The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-12 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEL—The market has remained very quiet, and there is,
scarcely any business doing. Good common congou is
quoted 11d. to 12d. per lb.
SUGAR.—OnIy a moderate business has been done in
West Indian without any material change in prices. In
the refined market good grocery lumps are quoted 435. per
cwt.

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COFFEE.—There has been a very limited amount of busi-
ness transacted, but quotations for both native and Plan-
tation Ceylon are firm.

RICE.—The high rates demanded by holders has in some
measure checked business. Soft grain East Indian, how-
ever, continues in demand.
TALLOW.—The market has remained without material
alteration as regards prices. P.Y.C. on the spot, and to
June, being quoted 40s. 6d.; and for last three months,
418. 9d. per cwt.

IRON SHIPBUILDING AT SOUTHAMPTON.—The
largest iron -steamship ever built at Southampton
was yesterday launched from the premises of Messrs. Day
and Co., the eminent engineers and shipbuilders of the
Northam ironworks at that port. This vessel has been
built for the Hamburg and American Steampacket Com-
pany, and will sail between Hamburg, Southampton, and
New York in conjunction with the Germania and other
vessels belonging to the company. The following are her
dimensions :---Length between perpendiculars, 313 ft. ;
breadth, 40ft. 2iin. ; depth, from base line to spar deck,
35ft. 10in. ; tonnage, builders' measurement, 2,484. She
has a spar deck flush fore and aft, straight stem, and round
stern, and will be brig rigged. Accommodation is pro-
vided for 60 first-class, 160 second-class, and 600 emigrant
passengers, and she will carry 900 tons of cargo, with 800
tons of coal in her bunkers. Her contract speed, with these
weights on board, is 13 knots per hour. The noble vessel
was designed by, and has been built under the superinten-
dence of, Mr. Macormao, the contractor for Messrs. Day,
and is a very handsome specimen of nautical architecture.
Her engines of 400 horse-power, nominal, also supplied by
the builders, are fitted with horizontal cylinders, surface
condensers, steam-jackets to the cylinders, and other im-
provements. She will have four boilers, with superheat-
ing apparatus, and an auxiliary boiler for heating the
cabins and cooking for the emigrants. A few minutes
before eleven o'clock yesterday morning Lieutenant-
Gen. Sir Josias and Lady Cloete, Col. Sir H. James, R.E.,
of the Ordnance Survey Department ; Mr. Diederichsen,
the representative of the. Hamburg and American Com-
pany ; Capt. Trautmann, the commander of the new ship ;
Mr. Rubie, surveyor to the Board of Trade ; Mr. Davidson
and Mr. Lamb, the general and engineering superinten-
dents of the Peninsular and Oriental Company at South-
ampton; Mr. Mer3ar, secretary of the Union Steamship
Company, Messrs. Day, Stebbing, Summers, Duncan, and
other gentlemen, assembled
on the platform to witness the
launch. Everything being in readiness the dog-shores
were knocked away, and Lady Cloete christened the ves-
sel " The Allemannia" as she gently glided down the slip
into the water. Her mean draught of water when launched
was 10ft. As soon as the vessel was in the water she was
taken under the factory sheerlegs to receive her machinery
and the principal vis'tors adjourned to a luncheon, at which
"Success to the Allemannia" was cordially drank. The
new steamer is expected to be ready for sea some time in
the coming month of July. Two other large iron steamers,
one of them for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, are
in an advanced state of construction at Messrs. Day's yard.
THE GOLDEN ROSE AT ROME.—Henrietta Maria,
when at Amiens in 1625, was presented with the
Golden Rose by Urban VIII., and is, I believe, the last of
the English crowned heads who have been so honoured.
The ceremony of blessing the Golden Rose took place this
Lmtare Sunday in the Papal Chapel of the Apostolic Palace
at Rome. A cardinal priest said mass, the " General" of the
Carmelites delivered a sermon in Latin, and the Rose was
blessed by the Pontiff himself. It was at one time expected
that the Golden Rose would this year have been presented
to the Empress of Mexico ; some named, however, the
young Queen of Portugal; but we believe that the Golden
Rose of 1865 still remains in the Papal treasury.—Shilling
Magazine.