The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-27 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 Os Od ; clover,
£5 Os to £6 3s 6d ; and straw, £1 6s to £llos per load.
Trade firm.

OUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od; clover,
£5 5s to £6 6s Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load.
A fair demand.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 Os Od; clover,
£5 Os to £6 5s Od ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 lOs per load.
Trade steady.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 171
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19f 11 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 47i 25 50
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris . Short 25 171 25 221
Ditto 3 Months. 25 421 25 47i
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201 1201
Vienna — 11 20 11 25
Trieste — 11 20 11 25
Potersburgh - ' 30f 31
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

47} 47
48 48
25 55 25 10
25 55 25 60
25 55 25 60
25 57 25 621
25 57f 25 62
25 57} 25 62
51f 51
51f 51

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived.—Lieut. Peterson, from Kalma ; Leopold, from
Gottenburg ; Three Sisters, from Groningen ; Margaret,
from Groningen ; Ask, from Sundswall ; and Egena, from
Stromstadt.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed.—Aliqui, from Calcutta ; Reuller, from Antigua ;
Peri, from the west; Lidgea, from Barbadoes ; Storm
Nymph, from St. Lucia ; Fontebella, from Jamaioa ; Tees-
dale, from Portland Bay ; William, from Alexandria ;
lgnis Fatuus, from Manilla ; Conflict, from Calcutta ;
Spheroid, from St. Kitt's—all for London.

A letter from Simbirsk (Russia) states that all
the new buildings erected since tho fire which almost
entirely destroyed that town last year were again burned
down last week. The fire began during the celebration of
a funeral service for the late hereditary grand duke.

JEALOUSY.—A barber named Guimont, residing
at Fougerolles (Mayenne), has been arrested for having
gashed his wife in a dreadful manner with a razor. He
had been seized with some unfounded suspicion of the
woman's fidelity, and without any investigation or inquiry
attacked her furiously. He then went and lay down quite
tranquilly in the bed with his son, a boy six years of age.
The woman's life is in danger.
ENLARGEMENT OF THE PORT OF ODESSA.—PUr-
suant to the memorial of the General Director of Ways and
Communications, and a project presented by the• Governo-
r of Bessarabia and New Russia, the Emperor has
ordered a sum of 4,740,000 roubles to be applied to the
widening and improvement of the port of Odessa. Russian
and foreign engineers are to compete in the presentation of
plans. The works are to be begun in the present year, and
ten years will be given for the completion of them. M.
Mauser, an engineer from Trieste, is expected to visit
Odessa at the expense of the Russian Government in con-
nexion with this undertaking, and by authorisation of the
Austrian Government.—Russian Correspondence.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—The exhibition
of portrait. miniatures, consisting of between 3,000 and
4,000 specimens of all the great masters from the time of
Holbein, will bo opened to the public at the South Ken-
sington Museum on Saturday, June 3.
ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRrTAIN
AND IRELAND.—At the last meeting of this society
it was arranged that the annual meeting for this year
should be held at Dorchester from Tuesday, August 1, to
Tuesday, the Bth, inclusive, and the local committee and
presidents of sections were nominated. Dorchester is
comparatively new ground for the archaeologist ; but Corfe
Castle, Wimborne Minster, Sherborne Minster, and the
Roman remains which abound in the county, will be in-
, eluded in the programme in the excursions. Professor
Willis will read a memoir of Sherbornm, and afterwards
illustrate his remarks by reference to the miuster itself.