The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

(REUTER' S TELEGRAM.)
Market quiet. Sales, about 5,000 bales.
Im-
Port, 11,594; previously, 15,523.

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

We have recently seen the third annual report of
this society, which contains some interesting par-
ticutars of its proceedings. The principal objects
Proposed by its members are the introduction and
acclimatisation of animals, birds, fishes, insects, and
Vegetables, useful and ornamental; the perfection
of races already domesticated ; and the transmission
Of animals from England to her colonies and to
foreign parts. These designs are likely to be very
beneficial, if properly carried out, and to add largely
Fq our comforts and luxuries at home and abroad.
As a proof of the increasing favour in which the
*4lciety is held, we may mention that its members
have increased more than 136 per cent. during the
last year. The results of the experiments with
Chinese sheep, prairie grouse, Honduras turkeys,
and the Ailanteus silkworm, have been especially
atisfactory. Some of the newly-introduced vege-
tables have also been successful. Lord Powerscourt
48 been making several experiments with a view
to domesticating and acclimatising several rare kinds
of deer, with varying success. He reports as the
esult of his experience that the climate of Ireland
la too damp to be favourable to tropical animals,
although he has not entirely abandoned the hope of
naturalising the eland or some similar species in
these islands. The society is likely to be of even
.greater service to our colonies than to ourselves,
while the climate of our Australian settlements more
especially would offer fewer obstacles to their ex-
periments. We observe that its annual festival will
very shortly be held, when several new and elabo-
rate dishes will pique the curiosity of the gourmand,

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FIE roLISHINSITRRECTION.—The Czas publishes
the following letter from Polish Livonia :—" The whole of
l'l.oland will utter a cry of lamentation on hearing of the
death of Count Leon Plater, shot in the square of the for-
tress of Dunaburg. This great patriot has stained with
his blood the soil on which Count Henry, his grandfather,
Ambassador from the States of Livonia to Sigismund
Arigustus, King of Poland, took leave of his electors in
the Stavostie of Dunaburg, which for centuries, up to
the partition of Poland, had belonged to his family. Leon
Plater, was only 26 years of age, and from the moment he
tell into the hands of his executioners he suffered martyr-
(l°ol. He died calm and resigned for the liberty of his
country. In returning from the execution we entered a
church where were assembled the desolated sisters of the
murdered man, his family, and his friends, who had taken
refuge near the altar, and were offering up their prayers.
..a.,,
"0 admired the courageous mother of Leon Plater,
n°, seeing those around her bathed in tears, consoled
them by saying, Do not weep, my dear friends; you
see that I do not. I should have shed tears if my dear
Leon had been afraid of the Muscovite condemnation; I
Went to give him my blessing; I prayed to God for him
and with him.' It is only faith in the holiness of the cause
that can inspire such heroic courage and perseverance. A
nation which produces such characters cannot die in Mus-
covite chains. Twenty Russian soldiers guarded the vene-
rated tomb, and were reinforced at midnight. At one
o'clock a cart came and conveyed it into the interior of the
trtress, his body pierced with balls. It appears that be
had been provisionally buried in the bastion which bears
the name of Constantine."
THE PIGEON SHOOTING MATCHES AT HORNSEY-
°°D.—The grand summer pigeon shooting handicap—the
6eeend of the season—will take place at Hornsey-wood on
Monday next. A let ge entry has already been made, and
It is expected the list will be largely increased before the
meeting,

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.221. per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 13
17s. 101c1. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-10ths per cent. dealer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.5} per £1 sterling.
tandard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, rather
more than 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Ham-
burg
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1551 to 1561 per cent., and the premium on
gold is about 421 per cent. At these rates there is a profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo
nial-office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope,
Natal, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Go-
vernore of the settlements on the West Coast cf Africa.