The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-19 00:00:00

BOROI7GH HOP.

The changeable weather now prevalent is most unfa-
vourable for the growth of the hop plant, and the accounts
from the various plantations continue discouraging, fresh
attacks of fly being reported in many quarters. Under
these circumstances holders aro by no means anxious to
sell, and the late advance is firmly maintained. Buyers
only operate to satisfy their immediate requirements.
Mid and East Kent 3
Weald of Kent
Sussex .... l4ss to 160 s• „
Farnham and country
Yearlings loos to 1303 ,
Olds 503 to 843 ;:

WIIITECHAIq:L.
Per Elb. by the carcase.
8eef......... 3s 4d to 4s 8d I Veal
Mutton ... 3s 8d to 5s Od Pork
Lamb

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day.

The market opens quiet. Sales probably 8,000
bales.

TIIE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Five thousand choristers
will meet on the Handel Oichestra, Crystal Palace, to-
morrow (Thursday), under the direction of Mr. G. W.
Martin. The choir will consist of 3,500 children, selected
from the metropolitan schools, and 1,500 adult voices. The
programme •rill include anthems, choruses, national part
songs, Sm., including Mr. Martin's arrangement of "Men
of Harloch," "Scots wha hae," " The Minstrel Boy," &c.
The concert will commence at 3 o'clock. Admission, ls.
One Shilling Day, Tuesday, June 18. Admissions on
payment, 3,642 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,605; total
visitors, 5,247.

DEATH OF SIR S. L. lIAMMIck, BART.—Sir
Stephen Love Hammick, Baronet, once ono of the most
celebrated surgeons of his day, died at the Crescent, Ply-
mouth, on Saturday, at the advanced aged of 91 years. In
the early part of the present century Sir Stephen Ham-
mick was the leading medical celebrity of Plymouth. He
removed to the metropolis, and for many years ran a suc-
cessful career, returning, as age crept over him, to Ply-
mouth, where he has peacefully ended his days. A a naval
surgeon ho was interdicted from private practice, but at an
early age he commenced holding gratuitous levees, at which,
from his popular manners and reputed skill,ho drew around
him crowds of patients from all ranks of life. Finding at
length, after having been about 30 years a lecturer on sur-
gery and anatomy at the Royal Naval Hospital, the field
of his exertions to be somewhat circumscribed, in 1829 he
retired from the public service. From Plymouth ho re
moved to London, where in one of the then most fashion-
able localities, Cavendish-square, he for a long series of
years pursued an extensive practice. In 1834 he was made
a baropet, and in 1843 was appointed an hon. fellow of
the Royal College of Surgeons. He was also for many years
a member of the senate and an examiner in surgery at the
London University. Several of his pupils afterwards be-
came very prominent members of their profession. The
deceased's eldest son, the Rev. St. Vincent L. Hammick,
vicar of Milton Abbot, succeeds to the baronetcy.
ACCIDENT, TO THE COUNTESS OF FIFE.—We regret
to have to record that an accident of a somewhat serious
character happened to Lady Fife on Monday. Her lady-
ship, who had been staying for the last few days with the
Countess of Jersey at Osterley Park, was stepping from a
cab at the Southall station, when she missed her footing,
and falling fractured her loft leg near the ankle. Lady Fife
was conveyed home to the family mansion in Cavendish-
square, when Mr. Henry Thompson was in immediate
attendance, and set the fractured limb.

EXTENSIVE COLLIERY STRIKE—
AT SUNDERLAND.
—On Monday a strike took place at Monkwearmouth
where over 1,000 men and boys aro employed. In
working the Hutton seam a good deal of splint (i.e., bad
coal) has been met with. The men complain that greater
rigour has been exorcised in forfeiting the tubs which con-
tain a proportion of "splint" than formerly, when they not
only lose the coal worked, but are also fined. Last week
the number of tubs forfeited was so large that the men de-
termined to cease work, and on Monday morning, though
the first "shift" mustered at the bank when called, they
refused to descend; the second, or "back shift," followed
their example, and the shaft called the deep Pit was laid
idle—the whole of tho hewers, putters, trappers, waggon-
way and banksmen being laid off.
THE EASTERN FISIIERIES.—Some of the Great
Yarmouth boats engaged in the mackerel fishery have
brought in from 300 to 1,200 fish each during the last few
days. The average price has been 255. per 120. The Lowes-
toft boats have made very fair catches of mackerel during
the week; the price has been about 30s. per 132. Some
quantity of mackerel has been landed at Lowestoft floor
Norway.
NEW POSTAL AERANGE3IENT. —A General Post
Office notice states that all letters, book packets, and
patterns of merchandise addressed to New South Wales,
which are not directed to bo sent by any particular route,
will be sent by the first maihdespatched, whether via Suez
or via Panama. Newspapers for New South Wales, how-
ever, will not be sent via Panama unless prepaid at the
higher rate of twopence per four ounces.

AQUATIC ENTERPRISE.—A crew of five men, un-
der the direction of Mr. Harding, from New Brunswick,
and bringing with them two handsome four-oared rowing
galleys, arrived at Southampton on Thursday evening, in
the steamer Atlantic, from New York, with the intention
of contesting in the forthcoming international regatta at
Paris. The boats are named respectively New Brunswick
No. 1 and No. 2, the latter being new and as yet untried,
34ft. long, with a flat bottom; the former, which is a nar-
rower boat, 3Gft. long, and has scarcely any keel, has raced
on several occasions, and in most cases comes off the win-
ner. This enterprising party travelled by steamship from
New Brunswick to Portland, and thence to New York, a
distance of between GOO and 700 miles, before the/ com-
menced the Atlantic voyage.

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THE TEETH AND BREATH —flow often do WO dud the
human face divine disti4ure.l by neglecting the chiefe•t of its
ornaments, and the breath made disagreeable to companions
by non-att,ntioa to the Teeth! Though perfect in their
structure and composition, to keep them in a pure and
healthy state requires some little trouble ; and if those who
are blessed with well-formed teeth knew how soon decay
steals into the mouth, making unsightly what otherwise are
delightful to admire, and designating unhealthiness by the
impurity of the breath, they would spare no expense to
chase away these fatal blemishes. But although moat ladles
are careful, and (yen particular in these delicate matters,
yet few are sufficiently aware of the imperative necessity of
avoiding all noxious or mineral substances of an acrid na-
tare, and of which the greater part of the cheap tooth -
powders and pastes of the present day are composed. It is
highly satisfactory to point out Meser'. Rowlands' Odonto,
or Pearl Dentifrice, as a preparation free from all injurious
elements, and eminently ca:culated to embellish and preserve
the dental structure, to impart a grateful fragrance to the
breath, and to embellish and pi.rpetuate thl graces of the
mouth.