The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-15 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 5s Od ; clover,
do., £3 lOs to £5 108 ; and straw, £ll2s to £1 16s per load.
A heavy trade.

CUMBERLAND.--MPFIIOV7 hay, £2 Os to £4 53; clove!,
£3 10s to £5 83 Od ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 16s per load.
Trade dull.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 16s to Xi ss; clover
do., £3 103 to .C 5 lOs ; and straw, kl 12,4 to £1 16s per load.
A slow sale.

Mr. James Fagan, who represented the county
Wexford for some years in the Imperial Parliament, in the
Liberal interest, died on Monday, in the 63d year of his
age, at Donabate, in the county Dublin.

'ELIE GREAT EASTERN.—Advices by the Etna
state that in consequence of dense fog the pilot deemed it
prudent not to take the Great Eastern out on the 3d. She
would leave New York on the 4th if the weather cleared up.
THE ALABAMA AGAIN.—The Jamaica Guardian
of the 24th ult. says:—The Confederate steamer
Alabama, Captain Semmes, captured the American barque
Parker Cooke, Fulton master, bound from Boston to Port-
au-Prince, with a cargo of provisions, on the 30th ult., off
the Mona Passage. The Alabama took Captain Fultoß
and crew and about 300 barrels of provisions from the barque
and then set her on fire. A few days after the capture of
Parker Cooke, the Confederate steamer fell in with the
American schooner Union, from Baltimore, bound to Port
Maria, with a cargo of flour, &c., for Messrs. X. Linndo
and Brothers. Captain Semmes finding by the papers of
the schooner that the cargo was the property of British
subjects did not detain her, but forced the captain to sign a
bond of 1,500 dols. Captain Fulton and the crew of the
Parker Cooke were then put on board the Union for Port
Maria, where they arrived on the 6th. Captain Fulton
came to this city and reported himself to the American
Consul. We learn that the Alabama laid three days off
the Mona Passage, waiting for the American steamer Navy
Bay."

THE POPE AT HOME.—A resident at Rome fur-
nishes the following information relative to the
domestic habits of the F',pe :—" His Holiness rises about 6.
At 7 he says mass in a room adjoining his bedroom. Almost
all the cardinals and the Roman bishops follow the same
custom. When a prelate at Rome hires a furnished
apartment he brings with him a small portable altar and
says mass at home; and it does not unfrequently happen
that a foreigner who hires an apartment which has been
previously occupied by a prelate finds some of the remnants
of those altars The Pope is served by a cameriere, and by
a prelate, priest, or deacon. There are at the Vatican ten
secret camerieri, more or le- s, closely attached to the Pope,
according to their age. At the head of them are Mgrs.
Le Merode, Talbot, and Ricci, who are alwaysanndeamr
his
Holiness. They keep him company, amuse him,
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him laugh, which is not very difficult, fokr ihnifri
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affairs, &c. That is the way in which the Cardinal
always addresses Pius IX. Cardinal Antonelli consults him
on everything, and is his most humble servant. This pH-
tical conversation and business of the Sovereign Pontiff
with the minihter lasts for an hour or two. About b alf- past
10 or 11 the audiences commence. The Pope, dressed in
white,is seated in a large arm-chair with a table before him.
He says two or three words to all the persons who are
presented to him in the language which they speak—French,
Italian, or Spanish; but it English or German be spoken,
an interpreter becomes necessary. Sometimes during the
audiences he signs applications for indulgences which have
been made to him in writing. The Pope willingly signs those
applications, writing at the bottom of them, Fiat Pio
IVono.' At 2 o'clock the pontifical dinner takes place. From
3 to 4 the Pope takes his siesta, as every one does at Rome.
If you call at the house of a cardinal at that hour, the an-
swer invariably is His Eminence is reposing.' The Pope
does neither more nor less than others. At 6 o'clock
his Holiness takes a drive in a carriage, escorted by guards
_e camerieri, and monsignori. At 7 the Pope sups, and
after-
wards plays a game at billiards. At 10 all the lights at
.th
Vatican are extinirnished,"