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-
ness Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise
walked and drove in the grounds.
Their Royal FPghnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse and Princess Leiningen, attended by
the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Major-General Seymour, and
captain von Westerweller, visited the prison for
females at Parkhurst.

July 24.
The Queen accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Louis cr Hesse, drove cut yesterday.
Mejor-General Seymour was in attendance.
His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse and
his Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia went
i a the Fairy, attended by Baroness Dobeneck,
Baroness to Grapey, and Capt. von Westerweller.
The Earl of Clarendon arrived on a visit, and had
the honour of dining with her Majesty and the
Itoyal family.

Divine service was performed to-day at Oeborne
by the Rev. G. Prothero.
The Queen and royal family attended by the
household, were present.

Her Royal Highness Princess Helena is con-
valescent.

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

The Profits of Blockade-running,

The Wcst India end 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 ar4
rivals from blockaded ports have been large, being
steamers Index (Marshall), from Wilmington, with
803 bales of cotton end 203 boxes of tobacco; Ate'
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 Wil-
mington, with 810 bales of cotton and 32 bores
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 frcm Nassau were compelled to
ride quarantine at Wilmington. Anxiety was felt
at Bermuda as to its reaching there, but up to the
15th Jane no cases had come to light. The Fannie
had been the only arrival from Nassau. Perhaps it
would be interesting to our readers, and apropos
under this heading, to glance at the following disk
bursement account as an example of the profits of
blockade running. It is guaranteed as the copy of
a bona fide account:--
' One captain per mouth 5,000 dole.
First officer
Second officer
Third officer — 160
One boatswain — 160
One carpenter
One purser
One steward . 150
Three assistants
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 4,250
Incidental expenses
Interest....
Risks (25 per cent)
Provisions for passengers..

80,265 dole.
Against this enormous expenditure we have on the credit
side the following as the earnings :-
800 bales of cotton for Government 40,000 dohs.
800 bales of cotton for owners
Return freight for Government
Return freight for owners 40,000
Passengers

172,000 dole.
Which will leave a monthly profit of 21,735 dols.; and if
successful will, in five trips, clear the cost of the steamer I
Liverpool Courier,

GREAT FIRE AT WRIGHT'S DISTILLERY.—About
six o clock this (Monday) morning the inhabitants
of Aldersgate-street were thrown into a frightful
state of excitement owing to the sudden outbreak of an elt•
tensive conflagration in the well-known distillery belong-
ing to Messrs. John Reid Wright and Co., carrying ell
business at No. 26, in the before-named thoroughfare.
The building, or rather buildings, forming the premise°
cover an immense space of ground, and formed three sides
of a square, the counting-houses being on the north side
of the yard, The flames commenced in the still-house, en
the north side of the buildings, in the following manner:
Whilst the men were at work they dropped a quantity of
spirits on the floor, and whilst mopping the same up, they
trod upon a lucifer match or fusee, which, igniting, set the
spirits in a blaze. The men tried all they could to etine'
guish the fire but without success, and owing to the inflow'
able nature of the stock the flames speedily tcok a sweep
round the distillery, so that at ono time it was feared 1114 t
the whole plant would have been destroyed. The.land steam
engines by Shand and Mason, the Princess Royal 11
Roberts, and nearly a dozen manual power engines of the
London brigade under the prsonal superintendence of Capt.
Shaw and foreman Bridges, J. Gerrard, and other officers
attended in the course ot a few minutes. Fortunately
Weston the turncock, was on the beat at the time, and also
Mr. Sheppard, the foreman to the New:River Company,con-
sequently not a moment was lost in obtaining enough
water from the mains to supply the whole of the engines)
and it soon became manifest that the firemen would be
able to save many thousand pounds worth of property,
which at first was greatly endangered. By noon the flames
were entirely extinguished, but the roof of the distillery
was burned off, a great portion of the spirits destroy ed, and
the machinery damaged. The storehouses and several of
the vats were saved, so that the business of the firm
will not
bo retarded to a serious extent. The countinghouse wag
much damaged, but the books were all saved.
An Engl
- ishman named Harper, aged 23, Was
Saturday tried by the Tribunal of Correctstcsist,
Police on a charge ot picking a lady's pocket of her purse,
containing 105 francs. A police agent stated that oil
th
25th April last he was on duty at tho liorthern:Railwal
station, when he perceived the prisoner with another- .-Enr
' Hellman trying the pockets of several persons, but they
committed no act glaring enough for him to take thet u into
custody, and he saw them afterwards leave by the trait!:
as he supposed, for England. Three days attewa.
was surprised at seeing the prisoner near the 00,1'
bus station of the Tour Saint Jacques, and. °,11;
served him carrying on the same manoeuvres arnons
crowd assembled there. The prisoner afterwards 'llcl3-0
to the Palais Royal station, where he recommenceet ,
operations, and at that place the policeman caught bile to
fiagrantc delicto, and arrested him. The prisoner,
stated that he did not understand a word of French,
interpreter assigned him, and in his defence said that •lis
object in moving about among the crowd at the 'l
object
Jacques and the Palais Royal was to find an omnibus t ro
take him to the Madeline. He admitted that when bo° a
the Commissary of Police he had confessed that he
made attempts to pick the pockets of some persons, but;
declared that nothing was then said about the robbery 1111,6
which he was now charged, He said that when he left t.'`.6
Northern Station he only went as far as Chantilly With
ala
companion, and returned to Paris the next day. The te°;i,
who had lost the purse having positively identified the ca
soner, ho was condemned to five years' imprisonment'
to afterwards remain under the surveillance of the police,:„..
A WITTY SAYING (Authorship Unkuowo'ito
Most of the shadows that cross our path through life

caused by standing in our own light. -
TIT ND
A CAPITAL ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON A."*„.'4,05
THE LATE LORD ELGIN.—" After all," said .1-'°":,t
Napoleon, Emperor uf the French, to Lord Elgin,
al 1 Viceroy Elect, "I thiuk I have done something 6jj'a
saw you in London, Russia defeated, Italy levi c
s'el
Paris 's
rebuilt, the Revolution bridled, something hr'sh
—e-
accomplished." "Your Majesty,"—said the polite scotcti
too
man,—wo tell the story (says the Spectator) as it wassthe
to us, the scene was dinner at St. Cloud,—" forgets
110
-•the
greatest of your achievements." "Eh I what is that,
greatest ?" "Your Majesty has made of the English
military nation,"
GAME CERTIFICATES.--in the year enue tO
31st March, the duty cu game certificates “1110/2'"l-
- Z 1.35,462,