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

BOMBAY TELEGRAM—Feb. 13.

Exchange in London for a first-class bank bill,
six months' sight, 2s. lid. ; Calcutta rate for do.,
2s. 1 11-16 d. ; exchange on Calcutta at sight, 99 to
991 ; price of Government '4 per cent. paper, 89 ;
do. 5 per cent., 103 ; do. 51 per cent., 109 ; Bank
of Bombay rate of discount, 13 per cent. ; price per
tola of bar gold, 991 toucl., 161 ; price per 100
tolas of bar silver, 17 to 17/ betterness, 1051.
85,000 bales of cotton sailed from Bombay during
the week.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

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

WEYMOUTH, Feb.lB.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Fifeshire,
from Shields for St. Nazairo.

FALMOUTH, Fob. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Alonza,
from Moulmein.

IlAuwicn, 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 llavannah.

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 18.—Wind B.W.—Arrived—Wini
fred, from London for Melbourne.

PENZANCE, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Europa,

from
GLOUCESTER, Feb. ;,17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nereid,
from Sulina.
SWANSEA, Feb. 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Viaeata, 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
Mendes. 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
83:1 have been added, and now the despatch of the 75thand
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 GOth 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 Jima, and be quartered in
that country. Tho troops in Ireland aro being distributed
more among the small towns, thereby giving a great feel-
ing of security to the ladies, both old and young.—Anny
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 op SATURDAY.—The minority who
opposed the bill for the suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act in Ireland were Sir G. Bowyer, Mr. Make, Dr.
Brady, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Mr. J. B. Dillon, Mr.
J. D. Reardon, The O'Donoghue, and Mr. J. F. Maguire.
The two latter lion. 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 bo 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
end
Treasury found several hundreds of documents at the nh
of last month which ho cannot digest in time
behalf
for the trial.
of the
The application is expected to be opposed
petitioner by her counsel,
gan Thomas. Dr. J. W. Smith aonnd David Mor-
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 tho 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 thoso
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 ; 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 mulch cow, which had been presented
to him by his parishioners, and ornamented in this way to
indicate that it was a Christmas gift.