The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

DERBY SMITH

'IELD-J AN. 27.

A moderate supply of fat beasts to-day, with a brisk de-
mand, and a clearance was effected. Sheep in average sup-
ply, but a less number of pigs. Calves scarce.
Beet .. 6d to 6fd Veal 7d to 7/d
Mutton ... 70 to 81c 1 Pork
Lamb —d to —d Rough fat, 4s Od per atoll,.
Hides, 3d to 4td; calf skins, 5d to 6d.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

➢LALLS DUE.

tue..ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Feb. 18
via Marseilles .. Feb. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Feb. 3.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. Feb. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Feb. 1.
via Marseilles ...Feb 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 1

_ .
via Marseillses Feb. 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Feb. 10
via Marseilles Feb. 6.
Portugal....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb 1.

via Marseilles Feb. 5.
Newfoundland .. Feb. 4.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. An:lades, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 29

'by U.S. packet
by Canadian packet Jan. 30.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Feb. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Feb. 12.
Mexico
A li parts of West Indies, including Chili,
California, and British Columbia.. Pent' 1 Jan. 28.

AIR. SHERIDAN, M.P., AT DUDLEY.—Mr.
Sheridan addressed a meeting of his constituents on
Tuesday evening at Dudley on the events of the last ses-
sion. He alluded to all the topics of the day, and con-
cluded his speech with a very impartial review of the
state of the American question. On both sides, he said,
there are many matters of objection, and I think English-
men would do well to avoid expressing an opinion, and to
wai'. and see the result of the next few months.

FRP. IRON CROWN OF ITALY.--On the 23d of
May, 18u5, when the Emperor Napoleon the First
was crowned King of Italy at Milan, he with his own hands
placed the ancient iron crown of Lombardy on his head, say-
ing "God has given it to me : let him beware who would
touch it ;" thus assuming, as Sir Walter Scott observes,
the haughty motto attached to the antique diadem by its
early possessors. This celebrated crown is composed of
a broad circle of gold, set with large rubies, emeralds,
ant sapphires, on a ground of blue and gold enamel. The
jewels and embossed gold exhibit a very close resemblance
to the workmanship of an enamelled gold ornament,
inscribed with the name of King Alfred the Great,
which was found in the isle of Athelney, in Somer-
setshire, about the close of the seventeenth century,
and is now carefully preserved in the Ashmolean museum
at Oxford. But the most important pare of the iron
croon, trout which, indeed, it derives its name, is a narrow
band of iron, about three-eighths of an inch broad, and
one-tenth of an inch in thickness, .ttached to the inner
eircuinfetenee of the circlet. This inner band of
sacred iron is said to have been made out of one
of the nails used at the crucifixion, given by the
Empress Helena, the discoverer of the cross, to her son
Constantine, us a miraculous protection from the dangers
of the battle-field. The ecclesiastics, who exhibit the
crown, point out as .a 'permanent miracle,' that there is
not a single speck of rust upon the iron, though it has
now been exposed more than fifteen hundred years. The
earliest quasi-historicrl notice of the iron crown is, that
it was used at the coronation of Agilulfus, King of Nor-
mandy, in the year 691. Bonaparte, after his coronation at
Milan, instituted a new order of knighthood for Italy, en-
titled the Iron Crown, on the same principle as that of the
Legion of Honour for France.

GARIBALDI.—The following letter WAS addressed
some short time back by Garibaldi from Caprera
to a young Russian girl who had aunt him her portrait :
" My dear Child,—You ask me for a word of sympathy for
Russia, the country of your birth. Our Saviour was born
on the banks of the river Jordan, and when he proclaimed
that all men are brothers, he did not ask whether their
birthplace was the banks of the Neva or those of the Vis-
tula. The Russians are therefore our brothers, because
I have seen that the same sun ripens the fine grapes of
Italy and the splendid corn in the immense fields of your
native land--I affectionately kiss your forehead, GARI-
BALDI." Advices from Caprera are favourable. Garibaldi
does not yet leave his bed, as the wound has not closed ;
but the cure is making rapid progress.