The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-14 00:00:00

HE SIJN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, INOVEMBER 14, 1861.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Very little change took place in the value cf wheat in the
country markets held on Saturday. On the whole, the
trade was steady, and a fair consumptive business was
transacted. Good and fine barley and oats sold steadily, at
full quotations; but for other articles the trade was slow,
on former terms. _ .

On the continent the oorn trade generally is without ma-
terial improvement ; in prices, however, scarcely any
alteration has occurred. Advices from New York state that
the export demand for wheat and fl)ur continues much re-
restricted.
But moderate supplies of English 'grain were received
up to our ;rut ket last week. The imports from abroad
amounted to 21,855 quarters of wheat, 36,793 oats, 20 bean,
1,480 peas, 55 tares, 2,305 linseed, 4,305 rapeseed, 2,82)
maize, 179 sundry seeds, and 240 sacks of fi )ur.
Compared with Monday last there was a slight increase
in the fr, eh arrivals of home-grown wheat to our market
this morning, and the total quantity exhibited for sale
during the day was moderately large. The trade vas less
active than on Monday last. Good and fine dry priduce
was sold at late rates. Inferior and damp parcels, how-
ever, changed hands at a reduction of is per qr, or were left
unsold at the close of business.
The market was moderately supplied with barley. Good
and fine malting qualities were in request, at extreme rates.
Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at previous
quotations.
There was a good supply of foreign wheat on the stands
The trade, generally speaking, was quiet, yet no quotable
change took place in prices from Monday last.
The supply of oats was extensive, but the trade was dull
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE!.
Wheat

•Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 365 to 403
Ditto, 1861
Ditto, white, 1863 4os 443
Ditto, 1861
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864
Ditto, 1863
Talavera, 1864 ... . 44s 503
Rye—
Barley—Grinding 22s 253
Sus 35
Malting*, new, 5
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 63s
Brown
Kingstown and Ware 6os C 33
Chevalier
Oats —Yorkshire and Lineolnsh'., Feeding. 19s 223
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black lBs 22s
Cork, white 193 23s
Scotch, Feeding 205 23s
Beans—Tick
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey
Maple
'White 36s 403
Boilers 368 403
-Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 283 30s
Stockton and Norfolk ....... 26s 283
American, per barrel ... 19s 25s

Flour•

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
There was a large supply of foreign boasts and sheep on
offer in to-day's market, in very middling condition. Sales
progressed slowly, at drooping prices.
From our own gre zing districts the reccip's of beasts fresh
up, this morning, were only moderate, both as to number
and quality. The arrivals from Scotland were very prime.
For all breeds, the demand ruled heavy, at a decline in the
quotations, oompared with Monday last, of 2d per Bibs, and
a total clearance was not effected. The general top figure
for beef was 5s 4d per Sibs. There was a fair show of Irish
bullocks.
The arrivals of beasts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire,
and Northamptonshire, amounted to about 2,500 short
horns, crosses, se.; from other parts of England, 800
various breeds ; from Scotland, 178 Scots and crosses; and,
from Ireland, 450 oxen.
With most breeds of sheep we were fairly supplied.
Prime Downs, half-breds, /co., moved off steadily, at full
quotations. Otherwise, the mutton trade was heavy, at
2d per 81bs less money. The best old Downs wore worth
be 10d per 81bs.
Calves—the supply of which was moderate—were a slow
sale, at late rates—viz., from 4s to 5s per 81bs.
Prime small pigs ruled steady in price ; but, large hogs
were a dull inquiry, at previous quotations.
Per 81bs. to sink the offal.

s. d. s d
Primecrs-wool d 0.5 2 5 6
Pme.S'thdowndo.s 8 5 10
Largo orse. calves 4 0 4 6
Prime small do 4 8 5 0
Large hobs 3 6 4 2
Small porkers..., 4 4 4 10
s 0d to Os Od.

s. d. s. d.
Orse. &inf. beasts 3 4 4 0
Secondquality do. 4 2 4 8
Prime large oxen 4 10 5 0
Prime Scots, Etc. 5 2 5 4
Urse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 6
Second quality do. 4 8 5 0
Lambs,...(
Suckling calves, 16s to 22s
20s to 26s each.
TOTAL SUPPLY.
Beasts ....
Cows
Sheep
Calves ....
Pigs. 3601
The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week
amounted to 16,173 head. In the corresponding week in
1863, we received 9,401—in 1862, 8,2 B—in 1861, 5,837
—in 1860, 8,242—in 1859, 6,210—in 1858, 6,765.
IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
Antwerp — • . .. 28 ..
Bremen 277 .. 32 .. ••
Boulogne... c —
Calais
Dordt. lO9 .. 571
Dunkirk .•
Gibraltar
Hamburg
Harlingen
Medemblik
Oporto ..
Ostend 4 .. 42 .. •• 14 ..
Rotterdam lO5l ~ 4548 .. .. 519 .. 304
Tonning 2487 .. 1303 .. 74 ..
Vigo

and quarter-old store pigs

FOREIGN STIFFLY.
Boasts
Sheep
Calves ....
Pigs ..... . 9O

- - 632

- • • ---- • • "'"'" • •

Total ....4,686 .. 10,201 .. 74 .. 703 ..1049
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
863 2892 .. 5,539 .. .. 453 .. 017
862 1260 .. 6,504 .. 90 .. 317 .. 35
.861 877 .. 4,453 .. .. 214 .. 293
.860
1859 1371 .. 4,570 .. 7 .. 217 .. 45
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market on Monday, Nov. 16, 1863, and this day,
Monday, Nov. 14, 1864,
Per 81b. to sink the offal.
Nov. 16,
1863.
Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3
Second quality do. 3lO 4 8 4
?rime large oxen 4 6 410
Prime Scots, &c 4lO 5 0
Coarse and inferior sheep
Second quality do.
Prime coarse-woolled do
Primo Southdown do. .. 0
56 5 8
0 0 0
Lambs
Large coarse calves .. 3 8 4 4
Primo small do.
Large hogs
Neat small porkers
Beasts ..
Sheep and lambs
Calves
Pigs34o
SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 37, 1862.—8 c
sheep, 19,530—calves, 181—pigs, 410.
Nov. 18, 1861.—Beasts, 4,180—sheep, 2
144—pigs, 440.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
These markets are but moderately supplied with ram
from the West of England and from Scotland. For al
qualities the trade is firm, at our quotations,

Nov. 14,

1864.
3 4to 4 0
12 4 8
410 5 0
52 5 4
310 4 6
48 5 0
52 5 6
5 8 518
00 0 0
40 4 6
48 6 0
36 4 2
4 4 410
6,580
24,450
210
350
Jags, 6,160

100—calves

Per 81b. by the carcase.
stied sdsd
Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 4 Middling mutton 4 2 4 6
Nliddling do. .. 36 4 0 Prime do .. 48 5 0
Prime large do. 4 2 4 4 Veal
Do. small do. .. 4 6 4 8 Small pork ~ 4 6 5 0
Large pork .... 3 6 4 4 Lamb
Inferior mutton. 3 4 4 0
BOROUGH HOP.
Our market continues very firm. For nearly all descrip-
tions of hops there is a steady consumptive demand, and
last week's quotations are fully supported. - The import
into London last week amounted to 77 bales from Antwerp,
69 Bremen, 32 Dordt, 288 HAmburg, 77 Rotterdam, 58
Ostend, and 161 bales from Dunkirk,

per cwt.
New Mid and East Kent
New Weald of Kent
New Sussex
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.

The supplies of home-grown potatoes on sale at these
markets is seasonably large, but the arrivals are mostly
confined to the home growth, the receipts of foreign produce
being small. For most qualities there is a steady demand,
and prices rule firm, with a tendency to improvement for
fine samples. Last week's import was-100 tons from
Groningen, 6 bags from Hamburg, 44 bags, &c., from Rot-
terdam, 15 bags from Antwerp, and 13 baskets from Ostend.
Yorkshire Regents 7os to 100 s per ton.
Flukes
Kent and Essex Regents
Rocks
Scotch Regents
Foreign

is a fair business transacted
ruled firm.

Turnip,White,p.bus.2Cs to 22s
Swede —s —s
Mustard, Brown —s _
White,
Tares, Spring _ s 8
New winter, bush 8s 9s
Chnary, per quarter —s -
Rye grass
Clover, Red Eng., et. •as —8
White -8
Foreign Red —s —8
White —s —8

Trefoil new..• ••• • • —s

in cakes, and the currencies

Carraway 349 35s
Coriander 229 25s
liempseed, per qr 569 609
Liuseed,Eng.sowing 649 68s
Crushing

Baltic — s —s
Odessa —s —s
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
English £lo Os £ll 5s
Foreign £9 10s £ll 5s
Rape Cakes,p ton £5 lOs £O5B
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 70s 70s

EXECUTION OF HULLER.

(THIS DAY.)

Confession of the Murderer.
The Old Bailey in the course of yesterday was
visited by some thousands of respectably attired
people, who intermingled with others of the lowest
order, and wandered in and out the barriers till a
heavy rain compelled them to beat a retreat. And
owing no doubt to the unpropitious state of the
weather, which did not begin to clear up till nearly
2 o'clock this morning, there were very few persons
assembled. At this Lour there could not have been
at the most more than a couple of thousand persons
present, and those principally of the lowest possible
order, many of whom were curled up like bundles
of dirty rags in doorways of the bye-streets, and in
the Old Willey itself.

Flom Ludgate-hill to St. Sepulchre's Church
barriers, extending entirely across the road and
footway, were erected at given distances, and kept
up to 6 o'clock by a small detachmeut of the City
police, under the command of Mr Inspector
Everett.

From the corner of Fleet-lane to a considerable
distance beyond the "debtors' door" double butlers
were ereot€d, forming the enclosure for the gallows.
Here, then, at this hour, the main body cf the as-
sembled people took up their positions, and kept
them with indomitable tenacity, though they were
occasionally assailed by heavy showers of rain. In-
side this enclosure a few privileged gentlemen,
amongst whom were several of high rank, paraded,
cigar in mouth, to and fro. For those who took
up positions lower down, nearer the Sessions
House, there was nothing to do but to wander up
and down within the limit of the particular pen in
which they chose to station themselves. Of course
eating, drinking, and smoking was the prevailing
element in these morbid groups of sightseers, who
extensively patronised the peripatetic vendors of
baked potatoes, fried fish, and such like delicacies.
To those who had plenty of money seats at the win-
dows of public-houses, offee-shops, and other tene•
ments in close proximity, were let at fabulous prices,
ranging from £lO to £3O for small, dilapidated
rooms with a couple of windows, while £3 and £5
were looked upon and quoted as a reasonable price
for standingroom even at windows just within sight
of tha place of execution. Nor were the owners of
many of these tenements content to advertise their
seats by means of canvassers to whom they allowed
a liberal commission, but thickly placarded their
windows with such announcements as "Seats to
let," " Good view of the execution," &c. Bat note
withstanding the degrading efforts of these filthy
lucre seekers, it was gratifying to observe that up
to within a short time of the execution there were
still large numbers of windows to let, which, at the
last moment, were thrown open at comparatively
nominal prices. Towards three o'clock the crowd
materially increased. Carpenters and workmen
with crowbars began to flit to and fro, while the
windows, especially those in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the prison, became filled with occur
pants, whose dark outlines, boldly defined by the
blazing fires within, formed grotesque phan-
tasmagoric pictures that rather harmonised than
otherwise with the buzzing, discordant hubbub, of
the mingled thousands, and the hideous gibbet
beneath.
Shortly before four o'clock the rumbling was heard in the
press-yard which indicated that the machinery for the exe-
cution was on the move. All eyes were turned to the gates
from which the huge black box, over which some 70 crimi-
nals have expiated their crimes, was to come. In a moment
it appeared, drawn by two horses, which seemed rather
ashamed of the business on which they were engaged. one
of them showing a strong inclination to jib. With little
difficulty, for the men seemed thoroughly to understand
their work, the foundation of the gallows was got into its
place, when an unearthly yell, such as is only heard at the
foot of the gibbet, was raised. As each stage was com-
pleted in fitting up the awful apparatus, there was a cheer,
or a yell, cr a groan, or a mingling of the three. At about
half-past four all was in readiness; the mob, which only
numbered some 2,500 or 3,000, having seen that which is
always looked forward to as the first exciting part of the
ceremony, subsidel into comparative silence, the constant
showers, and the impossibility of getting drink, having
rath r cooled them, and all noisy outbreaks having been im-
mediately suppressed by the well-directed efforts of the
police, under Inspector Everett, whose personal firmness
had no small influence on the roughs. Up to half.past 4
we heard of but one case of robbery ; in that instance, one
gentleman was captured with another gentleman's watch in
his hand.
Airing the few hours that elapsed between the erection
of the gallows and the execution of the culprit, the
workmen were busily engaged fixing the remaining barriers.
The sound of the heavy mauls driving in the iron supports
probably reached the ears of the criminal in his condemned
cell. Then must he have too fully realised the words of
the immortal Bard of Avon—
" The weariest and most loathsome worldly life,
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death."
Inside the prison the heavy, iron-grated, dimly-lighted
passages, through which reigns a death-like silence, broken
but seldom; and then only by the clinking rattle of warders'
keys, strike terror iuto the very soul of the stranger. En-
tering the building the iron-covered spiked door in the
Old Bailey, which is instantly closed upon the visitor, one
finds oneself in a lofty, half-lighted stone hall, about 40ft
square. Here, then, so far as one's freedom is concerned,
one is for the time being at the entire mercy of the gaoler,
who, with the exception of Mr Jonas, the governor of the
prison, is the only man possessed of a key that can again
restore one to liberty. With a feeling of awe the visitor
scans the dreary stone-paced hall. The eyes alight upon
three black boards fixed on the wall directly opposite the
entrance : on these are written the rules of the prison-
house, but dust and age hide from the distant gaze these
ancient writings. Against the wall to the left are fixed a
couple of shelves, on which are ranged in grim array the
white plaster casts of the heads of Greenacre, Courvoisier,
Hecker, Thistlewoed, Mullins, and others, who have been
hanged at Newgate. In all there are about 30, and strange
to say, in expression there are no two alike. The protruding
eyeballs of some, the half-closed eyes of others, the marks
of the rope on different parts of the neck, and the otherwise
distorted countenances, peering as they do through a thick
veil of back dust, and associated, too, with all that is ter-
rible, present a most hideous picture, and one that once seen
is not easily forgotten. With a shudder one turns away
from this frightful picture, and inquiringly eyes the grated
door opening into the first of the narrow, tortuous, and
apparently half-subterranean passages leading through the
heart of the prison to the condemned. cells. As a kind of
personal relief one questions and chats with the ruddy-faced,
good-tempered gaoler, who says he has bean stationed at
" that post for the past five-and-twenty years," and epito-
mises and narrates the histories of the numerous murderers
who have been hanged at Newgate during that period. All
this time one is waiting for the governor of the gaol, for
without his escort no one is allowed to go beyond the hall.
In due course he makes his appearance. The door is opened
by a gaoler from the inside, whose bright-buttoned uniform
and significant bunch of keys suspended from his
belt more than once attract attention while in the hall to
the grated door, as ho paces to and from the gloomy passage
within. Entering at this gate, then, the visitors turn to the
left and pass along a passage dimly lighted by a small gas-jet.
At the end on the right is another
_massive iron door, and
another stalwart gaoler or sentry. Instinctively, as it were,
through the grated window, he catches sight of the much-
respected governor, and throws back the cumbrous gate
upon its powerful hinges. Beyond is a kind of stone vestibule,
lighted by several small windows high up in the building.
Here. in the centre, is the "strong room," a place devoted
to the exclusive use of solicitors and counsel, in which they
hold converse with their prisoner-clients. From the fact of
being called the "strong-room," it might generally be sup-
posed to be made of iron and doubly locked. But this is not
so; on the contrary, it is in a building of glass, and is
termed "strong" because it is guarded by gaolers, who from
the outside can witness all that is going throw ; but can hear
nothing. Proceeding onwards, passing gh another,
and fifth massive iron door, a narrow passage is reached
which leads into the new wing of the gaol, an extensive
building lighted by skylights. In this structure are a series
of stone balconies built over each other in front of the cells
built in the walls round the room. Crossing this, one passes
through another iron door on the north side of the room
into a short passage open to the air, but so covered in with
thick iron bars and strong wire that daylight is almost
excluded. At the end of this another massive door is
opened, and the visitor energes into a court-yard about
10 feet wide. This is formed by the boundary wall in
Newgate-street and the new wing of the gaol. In this
yard the condemned cells are situated. There aro two of
these cells, each about ten feet square, and each contain-
ing an iron bedstead and mattress, a small deal table (over
which is a gas jet), and a couple of stools. Light is ad-
mitted by a square thickly•grated window looking into
the courtyard, and on to the massive towering white washed
wall opposite. Such, then, is the ingress to the condemned
cells,in one of which the wretched culprit who this morning
forfeited his life on the scaffold was confined since his con-
viction, and where he must have constantly heard the din of
busy life without.
The egress, however, from this horrible spot to the
debtor's door is by other and gloomier passages, which this
morning were made doubly so by the soLmn procession that
passed through them.
After Mr Beard, Alderman Wilson, and Mr Jonas loft the
prisoner on Satutday night he li.‘72eared much shaken by