The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

Liverpool Cottou Market—This Day.

The market opens dull, bat quotations unaltered.
Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 balm

IRON SHIPBUILDING IN THE THAUES.—Iron ship-
building is again looking up on the banks of the Thames.
The Lords of the Admiralty have just concluded another
contract with the Thames Shipbuilding Company at Black-
wall for dsister ship to the Volage. She is to have 8 Very
favourite old name—Active; She in to be built of iron,
but is to have a wooden bottom, which is to be copperod.
She is :to be 2,322 tons, 600 horse-power, a.nd to be
driven by twin screws.—Army and Navy Gazette.
TROOPS FOR ABYSSINIA.---In accordAnco with
orders to that effect, received yesterday morning from the
Horse Guards, the 10th company of the Royal Engineers,
together with the detachments of the A troop of the
Trod Engineer Train, as well as tho parties of photogra-
woll-borers, and surveyors, will leave Chatham
garrison this morning for Woolwich, where they will em-
'bark on board the screw steamer Mendoza for Massowah
The detachments wore inspected at headquarters yester-
day, by Major-Goneral F. Murray. The 10th company
bas been augmented from the depot companies now at
headquarters, its present strength being 84 non-commis-
sioned officers and men.
DEATH OF Mn. E. JAMES, Q.C.—This morning,
after the Judges had taken their seats, it was announced to
them that Mr. Edward James, Q. 0., 31. P., who has boon
some time ill with pleurisy, had died during the night.
The deceased gentleman was Judge of the Passage Court
of Liverpool, and also Attorney-General for the
_County
Palatine of Lancashire.

THE BODY OF THE LATE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN.
—The Marican Standard contains the following :—" The
reports circulated by various papers of this city, respect-
ing the boxdy of Maximilian, are inexact. It has been
sail that the body has undergone decomposition ; that it
lacks a portion of the nose, so much so that it is supposed
to be necessary to restore it with wax ; and that the eyes
have been changed. We learn, from the medical mon who
have seen the body, that no decomposition whatever has
taken place, and that it is not true that a portion of the
nose is wanting. Respecting the eyes, they are preserved
in the same manner as is usual when bodies are em-
balmed." On the same subject the following letter is
published :—"Few parsons know the particulaq of the
so-called embalming of Maximilian. Instead of employing
the Ganal system'of embalming., the body was placed
in a bath composed of reactives, and tha eyes wero
replaced by glass ones taken from a Santa Ursula,
which, as it is said, they found in the hospital where
the operation was performed. The American journals
have pretended that the body of the Emperor Maximi-
lian was hung up from malice. This is a mistake. It is
true that it was hung up, but this was for the purpose of
drying it. The photographs sold in Mexico, representing
Maximilian after his death, are incorrect. After the body
was dry it was clothed in pantaloons and jacket. High
boots were put on his feet, and white gloves on his hands.
According to the information I have obtained, the body
cannot be taken to Vienna, except in a state of
,putrefac-
tion, if proper measures aro not promptly taken.'