The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-22 00:00:00

CORK-AuG. 20.

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The following were the quotations this morning :—Red
wheat, —s Od to —s Od ; white, 22s Od to —s Od; barley 14s
6d to —s Od ; oats, 13s 3d to 13s 7d.

DERBY SMITHFIELD-ArG. 19.

A short show of fat beasts to-day ; the best quality was
scarce, the greater part being only of the middling sort.
The supply of fat and store cheep was large, and lambs
less. A large supply of fat pigs. Fat and store calves
about the average
Beef bid to 7d Veal 6d to &id
Mutfon ..- .. - Old to 7d, Pork . 6id to 51d
Lamb Bd to Bfd Rough fat, 4s 6d per stone.
Hides, 3d to 41d ; calf skins, 5d to 6d.

PLATINUM AT THE EXHIBITION.—Then there
were two big vessels of platinum ; the one an alembic
(what an old alchemist's word!), and the other a boiler for
rectifying sulphuric acid, and worth £465 without the tubes.
Platinum is essentially the chemist's metal, and the most
useful that he has. Fire does not melt it, unless at the
most outrageous and almost unattainable ferocity; air and
water do not touch it ; it can be heated to a white heat and
and still retain its polish; and the only acid that dissolves
it, is the nitro-muriatic. What the analytical world did
when it was not so, no one now can understand. Plati-
num is rarely found in masses, only in grains or spangles.
for the most part not so large as linseed, sometimes as
large as hempseed, and sometimes, but very rarely, as
big as peas. But there have been tremendous giants
—just one or two—to show what platinum can do if it
likes. The largest bit seen hitherto is in this very Eastern,
Annexe of ours. It is an irregular mass about a foot long and
from rye to six inches deep, weighing 3,200 oz., or 200 itS.
Up to the advent of this metallic son of Anak, the prize
piece vas one of 21 lbs. weight, brought from the Ural
Mountains, and now in the famous Demidoff cabinet ; then
there was another, over 11 lbs., also found in the Ural
Mountains in the year 1827; and one in the Royal Museum
at Madrid, larger than a turkey's egg, and brought from
the gold mine of Condoto, at Choco, in Peru ; and another
from the same place, weighing more than two oz. avord-
poise, which Humboldt presented to the cabinet of Berlin.
All thesewere mighty in their day, when compared to the
linseed aid bempseed of ordinary growths; but what are
they now in the presence of a leviathan weighing 200 lbs.?
Platinum—a minor silver, from "plate," which means sil-
ver, accoreing to the Spaniards—is found principally in the
company (f gold, and when first brought to Europe in 1748
was called white gold, in recognition of the many noble
properties, which seem to make it akin to the royal metal.
For it is so malleable that it can be beaten into leaves thin
enough to be blown about and floated anywhere by the
breath—jtut like gold leaf ; and it is so ductile (I am ob-
liged to use these hard words, but I don't like them) that Dr.
Wollaston made a wire of it no larger in diameter than
the 2,000 th part of an inch ; while its tenacity is proved by
the fact that a wire, 1-18th of an inch in diameter, can sup-
port a weight of 3611b5. So, after all, it has a right to be
called white gold, and of royal standing in the metallic
world.—Didens's "All the Year Round."

[ADVERTISEMENT.)--Holloway's Pills.--Fever, In-
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Holloway's Pills have proved themselves the best preven-
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fully strike at the roots of all bodily aliments by eradicating
every morbid matter from the blood, and conferring on
every organ its natural and healthy action, without weaken-
ing the system or irritating the brain or nerves. In all the
varieties of fevers and inflammations, which so fearfully
swell our bills of mortality, Holloway's pills exercise the
most salutary power. They often restore health when
dissolution is threatened.

IRTHS.

GRIFFITH.—On the 15th inst., at 81, Eaton-place, the wife
of C. Darby Griffith, Esq., 111. P,, prematurely, of a son,
stillborn. _ _

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HEYGATE.—On the 18th inst., at Bellarena, co. London-
derry, the wife of Sir Fred. Wm. Heygatet Bart., M.P.,
of a son.
PLUMRIDGE.—On the 19th inst., at HoPt°3l Hall) Lady

Plumridge, of a daughter.
SAVORY.—On the 18th inst., at 26, Harewood-
square, the
widow of T. H; Savory, :Esq., of a daughter.

MARTLIAGES.

Dover, sixth son of the late William
DOVER—COLE.—On the 19th inst., at St. Botolph, Ald-
to Mahala, widow of
the late Mr. Robert Cole, of Chelmsford.
WATERTON—ENNIS.—
Dg aotve4l:lEr.NG:oorfe /vEle.rton, Surrey,
On the 20th inst., at St. Andrew's,
Westland-row, Edmund, only son of Charles Waterton,
Esq., of Walton Hall, Yorkshire, to Josephine M. Alicia,
co. Westmeath, M.P, for Athlone. .
second daughter of John Ennis, Esq , of Ballinahoen,

DEATHS.
ALsTort.—On the 18th inst., at Buxton, Wm. C. Alston,
Esq., of Elmdon Hall, Warwickshire, aged 69.
BUROMANN.—On the 18th inst., at Lympstone, Devon,
Emily, daughter of the late Sir George Burgmann, aged
62.
CHADIVICK.—On the 20th inst., at his residence, 4, Upper
harnsbury-street Islington, Mr. William Chadwick,
solicitor, aged 51.
HEATHCOTE.—On the 21st inst., the Rev. W. B. Heath-
cote, M.A., rector of Compton Basset, Wilts, and Pre-
centor of Salisbury Cathedral, aged 49.
HAMPER.—On the 20th inst., Mr. Wm. Hamper, of 569
Threadneedle-street, aged 62.
MACDONELL.—On the 2d inst., at Dun Edin, New Zea-
land, Alexander Ranaldson Macdonnell Esq., of Glen-
garry and Clanranald.

LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 'THE Sufi Office N 0.112,
Strand, in the Precinct of tb e Savoy, in the_Count, of
Middlooext—Friday, August. 22„ 1563.