The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

wore.

From the many models submitted to our inspection, wo
have selected the following toilettes as most likely to meet
with the approbation of our readers :
Toilette de vino of white and maize striped foulard; the
skirt scalloped, with box-pleated flounce under the scal-
lops. A ruche of maize silk on the scallops. Small Figaro
jacket, without sleeves. Round the jacket and armholes, a
thick crimped Thibet fringe. Under this veste is a white
foulard tight-fitting body, embroidered down the front and
sleeves with wheat-ears in gold silk. Black velvet sash,
with long broad ends falling behind, and embroidered like
the body. Black lace rotonde. Diana hat, with gold wheat-
ears and black feathers.

White Indian muslin, with double skirt,lhe under one
trimmed with eight rows of insertion, lined with mauve.
Over this skirt is another, cut in pointed scallops, and
trimmed.round with lace. In each scallop are five straps
of insertion, and at the upper point a bunch of flowers em-
broidered. Veste Russo of muslin and insertion. Open
jacket, with coat basque and long sleeves, trimmed to

match the skirt. Mauve sash, tied at the side. Circular
of white muslin, trimmed with lace and insertions. White
rice straw bonnet, with mauve feathers and tulle strings.
Mauve parasol, covered with white lace.
Blue linos dress of Princesse form. The front breadth
is quite plain ; on each of the others is a full flounce about
a foot wide. A band of Persian cachemiro, two inches
wide, is placed on the body k la Raphael, continued down
the front to the waist, and also down the sides of the front
breadth, and round the top of the flounce. This trimming
gives quite the appearance of a tunic. The sleeves are
small, and have a band of cachemire round the wrist. With
this dress was worn a small loose double-breasted jacket,
of the Canotiere form, with revers of Persian cachemire.
White tulle bonnet with blue couVolvulus.
White alpaca petticoat, with small blue flounce, headed
by three bands of blue ribbon. The dress was of white
mohair, with blue stripes about an inch wide. This skirt
quite plain, and looped up at intervals by bands of blue
velvet hanging from the waist. These bands form a very
pretty trimming when the skirt is let down. Body of the
same, with loops of blue velvet on the epaulettes. Half-
fitting jacket of white alpaca, trimmed with blue
velvet. Rice-straw hat, with tulle scarf and small blue
feathers.

Grey mohair dress, over petticoat of the same, which is
trimmed with three rows of black velvet, on which are
placed, pear together, pearl buttons. The dress-skirt is
scalloped or bound with black velvet. In each scallop are
two interlaced diamonds of velvet and buttons. The skirt
is only looped up at each side of the front breadth.
White Llama body and sleeves, trimmed with black velvet.
Tight-fitting casaque of grey mohair, trimmed like the
skirt. Grey straw hat, with scarlet feather. Grey parasol,
lined with scarlet.

The operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets during the last few days have been on
a very limited scale. Transactions in tea have been
delayed until to-day, when the public sales of China
produce commence. Sugars have been inactive,
but at steady rates ; while moderate dealings have
been reported in coffee. Rice, fruit, and spices are
at about former prices. Tallow has been in mode-
rate demand, at steady quotations, for both present
and forward delivery.
Messrs. J. H. Schroder and Co. have announced
the half-yearly interest on the Bay of Havanna
and Matanzas Railroad Seven per Cent. Loan of
1863.

Notice of the first call of £2 per share on the
Varna Railway Company; shares has been announced.
Colonel Wageman, the Government inspector, has
lately been over the works, and has expressed his
entire satisfaction at the progress made. The line
will be opened for traffic during the autumn of next
year.

The share list of the Marseilles Extension Rail-
way and Land Company (Limited) will close for
London on Saturday next, the sth inst., and Mon-
day next, the 7th inst., for the country.

NEW ROYAL ADELPHI PICNIC.—The members of
the New Adelphi Theatre company met yesterday
for the entertainment, not of the public, but of themselves.
Their sixth annual picnic has proved as pleasant a success
as any they have jointly helped to insuro on or off the
stage. The Thames Iron Company's steamer River Queen
conveyed the party to Frith, where they soon found
amusement in the grounds, the rain obligingly holding off
until it was time for a general move homeward. At a
collation served in a rustically decorated shed, Mr.
Webster joined the gathering, his arrival being signalled
by a salute from a miniature battery in the gardens. That
he was received by all present with cordial demonstrations
of respect and goodwill is a circumstance which, though
it might be assumed as a matter of course, deserves to be
recorded. Mr. Paul Bedford, as the oldest member, occu-
pied the chair ; and with scarcely an exception his fellow-
wcirkers rallied round him and the esteemed manager.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE.--
To-day is the 67th anniversary of the battle of the Nile,
where the French fleet met with such a decisive over-
throw from Lord Nelson. Five British veterans who were
engaged in the fight still survive, namely, Admiral Sir J.
A. Gordon, G.C.8., then midshipman, now Governor of
Greenwich Hospital ; Captain J. Forbes, then midshipman ;
Captain, J. S. Philips, then midshipman ; Commander R.
L. Connolly, then midshipmtn ; and First Lieutenant John
Scobell, who was then of his present rank, promotion of
any kind having singularly passed him by.
CONSCIENCE MONEY.—The sums remitted to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer by sundry persons for con-
science sake in the financial year ending with March, 1865,
amounted to £7,184, very nearly the same sum as in the
previous year.

A SUN large sun fish has just been
captured by some fishermen at Tenby. The fish gave tho
fishermen an exciting chase, but they ultimately succeeded
in capturing it with gaffs and boat-hooks, and then it was
towed on shore to the beach. The weight of the fish was
about 12cwt„ and it was five feet in diameter. In swimming
it turns upon itself like a wheel, which renders it very
difficult to catch. The fish, it appears, grows to as large a
size as 12ft. in diameter, and about one ton in weight, and
it is to be found in nearly all seas.

A CRUEL AcT.—A man named Wearne Ivey has
been committed for trial by the Falmouth magis-
trates for having thrust a fishing hook through the nose
of James Garland, a ropemaker, living at Falmouth. On
the evening of the 26th June the prisoner was at a public-
house at Falmouth, and after drinking a quantity of beer
he showed a man named Lenty, who was sitting near him,
a fishing hook, remarking at the same time that he intended
to hook some one by the nose with it. Soon afterwards he
left the house, and attempted to pick a quarrel with the
prosecutor's mother, who was standing at her door. Young
Garland, hearing a disturbance, looked out of his bed-room
window, and desired tho prisoner to go away. Ivey, how-
ever, refused to do so. This enraged the prosecutor, and
after going downstairs he put his hand on the prisoner's
shoulder, thinking to frighten him off. Ivey, instead of
moving away, took a large conger fishing hook from his
pocket and ran it through Garland's nose, saying, "Bone
for bone, you know you have got your mark, so good
night, lam going to bed." The catch near the end of the
hook had to be filed off before the surgeon could remove it.
The only defence that the prisoner could make was that
he had some hooks with him, and in the scuffle that took
place he lost one.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.--The directors of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company seem determined to
earn for themselves a wide and undying popularity. They
have behaved as rudely to the American as to the English
press. Three American newspapers—the New York Herald,
the World and Frank, Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper—each
sent a representative, who arrived in London about the
time when it was intimated the first start with the cable
would probably be made. After staying five weeks at
Morley's Rote), these gentlemen were informed, without
the slightest apology, that they would not be permitted
to be on board the Great Eastern, and they had to return
to America, their mission unfulfilled. But perhaps the last
act of the directors, or of their mouthpiece, Mr. Glass,
is the worst. A gentleman named Harrison, an engineer
by profession, and attached to the staff of the chief
electrical engineer on board the Great Eastern, has, it ap-
pears, been in the habit of occasionally contributing to the
columns of our contemporary, the Engineer, a class organ
of high position and repute. Somehow this horrible crime
became known to Mr. Glass, and immediately the authori-
ties on board are warned that a " newspaper " reporter is
amongst them, and must be instantly got rid of. Mr. Har-
rison is then and there ousted, or what boys call " bunked"
out of the ship, without a moment's warning, without being
permitted to offer any explanation, so hustled that he is
not even given time to get his luggage, which is now on
its way to America without him. And all this for fear he
might have anticipated anything which may be said in the
book to be published jointly by the Atlantic Telegraph
Company and Day and Co. Verily, to intending passen-
gers by the Great Eastern it may have been said, with
Hamlet—

" You go not till I set you up a Glass,"
which shall prove whether you have ever been in print or
not.—The Flaneur in the Star.

VISIT OF JAPA;ESETOBEDFORD.—On Saturday
a large party of Japanese, sent over by Prince Sat-
suma to gain a knowledge of the agriculture and manufac
tures of Great Britain, paid a visit to the Britannia Iron-
works at Bedford. They were accompanied by Professor
Williamson, of the London University, by the Professor of
Natural Philosophy at the Glasgow University, ancrother
eminent scientific men, who have the direction of their in-
vestigations. The Japanese, whose remarkable physique
caused considerable interest, the Mongolian type being very
striking, took great interest in the machinery and various
processes in operation at these important works, and seemed
astonishingly quick in comprehending the various details.
They appeared very unwilling to leavo the works, but
steam having been got up in one of the new steam plough-
ing engines, about 15 of the Japanese crowded on to it
wherever they could get a footing, and it was highly amus-
ing to see with what delight they travelled in all directions
over the extensive quadrangle of the works. After spend-
ing about three hours here they took luncheon with tho
Mayor of Bedford (Mr. James Howard), and proceeded to
witness the steam ploughing on Messrs. Howard's farms at
Clapham, where their amazement seemed to culminate, the
operations being so much more simple than they had anti-
cipated. A reaping machine which was at work was
quickly handled and cleverly managed by them. Subse-
quently they visited Biddenham for the purpose of view-
ing Mr. Charles Howard's celebrated shorthorns and sheep
and after dining with the mayor they left for London by
the last train, expressing their unbounded delight with the
day's visit to Bedford and their admiration of our English
hospitality.
The receipts of the. Italian post-office during the
first quarter of 1865 amounted to 3,539,631 f., being
an increase of 521,959 f. over the corresponding
period in 1864.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BRIGHTON RACES-THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
BRISTOL PLATE.

Guardsman
Vixen
Ten ran.
BRIGHTON STAKES.

Redmire
Verdant
Veluti
3

Five ran.
SOUTHDOWN STAKES.
Money Spinner
Trap
2
Saliet
Nine ran.
MARINE PLATE.

f

Saladin
Armadillo
My Cob
:;
Eight ran. Dead heat for first place.

The above are the only telegrams received up to the hour
of going to press. We shall give a complete list in a later
edition.

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening

FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 27.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ed-
ward Thornton, Esq., 0.8., now her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic. to pro-
ceed on a Special Mission to his Majesty the Emperor of
Brazil. _

JULY 31.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Leon
Checa as Consul at Sierra Leone for her Majesty the Queen
of Spain.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Guillermo E. Eldred as Consul at Sydney for the Republic
of Chile.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALI:, Auci. 1.
Honourable Artillery Company of London—First Lieu-
tenant Edward Mease to be Captain, vice Blockley, re-
signed; Second Lieutenant Edward M. Nelson to be
First Lieutenant, vice Mease, promoted ,• Sergeant Charles
William Davis to be Second Lieutenant, vice Nelson.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 28.
The undermentioned officers have been this day pro-
moted to the rank of Inspector-General of Hospitals and
Fleets on the Retired List :—Thomas Wallis M'Donald,
Esq., and John Rees, Esq.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 31.
Mr. John Bradbury has been promoted to be Engineer
in hor Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of the 13th of July,
1865.
Messrs. George Weight, Benjamin Taylor, and William
Read have been promoted to be First bass Assistant
Engineers in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of the 14th
of July, 1865.

BANKRUPTS.
That portion of the " Gazette" containing the Bank-
rupts had not arrived when we went to press.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE--This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18
Ditto 3 Months. 412 .3.
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 42
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris • Short 25 15

11 19
12
12
25 47*
25 47*
13 10}
25 20
25 42
25 42
121
11 35
11 3

Ditto..
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Messina
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Oporto
Lisbon

. 3 Months.2s 35
25 371
1201
11 27
11 271
301
4.4
25 521
25 50
25 50
25 50
25 50
25 50
51i
511

481
25 55
25 55
25 571
25 55
25 55
25 55
511
511

THE LATE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.
Yesterday the carpenters who have been on strike
at Messrs. Cubitts' for the last three weeks resumed work
at the advanced rate of lid. per hour. Each man will bo
paid from 15s. to 17s. Gd. by the committee, being his share
of the strike-levy paid in on Saturday evening last, which
amounted to nearly £250. The men generally are well
satisfied with the results of the struggle, which has been
short and decisive.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND CHARLES I.—President
Lincoln having at the outset declared that he could not
consent to treat with the rebel authorities as such, was
confronted by Mr. Hunter with an historical precedent.
This was the action of that constitutional ruler, Charles 1.,
in treating with his rebellious parliament. Mr. Lincoln's
rejoinder was characteristic:—" Upon questions of history
I must refer you to Mr. Seward, for he is posted in such
things; and I don't profess to be, bright. My only distinct
recollection of the matter is, tb.at Charles lost his head."—
From the Nation, No. 1, Nel, 'fork.