The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-25 00:00:00

SEEDS.

Linseed continues in steady request, and in same in-
•tances, rather high rates have been obtained. Rapeseed

is less firm, but without change in value. Canary meets a
fair sale, at full quotations ; but all other seeds are ne-
glected. In cakes, a moderate business is doing, at last
week's currency.

furnip,White,p.bus.lBs to 2251 Carraway 32s to 34s
Swede
Mustard, 8r0wn.... —s —s Henspseed, per qr 40s 44s
White, new.... —s —s Linseed,Eng,.sowing 668 68s
Tares,Winter, new.. 7sod 8s Crushing
Old —s —8 i Baltic -s -s
Canary, per quarter 46s 52s Odessa 49s 6d 51s
Rye grass, new 26s 28s Linseed Cake, p. ton
Clover, Red Eng., ct. 40s 46s t English .... £9 5s £9 15s
White
Foreign Red 4OB 40s Rape Cakes,p.ton £5 Os £5 108
White 688 72s Rapeseed, p. qr. Vs 66s
Trefoil, new ... 18s 22s

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DA T.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.,
ROBBERIES AT THE VOLUNTEER RMYIEW.—John
Coley, described as a cabinetmaker, WAS charged before
Mr. Henry, with stealing a gold watch and chain of the
value of £25, from the person of Mr. George Payton, gen-
tleman, of 11, Sussex-square, Hyde-park.
The prosecutor said that on Saturday afternoon he was
in Hyde-park with his wife and three children, when he
observed the prisoner with a coat over his arm. The pri-
soner stool near him for about 10 minutes, and on his
moving to another part of the park, followed him. Having
got into a rather dense crowd he suddenly heard a snap at
his waistcoat pocket and missed his watch, which had been
snapped off from the chain at the bow. He immediately
seized the prisoner, when a gentleman in plain clothes said,
" I saw him take it," but having an idea he might be a
confederate, ha unfortunately let go the prisoner and
seized the other, who, he afterwards, on another constable
coming up, found to be a constable. The prisoner was,
however, secured, but the watch was not found.

Thick, 85 D, proved seeing the prisoner for some time
fidgetting about near the prosecutor, his coat being over his
arm up to the elbow. Some one said he (the constable)
was a confederate, and the gentleman then seised him,
which prevented his securing the prisoner's hand. The
prisoner either threw the watch away or passed it to some
one else. The watch was not found.

By Mr. Beard (for the prisoner)—l secured the prisoner
as soon as I could after the click, and his coat was up his
arm to his elbow.

Mr. Beard, on behalf of the prisoner, pleaded guilty.
A constable Baia he llall seeu tho prioonor eonvichad three
or four times for felonies.

Mr. Henry committed the prisoner for six months with
hard labour.

There were numerous other cases of picking pockets,
which were disposed of in various ways.

THE REV C. SPURGEON AND "SABBATH"
OBSERVANCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR„—My invitation to the Islington clergy to meet me
for an open discussion of " the Sabbath Question," which
you so courteously laid before the public, it appears, from
your last evening's number, should be extended to the Rev.
Mr. Spurgeon. Will you, then, further permit me to inti-
mate that it is hereby thus extended ?

Our rev. brother appears awe-stricken at the " Sabbath
desecration," not merely of Roman Catholic but Protestant
princes. Although Luther, and Calvin, and Beza, and
Bucer, whose teaching these evangelical rulers of Ger-
many, it should be remembered, adopt, would have recom-
mended that the Baden-Baden Conference should have
been held on Sunday, had an apprehension existed that the
people would think their rulers " sabbatised" by waiting
for any other day ; yet, Mr. Spurgeon is overwhelmed, if
not with alarm at the heinousness of their grievous sin
against " God's peculiar day," yet with righteous indig-
nation, and asks, " Will net the Lord be avenged en such
a people as this ? Now, it is high time, Mr. Editor, that
Christendom should strive to attain something more ap-
proaching-unanimity of view and uniformity of practice,
touching what is lawful to be done on the first day of the
week. Nothing can be more antagonistic than the views
which are held by Mr. Spurgeon and his party on the one
side ; and those of anti-Sabbatarians on the other. Neither
Lord Chelmsford, nor any other benevolent legislator,lwho
would fain see Sunday observance on a consistent basis,
can ever hope fully to succeed so long as the weekly hole.
day is regarded by leading divines as having usurped,
they know not how, the claims of the Mosaic Sabbath, as
interpreted, too, not by the Great Lawgiver himself, but
by Rabbis of later ages.
As, therefore, Mr. Spurgeon's object in publishing his
letter is the propagation of truth, he will doubtless be re-
joiced
to find that on his return, "refreshed with rest," he
may secure, mere signally and extensively, this laudable
object by refuting my arguments before a London auditory.
The name "Bayley" was inadvertently written for

" Stevens" in my last letter. The present secretary of the
Lord's-day Observance Society is the Rev. Henry Stevens.
—I have the honour to be, sir, yours, &c.,

RICHARD HIBBS.

1, Great Stuart-street, Edinburgh,

June 23, 1860.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Juno 25. Wind this day at noon S.W.;
moderate breeze and cloudy, but heavy rain early in the
morning.

PORTSMOUTH, June 24.—Wind S. to W.S.W.—Arrived
Windermere, from Demerara. Sailed—Osprey, screw
steamer, Southampton; Her Majesty's steamer Bulldog,
Iceland.

SOUTHAMPTON, June 24.—Wind S.W. Arrived—
Osprey, screw steamer, from Rot' erdam, bound from Porte-
mouth ; Bavaria, steamer, from Hamburg, and left for Now
York. Sailed—Neckar, for Hong Kong ; Isabella, for
Quebec.

QUEENtiTOWN, June 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Per-
sia, steamer, from Liverpool, and proceeded for New York.
Sailed—Bravo, for Quebec.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.

Wind W., blowing hard, with heavy rain.
Arrived, June 23.—Hambourg, steamer, from Brest ;
Bavaria, steamer, from Hamburg; Branch, Anne, Good
Design, and Hannah, from Sunderland ; Prosperous, from
Salcombe ; Ernest and La Poule, from Cherbourg ; City
of Exeter, and Despatch, steamer, from Jersey; Alliance,
steamer, from Havre; 'remora, steamer, from Dublin ;
Whim, steamer, from Jersey.
Arrived, June 24.—Wave, from Cowes, Argyle, steamer,
from Carentan.

Sailed, June 23.—Marsella, for Llanelly ; Lively, for
Sunderland ; City of Exeter, steamer, for Jersey; La
Pottle, for Cherbourg; Hainbourg, steamer, for Havre;
Temora, steamer, for London; Ernest, for Cherbourg;
Elizabeth, steamer, for Neath.
Sailed, June 24.—Necker, for Hongkong; Bavaria,
steamer, for Now York; Pet, for Scilly.
(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind S.; tide four hours' ebb ; weather moderate, and
rain.

Arrived, June 24.—Constance, from Memel ; Deptford,
from Santander; Auld, from Stockholm; Alice, from Me •
tnel ; Foroning, from Stockholm ; Ormold, from Griefs-
wald ; Landon, from Lisbon; De Voororog, from Leghorn;
Onward, from Brussels.
Arrived, June 25—Olga, from Bjorneborg ; Doncaster,
from Stettin ; Sea Horse, from Riga ; Peter Cordp, from
Pillau ; .Lulus, from Wiesmar ; Storm, from Caen ;
Lionne, from Gravelides ; Furst, from Gravelinos; Arabella,
from Smyrna ; Riverdale, from Cronstadt ; Nautilus, from
Memel ; Funkea, from Gothenburg.
Sailed, Juno 24. Malta, for Kurrachee ; Northern
Crown, for Calcutta; Spectator, for Demerara ; Plutus,
for Quebec.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Wind S.W., moderate.
Anchored.—Sea, for Valparaiso ; Susanna, for Rio
Janeiro ; Spectator, for Demerara; Politena, for Liverpool;
Juacara, for Glasgow; Minerva, for Bristol—all from
London.

According to advices from the city of Mexico,
Messrs. Jecker and Co., the eminent bankers, have failed,
with very heavy liabilities. The amount of their assets is
stated to be also large.

We ( Athenceu»z) understand that there will be
a vacancy, at the end of the present session, in the Chair of
Botany at the University College, Dr. Lindley having re-
signed it, after filling it for more than thirty years; that
is, from the date of the foundation. Dr. Lindley has been
appointed, with Dr. Hooker, joint examiners in botany to
the University of London.

THE DENBIGH NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD.—This
Eisteddfod, which will be held in August next, is expected
to be a most successful meeting. The papers sent in for
literary competition are very numerous, and the musical
competition is likely to be active. On the present occasion
a new feature will be introduced. It is well known that the
Gaelic languages (Irish and Scotch) are cognate with the
Cymric. Accordingly, several Scotch and Irish scholars
are ;invited to !attend, with a view of exciting a common
interest in the study of Celtic languages, literature, and
history. The manifestation is therefore calculated to be
philological and historical as well as national, and, conse-
quently, all lovers of ancient literature may fairly be called
upon to co-operate in the support of this cause.
BAROMETERS FOR LIFEBOAT STATIONS.—The
National Lifeboat Institution is about to place barometers,
wherever found practicable, at each of its lifeboat stations
round the coasts, in order that the seafaring population of
the neighbourhood may be warned in Uwe of a coming
storm. Rear-Admiral Fitzroy, F.R.S. having been re-
quested to aid the institution with his advice in the matter,
immediately promised the undertaking his cordial co-ope-
ration, and has subsequently addressed the following
letter to the secretary : " Board of Trade (and
Admiralty) Meteorological Department, 2, Parliament-
street, London, S.W., Juno 19. Sir,—You request
my opinion on behalf of the committee of the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution respecting barometers,
with instructions
and ask whether I would co-operate in their establishment.
in for their use at lifeboat stations,
.
In reply to the question, I beg that you will submit to the
' Barometer and Weather
ying manual, published by the
cGoumidmei, tteweitthheits first
aeepoiangpeasn of a
Board of Trade, and will show them one of the baro-
meters supplied now to 33 of the populous, the poorest
and the most exposed, fishing villages in Great Britain.
Such a barometer, packed as I now send it for your inspec-
tion, may be forwarded anywhere ; and the directions show
how to use it, including suspension or removal. The price
p
aid
carrdiabgye. theA Bs
a eamrdemb'oteTr Trade is
ecommittee L4
of the institution, I, exclusive of packing and
shall have great satisfaction in aiding its objects, the utility
of which cannot be disproved or oven-ated.—l am, &c.,
ROBERT FITZROY, Rear-Admiral." A benevolent gen-
tleman, desirous to assist the Lifeboat Institution in carry-
ing out this laudable design, which will involve an ex-
pense of about £5OO, has given it X. 50 to begin with. Mea-
sures have also been taken by the society to elicit, by a
series of question addressed to its honorary secretaries,
every information relative to this important object.