The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN SUPPLY.

Beasts • .......- 336
Sheep .. •• ................ 160
iCalves .• 82

A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on
Monday, April 18,,1853, and this day, Monday, April 18,
1854. Per 81bs, to sink the ofi:Als.
April 18, 1853.1Apri117,1854
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d
Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 2to 3 4,3 2to 3 4
Second quality ditto 3 6 3 B'3 7 3 8
Prime large oxen 310 4 0,3 10 4 0
Prime Scots, &c 4 2 4 4',4 2 4 6
Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... 4 0 4 2 3 6 3 8
Second quality ditto ... ... 4 2 4 83 10 4 4
Prime coarse woolled ditto 410 5 Otri 6 4 8
Prime Southdown ditto 5 2 5 414 10 5 0
Lambs 5 4 6 4.5 6 7 0
Large coarse calves •••
3 6 4 o'4 6 5 2
Prime small ditto .., •••.
4 2 4 615 4 5 8
Large hogs 3 0 3 613 0 4 2
Neat small porkers •• ••• 3 8 4 214 4 4 8
Beasts... 4,09 g 3,384
Sheep ..„ , 20,460 17,800
Calves... 188 100
300

SUPPLIES ON SALE, April 18, 1852.—Beasts, 4,886 ; sheep,
26,42 elves, 221; pigs, 3,180.
NERTGATE AND LE ADENHALL.
Since konday last the receipts of countirkilled meat
up to these markets have been rather extensive, the time
of year considered. To-day the show of each kind slaugh-
tered in the metropolis was moderate, whilst the demand
ruled steady, as follows :
Per Sibs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 2 10 3 2
Do., middling 3 4 3 6
Do., prima large 3 8 3 10
Do., do. small 3lO 4 0
Pork, large 3 4 4 2
Lamb .

s. d. s. d.
Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 4
Do., middling ..... 3 6 4 0
Do., prime ......... 4 2 4 4
Veal ....... ...... .. 4 0 5 4
Pork, small . ..... 4 4 4 8
5s 6d to 7s ...

BOROUGH HOP.

•
The supply of all kinds- of hops in oar market is small
Selected qualities are in moderate request, at full prices ;
but all other kinds are a dull inquiry, Last week's im-
ports were only 54 bales from Hamburgh. Mid and East
Kent pockets, 6/ lOs to 121; Weald of Kent, 61 to 71;;
Sussex, 5/ 12s to 6110 s.•

SEEDS.
Clover seed is in fair request, at full prices. There is a
good inquiry for linseed, but the business doing is compa-
ratively limited, owing to the high pretensions of im-
porters. Bombay has realised 72s ; Black Sea, 703 ; and
fine Petersburgh, 683 per quarter. Cakes command ex-
treme rates.
rdrnio,Wnito, oer bush, 22i to 24

Carraway ..... • .. 43, 468
Coriander • • • • • • " " 17' 185
llempseed, per quarter 4( s 44s
Linseed, Eng.iowlng • • 70s 00s
Crushing' • • • • • " 66e 6"
68s 70s
Baltic • • •• • • •• ••
Odessa • • • • •• • • • • 68s 70a
Linseed Cake, pr. ton—
English •• . 101 Os 11' 104
Foreign, per ton 915 s 1 ll 108
Rape Cakes, pr ton 6? 15s V 5s
Ripeseed, New, pr Ist 31,08 33 s

Swede .., • • ...... 223 24
~tustard, 8r0wn...... Ile 14s
White, new .• •• .. 13s 163
Pares, Winter, new.... 9s Od 9s 6d
Old .• • • • • • • 7s 0418 s Od
Canary, per quarter • 504 543
Rye grass.. ... • • .. 243 28s
lover, Red Ent,. (cwt.) 584 643
White .• • • ...... 54s 84s
Foreign Red ...... 52s 64.4
White •... 62s 903
Trefoil, new.. • • .... • • 26s 333

TALLOW.

Since our last report, a very moderate business has been
doing in our market, prices have had a downward
tendency. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot has sold at 66s Gd
per cwt. For forward delivery very little is doing. Town
tallow, 62s Gd net cash. Rough fat, 3P 5!3,d per 8 lbs.

1651.

Issl.

-- --,
Stock this day ...... 29,182 3%542 142,914 ; 8,627
s Od to 35s fd le, 45s 9d
Price of Y. C. .... [ t,3)14 —s9od 40
d 405 6d } —s 5d to 46,, Cd
Delivery last week .. 1,570 777 ' 1,055 1 7,142
Ditto from June I .... 86,446 86,239 96,603 93,138
Arrivals last week.. 1 89 65 , 1,911 1,160
Dittofrom June 1.... 9 ',l )5 94,963 ;102,983 81,127
Price of Town ~.. •.! 38s Od 413 01 ! 38s od . 483 6d

33,834
;63 6.140
003 Od
929
88,014

569
98,533

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenant-Col.
Hugh Henry Rose, C. 8., her Majesty's Secretary of
Embassy at Constantinople, and formerly Consul-General
in Syria, is appointed her Majestys Military Commis•
sioner to the French Expeditionary Army in the East.
Col. Rose went to Syria in 1840 with the British officers
employed there, and was attached to the Staff of Omer
Pasha, with the rank of Deputy Adjutant-General. He
was wounded in an affair of cavalry, Jan. 15,1841. He was
afterwards appointed to the command of the detachments.
When Consul General in Syria, be rescued the Prince
of Lebanon and others from the Druses. He is tho-
roughly conversant with the warfare and the politics of
the East. Mr. William Congreve Brackenbury, Consul
at 'Madrid, is appointed British Consul at Bilbao. Mr.
D. Cameron, unpaid Attaché at Berne, is appointed un-
paid Attaché at Copenhagen. Mr. Goold, from Hanover,
is appointed unpaid Attaché at Berne. The lion. W.
Jocelyn is appointed unpaid Attaché at Hanover. Mr.
Edward Romilly, one of the Conunissioneis of Audit, is
appointed Chairman of that Board, in iaccession to
Major-General Sir W. L. Herris, K.G.H., resigned.
Mr. T. Phinn, M.P. for Bath, is appointed Coun-
sel to the Admiralty in the place et Mr. R. B.
Crowdei., Justice of the Common Pleas. Mr. James
Noel (from the Department of the Surveyor of the Navy);
Mr. R. J. Callander (from the Controller of the Vic-
tualling Department); and Mr. James Scott (from the
office of Director General of the Navy), are appointed
third-class Clerks in the Admiralty, Whitehall. The
Lord President has selected Mr. Major Rhode Hawkins
for appointment to the office of advising Architect to
the Committee of Council of Education, in the room of
Mr. Westmacett, who laais retired.