The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

IdveiTool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market opens quiet, with rather easier prices
than those of Friday last. Sales, about 4,000
bales.

During the last few days there has been very
little activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. Sugars have in some instances been
rather cheaper. Tea hes continued dull, but at
steady rates, while superior descriptions cf coffee
have maintained former quotations.
I❑ rice, fruit, and saltpetre there has been no
change, while tallow has continued at steady rates
for both present and forward delivery.
The half-yearly meeting took place to-day of the
Bank of Wales. Mr, Daniel in the chair. The
report submitted for adoption stated that the
balance-sheet showed that the gross profit for the
three months, including £1,115 7s. 3d. brought
forward from last account, amounted to £4,937
18s: 2d., and that after deducting salaries, rent, and
current expenses, there remained a balance of
£2,287 19s. The directors recommended that out
of this last-mentioned sum £1,584 2s. 4d. should be
appropriated to the payment of a dividend for the
last six months, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
free of income tax, upon all the shares of the com-
pany upon which £2O per share had been received;
that £5OO should be placed to the credit of a re.
serve find; and that the balance, £203 16s. Bd.,
should be carried to profit and loss new account.
On the 30th of June, the business of Messrs. Lock,
Hulm, and Co., of Pembroke and Tenby was trans-
ferred to this bank, and the directors had much
pleasure in stating that it was effected without the
loss of a single account, and that the business fully
realised their expectations as to its value and
importance.

The Frenzdenblatt of Vienna says :—" No report
was drawn up of the first sitting of the Conference,
and no secretary has been appointed, it is said, for
that purpose. The intention appears to be to draw
up only a final proees-verbal, or, perhaps, only
the treaty of peace. Baron Benner (Austria) will
be charged with that task."

Baron de Biegeleben, second plenipotentiary for
Austria at the Conference of London, has arrived in
Vienna from Trouville, where he had been staying
a month.

Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right
Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., have been entertaining
a select ciztlo at Strawberry Hill during the past week.

Lord and Lady Rokeby and the Hon. Miss
Montagu will leave Montagu House on Wednesday for
Hazelwood, Watford, Horts.

DEATH FROM FRlGHT.—Yesterday an inquest
was held in Mansfield-street, Kingsland-road, on the body
of Thomas Robinson, aged kur years. From the evidence
it appeared that deceased was greatly frightened on Satur-
day fortnight in consequence of a quarrel between his
mother and another woman, and was attacked with con-
vulsions of which he did on Thursday last. The jury re-
' turned a verdict in conformity with the evidence.
How TO MAKE TEA.—The Very best way to
extract the finest flavour from tea is to put a couple
of teaspoonfuls in a little silver strainer, hold it over the
teacup, and pour boiling water gently through it, with-
out the use of teapot at all. The same tea cannot be
used for two cups without losing in flavour. Milk
and cream are thought to injure the taste of the finest
sorts of tea, a few drops of orange or lemon-juice to im-
prove it. The costliest of the teas used in Russia is a
yellow tea, called " the flower of spring;" it price is as
high as five pounds sterling for the pound weight, and the
Russian pound is less than ours.—Dicken' s "All the Year
Round," just published.

NEARLY Two MILES OF FIRE.—A portion of the
furze growing on Keaton-common, near Bromley, Kent,
having been wilfully set on fire, it continued to burn in
patches, and the high wind of yesterday fanned the
smouldering fire so high that it caught other portions of the
common, and at length flames covering an area of nearly
two miles shot up into the air. So fearful did the scene
become that it was apprehended the flames might extend
to the Fox tavern, and also to some dwellinghouses. One
hundred men were employed to cut trenches so as to pre-
vent further mischief. The flameecontinued to rise through-
out the whole of the night, and there seemed no likelihood
of entirely extinguishing them during the present week.
THE NEW LAW ON "TICKETS OF LEAVE."—
The law on " tickets of leave" is amended by an
act (27 and 28 Viet., c. 47) just printed. No person is to
sentenced to penal servitude for a less period than five
years, and after a previous conviction the least period is to
be seven years. Justices, where authorised by the Secre-
tary of State, can order corporal punishment for offences
committed in convict prisons. With regard to tickets of
leave, which are called " licences" in the act, they are to
be in the form set forth, and the "conditions" on which
they ate granted are stated. The parties are to be under
the surveillant of the police, and to report themselves. On
any infraction the offenders are to be remitted to their former
custody, to undergo the unexpired sentence, in addition to
the one inflicted for a subsequent offence.
A LADY KILLED BY LlGHTNlNG.—Yesterday
afternoon a terrific thunderstorm passed over Inverness,
and we are deeply sorry to say proved fatal to a young lady.
Mrs. and Miss M'Cleay had been out some distance in the
country, and when crossing the wooden bridge over the
Ness, Miss M'Cleay was struck by lightning, and was
killed on the spot. Her mother who was beside her was
seriously injured, and was for a time insensible while the
shock. Miss M'Cleay was the daughter of the late Mr.
M'Cleay, factor to Sir James Mackenzie, Avoch, and was
much beloved for the many virtues that adorned her cha-
racter. Her untimely death as created a deep sensation in
Inverness, for such an occurrence has not happened in the
town within the recollection of the oldest people in it.
Elg in Courier.
REVIEW AT WORMWOOD SCRUBS.—Yesterday
morning his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac-
companied by the Inspector-General of Cavalry and a bril-
lian staff, proceeded to Worwood Scrubs, for the purpose of
making an inspection of troops, The regiments on the
ground were the Ist Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards
(Colonel Viscount Gough) and the 12th Lancers (Colonel
G. H Lockwood). The fineness of the morning drew to-
gether a vast number of persons, who witnessed the evolu-
tions of the troops with much interest.
CONSERVATISM IN NORFOLK.—An attempt is to
be made at the ensuing general election to recover another
of the seats for Norfolk to the Conservative party, the Bon.
H. Walpole having intimated his intention to appear as a
candidate for the eastern division in conjunction with Mr
E. Howes, M.P. In 1856 both the seats for the division
were held by the Whigs ; in 1859 one was recovered to the
Conservatives, and now an effort is to be made to oust
Lieut.-Col. the Hon, W. C. W. Coke, the Liberal sitting
member.
A fine ship, the Esmoke, 716 tons, homeward
bound, with a valuable cargo. from Calicut, was
lost this morning on the French coast, near Cherbourg. It
was blowing a gale at the time from the W.S.W., and she
was running up the Channel for London, when she went
ashore at Yobourg. By this it is inferred that the lights
on the French coast must have been mistaken for the Enz.-
lieh lights. The ship and cargo are largely insured. A
=pedal agen was despatched to-night from Lloyd's Salvage
Association to the scene of the wreck, to protect the in-
e
tercets of the underwriters and merchants.
THE RECTORY OF ST. BfIRIAN.--T. h Prince of
M.A., formerly of
Wales, us Duke of Cornwall, has conferred the
Rectory of St. Burian, reniered vacant by the death of the
roy Stthanehß°Peev'. Thomas Borlase
THroinn
tayn.
hall
Verye
Cambridge,
dFgi
etz,
Coulson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly
curate of the metropolitan parish of Ste Clement Danes,
Strand. The benefice is worth about £l,OOO a year. It
seas formerly a deanery and a peculiar, Mr Stanhope having
teen dean since 1819. In 1850 Lord Portman, on behalf
A the Prince of Wales, introduced into Parliament and
passed a bill providing for the abolition of the deanery and
he division of St. Burian into three distrets—namely,'St.
durian, bt. Leven, and Sennen. Mr, Coulon will there-
:ore not take the title of dean.