The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar—There is still a very quiet market, and the rates
paid in some cases tend in favour of buyers.
Coffee —This market is not brisk, but there appears
to be rather more disposition to buy at yesterday's reduc-
tion.

Tea—The sales are progressing very unevenly, but not
at any further reduction in price than the decline of id to
ld for common Congou, and 2d to 3d for new teas esta-
blished yesterday.
Rice—There is a moderate inquiry at late rates.
Saltpetre continues to meet some demand, and is firm.
TALLOW.

The market is quiet, at 45s 6d spot ; 43s 3d to 45s 6d
last three months ; 45s 9d December ; 46s to 46s 3d spring.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Meat.—The supplies have been very much increased,
principally of country killed meat, and prices are down
quite 4d per stone; beef, 3s 2d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 2d
to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; lamb,
3s 4d to 4s per stone of 81bs by the carcase.

Poultry. :-Supplies moderate, and trade steady at late
rates.

COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 16.—Sales, probably 8,000 bales
or more. Market steadier. Better inquiry.

The Price of Gold,

Tae quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 251.22 X. per £1 sterling;
on imnparing these rates with the English Mint price of
~s.loid. per ounce for standard gold, it appe4re that
gold is about 240ths per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 0 days' Eight was on the last date about 1 9i per cent.
At this rate there is no profit on the importation of gold
from the United states,

According to the last official return giving the
statistics of crime in France, it seems that out of a
population slightly above 38,000,000 among
which there are 48,000 more women than men—of
4,551 criminals convicted of serious offences 3,853
belonged to the male, and only 698 to the female
sex. Crimes against the person amounted to 1,777,
and those against property to 1,899 ; consequently.
crimes against the State, such as smuggling, coin-
ing, smashing, conspiracy, disturbance of public
order, press offences, &c., must have been nearly
900 in number. Of those convicted of crimes
against the person 191 were adjudged guilty of
murder, 201 of infanticide, 6 of homicide, and 115
of manslaughter. Six of the foregoing murders
were committed by criminals under twenty-one
years of age. It seems that throughout the whole
of France there were 27,000 individuals convicted
of crimes and misdemeanours involving imprison-
ment during the year, and that of these 19,000
were adults and 8,000 under age. Among the
juvenile criminals, 600 were orphans without either
father or mother, 82 were between nine and ten
years of age, 394 between ten and eleven, 1,100
between eleven and thirteen, 2,000 between thirteen
and fifteen, and 2,200 between fifteen and seven-
teen. Between nineteen and twenty-one they were
under 500.

Her Majesty's ship Forte, 29, screw frigate, 2,354
tons, 400-horse power, Capt. John H. J. Alexander,
C. 8., having saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir
Baldwin B. Walker, K.C.8., sailed from Sheerness
to-day. The vessel will call at Devouport en route
to her station in the East Indies.

INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS.—The Rev. Henry
Smith, 8.A., of Que En's College, Oxford, was at the Coun-
cil held at Windsor on Monday last appointed to be one of
her Majesty's Inspectors of Schoo!s. The Rey. Frank
Fortescuo Cornish, M.A., of Exeter College Oxford, re-
ceived a similar appointment.
DEATH BY STRANGULATION.—On Monday night
Mr. Carttar held an inquest respecting the death of Mr.
Kreekeler, a saddler, of Greenwich. The deceased, who
was a remarkably tall man, was in the habit of Bing
down on his bed in the afternoon, and it was supposed
that while divesting himself of his clothing the deceased
who was known to be affected in the head, had slipped,
and his handkerchief, catching in the ironwork of the bed-
stead, had produced strangulation. The verdict of the
jury was that death had resulted from strangulation, but
whether' by aecideikt or by saLLie there was 110 aired
ovidonoo to prow.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

HAMPTON RACES—Tats DAT.
NURSERY HANDICAP.
The Hampton Nursery Plate of 100 sovs (Handicap) ;
winners of any race after Sept. 8 (at ten a.m.) of the
value of 100 sovs 31b, of two of 100 sovs each or one of
200 51b, 300 together or separate, or of any race at this
meeting, 71b extra ; weights not accumulative ; New
T.Y.C. (about five furlongs straight).
Antias
Bonnie Katie 2
Redbreast

Fourteen ran.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tins DAY.

CESAREWITCH.
9to 1 agst Blue Gown (offered)
500 to 20 agst Friponnier (taken)
500 to 15 agst Kingsland (taken)
1000 to 25 agst Stradbroke (taken)

CAMBRIDGESIrIRE.
2000 to 50 agst Green Sleeve (taken)

PROF OGATION OF PARLIAMENT,

(From the London Gazette of last Evening.)
BY TILE QUEEN —A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to the eighth
day of October next ; we, by and with the advice of our
Privy Council, hereby issue our Royal Proclamation, ant
publish and declare, that the said Parliament be further
prorogued to the twenty-sixth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Given at our Court at Windsor, this fourteenth day of
September, in the year of our Lord one thousand
sight hundred and sixty-eight, and in the thirty-
second year of our reign.
God save the Queen.

LuNDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, SBPT. 15.

58th Regiment of Foot-Major-General William Sullivan,
C.B. to be Colonel.
93d Regiment of Foot —Lieutenant-General Charles Crau-
furd Hay, from the 53th Regiment, to be Colonel.
95th Regiment of Foot—Major Crofton to be Colonel.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Francis William Robertson, Gent.,

to be Cornet.
2d Dragoon Guards—Cornet John Macpherson to be
Lieutenant; Albert M'Cann, Gent., to be Cornet.
31 Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert Anderson to
be Assistant-Surgeon.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Charles J. McMahon
(late Madras) to be Captain ; Lieutenant the Honour-
able Albert Bouchard de Montmorency (late Madras), to
be Second Captain ; Second Captain John Holdsworth
to be Captain ; Lieutenant Benjamin J. Bonner to be
Second Captain ; Surgeon John R. M. Lewis, \I.D., to
be Surgeon-Major; Veterinary-Surgeon John Pile has
been permitted to resign his commission.
Royal Engineers - Lieutenant John Townsend Bucknill

to be Lieutenant.
Grenadier Guards—Ambrose Aysliford Goddard, Gent., to
ba Ensign and Lieutenant.
7th Foot—Percy St. Maur, Gent., to be Ensign.
Bth Foot—Ensign Henry Webster to be Lieutenant;
Charles William Atkinson, '
Gent., to be Ensign • Staff
Assistant-Surgeon James Conyers, M.D., to be Assis-
tant-Surgeon.
12th Foot— Quartermaster Edward Farrant to bo Quarter--

master.
14th Foot—Paymaster G. E. Earle, 86th Foot, to be Pay-
master; Staff Assistant Surgeon Randall to be Assistant

Surgeon.
20th Foot—Captain Laprimaudaye, 77th Foot, to be Cap..
taiu ; Captain Maynard, 31st Foot, to be Captain ; En-
sign Philip Robinson to be Lieutenant; Robert Paull,
Gent., to be Ensign ; Surgeon George Arden, 48th Foot,
to be Surgeon.
21st Foot —Captain John Stevenson, sth Foot, to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign Louis Armet, 32d Foot, to be Ensign ;
Stall Assistant Surgeon James Crowe, to be Assistant
Surgeon.
24th Foot—Henry Mark Atherley to be Ensign.
`loth Foot —Ensign Arthur Mackay to ba Ensign.
26th Foot—Ensign Henry Townsend to be Lieutenant;
Ensign Percy Hughes to be Ensign.
27th Foot—Lieut. Henry Collingwood to be Captain.
28th Foot—Capt. Henry Collingwood to be Captain.
30th Foot—Lieut. floury Eden to be Captain ; Ensign
Cecil Hornby to be Lieutenant ; Patrick Boyle, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
31st Foot—Capt. Edward Patrickson to be Captain.
32d Foot—Lieutenant David Bond to be Captain; Ensign
Albert Clarke to be Lieutenant ; Edward Garland Col--

more Cregoe, Gent., to be Ensign. •
48th Foot—Surgeon Rowland Wimburn Carter to be
Surgeon.
52d Foot— Captain Nathaniel Foote to be Captain ; Cap-
tain Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn to be Captain ;
Lieutenant Thomas Buchanan to be Lieutenant ; Lieu-
tenant John Edward Doveton to be Lieutenant.
51th Foot—Captain Thomas B. Eames to be Captain
58th Foot—Ensign James Lewis Joseph Gordon to be
Lieutenant.
62d Foot—Ensign Henry L. Egan to be Lieutenant; En-
sign James F. Carthew, to be Ensign • Staff-Assistant-
Surgeon Robert J. Scott, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
68th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Edward MUHL M.D., to be
Surgeon.
71st Foot—Captain Charles L. Harvey to be Captain ;
Lieut. Henry B. Wilson to be Captain; Ensign Henry
J. T. Hildyard to be Lieutenant; Herbert B. Turner,
Gent., to be Ensign.
71th Foot —Ensign David Maitland to be Lieutenant ;
Reginald W. U. Corbett, Gent., to be Ensign.
75th Foot—Francis Boyd Ciartit, Gent., to ba Ensign ;
Assistant-Surgeon Christopher John Weir, M. 8., to be
Assistant-Surgeon.
77th Foot—Captain Nadolig Ximenes Gwynne, from the
20th Foot, to be Captain.
78th Foot—Ensign James Henry E wart, from the 21st
Foot, to be Ensign.
79th Foot—Ensign Cohn Charles Mackenzie, from the
78th Foot, to be Ensign; Lieutenant Charles Robert
K. Fergusson tobe Instructor of Musketry.
80th Foot—Lieutenant William G. Trevor to be Captain ;
Captain Edmund Kerrich, from the Bombay Staff Corps,
to be Captain; Edward Gillman, Gent., to be Ensign;
Bernard Joseph Patrick O'Neill Power, Gent., to be
Ensign.
83d Foot—Captain Julian Wakefield to be Major; Lieut.
Raymond Oliver de Montmorency to be Captain ; Ensign
Thomas Frederick Gibbs to be Lieutenant; William de
Hoghton, Gent., to be Ensign.
87th Foot—Lieutenant William Marsden to be Instructor

of Musketry.
88th Foot—Ensign William Liston Dalrymple to be Lieu-
tenant; Ensign Robert Alexander Chermside, from 63d

Foot, to be Ensign.
89th root—Ensign Patrick David Boyle, from 30th Foot,
to be Ensign.
90th Foot - Staff Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Minty,
M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
91st Foot—Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Cap-
tain, John Fitz Gerald, from 109th Fuot, to be Pay-

master.
97th Foot—Lieutenant Charles J. Marshall, from 91st

Foot, to be Lieutenant; Philip Lawrence Melvill, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
100th Foot—Lieut. Goorge Digges La Touche to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign Robert Lon field Orme to be Lieutenant ;
Henry Hay, Gent., to be Ensign.
101st Foot —Q,uartermaster Frederick Luttrell to be

Quartermaster.
103 d Foot—Lieut. Jasper Burne to be Instructor of Mus-
ketr.
109th Foot—Paymaster John A. Kysh to be Paymaster.
Rifle Brigade —Lieut. Albert D. Rickman to be Captain ;
Ensign Francis G. D. Acland to be Lieutenant ; Ralph
P. Gallwey, Gent, to be Ensign.
2d West India Regiment —Major and Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel William Hill to be Lieutenant •Colonel ; Captain
and Brevet-Major John Deane Reece to be Major;
Lieutenant Robert Straker Turton to be Captain ; En-

sign William Beauchamp Stoker to be Lieutenant ;
Ensign Thomas Talbot to be Lieutenant.
4th West India Regiment —LieutenantJames Fitz-Eustace
Forster to be Captain ; Ensign Richard Spooner to be
Lieutenant; Alfred Simons, Gent., to b 3 Ensign.
Staff—Brevet-Colonel James Dodington Carmichael, C. 8.,
Lieutenant-Colonel 94th Foot, to be Deputy Quarter-

master-General at Suez.
Half-pay—Lieutenaut John Sidney Smith, from 7th Foot,
w be Captain ; Lieutenant Henry M. Hozier, from 2d
Life Guards, to be Captain.
Commissariat Department —Lieutenant Thomas 8.-own
Stewart, from tue 30:h Foot, to be Deputy-Assistant
Commissary-General ; Lieutenant Richard S. Pritchard,
from the 24th Foot, to be Deputy-Assistant Commissary-
General.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 19 ... 11 19i
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 I ... 12 1
Antwerp — ... 25 4U ... 25 45
Brussels
Ramburgn — ... 13 10* ... 13 11
Paris
Ditto
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 i ... 120}
Vienna — ... n 7o ... 11 t32i
Trieste — ... 11 75 ... 11 821
Petersburg
Copenhagen
Berlin
... 6 271 ... 6 27*
Madrid..
Cadiz — ••• 481

. i
48 ...

Leghorn
... 27 , 27 ISO
Genoa — 27 75 ... 27 80
... 27 75 ... 27 80
Palermo ... 27 75 ... 27 80

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 15.—Levant, from Cronstadt ; Rapid,
from Archangel ; Carl Orlof, from Helsingborg; Catha-
rine, from Ystad; Norma, from Gamla Carleby.
Arrived. Sept. 16.—Lawson, from Rusoer ; Illovo, from
Port Natal; Waterloo, steamer, and Batavier, steamer,
from Rotterdam: Furet, from Gravelines ; Adria, steamer,
from Deuia; Victor, steamer, from Caen; Cologne, steamer,
fro:n Boulogne; Holland, steamer, from Ostend.
Sailed, Sept. 15.—Seine and Tamise, steamer, for Paris;
Flandre, from Dunkirk.
Sailed, Sept. 10.—Westmoreland, for Jamaica; Lady
Bowen, for Sydney; W. E. Gladstone, for Shanghai; Ann
Duthie, for Sydney; Cesarea, for the Mauritius; Blonde,
steamer, for Dunkirk.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed, Sept. 15 —Sunboam, from London, for Quebec;
Maid of Glanwern, from London, for Nassau.
Passed —Maranham, from Shields, for Carthagena.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt.
S. E. Piers, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yes-
terday from Spithead, to embark troops on relief
service.