The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1E63.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.
The latest country markers held since our last have ruled
quiet both for red and white wheats, at fully the late
decline in prices. In descriptions of spring corn, sales have
progressed slowly, yet no material change has taken place
in the currency. Flour has met an inactive market, at late
rates,
Advices from New York state that a fair export business
was passing in wheat and flour, at enhanced prices. On
the Continent the trade generally is quiet.
The arrivals of English grain to our market last week
were moderately extensive. The imports from abroad
amounted to 21,976 quarters of wheat, 10,007 barley, 9,804
oats, 838 beans, 1,202 peas, 22,762 linseed, 1,910 oilseeds,
220 sundry seeds, and 2,580 sacks of flour.
Fresh up to Mark-lane to-clay the arrivals of English
wheat were small, but, owing to the holidays, there was a
very moderate number of buyers in attendance. The con-
dition of the wheat was tolerably good. The trade, both
for red and white qualities, was in a sluggish state, and
factors, had they felt disposed to force sales, would have
been compelled to accept less money. Very little business
was, however, transacted, and prices must be considered
nominally the same as on Monday last,
There was a moderate supply of foreign wheat on the
stands. In all descriptions the transactions were on a
limited scale, yet last Monday's quotations, were in most
instances supported.
The amount of business done in floating cargoes of grain
was much restricted, at about previous rates.
_ _ .

Owing to the large supplies on offer, and the heaviness
in the trade in the country markets, the demand for all
descriptions of barley was in a sluggish state, and late quo-
tations were barely supported. Even good and fine malt-
ing parcels were a dull inquiry.
The market was well supplied with malt, and the trade
ruled heavy at drooping prices.
The supply of oats on offer was very moderate. The
falling off in the supply was caused by the decreased im-
portations, the show of samples of home-grown produce
being tolerably good. All descriptions were in slow re-
quest, at barely previous quotations.
Beans, the supply of which was moderate, moved off
slowly on moderate terms.
Peas met a slow sale at late currencies. The market
was but moderately supplied with samples.
There was but little American flower on offer. The sup-
ply of home descriptions, however, was tolerably large, and
the trade ruled quiet at late rates.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE,
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 385 to 41s
Ditto, old 3Bs 40s
Ditto, white, 1863 42s 48s
Ditto, old 4os 478
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old 3Bs 408
Ditto, 1863
Talavera,
Rye—
Barley—Grinding
Malting 2Bs 395
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6OB 66s
Brown
Kingstown and Ware 6OB €6s
Chevalier 66s 688
Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding. 18s 228
Potato
Youghal and Com, black l6B 23s
Cork, white l7s 24s
Scotch, Feeding 2os 235
Beans—Tick 30.5 32s
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey . 32s 31s
Maple
White
Boilers
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 2Bs 30s
Stockton and N0rf01k............ 27s 29,1
American, per barrel ... 193 25s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
Our market, today, was but moderately supplied with
foreign stock, but the general quality of the sheep from
Holland was good.
From our own. grazing districts the receipts of beasts
fresh up were limited, even for the time of year. Most
breeds, however, came to hand in good saleable condition.
Some of the Scots and shorthorns were remarkably prime.
Scots, crosses, Devons and the best shorthorns moved off
freely, at an advance in the quotations, compared with
Monday last, of 2d per 81bs. Otherwise, the beef trade
was inactive ; nevertheless, prices were well supported, and
a good clearance was effected. The highest value for Scots
was 5s 2d per 81bs.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire we received about 700 shorthorns ; from Norfolk and
other parts of England, 950 Scots, crosses, &c. ; from Scot-
land, 160 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland 200 oxen
and heifers.

We were very scantily supplied with sheep ; but their
quality was prime. All breeds commanded a steady sale,
at fully last week's currency, The top figure for Downs
was 6s per 81bs. Nearly the whole of the supply found
buyers.
Calves—the show of which was limited—met a dull in-
quiry, at late rates, viz., from 4s to 53 per 81bs.
The pork trade was somewhat heavy, on former terms,
which ranged from 3s 6d to 4s 6d per Blbs.

Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 8 4 0
Second quality do. 4 2 4 6
Prime large oxen 4 8 5 0
Prime Scots, &c. 5 0 5 2
Crse. & inf. beep 4 0 4 6
Second quality do. 4 8 5 2

s. d. s. d.
Priraecrs-wool d 0.5 4 5 8
Pine. S'thdown d 0.5 10 6 0
Largo orse. calves 4 0 4 8
Prime small d 0... 4 10 5 0
Large hogs 3 6 4 0
Small porkers 4 2 4 6

Suckling calves, 12s to 21s ; and quarter-old store pigs,
20s to 26s each.

TOTAL 8 UPPLY.

FOREIGN SUPPLY.

Beasts ...
Cows — Sheep and lambs .... 2,160
Sheep
Calves ll7 , Pigs
Pigs lBO I .

The total imparts of foreign stocK into London, last week,
amounted to 3,521 head. in the corresponding week in
1862, we received 2,440—in 1861, 2,382—in 1860, 2,031
—in 1859-60, 1,163—in 1858, 8,550—in 1857, 782 head.

IMpoETS INTO LONDON LAO WEEK.

From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam •• • . 125 • . 1165 • • 64 . • 16
Harlingen .... 340 .. 637 8 .. 1
Hamburg .... .. 640 ..
Amsterdam.... 10 .. 204 • •
Medembhk
Bremen .. •• •• •• ••

Vigo — • • • • . • --- • •
Nieu Diep - . • .. .. • .
Antwerp — .. .. • • • • --
Ostend . •• • • • 79 • . .. 4 . . 2
Calais — . • . • • • -- • • --
Dordt. 75 .. 245 .. • . • •
Boulogne,. -- .. 16 .. -- • • • •

Total .... 550 .. 2,886 .. 66 .. 19
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1862 356 .. 1,881 • 203 ..
1861 407 .. 1,965 .. 10
1860 163 .. 1, 759 .. .. 109 ..
1859-60 176 .. 273 .. 14 ..
1858 49 .. 397 .. 104 ..
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan
cattle market, on Monday, Dec. 29, 1862, and this day.
Monday, Dec. 28, 1863.

Per 81b. to sink tho offal.
Dec. 29,
1862.
Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 6
Second quality do
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 8
Prime Scots, &c...
Coarse and inferior sheep 3 8 4 2
Second quality do.
Prime coarse-woolled do 5 0 5 6
Prime Southdown do.
Lambs
Large coarse calves
Prime small do.
Large hogs
Neat small porkers 4 6 4 8
Beasts
Sheep and lambs
Calves
Pigs.. 270
SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dec. 30, 1861.—8,
sheep, 18,920—calves, 132—pigs, 310.
DEC. 31, 1860.—Beasts, 3,460—sheep, 1i
56 pigs, 200.

Dec. 28,
1863.
3 Bto 4 0
42 4 6
48 5 0
50 5 2
40 4 6
48 5 2
54 5 8
510 6 0
00 0 0
40 4 8
410 5 0
36 4 0
42 4 6
2,460
9,530
112
220
ists, 4,400

!,500—calves,

any perceptible effect on the trade. In colonial wool very
little is doing.

MR. THACKERAY'S DEATH.

SPECTATOR.—The great event of the week to
England is the loss of her great satirist Mr.
Thackeray, who died early on Dec. 24, in the 52‘i
.year of his age, of effusion on the brain, brought'
on, it is supposed, by violent sickness, to which he
was periodically subject. Of a new novel promised
by him to the Comb*ll Magazine he had completed
four numbers, and only two or three days before his
death was showing his achievement to a friend in
the most buoyant spirits. His death at. the season
which has so often been associated with his higher
literary efforts strikes us with something of the
same imaginative effect as those Christmas books
themselves, in which the thin veil of supeifiadal
gaiety was constantly blowing aside, and showing
the graduated depths of darkness beneath. He is
the founder of a school of satire of which he will
probably be the only master, though he has already
hid many imitators. We do not wonder that he
failed as a painter, for painting, which must select
an effect visible in a single moment of time, gave
no scope to the peculiar mobility of his genius.
He delighted in varying indefinitely the expression
visible on the face of his characters, so that before
the contraction of the suffering nerve, or the sneer
of the parted lips was distinctly visible, it was gone,
and if you sought to recover the source of the im-
pression it was seldom easy to do so. There was a
strange mixture of pain and pathos in all his pic-
tures; bitterness and tenderness mingled their tones
in the laugh of the humorist, and there was some-
thing at once loving and fatalistic about the frequent
gleams of his religious feeling. Tennyson has ex-
pressed the essence of his genius, though not of its
highest temper, in the line—

Out of that mood was born
Self-scorn—and then laughter at that self •scorn.

SATURDAY REVIEW. —The death of Mr. Thacke-
ray, in the height of his popularity, is a calamity
which will not indeed affect any public interest, but
which yet will be widely felt. This generation is
not strong in humourists ; but to those few whom
we do possess belongs the credit of having given
refinement and delicacy to an art in which those
qualities were not formerly conspicuous. Mr.
Thackeray was one of the best examples of a school
of which the popularity has been 'enormous, and
which has done no slender service in raising the
character and establishing the purity of English
literature.

EXAMINER,—Mr. Thackeray was found dead in
his bed on Thursday morning. Sudden as the loss of
Peel, or of Talfourd, or of Lord Macaulay, whose
death saddened the Christmas holidays three years
ego—sudden also as other recent deaths of able men
who laboured worthily in the world's eye, but whose
calling did not bring them so near as that of a fore•
most novelist to the world's heart, has been this
new cause of public grief. For a few days past
Mr. Thackeray had been slightly unwell ; yet he
was about among his friends, and he was out even
on Wednesday evening. But when called at about 9
o'clock on Thursday morning he was found dead in
his bed, with placid face, having apparently died
without suffering pain. Mr. Thackeray's age
was but 52, and he seemed a man large, vigorous,
cheerful, with yet a quarter of a century of life in
him. There were some parts of his character that
never felt the touch of his years, and these were ten-
derly remembered yesterday at many a Christmas
fireside. There was to the last in him the sensibi
lity of a child's generous heart that time had not
sheathed against light touches of pleasure and pain.
His sympathy was prompt and keen, but the same
quick feeling made him also over sensitive to the
small annoyances that men usually learn to take for
granted as but one form of the friction that belontas
to movements of all kinds. He was sensitive to his
sensitiveness, and did in his writings what thou-
sands of men do in their lives, shrouded an over
tender heart in a transparent vale of cynicism. °flea
he seemed to his readers to be trifling or nervously
obtruding himself into his story when he was but
shrinking from the full discovery of his own simple
intensity of feeling.
Naval and Military Intelligence.