The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-02 00:00:00

GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY.

To-day's market was as usually attended. Wheat and
flour were dull, prices nominally unchanged ; barley and
oats the turn dearer; oatmeal, 6d. to ls. higher per 2801 b;
beans and peas unaltered ; Indian corn lost part of its ad-
vance ; mixed American was held at 19s. per 2801 b.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoa Nov. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 13.
Brazil and Capa Verds, by British packet Nov. 5.
Ditto, by French packet Nov. 23.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena NoV.
China, Penang, and Sing :pore. via SOU:hampton_Nov 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles .... Nov. 13
ralkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 3.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southarnotou Nov. 3
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton.
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 7
Haifa, Efypt, an I A den, via So.ithartipt.m Nov 3
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 7.
ilaurltius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil!e5...
,fewfoundland ..• Nov. 7.
l'ortugal
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Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ......
united States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
....... ...Nov. I.
Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton
Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Nov. 2.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teueriffe ....Nov. 10.
?Vest Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) No 13
Cuba and Mexico Nov. 28.
Bermuda, via Halifax Nov. 21
Bahamas. via New York. Nov. 15.

IMPROVEMENTS IN SOUTH KENSINGTON.—Among
the local Acts recently printed was one cited as " The Bel-
gravia and South Kensington New Road and Improve-
ment Act." A new road is to be made from Eaton-square to
Brompton-road. The preamble states that the construction
of the road and its dedication to tho public will be attended
with great expenses, which cannot be repaid to the under-
takers unless they are enabled to acquire land in the neigh-
bourhood and to lay out the same for building. The road
is to be completed within four years, and the compulsory
purchase of land is limited to three years.
PHOTOGRAPHY.--Among the various contrivances
which are daily contributed towards the improvement of
this art there is a kind of positive paper, invented by Mr
A. Taylor. Instead of albumenising or salting it by means
of the usual preparations he coats his new paper with a
solution of white lac in water impregnated with borax.
Thus prepared, the sheet is sensitised and printed in
exactly the same way as common albumenised paper.
The photograph obtained is reddish, and would as-
sume a disagreeable chocolate colour if it were merely
fixed with hyposulphito of soda ; but this draw-
back, may be avoided by toning in a gold bath.
If the print be first dipped into a bath of sul-
phocyanide of ammonium, and then definitively
fixed in a bath of hyposulphite of soda, it will first become
yellow in the former substance, and then change to bistro
in the latter. The lac may also be dissolved in a watery
solution of phosphate of soda. The paper thus prepared
and sensitised in the usual way prints exceedingly well;
its colour is black or sepia, and does not change mate-
rially when fixed with hyposulphite. If the white
lac be dissolved in a mixture of phosphate and
borate of soda, the paper coated with it will assume
very agreeable tints, varying between red and black ; and
these tints may be graduated at pleasure by varying the
proportions of the two salts. The paper prepared with
phosphate of soda is best adapted for hard and powerful
prints; that with borate, on the contrary, should be pre-
ferred for delicate and light photographs. If the sheets
prepared as stated be sensitised with nitrate, then dried
and afterwards once more dipped into the white lac solu-
tion their sensitiveness will not only not be diminished,
but materially increased.