The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-28 00:00:00

MEAT MARKETS.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—But moderate supplies
of meat are on sale here, and the trade generally is steady
at the annexed currency :—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 4d ;
mutton, 3s 10d to 45 Sd ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s
8d to 4s 8d per 81bs by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, Jan. 27. Prime stock changed hands
steadily, at full prices; otherwise, trade was inactive, as
follows :—Beet, from 3s 10d to 5s ad ; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s
Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; and pork,
3s Sd to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, Jan. 27.—Supply moderate and trade firm.
Beef, from 3s 8d to 5s Od ; mutton, 4s 24 to 6s Od ; veal,
4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 10d to 4s 6d per Blbs ; suckling
calves, 12s to 20s ; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 265; and
milch cows, £l4 to £lB 105 each.

HAY MARK2T S.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, £1 2s to £1 lOs per load.
A slow trade.
CUMBERLAND.--Mewlow hay, £3 Os to £4 103 Od
er ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s. Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 p load.
A moderate demand.
WHITECIIIPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 2s to £1 lOs per load.
Supply tolerably good.

The half-yearly meeting of the Union Bank of
Ireland was held to-day, and it was found that,
after making due provision for bad and doubtful
debts, there was a gross profit of £7,818 is. lid. ;
and after payment of all current expenses, and in-
terest on deposits, and current' accounts, there
remained a net balance of £3,303 4s. Bd. for the
half year, which, added fto the amount brought
forward, makes the total of net profits £4,126
Hs. 9d., which the directors recommended to be
carried to the new account.
The West India and Pacific Steamship Company
are organising a comprehensive
plan for a regular
and efficient steam service between Liverpool and
the various West India Islands, th
e Spanish Main,
Mexico, Venezuela, &c. The departures will be
weekly from the beginning of March, and in qddi-
tion a line of the company's steamers will run be-
tween New York, Hayti, and Jamaica, for which
service the directors have secured a postal subsidy
from the Colonial Governments.
GENERAL CORCORAN, who was thrown from his
horse and killed not long since in the American
seat of war, about four or five years back kept a common
groggery in a part of the oity well suited to his business.
He made a little money, and became colonel of the 69th
Militia Regiment, which was composed entirely of Irish-
men. You may remember, says the New York correspon•
dent of a weekly contemporary very favourable to the
North, that on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of
Wales to New York, an occasion to which we look back
with a curious and not altogether pleasant mixture of
emotions, he and his regiment flatly refused to obey the
orders of his superior officer to parade. He was condemned
without measure (such was our folly then), court martialled,
and would have been broke ; but, pending his dilatory trial,
Fort Sumter was bombarded. His regiment, being most of
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and he entered the national service. At Bull Run he
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he was released, but ho must be made a brigadier-general.
Now, he was about as fit to be a general as to write a com-
mentary on the Talmud ; but to conciliate the Irish interest
he was awarded the epaulettes, thereby becoming a constant
trouble to the Government, for what to do with him they
knew not. well, this man, who was of the class which
supplies us with our day-labourers and housemaids, was
buried with a civic and military pomp, and an outpouring
of people which were suited to the obsequies of one who
united the distinctions of a great general and a great states-
man. His body lay in state with a guard of honour. and
his funeral procession, which passed in sight of my house,
through a throng of people which choked the street through-
out its course, was filled with municipal, and State, and
national officials, and was nearly, if not quite, a mile in
length. This man a few years ago might have been the
coachmen of men who marched as privates in the ranks of
some of the regiments which escorted his body to the grave,
and with some of them his chances of social inter
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were, at any time, about as good as those of King
with the Duke of Cambridge.
DISASTER AT SEA.--A Prusian bark has arrived
at Falmouth, having on board the crew, 24 in number, of
the Ghengbis Khan, of Liverpool, 1,208 tons register, Ed-
ward Phelan, master, with a cargo of coals, which was
abandoned in a waterlogged state on the 17th inst.