The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-06 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Since the American news per the China, holders
have partially got over the peace panic, and a deal
of cotton has been withdrawn from the market.
There is a good demand this morning at advancing
prices. Sales, probably 12,000 bales.

A STATUE OF JAMES WATT is proposed to be
erected at Birmingham.
THE GREAT TRIENNIAL HANDEL FESTIVAL of
four thousand performers, it is gratifying to remember, will
be held at the Crystal Palace in the last week of June.

The German translator of the " Life of Caesar" is
to receive 8,000 francs per volume.

BLoNDIN is announced to appear at the Agricul-
tural hiall this evening.

Mr. HENRY WILLIAM HEMANS, SON OF THE
POETESS, has been appointed British Consul at Buffalo,
United States.

JOACHIM, THE VIOLINIST, is expected in London
next March.

MASTER WILLIE PAPE has received an invitation
through his patroness, the Countess Cowley, to play before
the Emperor and Empress at the Tuileries.
MADAME LEMMENS SHERRINGTON is to sing at the
Cologne Festival this summer.
THE DESERTIONS FROM THE NORTHERN ARMIES
have become very serious, to the great wonder of
the Federal journals. But it is not wonderful. The de-
serters aro generally substitutes and bounty jumpers, who
have more taste for dollars than for fighting. These
miserable men are now to meet the extreme penalty of mi-
litary law. Already the executions have become pretty
frequent. A New York journal records with great equani-
mity the following list of executions in the Eastern army :
—" December 16, three men ; December 23, four men; De-
cember 30, one man : January 6, four men, were executed
for desertion." The "military spirit" is gaining ground
rapidly, and the Americans promise to be as docile as Rus-
sians before the campaign is over.—Army and Navy Gazette.
The second ordinary general meeting of the Lon-
don Tavern Company was held to-day, and a divi-
dend was declared at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum, together with a bonus of ls. per share, both
free of income tax.

There were no bullion operations at the Bank on
Saturday.
The report of the Credit Foncier of Mauritius,
just issued, states that the accounts show a gross
profit to the 31st December of £9,043 13s. 3d.,
which, after deducting expenses of management in
London and Mauritius, paying all other current
charges, and writing £5OO off preliminary expenses,
amounting to £3,847 10s. 7d., leaves an available
surplus of £5,196 2s. Bd. ; sufficient to pay a divi-
dend of 6s. a share, being at the rate of a little
more than 5 per cent. per annum upon the capital
called up, from the respective periods at which the
calls became due, and to leave the sum of £2,196
2s. Bd. to be carried to credit of new account,
At the first ordinary general meeting of share-
holders of the Provincial Banking Corporation, held
to-day, the directors recommended the payment of
a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
which was agreed to. _

At the ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Telegraph to India Company, held
to-day, the directors recommended a dividend at
the rate of per cent. per annum, free of income tax,
which was agreed to.
Felicien David's "Ilerculanum" has been given
at the Italian Opera at St. Petersburg, with Tam-
berlik, Mme. Barbot, and Mme. Nantier-Diditie.
It is reported by some theatrical papers that there
is a possibility of Listz paying .a visit to Paris in the course
of the spring. Ile is now at Mime, as our readers aro
aware, and only plays in a few of the choicest salons, but
chiefly at the Russian Legation.