The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-26 00:00:00

HIGH PRICE OF BEEF IN THE UNITED STATES.
—Within the last three weeks, at the New York market,
the choicest pieces of beef brought from 30 to 35 cents per
lb., medium pieces sold from 20 to 25 cents, and none,
even of the most inferior kind, was purchasable at a less
figure than 16 cents.

Le Figaro relates a story of an old woman, 80
years of age, who begged to be allowed to go out as
mandiere. She had been out in the same capacity in the
Russian campaign, where she was wounded three times,
and was also at Waterloo. She says she wants to dis-
mount a few Prussians.
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The Opinion Nationale says that the self-denial of
Marshals MacMahon and Canrobert has not been suffi-
ciently noted. They are both seniors to Bazaine, yet
they have not only submitted to his authority, but it is
said that they have themselves named him as the fit
commander-in-chief.

An American correspondent writes:—The war,
as was expected, is checking immigration from Europe.
Heretofore the weekly average of arrivals at New York
has been 7,000 to 9,000, while last week the number was
but 3,631. The German supply, the chief source, seems
almost cut off.
The Brewster sessions of the borough of Shef-
field were opened at the Sheffield Town-hall on Wednes-
day. A memorial signed by eleven hundred Sunday
school officers and teachers was presented to the Bench,
opposing the too numerous granting of licenses. Out of a
large number of applications but two were granted.
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DEATH OF A LADY BY DROWNINO.—Mrs. Far-
quhar, wife of Mr. Farquhar, lessee of the Strontian
shooting, Fort William, and residing at the Mansion
House there, was drowned at two o'clock on Monday
while bathing in Loch Sunart. Mr. Farquhar was at the
time at Banavie.

The death is announced of the Rev. R. D.
Dawson Duffield, L.L.D., rector of Sefton, near Liver-
pool. The deceased was at one time chaplain to the late
Duke of Cambridge, and he was elevated to the dignity
of an Italian Count by King Victor Emmanuel. In 1863
he was appointed by the patron, the Marquis de Roth-
well, to the rectory of Sefton, the value of which is a
little over £l,BOO a year.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—An inquest was held at
Merthyr on Wednesday on the body of a governess named
Emily Goulstone, who committed suicide by taking a dose
of prussic acid. From the evidence it appeared that an
illicit connection had been formed between the unfortu-
nate deceased and her employer, Mr. Howell Williams,
assistant overseer of the parish of Aberdare. The jury
returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased poisoned
herself whilst labouring under an attack of temporary
insanity.
MILITARY AND NAVAL PREPARATIONS.—It is
rumoured at Chatham dockyard that the Bulwark, 81
guns, 3,716 tons, 800 horse-power, lying in frame at No. 5
slip there, is to be cut down and converted into an armour
plated turret-ship. The Bulwark was commenced in 1859,
but on iron ships being introduced into the navy all work
upon her was stopped, so that she has been lying idle for
some years. The sister ship to the Bulwark, at Pem-
broke, is, it is reported at Chatham, to be converted
into an ironclad.

LYDIA THOMPSON IN THE WARS AGAIN.—Miss
Lydia Thompson has had another sensation scene for the
benefit of Chicago, but this time she has appeared as the
aggrieved party in the suit. For months past it appears
that she has been haunted by a madwoman, who pre-
tended to be in love with her. Miss Thompson summed
up a long story of her grievances by declaring that she was
in bodily fear of the woman ; she had bought a pistol and
had often threatened to shoot Mr. Henderson. The
matter was subsequently arranged by Miss Griffin, the
monomaniac consenting to leave the city immediately.
An American correspondent says : —There are
now laid up at New York harbour, in what is practically a
blockade, for they dare not venture to sea, nine North
German steamers—the Hammonia, Cimbria,,, Westphalia.
Union, America, Hanover, Weser, Frankfort, and Her-
man, and at Baltimore two, the Leipsic and Berlin. At
New York are also laid up 27 North German sailing ves-
sels—the ships Johann, Charlotte, Shakspeare, Hershel,
Neptune, Betty, and Guttenberg_; the barques Capella,
Johannes, Louise Marco Polo, verhard Delius, Ever-
hard, Cecrops Frederick Scala, Arcturus, Kolga, Grafin
Kuyphausen, 'Sirene, Cedas, Brazileria, Jenny, Harsberg,
and Elwine Kreplin, and the brigs Musca, Calsow,
Steiow, and Levine. There are about 20 North German
vessels in Boston, ten in Philadelphia, who came here
chiefly for petroleum ; as many more at Baltimore, who
went there for corn ; and others at Norfolk, Charleston,
Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston,
and other ports. Indeed, no American port of any size
is without its fleet of blockaded North German vessels.