The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-19 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Sales, 7,000 bales or more. Holders ask 2
advance in consequence of the news from America.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—At ten o'clock this morning
the sun shone out most brilliantly at Sydenham. The
Crystal Palace grounds, with the varied vegetation of rare
trees and plants, partly covered with snow, presented the
most beautiful aspect. The bright Italian sky lit the
palace itself in the brightest relief. Not a particle of
snow remained on the roof cf the palace. The tempera-
ture maintained within the building being sufficient to
melt it as it fell on the glass. During Saturday night the
thermometer outside registered 13 degrees of frost ; last
night it did not descend more than 5 degrees below the
freezing point. Within the palace, by means of the fifty
miles of hot water apparatus, the temperature maintained
was comfortably warm; about 55 degrees, the temperate
paint of Fahrenheit.
• THE CHIDWELL HEATH MURDER.—The :sheriff
of Essex has appointed Wednesday, the 28th inst., for the
execution of Francis Wane, who was convicted at the late
assizes for that county of the murder of a woman named
.Emily Blunt, with whom he had formerly cohabited. It is
already known that the prisoner has confessed his crime.
He has since made various statements confirmatory of the
evidence adduced at the trial. The prisoner exhibits a
lamentable state of ignorance, and is unable to write or
read.

Lord and Lady Bloomfield will leave Wimpole
Hall, Cambridgeshire, to-day, where they hava been visit-
ing the Earl and Countess of liardyneke to visit Mr and
Lady Elizsbeth Adeane at their seat in the same county.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BLACKHEATH.—
The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men
killed by the collision in the tunnel near Blackheath, was
opened this afternoon, but the Procoediugs consisted chiefly
of identifying the bodies. The inquiry was adjourned.
General Thomas Francis Meagher has repotted
for duty to General Steedman, at Chattanooga, and the
" Gazette," of that place, says he " has been assigned to
the command of a provisional division, composed of troops
from the various 'corps, who, from whatever cause, did not
aceompany Sherman.
PERSONAL COURAGE OF THE FRENCH EA!.
PEROR.—On the fourth night after the coup d'etat,
my daughter and myself were present at a ball, given by
the Duchess of Hamilton, in honour of the Prince Presi-
dent, at the Hotel Bristol, Place Vendome. At ten o'clock
precisely, the President entered the ball-room, accompanied
by Count Baeciochi, when a quadrille was formed ; the
Prince dancing wtth the Duchess of Hamilton, Lady Pol-
timer° and the Duke of Hamilton being the vis-a-vis. The
second quadrille soon followed ; when the Prince chose the
Princess Mathilde as his partner,
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who had only arrived in Paris that morning, to fill his post
of British Ambassador. Lord Francis Gorden, Strang-
ford, liallibarton, Ernest Bruce, with their wives, were
present—together with many foreigners of distinction.
The instant the clock struck 12, Count Bieciochi,in a low
whisper, said that the Prince's carriage was ready—where,.,
upon the Duko of Hamilton, taking two wax-candles, con-
ducted his imperial guest downstairs, and handed him into
his plain brougham. On the return of the Duke to the
ball-room, he observed to several friends who had collected
round, How extraordinary I There was neither military
nor police in the court-yard of the hotel, to protect the
President in case of danger.' In fact, the Prince returned
at midnight, without an escort, to the Elytale; in a one-
horse-broughain.—Caltain Gronow's 2hild Soles of
Anecdotal Recollections. •
STONEWALL JACISON'S BELIEF IN A SPECIAL
PROVIDENCE, and his habit of constant prayer.—
" When I take a draught of water, I always pause, as my
palate receives the refreshment, to lift up my heart to God
in thanks and prayer for the water of life. Whenever I
drop a letter into the box I send a petition along with it for
God's blessing upon its mission, and upon the person to
whom it is sent. When I break the seal of a letter, I stop
to pray to him toprepare me for its contents, and make it a
messenger of good. When I go to my class-room, and
await the arrangements of the cadets in their places, that
is my time to intercede with God for them. And so of Mr Y
other familiar act of the day.