The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-27 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The armour-plated hou frigate Hector, Captain
Luard, recently doing duty as guardship off Cowes,
during the stay of her Majesty at Osborne, and the
armour-plated wooden frigate Lord Clyde, Captain
Roderick Dew, C. 8., at present represent her Ma-
jesty's navy at Spithead, both awaiting at that an-
chorage Admiralty orders relative to their future
movements.

The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, Capt. the
Duke of Edinburgh, left Plymouth Sound yesterday
morning for Lisbon, Gibraltar, and Malta. After
a sojourn of a few mouths iu the Mediterranean she
will proceed to Australia, after which Bombay, Cal-
cutta, China, and Japan will be visited. The
voyage round the world ►ill involve a total absence
of about two years.

The screw steam frigate Phoebe, 35,,went outside
Plymouth breakwater on Monday to test her en-
gines. Yesterday she was placed in the basin at
lieyham Steam-yard, to be completed for the first
division of the steam reserve in llamoaze.
Yesterday an order was received at Chatham from
the War Department, directing that the erection of
the block of buildings which had been in progress
for several months past near St. Mary's casemated
barracks, for residences for the married non-com-
missioned officers of the third battalion, is to be dis-
continued, and the work no further proceeded with.
The reason for this order is the discovery, now that
the range of buildings is nearly completed, that the
erection is too near the principal magazine, and that
from its close proximity danger was likely to ensue.
It is not yet decided whether the new buildings will
be taken down and re-erected 'on another site, or
the magazine removed to a less dangerous locality,
but it is probable the latter course will be adopted.
At the monthly examination at the Royal Naval
College, Portsmouth, held on the 21st inst., Lieut.
E. 1). Law, R.N., obtained a certificate as French
interpreter.

MARKETS.--This day.

MARK-LANE.

The fresh receipts of Essex and Kent wheat, although
moderae, were, with the supply remaining unsold from
Monday, amply sufficient to satisfy the requirements of
the few millers in attendance who were dispoied to ope-
rate. No business was concluded without difficulty. Even
the finest samples met a slow sale, at the late reduction in
value, whilst inferior sorts were almost entirely neglected.
The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was good.
There was a want of animation in the demand for all de-
scriptions, at about Monday's decline in prices.
Floating cargoes of wheat moved off slowly, and in other
kinds of produce afloat the transactions wore on a limited
scale.

There was a fair supply of foreign barley on the stands,
but only a moderate quantity of English. For all quali-
ties the trade was heavy, at the late decline. The supply
of malt was seasonably extensive. The demand was in a
sluggish state, at barely previous rates. Oats worn in fair
supply and limited request, at the recent fall in prices.
Beaus moved off slowly, and in peas very little was doing,
at Mondays currencies.
Flour was very quiet, on former. terms. Clover seed
was steady, but other agricultural seeds, as well as lin-
seed and rapeseed, were dull. Cakes were heavy.

slur ARRIVALS THIS WEAL.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 660 630 1,230 1,130
_ .

Irish
5 710
Foreign 6,800

10,960 4,390 sacks
brls.

COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND ERICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending Feb.; For no corresponding woek
23, 1867. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 53,137-59s lld Wheat 59,b67_458 Ld
Barley ..... ...,38,128-43s 4d Barley 58,819-34 s 8d
Oats 7,105-2 Is 3d Oats 10,238-235 103

BOROUGH Hop.
We have no alteration to notice in this market. The
trade is quiet fur all descriptions, but prices rule firm.

IVHITECIIAPEL.

The supplies of moat aro moderate. There is a moderate
demand, at the following currencies:—

Per Slh. by the carcase.

llnef 2s 0(1 to 4s 8d Veal
Mutton ... Be Od to 45 10d [Pork

DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, SG, GREAT
MARL1301101;GII-STREET, REGENT-STREET, W. 7- Two hun-
dred and eighteen patients wore relieved at this dispensary
during the week eliding Feb. 23. . _ .

REUTER'S TELEGRAM COMPANY.

(Meetilig This Day.)

The ordinary half-yearly general meeting of this
company was held to-day at the London Tavern ;
Colonel Holland, director, in the chair.

The report, which congratula' ed the shareholders
on the steadily increasing prosperity of the company,
having been circulated amongst the shareholders,
was taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN said that the report was so full
that it, spoke for itself; but there were two or three
points on which he would make a few remarks.
In the first place he wished to explain that the ac-
counts, being made up annually instead of half-
yearly, did not clearly show the prosperous position
of the company, and the actual amount of business
tranzieted was not ;---o apparent. £l,B 5S ha,l been
r,.:.11,t, I on. the lan,q!e.sQ

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resei d fiA J, tho direcLur:: thou,silt. 1 only
right that the old shareholders should have a share
in the amount so divided. A large increase had
taken place in the profits of the company from the
double business in which they were engaged. With
respect to the llanoverian cable, the reason why it
had not been in operation was owing to the
*war. Mr. Reuter obtained a concession from
the Hanoverian Government, but which was
rendered useless by the overthrow of the
kingdom of llanover. However, Mr. Reuter,
by hi
.interest with the Prussian Government, had
obtained a renewal of that concession. But

they .had to surrender their fourth wire to the
Prusaian Government, on their guaranteeing a
minimum daily number of messages to be con-
veyed by the company, and to undertake the
maintenance and repair of their continental
land lines. An arrangement had been con-
cluded with the Electric Telegraph Company, which
secured a minimum number of messages on the
fourth corresponding to that guaranteed by the
Prussian Government. The effect of those charges
would be to make, according to estimate, an addi-
tion to the revenue of the company of £30,000
a year. He concluded by moving the adoption of
the report and accounts, which was unanimously
agreed to.
The Chairman, being the retiring director,
vacated the chair, which was taken by Admiral Sir
J. C. D. Hay, M.P.
Col. Holland was then re-elected.

After the transaction of some other formal busi-
ness, thanks were voted to Mr. Reuter, the manag-
ing director of the company, and to the directors,
which terminated the proceedings.

LIVERPO9L co rroN MARKET.
(This Day.)

Market still conthries depressil. Sales may
probably reach 4,000 bales.

SHIPPING INIELLIGEZ,O2.

LoNnox, Feb. 27.—Wind this day at noon, South-
Easterly ; strong breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PILL, Feb. 2G.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Creole, for Buenos
Ayres.
BRISTOL, Feb. S.E.—Arrived—Anna Bell,
from Newfoundland.

.CLYDE, Feb. 26.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Lord Palmer-
ston, for Mauritius.
FALMOUTH, Feb. 26.—Wind E.—Sailed—Sylph, screw
steamer, for River Plate.
LOWESTOFT, Feb. 26.—Arrived—Union Canal (of Ply-
mouth), assisted in leaky. Sailed—Margaret Martin, for
Mogadure.

(By Telegraph.)
GRITESIND, Wednasday Morning

Arrived, Feb. 26. - Metropolitan, from Hamburg.
Arrived, Feb.. 27.—F tallier, steamer, from Dunkirk;
Giraffe, steamer, from Boulogne ; Holland, steamer, from
Ostend; Maas, steamer, froM Antwerp; Alice, St. George,
Progress, and .Honour, from Guernsey ; Maria Theresa,
Johanna, Catherine Cornelius, and Minerva, from Emden ;
Active, from Rostock; Prima, from Kjoge ; Zouave, from
Oran; Trellingerne, from Colbe rg; Robert, from Libau; Arta,
from Korsor ; Elina and Anna, from Aalborg ; Orion,
steamer, from Rotterdam.
Sailed, Feb. 27.—Marillo, steamer, for Cadiz.; Bilboa
steamer, for Bilboa; Triton, steamer, for Boulogne; Mart-
let, steamer, and Sir It Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk ; Albion
steamer, for Ostend.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Passed, Feb. 26.—Maranham, steamer, from Shields, for
Adria ; Highflyer, for Canaries; Cicerone, for Corfu—both
from London.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
tie. UV. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold le
about I -10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 1061 per cent. At this rate there is
no profit on the importation of gold from the United States

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and
their Royal Highnesses suits, will this evening
honour the Olympic Theatre with their presence.
Mr. Fildes, on the second reading of Sale and
Purchase of Shares Bill, will move that it be read a second
time upon that day six months.

Mr: Osborne will to-morrow ask the First Lord
of the Admiralty if he will lay upon the table of the house
any subsequent correspondence between the Admiralty
and Lieutenant Brand since that officer was placed on
half-pay. _

THE DESIGNS FOR TILE NEW LAW COURTS.—The
exhibition of the designs for the new Courts of Justice
will, after this present month, and until further notice, be
open do the public on Thursdays only, and to members of
both Houses of Parliament, and other special visitors, on
Saturday only, the remaining days being required for the
work of the commission.

Despables were sent yesterday from the Colo-
nial-office to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong,
Labnan, Malta, the Mauritius, Gibraltar, the Cape of
Good Hope, Natal, the Straits Settlements, and the Aus-
tralian Colonies.

POISONOUS BREAD.—M. Nickles, professor of
chemistry at Nancy, has just discovered a circumstance
which may turn out to be of great importance to public
health. It seems that bakers have been lately in the habit
of heating their ovens with old painted wood got cheap
from the demolition of houses. But bread baked in such
an oven acquires poisonous qualities from the whitelead
verdigris, and other noxious substances contained in the
paint; and M. Nickles shows that these substances aro
absorbed by the crust, and do not penetrate to the crumb.
THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.—A. meeting was
held in the Town-hall, Manchester, on Monday, presided
over by the mayor, R. Neill, Esq., for the purpose of ap-
pointing a committee and adopting other steps for raieing a
fund in aid of the Cretan families, who have been forced to
leave their island, and who, to the number of 12,000, mostly
women and children, are entirely destitute pf the common
necessaries of life. Resolutions in furtherance of the ob-
ject specified were carried unanimously.
FATAL DEVICE BY A STUDENT.--A fatal act of
imprudence has been committed by a young student
in an educational establishment at Rheims. A youth named
Renaut, aged 15, had been confined to the sick-room on
account of a slight indisposition, and had there passed his
whole time in reading, particularly the history of France.
When restored to health he found himself unable to con-
tinue his favourite occupation on account of the regular
routine of the school business, so ho determined to simulate
illness in order to return to the infirmary. A botanical
garden belonging to the establishment, in which all the
plants were ticketed, suggested to him the means. He was
so foolish as to swallow some hemlock, after which he re-
turned to the house and complained of being-unwell, but
without avowing what ho had done. Shortly after the
symptoms became so aggravated that he made a full con-
fession; but it was then too late, and he expired in tho
courso of the evening. „
EIGHTEEN SHEEP ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.—On
Friday a drove of sheep, belonging to Mr. Nimmo, at
Motherwell, strayed on to the-Caledonian Railway, near
Wishaw, and before they could be removed a paesenger
train dashed up and killed 18 of them, and injured others.
GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—The Greenwich hospital
estimate just issued shows that the sum required for the
year (as the estimate has it, " the total of the whole") is
£128,635 -.£46,843 for the hospital itself, £L6,457 for lien-
dons, and £25,335 for Greenwich School. The out-pen-
sions are 4,600 in number. To those who elected to leave
the hospital in 1865 there are 742 pensions allotted, 398 of
£l3 12s. a year to men 70 years old or upwards, and 344 at
£7 12s. to men of 55 but under 70 ; and there is also avote
of £10,669 for money allowances to these 742 mon, and to
163 others who were in-pensioners not entitled to au out-
pension, but nevertheless elected to leave and revert to
their naval pensions. The other pensioners are 1,088 of
£l3 12s. to naval pensioners (of ten years' standing), resi-
dent in the Uaited Kingdom, 70 years old or more ; and
2,170 of £7.125, to ileval.peusioners of five yeare' sta4clint
also resident, between 55 and 70 yiars of age.

111111th EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE_ This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
NOTTINGHANI ItACES.—(Tins DAY.)
FOREST HANDICAP.

Tho Forest Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 added; winners
of any handicap after Feb. it (at ten a.m.) 71h extra ;

six furlong.
Landlord
Sweet Anne
General Sherman

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