The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market steady, on receipt of American news.
Sales, probably 1,000 bales.

The directors ofthe Mauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency Company, in their report, state that the net
profits for the year ending the 30th June last
amount to £4,101, and recommend a dividend of
2s. per share, in addition to the interim dividend of
5 per cent. paid in February. The balance to be
carried forward is £lOl, after reducing the prelimi-
nary expenses £l,OOO, and increasing the reserve
fund £5OO, which now amounts to £l,OOO.
The directors of the Westminster Chambers
Association recommend a dividend for the half year
at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.

The coupons of the Egyptian Government Loan
of 1864, due on the Ist October next, ana the bonds
drawn for redemption, will be paid on that day or
any subsequent Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or
Friday at Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen's offices,
Austinfriars.

In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
there has been very little business transacted. Dur-
ing the last few days sugars have only been in
moderate request, at about previous rates. The
public sales of tea have continued to proceed with
rather more animation, while rice has continued in
good request, and at a further slight advance.
Tallow, however, has been neglected, and prices
for both present and forward delivery tend down-
wards.
The directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Com-
pany of Canada recommend in their report, issued
to-day, the payment of a cash dividend for the half-
year ended June 30, on all the First Preference
Bonds and Stocks. The interest will be paid on
and after the 15th of October next.

A woman named Piquet, a farm servant, has just
been tried at Arras for the murder of her mistress at
Colembert. The accused was of a violent temper,
and was said to be on intimate terms with her mas-
ter. The mistress was also known to be afraid of
the servant, and to not dare to give her any orders.
The woman Piquet had been seen near the spot at
the period of the crime, and traces of blood were
found on her clothes. She was declared by the jury
guilty of homicide, and condemned to 20 years' hard
labour.

THE CASE OF SWINDLING BY AN EX-OFFICER OF
THE ARMY AT WINDSOR.—Since the examination'of
Bayley, the ex-ensign of the 35th Regiment, who has been
remanded till Monday next upon charges of swindling, the
prisoner has remained in the custody of Mr. Superintendent
Eager, at Windsor borough police-station, in Sheet-street.
On Tuesday and Wednesday he Nips again attacked with
fits, and a medical man had to be called in to attend him.
While in this condition it has taken several men to hold
him. From the time of his arrest the prisoner has strenu-
ously refused to write to his friends, from whom he has as
yet received no communication since being taken into cus-
tody. Letters relating to a number of swindling transac-
tions in which the prisoner is supposed to have taken part
are being almost constantly received by the superintendent
of police at. Windsor, one of which, from Mr. Bennett, of
the Bedford Tavern, 30, Western-street, Brighton, was
read by the magistrates at the petty sessions yesterday.
Mr. Burrows has been summoned to attend and prosecute
on Monday, and till then the prisoner will be watched day
and night, in order to prevent him injuring himself, or
trying to escape from the law. He seems to feel his posi-
tion deeply.
THE ADMIRERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING will learn
with pleasure that the forthcoming volumes of
essays, entitled, " Spanish Papers and other Miscellanies,'
edited by his son, will contain, in addition to numerous
interesting magazine articles never before collected, several
hitherto unpublished papers bearing the following' titles
—"
The Legend of Don Roderick," "Legend of Count
Julian and his Family," "The Legend of Pelayo," " Abdor-
nihman, the -Founder of the Dynasty of the Ommiades in
Spain," " Chronicle of Fernan Gonzalez, Count of Castle,"
"Chronicles of Fernando the Saint,"and Spanish Romance:"
—Traner's " American and Oriental Literary Record.'
Mr. SWINBURNE, according to the Publishers'
Circular,'" is preparing a reply to his severer critics,
like Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,' will
pay no respect to persons. Mr. Swinburne will challenge
his censors to point out a line or passage in his last volume
of poems which is really of an objectionable character."
We shall be glad to see this " reply," bat the only diffi-
culty in " poipting out" the objectionable passages arises
rom a natural dislike to defiling oneself by touching pitch,
GRASP YOUR NETTLE.—The invaluable results of
giving the utmost publicity to all the available facts
touching the progress of the cholera have beenvery clearly
marked in the course of the present epidemic. The daily
advance of the disease in one quarter, and its retreat in an-
other, have been watched by the ablest and best informed
and most charitable persons. The whole information of
the inhabitants of the infected localities has been brought
to bear upon the exploration of the causes of cholera and
the accomplishment of preventive schemes. The local
authorities have been watched, guided, stimulated, and
helped. Charity and science have concentrated their efforts
on the extinction of the disease in its stronghold, and the
relief of suffering which the first outburst had occasioned.
Th^ immediate effect of the epidemic has been to induce all
our authorities to hasten and perfect the means of obtain-
ing and affording full information. Mr. Simon called for
daily returns of sickness to his office from every district
Dr. Farr has published daily instead of weekly mortuary
lists. We have in our columns traced accurately and in
detail the deaths in every district. The result has been
that this epidemic has been combated with greater success
than has any previous attack. There has been no panic
and no desertion, but an earnest, hopeful, and successful
struggle with the advancing euemy. Mr. Adderley gives
a different account from Paris, and we have reason to be-
lieve that his information is partially correct. He told his
constituents the other day that he was rather amused at
what he had heard recently. As soon as the cholera ap-
peared in London the papers gave the returns of the num-
ber of deaths daily ; whereas when it broke out in Paris,
the Emperor, who had all the papers in his own hands, di-
rected the Moniteur to say that the city was never more
healthy, whereupon all those who knew the Emperor in-
stantly packed up their things and bolted in every three-
tion.—LanCeet