The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
LIVERPOOL, March 9.
Market quiet. No change. Sales 5,000 bales,
Import 1,629.

GAME PRESERVES IN AUSTRALIA.—We have been
favoured by Mr. Thomas Austin's gamekeeper with
a few details respecting the gallinacea which are so care-
fully tended at Barwood Park. After thinning out the cock
pheasants, so as to ensure a proper equality for the breeding
seasonbreeding to the dames, thero are twenty-two hens in the
theconmesptasrvtmar:enntmewhich have laid two hundred eggs,
fowls,out of which number, 142 are placed under sitting
young
that they birds are laying,
mingle
have got on admirably, from 15 to 16 eggs. The partridges
y• There are about 20 eggs, and four
These birds have become so domes-
ticatedfrom the with the ordinary fowls, and feed
hand. The hares, though improving in form and
waxing fat, still preserve their shyness. The chief diffi-
culties that lie in the way of the preservation of game have
been
successfully combated, as is illustrated by the remains
of :100 eagle hawks, s ,me of which measure eight feet from
tip to tip of expanded wings. During the past year, 1,000
native eats came to an untimely end. The hawks still con-
tinue their depredations. The warren of wild rabbits is
now redolent of life as an ant-hill, and swarms of bunnies
are thrown off, which find their way to Armytage's old sta-
tion, up the Leigh, and down the Barwon banks, for miles
affording increasing sport to the gun. The newly imported
Quail are doing satisfactorily, and seem to luxuriate in their
hew abode. Snipe abound in this pastoral retreat, no fewer
than 21 brace being knocked over by one gun last week.—
Geelong Chronic,e.
A.:'; EXTRAoRDZSARY COUNTY.—It is a curious
eirentnstance COUtitett-d with the principality of
Wales, the Prince and Princess of which are now being
'welcomed, that there is one county in it (Merionethshire)
that has no resident titled person of any sort—duke, mar-
earl, baron, viscount, baronet, or knight. Formerly
'here was a baronet in the county, but he dieu five or six
Years ago, and the title became extinct. Theme is no cor-
poration, no mayor, but it has one special advantage, that
the county being pertly iu the diocese of Bangor and partly
in
the diocese of St. Asaph it has term. bishops to look atter
its spiritual interests. The county has one member to re-
present the whole of it, there being no borough in it which
has the privilege of returning a representative to the House
°orations.
The following notice occurs in the obituary of
'..16 Surrey Times:--" On the 28th Dec., at Lady
rey, Aliwal North, South Africa, William Hughes, C.E.,
v
aged 45, second son of the late Thomas Hughes, C,E.,
authorter of works upon roads, bridges, foundations, and
other kindred subjects, and grandeen of John Hughes, in-
en of the steam dredging machine, engineer and cone
tiaraeeor for
many Government and other large public works
'United Kingdom. There being no clergyman on
the spot, the burial service was read by Mr. Pearce, J.P.,
,and his remains were followed to the grave by all the Eng-
lish residents, who evinced sincere regret at the loss of so
esteemed a member of the community."
h M'darae Ratazzi, who was an authoress before
„er last marriage, is now advertising a new novel called
Mademoiselle Million," which bears her present name on
the title-pages

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Western, 41 per cent. red., 981 9
Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pref., loit si
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., 1251
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent, 21 20f
Great Luxembourg., 15f
Recite and San Francisco (11m.), gua, 7 per cent., 18f
San Paulo gua. 7 per cent. (all), 231
FOREIGN MINES.

Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 4
JOINT-STOCK RANKS.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 22
London, B. Ayres, and R. Plate (him.), 12
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23
Lonaon and Colonial (him.), 43
London and County, 451 1
London Joint Stock, 51
London and Westminster, 77
Ottoman Bank, 12
Ditto, new, 113
Union of Ireland (him.), 91
MISCEL LANEOUS.
Electric Telegraph, 100
Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 131
South Australian Land, 31i
Van Diemen's Land. 133

THE CORLODGE COLLIERY CATASTROPHE,—The
whole of the bodies of the unfortunate young men
and boys, nineteen in number, who lost their lives in the
explosion at the Coxlodge Colliery, near Newcastle, under
the circumstances reported in out last impression, having
been recovered, an inquest upon them was formally opened
on Saturday, and Ns as adjourned till Wednesday next.
PRESENTATION OF A ROYAL STURGEON TO THE
PRINCE OF WALES.—In the course of Saturday
afternoon a royal sturgeon about eight feet long, and weigh-
ing about 2(101bs , was conveyed to Windsor as a marriage
present by the catcher, a fisherman from Chichester Har-
bour.

1 HE COST OF ALGERlA.—According to a calcu-
lation made by the Presse, Algeria, from its con-
quest to the present time, has cost France the large sum
of 4,632,484,000 f. (£185,299,360), counting the expenditure
with compound interest.
M. Sarcy, of the Opinion Nationale, has just been
sentenced to I,ooof. damages and 200 f. fine for a rather too
severe critique against Mdlle, Pauline de Melin, the actress
at the Odeon, apropos of a piece wherein she did not per-

form.
THE RUSSIAN FORCES IN POLAND.—The Gene-
ral Correspondence of Vienna publishes a list of
the Russian forces now in the kingdom of Poland, and in
the old Polish provinces. The total number amounts to 10
divisions; or 150,000 men, and a reinforcement of 10,000
men is shortly expected. Out of these forces the kingdom
possesses 80,000, of whom 30,000 are necessary for the de-
fence of Warsaw, and 25,000 for that of the fortified towns,
leaving therefore only 25,000 men disposable for other
services.