The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market--This Days

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
Quieter and steady. Sales, about 10,000 bales,
Imports, 5,282; previously, 8,782.

VERY STRANGE.—The extraordinary facilities
for locomotion in the present day are the cause of strange
sights. Only the day before yesterday, at a quarter-past
four, we saw Bolt-court running into Fleet-street !—Fun.
The Aissa-Outra, one of the most fanatic sects
of Islamism, have just celebrated at Algiers the
anniversary of the birth of Mahomet. The scene was a
very exciting one, Some of them applied their tongues to
hot icon; others performed the exercise of the trapeze on
very sharp sabre blades; others ate scorpions or plunged.
sharp pieces of iron into their eyes and made them start
from their orbits, and some enthusiasts capped all these
performances by swallowing the most prickly leaves of the
cactus. Serpent charmers also exercised their calling ; they
made necklaces and bracelets of those reptiles, irritated.
them, and then calmed them by playing on the flute, thus
rendering them EO tame that they went into the men's
mouths without doing any, injury.
A portion of a Roman road has just been dis-
covered at Trier by some men engaged in digging a cellar.
It is six feet below the surface; its upper stratum is com-
posed of very hard pebbles laid down three feet deep, and.
resting on blocks of limestone.

The Union des Deux Sevres states that a young
man at St. Servan who was engaged to ride as a jockey at
the races of Dinan, subjected himself to so severe a course
of training in order to reduce his weight, that he was found
dead in the stable two days since, apparently from starva-
tion.

The " pilgrimage" to Cherbourg organised by the
Parisian parish of Notre-Dame-des•Victoires, which
wo noticed last week as about to come off, did not
prove a success. On the pilgrims' arrival and leav-
ing the railway station in procession they were as-
sailed by a large mob, hooting and yelling, which
broke through the cortege, the " disjecta membra "
of which do not appear to have afterwards reunited.
No personal violence was, however, offered to tha
devotees by the irreligious populace.
M. Imbert-Koaehlin, of Mulhouse, has addressed
a letter to the Pressc giving an account of the first
results of the cultivation of cotton in Corsica. He
states that he has received samples of the cotton
from M. Pierraggi at Caivi, and finds it of very
superior quality. M. Pierraggi says that most
of the plants bear above 100 capsules, some
as many as 150, each containing from one to two
grammes of pure cotton. Some of the land on
which the cotton plant succeeds so well has hitherto
been regarded as the very worst in the neighbour-
hood of Cclvi. The plants have generally attained
a height of from 70c. to one metre, without the
benefit of irrigation. From these facts M. Imbert-
Kcechlin cuncludes that the cultivation of cotter.
will ultimately prove a great :.succes,., in Corsica.
A Dijon journal states that an old man, named
Golot, who was born in January, 1757, Pasfed
through that town last week on his way to Botir-
borine-les-Bain. Notwithstanding his 106 years,
the gallant old man is in the enjoyment of excel-
lent health and walks well without the help of a
stick. 'The old man has a wife of the Kim() age as
himself.