The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-12 00:00:00

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market to• day the arrival of old home-
grown wheat was very moderate. The trade, however, was
dull, at Monday's decline in the quotations. New wheat
was quoted as follows :—Red, 42s to 445; white, 43s to 48s;
and Talavera, 48s to 50s per quarter.
The market was fairly supplied with foreign wheat. The
amount of business transacted was very moderate, yet
prices ruled stationary.

Floating cargoes of wheat were in slow request, at late
rateff. Spring corn aEoat was firm in price.

A fair rupply of barley was on sale for the time of year.
On the whole the trade ruled steady, at full prices.
blalt was in fair average request, and the quotations

ruled firm.

The supply of oats was very large. The trade was active
for all descriptions, and prices had in some instances a
drooping tendency.
Beaus and peas were in short supply. The trade for
them ruled firm, at quite previous rates.
In flour a moderate business was transacted, at late quo-
tations.

ARRIVALS THIS WIIRK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 490 320 1,410 1640
Irish
Foreign 10,880 1,930 --69,570 1,380 brls.

NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL.
The suppl of meat on sale at these markets is but mode
rate, and the trade rules firm, at our quotations.

Per 81b. by the carcase.
sdsd
Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 4
Middling do. .. 3 6 3 8
Friine:large do. 3 10 4 0
Do. small do. .. 4 2 4 4
Large pork 3 4 4 0
Inferior mutton. 3 10 4 2

edit d
Middling mutton 4 4 4 6
Prime do .. 4 8 4 10
Veal
Small pork ~ .. 4 2 4 6
Lamb

BOROU

H HOP.

A few parcels of new English hops have been forwarded
for sale to this market since our last, and they have been
disposed of at X 7 and L 7 7s per cwt. For lest year's pro-
duce there is a steady demand, and prices rule firm. Old
hops, however, are a dull inquiry. From most plantations
the accounts respecting the probable yield are satisfactory.

Death of Kr, Robson, the Comedian.

With a regret, which we are sure will be shared
in by most of our readers, we have to announce the
death of Mr. Robson, the popular comedian, and
joint lessee of the Olympic Theatre. For some
considerable time Mr. Robson had been in a de.
clining state of health, but latterly he had appae
rently so much improved that his re-appearance on
the stage was confidently expected at no very dis-
tant date. Death, however, has put an end to
those anticipations, as at twelve o'clock last night
he expired at his residence, 19, Ampthill-Square,
near Mornington-crescent. Mr. Rebson's success
as an actor commenced from the period of his
quitting the Grecian Saloon to fulfil an engagement
in Ireland, at the termination of which he was
engaged, in 1853, by the late Mr. William Farren,
then lessee of the Olympic Theatre. The character
which first stamped Mr. Robson as an actor
of no ordinary ability was his embodiment of the
principal part in the burlesque of Macbeth. Such
was the impression made by his peculiar abilities
that for months crowds were nightly attracted to
the Theatre, but the popularity he had
already achievedpic was greatly extended by the
force and Olympic
intensity he threw into the nest burl, sque
attempted—viz., Shylock. At the termination of
Mr. Farrems management Mr. Alfred Wigan
became lessee of the theatre, and Mr. Robson
was at once engaged by the new lessee. From
that period he achieved a series of successes which
placed him at the head of burlesque actors, whilst
comedian. Who can forget his
veryi s m
epeculiarlynen t
low
humorous Powers also made him a
Jem Baggs, the Wandering Minstrel, or his Jacob
Earwig, or, in the more intense drama, his Daddy
liardacre ? In August, 1857, Mr. Robson, in
conjunction with Mr. Emden, became lessees
of the Olympic, and for a considerable period his
great talents were found quite sufficient
to draw crowded audiences despite the
attractions held out at the other metropolitan
theatres. But his abilities were overwrought, and
in obedience to his medical adviser, Mr. Robson,
tempornrily retired from the stage in order that he
might recover that strength which his great exer-
tions had:exhausted. So far had he recovered, that,
in consequence of the great success of the play of
The Ticket of Leave" that he took a provincial
tour, and appeared i n some of our principal towns in
many of those parts which had so greatly
delighted the London playgoers. Some short time
and it was thought
ago he
much
improved
retunedp rev ed toin London,healhealth,
but really it was
not so; his painful malady again attacked
him, and last night, as we have before mentioned,
he expired. Mr. Robson was a genial, kind-
hearted gentleman, and ever foremost in lending
nis aid to benefit his less fortunate fellow artists.

The Holy Alliance,

The .reavalide -RUM publishes the following
article:--`` During the sitting of the 22d of July,
when Lord Stratford de &Miffs directed the atten-
tion of the House of Lords to the rumours concern-
ing the restoration of the Holy Alliance, and de-
nounced it as dangerous for the liberties of Europe,
Earl Russell very judiciously replied that present
circumstances rendered therenewal of such an Alli-
ance very doubtful. In this case we perfectly agree
with the Secretary of the Foreign-office. We have
never ceased to repeat that, although the ques-
tions which occupy Europe have been de-
bated at the meetings of the Sovereigns,
yet that no treaty hcd been concluded; and we
added that a treaty which would engage our
liberty of action would only be a misfortune for
Russia, who has two much to do at home to be able
to interfere in the complications which m;ght arise
abroad. Events have justified us. and Lord Russell
has confirmed, if not our explanations, at least our
conclusions. But why did his lordship add that in
Russia, in Prussia, and in Austria it was generally
admitted that these Powers constantly express the
wish that the Sovereigns of Europe should unite to
resist democratic movements This unfortunate
phrase denotes that the noble lord has but an imper-
fect knowledge of the state of things in Russia, and
once more proves the influence of prejudice even on a
great mind. We will profit by the occasion to express
our opinion on a subject which is generally very ill
understood abroad. I❑ Russia the words aristocracy
and democracy cannot have the same meaning as in
the other parts of Europe ; oar history, our Govern-
ment, our institutions,esta Wish between us and other
nations very great differences. If we were to give a
State occupied with the welfare of the masses the
denomination of democrats we can boldly affirm the'
the Russian nation is democratic. As the Govern-
ment is more demccratic than the people, as we have
neither political nor dynastic parties, it follows from
that, although we are democratic, we are in no wise
revolutionary. History does not present to us an ex-
ample of a more complete harmony existing between
a Sovereign and his nation, and our Government
knows it so well that, instead of guarding itself
against revolution, instead of uniting in a league with
other sovereigns against an evil it has not to fear at
home, it anticipates public opinion and grants greater
liberties than those demanded by the masses. We see
very well all that our Government has done for our
welfare. The abuses disappear one by one ; the forces
which until now remained without use have been
called into activity ; justice has taken a more regular
course, and authority itself represses all arbitrary
tendencies on the part of its servants. The attituce
of the population during the late Polish insurrec-
tion has, besides, sufficiently proved the harmony
existing between the Sovereign and his people.
Let Lord Russell, therefore, explain to us the rea-
son why he thinks the Emperor of Russia could be
induced to join the other Sovereigns in resisting the
encroachments of democracy."