The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts of this company's lines for the
week ending Sept. 16 amounted, for local passen-
gers, to £7,930 ; for foreign passengers to £4,020 ;
for emigrants, to £348 ; for mails, &c., to £829 ; for
local freight and live stock, to £13,685 ; and for
foreign freight and live stock, to £4,o4B—total,
£30,860 against £25,481, showing an increase of
£5,379. The total receipts from the Ist of July to
the above date amounted to £285,141, and for the
same period last year to £256,022, showing an in-
crease of £29,119 or 11.37 per cent.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The arrivals of home-grown wheat fresh up to our
market to-day were very moderate. Owing to the large
arrivals of foreign wheat the trade was dull for all qualities,
yet no material change took place in prices from Monday.
There was a good supply of foreign wheat on the stands.
The demand for most descriptions was in a sluggish state
at about previous rates.

Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at late prices.
Barley was in very moderate supply. The trade, how-
ever, was quiet, but good and fine malting produce ruled
firm.

Malt was in moderate demand at full prices.

There was a gdod supply of oats on ;ale. In most de-
scriptions sales progressed slowly at about Monday's
currency.

Beans and peas moved off slowly at late rates.
The flour trade was steady, on former terms.
• :ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch. 1460 750 1890 J9O 790
Irish
Foreign 36,370 7,720 42,460 390 sks.
6300 bls.

SCULLERS' RACE FOR £5O.—A scullers' race for
.£5O took place yesterday from Putney to Mortlake between
Benjamin Edwardes, of the Tower, and Frederick Russell,
of Mill Stairs, Bermondsey, in old-fashioned boats, and
turned out different to what had been the general expecta-
tion, the betting being upset in the most conclusive man-
ner. Neither man has figured to any extent, and there was,
therefore, no great amount of speculation, but the final quo-
tation was 6 to 4 on Russell, who is very much smaller
than his opponent, but defeated him for Doggett's coat and
badge in 1863. Mr. Wormald having been chosen referee,
the men got to their stations, Edwardes, having the toss,
taking Middlesex. Russell took the lead, but only kept it
for half a dozen strokes, when Edwardes was up to him,
cleared him at the London Boat House, and rowing away
iu the easiest possible manner was three or four lengths
ahead at the Dung Wharf ; this he increased to sixat Ham-
mersmith, and won by ten lengths. The Citizen M accom-
panied with a large party, conveying Mr. Wilcox, umpire
for Edwardes, and George Cannon, for Russell.
FIGHT WITH A SHARK.—The Greenport (Long
Island) Watchman says :—" At about 9 a.m. of Sun-
day last the schooner Catherine Wilcox, of Lubec, Maine,
was proceeding down the Sound, and while becalmed abreast
of that port, about eight miles off shore, the captain and a
young man 17 years of age, named Peter Johnson, belonging
to Maine, formerly a soldier, and now working his passage
home, stripped off their clothing and jumped overboard for
a swim. Johnson swam a few rods from the vessel to pick
up a small piece of wood, and while returning a huge shark,
judged to have been 14 or 15 feet long, darted towards him
and seized him about the middle, and instantly disappeared
with him, dragging him down, as he says, about 30 feet deep.
He struggled and fought with the ravenous monster, fear-
fully lacerating his right arm in the effort. Ho finally
succeeded in grasping the shark by the head and by gouging
one of his eyes, at the same time dealing him powerful
blows about the head, he succeeded in wresting himself free.
Ile then swam to the schooner pursued by the monster, but
being a man of remarkable physical strength and pluck, he
finally succeeded in driving him off, and got on board of
the schooner, pulling himself up by the foretopsail clue-line
which hung overboard, but not until the terrible teeth had
left their mark in many a ghastly wound, so that he was
one mass of gore. There were some 34 distinct wounds on
his person. Tho abdomen and groin of the right side was
fearfully mangled, the flesh being torn off and left hanging
by the skin only, nothing but the thin lining membrane of
the abdomen preventing the entrails from gushing out, the
femoral vessels were laid bare, and the nerves completely
exposed. On the left side of the abdomen was another
wound similar in character but less extensive, the right
thigh was very badly torn and gashed. Nothing but his
indomitable courage and physical vigour enabled him to
escape alive. The shark must have been of the species
known as " man-eater," which are common in low latitudes,
but are rarely seen in shoal water. The common shovel-
nose shark of our waters seldom, if ever, attack kind.
Johnson is still living, and although in a very precarious
situation, there is yet some hope of his ultimate_recovwe7.'h
A HANOVERIAN BURGLARY.--A burglary
violence was committed at the Maison-Rouge Inn, at
The landlord,
named Koch,
his room by several
him head
men, who, after gagging him, suspendedcarried off ocihn, liwaansove seizedr a aftesnvigdhatysinba
left the unfortunate proprietor the same
down-
wards in a sack. The robbers thenina sum of
13,000 f., and
critical position in which he was found, some hours after,
still alive.
CANINE Saoacirr AT FAULT.—The celebrated
mechanical duck of Vaucauson is now being exhibited in
the Rue de Paris, at Havre, in a small museum which takes
its name from that illustrious mechanician. The bird stand-
jog on a sort of box, shakes its wings, eats, drinks, and
imitates nature so accurately, that the other day a dog flew
at it, without, however, doing any mischief.
VOTES AT A DISCOUNT.—The Warrington Guar-
dian states that not ono of 1,500 voters lately struck off the
niuhiciral roll in that town has applied to be reinstated.
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