The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

HAY r 3 MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay,' £2 Os to £4 5s Od ; clover,
do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 16s per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND.'—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 ss; clove',
£3 lOs to £5 10:a Od ; and straw, £1 l2s to £1 l6s per load.
A slow demand,

W VI ECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 ss; clove'
do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs , and straw, El 12.. to £1 16s per load.
Trade inactive.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, Jan. 31.—Wind this day at noon—West ;
strong breeze, with heavy rain.

(DV MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND. Saturday Morning
Arrived, Jan. 30—Ellen, from Alexandria; The Cob,
from Table Bay; Eugenia, from Redon ; Iris, from Guern-
sey ; Prince Alfred, from Singapore ; Gladiolus, from
Apalachicola.
Arrived, Jan. 31—Moselle, from Antwerp; Lord Vivian,
from Jersey; Alico, from Cochin.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored—prince Alfred, for the Cape of Good Hope;
Tonning, for Corunna—both from London.

WHY SIR HENRY BT.TLWER VISITED EGYPT.—
At the banquet recently given to him at Alexandria,
Sir Henry Bulwer thus anusingly explained his motives
in visiting Egypt : There is a tendency to think that
political men are mere political ma, hines, eating, drinking,
and sleeping politically ; and as to diplomatists, their paths
are held to be paths of Mysteries, and their feet to be shod
with Maohiavelian inventions. No wonder that when
I somewhat suddenly appeared at at Alexandria my ar-
rival was attributed to ell sorts of mysterious political
motion. " What," said people, "can the English Am-
bassador at Constantinople have come for ?" Now
as I am amongst friends, I will reveal to you the secret of
my journey, and even tell you in strict confidence who was
the author and promoter of it. It was no other, I assure
you, than a gentleman who, whatever our ages, was the
frieud and contemporary of all our boyhoods. I mean a
certain Captain Gulliver I This great traveller discovered
a place in which gentlemen were dressed by tailors who
lived a great way off from them, but who took their measure
on scientific principles by means of mathematical instru-
ments. Captain Gulliver, however, observes, that though
these tailors were very learned and scientific men, they
were not altogether goad tailors and that somehow or other
their clothes never exactly fitted. Well, I confess it has
often struck me that an ambassador may be a very clever
and studious man (I am bound to believe ambassadors are
this), but nevertheless he may not be able to take a good
measure of ':countries a' thousand miles off, and of persons
he has never been acquainted with or had even the oppor-
tunity of seeing. In short, though the idea is a very vulgar
one, I allow that having e 5 es I like to use them ; and her
Majesty's Government agreeing with me in this matter, I
came with its sanction to Egypt just to look about me."
NARROW ESCAPE,—A most providential and ex-
traordinary escape from imminent danger (says the
Stamford Mercury) occurred on Monday last to Lord Ave-
land while driving in his phroton on the turnpike road be-
tween Normanton and Stamford. In descending the hill
into Shacklewell-hollow the horse fell, and struggling to get
up got the shaft in the bridle, which was pulled off. The
servant speedily got out, but the violent kicking and despe-
rate resistance of the horse permitted no control, and gal-
loping in all speed with the carriage he was met on the road
by several persons, but every effort to stop the animal was
unavail ng until a young gentleman on horseback (nephew
of Mr. Syson, his lordship's steward), rode to the horse's
head, and turning it to the hedge, after a hundred yards'
struggle, brought it to a stand. We hear that this gal-
lant conduct has been munificently responded to by his
lordship.
SUICIDE IN CORFU.—A painful case of suicide
occurred in the city of Corfu a fortnight ago. A
young and accomplished lady—it is said the wife of an Eng-
and who had been residing there
lish banker in Turkey,
some time—shot herself dead with a pistol in an hotel on
the Est
THE ELECTION OF ALDERMAN FOR THE WARD
OF Lallonounal.—At the close of the poll, yesterday, the
numbers stood as follows :—Waterlow, 126; Capper, 74 ;
majority for Waterlow, 52.