The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.. —Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os Od ; clover
do., lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load.
Both hay and straw were in slow request at previous quo'
tations.

CUMBERLAND..—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Oa ; clove!
do., £3 lOs to £5 10a; and straw, £1 108 to £1 16s per 1094"
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Od to £4 Os ; clove!
do , £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 108 to £1 l6s per lot"
A slow demand.

ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES.—A meeting
in connection with this charity was held yesterday
at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing 10 ar
plicants for admission. Mr. Alderman Hale occupied the
chair. In opening the proceedings he referred to the ar"
rangement under which Mr. Western Wood was to have
presided, and expressed deep regiet that, owing to the death
of that gentleman, it had devolved on him (the speaker) t
take the chair. After speaking in high terms of the cha•
meter of Mr. Wood, the chairman went on to say that pet
the
sons afflicted with incurable disease ought truly to be
objects of Christian charity. He hoped that even some of
~
the unhappy applicants for the benefits of the hoel sa
4.1
might eventually be cured. He was proud to preside a
meeting connected with a charity which had been founded
bra great and good man now no more. The number °f
candidates on the list was 113, and only 10 could be elected
but he hoped that on a future occasion the board would be
able to receive a greater number. He then declared dte
13_or_17
the poll had opened, and the election was proceeded vrit
CHANGE NAME IN SCOTLAND:-The fiord
Lyon (the King-at-Arms) will not, as in P_°ani)
_e
believed, grant authority to any individual to chang
ed it,
name ; but on the narrative that he has already Chang the
he will grant him arms under his new name; an e
will
patent, or if desired, in an extract from the record,
certify the fact of the change.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
remained without any material variation in values.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
in most instances support previous prices. Bank
of :London have advanced about £1 10s., and City
Bajik, £1 ; International Finance Company Shares
are quoted 6 to 6-1 prem. ; London Finance, 1.1 11
prem., and General Credit, 2,-1- 21, prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 913 a
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.
New 21 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent llO 3
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863
Ditto ditto :April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 3
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Ditto under £1,000..
Consols for Account, June 9 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 23 per Cent 4 dis
Ditto £500

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Baenos 'Ayres 6 per Cent
L:Lilian 6 per Cent —
Ditto 4} per Cent.
.... 88
Danish 4 per Cent., 1863
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l7a I
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 33
Ditto Account 334 .27, 31 21
Ditto Coupons
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 801 1 804
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account..
2
New Granada 161 i
Ditto 2 per Cent
s• •
Ditto Deferred — •
Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) —
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1862
Ditto Account 9O
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account..
I Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 —
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9l
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 ..
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Sardinian,s per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred —
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 334 a
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. l2i
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account .. 70
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account 721 1 1
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .... 58 i 'it
Ditto 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull _
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates -
Ditto Account.... ........
TWO O'CLOCK.
Ditto Accoun
Consols, Money
:11
Account .....
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Liverpool Cotton Market---This Da

Low offers refused. Market unsettled. 3,000
bales sold. Import 7,379 bales.

A GENTEEL MRS, CRUPP.
As DEPICTED BY A SATURDAY REVIEWER.

A gentleman, not very long ago, took apartments
in one of the streets running out of a West-end
square. The landlady seemed to be a highly respect-
able person somewhere over 30—a little over
"stylish" perhaps, but in her class good taste and
refinement are not always to be insisted upon. She
was, with a profusion of chains and trinkets, a very
constant and regular attendant upon the invaluable
ministrations of that learned and profound man and
accomplished servant of God, Dr. Cumming. Some-
times, by way of a holy pilgrimage and change of
devotional climate, she would venture, with a
couple of select friends, to subject her parched
and ever thirsting soul to the refreshing
dews of that great life-giver of the Bap-
tist communion, Mr. Spurgeon. Many were
the Sunday evenings on which, in the course:of her
household rounds, with half pert, half smug, half
coaxing, half anxious look, as she smoothed her
apron, adjusted her well pasted hair, and inquired
the wishes of her lodger, she gave him an account
of the great benefits her soul had received during
the course of the day from one or other of these
prophets; and with a reproachful curiosity, ill-dis-
guised, left him, darting as she went little Parthian
inuendoes against the smoking of cigars, and com-
munion with the devil, in the shape of " Essays
and Reviews." So much so for the bright side of
the picture. Now for the obverse. Oar friend,
having occasion to give a certain little dinner, bought
a Stilton cheese and a large box of figs, of eaeh
of which a few mouthful were consumed. A
week after, he inquired for the box of figs and the
cheese, with a view (as the penny-a-liners say) to
partake of luncheon. But neither cheese nor figs
were forthcoming :
Cheese, air, what cheese—what figs—do you wish me to
send for some, sir ? I will if you wish it, sir, with plea-
sure ; but it will be rather inconvenient just now, for Mary
is out, and Sally is not dressed, sir.
There was an astounding simplicity and calmness
in her tone which for a moment overcame the not
otherwise squeamish lodger. At last he said :
Surely, Mrs. --, you cannot have forgotten that a week
ago I bought a cheese and a large box of figs, and that I
only had them up once.
Oh, sir 1 those, sir I I could not have su osed h of
course, we've e iten them, sir—nine Children and whole
week, sir—and
friends to dinner ho
day before yesterday I had a party of
Bat, Mrs. —1 I never authorised you to eat my cheese
and my fit's.
Your cheese, your fig—authorised me, sir—certainly not.
But I have been in the habit of living with gentlefolks, and
not upon such mercenary terms. Surely, Sir, you cannot
have forgotten that the other day, when you had the influ-
enza, I sent you up a basin of ox-tail soup unasked, as a
delicate attention, of my own accord, sir.
For the truth of this story we vouch.