The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

MARKETS-THIS DAY.

COVENT GARDEN.
The supply of fruit is'small, and the trade rules firm at
full prices. Vegetables, the supply of which is seasonably
good, moved off slowly at our quotations.

s. d. s. d.
Pine apples, perlb 5 0 to 7 0
Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapes,per lb 2 0 to 5 0
Foreign do 1 0 to 2 0
Melons 0 0 to 0 01
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0
Apples, per hf-sv. 1 9 to 3 6
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100 5 0 to 10 0
Lemons, per 120 3 6 to 7 0
Gooseberries hf svco 0 to 0 0
Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0

s. d. a d
Cherries per lb. 0 oto 0 0
Foreign ditto, 13un0 oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 6
Walnuts, per 100 1 6to 2 0
Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz 0 oto 0 (,
Damson . 0 oto 0 0
Currants, per b.sv 0 oto 0 0
Plums, per F 10... 0 oto 0 0
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0
Raspberries, pr pt 0 oto 0 0

VEGETABLES.
Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6
Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9to 1 3
Red ditto 1 6So 3 0
Savoy do., pr dz. 010 to 1 4
Cauliflowers, pdz 2 oto 3 0
Brocoli, per bun. 1 oto 1 3
Potatoes, per ton 100 to 160 0
New ditto, pr pd 0 oto 0 0
Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 0
Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6
Cucumbers 0 oto 0 0
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0
Green peas, h.-sv. 0 oto 0 0
Brus. sprouts, h.s. 1 6to 3 0

Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8
Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 0
Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4
Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 9
Beet, per doz. .. 1 oto 2 0
Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0
Mushrooms.p ptl. 2 6to 3 0
Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0
Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0
Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4
Endive, per score 0 oto 0 0
Radishes, dz buds 0 oto 0 0
Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0
Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
@apsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0
Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0
Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0
Seakale, per bun. 0 0 to 0 0

Onions-, doz. hn.. 1 6to 2 0
New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0
French beans, h.s. 0 oto 0 0
Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL,
Turkeys, 4s Od to 10s Od ; geese, 4s Od to 8s Od each ;
goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 3s Od ; ducklings,
Os ed to Os Od ; rabbits, is to 2s Od each ; wild do., 9d
to is 2d ; pigeons, 4d to 8d each ; large Surrey fowls,
5s Od to 108 Od; chickens, 6s Od to 9s Od; barn-door fowls,
3s 5d to 58 Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s Gd ;
grouse, Os Od to Os Od each ; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ;
partridges, is 3d to 2s 3d ; woodcocks, Os Od to Os ; snipes, Od
to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, 2s Od to 2s 6d ;
widgeons, Os Od to Os Od •, plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ;
guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, 3s 6d to 7s Od
each; Ostend fresh butter, lld to is Id; English, is Od
to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 12s Od to 14s Od ; French do.,
8s Od to 9s Od per 120 ; leverets, 2s Gd to 3s 6d each.

BILLINGSGATE,
Salmon, 2s Od to Os Od ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ;
prawns, Os to Os ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Od per
lb. ; turbots, 2s 6d to 105 ; cod, is Od to 5s Od • brills, is Od
to 4s Od ; dorevs, is Od to 5s Od ; mullets Os' 6d to Is 6d ;
lobsters, 6d to 2s 6d ; crabs, Gd to 2s 6d ; plaice and gurnets,
Od to Os Od each ; soles, 3d tot is Gd per pair ; common
oysters,--s to —s • natives, —s to —s per bushel ; whitings,
2s Od to 8s; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, is Od to 11 6d;
flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 35s per 120 ; fresh
herrings, 5s per 100 ; bloaters, 6s to Os per 100 ; carp and
tench, Os Od to Os per brace.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 23 4d to 3s 8d ; mutton, 2s 8d to 4s Od; lamb,
Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; and pork, 3s Od to
43 Od per 81bs by the carcase.

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 8d ; mutton, 2e 8d to 4s Od;
lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d.; and pork, 38 Od
to 4s Od per 81bs by the carcase.

BREAD.
The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
rd to Bd, of household do., Sid to 7d per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 21c1 to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to
3/d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 31d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 4d ;
881 b to 961 b, 31d to 41d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 31d to 5d ; 1041 b to
1121 b, 4d to sd. Horse hides, 8s Gd to lOs 6d ; calf skins,
light 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 6s 6d to Os Od ; polled sheep, 8s
Gd to Ils Od ; half-breds, 7s Od to 9s Od ; Downs, 58 tid to
66 8d; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; shearlings, Os Od to Os Od.

LITERATURE.

The Exchange.

"How they Defend Brotection in America," is
the title of the opening article in this number,
which anatomises Mr. Bigelow's recent work on the
Tariff Question. The paper on the "Hawaiian
Islands" will be found interesting, and that on
" The Position and Prospects of the Cotton Trade
in Europe" commands attention.

,etoton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences.
We direct attention to the article in this number
on " The Cultivation of Tobacco in Ireland." The
writer states it would not only be a source of great
profit but a remedy for the potato disease. The
notices of recent patents and of scientific discoveries
are copious as usual.

The Influence of the Mosaic Code upon
subsequent
Legislation. By J. B. Marsden, solicitor.
Hamilton, Adams, and Co.
In his preface tilt author states that his work
" can claim but slender pretensions to original re-
search, still less to theological learning," and that
"materials for the work were chiefly furnished by
the investigations of other writers, who, in pursuit
of different objects, had already travelled over some
portions of the same ground." He considers that
the laws of Moses are the most ancient of legal in-
stitutions, that the Egyptians adopted or profited
by them, and that they then spread into Greece
and other countries of Europe. He has been at
considerable pains to trace the analogy existing
between punishments for crime in different nations
and at different periods, and the result is a volume
which, if it fail to prove all that the author ad-
vances, contains at least a great deal of curious in-
formation.

Temple Bar.

A new tale is commenced in this number by the
author of " Lady Audley's Secret," called " John
Marchmont's Legacy," which promises well. The
adventures of Captain Dangerous, too, progress with
spirit. That hero is now taken into the service of
a French Cardinal, sent into Italy as a spy, and
receives from his patron as a parting gift a small
emerald ring in which " was compactly stowed a
quantity of very subtie and potent poison, sufficient
to kill two men. One never knows what may
happen, dear captain,' says his eminence to me with
his courteous smile, ' Your profession is one of sud-
den risks, leading sometimes to prospects of painful
Inconvenience. If you are brought to such a pass
that all your ingenuity will not enable you to
extricate yourself from it, and if you have any
rational objection, say, to being burnt alive, or
broken on the wheel, 'tis always as well to have the
means at hand of executing oneself with genteel
Tranquillity.'" The third number of "Breakfast in
Bed," writes up Mr. Mayor's Spelling Book, end
snubs Bishop Colenso. The story of "Aurora
Floyd" has reached its thirty-sixth chapter, and
" A History of Comedy" is readable.

Songs on Italy. By Caroline Giffard Phillipson.

Hardwicke.

The author-of these effusions is one of Garibaldi's
numerous lady sympathisers, who, having had an
interview with the General at Turin in the spring
of 1861, has expressed the emotions she then felt in
verse, has added various other poems, and has dedi-
cated to him the volume. The intention is better
than the execution. As a Rnecimen wo a;y.
following stanzas from the poem called "One Year
Ago" :

" One year ago! How short, how short I
And yet how long appears
The time with all its crowded hopes,
Its multitude of fears.
One year ago, beside thy bed
I sat with loving awe,
The sunlight crown'd that noble head,
And stream'd upon the floor.
"A halo such as saints might wear,
Seem'd giv'n thee from above,
A holy radiance—still, yet fair,
For rev'rent souls to love !
And as I gaz'd I treasured
Each pure high word that fell
From those pale lips with patriot warmth—.
Yes, I remember well.

Poems. By T. W. James. Jewell.
This is a tiny little volume, but its contents dis-
play a certain amount of both fancy and feeling.
Among the beat of the poems are those entitled
"Dying ! Dying! " and "On the Death of
the Princess Elizabeth."

i
amounted RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
•
Blackwood's Magazine,
RAILWAY RECEIPTS.
Those curious fictions respecting Waterloo which The traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom
Messrs. Thiers and Victor Hugo hare lately coined, for the week ending Dec. 6, on 10,505 miles, to
and of £17,1560ift49th7e,27r4,
10-,118-Imll andt
to salve the wounded vanity of the French, are for the corresponding week of last year, on
good-humouredly, but unsparingly, ridiculed in the
eshotwingThanrincrease of.3tl,39omniltehse,
opening articles this month. The eleventh part of following 14 railways amouinte.d in thee gargorrer:ateP on 7,227
" Caxtoniana" is as interesting as usual, and corn- miles, to £401,009, and for the corresponding week of 1861,
prises two essays, styled "Faith and Charity; or an 7,006 miles, to £389,985, showing an increase of 221
the Union, in Practical Life, of Sincerity and Con- £ll,o24Culaillesd,oanniadnoatmntl e( to ln
in
£417, on
The increase on the
The
ciliation," and " Upon the Efficacy of Praise."
on thetheG
r eLaotnd
on Easternand to£
worthB4
tale of " Salem Chapel" is well sustained. There is on the Great Northern to £2,729
Western to £3,309, on the London, Brighton, and South
a clever poem on Roman life called " Giannone," Coast to £2,099, on the London and South Western to
and the recent biography of Christopher North fur- £2,054, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire to
niches matter for a paper. £2:7, on the North British to £169, on the North Eastern
1 to £l7l, and on the South Eastern to £911; total, £12,490.
But from this must be deducted £74, the decrease on the
Great Southern end Western, £698 on the Great Western,
£446 on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and £248 on the
Midland; together £1,466, leaving the increase, as above,
£11,024. The goods and mineral traffic on these lines
amounted to £238,171, and for the corresponding week of
1861 to £229,804, showing an increase of £8,367. The re
ccipts for passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £162,838,
against £160,181, showing an increase of £2,657. The traffic
receipts on 64 other lines amounted, on 3,279 miles, to
£114,021, and for the corresponding week of last year, oa.
3,180 miles, to £107,289, showing an increase of 99 miles,
and of £6,732 in the receipts. The total receipts of the
past week show an increase of £6O as compared with those
of the preceding week, ending Nov. 29.

Railways.

Miles Opened.
.---"---

1862. 1861.

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
llneylftehstanadn dTCynotenity Down
1,42,9;±
1269729
i
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington B±
2801
Cork and Bandon2o
Cork, Biackrock, & Passage 6l 61
Cork and Youg,hal ... 321 32i
Cornwall 531 531
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63
Dublin and Drogheda
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. 3 tin 3l 31
Edinburgh and Qlasgow
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c .... ..... .. . ...... 50 5 )
Glasgow & South-Western .. 198 198
Gt. East ern,Nrfk.,&E.Union .. 614 6t4
Great Northern .130 830
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
(it..Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 57 451
Stt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329
Great Western 992 664
Inverness & Aberdeen June 731 73i
Irish North-Western 145 130
Irish South-Eastern 251 251
Lancashire & Yorkshire
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and Foynes 26 26}
Llanelly 46' 46f
London & North-Western
London and Blackwell 5l 5t
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast.., 2471 241
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 72}
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.. Jun.& Altrincham„ 9i 91
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630 6141
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 1924 1921
Monkland .... .. . . Canal;;
North British, Edin., Perth..
and Dundee .. ... ... .. .... 4104
N-Eastern and New. & tier.., 894 f
North London 9
North Staffordshire 248
Oswestry and Newton...
Rhymney l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central .......... 50
Scottish North-Eastern .. . .
. ..
. . 132
Shropshire Uni0n......,.., 20}
Somerset and Dorset 393
South Devon .. „ 751
South-Eastern 306
Stockton and Darlington
Tat Vale 54
Ulster 5l
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 251
Waterford and Kilkenny,
Waterford and Limerick,,.,,. 77
West Cornwall 273
W.Hartlepool Harbr.&RaiL
W'haven,Cleator,StEgrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 55

Receipts.

,e.
1862.
18-‘,
A
2,126 3,057
58265
1,765 1,550
5,281 5,532
15,682 15,235

359 397
146 186
249 182
1,064 1,021
294 295
1,453 1,500
1,544 1,145'
2,155 2,220
1,107 1,058
7,214 7,337

2,711 2,036
8,105 7,550
28,206 28,122
27,70 21,971
1,746 1,742
4 06 gis
51,31
,557
527,626
,025
1,085 gog
1,910 1,672
199 331
31,687 32,133
230 164
124 151
489 432
82,751 79,442
1,646 1,401
17,366 15,312
17,678 14,579
2,750 1,518
1,0( 6 006
15,371 15,154
1,058 1,171
1,197 1,155
39,522 39,770
5,038 5,180
;1,e42 1,573
2,315 2,299

3451
8674
9
ZIG

10,625 10,156
39,918 39,747
3,0' 0 2,809
7,861 7,231
£3::,2 595

907 .51'
2,149 1,839
3,296 3,287
4,940 4,934
875 786
342
2,708 3,144
17,634 16,723
1C,049 8.775
5,031 5,204
1,827 1,791
122 123
2,044 1,634
282 370
1,448 1,5 0
6" 611
4,771 4,493
467 372
718 63/
688 601

132
291

75i
306
161

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 Austrian B2B 828
Belgian Eastern Junction 26i 264
Buffalo and Lake Huron .... 161 i 1611
Detroit and Milwaukee,,,...'. 185 185
Dutch Rhenish lOB2 1081
Eastern of France 1078 1060 East Indian 6ll 413 q Grand Trunk of Canada... 1090 1090
Great Indian Peninsula....... 4371 3501
Great Luxembourg'.,,.... 134 128
Great Western of Canada 345 345
Madrid, Saragossa SzAlicant 439 135
Northern of Canada .......• .• 94
Northern of Prance 7Ol 94
C. 23
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. ........ •
71 179 sirt
Paris, Lyons, .2 Mediterrn i4oi /erre z 00,56 . ,
1..ii0 1204 61,723 66,698
l'aris and Orles*,.
71 - 674
~,r.,„,,„1
69
itoyai Danis 1
69 505 456 Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,577 1,284
South Austrian
Southern of Prance ... 777 777 25,721 30,863
Welland. . .
West Flanders .... • 5 75 901 6211
811
W. and N. W. of Prance 758 758 35,947 - 43,909

1,015 070
37,91% 46,437

--, -
1,921 1,445

3,463 2,903
49,958 62,898
9,300 9,643
13,170 18,894
5,046 4,971
4,1(0 3,539

16,027 12,732
1,956 2,273
65,550 64,208
W 1.9