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

HAY mARK 2, TS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 108 Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 2s to £1 lOs per load.
A. slow trade.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £410,3 Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £l4a to £1 lOs per load,
A moderate demand.
WHITEcHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4lOB Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 2s to £1 lOs per load.
Supply tolerably good.

T!e 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 le. 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
which, added to the amount brought
half year,
forward, makes tie total of net profits £4,126
118. 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, the Spanish Main,
Mexico, Venezuela &e. The departures will be
weekly from the beginning of March, and in addi-
tion a line of the tompany's steamers will run be-
tween New York, Hayti, and Jamaica, for which
service the director' have secured a postal subsidy
from the Colonial Governments.
GENERAL CORCORAN, who was thrown from his
horse and killed rot long since in the American
seat of war, about four or five years back kept a common
groggery in a part of the oily 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 tnd 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
them out of employment, were ready to take the field, and
he became an important person. His trial was suspended,
and he entered the national service. At Bull Run he
was brave, though incompetent, and there he was taken
prisoner. In prison I must, I do gladly admit, that
he behaved very well, though I grieve that his long and
severe confinement made him of such importance in the
eyes of his countrymen here that nothing would do, when
he was released, but he must be made a brigadier-general.
wn taasr ya
wo na
rtdheedTt ahlemeupda
u;
obtut
pt
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hc oenr
ecbi lyi abt
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ctohme sah interest
constant
Now, he was about as fit to be a general as to write a com-
mhee
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 intercourse
were, at any time, about as good as those of Tom King
with the Duke of Cambridge.
DISASTER AT SEA. —A Prnsian bark has arrived
at Falmouth, having on board the crew, 24 in number, of
the Ghenghis 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 17,th kVA.