The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA —The public sales were brought to a conclusion
yesterday, and good and fine lescliPtions fully supported
former prices.
ucuu —There has been ratlalr more inquiry in the
private market. West India descriptions, in seine instance',
being a shade dearer. In the refined market full rates are
also current'
qualities there has been a fair
CorEE.E.—For colonial q
demand, and both Plantations and Native Ceylon have
reaiised fully previous rates.
RICE —Business has been dull, without any quotable
change as regards prices.
Tennow.—The market continues dull, although prices
remain firm. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 4is 6d; Decem-
ber, 423 6d, 42s 9d ; and January to March, 41s per cwt.

PRICE OF BREAD IN THE METROPOLIS.—The
prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 61d. to
7d,; of household ditto, 511 to 6d. Some bakers are selling
from 41,d, to sd, per 41b, loaf, weighed on deliyery,

BRADFORD, Oct. 6.—The announcement of ano
ther suspension of payment by a spinner's manufac-
turer (Mr H. Clough) in this town, owing to the
stoppage of the Leeds Banking Company, has been
made during the present week; but it is not likely
to effect the trade to any perceptible extent. The
impression prevails that the trade will not suffer
much from this cause, those who have carried on
business on a scale too extensive for their capital
having been exceedingly few. The state of our
local trade is unquestionably sound, although the
very high rate of discount and the reported failures
in some of the great centres of commerce tend to
produce depression and unusual caution. There
was a tone of cheerfulness prevailing in the wool
trade to•day. There was more inquiry and more
offers than have been experienced for some weeks
past, and the transactions resulting therefrom were
not few. The firmer tone of the cotton market had
a beneficial influence, and the fact that most of the
largest spinners are exceedingly low in stocks
tended to inspire staplers with the conviction that
they cannot much longer refrain from doing busi-
ness. The quotations of last week were generally
well maintained. There was very little business
done in worsted yarns. A few spinners are still
basy on orders received some time since; but most,
who are without orders, are curtailing production
by running short time. Both home and foreign
merchants refrained from business. Prices were
very irregular. The same may be said of pieces;
indeed, the business done in this branch was so
meagre that the tendency of quotations was gene•
rally downwards.

Money easy. Gold and Stocks are depressed by
peace rumours and the favourable military intelli.
gence. Gold, 2101. Stocks depressed. New
York Central, 119;1,. Illinois, 1231. Erie, 100 i.
5.20 Bonds, 110.
Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 155. Flour
very dull. Wheat and corn a downward tendency.
Provisions depressed. Coffee dull. Sugar tending
downward. Molasses in limited demand. Petro-
leum, etude, 44 ; refined, 72.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, SEPT. 24.

Advices from Matsmoras to the 9th inst. confirm
the news of the occupation of Brownsville by

Cortinas.

(FROM TIIE TIMES CORRESPONDENT.)

NEW YORK, SEPT. 23.

The latest accounts from the Shenandoah prose
the first report of Sheridan's success on Monday to
have been greatly exaggerated. Early's entire loss,
it is now stated, did not exceed 6,000 men, while
that of the Federals in killed and wounded alone
was upwards of 4,500. At one time the Federale,
mowed down by the Confederate artillery and
musketry fire, were thrown into confusion, and
were on the point of giving way, when, by a
desperate charge of all his cavalry, Sheridan turned
Early's right flank, and compelled him to retire.
Early continued to fall back during the 20th,
followed by Sheridan, and on the 21st made a
stand at Fisher's-hill, two and a half miles south
of Strasburg. Sheridan attacked him in the even-
ing, but was repulsed. Yesterday, at 4 p.m.,
Sheridan renewed the attack, and after a severe
conflict, lasting until dark, forced Early to evacuate
the position with the loss of 16 cannon.
The losses in killed and wounded upon either
side are not stated. Early is believed to have re-
tired towards Stanton.

►SEPT. 24, 11 A.M.

Sheridan reports, at 11 30 p.m. on the 22d, that
he is pursuing Early down the Shenandoah Valley.
There is yet no news of the expected conflict
between the opposing forces on the Weldon Rail-

war.
Delp!itches from Macon, Georgia, of the 17th, to
the _Richmond Inquirer, state that General Sherman
had invited Governor Brown, of that State, and
Vice-President Stephens to Atlanta, to confer upon
the subject of peace.
Sherman and Hood have concluded the exchange
of 2,000 prisoners upon either side captured upon
the recent battles at Atlanta and Jonesborough;
The truce for the removal of the Atlanta inha-
bitants, which expired on the 22d, has been ex-
tended.

New Orleans letters of the 15th announce that,
with the exception of the garrisons left in Forts
Morgan and Gaines, General Granger's forces, lately
co-operating with Admiral Farragnt in Mobile, have
returned to that city.
St. Louis despatches of the 22d state that Gene.
ral Price, with 25,000 Confederate troops, has
crossed Arkansas river, and is going northward.
By the admission of a Confederate officer arrested
in disguise at Sandusky City on the 18th, it ap-
pears that the object of the Confederates, who
seized and destroyed the steamers Island Queen
and Parsons on Lake Erie, was at the outset
the capture of the Federal steamer Michigan and
the liberation of the Johnstown Island prisoners.
The arrest of the officers prevented the necessary
cooperation from the land, and compelled the
abandonment of the enterprise.

The report that two Confederate armed steamers
had appeared on the Lake was untrue.
Postmaster-General Blair, at the request of Mr
Lincoln, has resigned office. Ex-Governor Denni-
son, of Ohio, succeeds him.

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QUEENSTOWN, ocr. 7.
The Inman steamship City of Manchester from
New York, on the 24th ult., arrived here at 5 a.m.
with 234 passengers, 330,000 dole., and £32,828 in
specie. She landed 48 passengers and proceeded
for Liverpool at 5.15 a.m.

CAPTURE OF A. SHARIi.—On Saturday a fine
specimen of the diedon, or basking shark, weighing nearly
7cwt., was captured at NClVlklay, Cornwall, about a mile
from the shore.

How the " Great Prize Fight " was Stopped.

The Freeman's Journal gives the following account of
the measures adopted by the Irish authorities to prevent the
threatened combat between Mace and Coburn :—" Notwith-
standing the result of the meeting for the appointment of
the referee, the general belief on Tuesday was that the fight
would take place. Mr E. James and others interested in
the pugilistic encounter took their places in the mail train
on Monday evening, and a large number of detectives were
hovering about the platform and booking ofßee. The lovers
of " the manly sport of self-defence " took tickets for various
stations beyond Goold's Cross, at which they were to stop,
for the purpose of befil:ng the constabulary, who were to be
seen in all kinds of strange costumes and keeping a sharp
lookout. Every male passenger was closely scrutinised
for the object of coining at either of the champions, and
questions were asked in the most insinuating manner, with
a view of finding out the place where Coburn had taken up
his head-quarters. As the train stopped at the several
stations bodies of constabulary were to be seen drawn
up on every platform, and crowds of country people all most
eager to get a view of the pugilists whom they believed were
in the train. Those who knew the real state of affairs were
perfectly aware that the contest of which so much had hen
written and spoken would not come off, and that Mr James
was only going down for the purpose of keeping an ap-
pointment with Coburn, who had pitched his ground in a
farmhouse not many hundred yards from Goold's Cross
Station—to tell him of the result of the meeting, to appoint
a referee,-and make arrangements for his appearing on the
battle-ground between 12 anti 2 o'clock on the following day,
in accordance with the stipulations contained in the articles.
At Sallins, Newbridge, Kildare, and all the stations down
to the Limerick Junction, the constabulary showed in great
force, and notwithstanding the fact that the night was bit-
terly cold, with a freezing breeze from the eastward, crowds
were congregated at all the places where the train stopped.