The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The business doing in our market is still greatly eon-
tiled to good and fine hops, which, however, move off
somewhat freely at,. in some instances, further enhanced
rates. In the value of ordinary and inferior qualities
there is no change to report. Last week's imports were
38 bales from Hamburg, 29 from Rotterdam, and 1 from
Antwerp.

Mid and East Kent pockets 80s to 200 s per cwt.
Wealds
Sussex
Yearlings ...

1857. 1859. I 1859. 1860. 1861.
Stock this day.... 10,694 11,044 12,271 29,938 70,501
Price of Y.C.' • f 5559 d to 55s Od to 58s 0:1 to 55s 9d to 59s Od to
t —s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od
Delivery lastweek 1,572 1,157 1,150 1,428 1,526
Ditto from June.. 150,8 6 98,778 93,631 75,112 72,967
Arrivals last week 3'l 510 313 178 1,046
Ditto from June 1 91,600 98,109 93,335 92,969 116,374
Price of Town ... . 578 3d 57s 3d 58s 9d 568 9d 57s 3d

HEIGHTS OF MONUMENTSAINDPUD LIC

BUILDINGS.

For purposes of reference and comparison, a re-
liable statement of the heights, in English feet. of
various lofty monuments and public buildings,
would be of great interest, if not of considerable
value. Different authorities do not agree. however,
as to the height of various well-known buildings,
and this is almost equivalent to the fact that the
heights of such buildings are not exactly known.
Considerable confusion has undoubtedly arisen in
consequence of the different standards of measure-
ment adopted by various authorities, there being at
least a dozen different standardv of the " fort," sorne
of which vary two or three inches from the British
unit. If we are to credit history, the Tower of Babel
at Babylon was the highest artificial structure ever
erected, its altitude being stated as 680 feet, while
the Tower of Belus, also built in Babylon, is re-
ported to have been 666 feet high. The Great
Pyramid at Gizeh is generally believed to be the
highest artificial structure in existence. This
belief has been founded on the statements of mea-
surements by M. Somard and Mr. Perring, who, in
addition to the present actual height of the pyra-
mid-450ft. 9in. above its true base observed that
the casing stones, which are still perfect at the
bottom, would, if continued to the apex, have in-
creased the height to 479 ft. according to M.Jomard,
and to 480 ft. 9in. according to Mr. Perring.
Whether the casing was ever actually completed is
doubtful, and the heights of 480 ft., or thereabouts,
is therefore a trigonometrical presumption, if we
may say so; but, at all events, not a present reality.
In its actual present height, as measured even from
its true base (which is considerably below the ordi-
nary surface ofl the ground), the great pyramid
stands fifth or sixth in the list of the lofty build-
ings in the world. Before proceeding further it
may be as well to state that there are at least three
buildings in an uncompleted state, if not in actual
progress, the intended height of which, when
finished, will greatly exceed that of any
completed building now standing The cathedral
at Mechlin has two towers, each 348 ft. high, but the
original design included a spire upon each tower
so as to increase their height to 640 ft. The Wash-
ington monument, at Washington, U.S., has been
for some years in progress, and its intended height
is 517 ft. The cathedral at Cologne will have, when
completed, two spires, each 511 ft. high.
The highest existing structure is, probably, the
cathedral spire of Strasburg, the height of which is
given variously as 465.9 ft., 468 ft., and 471 ft.
English. The least of these measurements is that
adopted by the French Bureau of Longitude, and we
are to suppose that this is the height measured
above the ground, and not from the foundations,
for, in the falter case, the chimney stalk at Messrs.
Townsend's Chemical Works, at Port Dundas, Glas-
gow, would be actually the highest structure in the
world, being 468 ft. above its foundations, and 454
ft. above the ground. The chimney of Messrs. Ten-
nant's works, at St. Rollox, near Port Dundas, is
447 ft. 6 in. high from its foundations, and 432 ft.
6 in. high above the surface of the ground.
The spire of St. Stephen's Church, at Vienna, is
stated, on the authority of the Bureau of Longitude,
to be 452 ft. 9 in. high. Other authorities have
given it a few feet more, and its height has, indeed,
been generally belived to be 465 ft. It is to be
regretted that this fine old spire has been lately ,
found defective, and it is not improbable that ir. may
have to be taken down. The height of St. Peter's,
Rome, from the pavement to the cross, is understood
to be 458 ft., while the Bureau of Longitude give
its height, " to the ball over the dome," the 433 ft.
only. At all events, St. Peter's, Strasburg* spire,
St. Stephen's, and Messrs. Townsend's chimney are
all higher than the great pyramid, whether the
measurement from the foundations or that from the
surface be adopted. It is questionable even if the
spire of Ant werp Cathedral be not as high as the great
pyramid, notwithstanding that the height of the for-
mer has been variously stated from 360 ft. to 466 ft.
Even the spire of St. Michael's, at Hamburgh, has
been stated to be 456 ft. high. The Bureau of Longi-
tude gives ,it 130 metres, and Antwerp spire 120
in height; but the rotundity of such numbers is
somewhat suspicious, and suggests approximation
merely. In the same way St. Paul's is set down
at 110 metres, or 360 ft. 11 in. in height ;
whereas its actual total height from its foundation
is understood to be 404 ft., or the same as Salis-
bury spire. We are proceeding too fast, however,
for the spire of St. Martin's, at Landshut, is re-
puted to be 450 ft. high (the height of the great
pyramid again), altkough other authorities make
it only 375 ft. If the height of an aqueduct, cross-
ing a deep ravine, can be compared to that of a
church or a chimney, the ancient aqueduct at Spa-
letta, which is 426 ft. 6 in. high, may be named
here. Amiens spire is 420 ft. high, and the prin-
cipal spire of the cathedral at Chatres, itself on a hill,
is 403 feet. The two spires of the church at Lubeck
are reputed to be 416 ft. high each. The lower
of the Hotel de Ville, at Brussels, including
the statue of St. Michael, which sur-
mounts it, is 400 ft. high. The spire of
Freiburg, in Baden, is variously stated as 330 ft.
and 380 ft. high. The dome of the Cathedral at
Florence is believed to be 380 ft. high, and the
highest part of Milan Cathedral 370 feet high. The
tower at Cremona is believed to be 372 ft. high,
and the Asinelli tower, at Bologna, now 256 ft.
high, was, before its partial overthrow by an earth-
quake, considered to be as high as that at Cremona.
The height of the spire at Nordlingen is stated
variously as 345 ft. and 370 ft. That of St. Mi-
chael's, Coventry, is 363 ft. high. St. Barberas
spire, at Breda, is believed to be 362 ft. high ; and
the Shoomadoo Temple, at Pegu, India, 361 ft.
high. The Victoria Tower of the Houses of Parlia-
ment is 340 ft. high over all, the clock tower being
320 ft. St. Andrew's spire, at Brunswick, is 318
ft.,' and that of Norwich Cathedral, 315 ft. The
tower of Lincoln Cathedral is 300 ft. high. None
of the other English cathedrals, besides those
already named, have spires as high as 300 ft.—
The Engineer, April 26.

21118 DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, April 29.—Wind this day at noon, North•
Easterly; rather fresh breeze, with cloudy and cold
weather.

DEAL, April 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Marqui; of
Argyle, from the River, and sailed for Sydney: Rosina,
from the River, and sailed for Demerara.

PORTS NIOUTII, April 28.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—
Scorpion, from Barbadees ; Falcon, from Newcastle for the
Cape of Good Ikpe.
CARDIFF, April 26.—Wind W.—Sailed—Record, for
Havannah.

SWANSEA, April 27.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—St. Louis,
for Hong Kong.

LONDONDERRY, April 2G.—Wind N.W.--Sailed—W.
H. Mowatt, for Montreal ; John Benjamin, for New
York.

CORK, April 25.—Wind W.—Sailed—Simeon Hardy,
For Barbadoes.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)SOUTHAMPTON, MOH ay Morning.
Arrived—George and Ann, from Pittenwcen ; Argyll,
steamer, from Caretan ; Lady Constance, from Sunder-
land ; Anne, from Seaham ; La Poule, from Cherbourg.
Sailed—Thetis, for Charleston; Supply and Calumet, for
Seaham ; William, for Portsmouth.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRATESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Apr:l 28.—Otto, from Seville ; Louisa, from
Stralsund ; De Pietre Johannes, and Da Vrow Hermini,
from Dogger Bank.
Arrived, April 29—Belinda, from Guernsey; Alatm, from
St. Michael's; De Vrow Martha, from Dogger Bank.
Sailed, April 28—City of Hamburg, steamer, for Havre;
Gustaf Vasa, screw steamer, for Gottenburg ; Cadiz,
bteamcr, for adiz.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—Avon, from the northward, for Corfu ; Sidney
Hall, screw steamer, from the westward, for London;
Waterloo, for Sydney.

THE ODD MAN.—In the parish of Cambuslang,
in Scotland, the population has been ascertained to amount
to 3,647 ; the females numbering 1,823, and the males 1,824.
Arrangements have been made by which any
postponement of the departure of the Great Eastern for
New York will be avoided, and the ship will consequently
sail on Wednesday next.
A schism has taken place in the Baptist chapel
at Southampton, the pastor of which is the Rev. Mr.
Spurgeon, a brother of the London preacher of that name.
The schism has arisen respecting doctrinal points. Thu
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, and about 300 of his adherents,
remove to the Carlton-rooms until a new chapel is built.
The London Mr. Spurgeon m ill preach in Southampton
next Wednesday, and assist his brother in inaugurating
the new movement there. It is in contemplation to build
a new Baptist chapel in the centre of the Iligh-street,
Southampton.
The prizes destined for distribution among the
members of the Crystal Palace Art Union attract a constant
crowd round theglass case in which they are exhibited. Th•
pictures are all original and copyright, and the quality and
artistic value of the prize lists are sufficiently testified by
the fact that the talents of David Roberts, Durham, Monti,
Calder Marshall, and Miller, have been called into requisi-'
tion.

Mr. Henry Page, the second son of the engineer of
Westminster-bridge, has had a narrow escape at Adrianople.
A few days after his arrival there in the staff of assistants,
who have just completed the survey and levels for the rail-
way from that city to Constantinople (for which Mr. Page is
the concessionaire), he was entering a carriage, when his
revolver went off and lodged a bullet in his arm. On hearing
of the accident his Highness Suloyman Pacha instantly sent
his kurgeon, who extracted the bullet, and the young man
is rapidly recovering. The British Ambassador at Con-
stantinople, Sir H. Bulwer, had most kindly requested the
consul at Adrianople that every attotiog should In paid to
tie yotuig epgiateer,

THE 1)182 URBIINCEB IN WA ??,K1 TV.

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A letter from Posen says :—There is no doubt
that the Government was temporizing, just to
gather sufficient troops unaffected by their stay in
the Polish capital,- which generally converts true-
hearted Russians into Poles. There were only
22,000 troops in Warsaw
during the first manifesta-
tion, on the 25th of February ; with that numb er
Gortschakoff durst not stop the famous procession ;
but now the thing is quite different. The garrieon
of Warsaw is above 56,000; with that number they
may charge, indeed, the unarmed population ,
which, excluding the military and officials, amount
hardly to twice as many. As ;
in that number
are at least half women and a quarter children,
the Russians had on the last occasion decidedly
one soldier to one man at Warsaw. The Czar
publishes before Europe that he is going to
grant a Constitution, yet he dissolves even the
Agricultural Association : he guarantees na'. ionality,
and his Government prohibits under penalty of
death the wearing of the national costume—nay,
even mourning. Was there ever a Government so
barbarous as to resort to such a prohibition, and
this, too, in the civilised 19th century ? Indeed, if
you had lost your own child you would be punished,
perhaps shot, if you dared to wear mourning. The
last butchery was just for that crime, which hence-
' forward will immortalise tho liberal and kind-
hearted Alexander 11. The people went in proces-
sion to ask Gortschakoff to allow the Agricultural
Society to remain and maintain public order, and
on this occasion they were so dispersed ; it appears
that everything was prearra •
eged The troops,
composed chiefly of cuirassiers and Cossacks
and some infantry (lately introduced into the
capital), were screened behind and outside the
enormous building now occupied by the Governor-
General, and as that splendid palace stands in the
centre, they were sure they could always get at the
populace as they called. Previous to the butchery
these troops were made perfectly drunk, to give
them courage to charge the unarmed crowd, and to
that state you must ascribe the number of wounded
on the part of the Russians. Positively they were
so drunk as not to know the- enemy from the foe.
They were harangued to kill everybody that wore
mourning or the national dress, and that, too, with-
out distinction of age or sex, and they did charge
right and left, and often fell upon their own men,
especially when another part of the troops came
from the opposite direction. The people could not
kill any, for none had even a stick, the Governor
having formerly prohibited such a weapon under
the pretext that it might be loaded.' So, if there
be dead er wounded on the part of the Russians,
it must be owing to the fact alluded to, or because
they could not tell Europe that there are above
200 wounded and dead on the part of the Poles, and
not one Russian. But such really is the case as far
as the action of the crowd is' concerned, the troops
charging to the terrible shout "Hurrah, hurrah,
blindly drunk. In such a state, or owing to their
fall, they might, indeed, kill their own or wound
themselves. 1 write it from an account of an eye-.
witness, who had been dreadfully hurt by being
pressed by the crowd, in its struggle, to the wall.)
It is a positive fact that the Russian troops who
had been long in Warsaw refused to charge on the
unarmed, and the Artillery to fire, and to this fact
must be ascribed the impunity so long enjoyed by
the citizens of Warsaw ; otherwise 22,000 were
quite enough to bayonet the whole procession.
Poor Captain Popoff was shot within 24
hours for having refused to charge with
his troops the crowd that was at that time pass-
ing the Grand Theatre. An aide-de-camp
ordered him to do so in the name of the Czar.
No, Sir, I do not charge the unarmed,' said he;
I am not a butcher, for he kills the beast not out
of humour, but to feed the people. A gallant offi-
cer never draws his sword against the unarmed,
women, and children. I know what waits me, so
you had better .report that, having refused to charge
on the unarmed, Captain Popoff tore off his epau-
lettes and broke kis sword ;' and, poor man, he
died as a hero. Many of the officers dipped their
handkerchiefs in his blood, and carried them about
as mementos o true Russian courage and honour.
Two other officers, of lower rank, were also
thus executed; all officers present on the
ground in the citadel cried during that dreadful
ceremony ; not one had dry eyes, not even the
greatest enemies of the Pole, for they, too, under-
stood military honour. I cannot give you further
details, for, in fact, nobody knows how many have
fallen. The military carry off the dead and the
wounded, but the fact is that all the largd square
before the Prince's Palace was covered with blood.
The troops, about 3,000, first discharged a bout
portant into the thick of the crowd, and then
charged both with the_bayonet and lance (for more
than two regiments of Cossacks had honourable
part in that glorious battle-field). First Alexander
11. played farce before Europe, and now he performs
tragedies with terrible effect. Yet Europe is still
his dupe. They always believe he is kindly and
liberally inclined.

COMMENCEMENT O 1 THE BAIRAM.

The following account of the movements of the
Sultan and Court at the commencement of the
Bairam is given in the Levant Herald:—

On the afternoon of the 10th, thundering
salutes from all the batteries,afloat and a%hore, in
the Bosphorous and Golden Horn announced the
eve of Bairam, and on the following morning his
Majesty held his usual rikab in the Court of the
old Seraglio. Long before sunrise troops of eager
sight-seers of both sexes were flocking from Pera
and Galata across the bridge or over the Horn in
caiques to Batche-capon, en route for the scene of
the morning ceremonial,and from Baluk-bazar up:to
the square outside St. Sophia, the narrow alleys of
Stamboul between these points were filled with a
long stream of passengers. His Majesty did not land
at Top-z•apou till shortly before seven o'clock, and
it was nearly an hour later before the trumpets
announced his passage through Ortakapoussy into
the outer court of the palace, on his way to prayers
at
_Sultan Achmet. A double line of red-coated
guards lined the whole extent of the latter enclo-
sure to the Bab-y-sadet : and as the cavalcade of
pashas of every rank, in every armour of gold em-
broidery on their saddlecloths and uniforms, and
studded with medjidielts and nizhan liars, moved
slowly down the long incline to the music of the
Imperial band; the ensemble would have compared
favourably with any court procession to be seen
elsewhere in Europe. The minor officers and
dignitaries filed past first ; then came the
muchirs, and, finally, the chief members of the
Government, the Grand Vizier coming last, imme-
diately before the magnificently-caparisoned led
horses which preceded the Sovereign himself.
His Majesty, who was mounted on a splendid
Arab charger, looked pale and exhausted, and
appeared to take no interest in the lively scenes
through which he passed. His Majesty remained
about three-quarters of an hour at mosque, at
' the end of which a second flourish of trumpets
announced to those inside that the Imperial cor-
tege was in motion back to the inner Gate of Fe-
licity, where the morning's levee was to be held.
The cavalcade returned as slowly as it had gone,
and after a few minutes' rest inside, the Sultan
d in the
seat on the silver-gilt throne w
the gateway and took his
iemergedn t e r v
abeenl from beneath
placed
The troops had already formed into a hollow square
for him under t aarch way.
in front of the Imperial seat, and thin the reception
began. The members of the Government, headed
by the Greed Vizier, first advanced in single
andfile,
then as each made , his salaam and kissed the
fringe of the golden sash attached to the arm of
the throne, which was held out for salute by a high
'officer of the Palace, he retired backwards a few
steps till the whole had gone through a similar
. ceremonial, when the entire ministerial file ranged
up on the right side of the throne. A similar proces-
sion of the second class officers and dignitaries took
place with precisely similar formality. Half an
hour had been thus passed—the attendant troops
keeping up jubilant shouts the while, and the,
band, too, playing native and other lively airs—
when in filed the Ulema from the right, headed by
the Sheik-ul-islam. This august company
Ipoincgturleosoqseue
robes
stion heavily
of
the
lout ee 3dr
fo
bnyiulftaitrudtbee, their long
embroi-
dered with gold across the shoulders, and magni-
ficent turbans according best of all with the of
idea
an oriental spectacle such as was in course of ex-
hibition. The Sultan rose d• 'fled
as these
expounders of law and religion
approached,,
went through the usual' pantomimic prevention
their kissing his feet insteadof
This latter act of homage accomplished, they too
filed aside and returned whence they had
dcomAe,
not remaining like the others the groun .
rse and re-
few minutes afterwards his 3fitiotYhe rose and re-
few minutes afterwards, his luajeatY
ceremonial
tired, and with his disiippearence t
European
ended. We noticed a large inuster of uro P
ladies amongst d of i
the cross' mmediate spectators,
whom it is doubtful if the pageant,
brilliant and,
was, repaid for e crush
characteristic though
it
the sight cost them. The damage toth crinoline
must have been enormous."