The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK LANE.
A limited supply of English wheat was received fresh up
to this morning's market, in good condition. Owing to the
favourable change in the weather, sales progressed less
freely than on Monday ; nevertheless, that day's currency
was steadily supported.
The show of samples of foreign wheat was large. The
amount of business transacted was very moderate, yet prices
ruled firm.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request, at late

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quotations.
firmßa,ralteyq,uittheepsruevpipoluysorfatewsh. which was very moderate, ruled
In malt about an average business was transacted, on
former terms.
The market
onthe whole,waswells theupp emlieddwiatnhd oats, Chiefly of foreign
groruled steady, but at
Monday's decline in prices.
Beans fully supported the recent improvement in value,
and peas realised extreme rates. The market was scantily
supplied with both articles.
Most kinds of flour moved off slowly at late quotations.
Fine barrel qualities, however, were decidedly firm.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK..
Wheat. Barley. =
I Malt- Oats. Flout.
480
English—. 720 I 750
---
Irish.. •
h'oreign 3,830 I 1,320 1 '--
4 1 ..
,55° 1 50 eke.
brls.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RADCLIFFE RACES.-TUESDAY.

The Radcliffe Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages, winners extra

About half a mile.

Mr. Osborne's Flytrap, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (inc. 101 b extra)
(Whiteley) 1
Mr. Whittaker's David Ann, 5 yrs, 7st 21b.. (E. Foster) 2
Mr. H. Owen's Antipodes, 3 yrs, 7st llb (Midgley) 3
Mr. Ambery's Black-eyed Susan, 3 yrs, 6st 41b
(W. Britton) 4
Betting--5 to 2on Antipodes, 4to / each agst David
Ann and Fly crap.
Won by half a length; a length between second and
third. Black-eyed Susan beaten off.
The All-aged Selling Stakes of 3 sous each, with 25
added ; two-yr-olds, 7st 21b; three, 9st ; four lOst ;
five and upwards, lOst 61b; selling allowances. 6 fur-
longs.

Mr. Whittaker's David Ann, 6 yrs, 9st 51b (£2O)
(E. Foster) 1
Mr, T. Hunt's Trentham, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (L2O) ..(Ruby) 2
Mr, Barber's Gertrude. 2 yrs, 6st 11b (£20)....(Cair011) 3
Betting-.-7 to 4on David Ann, sto 2 agst Trentham, 4
to 1 agst Gertrude,

Won by two lengths ; a bad third.
The winner was bought by Mr. Grimshaw for 33 guineas.
The Stewards' Cup (Handicap) of 50 says in specie, added
to a Sweepstakes of 6 sous each , winners extra ; the se-
cond to save his stake. Once ronnd.
Mr. Masterman's Honest John (late Robber), 3 yrs, Est 31b
Mr. J. Osborne's Fanfaron, 3 yrs, Est 121 b .(Tomlinson) 1.
(Whiteley) 2
Mr. T. Cliff's Queen of Clubs, 3 yrs, Est 91b (Williamson) 3
Mr. Kenyon's Lord Dundreary, 3 yrs, Est 71b.. (Carroll) 4
Mr. R. Walker's Colonel Crockett, 5 yrs, 7st (in. 61b ex.) 6
Betting—Even on Fanfaron, 3 to 1 agst Lord Dundreary,
5 to 1 agst Honest John, 6 to 1 agst Colonel Crockett.
Won by a short neck ; half a length between secend and
third; a length between third and fourth.
The Grey de Wilton Two-year-Old Stakes of 5 sous each,
with 50 added ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, Bst
71b; winners extra; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C.,
about half a mile. 12 subs.
Mr. Barber's The Clown, Bst 101 b........ (J. Snowden) 1
Mr. R. Goodlass's Pretty Girl filly, Bst 71b (Midgley) 2
Mr. Saunders's Poetess, Bst 71b (E Foster) 3
Mr. J. Merone's The Cardinal (late Abdul Aziz Khan),
Bst 101 b
The following also ran :—Hartford Hill, Good Advice,
Sir Watkin, Wildman, and Greenland. _

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Betting-5 to 4 agst The Clown, 4to 1 agst The Cardi-
nal, 5 to 1 agst Sir Watkin, 6 to 1 each agst Poetess and
Lfreenland.

Won by three lengths; two lengths each between the
second, third, and fourth.
Winner objected to.
The Scurry Handicap of 2 sous each, with 25 added; open
to all horses running at this meeting, but to which each
winner must subscribe. T.Y.C.

Mr. Whittaker's David Ann, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b
(H. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Masterman's Honest John, 3 yrs, 7st 81b.. (Metcalf) 2
Mr. Owen's Antipodes, 3 yrs, 7st Blb (Midgley) 3
Mr. T. Cliff's Queen of Cl ,bs, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
(Williamson) 4
Mr. Coburn's Captain Knight, 6 yrs, Bst 41b .. (Lomas) 5
Betting-2 to 1 agbt Queen of Clubs, 9to 4 agst David
Ann.

Won by three lengths; a length between second and
Third; the rest close up.

WAY TO THE DIGGINGS.

One of the greatest diffi•nities of the search for gold in

new fields is the danger of the road. The
.Nelson (New

Zealand) Examiner thus describes a part of the way to the
rich discoveries on the Buller river, on the west coast of the
province of Nelson :—" For about half a mile the road is
flat very bad, as there are flats on either side of the river,
and by crossing the stream some half-a-dozen times from
one flat to another, the first half-mile up the Buller can be
accomplished. Then comes the tug. After this half-mile
the river is confined by a gorge the very appearance of
which is fearful, and it is most marvellous that no serious
accident has before this occurred there. In a few places
this gorge contains shingle bars, which render the mode of

ravelling, when compared with other portions, tolerably
easy, because you can cross and recross the river from bar
to bar; but there are many places where you cannot, from
its great depth, wade the stream, and these are very
dangerous, because, in addition to very deep water beneath,
the rocks are excessively precipitous, and along their almost
perpendicular faces you have to scramble with a heavy
load strapped tightly to your back, hanging on, as sailors
say, by your eyebrows,' with your foot upon a narrow
ledge of rock. It is most dangerous ; many persons, in fact,
would declare that these were no means of passing these
rocks, but the diggers do manage to get along them, though
several of the juts of rock along which they scramble are
but about an inch in width. If your foot slips you are gone,
swag and all, into a deep hole, and, if no assistance be near
drowned you positively must be. Accidents have happened
several times, but assistance being at hand the unfortunates
were saved. It is no joke, I can assure you, to drop into
about 20 feet of running water with 501 b. or 601 b. strapped
en your back. In other places diggers have to climb up,
sailor fashion, in order to cross some steep spur, and then
drop again to the river. This sort of travelling lasts for
about two miles, when the country again opens in places."
But open country has its own dangers, as may be seen
from the warnings to the miners to retrace their steps too
soon rather than too late. "We do not desire," says an
Otago paper, to give currency to unfounded and exag-
gerated fears respecting the severities of the winter in the
Lake country, but we may reasonably anticipate that in a
country so rugged and broken, with few or no roads, and
solitary bands of miners scattered about in lonely and
sequestered gullies, at a considerable distance from depots,
serious distress, if not disaster, will be experienced during
the forthcoming winter, unless due precautions are taken.
All accounts agree that, although in the valleys the winter
season entails no inconvenience, the elevated districts are
exposed to extreme rigour. There may be, and no doubt
are, miners working in distant parts of the country unsus-
pected and unknown. The greater the success of these
outlying parties the greater the temptation to them to incur
risk and danger. Fearful of attracting attention to the
scene of their workings, they prefer to stint themselves in
supplies, visiting the townships as seldom as possible, and
then taking care not to excite remark by laying in too large
a stock of provisions. Between the distant mountain gully
or torrent's bank where they are reaping their golden har-
vest and the nearest depot many miles are placed. Roads
there are none, and the only tracks are those left by their
own footsteps. They have to climb rugged and precipitous
clifk, to slide down dangerous prectp'ces, and swim rapid
streams on their way. Their only landmarks are perhaps
solitary trees, or peculiarly shaped rocks. With all their
dread of exciting suspicion, they find that even the limited
supplies they do take with them are almost too much for
their wearied limbs to carry. During such weather as has
prevailed for the last two or three months this fatiguing
journey is at any rate tolerable, and not entirely without
enjoyment. The first grassy bank affords a camping ground
where the travellers can rest their limbs without pitching
their tents, and their pack horse can pick up from the nu-
tritious herbage an invigorating meal; but in a very few
weeks this will be all changed. If provisions bre required
a journey of 20, or 30, or even more miles through such
country as we have depicted will be a perilous task. The
tracks will be obliterated by snow. The keen, biting south
Wind will come howling down the mountain aides, driving
before it the frozen snow, blocking the path, and benumbing
the limbs of man and beast. On the plateaux the whole
country will present the same uniform aspect. Landmarks
will be lost in the snow drifts, and perhaps after wander-
ing about in hopeless dismay, the miserable traveller will
lay himself down till sleep overpowers him, a sleep from
which in this world he will never reawaken. Such may be
the fate of many during the ensuing winter."

The Old Scotchwoman's Cry against

Crinoline !

Janet Hamilton, the daughter of a shoemaker,
and afterwards the wife of a shoemaker, never went
to school, but her mother taught her to read the
Bible. Through this doorway she entered the vast
library of English literature. What range of read-
ing she had we are not told, says the Athenceum,
but she writes English verse with ease and elegance.
The genuine nature of the old lady gets fullest and
fittest expression, however, in the racy Doric which
she writes. Here we find the shrewd keeking ob-
servation, the quaint pawky humour, and the sly
Scotch wisdom in full force. The true flavour of
her book is indeed Scottish, while the facts of the

life are universally enjoyable. Here is her laughable
picture of Crinoline as it appears to her in her own
neighbourhood, where the lassies—though they
may be barefooted and barefaced, are still devoted
followers of the fashion :

CRINOLTNE.
Auld Scotlan' gangs yirmin and chanerin' alane ;
She wunners whatr a' her trig lassocks hie gene;
She's trawpit the kintra, an' socht thro' the toot's,
An' fan' the Jule hizzies—blawn oot like balloons I

Can they be my lassocks—ante cozie and cosh,
Weel shapit, weel happit—sae stumpy an' tosh f
Twa coats an' a toush, or a goon, ye may ween,
Were boukie aneuch, wi' what nature had gi'en.

They're aye i my e'e, an' they're aye i' my gate—
At the kirg .1 am chirtit wai st oot o' my seat ;
When amid, tae the ingle Ineedna gae ben,
If Kate an' her crinoline's on the fire-en'.
Khan a lad wi' a lassie foregethers yenoo,
It's no her bricht een, or her rosie wee mou',
Her snod cockernony, waist jimry an' fine,
That first tak's his e'e—it's the big crinoline!
Tee say that he likes it would jist be a lee
But ye ken that the big thing attracts aye the wee—
r heart an' her held,
An' the lass that cares nocht 'bout he
Tak's care that her crinoline's spread
abreed.
weel

An. „y, if dame Nature wad gi'e at her birth,
Tae ilka wee lassie that's born on the yirth,
bouk o' her ain, that grew bigger ilk year,
Ye'd no be sae prood a' the giltia I fear.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly _Return)

The deaths i❑ London dec-Cned to 1,250 in the
week that ended Saturday. Till last week the num-
ber has not fallen below 1,300 in any week of the
present year; and the deaths returned last week aro
fewer than they were in any previous week during
a period of more than six months, namely, since Oc-
tober in last year.
The average number of deaths, as derived from
the returns of weeks (in 1853-62) nearly corres-
ponding -with last week is, with a correction for in-
creasing population, 1,219. The mortality of last
week was therefore still above the average, but the
excess was not more than 40 deaths.

'The births in last week exceeded the deaths by
629.

There were 68 deaths in the week from small-
pox. During the last seven weeks the mortality
from this disease has shown little fluctuation. The
sub-districts in which fatal cases of small-pox were
most numerous last week, are the following :—St.
Margaret, Westminster, which returned 3; the
Rectory, Marylebone, where there were 3 ; Camden
Town, 3; Islington, East, 4; and St. Peter. Wal-
worth, 5.

While the deaths from measles declined to 37,
those from scarlatina rose to 94. The latter com-
plaint was very fatal in Islington and Clerkenwell ;
and in St. Botolph, where there were five deaths
from it.

A remarkable case of longevity is recorded which
should be authenticatbd, if possible, by a reference
to the parish register of baptisms, or other evidence
in ,a hich confidence can be placed. An in-pensioner
of Chelsea Hospital is stated to have died on the
19th instant at the age of 109 years.
A man, aged 28 years, died in King's College
Hospital, under " chloroform properly adminis-
tered." (Inquest.)

Last week the births of 961 boys and 927 girls,
in all 1,888 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1853 62
the average number (corrected) was 1,902.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the
mean height of the barometer in the week waa
29.813 in. The barometrical reading fell to 29.67
in. on Sunday, rose to 30.04 in. on Thursday,
and fell to 29.68 in. on Saturday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 48.3 deg., which
is 5.2 deg. below the average of the same week in
43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
mean daily temperature was below the average on
every day after Sunday; and on four days the
deficiency was from 6to 9 degs. The thermometer
in the sun rose to 105 deg. on Monday and
Saturday. In the shade the highest day tempe-
rature was 66.5 deg. on Monday. Tie lowest
night temperature, 35.7 deg. on Saturday. The
range of temperature was, therefore, 30.8 deg.
The mean daily range was 16.8 deg. The range on
Saturday was as much as 26.4 deg. The difference
between the mean dew point temperature and air
temperature was 4.9. The mean degree of humidity
of the air was 83, complete saturation being repre-
sented by 100. The wind was the south-west on
Sunday, but afterwards blew from the north-east.
Rainfall was 0.73 in., nearly all of which fell on
Tuesday and Wednesday. The mean of the highest
temperatures of the water of the Thames was 57.2
deg;. ; that of the lowest was 55 deg.