The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Cotton market open quiet. Prices quite steady.
Sales about 5,000 bales. Awaiting trade report
from Manchester.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Jan. s.—Wind this day at noon—North-
East ; moderate breeze, and :fine weather, with sharp
frost.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sailed-LFanny, for
Matamoras.
CLYDE, Jan. 4.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Camilla, from
New York.
COWES, Jan. 4.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Caesar Godef-
fray, from Hamburg for Valparaiso.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Ocean Chief,
for Adelaide.

FALMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind E.—Sailed—Prince Rupert,
from Jamaica.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... Jan. 18.
via Marseilles ..Jan. 12.
brazil and Cape herds, by British packet. Jan. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Jan. 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jan. 13.
via Marseilles ...Jan. 24.

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Jan. 9.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 13.
via Marseilles Jan. 10.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 11.
via Blarseitles Jqn. 5
Portuga 1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 10.
via Marseilles

Newfoundland

Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet.... Jan. 6,
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet.. Jan 8.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. lan. 10.
Bahamas, via New York
Mexico . ... Jan. 29.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,
California. and British Columbia. } Jan. 29.

TBE CONVICT SAMUEL WRIGHT.—The memorial
on behalf of Samuel Wright, emanating from a meet-
ing of working men held at the Lambeth Baths on Christ-
mas Eve, was yesterday presented at the Home Mee.
It contains 2,540 signatures. Other memorials have been
forwarded to the Home Secretary, numerously signed by
housekeepers and others. Several declarations prepared by
Mr. Scott, solicitor, of Staples• inn, containing important
statements with reference to the prisoner and the deceased
woman, were also handed to Sir George Grey yesterday
morning.
ARMY MEDICAL SUPPLIES.—The .Lancet com-
ments on the serious complaints, by the officers of
the Indian Medical Service, of the defective supply of
medicines, and states that the disasters of the Crimea,
though not meeting with an exact parallel in India, are, in,
the aggregate, vastly exceeded. The important 'medicines
which of late years have been introduced into the practical
treatment of various familiar diseases—such as podophyllin
in liver affections, saracenia in smallpox—are completely
unattainable; and others, in constant use in England—
such as pepsine and lithia—are• only so in India through
the private purchases of the surgeons. Our contemporary
also points to deficiency in the supply of instruments, and
well asks, wby, in a country where opthalmia is so preva-
lent, the opthalmoscope is not available, and why the
microscope, laryngoscope, and the hypodermic syringe are
still withheld ?
DOUBTFUL IRRESPONSIBILITY.—In all times there,
has been the fiction of some necessity for involun-
tary crime. In antiquity there were the Fates, superior to
the gods in ruling the destinies of men. In the middle
ages the stars had to answer for all human iniquities. Well
says Moliere's Arganto in reply to the plea of desliny—
"Ah Ah I Voici une raison la plus belle du monde. On
n'a plus qu' a commetre tousles climes imaginables, tromper,
voler, assassiner, et dire, pour excuse qu'on y a etc pousse
par sa destinee." The French more latterly discovered the
force of circumstances to be the prime cause of offence.
And our mad doctors, changing the external for the inter-
nal, call it uncontrollable impulse, the impunity allowed to
which is too certain to appear in multiplied crimes of un-
controlled impulses.
PRINCE TORLONIA has lately borne the cost of
the restoration of the " Gesu" Church, the marbles
which were employed on the occasion having been of the
rarest:and most exquisite kind,exhibiting, moreover, in their
superb mouldings and cornices proofs of the most elaborate
workmanship. The Prince is further pledged to have. T-
ented at a later period, and in the richest style,
of the vault,-)d ceiling, and the decoration ox the
churches_oc.
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