The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-09 00:00:00

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
8d to Sid, of household do., 6d to 71d per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 24d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to
31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 31d to 3id ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 4d ;
881 b to 961 b, 4d to VA 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od. Horse
hides, 8s Od to lOs Od ; calf skins, light 2s to 3s Od ; do. full,
5s 6d to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds,
Os Od to Os Od; Downs, Os Od to Os Od; lambs, 2s 9d to
5s 3d; shearlings, 2s 9d to 3s 9d.

BIRD KILLING.—Such a massacre of birds as
then took place the country had never known. The songs
of the grove and meadow were silenced. Rewards were
offered for the heads of lark and robin, thrush and wren,
anything with beak and feathers. Gangs of birds'-
nesters prowled through the woods, guns popped inglo-
riously all day long among vines and hedgegrove, poi-
soned grain was thickly strewn about, until hundreds and
thousands of dead birds lay stiff and stark on the inhos-
pitable soil. The usual consequences of such suicidal
folly succeeded. There was a Nemesis of insect life,
in the second year of my stay, which made the
most obstinate farmer stare aghast at the countless legions
burrowing, creeping, or winging their way to blight his
On store,
hopes of profit. Grubs, caterpillars, flies, weevils, every-
thing
that crawls or flies, that bores the root or gnaws the
allies h
bursting corn-ear, or cankers the blossom or hollows out the
fruit, everything that tunnels the bark or harms the wood
of trees, everything that haunts the barn or
than all
seemed gathered in hosts undreamt of. There were no
birds to thin off the plunderers. Those faithful
been stupidly butchered. Their sharp. sighted ad
yth We
ahgireeda
of crushing and
little
eyes and active bills would havo done for scant
What with loss
hundred times more to stem the plague
labourers could do, with all their Work
quick-liming, sulphuring, and smoking.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
to grain, tree®, and fruit, what with th
down the pest by human agency e e cost of keeping
heavily, and the marquis found' jai every cultivator suffered Passed—Queen of England, from London, for Bombay;
PeoPlo began to regret the
adviser who had urged their
larity waning together; for
birds, and to blame the nobleB income and his popu- James Lanians (of Poole), from the north, for the west.
Anchored—lsland Queen, from Londen for Salcomb©
extermination. But tea Advance, and Volante, from
mar Londen, for 'Cardiff; Clans-
he would not own himself in qui& was a dogged personage : man, from London, for Cochin ; Rouen' (of Yarmouth),
the wrong; he hired more and and Mary Elizabeth, barque, froin the north, for the west ;
more men to dress the tre
make clumsy human gngels°of-h-t6 °Pr:lards) and he tried to Elizabeth, from London, for Rio Janeiro; Eloisa, from
touttit and the byr4ilu. -aci toss to do the work of the I London, for Bombay ; martabau, now London, for
~t—Diokeus's Ail the Yor tiMitt.i. Shanghai. i

LONDON, Aug. 9.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and tine weather, but rather
cloudy.
QuEENsTOWN, Aug.
New York. 9,--A.rrived.--Persia, steamer, from
SWANSEA, Aug. 8,
from Caldera —Wind S.W,—Arrived—Swa
from Caldera. ; Chilia n Packet, and Marquis of Worcester,
MILFORD, Aug. B—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Regina,
from Quebec, for Pembroke Dockyard.

(AY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, August B—Barrington, from Bahia; Plover,
from Barbadoes ; Lieutenant Peterson, from Gefle ; Bolden
Lawn, from Akyab ; Corporation, from Accra;
Hanover,
from Bombay; Cargey, from Terra Nova; Betsy Hall from
Mogador ; Pharamcnd, from Colombo ; Aeazi from
Wydah ; St. Helena, from New York ; Eleanor Woodburn,
from Mazagan ; Starling, from Oporto; Mezerium, from
Montevideo; Alboni, from New York; Canada, from
Sierra Leone.
Arrived, August 9.—Emily, from Licata; Active, from
Havre.