The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-21 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Tho late warm weather has proved beneficial to the
plantations, and most of the grounds give promise of a
larger crop than was anticipated some weeks ago. The
market here is very inactive, but the lato advance in prices
is nominally maintained.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day

Market opens quiet. Sales probably 8,000 or
10,000 bales.

FATAL ACCIDENT WITH A REAPING MACHINE.--
On Friday last an accident, which has since proved fatal,
occurred at St. Cadoc Farm, near Padstow. A workman
narn,;(l John Edyveane, who has lived in the family of Miss
Whitford, the occupier of the farm, for upwards of 34 years,
whilst attending to his duties in the harvest field was
standing in the course of the reaping machine. He was
called to got out of the way, when being rather bewildered
he moved yet further on to the course which the machine
took, and was knocked down and trodden upon by the
horses. One rib was broken and other injuries were re-
ceived. He lingered until Sunday evening, when ho died.

One troop of the 14th King's Hussars, under the
command of Capt. Digby Boycott, Lieut. the Hon.
St. Vincent Saumarez, and Cornet Poynter, marched
from Edinburgh on Saturday last, en route to Kelso,
to be employed on escort duty to her Majesty
during her visit to the Duke and Duchess of Rox-
burghe.

PROROGATION

OF

PAR.LIAMENT.

THIS DAY.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I am happy to be enabled to release you from the
labours of a long and more than usually eventful

session, and to offer you my acknowledgments for
the successful diligence with which you have applied

yourselves to your parliamentary duties.
My relations with foreign countries continue on
a friendly footing.
At the commencement of the present year great
fears were entertained that differ,nces which had

arisen between France and Prussia might have led
to a war of which it was impossible to foresee the

ultimate result. Happily the advice tendered by
my Government, and by those of the other neutral
States, aided by the moderation of the two Powers
chiefly interested, sufficed to avert the threatened

_ .
calamity; andl trust that no ground at present
exists for apprehending any disturbance of the

general peace.
The communications which I have made to the
reigning monarch of Abyssinia, with a view to ob-
tain the release of the British subjects whom he

detains in his dominions, have, I regret to say, thus

far proved ineffectual. I have, therefore, found it
necessary to address to him a peremptory demand

'or their immediate liberation, and to take measures

'or supporting that demand, should it ultimately be

found necessary to resort to force.
The treasonable conspiracy in Ireland, to which
I have before called your attention, broke out in the
early part of the present year in a futile attempt at
insurreetion. That it was suppressed, almost
without bloodshed, is due not more to the disciplined
valour of my troops, and to the admirable conduct of
the police, than to the general loyalty of the popu-
lation and the absence of any token of sympathy with
the insurgents on thepart of any considerable portion
of my subjects. I rejoice that the supremacy of
the law was vindicated without imposing on me the
painful necessity of sacrificing a single life.
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The Bill for the abolition of certain local exemp-
tions from taxation enabled me to avail myself of a
liberal concession made, in anticipation, by the Em-
peror of the French, whereby several taxes were re-
moved which pressed heavily upon British shipping.

I have concluded a Postal Convention with the
United States of America, whereby the rate of
postage between the two countries will be diminished
by one-half, and further arrangements are in pro-
gress for increasing the intercourse between this
country and the Continent of North America.
The Act for the union of the British North Ameri-
can Provinces is the final accomplishment of 'a
scheme long contemplated, whereby those colonies,
now combined •in one dominion, may be expected
not only to gain additional strength for the pur-
poses of defence against external aggression, but
may be united among themselves by fresh
ties of mutual interest, and attached to the
mother country by the only bonds which can effec-
tually secure such important dependencies—those
of loyalty to the Crown and attachment to British
connection.