The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-08 00:00:00

1111 R D EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK.

CHINA.

IIoNG $oIcG, May 15.
Grey shirtings, 6 catty, 3 dollars 55 cents. Tea,
nothing doing. Total export, 117,000,0001 b.
SHANGHAI, May 7.
The silk season has closed. Export to date,
42,000 bales. Exchange on London, 6s. lid.
Freights —Tea, £3 10s.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

Detachments of non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Artillery, 4th and 10th Brigades,
Ist battalion of the 15th Regt., 2d battalion of the
22d Regt., 30th Regt., and the Royal Engineers,
have been placed under orders to proceed from
Chatham, on Thursday next, the 13th inst., and
embark for Canada and New Brunswick. The
draughts for Canada will embark on board the screw
steamer Nestoria, and those for New Brunswick in
the St. David.
Yesterday a party of non-commissioned officers
and men of the Royal Engineers left headquarters,
Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to embark on board

the screw steamer Tamar, 2,812 tons, 500 horse
power, for conveyance to Malta, where they will be
employed on the works being executed in connec-
tion with the defences of that island.

By direction of the Field-Marshal Commanding
in Chief, Deputy Inspector General H. Hugh
Massy, M.D., president of the Army Sanitary
Committee, has been engaged the entire week in
the sanitary inspection of the barracks occupied by
the troops, the hospitals, forts, and other military
establishments at Chatham district and garrison, in
which duty he has been assisted by the principal
officials connected with the various departments.
Yesterday Dr. Massy was engaged in the inspection
of Chatham barracks, occupied by the corps attached
to the Ist and 2d Depot Battalions.
Yesterday Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., In-
spector-General of Royal Marines Light Infantry,
attended by Capt. J. M. Lennox, Aide-de-Camp,
completed his summer inspection of the Chatham
division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, in which
duty he had been engaged the greater portion of the
week. The portion of the inspection entered upon
yesterday was for the purpose of testing the efficiency
of the officers of companies in handling their men
and exercising them in battalion and company drill.
At 11 o'clock a.m. a small battalion of eight com-
panies was formed on Chatham lines, when the cap-
tains of companies and the subalterns of the division
were selected by Gen. Travers to drill the battalion
in different movements. The battalion returned to
headquarters at 1 p.m., and the inspection of the
division was brought to a close by Major-General
Travers in the afternoon with results it is understood
exceedingly favourable to the efficiency of both offi-
cers and men. To-day the Inspector-General is
expected to visit and inspect the detachments of
Royal Marines at Milton-barracks, undergoing a
course of instruction in the use of the Snider rifle,
which has been served out to the whole of the non-
commissioned officers and men of the Royal Marines
at Chatham.
The unarmoured screw gun vessel Myrmidon, 4,
200-horse power, having shipped her masts, was
yesterday placed in No. 4 dock at Chatham, to have
her launching gear removed, and to be brought for-
ward for sea. Her draught of water on launching
was Oft. sin. aft, and 7ft. forward, and her displace-
ment 500 tons.
The Victoria, screw three-decker, Commander
Codrington, whose arrival at Spithead from the
I.llediterranoan was reported in The Sun of yester-
day, is ordered to be dismantled and paid out of
commission at Portsmouth. She will go into har-
bour from Spithead on Monday.
The Duncan, screw two-decker, Captain Robert
Gibson, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir James
Hope, G.C.8., late commanding her Majesty's fleets
on the North American and West India station,
arrived at Spithead yesterday, from her station, on
relief by the ironclad frigate Royal Alfred, bearing
the flag of Sir. James Hope's successor, Sir. G.
Rodney Mundy, K.C.B. The Duncan, on anchor-
ing at Spithead, exchanged salutes with the flagship
of the Port Admiral at Portsmouth, the Victory,
Capt. Hon. Egerton, C. 8., A.D.C. to the Queen.
Sir James Hope struck his flag soon after the Dun-
can's arrival at Spithead, and disembarked in the
Pigmy steam tender, which had been placed at his
disposal by Rear-Admiral Superintendent G. G.
Wellesley, who proceeded in the Pigmy to Spithead
and personally received the Vice-Admiral on his
return to England. The Duncan is ordered to pro-
ceed to Sheerness to dismantle and pay out of com-
mission. The following officers and passengem
arrived in the ship :—Capts. Burney and Cleather,
47th Regiment ; Capt. Blackwell, 16th Regiment ;
Dr. Littleton, Sub.-Lieut. the Hon. C. C. Cadogan,
from her Majesty's ship
from her Majesship Wine ;eut.
Constance ; Sub.-Lieut.
North,
Niven and 66 naval and' marine invalids from the

squadron.
The Euphrates, screw troopship, Capt. M. Dunn,
went out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead yester-
day, and to-day will make her trial over the mea-
sured mile in Stokes Bay.
The Tamar, screw troopship, Capt. F. Sullivan,
C. 8., will sail from Portsmouth this morning for
Queenstown, Malta, Gibraltar, and Canada, on a
round of troop service.

MARKETS.—This day.

COVENT GARDEN.

FRUlT—Apples, 4s Od to 8s Od per bushel ; grapes, 49
Od to 8s Od ; pine apples, 5s to 8s per lb; lemons, 7s to
9s por 100; oranges, 4s to 125.; strawberries, Gd to 2s per
punnet.
VEGETABLES—Artichokes, 2s to 4s ' • beet, le Od to 2. ;
cabbage, is 3d to 2s ; cauliflowers, 35 to 65 per dozen ;
asparagus, is 6d to 64 ; celery, is 6d to 28 ; horseradish,
4s to 6s par bundle ; carrots, 6d to 8d per bunch ; herbs,
2d to 4d; leeks, 2d to 4d; mint 4d to 6d per bunch;
parsley, 6d to to 8d ; turnips, Gd per bunch ; endive 2s
to 3s ; lettuces, is to 2s per score ; onions, 4s to 5s Od per
bushel; spinach, 2s to 3s por bushel; potatoes, York
Regents, 140 s to 1608; rocks, 100 s to 120 s; flukes, 150 s
to 180 s; other sorts, 75. to 803 per ton.

POULTRY.
Goslings, 5s to 7s Od; ducklings, 2s to 35 6d; tame rab-
bits, is 6d to is 7,1; wild do, Os to Os Od; pigeons, Gd to
10d each ; Surrey fowls (couple), 6s to 143; do. chickens.
os to 8s; barn-door fowls, Os to Os Od; leverets, 2s Od
to Gs. English eggs, 7s Gd per 100 ; French do., 6o Od ;
fresh butter, is Od to is 2d.

NEWPORT.
Por 81b. by thecareaso.

Beof 3B 4d to 4s 8d 1 Lamb ss 8d to 6s 8,1
Mutton ... 3s Gd to 4s 10d 1 Pork
Veal

WHITECHAPEL.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef 3s 2d to 4s 8d I Veal
Mutton 3s 4d to 4s 8d Pork
Lamb

HAY.
S MITIIFIELD —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 ss; clover,
£4 Os to Li lOs Od; and straw, .£2 to £2 Cs per load.
A dull trade.
CumnEßLND—lioadow hay, £3 Os to .£4 5s Od ; oluver,
£4 Os to .£5 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load.
Trade inactive.
WHITECIIAPEL—Maado vr hay, £3 to £4 5s Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £2 to .£2 Gs per load.
A slow trade.

The insane asylum at Northampton has 412
patients, a greater number than ever before. The hustler
and coachman of the institution, reliable iu all respects,
fancies himself a wonderful physician and the superinten-
dent of the asylum, and about twice a week discharges Dr.
Earle and all his assistants.
A new mill, 140 by 50 feet, and three stories
high, will be erected this season at Huntington by the
American Quilt Company, an organisation of New York
and Boston capitalists, for the manufacture of Marseilles
goods.
The arrangements at Boston for the Fourth of
July celebration are nearly completed. The programme
for the forenoon is a morning concert on the Common,
procession of the firemen, review of the Latin and High
School boys, and the Rev. George H. Hepworth's oration
in the Music Hall ; in the afternoon, a sailing regatta in
the harbour, a rowing 'regatta on Charles river, and an
aerial excursion by S. A. King ; and in the evening illumi-
nations and a grand concert on the Common.

Sidney Smith, a good authority on this subject,
says, "In composing, as a general role, run your peu
through every other word you have written ; you have no
idea what vigour it will give your style." The same
writer says, " All pleasantries should be short, and, for
that matter, all gravities too."