The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL.

The following horeoa had arrived up to last night :
Thomaetown, O'Connell, Earl of Douglas, Topsy, Nationa
Petition, and Brian O'Lynno.

RACING FIXTU:
MAN

rliliS FOR 1884.
RM.

Liverp00l
Shrewsbury
Doncaster Spring
Warwick .. 16
Ar

Durham
Northampton 29
Catterick 3O

Croxton-park 1
Edinburgh Spring 2
Abergavenny b
Think 6

IL.
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Craven
Newmarket First Spring 25

Chester
York Spring
Salisbury l2
Bath
Ju

Manchester
Harpenden 2O
Epsom 24

Ascot
_7_

Hampton l6
Newton
Odihrun
Bibury
Stockbridgo
yu

Chelmsford 2B
New Forest Hunt 2B
No weastlo-on-Tyne
Woreestvr (Summer) 30
Ipswich

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Abingdon
Liverpool July
Stamford l4
Pontefract

Nottingham
Winehoater l9
Southampton .. 2O
Chesterfield
Goodwood

Bright on 2
Brighton Club
Lew' 5
Reading
Egham
Oxford lB
Yarmouth

SErTE

Weymouth 1
Warwick September 6
Leicester 8
Doncaster ..
Brecon .. 19

York August 23
Plymouth
Derby 3O
Lichfield 3O
Stocktcn
Devon and Exeter

Richmond
Monmouth 22
Manchester Autumn
NewmarketFirst October 27

Oc-ri

11BEIL.

North&Dorton .. 6
Newmarket Second Oct 10

Gloucester
Newmarket Houghton 24

!CIE%
Worcester Autumn .... 30

Fora
Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14
Leamington & War. Hunt 22
STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

/kiAncn.
Grand Military (Rugby Hunt) l4
ArRIL.

Aborgavenny .. 6
NOVEMBER.

Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22

GOLD AND SILVER IN 1864.—Under this title
M. Bordet, Master of Requests at the Council of
State, publishes an interesting article in this fortnight's
Revue Contemporaine, showing that the increase of the pre-
cious metals is far from being the only cause of the rise in
price of the necessaries of life. In the 16th century wheat
rose from 7 to 16 fr per hectolitre, this rise coinciding with
the conquest of America: but from 1650 to the present
day, the average price of whoat has varied very little, not-
withstanding the enormous influx of Californian gold
which, if it has any great influent*, has had ample time,
since 1818, to reveal it. Now, in 1818, the 'average price
of wheat was 19f. 59a.; that of the 16 years which have
elapsed since then is 21f. 100„ that is 7} per cent. morel
while economists predicted that it would rise at least 20
per cent. It is true that the prices of other commodities
have risen considerably—on cattle, meat, cheese, butter,
and eggs, it exceeds 80 per cent.—on wine, oil, and spirits,
the rise varies betwou 60 and 100 per cent. ; colonial pro-
duce has suffered no groat variation, but linen and cotton
have risen 100 per cont., hemps and silk from 30 to 60 per
cent.—but metals and coal which, between 1850 and 1857
had risen GO and 12 per cent. respectively, have since fallen
again to below the prices of 1850. Again, in manufactures
generally, the rise is scarcely perceptible; nay, there has
been a considerable fall in paper, porcelain, iron machinery,
chouricd produce, mercury, sugar, furniture, do. Now,
in those articles which have experienced a rise, the latter
may be easily explained, without any recourse to the influx
of gold and silver. The rise in cotton is owing to the civ
it
war in America—that of hemp in 1855 and 1856 to the
Russian war, the rise in other articles }wooded. from bad
harvests, increase of population, and of public wealth—and
gold has only contributed to the rise in so far as it has
created now centres of consumption for European manu-
factures. In Franco, as well as in England, the rise
reached its maximum in 1856, under the combined effects
of war and bad harvests—sinee then, prices have tended
rather to diminish than otherwise. The rise in cattle and
animal :produce had began before 1848, and is therefore
owing to causes utterly foreign to the influx of the pre-

cious metals.
THE DANIsII RELIEF FUND IN LIVERPOOL.--The
cause of the Danish Relief Fund is making rapid
Frog!
Liverpool. An influential committee has been
orpoin
progress
in w
and subscriptions have been received from seve-
ral of the leading houses. A considerable addition was made
to the subsoription list yesterday, and the total subscribed
in Liverpool up to last evening amounted to about £6OO.
THZ ALABAMA.—.A Washington despatch of the
19th ult. to the New York :Iribune says :—" The
last trustworthy intelligence fixes the pirate Alabama at the
dock at Amoy on the 17th of January. The United State 3
steamer Wyoming, Captain M'Dougal, was also there, and
the United States ship Jamestown was daily expected. The
navy department feels confident that the Alabama Will
never leave port, and it is nut impossible that she will be
deetro)ed at that place."

STATE OF GREECE,

A letter from Athens, dated Feb. 16, says
" The memorandum of the lonian Treaty has
arrived. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has an-
nounced this to the Assembly, bat at the present
time very reasonably limits his information to
stating that many of the objectionable eauses in
the first one have been remedied. A semi-official
piper hero states that the neutrality of
the soil is limited to the islands of Corfu and
Pesos; and, as regards the forts, the
entire subject will be left to the discretion of Enu..
land. The other articles of the Treaty, such as the
fig, the treaties of commerce, &0., are questions of
time; and, in fact, it is said that in 40 days at the
furthest the annexation will be an accomplished
feet.
"The Assembly has declared the Municipal
Conncil as abolished by the revolution. It has
authorised the Government to issue Treasury
bonds to the extent of 2,000,000 of drachmas at
three and six months date, bearing 8 per cent. in-
terest. The National Bank will discount these bonds,
being guaranteed by the emery stone at the island
of Naxos. At the expiration of the time men-
tioned the Government will be in a positiontotakeLA
up the bonds. With respect to the Budget of 18u4
it has been reported publicly that it was submitted
to the Assembly by the Ministry, without being
submitted to Count Sponneck or to the King;
communicatioa made to one of the local journals
pretends in consequence that whatever may be
the result of the project the Count it free from all
responsibility. The general opinion, however, ap-
pears to be that the Ministry was not obliged to
consult either the King or the Count, and the com-
munication has been simply made from interested
motives.
" The small pox has made great ravages at
Thebes and in teeny other places on the mainland.
Winter is disappearing. Brigandage happily is
diminishing. His Majesty occasionally honours by
his presence the Hellenic drama ; the last piece,
which was very well represented, was ' The Cap.
ture of Ipsara.' "
A letter from Corfu, dated Feb. 15, says :
" The wet weather we have had here up to within
the last few days has somewhat retarded the
operations for dismantling the fortifications, but,
with the return of fine weather, the works are
again being steadily prosecuted. In Vido and Forts
A brain and Neuf shafts are being sunk and galleries
driven for the reception of the charges for blowing
them up, and these forts already begin to have an
air of desolation. At Fort Neuf the sea detencos
only aro to be destroyed. The clearance thus effected
will afford the opportunity for continuing the road
from the market and Custom-house, in front of
the harbour, to the suburb of Manduchio, which
is only now to be reached from this portion of the
town by a long detour round the land side of the fort.
The scheme has been talked of for some time, and if
carried out it will be a great improvement. Few
guns are now remaining in Fort Neuf; in Fort
Abram there were none mounted ; but I believe the
armament was nearly ready to be sent out from
England; shot, shell, and stores of all descriptions
are being removed for shipment.
"As time wears on speculation is rife as to the
period when the British troops will be withdrawn,
I understand that the beads of the various depart-
ments have received a semi-official notice that all
matters connected with the evacuation are to be
completed by the 2d of April.

" I have on a former occasion referred to the fact
of the falling off of the receipts of the Custom.
house since annexation of the islands with Greece
was decided upon. The usual average receipts had
been about £6,000 a month. Up to the present time
this month they have reached about £BOO, and as
no further imports of any extent are expected, the
gross receipts for this month aro not likely to
exceed £l,OOO.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Mies Opened. Reoeipts.
Railways. ~.i._........_v____....._

1864. 1863. " 1804. 1863;
, 4 £
fielfast and N. Counties 136 136 1,719 1.826
Belfast and County Down 49 49 608 865
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,087 1,640
Bristol and Exeter l2l/ 1214 6,119 6,437
Caledonian
Cookcrmouth& Workington Bl 81 2;8 283
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 207 317
Cork, lilackrock, & Passage Ol 8 112 152
Cork and loughal
Cornwall 854 63 1,351 1,125
Deeside l7 17 V.l 231
Dublin & Wilful. J unction ...
Dublin and Drogheda 76 83 1,398 1,425
Dublin and Meath
Dub, & Wicklow and Wexld 9ll 481 1,899 1.615
Edinburgh and QlasgoW 1691 164 7,863 7.002
Furness, du3 5O 5 ; 3,170 2,795
Glasgow & South-Western
GLEastern,Nrik.,&E.Union 6413 644 26,059 24,258
Great Northern 353 351 30,494 27,710
Great North of Scotland 6B 68 1,489 1.807
tit. Northn. & Westn.(lrel.) 7ll 718 409 428
ULSouthn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3731 329 0,769 8846
Great Western 10561 10561 64,724 62.607
Inverness at Aberdeen Juno B6# 861 958 967
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 - 1,012 -
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,667 1,047
Lancashire& Yorkshire 402 395 31,830 31,060
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 2B 26 82 69
',lmlay & 461 46 540 601
London North-Western
London and Blackwall 6 6 1,643 1,630
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton. &S. Coast 261 261 12,307 14. 22
London, Chatham, .k Dover, 72 72 3,475 2nu
1)o. Metropolitan Extension 10 6 1,790 300
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
31an.,Sheflield,&Linoolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& A I trincham
1,102 3,063
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 3,5.5 1.283
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 416; 12,478 28,061
Midland Gt. Westn. of !rind 2591 2591 :3,640 6,313
Monkland 7ll 711 1,605 1,631
Monmouthsh. Rail& Canal 44 44 1,047 2,101
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 264
Oswestry and Newton... 6O
Ithymney l9l
St. II elen's Canal& Railway 62
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern .. 138
Somerset and Dorset oo
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Taff' Vale 57
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neat!' 321
Waterford and Kilkenny lll
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
IV. II artlepool 11 arbr. & Rail.
Vrhaven,Cleator,& Egrnint 7
Whitehaven *Junction l3
W hitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 62 62
Austrian B2B 628
Belgian Eastern J unction .
Bombay, liaroda,& C'en. India 165 167
Buffalo and Lake lluron l6ll 361
Detroit and Milwaukie 169 189
Dutch Menial;
Eastern Bengal .. llO 1 in
Easton; of I. rano,.
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1950
Great Indian Peninsula 5 3 405
Great Luxembourg 334 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 646 315
417 47
Madras ..
S ar"I"
&A
1 ir"nr lit.'" Itt81:. 14';013)
Madrid,
Northern of Canada .....•
Northern
41 41
484 484
(Nillarirtorliuseal,Lnlydaono.n:Thart&inumak.m..i.t.,......
1(114 1494
df.
(1:.
r` r
Fa;
.n. . . . . . . . .
..:: ........... .. .. .. .. 7;550
161:29460
l'ernambuoo ............... • • 774
. 196
....
Royal Danish ............ 69 69
Sambre and )reuse 6B
South Austrian ...... ..
W and .of Prance...... 032 813
Iss3v;o,sthoitireynirnandiNa.n!.w

4101 11,498 10.Q33
10791 51,004 17,7,11
9 3,1°8 3,04:3
254 8,425 7,616
42 1,107 699
191 917 868
62 2,202 2,075
89 4,366 4.213
188 4,995 4.803
391 857 350
754 3.020 2,865
806 14,783 14137
65 6,783 5,805
921 2,3;9 2,076
10 145 330
251 2,540 2.0:11
61 827 335
77 4,064 1,284
271 726 715
82 3,698 3.923

7 6d2
13 1.048 b 43
35 133 :VI

1,220 1.0.14
28,53! :13.',01

.318 241
3,068 1,772
2.283 2,537
1,481 3,437
4,07 e 3,691
1,7k0 1,112
50,49 49,350
22,521 i%osl
18.1b6 10,553
10,144 /4,162
1,0;3 4,053
61)5 491
14,013 13.9,5
4,10'.03 4.003
15,5•59 15,631
1,732 1,071

as 637

315 311
109,022 110 811
58,004 57,684
1,590 1,605

1,326 1,408

24,158 ,22,718
9,503 9,33;

3,012 P 56
37,089 30,47 d

MARSEILLES, 21Iarch 4.—Accounts from Con-
stantinople of the 25th ult. state that the Sultan
has decided on visiting his African provinces, par-
ticularly Tunis. The Bey has already been in-
formed of the Sultan's intention.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United
Danubian Principalities has addressed to his agents
abroad a statement of the motives which led to the
secularisation of the property of the monasteries.
By suppressing, he observes, the right of mortmain.
he has followed the elatnple of the other European
States. _ _

Lieut.-Gon. T. R. Swinburne died at his residence,
13, Great Stuart-street, Edinburgh, on Monday last.
The deceased, who had attained the ago of 67, en-
tered the army on June 24, 1813, and served with
athnedFsiurbastevGueanoy in the Peninsula and South of
France. Holland, under Lord Lynedoch,
France. lie served also in the campaign of 1816,
including the battles of Quadra Bras and Waterloo.
lie commanded a storming party at Peronne, and
afterwards served
Nwv
iatsh the of
yp
of
rr 0 Paris,occupation
a Id
France.
A series of Icoturos on mechanical subjects has
lately been delivered to the officers of the Royal
Artillery stationed at Shoeburynesp, by Profescor
Polo, F,1t.8.