The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

DERBY SMITH:

'IELD-J AN. 27.

A moderate supply of fat beasts to-day, with a brisk de-
mand, and a clearance was effected. Sheep in average sup-
ply, but a less number of pigs. Calves scarce.
Beet 6d to 64d Veal 7d to 71d
Mutton ... 7jd to Bid Pork
Lamb .. —d to —d Rough fat, 4s Od per stone.
Hides, 3d to 41d; calf skins, 5d to 6d.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

A.us•aalia and Mauritius, via Southampton Feb. 18
via Marseilles Feb. 12.
&tail and Cape Verds, by British packet. Feb. 3.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. Feb. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Feb. 1.
via Marseilles Feb. 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. 1.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, viu Southampton Feb.

via Maraeilfes....Feb. 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Feb. 10

via Marseilless Feb. 5.
Portugal....
:Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton . Feb. 1.

_ .
via Marseilles Feb. 6.
Newfoundland ..Feb, 4.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 29.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Jan. 30.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and TeneritTe Feb. 10.
Bahamas, via New York
Mpsico Jan. 28.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Jan. 28.
California, and British Columbia.

MR. SHERIDAN. M.P., AT DUDLEY.—Mr.
Sheridan addressed a meeting of his constituents on
Tuesday evening at Dudley on the events of the last ses-
sion. He alluded to all the topics of the day, and con-
cluded his..speech with a. .very impartial review of the
,state of the. American question. On both sides, he said,
there are many matters of objection, and I think English-
men would do well to .avoid eiprefising an opinion,' and to
wait:`anA 'see-the result of tiie'next few Months.
I.IIE IRON CROWN OF ITALY.—On the 23d of
May, 1805, when the Emperor Napoleon the First
was crowned King of Italy at Milan, he withhisown hands
placed the ancient iron crown of Lombardy on his head, say-
ing "God has given it to me : let him beware who would
touch it ;" thus assuming, as Sir Walter Scott observes,
the haughty motto attached to the antique diadem by its
early possessors. This celebrated crown is composed of
a broad circle of gold, set with large rubies, emeralds,
an i sapphires, on a ground of blu3 and gold enamel. The
jewels and embossed gold exhibit a very close resemblance
to the workmanship of an enamelled gold ornament,
inscribed with the name of King Alfred the Great,
which was found in the isle of Athelney, in Sower-
setahire, about the close of the seventeenth century,
and is now carefully preserved in the Ashmolean museum
at Oxford. But the most important part of the iron
crown, from which, indeed, it derives its name, is a narrow
band of iron, about three-eighths of an inch broad, and
one-tenth of an inch in thickness, attached to the inner
circumference of the circlet. This inner band of
sacred iron is said to have been made out of one
of the nails used at the crucifixion, given by the
Empress Helena, the discoverer of the cross, to her son
Constantine, as a miraculous protection from the dangers
of the battle-field. The ecclesiastics, who exhibit the
crown, point out as a 'permanent miracle,' that there is
not a single speck of rust upon the iron, though it has
now been exposed more than fifteen hundred years. The
earliest quasi-historicrl .notice of the iron crown is, that
it was used at the coronation of Agilulfus, King of Nor•
mandy, in the year 591. Bonaparte, after his coronation at
Milan, instituted a new order of knighthood for Italy, en-
titled the Iron Crown, on the same principle as that of the
Legion of Honour for France.

GARIBALDL—The following letter wss addressed
some short time back by Garibaldi from Caprera
to a young Russian girl who had sent him her portrait
" My dear Child,—You ask me for a word of sympathy lor
Russia, the country of your birth. Our Savi•,ur was born
on the banks of the river Jordan, and when he proclaimed
that all men are brothers, he did not ask whether their
birthplace was the banks of the Neva or those of the Vis-
tula. The Russians ore therefore our brothers, because
I have seen that the same sun ripens the fine grapes of
Italy and the splendid corn in the immense fields of your
native land.--I affectionately kiss your forehead, GARD.
BALDI." Advices from Caprera are favourable. Garibaldi
does not yet leave his bad, as the wound has not closed;
but the cure is making rapid progress.