The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-27 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Good and fine hops sell somewhat freely, at extreme
rates. In other kinds a fair business is doing, at full
quotations.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat is moderately extensive. Generally
speaking, the trade rules inactive, as follows :
Beef from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; vcal,
101 to 48 6d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 5s Od per Sibs.

COURSE OF EX,JIIANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 11 191 12 0
Antwerp 52 25 571
Brussels — 25 521 25 573/4

Hamburgh — 13 SI
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles __ _ 25 521,

13 9'
25 271
25 57i
25_57i

Frankfort on Maine
Vienna

1181
14 15

1184
14 22

Triesto

14 15

14 25

Petersburgh —

Berlin - --

Madrid
Cadiz

Leghorn
Milan
Genoa

25 671
25 G7t

25 g 0
25 72i
25 75

Naples
Palertna
Messina

39a
118;
1181

391
1181
119

Lisbon s'2 52A-
Oporto 524 52,t
Rio Janeiro
.
New York • •
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) .... per oz. £3 17•
9
Mexican Dollars

Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons

TIIIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Nov. 27.—Wind this day at neon—South.
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Arrived—Elvina, from Havre
for Havannah.

OFF HURST CASTLE, Nov. 27—Arrived—La Plata
steamer, from the West Indies.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2G.—Wind W.—Arrived—Onward,
from Monte Video; Guerneauz, from Hamburg for
Bilboa.

MUMBLES, Nov. 2G—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Pera, from
Caldeira.

CLYDE, Nov. 26.—Wind S. V.—Arrived—Defiance;
from St. John's, Newfoundland; Roseneath, from Mon.
treal.

SWANSEA, Nov. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Countess
of Malmesbmy, from Bilboa.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 26.—Arrived—Ranger, from Demo •
rara; Enterprise, from Porto Itico; Ellen Chapman, from
Havannah.

TORBAY, Nov. 25.—Arrived—Juliana, from Hamburg
for Monte Video.

HOLYHEAD, Nov. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Sarah
Ellen, from Rio Grande for Liverpool ; Queen of the Day,
from Liverpool for Bahia; Amelia, from Liverpool for
Havannah.

BELFAST, Nov, 25.-11 ind S.W.—Arrived—Delhi, from
Miramichi.

(E 7 ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Duke of Cornwall, steamer, from Dublin, and
left for London; La Plata, steamer, from St. Thomas.
Sailed—Dream and Wild Day rell, for Newport; William
Skinner, for Sunderland.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Lord Panmure, from Archangel; Syphirnd,
from St. Vincent; America, from Jamaica; Lady of the
Lake, from Seville.
Sailed, Nov. 27—Swift, for St. Michael's ; Orlebar, for
St. Vincent; Lady Ann, for Adelaide; Lady Franklin, for
New York.

The Confederate war steamer Sumter, which has
done such damage to Federal merchant shipping, was built
at Montreal. She was first called the Colon and afterwards
the Marquis de Habana. She is a screw steamer, 437 tons
burden, 180 feet long, and 30 feet beam, She is armed
with eight 32-pounder rifle cannon, and one 82-pounder
rifled. Her bulwarks are so constructed that her armament
cannot be perceived by passing vessels. Sho ran the block-
ade of New Orleans on the 30th of June last, although the
Federal man-of-war Boocklyn was watching her. The
following are amongst the Federal ships which have been
captured by the Sumter, viz., the Golden Rocket, the Cuba,*
the Machiaso, the Ben Dunning, the Albert Adams, the
West Wind, the Louisa Kellum, the Naiad, and the Abby
Bradford. The Federal man-of-war Crusader, Niagara,
Keystone State, Powhattan, and Iroquois have been sent
in pursuit of her. The Sumter, it is reported, was captured
off Barbados by the Powhattan or Iroquois about the Ist
Oct. Her commander was Caytain Raphael Semmes.
The Professorship of Mathematics at the govern-
ment College at Agra, in tipper India, has been declared
vacant. It is announced that candidates must have been
wranglers at Cambridge, or within the first half of the list
of senior optimes. The stipend is 350 rupees per month
(about £420 a-year), and 1,200 rupees are to be allowed in
lieu of passage money and outfit.

THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—Dtiring the past
week various quantities of fish have been taken on the
Devonshire and Cornish coasts. At the Newquay fishery
the boats have taken from 1,000 to 7,000 fish per boat. At
Porthleven hook-and-line fish have been plentiful, but no
great catch of pilchards has taken place. Large shoals
have been seen in the bay, but they were too deep. At
Newlyn the pilchard is given up for the season, and the
Ashes are hauled up.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM 7'HE

SOUTH.

CHARLESTON, OCT. 26.

The Confederate States Government, in concert
with the state authorities, has recommended to the
planters the following policy as to the cotton crop:-
1. To keep the cotton on the plantations, and to
burn it wherever the enemy may advance.

2. To forward cargoes of cotton for all vessels
which shall break the blockade laden with muni-
tions of war or other necessary stores.

The English steam ship Bermuda, which broke the
blockade at Savannah, is now loading in that port
a cargo of cotton for Liverpool.
The act of the Confederate Congress of July last,
permitting the export of cotton from the Confede-
rate sea ports, and only forbidding its export land-
ways into the Northern States, remains in full
force.

The blockade is utterly ineffective. On the Ist
of October the steamer Theodora ran out of this
port in broad day, through the southern channel,
and passing around and in full view of the Federal
blockading squadron, with colours flying, re-entered
the port on the same day by the northern channel,
She was under command of Captain Peagritn, now
of Nashville. This has been done to demonstrate
the ineffectiveness of the blockake.

Ten days afterwards the same steamer left this
port for Cuba, having on board the new ministers to
England and France, Having landed them at Car-
denas, the Theodora proceeded to Havannah, and
returned safely into the port of Savannah with a
valuable cargo of arms.

Yesterday, the 25th October, three ships from
Havannah, with valuable cargoes, ran the blockade
in safety, and entered the port of Savannah.

DEFENCES 01 NEW ORLEAN&

The following description of the defences of New
Orleans has reached us by the last mail :
"New Orleans, Oct. 25.

" The Mississippi is fortified so as to be impass-
able for any hostile fleet or flotilla. Forts Jackson
and St. Philip are armed with 170 heavy guns (68-
pounders, rifled by Bashley Britten, and received
from England). The navigation of the river is
stopped by a db.m at about a quarter of a mile from
the above forts. No flotilla on earth could force
that dam in less than two hours, during which it
would be within short and cross range of 170 guns
of the largest calibre, many of which would be
served with red-hot shot, numerous furnaces for
which have been erected in every fort and at every
battery.

" In a day or two we shall have ready two iron-
cased floating batteries. Their plates are 41 inches
thick, of the best hammered iron, received from
England and France. Each iron-cased battery will
mount 20 68-pounders, placed so as to skim the
water, and strike the enemy's hull between wind
and water. We have an abundant supply of incen-
diary shells, cupola furnaces for molten iron, Con•
Breve rockets, and fire-ships.

" Between New Orleans and the forts there is a
constant succession of earth works. At the plain
of Chalmette, near Janin's property, there are
redoubts armed with rifled cannon which have been
found to be effective at five miles' range. A ditch
30 feet wide and 20 thep extends from the Missis-
sippi to La Cypriene.

In forts St. Philip and Jackson there are 3,000
men, of whom a goodly portion are experienced
artillerymen and gunners who have served in the
navy.

"At New Orleans itself we have 32,000 infantry,
and as many more quartered in the immediate
neighbourhood. In discipline and drill they are far
superior to the Northern levies. We have two very
able and active generals, who possess our entire
confidence—General Mansfield Lovell and Brigadier
General Ruggles. .For commodore we have old
Hollins—a Nelson in his way.

" We are ready to give the Yankees a hot recep-
tion when they come. I write you in a very sedate,
though confident mood. Around me all are mad
with excitement and rage. Their only fear is that
the Northern invaders may not appear. We have
made such extensive preparations to receive them
that it were vexatious if their invincible armada'
cscap:„d the fate we have in store for it."

THE

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At the Mansion-house yesterday, the Lord Mayer,
towards the close of the business of the day, said—
I should be glad if the gentlemen connected with
the press would be good enough to rectify a state-
ment which appears in a communication from
Southampton relative to an application to the
magistrates there yesterday. The report to which
I refer states that " Mr. Pearcey handed to the
chairman a letter from the Lord Mayor of London,
stating that a similar application had been made to
him at the Mansion-house, but that he had thought
it his duty to pass the matter over to the authori-
ties at Southampton, at which post the Nashville
had called and still remained. His lordship
informed Captain Nelson that had the Nashville
been lying in any of the London docks be should
have granted the application." This relates to an
application made to me here on Saturday, in my
private room, by some g:ntlemen who wished to
have a search warrant with reference to certain pro-
perty alleged to be on board the Nashville and to
belong to Capt. Nelson or the owners of the Harvey
Birch. I told them I had no jurisdiction in the
case; that the ship was lying at Southampton,
and if there was any jurisdiction in the matter
it would be with the magistrates of that town.
Knowing personally Mr. Coles, the Mayor of
Southampton, and naturally feeling sympathy for
the poor man who had lost his ship and property, I
undertook to write a letter, bite ply introducing
Captain Nelson to.that gentleman ; but I expressed
no opinion on the case, and certainly should not
have thought of issuing a search warrant even if
the ship had been in the London Docks, because
even there the vessel would not have been within
the jurisdiction of the magistrates of the city of
London. No doubt a gentleman in such a position
as a captain who had lost his ship, especially under
the peculiar circumstances with which the public
are familiar in this case, would naturally excite
sympathy, without reference to the country to
which he belonged, and I admit that I felt sym-
pathy for him, as I do for all the people who are
engaged in the unhappy ate uggle which is being
waged on the further side of the Atlantic, whether
Federals or Confederates.

THE TRADE OUTRAGE: AT SHEFFIELD.

SHEFFIELD, TUESDAY.

This morning, between three and four o'clock, a
man was apprehended on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the outrage in Acorn-street last Saturday
morning, when a tin of combustibles was thrown
into the house of George Westnidge, a fender
grinder. The chief constable (Mr. Jackson) him-
self, with detective-officers Airey and Brayshaw,
seized the man at his own dwelling in Woollen•
lane, Gatefield, Upperthorpe. The man is a stove
fender grinder (the sametrade as Westnidge). His
name is Joseph Thompson.
While the proceedings were going on before the
magistrates at the Town Hall this morning a mes-
senger arrived from the Infirmary, bringing a letter
to the effect that Mrs. Westnidge (who was the
most seriously burnt), was so much worse that it
would be unsafe to delay the taking of her deposi-
tions. Vincent Corbett, Esq., at once went to the
Infirmary (accompanied by Mr. Jackson and Mr.
Thorpe), for the purpose of taking down the unfor-
tunate woman's statement.
We understand that the police believe, not only
that they have apprehended the guilty person, but
that they will be able to make out a case against
him. It would at present be premature to state
anything as to the nature of the probable evidence.
For the same reason it is considered unadvisable to
publish the dying woman's statement.

MALTON MARTINMAS FAIR, Nov. 23. The
annual statute fair for the hiring of farm servants was held
to-day, and was very largely attended. The very forward
state of farm work, favoured by the beautiful autumn, has
had the effect of lowering wages fully 20 per cent., the older
men being very slowly hired indeed. Farmers, however,
hire shepherds more readily—the result of the immense
turnip crop, and the consequent large folding of sheep.
On the whole, it is feared much distress will be found
among the unhired labourers during the winter, the
" statutes" held in neighbouring towns being equally
dull.