The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, IVIONDAY EVENING, OCT,OBEIC 17, 1858.

SHARE MARRWTS-(THIS hAY).

MARKET NEWS-(TIP-S DAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices
Saturday.

Business
this day.

CORN EXCHANGE;

RAILWA S.

Closing Prices
Saturday.

The leading country markets held on Saturday were
fairly supplied with wheat, in which only a limited busi-
ness was transacted, on somewhat easier terms. Barley
met a dull inquiry, at late figures ; but malt was in good
request. The oat trade was dull, and prices had a down-
ward tendency. Beans, peas, and flour, ruled heavy.
Advices from New York to the sth inst. state that both
wheat and flour were in brisk demand—the former at an
advance from 5 to 6 cents per bushel, the latter 30 to 40
cents per barrel. The Continental markets have eon-
tinned firm, at very full prices.
The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last
week, were on the increase. From abroad, we received
75,137 quarters of wheat, 6,676 barley, 38,447 oats, 2,309
beans, 576 peas, 135 tares, 8,149 linseed, 472 rapeseed,
202 mustardseed, 478 sundry seeds, and 3,965 barrels of
flour.
The quantity of wheat received fresh up, to-day, coast-
wise from Essex and Kent, was but moderate, and greatly
out of condition, arising from the prevailing damp weather.
From the east coast, as well as by railway, the arrivals
were comparatively small ; hence, the show of samples
was far from extensive. Notwithstanding that the at-
tendance of both town and country millers was by no
means large, there was a slight improvement in the de-
mand for ome-grown wheats—arising from the warlike
intelligence at hand from the East—and Friday's decline
in prices was recovered ; hence, the quotations were the
same as on Monday last.
The supply of foreign wheat was larger than for some
time past. On the whole a full average business was
transacted in most kinds at full rates of curreney.
The arrival of floating cargoes from the westward has
been small. To-day, transactions took place at extreme
rates.

Fine barley was in fair request, at full quotations. In•
ferior malting and distilling scrts had a downward ten,
dency.

Malt was in good supply, and steady request, at full
quotations.
The show of oats being large, the trade was dull, at a
decline in the prices of Monday last of from 6d to is per
quarter.
_ _ _

-We had a moderate inquiry for beans. In the quota-
tions, very little change took place.
White boiling peas sold at unusually high figures. Other
kinds were steady.
The flour trade was tolerably firm. In prices, we have
no change to report.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL. MEASURE.

Wheat—Essex it Kent,
Bed •• •• Dew 57s to 65s
Ditto— old 57s 65s
Ditto, new 58s 68s
Ditt0......., old 62s 67s
Norfolk and Lir-
c)?ii- Red, o-d 333 63s
Ditto new ...... 50s 58s
Rye—Old ...• •• •••••• 00s 00s
New ............ 3is .85
Barley—Grinding..... 323 34s
Malting ......... 40s 41s
Chevalie-- • .. 431 47s
Kalt—StirollandNor-
folk 66s 62s
Brown ...• •• 503 57s
Kingston and Nia:e 613 65s

Malt—Chevalier .... 68s to 721
Oats Yorkshtre and
Idncolnsh.. Feed 22s 23:
Potato ...... ....E26s 28s
roughs' and Cork
81ack....... 21s 23s

Cork, White .. 21s 23s
Scsoteh, Feed. 22s 26s
Beans—Tick ••• • .... 40s 44s
Pigeons ...... •• • • 41. 49s
Peas—Grey , ....• •• • • 405 42s
Maple. •• •..• •• •• 45c 48s
White... •• •• .. 503 59s
Boilers •..•• .. • • 63s 70s
Floor—Towipmade... 655 70s
Saflolk •••••• • • .. 44s 46s
Steekte & Norfolk 42s 48s

SMITHFIELD.

The imports of foreign stock into London last week
were good, viz., 11,417 head. Raring the corresponding
period of 1852, we received 8,202 ; in 1851, 6,941; in
1850, 7,800; in 1849, 4,603; in 1848, 5,056; and in 1847,
3,471 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WREN.

From Beasts. Sheep.
Rotterdam— 567 ... 3,143
Ostend
Hamburgh - -
Dordt..... 75 ...
Bromvershaven 6 ...
Tonning 237 ...
Touningen 330 ... 425
Amsterdam 1,390
Bremen 325 17 ...
Harlingen 605 ... 1,621 ...

Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
... 451 ...

1,068 --
70
253

- ... -
84 ... 363

T0ta1.... 2,445 ... 8,047 ... -- ... 537 ... 388
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under :
Beasts. Sheep. Lamlis.
852 1,935 ... 5,537
851 1,240 ... 4,790
850 1,331 ... 5,540
849 1,479 ... 2,870
848 855 ... 4,046

Calves. Pigs.
306 ... 424
402 ... 509
359 ... 567
190 ... 69
150 ... 5

-- ...

- ...

Oar market to-day was very extensively supplied with
each kind of foreign stock, for which the demand rrled
heavy, at drooping prices.
The arrivals of home-fed stock being considerably on the
increase, the weather very unfavourable, the attendance of
country buyers comparatively small, and Newgate and
Leadenhall being largely supplied, the beef trade was in a
very depressed state, at a decline on the quotations ob-
tained on Monday last of from 2d to in some instances 4d
per 81bs., and a total clearance was not effected. The ex-
treme value of the best sorts was 4s 2d per 81bs.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire we received 2,200 shorthorns; from other parts-'
England, 800 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. ; and from
Scotland 4 stots.

With sheep we were seasonably well supplied, and there
was a slight improvement in their general quality. Eyaj
the primest old Downs were heavy, and 2d per 81bs. losVer.
All other kinds ruled very dull, at 2d to 4d per 81bs. :less
money. The extreme value of Downs was 5s per 81bs.
Calves, the supply of which was good, sold heavily, at,
from 2d to 4d per 81bs. less money.
In pigs very little was doing, at 2d per Sibs. decli4:
The supply was tolerably extensive.

THE NEIV YACHT FOR TEE QUEEN.

Of whatever material the new Victoria and Albert is
to be constructed, it is well understood that she will be
designed, and all her drawings completed, and calcula-
tions made at Somerset-house, under the Surveyor of
the Navy, who will alone be responsible for the ship,
If it be finally arranged that she is to be constructed of
wood, she will be built at a Royal dockyard ; but if of
iron, a more wholesome and safer material, then inas-
much as the Royal dockyards build only 'wooden ships,
the construction of the new yacht, from the designs of
the Surveyor of the Navy's department, will be confided
to a firm of unquestionable character for expedition and
first-rate work.
Under all or any circumstances, we repeat that the
new yacht will be the production of those in the Royal
service, and it is due to the Surveyor of the Navy to
state that the success that has attended the design and
construction of the new class of screw-ships—St. Jean
&Acre, Agamemnon, Imperieuse, Tribune, &c., afford
most satisfactory proofs of progress and efficiency in
Royal navai architecture.

We understand that the dimensions of the proposed
new yacht for the Queen will be increased from those
originally suggested. She will be at least 300 feet in
length, with 40 feet beam. An additional 30 feet in
length with 6 inches additional breadth, with machinery
of 800-horse power, as in the Pacha of Egypt's yacht,
would ensure a better speed—say 18 miles au hour. We
perceive that a contemporary has reflected on the old
yacht as having been badly built. In justice to Mr.
Edye, the master shipwright of Plymouth dockyard, and
under whose superintendence the Victoria and Albert
was built, at Pembroke, we feel bound to state that no
vessel could have been more strongly or more faithfully
put together. The workmanship was indeed first-rate,
too good, indeed, for her. The fault was in the design
and not in the construction.—Herald.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert is expected to visit
the Navy-office of the Admiralty department of Somerset-
house, on Monday, previous to the decision whether the
new royal yacht shall be built of iron or wood, or be a
screw or a paddle-wheel steamer. The subject is still
much discussed in naval circles, and the general wish of
both
officers and men is that her Majesty should have a
91-gun ship far a royal yacht, and that the vessel should
be fitted with a screw propeller, as the nearest approach
to their favourite sailing ships. They say they have never
relished paddle-wheel steamers, but they have no objec-
tion to the screw-propelled vessels or their machinery,
being stowed in the hold. All they want is clear decks
under any circumstances. A 91-gun ship, finely rigged
and manned for service, would have a fine appearance
stationed off the Isle of Wight, and be an appropriate
sea castle for a naval body-guard for her Majesty, the
crew being composed of leading seamen, appointed to the
royal yacht for superior abilities, meritorious services, or
good conduct. An arrangement of that kind would do
much to make the service popular, and the country
would have a ship efficient to take her position with the
royal standard at the mast-head when naval reviews take
place, or on other occasions; and also to take her place on
any emergency as a ship of war for the defence of the
country. The necessary expense of fitting a vessel of the
91-gun class would be comparatively little when con-
trasted with the expense of a yacht with a separate
establishment, required only for a short period every
year, and the officers, engineers, and crew, it may be
be said, unavailable for any other purpose. In a vessel
of the above class there would be ample room for her
Majesty, Prince Albert, and the whole of the Royal
family, and such royal and distinguished visitors as
might be present, with their attendants ; an extent of
accommodation which cannot be obtained in the best
constructed paddle-wheel steam-vessel, whether built of
iron or wood. A 91-gun ship is also the safest for sea-
going voyages, and well suited for the depth of water on
the coasts of this country. The tenders Fairy and
Elfin would always be available for landing at any port
when the royal 91-gun yacht anchored in deep water.
It would be truly splendid to witness, at a review of the
fleet, her Majesty passing down between two lines of
war steamers, all fitted with screw propellers (which
will be the case with every vessel in the royal navy
within a few years, in a fine screw-propelled steam-ship,
fitted up for royal accommodation, compared with the
appearance of a paddle-wheel steam-vessel passing down
the lines under similar circumstances. On the whole,
the officerrs and men of the navy—and it is believed the
country generally—are anxious that her Majesty should
have a fine screw steam-ship for her aquatic excursions
and to be stationed off the Isle of Wight.—Chronicle,

FEARFUL CASE OF MUTINY.-MURDER AND
SUICIDE ON THE HIGH SEAS.

The details were on Saturday received at Lloyd's of a
most dreadful tragedy which took place on board the
barque Countess of Winton, of Liverpool, while on her
homeward voyage from Shanghai. The following are
4hocircumstances as taken from the log :—" On the 17th
May, when the ship was near the Indian coast, the
date captain, Mr. James Crangle, ordered all hands on
deck. The chief mate, 'William M'Fillen, did not seem
inclined to perform his duty, and the master sent two
men to look after him. He was found in the store-
room under the cabin, and the captain dispatched
the second mate to bring him up for disobeying orders.
M'Fillen was met approaching the cabin, and the
unfortunate master ordered the seamen away, in order
that he might have some conversation with him pri-
vately. A cutlass was lying on the table in the cabin
at the time. Angry words were heard passing between
them. Shortly aftewards the second mate heard a noise
and some heavy groans. He looked through the sky-
light, but could not observe anything. However, he en-
tertained a suspicion that something serious had happened.
He called the crew, and arming himself with a log of
wood, went down to the cabin, where to his horror he
saw the lifeless body of the captain stretched upon the
floor, and M'Fillen thrusting at him with the cutlass.
The carpenter, by a dexterous movement, drove the
armed murderer on one side. He made an effort to
escape by running up the rigging; the second mate,
however, pursued him, and managed to hold him until
he was secured and chained down in his cabin. About
a week afterwards, while he was being conducted to the
water•closet, duly guarded, he by some means managed
to slip from their attention for a moment, and, making
a sudden spring, bounded overboard. A rope was
thrown towards him, and the boats lowered, with a view
of saving him. He made not the least effort to seize
them, and in a few minutes disappeared and perished.
The catastrophe is greatly attributed to a free use of ar-
dent spirits on board. The deceased master is said to
have been often in liquor, and while in that condition
treated M'Fillen in a most severe manner. The second
mate took command of the ship and brought her safely
home. She was freighted with a valuable cargo.