The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-11 00:00:00

LOSS OF TILE STEAMSHIP ARGO.

NEW YORK, June 30.=---The screw steamship
Argo, which sailed frOm this port on the 23d inst.
for Galway, via St. John's, Newfoundland, has been
wrecked at Trepassy'Bay, Newfoundlank-and Will
prove a total loss. No particulars of the &disaster
have yet dome to hand, bat it is announced that the
passengers and crew have all' been saved.
The'ship Fleetwood, for Boston, has been lost off
Cape Horn.
Our cotton market is 'firm, and rather dearer ;
middling uplands being quoted at 111 c. The sales
yesterday and to-day have been 1,800 bales.
Flour is firm at a slight advance in prices. Wheat
is dull, and tending ,downward. - Indian corn is
buoyant, and qUotations have slightly advanced.
In provisions there is no change of moment ex-
cept for . pork, which is heavy and rather lower.
Spirits of turpentine have declined to 44c. to 45c.
Messrs. Mills Brothers and Co. report the cotton
markets generally stiffer, Under the influence of the
Arabia's new:, and they quote middling uplands
firm at 11,4,c. in this market. ' The weather is fine
for the growing cotton crops,
,nd the
to
Great Britain are quite small' exports
small.
NEW ORLEANS, June 29, Evening.—Our cotton
market is buoyant, at 111.
business to-day has been c. for middling. The
£2,500 bales. Her Majesty's ships
Hibernia and Hannibal were
at Malta, and the Gannet and Sir W. Peel, screw
steamer, were at Gibraltar.
The following vesels were spoken by the Pera :
June 29, at. 6 ')ni . exchanged colours with the
Colombo, screw steamer, 60 miles south-east of
Malta, steering south-east. July 1, exchanged
colours with the. American three-masted schooner
Queen of the South, Of New York, 50 miles east of
Galita, steering south-west. July 6, 100 miles south
of Finisterre, exchanged colours with British brig
Automnia, steering north-east. Fifty miles south
of Finisterre, tliO screw steamer Amazon, steering
south. July 8-, 25 miles north-east of Ushant,
campany's ship Tagus, at 11.30 a.m., steering
south-west.

"THE NEW NEEDLES, H. WALKER. PATENTEE.
—The Glasgow Practical Mechanic for June, 1859, says
—" Mr. Walker, the well-)mown Needle-maker's Ridged-
eyed Needles embody an improvement which all semi'
stresses must highly appreciate. The ridge, just in advance
of the eye, opens afree passage for the thread,
slightly ex
tending the whole in front of it and enabling it to pa-
instantaneously. This improved form permits of greaterss
strength without clumsiness of the head, and the eye is
therefore made full so as to be very easily threaded.
FIRST AND SECOND.—We think we are safe in
saying that none of our readers would travel in a second
class carriage if they could haveafirst class for the same
fare, and equally safe in saying that as '-.few would take a
second class article if they knew they could procure a first
class at the same price. Strange as it natty seem, we have
it in our power to name one article which may be obtained
on such terms, and that is none other than the celebrated
Glenfield patent starch, which has been exclusively used in
her Majesty's laundry for many years, and which has now
coma into such general use that the grocers find it more
profitable to sell it than inferior articles even at the same
price, owing, to the demand for it bong so rery great. -. We
can, therefore, congratulate our fair reader, s on the oppor-
tunity they noiv.have of procuring the sin ne starch as is
used for getting up the laces and linens of Ito pity, at about
the same price as they would pay for the i not common
starch mace. We surely have good ground 's for recom-
mending this article to them seeing that the C lueen's laun-
dress with her great experience, and after, tryil lg almOst all
other kinds, has pronounced it to be the finet stare she
ever used.