The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-10 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quiet. Sales probably 3,000 or 4,000
bales.

PAUL JOIN BEDFORD, COMEDIAN.—An order
annulling the bankruptcy of Mr. Paul Bedford was made
yesterday at the Court of Bankruptcy. An arrangement
had been made for a composition of ss. in the pound.
THE VALENTINES OF M. EUGENE RIMMEL are
carried, one might almost say, to a pitch of high art !
They captivate the eye, and smell sweetly in the nostrils.
Two charming specimens have but just now been wafted
pastus on their way (prematurely) to their destinations. The
one, a cluster of blooming roses on fillagre note paper
superscribed "Portrait of one I love"—the delicacy of the
compliment, latent in which superscription becomes ap-
parent to the recipient upon her discovering--secreted under
the bunch of roses—a miniature mirror, in which her own
features, of course, are reflected ! The other is a sprig o
jessamine (tyed with a true-love's knot), the floral emblem
of amiability ! These two exquisite little refinements in
the way of Valentines, breathing each appropriate fragrance
—the one of roses, the other of jessamine.
THE FEDERALS BUYING AN IRONCLAD. -- The
Index says :—" We are credibly informed that
secret negotiations are now progressing between the Go-
vernment of the United States and that of Denmark for the
acquisition by the former of the large Clyde-built ironclad
of the Warrior model, which, it will be remembered, was
at one time supposed to be designed for the Confederates,
and, under the threat of proceedings by the Crown, sold by
her owners to Denmark, then a belligerent. The vessel
now lies in Copenhagen, and, if we are well informed, as
there is no reason to doubt, about the negotiations there
pending in regard to her, the practical result of English
neutrality will be to transfer this formidable engine of
maritime warfare into the hands of the North, possibly to
match herself before long against her model, the Warrior."
THE CONFEDERATE STEAM-RAM OLINDE.----It
was reported on Thursday that the French Emperor
had caused several war steamers to go in chase of the Con-
federate steam-ram Olinde, now on her way to one of the
Southern ports, and that the Niagara had started from the
Channel on a similar mission. The City of Richmond
steamer, represented to have supplied the Olinde with her
armament of guns, cleared out of the port of London on the
31st of December last for Bermuda, but her destination
appears to have been to the north, where she remained till
the Olinde was ready to receive her armament, and then
proceed to her rendezvous.

FIRES IN THEATRES.--TO quiet one's nervous an-
xiety by fancying the present Olympic or Covent
Garde; or Bath or Plymouth Theatre, more secure against
fire than the late Surrey Theatre, would be only an
amiable delusion. The ceilings are still made of light
woodwork and canvas, the boxfronts and floors are still
framed of wood ; the pillars and supports may, it is true, be
of iron, but this is perhaps even worse than if they were
of wood, for everyone knows what a treacherous
thing an iron pillar is when exposed to the heat of a
raging fire. Indeed, the whole interior proper of a
theatre, before and behind the curtain, is just
as liable to sudden destruction by fire, whether
it be new or old. The stage is not made more distinct now
than it used to be ; the green room and scene room in some
cases still open directly upon it ; it is the passageway from
many of the dressing-rooms to the stage entrance. Again,
the scene painter and the carpenter have their shops just
where their flammable materials would be most effective in
case of fire. It is true that party walls are now usually
built between the stage boxes and the wings, in the place
of the old-fashioned wood partitions; but the only advan-
tages gained by this are, first, that when a fire comes, in-
stead of going straight on it will have to burn round the
corner, and second, that the proscenium arch or girder is
supported by fire-proof constniction.—Building News.
Very favourable reports have been received from
from the Saskatchewan gold diggings, some of the miners
near Edmonton having taken out in the fall as high as 10
to 20 dollars per day with the reeker.—Fort Garry Nor'
Wester, Dee. 3.