The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-24 00:00:00

RKBT NE IT7S. —(Tars DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

ad wheats supported previous rates in most of the
country markets held on Saturday, but new qualities
ruled dull, at a decline of from le. to 2s. per quarter.
There was a fair amount of business doing in spring corn
and flour, at full quotations.
Our advises from New York state that lar.:e quantities
of grain and flour were in course of shipment to England.
The French markets are very brisk, and dearer. Those in
the Lower Baltic continue active.
Up to our mark,,t, la,t week, the receipts of English
grain were very moderate. From abroad we received
5,450 quarters of wheat, 530 barley, 3,598 oats, 200 beans,
18 peas, 37 tares, 4,002 linseed, 2,515 rapeseed, 52 sundry
seeds, and 812 sacks of flour.
The supply csf English wheat received fresh up to our
market this morning, coastwise, was on the increase, and
we had an extensive arrival by land carriage. At least
four-fifths of the arrivals were of the present year's growth,
and in full average condition. In the early part of the
day the demand for all kinds was in a very sluggish state,
although there were several buyers in the market from
Francs% It continued heavy for some time, and prices
at length gave way from Is to 2s per quarter, without
much progress being made in sales.
There was only a moderate show of foreign when.t.
ape
had a fair sale for most kinds, chiefly on Continental ac-
count, at full quotations ; but for home consumption wr
y
little business was doing, on former twins. Floatg
in
cargoes of grain wore held at very full prices.
Scarcely any barley, either English or foreign, was on
show, and the whole was readily disposed of at ve:y full
prices. _ _

The malt trade was firm, and fine qualities were rather
dearer.

Oats, the supply of which was limited, sold to a fair
extent, at full quotations.
The few beans in the market were taken at fully previous
rates:.

White peas were brisk, end fully 2 dearer. Other
kinds- supported last week's currency. We had a fair ssle
fur flour, and some Spanish sold for France at very full
prices. The exports from London last week were nearly
7,000 sacks.
CURIV:NCY PER. imrEarm, MEASURE.

Pr/teat—Essex k Kant, .
Red •—• new 60r to 683
Ditto... ..... old 70s 743
Ditto, White new 6.3 s 833
Ditt0....... old 76s 86s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old 71s 71.3
Ditto new •••••• 60, 75i
Rye—Old ........•• •• —8 —s
New •. •• 485 525
Barley—Grinding ... • • 32s 3531
Maltinz ....... 333 363,
Chevalier.... • • 383 40s
Milt—Suffolk and
•• •• •• 62s 675!
Brown ....... 583 Qs'
KlrrstonandWare 68s 723!

iMalt—Cheyallor .. • • 72s to 74s
;Oats Yorkshire and
I Lineolnsl3., reed 25s 3ns
PotatQ
Youghal and Cork
13Iaek. •••• 243 28s
Cork, Whit©..... 263 30s
Scotch, Feed. 27s 308
Beans—Tick ......... 41s 44s
Pi ge0n5.......... 43s 47s
Peas —Grey Zss 38,3‘
Maple. 38s 403
White... •...40s 44s
Boilers .• 48s 60s
Fleur—Town-made... 70, 72s
Suffolk .• •• •• 56. 57s
fltocktn &Norfolk 55s 57s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were
tolerably good, the total supply amounting to 10,888
head. lu the corresponding week in 1851 we received 8,791;
in 1853, 13,238 ; in 1852, 12,039; in 1851, 10,401; in 1850,
7,872 ; in 1849, 5,716 ; and in 1848, 4,360 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.
From Boasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Tonuingen 259 72
Hamburgh B9 490
Brake 230 ... 19
Don't Bl 33
llotterdam 203 ... 1,073 363
Calais
Bremen
Nien Diep 9O ... 1,43 t - 17 ...
Tootling 25
Hrarlinweli 455 1,084 ... 103 ... 127 ... 561
Me 10 ... 410 ... 4 4 ...
Kampen l2 371 ... 10 11
Antwerp
Amsterdam 5O ... 1,006

Total ...1,747 ... 6,828 ... 112 ... C 25 .
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows
13easts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1854 ......... .2,096 5,837 ... 171 ... 235 402
1853 .. 1,835 10,196 '159 652 496
1852 1,792 9,021 130 709 334
1851 1,903 6,889 ... 192 508 930
1850 1217 5,787 ... 13S ... 446 271
11149 1,122 4,408 ... 105

.. 578

Per Blbs to sink the offals.
s. d. s. d. s. d, s. d.
Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6,PrimeSouthdown 4 8 5 0
Second quality.... 3 8 4 OiLarge crse. calves, 310 4 4
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4,Prime small do 4 8 5 0
Prime Scots, 4c. 4 6 4 &Large hogs
Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 61Small porkers
Second quality ...3 8 4 o,Suekling calves 23 0 30 0
Prime crse.-wiled.4 2 4 61Quarter old pigs 22 0 28 0

TOTAL SUPPLY. i
Beasts ..............•• •• 5,036 f Beasts..
Sheep .•••• ..
Calves . ..... •....... 209 Calves.... .... -- --
'7 '

FOREIGN SUPPLY.

Pigs ..
The prices of meat in France are still unusually high,
notwithstanding that a considerable increase has taken
place in the importations of stock both from Spain and
Holland. In the latter country, production can scarcely
keep pace with the foreign demand.
There was a full average supply of foreign stock here,
to-day, in middling condition.
The arrivals of stock from Ireland, last week, direct by
sea, were 141 beasts. To-day, there were on sale 341
beasts, and 1,500 sheep, together with 200 pigs from Dub-
lin and Cork, sda Liverpool. Their generid quality was
good.

From our own grazing districts, the receipts of beasts
fresh np this morning were tolerably good as to number,
but very deficient in quality. From Scotland no stock
came fresh to hand. For most breeds we had a slow trade,
at Fri lay's decline in the quotations of 2d per 81b5. The
top figure for beef was 4s 8d per 81bs.
The receipts of beasts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire,
and Northamptonshire, were 2,200 short horns, end from
other parts of England 500 of various breeds. The re•
mainder of the supply was derived from Ireland and the
Continent.

Although there was a considerable falling off in the sup-
ply of sheep compared with slonday last, the mutton trade
was in a sluggish state. In prices, however, no change
took place. The best old Downs realised 5s per Sibs.
Prime small calves sold steadily, at very full prices.
Otherwise the veal trade was heavy, at barely late rates.
There was a fair demand for pigs, and last week's cur-
rency was well supported.
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, cis
Mon, ay, Sept. 25, 1854, and in the Metropolitan Market
this day, Monday, Sept. 24, 1855.
Per Sibs, to sink the of

Sept. 25, 1554. '5ept.24,1855
s. d. s. d. 's. d. s. d
Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2to 3 4'3 4to 3 6
Second quality ditto ... 3 6 310 3 8 4 0
Primo largo oxen ... ... 4 0 4 8.1 2 4 4
Prime Scots, ere 410 5 of 4 6 4 8

Coarse and inferior sheep ... 3
Second quality (litto 3
Prime coarse woolled ditto 4
Prime Southdown ditto 4

4 3 6j3 4 3 6
8 4 o'3 8 4 0
2 4 6114 '2 4 6
8 5 o'4 8 5 0
0 0 0110 0 0 0

Large coarse calves 3 2 3 fi
Prime small ditto ... 319 4 41

Large hogs ..:

3 0 4 2,

LITE.I:ATURE.

--„,--
Percy _Blake ; or, the Youreg Rifleman. By Car.
taro Rafter, author of " The Guards," and " Our
Indian A imy." 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
iThis story consists of a series of sketches in t!:e
life of a young officer. It is described in a vivid
and graphic manner, and the style is fiov'ing and
agreeable. The adventures of the hero are many
and various, and in the course of their ocaurrence
the reader is made acquainted with numerous in-
dividuals ; and is intrcal seed to a I grades of s-
aiety in the
,difilring countries of Ireland, ;ipaino,
and India. Percy Blake early commenced his
career in the militia, where ho was inducted into
the mysteries of his future life. At first they were
trivial circumstances that occupied his time. In
explanation of this he remarks, that "our youth
is spent in killing time, and our age in repenting
of the murder." Some of the anecdotes are very
amusing, one of which was his sending a letter of
remonstrance to his commanding officer, in conse-
quence of his supplanting him in dancing with an
heiress. Another lady, whom he admired greatly,
was Mary Anstruther, but Le was again unfor-
tunate, for an old uncle came, up from the
country, and chancing to come in contact
with Percy, as the latter was hastening; to
pay his respects to the ladies, he exclaimed, "Keep
your distance, sir." A few weeks afterwards
Percy Blake was summoned to protect his mill that
was set on fire by some miscreants. After some
time the unlucky owner of the property was dis-
covered at the top of the house screaming for as-
sistance. On his appealing to Percy for assistance,
the latter curtly replied, " Excuse me, sir, I know
how to keep my distance." It may be suggested by
some that this is carrving on a joke too far, in the
presence of actual danger, but the testy old uncle
was speedily released—not, however, to be grateful
forpreserration ; he was too i ndignantathisdetentio r a
An interesting episode is introduced of the escape of
a French prisoner. The two sisters, the supposed
country cousin, are all very ingeniously described,
and the sudden transition from jealousy to astonish-
ment, and thence to generosity, is natural in the
conduct of a hasty, kind-hearted person, like Percy
Blake. The good action was not thrown away ;
for, afterwards, in a battle-field of Spain, " even
where the thickest of year's tempests lowered,"
Percy Blake met the hero of the escapade of that
dreary night in Ireland. He was then the pre-
server, instead of the preserved. An exciting
scene is given of a court-martial, in which an uncle
of Percy's was implicated. Flaherty was in
the ranks, but his nephew generously came forward
and by Lis adroitness contrived to outwit his ene-
mies, and proved that his uncle had been unfortu-
nate and imprudent, but not guilty. He was ac-
quitted by the Court, and his nephew obtained
much credit for so boldly befriending him when in
disgrace. But his accuser, Hopkins, a captain in
Percy Blake's regiment, was not so easily appeased.
Hawn,' previously formed a dislike to our hero, he
seized this opportunity to revenge himself ; and
being a first rate duellist, he determined to pro.
yoke him to a challenge. He therefore took
occasion, in the presence of others, to offer him in-
sults he could not pass unnoticed, and the result
was a duel in which both combatants were
wounded. Hopkins was confined to his room
for some months, and his opponent prevented by
a fractured arm from accompanying his regiment
to the Peninsula, as he had hoped and intended to
do. As he had long been seeking an oppor-
tunity of winning that distinction on which he
had placed all his hopes, he seized the first occa-
sion to join his company at his own expense, and
his solitary journey across the disturbed peninsula
presents some striking scenes and descriptions to
the reader. One of the most remarkable of these
is his assumption of the dress of a Spanish senora,
in order to avoid detection by a company of French
soldiers. This disguise is, however, discovered, and he
is only rescued from immediate death by the energy
of the fair Maria, his companion, who stabs several
men in his defence, leaving him more horrified at her
murdering propensities than grateful for her de-
' votion. He finally escapes through the interven-
tion of a band of Guerillas. While in Spain he
becomes attached to a young orphan novice, who
consents to an elopement; but, unfortunately, when
everything for their flight was prepared the com-
mander-in-chief forbids the officer's departure.
After some time the fair Julia fulfilled her original
intention, and became a Lady Abbess. Notwith-
standing these misfortunes Percy Blake preserved
his love of military fame, and had the satisfaction
of joining Picton's division in the storming of Ciu-
dadßodrigo. Here he had anarrowescape, beingene
of the many sufferers from the explosion of a maga-
zine. His promotion subsequently removed him to
India. Several amusing anecdotes are narrated of
his various adventures there, commencing with his
inauspicious visit to Julia Monson, a lady to whom
he had become much attached in his voyage out,
and to whose residence he proceeded ; but an ob-
stacle opposed itself to the furtherance of their ac-
quaintance in the person of the aunt, a most ludi-
crous character, who made absurd mistakes, and
blamed others for the consequences of them.
Percy Blake resigned the affair in despair, and re-
turned to his new friends. " A day in the Jungle"
is entertaining, and the new comer proved himself
a novitiate in Oriental subjects by flinging himself
down to rest in awaiting his companions, on what
he thought the stem of a palmyra tree, but what
was really a monstrotes boa constrictor. His dis-
may was great on being apprised of his mistake.
A deep-laid plan and subtle trick of the Brahmins
was clearly detected by Dr. Scott, of the Re-
giment, at the time when it was about to lead the
hero into serious conseque»ces. In a skirmish
about some trifle Percy Blake had struck a
Brahmin, who pretended instantly that he was
dead, and with many forms and ceremonies his
companions brought the corpse to the tent of the
major, who was horrified, and on the point of
sending Blake to Madras, when the Doctor skil-
fully detected the cheat. Not permitted to touch
the body, he poured some sealing wax which he
had ignited, upon the defunct, who started into life
and fled away. Among numerous stirring events
time passed on, and Percy Blake had the happi-
ness of rescuing Julia, who had married another
through treachery of her friends, from great danger,
and restoring her to her family. A painful inci-
dent is recorded of the break-up of the monsoon,
in which awful scene the unfortunate Croker, a
favourite friend and companion of Percy's, was
drowned. This was the hero's last tie to India.
He had retired from the service in India
owing to some misunderstandings that had arisen,
and returned home. Here, after some time, he
met, in travelling, his beautiful cousin Honoria,
whom he had introduced to our notice at the com-
mencement of the story. After so many various
attachments that had been rejected, prevented, and
forbidden, it was a relief and a privilege to find
one who had been true and faithful to the
_play-
mate of her childhood through the years of his
exile and the various changes of the world
striking spectacle of life is presented in these vo-
lumes. We are introduced to the exciting event s
of social existence, and the stirring scenes of glori-
ous war. In all the disputes and differences in-
separable from a roving military career the hero
maintained the courtesy of a gentleman, and tho
superiority of a noble nature. Percy Blake pos-
sesses many attractions to the admirers of the bril-
liant and sparkling in romance.

Aristobulus ; a Tale of Jerusalem. By M. R.
vanagh. 3 vole. Newby.

The scene of this story is laid in the Holy City,
and its epoch is in the reign of Herod, about 30
years before the Christian era. Its hero is the
only brother of Herod's unfortunate Queen, Ma.
H victimse watsoaanitwah
always
cis: us jealouse lfteye
lainngodf
wetvhaiesl
I%la-
riamne. They were the last of the race of the
Maccabees, the only descendahts of the A.smonian
gpip'roareipsnas'ilcolleiylsiktonyfßc rilooeftaehsreofdedl.l Aristobulus,by the proposal of some in-
discreet partisans to promote him to the
sovereignty on the day
of his installation
d
as High Priest. He dissembled ehis feelings
for some time, but on being further in-
censd temper of the Prince, he
by the haughty
decided on having him privately murdered as if by
accident. A day of
nately afforded sports and rejoicing unfortu-
min r
and after escaping many dangers, the ill-fated.
Aristobulus was intentionally drowned in a swim-
14anY opportunities for the crime,
trag gedy ace by two of the Kip purposes merely-
to
relate the history of the Prince, and does not
g's dependents. This
concludes the book, as it
touch upon the still darker story of his unfortunate
sister, whose sacrifice to Herod's jealousy has en-
gaged the pens of poets and romancists. TII9
violent and envious Herod, his wicked sister and
evil genius Salome, the beautiful and virtuous
Mariamne, and her cunning and crafty mother
Alexandra, whose idol is her son, all occupy pro-
' minent places in the story, while several minor
characters serve to fill up the tale and diver-
the Egyptian, forms a pleasing con-
', sify the interest. The love story of Julia
-1-Eto thes°P' dark and angry feelings and mali-
ciousplots that form the events of the
natlan.arsrt ative. The total novelty of the scene and
characters may afford a refreshing change to those
who are weary of narratives of modern life, though
the passions of the human heart, and their influ-
ence over the actions of men, present the same
features in all times and countries. The well-
known features of the story may also prove an at-
traction to those who find an interest in historical
romance.