The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

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MARK-LANE.
The wheat trade in the leading coettry markets held on
Saturday ruled firm, and, in some instances, fine parcels
realised slightly enhanced rates. The supplies of spring
corn on offer were small, and the value of all descriptions
was well supported. Flour changed hands to a moderate
extent, at full prides.
Advices from New York state that good and fine wheat
and flour were scarce, and that the business doing for ex-
port to England was much restricted. On the Continent)
the corn trade continues flat.
Very small supplies of English produce were received up
to our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted
11,179 quarters of wheat ; 8,435 barley; 37,365 oats; 1,710
beans ; 3,562 peas; 139 tares; 13,463 linseed ; 3,510 oil-
seeds ; 2,006 maze ; 20 sacks, and 15,262 barrels of fllur.
The condition of the home-grown wheat received fresh
up to-day was good, but the arrivals were on the usual
limited scale. The trade, owing to increased firmness in
the country markets, and to the apparent desire
on the part of the Federal Americans for war
with this country, showed more activity than on
Monday
of is per quarter was realised. We may observe, however,
lest, and, in some instances, an advance
that the trade was not so animated as on Friday last. At
the close of business a fair clearance was affected.
Holders of foreign wheat were very firm, and although
buyers sh-wed less inclination to operate than on Friday,
a fair business was transacted in all good and fine qualities,
and prices had an upward tendency. The show of granaried
samples was large—of parcels ex ship—but moderate.
Floating cargoes of grain were in steady request, and the
quotations were well supported.
The supply of English barley was very small, and a very
moderate quantity was received from foreign ports.
Generally speaking,
less, both grinding and distilling parcels changed hands at
full currencies. the demand ruled inactive; neverthe-
Malt was in fair average request, at quite previous rates.
The supply of foreign oats was large; but of English,
Scotch, and Irish, the receipts were very small. Good and
fine corn moved off freely at an advance of 6d per quarter,
compared with Monday last Inferior qualities, however,
met with somewhat inactive sale; nevertheless prices were
supported.
With beans, the market was scantily supplied, and the
trade ruled firm, on rather higher terms.
Peas were in small supply, and steady request, at full
currencies.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 25.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse,
and Princess Helena, drove out this morning, at-
tended by Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood, Equerry
in Waiting.

To•dey is the anniversary of the birthday of her
Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse.
Mr. Theodor Jenssen has had the honour of sit-
tings for portraits of their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales.

April 26.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse
attended at the private chapel this morning, when
the service appointed for the churching of women
was performed by the Hon. and Very Rev. the
Dean of Windsor.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Louis of Hesse were also present.
P The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales
Prince Louis of Hesse, Prince Alfred, Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, Prince Alexander and Prince Henry of
Hesse, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and
a the domestic household attended Divine service in
the private chapel this morning.
The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor
preached the sermon.
Their Grand Ducal Highnesses the Prince Alex-
ander and Prince Henry of Hesse, attended by
Baron de Rotsmann, arrived at the Castle last even-
ing. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, and Prince Louis of Hesse met the
Princes of Hesse at the Windsor station.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone,
arrived at the Castle.
The Duchess of Wellington, the Right Hon, Sir
Charles Wood, and the Rev. Mr. Bender also ar-
rived at the Castle.

The supply of barrel flour was moderately good, and fine
qualities were very firm, at an advance of 6d. Town and
coui.try made qualities were unchanged in value from this
day se'nnight, and the demand, on the whole, ruled
steady.

CURRENCY PER IMPERYAL MEASURE,
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new ...... 43s to 49s
DDitto, 01d......,.,............ 488 SO
Ditto, white, new ................ 47s 51s
itto, 01d... .............. 508 57s
borfols and Lincoln, red, ••
—8 s
TDitto, new ...................... 438 48s
alavera, ..................... . 458 53s
Rye— ................................ 380 34s
Barley—Grinding ...................... 268 35s
Malting ..................... 38s 43s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk ................ 508 66s
Brown ........ " ................. 508 568
ChKingstown and Ware ............. 568 70s
evalier ....... ........... . . 66s 258
Oats —Yorkshire and Lincoinsh., Feeding.. 19s 2,8
Potato ......... black.....''''. 228 6s
CYou' and Cork,
..... 16s 22s
Sork, white ....................... 178 23s
cotch, Feeding .................... 208 28s
Beans—Tick .............................. 298
42531
Pigeons, ......................... 36s 8
Peas—Grey, new .............. ........... 330 358
Maple ................... 388 405
BWhite, new ........................ 368 388
oilers ............................. . 36s 388
Flour—Town-made ...................... 448 47s
Suffolk ..•. . ...... 308 328
Stockton and ......
208 31s
METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
There was only a moderate supply of foreign stock on
offer in our market to-day. Most kinds were in fair request,
at about stationary prices. The general quality of both the
beasts and sheep was inferior.
The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing dis-
tricts were seasonably extensive as to number, and excellent
condition. Those from Ireland were trifling, but rather a
large supply reached us from Scotland, mostly of prime
quality. Ccmpared with Monday last, there was rather
more life in the demand, nevertheless Thursday's improve-
ment in the value of the best breeds was not generally sup-
ported. The top quotation was 48 8d per 81bs.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we
received 2,500 Scots horns and crosses ; from other parts of
England, 400 various breeds ; from Scotland, 420 Scots and
crosses; and from Ireland, 20 oxen and heifers.
With most breeds of sheep we were fairly supplied,
and their general quality was prime. Nearly all breeds
met a slow sale, yet no change took place in prices. Prime
Downs, in the wool, realised 55 8d ; out of the wool, 4s 8d
to, in some instance, 4s 10d ; prime half. breeds, 4s 6d ;
prime Lincolns and Leicesters, 48 to 4s 4d per 81bs.
From the Isle of Wight 800 lambs came fresh to hand,
and the arrivals from other quarters were good. The lamb
trade was in a sluggish state, on rather easier terms—viz.,
from 6a 4d to 7s 6d per 81bs,
The supply of calves was very moderate, and the veal.
trade ruled steady, at full prices.
We have to report a dull sale for pigs, at barely late
rates.

Her Majesty the Queens will hold a Privy Coun-
cil to-morrow (Tuesday) at Windsor Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will honour Oxford with a visit during
the ensuing Commemoration, when the University will
confer the degree of D.C.L., on his Royal Highness, who
will, with the Princess of Wales, arrive in Oxford on rues.
day, June 23, returning on the following Thursday morn-
ing. The Deanery has been placed at the disposal of their
Royal Highnesses by Dr. Lindell, Dean of Christchurch.
Satur say last was the 20th anniversary of the
birthday of the Princess Alice Maud Mary (Princess Louis
of Hesse).
The christening of the infant daughter of the
Princess Louis of Hesse took place at Windsor Castle this
morning.
Viscount Palmerston held an assembly on Satur•
day evening at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, previous to
which the noble viscount and viscountess entertained
company at dinner. The assembly was numerously at-
tended.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
entertained at dinner on Saturday evening at their
residence, Grosvenor-gate—the Saxon Minister, the Mar-
chLness of Ely, the Marquis and Marchioness of Norman by,
the Earl of St. Germans, the Countess of Maimesbury, the
Earl Cowper, Lord and Lady John ➢Manners, Viscount and
Viscountess Royston, Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerr-
son, Mr. Lygon, and Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild.
The Earl of Chesterfield comes to his new resi.
dence in Grosvenor-street to-day from Newmarket, for the
season.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley
will return to town to-day from passing a week with Sir
Walter R. and Lady Mary Farquhar at their seat, Pouts-
den Park, Surrey.
The Marquis of Douglas arrived in town, from
Pars, on Saturday morning. The Duke of Hamilton is
still at Nice. The Duchess and Lady Mary Douglas are
sojourning for the present in Paris,
The Earl Spencer has been detained at Althorp
by indisposition arising from a cold. The noble earl and
countess are expected in town in the course of the week.
The Earl and Countess cf Warwick have arrived
in Paris from Nice.
Lord Edward St. Maur is pronounced out of
danger. During the last two days the medical reports have
been favourable
It is more than ever affirmed that the Sultan will
visit England shortly, taking France ea route.
The uncovering of the Memorial of the Great
Exhibition of 1851 by the Prince of Wales, in the Horti-
cultural Society's Gardens at South Kensington, will take
place on the 10th June.
At Marlborough House the other day, at the re-
ception of the deputations, the Prince of Wales
appeared in the uniform of a general in the army, and was
decorated with the Riband of the Garter and the Cordon of
the Legion,of Honour. Her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wales wore a tight-fitting morning dress of a rich mauve
coloured silk, and a delicately-worked lace pelerine, which
had more the appearance of a cape than a collar, with a
single costly diamond brooch on her breast. The sleeves of
the dress were large and open, and richly worked in lace,
falling from the elbow somewhat after the fashion seen in
tke pictures of some of the Tudor Princesses.
LATEST TOILETS AT LONGCHAMP.—The Em-
press was there, one of the most important pr;zes
of the day being that called the Empress's prize. Her
Majesty was dressed in a very pale grey taffetas dress, shot
with blue, the casalue being similar to the robe, and the
sleeves and front of the latter trimmed with narrow bands
of the same material, edged wi h white, placed like bran-
denburgs, and terminated at the point of each narrow band
with a white silk button, the whole costume having some-
what of a sporting air. The bonnet worn by the Empress
was of the same shade of pale grey as the dress, in crepe,
very simply crnamentcd by a tuft of blackberries or
currants.

Per 81b. to sink the offal.
s. d. a. d.
8. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 41Prinaecrs-wool d 0.4 8 5 4
Second quality 4 0
do. 3 6 3 101Pme.S'thdowndo.5 6 5 8
Prime large oxen 44 I Large crse. calves 40 4 8
Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 !Primes/nail d 0... 4 10 5 2
Crso. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 I Large hogs ...... 3 4 4
Second quality do. 4 0 4 6 Small porkers.... 4 2 4 6
0 Lambs, Os 8d to 7s Bd.
Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs,
19s to 28s.
TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SU
Beasts 3,92() `Beasts ......... PPLY.
..... 220
Cows
• Sheep and lambs .. Sheep and lambs
1
Calves
. 215 Pigs ..........
Pigs ........ 350 --

A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices 0,
fat stock exhibited and sold in tho great metropolitan
cattle market, on Monday, April 28, 1862, and this day,
Monday, April 27, 1863.
Per 81b. to sink the offal.

6 310 4 0 4 4
April 28, April 27,
1862. 1863.
C)arse and inferior beasts.... 2 Bto2 10 3 2to 3 4
Second quality do ........... 3 0 3 4 3 6 310
'rime large oxen ............ 3
Prime Soots, &c. ........... 4 0 4 2 4 6 4 8
Coarse and inferior sheep .... 3 4 3 6 3 6 310 0
4 6
Second quality dn. .......... 3 8 310 4
Prime coarse-woolled do 4 0 410 4 8 5 4
2 5 6 410 5 2
Prime Southdown do. ...... 5 2 5 6 5 6 5 8
Lambs .................... 6 4 7 8 6 4 7 6
Prime Large sm coarseali dcalves . .
..
.. :
.......... 45 2 4 8 4 0 4 8
Large hogs ............. . 3 8 4 0 3 4 4 0
Neat small p0rker5,......... 4 2 4 8 4 2 4 6
3,890 3,920
Beasts ...........
Sheep and lambs
.... 24,310 22,6 0
Calves ............ ..
SUPPLIES ON SALE, April 158
215
29, 1861.—Beasts, 358°-
420 350
Pigs .................
sheep and lambs, 18,450—calves, 107—pigs, 350.
Arum 30. 1860.—Beasts, 4,530—sheep and lambs, 24,250
—calves, 115—pigs, 360.
The total imports of foreign stocx into London, last week,
amounted to 2,772 head. In the corresponding week in
1862, we received 2,611—in 1861, 2,491—in 1860, 3,497
—in 1859, 2 876—in 1858, 1,362—in 1857, 1,456 head.

Various alterations and changes are taking place
et Fontainebleau in preparation for the reception
of the Prince and Princess of Wales; and an entertain-
ment, to be given by the Prefect of the Seine, is to surpass
everything of the kind given by the Ville de Paris, even
including the celebrated ball in honour of Queen Victoria.
The temporary horse-shoe staircase, erected on that occa-
sion in the Coeur Henri IV., is about to be replaced by a
magnificent and permanent marble staircase, of the same
form, but of the richest design and ornamentation.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAO WEEK.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs,
Rotterdam 214 .. 199 .. 50 .. 392
Harlingen 2BO .. 93 .. 3 .. 10 ..
.. 3
Hamburgh 3O .. 1,257 • • '"' • . " •• . 26
Boulogne. —. .. __.• •• ---
Cuxhaven • •
Vigo
• •
NievveDiep
Amsterdam ,
Antwerp. — ..
Ostend .....
Oporto 49 ..
Dordt 3
Calais

Le Constitutionnel of to-day mentions " under
reserve" a rumour it has just received from Berlin
to the effect that M. Bismark will almost immediately have
to retiro from office, that Minister being held responsible
for the present isolation in which Prussia finds herself.
Yesterday, we learn from L Opinion Nationale
of this morning, the Ministers sat in Council at the Palace
of the Tuileries, under the Presidency of the Emperor.
In taking po-session of his archiepiscopal throne M
Darboy, says Le Sleek, addresses a letter to the clergy and
faithful of his archdiocese. " What it is," he remarks at
the very outset, "that has brought us the honour of being
named your archbishop, we know not. Perhaps," he
adds, " the intentions and the acts of the venerated
Cardinal Morlot had something to dc with it." In
replacing his deceased predecessor, M, Darboy
goes on to remark that he wished to continue
his work by precisely the same means and method, making
an allowance only for the differences alone discernible in
personal character. The Archbishop of Paris declares that
the Church, or more plainly speaking the Pope, would
always find in him "not only a Bishop faittiful to the holy
see; but still more, the son ever respectful and ready at
all times to do the will of his well-beloved father."
France, he says, also no less than [the Church
may count upon his devotion, for France is no
otaer than the soldiers of God In watching near
the Pope in order to protect him from audacious criminals,
in order to render him and to maintain him as master in
his own home, the French army he declares does no more
than follow the mot d'ordre, which has been transmitted
downwards from reign to reign from the days of Clovis to
those of Napoleon 111.
MILITARY ESTIMATE OF MR. KINGLAICE'S HIS-
TORY.—The Quarterly, following the Edinburgh
Las done for the military part of "Eothen" what the
Edinburgh effected for the historical narrative, so that the
two portly volumes are now resolved into heaps of matter
morally like those Danish mounds of which geologists
make so much at present. It would be very hard for them,
however, to extract anything useful out f the debris of Mr.
Kingleke's nine years' work. The Quarterly writer has
evidently had the assistance of Sir George Brown's accu-
rate knowledge of the particular scenes in which he bore a
part, and contradicts his best bits with tartarly decisiveness
and uninape..chable authority. It is well that Marshal
know be
and other officers of the army of France should
in what manner the overgrown pamphlet which as-
s tiled them has been treated by 'he prineit al periodicals in
England, which in that treatment but indicated the sense
entertained of this mischievous book by the officers of the
British army who fought against and with our sturdiest
enemy and our most valiant ally. The Quarterly sh
how Mr. Kinglake rewarded Admiral Dundas by a charows
it-
able s;lence for the hospitalities of the fleet. Had not criti-
cisrh so scalped the work, our ambitious officers might re-
gret that they were not all fortunate in being able to extend
such small favours to the illustrious visitor to the East in
1854,—Army amt2ll avy Gazotte.

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- .. 2 .• 5

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96 .. 4 .. -

-.• • -
..... • • -- .• 7 •• 25

Total .... 592 .. 1,625 .. 59 .. 452 . 54
.. 15 .. 240 ..
The yearly comparison of weeklyaimmbpso.rtscisaalvsefso.llowpsig:—s.
1862
1861 lB .. 199 .. 479
1869 309 .. 2,678 .. 5
..
84e05a s6lt s. : : 5121:33e93e40p.
..
365 .. 140
1859 l6l .. 2,675 .. 3 .. 37 • •
1858 lB3 .. 1,000 ..
3 .. 176 ..
full p
NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Fair average supplies of town and country-killed meat
mutton, lamb, and veal
caoremomnansadlea
as tt
ethese m markets. Beef,ees,
but pork is a dull in-
quiry on former terms.
sale arakte
prices,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1863.

Thursday next. The arrivals since last auctions now
amount to :
From Sydney 12,894 bales.
„ Port Philip
Van Diemen's Land
~ Adelaide
~ New Zealand
~ Swan River 1,109 ~
~ Cape

SPORTING NOTES.