The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-29 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 10s to £5 lOs Od; clover,
£5 lOs to 16 15s Od; and straw, £1 6s to £1 lOs per load.
Trade steady.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 15s; clover
£5 10s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load
Supply limited.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 12s ; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 lOs per load.
A fair demand.

New meadow hay has realised £4 to £5 per load.

SWIMMING.—EarIy this morning the third match
took place between the members of the Serpentine
Swimming Club for three medals, given to the Ist, 2d, and
3d respectively; distance, 1,000 yards. The following
gentlemen competed :—Messrs. Burrows, Munro, Edgar,
Odell, G. Dallard, M. Cahil, G. Sharp, Jones, A. Tester,
Brown, D. Jackson, 11. Ward. Mr. Stevenson acted as
starter, Mr. T. Evans as referee, and Mr. J. Humphreys
(swimming master to the,club) as judge. After one false
start the competitors got well off, Mr. Tester taking the
lead and keeping it for at least half the distance
(swimming on his left side), when Mr. Brown quietly
passed him on the near side. Mr. Tester was evidently
surprised at being overtaken, and gamely tried to regain
his position as leader ; but his spurt, game as it was, availed
him nothing, for Mr. Brown kept ahead and won by some
12 lengths. Mr. Tester secured second place. An into-

resting struggle for third place between Messrs. Sharp,
Edgar, Jackson, and Jones, which resulted in Mr. Sharp
just beating the others by a slight lead, and a dead heat

between Edgar and Jackson for fourth place. The other
came in 20 or 30 yards apart. On Monday next Mr. Coulter
(captain of the club) is to swim Mr. Gurr for £25 a-side.
A GOOD LIVING.—The Earl of Chichester has
laid before the House of Lords a bill providing that any

future appointment to the vicarage of Rochdale shall be
subject to such regulations as Parliament may enact for
apportioning the endowment between the parish church
and the district churches. The bill states that the endow-
ment of the vicarage at present exceeds £4,000 a year, and
that the value of the glebe lands will increase in future
years ; but there are several other churches in the parish
inadequately endowed. The vicarage is in the patronage
of the Bishop of Manchester.

IRON SHIPBUILDING AT THE SOUTH WALES PORTS
—For many years it was a matter of surprise that

iron shipbuilding had not been commenced at the South
Wales ports, where, from proximity of the ironworks and
other circumstances, there were such facilities for carrying
on this important branch of trade. Within the last two
years the facilities which the district possesses have been
so far appreciated that several yards have been opened, and
about half a dozen iron vessels have already been success-
fully launched. An iron bark, 950 tons burden, christened
the Delta, has just been built at the yard of Messrs. Hill
and Son, Cardiff, for Messrs. Bath, of Swansea, being the
first iron sailing Assel built at the South Wales ports.
Messrs. Batchelor, Brothers, are also building an iron ship
for Messrs. Cory and Co., and Mr. Thomas Spittle has
opened an iron shipbuilding yard at Newport. Messrs.
Scott Russell and Co. have contracts on band for several
iron vessels, and Lla,nelly the Iron Shipbuilding Company
started there has paid handsome dividends to the share-
holders. These facts show that iron shipbuilding is gra-
dually extending in South Wales, and it is clear that as yet
the trade is only in its infancy.
THE ROAD MURDER.—The trial of Constance
Kent on the charge of murdering her infant-brother,
five years ago, will take place in less than a month—not at
the Central Criminal Court, but in the county where the
crime was committed—and the necessary arrangements
for the prosecution and defence have all been completed.
The counsel retained to conduct this remarkable case are,
for the prosecution, Mr. Karslake, Q.C., and Mr. Lopez,
instructed by Messrs. Clarke and Collier, solicitors, of
Trowbridge; and for the defence, Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr.
Edlin, and Mr. Ravenhill, instructed by Mr. Rodway, also
of Trowbridge. The commission for Salisbury (where the
trial will take place) opens on the 19th July, and it is
known that, besides the trial of Miss Kent, the business is
very light, and may, it is expected, be got through in a
day. The trial for the Road murder, therefore, may take
place on the 2l st, though it is just
possible that it may
commence on the 20th. The prisoner's demeanour in prison
from the period of her committal at Trowbridge up to last
night has been calm and quiet. She does not partake alto-
gether of the prison diet, but is supplied daily with dinner
from the Bear Hotel, at the request of her father.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S PROCLAMATION.--SOMO
correspondence between Earl Russell and Sir F.
Bruce relating to the proclamation opening the ports of the
United States has been laid before Parliament. It will
suffice to give Earl Russell's despatch of the 16th inst.:—
The clause in the President's proclamation of the 22d of
May which threatens certain offenders as pirates, and
which you justly describe in your despatch of the 22d ult.
as unintelligible, seems to have arisen from a confusion of
two very separate offences. The one would be the offence
of attempting to trade, to carry manufactures or provisions,
for instance, into such ports as Charleston, Mobile, or
Wilmington, ports in the possession of the United States.
This would be an offence of violating laws and regulations
of the nature of Custom-house regulations, and punish-
able as such. The other would be the offence of at-
tempting by armed vessels, such as the Stonewall, to
break into the ports of Galveston. and Brownsville,
then in the possession of the Confederates, with a view of
aiding theniin their insurrection. This would bean offence
against the sovereignty of the United States, and the state
of war having ceased would amount to the crime of high
treason. Neither offence could constitute piracy, which is
a crime against all mankind. But as, since the date of the
proclamation, Galveston and the other ports excepted have
been reduced within the obedience of the United States, it
will probably not be necessary that you should point out
this error in the proclamation of the 22d of May. You will
I take care, however, to attend to any case in which aßritish
subject may be wrongfully detained in prison, after the more
recent proclamations of the President, of which I have not,
however, received from you official copies."