The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-24 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The market presents a more animated appearance. Fine
qualities have been in request, and for medium grades
there has been a healthy inquiry. In prices no change
has taken place.
WOOL.

In low wool sales have passed off steadily, at full quota-
tions. In colonial wool, by private contract, a moderate
business has been passing, at about late rated. English
wool has been quiet, but firm in price. •
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
December 24.—Sales probably 10,000 or 12,000 bales.
Market quiet and unchanged.

The House of Commons will adjourn on the 29th
of December to Tuesday, the 16th of February, for the
despatch of business. The House of Lords, which stands
adjourned to Thursday, the 11th of February, will be ad-
journed on that day to Tuesday, the 16th of February.
THE ELECTION RIOTS AT BLACKBURN.--The trial
of Thomas Fallon and Daniel Duxbury, who were indicted
for the murder of Thomas Whittaker, at Blackburn, on
the 17th November, took place at the Liverpool Assizes
yesterday. The jury, after an absence from the court of
three hours, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

A lady, the wife of an officer, gives her experi-
ence of the plains in a book she calls " Absaraka,"
which, being interpreted, means "Home of the Crows."
It is by this name that a place in the Territory of Wy-
oming was known to the Indians, and it has so captivated
the authoress that she hopes to make it the name of what
will one day be A STATE of the Union. The Crow In-
dians, the original owners, were partially dispossessed by
the Sioux and Cheyennes. The object of the book, and
the reason of this notice, is that it clears the character of
Col. Carrington from the imputations of cosi ardice and in-
competency, cast on the affair of Fort Philip Kearney of
Dec. 21, 1866, wherein 81 of the men under his command
were massacred by the Sioux and Cheyennes, near Fort
Philip Kearney. The facts are that an expedition was
sent out in May, 1866, under H. B. Carrington, to secure by
forts the new route to Montana by Wyoming. He built
Fort C. F. Smith and Fort Philip Kearney, but as peace
prevailed when he went out, he was unprepared for the
incessant hostility, for the harassing attacks to which his
trains were subjected, and the constant loss of stray men
and horses. He applied then to Washington in vain for
reinforcements. It was after an attack on a wood train
that he sent forth a party with strict orders to rescue and
defend the train, but not to pursue the Indians. The offi-
cers in command, unable to resist the temptation to follow
the retreating Indians, pursued till the party was drawn
by the feint out of reach of the fort, when it
was surrounded, every man falling, the officers,
it is said, by their own hands. A second party
sent out to assist arrived too late, for the Indians (about
1,500) were then dancing and yelling about the mutilated
soldiers, and invited the rescuing party to come down and
be scalped too. Reports were circulated that this massacre
occurred within sight of the fort wherein Col. Carrington,
with two companies, remained so terrified as not even to
admit through the gates the soldiers who reached it flying
for refuge. These tales are shown to be untrue ; and the
authoress, though with little literary skill, achieves her
purpose of clearing away such imputations.
Mr. E. Hepple Hall arrived in New York on the
30th of October last, having left in February, 1867, on a
tour of the world, which he had then completed. He has
taken voluminous notes, which from so practised a pen are
likely to take the form of a most interesting book of travels
He crossed the Atlantic in time for the opening of the
Exhibition in Paris, whence he sailed for Egypt, reaching
Abyssinia
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York in 34 days, 12 of which were passed in the Overland
route across the Continent. While on his travels he pub-
lished that excellent guide to America, "The Great West."
Being editorially connected with the New York Times, he
furnished that paper, as well as the Chicago Evening
Journal, with graphic descriptions of China and Japan.
Mr. G. W. Curtis is delivering a lecture on
"Morals in Politics," wherein he mentions Captain Kidd,
the renowned pirate, in illustration. Recently he de-
livered this lecture in Salem, where some of Butler's
friends, taking Kidd to be a hit at their hero, hiss)ed down
the lecturer, who was compelled to explain that Kidd was
not introduced for the occasion, but had always been there,
the lecture having been composed in New York long
before the fight in Maseachussets over Butler's return.