The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-21 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This clay.

LONDON, Sept. 21.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with
rain in the morning.

OLYDE, Sept. 20.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Rio Peanno,
for Buenos Ayres.

OFF PLYMOUTH-, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Himalaya, from Sydney.

FALMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed -Matanzas,
steamer, for Matanzas.
IN THE CHANNEL, Sept. 19.—Wind
Savoir Faire, from Calcutta.

IIuLL, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Countess of
Elgin, from Quebec.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIII
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 20—Norwegian, from Pitea; Bella, from
Monte Video.
Arrived, Sept. 21—Countess of Lonsdale, steamer, from
Hamburg.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed, Sept. 21—Quoon of the Plym, from London for
St. Helena.

FEMALE CRICKETEIS.—A few weeks since we
gave the result of a cricket match which had been
played at Finchdean between 22 females—married and
single. The return match was played last week, and it
seems that the spirit of these crinolined cricketers is likely
to be kept up ; it is the intention, we understand, of the
Finchdeaners to challenge an adjoining village. In the
return match alluded to the maidens beat the matrons by
42 runs. The following are the totals :—Single, 39-24 ;
married, 14-7. Surrey Standard.
HIGHLAND MODE OF DETECTING THE CATTLE
DISEASE.—A correspondent of the Dundee Courier states
that in 1814, when the cattle disease raged in Caithness-
shire, the following mode of discovering the animals
affected was resorted to :—A peat fire was kindled, and
leather burned upon it. The cattle were then made to move
round it, when such as wero affected commenced sneezing
and coughing, with matter coming out at their nostrils.
Our correspondent says he has seen this mode tried on tho
Ord of Caithness, whon 300 cattle passed through the or-
deal, and the diseased ones were separated from the sound.
The Hummums, in Covent-garden, so well known
as the resort of literary and political celebrities of past
generations, is doomed to destruction; the old house, like
many others in the metropolis, being demanded as a sac-
rifice to "metropolitan improvements." The lease, it
appears, has expired, and the Duke of Bedford will not
renew it, as he thinks it will be better to extend Covent-
garden Market in consequence of the rapid increase of its
trade.

THE RUSSIAN NOTE FORGERlES.—Yesterday, at
the Lambeth Police Court, Nathaniel Bolchester, Julius
Bayer, Samuel Berrens, Abraham Davis, Gorshon Sibber-
man, and Philip Brown, who stand charged with being
concerned in an extensive system of forgery, and passing
off forged notes of the Imperial Bank of Russia, and in the
possession of five of whom 500 of the forged notes were
found, were again placed before Mr. Elliott for further exa-
mination, were again remanded, and nothing
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ing this, the first considerable production of Cobden's pen.
It was from first to last a protest against the Palmerstonian
foreign policy, and represented views from which Cobden
never in his after life in the slightest iota swerved,
and which he never ceased to present to the nation, un-
influenced by the fair weather of popularity, undeterred
by the foul weather of temporary seasons of alienation
when England was in one of its intermittent war fevers.
These opening sentences from the preface are remarkably
characteristic of the man, and are of universal application
in English history—as
pertinent in 1865 as they were in
1835. " The following pages were written principally with
a view to endeavour to prove the erroneous foreign policy
of the Government of this country. English statesmen of
every age, down even to the present day, have one and all
lost sight of that distinguishing feature which is peculiar
to the insular situation of Great Britain. if we go
back to the year 1805, when Nelson destroyed the
remains of the French navy at Trafalgar, these islands
were thenceforth as secure against foreign molestation
as though they had formed a portion of the moon's
territory ; yet from that time down to 1815 we waged in-
cessant war, and incurred £400,000,000 of debt for interests
purely continental. Our European commerce yields but a
poor set-off against the expenses of the war. The hundred
days of Napoleon cost us £40,000,000, the interest of which
at 5 per cent. is £2,000,000. Now, our exports to all
Europe of British manufactures amount to about £18,000,000
annually: and taking the profit at 10 per cent., it falls short
of .E2,000,0e0. So that all the profit of all our merchants,
trading with all Europe, will not yield sufficient to pay the
yearly interest of cost of the last 100 days' war on the Con-
tinent, leaving all the other hundreds of millions spent pre-
viously as so much dead loss.—.3PGikhrist's Life of Cobden.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1i per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.22) per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of Li
i is. TOO. per ounce for standard, gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 1-1(411 per vent. dearer iu London than lu Paris,