The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-15 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITITFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 to £4lss;; clover, £3
lOs to £5 10s ; and straw, £1 80 to £1 16s Od per; load.
A slow demand.

CUMBERLAND..—Meaiow hay, 12 Os to f 4 158; clover
do., £3l Os to £5 10s; and straw, 8s to £1 16s per load.
Trade heavy.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 03 to £4 153; clover,
£3 10s to Lb lOs ; and straw. £1 8s to £1 Ris per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our quotations.

COAL MARKET.
(Prfoes of Coal per Ton at the close of the market

s. d. I s. d
Bate's West Hartley..l4 0 North Pelton 13 0
Walker Primrose 12 0 Wylam ..15 0
Lambert's West Hart- I Carway and Duffryn
ley l4 0 ' Malting
Davison's West Hart- I Do. Anthracite 21 6
ley 14
Howard's West Hart- I -
ley .14 6 Gosforth 14 6
Byass's Bebside West I Hetton .. l7 6
Hartley ...14 3 I Heugh Hall 15 6
Eden Main ...15 6 Hedley 14 6
Tanfield Moor Butes..l2 _ 9 Easington .... l5 0
Craighead Steam 14 0 , South Hetton 17 6

Walls :End.

Ships at market, 118 ; sold, 53.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 11.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. E. C.
Downing as Consul at Cardiff for his Majesty the King of
the Belgians.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Jose
Gervacio Sotillo as Consul in the Island of Trinidad for the
Republic of Venezuela.
WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 14.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of John Peter Grant, Esc., Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil
Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, for appointing Hugh Seymour
Tremenheere, Esq., Richard Dugard Grainger, Esq., and
Edward Carleton Tufnell, Esq., to be her Majesty's Com-
misioners for inquiring into the Employment of Children
and young Persons in Trades and Manufactures not al-
ready regulated by Law.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 13. . .

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Charles Doyle Patterson Exon of Her
Majesty's Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard,
vice Captain G. V. Macdonald, resigned.

CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 14.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TUE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

City of Lincoln—John Bramley Moore, of Aigburth,
near Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Esq., in the
room of George Fieschi Heneage, Esq., who has accepted
the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 14.
Grenadier Guards—General his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.8,, Brc., from the Scots Fusi-
lier Guards, to be Colonel.
Scots Fusilier Guards—General Sir Alexander Woodford,
G.C.8., G.C.M.G., &0., from the 40th Regiment, to be
Colonel, vice General his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, appointed to the Grenadier Guards.
The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade—Field Marshal
Lord Seaton, G.C.8., G.C.M.8., to be Colonel-in-Chief,
59th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Plomer Young to
be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Jeremiah Taylor,
deceased.

BANKRUPTS.
Richard Willoughby, printer, West Smithfield
Joseph B. Chatfield, draper, Horsham, Sussex
Henry Ablitt, grocer, Montpellier-row, Brampton
Lewis Green, carpenter, Crouch End, Homsey
John Wood, farmer, Headcorn, Kent

Henry Ablewhife, Stowmarket, Suffolk
William Hart. baker, Hackney-road
George Wm. Glinister, grocer, Stepney
Thomas Williams, licensed victualler, Jermyn-street
William H. Pickersgill, licensed victualler, Marsh-gate,
Lambeth
James Bull, baker, Newport, Isle of Wight
William Martin, hay dealer, Ruislip, Uxbridge
Thomas Crawley, boot lace manufacturer, Smithfield

George Peffani, sail maker, Minories
George Hedge, timber merchant, Coventry
Benjamin, Amos, and Joseph Greenwood, cotton manu-
facturers, Halifax
John Wiggleswerth, Thomas Wigglesworth, and Jere-
miah Wigglesworth, cotton manufacturers, Accrington,
Lancashire.
John Smith, rem, and John Smith, jun., cotton manu-
facturers, Lancashire.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John Fulton Anstruther, merchant, Port-Glasgow
Jehn Donaldson, slater, Glasgow
Wm. Sage, joiner, Hamilton
John Haddow, farmer, Holmains, Lanarkshire
Wm. Liddel, cattle dealer, Denny
Peter Ferguson, house factor, Edinburgh
Wm. Mai tin, farmer, Muirdike, Ayrshire
Thomas Morrison, contractor, Grangemouth
Robert Miller, builder, Claapelhall, Lanarkshire
George Preset., miller, Mulben Mills, Elginshire
John Hay, merchant, Garmond Village, Aberdeenshire

[GOLD FIELDS IN NEW SOUTH WALES

(From the Sydney Morning Herald of Dec. 21.)
The brilliant anticipation in regard to the success of the
Lachlan goldfields have not, we regret to say, been realized .
and thus disappointment has been encountered, and heavy'
expenses have been incurred by very many but ill able to
bear the latter, however much they may have become ha-
bituated to the former. All accounts agree as to the yield
being extraordinary—equal to that of Ballarat in its palmiest
days; but the payable ground is confined only to a very
small area, being not more than a quarter of a mile long and
100 yards wide. This piece of ground is held by some 300
miners, who, out of the whole population of 6,000 or 7,000
persons, are the only persons who are making anything, the
sinking there being: either a fortune or nothing. This
check, which is now fully admitted by the minors, has had
the effect of once more bringing Lambing Flat into notice,
and accounts from all quarters inform us that miners aro
flocking there by dszens.

The greater part of those diggers who left Burrangong
for the Lachlan have now returned, a very brief inspection
of the work having convinced them that fortune was only
for the few, while at Lambing Flat there was an equal
chance for all, with a certainty of good wages and a possibi-
lity of a " pile." The result of the temporary cessation from
toil has been that work has been renewed on all sides with
more than the usual activity. New ground has been opened
in one or two places, and very promising results have been
obtained by those who have bottomed their holes. In addi-
tion to the old hands who have returned here, a very large
number of Victorian miners, who, tempted by the accounts
respecting the Lachlan, had visited that field, have now set
in upon the Burrangong; while the Chinese are concen-
trating upon this point from every quarter of the country,
in such numbers that it is anticipated by some that there
will be at least 10,000 of them assembled here before the
close of the summer. Already the escort returns from
Burrangong are beginning to mount up to their old figure,
and should the seeds of discord not be again sown among
the miners, we may at last hope that this promising field
may have, what it has never yet had, a fair trial.

" The Braidwood diggings have been rather dull during
the month. The long continued drought has operated un-
favourably in many places, preventing washing up, unless
at a ruinous expense. At the same time it has been favour-
able to the wet digginge, which for many months past
could not be worked on account of the water. The miner
has now a chance at these, of which he is not slow to avail
himself; and in such spots there is some activity. Nearly
the whole of the Chinese, who formed so large a portion of
the mining population of these diggings, have left during
the month for Burrangong, the accounts received from this
place from their countrymen having drawn them away en
masse.

"From the more southern diggings—Gundagai, Tamut,
&c.—no news of importance has been received, except that
many of the few parties working on them have been tempted
away by the accounts from the Lachlan.

We have received no definite intelligence in regard to
the Snowy River, though the escort returns would imply
that matters must be progressing favourably. In fact, the
miners seemed to be engaged in a feud with the resident
commissioner there, and of course this local difficulty ex-
cites more of their attention than important matters that
would interest the community at large.