The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-29 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—Tl i 3 Day.

The Market opens with rather a better feeling.
Sales probably 8,000 bales.

Mr. Algernon Swinburne is about to issue a
selection from Byron's works, prefaced by a critical essay,
in the series known as " Moxon's Miniature Poets."

Mr. Frederick Locker----
is busily engaged in
collecting materials for a volume of the best " Vers
de Societe" written by Englishmen.
Mdlle. Adelina Patti is to receive £l2O for
every one of her performances at the Italian Theatre,
Paris, and will " create," it is said, two new parts,
those of the heroines " La Gazza" and "I Puritani."

There are now three theatres in Paris for
sale, the Follies Dramatiques, the Ecole Moliere, and the
Theatre Beaumarehais• The receipts of the Paris
theatres in 1865 amounted to the enormous sum
of £167,000.

A picture broker in the district of the Madeleine
has discovered under a thick coating of varnish a Virgin
and Child of Correggio. It is a re-production of a part of
his celebrated "Repose in Egypt," formerly in the church
of the Holy Sepulchre at Parma.

M. Victor Hugo's new book, " Les Travailleurs
de la bier," is in the press at Brussels. The first volume
is already printed, and M. Paul Meurice, who superin-
tended the publication in Paris of the' Chansons des
Rues et des Bois," is to perform the same office for "Les
T ravailleurs."

The French Academy has advanced as far as
the " Analogie" in the new edition of their famous dic-
tionary. A meeting is held every Thursday, at which
each word is separately discussed. The part already com-
pleted fills five bulky volumes in quarto, and it is cal-
culated that the leter A will require eight such volumes
for itself. The entire work will be contained in about ono
hundred volumes, which may be expected to appear in
somewhat less than a couple of centuries.

AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION.—On Sunday,
the 24th December last, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
made a collection in his church in Now York on behalf of
the Evangelical Mission to the South and West, inaugu-
rated by the Congregational body of New England. He
said ho would deviate from the usual practice, and receive
the sums personally and announce them from the pulpit.
The first sum handed up was $l,OOO. As the greenbacks
rolled up in a varied stream, he made appropriate remarks,
and was especially effective when a little girl banded up
two cents as her contribution. The total result amounted
to more than $lOO,OOO.
A new American line of steamers is to be esta-
blished, to run between New York and Bremen, touching
at Cowes.

The United States Government have realised,
within the last two years, the sum of $6,000,000, the proceeds
of confiscated cotton, sugar, and other property in the
State of Mississippi.
The Louisiana National Bank of New Orleans
capita], $10,000,000, has been authorised by the Controller
of the Currency. Tho total circulation of the national
banks is $237,371,000.
It appears from official announcement that the
people of North Carolina have declared null and void the
ordinance of secession by a vote of 19,977 against 1,940 ;
and that 18,527 votes were cast to ratify the ordinance
prohibiting slavery,