The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Sept. 14.—Wind this day at noon—South-
East; fresh breeze and cloudy.
CARDIFF, Sept. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gaffredo,
from New 'Yolk. SAiled—Alexandra, fur Matanzas—Eliza
Nelson, for Bermuda.
BRISTOL, Sept. I.3.—Wind N,W.—Arrived--President
Filmore, from Now York.

KINGSTON, Sept. 13,--Wind N.W.—Arrived—Orchid,
from Barbadoes.

MILFORD, Sept. l2.—Arrived—Witch of the Wave,
from Liverpool for Buenos Ayres.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 13.—. Wind S. W.—Arrived—Matilda,
from Rangoon—Roxburgh Castle, from London and sailed
for Melbourne.

PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 13. —Arrived—Dumietta, from
London for kilo Janeiro. Sailed—Her hiNjesty's ship En-
hantress, for Marseilles.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 13 —Adler, from Quebeo—Vicking, from
Riga—Flora, from Calcutta—Rengi, from Riga—Sophie,
from Malmo—Marys, from Guernsey—Al phine, from
Wasa—Amor, from DAntzic—Albion, from Ilorseng—An-
nunciacion, from Porto Rico--Saxon V ills, from New York
—Pepe, from Porto Rico—Nestor, from Archangel—Reso-
lution, from New York.
Arrived, Sept. 14.—Magnum Bonum, from Colombo—
Citizen, from Prince Edward's Island--Prince Albert, tram
Pugwaeh—Triton, from Wismar—Carrie M, Lord, from
Prince Edward's Island—Frances, from Riga—Albert and
Anna, from Dantsic.
Sailed, Sept. 14—Aurora, for St. Michael's—Boldora
steamer for Konigsberg—Cornelia Gertrude fur Batavi t
Beivtdere for aladras—Early Dawn for Singapore—Lord
J. Russell and Flandre steamers for Dunkirk.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed—John from Quebec for London.

Anchored—Helios from Uleaborg for London—Bengal
from Gals for Port Philip—Orient from London for Mar-
seilles—Mid-Lothian from London far Domerara—lrequis
and Sacramento, American corvettes from the eastward—
Plantagenet from Sunderland to Rordeaux.

Sailird in tow to repair damages sustained by collision—
Solon for the river.

A letter from Mexico, 10th August, says—" The
Emperor left this morning to commence a tour
through his empire. The first journey, however,
will not be a long one, and the expectation is that
his Majesty will return to the capital in about a
month, after having visited Queretaro, Leon, and
Guanajuato. He will return to be present at thefts
of Mexican Independence, which is to be celebrated
on the 16. h September, when he will lay the first
stone of a monument which he has ordered to be
erected in the centre of the open space before the
Palace, in commemoration of that event. His Majesty
will, however, soon after undertake fresh excursions,
particularly to Vera-Cruz at the commencement of
the winter. The Emperor thinks that hie presence
in the provinces may materially contribute to pacify
them : in the first place because the measures
adopted to give security to hil journey leaves no
point unexplored, and next, because the visit of a
sovereign always induces a certain number of mal-
contents to come over to him. Moreover while the
military and finance commissions are at work, the
presence of the Emperor in the capital is less neces-
sary. During his Majesty's absence the Empress,
being named Regent, will hold the reins of Govern-
ment. Her Majesty, as is well known, is possessed
of !great intelligence, maturity of judgment and
much tact and firmness.
ADULTERATION OF SNUFF.—Mr. Phillips, the
Principal of the Government Laboratory, states in
his report this year that while ho can say that few articles
of consuxption aro now sold in so genuine a state as tobacco,
and that the use of prohibited materials in the manufac-
ture of snuff is noiy but seldom attempted, he has to repre-
sent that there is a fern: of adulteration of the latter article
far more injurious than the. comparatively mild aophistica •
Cons sometimes discovered. The law permits the use of
lime water in the manufacture of hig;t-dried smith, such as
Irish and Welsh, but it does not state relent proportion of
lime shall be present in the water, although Pere can be
little doubt that a perfectly clear solution of limo in water
was meant. Many manutacturers, however, assert that
such a solution is useless, and persist in the use of what
may be termed " lime wash," or a thick mixture of undis-
solved lime and water. Save• al unsuccessful attempts have
been made within the last two years to suppress the very
gross practice, which is still growing, of using such a
mixture; and probably until the use of life in the manu-
facture of snuff is absolutely prohibited the fraud can
never bo crushed. It has been generally understood
that lime was essential in the preparation of high-dried
snuff.; but a fine specimen of such snuff, made by an emi-
nent firm in Ireland, has recently been analysed, the re-
sult being that no more lime was present than what may
be found in normal American tobacco; and it is believed
that the same firm strenuously opposed the legalising the
use of lime-water, and still maintain that lime, even in
small quantity, deteriorates the quantity of snuff. The
vicious form of adulteration referred to is almost entirely
confined to the north of Ireland, where it appears the habit
is very prevalent among the women employed in the linen
and other factories of taking snuff highly charged with lime,
and which is known as "white snuff;" and the manufac-
turers allege, in extenuation of their dishonest practices,
that no other description of snuff is acceptable to their cus-
tomers, apparently forgetting that they themselves have, by
their long• continued illicit practices, engendered the habit
which they now sock to bring forward as a plea for their
fraudulent transactions. There have lately been submitted
to Mr Phillips several sample& of snuff obtained from
manufacturers in Belfast, in which it was impossible to say
from a mere inspection whether lime or tobacco predomi-
nated ; and ho has received information from respectable
members in the trade that some manuf returers do not even
care to use a mixture of lime and water, but actually grind
up dry lime with the tobacco in the process of manufac-
ture. The evil in question appears to demand, both upon
social and fiscal coneideration's, an immediate remedy. It
can never be eupprresed under the existing law, and the
only effectual ccuree to be adopted is the entire prohibition
of the use of liwc in the manufacture of snuff,
I.lr Phillip
has reason to believe that the c bunions practice is distaste-
ful to many manufacturers. who, however, feel compelled
in self-defence to adopt it, and that its continuance is
mainly duo to the unscrupulous operations cf one or two
members of the trade,