The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Tho supply of English hops on sale is very moderato,
and the trade rules firm at full pricos. For good and fine
foreign hops there is a fair demand at quite previous rates.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is but moderate, and the
,rade rules firm as follows :

Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 8d ;
lamb, Gs 4d to 7s 6d; veal, 3s 10d to 48 8d; and pork,
3s 6d to 4s 10d per Blbs, by the carcaso.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—The exhibition, in Baker-
street, we are glad to find, continues to be unprecedentedly
well-attended ; indeed, it would be impossible for it to be
otherwise, considering the many attractive objects which
everywhere meet the eye, and to which the spirited pro-
prietors arc daily adding, regardless of the great outlay in
purchasing them. The principal attractive models, life
size, are the late President Lincoln, and Mr. Jefferson
Davis (the late President of the Confederate States.) The
model of John Wilkes Booth, the dastardly assassin of
President Lincoln, is considered to be an authentic
likeness.

DEATH OF THE FATHER OF GRACE DARLING.—
Wm. Darling, father of the famous Grace Darling,
died at Bamburgh on Sunday morning, in his 80th year.
Deceased was for several years the keeper of the Long-
stone Lighthouse, Fame Islands, where some time ago he
was succeeded by his son, and retired to Bamburgh to end
his days in quiet and repose. It was while living at the
Longstone light that the event occurred which has given
to his family an historical celebrity that will bo lasting. A
portion of the wreck of the John Humble steamer was
discovered on the Longstone Rocks at daybreak on Sept.
Gth, 1838. By the aid of a glass persons were discovered
clinging to the fragment of wreck, but the North Sunder-
land boatmen, and every experienced boatman, including
Darling himself, declared that any effort to reach them
would be mere madness, and sure to add to the number of
lives sacrificed. Grace Darling at length, by her entreaties
and tears, induced her father to get into a boat with her,
and father and daughter readied the wreck in safety,
where they had the satisfaction of saving the lives of nine
persons, including that of a woman who lay half drowned
in a corner or the wreck with the stiffened corpses of her
two children in her arms. This noble deed brought honours
upon Grace and her father from every quarter, as well as
substantial recognition. Grace died of consumption at
Bamburgh, in October, 1842, at 27 years of age. The father
was thus described a few years before his death by a visitor
to Bamburgh :—" As you sit waiting for the service to
begin, you will see an old man, still hale and strong,
but with a wrinkled brow, and hair of a silvery-white enter
the church. He is clad in the old blue coat with brass
buttons, which was fashionable 40 years ago, and his nether
limbs are draped in trousers of white nankeen. The old
man is worth a close inspection for his own sake, for it is
not often that you will see a face so singularly calm and
beautiful as his ; but that is not the reason why I call your
attention to him. Yon old man bears a name which still
has power to send a thrill through breasts not easily im-
pressed, and which once was famous in the farthest corners
of the earth,"