The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-19 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day.

Market continues steady. Sales, 15,000 bales or
more.

s PIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day.

LONDON, Sept. 19.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

CLYDE, Sept. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cronstadt,
from St. Jago do Cuba.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 18.—Wind W.—Arrived -Elizabeth
Cushing, from Akyab.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

Arrived, Sept. 18—Argo, from Dantsic ; Verotas, from
Guernsey; Bradford, from Caen ; Elizabeth, from Dun-
kirk ; Sir R. Wallace, from Riga ; Parthenon, from
Patras.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

In the Colonial Produce Markets during the last
few days there has only been a moderate amount of
business transacted. Tea has commanded full rates,
while sugar and coffee, have fully supported former
values. nice has been dull ; and in the tallow
market there has been less deposits, although quo-
tations for both present and forward delivery remain
without material change.
RUMOURED DEATH OF DR. NORMAN MACLEOD.--•
On Saturday a rumour was current in Glasgow that
the Rev. Dr. Macleod had been cut off suddenly by an apo-
plectic seizure while travelling in a railway carriage. The
report was so circumstantial and so widely spread as to
cause numerous inquiries to be made at the rev. gentle-
man's house relative to its correctness. We are happy to
state that the rumour is utterly without foundation, and
that Dr. Macleod was never in better health. How it
originated under such circumstances is a mystery. The
deep regret everywhere expressed concerning his reported
demise must be gratifying to the rev. Dr., as showing him
how much he is esteemed, while the promptitude with
which its untruth was discovered prevented his modesty
from being wounded by seeing a catalogue of his virtues
figuring as the wind-up sketch of his life in the public
journals. We learn, however, that more than one clergy-
man in the town, taken in by the hoax, incontinently went
to work to improve the occasion, and entertained their con-
gregations with homilies on the uncertainty of human life,
in which the loss which they believed the church had sus-
tained was to point the moral. Dr. M'Leod himself preached
in the Barony Cliurch on Sunday.—North British Mail.
DEATH OF MR. GEORGE LINLEY.—We regret to
announce the death last Sunday of Mr. George
Linley, who for half a century has been the most promi-
nent ballad writer of this country. A constitution natu-
rally vigorous, temperate habits, and an indomitable spirit
carried him past the three score years and ten of the
biblical average, and, till the last, ho enjoyed almost un-
interrupted health and the use of all his faculties, mental
as well as physical. Mr. Linley, if he has not contributed
to English literature or to English music a great poem or
an enduring score, has at least been a pleasing and conse-
quently successful song writer. Out of the thousand and
odd lyrics which he owned to having written or composed,
many have, in their time and season, delighted firesides of
English people at home and abroad. Of these are such
ballads as " Little Nell," " Constance," " Thou art gone
from my gaze," "Ever of thee," and very many more. He
filled a particular place in the profession of song, which it
is easier to determine than to assign to anybody else by
way of successor; and his qualifications for this special
place were a good general education, a facility of versify-
ing, and such a knowledge of music as was most useful in
adaptation of foreign works or in preparing libretti for
composers. As a private gentleman Mr. Linley was ex-
ceedingly popular, a favour no less accorded to his keen
sarcastic humour than to his musical and poetical abili-
ties. If at any time this sarcastic humour, and an
inherent dislike of what he considered to be humbug,
carried him in his writings over the ..boundary of good
taste, we are fain to forget it all now, in the more pleasing
memory of many sweet lyrics which flowed from his hand
and brain—songs and ballads which will be sung with
pleasure and heard with delight when the recollection of
George Linley as a man shall have long passed away.—
The Orchestra.

EXTENSIVE FIRE IN BRENTWOOD.—Yesterday
morning, between two and three o'clock, a fire
broke out in a lodging-house situate in Chapman's-alley,
on the south side of the High-street, and near the centre
of the town. A number of th& lodgers had been regaling
themselves, and it is thought that a bed caught fire from
some one smoking in it. The inmates jumped out of the
windows in a state of nudity. The flames quickly spread,
and in a short time ten houses, the property of Mr. T.
Larkin, were burnt down. it was with difficulty that the
occupants escaped. The fire then seized the buildings
opposite, burning down a granary containing 100 quarters
of corn, several sheds, waggons, carts, piggeries, besides
some poultry, the property of Mr. Charles Allen, baker and
corn chandler. The flames then attacked the buildings in
the occupation of Messrs. Bedwell and Hunt. There being
a plentiful supply of water from the hydrants of the South
Essex Waterworks, in about two hours the progress of the
fire was stayed, but not until several buildings were pulled
down. Most of the property was insured.

A VETERAN.—Major-General Frederic Meade, of
Belmont, county Cork, who died on the 12th inst. at St.
Ann's-hill, in the same county, received his commission as
ensign at the early age of 12 years. and served with the
88th Connaught Rangers in the Peninsula in the campaigns
of 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814, including the battles of
Fuentes d'Onor, siege of Badajoz in 1811, battle of Sala-
manca (wounded), siege and storming of Badajoz, passage
of the Nivelle and Nive, battles of Orthes and Toulouse.
In 1814 he accompanied his ragiment to America, and the
following year joined the army of occupation in France.
In 1821 he embarked for India on the staff of Sir Thomas
Reynall, and was at the siege and storming of Bhurtpore,
for the capture of which fortress he received the rank of
major. lie had received the war medal with six clasps.
To-day is the anniversary of the battle of the
Alma.