The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-29 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

The official returns of the trade and navigation of the
United King dom for the month and four months ending
April 30, ha ►e been issued.
The comparison of imports for the month is as
under :

1854. 1855.
Live animals
Cocoa lbs. 98,698
Coffee lbs. 2,065,660
Wheat qrs. 476,111
Barley
Oats qrs. 121,623
Indian corn qrs. 163,490
Flour cwt. 514,773
Cochineal cwt. 190 ...... 4,380
indigo cwt. 3,343 .„... 3,662
Flax cwt. 166,576
Currants cwt. 3,667
Guano tons 15,537 ...... 45,831
Hemp
Mahogany
Oil, palm.
Opium lbs. 2,974
Rice
Saltpetre cwt. 21,224
Silk, raw
Cassia Lip es lbs. 16,237
Cloves .. ....- lbs. 38,992
Pepper
Rum ..proof gallons 324,605
Brandy __proof gallons 376,513 ' 186,951
Geneva proof gallons 13,880
Unrefined sugars cwt. 568,454
Tallow
Tea
Tobacco
Wine
Sheep's and lambs' wool lbs. 4,691,881

The declared value of some of the principal exports,
compared v lith that for the same articles during the cor-
responding month of last year, was as follows :-
1854.

1855.

A £
Beer and Ale • l6 1,064 • 156,470
Coals and c aim 235,929 ... .. 191,440
Cotton mai asfactures 1,830,983
Cotton yard
Earthenwar e 119,761
Haberdashery and millinery... 267,735
Hardwares and cutlery
Linen mane factures
Linen yarn
Machinery st nd millwork
Silk manufactures
Thrown Silk
Woollen ma nufactures
Woollen yax 'n
The total declared value of all the enumerated articles
exported cl uring the month is 8,085,9641. against
7,765,2851. in the month to May 5 last year, and it ap-
pears that over 2,800,0001. may be added for the five
days not iv eluded in this account, viz., from April 30 to
the sth ins t., making the increase exceedingly large as
compared • with last year.

1 party • of invalids to the number of 68 men, with one
woman an (1 6 officers, in charge of Captain Stevens, Rifle
Brigade, 1 lave arrived in Chatham, from Portsmouth.
They belt) ng to various regiments serving at the seat of
war. M a►jor Gordon (76th Regiment), in the absence
of the brigade-major, attended with a fatigue party from
the Barris on to assist the crippled soldiers to vans in
readiness to receive them from the railway carriages.
They wet •o taken to the general hospital.
Recrui ting parties from the 62d and from the 72d,
with another from the Royal Artillery, are now in Wex•
ford, and. 200 men offered to join from the Militia the
ranks of these respective regiments, and a large number
was sek icted, and-attested.
Lieut.. Ellis and 45 men of the Royal Artillery left
Limeric k by the 7.30 train on Saturday morning for
Cork, e 7 t route for Ballincollig.
bThe p rovisional battalion in Limerick garrison have
already 400 trained rank and file to form another draught
for the .seat of war, and which will embark in the ensu-
ing month.

TH.I4 /VlO NAROHS OF THE MAIN ; OR, ADVENTURES OF
THE BIICCA.NEERS. By George W. Thornbury, Esq.—
" Au unwritten page of the world's history is not to be
met with every day. The author of these volumes has
discovered one, and has supplied the deficiency. The
deeds of alternate violence and heroism of the wild ad-
venturers, whe, soon after the discovery of America,
started forth in search of plunder, and sometimes of ter-
ritorial conquest, now sweeping the main with their pi-
ratical vessels, now surprising and sacking some rich and
floanisbing town, now fortifying themselves in some
isl,and-hold, where they could bid defiance to a world in
arms against them, form the subject of a narrative rich
In variety of incident, and replete with striking exhibi-
tions of life an' character. To the lover of maritime ad-
venture these pages offer a fund of infinite amusement,
doubly attractive from the novelty of the theme."—
'John, Bull.

[ApvEnusEmENT.]—Holloway's Ointmer.. and Pills
certain cures for alt Cutaneous Diseases. —Copy of a
letter from Mr. James Meredith, Ashton-under-Lyne,
dated 15th Jan., 1854 :—" To Professor Holloway—Sir,
—For seven years I was a victim to the most unsightly
of cutaneous diseases. My whole body was covered
with sores, and although I had reeourse to a variety of
means to relieve myself from this odious disfigurement,
they were totally unsuccessful. Eventually, however,
I bad recourse to your ointment and pills, which mira-
culously, by slow degrees, healed the whole of the sores,
and left rny skin without a blemish, to the utter astonish-
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and at Pri )fessor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand,
Loudon, and 80, Maiden-lane, Now York.