The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-21 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1865.

The objects of the association which we have

referred to are manifold. It endeavours, by ser-
vices on Sundays in the sign language, at two or
three of the metropolitan churches, and at the
Polytechnic Institution, to keep up the religious
knowledge gained by the children taught in the
Old Kent-road school, and to instruct those who
are totally ignorant. By lectures on week days it
strives to give them secular information ; in ex-
treme cases of poverty it gives relief, and
in illness temporary assistance. One of its
great objects is to help these unfortunates to
obtain regular employment and to watch over them
'in their homes, advising them in their perplexities,
helping them in getting places or obtaining work.
It also pays towards the expense of educating chil-
dren who are too old for the London school, which,
excellent as it is, only deals with the very young for
a limited period. We can fancy what a blessing it

must be to a poor deaf mute to feel that there is some

one to whom he can make his wants known, to

whom he can apply for advice or assistance, and
who will give him new thoughts, new feelings, and,
above all, sympathy. It has been proved by sad
experience that, while especially capable of training,
deaf mutes, when totally neglected, are most dan-

gerous members of society. Their isolation sours
them, and they become savage and cruel, with violent,
uncurbed passions. The speech of Dr. MICHAEL,
in the Report we have referred to, gives very valu-

able information respecting their condition, and it is

most gratifying to find that, after some training,
they are often able not only to support themselves

but to contribute to the support of others. Some

of the cases cited are most interesting and satisfac

tory, and show how much can be done. The names of

such well-known philanthropists as Lord SHAFTES

BURY and his associates are a sufficient guaran-
tee for the practical nature of the society, and we
cannot but hope that it will very soon be enabled to

extend its operations on behalf of those whose need

is so great, whose helplessness is so touching, and

who never appealed in vain to the pity of our

Great Exemplar.

LATEST FROM RICHMOND,

RICHMOND, APRIL 6.
The Richmond Whig of to-day says :—" The tran-
sition from enormous prices and depreciated cur-
rency to reasonable rates and real money has come
so suddenly upon the citizens that it will be some
time before they can realize the change. Butter
that was scarce at $25 per pound is now plentiful
at 50c. to 60c.; eggs that were hid away at $25 per
dozen came out readily at 30c. ; and other commo-
dities are at an equal rate.

During the evacuation of the city 350 odd con-
victs managed to escape from the penitentiary, but
on Thursday over 100 of them were recaptured,
and returned to the institution.

Military Governor Shepley has authorised the
detail of coloured men to clear away the ruins of
the great fire, so as to expose the broken gas pipes,
with the view of repairing them and speedily
furnishing gas light to the citizens.

Sutler's stores are springing up all over the city,
and old times are being revived by the sightof sub-
stantials and luxuries enjoyed before the war. We
understand from proper military authorities that no
difficulty now exists in regard to mail communiea-

tion by citizens with their friends in the Northern
States and all sections within the Union lines, pro-
vided the letters be stamped.

A mail has been made up daily at the capital,
closing at 5 o'clock a.m. A Northern mail returns
in the evening.

Four detective officers of the rebel government
have been arrested, with Wiley, the turnkey of
Castle Thunder, and Fred Shaffer, the Confederate
bread commissioner. They have all been committed
to Libby Prison.

The connections of the mayor and police have
been suspended for the present, and military law
governs the city. In time one may look for the
restoration of our municipal government on a union
foundation, and the resumption of legislation in all
its departments.

The Whig says the evacuation of the city was
going on for a month, but the people refused to be-
lieve that removal meant evacuation, and all
declared that the measures were only precautionary.
The specie of the Louisiana and Virginia State
Banks was run down to the Danville Depot in haste
on Sunday morning. A number of trains for the
officials were arranged during the evening. Still
there was not room enough for all.

Davis vas to depart at 7 p.m. Breckenridge
elected to go off on horseback with the last of the
army on Monday morning. Governor Smith was
off on horseback during the night.

The anniversary of Henry Clay's birthday occurs
on the 12th inst.

FRENCH CLAIM ON MR. SLIDELL'S PROPERTY.—
Some time ago Mr. Slidell, the Confederate repre-
sentative at Paris, gave a mortgage to a French banker for
860,000 upon his property in New Orleans. The banker
now claims the property under the laws of Louisiana, and
a suit is to be instituted in the United States Court, and it
will be made a test case. luteresting and important legal
points will be raised under the Confiscation Act, the deci-
sion of which will govern similar cases hereafter.—New
York Herald.

than an idiot. Its passions are usually strong,
and all ordinary means of instruction are powerless
to control or to elevate its nature. It is a curious
fact that deaf mutes generally have the organs of
speech perfect, but the loss of hearing has been
proved to induce the loss of speech by instances of
children seven or eight years old, who, on losing
their hearing from severe illness, ceased to speak.
The numbers visited with this affliction are very
great, since in every 1,500 of the population there
are eight deaf and dumb persons. In London and
its environs there are no less than 1,820 totally deaf
and dumb, and since in common with all such
afflictions deaf mutes are most frequently found
among the very poor, the parents of these unfor-
tunates are generally quite unable to educate them.
This is a case which simple benevolence will not
meet, it requires assiduous and patient study to be
able to communicate with the deaf and dumb, and
to teach and train them. Since there are those
among us who have given up their time to this
good work, and whose efforts have been crowned
with the most marked success, it is surely not too
much to expect that those blessed with means will
not let them be hampered in their endeavours by
the mere want of funds. Yet this unfortunately is
the case at present. Many most interesting and
necessitous cases are refused, half from the poverty
of the Association, while the low state of the build-
ing fund prevents its members from carrying out
their great wish and establishing a central
institution for all works and workers on
behalf of the deaf and dumb. Two of
the cases to which the committee are compelled
most reluctantly to refuse relief are fast growing
blind, so that unless relieved they will sink into a
most hopeless condition. Yet even this melancholy
state can be reached by Christian charity. Those
who can recall the details of the Irish famine of '47
may remember a most touching incident. A young
American girl, named LAURA BRIDGMAN, who was
deaf, dumb, and blind, having nothing but the
sense of touch left through which to receive instruc-
tion. On being told of the terrible state of the
Irish she never rested till, by the little handicraft
she had been taught, she had earned enough money
to send over a barrel of meal. Truly such affliction
finding means to help the afflicted preaches a power-
ful sermon to us who, being blessed with all our
faculties, are deaf to the appeal of the suffering and
afflicted, blind to their wants, and dumb in plead
ing their cause !

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

RUSSIA.

PETERSBURG, APRIL 20.

SPAIN.
MADRID, APRIL 20.

In the Senate to-day Marshal Prim said that the
Progressist party, impelled by the important cha-
racter of the debate, has temporarily withdrawn
from the attitude of abstention from public affairs
they had hitherto adopted. He believed that the
days of the Ministry were numbered, since the
Sovereign of Spain could not support a Ministry
committing such abuses of power with the army.

Senor Gonzales Bravo, in reply, declared that the
Ministers accepted the whole responsibility of the
events, for in the last demonstration of the students
leaders of a revolution were concealed, whose object
was to attack both the Throne and reigning dynasty.

CANADA.
QUEBEC, APRIL 7.
The Ministerial delegation proceed to England,
via Boston, on Wednesday, in order to consult with
the Imperial Government on the questions of Con-
federation and the colonial defences.
By desire of the Government the Finance depart-
ment has refunded to the St. Albans' banks the
money voted for that purpose.
The three battalions, consisting of 2,000 men, now
on frontier service, are shortly to be relieved by a
new levy of volunteers. Although but 12 compa-
nies are demanded for Upper Canada, fully 60 com-
panies have offered their services.
We have had a very exciting week in Montreal
consequent upon the discharge of the St. Albans'
raiders by Judge Smith.
Rumours were circulated that a plot had been
discovered on the part of the Canadian Executive,
whereby the prisoners would be again tried for acts
presumed to come under the Ashburton Treaty. A
popular outbreak was dreaded ; and were it not for
the very explicit statements made by the prosecution
on Wednesday morning in the Court of Queen's
Bench, there is little doubt but that the raiders
would not have been suffered to quit Montreal with-
out an effort being made to effect their release from
custody. It is now clear that the United States
Government have abandoned all the charges for
extradition pending against Lieut. Young and his
companions, and that no foul-play will be attempted.
They are removed to Toronto under fresh warrants,
where they will duly take their trial for conspiring
to violate our neutrality laws.
Judge Smith's legal acumen and knowledge of
international law has been fully and complimen-
tarily acknowledged by some journals, but ques-
tioned and condemned by others. Newspapers not
in the interest of the Canadian Government are
loud in extolling a judgment free from passion and
prejudice, illustrating the high principles of law.
The country is in a very unsettled state. People's
minds are more or less perturbed, and no effort is
seemingly made to conceal or to curb unquiet fore-
bodings. What is the intention of England, and
what are the purposes of our American neighbours ?
are questions in everybody's mouth. There is plenty
of loyalty in the province, and enough of disaffec-
tion to give a melancholy tinge to the illative history
of the next few months. People know that some
change is needed ; but what is the exact com-
plexion of that change few dare undertake
positively to pronounce. There is an undis-
guised feeling, however, that a change of re-
lation must ensue ere long between this and
the mother country. Perhaps this change will
assume the nature of independence ; or perhaps it
will merge into a close and abiding relationship
with the United States. The apparent termination
of the war in the South—now that Richmond is
taken—fills some men's minds with the gravest
fears, dreading a speedy incursion of Northern
troops into Canada. Others, again, regard such a
step as preposterous, believing that they can gain
over Canada by far milder measures. One thing
is certain, that a dark cloud alights over Canadian
affairs, which a few months will see dispersed, and
that Canada is about to enter upon a new stage of
her destiny, as soon as the present crisis through
which she is travelling is passed.

Grant's steam saw mill at Prescott, C.W., was
consumed by fire on the 3d inst. The loss is esti-

mated at $5OOO. The building was uninsured.
Mr. Daoust, member of the Provincial Parlia
ment, has been found guilty of forgery, but recom

mended to mercy..

A great flood occurred in Montreal on Alonday,
which rose within a few inches of that which inun•

dated the city on the 15th April, 1861. Griffing-
town suffered most severely, a district entirely in-
habited by the labouring classes. During the night
the city was in total darkness, owing to the gas
pipes being filled with water, and thus preventing
the supply pipes from being replenished. Great

suffering has ensued.

The Corporation has sub

scribed $6OO for the relief of the poor in the locality
The Government of Nova Scotia lately intro-
duced into both houses of the Legislature the an-

nexed resolutions :

" Whereas, under existing circumstances, an im-
mediate union of the British provinces has become
impracticable, and whereas a legislative union of

the maritime provinces is desirable whether the
larger union be accomplished or not : resolved that,

Ln the opinion of this house, the negotiations for the

union of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince
Edward Island should be resumed in accordance
with the resolutions passed at the last session."

IMPORTANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE—WHITBY, APRIL
19.—About one o'clock this morning, in a dense
fog, during a strong wind from the N.N.W., and a heavy
sea, the screw steamer Ocean Queen, of and from Newcastle
to Antwerp, with a general cargo, got on the high part of
Whitby Rocks, and immediately afterwards filled with
water. Her signals of distress having been observed, the
Lucy lifeboat, of, the National Institution, forthwith put
off, and brought ashore the captain's wife and a boy, and
the crew of thirteen men. The schooner is likely to become
a total wreck. The crew speak in the highest terms of the
behaviour of the lifeboat on the occasion in question. She
was the generous gift to this institution of the late A. W.
Jaffray, Esq., of St. Mildred's-court, who gave also to the
society the cost of the St. Andrew's and the Thurso life-
boats.

THE JARDIN DES PLANTES.—The permanent
commission of inspection appointed by the Minister
of Public Instruction to examine into the state of the
carious museums of the Jardin des Plantes has just pre-
sented its report. From this document it appears that the
sum required to defray the expenses of the establishment
during the year 1864 was 582,380 fr., viz., salaries, 308,380 fr. ;
travelling expenses, 25,000 fr. ; stock, 249,000 fr. Regard-
ing the collections, the commission complains of the great
want of space, which has forced the administration to ex-
hibit many specimens in highly inconvenient places. Thus,
on the ground floor, large mammalia are placed side by side
with the collection of 200 phytes ; on the first storey, the
collection of critstacea is situated between that of reptiles
and that of monkeys ; after which comes the rest of the
collection of zoophytes and a portion of that of mollusks ;
then, while the whole collection of birds is on the upper
story, that of their nests is on the first, Scc. Numerous
portions of collection§ are stowed away in the laboratories
for want ',space ; the galleries of comparative anatomy
are so full that they cannot receive the skeletons of the
large mammalia that may happen to die in the Menagerie,
and the collection of fossil bones, instead of being connected
with these galleries, is quite at the other end of the garden in
the Museum of Mineralogy. Touching the Menagerie, the
commission finds that many of the animals kept there are
not so well provided for as they ought, in so far as re-
gards their stabling or sheds. It considers the maintenance
of five elephants in the establishment as a uselese expense,
which however for the present is unavoidable. Two of
these creatures were presented to the Emperor some time
ago by the King of Siam, and two others by the Viceroy of
Egypt. The Administration is endeavouring to effect an
exchange of some of them with some foreign Menagerie.
The hot houses are also insufficient for the 974 plants
possessed by the Administration ; the nurseries are well
provided, coniprizing4,393 trees, 2,534 grafts, 712 tubercles,
2,835 perennials. The botanical section moreover pos-
SONS 61;116 bags of seeds. •

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Telegrams from Nice state that the Czarewitch
yesterday morning was delirious. The cerebral
inflammation had increased, the pulse was more
feeble, and there was less warmth in the body.
Drs. Pirogow and Oppolzer were expected.

street.

LITERATITRE.

People's Edition of Mill.

regret, " the work, as it stands, has had, in a very
insufficient degree, the inestimable advantage of
her revision." Yet even then, as if all that were

not sufficiently expressive of his love and admi-
ration for his most cherished memory, Mr. Mill thus
ends what we must again designate this most
affecting Dedication,—" Were I but capable," he
protests, "of interpreting to the world one half
the great thoughts and noble feelings which
are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of
a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from
anything that I could write, unprompted and un-
assisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom." Well

might the shade of this departed woman of genius
aver in reference to the fame and glory won by her
husband's writings—Quorum pars magna fui !
Reading merely these two works already published

0, J.
as the first in this serial re-issue, volume by
volume, of the writings of Mr. Mill— and
coupling with them this beautiful and touching
Dedication, the Electors of 'Westminster may
already feel capable of appreciating, let us say, just

a trifle more vividly, the worth of the man and the
genius of the philosopher, than they could reason-
ably have been capable of appreciating either,
when they were first startled into attention by the
utterance of his great name, as that of a candidate
for their suffrages. We shall watch, with peculiar
interest, the advance towards completion of this
wonderfully cheapyet thoroughly excellent "People's
Edition" of the writings of Mr. Mill, as a Poli-
tical Philosopher, as one of the most illustrious
among the small and select band of really pro-
found political philosophers.

Man's Place and Bread Unique in Nature. By
a University Professor. Pp. 88. Edmonston
and Douglas.
As the epigraph of this impressive little treatise,
we have imprinted upon its very tittle-page the
golden sentence, " Nature conceals God ; man
reveals God." The argument liere put forth--with
singular modesty (as it appears to us) unacknow-
ledged—by one of the University Professor's, is put
forth with a proclivity, as we may say, towards the
Angel rather than towards the Ape. Whereas as
Mr. Darwin has gone in for the Ape and
Mr. Disraeli (following in this, surely the instinct
of a nobler preference) has gone in for the Angel
—the anonymous writer sides, avowedly, rather
with the latter than with the former commentator,
upon the vexed question as to the origin of our
species. Such, indeed, is frankly avowed in the
very sub-title of the paper thus given to the public
as from the hand of "A University Professor."
For, in continuation of the title of the paper as
above given, " Man's Place and Bread Unique in
Nature," the writer adds, " And His Pedigree
Human not Simian ! " It is a little book written,
in point of fact, very strenuously and earnestly,
as well as quite frankly and avowedly, in
counteraction of certain views (views only too well
known) advanced (at once very superficially and
verypersuasively) by Mr. Darwin, Professor Huxley,
and the Rev. Baden-Powell. It is an argument
the data for which are drawn, pretty equally, from
Physiology and from Psychology An argument,
on the one hand for the Supernatural in Na-
ture—and on the other, for the Providential and
Divine in Human Nature. It is, in yet fewer words,
to put the gist of the whole pamphlet, a direct and
manful Defence of the Rights of Humanity—lights
recently outraged, if not threatened, by the claims
put forth in favour of the vilest and meanest of all
the Brute Creation, being seriously regarded as our
Progenitors.

Fleurs des Bords du Rhin. Par le Chevalier de
Chatelain. Pp. 320. Rolandi: 20, Berners-

More industrious even than Dr. Watts' bee, the
Chevalier de Chatelain has been gathering honey,
not only all the day, but, seemingly, all the night
too, by the light of his student-lamp, from the
wild wilderness of Poetic Flowers that Bloom
perennially on the banks of the Rhine, consti-
tuting the vast and varied area of Teutonic
Literature. Having gone the whole round .of our
own poetic literature, as a translator from Eng-
lish into French, our accomplished author has
now boldly ventured, as an interpreter, beyond
the border-land of ballad lore in Germany. Here
is his first gathering of some among those
radiant flowers—a very garland of immortelles !
Among them versions of masterpieces as famous
as the Leonora of Burger, as the Song of the Sword of
of Korner, as the Erl King of Goethe, as the Diver
of Schiller. It is nothing less than an exploit, the
translation thus en masse of so many wonderful
poems—poems, many of them of far more than
merely European reputation. Several amongst
them, and these, it should be said, often
about the most difficult of successful accom-
plishment, are accomplished most successfully.
Insomuch, that we have reasons enow to congratu-
late the Chevalier, as we do hereby very cordially,
congratulate him upon the grace and dexterity with
which he has overcome so many of the difficulties
lying in his path—difficulties the conquest of each
whichmay be said to amount, in its way, to a
crucial experiment.

Debrett's Peerage. Illustrated. Debrett's Baronetage
and Knightage. Illustrated. Dean and Son.

The most radiant as well as the very readiest of
Guide-books to the Upper Ten Thousand—for the
use of the Million—is DEBRETT. A guide-book that
has enjoyed a wide and extending popularity during
a period, now, of upwards of half a century. It was
famous, as such, in the days of Brummell and Byron.
It, doubtless, was in the thoughtS of Tbackeray when

On Liberty. By Tohn Stuart Mill. Bvo., pp. 68.
On Representative Government. By the Same.. Bvo.,
pp. 141. Longman and Co.
Never has a popular edition of a great author ap-
peared more opportunely ! More than that, we
might almost venture to say—Never was a popular
edition of a great author's works more needed than
the very one here commenced, in the nick of time, by
the Messrs. Longman ! Is it not so ? Let the " situa-
tion," as our friends across the channel have it,
answer. The " situation "as between Mr. Mill
and the public at large being simply as follows,—
namely that—whereas Mr. Mill enjoys, and has
now for some years enjoyed, among the more highly
educated classes, not only in this country, but
abroad, in both hemispheres, the very loftiest reputa-
tion as a philosophic writer, endowed with intellectual
capacities the most profound, vigorous and com-
prehensive—and whereas that reputation of Mr.
Mill's, while patent no doubt to the multitude,
has, in some sense, also, been " caviare to
the general "—the philosopher hitherto (as, in-
deed, but befits a philosopher) writing very
much as a recluse has just now been sum-
moned, as it were, into the public marketplace—
name, reputation, writings, and all, in his new capa-
city as a candidate for the suffrages of the free and
independent electors of the city of Westminister !
Most opportunely, therefore, the Messrs. Long-
man have decided upon doing their part -and
the two volumes now under notice are, each of
them, proof positive, that that part they are
doing very admirably—towards the popularizing of
the thoughts, of the genius, of the philosophy of
Mr. Mill. His teachings as a political philosopher
will thus, at length, be advanced from the esoteric
to the exoteric. Here—as the first unveiling of this
Isis to the general multitude—we have two of
Mr. Mill's most remarkable productions, the essay
or treatise upon " Liberty," and the essay
or treatise upon " Representative Government !"
The former appears, distinctly, if not professedly,
as a disquisition. The latter, avowedly, as mere—
" considerations." To the volume on Liberty is
prefixed the affecting Dedication through which the
gifted author of the book pays his tribute of
tenderest affection and profoundest veneration to
" the beloved and deplqred memory of her who
was the inspirer," as he declares, in so many
words, of all that is best in his writings ! " The
friend and wife," he exclaims, " whose exalted
sense of truth and right was my strongest incite-
ment, and whose approbation was my chief re-
ward." Further than this, he says, " Like all
that I have written for many years, it belongs
as much to her as to me ; but," he adds thereupon
emphatically and apparently with a new pang o.

he dubbed the peerage—where was it ? in the Book
of Snobs ? surely it must have been in the Book of
Snobs !—" the British Bible." It was, not long since,
jibed at, or flouted, or pooh-poohed, or whatever the
phrase may be, very absurdly, by one of our weekly
contemporaries, in a fit of anger, as "an obscure
guide to the peerage"—this very Debrett (teste"Don
Juan," testy reviewer !), the mere mention of
which has, long and long ago, become a very synonym
for the Peerage ! Insomuch that to talk of Debrett
is talk of " The Peerage." Just as to mention
Hansardis to mention the " Parliamentary D ebates."
Or again, just precisely as to speak of Bradshaw is
to speak of the " Railway Guide-book." Popular
as this " obscure" celebrity has been hitherto, it
has during this very season put as fair a face upon
it as ever it has done—appearing in a two-fold
form—dividing its one volume, that is to say, into
two —in other words, expanding its supplement of
a Baronetage (coupling that same with a
Knightage), into as goodly a tome as the very Peer-
age itself. And each of these two volumes, it should
be added, will be found to have been abundantly
embellished with woodcuts of the armorial bearings
of the various families of distinction whose names
are recorded in them. What is of far more impor-
tance, however, than any mere such adornments,
the letterpress-information herein stored up and
arranged alphabetically, appears to have been—
with an especial eye to its accuracy--very carefully
revised and corrected throughout.

Memoir of lI.E. Cardinal Wiseman. By George
White, M.C.P. Bvo., pp. 70. Richardson and
Son.

A very interesting memorial of a man of more
than merely titular Eminence, has here been com-
piled from the scattered particulars given at the
period of the late Cardinal's death and obsequies in
the newspapers of the day, in other words in our own
columns and in those of our contemporaries. The
brochure comprises within it--a Memoir of His Emi-
nence, an account of the religious rites which marked
the close of his career, a description of the solemn
Requiem at Moorfields, a report of the Funeral
Oration delivered, in the midst of it, from the pulpit
of the pro-Cathedral, a record of the cortege, and
of the actual interment. After which the compiler
of the pamphlet gives the completest list we have
yet seen anywhere of the literary works of Cardinal
Wiseman—from the Ilorm Syriaces, published at
Rome in 1828 (thirty-seven years ago !) down to
the lecture on William Shakespeare, published, here in
London, only the other day, posthumously. As
constituting a fitting close to this memorial, the
last section of the pamphlet (a section entitled
" The Press on the Death of Cardinal Wiseman")
gives, first of all, a collection of " Extracts from the
Leading journals of the Kingdom," among others
from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Sun, The
Examiner, and others, followed by a supplementary
collection of " Extracts from the Catholic Press,"
that is, from the Tablet and its contemporaries. As
a frontispiece, there will be found prefixed to this
memorial a portrait of the Cardinal, taken from Mr.
Lynch's well-known lithograph—a sketch of H. E.,
rendered doubly interesting from its having appended
to it a fac-simile of the Cardinal's elegant signature,
with its flowing paraphe.

Laurie's Standard Reader. The Series of Six.
Cheap Edition. Thos. Murby, 32, Bouverie-

street.

We have noticed this wonderful little series of
Standard Readers (so-called) already so very fre-
quently, that it only remains for us here to welcome,
as it deserves, the re-issue of the whole set thus
in a cheap form—in a form so very cheap as to
place the work, henceforth, within reach of the
industrious artisan and of the thrifty cottager. Of
itself, it forms quite a little library, and one, it
should be said also, that will be found to be equally
varied and enthralling in its character.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The supply of barley on sale was but moderate, and the
trade ruled firm, at full currencies.
Malt was in slow request, at late rates.
The arrivals of home-grown wheat fresh up to our
market to-day were moderate, but the condition of the pro-
duce was somewhat unsatisfactory. For all qualities the
trade was in a sluggish state, and prices had a drooping
tendency.
The supply of foreign wheat on sale was very moderate.
The demand for all descriptions ruled inactive, but without
leading to any change in prices, as compared with Mon-
day.
Floating cargoes of wheat were dull, at barely late rates.
Spring corn, afloat, however, was firm in price.
The market was fairly, supplied with oats, for which
there was a fair demand at full currencies.
Beans and peas ruled firm at fully late rates.
The flour trade was quiet at the prices current on Mon-
day.