The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-01 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Pending the arrival of the American news it is
impossible to give a correct estimate of the sales,
which at present foot up 8,000 bales, at id. advance.

Napoleon M.'s Life of Cmsar,

The At/tozaawn says, in reference to this forthcoming
work :—" To show how fine a thing it is to be an Empe-
ror and an author, let us state that Napoleon the Third
—with a view to carefully learning the military prac-
tice of the Romans at the time of Caesar, and in order
to make his forthcoming history of Julius as perfect as
study under favourable circumstances will permit—caused
an able and learned officer of artillery to ascertain the mili-
tary costume, the arms, armour, accoutrements, trappings,
and other warlike instruments—including those proper for
siege service, the camp and the field, and to reconstruct
the same in the most perfect manner that care and bound-
less wealth allowed. At the Tuileries has been formed a
museum of such articles, derived from ancient sculptures,
descriptions, and drawings on pottery, &c.; there appear
the tents, waggons, standards, haversacks, straps, boats,
bridge machinery, shovels, the balista, falarica, catapult,
bow and arrow. Each has been carefully reproduced and
fitted for use, so that when the author desired to see a
tribune, centurion, decurion, or private soldier exactly as
Caesar saw him, all that needed' to be done was to call a
Cent-Garde and clothe him from the museum. The ghost
of Caesar himself might be invoked with even less of fear
than Brutus had, and the " Ay, at Philippi," of the un-
matchable spirit have no terror for his successor."

. Another of our weekly contemporaries remarks upon the
same subject as follows :—" The first volume of the ' Vie
de Cesar,' as intended for private distribution, is in quarto.
The book itself belongs rather to the class ' panegyrics'
than to the sterner one of ' historical biography,' and the
shade of the great Roman, as in a dissolving view, now
and then disappears sufficiently to bring the forms of
the two Napoleons, uncle, and nephew, prominently
forward. The Marseilles paper announce the publica-
tion of the first volume for the first week in March.
The work will consist of three volumes octavo, each
containing from 40 to 50 sheets, at 10 francs per volume
and of an atlas of maps, the price of which is not yet named.
To this Ost Deutsche Post adds, that an Italian translation
will also appear, so that the work will be simultaneously
issued in French, English, German, and Italian. 1. I_'°
Geroldische Buchhandlung of Vienna has secured
. tfhevrigohot
of translation into German by payment, it is said,
entrustedo,
thalers. To Professor Ritschl, of Bonn, has been
ntruck off,
will will finally revise the
the German version, and each sheet, as
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afsthse
be
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cofinmfitdve
dolutnhtee
French,
will be forwarded in duplicate to the Emperor. o
an accomplished German scholar,
translation and attach his signature to each sheet. The
entire proceeds will be given to tlhetiponooorf. The same paper
alone, tho Englishpublishers have paid 41,000. To Mr.
. ,
says that for the rightanotfigtiraiarn3s:
has
Thomas Wright, the _ Wright.
translation into English.
. Mr. Wi is eminently quali-
fied for the task ; he is a thorough master of the two lan-
guages, and has a knowledge of Roman antiquities in
and Germany no less
France than of those which exist in
13ritain.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West India Islands and Van-
couver's Island.

The Hon. Maria Clara, Dowager Lady Lechmere,
died on Sunday last at Great Malvern, in her 78th year.
KING OTHO'S CLAIMS ON GREECE.---At the sug-
gestion and through the mediation of Austria negotiations
have been entered into at Athens on the subject of the
claims of King @tho for the restitution of his private for-
tune, which is still withheld from him. Two commissions
are now occupied with this question—one to examine the
legal value of the claims made, and the other to fix the
amount of the indemnity.

THE STATE OF EMPLOYMENT IN ROCHDALE.—
The chief constable's return of the state of trade in the
cottton mills within the borough of Rochdale for the week
ending the 28th of January, shows that there are now
working full time 1,477 persons ; in D6cember the number
was 1,719. Number working five days, 328; previous
month, 769 ; working four days, 317 ; preVious month,
618 ; three days, 358 ; previous month, 205 ; two days, 455;
previous month none ; stopped altogether, 6,806 ; previous
month, 3,330. The relieving officers' returns for the last
week show that during the week 3,857 persons have been
relieved at an expense of £312105. 5d.; and increase in cost
over the previous week, of .£ 1 0 ss. 3d.