The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market remains unchanged. Sales probably
10,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. —This Day.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.

Arrived, March 4.—Veritas, from Amsterdam.
Arrived, March s.—Smyrna, from Helsingborg ; John
Bull, from Hamburg ; Fynoord (screw steamer), from
Rotterdam ; Dolphin (screw steamer), from Antwerp; Two
Brothers, from Krageroo.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—lsabella Hunter, for Swansea ; Parrock Hall, for
St. Kitt's ; Velocity, for Cadiz; Star of England, for More-
ton Bay—all from London.

Anchored—Cherub, from Grimsby, for Alicante; John
Birtram (in tow), from New York, for London.

Foreign Mail Packet List
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MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Mar. 22.
Ditto, via Marseilles lrtr. 16
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet 6.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.— Mar.
China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton Mar. 5.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 5.
Faikland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton ➢lar. 5.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 5

Ditto, via Marseilles . . .....Mar. 16
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aran 16.

Ditto, via Marseilles .. Mar. 10
ilauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles. Mar. 10.
Newfoundland
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-

tish packet • . Mar. 8.

Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton . ..

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar. 2
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,

and Mexico • . Feb. :8
Cuba and Mexico Feb. 28.
Bahamas, via New York. Mar. P.

Bermuda. ditto.. Mar. 4
West Ccabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ..Mar. 12

ELECTION PETITION.—CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH.--
Another petition against the return for Cambridge
borough has been presented by four electors, which, after
reciting the petition of Mr. R. R. Torrens against tho elec-
tion of Mr. Forsyth, allege that Mr. Torrens himself was
disqualified from being returned byreason of his holding at
the time of the election the office of Registrar-General of
South Anstralia, an office of profit under the Crown. The

petitioners, therefore, pray that if the return of Mr. For-
syth be in,-alid, Mr. W. D. Christie, the fourth candidate,
may be declared one of the sitting members.

THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.—Large crowds
assembled yesterday in tho Parks, with the view of skating
and sliding on the ice on the ornamental waters, but in
almost all cases it was found insecure. In St. James'sPark
and at the Round Pond, Kensington, however, many per-
sons ventured upon the ice, and no serious accident hap-
pened.

LONGEVITY IN CAITHNESS.—On the estate of
Langwell, belonging to his Grace the Duko of Portland,

twelve individuals have recently died in succession, whose
united ages were 1,020, or an average of 85 each.
LONGEVITY EXTRAORDINARY.—On Sunday last
an old pauper woman died at Invergordon at the advanced
age of 112 years. Deceased moved about till within about
two months of her death. She was a native of Kilmuir.—
Elgin Courant.
THE NEW SOUTH. —We learn from the
New Orleans papers that the demand for la-
bour there in every department of mechanics
is such as to absorb the entire supply. Never
since the first settlement of New Orleans ;has

lit been greater than it now is. One paper says
that the mechanics and labouring men are a greater
power than ever before, and that they are " edu-
cating and elevating themselves, and are main-
taining an unbroken front in their efforts to break
down the barriers that have hitherto opposed their
rapid progress in social and political position."
Those who are so greatly exercised lest things in
the South revert to their former condition, and who
fear that the old slaveholding aristocracy will again
resume their former sway, should consider a fact
like this. We hear the same thing of other parts
of the South. A new class is coming into power ;
new ideas are gaining the supremacy. It must be
so ; for that upon which the old caste was based,
and which gave it power, has passed away forever.

BELGIANS OPPOSED TO MAXIMILIAN. —The
little kingdom of Belgium is one of the most re-
markable in Europe—so small that its neutrality
and exemption from wrong has to be guaranteed by
the great Powers of Europe, yet its late King was
among the most respected of all the European Sove-
reigns. Composed of mixed races and mixed reli-
gions, Catholics and Protestants have here got
along in perfect harmony. Surrounded by the
great monarchies of Prussia and France, it has
boldly maintained its own liberties and the free-
dom of the press and of speech, which is
nowhere else so complete 011 the Continent. In
face of the heavy capitalists of England, it has
raised up manufactures that successfully compete
with those of Great Britain. There are but few
spots on the whole earth where the population is so
dense, where every acre of the land is so closely
cultivated, and where manufactures of all kinds are
so successfully carried on. Two-thirds of the whole
kingdom is under cultivation, and eight-ninths of it
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is profitably occupied. Only one-ninth is waste.
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it, so that their monarchy is one of the most liberal m ieltibleBrilasnl3desl°;
and enlightened in Europe. In an evil hour the
Icing of the Belgians, to support his son-in-law
and secure peace with Napoleon, agreed to furnish
troops to Maximilian, and he did so. They fought
last year in Mexico, and several were killed. Re-
cently it was proposed to erect a statue iu Brus-
sels to their memory ; but the civic guard of
Brussels passed a vote that they could not agree
to this, as those who perished died in a war
opposed to the principles for which, in 1830, their
fathers fought and died in Belgium. They sent,
moreover, a copy of these resolutions to the
Government of the United States, on purpose that
they might know how similar classes to them-
selves in Belgium and throughout Europe felt in
regard to the struggle now making in Mexico. No
wonder the Emperor Napoleon forbids the circula-
tion of the Independence Belge in France, and is
anxious to withdraw his troops as soon as he con-
veniently can.