The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

Vverpool Cotton Market. —This Day.

The market opens dull, bit quotations unaltered.
Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 bales.

IRON SHIPBUILDING IN THE THAMES.—Iron ship-
building is again looking up on tho banks of the Thames.
Tho Lords of the Admiralty have just concluded another
contract with the Thames Shipbuilding Company at Black-
wall for a sister ship to the Volago. She is to have a very
favourite old name—Active. She iS to be built of iron,
but is to have a wooden bottom, which is to be copporod.
She is Ito he 2,322 tons, GOO horse-power, and is to be
driven by twin screws.--Army and Navy Gazette.
TROOPS FOR ABYSSINIA.—In accordance with
orders to that effect, received yesterday morning from the
Horse Guards, the 10th company of the Royal Engineers,
together with the detachments of the A troop of the
Royal Engineer Train, as well as the parties of photogra-
phers, well-borers, and surveyors, will leave Chatham
garrison this morning for Woolwich, where they will em-
bark on board the screw steamer Mendoza for Massowah
The detachments were inspected at headquarters yester-
day, by Major-General F. Murray. The 10th company
has been augmented from the depot companies now at
headquarters, its present strength being 81 non-commis-
sioned officers and men.
DEATH OF MR. E. JAMES, Q.C.—This morning,
after the Judges had taken their seats, it was announced to
them that Mr. Edward James, Q. 0., M.P., who has been
some time ill with pleurisy, had died during the night.
The deceased gentleman was Judge of the Passage Court
of Liverpool, and also Attorney-General for the County
Palatine of Lancashire.
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TIIE BODY OF TIIE LATE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN.
—The Marican Standard contains the following:—" The
reports circulated by various papers of this city, respect-
ing the body of Maximilian, are inexact. It has been
said that the body has undergone decomposition ; that it
lacks a portion of the nose, so much so that it is supposed
to be necessary to restore it with wax ; and that the eyes
havo been changed. We learn, from tho medical men who
havo soen the body, that no decomposition whatever has
taken place, and that it is not true that a portion of the
nose is wanting. Respecting the eyes, they are preserved
in the same manner as is usual when bodies aro em-
balmed." On tho same subject the following letter is
published :—" Few persons know the particulars of the
so-called embalming of Maximilian. Instead of employing
the Ganal system of embalming, the body was placed
in a bath composed of reactives, and the eyes were
replaced by glass ones taken from a Santa Ursula,
which, as it is said, they found in the hospital where
the operation was performed. The American journals
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have pretended that the body of tho mperor Maximi-
lian was hung up from malice. This is a mistake. It is
true that it was hung up, but this was for the purpose of
drying it. The photographs sold in Mexico, representing
Maximilian after his death, are incorrect. After the body
was dry it was clothed in pantaloons and jacket. High
boots were put on his feet, and white gloves on bis hands.
.Accorcling to. the:information I leave_ obtained, the Jpody.
cannot be taken to Vienna, except in a state of putrefac-
tion, •
if proper =emu are not promptly taken."