The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, July 23.
Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High*
news Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Loupe
walked and drove in the grounds.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse and Princess Leiningen, attended by
the Hon. Mrs. Brace, Major• General Seymour, and
Captain von Westorweller, visited the prison for
females at Parkhurst.

July 24.
The Queen accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday.

Major-General Saymour was in attendance.
His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse and
his Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia went
in the Fairy, attended by Baroness Dobeneas
Baroness de Granny, and Capt. von %Vesterweller•
The Earl of Clarendon arrived on a visit, and bad
the honour of dining with her Majesty and the
Royal
Divine service was performed to-day at Osborn°
by the Rev. G. Prothero.
The Queen and royal family attended by the
household, were present.

Her Royal H?ghness Princess Helena is on'
valesccnt.

The Right Hon, Sir E. B. Lytton is now staying
at the York Hotel, Margate.

The Profits of Blockade-running,

The West India and Pacific Company's steamer
Saladin, arrived at Liverpool, has, by a casual call
at Hamilton, brought much later information from
Bermuda than that previously received. The sr'
rivals from blockaded ports have been large, being
steamers Index (Marshall), from Wilmington, with
803 bales of cotton and 203 boxes of tobacco; Av..
lanta (Horner), from Wilmington, with 536 bales
cotton, 155 half tierces and 527 boxes tobacco;
Mary Celeste (Ursine), also from Wilmington, with
594 bales cotton and four barrels turpentine'
and City of Petersburg (Fuller), also from
mingbn, with 810 bales of cotton and 32 hoses
of tobacco. The " fleet" had been augmented
by the arrival of the new steamers Little Hattie§
from Glasgow, and Virgin, from Cardiff. The
steamers Lynx and Virgin had sailed from Nassau
en route for Wilmington. The steamer Fannie had
arrived with a full cargo from Nassau, and reported
that yellow fever had broken out at Nassau, and
stringent sanitary regulations were in force.
Blockade runners from Nassau were compelled to
ride quarantine at Wilmington. Anxiety was fell
at Bermuda as to its reaching there, but up to the
15th June no cases had come to light. The Fannie
had been the only arrival from Nassau. Perhaps it
would be interesting to our readers, and aproPes
under this heading, to glance at the following die:
bursement account as an example of the profits of
blonkade running. It is guaranteed as the copy 4)f
a bona fide account:—
One captain per month 5,000 (1015'
First officer
Second officer
Third officer l6O
One boatswain l6O
One carpenter
One purser
One steward l5O
Three assistants .. 180
One cook
Two assistants
One engineer and three assistants 3,500
Twelve firemen and coalheavers 2,400
240 tons of coal
Rations for crew
Oil, tallow, and packing ..
Stevedores
Pilotage out and in
insurance 3,500
Wear and tear
Incidental expenses
Interest 875
Risks (25 per cent) 37,500
Provisions for passengers 3,000

80,26 a dols.
Against this enormous expenditure we have on the credit
side the following as the earnings :-
800 bake of cotton for Government 40,000 dots'
800 bales of cotton for owners
Return freight for Government
Return freight for owners
Passengers

d°'
172,000 114 .f
Which will leave a monthly profit of 21,735 dole.; and
successful will, in five trips, clear the cost of the stcsoler
Liverpool Courier,

GREAT FIRE AT -WRIGHT'S DISTILLERY.--AbO nt
six o clock this (Monday) morning the inhabita nt°,
of Aldersgate-street were thrown into a frightfi!
state of excitement owing to the sudden outbreak of at e"'
tensive conflagration in the well-known distillery beloar
ing to Messrs. John Reid Wright and Co., carrying' en
business at No. 26, in the before-named theroughl'ar,
The building, or rather buildings, forming the prow
cover an immense space of ground, and formed three eiciAe:
of a square, the counting-houses being on the north Al`""
of the yard, The flames commenced in the still-house, '—
the north side of the buildings, in the following manner'''
f
Whilst the men were at work they dropped a
quantity 0
spirits on the floor, and whilst mopping the same up, tile?
trod upon a lucifer match or fusee, which, igniting, set
t—°
spirits in a blaze. The men tried all they could to e%tin°
guish the fire but without success, and owing to the 10°'111/9*
able nature of the stock the flames speedily took a eWts
round the distillery, so that at one time it was feared 1,1'02
the whole plant would have been destroyed. Theilaud ta cob
engines by Shand and Mason, the Princess 110Yal hio
Roberts, and nearly a dozen manual power engines of
London brigade under the prsonal superintendence of C " 0
Shaw and foreman Bridges, J. Gerrard, and other officier
attended in the course of a few minutes. ForMnat
Weston the turncook, was on the beat at the time, ands 36"
Mr. Sheppard, the foreman to the New:River Company,c ons:
sequently not a moment was lost in obtaining enooP
_water from the mains to supply the whole of the e ogi 13e::
and it soon became manifest that the firemen would.
able to save many thousand pounds worth of pt 013°1tue;
which at first was greatly endangered. By noon the flu
were entirely extinguished, but the roof of the di stillel
was burned off, a great portion of the spirits d esttoy 0)474
the machinery damaged. The storehouses and sever al vot
the vats were saved, so that the business of the grin
be retarded to a serious extent. The counting '4louse 11.

much damaged, but the books were all saved.
Un
An Englishman named Harper, aged 2:3, Vias
Saturday tried by the Tribunal of Cor rtectiolle
,'
Police on a charge of picking a lady's pocket of he r Pilf:,,
containing 105 francs. A police agent stated the ton t''''
25th April last he was on duty at the Northern It ',lii,lvit4,l
station, when ho perceived the prisoner with another Phile';
lishman trying the pockets of several persons, but
committed no act glaring enough for him to take th 0112 iji-t,
custody, and he saw them afterwards leave by th 0 tr-he
as he supposed, for England. Three days attewe ids
.-
was was surprised at seeing the prisoner near the cl'oble
bus station of the Tour Saint Jacques, an 1 the
served him carrying on the same manoeuvres anew
iei
lg. ,et
crowd assembled there. The prisoner afterwards %%1.,
to the Palais Royal station, where he recommence $(1 '-
operations, and at that place the policeman. caught Llir° ilo
flagranic delicto, and arrested him. The, prieonert Asfee
stated that he did not understand a word of French, h 0 hie
interpreter assigned him, and in his defend 3 said that 70
object in moving about among the crowd at the Tour 31tr,
Jacques and the Palais Royal was to find ain omnibus, re
take him to the Madeline. He admitted tea t when 10,'°41
the Commissary of Police he had confuse d that 110 4-0
made attempts to pick the pockets of some e tersonsf bti.:o.
declared that nothing was then said about that rubbery "4-1,0
which he was now charged. He said that wl to aho left hie
Northern Station he only went as far as Chan t; Ily witb "110
companion, and returned to Paris the next day... .I h° e/e1:11,0%-
who had lost the purse having positively identi fled tl 'fired
saner, he was condemned to five years' impriso, sEacil,l,.
to afterwards remain under the surveillance of th 0 P' n 1
'....
A WITTY SAYING (authorship UnkiloWn'i re
Most of the shadows that cross our path throughlifo
caused by standinz in our own light. n i 09
A CAPITAL ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON A' -T,' is
THE LATE LORD ELGIN.—" After all," said "-°.,,tiot
Napoleon, Emperor of the French, to Lord Elgin, s. c 0
and Viceroy Elect, " I think I have done something 6.; d,
1 saw you in London. Russia defeated, 'tall been
Paris rebuilt, the Revolution bridlked, something l'at3 -tech-
accomplished ." "Your Majesty,"—said the polite sotala
man,—we tell the story (says the ,spectator) as it W.° 00
to uc, the scene was dinner at St. Cloud,—“ eergete
tua
greatest of your aehievements." "Eh! what is that; a
greatest?" "Your Majesty has made of the 13g11.5
military nation, R
nacti,oEn,;
IFICtiTES. In the year entloaAtbteo
31st March, the duty cn game certis catci amounts,.
2130,102,