The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-15 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Thero is rather less activity in the demand for hops,
owing to some accounts stating that the bine is looking
more promising. The duty is called £BO,OOO.

We are informed that the London and North•
Western Company intend to apply, in the ensuing session
of Parliament, for power to complete the portion of lino
between Altrincham and Stockport, for which the latter
Company obtained power. The completion of this part of
the original scheme of the Warrington and Stockport Com-
pany will connect Stockport and the surrounding district
with Garston. and Birkenhead Docks and the Holyhead
Railway ; the London and North-Western Company hay •
ing purchased and leased the intermediate lines.—Manches-
ter Guardian.

ATTEMPTED RESCUE FROM THE AGAPEMONE.—
At an early hour on the morning of Friday last the Rev.
Mr. Price, accompanied by Joseph Reeves, a veterinary
surgeon, William Furze, a bumbailiff, and a shoemaker
named Briffett, proceeded from Bridgewater to Spaxton for
the purpose of forcibly releasing the wife of the first-named
gentleman from the Agapemone. Mr. Price was the first
to enter the " Abode of Love," and he succeeded in finding

his "better half" in one of the conservatories. He was on
the point of securing her when she cried "Murder I" and
the Princeites then came to the rescue mid routed her hus-
band and his companions. It will, no doubt, be in the re-
collection of our readers that Mr. Price was formerly an
inmate of the Agapemone, and that after leaving that
establishment he endeavoured to obtain the release of his
wife also. The latter was taken before the legal authori•
ties upon a habeas corpus, when she gave her husband to
understand that she preferred remaining with the
"brethren," and she consequently returned to these free
lovers.

BRITFORD GREAT SHEEP AND HORSE FAIR.—
This far-famed fair for sheep, of which there are generally
from 80,000 to upwards of 100,000 on offer—was held in
Britford-field, near Salisbury, on Monday last. The num-
ber penned exceeded that of last year by about 10,000, and
was larger than any number at market for the last ten
years. Business commenced very early in the morning, and
the attendance of buyers being exceedingly numerous, far-
mers experienced little difficulty in obtaining considerably
enhanced rates. The demand was continuous from the
time the fair began until shortly after mid-day, when
scarcely a flock remained unsold. Lambs realised from 30s.
to 40s. per head ; seconds, from 265. to 30s. ; ewes, from
365. to 465. ; and wethers' from 40s. to 50s. Many prime
lots changed hands at higher figures. There were a num-
ber of pens of prize wether lambs, breeding ewes, Down
rams and ram lambs exhibited by Wiltshire and Hamp-
shire breeders, which attracted considerable attention. The
horse fair was very largely supplied with animals of vari-
ous descriptions, besides numerous droves of New Forest
ponies. In this department trade was not brisk. Useful
cart-horses and colts sold at prices varying between £25
and £4O a-piece.
HUNGARY AND ITS HERO.--We read of a hero
wbo was condemned to carry the world on his shoulders •,
we have seen a patriot who was called, and who consented
to bear a weighty section of it on his. He bore it well
equipoised ; he bore it steadily, and upright under it,
until it was shoved off by such malicious and irresistible
Powers as riveted the chain round Prometheus for bring-
ing down fire from heaven. Twin stars are now in the
ascendant whioh will guide Hungary with Italy through
the tempest. Man's arm is invigorated by labour, and his
heart is fortified by adversity. Again the venerated name
of Kossuth will be heard from the Vistula to the Carpa-
thians ; and the right hand of Italy will be extended to
Sarmatia across the Adriatic. The spirit of Manic rises
over the Lagunes and dispels the darkness of surrounding
night.—Walter Savage Landor's " Letter to Kossuth" in
the London Review.
Mr. Potts has given notice that next session he
shall mote that an humble address be presented to her
Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to
command the archbishops and bishops in their several
dioceses to order that sermons may be preached on the first
Sunday, or any other Sunday in the year, in all parish
churches or district churches, for the support of the fabric
of the church, and for the necessary expenses, usually
effected by the grant of a church-rate.
THE BADEN CONFERENCE.—STRANGE REVELA-
TIONS.—" The secrets of Plombieres and 'Verona have
transpired, and I am in a position to offer you some authen-
tic details of the projects broached at Baden. The conference
was insisted upon for the purpose of bringing that mesmeric
influence—on which Louis Napoleon prides himself—to bear
upon the Prince Regent, and thus to extort his assent to a
more splendid offer than Prussian ambition ever dreamed
of. The proposal dates from the late Baron de Budburg's
journey to Paris, and it was made in the joint names of
Russia and France. In turning a deaf ear to so magnificent
an offer, the Prince proved himself either a hero or a fool,
according as we estimate political rectitude to be a positive
or a negative quantity. To Prussia was offered the whole
of Germany, from the frontiers of Austria and Switzerland
to the extremity of Jutland, on the simple condition of aid •
ing Russia in the East, and of ceding the left bank of the
Rhine to France."—Baden Correspondent of the London
Review.
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