The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

CHELMSFORD-MARCR 28.

A very small supply of wheat to-day, with a dull market,
and late prices barely maintained for the best conditioned
parcels ; damp samples could net be got rid of at less than
is reduction. Spring corn was at late rates, except beans,
which were is cheaper.
Wheat, old white 27s 58s
new 46s 65s
old red 26s 50s
new 51s 61s
Barley 30s 39s
Chevalier 3os 42s
Grinding • 24s 32s
Malt.... 61s 67s
Chevalier . 64s 69s
Oats 23s 308

Peas, Partridge 37s 410
White 39s 45s
Boiling . 4ls 470
Dun 36s 400
Ditto new —s —s
Beans, Tick, old 3ss 41s
new 35s 410
Harrow Ticks 37s 43s
new 37s 42s
Mazagan 32s 358

GLOUCESTER—Mancn 29.

A fair supply of English wheat, which met a dull sale
at a decline of is per qr. Foreign sold very slowly at the
same reduction. Barley, beans, and peas unaltered. Oats
a very slow sales.

KIRKCALDY GRAIN—MAncir 29.

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We had small supplies to, day of all descriptions of
grain. Sales at previous prices.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First....4os Od 26s Od I 20s Od
Second:..4Bs Od 29s 6d 23s Od
Third....s6s Od 32s Od 28s Od

i COAL 11
(Prices of Coal per Ton at

UtKET.
the close of the market
Walls End.

s. d.
Bate's West Hartley.. 15 6
Byass's Bebside West

-.-- -.
s.!d.
South Kalloo 16 3
Camp .. 16 3
Haugh Hall 15 6
Hartlepool.. l6 6
Hatton .. l7 3
Riddell
Easington .... ...... 15 3
Haswell l7 3
Tunstall

Hartley ..16 3
Tanfield Moor 12 3
Walker Primrose 11 0
Wylam ..14 6
Buddle's West Hartley 16 3
Eden Main ..15 6

Walla End.

Kelloe
Ships at marks

South Hart1ep001......15 9
)t, 25 • soil. 23.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. April IS.
via Marseilles April 12.
:drazil and Cape Yards, by British packet. April 6.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 4.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 4.
via Marseilles April 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton April 4.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 4.
via Marseilles April 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton April 10.
via Marseilles April 4.
Lisbon
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 4.
via Marseilles April 4.
Newfoundland ..April 2.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. Amorica, by Brit. packet .. April 2.

_ .
'by U.S. packet... -
by Canadian packet April 2.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritre April 10.
Bahamas, via Now York April 10.
Mexico .... April 2S,

All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Pon,`April 15.
California, and British Columbia.

SLAVES IN NORTII AMERICA.—Their notions
about bring free vary, as might be expected, with their
mental development, when once the idea of being sold to
Cuba is left behind. Some appear to be very abject, say-
ing that they aro now the Yankees, to be done with as the
Yankees please. Some only want a good master. Some
would like to be free, but inquire after a while for some
white man who should be " a protector." But all la-
bourers understand wages : all families understand what it
is not to be sold away from each other ; and all men,
women, and children, seem to have a passion for edu-
cation. This was so early and clearly pronounced that,
while the poor fugitives were huddling in the swamps by
day, and creeping on through woods and lanes by night,
good men and women in the northern cities have been
spending their scarce dollars in buying up all sorts of
alphabets and easy reading-books, and ciphering and copy-
books, to be sent down to the islands with the clothes
and implements so urgently required. Education having
been anxiously forbidden to the slaves, they regard it as
a badge of human nobility ; and the ambition for it is
universal. Already the parents are willing to pay a
certain amount out of their new wages to the schools
where they send their children with glee. In the
schools are seen children of all shades, from the pure ASri.
can black to the blue-eyed and fair-complexioned offspring
of the planter and his quadroon : the teachers are emanci-
pated slaves ; and after school hours, they beg some friendly
white to hear them spell, and read their easy words. Some
can read a hymn and a few scripture texts, having learned
by stealth in slavery.—Once a Week.