The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

American Trade.

Subjoined is a statement, prepared by Messrs. Guion
and Co., of Liverpool; showing the extent of our consign-
Ments of goods to America during the year 1865. It wil
be seen that during the past six months they were not only
four times the amount of those of,the corresponding half
of last year, but were considerably in excess even of those
of the corresponding period of 1860, while the importance
of this excess is in the latter instance much increased by
the intervening advance in price here and in the rates of
Customs' duties in the United States :

EXPORTS FROM LIVERPOOL OF BRITISH MANUFACTURES
OF COTTON, WOOL, SILK, AXE) FLAX, TO NEW YORK
BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW ORLEANS IN
PACKAGES.

1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865
---
January 23,449 17,-136 14,381 12,622 16,669 6,73
February- 15,762 7,324 12,742 12,631 16,125 9,921
March 14,153 10,699 9,228 13,078 130544 10,362
Apr'l
May
Julio
Ist 6 mths 103,669 42,126 58,867 60,200 80,569 52,125
-- -
July
August
Sept. 13,641 4,451 11,176 12,468 4,361 20,431
October 14,830 6,990 10,950 11,520 4,234 24,855
November 17,598 .6,602 8,496 13,520 3,602 25,812
December 20,992 5,904 10,651 15,164 5,414 26,098
•
2d G mths 111,172 30,792 69,716 74,075 34,138 131,801
- -7- - An. totals 214,841 172,913 128,583 134,281 114,707 183,930

EXPORTS FROM LIVEP.POO:
STUFFS, LACES, AND
BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA
PACKAGES.

IL OP FOREIGN SILKS, DRESS,
EMBROIDERY, TO Ntw YORK,
k, AND NEW ORLEANS IN

1860

I 1861
5,110,
2,524'
1,245
1,120
1,9291
1,042;
12,9701 12,794
1893.: 5,185

1862

1863

January
February
March ..

April
May
June

Ist 6 mths

July
August
Sept.
October
November
December

2,200, , 3,055
9351 2,570
1,328! 1,677

,
1549! 2,068
2,111. 2,348

2d 6 mths

An. totals

20,8241

38,960

10,0161 17,209
22,936' 30,003

21,23 S

36,095

'ion.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Jan. 16.—Wind this day at noon—South..
Westerly; moderate ,breeze,.. and cloudy weather, .with
rain.

YARMOUTH, Jan. 15.--Wind S.T.—Arrived—lvanhoe,
from London for Demerara, haing lost stanchions, cut-
water, &c.
COWES, Jan, 14.--Wiird S.W.--Arriveci—Olkf, from
London for Cardiff.:

NEWPORT; Dec. 1.5.-:—Wind
Balls, from Bristol for Corfu.
• i6oL, Jan. - 14.—Wind S.W.—_Arrived—Olinda,
froim Pernambuc6 ; OntariO, from New York. ' Sailed
Wanata, for Ardlbourne.
PIA-mount, Jan. 15 Wind- S.W.—Arrived—Helennt
Nicolatff, from Limerick.

16'663 6'735 The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
-16,125 9,921
13,031 10,362 to' the 31st December, are in round figures as
9,695 6,716 under:— ' '• '
11,837 7,423
13,269 10,969

1866. 1865.
._ Great Western ... £62,580 £60,946
123 1 North Western
•.• 102;645 • 96,396
_ South Western 21,017 19,893
,708 Brighton
..• 19,373 17,230
,850 Midland ... ••• ••• ... 41,155 38,888
431 South Eastern ... 19,640 18,220
355 Great Northern ...
."33,103 32,643
./2 Lancashire and Yorkshire 40,709 35,680
,098 Bristol and Exeter ... ••• ... 5,558 5,414
-- North Eastern .60;931 55;818
804 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 17,852 15,347
London, Chatham, and Dover ... 7,729 6,567
These returns,, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, generally show an
increase in the receipts of most of the principal
lines. On the Great Western it amounts to £1,640;
North Western, £6,249 ; South-Western, £1,124 ;
- Brighton, £1,234 ; Midland, £3,267 ; South
)5
Eastern, £1,420 ; Great Northern, £469 ; Lanca-
-527 shire and Yorkshire, £5,029 ; Bristol and Exeter,
'345 £144 ; North Eastern, £5,113 ; Manchester, Shef-
,s4s
,646 field, and Lincoln, £2,505; and London, Chatham,
,428
755 and Dover, £1,162.
, FRANCE AND MExICO.-We have heard on autho-
,246 rity, Which we regard as reliable, that the Emperor of the
- - French has positively intimated to the Cabinet of Wash-
,lol ington his willingness to withdraw his troops from Mexico
,921 at any moment on condition that the Government of the
438 United States recognises the Empire of Mexico.
952
103 THE LIFEBOAT CALAMITY OFF GORLSTONE.-The
salvage lifeboat which unhappily capsized off Gorlstone on
335 the 13th inst. is in no way connected with the National
Lifeboat Institution, nor is the boat a self-righting one.
,581 There are four of these large salvage boats on the coasts of
- Norfolk and Suffolk, and one at Margate. They belong
to the boatmen themselves, and are constantly engaged in
saving property. Two of them have during the past week
capsized, the one at Gorlstone with a fearful loss of life.
Nearly all the 153 boats of the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion aro self-righting boats, and are specially used in sav-
ing life in cases of shipwreck.
The Megra, screw storeship, Commander Mon-
tagu. B. Dunn, has sailed from Portsmouth for.
Woolwich and Deptford, to load with stores for
Rio Janeiro and the West Coast of Africa.
The Medusa, paddle steamer, Master-Commander
Thomas Potter, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
from Devonport, with the screw frigate Imperieuse,
in tow.

The first of the amour plates manufactured for
he double-screw frigate Penelope was tested in the
proof-room of the Thunderer on Friday, in Por-
chester Creek, near Portsmouth. The plate was
6in. in thickness, and was supplied from the roll-
ing mills of C. Cammell and Co., Sheffield. The
Penelope is a vessel of 1,758 tons, will carry 14 ton
guns in a central battery, and will be fitted with en-
gines of the collective nominal power of 600 horses,
driving two independently working screws. She is
building at Pembroke, from the designs of Mr.
E. J. Reed, chief constructor of the navy. The
adoption of the double screwprinciple in her Majesty's
navy, and its application to ships of considerable
tonnage, such as the Penelope, is a measure of great
importance in its relation to the arguments for and
against revolving turrets.
Capt. Itobt. Hall, R.N., at present private secre-
tary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, will in all
probability succeed Capt. Wm. Loring, C. 8., as
Captain Superintendent of the Pembroke dockyard.
Capt. Loring, who is now senior captain in the fleet,
and also aide-de-camp to the Queen, will vacate
both appointments on promotion.
The following vessels are now in course of build-
ing at Pembroke dockyard:—The Daphne, 4 gun
screw sloop; the Nassau, 4 gun screw vessel; the
Newport, 5 gun screw vessel; and the Penelope, 10
gun iron clad double ram.
Orders have been received at Chatham garrison,
directing No. 3 battery of the Royal Artillery, Depot
Brigade, to proceed from headquarters to-morrow
to Shoeburyness, where the officers and men arc to
undergo an extended course of gunnery instruction
previously to embarking for colonial service.
Capt. F. M. H. Somerset, who has succeeded
Col. J. F. M. Browne, C. 8., at the Royal establish-
ment, Chatham, on the removal of the latter officer
to the Horse Guards, has joined at headquarters,
and has been granted leave of absence until the end
of the month.
Mr. M. J. P. Knight and Mr. P. J. C. Flynn,
Deputy Assist.-Superintendent of Stores at the
Tower, are under orders from the War Department
to hold themselves in readiness to take their depar-
ture for Hongkong. The instruction class of the de-
partment at. headquarters, Woolwich, who have
completed their course of practice at Waltham Abbey
in the manufacture of powder, are ordered to proceed
this morning to the small arms manufactoryat Enfield.
Mr. Wm. O. Chislett, Deputy Assist. -Commissary
General, recently ordered home, on the expiration
of his term of office in New Zealand, has been ap-

pointed to the Curragh.
Capt. M. De Courcy has been appointed to the
Leander to relieve Rear-Admiral Harvey as'senior

officer in the southern division of the Pacific station
and will take command of the Leander on that occa.

Capt. Thurburn was appointed on the 3d inst. to
H.D.S. Wellesley, at Chatham, as commander. '
VALETTA, Jan. 7.---Her Majesty's screw cor-
vette Cossack, 20, Capt. R. D. White, hove in sight
on the 3d inst., and entered port the following day
from Boudroun. She left Boudroun on the 29th
of December. The Surprise, 4, gunvessel, Com-
mander G. Tryon, left Malta on the 4th inst. for
Cape Passaro, to assist the English bark Energy, on
shore there. The Italian iron-clad San Martino, after
being docked, left on the 4th inst. for Syracuse.
The English yacht schooner Myth, Viscount Lis-
more, commander and owner, arrived on the same
day from Cowes and Algiers, having also on board
the lion. G. O. Callaghan and Mr. Oldham. Lieut.
the Hon. li. B. Hamilton, of the Victoria, was tried

on the 6th inst. by court-martial on board the lli-
hernia. The court was composed as follows—Capt.
R. Coote, of the Gibraltar, president ; Capt. F. A.
Campbell, of the Royal Oak ; Capt. G.Wodehouse,
of the Meeanee ; Capt. R. J. J. G. Macdonald, of
the Arethusa ; Capt. W. G. Chamberlain, of the

Resistance ; Capt. R. D. White, of the Cossack ;
Capt. the Hon. F. A. C. Foley, of the Caledonia ;
(Capt. A. L. Mansell, of the Hydra, being ab-
sent on leave) ; Mr. F. J. Fegen, secretary to the
commander-in-chief, officiating judge-advocate.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to
be dismissed his ship and to be deprived of one year's
seniority. Before the same court was tried Thomas
Fitzpatrick, private Royal Marines, for insubordi-
nation and striking a sergeant. He pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced to ieceive 48 lashes and to be
imprisoned for one year with hard labour. The
sentence' of three months' imprisonment awarded to
Lieut. and Adjt. Hammersley and Lieut. Swinny,
Ist battalion 22d Regiment, for assaulting the police,
has been remitted by the officer administering the

government, at the prayer of the Archbishop of
Malta, and of a number of respectable citizens who
interceded in their behalf. A fatal accident occur-

red on the Ist inst. on board the Arethusa to E.

Lynn, captain of the mizentop, who fell from aloft.
The following have arrived :—Ensign Ross, Lieut.-
Col. Gubbins, Sir C. Van Straubenzee, Archbishop
Polding, and Rev. Mr. Athy. The following have
left :—Capt. A. B. Fyers, R.E. (appointed to Cey-
lon), Capt. A. bi‘Mechap, Commander D. Selby,
yceastpetr.da. Macdonald for rrlllil,S
leaves
to-day for Corfu.
R.N., Major Jervoise, R.E., and Capt. Stewart,
R.E. Her Majesty's gunboat Tyrian, 2, Lieut.-
and
tChoenflr. iTga. tle).ArMeutrlrmasYa„ left
05, Capt.
The quotation of gold at Paris 15 about 1 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 26.174 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £1
17s. tOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gol,ils
about 1-lith per cent, dearer in Paris than in Louden,