The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'Cj.LOCK.

MONTE VIDEO,

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(By ELECTItIC TELEGRAPH.)
WORCES RACES—Tins DAY.
TRIAL SI'AKES.

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Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market steady. The demand for American for
export to America is very great, at advancing
prices. Sales probably 10,000 bales or more.

2d Surrey Artillery Volunteer Field Brigade.

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PRESENTATION OF A PARK OF ARTILLERY.
This corps mustered yesterday in great force in the
Major• Commandant's grounds to receive a battery of 14
field guns, presented to the corps by Mr William Water-
man, of Shirley, near Southampton. The grounds pre-
sented a very interesting as well as formidable appearance,
there being no less than 20 field guns, the property of the
corps, drawn up in line, and all in work at one time.
The first muster was at four o'clock, when sundry field
movements were gone through, during which several excel-
lent pictures were taken by Mr A. J. Melhuish.
At half-past 4 o'clock the corps retired, a regimental
dinner having been prepared in honour of Mr Waterman's
presentation to the corps, at which the Major Commandant
presided. The usual toasts were given. The healths of
her Majesty the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales,
were drunk with much enthusiasm, after which Maj..,r
Durnford, in an appropriate speech, proposed the health of
Mr Waterman, and dwelt at some length upon the present
unhappy position of Denmark, which was a source of regret
to every Englishman. Our sympathy for Denmark was
increased by the respect we all felt towards our beloved
Princess, who had won the affection of every Englishman,
and especially of the volunteers.

The 2d Surrey Artillery fully appreciated Mr Wa.
terman's motives in offering his battery to the King of
Denmark as well as his loyalty towards his Queen, and
felt proud at having been selected by Mr Waterman as
worthy of his kind present. The usual toasts being con-
cluded, the corps again mustered in the mejor's grounds
and resumed drill, during which a r:yal salute of 21 guns
was fired from the Waterman Battery in honour of her
Majesty, it being the anniversary of her Corcnation, after
which the Royal Anthem was played by the bard, and the
corps dismissed. Three times three were then given for
the Queen, the Major-commandant, and officers, and Mr
Waterman,

The ladies and gentlemen in the grounds appeared much
delighted with the proceedings of the evening.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, June 30.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

FALMOUTH, Tune 30. —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sophie,
from London for Rio Janeiro.

CLYDE, Jane 29.—Wind W,S.W.—Atrived—Ailsa,
from Quebec.

ICEIVPORT, June 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Conrad,
from Jersey for Brazils. Sailed—Marie Arualia, for Ha-
vannah.

DARTMOUTH, June 29.—Wind W.—Arrived—Ramscy,
from New Zealand.

HrLL, June 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Lady Emma
Bruce, from Quebec.

PORTSMOUTH, June 29.—Wind W.—Sailed—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Irresistible, fora cruise.

(BY MAGI'qTIC TELEGRAPIO
ESEND, Thsday Mrning;
Arrived, June 29 GRAV
—Crawford, fromur Colombao—Perso•
veranco, from Aledemblik—John and Mary, from Monte-
video.

Arrived, June 30—Volant, from Egersund —Vickenger,
from Quebec—Zurna, from 12iga—Eliz ibeth, from St.
Petersburg —Marnhill, from Gurnsey—X, )lus and Lancer,
from Dantsic—Vanquisher and Skeene, from Cronstadt ;
Albion, and Crosach, from Colombo—Kines, from New
Carleby—Hmanah, from Trinidad—Jeseie and Witch of the
Wave, from St. Vincent _Dolphin, from Wismar—Fides,
from Helsinborg ; Brodrene, from Narnsas—Eagle, from
Memel. DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Psyche, from London, for Brixharn.

MADAME DE LA POMMERAIS, under the title of
Sister Clothilde, has joined the Ursuline Convent in Paris.
THE CONFEDERATE LOAN.—We have the pleis
sure of being able to state, with positive certainty, that the
semi-annual interest and dividend of sinking fund due on
September 1, and which by the terms of the contract
with the Confederate Government, must be deposited
with the contractors 60 days in advance, is ready for de-
posit. This fact, coupled with the continued absorption of
large quantities of the bonds by conversion into cotton cer-
tificates for blockade-running purposes will no doubt give a
vigorous stimulus to transactions in this stock.—The Index.
BLOCKADE RUNNING.—The Index publishes a
list of the vessels entering and leaving the Ports of 'Wil-
mington and Charleston, during the period from ;Tan. 1,
1863, to April, 18,34. From this list it results, that during
15& months, out of five hundred and ninety attempted trips,
four hundred and ninety eight were successful—in other
words, as nearly as possible, of every six vessels that dared
the blockade five went through, or that only one_sixth of
the Confederate marine has been disturbed, speaking of car-
goes and not of bottoms."

THE FIRST TURNPIKE.—Seeing that to-night all
the metropolitan turnpikes are swept out of view
for over, the following paragraph from the new number of
the " Cornhill," may be read with interest :—Exactly five
hundred years have elapsed since a hermit, weary of the
labour of having nothing to do, and tired of sitting the dull
day through, by the side of the stone which supported the
sun dial in front of St. Anthony's Chapel, on Highgate-
hill—that stone which subsequently became, known as
Whittington's—resolved to mend the mays between the
summit of the hill and the low part of the vale ending in
Islington. This hermit was a man of some means, and he
devoted them to bringing gravel from the top of the hill
and laying it all along the unclean track which then, as
now, bore the name of " Hollow Way." By i4igging out
gravel, he gave a pond to the folk on the hill, where it was
greatly needed, and he contributed cleanliness and security
to the vale, where neither had hitherto been known. Tra-
vellers blessed the hermit who had turned constructor of
highwaye--the pilgrims to St. Anthony's found their
accees to the shrine of the saint made easy and pleasant by
him ; and as for the beneficent hermit himself, his only
regret was that in accomplishing this meritorious act for
the good of his fellow-men, he had entirely exhausted all
his fortune. The King, however, came to the rescue. He
set up a toll-bar, and published a decree addressed to " our
well. beloved 'William Phelippe the hermit," that he and
the public might know wherefore. The King declared he
highly appreciated the motive which had induced the
hermit to benefit " our people passing through the high-
way between Heghgate and Smethfelde, in many places
notoriously miry and deep." And in order that the new
way might be maintained and kept in repair, the King
licensed the hermit to take toll, and keep the road in order
and himself !a comfort and dignity. This was the first
road-bar erected in England, and William Phelippe, the
hermit, was the father of that race of turnpike keepers
whose sovereignty of the roads within 50 miles of London
canoe to an end, after a reign of five centuries, on the
first day of the month of July of this present year, 1861.
A FIGIIT TN A CANAL.—Two boatmen, named
Samna? Ashley and Joseph Chambers, were charged
at Wolverhampton Police Court on Friday last, with being
drunk and disorderly under the following singular circum-
stances:—Police-constable Cooper, stationed at Wednes-
field, stated that on the previous afternoon, from information
received, he went to a branch of the canal near the Dog and
Partridge public house, Old Wednestleld, and there found
the defendants drunk and fighting, and from what he saw
they were apparently endeavouring to drown one another.
At the time he arrived at the spot both men were in the
water, trying which could held the othe&'a head longest
under the surface, and in in spite of 11;s (witness's) inter-
ference, as fast as they got out on to the bank, each dragged
the other back into the canal, both of them being encou-
raged in what they were doing
by the cheers and shouting
of a number of men and lads who were watching the pro-
ceedings with evident interest. At length one of the cem-
batants was thrown with great violence to the hottom of
canal boat that
lying alongside, from which he
received a severe wound on his left eye-brow, and was also
rendered insensible—the other man was likewise so com-
p!etely exhausted with his frequent immersions in the
water, that Cooper, fearing lest dangerous consequences
might ensue, at once procured a conveyance and brought
them to the police station at Wolverhampton, where he then
called in the assistance of Mr Delane, surgeon. Restora•
tives were administered to them, and their wet clothes
having been taken off, they were both wrapped up in blankets
and placed betore a fire, but in one case it was some time
before consciousness was restored. The defendants denied
that they were fighting, and said they were only wrestling,
and as they expressed themselves as being sorry for their
foolish conduct, Mr Spooner agreedto set them at liberty
on payment of 10s each to defray the expense of the surgeon
and the cart, The money was at once forthcoming,

SECON EDITI [O-7N.

Exchange on London, 52. Wet salted ox bides,
6 dols. 25 cents. ; dry American do., 5 dols. 5 cent.
dry German do,, 5 dols. 70 cent. to 5 dais. 90 cent.
Tallow, 180,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,