The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-02 00:00:00

store ; $1 18 to $1 23 for new white Western and
Scuthern ; $1 18 to $1 20 for straw-colored Southern, and
$1 28i for Southern yellow.

Oats—Rule a trifle stronger, but quietly.
sales of 37,000 bush Western in store at 831 c.
Naval Stores —Spirits turpentine is quiet; we quote a
68c to 69c, with the sale of a small lot at the inside price.
Rosins—There is no very decided change to note in
prices, although there is, perhaps, a little more disposition
to move low grades at some concession. We quote com-
mon at $2 20 to $3 25, strained at $3 30 to $3 40, No. 2
at $3 50 to $3 62k, No. lats 4 to $5. The sales are 500
bbls strained common at $3 25, 100 bbls strained at $3 37k,
400 bbls N 0.2 at $3 55 to $3 60. In tar wo quote the sale
of 250 bbls Wilmington to arrive at $3 25.
Oils—Linseed is steadily held at $1 20. Fish oils are
in small request at 68 to 70c for crude whale ; 74 to 76c
for refined do ; $2 05 to $2 10 for crude sparm ; $2 25
for refined do. Lard is rather quiet; wo quota at $1 33 to
$1 40.

We notice

Petroleum —Crude in bulk is not obtainable to any ex-
tent at the moment. We quote sales of 1,000 bbls in ship--
ping order, for delivery this month, at life. Bonded is
not inquired for to any extent ; we quote standard white
at 251 c ; 28,000 bbls wore sold at this price. Naphtha is
steadily held ; 300 bbls were sold at 15c. For Philadelphia
delivery the demand is light.
Provisions—Pork—The market is more active, and
better prices are current. We notice sales of 3,050 bbls
at $24 20 to $24 33 for Western mess, cash, regular way,
closing at $24 30 cash, $23 30 to $23 50 for '66 to '67
mess ; $2O to 21 for prime and extra prime, and $22 25
to $23 for prime mess.

Beef—There is a moderate business doing at old rates.
Sales were made of 480 bbls. at $l4 to $2O for plain
Western mess, and $2O to $23 for extra do.

Beef Hams—There is a good business doing at very
full prices. We notice sales of 330 bbls. at $34 to $3B.
Tierce Beef.—There is but very little prime stock in the
market, and prices are firmly held. We quote $35 to $37
for prime mess, and $39 to $4O for India mess. Sales,
140 tcF.

Bacon Sides.—The market is dull, and prices incline to
favour buyers. The sales are 130 boxes, at 11 ato 12c
for Cumberland cut.

Tallow—There is but very little doing to-day. Sales
were made of 47,000 lbs. at llf to Ilf per cwt., the latter
price for lots in bbls.

Stearine—The market is dull and heavy. We notice
sales of 29,000 lbs. at 141 to 15 per cwt.
Grease—The sales are 54,000 lbs. at 9/ to 11} per cwt.
Teas—Are in rather less demand. We have only to
note sales from first hands of 614 half chests green, and
209 do. Oolong.
Tin.—Pig is steadily held, but the sales are small. We
quote Straits at 23tic gold; Bauca at 27c do. ; 200 pigs
Banca were sold on private terms. Plates are steadily
held ; we quote I. C. charcoal at $8 50 ; 1,000 bas assorted
charcoal were sold on private terms.
Tobacco. —Leaf is slow of sale ; 69 hhds Kentucky
were disposed of at 11 to 12; and 102 cases Connecticut
seed leaf at 11 to 14c.

DESPATCHES OF 31R. C. F. ADAMS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
TUE STORY OF TUE SHENANDOAU.

In dealing with these Despatches, we believe our
object will best be served by tracing out each story
as,a whole. We.have given The St. Albau's Raid,
to. illustrate the violation of the neutrality of the
frontier. The Story of the Shenandoah is in reality
the sequel of the Story of the Alabama, and ought
to follow the career of the celebrated pirate. A tale
so well known we do not consider necessary to give
here; but though the broad circumstances connected
with the Alabama are familiar to Englishmen, as a
rule they are ignorant of the violations of their
ports perpetrated by those who fitted out these
vessels. We have no wish to revive the bitter feud
—on the contrary, our object is, by a plain state-
ment, to bring to the minds a Englishman the gross
injustice and breach of international obligations of
which they allowed' themselves to be made the in-
struments, a knowledge of which cannot fail to
facilitate a settlement.
The Shenandoah was a vessel of 1,100 tons, of 250 -
horse power, armed with two 8-inch smooth-bore
guns ; two 32-pounder rifles, and two 12-pounders.
She was built by Stephens and Son, Glasgow, in
1863, and in September of that year cleared from
Loudon fDr Bombay. On the Bth of October, under
the name of the Sea King, she was dispatched from
London, flying the British flag, with the view to meet
another steamer called the Laurel, likewise bearing
that flag, dispatched from Liverpool on the 9th of
the same month, at some point near the island of
Madeira. Both were equipped and manned by
British subjects, and carried arms, munitions of
war, supplies, officers, and enlisted men for, as
Mr. Adams wrote to Earl Russell, the purpose of
initiating a hostile enterprise to the people of the
United States with whom Great Britain was at the
time under solemn obligations to preserve the peace.
On the 18th of November, 1864, Mr. Adams com-
municated these facts to Lord Russell, and we pro-
ceed briefly to trace the subsequent career of this
vessel from the despatches of the American
Minister.

About the 18th of October the two ships met at
the placeagreed upon, and there the British comman-
der of the Sea King made a private transfer of the
steamer to a person who, he declared to the crew,
was about to embark on this piratical expedition,
and knowing this, urged the British subjects on
board to take part in it; after which Capt. Waddell,
commissioned as Confederate States' Navy Officer,
assumed command. From the barque Laurel were
transferred the munitions of war, and the crew ex-
pressly brought from Liverpool for the enterprise.
Among them were sailors rescued from the waves
by British intervention, at the moment they had
surrendered in the Alabama, then sinking, and as-
suming the name of the Shenandoah, though changed
in no other respect, she took up the piratical
career of the vessel demolished by the Kearsage.
Two months afterwards Mr. Adams received from
Thomas Adamson, jun., United States Consul at
Pernambuco, intelligence of the Confederate cruiser.
It appears that the brig Kate Prince, of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, from Cardiff with a cargo of coals,
had been boarded by.the privateer, the captain com-
pelled to give bonds for $40,000, and to convey to
any port the crews of the Charter Oak and the
Susan, two vessels, that she had captured and
destroyed. This English vessel had also taken the
barques Helena and Godfrey, the crews being put
on board a Danish brig bound for Rio Janeiro,
when she steered for Bahia. On the sth January,
1865, Mr. Adams informed Mr. Seward that
Captain Corbet, the person who took charge of
the Sea King on her voyage out, had been traced
and arrested by order of the Government for
a violation of the Enlistment Law. " This in-
cident," he adds, "of which his lordship's reply
to my note of the 18th November last on the sub-
ject held out no promise, is another favourable
symptom of the animus of the Government." On
the 17th of the following February he again wrote
to his official chief respecting his directions to pre-
sent the claims for the damages done by the Shenan-
doah, and he alludes to his despatch No. 879, ac-
companying his letter narrating certain events which
go to show that it would not be well timed to revive
complaints before the effects of the remedy now first
to be applied could be seen. And as no harm could
be done by postponing action, he thinks it best to
wait. The despatch alluded to is not published in
the foreign correspondence. In reply, Mr. Seward
expressed the approval of the Government to this
delay. He adds, however, that the accounts which
Consul Morse gives of the reckless activity of
rebel agents in Liverpool and Europe render it in-
dispensable that no reason be left to her Majesty's
Government to suppose that what is virtually an
illegal naval war waged from the British shores, is
acquiesced in. Therefore the representation in the
case of the Shenandoah ought not to be longer post-
poned, but be made in a manner as friendly as
compatible with a just sense of the injuries. The
next pile:: at which the Shoundoah turned up was
Melbourne, and Mr. Adams forwarded to %Vasil-
ington a letter from William Blanchard, the Con-
sul, giving an account of her arrival. The Minister
writes under date March 17, 1805, and after pre
dieting that she will soon be heard of in the Pacific if
she can hold together long enough, he says—" Of
all the experiments of the rebels to uphold their
cause, 1 know of none which seems to have been
more expensive or more unsatisfactory than the at-
tempt to organize a navy. It may have gratified a
spite, but the indulgence of ill-temper never of it-
self established a nation. Could that alone have
done so, the Confederates would long since have
been recognized everywhere." On September 7th
Mr. Seward forwarded to Mr. Adams a communi-
cation from the United States Consul at Melbourne,