The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-06 00:00:00

NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.

These markets are moderately supplied with meat to-
day. Generally speaking the trade is .slow, and prices
are rather lower.

Per 81b. by the carcase.
s d d
Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2
diddling do. .. 3 4 3 8
Prime large do. 3 10 4 0
Do. small d 0... 4 2 4 4
Large pork .... 3 2 4 0
Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 10

sd e 6
Middling mutton 4 0 4 4
Prime do .. 4 6 4 8
Vaal .. 3 10 4 8
Small pork . .. 4 2 4 6
Lamb

BOROUGH HOP.

Our market continues to be very moderately supplied
with hops of English and foreign growth. For good and
fine parcels there is a steady demand, for immediate con-
sumption, at late rates ; otherwise the trade is dull, and the
quotations have a downward tendency.
Mid and East Kents £5 Os to 10s per cwt.
Weald of Kents 6 Os to 7 7s „
Sussex
Yearlings 3 Os to 5 Os „
Bavarian 5 5s to 8 8s ~
Belgian
American

COLONIAL.

TEA.--The public sales have proceeded without anima-
tion, and inferior descriptions may be quoted id to Id per
lb. cheaper.

SUGAR.—Thero have been few public sales, and the
small quantity of West Indian disposed of iu the private
market barely maintain former prices.
COFFEE.—The speculations in both Plantation and
Native Ceylon have been very restricted,.and rather larger
rates have in some instances been current.

RICE.--Only limited transactions have been reported,
and the market remains very quiet, prices being without
change of importance.
TALLOW.—There has been a more active demami for
both present and forward delivery, and quotations are firm.
P,Y.C., on the spot, is 41s; June delivery, 41s; July to
September, 425; and last three months', 41s 3d to 44s 6d
per cwt.

WOOL.--The second series of public sales of colonial
commenced yesterday afternoon. The quantity to be
offered amounts to 103,763 bales, chiefly from America and
tab- Cape of Good Hope. There was a good attendance of
both ioma and foreign articles, and prices generally are
well maitu;ained for all descriptions.

THE BURLINGTk: N,—Mr. Blanchard, the enter.
this new and magnificent
prising proprietor of
building, celebrated the comp;..tion and opening of the esta-
blishment on Wednesday evening' by inviting his friends to
an inspection of the premises and alb: an inaugural dinner.
The company having viewed the variont: apartments, all of
which are fitted up in the most comfortab2 e style, seated
themselves in the dining-room--a Nary noble ac,artment—
under the presidency of Captain Jay, when a rep,;st was
served that would be quite sufficient of itself to consolit::"
the fame of any establishment. The peculiar features of
the Burlington are that it extends the City system of
dining to the West-end, which, until the present time, has
been unknown; also, that it presents a place where a
fatn:r may take a daughter to dine, when any distance
from hot2e,
with the certainty of finding comfort and at-
tention, with a complete absence of that peculiar portion of
the community tht:!' is so prone to appropriate to themselves
and their casual acgointances establishments like the
Burlington. Mr. Blanchat:49 however, has set about his
work with a determination•ant2 an energy worthy the
highest commendation, and seems pe:fectly satisfied that
the object he has in view will be thorought; appreciated by
the public. That the success of the new estt.:bliahment
will be complete is certain, because everything requis;:e for
such a result has been consultel=vin., a first rate position,
elegance, comfort, and great attention; but above all, and
beyond all, a moderate tariff of charges, so that none need
fear entering the Burlington on account of the great expen-
diture that will be incurred,

SHAKSPERE AND ITALY.—We (like most other
European nations) owe much to Italy. Our Shak-
spere, whose 300th anniversary happily coincides with the
visit of one worthy to have clasped hands with him, drew.
much of his inspiration from her ; and—wst debt of grati-
tude I which only youth and love and genius can fully feel
—we owe to her the immortal vision of a " Romeo and
Juliet." " The Taming of the Shrew" is derived, so far
as the love intrigue goes, from a piece of Ariosto. " Much
Ado About Nothing" is a dramatised version of the story
of Ariodante and Ginevra, in the same author, In " Cym-
benne" Shakspero has combined a novel of Boccaccio's
with a traditionary tale of the ancient Britons, " Othello"
is the " Cristofero Dloro" of Henry Val.'s time—the real
Moorish general of the Vene,t,ian Republic, mentioned in
the " Letters of Giustiniani, the ambassador from the
Doge to England. One cannot fail to observe, indeed, how
Italianised was our S hakspero's fancy. The scene of nearly
all his comedies is in Italy. Venice, Padua, and Verona
possess the glory of having given a " local habitation" to
the beings of his imagination. And though on all
he bestowed glorious
the wondrous lustre of his genius, and they be-
came his and his only through that power, nevertheless he
has linked the thought of himself with Italy while England
shall have a language.—Once a Week.