The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY•

At our market to-day there was a fair attendance of the
town and country trade. There was a dull business doing
in wheat, and prices were 2d per cental lower. Flour also
without change. Indian corn difficult to sell.

MELT ON M 0 WE RAY—TuEsDAT.
The following were the currencies :—New white wheat,
508 Od to 63s Od ; new red, 45s Od to 49s per 36 stone ;
beans, 422 to 44s for old ; new sorts 34s to 37s per 38 st. ;
barley, 355 to 37s for malting, and. 27s to 30s per qr. for
grinding; oats, 21s to 30s Od per 24 stone.

DUBLIN—TUESDAY.
We had a slow, dull market to-day for every description
of grain, at about former prices.
s. d, s. d. 0, d. a. d.
Wheat, white 26 0 to 28 6 Beans..
Do., red 23 0 ..... 24 0t027 0
to 26 0 Bere ......... 12 oto 13 0
Do., new
Barley
Oats
Do., black lO oto 12 0 Indian corn .. 31 6t036 0

SHIPPING—This Day.

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(EY MAGNETIO TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Weunesday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 24.—Julia, from New York.
Arrived, Feb. 25,—Emma Eden, Shietteal, and Wave,
from Guernsey ; Adeine, from Palermo; Conference, from
Shanghai; Janet Cowan, from Tuticorin.
Sailed, Feb. 25.—Belgium, steamer, for Ostend; Sir G.
Banks, steamer, from
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anch“red.—lstanboul, from London, tor Port Phillip ;
True Briton, from Melbourne, for London (in tow).
The brig reported on shore on the Goodwin is off, and is
supposed to have been towed to Ramegate,

THE REPRESENTATION OF DIIMFRIES 811R01111...-
On Monday last Major Walker, of Crawfordton,
who contested these burghs in 1859 and was nearly success-
ful, ann6unced that, for private reasons, he did not intend to
appear as a candidate at the next general election. On Fri-
day, the 20th inst., Colenel Clark Kennedy, C. 8., issued an
address, intimating his intention of opposingthesitting mem-
ber, Mr. W. E wart, in the event of a dissolution of Parlia-
ment. Ccl. Kennedy promises to support Lord Palmerston's
Government, and his political opinions appear to be those
of a moderate liberal. The present member is a Radical.

THE GREENLAND FISHERIES.—Year by year the
number of whalers sailing from Hull decreases, and
two less will leave the port for the Arctic Seas this year.
On Saturday the sailing ship Bolus, Captain Gray, sailed
for Greenland, and the steamer Lady Seals, Capt. R. Wells,
will leave for the same destination early this week. The
steamer Diana, Capt. W. Wells, and the barque Truelove,
Captain Walker, belonging to the Hull Whale and Seal
Fishing Company, are announeed to sill for Davis Straits
on the 3d of March. The whaling barque Emma, which
has sailed from Hull for a number of years, has been pur-
chased by a shipping firm in Dundee.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORR.S.--YelitBrdßY
was iasued a Parliamentary return, which gives,
under the head of " Current Ordinary 16. counts," a state-
ment of receipts and payments from 26th March, 1861, to
25th March, 1862 The balance in hand on 26th March,
1861, nes £7,641, and the receipts from sewerage and drain-
age, £56,329; metropolitan improvements, £32,091;
genet al purposes, £78.059; and fees under Gas Acts, £325;
together, £166,8q5. The payments were :—Sewerage and
drainage, £46,531, metropolitan improvements, £47,626;
general purposes, £61,856; expenses under Gas Acts,
£2,493; in gross, £158,508; leaving a balance in hand on
the 26th March, 1862, of £15,839, A statement and
account of all arrears of rates and other moneys owing to,
and of mortgages and ocher debts and liabilities owing by,
the board, on the 26th March last, were : Moneys owing
to the board, £158.691; and debts, loans, and ether special
£361,835. In addition to the moneys owing
to the board, there is a cash balance in hand of £16,839,
and also a sum of £64,814 invested in, the New
Three per Cent. Annuities, for the repayment of moetfsge
debts, pursuant to 18 and 19 Vic., ei 120, s, 190.