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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1864.

Just ready, in 3 vols.,
THE 'MASTER OF MARTON.
A NOVEL.

BANK OF ENGLAND, 15th Sept., 1864.
THE COURT of. DIRECTORS of the GOVER-
NOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND
give notice that a GNNERAL COURT will be held at the
Bank on THURSDAY next, the 2!d instant, at 12 o'clock
precisely, to consider of a Dividend ; this will also be one cf
the_Quarterly Courts appointL d by the Charter.
HAMMOND CHUBB, Secretary.

being immersed in the cares of daily life. They heard
often of the conversion of England ; and certainly they
did hope that the time would come when the hands which
were lifted up against them in religious controversy would
embrace those of the opposite Church in unity. It was
indeed a blessed vision. " But," said Dr Manning, " I fear
it is far off." Almighty God might do it in one instant;
but they rust not look for it without labour and toil.
There was too much perversion of intellect, unbelief, ob-
stinacy, stubborn prejudice, and hardness of heart :o allow
them to look for so Divine a development. Christ had sent
them to labour, to pray, and to wait—to do what they
could while they were on earth towards so blessed a result.
The time for such en advancement had not yet come.
After a few further similar remarks the rev, doctor con-
cluded by some words of affectionate encouragement to the
St. Augustine brotherhood of Hoxton.
The proceedings then terminated.

The Great Fire in Gresham-street.

Also, lately published, in 3 vols.,
THE COST OF CAERGWYN. By MARY
OWITT.

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Now Ready, in Crown avo.,
FOOTPRINTS ON THE ROAD.
By CHARLES KENT.

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This day is published, and may be hal at all the Libraries,
in 3 vols„ post Bvo., price £1 11s. Gd ,
LORD OAKBURN'S DAUGHTERS.
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Contents : —Lady Diplomatists —A Prince in Search of a
Wife—Mr Carlyle's last Pet —A Tragedy in Waxwork- The
English Nobility—Learning on the Iramp —The first Voyage
round the World —Playing at Soldiers—The Reign of Madame
de Pompadour—Palace Tales—Old Times in Russia—Frede-
rick the Great and Catherine IL—Frederick the Great and
Voltaire—The Domestic Life of Frederick the Great—Was
Wallenatein Guilty?—Secret Societies—A Royal Whim.

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ECCENTRIC PERSONAGES.
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Products and Trade of Peru.

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
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dmission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is.

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Baker-street

NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of
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The accounts already published respecting this
disastrous fire convey but a faint idea of the pro-
perty destroyed, end the large number of persons,
male and female, who have been thrown out of em-
ployment, and who have lost the whole of their
wearing apparel. During the day, Mr Roberts,
assessor of fire losses ; Mr Timms, of the
Couaty Fire Office; Mr T. Hodson, of the
Atlas; Mr Cless, Mr Hearne, and Mr C; White
of the County, attended for the purpose, if
possible, of striking an average as to tha extent
of property destroyed, and considering the best
means of recovering the salvage. It is probable
that several thousand pounds' worth of goods, more
especially rich carpets, Utrecht velvets, and silks,
may be recovered, much of which, though injured
by fire and water, will yet realise a considerable
cum. The assessors now put down the loss of pros
perty, exclusive of the buildings, at from £150,000
to £200,000. Most of the buildings were formed
of solid brickwork and masonry, so that in several
instances the walls will not have to be rased to the
ground, but can be re-roofed and re-floored. Tile
eight large warehouses of Messrs. Tapling and Co.,
carpet manufacturers, in Gresham-street alone were
supported on 24 iron columns, of about 16ft. in
height. These columns were irrespective of the
supports to the upper floors, as they were built in a
very peculiar manner, and were considered fire-
proof. The ceilings of the ground floor warehouses
—eight in number—were spanned by brick and
concrete arches, braced together by ironwork, and
were considered to be sufficiently strong to prevent
any fire, no matter how large, from rising into any
of the upper floors. Unfortunately, in spite of the
precautions thus taken, they proved of no avail in
arresting the progress of the fire. With such fury
did the flames extend, that the 9•inch walls afforded
no safe resistance; and from Messrs. Tapling's
the flames appear to have blown through
the side wall of Haberdashers' Hail.
Several thousand tons of water were thrown
upon the buildings, and saturated the
costly contents, but a great quantity of the
goods will probably turn up as what is
technically termed " good salvage." The public
will learn with pleasure that several pictures sup-
posed to have been destroyed were saved through
the instrumentality of Mr S wanton, foreman of the
C. district, and Mr C. White, of the County Fire
Office. Amongst the number is the portrait of Sir
George Whitmore, Lord Mayor of London in 1831,
and which escaped the great fire of London in 1666.
In Haberdashers' Hall the stained glass windows
and carved oak figures, which embellished the
grand staircases, have been almost entirely de-
stroyed. Fortunately, in the lower hall a few of
the figures by Grinling Gibbons will be recovered.
The firemen were engaged until late last night in
recovering from the ruins numerous pieces of carpet
and other valuable articles.

Mr Cocks, the British Acting Consul, states in
his report this year on the trade of Islay that,
though little has been done as yet in the cultivation
of cotton in that part of Peru, vast quantities of
land are lying waste in the valleys on the coast in
that southern district of the country, and which
cannot be made available for any prOduce so likely
to be profitable as cotton. The coat of conveyance
has hitherto been a bar to cultivation of this plant
in the interior, bat it is proposed to cultivate it in
the fertile valley of lamb°, which is within two or
three leagues of Megia. Megia is about 12 leagues
south of Islay, and is intended to be substituted for
that place as the future port of this part of Peru.
A railroad is in progress from Megia to Arequipa.
The imports of Islay in 1863 amounted to 2,100,698
dots., and the exports to 2,630,890 dots. ; the( xports
chiefly wool and bark, the imports cotton and
woollens, paying a duty of 20 per cont. Among the
minor exports likely to increase is rats.nia, the root
of a lush growing in the environs of At quipa ; it is
a stringent, and yields a red dye, is used in medicine,
and, it is believed, in the " manufacture" of port
wine. The imports arc kept down by protective
duties, even though there is no interest to protect.
For instance, there is an import duty of ld per lb.
on flour, and this in a country producing hardly
any wheat ; were it not for large supplies from
Chili, the inhabitants of the coast of Peru could not
well live. Oaly immigration, or rather colonisa-
tion, and railroads are wanted to develope the abun-
dant resources of this remarkable country. Peru
is one vast mine, of which the hand of man hitherto
has only scratched the surface. The great eastern
Peruvian territory especially has been much over.
looked. Two parts, the department of the Amazo-
nas and the littoral province of Loreto, are among
the richest in Peru. There can be little doubt that
the short sighted policy of Brazil will be changed,
and that the Amazon river at no distant period will
be open to all nations; and when the railroad of
the west coast of Peru shall also be extended into
the centre of the country, the rich _products of the
interior will have a chance of egress to Europe, and
the manufactures of Europe an equal chance of in-
gress. The Montana, or region of the woods, pos-
sesses sources of inexhaustible wealth in the richness
of its vegetation, the colossal size and peculiar
character of its trees, its balsamic and medicinal
products, its fruits and substances exotic to all other
countries. The department of Amazonas is rich in
plants and vegetables. Among them are sour cane,
which properly prepared cures the intermittent
fever ; coffee equal to that of Caravaya, which is
perhaps the best in the world ; cotton, tobacco, bar-
basco, the root of which is used by the savages for
fishing, because thrown into the water it operates as
a narcotic; semi, the leaves of which give a blue dye;
huito, or jagua, a high and thin shrub, of the trunk
of which spoons are made, and the fruit dyes the
hair a strong black; llanchama, the bark of which is
soflexible that after cutting and pounding it stretches
like cloth; quimba, a tree 40ft high, its fruit not un-
like cotton ; sapaja, a tree like palm, the leaves of
whichfrom their hardness serve for combs,opaque like
tortoiseshell. The province of Loreto, in the north
of Peru, is so extensive that it almost equals in sur-
face all the rest of the departments put together.
It produces the plantain, serving instead of bread,
of which there is none. The sugar cane grows with
the greatest luxuriance, and it is sufficient to plant
it once to have constant yields from the roots.
Coca yields six crops a year. This is a plant de.
serving to be more generally known on account of
its extraordinary qualities. A Peruvian will en.
dure the severest labour while chewing its leaves
and accompany a horse or mule for days together
up hill and down, and through the deepest sand,
with scarcely any other refreshment than chewing
coca. Its effects are said to be truly surprising. Tea
or a decoction of the leaves of this plant is a most
wholesome, refreshing, and agreeable beverage.
Tobacco is cultivated the whole length of the Hul-
yields magnificent crops, part of which is
toga, and
e% ported to Brazil. Cotton grows almost sponta-
neously in the neighbourhood of the houses, and
serves the inhabitants; gray shirting is an cuticle
of exchange in this province. Coffee grows with
extraordinary luxuriance, the branches being borne
down with he weight of numerous berries. The
population of the province of Loreto, counting all
the Indians reduced or submitted to the Govern-
ment is about fifty thousand, and there are thirty
or forty thousand savages. Its commerce is yet in
its infancy ; the exports are almost wholly by the
Amazon, the imports chiefly from the Pacific ports,
owing to Brazilian import duties. In hloyobamba,
the capital of Loreto, more than three thousand
women are oce,upied in spinning cotton, the clews
or balls of which are current money. The Amazon,
the Ucayali, and the Pachitea are navigable for a
great distance. So stupendous is the mass of water
which the monarch of rivers bears to the Atlantic

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Ocean that it exceeds that pf eight great rivers of
Asia put together—namely, the Euphrates, Indus,
Ganges, Oby, Lena, Amur, Yellow River, and the
Yang-tse in Coins. So deep is it, at least in its
upper pirt that no bottom has been found at a
depth of 721 feet. Ps declivity is so imperceptible
and slow that were not its volume of water so
powerful it would with difficulty flow. Scarcely is
its deecent in the space of 200 leagues 101-, feet—
that is to say, 1 27th of an iach ir, I,oooft. From
the Atlantic, as fur as Jaen de Bracamoros—latitude
5 deg. 30 min„ and longitude 75 deg. 40 min. west
of 13,ris, it has no c ttaracts or currents which im-
pede navigation. At that place its surface is 1,240 ft
above the level at Para. The all lents of the Ama'.
zon form among themselves tens of thousands of
leagues of navigable rivers, an immense net cover-
ing more than two-thirds of South America.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

A handsome monument to the officers, noncom-
missioned officers, and private soldiers of the 75th
(Stirlingshire) Regiment has been lately erected in
the cemetery at Stirling by the officers of the rea
giment and by many of those who formerly served
in it. This monument is a plain Runic cross, 12ft.
high, of polished red granite. On the front face is
the crest of the regiment, being a garter encircling
the word Stirlingshire and the number 75, sup-
ported by two thistles, and surmounted by a crown,
and beneath it, on the shaft and pedestal, the fol-
lowing words incised and gilt—" In memory of Col.
R. D. Halifax ; Captains E. W. S. Knox, A. Chan-
cellor; Lieuts. A. Harrison, J. R. S. Fitzgerald, C. R.
Rivers, E. V. Briscoe, 0, C. N. Faithful, W.
Crozier; Surg. J. Coghlan, and of 13 sergeants, 9
corporals, 3 drummers, and 216 private soldiers of
the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment who fell during
the Indian Mutiny. 1857-8. Erected by the officers
of the regiment and by their old comrades." On
the reverse face of the cross is the regimental badge
—the Royal Tiger, granted for hard service in
India half a century ago, when 300 men and officers
were left in the breach of Bhurtpore. Under the
tiger aro the words "India," " Seringapatam,"
"Delhi," "Relief of Lucknow," and then there are
thus briefly recorded the deeds of the regiment in
the performance of which the brave men fell to
whom the memorial has been erected :—" The 75th
(Stirlingshire) Regiment served with the army
which besieged and took the city of Delhi, and it
after wards formed part of the force which relieved
Alighur, Agra, and the garrison of Lucknow, A D.
1857-8." Uuderneath this is inscribed, "Thine, 0
Lord, is the glory and the victory." The 75th Re-
giment was raised at Stirling in the latter part of
the last century, and was then a kilted regiment,
Having been recently permitted to adopt the county
name, it was thought desirable by the officers of the
regiment to erect this monument (which had been
long contemplated) in the county town. Provost
M'Murrie and the Town Council of Stirling cordially
assisted in carrying out their wishes, and granted
the best site that could be chosen for the memorial.
Mr. E. Richardson, Harewood-square, London,
designed the memorial.
Colonel Mitchell, Commandant Royal Marines at
Woolwich, yesterday retired from the service, with
the honorary grade of major-general, and is slice
ceeded by Col. Williams Friend Hopkins, C. 8,,
A,D.C. to her Mejeaty, who will assume the duties
in a few days, Colonel Joseph Oates Travers, C. 8.,
late Assist.-Adjte General, acting ad interim.
The reinforcements selected to augment the 12th
Regiment and the 43d Light Infantry, together with
the other detachmen's under orders to proceed to
New Z .gland, will embark at Gravesend to-morrow
on board the chartered troopship Light Brigade,
under the superintendence of the effi2yrs of the staff
from Chatham garrison. The troops have been fur-
nished with their sea kits, and have been medically
inspected. and also inspected by lkijor-General Sir
Robert Walpole, K. 0.8.
The ordinary drills and field exercises usually
carried out in Woolwich garrison yesterday gave
place to a series of rustic sports and gymnastic ex-
ercises, held on tho Royal Artillery barrack field, in
commemoration of the joint anniversaries of the
battles of the Alma in 1851 and Delhi in 1857.
The proceedings were under the sanction and patro-
nage of Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., Comma's.
dant. The Committee of management consisted of
Col. Wodehouse, C.B, Major Ord, Captains Calvert,
It, Gore, Keate, and Gibbs ; Lieuts. Walker, J. C.
Robinson, and W. Crawford ; Capt. Lardner Clarke,
superintendent of the gymnasium, secretary and
treasurer ; clerks of the course, Captain Williams,
11,A., A.D.C., Capt. Nangle, R.A., Deputy-Assist.
Quartermaster General and Mc. G. Stewart,
R.A. ; starters, Capt. Calvert, R.H.A., and Major
Hay, Brigade Major, R.A. The sports occupied the
entire day, commencing at 11 a.m., and, with an
interval of an hour for dinner, continuing until 6
p.m. Many thousands of persons were present, and
a space in the immediate vicinity of the grand stand
and booth, appropriated for ladles only, was kept
select by admission on the presentation of tickets
obtained at the Deputy-Quartermaster-General's
office, which were liberally supplied. The garrison
bands of music were in attendance. The sports
consisted of throwing the cricket ball and heavy
shot, flat race, hop, step, and jump, hurdle race,
wrestling, sack race, three-legged race for mon and
boys, &c. The prizes were contributed by the officers
of the garrison.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Supply yesterday
returned to Wool wich from the Mediterranean,laden
with returned stores, in temporary charge of Master-
Commander Fox. Her commander, Bawden, having
terminated his sick leave, yesterday reported him.
self at the Commodore'stoffice, in order to resume his
command. Commander Bawden has been invalided
'rom a severe attack of rheumatic fever, but is now

convalescent.
The stem of the iron frigate Bellerophon, having
been completed at the smithery in Chatham dock-
yard, has been removed to the factory, where it is
undergoing the cutting and planing process previous
to being fixed in its place. Unlike the other iron
frigates, the stem of the Bellerophon is forged in
three separate pieces, and is the largest work of the
kind ever undertaken at Chatham dockyard. Its
gross weight is nearly 30 tons, but this will be very
considerably reduced during the time it is undergo•
ing the necessary preparation before it can be fitted
in its place. The peculiarlormation of the bow of the
Bellerophon, which resembles nothing so much as
the lower part of a capital S, renders the operation
of smoothing and cutting it a difficult and somewhat
tedious undertaking, but some additional powerful
machinery has recently been erected at Chatham
dockyard, to be used in operations of this kin&
Some new machinery, of a more powerful kind than
any hitherto iu use at Chatham, has recently been
erected in the factory adjoining the dock in which
the Bellerophon is building, to be used in the pre-
paration of the 6-inch and other armour plates
destined to incase that vessel,-which, according to
her present rate of progress, wi!l be ready to receive
her first plate early in the ensuing year.
The following appointments were made on Monday
at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry W. Mist, to
the Achilles ; Edw. T. Peach, engineer, to the Bri.
tannia, for the Dapper ; Henry Vatcher, second-
class assist..engineer, to the Britannia, for the
Dipper; Charles K 0' Molony, clerk, to the Brick;
and George 0. E. de 11. Goullct, assist.-clerk, to
the Impregnable. The following appointments
were also made yesterday at the Admiralty :
Lieut. Charles Giffard, to the Excellent ; Lieut.
Henry M. Ommaney, to the Tamar; Selwyn S.
Sugden, master, to theCyurztbseirelrainnd,chfoarrateh,etoCathde-
mus ; Kiddie, assist.-
pa
Supply; Richard S. Stuart, master's assistant, to
the Royal Adelaide; Nicholas H. Rowe, acting
second-class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland,
for the Bristol; W. Alelntyre, acting second-class
assibt..engineer, to the Cumberland, for the Terriblz;?