The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-11 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS

SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow hay, £4 lOs Od to £6 lOs Od;
new ditto, £5 Os to £5 108 ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 lOs ;
new ditto, £5 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 13s per
load. Trade firm.

CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £4lss Od to £6lss Od;
new ditto, £5 5s to £5 15s ; old clover, £5 5s to £7 158 ;
new ditto, £5 5s to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 10s to £1 16s per
load. A good demand.

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WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow hay, £4los Od to £6los Od ;
new ditto, £5 58 to £5 15s ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 lOs ;
new ditto, £5 5s to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 13s per
load. Trade steady.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The public sales have concluded, and prices gene-
rally have ruled in favour of buyers.
SUGAR.—Thero has been a fair demand for home con-
sumption ; and owing to the stocks on hand being rather
smaller than usual, prices in most instances are well sup-
ported. Refined goods are in fair request at steady rates.
COFFEE.—The inquiries for colonial descriptions have
been to an average extent, and quotations generally are
well maintained.

RICE.—A moderate amount of business has been done,
and late prices are well sustained.

TALLOW.—The market remains very quiet. P.Y.C. on
the spot is quoted 41s. 6d., and for last threo months deli-
very 425. 6d. to 425. 9d. per cwt.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens rather quiet. Saks, probably
6,000 bales.

We announced in our impression of Saturday
that the iron sailing ship Chili, of London, would
go into dry-dock on Monday to be examined, after being
afloat for thirteen months and seven days without scrub-
bing, careening, hogging, or repainting ; and certainly
could not help considering it a somewhat bold step for
Messrs. Peacock and Buchan to adopt in inviting the
public to inspect a ship after so lengthened a period of
service afloat in salt water, on their own faith in the
merits of their preparation for keeping away tostacas,
weeds, &c. ; however, we understand that the result has
been most triumphant for these gentlemen. Officials
from the Admiralty, Transport Board, Troop-Shiro
Department, and Emigration Board attended, to-
gether with several shipowners, iron shipbuilders,
ships' husbands, &c., who all congratulated the
inventors on its signal success ; for the ship, we aro
informed, as the water left her, was found to be per-
fectly clean, with the exception of a little slimy
excretion, and one solitary sizable barnacle which was
clinging to a spot where the composition had evidently
been rubbed off before leaving London last summer, the
exception thus proving the rule.

THE EVACUATION OF SAN DOMINGO BY SPAIN.—
Advices received at Madrid from San Domingo to
the Bth ult. give the following as the terms of the conven-
tion concluded between the Spanish and Dominican gene-
rals prior to the evacuation of the island by the Spanish
troops :—" 1. The Dominican Government recognises that
it is solely to an act of magnanimity on the part of the
Spanish people that they will owe the independence they
are about to enjoy. 2. The Dominicans who, faithful to
Spain, may wish to remain in San Domingo, will live
under the protection of the laws, their persons and inte-
rests being respected, and those who may leave the country
will have the option of returning thereto when they wish,
and will enjoy the same advantages during their absence.
3. The Government of the Republic will pay to Spain an
indemnity for the expenses of the war, the amount of which
will be subsequently determined by treaty. 4. The Domi-
nican Government solemnly engages not to alienate all or
any of their territory without the consent and authorisation
of Spain. 5. Upon the abandonment of the island by Spain,
the sick of the Spanish army now in hospital will remain
until their restoration to health, being tended and assisted
with care ; their expenses to be paid by an officer of the
Spanish Military Administration, who will remain on the
island for that purpose."

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE.----The Kerry
Post states that the local coastguards have been
much occupied for some days past in taking soundings for
the shore end of the Atlantic cable, and otherwise preparing
for its temporary reception on tho shore at Foilhamurram,
at the west end of Valentin. The operation of laying down
the shore end was to be commenced yesterday, so as to
have everything prepared for the arrival of the Great
Eastern. It is expected that she will be off Valentia, and
that the work of splicing the ocean cable to the shore end
will be completed in time for her to proceed on her voyage
wind and weather permitting, on the 12th or 13th. The
Great Eastern will come within a couple of miles of the
land off Valentia ; but in no case will unofficial persons be
allowed to go on board. as it would interfere with the work
to be done.