The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1670.
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LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

CROWN UFFICE, DEC. 1.

The Queon has been pleased to approve of Mr. Do-
mingos Montbrum as Vice-Consul in the Island of
Trinidad for his Majesty the King of Portugal and the
Algarves.

CROWN OFFICE, DEC. 7.
DIEMEERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PREoENT

PARLIAMENT.

County of Chester—The Hon. Norman Grosvenor, in
the room of Hugh Lupus (commonly called Earl Gros-
venor), now a Peer of the United Kingdom to whom a
writ of summons bath been issued summoning him to the
Upper House of Parliament.
DEC. 10.

Borough of King's Lynn.—Claud John Hamilton (com-
monly callod Lord Claud Hamilton), in the room ul the
Right Hon. Edward Henry Stanley (commonly called
Lord Stanley), now a. Peer of the United Kingdom to
whom a writ of summons hath boon issued summoning
hlm to the Upper House of Parliament.
\VAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Dec. 10.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel Robert
Myddleton Biddulph, Royal Denbighshire Militia, to be
one of he: Majesty's Aides-de-Camp for the Service of her
Militia Force.

ADMIRALTY, Dec. 7.
John Rolfe Nelson, Esq., has this day been promoted to
the rank of Stuff Commander in her Majesty's Fleet.

The failure of the New York dry goods house of
Messrs. Falconer, Brothers, indicates the strain .r,-hich the
fall in gold has placed on extensive importers. The Brad-
ford Telegraph, which announces the suspension, states
that in that English town a loss may be sustained of
£lO,OOO in sums of £2,000 to £lO,OOO. We may mention
that the manufacturers of Bradford insist upon the pro-
visions of the Chinese Treaty being observed by Chinese
officials, of whom the Bradford Chamber of Commerce
complain of being lax in their international duty, but they
are careful to state that they wish moral suasion alone to
be used. _

In these days of starvation the transport of cheap
meat from countries where it so abounds as to run to
waste is a subject of great importance, and wo have noticed
with pleasure the successful efforts made to bring meat
dinners within the means of the very poor. Doubtless
both the process of bringing the man to the meat and of
bringing the meat to the man should be carried on together,
nor is there anything, as some writers suppose, antago-
nistic in this. Indeed every device should be brought into
practice to relieve the distress now prevailing in England,
and let the believers in each system do their best to show
what they advocate to be the meat effective. Among
these plans is the Australian preserved meats, which is
proving a manifest success. Some restaurants have, we
believe, been opened to cook this meat at a low price
It is sold in tins of all sizes, and in excellent preservation
and quality, by the West-end agent of London, who, we be-
lieve, is the wholesale and retail grocer, Albert Fincham,
55, Charing-cross. What has been effected in thus pre-
serving Australian meats can bo done on the Pampas of
South America, and the prairies of Texas. A fleet of
steamers, we are informed, are being constructed to convey
live cattle from Buenos Ayres to England, but this appears
to us to be a clumsy process, and we feel assured that
some inventor will discover the means of transferring
beef and mutton as when killed, from the place where
meat abounds, to where it is scarce.

The following address was presented to Mr. Fer.
dinand do Lesseps, President of the Suez Maritime Canal
Company, on the inauguration of the enterprise :—"
The undersigne f citizens of the United States of America
present to you their congratulations upon the success
which has attended the inauguration of the maritime
canal across the Isthmus of Suez. The people of the
United States are interested in evety enterprise which
promotes the free intercourse of nations and enlarges the
commerce of the world. The work which has been com-
pleted under your direction is eminently of this character.
It removes one of those barriers which, interposed, are
said to make enemies of nations. It fosters hopes of
universal peace. Opening the way to a freer exchange of
commercial products, it will increase the wealth and
prosperity of nations; and, beyond this, it unites by
closer ties the Eastern and Western Empires which have
been so long separated by the isthmus, now happily int ur-
sected. Religion, civilisation, commerce, and enlightened
government ought to be promoted thereby. In this aspect
we regard it as one of the most important which in any
ago has been initiated by individual enterprise, and with es
full recognition of that which is duo to you, and those
associated with you, and a profound respect for the (3o-
vernments which have rendered assistance, we present
our congratulations upon the complete success, and trust
it may realise all the anticipations which have animated
and sustaivad the company under whose auspic3s it has
been completed.-Cairo, November 22, 1869.- (Signed)
N. P. Banks, Dr. Thos. \V. Evans, George Eustis, Edward
A. Crane, Scipio L. Leslie, Nathan Appleton, Lysander
Dickenson, Richard Corbin, H. W. Harkness, Howard M.
Ticknor, Win C. Hunter, Julian Lavising, S. C. Ewing,
F. Billing, W. J. Valleutine, and W. li. Carver."
At the recent exhibition of textile and other
fabrics held in Boulogne, under the auspices of the Due-
. logne branch of the Society of Agriculture, the salvor
medal of the society was awarded to C. F. Dennet, Esq.,
of Boston, U.S. (now resident in 1loulo4ne), for his exhi-
bited specimens of " Ramie." Mr. Dennet propos,,,s to in-
troduce into France this new textile fibre, which is now
grown in considerable quantities in the United States, at
scarcely any outlay.

The new steamer City of _Brussels, of the Inman
line, has just completed a wonderful voyage across the
Atlantic westward. The passage from Queenstown to New
York (quarantine) was performed iu 8 days 1 hours, ap-
parent time.