The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-25 00:00:00

MARKETS


MARK LANE.
Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home-grown
wheat were very moderate. The trade, however, ruled
far from active ; nevertheless, selected parcels were in
steady request, and such commanded Monday's prices. In-
ferior qualities moved off slowly, but at late rates.
Only a moderate supply of foreign wheat was on the
stands, yet there was a great want of animation in the
trade, the demand being chiefly confined to good and fine
descriptions, which changed hands to a limited extent, at
Monday's currency.
Floating cargoes of grain were steady in price, although
the demand for them ruled inactive.
There was a tolerably extensive supply of barley on
sale. Good and fine malting qualities were scarce, and
sold readily at fully late rates. Inferior barley met a dull
inquiry at about previous quotations.
The malt trade was steady at late prices.
About an average supply of oats was on sale, and nearly
all descriptions were in steady request at full quotations.
Beans were dull at late rates. Peas were unaltered in
value from Monday, but the demand for them ruled in-
active.
Most descriptions of flour were in steady request at late
prices.

ARRIVALS TI{IS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 490 1,770 1,530 3,310 150
Irish —
Foreign

-
21,190 770 sacks
brls.

WHITECHAPEL.
Moderato supplies of wheat aro on sale. for which the
trade is quiet, at the annexed quotations :
Beef, from 38 Od to 4s 10d; mutton, 8s 6d to 4s 8d;
veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs,
by the carcase.

STRANGE SCENES AT SHEFFIELD.—During the pas
`few months the inhabitants of Sheffield have been
startled with a series of sensation announcements, con-
cerning the services of the Hallelujah Band at the Tem-
perance Hall. " Convicted felons, prizefighters, pigeon
stealers, dog fighers, wife beaters, poachers, &c.," have
been announced to give "their experience," and the re-
sult of the extraordinary concentration of talent, or rather
character, has been crowded houses. Last week, the walls
were placarded with the announcement that, on Monday
night, "Harvey Teasdale," the converted clown, would
publicly destroy his stage dresses, the manuscript plays
and music, and his pantomime tricks and books.
The hall was crowded to excess in every part.
The business of the evening commenced by a
hymn, sung with extraordinary gusto by the large audience.
Prayer by a member of the land followed, and upon the
chairman announcing an address by another member, great
uproar and cries for "Harvey" followed. After silence was
procured, the address was given, but was listened to very
impatiently. At its conclusion, Harvey Teesdale came to
the front of the platform, and was greeted with loud cheers,
and those peculiar whistles and calls which must have been
familiar to him in his theatrical days. These, however, were
stopped by one of the leaders announcing that that was a
"religious service." Teasdale produced a bag containing his
"properties." He announced that Mr. Edward Lauri, clown
at the Surrey Theatre, had kindly consented to be pre-
sent and see that all were destroyed, and that the pro-
perties and books were real—and this statement appeared
to bo very satisfactory to the audience, who greeted Mr.
Lauri with a hearty cheer. The work of demolition then
commenced, Teasdale producing a dress which he said be-
longed to the "Dumb Man of Manchester," and handing it
over to the brethren behind, who, with large shears and
knives, quickly destroyed it. The dresses of " Scant-
mouch," and the other favourite characters of Teasdale,
shared the same fate, while the motley garb of the clown,
With the cap which "had gone through the clock face
for the last time," Were Ispeedily reduced to shreds.
The inantscript plays fffutted, each being handed
to Mr. Latin firSt ftlr ekaithinetioh, and Teasdale
explain-
ing the Various pieces and relating seine anec-
dote connected with them. Mr. Lauri stated that all the
pieces had been offered to him for £2 10s., but that they
had then been rqfttqed tq hilt. Xle as in Leeds that after-
noon, and there he heard that T *as
had destroyed the
same things there, and so he had come to see. This
statement created some laughter, and provoked from
Teasdale the rt mark that he had enemies in Leeds.
The last property to be destroyed was the " monkey,"
and the audience were requested " not to be frightened,"
although it was " very hideous." A large stuffed
figure was then brought on. It was the monkey
dress of Teasdale, stuffed With shavings "to give thp
people an idea of Ilar7ey Teasdale as he was
and no sooner was it brought upon the plat-
form than it was seized and literally dragged to pieces by
the enthusiastic band, amid great uproar, mingled with
shouts of " Hallelujah." This concluded the principal
part of the business, and a hymn was given out. The at-
tempt to sing was, however, a failure, and it was aban-
doned at the end of the first verse. An address of an pzne-
usually florid and frantic style from a conve p
whichrlthe
fighter and nigger minstrel followed ; after
musical disposition of the audience was agamerteadst
this time with greater success. Various oth
,hich were of
and hymns followed, and the proceedings,
edd e saes
the most extraordinary character, were concluded about
ten o'clock.—,S effield Independent.,

The Burning of the Bombay.

PLYMOUTH, Jan. 23.

A private letter, received at Plymouth from an
officer at Rio Janeiro, gives a few further particulars
of the loss of the Bombay. At 3.30 one watch was
piped to quarters to exercise in firing. On the man
whose duty it was to hand up shell going below

he discovered the fire. The fire-bell was imme-
diately rang, and the pumps rigged and played
on the fire, but the flames burst up the hatch-
ways, and in a few minutes all communication
between quarter deck and forecastle was effectually
stopped. The order was then given to cut all boats,
and in eight minutes they were in the water, with
the exception of the launch, and when that boat was
being lifted the flames coming up the after hatch
burnt the stay and she came down by the run. The
greatest order, coolness, and intrepidity were dis-
played by all, Mr. Watts, the master, taking time of
every occurrence with watch and notebook in hand.
The mainmast soon went over the side. The order
was then given to every one to look out for them-
selves. They immediately jumped overboard and
swam to the boats lying off. Those who could not
swim holding on by ropes; some fell and were
drowned. Orders had been given for no boats to
go near the burning ship, but the jollyboat, manned
by volunteers, pulled in three or four times and
brought away every one they could see. At seven
p.m. the ship blew up, not a particle of her re-
maining. The boat arrived at Montevideo at
11 p.m. Dr. Smallborn, Mr. Franklin, boatswain,
and about 90 men are lost ; and the Admiral's sec-
retary, flag secretary, and clerks are all at Monte-
video.

The Scotsman publishes the following extracts
.rom a private letter written immediately after a
conversation with Lieut. Stirling, who brought home
Admiral Elliot's despatch :

" The Bombay left Montevideo on the morning
of the 14th Dec. for target practice. She was about

14 miles away when a man handing shells in the
shell-room perceived a little jet of steam coming up
from the after-hold, and immediately gave the
alarm. This was between two and three o'clock.
The pumps were instantly set to work, and all
worked well. But the men were suffocated,
and could hardly remain to work them, and
the fire could not be kept under. On one side of
the fire was the spirit-room, on the other
the magazine. The spirit-room took fire, the
casks burst, and the spirits ran all over the ship,
which became one mass of flame. The order
was given to lower the boats and escape. Some
boats could not be lowered from the tackle being on
fire. However, most of them were got out, but had
to be kept at a good distance fromthe ship on account
of the fire. Therefore, all had to jump in and swim
off from the ship to reach the boats. All the officers
could swim more or less ; many of the men could not,
which accounts for the great loss of life among them.
Mr. Stirling says he swims himself very badly, and
was an hour and a half in the water before he could
be picked up. Many of themen clinging to bits of the
ship were killed too, he believed, by the cables falling
away red hot among them, and by the melted lead,
of which there seems to be have been a great deal in
various parts of the ship for pipes, I think, and on
the bowsprit. The melting lead pouring down on them
made them loosen their hold of whatever they were
holdingbyjand go down. The great anchors too,when
their ropes were burned, fell and crushed them. The
mainmast went over at a quarter to four, only
three quarters of an hour after the first alarm of fire.
By five o'clock, I think the crew were all either lost
or saved. The magazine blew up about seven
o'clock, and the ship went down, leaving not a ves-
tige behind. Not an article of any sort was saved
but the clothes in which the officers and crew
jumped into the sea, and most of them had thrown
off jackets, &c., to jump in and swim. The be-
haviour of the men was perfect all through. The
origin of the fire is quite unaccounted for. The
regulations about fire, matches, &c., were very
strict ; no petroleum or inflammable oils were used
on board. The after-hold contained biscuits, salt
pork, &c., but nothing of a more dangerous charac-
ter. The Bombay was only under sail at the time the
fire was discovered. Had she been steaming there
would have been a much better chance, by turning
on the engines and getting the fire under. The
weather was happily very fine, and the boats could
therefore be reached and filled in a way that would
have been impossible in less good weather, such as
they almost invariably had up to that time. The
Bombay was too far away from Montevideo for the
fire to be early discovered there. But i[ think about
five o'clock it was telegraphed by the Stromboli to
Admiral Elliot, who went off in her towards the
scene. He arrived in time to see her blow up. They
got back to Montevideo about ten o'clock at night.
Admiral Elliot had time only to write a hurried
despatch. I imagine we shall have no letters. The
French mail went off early next morning—Mr.
Stirling in her. He says Admiral Elliot was well,
but much cut up by the loss of the ship. Poor
Captain Campbell, too, was well, and it seems as if
no blame attached to him."

" The Prince Imperial," says the Pays, " has re-
cently commenced the study of Latin. A reply given by
the young Prince when he signed, after the Emperor, the
marriage contract of Mlle. de Gondrecourt, has been talked
of. The Emperor, having observed that the Prince was a
long time in signing, the latter responded When one has
a name like ours, it requires some time to write it.' "
The Patrie announces that the latest advices
from Rome confirm the successful termination of the nego-
tiations between the Courts of Paris and the Vatican rela-
tive to the 500 convicts, natives of the annexed provinces,
at present in the Pontifical prisons. These men will be
given up to the French Government and embarked at Civita
Vecchia for Genoa.

BRlSTOL.—Captain R. Tryon, R.N., has collected
in Bristol £628 10s. to defray the entire cost of a
lifeboat station. The National Lifeboat Institution has
decided on renovating completely the Padstow Lifeboat
Establishment on the Cornish coast with the money
thus so benevolently collected by Captain Tryon.
The late Prince Consort had granted his special permis-
sion that the small lifeboat previously at Padstow should
be called the Albert Edward, after the Prince of Wales.
On the very day (Nov. 9, 1862) that his Royal High-
ness came to his majority that lifeboat saved a ship-
wrecked crew—and the citizens of Bristol have cleared
that their lifeboat should also bo called the Albert Ed-
ward. The boat has already rendered good service to
vessels in distress. _ _

The report of the Joint-Stock Discount Company
has been issued, from which it appears that the
gross profits made during the six months ending
the 31st ult., after reserving an amount as provision
against loss in respect of bad debts greatly exceed-
ing that which it is believed will ultimately be found
necessary, have been £46,172 13s. 10d. This
amount, after deducting rebate on bills not due and
the current expenses, has enabled the directors to
increase the reserve fund to £30,000, to declare a
dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum,
amounting to 3s. 6d. per share, and to carry for-
ward £3,243 2s. 11d. to profit and loss new account.
At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the cons&'

dated Bank, Mr. Hankey in the chair, the report,
which was unanimously adopted, stated that during
the past six months the capital of the company
lead
been slightly increased by the sale of 593 sharest,nt:
make the total issue 150,000 shares, reprhesenban_
£600,000 paid up. The net profits ofurtreen
during the half-year (after deducting
due,e t
ex-
penses, rebate , and directors'
remuneration, to customers, income-taxi •of interest on bills not
p provision for
remuneration, and making
.intetererset,
n'i'iolUnted to £62,351
bad and doubtful debts)
' left unappropriated
Bs. 9d. ; the balance
of June was £6,976
on th 30h da
6s. 10d.e ; t hetpremii3unl 4on y
shares sold, £4,158 17s. ;
making a total of 86 12s. 7d. From which it
7r
to reserved surplus fund,
on shares, £4 1 , 58 17s. ;
and 're n the half-year
iliroodloor d to
°cal carry
toio dpeecrlare a dividend on at the rate of
cent. per annum, and a bonus of 3s. per
share (being an additional 7i per cent, per annum)
free of income tax, £52,500 ; to carry forward to
£1,827 15s. 7d.—total, £73,486
reserved surplus fund, which stood
nl2exs.t7da.ccorruhnte,
on the 30th June at £38,500, will, by the addition
of six months' interest,
£962 10s., and the appro-
priations now recommended, £19,158 175., be
increased to £58,621 7s.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLOcK.

AUSTRIA.

The Botschafter of Vienna states that the last
Austrian despatch addressed to the Bavarian Go-
vernment relative to the views of Austria in the
question of the Duchies, has been received with
much favour at Munich. 32. Von der Pfordten is
said to have declared himself well satisfied, and to
have expressed his gratitude for the attitude ob-
served by Austria in the negotiat ons with Prussia,
as also his confidence in the federal tendencies of the
Imperial Government. The same journal learns
from Dresden that the Saxon Cabinet has expressed
itself in similar language on the Austrian policy.

LONDON GAZETrE—Last Evening.

BANKRUPTS,

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only bankrupts of commercial
William Hatch, dealer in boots and shoes, Brighton.
:
John Cunningham, gentleman, Southend.
Josiah Hook, upholsterer, Bow-common
Edwin Herbert, licensed victualler, Shoreditch
John R. Parr, shoemaker, Brompton
Charles W. Standish, wire worker, Chelsea.
John Smith, grocer, Coventry
Henry Shaw, cigar dealer, Huddersfield
James Keatet, tailor, Cheadle
Henry Carter, builder, Stratford
Richard Brumwell, draper, Preston.
John Slack, warehouseman, Sheffield
Jonathan 011ey, contractor, Lower Norwood
George T. Jenkins, publican, Woolhampton
Rev. W. L. Arthur, King's Lynn, Norfolk
William Stapleton, mast and block maker, Manchester-
road

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Robert Arthur Denny, gentleman, Cheltenham
Edward Brooks and Samuel Lomax, manufactairers, Tot-
Ington
Nathaniel Ramsden, oil manufacturer, Bristol
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Andrew Donley, spirit merchant, Glasgow
Miss Christian Gib, St. Ann's, Brechin
Matthew Craig, commission agent, Glasgow

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 14
Ditto 3 Months. 11 17i
Rotterdam • — 11 17
Antwerp — 25 471
Brussels
Ilamburgh
Paris Short. 25 15
Ditto 3 Months. 25 15;
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine
111199 U
Vienna — 11 8u
Trieste — 11 80
Petersburgh

Berlin -
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa

46/
47
25 57/
25 60

25 55

11 15
11 18
11 18
25 52/
25 .52f
13 if
25 22}
25 50
25 52
119/
11 85
11 85
301

464
474
25 65
25 65

25 65

Naples — 25 571 25 65
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon — 511 51*
Oporto — 514- 511
Foreign Gold in bars (standard)....£3 17s. 9d. per oz.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens steady.
6,000 bales.

Sales probably 5,000 or

Theatricals in France.

" Tartuffe" and " Amphitryon," the first with Bressant
and the second with that best of good actors, Regnier, have
been revived at the Frangais. _ _

The Revue et Gazette Musicale informs us that rehearsals
of "L'Africaine" take place at Paris twice a day—that is,
every morning and evening, the first being devoted to the
music, the second to the mice en scene. The orchestral
rehearsals are said to have commenced on the 15th.
We noticed some little time ago the opening of a new
theatre—the " Theatre Saint-Germain"—in what used to
be the wilds of the Quartier Latin, now Boulevard Sebas-
topol, Rive Gauche. It has come to grief and closed its
doors. A couple of evenings before the final catastrophe a
charming little operetta, in one act, was brought out there,
called " Les Petits du Premier," the work of M. Emile
Albert, well known in musical circles as a pianist and com-
poser. It is very favourably received, and contributed to
shed a little brilliancy on the last moments of the doomed
establishment.

Mr. Balfe has left Paris on his return to London,

Two English violinists, the brothers Holmes, who enjoy
a deservedly high reputation in England, have been in
Paris for the last few weeks. They have performed in
several artistic reunions, and fully established their claim
as virtuosi of the first order.

Two "clairvoyant" brothers, rejoicing in the name of
Bonheur, are just now drawing crowds to the Cirque. The
younger is thrown into a magnetic trance by his elder bro-
ther, and gives proofs of extraordinary lucidity. The most
wonderful part of the performance is worth describing. At
the bidding of any one of the audience, who whispers his
wishe; into the ear of the elder Bonheur, the " subject"
rises from his chair, goes to a black board, and draws the
portrait of any person whose name may be mentioned. As
there is no apparent communication between the brothers
this is certaintly rather startling. The portraits are gene-
rally good likenesses, but to prevent mistakes the name of
whomsoever they are meant to represent is written at the
bottom by the somnambulist. •

The musical world will hear with deep regret that Mr.
Wallace, the composer, is seriously ill.
Mrs. Bey Blunt's readings on Saturdays at the Hotel du
Louvre continue to attract the public. Last week she read
some of the best pages of " The Cricket on the Hearth,"
and the trial scene in the "Merchant of Venice" with great
applause.
In the "Favorita," which has just been produced at
Rome, the customary caution of his Holiness's theatrical
censor has completely changed the character of the piece,
without changing the character of the music. The scenery
and actors are Turkish, among whom the church music i
the convent finale has a singularly misplaced effect.
Bottesini, the great contra-bassist, has been creating a
furore at Barcelona, not, as an executant, but as the com-
poser of an opera, ."Marion Delorme," about which the
local papers are in raptures. He was presented with a.
silver wreath by the orchestra, and with a handsome baton
by the military band. Mr. Santley, the English baritone,
is also said to have created a favourable impression on the
Barcelonese public.
Here is an operatic novelty. In a new opera produced
at Prague by aM. Barbieri, the chief feature consisted f
two live oxen, which are said to have performed their parts.
a ravir.

THE REPRESENTATION OF CARLISLE.—We are
informed, from a reliable source, that J. Hope Wallace
Esq., of Featherstone Castle, will be brought forward
by the Conservatives of Carlisle at the next election.—
Newcastle Journal.

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ILLNESS OF MR. COBBETT, M.P.—A telegram was
received in Oldham on Monday, from Todmorden, an-
nouncing that Mr. J. M. Cobbett, M.P., was confined to
bed by illness, and would, consequently, be unable to ad-
dress his constituents in the Town-hall in the evening, as
previously arranged.
LETTER FROM GENERAL M'CLELLAN.—GeneraI
M'Clellan was invited, to assist the Keystone Club,
of Philadelphia, to celebrate the anniversary of the battle
of New Orleans.. In his letter, excusing himself for non-
attendance, he said, "I will venture to express my
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fication at the gallant manner in which the Sey
bore its part in the recent contest.
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An attempt at murder and suicide has just taken place at
No. 24, Rue Bourbon Villeneuve. The proprietor of the
house, M. Dalbine, had a dispute with a former tenant
s apartment, and
The latter yesterday entered M.
lord, who was engaged at a desk writing. The ball lodged •
in m. Dalbine's coat collar without hurting him,and D u-
chaillu then with another pistol fired at hiso
tsal:ienngnakperi'stonlanifroedm
own head,
but only wounded
ing received surgical assistance was •
removed to prison.
A woman named Rostock has committed suicide
ina manner unusual in this country. She seems to have
been jealous of her husband, and on last Saturday night
she burnt a pan of charcoal in her bedroom. The next
morning she was found dead. This is said to be only the
second case of suicide by charcoal which has occurred in
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London in the last three years.
The Opinion Nationale has received a " communicated"
note, again corretting statements made by it concerning
the Post-office service.
" The French International Exhibition," says the
Independance Belge, "is decidedly fixed to take place in
1867. Thus far, the Camp de Mars appears to have a
chance of being selected for the site, as the present Palace
of Industry does not offer space sufficient. The cost is esti-
matedat 18,000,000 f., one-thirdof which would be raised by
subscription, one-third furnished by the City of Paris, and
one-third by the State. The receipts are to be employed
in reimbursing—first, the subscribers; next the Cliotwyeos.
Paris, and thirdly the State. According to 00, t
000 f.
calculation, the money received will amount to 1070