The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-11 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od ; clover,
£5 5s to £6 6s Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 13s per load.
Trade dull.

CumBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £slos Od; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load.
A slow demand.

WHIITCHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od; clove;
£5 5s to £6 Gs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 13s per load.
Trade very inactive.

IN THE NAME OF THE PROFIT—FIGS !—Mr.
Velardi was far too cautious a man to trust messages
of importance to the telegraph—that is to the telegraph in
the Levant—where what is intended to be the most private
becomes generally the most public. Before I left London
he handed me a cypher, which was to be used between us
upon all business matters of any importance. Accordingly
I one day received from him a telegram to the following
effect :—" FIGS 109 SHIP 10,000 BOXES SMYRNA TO Lox-
DON, 5000 ODESSA." Almost beforo I had read this tele-
gram it was reported all over Smyrna that figs had risen
greatly in price in London, and that the house of Velardi
had received a telegram to ship ten thousand boxes of the
fruit to London. This report served our purpose in two
ways. In the first place, it concealed the real meaning of
the message ; in tho second, it served to raise tho price of
figs, of which he had lately bought a largo stock, and
which we were now able to sell at a considerablo profit.
To me, who read the telegram according to the cypher I
had by me, the message ran thus : "Draw bills on London,
at exchange of 109 piastres to the amount of £lO,OOO, and
remit half here and half at Odessa." These directions I
followed out to the letter, and by the next steamer both
amounts were duly remitted to the respective firms. A
few days later the post brought me Mr. Velardi's letter, in
which his reasons for directing me to draw these bills were
explained in substance as follows :—A company had been
formed to run steamers between London and various ports
on the Black Sea. As the agency of this company would
be both useful and profitable to our firm, and as Mr. Velardi
wished very much to obtain it, when he applied for it he
gave, as references of the respectability of our house, our
London bankers, as well as the bankers in Odessa with
whom wo did business. To have a good answer given by
any banker to whom you refer, it is necessary to have a
good balance in his hands ; for this reason my partner
wished that in each of his banker's hands there should be
at least five thousand pounds.—Diekerts's " All the Year
Round."

EDMUNDS AND WESTBURY.—The report of the
select committee appointed to investigate the Edmunds
scandal amounts to this—that the conduct of Mr. Edmunds,
in using the public money, has been too bad, and that of
the Lord Chancellor, in not exposing him, has been too
good.—Puncli.

THE LATE ADMIRAL FITZROY, F.R.S.—At the
last meeting of the National Lifeboat Institution—
Earl Percy, M.P., president of the society, in the chair—the
following resolution relative to the late Admiral Fitzroy
was unanimously passed--,4 That the committee desire to
express their sincere regret at the death of their distin-
guished colleague, Admiral Fitzroy, F.R.S., who had so
cordially and zealously co-operated with them in carrying
out the important and national objects of the institution in
the preservation of life from shipwreck on the coasts of
the United Kingdom. That the committee also desire to
express their unfeigned sympathy and condolence to Mrs.
Fitzroy and other members of _the late much lamented ad-
miral's family on the occasion of their great bereavement."
A LATE MEMBER FOR MARYLEBONE IN A
NEW CHARACTER.—Mr. Edwin James, ex-Q.C., of Lon-
don, has appeared at the Winter Garden Theatre, New
York, as Friar Lawrence, in "Romeo and Juliet."
THE SALMON-PRODUCING RIVERS of Great
Britain can be counted on the fingers. There is
not one, barring the Thames, between the lichen and .the
Humber, or nearly one-third of the seaboard of the island.
6,000 sheep are sold every week at Islington, and mutton
averages Bd. per lb. all round. The Tay, which is our
largest salmon river, annually produces about 900,000 lbs.
of salmon, equivalent to 18,000 sheep and lambs, or a three
weeks' supply for London alone. Is, then, salmon ever
likely to be cheaper than lamb, say is. per pound ?—Once
a Week.

THE LATE ADMIRAL FITZROY.—A little book is
announced for immediate publication on a subject
of painful interest, awakened by the recent melancholy
deaths of Admiral Fitzroy and Mr. Prescott,—" Mental
Exertion : its Influence on Health." Tho work is more
anecdotal than scientific, although it has been edited by
Dr. Arthur Leared, of the Great Northern Hospital. One
chapter is on the education of scientific and literary men,
the excitement they live in, their health, and the age they
usually attain ; another is devoted to a consideration of the
cause and treatment of a very general trouble, indigestion
in literary men.—Reader.

REPRESENTATION OF COVENTRY.--Mr, Osborne
Stock, merchant, of London, has been announced
as one of the Liberal candidates for Coventry at the ap-
nrowhing general election. In his address ho says :—" I
am, and ever have been, a constant reformer, and I am pre-
pared to support all measures founded upon really liberal
ideas. lam in favour of a considerable extension of the
suffrage, and I would advocate any reasonable proposition
directed towards this object. I am myself a conscientious
member of the Church of England, but I am desirous of
seeing perfect freedom in religious maters conceded to all
other denominations, and with that view I should sup-
port the entire abolition of church rates. The exten-
sion of trade, caused by the abolition of protective
duties, and the changes in various descriptions of manufac-
tures consequent thereon, have led to frequent differences
between the representatives of capital and labour. To ob-
viate those differences for the future it is most desirable
that courts of conciliation and arbitration should be esta-
blished in this country upon equitable bases. To this re-
quirre-
quirementto have
ent
Igiv
an e my
most serious consideration, and Ishall
be opportunity of bringing it before the
legislature." It is not yet decided who will be the other
candidate brought forward in the liberal interest. The
committee appointed by the liberal electors, at a largo
meeting, held a few days since, are anxious to secure Mr.
bAorit.ohu
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last
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election,eel
Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady a little mere than a year ago.
The ,
who unsuccessfully contested the
Margaret Scott wereixpected to arrive in course of yester-
day at the temporary family residence in Belgrave-square.