The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-12 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Hamburgh and American Company's steam
ship Saxonia, from New York on the 30th Nov.,
arrived at Southampton to-day (Dcc. 12) with 100
passengers, 37 sacks of mails, and 500 tons of
general cargo.

During the passage the Saxonia spoke the follow-
ing ships :—On Dec. 10, in lat. N. 49.40, long. W.
17.45, an English brig steering eastward, and
showing 4 distinguishing pendant, 512 ; and in
lat. N. 49.40, long. 11. 15.46, a National Steam
Navigation Company's steamer steering westward,
and a North German Lloyd steamer in the vicinity
of Bishop Rock.

NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 6 p.m.
The steamer Persia has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing Prices.—Gold, 131 f. Sterling Exchange
on London, 1094. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1074.
Illinois, 133. Erie, 72k. Cotton—Middling Up-
land, 15k.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. H.
Petroleum, standard white, 214.
(PER THE SAXONIA.)
NEW YoRK, Nov. 30 (Morning).

A bill has been introduced into the House of
Representatives for the redemption of the legal
tender and National Bank notes in coin after July,
and for the sale of all gold exceeding $75,000,000
remaining in the Treasury after next January. No
action has been taken in the matter.

It is reported that the Alabama claims will have
early consideration in Congress.
A resolution has been offered in the Senate de-
claring strict neutrality in the war pending between
Britain and Abyssinia.
General Hancock has arrived at New Orleans,
and assumed the command of the Fifth Military
District. He has issued an order declaring freedom
of speech and the right of trial by jury, and that the
Habeas Corpus Act must be preserved. Military
tribunals will take precedence in the Civil Courts
only when the latter neglect their duty or abuse
their power.

The Alabama Convention has rejected an ordi-
nance prohibiting marriages between whites and
blacks.

A Fenian funeral procession took place in New
York, on Thursday, in honour of the Fenians that
were hung at Manchester. Five thousand Irish-
men participated in the procession. The Superin-
tendent of the New York police refused a police
escort to the procession, on the ground that it was
in honour of murderers of a policeman.

Admiral Tegethoff has settled all the claims
against the estate of the late Emperor Maximilian
in Mexico.

Santa Anna was sick at liavannah.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF
WASIIIN GTON.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 12.
The Inman steamship City of Washington, from
New York, arrived here at four p.m. to- day, with
11 passengers, but no specie. She landed mails
and passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at
4.15 a.m.

SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 12.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Bavaria, from New Orleans Bar on the 24th
ult., arrived here to-day with 40 passengers for
Havre and Hamburg, $84,735 for England, and
$26,273 for France.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

MAr.sEILLEs, Dec. 12.

The Pera arrived at 5 a.m. to-day, having ex-
perienced bad weather. The mails leave for Lon-
don at 11.30 a.m.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Dec. 11, Evening.

The bulletin of the Moniteur de Soir recalls the
declarations made by the Marquis de Moustier and
by M. Rouher during the recent debates in the
Legislative Chamber. It adverts to the almost
unanimous vote of confidence expressed in favour
of the Government, and says that there never was
established a more complete understanding and
sympathetic harmony between the Ministry and
the Chambers. The article continues thus :
" The testimony of approbation of the past and
of absolute confidence in the future brings
a new strength to the diplomacy of France. The
Government of the Emperor continues to solicit

the concurrence of the Powers for the "Ork
of conciliation and justice which it has undertaken
in the interests of the Papacy and of Italy. In"
stead of invoking disdain and indifference
Italian unity, the Government desires that all
hatreds and reciprocal mistrust may be forgotten.
It would desire to hasten the moment when the
unity now constituted would understand that it
was its duty to defend the sovereignty of the Pope.
The French Government is of opinion that the
counsels of Europe might exercise a happy iuflu•
once in promoting conciliation. Tho proP°Bed
Conference has lost nothing of its opportunenes°'
The Government expresses itself in this sense to the
different Cabinets. The negotiations which have
been opened continue."

13ot:EsE, Dec. 11, Two o'clock.—Speculation 118.5
been easy, and large investments have been made In
the Threes ; generally the market is active and flail'
Three per Cents. are at 69f. 621 c., a rise of Vic'
Italian Fives active at 45f. 80c., an advance of 10e •
Credit Mobilier lose If. 25c., at 170 f. Spanish
Mobilier have an advance of 3f. 75c., at 20D"
Comptoir d'Escompte and Paris Gas shares withollt
change, at 650 f. and 1,440 f. Credit Foncier 1,3801:'
with a rise of 10f. In French Railways little busi-
ness,. although great firmness prevailed. EDO/
Consols are telegraphed with a rise of at 93.
Three o'clock.—The market was firm at the cloSe.
Last quotations:-
4i per Cent. 9B 90
End of month
3 per Cent
End of month 69 60

Bank Shares 3340 --
Ital,an Loan
End of month 0 LI
Mexican Loan 11 'Dv,
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 37
Rome Debt
Deferred ......

Credit Mobilier ... 171 25
End of month... 175
Credit Foncier ...1377 50
End of m0nth...1380 -
RAILWAYS.

Orleans
...

Account
870

Northern llBO
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern— 5531
Western
..._ 560

Eastern • • 5331

Sardinian
Austrian 5116.1
Lombard 358
North of Spain 6
Saragossa
Roman 55

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 11'
The Queen went out in the grounds this raoril‘
ing, accompanied by Prince Leopold.
Major J. P. Hopkins, K. 11., Governor of the
Military Knights of Windsor, and Lieuteaaor
Colonel J. H. Cooke, Lieutenant of her Majeat/il
Body Guary of Yeomen of the Guard, arrived as
o
the Castle this afternoon, and were introduced td
her Majesty by Lord Raglan, Lord in Waiting, 3°
received the honour of knighthood.
Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., and C 0100.31
Du Plat, Groom and Equerry in Waiting, were tv
attendance.
Colonel H. and the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby and the
Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family yesterday.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have leD
Apsley House for Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire, to pass
winter.
The Duke of Sutherland has left Stafford 11011%e'
St. James's, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Dudley t
Buckenham, Norfolk. The duchess remains at Troth°
Hall.
The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Clumbe,r
Park, Notts ; the duchess remains in town for a few dai-nt
The duke and duchess intend to receive a succession

visitors at CluTuber early next month.
The Duke of Hamilton, who arrived in tort°
few days since from Eaton Park, Suffolk, h a
Hamilton Palace, N. 8., for a few weeks. s since left fo

Messrs. Moxon have just i.,3saed a Latin translll:o
tion of the Laureate's " Enoch Arden," by Dr. Selwyn, ti
Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Thl6
undoubtedly be appreciated by scholars. It S
DEATH OF lIER MAJESTY'S STUD G110031.-"'"2„
with great regret that we have to announce the
death of Mr. John Ransom, stud groom to her Majesty, Ohs
died at his residence at the Royal Paddocks, flarnP,6
Court, on Wednesday at half-past seven, after a see:k
illness. The deceased gentleman, who was in his 73":
year, was on intimate terms with all the breeders, trainer;
and owners of blood stock in England, by whom, and strel
more by a large circle of private friends, he was highil'if
spected and beloved, while his loss will be long and 40613,i)
felt. With her Majesty. whom he served faithfully f°l.„-,
less a period than 26 years, he was an especial favouri";
and on more than one occasion, we believe, the al::
testified her sense of his merits by substantial tokens; of
regard, in the shape of marriage presents to his daughte're
In his profession, it will be acknowledged by all who Ireo •
acquainted with him, that he had few equals ; While rillo-ut
man his uniform courtesy and his gentlemanly &Wino,
procured him a good name among all sorts of men. Pe.
„0,
his connection with the Royal stud ho had for 42 le-to
that is from the age of ten, been in the service of the 11,'
Lord Jersey, of Middleton, Oxford, the owner of the
brated horse Bay Middleton. Mr. Ransom was taken ",;
fortnight ago with a severe attack of bronchitis, whielj'oe
his advanced age, he had not strength to overcome' ~,11
has left a widow, to whom he was married more then
10.
a century ago, three married daughters, Mrs. Brewtey, -t tti•
Egleston, and Mrs. George Crandon, and one s°l3%,,its
eldest of the family. In his will the deceased gentlo- of
expressed his desire to be interred in the burial grotilla.o
a small church at Middleton, and of course his dying 1,:g•
will bo religiously complied with. Every one will roe- c,
nise in this request a simplicity and gentleness a co 5h
ter that marked Mr. Ransom throughout his life. Tb!a-rlf
he had been so long removed from the scene of his void,
labours, he still looked back on it in his last momente' dot
regarding it as that which was connected with his

recollections, selected it as his final resting-place. .00,4
GLTCERINE.—Dr. Demarquay, whose ctir.lBo,
researches on the inhalation and other appliances boat
ous substances we had occasion to mention aboutcb
ago, and whose recent election as a member of the Freirosi
Academy of Medicine has already been stated, 1111%t0
published a highly interesting volume on the thererot
properties of glycerine, discovered by Scheele in 1779„! do
in point of fact only recently admitted as a medical "iy.
it having been for the first time tried in England hives
Thomas de la Rue for burns. Dr. Demarquay
one of its most active propagators in France, and " 11
we owe most of its more modern appliances. °wit
strange substance. Although it is the sweet nriv-ciPjili
oil, and a constituent of all fatty matter, yet it mi%esre,i,eti.
with water, and leaves no stain on clothes or
pr
It is produced on a large scale by the pr
of saponification, but may, for medicinal purposes'
tbs
obtained in a purer state by a more costly process „
laboratory. It does not absorb the oxygen of airs' 00$
therefore possesses the inestimable property
becoming rancid. Hence it is far preferable to all 5: jir
substances hitherto used for pomatums; it moreoste'veia
solves a considerable number of active agents, anclnaste
itself absorbable by the skin, will facilitate their intosell
Lion into the economy by this property. It may
in the various medicinal teas and potions prescricuel,
cases of bad sore throat, intestinal ulcerations, drie-4 eS
&c. ; it is a useful ingredient in certain poultices, 100°'
ercises a salutary action on the skin when used ind
It is moreover an excellent antiseptic, 50 oicol
preserve from putrefaction all organic matter. liritli.oollb
subjects injected with glycerine may be preservedoltin,
long time fur purposes of dissection ; and Dr- Delllott°:
informs us that he has in ,his [possession sever4A-g of
chops kept in glycerine and taken out of it upwitx—it
years ago, and yet as fresh as ever. Nevertheless,
los
not be used for preserving meat, because it Pellettrbl:.
thoroughly through all the tissues that no washing
to ilor
ing will remove it. We cannot dwell on the raWOoci°
of
such as dressing sores, modifying, and, in some 11 04 •
curing cutaneous diseases, &c., to which Dr. ed
has applied glycerine, but we strongly ream:1111011e
ea
erusal of his book to the practitioner, as the c°13•00
mouography of this remarkable substance w 0
ejd
yet. he
FIRE AT A CO OPERATIVE MILL.---"' ip tP,
morning, a few minutes after 6 o'clockifoorae_%
Spring-gardens Co-operative Cotton Mill, rx yol'of
road, Bacup, a fire broke out in the engine hcnise;tielp
rapidly spread to the scutching room and other Pbous•
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the mill, and before it was got under the engine_tb to !to
had fallen in, and serious damage was done 1,"_,0 0
tP,,,
building and machinery. About a fortnight
ite&4100:0"0
occurred at this place, and in extinguishing it,bio sot is
of cotton was injured by water. A portion 01
had been placed on the boiler to dry, and tinfol:4o, e
was allowed to remain there until it got on gre
was the cause of a second conflagration.
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LIVERPOOL COTTON 111ARKEI--Ihi.l 00
Market opens with continued duloeSS/ " 000
tendency is downwards, Sales probably'
8,000 balm