The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Sales of the week 51,580 bales, including 15,220
on spec and 10,690 for export. Actual export,
4,819. Quotations:—Middling Orleans, 26i ; Up-
land, 261 ; Fair Egyptian, 274 ; Surats, 281 29.
Imports of the week, 20,781 bales.

Very little doing at the opening, prices nominal,
Sales probably 2,000 bales.

M. DESJOBERT, A LANDSCAPE PAINTER Of BOIDO
eminence in France, lately died at Paris. Among his
works are " The Landscape Painters" (in the Luxembourg
Gallery), "A Forest in Autumn," "Under the Apple
Trees," several views of Jersey (belonging to the Emperor),
and numerous scenes in Normandy. _

THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK, SIR J. BROOKE, has
recently arrived in England. Previous to his departure
from Sarawak he was presented with an address, signed by
all the officials of the Government with but one exception,
pledging the fidelity of the subscribers to his person and.
Government, and their determination to maintain his
rights as Rajah and founder of Sarawak.
THE " FALSE COAST" OF THE DELTA OF THE
NIGER, as described by a F. R. G. .5., in his
" Wanderings in Western Africa" :—Nothing is more
simple than to sketch the -view as seen from the sea.
Above, an azure space based upon a band of dull and
btight greens, resting upon a thin line of golden sac_noidivi,tiaililndeiblt
in the foreground a little deeper ultramarine than in the
air. In the rainy season, change the blue above to a heavy
thant—W thhteahrtee
is
trhti river errs.
say,
ehe
exaips‘rtvsaurietten:;ll be de-
noteduneven notch in the land, and, as a rule, themass of clouds, reposing upon the land, and the blue below
into islands, and subdivided into
ents,
atory_,, my
somewhat
to
Dol ipeebbwrrehboinauthnnoit
sdl i
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oe
dividedri.n
islets,no RhyaroivLerE..l—One
-ehaluinnteLedeerceeokrer.espond
in the controversy just going on on the diseaszs of
cattle, vouches for the truth of the following
,among
was
followed, buried
and; a which disease
broke out—one was
oo
fl dsofrmi eenlidi
kind, which
ha dahgeredaitdl onto oft pi
know,pigs,
second died, and was
alsose i seized e
buried
andur
ied d; i ead
t, andh ir d
for the butcher to kill and dress all8on
that
seized, until at last my friend the"' t
wi l le r teh
lee f
tnumber
dead and buried got into the te
.
and still others were
ought it was time to send.
he could not help his a
meat lost to the State in
The butcher, knowing all
thoughtfully, for being bit of a political economist
the circumstances, set to work
my friend to buy the
this :--Having thoughts running to the quantity of
the buried pigs, and the result was
resist such an There were the bright sovereigns, and.
a Londonneor,onWeo won't goffb:
offer
t
this a private voucher for
the pigs he killed, he proposed to
buried pigs also. What farmer could
there the buried Ii t.s Well,
tr troth,
,lolri vlef,esairr
you,, the
bpeiignsgonlywere
dug up, dressed, rigs.
arise, send live and sent to market. I will send you rith
t believe it. My friend is a jolly good
fellow—
etter ; no one has a better reputation, or is
niogninelltheuemld
more trusted.
oxen• SVhy
t,
o then,
market should
wi
thnnoottlh,inifsowccraos
but lung lu disease i?"

SOPHIE ARNOULD'S COMICAL COMPASSION.—
Hearing one day that a capuchin monk had been devoured
by wolves, " Poor beasts," said Sophie, compassionately,
" hunger must be a dreadful thing l"—/Itiss Clayton's
" Queens of Song."

Tots FOR SICK CHILDREN.—The Hospital Or
Sick Children in Great Ormond-street has ogaill
been fortunate enough to receive an especial mark efil°r;
favour in the kind consideration of her Majesty for t"a"
most helpless class of her subjects—" sick childrn." A
valuable present of a quantity of toys of all descriptions has
been received by the managers, sent by
Queen ; aho a similar present from' heritoyel Illghuese the
Princess Helena and his Ro3 al Highness PrILICe Alfred.
borne by
The value of these gifts will, we have 1:::::::dbeoffutlhlye
appreciated by the little people for whose particular gratifi-
{ royal ho,,
cation this condescending instance °' -
of lightening some of
been evinced. It must be the wen°
the weary hours of suffering ge°erallY so patiently

emi:inthtima
samtead
emanager
EB.—Villebecque acted be-
charge which Stella had
these little prisoners.
A MODEL MAyNailuang
comingly to the
aspirants,
aeanste:h
ellui.vi:eiri.si,ee_‘lbf,icialciseubweeecbgheuave
bequeathed to him.ab
a man of enterprise, a restless sprit, not content to move-
for ever in the apbero in which he was born, Vicissitudes
s the very Chevalier Law of theat;7l
oawrfiethat(hmseintlo:ti.loo
and made
illebecque,
futh,suneacahtare, money, if v. ,er
capital was
He took a larger theatre, and even that 1 inallagere*
ho was recognised as the lessee of succeeded. Soon
still he prospered. Villebecque b more than one, and
houses. He enthroned himselfat gala to dabble in opera.
heard of at Milan and Naples, Paris ; his envoys were
His controversies with the Loat Berlin and St. Petersburg.
among state papers. -A,,,,et: Conservatoire at Paris ranked
drove cabs ; villebecquv ill becque rolled in chariots and
nobler, who were honoured by
refined suppers to great
wore a red ribbon in the .'
hy the invitation ; Villebecque
than one cross in hisbutton•hole of his frock, and more
RAILWAY gala dress.—Disraeles Coningsby.-
VANDALISM.—The famous Roman
grave mounds- known as the Bartlow Hills, after
having been spared by the plough and the harrow for more
than a thousand
years, have at length been condemned to
destruction,in
order
to accommodate a minor feeder of the
Great Eastern
Railway,