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

Liverpool 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 has continued dull, but at
steady rates, while superior descriptions of coffee
have maintained former quotations.
In 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
183: 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 fund ; 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,
flulm, 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 Frenadenblate 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 proces-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 bad been staying
a month.

Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right
Hon. Czachester Fortescue, M.P., have been entertaining
a select circle 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 tour year. From the evidence
it appeared that deceased was greatly frightened on Satur-
day fortnight in consequence cf 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 Rusaia is a
yellow tea, called " the flower of spring;" it pries is as
high as five pounds sterling for the pound weight, and the
Russian pound is less than ours.--Dickens "All the Year
Round," just published.
NEARLY Two MILES OF FIRE.—A portion of the
furze growing on Reston-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 flames continued 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 ale granted are stated. The parties are to be under
the surveillant 3 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 LIGLITNING.—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.—
Elgin Courier.
REVIEW AT WORMWOOD SCRlll33.—Yesterday
morning his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac•
companied by the Inspector-General of Cavalry and a bril-
lien staff, proceeded to Norwood 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 i 8 to
be made at the ensuing general election to recover another
of the seats for Norfolk to the Conservative party, the Hon.
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 ono 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 Esmokg, 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 wets
ashore at Yobourg. By this it is inferred that the lights
on the French coast must have been mistaken for the Eng--
lieh lights. The ship and cargo are largely insured. A
special agen was despatched to-night from Lloyd's Salvage
Association to the scene of the wreck, to protect the
in-
terests of the underwriters and merchants.
THE RECTORY OF ST. 13unIAN.--The Prince of
Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, has conferred the
Rectory of St. Burian, rendered vacant by the death of the
Hon. and Very Rev. Fitzroy Stanhope, M.A., formerly of
Trinity-hall, Cambridge, on the Rev. Thomas Borlase
Coulson, M.A., of Trinity College,ofCsamt. nt Danes,bcrsldegmee,formerly
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benefice metropolitan parish
worth about £l,OOO a year. It
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was formerly a deanery and a reculiar, Mr Stanhope having
Leen dean since 1819. In 1850 Lord Portman, on behalf
of the Princo of Walee, introduced into Parliament and
passed a bill providing for the abolition of the deanery and
the division of St. Burian into three distrcts—netnelyrSt.
Burian, St. Leven, and Sennen, Mr. Coulson will there-
fore not take the title of dean,

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 2.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. H. E. Maskew,
M.A., Chaplain of the Fourth Class, to be Chaplain of
the Third Class.

BANKRUPTS,

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im•
portance in the Gazette :
W. H. Truss, warehouseman, Carey-lane
George Knight, bootmaker, Notting-hill
John G. Kellow, tobacconist, Woolwich
Robert Tanner, grocer, Stratford
Percy Dando and John Chetwynd, shipbrokere, Leaden-
hall-street
John Reed, solicitor, Dulwich
William Hasted, butcher, Pimlico
George Clark, painter, Kennington-cross
John C. Decker, merchant, Regent's Park-road
James LoAet, cab proprietor, Coledonian-road
George Holland, cab proprietor, Caledonian-road
John Turner, builder, Hammersmith
John 'Watkins, traveller, Hackney
Edward Martell, grocer, Whitchurch, Southampton
Fred. Shepherd, printer, Caxton-h'•use, Islington