MAURITIUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 894, 25 September 1866, Page 5

MAURITIUS.

The following is an extract from, a private letter from Mauritius, dated 11th August:— ■ " Sugar is still coming to market slowly, and is mot by a fair demand. Prices of fine yellows and whites havo, however, declined about 40 cents per 100 lbs. from, ths highest point, and thoso of middling yellows about 2o conts ; inferior or ration there is hardly any change. Clearance since the 4th: Wild WaVO, for Hqbarfc Town. Loading: Emil and Irma, for Melbourne ; Isabella and Klpdia, for Dunedin ; and Jessie Kelly and Helena, for Sydney. *' Tho following arc tho clearances of sugar, crop 18GG-G7:— lbs. July 1G Francis BanfieU, for Molbourne ... 993,405 „ 18 Sea Nymph, for Adelaide.. 201,200 „ 23 Alexandra, for Wellington ... 523,135 „ 25 Silver Cloud, for Melbourne ~. 1,304,fiu5 „ 27 Wolverine, for Port Phillip ... GQ0,480 Aug. 1 Providence, for Melbourne ~.1,386,1038 „ 1 King Oscar, for Sidney ~ ... 703,4-iS „ 2 Hannah Nicholson, for Melbourne 732,018 ■■'■ „ 3 Agnes Jessie, for i.aunceston ... 493,183 j, 3 Bolle, for Adelaide... 572,032 Total shipments till Ith August, 18GG.,, 7,544,439 " The following Teasels ara loading ; —Wild Wave, 189 tons register, for Hobart Town;. Isabella, 210 torts register, for Dunedin." We understand that Messrs. Tounghusband and Co. havo suspended payment. The liabilities are said to amount to about £4.0jQ06 ; but we leafu that there are no colonial creditors, and only one contingent. Tho asaota ara as yet uncertain Origin or UNtroJJirs. —At tho Restoration, ] when, forces were established in. England and Scotland, each country having its separate guards, line, and artillery, scarlet was the colour almost uniformly adopted, save in one instance, when, the K\ing clothed in blue, faced with red, the Royal Regiment of Horse (guards, which was, embodied on the 2Gtb. August, 1601, under Aubrey, Eitrl of Oxford. Thqse colors it still retains ; but a corps of marines raised about the same time, oddly enough, wore yellow coats —the old Dutch uniform. On the 2nd of April, in the same year, 1601, the Scottish Life Guards rode through the city of Edinburgh. " in gallant order," says N.i.col the Diarist, «' their carbines upon their saddles, and swords drawn in their ' hands. It pleased his Majesty to clothe their trumpeters and the master of the kettle-drum in very rich apparel." Colours were presented, and soon after the King gave to each gentleman a buff coat. Ta February, 1653, General Sir Thomas Dalzell obtained from the Privy Council at Edinburgh a license permitting the manufacturers at frcwmills-. ■'to, import 2536 ells of stone grey .cloth, from England," for his dragoon regiment, the Scotia Greys, which. ha.d been raised two years their costume, as well as their grey horses, may have j led to their present well-known appellation;. This grey cloth.cost ss. an, eQ,.—'United Service i Magazine*