The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-19 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Feb. 19.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderato breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

WEYMOUTH, Feb.lB.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Fifeshire,
!min Shields for St. Nazaire.

FALMOUTH, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Alonza,
!rom Moulmein.

HAnwicn, Feb. 17.—Wind N.W.—Arrived•-The Dido,
from London for Seaham.

CARDIFF, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed.—Valenti, for
Monte Video.

LIVERPOOL, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Blazer,
from Islay.

_
GRIMSBY, Feb. 17.—Wind N.W.—Sailed--Scotland,
for Ha vannah.

PonTsmounr, Fob. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Wini-
fred, from London for Melbourne.
PENZANCE, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Europa,
from ----.
GLOUCESTER, Feb..l7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nereid,
from Sulina.

SWANSEA, Feb. 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Viscata, from
Hong Kong.

A SIGNAL HONOUR TO A YOUNG ENGLISH
NOVELIST has just been offered to a well-known London
Journalist by one of the greatest organs of literary
criticism in Europe—Mr. Edmund Yates's novel, " Broken
to Harness," being now in course of translation into
French by M. E. D. Forgues, for the Revue des Deux
Monde,. We congratulate Mr. Yates upon this new and
notable evidence of his widening popularity.
THE ARMY IN IRELAND.—The Army in Ireland
was reinforced a few weeks since by the 59th and 64th
Regiments, more lately the 2d battalion 60th Rifles and
83d have been added, and now the despatch of the 75th and
92d Highlanders will bring the increase up to six battalions.
For a time this increase will be somewhat neutralised by
the embarkation of the Ist battalion 60th Rifles and Ist
battalion Bth for the Mediterranean ; but the battalions
they indirectly relieve, the 2d battalion 2d Queen's at Ber-
muda, and the 2d battalion 3d Buffs at Barbadoes, will
land in Ireland on their return home, and be quartered in
that country. The troops in Ireland are being distributed
more among the small towns, thereby giving a great feel-
ing of security to the ladies, both old and young.—Aran
and Navy Gazette.
The number of visitors at the Crystal Palace on
Saturday was as follows :—Admissions on payment,
1,431 ; do. by season tickets, 5,287 ; total, 6,718.
THE DIVISION OF SATURDAY.—The minority who
opposed the bill for the suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act in Ireland were Sir G. Bowyer, Mr. Blake, Dr.
Brady, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Mr. J. B. Dillon, Mr.
J. D. Roardon, The O'Donoghue, and Mr. J. F. Maguire.
The two latter hon. members acted as tellers. Many Irish
members belonging to the Liberal party, including Sir
John Gray, declined to take part in the division.
THE CASE OF RYVES v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
—This case, in which the petitioner is known as
claiming to be Princess of Cumberland and Duchess of
Lancaster, now stands fixed for the 28th inst., but we are
informed that an application will be made on the part of
the Attorney-General, on Tuesday, for an adjournment to
the middle of May. The application is stated to be
grounded on an affidavit stating that the solicitor to the
Treasury found several hundreds of documents at the end
of last month which he cannot digest in time for the trial.
The application is expected to be opposed on behalf of the
petitioner by her counsel, Dr. J. W. Smith and David Mor-
gan Thomas.
Michael L. Sullivan, of Champaign county,
Illinois, has the largest farm in the world. It contains
70,000 acres, 23,000 acres of which are under fence and in
active cultivation. Much of the work is done by machi-
nery. He drives his posts by horse power, cultivates his
corn by machinery, ditches, sows, and plants by machi-
nery—so that all his labourers can ride and perform their
duties. Mr. Sullivan gives employment to 200 farm hands,
200 horses, and a large number of oxen.—New York paper.
The late slave States of America have an area
of 928,894 square miles, and their population makes an
average of 19 persons to the square mile. In order to have
a population of equal density with Massachusetts those
States would have to undergo an increase of population to
the extent of 108,809,332. The coloured race averages
34 1-3 d of the Southern people. Its distribution is (nearly)
as follows :—Alabama, 45 per cent. ; Arkansas, 23 ; Dela-
ware, 22 ; Florida, 46 ; Georgia, 42 ; Kentucky, 22 ;
Louisiana, 51; Maryland, 28 ; Mississippi, 51 ; Missouri
13 ; North Carolina, 36 ; South Carolina, 59 ; Tennessee,
24; Texas, 27 ; Virginia, 37.
A Chicago clergyman missed his stockings on
Christmas morning, and after a long search found one on
each horn of a new milch cow, which had been presented
to him by his parishioners, and ornamented in this way to
indicate that it was a Christmas gift.
The New York Citizen, edited by Miles O'Reilly,
asserts that before ten weeks there will be—somewhere

—an Irish Republic existing on the face of the earth, with
a flag, an army, a port of entry and exit, a navy of priva-
teers, and the tacit encouragement both of France and the
United States in the prosecution of belligerent acts against
Great Britain.
The New York Post says the report of the sailing
of a Fenian privateerfrom that port arose from the movements
of the steamship Fort Morgan, formerly a supply steamer
in the naval service. She was bought last September by
the well-known firm of Ward and Co., her name changed
to Cuba, and she made four trips to Havana, when she
was withdrawn and placed in dock for refitting. It was
reported two weeks ago by a person who had opportunity
of being well informed, that she had been sold to the
sailply they between
g en
e Nr:l7 Y
Fenians. The Cuba, Captain Sundberg, cleared for Bal-
timore, and, it appears, sailed for that port. This is re-
garded as very singular. Vessels of her tonnage do not
vesselssy
y a odrvke r andtis e Bf
or l t
fi mr e oi
gr eh, t ana
nddwphaosn-
sengers. This the Cuba did not do.
Tables are now in course of preparation at the
Treasury Department for transmission to Congress, to
show that the average duties upon the various manufac-
tures of cotton imported into America during the years
1863 and 1864 were 36 per cont. ; upon woollen, 381
per cent. ; upon silks, 37 per cent. ; on hemp and flax, 33tf
per cent. ; and upon iron and steel, 33f per cent.
In 1865 the duties on cotton were raised to 40 .
per cent. ; woollen to 52 ; silk 60 ; hemp and flax, ?
the.
and on iron and steel to 41 pertent. In the last year
two
Government received loss custom than in
any
theof
previous years on account of the falling of in thlie importa-
tion
total
of the articles enumerated, the revenues o
of dollars
of the imports having fallen off from 35 millions'overed that
in 1864, to 27 millions in 1865. It is also
isehy thethe protection on these manufactures affordedlcharges of
pre-
sent rate of tariff is reduced quite as low h.y t ie
it was before the
the effect of duties upon them at home as

war.
TIIE MANUFACTURE AND TRADE IN .
While the woollen manufactures of the United States have
doubled since the commencement of the war, it is shown
by official figures that in the four years ending June 30,
1865, the wool shoddy and woollens imported make au
aggregate of $130,000,000 of which the unmanufactured
wool amounts to 287,000,0001b5., costing 845,000,000.
Nearly all the imports of wool under the late tariff camp
in either at three or six cents. per pound, the duty ave-
raging less than five cents. The wools of Australia and

South Africa, which are fine merinoes, aro invoiced at less
than twenty-four cents per pound.