The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-07 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

There was a very poor show of English wheat in to-day's
market, both as to quantity and quality. Owing, however,
to the large influx from abroal, the demand for all kinds
was in a most inactive state. Good and fine samples were
held at full quotations, but other descriptions were very
dull, and almost nominal in price.

The show of foreign wheat was very extensive. Both the
town and country millers purchased with extreme caution,
and to have forced sales lower rates must have been sub-
mitted to.

Floating cargoes of grain were heavy. In prices, how-
ever, very little change took place.

There was rather more inquiry for fine barley, at previous
rates ; but other descriptions were very dull.
The transactions in malt were on a limited scale, at pre-
vious currencies.
We have to report a slow sale for oats, on former terms.
In beans and peas very little was doing, at late rates.
The flour trade was in a sluggish state, at barely sta-
tionary prices.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats.
English. ... 1,810 ' 1,040 620 2lO ;
Irish
F0reign........ 36,480 4,710 8,480 1 1.650 sacks
20,510 brls.

Flour.
760

TIER FRENCH NAVY.

The semi-official lifoniteur de la Flotte publishes
the following letter from Toulon, dated the 2d
inst. :

" The ship of the line Algesiras and the steel-
plated frigate Gloire have returned to the roads
after a cruise of two days, during which they
steamed as far as Nice. The trial was most com-
plete and highly satisfactory: The admirals who
commanded the ships entertained no doubt on the
subject, but they wished to ascertain some points
of detail. Trials of speed were made on various
tacks, and with two, four, six, and eight boilers
heated. The only defect discovered in the Gloire
is that she cuts the waves with too great
speed. The water enters by the portholes
forward. It is said that this inconvenience
will be avoided in the plans for the new
plated frigates which are to be placed on
the stocks next year. The guns are to be more out of
the water. A new system of iron floating batteries is
being examined. They are to be much smaller than
those used in the Crimean war. They are not in-
tended for going to sea, but solely for the protection
of the entrance into ports and rivers, It is chiefly
for this service that steel-plated frigates are con-
structed, as it is not considered safe to send them to
sea alone. The general system of the defence of
the coasts is to be completed by cutting down the
_old sailing ships and plating them. The construc-
tion of ships of great speed has naturally directed
the attention of the Government to the necessity of
adopting greater precaution for the defence of the
coasts of Britann3 and Normandy. These coasts
are now much exposed to the danger of a
eoup de main, which, though Hot probable, is
at least possible. The coast of the Mediterra-
nean appears to be better defended by nature,
but we shall shortly have at our gates on that
side a maritime Power which may become trouble-
some. We are at present on the best terms with
Italy, but that may not always be the case. Italy,
moreover, is not the only Power in the Mediter-
ranean, and, besides, we must protect the coast of
Algeria, and secure our communication with Africa
in all weathers. If all these exigencies are taken
into consideration it will be found that, notwith-
standing the attention paid to the materiel of the
navy during late years, it is still below what it
ought to be. I have just alluded to the future
maritime power of Italy, and I find that it is pro-
posed to organise maritime prefectures in that coun-
try, and likewise the system of maritime conscrip-
tion, such as it exists in France. I can tell you,
further, that Ancona is to be the chief port of the
3d arrondissement. This, no doubt, is only a pro-
visional arrangement, inasmuch as Ancona is far
from being suitable for a military port, the siege
under which it fell being a clear proof of that fact."

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT

INSTITUTIOA.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John•street, Adelphi—Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair.
The following rewards were voted, viz. to
the crew of the lifeboat at Hausley, for going off
and saving the crew of five men of the schooner
Susan and Isabella, which, during a gale of wind
and heavy sea, was disabled in the Cygnet-roads,
Northumberland, on the morning of the 23d ult.;
£7 10s. to the crew of the Newbiggin life-
boat, for putting off and rescuing the crew of
three men from the schooner Rose, of Lynn,
which, during a gale of wind and a heavy sea, was
wrecked on the Northumberland coast on the 23d
ult.; £6 to the crew of the lifeboat at Filey,
for putting off on the morning of the 10th ult.,
and saving the crew of five men of the brig
Flying Fish, of Whitby; £3O to the crew of the life •
boat at Lyme Regis, for putting off on the night of
the 14th ult., during a fearful gale of wind, and
when it was as dark as pitch, and rescuing the crew
of three men of the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme
Regis; £l4 to the crew of the Middlesborough life-
boat, for putting off on Sunday night last, and
rescuing the crew of eleven men of the brig Pro-
drama, of Middlesborough, which had stranded on
the East (.base sand bank, near Seaton Carew, dur-
ing a strong S.E. wind; £ll to the crew of the
new surf lifeboat stationed at Yarmouth, for putting
off on the night of the 18th ult., and saving the
crew of six men of the schooner Admiral Hood, of
Rochester.

Payments amounting to £9O were also made to
the crews of the lifeboats of the institution stationed
at Palling and Yarmouth, in Norfolk ; Walmer, in
Kent; Seaton Carew, in Durham t and Teign-
mouth, in Devon ; for putting off in reply to signals
of distress, but the vessels had either got out of
danger, or their crews had been rescued by other
means, and the services of the lifeboats were not
needed.

Captain Tudor, R, 4., who had for his previous
gallant services in a lifeboat received the silver
medal of the society, was presented with the second
service clasp of the institution, in acknowledgment
of his intrepid and prompt services in putting off in
a ship's boat manned by nine men and saving two
persons, at much risk of life, from the Martha, of
Wick, which during a heavy gale of wind was
wrecked near that place on the 20th ult.
The thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum
and £1 were also presented to Mr. Samuel Clarke,
pilot of Teignmouth, for his general laudable ser-
vices in the lifeboat of the institution in that town,
and particularly for his prompt and very laudable
exertions in assisting to save the crew of a fishing
boat which had capsized on Teignmouth Bar during
squally weather and heavy sea on the 10th ultimo.
The five other men who had put off with Clarke in
the boat received £2 10s. from the institution.

A reward of 13 was voted to three pilots of Pill,
near Bristol, for saving three Frenchmen belonging
to the schooner Jeune Honore, which had been in
collision in the Bristol Channel with an Austrian
brig. Several other rewards were voted for laud-
able exertions in saving life on the Irish and other
parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom.
It was reported that Miss Burdett Coutts had
presented to the seamen at Sunderland a transport-
ing lifeboat carriage built on the plan of the insti-
tution. She had previously generously given the
seamen a lifeboat.

Admiral Cator stated to the committee that,
whilst in Cullercoats, near Shields, in the begin-
ning of October last, the fishermen of the place had
expressed to him their great gratitude for the baro-
meter which the Duke of Northumberland, presi-
dent of the institution, had presented to them. A
fearful gale from the westward had about that time
somewhat suddenly sprung up. The fishermen
had previously prepared to go to sea. Some of them
had observed the fall of the barometer, while others
disputed its utility and value, and treated it with
derision. The majority of the fishermen, however,
decided that they would not go to sea while the
barometer was falling, although it was quite fine
at the time. A few hours afterwards a most fearful
gale o wind came on, when the fishermen expressed
their firm conviction that every one of them would
probably have perished had they gone to sea, as
most assuredly they would have gone in the absence
of a barometer.
It was decided to forward, for the acceptance of
the authorities in Denmark, a large working draw-
ing of the lifeboat now adopted, andcess
used by the institution on most parts ofsucfully
the coasts
of the United Kingdom.
It was stated that the late Mr. T. F. Heming-
ton, of Lyme Regis, had left
thea legacy of £lOO to
the funds of that branch of Lifeboat Institu-
tion.
It was decided that £l,OOO, from the small funded
capital of the institutioni,tsshnouumlderobaes sloifledbotaot
the heavy PaY stet
on
blishments.
Payments amounting to £1,300, on various life-
boat stations having been made, the proceedings
then closed.

RARE BOOKS.—The following are some further
' prices of curious books disposed of at the sale of M, Solar's
Libra: y Decretum," folio, printed at Mentz in
1472, on parchment, by Petrus Schaffer, with illuminated
capitals, 1,000 f.; " Bonifacius, Papa VIII., Liber Sextus
Decretalium," e. fine folio on parchment, printed at Mentz
in 1470, by P. Scha4a, 1,120 f. ; " Justiniani Institutionum
Libri Iy .", a beautiful copy on parchment, printed at Mentz
in 1468, by P. Schaeffer, 4,000 f. ; Cy commence la table du
premier livre intitule" Somme Rural," printed at Bruges,by
Colard Mansion, in 1479, a black letter folio, the first edition
of this scarce work, 3,500 f.; " Costumes du. Pays do la;
or
mandie, in Latin and French, on parchment, printed
Rouen, in 1483. This book, the first printed Normandy,
was purchased for a private library at Rouen
t , 3.° ul ;
and
" Costumier du Pays de Poictou," by Marnef, Paris
Poitiers, in 1515; copy presented to Francis
Jilin
s Arms,
parchment, in the old binding, bearing the King's
on
d the salaman-
with the crown and escocheon of France
Zologia," Baslo,
der , 1,545 f.; " Francisci Floridi
1540, binding by Grolier, 1,000 f.; ' ainPrincess de Cleves,"
by Madame de Lafayette, Paris, IG7B, 2 vols., original edi-
, ti9n, 327 f,

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

LONDON GAZETTE--(THIs EVENING).

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 3.

This day had audience of her Majesty :.ftis Excellency
the Count de Persigny, Ambassador from the Emperor of
bile French, to deliver his letter of recall ; and his Excel-
lency the Count de Flahault de la Billarderie, to deliver
his credentials in the same character ; to which audiences
they were respectively introduced by the Right Hon. Lord
John Russell, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Maclean,
Esq., C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the territories of
British Kaffraria.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEc. 7.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieut.-
Colonel Edward Stanton, C. 8., to be her Majesty's Consul-
General at Warsaw.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL -MALL, DEC. 7.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. Henry Hutton
Parry, M.A., to be Chaplain of the Fourth Class.

BRUPS.
Thomas Beech, builderAN, EK verton,Tncar Liverpool.
John Alexander Pouteau, printer, Pond-street, Hamp-
stead.

James Broadbridge, grocer, Arundel.
Gibbs Howes Murrell, farmer, Surlingham, Norfolk.
George Landgridge Williams, builder, Islington.
Gustave John Parry, merchant, Philot-lane, City.
William Frostick, jun., builder, Poplar.
David Watkins, cattle dealer, Backway Farm, Devon-
shire.
Joseph Ambler, worsted manufacturer, Bradford
Wm. M‘Leod, joiner, Kingston-upon-Hull. •
John Ward Clappison, jeweller, Kingston-upon •Hull.
Moses David Strehtz, merchant, Newgate-street, City.
Thomas Septimus Pattison . and Frederick Miles, sta-
tioners, Lawrence Pountney7hill, City.
Henry Walker, hatter, Leicester.
Erancis Edward Shipley, jun., brickmaker, and Francis
Edward Shipley, snip tanner, Nottingham.
scurcß BANKRUPTS.
William Thomson, cab proprietor, Musselburgh.
Alexander Asher, painter, Elgin.