The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-03 00:00:00

BILLINGSGATE.

Salmon, Os Ild to is ld ; trout, Od to Od ; eels, 5d to 10d ;
prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Od per
lb ; turbots, 4s Od to 15s ; cod, 2s Od to lOs Od ; brills, Os Od
to Os Od ; doreys, 2s Od to 8s 0(1 ; mullets, Os Gd to is 6d ;
lobsters, is to 3s:0(1; crabs, is to 3s Od; plaice and gurnets,
Od to Os Od each ; soles, is to 3s Od per pair ; common
oysters, 18s to 40s ; natives, 65s to 80s per bush. ; whitings,
6s Od to 12s ; haddocks, 12s to 24s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od ;
flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 50s to 100 s per 100 ;
fresh herrings, 7s to 8s per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ;
carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace.
NEWPORT.

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 33 83 to 4s 8d ;
lamb, Os Oct to Os Od ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, $s
6d to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase.
WHITECHAPEL.

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d;
veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s Sd per Blbs by
the carcase.

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
G>d to 7d, of household do., 5d to Gd per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d to 34d ; 64113 to 721 b, 34d
to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 34d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 41n ;
SBlb to 901 b, 41d to sd; 961 b to 1041 b, —d to Od ; 104th to
1121b,—d to —d. Horse hides, lOs Od to lls Od ; calf skins,
light, 2s Od to 4s Od ; full, 7s Gd to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os
Od to Os Od ; half-breds, —s Od to ----s Od ; Downs, 3s Gd to
5s 3d; lambs, 3s Gd to is Od; sheailings, 4s 9d to 6s 3d.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITIIPIEID.—Mcadow hay, £4 Os to £6 Os ; clover,
£5 Os to £7 Os ; and straw, £1 Ss to £1 12s par load,
Trade firm.

CUMBERLAND.•—Mea4ow hay, £4 Cs to £6 63; clovei,
£5 Os to £7 7s ; and straw, £1 SI to £1 12s por load.
A steady demand.
WHITECIIIPEL —Meadow hay, £4 Os to £6 Os; clover,
£5 Os to £7 Os ; and straw, £1 Ss to £1 12s per load.
Trade steady.

COAL MARKET.

Prices of Coal per Ton a'

the elorie of the market.

s. d.
Holywell ..16 0
Byass's Bebside West
Hartley lB 3
Cowpen Hartley " lB 6
Walker Primrose 13 3
Eden Main ..17 6
North Pelton Gas _„l3 9

Walls End.
Hartlepool l9 0
East Hartlepool 18 9
South Hartlepool 18 0
South Kelloe 18 3
Eleugh Hall 18 3
Hatton
Brs.ddyll'a Iletton 17 9
Bell . l7 0
South Hetton 19 0
,t. 25 ; sold. 25.

Walls End.

Haswell ...19 0
Ships at marks

The New Patent Office.--Choice of Site

for it.

(From the Law Times of to-day.)
The block of buildings bounded by Southampton-build-
ings, Chancery-lane, C ursitor- street and Tooke's-court, and
principally occupied by old and dilapidated houses, has been
fixed upon by a select committee of the House of Commons
as one of two preferable sites for the Patent-office, library
and museum. The other adjoins the Chancery-lane block,
and extends to the north side of the Roo.rd-ofiloo. A plain
argument in favour of either site is the plan for concentrating
the law courts between Carey-street and the Strand. The
committee considers that the necessity for increased accom-
modation in respect of the Patent-offi3e and library is most
urgent, as it appears, from evidence taken before the
committee, that the want of such accommodation is so
much felt as to prejudice the due administration of
the patent law. The place now used in South-
ampton-buildings for the inspection of specifications
and drawings is little better than a dark passage in which
there ie barely standing room. The present library is of
impaired utility, from its crowded state and want of suffi-
cient attendants. The books are stowed away in a number
of small rooms, or closets, some on floors, some on tables,
some in passages, and some on shelves ; while the store-
rooms are so overloaded that the floors have already sunk,
and the surveyor of the Board of Works has refused to
allow them to be loaded any more for fear they should
break down. The museum, too, at Kensington is too much
crowded for classification or inspection by visitors.
The cost of the Chancery-lane block would be £205,000 ;
the funds for the site and building are to be supplied from the
surplus fees. It appears that the surplus of receipts beyond
expenditure, in the balance of accounts of the fees payable
3,004 up to the end of
by stamps, under the provisions of the Patent Law Amend-
ment Act 1852, has amounted to £l7
alcBc6o2,
na
tria h d thatave notthe yetbeen
e e surplus for he year 1863, of which the
upublished,
is estimated to amount
to £37,000, making up, to the end of last year, a total sur-
plus revenue of £210,044. This surplus has gone to in-
crease the public) revenue. The committee considers that
the object of the fees was to provide for the proper working
of the Act, and is of opinion that for the future the annual
surplus revenue should be so applied to the extent Which
may be necessary.

An annual surplus of £37,000 represents a pretty little
capital of £1,200,000, if such a sum were borrowed on Go-
vernment security. The whole estimate for the Law Courts,
including the site and approaches, is only a million and a
half. We would propos©, then, if it would not involve any
spoliation, that when the Patent-office and Law Courts
schemes again come together under the notice of Parlia-
ment, the expediency of an amalgamation might be con-
sidered, to ease the pressure on the Chancery funds. No
one can deny, when a single patent case this year has
occupied thirty-three days sittings' of one of the Vice-
Ohancellors, that the Patent-office and the Courts of Chan-
cery are under mutual obigations.
Since the report of the Select Committee was made, a
large portion of the Chancery-lane block towards Cursitor-
t is
incourse
and o t houftdldeimna afa
olitioenssfoarat
j chambers. The cost
he Purpose of widening
that
of this site will, therefore, in all probability be increased.
stree
street

HOW TIIR LORD PROVOST ni,, la
'-'. PERTH WAS
KNIGHTED.—Probably the fellow citizens end
country friends of Lord Provost Ross were taken by sur-
prise when, immediately after the unveiling of the statue,
the
Queentokneel
herrewih
dogawn and , swordthen
froth
General Grey, ordered
his lordship touching him with the
naked blade, first on the left shoulder, and then on the
right, ordered him to rise 11.13 " Sir David Ross." The
newly-created knight himself was not much less surprised
cerhemonoonuiral.beiNngo
doubt, as we stated last week,. the Court Journal had gos-
u
than any who witnessed thyewojt but
t his lordship himself
fhis:
such
or less
half an
oishnifap
arpi
etessdne
orbvaeebi
intimationnof
gou t
r c
ourot
nh fee conferred
.prooerfroddb
iautbyti
oli:
Provost; imposing
him.
When the procession
was formed at the general station, and just before it
started, Sir Geo. Grey, accompanied by the Hon. Arthur
Kinnaird, called on the Lord Provost in his carriage, and
asked his Christian name- " David," says his lordship ;
" because," said Sir George, " the queen intends to confer
upon you the honour of knighthood." His lordship said
he hoped not ; whereupon Sir George replied, 4, there must
be no refusal," and went and took his place in the proces-
sion. It Was like her gelest.7- She meant to honour,
through its chief magistrate, our ancient city, and so ordered
duly appreciate the honour
it that her purpose could not be thwarted, The citizens of
uwgillDavid
Ross
~
conferred
ewde
upon
ne
them n o doubt,thro
h Sir and as for
Sir David himself, we have only to wish that, he may long
worthily elijoy the honour conferred upon him by his
Sovereign,— _Pa thshire Advertiser.

GOVERNMENT EMIG RATioN.--lier Alajesty'e
Emigration Commissioners have given notice of
their intention to receive tenders on Thursday next, the
Bth inst., for a ship to convey emigrants to Sydney, New
South Wales. The ship is to be prepared for the reception
w
of her passengers on such day between the 10th and 17th
oalfreOacdtyobfuerrnaisshtehde
with
a water-distilling Commissionersa ter-dis maytill apparatus, must name, and if not
be supplied with the necessary fuel for working a new
apporatus, to be placed cu board by tics Commissioners.

DEATH FROM A WASP STING.—A little boy,
named Poole, residing with his parents at llpton, St.
Leonard's, was last week stung between the fingers by a
wasp. His mother adopted the usual homely remedies, but
he remained ill during the night, and died the next
morning, having previously to being stuns 9njoyed excel-
lent health,„