dissolved. Amendments were
moved, postponing this step, but they were lost
by sixteen votes against six. There remained
for division a sum of 58. 9d. per share.

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday :

THE EXPORT TRADE TO INDIA.

The Times adverts to the manner in which its
former cautions respecting the trade to India
were received, and shows they were fully justi-
fied. Notwithstanding the storm of reproaches
and denials, the more astute portion of the Lanca-
shire traders quietly limited their business while
publicly upbraiding those who recommended that
course. A report, published by the Bengal Cham-
ber of Commerce, speaks of the increasing gloom
of the import market. The Calcutta market is
glutted, not only with direct arrivals from Eng-
land, but also with surplus stocks sent round from
Bombay, where prices are still less satisfac-
tory. The later shipments from England, it is
added, must result in ruinous loss ; indeed,
they are described to be about double the
probable requirements ; and a total cessation of
consignments from this country for a couple of
months, would, it is believed, barely suffice to
restore quotations to a paying point. Besides
this, special circumstances are in operation ; an
abundant native cotton crop promises to enable
the native manufacturers to produce many kinds
of goods at an advantage over Manchester. They
will have in their favour cheap labour, cotton at
their doors, and a bounty which, in any event,
will amount to 10 per cent.

A further return of ss. per share has been
made by the liquidators of the notorious North
of Europe Steam Company, preparatory to the
meeting of the shareholders on Tuesday.
The speech day at Harrow was celebrated
yesterday, and an unusual number of persons of
distinction were present, including Lord Palmer-
ston, Lord Brougham, Lord 'Wensleydale, the two
English Archbishops, and a host of the nobility.
The third and closing performance of the
Orpheonistes, at the Crystal Palaee, 'took place
yesterday. The attendance was very much
larger. Measures have been taken to give the
Orpheonistes a • parting entertainment in the
Crystal Palace on Saturday. This expression of
good feeling will take the form of a dinner. The
names of Baron Rothschild, Sir Morton Peto,
Mr. Bright, Mr. Titus Salt, and other distin-
guished men are in the list of subscribers.

DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT RUINS AT ST. ANDREWS.
—Workmen have been employed during the past fort-
night in excavating at the Kirkhill for the battery or
the gun platform, for the use of the St. Andrews Artil-
lery Volunteers. In the course of their operations they
have come upon the ruins of what has evidently been a
chapel, built in the form of a cross. The fgundutions
with the base course, and another of ashlar, are, wosed
to view, and the stones are in no way.injured by time.
The operations Of 'the' workmen hare 'been suspended
until instruction' are received from the Board of
Works.----Scotsman.

CoNsoLATtp; Fos Tip 2 FAT.—To ba a fat man is a
great element of success in London. The world is
willing to pay heavily for ballast. In almost every
social circle you enter you will find a fat man to be the
king of it. How unctuously common-places fall from
his mouth, as though they were good things. How
impossible it is to maintain against such
lIIn .
use one that
6 times 7 are 42, or that King George d to
reside occasionally at Weymouth ! He will smile
blandly at you over a vast expanse of white waistcoat,
and impart to the glass of sherry which he is sipping
the force of a syllogism. You are lost in the opinion
slid retire into yourself with what
" a yellow snail
of the cotapatlY7
down as an ill-opnditioneed' whenfelloowu you 'are instantly set ,r
French neighbours would call
deaf to 'the voice of reason. Let every ore
who can
contrive it be fat and be forty. So will he surely sit
under his owu vine and his own fig tree, and be glad.
LOndou is the paradise of men of sixtoeu stone,—Onee
Trak.