The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-27 00:00:00

NAVAL IN T ELLItiENCE.

Captain W. Richardson (1838) has been promoted
to the retired captains list of 18s. per diem, vice
Chapman, deceased.
The following officers received certificates on gun-
nery yesterday, on board the Excellent :—Messrs.
Perry, Hobson, Holder, Hay, Day, Douglas, and
Jackson. There were nine other candidates, six of
whom were turned back, and three held on until next
passing day.
Hound, Acting Commander Robert Hull, was mus-
tered an exercised in gunnery by Captain Martin,
C. 8., of the Victory, and Captain Chads, of the Ex-
cellent, yesterday morning, who went out to Spit-
head in the Fairy yacht for that purpose. The Hound
afterwards got under weigh, and proceeded for Ply-
mouth, where she will pay off.
FRENCH SCREW LINE•OF BATTLE
Charlemagne is expected shortly at Toulon. At
the last date she had quitted Messina on her way to
France. _

_
Letters from L'Orient state that the Mazargan and
Annibal, of 94 guns, are to be fitted out both as
steam and sailing vessels.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Prince Albert's birth-
day was celebrated at this port and garrison to-day in
the usual manner, by Royal salutes and the ships
dressing in honour of the anniversary. His Royal
Highness's standard was hoisted at the Dockyard,
and the Royal Standard on the other Government
establishments and forts, the King's-rooms, King's-
bastion, kc. The Royal Victoria Yacht Club, at
Ryde, and the " R.Y.S." battery, at Cowes, also fired
salutes, dec.
The Vivid steam-yacht, Master-Commander L.
Smithett, went to Cowes to-day to take in the travel-
ling equipages of the Duke and Duchess of Mecklen-
burg-Strelitz fur Dover, where they are expected to
embark this week for the continent.

The Beividera, 38, has been docked to-day to be
fitted as z receiving hulk.
The Cussidkaier Turkish yacht, having been re-
fitted for his Highness Said Pficha, was undocked to-
day..

The Simoom iron (screw) troop-ship, 16, Captain
Kingcome, got up steam this morning, atter an ex-
tensive refit, cud at seven o'clock proceeded out of
harbour to try her enginEs. She had not got out of
the harbour channel before it was perceived some-
thing had gone wrong again, and she, instead of
going to the measured mile at Stokes'-bay for trial,
went straight out to the Nab Light at St. Helen's.
and awaited the time of high water, when she made
her way back to harbour at a drifting pace.
The Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamilton, has "blue
peter" flying (6 p.m.), and will sail this evening for
Halifax.

SHEERNESS, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's screw
steam-sloop Miranda, 14, is ordered to proceed to
Leith
with stores, for conveyance from that port to
the East Indies for the use of her Majesty's steam-
sloop Malacca, on the stocks at Moulmein. Mr.
Pope, Assistant-Master-Attendant of the dockyard,
is to have charge of the Miranda, and navigate her
to Scotland, assisted by the second master of the
Monarch, 84, guard-ship of the ordinary. A party
of marines and riggers from the dockyard are to be
placed on board. Mr. W. J. Hamilton, M.D., As-
sistant-Surgeon of the Monarch, goes in the Miranda
as medical officer. She commenced taking in the
stores on Tuesday, and will start on her voyage to
the north either on Saturday or Monday next. Having
disembarked the stores at Leith, the Miranda will re-
turn here to be fitted as one of the advanced steam
situadron of reserve.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-vessel Wildfire,
Mr. Brockman, second-master, commanding, was dis-
patched yesterday forenoon to Chatham, with some
officers ordered to be present at a survey on invalids
at Melville Hospital. The Wildfire returned into
harbour in the afternoon.
Her Majesty's brig Bittern, 12, Commander the
Hon. G. Douglas, hoisted the pendant yesterday.
Her Majesty's brig Daring, 12, has been commis-
sioned at Chatham by Commander H. J. Lacon.
A portion of the Royal Dockyard Brigade was
practised yesterday in the great gun exercise, firing
shot and shell at a target moored off the Little
Nore.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICII, AUG. 26.—Surgeon—Patrick Slevin
(1851), to the Daring, 12, steam-sloop, at Chatham,
for service on the North America and West India
station.
Mate—Arthur J. Grey' (1850), from the Bellero-
phon, 78, on the Mediterranean station, to the Excel-
lent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth.
Assistant Surgeons—Richard Ratcliffe (1852), to
the Daring; W. V. E. Reynolds (1849), from the
Terrible steam-frigate, on the Mediterranean station,
to the Niger steam-sloop at Portsmouth.
Second Master—William J. Piddell (1849), from
the Castor flag-ship on the Cape of Good Hope
station, to the Trident, for service on the Brazil
station.

Naval Instructor—The Rev. J. E. Meredith, to the
Meander, 44, at Chatham, for service on the Cape of
Good Hope station.
Gunner—John Goldie, to the Niger.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Ointment and
Pills, a certain Cure for Scurvy, Leprosy, Scrofula, and all
Diseases of the Skin.—The heaviness, weariness, and dejection
of spirits and other oppressions usually attendant on those wlr
suffer from diseases of the skin, are speedily removed by the
use of Holloway's Ointment and Pills. The efficacy. of th.es
medicines, in correcting the bad habit of body, and In.
unrivalled
complaints of the class above mentioned, stand
and in many places abroad, where the malady is sitr prgrievvoltnhe,
the cures are wonderful. The purifying the skin,
Pills, and the peculiar effect the Ointment has it Drug-
Sold by a.
properone I
render them superior to any other remedy.— t, 24, Strand,
gists and at Professor Holloway's Establishmen
London.
BROMPTON GROVES.
open spaces to a great and TroWwdeedanirio adjoining or of
pknunla7tVlofn,tbhuet :cal di value
not o f
always keep in view the vast impotageo
ardens, parks, in not
intermingling vegetation, as of trees,
only absorbing the foul or usetd-cPrP d population, but in
adier
_(carbonic acid) ex-
pelled from the lungs of that ow
2eeepfir:ge oxygen or vital air
recruiting the atmosphere wi. . these most iinpor-
which they ought tubeeathe.
running in between in-
importance of the vegetation and the
tent facts in view, h
open space of such a gore or gushet,
habited districts towards the centre of population, as the
groves and vales of Old 13rompton constitute, cannot be ex-
possible to prevent the choking up of
aggerated.
.ifurnel with brick and mortar. Should not
this breathini;
the Governmentpurchase the property, were it but for a foul-
air consumer and an oxygen manufactory, wherewith to re-
fresh the millions of the metropolis? Might they not do so,
bile at the same time erecting their proposed National Gal-
lery in the midst of it, and converting it into pleasure-
gardens for the people ? It closely adjoins the very site
already pointed out as the most eligible for the Gallery—
namely, the vicinity of Kensington-palace. I have a linger-
ing hope that something or other of this sort may yet be
done ere it be tee Wee... Correspondent of the Nsilder.

THE COUN'iltY liltAltii.ETS,
BRISTeIe AUG. 26.—For some days we have had
harvest almost
uninterrupted dry and favourable weather for
ha o,eeraticns; hence sales of wheat have been very
EnTlidl
is
' at about 1s per quarter on foreign lower.
new, 46s to 521 p,r imperial quarter;
white, 463 to 523 per 480ib; ditto, red, extra fine quail.
ties, 44s to 48s per ditto; ditto, fine quality, 40s to 43i
foreign
per ditto; ditto, ordinary ditto, 383 to 403 per ditto;
ditto hard, 37s 6d to 403 per ditto. Flour at about ls
per sack cheaper; English seconds, 321 to 345 per sack;
foreign, 22s to 23s 6d per barrel. Barley was in
demand; better
English and foreign grinding, 25s to 26s per
4001 b. Oats—There was a greater call for oats. Devon
and Welch, 17s to 18s per imperial quarter; Irish white,
17s 6d per 3201 b; ditto, black, 16s 6d to 173 per lin'
penal quarter. Beans, English, 34s to 38s per imperial
quarter; foreign, 28s to 34s per 4801 b. The arrivals of
the week have been—wheat, 1,044 quarters; oats' 92
barrels 461 quarters; barley, 627 barrels 4 quarters;
flour, 4,120 barrels. Averages—Wheat 473 sd; oats,
17s
8d;
barley, 2' ai; beans, 43.
Buo4INGITAM, AuG. 26.—At Gloucester and WO-
cester markets, on tho 21st, the wheat trade ruled dull,
at the currency of that day se'nnight, for all except the
e
finest rod and white English wheats, which were 1s
2e per quarter dater. Barley is more in &BIRO, but
unalt( red in vain . Oats maintained their valu.•
preens
ns
and peas Is per quarter denrer. Daring the
week, the weather having (with the exception ef a (0.0
light showers) been fine, the transactions reperted'lll
wheat are at a decline of Is to '3l per quarter. t:trieY
only taken in retail. Considerable parcels of oats ha"
changed hands, at fully grevious lutes. Beans aod plat
both a good deal inquired for, and tending tiPwords' r b
this day's market there was a large supplY of f;ogas t
wheat, and no progress could be made in sales withou
submitting to a reduction of 2s per quarter. Batley Do"
altered in value, with less doing. On oats the turn fa!
in favour of the buyer. Beans and peas are both of
and higher. The millers lowered the retail price ()filo"
3s 4d per sack. had
GLASGOW, AUG. 25.—Since last week we have .
five succeeding days of brilliant dry weather, doll
which harvest work has wade rapid progress; for
.tF,,
last two days some light showers have fallen inilo,,,
vicinity. The supplies, both coastwise and Iron Ire a;
have been trifling; from abroad none have urn
have
ported vid the Clyde; by way of Grangemouth 4.a'-__'..
quarters of wheat have been received from the contiD3ol_,
The sale during the week was chiefly for consuroßti,!es
dealers evincing little anxiety to get into stock. rf'_!' 0
underwent no quotable change. This day's market 7.0.
thinly attended; the demand was slow, and, to maker°,
gres° in any article, a slight reduction would have De
required to be submitted to.
DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, AUG. 24. One market
__A
to-day was again but moderately supplied with fat beasots, and
those were of the second-class quality, yet readily disp :Lin,
le number of sheep was not large, and high 101,, od
asked for them, hut a clearance was easily effected. .''" lies
store lambs were more plentiful. The supply of fat calves
was large. Pat pigs were more plentiful, and were 1° Id to
request. Beef, 40 to scl;. mutton, 40 to 50 ;
lainib SCOT°.
60 ; veal, 4d6 to 5d per lb ; pigs 7s Od tc, 7s 3d per ~_
Rough fat, 3s 6d per stone of 141b5. Hides, lid to pd per 11) i
calf skins. 2d to 3d per lb. e.,4,4 00a W
UPFINGHAM, AUG. 25..--Wheat 40s to 475; .....-., ~..14
00s Od ; oats 22s to 265; beans 34s to 37s per qr'
Butter lei
to Ild per lb ; eggs 20 or ls. 305;
LOUTH, AUG. 25.—Wheat 403 to 44s barley 26s
LOUTH,
oats 17s to 19s; beans 27s to 31s per qr. bite 00
BOSTON, Aua. 25.—Wheat, red 070 to 42s Otl, w 175 to
to 445, superfine 46s to 00s • barley 00s to
cos; oata,
20s; beans 31s to 345; peas 00s to t Os per qr 4.5"
. to
MELTON MOWBRAY, Aust. 24.---Wheat, old 425 Od 2Q.,
new, 38s to 425; barley, old 255 to 30s ; new 265
to
ter i•Ti
oats, 18s to 24s ; beans, old 33s to 36s per qr.
Bat
to 13d per lb ; eggs 18 to 20 for Is, 440, ll°
I%lxvittax, Ann. Wheat, old white 44s to ,' net
42s to 44s old red 413 to 445, new 405 to 425; bariaY'new,
28s to 30s, old 24s to 255; oats, old, 24st, 24s to 26: 365;
22st, 18s to 20s; beans, 31s Od to 38s ; peas, 340 t
tares, 00s to nOs • malt, 56s to 60s per qr. 465 t°
LYNN, AUG. '24.—Wheat 36s to 40s Od• fine loos.
48s; barley 00s to 00s, fine lOs to 00s; oats 005 t areet
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, AUG. 2 The to ttf
were pre
was well supplied with grain to-day, and sales e
vi _ a
readily effected. Prices down, except barley. Thor
the al
top
good deal of new wheat and barley sld. Wheat 00 lei on
same as last day, and the averag eels 6d down. Batt!, to
the top 6d up, and the average Is 2d. Oats 011 w, ° 9d•
Is 4d, and the average ld down. Beans on the le
bParley•
and the average 7d down. Unsold, 108 qrs wheat, 1
63 qrs oats, and 2 qrs beans.Od
Top of Wheat ... ••• ••• 65iib, 473 „ ,
~ Barley 57 lb. 30s 13.,111
~ Oats ... ... ~. .. lb. 21s gd
~ Beans •• ••• ••• eeilb. 3,,,,h° ober
EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, Aye. `25.--'"e °me to
of cattle was 261, or 84 fewer than last week. Extre .i,
price, 7s ed ; current, 7s Od; secondary and inferior,
effe7Ao,
to 6s 6d per Dutch stone. A good clearance was inn VW
The number of sheep and lambs at market this meow' ado,
4,595, being 82t fewer than last week. Best wedder. s
to od,
top price, 5-0 per lb; current, 40 to 5d ; inferior, 4°
IS, from
Lambs from 10s to 22s Od a head; black-faced Islnff cod.
7s to Ns a head. At the close a clearance was not e e
CORK, AUG. 25.

Currensi, 003
Barrels.
10 White wheat 21s Od to 00s Od
32 Red wheat l9a Od to 20s 6d
00m Od-
-32 do
0 Ditto oos Od to 00s Od
O Ditto
0 Barley oos Od-20 s
Os Od to Od Od-o`j de
O Ditto OOl Od to 00s Od} ON v ,
0 Ditto ...... Os Od to 005 Otl
000 Od
14 Bere... .....- 10s Od to 10s 4sl
145 Oats Bs 2d to 9s Ocl gg OA 9JO
221 Ditto ..-
O Ditto
O Pigs. s Od to 005 Od WI '
Quantityo sold at the Highest Priees:-- 46 ostii
0 barrels white wheat ; 7 red ; 0 barley; 8 We'
0 pigs.
ntity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last *leis g.°
,qua
Wheat, 44. Barley, 0. Oats, 2,147. Piil6oo.
PRICES OF BUTTER.
First qualityCANT. cunsiturf• 65,
72s First quality ... ......... 060
Second unlit
Third quality
. Y 69a Second quality ............ 551
Fourth quality • 64s Third quality ............... ‘3l
Fifth quality
Sixth quality 42s Sixth quality ......... .:(i.
Return of Cattle sold for week ending Aug. .
Pigs, 325. Sheep, 5.90. CoWs( 513' 14, 66;
503 Fifth quality ............. ....
v_di
Com—Florv—First 121 6d to 13s 6d ; extras 7, 091
seconds, 11s to 12s 6d ; households 9s to 11s Od ; dur,;. wbellP
per cwt. Oatmeal 108 3d to 00e; Indian meal 78 to
to 7s n",,,, tog,
meal, 9,6 d to 108 per cwt. Indian cornGllso to 12 y.,eogs
Bran 72s 6d to 758 per ton. Hay—Farmers 15s Od to 251100
Sot id
a 7°6- - -rt.(44, 01 :
00s; dealers 35s On to 35.; average ON per :21;
17s 0(1 to 249 Od; average 00a; dealers
average 00s Od Far ton. Bread—Wheaten I°if ga 14
household loaf 5(1 to 03 per 41b. Fresh butteroc
j 0..•
10c1 per lb. Eggc —45 Od to 4s `27. per hundrnedg,', Cast,
Newport 14s Od ; Lyeney Mg ; Lrldore ."' ,„,, OP;
12, 6d per ton. Tallow 59s Od to 01„ ' 16"
Whisky, 25 0. p., 54 9d pc: imperial ti
vet
41 to
—Beef 40 to 7d; mutton 5(1 to 60; vellih. Wl°
7d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d P 0,1::;.. tau
St Ss to 910 s per cwt. Bangor slates .t,/ 17s 6d to 3‘ v",,,.`3't.08:1
Bark, red 71 to 8110 s per ton. Fleece wooll6s to 006 P7;5:: irs"
Hemp 291 to 341 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 1601° "it/ ,
ditto, 24s to ON per barrel ; Newfoundlrid, 1010 s W "dig
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine, 318° Vase"
ditto, 3/ lbs per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per loo' Clif 'le
Market 20s to 28s; salted 21s to 303 per cWS :, A t pia'
11
3d to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 5d to 71"'
O
P
Sid to 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 101 101 to 11/ per °in'
Archangel, 19s per barreL
---.—.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKD J,.
LIVERPOOL, Ava. 26.
STOCK EXCHANOK.—The business done to-day wasillnwiteerj'e
but prices had an uward tendency. The transactiV
_,,;,.6
as follow:—Caledonian, 201,4—Lancashire and y rPP,2/
8114—Ditto, Fifths, 4 dis.—Condon and North-Viresterr9:l6
—Mancbeater, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire, 29—Yfictieno ~.....
(B),
and Dover,"
MANCHESTisg, Aua. 26. oust Of
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tbere was an average atue 00d.
business done to-day, and prices were pretty well llst`fels
_Th transactions were as follow :—Blackburn (1091)',..',9---
DiEttase,teFrinichCeo,u4nitities 11—Lancas1 're and Yorkshim °1,:9199
di: —London and North-Western, w 7.....
cheater and Birmin3tham (C), Quarters, 1 15-1:6 rin' Piol.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshir, Wl—ll:gau,
_Klfvehrietnechea,vle2n—aDnditt,oF,uNrr:ewss,6l7.. Preference, 9s 2l 'l6
riti % —North British 73,4 —South-Btern and Dover,
BIRMINGHA.g, AUG. 26. wore 0811
STOCK EXCHANGE.--There was a fair, if n°t
today' end
an average amount of business done goshgen,,esterciaY'ii
in some instances there was a slight ae nn°- - ta 101-
ugha 9. Lb_
prices. The transaction reported were--13 so Ivor
Birminghamve rh
Western,am p t
Fifths,on ,
(aAn 5t0ur:1,595418 _8 sm. V9i
ddai.
ell.
2e ysd
09 st :,rtollicl 51 46 7-13 SI; ewsb u r y and
CAUTION TO PUTTY —AICI3II-• e n
ment of the lure, were surpr9se
woman named Perron, f Saint Georges-sur- .9 r. _d
' o 1 d 6 d her dead in he De,
J'-
rr•
_______.,,_____..--!„
.....sTtbag-oraesibizEihruejeosu-dirse6po:fris.ta,
t o n
three mornings ago. The judicial authori
d
diately called in, and it was believed that she ba , t was
dered ; but on a medical examination of the ho9' '_,..„4,c;
found that she bad (Led of congestion of the brash' ct
ties Veenne
by taking snuff to excess.— Gafignani.
------------
------- -

---"---------____ _—_
BIRTH&
or A SON. anSt:4lB-
st., the Hon. Mrs. Parnell, of nil
On the 25th in
horcbt
squOanre'the 24th inst., at Bordesley-park, near Alirec
Worcestershire, the lady of R. Hemming, Esq.
OF A DAUGHTISR. IA iatst.'
Si Westport Barracks, county of Mayo. on the
2 0
'the wife of Captain Kenneth Mackenzie." The Boff3' tba
On the 25th inst, at Montague-place, Russell-square,
wife of F. J. Hensley, Esq., M.D. _______--------
---
MARRIED.
On the 9th inst., at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, derict
Fre OM'
Symons, Esq., of 5, Charing-cross, to Charlotte SaraNlitf•
daughter of George Wells, Esq., Paymaster at the Adinjobert,
On the 10th inst., at Bromsgrove, the Rev% John ctor 0'
Davison, eldest son of the late Rev. J. Davison, re
_, the
Upton-upon-Severn, to Elizabeth Jane, only daughter no,
Rev. W. Villers, vicar of Bromsgrove; and at the safe_i;joi,
John B. B. Hankey, Esq., fourth son of John B. 1,1„!belle,
Esq., of Fetcham-park, Surrey, to Elizabeth4;to.
youngest daughter of the late Bolton Peel, Esq.- ot ""
lodge, Warwickshire,
'/

DIED.
urze,
On the 24th
ton, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Irby, aged 64.
liill' .a°l
tLih,ie, 231 inst., at Victoria-road, Holloway,
On
Aster
F ci. g
On the 23d inst., at Burford, near Tenbury, Ilarriet,
of George Bushuut, M.P. ~....nott
On the 22d lust., Es Blackheath, Caroline Lilo.
youngest daughter of the late C. B. Parker, Esq.,
,aged
At Cheltenham, on the 23d inst., W. Poubsett, .bs(l.
On the 23d inst., M. Watts, Esq., of Richmond, SurreP_A,
On the 26th inst., Mr. J. W. Allen, the celebrated I%
scape painter, at his house in the Lower Mall Llainniereu2
suddenly, of disease of the heart, aged 49.
—...----,_5--2!--- ___----- of
London: Printed arid Published by WIRD° YOLJP 112,
No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Na of
Strand, in the Precinct of th
1e Savoy, in ate °°"'—
raiddielex, Friday, Alusuat 27, 652.
•