The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, lA] ONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1867.

GUILD II AL L, 15th August, 1867.—The
COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LADS
will mot t at GUILDHALL, n VEDNESDAY, the I ith
St Wernher next, at half-past Ot,c o'clock precisely, t receive
PitOl'OS 41. S f .r LE ISP S in LO US ot ti e seFeral HOUSES
numbered I to VI inclusive, In Mount-place, Itihitecharel-
road, stirject to the tenants construct.ng shop f outs to the
Ito ses, accordirqr to • pl In, which may b seen at the Arch'
tort's Office, Guildhall, who c further particul »lid fotrns
of tender may be Lbtaintd.

FE itt "NAND BRAND, Comptroller.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
DERBY RACES, August 27th and 28th 1867

First and Second-Olass Ordinary RETURN TICKETS
issued from London (Euston) and Wolverhampton to
DERBY, on MONDAY, 26th August, and intervening
days, will be available for returning by any Train on any
day up to and including Thursday, August 29th.
By order,
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, August, 1867.

LONDON & NORTH-WESTERNRAILWAY.
CHEAP EXt3UitBlog TICKETS TO NIALVEHY.
Every FRIDAY and SATURDAY, until further notice,
Excursion Tickets will bo issued from the undermentioned
Station to Malvern, by any of the Through Trains, on
Fridays and Saturdays, available for returning by any
Train up to the following Monday. Evening inclusive.
FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY.
Ist Class. 2nd Class.
London (Euston Station) ... 255. 9d. ... 18s. Od.
Tickets are available to Great Malvern Station. Pas-
senTers from London travel via Cmdley and Stourbridge.
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, August, 1867.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL,
August 27th, 28th, 29th, and .80th.
RETURN TICKETS (First and Sepond Oats) lsr
BIRMINGHAM, issued'from any Station on the London
and North-Western Railway, at which Tickets may
usually be obtained, on MONDAY, 26th August, or any
of the four following days, will be available for the Re-
turn Journey by any Train up to and inclusive of the
Mail Trains on the night of Saturday, 81st August.
By order,
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, August, 1867.

BARRACK CONTRACTS.
War Office, Pall-mall, London, S.W.,
August 20, 1867.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is prepared to
receive TENDERS for the execution of the following
services at the various Barrack Stations in Groat Britain
for a period of Three Years, from Ist October, 1867, viz. :
Washing Bedding,
Repairing do.
Sweeping Chimneys,
Removal of Straw and Ashes,
Deodorising and Emptying Privies,
Lighting Lamps.
Tenders will not be entertained unless made upon the
proper printed Form, which may be obtained, with every
requisite information, upon application to the various
Barrack Masters, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock
each day, Sundays excepted.
Applicants for Forms of Tenders must furnish the Bar-
rack Master with every information as to their names,
places of abode, and means of executing a Contract.
The Tenders must be sent to this office, addressed to the
Director of Contracts, marked on the outside, "Tender for
Sweeping Chimneys," or. "Removal of Straw, etc.," or
otherwise as the case may be, on or before Saturday, 7th
September next, after which day no Tender will be re-
ceived.
The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of
rejecting any or all of the Tenders.
THOMAS HO WELL, Director of Contracts.

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,

Is regularly supplied to the Holum of Lords.

" V.R." IRISH WHISKY.

DIINVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH
W RISKY, BELFAST.

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Established 1808. Quotations on application.

FAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork.—" The rarest spirit and safest drink in the
world."—London °Mom, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C.,
next the " Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
TAMES
Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and
to take orders In bowl and for exportation, at their °Mies, 7,
Printing-house-square, London, E C., the only house in the
square not occupied by "Times." .r. U. and Co.'s whiskies
bring the highest prices in the Australian and utile- Colonial
markets, as may b s observed by reference to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be scan that ihtir
whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over the next
bee, and is. 6si per gallon and ss. 6d. a ()tee over she lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ye y old
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casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, sa.sphed on the
most reasonable terms.

PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION; or,
ALtesthesia Locally Applied. By A. EMELT., Surgeon
Dentist.
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; all Booksellers; or of the
Authlr, at his residence, 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street.
Post free for f our stamps.

"THE E.IIIN OF THE FEW IS THE GAIN OF THE MANY."
THE Panic of '66 and its consequent depression
of the Colonial 3farkets enables the “EAST IN DIA
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The Company's KNISOWS by the Clipper Ships are really
delicious.
9, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Blahomate-
street, Jan. 1, 1867.

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THE BOMBAY MAILS.

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The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Nyanza, Captain W. Ceiling,' arrived at.
SJuthampton Oa.Satorday evening with the heavy
Bombay mails in charge of Mr. A. R. Douglas, of
the General Post 491..”. Sho brought 51 pas-
sengers, including tommander Lloyd, lt.N., Major
Long, r.'"aptain Treinlett, Captain Rowley, Captain
Poynter, and Captiin Cary ; 11,975 in spocie, and
a general cargo. The Nyanza: left Alexandria on
the 13th inst., Malta on the 16th, and Gibraltar on
the 20th. Fine weather was experienced through-'
out the voyage, with light variable winds, mostly
from the north-west and north.

On the 18th the Nyanza spoke the steamship
Celia, steering north-west ; on the 19th, the
steamship Syria and the British bark Ambassador,
of Shields, both steering east ; on the 22d, the
steamship Ceylon, steering to the southward and
westward; on the 281 the steamship Mooltan, steer-
ing to the southward and westward ; and on the
24th the British ship Glenmark.
Her Majezty's ships Hydra and Hibernia were at
Malta, and the Relpole at Gibraltar. The Simoom,
Captain Lethbridge, arrived at Gibraltar ou the
morning of the 19th, having made an exceedingly
quick passage from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She
brought for Gibraltar the head quarters of the 15th
Brigade Royal Artillery, under command of Colonel
Clifford, and left for Malta on the morning of the
20th, a few hours before the departure of the
Nyanza, in order to carry out other artillery reliefs.
On her return to Gibraltar from Malta the Simoom
will embark the last detachment of the Ist Brigade
Royal Artillery, under Captain Price, R. A., for
conveyance to Halifax.
The following British merchant steamers had
arrived out at Gibraltar :—Aug. 14, the Lady
Derby, Captain W. Hicks, 30 days from London
and five from St. Nazaire, for Port Said ; 15th, the
Venetian, Captain R. Mitchell, seven days from
Liverpool for Genoa, &c., and the Macedon, Captain
J. Henderson, seven and a quarter days from Glas-
gow for Genoa, Leghorn, &c. ; 16th, the Galicia,
Captain J. Strangham, six days eight hours from
London, with Government stores, &c.; 17th, the
Syria, Captain E. Christian, four days 22 hours
from Southampton, for Malta and Alexandria;
18th, the Venice, Captain 11. Connell, eight days
from London, for Trieste and Venice.

The Austrian brig Anastasia, of Trieste, was
wrecked on the 14th inst. at Cape Spartel, while on
her passage from Liverpool to Trieste with a cargo
of coals. The crew were taken to Gibraltar on the
following day from Tangier by the Lion Belge
steamer.

Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted as follow :
London, 99 days' date, 50 3-16 d. to id. ; Paris, do.,
sf. 28c. ; Marseilles, do., sf. 28e. to 29c. ; Madrid,
8 days' sight, ito dis. ; Cadiz, do., par to IV pm. ;
Seville, do., par ; Malaga, do., 4to dis. ; Barce-
lona, do., i pm. to par ; Almeria, do., i dis ; Va-
lencia, do., par. Premium on sf. pieces par to an
eighth of a dollar. _

Official notice was given at Gibraltar on the 16th
inst. that " a communication has been received from
her Majesty's Consul at Malaga, dated the 12th
inst., reporting that, by order of the General Board
of Health at Madrid, all vessels arriving at that port
from Gibraltar are subjected to a quarantine of
three days' observation." The Gibraltar Chronicle
of the 17th says :
" We understand that the order from the Cen-
tral Board of Health at Madrid declaring Gibraltar
a foul port was yesterday evening received by the
Alcalde of San Roque. The order directs that all
arrivals in a Spanish port fro-n Gibraltar shall be
sent to a lazlretto, and that by land the same pre-
cautions shall be adopted as were observed last year
—the admission of all susceptible articles through
the Spanish lines being-prohibited: A-private- tele-
gram reports that the quarautins imposed in a Spa-
nish lazaretto on a vessel from Gibraltar is one of
ten days. These rigorous measures are adopted,
although the health of Gibraltar is excellent, be-
cause Gibraltar does not place a quarantine on
Morocco, where the public health is equally good.
As Morocco has now put a quarantine on Tunis
and Algeria, we hope she will have purged herself
of the taint attaching to her in the opinion of the
Central Board of Madrid, and that the sentence of
sanitary excommunication pronounced against her
will be revoked, in which case, of course, Gibraltar
will again be declared a clean port, since her only
offence appears to be holding communication with
Morocco. We have not heard whether Spain has
adopted equally severe measures against her own
fortresses of Ceuta and Melilla, on the Barbary
coast, which appear to be in free communication
with the Moorish district adjoining them."

AN ELOPEMENT FRUS7RA7ED.

Another of those esevades, in which the parties
" love not wisely bnt tco well," has taken place here,
and has a spice of romance about it which puts previ-
ous ones in the shade. The gay Lothario is the
son of a retired colonel of the British army, and the
fair one, the eldest daughter of a lo lging-house
keeper, but whose pers mal charms are said to be
of the most winning nature. Whether they are FO
or not, they had such a c'iarm for her lover of seven
days' acquaintance that, knowing they could not be
united iu the bonds-of wedlock here, he at once pro-
posed an excursion to London, where they could be
conveniently made one ; but their brief history adds
au additional proof to the truth of the old adage
that " the course of true love never yet run smooth."
The story is simply this. A very short time ago, a
retired colonel came with his family to reside on one
of the many pleasant terraces crowning the Glan-
mire Hill. He took furnished lo lgings in the house
of a Mrs. 8., who happens to have, to say the least
of them, two very nice daughters—one about 19,
the other 22. They had not been two days ac-
quainted when the colonel's son, who has just
reached his majority, was smitten with the beauty
of the latter girl, and during the hours of dewy eve
he and she used to ramble along the shady lanes
that are to be met with in that well-favoured
locality. Their acquaintance grew into reciprocal
love, and on the proposal of the gallant swain they
eloped last Saturday, making their stay here for the
few days before their departure for England in the
suburbs of the quiet little town of Passage. Here
they spent Sanday and Monday unknown and unno-
ticed, though the vigilant head-constable of the dis-
trict (Hoare) was seeking after them all Monday. The
young lady's mother finding she did not return home
on Saturday night thought that something was
wrong, for she did not fail to see the gentle passion
growing between her daughter and her lover ; and
thinking that with such a match her first-born would
not be in the wrong box did not restrain her ; but
when she learned that, without the nuptial knot
having been tied, her daughter had cut, her indig-
nation was very great. She gave a minute descrip-
tion of the pair to the constabulary here, and police-
men watched each departing train and steamer,
scanning with eager eyes the travellers by them in
trying to discover the truants ; but the lot fell to
Head-constable Hoare, who yesterday " captured"
them on board the steamer for Bristol. After her
arrival at Passage from Cork he went on board, and
was not there long when he saw the objects of his
search coming in the gangway. They appeared
rather nervous, and were completely shaken when
the head-constable went up to them just as they
were entering the cabin, and informed them that
he wished to know their names, putting the plea for
doing so more on the present state of the times,
when the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act is
in force, than anything else. The gentleman an-
swered that he was " Mr. Smith," and that the lady
who accompanied him was " Mrs. Smith." He was
not, however, to be dodged, and told them bluntly
so, as the vessel was going in a few minutes, in-
forming them in addition that he knew well who
they were, and that he had been on the scent for
them for the past 24 hours. When the male lover
saw the game was up he became possessed with the
fear of incarceration, but the head-constable restored
his equanimity by assuring him that such would not
follow, but that he and his lady-love should leave
the steamer and come with him. This they rather
quietly did, and were conducted to an hotel, from
which the head-constable telegraphed to Cork for
the young lady's mother. On her arrival the scene
that ensued was a ainful one to the principal
parties; but after awhile matters improved, and
they and Mrs. 13. left for Cork---the 'young lady
going to her home, but where her disappointed lover
retired to is not known.—Cork Constitution.

WE GP►OWTH OF ST. LOUIS.

(Nett York Evening Post.)

Sixty-two years ago, remarked a writer in the
Galaxy, the adventurous explorers, Lewis and Clark,
bade farewell to civilisation at the village of St.
Louis, and began their journey through the vast
unknown wilderness which lay between the Missis-
sippi and the Pacific Ocean.
Sixty-two years ago St. Louis was a village, and
an outpost of civilisation ; to-day it is the sixth city
in the Union in point of population, and one of the
most important centres of commerce in the country.
It has behind it a State containing over a million
of inhabitants ; and west of that the wilderness into
which Lewis and Clark penetrated, and of whose
wonders and riches they told tales which were not
believed, though the tenth-part was not known to
them, is dotted with States, spanned by telegraph
wires, and has a railroad laid nearly across its whole
extent. There is a general anxiety for good crops this
year, and the rainy weather which we have had on
the seaboard for several weeks has led many persons
to fear that the crops all over the country may be
injured by rains. But a correspondent of the
Evening Post at Niles, in Michigan, wrote, a few
days ago, that in his neighbourhood the country is
suffering from drought, and rain is urgently desired.
Our country is so vast that no reasoning founded
upon the condition of one part of it will apply to
the whole ; and its intercourse is so unobstructed,
trade is free over so great a region, that the people
are able to remedy, very quickly, any mishap in one
section. West of the Mississippi, in lowa and
Kansas, the Colorado potato bug has appeared in
such numbers that farmers can no longer plant the
potato with any hope of a crop. An ingenious
fellow contrived a machine, drawn by a horse,
which shakes the bug of the vine into a box, where
they arc crushed by a cylinder ; but even this ma-
chine does not save the potatoes. Will the farmers
and mechanics of lowa and Kansas have to do with-
out potatoes therefore ? Not at all ; Congress,
fortunately, cannot make the roots dearer by a pro-
tective tariff upon those imported from the neigh-
bouring States ; and the lowa farmer, under free
trade with the States east of the Mississippi, will get
his potatoes at a cheap rate in exchange for pro-
ducts which he can raise.

Our population, reinforced by an enormous im-
migration from Europe, is spreading over the con-
tinent with marvellous rapidity. There is no longer
a " far West ;" the arts and customs of civilisation
are already naturalised over nearly the whole of the
great region through which Louis and Clark jour-
neyed at the hazard of their lives, little more than
half a century ago, and which was then as utterly
unknown as a great part of Africa. The Rocky
Mountains no longer oppose their barrier to our
progress ; the western frontiersman ridicules them
instead of fearing them ; and a Western wit ex-
presses, in the peculiar manner of the men who
" sleep on the prairie and drink out of its rivers,"
his contempt for such slight obstructions by the
remark, " We are already levelling the Rocky
Mountains and carting the dirt out west ; I had a
letter last week from my cousin, who is living two
hunired miles west of the Pacific shore, on made
land." •

THE YORK Cur.— The trophy for 1867 is d3signed in
the Italian style, and rests on an ebony stand, its height
being 36 inches. At the base of the richly gilt cup are
winged horses in frosted silver, and the cover is sur-
mounted witha figure of Victory. The bas-relievi are in
frosted silver, and are placed on the stand. They repre-
sent two eveAs in the history of York. One the memor-
able occasion wh6 D, in 1289, King Richard 11. presented
his sword to William do Selby, then Mayor of York, with
permission and authority for the chief magistrate on all
future times to have the said sword borne before him with
the point erect, except in the King's presence, and with
this privilege granted a charter to the city, from which time
the dignity of Lord Mayor has always been enjoyed by
the chief magistrate. The other reliovo is in the time of
Edward IV., A.D. 1478, when the Lord Mayor, John Fer-
riby, conducted that monarch into the city, on the occasion
of his Majesty's visit " To his loving subjects, the citizens
of York." On each side of the. stand aro groups of armour
and weapons of war in burnis"lea gold, with a banner bear-
ing the city arms.