The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-17 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITEIVIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ 15s Od ; clover
ditto, 3/ 03 to s►lss ; and straw, 11 2s to 11 Os per load.
A moderate supply and a dull trade.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, 2118 s to 41 168; Glove!
ditto, 3/ Os to 51 12s ; and straw, 113 s to V 10a per load.
Both bay and straw sold slowly, at our quotations.
:WNITEOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 15s to 4/ 15s; clover
ditto, 31 Os to 5118 s; and straw, 11 3s to 119 s per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull.

GALES IN THE ATLANTIC.—TiIe captains of several of
the recently-arrived American vessels report very severe
weather in the Atlantic. One of these, the captain of
the New York, packet-skip, reports having encountered
a severe hurricane :—" Feb. 21, lat. 42, long. 57 ; wind
from SE to ENE. Lay to fer 22 hours. Tarpaulin in
wizen rigging, and with the lee rail under water the
whole time. On the 22d she shipped a heavy sea—stove
bulwarks, boats, hatch-house, water casks, stern win•
do ws, causing the cabins to fill; lost head gear, rigging
sails, mainsail, and mizentopsail, blown out of the gas
kets. On the 23d she shipped another heavy sea, which.
broke the spare adrift, and washed away a great quantity
of running rigging and studding sail gear. 27.—Encoun
tered another heavy gale ; lost jib foretopsail, and ship.
ped a sea, which washed away main hatch-house and
tarpaulin off the main hatch," &c.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] TIIE WAR. IN TILE EAST. —POWERFUL
PATENT RECONNOITRING GLASSES.— Messrs. S. and B. Solo-
mons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe
opposite the York Hotel. By her Majesty's Royal
Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements
in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-
course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances
of objects viewed through them—of great importance tll
army, navy, and others. These telescopes possess suchextraeye-
piece, extra-
ordinary powers that some :), inches, with
same
eand a half distant,
panicace,thweill double show
stars distin;ctwlyithJlhiteer's moontesiesS.7.lotruerne4'siorinbge,
seen a person's couuterance three miles and
aro of larger and all
and an object from 16 to 20 miles.
Jingly ; while their vary-
sizes, with increasing pewers ac
above, and the Georgian,
1851.—Valuable,with
newly-invented, very smalls
Exhibition,
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lass,the size of a walnut, by widell
powerful waistcoat-pocket g , . .
seen at 8 to 10 miles.
lug front 4 to 6. inches enabiliehui
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tdoilsleitoevs7s:me.o—rentheaßon the
powei
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every purpose on
country scenery,
anf
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gentlemen,
a person can be seentt antlken_coowonrslo?
and
gamekeepers, tourists. Opera,
sportEomen, perspective glasses, with wonderful
I°4ol ships are clearly
—Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great-
est ransparent power. The valuable advantage derived
race-course, ci They
caolu'ersion,valeaut invaluable
and
fromest this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is
preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are
enabled to employ their sight at the most minute
.y.occu-
pation—can see with these lenses of a much less rulteulr
ine power—and they do not require the frequent changes
to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Deaf-
ness—Newtraordi-
Discovery.—Tho Organic ,
instrumentn
thing of the
entirely different from all others, to surpass anything ate
nary powerful, small, newly-invented afnor deafness,
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produced.
kind that has been, or probably i
at church and at
enables deaf persons to hear distinctly
of
singin
noises
Being of the same colour as the skin, is can
perceptible ; it
public assemblies
all the d ; and it affords
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removed
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