The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The supply of new hops is tolerably extensive. Good
and fine samples continue in request, at extreme rates, but
inferior qualities are a dull inquiry. For good old and
foreign hops the trade rules firm.

New kents
New Weald of Bents l3os to 172 s „
New Sussex l26s to 165 s ~

COLONIAL.

TEA,—There has been a moderate amount of business
transacted. At public sale good and fine qualities of green
realised a slight advance.
SUGAR.—OnIy a limited business has been done for home
consumption in the better descriptions, but refinery quali-
ties have been in demand at full rates. Business in the re-
fined market has been more active, and previous quotations
are fully maintained.
COFFEE.—For the better qualities of colonial there has
been a steady private demand, but no public of sales of im•
portance have been held. Prices, however, remain firm.
RICE.—The operations have been to a moderate extent,
and prices generally continued firm.
SALTPETRE.—Business has been moderately active, and
British refined has slightly advanced in value.
TA.LLow.—The market has continued dull without, how-
ever, any material change in quotations. P.Y.C. on the
spot is marked 48s 3d tol4Bs 6d ; last three months 488 6d ;
and spring delivery 49s to 49s 3d per cwt.

At the Belfast Police court on Wednesday twelve
persons, charged with being engaged in the riots, were
brought up. Several witnesses, including the Mayor,
were examined. The prisoners were sent for trial at the
quarter sessions. They were let out on bail, themselves in
£25 each, and two sureties of £lO each.

A serious accident happened yesterday to General
Lawrence. As he and his lady were going up the Chumps
Elysees in their carriage, one of the traces came undone,
and the splinter-bar struck against one of the horses' legs.
Both animals then becoming unmanageable, ran the car-
riage against a hackney coach, and upset it. The carriage
was shattered to pieces, and Mrs. Lawrence was thrown
out with such violence as to break her left arm. The Ge-
neral had his right leg injured. Both of them were imme-
diately taken to a friend's house in the Champs Elysees,
where they received every attention. One of the horses
was so much injured that it was found necessary to kill it.
THE CROPS AND STATE OF CANADA.—The season
now drawing to a close has been a profitable one for the
farmer. His barns have not only been filled, but the prices
he has obtained, and will obtain, during the coming winter
make the year's farming operations in Canada of a very
satisfactory character. The season, it will be remembered,
commenced somewhat inauspiciously with droughts of the
severest kind, but the subsequent summer months have
more than compensated for the drawbacks of May and
June. Copious showers at a later period restored full vigour
to the grain crops and in a great measure also rescued the
grass, which at one time was regarded as an almost total
failure. The second crop of grass is more than an average,
and as there will be a plentiful supply of roots the cattle
will fare very well indeed during the coming winter. The
fall wheat is, we learn, a splendid crop—a fact which it is
anticipated will have considerable weight with the farmers
in making them return to that description of crop for the
future. The fruit has also been of an unusually bountiful
character, so that in every respect the Canadian farmer has
great reason for rejoicing at the liberal reward which has
attended his labours of the past season. Canada, we hear
on all sides, was never more prosperous than she is at the
present moment, as money is plentiful and at lower rates of
interest than it has been for the past ten years, and credit
is unbounded,—Canadian Noes, Sept. 25.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 25.—The Sussex, from London
for Melbourne, arrived here this evening to embark passen-
gers. She reports signalling in the Channel the Cairngorm,
from Sydney, June 18. She saw also to-day a ship stand-
ing up Channel resembling the Anglesey, due from Mel•
bourne, with 6,900 (f) oz. of gold.
IMPROVEMENTS AT HOLYROOD,—A new military
guard-room has been erected opposite the palace of Holy-
rood, with stabling and coach-house in the court• yard be-
hind. The plans for the new building were approved about
two years ago by the Prince Consort, and they have now
been carried to completion. The ground thus employed was
formerly the site of a brewery and other mean buildings,
which ill-befitted the neighbourhood of the palace. Hitherto
the only accommodation for the military guard has been an
apartment entering from the vestibule of the palace, and
for stable accommodation the horses and carriages of the
Royal equipage have had to be sent to a considerable dis-
tance. The central feature of the new buildings is a gate-
way of Scoto-Gothic character, flanked by two massive
towers projecting from the front, and surmounted by an
attic storey. The guard-rooms are entered from under
the archway, there being apartments provided for the
officers on duty in the attic storey. The buildings in the
court-yard within the gateway consist of stabling, with stalls
for 17 horses, and coach-house, with harness-rooms and
other accommodation. The Abbey Court-house, at the foot
of Canongate, has been renovated in keeping with the new
line of buildings, and the house which formerly occupied
the south corner has been refronted with battlemented cor-
nice and projecting tower, the whole forming a symmetri-
cal fagade of 245 ft. directly opposite the palace. "It is
thought,,that
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Highness will occasionally reside at Holyrood, and for
longer periods than her Majesty has been in the habit of
staying in the course of her journeys to and from Balmoral.
At all events, the preparations which have been going on
there indicate that the lamented death of the Prince Con-
sort will not deprive Holyrood of the stated visits of Royalty
with which it has been for some years honoured."
•PIRMINGIIAM 'MICHAELMAS FAIR, Sept. 25.
The ',supply of ;all kinds of fat stock on offer this day was
large, the trade inactive at barely late quotations. The
supply of store stock was very large. All kinds of young
stock were readily disposed of at higher rates. We noticed
a vary choice lot of Irish calves, five months old, offered by
Mr. Thomas Foster, which realised £5 10s. each. Barren
beast were in fair request, at from £8 to £lO each. Choice
new much cows were readily disposed of at full prices.
Store sheep were a large supply, the demand steady, store
ewes realising from 335. to 455. each; store wethers, 365.
to 46s each. The supply of rams was large, Messrs. Fox-
all and Cole exhibiting a very choice selection of pure Cots-
woldc and Hampshire Downs. Mr. Glover and Mr. Reeves
were large exhibitors;
we also received a very choice lot
good, the Drone.
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heavy There was a fair demand at from £5 to
£l2 each. The
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horse
demand heavy. The trade was on the whole slow;
good horses obtained full
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prices, inferior a very slow trade.
mutton, 6i Prices realised norto 7,d per fat
lb, stock- :—Beef, sd, to Gd. per lb;
Ss, Gd, to 9s. ; porkers, 9zeoatil,
tosdl.ot: 641. ; bacon pigs,