The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-14 00:00:00

Brighton to Worcester, Western Massachusetts, on the
221 February, for $l,OOO, and Empire State won in the
remarkable time of 2 hours and 21 minutes, but died at
night in consequence of the cruel exertion.

The following incident in American trade with
Japan will be read with interest. Mr. H. Dunn, of San
Francisco, shipped to Yokohama 1,332 trees, 165 bushes,
3,500 plants, and 19,000 grape cuttings. Of these there
were 460 apple, comprising the best varieties, 12 necta-
rine, 20 apricot, 250 pear, 80 cherry, 180 peach, 180 plum,
80 almond, 40 quince, and 40 fig trees. The bushes were
25 currant, 40 gooseberry, 50 raspberry, and 60 blackberry.
This amount is sufficient to form three fair sized orchards
and vineyards, and if they arrive in Japan in good order,.
will ere many years probably be found in all portions of
that country. The trees, plants, S:c ,in exchange, are ex-
pected to arrive by the Great Republic or China, and as
they aro to be sent on behalf of the Japanese
Government by Matemeto Judiyn, the late Commissioner,
who is now Superintendent of Agriculture, they will pro-
bablyembrace most, if not all, the valuable varieties known
i❑ Japan. Their arrival in good order will form an era in
fruit cultivation in California, as they will no doabt prove
a very valuable addition, which will be of greater import-
ance when railway communication is established with the
Atlantic States.

On the 4th May, 1866, the American ship
General Grant, 1,092 tons, of Boston, commanded by Cap-
tain Loughlin, left Melbourne, Australia, for England. A
few days after her departure she was wrecked on the
Auckland Islands, about 160 miles south of the Snares,
which is the southernmost land of New Zealand. The
General Grant was a considerable distance out of her
course, as most ships bound round The Horn pass not far
from the Snares. None of her passengers were saved, and
but 11 out of 13 of the crew. Being out of the track
of ships, and on an uninhabited island, the survivors re-
mained for nearly two years unrescued. The vessel was
given up, and the insurance effected in London long since
paid. It was only by a telegram just received from Mel-
bourne that her fate became known. Her chief cabin passen-
gers:were Mr. and Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Oat and family, Rev. Father
Sarda, Mr Edel, Mr. Deans, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Woodrow,
and Mr. Tebbetts. She also had 33 second and third
class passengers. The lnvercauld was lost a few years
since on the Aucklands, and it was eighteen months be-
fore her captain and survivors were rescued. In 1854
these islands were the headquarters of a whaling company,
at the head cf which was a gentleman well known in
those seas. For many years he maintained an establish-
ment on the Auckland Islands, where he held a very
anomalous position, as a maker, administrator, and exe-
cutor of laws; of course keeping up a vigorous corres-
pondence, when the opportunity offered, with the Foreign
Office, who are always warding off the attacks of British
subjects in possession of outside scraps of territory. Speak-
ing of such spots, that held by the most singular tenure
under the Crown is Ascension, which belongs to the navy
and is supposed to be a ship at anchor, or a floating
island moored in mid-ocean. It presents a very solid
appearance, having a mountain rising several thousands df
feet, and at this masthead lives the captain, who exercises
au absolute control over all who land, the regulations being
precisely the same as on board the man-of-war anchored in
the offing ; no other laws than the Navy Regulations hav-
ing any force in the island. Another curious spot is
Christmas Island, of which Captain Ross has taken pos-
session ; but perhaps the strangest history and the most
interesting inhabitants are those of Norfolk Island, noW
the home of the Pitcairn islanders, the descendants of the
Bounty mutineers. That island, of singular beauty, was
made a pandemonium by the transport to it of the worst
of the Australian and Van Diemen's Land convicts. Eng-
land sent her very bad criminals to Van Dieman's Land,
and they extracted the concentrated essence of this vice
and sent it to Norfolk Island, till the wickedness grouped
on the little spot of unequalled beauty shocked the moral
sense of England, and the depot was broken up, the isle
becoming the home of the Pitcairn people.
Although the large arrivals of American wheat,
to which we called attention a few days since, are certainly
a very encouraging sign of the times, there appears reason
to fear that the French crise alimentaire is not yet at an
end, and this fact must exercise a certain influence on the
wheat trade all over Europe. The east, west, north, and
centre of France will still have to seek for supplies on the
Marseilles market ; and although the arrivals at Marseilles
have been large of late, it is remarkable they have been
absorbed as soon as they have come to hand. Thus the
stock at Marseilles stood February 21 at 3,851,299 kilo-
grammes, and the imports in the week ending February
27 were 2,165,195 kilogrammes, making a total of 5,516,494
kilogrammes. Of these amounts, however, 2,455,973 kilo-
grammes were taken off in the week ending February 27,
thus reducing the stock at this date to 3,960,521 kilo-
grammes, or 3,864 tons.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Mr. E. G. Squier, late Commissioner of the
United States to Peru, has brought some curious infor-
mation from that country. He asserts that from a va-
riety of causes the white population of Peru is diminish-
ing relatively, if not absolutely, and that there is good
reason for believing that the day is not far distant when
the Indians of the interior will assert their independence,
and make an effort to restore in some form the empire of
the Incas, the memories of which are cherished among
them, under some one of the descendants of those sove-
reigns. Such a result, Mr. Squier thinks, would not be a
misfortune for Peru or the world.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 18 ~. 11 18i
Ditto
Rotterdam...* .....
Antwerp ... 25 324 ... 25 374
Brussels
Hamburgh — ... 13 91 ... 13 10
Paris Short ... 25 10 ... 25 20
Ditto
Marseilles ... ... 25 30 ... 25 35
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... ... 1204 ... 120 k
Vienna — ... 11 80 ... 11 90
Trieste — ... 11 80 ... 11 90
Petersburg — ... 824 ... 821
Berlin ... ... 6 264 ... 6 274
Madrid s — ... 484 ... 481
Cadiz
• ...._ •••
~._

Leghorn
Milan...

Genoa..

... 29
... 29

... 29

Naples
Palermo 29

Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

0 29 10
0 ... 29 10

... 29

0 ::; 29 10

0 ... 29 10
0 ... 29 10

0 29 10
... 511
51

Foreign Mail Packet List,

MAILS DUE.

-
iustralla and New Zealand, via flonthamptoa......March
Ditto, via Marseilles ----March 2

_
Ditto, via Panama ....... .......... ........ March 3).
irazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video April 6.
Ditto, by French packet March 21
Uape Verds. by Brazil paotet
.;ape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Helena... -March
Jhlna, Penang. and Singipure, via Southampton.. aiarch 21
Ditto, via Marseilles .. ........ March 15
Falkland Islands
libraltar, via Southampton March 15
inaia, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles
Italia, Egypt, (sm.
Ditto, Marseilles...
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal:, v.i.a 11:11aaarrreachhh
91155'
Southampton Marzh 21*
Ditto, Marseilles March IS'
gewfonndla nd . .....
Portugal .... April v•
Ditto, by privtie ship to Oporto

Ditto titto -to Lisbon
United States, Lanada, California, &0., by British
packet
Ditto, by L nited States packet
Ditto ditto 'New York)

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Births.fe
FRERE —On the 13th inst., at 46, Bedford-square, the -5
of Mr. Bartle J. L. Frore, of a son. tile
JAY—On the 13th inst., at 36, Dover-street, Piccadill&nt,
wife of Harvey Jay, of Sherlock Hall, Langton, J3'.-
of a son.
SWAINE -On the 11th inst., at 13, Hyde-park-009'0A
wife of L. W. Swain, Esq., Rifle Brigade, of 0."
stillborn.

Marriages.
BERRIDGE -DEAKINS -On the 11th inst., at Christ Ch's r•
Folkestone, Richard James, youngest son of Isase„:o6l
ridge, Esq , of Somerton, Oxon, to Sarah 113`Wsl•
youngest and only surviving daughter of the late
Deakins, Esq., of London.
THORFE-JONES-On the 12th inst., at St. Peter's lip," 1111 e 1
Pimlico, Thomas Thorpe, Esq., of Rye-common, 0) 01
daughtt r of the late John Jones, Esq., of HacknoP
Deaths.
ALLANBY -On the 11th inst., at Dearham Ilousetr data
port, Cumberland, Joseph S. Allanby, Esq.,
111-"
of Melbourne House, Hampstead, aged 68. neo. c
fee
MAUD -On the,,
11th inst., at Hasketon Rectory,-„ o
Maud, Esq., youngest son of the late T. Maud,
Burley Hall, in the county of York.
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PICKIVORTII - On the 12th inst., at Sidcup, Sent/ J.--
Pickworth, aged 83. of 141
Ems"
RATTON -On the 11th inst., Joseph RatIOD, xasci”
Highbury-park, aged 62. hood'
SMITH-On the 12th inst., at 9, The Green, Ric"
Surrey, Robert Smith, Esq., solicitor, aged 70. sr,q.
Sicu-On the 12th inst., at Chiswick, Henry 6°l'
aged 82.

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