The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

lIAY.

SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, £4 103 to £5 109; new
do, £3 5s to £4 4s ; old clover, £5 Os Od to £6 6s Od ; new
do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s per load.
A slow trade.

CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, £4los to £5 12s Od;
new do., £3 8s to £4 5s Od ; old clover, £5 Os to £6 Gs Od ;
new do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per
load. Trade dull.

WIIITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, £4 lOs to £slos Od ;
new do., £3 5s to £4 4s ; old clover, £5 5s Od to £6 lOs Od ;
uew do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s per
load. Supply moderate.

The Austrian Forces on the Adriatic.

(From the Times Military Correspondent)
GORTZ, Aug. 9.

Last night the road between Trieste and Gortz
was full of marching troops, cheering and making
merry as they passed along, for the Italians have
no zundnadel-gewehr, and meet the Austrians with
the straightforward up and down fighting which
theyh
and in which lies their strong point.
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which will probably be the scene of
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future battles is the plain at the head of the
Adriatic, which has been to all appearance formed
by the debris washed down from the mountains
which enclose it on three sides. Favoured by
nature in its climate, its soil, and in the nume-
rous streams which water it, the hand of man
has not been wanting. The rivers which descend
from the steep faces of the mountains bring down
with them quantities of soil and stones which fill up
their beds, and would soon transform the whole sur-
rounding country into a marsh were not their banks
attended to and kept up. As it is they are elevated
above the soil, and their raised banks afford ram-
parts behind which may be hid the troops intended
to support those actually defending the passage,
while by gutting the banks the country can be
inundated. This rich and cultivated plain is popu-
lous and covered with towns and villas, the latter
always surrounded with high walls or hedges,
furnishing many defensive posts ; and, combined as
they are with numerous small canals and stone walls,
rendering the ground very unfavourable for the
action of cavalry. It is seldom that great moun-
tains rise abruptly from the plains at their feet. As
a rule there is first undulating ground, then steep
hills, then the buttresses, and finally the peaks, but
the south side of the Alps, looking down upoa Italy,
is strangely abrupt, and rises so steeply from the plain
as to have the appearance of a vast snow-topped
wall enclosing the garden at its foot. From the mouth
of the Po to that of the Isonzo the borders of the sea
are neither ocean nor land, but a combination of the
two. Large lakes only one or two feet deep surround
the mouths of the rivers and canals, the beds of the
latter being cut through three lagunes as they are
called. Opposite their mouths, and defending them
from the turbulence of the sea, are numerous islands,
some mere sandbanks, others more important, but
which in all cases act asbreakwaters, so that ships can
lie safely in the canals within their shelter. Springing
from surrounding mountains, and radiating towards
the lagunes, are nine principal rivers, the Po, the
Adige, the Baechiglione, the Brenta, the Piave, the
Livenza, the Taglianaento, the Ansa, and the Isonzo.
During the time of the truce the Italian army was
principally on the
Tagliamento, stretching out their
outposts nearly to those of the Austrian army,which
was concentrated in front of Gortz; but having heard
of the reinforcements daily arriving to strengthen
the corps opposed to them, they drew in their out-
posts as the time for a recommencement of hostili-
ties approached, destroying, it is said, all bridges
and means of approach, and have now withdrawn to
the mountains on their left. The Austrian troops
pushed forward early
this morning, many of the late
arrivals who were quartered in the town leaving at
3 a.m. The additional 24 hours' truce will give
time for further reinforcements to come up, and
armies are making their way to Villach and Brinen,
so as to be ready for the moment when, all hope of
arrangement over, the north of Italy shall again
become a prize for the strongest.
The railways have been entirely taken up for the
conveyance of troops during the last few days, and
the postmaster honestly says that he cannot tell
when letters may reach Vienna, as it is no easy mat-
ter for the mails to struggle past the numerous and
slow going military trains that follow each other at
intervals of less than an hour.
The Archduke Albrecht arrives to-morrow with
his Staff. Everything looks like war, and yet it is
almost impossible to believe that Italy will risk so
much for the prospect of so small a gain.

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terrace, Hyde-park, London, W.—(Aovr.)
FALLING DEAD IN THE STREET.—An inquest was
held on Tuesday evening by Dr. Lankester, at the
King's Head Tavern, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, on the
body of a man unknown, apparently about 60 years old,
who fell suddenly dead in George_street, St. Giles's, on
Monday afternoon last, as witnessed,by a woman named
Mary Driscoll. Police-constable 166 F, with assistance,
conveyed the body to St. Giles's workhouse. Mr.
William Bennett, who made the post-mortem exa-
mination, found the body very badly nourished.
There was no appearance of food in the stomach. The
deceased had undoubtedly been a very great rum drinker,
and the cause of sudden death was a failure of the action
of the heart through valvular disease. Mr. Blake
(coroner's officer) produced the property found on the
deceased, viz., several carving tools and pieces of bone
and ivory, on one of which there was a head in course
of cutting. There were two pawnbrokers' duplicates
(for a vice, in the name of "John Richards," and for a
vest, " John Moore"), a sermon on " The Life of God," and
a temperance ticket dated March 19, 1866, bearing the
following declaration :—" I, John Richards, agree to ab-
stain from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and in all
suitable ways to discountenance their use throughout the
community." A pair of spectacles, a comb, needles and
thread, and a halfpenny completed the list of property.
The deceased had slept in a neighbouring lodging-house,
but, like most others who had become reduced in circum-
stances, refused to give his name. The jury returned a
verdict of "Death from natural causes, accelerated by
habits p iztozicativia."