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

MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY.

White wheat, 45s to 48s ; red, 42s to 45s per 3G stone.
;golfing barley at 36s to 39s per qr.; grinding, 29s to 331.
po. 30 at. Oats, old, 26s t 0,305; new, 20s to 23s per 2.
st. ; beans, 37s to 41s per qr.

SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY.
We had a tolerable supply of wheat, and the dewsncl
was moderate, ao,prices not materially altered.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss Od to 17s ,01
White ff I ...18s Od to 195 °L;
New red „
v ..15s Od to 18s Od
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New white II ,_ ..18s Od to 20s O i
Beans If 71 .. • 15s 6d to 17s 6I
Peas, per qr 4ss Od to 56s °I
Grinding barley, per qr
Malting ditto, „ 34s Od to 386 „A
Oats 11 22s Od to 27s
Flour, is 7d to 2s ld per stone.

MELTON MOWBRAY—TuEsim.y.

The following were the currencies :—New white wheat,
45s Od to 50s Od ; new red, 43s Od to 46s per 36 stone;
beans, 39s to 43s for old ; new sorts, 37s to 38s per 38 st.
barley, 31s to 38s for malting, and 28s to 30s per qr. for
grinding; new oats, 22s to 270 d per 24 stone.

DUBLIN—TUESDAY.
The supply of wheat and oats small—wheat 6d to 9d and
oats about 3d dearer. Indian corn still a drag.
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QEA.—VA C ANCIES for
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-rremiuto moderate. Aloo `..toprentices without premium.—
APply to SIMMONDS ar,d Co.. 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
cheap, EC Third Qtr ..d
and Stewards wanted.

NORTH lIRITISH AND AIERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parl4rnent.
AAccumulated and Invested Funds
nnual Revenue.... ......... 422,401

FII;E DEPARTMENT.
lasuran,es eranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on
Luc most liberal terms.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Eve
17 facility offered to Insurers.
oti"tiaqY per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
the participating, principle.
The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows:
Policies. Amount Turured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,041 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
134 application at the

OFFICES :

LONDON 58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
05,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.

A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periotcally made to
rutrties insuring, who have thus, from time 'co time, received
bums amounting in the aggregate to £440,0'd0 ; and the Society
now holds a large Reserve applimble to. a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
charged by the other principal ofkees making no returns to
their insurers.
For pro'pectuses apply at The Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, CreFltent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
MEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inenrance-
buildings, LiverpoeL
Total Almnal Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.

Chairman in London :

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

txry,
RAcrs FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

enlitna

1862.
ca led ihe Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
bleeting
upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
of its Shareholders.
BRANCH.
The Directors have, asFIRE pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close 0' the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums
have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The hioi comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained.
'n4,:fhe profit of the business of the year exceds considerably
p,e amount realised in the precedaig year,e and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi. Office, the balance to the credit on
tace-ount of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
d
a" of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.

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No. 22,215.

MRS. GREY'S NEW NOVEL.
Just ready, in 3 vols.,
Go 0 D S ocIET Y.
Ey MRS. GREY,
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Author of " The Gambler's Wife," .tc.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-
street.

NEW NOVEL by the Author of "COUSIN GEOFFREY."
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 volt.,
LEFT TO THEMSELVES.
By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey,"
" A very touchirm story. It is one of the most clever boons
of the season."—United Service Mag.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborottgli-street.

ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1864. Price 6(1.
Fiftieth Thousand. Contains a full Report of the
Action for Libel and Verdict gained by the Editor. Stinging
reply to the Critics of the Press. Letters from the
late Prince Consort to Zadkiel !
London : G. Berger, Holywell-street, Strand, London.

FGYPTIAN HALL.-NR. J. K. LORD,
F.Z. S.. Nightly in his popular Entertainment entitled
" AT HOME IN THE WILDERNESS." ,

I'HE SUN? LONDON, WEDAESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1863.

Admission-55., 35., 25., is.

T"E 0 x.FORD,
e, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, wiil be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean dm.
Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson.
Also, a Performance by Herr SCIIALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.
The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the
Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected,
affordinc, a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal-
cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr.
A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im-
provements
at Ten
EACH

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on n-w policies for fhe year 1P62
exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
4,,t, the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
'701427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few Years it is believed that such a sum Immured as that which
hasas just been announced as the result of one year's business
W all but unheard of.
This portion of the Company's business has been carefully
Watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
Shareholder as well as no small encouragement for the
future to the participating, life assurer.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for assurance A mounts to £ t 43,281. Various degrees
of Ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern
Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
GHOST ! The GHOST ! ! The ONLY COMIC
GHOST !! ! —The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A
Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina
and Signor Guiseppe Francesco, assisted by a corps of
Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas :
Principals, Miss M.`Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini, and
Mr. Vernon Rigby.

(Prom the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
In the week that ended last Saturday (Sept. 5), the deaths
in London exhibited a considerable decrease; they fell to
1,232, which is a lower number than any that has been re•
turned since the first week of July.
The chief decrease in the mortality arose from diarrhoea
which fell from 181 to 120 ; whilst the deaths from small-
pox, scarlatina, diphtheria, whooping-cough, and typhus
were about the same as the previous week. More than one-
half of the mortality during the week occurred to the
younger portion of the population, viz., to 704, who were
under 20 years of age ; 326 were between 20 and 60, and
201 at 60 years and upwards. A gardener is recorded as
having died at the advanced age of 97 years.
Last week the births of 925 boys and 933 girls, in all 1863
children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (cor-
rected was 1,830.

METROPOLITAN WATERS IN AUGUST, 1863

The domestic waters of London, according to the analyses
of Dr. Robert Dundas Thompson, F.R.S., contain rather
more organic and total impurity than in the preceding
month, the most striking examples being illustrated by the
Kent and Lambeth companies. The Thames water at
London-bridge at high water has been highly charged with
impurities and sea water, three experiments having yielded
a mean of 232.67 deg. of total, and 2638 deg. per gallon of
organic impurity, while the amount of ammonia from the
sewage was •748 grains per gallon. One of the wells in St.
Maiylebone contained as much as 2.72 grains ammonia per
gallon, an evidence of the large admixture of sewage with
which it is contaminated .

NICOSI A, the Great Violinist, will make his
Third Appearance in England THIS EVENING
and Every Evening, at the ALHAMBEA.
Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7,

Total impurity Organicim-
per gallon. purity.
gni. or deg• grs. or deg.
Distilled Water 0•0 0.0
Loch Katrine water, new supply
to Glasgow 2.35 .605
Manchester water supply
Upper Marylebone-street Well 106•40 7.60
Thames at London-bridge.. 232.67 26.38
THAMES COMPANIES.
Chelsea
Southwark
West Middlesex l6/2 1.36
Grand Junction 16.64 1.60
Lambeth
OTHER COMPANIES.
East London
New River
Kent
The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the
gallon 2'35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution,
of which '605 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal
origin.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.700 in. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 57'8 deg., Which is
0.9 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature
occurred on Sunday, and was 72.1 deg. The lowest night
complete
temperature was 45.2 deg. on Tuesday. The range of tem-
perature in the week was therefore 26.9 deg. The mean
daily range was 17.1 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 714 deg.
saturationTh e mean
be degreeing
represented
byo
1f theoo. ai
The r was
wind76l;as chiefly
from the south-west, and rain fell heavily on Friday and
Saturday.
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ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
Th, se elrgant Rooms, entirely and costly redecorated,
are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season.
The musical department is under the directorship of Mons.
Jullien, conductor of the band. This celebrated band will be
called for the future "The London Band."
Manager of the Rooms—M. GRENET.
Sole Lessee, R. It. BIGNELL.
Admission, ls.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.

Naval and Military Intelligence.
---..,.—_-
THE NAVY.

The Speedwell gunboat, 428 tons and 80 horse
power, now fitting for service in the inner basin at
Woolwich, was yesterday commissioned by Mr. G.
Metter for Commander George Cottam, late of the
Recruit, the officers and crew of the latter vessel
having been transferred to the Speedwell. The
crews are berthed for the present on board the re-
ceiving ship Salsette, as the Speedwell is not ex-
pected to be ready for sea before the end of October.
Her armament will consist of 0133 68-pounder,
95cwt. pivot gun, two 24-pounder howitzers, and
two 20-pounder Armstrong guns. Commander
Cottam has borne the brunt of much hard and dan-
gerous service. His appointment to the gunboat
Speedwell is therefore a matter of surprise, and is
accounted for on the supposition that the Speed-
well is the only vessel of that class now to be com-
missioned, and that the gallant Commander's ser-
vices will be requited shortly by his removal to a
more honourable command.

ESTABLISHED 1833.
111 OWDEN'S IERATED GINGER BEER, in
,lass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve
months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potass, Seltzer, and every
description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White
Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.c.

If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
Lond3n or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns 01 duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.
The Directors conclude their present Report with the
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurancu Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a let.gthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
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HARPER TWELVETREES' GLYCERINE
SOAP POWDER makes its own Soap, and saves
one-half of time, two •third 4 of Soap, and Viree-fourths of
labour! Patentee : Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley .by-Bow,
London. Sold by Grocers, Druggists, and Oilmen.

TEA.-MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to 3s. 2d. ; S'ouelionc, reduced to 3s. ed. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to Sd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 9s. 4d.
to 3s. lid, per lb.
MOORE BROTHERS, 33, London-bridge, City, E.C.

Adventure, for the undermentioned colonial sta-
tions :—Two non-commissioned officers and 70 gun-
ners for Canada ; 10 men for Nova Scotia ; and one
sergeant and 30 men for Bermuda. A party of 13
non-commissioned officers and sappers of the Royal
Engineers will proceed from Chatham garrison
with the detachment of the Royal Artillery, which
will be under the command of Capt. T. A. de Mo-
leyns and Lieut. J. Alleyne. Yesterday Lieut. E.
Johnson, Lieut. M. H. Haye©, Lieut. E. F. Cam-
bier, Lieut. H. Roberts, and Lieut. F. B. Knox, of
the first division of the D3pot Brigade, left head-
quarters and proceeded to Woolwich, where they
embark with draughts of Royal Artillery, under
orders to proceed to India for service in the Madras
Presidency.
Some important trials were made at Chatham
yesterday with • a pair of the new description of
military pontoons which have been introduced into
this country from Austria, the object being to test
their buoyant powers under every variety of circum-
stances. For this purpose the two pontoons tested
were floated up the Medway to the Ordnance-wharf,
where the trials were made by a numerous party of
officers and men of the Royal Engineers, acting under
the instructions of Lieut.-Col. Louell, C. 8., one of the
heads of departments at the Royal Engineer esta-
blishment. The peculiarity of the Austrian pontoons
tried yesterday is that their shape is altogether dif-
ferent from that of the ordinary Blanshard pontoon
in general use in the British army, which re-
sembles a huge cylinder, and being formed of
zinc, or some other equally light metal, and made
perfectly watertight, is possessed of extreme buoy-
ancy. The shape of the Austrian pontoons is ex-
actly that of the flat-bottomed river barges, and the
material of which they are composed is, thin plate
iron firmly riNetted together. The length of each
is 26ft, and width sft 6in, with a depth of about 3ft.
The weight of the pontoons used in the trials yes-
terday was not stated, but it was believed to be be-
tween one and two tons each. When brought up to
the wharf to receive the ordinary planking they
were found to be exceedingly buoyant, but at the
same time rather unsteady. Eight or ten Royal
Engineers, all of whom were first weighed, were
ordered to enter each pontoon, when scarcely any
difference could be observed in their draught of
water. Preparations were next made for form-
ing a raft, and a number of old 42-pounder
solid shot, weighing, in the aggregate, nearly
three tons, were placed on the planking in a solid
pile, in addition to which about a ton weight of
the cast-iron skidding used in transporting
the heavy guns was also shipped. The total
weight placed on the pontoons, inclusive of that of
the officers and sappers, was probably between five
and six tons, but as the pontoons are stated to be
capable of sustaining a dead weight of 5601 b. to the
foot, this had little effect in bringing them down to
the depth anticpaced. With the planking stores,
&c., on board, the unsteady motion previously ob-
served altogether ceased, and the raft was almost
motionless in the water. The trials yesterday left
no doubt as to the exceeding buoyancy of these pon-
toons, but the grave objection to their use will be
their unwieldly shape and character, and the diffi-
culty which must exist in transporting them as
part of the materiel of an army. This could be in part
obviated by forming each section of the pontoon into
a kind of waggon, placed on'wheels, easily removable
when the pontoon is required for aquo.iic operations.
Their great depth would render them well adapted
for the stowage of stores.

The steam storeship Industry, Master Comman-
der Yonel, has returned to Woolwich from her trial
trip after repairs, and is under orders to sail this
morning in charge of Mr. Barns,Admiralty pilot,
at 5 o'clock, on her voyage forAhe West Coast of
The only Africa. On going down to Woolwich from the Vic-
tualling-yard at Deptford, she was struck by a
in-
jurybrig ,
thewhich
Industrywa sseriously u damaged.unstained
was
the destruction of
her lifebuoy, which was replaced at Woolwich.
The sailing ship Rosabund, Captain Arthur
Symmers, yesterday made fast inside the T pier at
Woolwich Arsenal, and commenced shipping 16 12-
pounder Armstrong guns, waggons, and complete
nance
at Montrealsforthe4t7th, and 10th
4th,
and Quebec.
batterybrigad ppeuaßuuyratie
Artillery
The Pelorus, 21, screw corvette, 1,464 tons, and
The 400-horse power, ordered by the Board of Admi-
ralty to be commissioned immediately, at Devon-
port,
tfo r 2
Dt6,
eobv yoo
fan Copt.puoerrt s i
aHau Boys,edlnBmrsy67,anTdwas first commissioned
h Pelorus was launched
will have a complement
at that port by Capt. F. B. P. Seymour in July,
1108w5i7u, andg,
au
d sailedw
a s employed from
u Englanduth e
East India, China, i n September fol-
and Australian stations until paid off in December,
1862. In March last she was placed in the north
basin at Keyham, to have her machinery taken out,
preparatory tt of dockoherd in Juneetectsbein g made good. She
was and
was masted on
the 13th of Jaly, and returned to Keyham to be
rigged, stored, and armed for the Ist class reserve.
She made a trial of her machinery on the 28th of
August, and returned into harbour. Capt. Boys
served in the Edinburgh, 72, as midshipman, and
was much applauded during the operations on the
coast of Syria, and was wounded at the bombard-
ment of St. Jean d'Acre. After further serving on
particular service at the Cape of Good Hope, on the
coast of Africa, and on the south-east coast of
America, on the 14th of May, 1853, he was pro-
meted to the command of the Express, 6, on the
last-named station, and paid her off in September,
1856. He obtained post rank on the 17th of
October, 1857.

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

Shipbuilding for the Confederates.

PRICE..... -..4th
STAMPED ....sd.

THREE FEDERAL CHIEFS.

(From the new number of "All the Year Round," just
published.)
SECRETARY WILLIAM SEWARD.

his hair,
Mr. Seward may be forty-eight or fifty ;
a little in disorder, is light mingled with grey ; his
eyes, deep sunk beneath his eyebrows, are small,
but very sharp; his aquiline nose presents a very
decided curve ; his whole countenance reveals clever-
ness and intellect. Ho is an excellent companion,
very merry, very lively, and familiar from the first
shake of the hand. His manners are so free and
cast', that they almost excite suspicion at the outset.
One is apt to believe that craft cannot help lying
hid behind so frank an exterior. But such is not at
all the case. Mr. Seward is a capital fellow, very
open, and a bit of a joker. Everybody knows, too,
that although Mr. Lincoln is at the head of the
Government, the real man of importance, the verit-
able chief of the Republican party, is Mr. Seward.
Rich, independent, gifted to a high degree with
the impassioned, aggressive, boastful, facetious elo-
quence which pleases Anglo-Saxon meetings, he early
acquired great popularity, When the Republican
party had to choose a candidate for the presidency,
Mr. Seward's supporters were sufficiently numerous
to cause alarm. By a clever decision he avoided the
risk of a check. He offered his support to Mr. Lin-
coln. The move succeeded, and he took for himself
the next post after the presidency—the secretary-
ship of foreign affairs. He speaks no language
besides English, and knows little about Europe;
although he has the habit of saying with an em-
phasis which is some what comic, that he spent se-
veral years at the principal European Courts to
acquire the art of governing men.

PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

A few minutes after Mr. Seward's entrance, Mr.
Lincoln made his appearance. His stature is so
much above the average that he might be styled a
giant, were not the word—the expression of
strength and power in the biblical and mythologi-
cal senses—now confined to the vocabulary of tum-
blers and showmen. His countenance bears no
marked character, but approaches to the Celtic
type of Auvergne, with a long head and a sharp
nose. His hair is very black, as is also his beard,
coming to a point after the American fashion. If
this physiognomy expresses benevolence and frank-
ness, his attitude and manners are those of a modest,
nay, a timid person. Perhaps his embarrassed ad-
dress—which communicates itself to those with
whom he converses—is nothing more than the diffi-
culty experienced by men of his height in conceal-
ing it a little, and maintaining their equilibrium.

GENERAL M'CLELLAN.