The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(Itis Day.)

LONDON, Sept. o.—Wind this day at noon, S.E. ;
light breeze and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 8.- -Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
H.M.S. Express, from Rio Janeiro.
PLTMOUTH, Sept. B.—Wind
Duke of Wellington, from Portsmouth.
SHIELDS, Sept. 8. —Wind W.—Sailed—Balkan, for
Ceylon.
MILFORD, Sept. B.—Wind W.—Arrived—Cascade, from
Newport, for St. Thomas, leaky.
CRONSTADT, Sept. I.—The Isabella, from Newcastle, ar-
rived hero on the 30th Aug. with loss of bowsprit, &c., from
contact, on the 27th ult, off Hogland, with a steamer,
name unknown ; the latter lost main and wizen masts and
fannel.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tueaday Morning.

Arrived—Spanish steamer Rimelona, from Barceliina,
Valencia' Carthagena, Alicante, Malaga, Cadiz, Corunna,
and Santander, with about 3,0(10 packages of dried fruit
for Southampton, a large cargo for Hamburg, and a few
passengers ; Nord, steamer, from Havre ; Cicely, Sun-
derland.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind S.S.E.
Sailed—Highland Brigade, for Richibuctoo ; Australia,
for New York ; Equator, for St. John's, N.B. ; Lucy and
Harriet, for New Orleans; Shamrock, steamer, for Havre.

MARKET NEWS.--(This Day.)

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 31 Os to 5/ lOs ; clover
41 lOs to 6/ 10a ; and straw, 11 8s to 1/ 13s per load. A
moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
ComßEßLawD.—Meadow hay, 31 5s to 51 12s; clover,
4/ Os to 61 103 ; and straw, 11 8s to 1/ 14s per load. Both
hay and straw sold slowly, at late rates,
WHITECEIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 31 3s to 1103; clover,
47 Oa to 61 108; and straw. 11 8s to 11 13s per lotto,
Trade dull.

COLONIAL,
TEA.—Very little business has been done in this article,
largo sales being advertised for to-morrow (Wednesday), a
great portion of which is Assam, and purchasers are wait-
ing the result.
SUGAR. —The demand for colonial and foreign has beon
very limited, and only a few small sales by private con-
tract have been effected at about previous rates. There
are large public sales advertised during the week. In tho
refined market great caution has been exercised by buyers,
and previous rates wore barely sustained.
COFFEE.—The supply of all descriptions of coffee has
been very limited, and good medium qualities have been
in demand. Both Native and Plantation Ceylon realised
fully former rates.
RICE —The market has bean very quiet, although for
the low qualities some inquiry took place, but other sorts
barely maintained former prices.
Rum. —There has been a moderate inquiry ; very little
bu4uess, however, has been done, at about former rates.
TALLOW.—The market has been quiet, the demand hav-
prie„ may be quoted somewhat lower.
ing subsided, and
P. Y.C., spot, 51s (id to 523; last flame mouths, 493 6d por
cwt.

The marriage of Juhn Bowes, of Streatlam
Castle, Durham, with Mdlle. de Lorne, of the Theatre
des Varieces, in Pari., a few days ago, caused no little
sensation in the theatrical circles of that city.
The cashier and sub-cashier of the Nerthern of France
Ral way are said to have disappeared with more than
40,000/. It is supposed the sum was obtained by the
sale of shares deposited with them,

Yet the slightest reflection is enough to remind us
that, whatever the meaning and virtue of this pompous
cavalcade, it denotes not unbounded power, paramount
testimony, immutable institutions, or anything beyond
the common lot of humanity. Let marshals, and cham-
berlains, and masters of ceremonies do as they will, they
cannot fix for ever the type of human events, even those
of the most arbitrary and artificial character. In all its
circumstances, even those which contribute to its gran-
deur, the coronation of Alexander 11. is a very different
thing from that even of his father thirty years ago.
In that difference we read the law of progress, to
which even Imperial institutions must bow. But what
are these circumstanses which forced themselves on the
notice, even amid the roar of artillery, the ela.h of bells,
the braying of trurropetF, and the shouts of awe-streck
multitudes T What are the events even more striking
than the wild coctume and caparisons of Calmucks, and
niegrelians, and Circassians, and Imeritiane—more
impressive than the now familiar names of Russia's
powerful yet devoted aristocracy? In the unparalleled
magnificence of the present ceremonial, in its enormous
cost (computed at a million sterling), we see the
growth of that wealth which has laws of its
own, and which changes institutions even while
adorning them. If this occasion is grander than
the last, then it is so far another thing than the
last, and who shall tell what the next change shall
be ! Sixteen hours brought Alexander with perfect
safety and comfort from the shores of the Neva to the
walls of Moscow. Who could have dreamt of that in
the year 1826 ! Yet the railway from St. Petersburg to
Moscow is only the first link in a fretwork which is to
cover the whole empire. By the electric wire some par-
ticulars of the actual coronation reached this city yester-
day, and might have come in less than a minute. In the
representatives of the British press, and the numerous
other strangers at Moscow, we see the forerunners of a
vast influx, which cannot but be beneficial to Russia,
and to the general interests of the world. All this per-
tends change, for improvement is change, though seldom
without some sort of sacrifice. But who could forget,
even while gazing on that spectacle of glory and
might, that but one year before Russia had been
compelled to abandon the vast port and arsenal she had
prepred for the extension of her empire further into the
heart of three continents This mighty pomp, so full of
traditions of the past, and bursting upon us like the very
climax. of Imperial splendour, comes indeed at the mo-
ment when Providence has pronounced the doom "Thus
far, and n• further." Henceforth all these nations and
tribes will have other employment than to augment their
muster-roll. The list is complete. The work of con-
quest is done. In that vast human column we read the
working of a great policy, but we read it to the end.
Such is the true reading of that gorgeous living inscrip-
tion. What shall we read when next the roll is opened ?

But these are not the thoughts of an envious rival. It
is Russia's best interest to give up a dream which, at the
best, is one of misery, bloodshed, and injustice, and to
escape the inevitable retribution that hunts down the
conqueror. Russia's own statesmen knew and they
are preparing to divert and concentrate a'l those mighty
energies and all those fresh impulses to the internal and
social improvement of those sixty millions. Una,sailable
within her own frontier, secure of the implicit obedience
of her people, Russia would be without excuse were she
stili to convert the strength of all that people and all that
soil into the means of destruction. The war itself has
happily brought to light the want of internal commu-
nications, and the disadvantage any State so condi-
tioned must lie under in comparison with its wiser
and more fortunate neighbours. The few miles of rail-
way we have laid on Russian soil are a hint which she
will improve a thousandfold. So all those numerous
tribes that figure in Alexander's long triumphal escort,
though 30 years ago they might be a warlike demonstra-
tion, to-day only celebrate the triumphs of peace, and
a'k for the universal extension of its benefits. They
represent how much is to be done, and what duties de-
volve on the man who claims the lordship of so vast a
territory, and the obedience of so many races and tongues.
The Government that can muster all these men, to march
in one column to one solemn measure, can do more.
It can give them all leisure, opportunity, and eccourage-
rnent for those works of peace which even savages and
soldiers love better than war, when the choice is offered
them.

SALE OF THE " AGR" NEWSPAPER AT MELBOURNE.
—The goodwill and plant of the Age newspaper, the
Melbourne Leader, the Weekly Age, and the Age job-
bing office, were sold by Mr. M'Combe, Collins-street.
The property comprised the whole of the type—about
8,5001b5. ; the printing machines, steam-engines, &c.,
used in getting out the paper. The terms were cash.
The biddings were by 1001. at a time. The first offer
made was 7001., the next 9001., then 1,5001., to 1,6001.,
up to 1,9001., when there was a pause of some slight
duration, enlivened by the pseudo witticisms of those
who frequent auction rooms as speculators. 2,0001.
were then bid by Mr. E. Syme, and the property was
knocked down to him for that mount. Tue whole
proceedings did not occupy more than ten minutes.
The auction-room was densely crowded.
IMPORTANT TO SHIP CAPTAINS-LIVERPOOL, Monday.
—A decision of great importance to the shipping interest
was given in the Police-court to-day. It will be remera•
bared that in July last the New York packet ship Isaac
Web', from this port to New York, with emigrants, was
driven ashore in a gale of wind at Amlwch, on the
Welch coast, two days after leaving Liverpool. Alter
being ashore for a considerable period, she was floated
off, and brought back to Liverpool. Upon her arrival
here, it was discovered that after she had passed the in-
spection of the Government officers at this port, when
she had a full crew shipped, she landed some of them,
and put to sea short-handed. The men were hired for
the purpose of passing the vessel through the Govern.
ment office. A prosecution was at once instituted by
the Board of Trade, and the case heard before Mr.
Mansfield and Captain Schoenberg, who announced
to-day their intention of inflicting a fine of 2501. lion
the captain (Bryer). The fine would have been much
more severe but for its being the first case in which
the law kas been enforced, and the captain admitting
his liability.

On Friday night Mr. Lewis Morgan, a gentleman of
property in the neighbourhood of Merthyrl Tydvil, was
killed by a train passing over him while endeavouring to
cross the Taff Vale Railway on horseback. It appears
that the deceased gentleman had been in Merthyr on
business, and meeting with several of his friends, bad
drunk too much liquor before he left. About half-a-mile
below the Taff Vale station, at a place called Brandy-
bridge, is an old parish road crossing the railway much
used, but there are no gates on either side to prevtrat the
public crossing at all seasons. This road is about half-a-
mile nearer to the Graiir, where the deceased resided,
than the usual road by Plymouth. The night was ex-
ceedingly dark, and the animal the deceased rode was a
very restive colt-, wLich he had purchased about three
weeks before. A young lad who was standing close by
the spot when the accident occurred states that a few
minutes before 8 o'clock, just as the up train from
Cardiff came along, the deceased struck his horse and
endeavoured to cross the railway in front of the
engine, bat it seems that neither the engineer nor
stoker saw anything till after the animal had been
struck, nor even then could they tell what had
happened. The engine was, however, immediately re
versed and brought to a standstill, alter proceeding
about 150 yards further, when a horrifying spectacle
presented itself. All along the line and among the
wheels were fragments of the body of the deceased—a
leg was in one place, an arm in another, a hand in
another, the head and part of the trunk in another, and
the heart in another, while bits of flesh and bones were
scattered about in all directions, and some thrown a
considerable distance. The horse was also dreadfully
mutilated, and Mr. James, surgeon, was several times
appealed to decide what portion of the fragments
gathered up belonged to the horse, and what were parts
of the human body. In a pocketbook found in one of
the pockets were notes amounting to 2701., which the
deceased had that day received at Brecon Old Bank,
and on the following morning Superintendent Wren
found attached to one of the wheels of the tender, a
pocket, torn from the trousers of the deceased, contain.
ing lls. 6d. in silver. From marks •of the horse's
hoots in the road, it would appear that the animal was
struck by the buffer about the middle, just as it was
crossing the outer rail, and carried a considerable distance
before it or its rider fell under the wheels. A jury was
summoned on Saturday evening by Mr. J. Morgan,
deputy-coroner, to view the body, after which the in-
quiry was adjourned till Thursday, the 25th inst.