The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market.--'this Day.

The market opens quiet, and the sales will pro-
bably foot up 8,000 bales.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Mllea Opened.
...._ IZecetp;s.

railways.

186.3. 1806. 1866 1885

.E Z
Belfast and N, Counties 931 991 2,339 2.087
Belfast and Comity Down 49 44 713 653
Blyth and Tyne •• • . 35 °6 2,360 2,200
Brecon and blerthyr ........ 68 64 1,187 1,048
Bristol and Exeter l3ll 1214 7,312 6,980
Caledonian, Scottish Central 561 561 33 3.11 32.882
Cambrian
Cocaermouth K & ,
I'enrlth .. 311 3fl 466 '528
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 . 446 433
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 196 163
Cork and Limerick Dlrea
Cornwall 651 651 1,963 1.761
Deeside „ 17 17 331 430
Do Extension
Dublin & Belfast J unction.... 63 63 1,651 3,666
Dublin, and Drogheda 75 75 1,920 1,986
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 106 3,341 3,497
Forth and Clyde Junction - -
Furness, &c
85 85 5,3 5 4,3:4
GGLlassgoutwe-r&n,SNortuk.thot-
Great Northern 422 16 i 4Z,398 32,363
Great North of Scotland 212 24i 2,751 3,431
South-Western
27013/4 71973/4 391,.8t.71236 1304983
tit. Northn. & Westn.(lreL) Bll 711 661 662
gt.Soutim. & Westu.(irind.) 4 i 94 3873/4 10,718 9,831
Great Western 1294 12803/4 80,057 76.193
Highland
Hoylaie - 54 53
Irish North-Western ll5 145, 2,241 2,074
Isle of Wight l2 8 46i 229
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 44.194 42,073
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and roynes 261 24 1',.7 104
Llanelly 4Bl 464 745 773
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover ; f 1351 134 1 11,853 11.178
all Metropolitan Extension / 124 12 j 2,302 2.370
Do. Kent Lout _ _ 27 27 1,720 2,349

Lon., Tilbury, & Southend 42t 42i 1,788 2,(.25
Londonderry and Coleraine 364 46i 3,3 451
Man.,Sheilield,& Lincolnsh 246 246 21,362 20,313
Manch. S.J mi.& Altrineham 91 91 1,510 1,313
liaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (in& N.-Western) 6774 6/71 56,368 50,703
Midland Gt. Westn. of land 260,1 2601 7.110 6.001
Konmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2.837 2.632
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Dark 12071 11711 76.77/ 73,210
North London ll V 4,710 3.431

North Staffordshire 258 258 t4,i56 8:085
Pembroke and Tenby 27i 11 8 281 201
It hymney 221 10t 1,165 1,071
Scottish North-Eastern ll3 is
Somerset and Dorset O6 66 1.263 1, 10
Southevon
Devon 1101 98 5,181 4,502

South-Eastern 330 315 3),i,9 27,994
Taff Vale 63 63 6,, 6 5,511
Ulster lO9 10514 3,117 2.01

Vale of Clwyd - 151 181
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 504 593
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,618 1,608
West Cork. -
_ _ .

Wrexham, Mold, tt,, ...... .. 11 14 2A6 261
W'haveu.Cleator,&Egrinnt... 10 10 635 653
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Austrian .. 828 828 62.275 41,232
Bahia and San Francisco .... 701 701 311 368
Belgian Eastern Junction.... 204 20i 392 39/
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 306 5,616 3,162
Detroit and 111ilwaukic lB9 189
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 6,550 6,936
Eastern oi Prance 1665 1551 82,459 82,02
Eastern Bengal .. .... 110 110 2,463 1,909
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 30,377 31.715
Great Central Of Belgium 285 215 6.212 7,015

GRATITUDE OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.—A few
nights ago the lifeboat Sir George Bowles, stationed at
Howth, near Dublin, was the means of saving, during a
gale of wind, the crew, consisting of eight persons, of the
smack Favourite, of Peel, Isle of Man. The master of the
smack has addressed the following letter to the National
Lifeboat Institution, expressing the gratitude of himself
and crew for the valuable services of the lifeboat on the
occasion in question :—"Howth Harbour, 20th October;
1866:—Gentlemen, myself and crew, consisting of seven
men and a boy, do sincerely thank Almighty God, and
heartfelt thanks to the coxswain and crew of your lifeboat
at Ilowth for saving us from perishing on the morning of
the 17th October. No one but those in such a perilous
position would truly appreciate the value of a lifeboat.
We showed signals with our fl tmbeaux until it and our-
selves were exhausted, and as a last resource we burnt our
beds. The night was so dark and such a raging surf, no-
thing but broken water to be seen, we did not think it pos-
sible that any boat could live or be able to come near us,
neither did we see the lifeboat until she struck us on the
lee bow. After a desperate effort made by the craw of the
lifeboat, they at last pucceeded in throwing a grapline on
board, the coxswain calling out to us not to jump until the
boat rose on a sea. Great praise is duo to the coxswain
and crew of the lifeboat, who, under God's providence,
landed us in safety at half-past five in the morning. We
received every kindness from the coastguard, who sup-
plied us with dry clothing, &c.—l sin, &e., JOHN GILL,
master of the fishing lugger Favourite, of Peel.—To the
Committee of the National Lifeboat Institution."

TREASURE TROVE.—An interesting discovery
of silver coins took place at Stamford on Monday' A
labourer, named John Christian, was excavating for sani-
tary purposes at the back of a house occupied by grs. WYles
builder, in St. George's-square, when hisspade struckupon
an earthen jar, which proved to contain 2,600 silver coins,
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chiefly Anglo-Gallic grouts of Henry V., coined at Calais,
and English groats of Edward iv. of the London Mint
There were also a few half groats of Edward 111. The
whole are Ina fine state of preservation, many being almost
as bright as on the day they were issued. The jar was found
at a depth of only about a foot from the surface, and not
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churchyard, and that the coins were buried when the Lan-
castrians invaded Stamford during the wars of the Roses.
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Wednesday, and took apartments at the Windsor Hotel
On Thursday ho visited Glasgow for the inauguration of the
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torCdFridayoßni thesa n lt'
evening patronised the benefit of Miss Siddons, th
statue of thret
tragedienne at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, where there
was an overflowing house. On Saturday afternoon his
Highness left Edinburgh to spend a few days
Duke of Roxburgho at Floors Castle, with the
near Kelso.

TIIE HUGE AND NOW EXTINCT GROUND-SLOTHS
OF SOUTH AMERICA are thus described by Professor
Owen in his " Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of
Vertebrates :—" The principle of viewing structures and
instruments in reference to the work that they may do is
shown to be good in gaining insight into the mode of life
of extinct animals in a striking degree through its applica-
tion to the skeletons of the megatherioids. The teeth of
these conform so closely in all characters with those of the
sloths as to suggest leaves rather than roots to have been
their food. In the light slender sloths the modifications
of structure for climbing, clinging, and living altogether
in trees are carried out to an extreme. In the colossal ex-
tinct kindsthe foliage was obtained in a different way. The
huge single claw on the hind foot would be applicable as
a pickaxe to clear away the soil from between the
interfered
ramifi-
cations of the roots, a second claw would have
and
with such work. . . . . A tree being prostrated,
in
the skull of the size, strougth, flexibility,
,
its foliage thus brought within reach, every ind
and
h
power of the tongue harmonises both thelike the giraffe,
foregoing enl
teleo-
logical conclusions. The megatherioids,
fed.
.... It
needed only evidence of the o
thus pluck off the foliage on which they
isional occurrence of what
might happen to a beasti re si
tucec.
fall of a tree which it had
uprooted to seal the fore hysiologieal inferences with
t evidence above the right
llunterian Museum shows hatof he cranim."
orbit and at the back part
the stamp of truth, andgthiens6kieleton of the Mylodon in the
OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S
has recently been discovered, and will soon be published
II ANoPv oysoTumo us WORK
in
York.