The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-06 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market opens quiet, and prices in favour of
purchasers. Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 bales.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1866. 1865.
Great Western 81,935 78,175

North Western 130,305 125,671
South Western 28,211 32,019
Brighton
Midland
South Eastern 30,852 33,657
Groat Northern
Lancaster and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter
North Eastern 77,934 74,219
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 19,959 19,729
Great Eastern
London and Chatham and Dover 13,916 14,563
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are generally of
a satisfactory character. On the Great West-
ern there is an increase of £3,760, on the
North-Western of £4,634, on the Brighton of £567,
on the Midland of £2,426, on the Great Northern
of £BBO, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £3,827,
on the Bristol and Exeter of £125, on the North-
Eastern of £3,735, and on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln of £230. The South-Western shows a
decrease of £3,808, the South-Eastern of £2,805,
the Great Eastern of £1,424, and the London,
Chatham, and Dover of £6-17.
I The Ariel and the Taeping, with the new season's

teas, have arrived in the Downs at 8 o'clock this
morning, both having left Foo-chow-foo on the
30th May, passing Angier Straits, off Sunda, on
the 20th June. The former will discharge in the
East India and the latter in the London Docks.
At the Bank of England yesterday gold to the
amount of £71,000 was received there from abroad.
The biddings for bills on India took place yes-

terday at the Bank of England. The proportions
allotted were :—To Calcutta, £251,430 ; to Madras,
£3,000; and to Bombay, £l,OOO. The minimum
price was fixed at is. 10i d. on Calcutta and
Madras, and ls. 100. on Bombay, at which rates
tenders will receive in full.

A report has been issued by the Committee of
Investigation of the West London Wharves and
Warehouses Company, in which they recommend
two courses to be pursued ; first, that the directors
be requested to resign and a new board appointed,
who shall be wholly free from any connection with the
International Contract Company, and shall make
the most of the assets in winding up the company,
or carrying on such part of the undertaking as may
appear practicable and profitable ; secondly, to re-
pudiate their liability as shareholders, and proceed
against the directors for the return of the money
paid.
Tenders have been invited by the Oriental Bank
Corporation to be sent in on the 20th instant for
£850,000 5 per cent. Debenture Bonds of the New
South Wales Government, to be issued at the price
of £9O, with interest from the Ist July last, and to
be reduced by annual drawings to the extent of
£lOO,OOO, commencing in December, 1867, so as to
pay off the entire loan by the Ist June, 1875. Ten
per cent. is to be paid on application, 25 per cent.
Ist
on the Ist October, 25 per cent. on the Ist Novem-
ber,roiNleasnsdrs. 3 oBpareirucgenßhe
cent.
on
t thers l
and
Co. December.have received
a remittance on account of the dividends of the
New Grenada Debt of £1,480 from the Custom-
house of Santa Marta.
HORRIBLE DEATII BY FlRE.—Last evening Mr.
W. Payne, the Southwark coroner, held an inquest at the
Surrey Hospital, touching the death of a child named
William Thompson, aged 3 years. The father of the un-
fortunate deceased said that on Monday eening last he was
in bed asleep, when he was awoke by
the crying of the
child. He immediately jumped out of bed and run down
stairs into the kitchen, when ho saw his poor child's night-
gown ou
flames
standing on the table in front of the fire-
place, where the deceased had got out of bed and laid hold
of the matches and set fire to its clothes. Tho father ex-
tinguished
the fire, but deceased was so frightfully burnt
about the body that it died yesterday from the effects of
the burns. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
Death."
THE MAIDSTONE BLACKSMITH.—With reference
to the evidence given by Chambers, a blacksmith, and an
elector of Maidstone, that both the sitting members for
that borough attempted to bribe him—a statement for
which he was subsequently tried on a charge of •pe rj ury,
but acquitted—Mr. C. P. Read, one of the Conservative
members for East Norfolk, and who served on the House
of Commons Maidstone election committee, has forwarded
M.P.
the following letter to Mr. Whatman, for Maidstone :
I have received a local
newspaper containing an ac-
count of a public meeting held at Maidstone to repudiate
certain charges made
against
its
embers. In the resolu-
tions of that meeting I most cordially concur, and quite
y
uphold what was advanced by the
espeakers
the miscarriage of justice at the trial
of whoChambers.deplorel
never heard of a more wilful, malicious, and unprovoked
piece of perjury than was committed before the Maidstone

election committee, and he;----the—prisoner could escape
conviction I am at a loss to imagine.g
You are quite at
liberty to make use you like of toe opinion I have ex-
pressed; and as we sit on opposite sides of the House, I
cannot be suspected of holding any political prejudice in
favour of your honourable colleague or yourself."
A POLYGLOT SCIIOOL.—The advertisement of a
schoolmaster in one of the Vienna papers informs the
public that at his establishment the pupils are taught " all
the languages spoken in the Austrian empire," viz.:—
Bohemian, Polish, Russian, Magyar, Croat, Serb, Sclave
Itouman, Italian, and German, of course, making the 10th
The inhabitants of St. Armands, Canada West,'
have organised a privatepatrol to look out for the Penians.
They have heard reports from St. Albans and other places
on this side of the border that raids are to b 3 expected.
The course of exchanze at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is al cut 108 per cent. At this rate there
is no profit oil 1101 1M ()nation Ot gold tram toe
unit"
States.