The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

MARK-LANE.

The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our markets
today, were very moderate. The trade, however, was
quiet for all qualities, yet no change took place in prices,
compared with Monday.
With foreign wheat, the market was well supplied. In
most descriptions, a limited ,business was transacted, at
previous quotations.
Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates.
There was a moderate supply of barley on the stands.
Generally speaking the trade was dull, and prices had a
drooping tendency.
The malt trade was quiet, at late rates.
The supply of oats on sale was large. There was less
activity in the demand for most descriptions; nevertheless,
prices ruled firm.
Beans and peas were in limited supply, and both articles
commanded extreme rates.

Flom. was in moderate request, at Monday's quototions.
ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English .. 320 60 530 110 290
Irish .. — 1,000
Foreign 3,110 1,670 10,990 380 brls.

BOROUGH HOP.
The supply of new hops on sale is tolerably large, and
the trade rules heavy, at drooping prices,

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand
rules inactive, as follows :
SBeef, from 2s 10d to: 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d;
veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s to 48 6d per 81bs by
the carcase.

WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE IMPROVEMENTS.—Yes-
terday, by order of the Chief Commissioner of Public Works,
the removal of the whole of the houses required to com-
plete the approaches to Westminster-bridge was commenced
in Parliament-street, New Palace-yard, and Bridge-street.

A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATEPOR BIRKENHEAD.
—At the monthly meeting of the Birkenhead Commis-
sioners yesterday it was agreed to appoint a committee to
take into consideration the question of providing a stipen-
diary magistrate for Birkenhead. The commissioners gene-
rally are in favour of the appointment of a paid magistrate,
and the committee's chief business therefore will be to fix
the salary, &c.
THE BIRKENHEAD STREET RAlLWAY.—Birken-
head, which resembles many American cities in having the
advantage of an extensive street railway system, is to be
subjected to law for this reason. Mr. Gough, hotel pro-
prietor, and Mr. Evans, omnibus proprietor (whose traffic
the street railway interferes with), have intimated that un-
less the line of rails in Bridge-street are at once taken up,
they will take such steps to enforce their removal as the
solicitors acting for them may advise.
PREMATURE SMOKING.—Like many other pro-
found thinkers, Mr Punch is fond of smoking, and
he naturally entertains a sympathy for smokers, To have
his sympathy, however, smokers must smoke sensibly, and
not commit excesses. Mr _Punch likes moderate drinking,
but he hates to see men drunk; and he regards immoderate
smokers as only a shade less to be despised by him than
drunkards. Smoking prematurely is, to Air Lunch's think-
ing, the worst form of excess, and the one which moves in
him most hatted and disgust. Smoking prematurely
is a selfish, snobbish practice, and it is matter for re-
gret that there are not more means to stop it, Clearly it
is nonsense to pretend,that boys can really have a need or
liking for tobacco, or be a whit the better or the happier for
using it. Boys who prematurely smoke do so not because
they like it, but because they think it manly to be seen able
to smoke. Such smokers are, in fact, mean, silly little
snobs, and all right-minded people justly hold them in cone
tempt. Nature does her best to act as their tobacco stopper ;
but by practice they acquire the power to smoke without
being made sick by it, and this done they delude them-
selves by fancying that tobacco has become a vital need
to them, and when they smoke they try to think
they really relish it. This, however, is . sheer
nonsense, for the true taste for tobacco comes alone
with age, like the appetite for turtle, and it is not to be
acquired by those who prematurely seek it. Moreover, bo3 s
who take to smoking have not the sense to put due bounds
on their indulgence, and they are apt to smoke at times when
it does them the most it jury, and is to others the worst
nuisance. linable to control tiler:Ochres;
they smoke in
business hours and in going to their businet7...,l and when
going out to dinner they take a furtive pipe, and eve l 7 come
into a drawing-room with coats that stink of stale tobacoi.
Now,
tobacco is a good thing, and good things ought not
to be wasted. Smoking prematurely is a worse than
waste, fir it annoys people about him and only harms the
Ranker. One cannot well doubt this, if one but sees
the pimply cheeks and tallowy complexions of the young
short-pipe sucking fools who meet us everywhere. Every
whiff they take up helps to blow their brains out, and put
out of tune their organs of digestion. Few men can smoke
early,in the day w thout hurting them, and any boy who
does so must assuredly be weakened both in body and in
mind by it. A boy (which word applies to all youths under
20) who goes to business daily with a pipe between his teeth
has put an enemy into his mouth, that will steal away his
brains, and it is well that hie employer should be warned
against the robbery. Smoking prematurely is a habit as
injurious as taking early morning drams, or drinking port
wine before dinner; and as the evil has increased to really
serious diniensione, 11Ir _Punch may be excused for making
serious retaarko, Nod not making e joke of it,—.Funch,