The Press. — London, England, 1854-05-27 00:00:00

500 Pttropolitan glands. ..•••••••=•••.. (Reported exclusively for " THE Paz's.") CORN-EXCHANGE—The pre.;ent week's arrivals of English wheat up to our market have been on a very limited scale, but in fair average condition. Selected samples of white have sold steadily, and, in some instances, the quotations have had an up ward tendency; but low and middling parcels have commanded very little attention, on former terms. Foreign wheat—the im ports of which have been seasonably large—has been in fair re quest, at full rates of currency. The busines4 doing in it, how ever, has not been large. We have had very few floating cargoes on sale. The receipts of barley have been tolerably good. The tie for that article has been dull, at late tigures. The malt trade has been in a depressed state, and the currencies have been almost nominal. Oats—the arrivals of which have been good— have met a dull inquiry, and the quotations have had a downward tendency. Beans and peas have sold on former terms. The value of flour—both English and foreign—has been well sup ported. ENGLISH—Wheat, Essex and Kent white, 74. to 91s •, red, 708 to 85s; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 708 to Ms. Malting barley, 40s to 43s ; grinding ditto, 368 to 39. t • distilling, 378 to 395. Malt, 68s to 635. Feed oats, 278 to 30s ; potato, 80s to 348. Rye, 488 to 50s. Tick beans, 458 to 528; pigeon, 478 to 625. 13rey peas, 448 to 465 ; maple, 47s to 495 ; white boilers, 575 to 595 per quarter. Town-made flour, 668 to 708; country marks, 55s to 618 per 2801b8. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oath. Flour. English ~ 1430 .. 120 .. 2790 .. 840 .. 1660 Irish Foreign .. 48850 .. 2550 .. 19010 .. 760 eke. 11670 ble. LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY— Wheat, 1,362 quarters, 84s 8d ; barley, 297 quarters, 37s 1(1; oats, 1,734 quarters, sos 2d ; rye, quarters, —; beans, 279 quarters, 47s ; peas, 25 quarters, 438 Ad. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat, 78s 2d; bar. ley, 378 2d; oats, 294 4d ; rye, 48s 6d ; beans, 498 3d; peas, 476 2d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 79s 14; barley, 37. 14; oats, lids 6d; rye, 50s 6d; beaus, 47s 6d; peas, 44s Ild. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK—Wheat, 54,981; barley, 18,884; oats, 19,918; rye, 190 ; beans, 4,659; peas, 929 quarters. SEEDS—Canary and linseed move off steadily, at full prices. In other seeds very little is doing. Cakes are tolerably firm, on former terms. TEA—The public sales have been brought to a close. By private contract only a limited business is doing, and common sound Congou may be had at Hid per lb. The stock in the United Kingdom is 70,409,0001b5, against 60,355,0001bs in 1853. Up to Saturday last duty was paid on 17,175,5261b5, against 11,7913,2361b' in 1853. SUGAR—On the whole an extensive business has been transacted in our market this week, yet foreign parcels have given way is per cwt. Fine yellow Barbadoes has changed hands at 39s to 40s; low to good, 33s Od to 388 6d ; low to fine brown St. Lucia, 328 6d to 345; refining kinds, 33s to 378; St. Xitt's, 32s 6d; fine yellow Demerara, 379 to 40s dd ; good and fine yellow Mauritius, 35s 6d to 988 ; grainy, 96s to 41s per cwt. Refined goods have moved off readily—brown lumps at 478; and grocery, 47s 6d to Ms per cwt. The total clearances to the 20th instant were 2,369,606 cwt.'', against 2,261,316 cwts last year. MOLASSES—The sale for most kinds is steady, at full prices. Low to tine West India, 15s fld to 18s; Cuba and Porto Rico, les to 185; Bengal and Mauritius, 158 Od to 18s per cwt. COFFEE—Plantation kinds have sold slowly, at a decline of from t3d to Is per cwt. Good ord native has changed hands at from43s to 445, being easier terms. COCOA—The demand is by no means active ; yet prices are supported. Trinidad, 30s to 40s; Granada, 31s to 34a; Bahia, Ws to 275; Para, 29s to 29s 61; and Guayaquil, 34s to Us per cat CHICORY—There is less business doing in this article, and prices are barely supported. British root, 101 to Ill; powder, Unto 201; foreign root, in bond, 101 ]Os to 11l per ton. RICE—The transactions are very limited, at a decline in the quotations of 3d per cwt. SALTPETRE—The demand is trifling, although importerA are sellers on lower terms. The nominal figures, on the spot and to arrive, are 404 to 41s per cwt. PROVISIONS—Irish butter—the supply of which is by no means large—is dull, and 4s per cwt lower. Foreign parcels have given way in value to the same extent. English are 2s cheaper. There is a steady business doing in bacon, the value of whichhas an upward tendency. Hams and barrel provisions are quite as dear as last week. TALLOW—Thc transactions in this article continue on a very limited scale. P. Y. C.. on the spot, is selling at ills, and for August delivery, 82s 6d to 638 per cwt. Town tallow, 34is 8d net cash; rough fat, 8s &i per 81bs. The imports are very moderate. OlLS—This market is dull. Linseed is offering at 37s Rd to Ms cash, with very few buyers. We have an improved inquiry for turpentine. Spirits, 41s to 438; and rough, 10s 3d to 10s bd per cwt. COALS—llolywell. 18s ed; Tanfield Moor, 18e Gcl ; Stewart's. 19s; Hartlepool, 18s; South Kelloe, 18s; Whitworth, 17e 9d ; Cowpen, 201 tid per ton. WOOL—The public sales are still In progress. Colonial parcels have changed hands this week at the spring prices. Foreign qualities have partly sold on very low terms. • - . _ HEMP AND FLAX—Hemp is very dull. and the nominal quotation of Petersburg clean is 681 per ton. Flax is heavy, at late figures. Jute has given way from 21to Si per ton. COTTON—There is rather more firmness in the demand for this article, on former terms. SPIRITS—We have to report a dull sale for all kinds of rum, the polices of which have a downward tendency. Proof Leeward., 3s 34 to 3s bd ; East India, 3s 9d to 3s 4d per gallon. The brandy market is heavy, at further depressed rates. Geneva and corn spirits command Still quotations. POTATOES—The season for old potatoes is now drawing to a dose. New English are selling at from 225 to 21a ; foreign, 18s per cwt. SMITHFIELD—The beef trade has ruled brisk, on higher terms. Otherwise, the demand has been less active than last week. Beef, from 39 6d to 4e 104; mutton, as 61 to bs ; lamb, bs 2d to 6s 8d ; veal, 4s 4d to Its 4d; pork, 3s to 4s 8d per sibs to sink the offals. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL—The general demand has ruled steady, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 41; mutton,; 3s 4d to 4s 10d; lamb, 5s to 6s 4d; veal, 3s 10d to lie 2d pork, 3s 41 to 4s 8d per 81ba by the encase. - jTiTT. - - THE PRESS. DEATHS. BAYLEY—On the 19th instant, at Leamington, Maria Barbara, relict of Sir Daniel Bayley, aged 80. HARGREAVES—On the 23rd instant, in Berkeley•square, Robert Hargreaves, Esq., of Bank-house, Accrington, aged 45. JENNINOS—On the 15th instant, at Stoke Newington, Ben jamin Jennings, Esq., one of the Senior Paymasters of the Royal Navy, aged 80. JEPHSON—On the 17th instant, at Mallow Castle, Louisa, widow of the late Lieut.-Colonel Jephson, of Mallow, aged 84. THORNTON—On the 91st of March, at Calcutta, John Paul Thornton, Esq., late Colonial Secretary at Tobago. aged 44. PARIS EXHIBITION of 1855. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Department of Science and Art of the Board of Trade has been instructed to conduct the Preliminary Inquiries with a view of ascertaining the pro bable NUMBER of EXHIBITORS from the UNITED KING DOM, and the amount of space it may be necessary to demand from the French Imperial Commission. Manufacturers and other produoers who are desirous of exhibiting may obtain forms of demands for space and copies of the regulations, by applying to Captain OWEN, Royal Engineers, MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, Pall•mall, I oudon. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. ALFRED WIGAN. REAPPEARANCE OF MR. ALFRED WIGAN. On MONDAY NEXT, and during the week,will be presented the Comedietta called THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. . Principal characters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. H. White, Leslie, Vincent, Franks, Rivers; Mrs. Chatterley, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Marston. After which, the Comic Drama of THE FIRST NIGHT. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Leslie, Vincent, H. Cooper, Franks; Miss P. Horton, and Miss Emily Ormonde. To conclude with a Farce, called THE MUMM%. Characters by Messrs. F. Robson, H. Wigan, Leslie, White, Cooper, Rivers; Miss Marston and Miss E. Turner. Box-office open from Eleven to Five. Doors open at Seven, and commence at Half•past Seven. Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 4e.; Pit, 2s; Gallery, Is. OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The Directors of the Theatre Lya igue, Paris, beg to announce that the entire Troupe of that Theatre, including the services of Mme. MARIE CABEL, will commence a short series of French OPERAS COMIQUES, at the above Theatre, on MONDAY, Jgne 5, immediately after the completion of M. Lafont's season. The First Representation will consist of Adolphe Adam's new and very successful Opera, entitled LE BIJON PERDU, in which Mme. Marie Cabal will make her first appearance in this country. Subsequent performances will be selected from the New and Favourite Opera La Promise, Galathee, Le Domino Noir, Le Roi des Halle', La Tante Aurora, Le Postilion de Lonjumeeu, Le Toreador, La Sirene, Les deux Voleurs, Le Tableau Patient, L'Eclair. All of which are completely prepared for representa tion. The nights of performance will be on Mondays, Wednes days, Fridays, and Saturdays. Subscriptions will be received for Twelve Representations. Prices of admission for the night:— Stalls, IN. 6d. ; Boxes (dress circle), 511.; Pit. 2s. 6d.; Amphi theatre. 2s. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets, to be made to Mr. Seguin, at the Box-office of the Theatre ; and at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. COLOSSEUM, Regent's Park. Admission, One Shilling.—The original PANORAMA of LONDON by DAY is exhibited daily, from Haltpaat Ten till Five. The ex traordinary Panorama of LONDON by NIGHT, every Evening, from Seven till Ten. Muaio from Two till Five, and during the Evening. CYCLORAMA, ALBANY-STREET, NOW OPEN, with a magnificent PANORAMA of NAPLES, exhibiting the great Eruption of Vesuvius and Destruction of Pompeii, A.D. 79; with the present State of the ruined City. These Views have been long in preparation, and will be exhibited with the resources of this vast Establishment. Daily at Three and Eight o'clock. Admission, Is. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETYof LONDON. The QUEEN having been graciously pleased to name Saturday, June 10, as the day on which her Majesty will open the Crystal Palace, Notice is hereby given, that the Meeting of this Society, announced for the same day, will be held on SA TURDAY, JUNE 3, instead of Saturday, June 10, as previously intended. All Tickets issued for June 10 will be available for June 3.-21, Regent-street. DRAMATIC READING.-MR WIGHTWICK, author of "The Palace of Architecture," Jo., will Read the Second Part of Shakepeare's HENRY IV., at WIT.LIS'S ROOMS, King-street, St. James's. on Thursday Even ing, Ist June, at Eight o'clock precisely. Admission he. Under Distinguished Patronage. DR. ALTENHAL will deliver, on Friday, June 2, at Eight o'clock, a LECTURE (in English) on GOETHE'S " FAUST," with German Readings from the Text, and MUSICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, selected from Beethoven, Schubert, Spohr, Lindpaintner, &a., by eminent Vocal and Instru mental Artists. Reserved Seats, 55.; Area,3s.; Gallery, 2s. Tickets to be had at Cramer, Beale, and Co's, Regent-street ; Mitchell's, Lona dale's, Old Bond-street; Sams's, St. James's-street; and at the MARYLEBONE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, 17, Edward-street, Portman-square, where the Lecture will be delivered. MRS. LEACH, late Lectureas on Anat om y and Physiology at DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, continues to give ADVICE to Ladies only, on subjects of interest to them. selves, at her residence, No. 7. QUEEN•STREET, Sherrard. street, Golden-square, until her own Ladies' Museum is com pleted. Dr. LEACH may still be consulted as usual. AN Undergraduate, who takes hi s B.A. degree at Oxford in November. wilhe's in the meantime to obtain EMPLOYMENT as a CLASSICAL TUTOR. He would prefer to give daily lessons in London, but would not object to resident tuition. Apply to A. 8., care of Mrs. Harris, toy-shop, Dartmouth-row, Blackheath. DEAFNESS. —The only medal awarded at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (for Acoustic Instruments) was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS for the DEAF. They are made of different power, to suit ex treme and every degree of Deafness. To be procured only of the sole inventor and maker, F. C. Rein, 10a, Strand, nearly opposite Exeter-hall, where the Instrument can be tried, and numerous testimonials seen, amongst many one from the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, one of her Malady's Privy Councillors. SATURDAY , I..J OUTHGATE and BARRETT h ave received instructions from Mr. HOGARTH, of the Ifaymiutet, to SELL, by PUBLIC AUCTION, at their Fine Art and Book Auction Room, 22, Fleet•atreet, London, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, June 7th, and following evenings, THE WHOLE of the REMAINING COPIES of the very celebrated Work known as "P'inden'e Royal Gallery of British Art," consisting of a limited number of artiste' and other choice proofs and the print impressions, which are all in an exceedingly flue state. 'the work consists of forty-eight plates, the whole of which are engraved in hue by the most eminent men in that branch of art, anti the pictures selected will at once show that the great artists—'Truer, Eastlake, Landseer, Stanfield, Web- ster, Roberts, Wilkie, Maclise, Mtilready, and more than thirty other British masters—are represented by the works which es tablished and upheld them in public favour, and by themes which appeal to universal sympathy and happiest affections, or which delineate the peculiar glories of our country. The attention of the public is also particularly di rec t e d to the fact that ALL THE ENGRAVED PLATES from which the impressions now offered have been taken WILL BE DE STROYED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PURCHASERS at the time of sale. By thus securing the market from being supplied with inferior impressions at a future time, and at a cheaper rate, the value of the existing stock will be increased, and it will become the interest of all who wish to possess copies of these eminent works of art at a reduced price to purchase them at this sale, which will be the ONLY OPPORTUNITY of obtaining them. QOUTHGATE and BARRETT beg also to 1.3 announce that they will include in their SALE BY AUC- TION of " FINDEN'S ROYAL GALLERY" the whole of the STOCKS of PROOFS and PRINTS of the following HIGHLY IMPORTANT ENGRAVINGS, published by Mr. Hogarth and Messrs. Lloyd and Co:— Ehrenbreitstein, painted by J. M. W. Turner, A.A., engraved by John Pye. Ecce Homo, from the picture by Correggio, en• graved by G. T. Doo. The Dame School, painted by T. Webster, R.A., engraved by L. Stocks. Eton Montem, two views illustra tive of, from pictures by Evans of Eton, engraved by Charlie Lewis. Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A., from a picture by George Richmond. Portraits of Eminent Persons, by George Richmond and C. BaUgßieL Portrait of W. C. Macready, Esq., as Werner, painted by D. Mat hes, R.A., engraved by Sharpe. Flowers of German Art, a series of twenty plates by the most eminent engravers. Cranstone's Fugitive Etchings, seventeen plates. Turner and Girtin's Rh, r Scenery, thirty plates. Cottage Piety, painted by Thomas Faed, engraved by Henry Lemon (unpublished). See-Saw, painted by T. Webster, ILA., engraved by Holl (unpublished). Village Pastor, painted by W. P. Frith, R.A., engraved by Holt The Immaculate Conception, painted by Guido, engraved in line by W. H. Watt. Harvey demonstrating to Charles the First his Theory of the Circulation of the Blood, painted by Hannah, en graved by Lemon. The Origia of Music, painted by Melons, engraved by Wass. The First Step, painted by Faed, engraved by Sharpe. The Prize Cartoons, published by Messrs. Long mans and Co. ALL THE ENGRAVED PLATES of the above-mentioned engravings WILL BE DESTROYED in the presence of the purchasers at the time of sale. thus securing to them the same advantages as in the sale of " L'inden's Royal Gallery." Framed impressions of each of the plates, at well as of the " Finden," can be seen at Mr. Hogarth's, 5, Haymarket; of Messrs. Lloyd Brothers and Co., 22, Ludgate-hill, and at the Auctioneers', 22, Fleet-street, by whom all communications and commissions will be promptly and faithfully attended to. In the same sale will also be included the very extensive, highly important, and extremely choice stock of modern English and Foreign Engravings, Water-colour Drawings. and expensive Bo )ks of Prints, of Mr. HOGARTH, of the Haymarket. Amongst the ENGRAVINGS will be found, in the BEST STATES of ARTISTS' and other CHOICE PROOFS, nearly all the popular plates that have been published during the last quarter of a century; also an important collection of Foreign Line Engravings, in the best states ; a large variety of Portraits, and other subjects, after Sir Joshua Reynolds—some very rare ; an extensive series of Prints by Hogarth, in early proofs, and with curious variations; a most complete series of artists' proofs of the works of George Crulkshank, includingnearly all his early productions, many unique ; a number of scarce Old Prints, and a series in tine states by Sir Robert Strange. The stock ie pe culiarly rich in the works of .1. M. W. Turner, R.A., and com prises artists' proofs and the choicest states of all his important productions, and matchless copies of the England and Wales and Southern Coast. The collection of HIGH-CLASS WATER CO LOUR DRAWINGS consists of examples of the most eminent artists (particularly some magnificent specimens by J. M. W. Turner), as well as a great variety of the Early English School, and some by the Ancient Masters; also a most interesting col lection by Members of the Sketching Society. Of the Modern Schools are examples by— Absolon Fielding, C. Lewis, J. Prout Austin Holland I.iverseege Tailor, F. Barrett Hunt Maclise Vv. ins Cattermole Landseer, E. Muller Webster Collins Leslie Neatield Wilkie Catalogues of the entire sale will be forwarded on receipt of twelve postage-stamps; and all communications and commis• sions promptly and faithfully attended to. 22, Fleet•street, London. CONTINENTAL EDUCATION.—At a &st rata ESTABLISHMENT on the RHINE, Young Gentle men are Prepared for the Public Schools, Universities, and the higher branches of Commerce. The pupils are taught to con verse with fluency in German and French, and also, if required, well grounded in Italian and Spanish. Inclusive terms, fifty guineas. For further particulars address Mr. A. 8., Radnor Villa, Great Malvern. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, (used In her Majesty's Laundry), and • W OTH E R SPOON' S Machine-made CONFECTIONERY, MARMALADE, JAMS, JELLIES, tic. (which gained the Prize Medal of 1e61), may be had of all Grocers ; Wholesale of Wotherspoon, Mackay , and Co., 66, Queen-street, Cheapside, London; and Robert Wotherepoon and Co., Glasgow. JOHN WHITE, Consignee and Importer. Special Margaux Claret, 98s. per dozen ; Burgundy, in prime condition, 48s. per dozen ; Dinner Claret., 265. ; Sparkling Cham pagne, 425.; Moselle and Hock, still or sparkling, 445. and up wards ; Dinner Sherries, from 268.; Duff Oordon's Sherry, 965. and 425.; Fine Old Crusted Port, 365. to 425.; unequalled, 4sa. to 545. Terms cash. All other wines, of the best brands and choicest. vintages, at equally moderate prices, in full-sized bottle!, or at per gallon if preferred.-34, DOWOATE•HILL, CANNON MEET.