The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-08 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quiet. Sales about 1,500 bales,
WEEKLY REPORT.
Sales of the week, 43,180—spec, 10,919—export,
6,ooo—actual sales, 2,924.
Quotations—Middling Orleans, 28—Mobile, 272-
-Upland, 271—fair Egyptian, 281.
Week's imparts, 10,752—estimated stock, 262,900
—Sprats, 1,526.

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF CORK.—The Cork Ex -
aminer announces the death of Dean Newman, of Cork,
which took place at the Deanery-house, St. Pinbar'a, on
Tuesday afternoon.
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THE CITY POLlCE.—Yesterday this body of men
appeared in their new' winter clothing. A comfortablo and
becoming feature in the uniform this cold and inclement
weather is the addition of antigropelos or leather leggings,
similar to those worn by some of the volunteers.

THE GREAT DOOR OF THE CAPITOL, WASH-
INGTON, which has been in hand for several years, has been
delivered, and is expected soon to fill its place in the palace
of the Federal Legislature. It was designed by Mr. R.
Rogers, an American artist of Rome, is of bronze, and its
decoration illustrates the history of Columbus.
CERVANTES.—A literary relic of Cervantes, which
if genuine is of the highest value and interest, has been
discovered at Madrid. It is a poetical epistle, hitherto en-
tirely unknown, from Cervantes, when a captive at Algiers,
to Matteo Vasquez, Secretary of State to King Philip the
Second.

ANGLO-LATIN WoßDS.—About one-third of the
words to be found in English dictionaries are de-
rived from Latin and Greek primitives. They are nearly
13,000 in number, and spring from 154 ancient roots. Thus
from capio and captum, we have 197 words ; from duco and
ductum, 15Th from faro and latum, 193 ; from mitto and
missum, 174; from plico, 200 ; from pono and positutn, 250 ;
from specio, 177; from teneo and tentum, 163 ; and from
tento and tensum, 162.
A NEW ART-JOURNAL is announced to appear in
monthly parts, under the title of The Art Student, the first
part of which will be published on the Ist of next month by
Messrs. Hall, Smart, and Allen of Paternoster-row.
CONVICTION AND SENTENCE OF FOUR PUGI-
LISTS.—At St. Alban's Sessions yesterday, James
Tyson, Daniel Morris, Joseph Goss, William Evans (other-
wise known as William Broome), and John Coney, pleaded
guilty to an indictment for unlawfully and riotously assem-
bling and disturbing the peace, and were bound over in the
sum of £5O, and two sureties of £25 each, or one surety of
£5O, to keep the peace for 12 months. The necessary bail
was duly entered into, and the defendants left the court,
and soon after the town.

CANADIAN MAIL.-The Canadian mnil steamer
Damascus sailed yesterday from Liverpool for Portland
with the Canadian mails. Besides these she also took out
about 70 passengers and a fair amount of cargo.
BLACKBERRIES IN JANCARY.-It is a remark-
able fact that ripe blackberries are now frequently
to bo found in the hedge-rows in this part of Devonshire
and the borders of Somerset. On the last day of the old
year a youth called Nelder, of this town, picked a very
fine bunch of ripe blackberries on Exeter-hill ; and on
New Year's-day several blackberries and a fine bunch of
ripe ones were also found in the hedge-rows near the
Ottery-road station of the South-Western Railway Com-
pany.-Tiverton Gazette.
OUTRAGES ON THE YORKSHIRE WOLDS.-In
addition to the alarm experienced from the fre-
quent incendiary fires the Weld farmers seem to be threat-
ened with the additional danger of burglars. On Monday
night Mr. Pinder, of Linton Wold, was aroused by an alarm
of " A man in the house!" Mr. Pinder at once proceeded
to the dairy, armed with a revolver, where he found a man
looking through the window. Although in his nightdress,
Mr Pinder, after assuring himself that the man was not the
watchman from the stackyard, gave chase, and on the
fellow refusing to obey the summons to stop, fired at him,
and, judging by the blood left on the ground, hit him. The
shot, however, did not hinder the burglar, or whatever he
was, from escaping into the darkness. The adventures of
the night were, however, not at an end. Early on Tuesday
morning the servants, who were astir early, were alarmed
by a man looking through the kitchen window. This
fellow, finding they were giving a second alarm, fired a gun
into the house, smashing the glass of the window to atoms.
This second nocturnal visitor is believed to have been an-
other man. On Tuesday and Wednesday nights the visit
of these marauders were repeated, but, as Mr. Pinder and
all his men were astir, the ruffians had no chance of opera-
tion, and it is to be regretted that, favoured by the dark-
ness, they have contrived to elude pursuit in each case. On
Thursday Mr. Pinder gave notice of these strange events
to the police. The watchman at the stackyard, some dis-
tance from the house, heard nothing.
A DERELICT VESSEL SECURED.-•A large dia.
masted vessel, supposed to be- derelict, had been
repeatedly seenfioating between the Scilly Isles and the main
land. On Tuesday some of the pilots from Scilly again
descried the ship and determined to board her. They did so,
and found that she was the brig Minna, of Hanover, about
300 tons register, laden with deals. No living creature was
on board, and it is conjectured that the Minna, being dis-
tressed, was abandoned by her crew, the fate of whom is
not known. The brig, it is believed, was outward bound.
The pilots, ;after much labour, succeeded in towing the
Minna to land at Scilly, and on Tuesday evening Lloyd's
agent at Penzance, W. D. Matthews, Esq., received infor-
mation of the circumstance.
Mrs. Butt, the wife of Mr. Butt, auctioneer,
Sheffield, was garotted about nine o'clock, on
Tuesday evening as she was returning from the town, and
when within a short distance of home. She was followed
and attacked by three men, one ot whom threw his arm
round her neck and held her tightly until the others broke
her watch-guard and possessed themselves of both watch
and chain. One of the scamps then struck Mrs. Butt a
violent blow on the face, knocking her down and breaking
several of her teeth.-Illanchester Guardian.
PLANETARY THEORY.-It is well known that
there exists between the distances of the planets
from the Sun a certain arithmetical relation constituting
the irregularly increasing series 4,7, 10, 16, 52, 100, 196,
338, and that the reason why astronomers decided that
there must be some unknown planet between Mars and
Jupiter was, that this seriec, commonly called Bode's law,
from its discoverer, presents a singular interruption between
16 and 52, the terms corresponding to those two planets..
Whether correct or not, this law led observers to look for
the missing planet, and the result has been, as we all know,
the discovery ot 78 telescopic planets, the mean distance of
all these being very nearly the missing term in Bode's series,
viz,, 28. But now comes the fact that the real distances of
the planets do not in any instance exactly agrrs
ee with the
terms of :Bode's law, the actual distances being in integ ere
4,7, 10, 15, 27, 52, 95, 192, and 300. The immense differ-
ence of 88 between the seal distances of Uranus and its theo-
retical one, which is 383, ought to have led astronomers to
suppose, as is the case with Mars and Jupiter, that there
must exist an unknown planet, or a belt of asteroids between
Uranus and Neptune ; but this is not the case, and all their
efforts have been hitherto directed towards finding a law or
series which may agree better with actual facts than Bode's
law. Thus, at the last meeting of the British Association,
Mr. R. S. Brown proposed a series which reduces Neptune's
difference to 55, but which on the other hand produces
much more divergent terms for the other planets t and in
the .Philosephical -Magaztne we now find a paper by
Mr. B.,Vansittart Neale, in which the author endeavours
to grapple with the difficulty, by dividing the planets
into two groups; the first counnencieg with Venus,
and the second with Jupiter. The series of the first group
is then made by multiplying 2 by 3,6, and 12 successively,
giving the numbers 2,6, 12, 24 ; the serious of the second
group is obtained by multiplying-the last term 24 by 3,6,
and 12, which gives the series 24, 72, 144, 288. In this
hypothesis we must now add to each term of the first group
the theoretical distance of Mercury, which is 2; and to
each term of the second group the same number 2, and then
21, whereby the whole series becomes 2,4, 8, 14, 26, 504
93, 170, and 311. Conspiring these numbers with the
actual distances given above, we do not see that much is
gained ; for although in the case of Neptune the difference
is reduced to 14, great discrepancies exist between the first
terms, which on the other hand era very nearly given by
Bode's law.