The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-09 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £1 16s to £4 15s Od ; clover,
do,, £3 lOs to £6 Os; and straw, £ll4s to £1 18s per load.
A slow demand.

eimßEßLArtn.--111eagow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; clover,
10s to £5 179 ; and straw, £1 108 to £2 Os per load.
Both hay and straw in slow request.
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WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £1 lOs to £4lss; clover,
do., £3 lOs to £6 Os; and straw, El 149 to £1 18s per load.
Supply moderate

BEDFORDSHIRE PLOUGHING MEETING.—Last
Friday the crack ploughmen of Messrs. Ransome and
Howard met at Leighton, and, after a severe contest, the
twenty guinea prize, offered by the town of Leighton, was
won by Messrs. Ransonle, their ploughman, Armstrong,
having done better work than the celebrated Purser.
SOMERSET HOUSE FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.—Yes-
terday morning a large body of workmen commenced the
removal of the entire granite pavement in the quadrangle of
Somerset House, which has for some time past been used
as a drill and parade ground of the Civil Service Volun•
teers, and occasionally by the London Irish Brigade. The
entire space is to be relaid and made level with a substratum
of concrete, and a carefully rolled and solid pavement of
asphalte and marble tar.

PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Evening.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's paddlewheel steamship
Tagus, Captain Hall, which left Southampton on Tuesday
morning, with a general cargo and 55 passengers for Lis-
bon and 3/Jadeite, reached as far as 50 miles south-west of
Plymouth at 8 o'clock this morning, when, most unexpect.
edly (the weather being very fine, wind E.N.E., a strong
breeze), the cross-head of the port. engine broke in two,
and the engine became entirely useless. She then put
about under her starboard engine and canvas, and reached
the Sound about 5 o'clock this afternoon. The Tagus
will be obliged to return to Southampton for repairs.
PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.—The Union Steamship
Company's mail packet Cambrian, Comutander Wm. Strutt,
left this afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena,
and Ascension. She would have left yesterday had notthe
sth fallen on a Sunday. The Cambrian takes a general
cargo and 71 first and second cabin passengers, among
whom there are on Government account Mr. Shaw and Mr.
Maitland, the former for Ascension, the latter for the Cape,
and the Rev. J. Anderson. The next wail ship home, the
Norman, Commander Ladds, left Table Bay probably on
the 21st of September, and may be expected here on the 28th
or 29th inst.

THE CONFEDERATES AT THE AZORES.—We
(Manchester Examiner) have been kindly favoured by Mr.
Azulay, of this city, with the following intelligence, just
received by him from the Azore Islands :—" A Confederete
steamer came to the Azore Islands about the middle of Sep-
tember, and at Flores captured and burnt 14 Federal
schooners, brigs, and barques, and put on shore at Flores
about 200 of their crews."
A LANDLORD CHARGED WITH ROBBERY_ —Ed'
ward Fitzgerald, keeper of the Tiger Inn, e
Liverpool, was yesterday charged before th:BoaLoliekv-)Be:rrwpeobool
magistrates with robbing an emigrant (Pete
The money
had been staying at his house, of about £3to.
discounted at
formed the change of a bill which Beck
Heywood's bank, and it consisted of tworgoSAlfOteanr
notes, and the balance in gold and silver.
somewhat muddled
below stairs, Beck had gone to bed,ddrainnekinag
awaking about two o'clock
wahnedn h e
but not drunken state, and on awa(
next morning he found his nione
went to bed) missing. He arou
lodgers in the house were
in-
formed him of his loss ; otherruotfound.
It subsequently
searched, but the money Ysedwhtihche lwanasdlsoarfcle,
agent in Liverpool. The pri-
sonerof the stolen notes to
a beerhad paid the note in question, but
transpired, however, that wthasslandlord had actually paid one
other money in his till, and that
d it with ,
said that he found admitted that he.
to his knowledge
came there honestly, and in the way of
trade. Ino it
order to clear up the mystery the case was re-
' manded.
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