The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-25 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

HAY MARKETS.
SMITIIPIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4lss ;
clover, L 3
lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s Od per load.
A slow trado for both hay and straw, at our quotations.
CUMBERLAND..—Metvtow hay, S 2 Os to £4 15s ; clover
do., £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
Trade dull.
m—Meadow hay, £2 Os to R 4 15s; clover,
WurrEcHAP
£3 lOs to £5 lOs ; and straw, 8s to £1 l6s per load,
A slow demand.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—A moderate amount of business has been done,
and prices have been well maintained for all qualities.
SUGAII.—The market has been dull, and in sod me in-
-
stances prices have slightly given way. Refined escrip
tions, however, have realised previous values.
COFFEE.—There has been a brisk inquiry for good and
fine qualities, and quotations have tended upwards.
RICE.—For the better descriptions of East India there
has been a fair demand ; no material alteration, however,
can be reported in values.
SALTPETRE.—Business has been more active, and in
most instances enhanced rates have been obtained.
TALLOW.—The market has m reained dull ; prices, how-
ever, have shown little change of importance. P.Y.C. on
1 the spot are quoted 465, and last three months' delivery
48s per cwt.
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COAL M.
trrfoes of Coal per Ton at
d.

.ARK ET.
t the close of the rnarke
Walla:End.

Byass's Bebside West
Hartley ......... ... 15 0
Wylam ..14 6
Holywell ..14 6
Tanfield Moor ........ 12 0
Tanfield Moor Butes ..12 0
North Pelton 12 0
West Hartley 15 0
Walker Primrose 11. 0
Hastings Hartley l5 0
Carway and Duttryn.
Malting ....
24 0
Do. Anthracite 21 6

Eden.......... l4 9
Acorn Close l4 9
Byron .......... .. • . l4 0
South Kelloe.
Franawellgate l4 9
ICassop l5 6
Whitworth.. ......... 14 0
Hetton ........ 16 6
Peases West .14 6
South Hetton l6 6
Heugh Hall l4 9
Hartlepool.. l5 9
South Hartlepool 14 9
Haswell .........16 6
lieiper Grange.... ..15 0
Bri,ddyll's k1ett0n......16 0
t, 77 ; sold, 49.

Walls End.
Stewart's.... ........ 16 0
Kitson ..............13 0
Kelloe ...............15 9
Ships at market

THE MALT JUTS
.-MEETING
Y.-MEETEVG OF
NAL.

Last afternoon a numerously attended public
meeting of Mark was held at the Corn Exchange
Coffee-house, -lane, for the purpose, as stated
in the notice convening the meeting of " Consider-
ing the best means to be adopted for obtaining an
alteration of the present unjust system of collecting
the malt duty."
Mr. J. 3. GRIPPER, the Mayor of Hertford, having
been voted to the chair, stated that for some years
the maltsters had been labouring under consider
able disadvantages arising out of the mode in
which the malt duty was collected, and which they
conceived bore tinjustly upon them. He considered
that the injustice of the present system must be
apparent to all who considered it, for under it about
eight weeks after the malting season, which
as he had stated occupied about six or seven
months, all the duty upon the malt made had to be
paid, while the article could not go into consump-
till the end of 12 a
monthbs.ndf So that the Governmentthe
had their money in or
goods on which it was
rest hard chargshi ed wen
on the maltstert into consump-
.
Mr. GRAY then moved a resolution to the effect,
tion, which was a g
that in the opinion of the meeting the present mode
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P up
of collecting the malt duty was unjust and inju-
rious to the trade, and that a -deputation be ap-
pointed to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer
for the purpose of asking him for some extension of
the credit of the malt duty..
The resolution was unanimously adopted.