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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

HEALTH OF LONDON;

The quarterly examinations for September at the Royal
Naval College, Portsmouth, of candidates for naval cadet-
ships has been brought to a conclusion, and the following
list of successful candidates was promulgated at the College
yesterday, the candidates passing in order of merit accord-
ing to the number against their name on the list.
QUALIFIED FOR NAVAL CADETS, FIRST CLASS.
+1 Vernon Archibald Tis- *24 Hon. Basil Napier
dell 25 Frederick E. Strickland
*2 Edward Ponsonby 26 James A. Ward
3 Francis John Hamilton 127 Hon A. E. C. Coles
14 Frank Henry Rogers *2B Edward Knipe
5 William John Norcock 29 Gerald R. Maltby
6 Henry Stanley Clarke 30 Michael?. O'Callaghan
7 John W. Osborne 11 William H. Webster
+8 Thomas Hadley 112 Thomas St John G.
*9 Charles H. Adair Clarke
10 Henry B. Warren :3 Cecil M. G. Cooper
1-11 John E. Bearcroft 14 Francis R. Pelly
12 George K. Gordon
*B5 H. W. Phelps
13 Robert L. Mayne 36 F. D. S. Scott
14 Gerald M. Richardson *37 J. P. P. Cook
15 Francis P. Carey 38 G. H. C. Stapleton
16 William C. Forrest 139 D. M. R. Read
17 Robert M'A. Sparrow 40 James Brant
18 James B. Hay *4l E. V. Berridge
*l9 Charles M'C. Le Blane 42 G. A. Walmsley
*2O Stewart L. D. Ryder 43 G. IL Cherry
*2l Edwin A. Hobson 44 L. It. C. Boyle
*22 James Border 45 Charles S. Elton
23 William P. H. Heyland 446 Robert K. M'Alpine
Twenty-nine candidatei in the first class were turned
back by the examiners.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

The deaths in London, which had ranged in August above

1,400 weekly, declined to 1,352 in the week that ended last
Saturday. The deaths of persons under 20 years of age fell
from SOO and upwards to 752.
The average number of deaths in the 30th week of the 10
years, 1854-63, is, with the exelu.ion of death from epide-
mic cholera in 1854, and with a correction for increase of
population, 1,211. But the actual number returned for last
week exhibits an excess of 140 above the number thus esti-
mated.

Diarrhoea has now perceptibly decreased. It rose to its
maximum in the first week in August, when the deaths
from it were 286 ; in the last week of that month they wore
180, and last week 132, The mean temperature of the air
in the first week of August was 65 deg, last week it was 61.1
deg. '

Five deaths from scarlatina occurred in the sub-district
of St. John, Westminster; four in that of St. John, Mary-
lebone ; four in that of Tottenham-court-road ; four in
Islington West; four in Haggerstone West, The total
number from scarlatina was 73.
There were 53 fatal cases of measles, five of which were
in Limehouse, 11 in the district of Poplar, in which also
there were 10 of typhus; 17 deaths from typhus occurred
in Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich.
At 5, Storer-street, Mile-end, a sempstress, aged 24 years,
died from effusion on the chest, accelerated by overwork and
want of necessaries.

HAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine,
ls. Oct., or 20 stamps.

GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma-
nently— Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d.; Gentlemen's from ss.
The Dye is sold at :3s. 6d, or sent free for 54 stamps. It is
most easy of use.

HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes,
without effect to the akin, superfluous hair from the face,
neck, and arms. 38. 6d.; sent the same day:as ordered by post
for 51 stamps.

QUALIFIED FOR NAVAL CADETs,•.SECOND CLASS.
1 Charles W. May -I-8 W. 13. Harris
-f2 E. W. Wild 9 H. B. Newton
3 V. D. Hughes 10 Henry Donegan
4 E. H. H. blossom 11 D. A. Richmond
5 A. J. Lake 12 W. IL H. Rowe
6 Arthur Havergall 13 G. A. Warleigh
7 Herbert Swire
The French Imperial screw yacht Prince Jerome, with
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde and suite on
board, sailed from Spithead on Monday evening and arrived
at Havre yesterday morning. At the conclusion of the
visit of the Prince and Princess to Portsmouth dockyard on
Monday they honoured the French Vice Consul, the Che-
valier Van den Bergh, with their presence at luncheon at
his residence, Holland House, Southsea. After luncheon
the Prince and Princess embarked in the Imperial twin
screw barge La Mouche, paid a short visit to the Excellent
gunnery ship and witnessed some blank practice from her
12 ton guns, and afterwards returned to the Prince Jerome
in La Mouche.

A painter, aged 54 years, died from fever and cerebral
disease, caused by exposure to the sun's heat when at his
work.

were dead.

A woman died of rheumatic fever, caused by the damp
of a newly-built house.
A charwoman died at 111, Tyers-street, Lambeth, on the
Bth Sept., at the age of 101 years.
Last week the births of 951 boys and 935 girls, in all

SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54
stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay
on Hair, Id.

1,039 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor-
responding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number
(corrected) was 1852.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.805 in. The reading
was 29.55 in. on Sunday, and rose to 29'92in. on Monday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 611 deg,
which is 3.2 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The lowest night
temperature was 48.4 deg. on Tuesday. The highest day
temperature was 75.5 deg. on Thursday, The range of tem-
perature in the week was therefore 271 deg. The mean
daily range was 14.4 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 71 deg.
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 76, complete
saturation being represented by 100. The humidity was
only 60 on Monday, when the wind was in the north-west.
It rose to 91 on the following day, when the wind was in
the south-west, from which point the wind continued to
blow during the remainder of the week. Rain fell to the
amount of o:39in. A quarter inch fell on Tuesday. Tho
mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the
Thames was 62 deg. 7 min,; that of the lowest was 60 deg.
4 min.

PIMPLE REMOVE R.—All diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness
&c. 28. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 245, High
Holborn, London.

ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, ls.; sent for
14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 6u stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218,
High Holborn, London.

British Association for the Advancement
of Science,

No intimation had been given of the Prince's intended
visit to the authorities, official or otherwise, and the Prince
and Princess were therefore received on landing without any
of the ceremony or honours usually accorded to their rank.
The Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards is expected to
leave the Sheet-street barracks, Windsor, for the Tower of
London to-morrow. It will be relieved at Windsor by the
2d Battalion Coldstream Guards.

BATH, Tuesday.

From the number of arrivals yesterday and to-day it may
now be fairly anticipated that the meeting of the Associa-
tion in this city will be most successful. Up to 3 o'clock
this afternoon nearly 1,500 tickets had been sold—a consi-
derably larger number than has hitherto been issued on the
day before the proceedings commence. The demand for hotel
accommodation and private lodgings has been great, but
fortunately for strangers Bath, unlike many other places
visited by this association, has this recommendation, that it
has always a large number of spacious and elegant apart-
ments available for almost any number of visitors. Prices
have not therefore been excessive, and every possible faci-
lity has been afforded by the excellent system of registration
both for extent of accommodation and price established at
the Reception-room.
Great interest appears to be attached to the inaugural
address of Sir Charles Lyell, the now President, which will
be delivered to-morrow evening, and which it is expected
will make special reference to the thermal and mineral
waters of Bath.
The sections will commence their proceedings on the fol-
lowing morning. Of these there are :—A. Mathematical and
Physical Science B. Chemical Science ;C. Geology; D.
Zoology and Botany, including Physiology ; E. Geography
and Ethnology; F. Economic Science and Statistics; and
G. Mechanical Science, Sections C., E., and F. are likely
to prove the most interesting. In C. an interesting paper
will be read by Mr Bristow on the Geological Survey. Sir
Wm. Logan, director of the Geological Survey of Canada,
has brought for inspection by the association a large box of
fossils of a much more ancient character than any that have
been previously discovered, In Section E, presided over by
Sir R. Murchison, papers will be read by Captain Speke,
Captain Burton, Sir H. Rawlinson, and M. Khanikeff, the
Russian geographer.
In Section F, Economic Science and Statistics, several
sanitary papers are to be read, among others, by Dr Wilson,
on Cheltenham; by Mr A. B. Middleton, on Salisbury; by
Dr Symonds, on Clifton ; by Mr Tite, on the" Health
Statistics of Paris in Connection with its Street Improve-
ments and by Mr Samuel Brown upon the " Mortality of
Europeans in India." Col. Torrens will read a paper upon
the " Conveyance of Title by Registration as applicable to
Ireland."
Mr Westgarth will bring to the section
‘‘
Some Statistics of Crime in Australia." Professor Wilson,
it is expected, will furnish an account of the statistics of
agricultural implements, and Mr Robert Herbert has pro-
mised one upon the "Statistics of Live Stock." Mr Chet-
wynd has sent a paper upon "Postal Banks ;" and Mr F.
Purdy has one on " The Quantity and Value of Corn
im-
ported into the United Kingdom since the Repeal of the
Corn Laws." Some interesting statistical works which
have been sent over for the use of the Section by foreign
Governments will be brought under the notice of the mem-
bersiby the President. Of these may be mentioned " The
Statistics of the Russian Empire," by M Troiniski, the
Minister in charge of the Statistical Bureau at St. Peters-
burg; "Statistics of the Kingdom of Italy," by Signor
Maestro's Department at Turin ; the new sheets of the
census of France, transmitted by M. Le Goyt ; and a mt•
perbly printed folio of the recent "Census of Spain." On
Friday the report of the committee appointed at the New-
castle meeting to consider "the best means of providing for
a uniformity of weights and measures with reference to the
interests of science," will be read in this Seotion by Mr
James Heywood.

The Defence, ironclad steamer, Capt. Phillimoro, which
has been on a trip to the Bristol Channel during the past
week, left yesterday, it was understood, for the Mediter-
ranean.
The following appointments have been made at the Ad.
miralty :—Capt. John Borlaso, C. 8., to the Trafalgar, vice
Capt. Schomberg, placed on the retired list—Lieut. E. B.
Wadlow and Sub-Lieut. J. W. Jones and Sub-Lieut. E. F.
Day to the Rattlesnake, additional, for disposal—Leonard
Lucas, assist. surg., additional, to the Royal Adelaide—
Edward P. Clapp, second master, supernumerary, to the
Royal Adelaide—E. F. Nicholson, assist. paymaster, addi-
tional, to the Euryalus—Augustus A. Lyme, assist. pay-
master, to the Rattlesnake—Walter B. Spence, clerk, to the
Trafalgar—William S. Watson, clerk, additional, to the
' Euryalus—Henry J. Layland, chief engineer, to the Cum-
berland, for the Mars—Henry Williams, chief engineer, to
the Cumberland, for the Forte—Thomas H. Morgan, engi-
neer, to the Asia, as supernumerary—William P. Gayer,
acting engineer, to the Indus, for the Espoir—John Bar-
nett, of the Fisgard, W. H, Barker, of the Indus, and Hy.
J. Packer, of the Frederick William, confirmed as first-class
assist. engineers—W. Annan, assist, engineer, to the Indus
as supernumerary—and Peter Foulis, assist. engineer, to
the Pembroke for her tender.
The undermentioned gentlemen have been nominated to
naval cadetships :—Hon, Harry de V. Pery, Mr C. Wind-
ham, Mr Guy Gisborne, Mr Henry Trafford, Mr C. W.
Roberts, Mr Frank Finnis, and Mr W. C. Snell.
• Passed from Burney's Royal Naval Academy, Gosport.
t Passed from Eastman's Eastern Parade Academy,
Southsea.

The births (this return is supplied by the Registrar..
General of Ireland) registered in Dublin during the week
ending the 10th September was 152, and the deaths were
99, in a population of 254,808 (in 1861), spread over an area
of 3,808 statute acres,

The deaths in Vienna as returned by Dr Glatter were
273 in the week ending the 3d of September, when the
mean temperature was 58 deg. 8 min., that of Greenwich
having been 60 deg, 3 min.

Destructive Fire at Toronto.

On Sunday morning, August 28, there occurred a,
Toronto one of the most destructive fires with which that
city has been visited for a length of time. The fire originated
at the Grand Trunk Wharf and Elevator, which were com-
pletely destroyed, with some 50,000 bushels of grain and
400 barrela of flour. The Globe says—" The Grand Trunk
Wharf extended out from the
Esplanade between he finest
and Brook streets. It was without exception t Peter
and most substantial wharf in Toronto harbour, and was
erected two years ago at a cost of about 25,000 dole. The
capacious flour shed, capable of containing several thousand
barrels of flour, was put up only a few months ago at a cost
of between 5,000 and 6,000 dole. These losses, are, however,
but trifling, compared with that of the Elevator. This fine
building—one of the best of the kind in the province—
was constructed at the same time as the wharf, the whole
having been built by Mr Sheddon, who subsequently dis-
posed of the wharf to the Grand Trunk ItailwaY Company.
The Elevator, though known as the Grand Trunk Elevator,
was the property of Mr Sheddon. Its actual cost at the
time of its erection was 50,000 dole, but it h
considerably altered and improved at an additeen ional recentlyoutlay
of several thousand dollars. Fortunately for,:
Sheddon
the building will not be a total los, as he had an insurance
of 35,000 dols on it in the following companies :.-21,000 dole
as b
in the Liverpool and London, 8,000 dols in the North
British, 'and 16,000 dols in tho Liverpool and Lancashire.
The loss sustained by the Grand Trunt Company in the
wharf will be covered by the insurance fund of the com-
pany. In the Elevator at the time of its destruction there
were about 45,000 or 50,000 bushels of grain, divided as
follows :—Oats about 35,000, corn about 15,000, wheat about
5,000. This, so far as we could learn, was
owned by various
shipping firms in this city and elsewhere, and was partially
Mr W. P.
covered by insurance, though to what extent we are not
informed. The following are the names of the principal
sufferers :—Erwin and Sloan, and Cheney and Ames, Os-
wego ; and W. D. Matthews and S. A. Oliver, Toronto.
Mr Oliver lost about 5,800 bushels of oats, on which he had,
we believe, an insurance of 1,208 dols. In the flour shed
there was fortunately a small quantity of flour, less than 400
barrels, whereas there are sometimes as many thousands.
dols, flour
I insurance, as
0 dole, so that
Messrs Gooderham and Worsts lost 127 barrels,
Howland 200, and Mr F. Payland 10. Most of the flour,
we were informed, was insured, though at very much less
than its value. The total loss, as nearly as can at present
Mr Sheddon
be ascertained, will be as follows:—The Elevator, 50,000
dole, the wharf and flour sheds 30,000 dole, oats about 11,500
hghe calamity could
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70,000 fobs.
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Fortunately this heavy loss does not come on one person
hardly have happened at a worstime of the
aristhehgorrenaeterb
Year, so far as
Mr Sheddon is concerned, Ire bad but a few weeks ago
commenced making preparations for the reception and
storage of this year's grain, so that by the loss of the Eleva-
tor he will lose the whole trade of the coming fall and
winter, it being hardly possible to erect a
pYorsteiovneroafl,.
new Elevator
before next spring.
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Agriculture and Free Tr ade.

Tho Marquis of Normanby presided at the dinner given
in connection with the 32d annual show of the Whitby
Agricultural Society on Wednesday last, and among those
who took part in the proceedings and addressed the assembly
were the lion. W. E. Duncombe and Mr Merritt, the Par-
liamentary representatives for the North Riding of York-
shire. The speeches were more or less complimentary, but
they were appropriate to the occasion, and had special re-
ference to the agricultural exhibition and society with
which they were associated. In the course of his remarks
when returning thanks to the toast of the two members,
Mr Duncombe, who formerly was opposed to free-
trade, acknowledged that agriculture had benefited,
along with the general trade of the country, from
our present commercial policy. The hon. member said that
he could not but feel that the agricultural societies gene-
rally of this country had conferred considerable advantages
upon the kingdom at large, as they had been the means of
bringing together the best quality and breed of stock and
horses to be found anywhere, and they had also infused a
spirit of competition and emulation among the agricultural
body. These societies, too, wore the cause why so many of
those valuable agricultural implements were produced, and
which had proved of such great use in the carrying out of
farming operations, and several of which implements were
seen in several instances for the first time at these agricul-
turals gatherings. They were told that in some parts of the
country complaints prevailed at the want of farm labourers,
but ho did not know whether that complaint prevailed in
that district. He believed that there was a want of labour,
and that labour was scarce, and therefore it was fortunate
at such a time that science had been carried out in agricul-
tural affairs, and that they were enabled to make use of those
excellent machines whereby economy of labour was secured.
Upon a recent occasion in returning thanks for the same
toast he said that he thought agriculture was not indebted
to any Legislative enactments for the success which it en-
joyed; and he believed that all persons present, whatever
might be their political opinions, or to whatever profession
they might belong, rejoiced in the general prosperity of
agriculture and in the increase of the wealth of the country.
In speaking of agriculture, he could say that that interest
was not jealous of the increased prosperity which had fallen
upon the great commercial and trading classes of this coun-
try. Ho believed that agriculture had derived benefit from
that general increase in tho trade of the country, and he was
of opinion that that increased trade might bo attributed to
the commercial policy which had recently been carried out,
Trade had consequently become unshackled to a great ess
tent, some of its burdens had been altogether removed and
others had been much relieved; and therefore all the agri-
cultural interest asked was that the Legislature would apply
the same system of relief to the farmer, and endeavour to
take away some of those burdens which pressed particularly
upon the land. Parliament ought to carry out fairly and
fully as respected agriculture tho principle which had been
established in our commercial system. This was what they
asked for, they required nothing more, and he thought they
had a perfect right to ask for such a concession. The pre-
sent were not occasions for the discussion of party politics,
but he thought they might allude to political questions in a
quiet way when they related to the welfare of agriculture,
and ho believed no one who had that interest at heart would
wish to exclude the subject at a meeting of that description.
He should endeavour, as he had hitherto done, to promote
the best interests of the great community which he repre-
sented in Parliament, not to look at one interest more than
another, his object in the House of Commons being to pro-
Inoto,the prosperity Qf filo Yali9tl* interests vf t4c:c9uutry.

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prohibited ingredients, in 14 samples, grains of paradise,
one of these samples containing,
MlnrlandlliElleivPeBll°
in addition,. tobacco ; in two
other cocculus indicus was present in large. and dangerous
quantities ; two samples contained. capsicum ; and the re-
maining two pro -to sulphate of iron. Generally the pro-
hibited materials employed in the adulteration of beer are not
injurious to health, the object of the fraudulent brewers or
retailers of beer being more to increase the bulk of their
goods than to render the beer stupefying by the addition
of noxious materials. Still, be says, there can be little
doubt that the practice of adulterating beer with poisonous
matters, such as tobacco and cocculus indicus, is more
prevalent than might be inferred from the smaller number
of detections made, as the fraud is difficult to discover
unless the offender be caught in the act of committing
it. Considering, therefore, this circumstance, and the
abominable character of the offence, Mr Phillips is of
opinion that it would be only just to the community to
make public the names of those persons convicted of
adding cocculous indicus or other deleterious substances
to beer brewed for sale ; and he feels no hesitation in stat-
ing that the two instances of the use of the dangerous
drug in question occurred in the neighbourhood of
Wirksworth, in Derbyshire, and that many of the detec-
tions of the use of grains of paradise were also made in
the same district. He states also that the experience of
many years has led him to the conclusion that the adul-
teration of beer with drugs, as distinguished from the mere
dilution or increasing of the bulk of the article, is more
prevalent in the Midland Counties and the West Ridillg of
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The West India and Facile Mails,

SOUTIIAMFTON, Tuesday Night.
The Royal Mail Company's screw steamship
Tasmanian, Capt. I'. W. Sawyer (lieutenant :Rua!
Naval Reserve), arrivrd at 8 30 p.m. She brings
82 passengers, 2,18E1,677 dots. in spseie (of which
1,208,906 dots. are gold and 977,771 dole. silver),
diamonds, ke. (value 8,370 dots.), and a full gene.
rat cargo.
The Tasmanian left St. Thomas on the 30th ult.,
and has had variable winds and weather on the pas-
sage. In lat. 47 46 N., long. 10 30 W., she spoke
the bark Hebe ; and in lat. 48 24 N., long. 84 47
W., the British ship Ful wood, both outward bound.
Her Majesty's ships Charybdis and Chameleon
were at Panama ; the Pylades at Barbadoes ; the
Styx on a cruise; the Greyhound was expected at
Barbadoes from Berbice at the time of the packet
leaving ; the Aboukir, Barracouta, Petrel, and gun.
boat Nimble were at Port Royal, Jamaica.
The Spanish war steamer Pizarro was at St.
Thomas.

The screw steam yacht Midge, R. T. Y. C. (Mr
S. Pittar, owner), arrived at St. Thomas from the
Spanish main on the 20th of August, and was under
steam homeward bound when the Tasmanian sailed.

Yellow fever was prevalent among the shipping
at Demerara; upwards of 60 men in hospital. The
master and seven of the crew of the Indian Chief

Rain at all the islands, and very heavy weather
experienced by the mail steamer Conway between
Barbadoes and St. Kitts.

Sickness on the increase at St. Thomas on shore,
but the shipping continues healthy.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Jamaica
on the 23d of August, but without any damage.

JAMAICA.—The ceremony of the inauguration of
his Excellency Governor Eyre took place on the
23d of August. The oaths were administered by
Sir Bryan Edwards, Chief Justice, after which the
Right Rev. Bishop Courtenay presented an address
from the various clergy of the island, which was
feelingly responded to by his Excellency. Trade
in general was in a depressed condition. Exchange
on London, 90 days, 1 per cent. ; 60 days, 11 per
cent.'; 30 days, 2 per cent.
TRINIDAD.—The cane cultivation looked very

promising, and planters anticipated good returns
for 1865. Freights, 2s 3d for molasses, 2s 6d for
sugar, anti 2s 9d for cocoa. Exchange, 90 days,
487 dole ; 60 days, 490 dols ; 30 days, 493 dols.
Trade rather dull. Preparations were being made
to give a cordial reception to his Excellency Gover-
nor Sutton, who succeeds Governor Keats in the
administration.

BARBADOES.—Throughout the island the crops of
canes were in first rate condition. Shipments of
sugar to date 32,296 hogsheads, 2,597 tierces, 5,230
barrels, 2,028 bags; molasses, 381 hogsheads, 9,296
puncheons, 389 barrels; rum, 71 puncheons.
GRENADA.—Trade had somewhat improved dur-
ing the fortnight. The sugar crop for the season
will be about 6,000 hogsheads; cocoa, 8,000 bags ;
cotton, 800 bales.
From Mexico we learn that the Emperor Maxi

milian had invited Juarez and other Liberal chiefs
to come to the city of Mexico to consult together
on a plan for restoring peace and the firm establish-
ment of the empire, guaranteeing them full protec-
tion and safety. They refused to accede to this
request. Juarez's answer had been published.
ST 141701/L.—During the fortnight, owing to re.
freshing showers, a decided change for the better
was visible in the young canes throughout the
island. Business very dull, the crop being over.
But little money in circulation, and the banks are
charging 4821 dole per £lOO sterling for their 90
days' bills. Rum—Stocks heavy, but very little
demand.

No news of importance has been received from
the South Pacific.
From Peru we !earn that in consequence of the
inactivity of the Court of Aladrid in reference to the
seizure of the Chincha Islands, several members of
the Ministry at Lima had resigned, and on the 11th
of August a new Cabinet was formed, by which it
is hoped that more energy will be displayed in the
matter, and that a better feeling will he felt between
Congress and the Government. The iron-plated
monitor Victoria was launched on the 30th of July.
VALrARAISO.—A bill had been passed for form-
ing a new department in the Custom-house for col•
lecting and embodying the statistics of trade, and
a privilege has been accorded to the Corrizal Rail-
way Company for an extension of their track. Ex.
change on London, 441 to 45 per cent., 60 to 90
days; on Paris, 4 65 and 4 75.
The railway in Venezuela from Zueacos to the
Aroa mines was proceeding rapidly, and the con-
tractor (Mr S. Pittar) has returned to England to
make further arrangements for its immediate com-
pletion. Political affairs were assuming a more
tranquil aspect in this district.