The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Moniteur of this day pubPliAshßess,aAn uagrtuic-stleLon
General Dumont's mission to Rome, in which it
says :—"
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Rome, which had been entrusted to Gen. Dumont,
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to inquire into the causes which led to a certain
number of desertions from the Antibes Legion. As
regards the speech attributed to General Dumont,
suffice it to say it was not spoken. The reports
published of it are apocryphal."
The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes an ar-
ticle by M. Paulin Limayrac, in which he shows
that France had not interfered diplomatically in the
differences between Prussia and Denmark. In-
structions had been sent to the French representa-
tive at Berlin, from which all idea of interfering in
the negociations now pending between Berlin and
Copenhagen was excluded.
The Moniteur has stated the truth of the situation
bydeclaring that "no note has been either presented
or read to the Berlin Cabinet relative to Schleswig.
It was, however, not stated that the French Govern-
ment had not written no despatches to its Charge
d'Affaires at Berlin on the subject. Every one
knows that Governments almost daily eend off de-
spatches containing instructionss or directions on
the various pending questions, and frequently
their representatives read or communicate con-
fidentially such documents. These are mere acts
of courtesy, bearing no official character, and in no
way affecting the relations existing between the
States. The presentation of a note would have been
serious, but the existence of several despatches to
our agent in Berlin is hardly of a nature to occupy
public attention. Rather would the Prussian Go-
vernment itself have been astonished had the French
Government withheld its opinion on so important a
question, and would regard such silence as bad
augury, thus creating one of the situations which is
seldom produced, but which always creates distrust.
Such are not the relations of the two Cabinets."
BOURSE, July 31, Two o'clock.—To-day the re-
ponse des primes (option) ; this operation has taken
place at 69f. for Three per Cents. Rentes. The
market now is not so good as at the opening, which
was generally higher.
_Threes, after reaching 69f.
10c., are now at 68f. 95c., or sc. lower than yester-
day. Italian Fives are at 49f. 40c., or 10c. lower.
Credit Mobilier gain lf. 25c., at 342 f. 50c. Comp-
toir d'Escompte lose 2f. 50c., 742 f. 50c. Immo-
bilicre have advanced If. 25c.. at 167 f. 50c. No
remarkable feature in Railway shares. English
Consols are reported with a gain of it by each tele-

Do. Bonds
gram.
Three o'clock.—Quotat
Do. end month *****
49 30
which is as follows :6-9
q per Cents lOO Bank Shares ...... 3365
Do. end month _ Italian Loan ....... 4'9 55
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 92} Mexican Loan l2
Credit Mobilier ... 337 50 100
Do. end month ... 336 25 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...... Home Debt ... ".
--
Do. end month 1370 Deferred ..............
RAILWAYS. ....

ions are lower for the close,

For Account.
Orleans ................................... 877 50
Northern ................••.•.......•••... 1143 75

Lions and Mediterranean ...,.....• 878 75
Southern 546 25
Western —
Eastern 540
Sardinian
Austrian 451 25
Lombard 338 75
North of Spain
SaragosEa
Roman.

75 -

OWLSLIGHT. —We understand that in consequence
of the great improvement in Prince Leopold's health Mr
Legg will shortly return to his professional duties, and that
the Rev. R. Duckworth, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford
who is at present Prince Leopold's instructor, will be ap-
pointed Governor to his Royal Highness. It is generally
believed in the lobbies of the House of Commons that the
Government, content with the two majorities they have
obtained on the question, and in deference to the wishes
of many of their supporters, will remain satisfied, for this
session, with the progress they have made with the Public
Parks Bill.

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT BILLS.—In con-
sequence of the postponement of the second reading of
the Wine and Coal Duties Bill till Monday next, and the
lateness of the session, it is understood that the Thames
Embankment (North Approaches) Bill, which was a bill to
authorise the making of several new streets between
Whitehall and Waterloo Bridge, and altering others, and
also the Thames Embankment (Chelsea) Bill, will not be
proceeded with this session—the funds for carrying out
the above works being derivable from securities, which
would be available to the Commissioners of Works by the
passing of the Wine and Coal Duties Bill. _ _

_ _ ----
THE TRIAL OF A FATHER AND SON FOR ALAN •
SLAUGHTER. - Robert Hughes and Robert Hughes, father
and son, were tried at Ruthin Ass!zes on Tuesday, before
the Lord Chief Baron, on a charge of killing Evan Junes.
The prisoners had been indicted for murder in the first
instance, but, by direction of the judge, the grand jury
found a bill for manslaughter only. The prisoners and
deceased had been drinking and quarrelling at Abergele on
July 6. Jones, in the fray, received a wound inflicted by
some sharp instrument which caused his death. The
younger prisoner was acquitted, and the elder, who was
found guilty, was sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment.

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HIGHLAND AND AGRICUL7 URAL
SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.

GLASGOW, Tuesday.

The Highland Society is in a flourishing condi-
tion ; it has 3,920 members, its finances did not
suffer by the omission of a show last year, and per-
haps it may not feel obliged, like some southern
societies, to expend all its energies upon its annual
exhibition. The Council has many operations always
in hand, and for 1867 it offers a long list of prizes
for reports on the husbandry of different counties,
on experiments with manures, crops, new plants, on
feeding, sheep management, &c. ; for instances of
estate improvement, reclamation of waste land, im-
provement of natural pasture; for in ventions in farm
implements ; for cases of extensive planting, for re-
ports on the merits of different forest trees ; it offers
very numerous premiums in aid of local district
competitions for live stock, dairy produce, crops and
culture, cottages and gardens ; its " chemical de-
partment" is very active, it issues diplomas in con-
nexion with the Veterinary College, and its ma-
chinery for "agricultural education" is well organised
and of a highly practical character, involving exa-
minations in the science and practice of agriculture,
mechanics, and construction, botany, chemistry,
natural history, veterinary surgery, field engineer-
ing and surveying, and book-keeping and accounts.
At the Glasgow meeting the prizes amount to
£1,600, the largest sum the Council has ever devoted
to live stock.

The business of this meeting, which is the sixth
held in Glasgow, the last visit having been in 1857,
opened yesterday with a lecture by Professor An-
derson at the Queen's Hotel, Major Kinloch, of
Gilmerton, in the chair. The Professor referred to
the complete exhaustion of guano from the most
northern of the Chincha Islands, and to the inferior
quality of guano now obtained from the southern
island. The farmer buys for his money a smaller
quantity of fertilising matter than he formerly did
—the effect, however, will scarcely be felt in the
first crop, but must ultimately tell to disadvantage
from the deficiency of residual fertilizing matter
left in the soil. As the demand for real Peruvian
guano is not increasing, there is a fair prospect of
its lasting for a generation to come, but at the end
of that time the supply of nitrogenous manures
must become a very grave question, seeing that
the ammonia contained in the Peruvian guano
annually imported is equivalent to about 120,000
tons of sulphate of ammonia, greatly exceeding the
quantity of that substance at present derived from
all other sources put together. Hope lies in the in-
creased manufacture of ammonia in gasworks and
various processes of the arts, and also in the gradual
reproduction of natural guano—of which we have
an instance in the renewed supply from Ichaboe, an
island exhausted about 30 years ago. The lecturer
showed how analysis and the system adopted by
importers have checked and almost destroyed the
practice of adulteration; he then noted the improve-
ment in quality and the diminution in price which
have been latterly found in superphosphates, due in
great part to the introduction of bone ash and
mineral phosphates. Dissolved bones may be said to
no longer exist; we now get a mixture of these with
bone ash or mineral phosphate ; and, by an improve-
ment in the process of manufacture, the manure is
much more finely reduced and more convenient for
application than it used to be. So far as the supply
of phosphates is concerned, Professor Anderson feels
no anxiety, new mines of these substances being
continuAlly discovered, and often in the most unex-
pected geological formations. Adulteration is sti4l
largely carried on in oilcakes and other feeding stuffs,
linseed being mixed with the seeds of many sorts of
weeds. The greatest difficulty for the chemist and
for the farmer is in dealing with cakes called " mix-
tures," as a mixture of bran and poppy-cake with
linseed of a very high quality may give as good an
analysis as a genuine cake made from linseed of a
poorer quality, and it isa fact that samples have been
offered in Hull market of seed used for " reducing
high quality linseed," this seed being in reality wild
mustard and other seeds sifted out of linseed. The
Professor stated that in many instances analyses
made in the laboratory have been the means of get-
ting back a large part of the price paid by th'e
farmer for adulterated articles. In conclusion, he
alluded to the importance of paying more attention
to the purity of the water of wells, from which cattle
are supplied, and which can be ascertained only by
chemical analysis.

This morning, at 9 o'clock, the Judges began their
labours in the show yard,---a plot of about 25 acres,
on Glasgow-green ; the charge for admission to the
public judging being 10s., and for members and
exhibitors half-price. At 2 o'clock the fee was
lowered to half-a-crown ; this rate continues till
midday to-morrow, and thenceforward up to the
close of the show on Thursday night the admission
will be one shilling, with members and exhibitors
free.

In number of entries the show is of scarcely
average magnitude ; there are only 286 cattle,
against 361 at Inverness in 1865 ; the sheep number
against 812 at Inverness ; the horses, how-
only 505,
ever, are 212, against 122 at the last show, and the
pigs are 80, against 43 at Inverness ; and thus, with
a large increase in poultry, the total entries come
to a full average, though still somewhat behind the
great show of 1865.
Of course, in the " district" of Lanark, Ayr, Ren-
frew, Argyle, Arran, and Bute, the strength of the
exhibition lies with the Ayrshire and Highland
cattle, and with the Clydesdale horses. The classes
of ruddy Devons and white-faced Herefords of
our southern shows are absent here ; and even
the shorth)rns are far outnumbered by the Scotch
cattle. The first place in the yard and in the cata-
logue is given to the Ayrshires, which number 121
entries ; and no wonder that prominence should be
given to this breed, or that perhaps the greatest
interest during the day should have centred round
the prize stalls of these rare milkers, when we re-
member that the Ayrshires are exclusively the dairy
stock of the counties Ayr, Renfrew, and Lanark,
which comprise more than a fourth of the whole popu-
lation of Scotland. A continental writer of three
centuries ago said that in Ayrshire were " cattle
of great size, whose flesh is tender and sweet, and
another kind which never became fat, but yield rich
mirk ;" they may be more symmetrical in form
now, and of more kindly-feeding quality, but still,
in spite of all the art said to be practised in getting
up the animals for show, of which intimations are
revealed in the univer3al custom of polishing the
horns, there is comparatively little flesh covering
their slender frames.

The judges were Messrs. Alex. Buchanan, John
Macadam, and Jas. Pollock ; and they had to award
handsome money prizes and bronze medals, but no
distinctive honours, such as cups or gold medals,
singling out the best animal of a breed ; in fact,
throughout the whole show there aro none of those
extra prizes and challenge plates, offered on•special
conditions, which excite so much interest and keen
competition at the meetings of some ether societies.
Forty Ayrshire bulls made up three good classes—
the winners of first prizes being Mr. Robt. Wilson,
Mr. John Dick, and Mr. John Fleming ; and the
winners of second prizes, Mr. W. A. MacLachlan,
Mr. It. Wilson, and Mr. D. Forrester. Two gold
medals are given to the cows which took first prizes
at Inverness in 1865 and at Glasgow as far back as
1857 ; and two fine cows of the Duchess Dowager
of Atholl have come in for both medals, in classes,
however, presenting no competition. There are 29
cows in three classes, and 24 heifers in two classes ;
the winners of first prizes are Mr. John Jackson,
Mr. Jag. Pollock, Mr. It. Wilson, Mr. Lawrence
Drew, and John Meikle ; and the winners of second
prizes are Mr. Jai. Cleland, Mr. Lawrence Drew,
Mr. David Forrester, Mr. Jas. Muir, and Mr. Jas.
Mitchell. Decidedly " the coo o' the Shaw" is Mr.
Robt. Wilson's " Mearns," aged six years, having a
wonderfulludder, a deep frame, light in front of the
shoulder, with coat, horns, ears, &c., duly according
to the rule of the breed, and her colour pretty
enough, being what is here called " flecked." The
heifers make a remarkably pretty show, but to the
eye of a short-horn breeder appear sadly wanting
about the ribs, neck, and quarters, while the up-
ward turned, or " stag's horns," neutralise to him
all the beauty of the taper faces and " looks" not
altogether placid enough to suit our south country
'graziers. -

The shorthorns number only 61, including but

two or three animals from the south side of the
I Tweed. Mr. Booth, of Worlaby, would have been
an exhibitor had cattle been allowed by the cattle-
plague regulations to come directly out of Yorkshire,
and other eminent breeders have been deterred from
sending because the Green on which the show is
held is the very spot where Irish and foreign cattle
have been regularly landed, though, as a safeguard,
this has been lately discontinued. In the aged bull
class the first prize goes to Sir T. Buchan Hepburn's
" Comet," a white bull of very great frame and
substance, which was first at Coldstream, wanting,
however, in the style and nobility of appearance
necessary to take a high place at a Royal Show. Mr.
James Whyte's " Prince of Worlaby," a wonder-
fully heavy beast from the neighbourhood
of Blackburn, is second ; and Lord Kinnaird's
big bull " Oxford Louis" is third. In the two year
old class Sir W. S. Maxwell's " Keir Butterfly" is
first, a very good bull never shown before, and
heating Mr. G. Barclay's second prize " Heir of
Englishman" mainly by a sweetness of bead and
generally grand style conferred by "Royal Butter.
fly" blood. Mr. Barclay's bull, also shown for the
first time, has splendid quality under a fine, mossy
coat, and is by many critics preferred to the first
prize bull. He is half brother to the prize bull at
the Battersea Show of 1862. Lord Kinnaird's
middling white ball " Royalist" takes the third
prize. Mr. Lawrence Drew's first prize yearling
bull " Keir Butterfly 4" is an extremely good ani-
mal, for size, length, and height ; Mr. J. Geddes'
second prize bull is well made and compact ; Mr.
Walter Scott's takes third prize ; and Mr. Alexan-
der Bell's lengthy, big, good bull " Duke of Edin-
burgh," which was first at the Melrose Show last
spring, is " commended."
Lord Strathallan's cow which was first at Inver-
ness in 1865 (and so disqualified from again com-
peting in the Highland Society's show-yard) re-
ceives the usual gold medal.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

The formal declaration of the result of the poll
for West Gloucestershire was made from the hust-
ings at Dursley yesterday. As at the nomination
the greater number of those present seemed the
friends of the Hon. C. P. F. Berkeley, the defeated
Liberal candidate. The High Sheriff announced
the numbers to be—for Col. Somerset, C. 8., the
Conservative candidate, 3,649 ; for the Hon. C. P.
F. Berkeley, 3,553 ; majority, for Somerset, 96.
This announcement was received with considerable
cheering, mingled with equally loud groans. Col.
Somerset was formally girt with the sword, and
then came forward; and when, after a long while,
he could obtain a hearing, he offered the electors
his sincere thanks for having returned him by a
triumphant majority. He called his supporters the
soldiers who had fought the good fight, and stood
to their colours ; alluded to the unity of action and
heartiness of feeling which had secured his return ;
and named especially his proposer and seconder,
and also Sir G. Jenkinson, whose manly and
straightforward line of conduct he particularly
commended. Among those on the hustings were
Colonel Berkeley, Mr. H.. Berkeley, M.P., and Mr.
W. P. Price, M.P., and Mr. G. Berkeley (Conser-
vative). The latter tried to obtain a hearing, but,
after showing much patience, was obliged to give
way to his nephew, the defeated candidate, who re-
turned his formal thanks, and said that, though
defeated, the Liberal party was not disgraced. He
added about half a dozen sentences, in which he
asked the other side to explain why so many who
had signed the requisition to him had not voted for
him. (Applause.) The uproar had been gradually
increasing, and when Mr. Grantley Berkeley stood
forward again the Liberal part of the crowd became
so enraged that they pressed hard upon the Conser-
vative farmers, and for the next half hour there was
a hand to hand struggle between the two parties,
and the police had to press forward and use long
staves to keep the two divisions of the crowd apart
There were loud cries on either side, and the alarm
of the Conservative ladies in a temporary gallery
was great. Meanwhile Mr. Grantley Berkeley spoke
to Mr. Price and his nephew, and then, in the hub-
bub, addressed his remarks chiefly to the reporters.
Talking as if to the crowd, he said he had come for-
ward to spJak in good humour to them, had not a
parcel of ragged boys made an attempt to prevent
his being heard. He had intended to give them some
fun, but now he should apply the rod. He then
called them turncoats for turning their backs on re-
form, and said that of all ungrateful men he had ever
heard Mr. Price was the worst, having constantly
advocated liberal measures, and now refusing one
offered by the Government. He (the speaker) did
not forget his political principles, and was prepared
to support Lord Derby's Government, or any Go-
vernment, so long as it was faithful to its Conserva-
tive characteristics. While the noise continued he
told the Liberals they were no better than wild
beasts, and not fitter to enjoy the franchise, and
then reproached them with blowing hot and cold,
and threatened that an attempt should yet be made
to get two Conservative members for West Gloces-
tershire. The reason the supposed requisitionists
had not voted for Mr. C. Berkeley was that
they had not signed their names. By this time
the disturbance had become serious. Missiles were
being thrown at Mr. G. Bakaley, and they nar-
rowly escaped the reporters in fror t. But Mr. Price
and Mr. C. Berkeley, who evidently did not sym-
pathise with their supporters, descended from the
hustings and by a dexterous movement led the
riotous part of the crowd off to another part of the
town, and then themselves went into the house of
one of the chief yellow voters.

Meanwhile Sir G. Jenkinson addressed the re-
mainder of the crowd, which soon dispersed. But
political feeling still ran high, and Sir George and
Lady Jenkinson and their daughter, and Mr. G.
Berkeley were pelted with rotten eggs and sheeps'
heads, and other disgusting things, as they went to
their carriage, guarded by the police, to drive away
from the town.

MARKE T S.—This day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

Although the supply of boasts here to-day was only
moderate, sales progressed slowly, at about Monday's cur-
rency. The best Scots, Ice., sold at ss. 4d. per Blbs. Prime
Down and half-bred sheep wero in Air request, at full
prices; but inferior breeds were heavy, at barely the late
decline in the quotations. The top figure was ss. 2d. per
81bs. The supply was tolerably good. Lambs were very
dull, at a decline in value of 2d. per 81bs. Prices ranged
from ss. to 6s. 4d. per Sibs. There was a steady business
passing in calves, at previous rates; but pigs and mulch
cows commanded very little attention.