The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

STAMFORD.-FRIDAY.

New white wheat, 40s to 425; new red, 35s to 38s per 36
stone. Barley, malting, 31s to 335; grinding, 27s to 300
per qr. Oats, new, 22s to 22s ; old, —s to —s per 24 stone.
Beans, 36s to 40s per 38 stone. Peas as heretofore.

BRISTOL SUGAR.—FurDAY.
The market is as flat as possible, and scarcely anything
has been done this week in either raw or refined. Rum—
is in more demand and prices have rather improved.

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.

s. d. s. d.
Cowpen Hartley :15 9 Walls End Haswell... 22 0
Hastings Hartley l5 9 South Hetton
Carway and Duffryn Tunstall
Malting 22 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6
Ships at market, 27 ; sold, 25.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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Australia and New Zcaland, via Southampton April 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pas et April G.
Ditto, by British packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and zt Helena ipril 23.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton.. April 1
Ditto, via Marseilles April 12.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... April 4
Ditto, via Marseilles . . .... April 12.
India (Bumbay), via Southampton. April --.

Ditto, via Marseilles ..
...April 5.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Maraca e 3... April 5.
Newfoundland April 12.
Portugal ••••
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
tcn

Ditto, via Cork

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry April 7.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe , April 12.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico ' April. 13.
Bahamas, via New 'York. Apri, 6.

Bermuda, ditto April 12.
Cuba and Mexico April 23.

THE COLLIER'S BOY.—Besides the mate, there
are usually in a collier of 200 tons three able seamen
and two apprentices, the younger of whom is designated
"boy," and what that boy does is marvellous. He is, of
course, compelled to obey the captain and mate, and the
seamen exact obedience from him too. He is always wanted.
If one of the able seamen is ordered to pull a sheet or rope
more tightly, he wants the boy to hold on the end of it.
If any halliard is jammed in a block, or any confusion in
the ropes aloft, the "boy" is sent up at once either
to "cast off" the knot or report what is the matter.
The captain wants him in the cabin, the cook in the
galley, the mate on deck, and the three able seamen close
to the precise spot where they happen to be. He is sent up
to unroll the " burgee," which is foul ; down in the fore-
peak for a coil of rope. It is "Figaro quit, Figaro lh Figaro
su, Figaro giit." And " Where's that boy ?" " Bless that
boy !" " That boy's no use at all " are exclamations which
add considerable piquancy to the conversation of a collier's
crew. But when danger comes and •the boat is launched
off the deck of the foundering ship, the "boy" is put
first into it ; or if a rope is the only means of com-
munication between a stranded vessel and the shore, some
strong man may go first to see that "all is right,"
but the boy is the second. The boys who determine on a
seafaring life are sometimes country lads tired of the plough,
very difficult to teach, and frequently very obstinate ; boys
from towns with a great deal of low cunning and a hazy
notion of the rights of property ; and boys who have rela-
tives at sea, and who are disagreeable by continually
making invidious comparisons between their master and
others, or their follow-seamen and friends. Perhaps, too,
they are natives of the place whence the vessel hails, and
aro " well up" in all the local gossip of. the port. If so,
that boy will render every crew discontented.--" Cornhill
Magazine" for• April.