The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

POTATOES.

The market continues to be pretty well supported as to
quantity, but the quality is indifferent, and prices remain
without quotable change.

TALLOW.

The market is quiet, but steady, at 45s 6d spot ; 45s 6d,
sellers, last three mouths ; 45s 9d, buyers, December ; 465,
buyers, Spring; 46s 6d paid for March.
COTTON MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 22.—Sales, probably 8,000 bales.
Market quiet, and prices drooping.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 21.—N ereid and Adrette, from Arch-
angel ; Lionne, from Gravelines.
Arrived, Sept. 22.-- Serica, from Poo-chow-Foo ; Metro-
politan, steamer, from Hamburg; Trelna, steamer, from
Cronstadt ; Victoria, steamer, from Gothenburg; Atalanta,
from Frederickstadt ; Alexander, from Uleaborg ;
from Dram ; Lisette, from Hemosand ; Mercur, from
Christiania; Alpha, from Frederickstad; Jorgenen, from
Archangel ; Ursus Minor, from Krageroe.
Sailed, Sept. 22.—Prince of Wales, for Vancouver's.
Quintin, steamer, for Cadiz.
Sailed, Sept. 21.--saia
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed, Sept. 21.—Wisch, from London, for Bahia;
Haydn, for Rio Janeiro ; David Maciver, for Alexandria ;
Vesta, bark, for Carthagena—all from Shields.
Put back—Mary E. Campbell, from Callao for Antwerp.

THE IRISH CHURCH. —The Scotsman throws some
light on the "flank-movement" in regard to the Irish Church
which it is supposed Mr. Disraeli has in contemplation if he
can only push on the necessary education of his party, and
especially of ono or two of his chief colleagues. "The solu-
tion of the problem attributed to Mr. Disraeli," says tho
London correspondent of that journal, "is a plan of dises-
tablishment by which the Episcopal Church of Ireland shall
cease to be predominant in Ireland as a separate and self-
contained Establishment, but shall retain its endowments
and also its connection with the State as a branch of the
Church of England. In other words, the clergy are to sur-
render whatever territorial standing now gives them pre-
cedence over the priests and dissenting ministers, but will
continue to enjoy their emoluments and also a connection
with the State somehow or other through the Archbishop
of Canterbury and the English hierarchy, whose delegates
they will become. How far this scheme ,will ever be
developed is more than I can say." This report will, of
course, be at once denied, just as the year before last the
statement was denied that the Government were pre-
paring for a reduction of the franchise ; but there is
certainty something of Mr. Disraeli's fantastic subtlety in
tha project.
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The Valiant, 24, screw (armoured iron) frigate,
Capt. John J. Kennedy, C. 8., weighed her anchor from
Spithead yesterday, and was swung in Stokes Bay to
ascertain the deviation of her compass. She afterwards
anchored
drarogw foainar
t Spithead, but is expected to sail to-day
orher station on the Shannon.

SALMON FISHING IN DEVON.—It is estimated that
the salmon caught this year by the twenty licensed nets
in the rivers Taw and Torridge have realised over £1,300.
The fishermen have never had such a good year before.
THE COW' AND THE BEARS.—A singular accident
occurred three days back at Berne in the bears' pit which
acquired so melancholy a notoriety a few years back by
the death of the English Captain Lock. The cattle market
is close by, and a butcher was leading off a cow which he
had just bought, when the animal broke away, and, leap-
ing the parapet, fell among the bears at the bottom. The e
latter wore apparently stupefied at this unexpected visit,
and, as the intruder presented her horns in a rather ma-
nacing attitude, they thought it prudent to beat a retreat
into their dens. As the entrance below was not large
enough to allow the intruder to issue by that way, she
was drawn up by moans of ropes fixed round her body.
REMOVAL OF ROCKS IN HELL GATE.—Congress
having recently made an appropriation of $85,000 towards
the removal of obstructions in the liell Gate channel,
General Newton, of the United States Army, will soon
begin operations to that end. With Pol-rock, Frying-pan,
Way's-reef, Shell-drake, and other reefs broken to pieces
or pulled up, a grand channel of over 300 feet in width
will be secured. The contractor for the work has not yet
been selected, but it is believed that arningements will
be made to commence the work as soon as it is decided at
what point to begin. It is said that in the blasting ope-
rations nitro-glycerine will be used as & eub§titute for
gunpowder.