The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-12 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

There is a fair quantity of new hops on offer, but chiefly
in poor condition. Fine samples command high quota-
tions ; but the demand for other kinds js by no means
active. Duty, £32,000 to £35,000.
Mid and East Kent pockets, £l7 Os to £25 Om
Wealds 15 Os to 21
Os
o
Sussex .. 11 Os to 16
1859........8 Os to 15 Os
Olds .. 3 Os to 8 (is

TEA.—The market continues very quint,
COLONIAL.
shown no alteration. and prices have
SUGAR.—The dealings have been havea rather limited
scale, and for some descriptions prices slightly given
way. In the refined market previous rates are generally
current.
COFFEE.—For the finer qualities of plantation Ceylon
the inquiries have been to a fair extent, and late prices are
well maintained. Other descriptions are at rather easier

rates.
RicE.—At public sale rather higher rates were obtained
partieu-
for East India, Lad aoreastahterfullarl
rgaetebsu.siness has been trans.
acted in floating cargoes
the spot is now quoted 58s
SALTPETR.E.—The market continues dull, and quota-
tions
TALLow.—The dealings have been extensive,
lady for forward delivery, and a further advance has taken
place
P.Y.C.
on
and 5Sa. 6d, for prig delivery, .7

HIE NAVY.

His Excellency Hassen Veley Khan and suite
arrived yesterday at Dent's, George Hotel, Ports-
mouth, to await the arrival of Mirza Jaffar Khan,
who is daily expected at Spithead on board a man-
of-war on a mission from the Shah of Persia to the
Court of St. James's.
A letter from Malta, dated Valetta, Oct. 6, 2 30
p.m., says :—" Her Majesty's ships Orion, from
Marsala, St. Jean d'Acre, from a cruise off the
Island, and Q4een, from Tunis, have entered port
since the date of my last letter (30th ult.), and our
harbour, which has been somewhat bare of men-of-
war of late, has again resumed that lively and strik-
ing aspect afforded by the presence of our fleet.
Besides these three fine line •of-battle ships we have
another liner in port, the James Watt, which is
undergoing repair ; also the prince of troopships,
the Himalaya, and two or three small vessels. Her
Majesty's steamer Banshee arrived on Wednesday
from Constantinople, having been specially sent
here to convey to Malta the Persian Ambassador,
Mirza Jaffer Khan, who is proceeding as Envoy
from the Shah of Persia to the Court of St. James's.
His Excellency leaves to-day in the Himalaya,
which has been placed at his disposal to carry him
and his suite, 13 in number, to England. The im-
mense proportions of this fine vessel cannot fail to
strike the Ambassador and his officials with asto-

nishment and admiration, and it is a happy circum-
stance that so commodious a ship should have been
selected for the purpose. During his Excellency's
stay here he visited the Governor at the Palace,
who paid him all the attention and respect his
exalted rank and our intimate relations with the
country he represents called for. I send you a de-
tailed report of his Excellency's sojourn at this
island, for which I am indebted to a local journal.
Mention was made in a former communication of
the fact of several Italians and 10 English sailors

having been brought here as prisoners on board
H.M.S. Caesar, charged with seizing and running
away with, from Genoa, an English steamer named
the Orwell, which vessel arrived here at the same
time, navigated by a lieutenant of the Royal navy
and a crew of naval seamen, who had been placed
on board of her, after she had been taken possession
of by her Majesty's corvette Scylla, by order of the
naval authorities. The prisoners were a few days
ago set at liberty, the home authorities having con-
firmed the opinion of the local Government that no
lawful ground existed for their arrest and deten-
tion. We have received letters from Admiral Mar-
tin's ships to the 25th of September. Admiral
Mundy was expected from Naples to relieve Ad-
miral Martin, who is to proceed to Malta. The
gunboat Assurance was at Alexandria on the 25th.
She brought dates from Beyrout to the 23d of Sep-
tember. The Neptune and Firefly were there, and
outside were the Marlborough, the Liffey, and the
Doris cruising, the last named ship having arrived
the previous evening from the lonian Islands. The
Lapwing was at Tripoli (Syria), the Greyhound at
Sidon, and Victor Emmanuel at Caiffa. I regret to
state that the sickness on board her Majesty's ship
St. Jean d'Acre, said to be chest complaints, con-
tinues to spread among the crew ; but curious to say,
none of the officers have been attacked. Yesterday up-
wards of 40 fresh cases were sent to hospital, and in-
valided to go home by the Himalaya. These are in ad-
dition to 33 from the same ship previously invalided
for passage home. All these, besides some 140 in-
valids from other ships, leave by the Himalaya to-
day for England. I understand that eight more
cases from the St. Jean d'Acre have been sent to
hospital this morning. The health of the ships, with
this exception, appears to be good. About eight
military invalids proceed in the Himalaya from
Malta and 80 from Gibraltar. Tae Queen is under
orders to leave for Naples to-day. It is reported that
this ship was detained at Tunis to prevent an appre-
hended disturbance between the Italian and Maltese
inhabitants, in consequence of the former having
expressed their intention of burning the Pope in
effigy on a certain day. It was also feared that any
such outbreak would give a pretext for a disturbance
on the part of the Mahomedans against the Chris-
tians, The officers during their stay received great
hospitality from the Bey and his officials. The Mar-
quis of Downshire, who has been about a fortnight
here with his family, left on Tuesday in his yacht,
the Sylphide, for Corfu. Among the passengers
arrived here on Wednesday by the French steamer
Vatican, from Italy, is the Chevalier Cerruti, a Sar-
dinian diplomatist, who, accompanied by two secre-
taries, the Marquis G. I. Trevisani and the Count

G. Visconti, is proceeding on a delicate mission to
various countries in the East relative to Sardinian
interests, especially commercial. He is to leave by
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Euxine to-morrow, for Alexandria, and his further
route will depend, it appears, on information re-
ceived there and at the different places he visits.
The French steam transport Finisterre, returned
from Beyrout on Tuesday, and the Aube yesterday,
on their way to France. The Finisterre left a few
hours after arrival."
The new screw steam sloop Cameleon, to carry
17 guns, yesterday left the offing of Woolwich Dock
yard, and proceeded down the river in charge of the
officers of the steam reserve, on trial of her ma-
chinery, and, having performed the measured mile
satisfactorily, she returned to Woolwich under
orders to be admitted to the steam reserve of the
yard. The steam tugs Monkey and Widgeon at-
tended the trial.
The shipwright department at Woolwich, under
the superintendence of Mr. Turner, yesterday com-
pleted the preparation and laying down the blocks
to receive the keel of the 91 gun ship Caledonia, to
be constructed under the shed from which the
Anson was launched last month. The Caledonia
will be of nearly similar dimensions ; her length
between perpendiculars is to be 244 feet, and her
armament to consist of 5'6 32 pounders, one 68
pounder, and 34 8 inch guns.
The steam storeship Industry, which vessel put
back to Woolwich on her way to Ascension and
Rio, was yesterday admitted into basin, and on
examination the entablature of her engines was
found to have given way. The damage will be
repaired forthwith, and she will resume her voy age
in a few days.
The Leveret gunboat, tender to the Dauntless,
coastguard ship in Southampton Water, was yes-
terday morning hauled up on the landing cradle at
Raslar gunboat yard for the purpose of having her
ringston valves repaired and being recoppered, &c.,
which was completed by 2 p.m., and the boat ready
for launching off again had the tide suited. She
will come off with this morning's tide. No better
illustration could be given than the present one of
the suitability of Haslar-yard as a building and
repairing yard for this class of boats. In this case
no dock was vacant in Portsmouth-yard to re-
ceive the Leveret, and the gridiron at the south cor-
ner of the yard, if it could have received her, would
not have enabled the men to have got at their work.
Besides relieving the dockyard at Portsmouth in a
matter in which its accommodation is most stinted,
a gunboat can be hauled up at Haslar-yard for repairs
at one fourth the expense it would cost to dock her.
its
Haslar-yard has, however, many defects. With
one launching cradle, and its one locomotive, it
would take nearly a month to get all the 'boats
stored in the yard into the water. A private bridge
swanning Haslar-creek is a great obstruction to
communication with the yard, every gunboat pass-
Sing under it having to take down its masts. At
certain times of the tide, owing to the peculiar set
of the tide just at this point, it is a difficult matter
to get a boat clear through the passage under the
bridge without jamming her broadside on to the
piles or against that portion of the arch supporting
the roadway above, in which case either the centre
of the bridge must be carried away or the gunboat
sunk. The Admiralty have been for some time in
treaty for the purchase of this structure, but we
believe have refused to agree to the terms demanded
by the proprietors.

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THE ARMY.

The corps of Royal Engineers under the command
of Col. H. D. Harness, C. 8., underwent the official
half-yearly inspection yesterday, at Chatham, by
Major-Gen. H. Eyre, commanding the garrison and
district. A very favourable report will, it is be-
lieved, be made by the Major-General to the Duke
of Cambridge.

The 2d battalion of the 11th Regiment, and the
2d battalion of the 19th Regiment, stationed at
Portsmouth, were under orders for inspection yes-
terday and the day previous by Major-Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., commanding the south-western
district. Owing to the inclemency of the weather
the inspection did not extend beyond the barrack
rooms, men's kits, regimental accounts,
&c., his
lordship deferring the inspection of the regiments in
field mance uvres until a more favourable opportunity.
Capt. Freeth, Deputy-Assist. Quartermaster-
Gen., attached to the staff of Woolwich garrison,
having completed his five years' service, will be
superseded on the Ist of November by Major Field,
who fulfilled that post with the Royal Artillery in
the Crimea during the war. Capt. Freeth is under
orders to return to the command of his battery, No.
4 of the First Brigade Garrison Artillery, at the
head quarters, Woolwich.
The Hampshire Artillery left Pembroke Dock on
Tuesday last for Gosport, under the command of
Col. Burnaby. They numbered 17 officers, 302
men, 9 women, and 24 children. They are to be
disembodied this week.