The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-27 00:00:00

(iLTANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD I,AST

Wheat, 45,948; Barley, 2,1'/2; Oats, 5,775 ; Bye, 70 ; Beans,
1,964 ; Peas, 175 quarters.
HAY MARKETS.
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Surrnrinn.—Meadow hay, 2/ 8s to 4/ 15s ; clover
itto, 3l Os to 610 s ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 21 Os per load.
A moderate supply, and a fair demand.
eIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 5/ Os ; clover
. itto, 315 s to 5' 15s ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ 2s per load.
Both hay and straw were in fair request, at full quotations.
WHITECHAPZL.—Neadow hay, 2/ 8s to 4i 15s; clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 6' Os and straw, I/ 16s to 2/ Os per load.
upply good, and trade rather dull.
New meadow hay realised 50s to 755;
.and new clover,
65s to 05s per load.
MEAT MARKETS.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand
ruled dull to-day, at the following quotations :
;
;eef, from 3s (d to 4s 4,1 Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ;
Lamb, 48 4d to 5s 41; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s 3d ; Pork, 3s 4d
1,0 4s 8(1 per 81hs, by the carcase.
SOUTFIALL, July 211.—The show of stock was tolerably
,-;•ood, but in very middling condition. The trade was
heavy, and in some instances, prices had a downward
tendency. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to
I, 10.1 ; Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Veal 3s 4d to 4s 8d ;
Pork, 38 4d to 4s S4l per 81bR, to sink the offals.
ItogFORD, July 25.—T0-day's market was fair supplied
with each kind of stock, which sold slowly, as fol-
lows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d
to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 6cl; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ;
Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per Blbs. Quarter old Store Pigs,
31s to 25s each.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—At noon to-day the "United
-;,a,tes mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain Briggs, sailed
fro the I\ rersy for New York with the usual hi-weekly
mails for the Western Continent, 1(0 passecgers,. and a
toll cargo of merchandise on freight.

GOODWOOD RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEORAPII.)
GOODWOOD CUP.

VIRAGO
In Tian Warrior
Three ran.
SUSSEX STAKES.

Namur walked over,
SWEEPSTAKES OF 200 SOVS.
Dirk Hatteraick
Moonbeam o

Three ran.
BIOLECOMB.

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Three ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the British Guarantee
(No. 2) Bill, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton R:!ilway (Stratford-upon-Avon and Stourbridge
Branches) Bill were considered, and agreed to.
FINCHLEY-ROAD ESTATE BILL.
On the order for the second reading of the Finchley
Road Estate Bill,
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Lord R. GROSVENOR said this bill would seriously
interfere with the health and the enjoyment of the pub-
lic, inasmuch as it would authorise an encroachment
upon Hampstead-heath. This was the fifth bill which
Sir Thomas Wilson had submitted to Parliament for the
same purpose ; but, as in the other four, so he hoped on
this occasion this attempt of Sir Thomas to violate the
provisions of his father's will would prove unsuccessful.
In the case of each bill, the judges had reported that
the object sought to be obtained was opposed to the
wishes of the testator, and since the house stood in the
position of trustees for the public, whose interest would
be damaged, they ought not to allow the bill to pass.
He therefore moved, as an amendment, that the bill
should be read a second time this day three months.
Sir F. THESIGER, speaking impartially, and as
knowing nothing personally of Sir Thomas Wilson, had
no hesitation in saying that great injustice would be
done to that gentleman if the house refused to pass this
bill, which wt,uld not in the slightest degree encroach
upon or interfere with the integrity of Hampstead-heath.
In fact, the land which it referred to was at least a mile
away from the heath ; and while, on the one hand, no
advantage would be gained for the public, on the other,
a manifest injustice would be done to Sir Thomas Wil-
son, if the house threw out this bill, which had already
received the sanction of the House of Lords, after the
most careful consideration. •

Mr. B. OSBORNE said the real object of this bill
was to upset the will of the late Sir Thomas Wilson, and
therefore, even if it did not interfere with the interest of
the public, the house would be justified in rejecting it,
particularly as it had been reported against by the judges
of the land. It was only a preparatory bill to building
over the entire of Hampstead-heath ; and as the public
had a vested interest in this part of the metropolis, the
house had no right to pass it without their consent.
Mr. BOUVERIE said this bill had no more to do
with Hampstead-heath than it had to do with Grosvenor-
square, and he hoped the sentimental prejudice which it
was attempted to raise against it would not be allowed
to prevail. There could be no doubt that, had the tes-
tator been living now, he would readily have concurred
in the object of this bill, which was to apply a useless
farm at Finchley to building purposes.

(LEFT SITTING.)

THE FLEET AT C.RONSTADT.

The following is a more detailed report of the speech
delivered by •Admiral Berkeley, on Tuesday I'l-light, in
the House of Commons than appeared in our impres-
sion of yesterday :
Admiral BERKELEY said, he should not have troubled
the lense with many words had it not been that the hon.
member for Aylesbury had thought proper, in endeavouring
to show his antipathy towards the head of the Government,°
to lay about him right and left upon every party belonging
to it He was glad to seo the noble lord the member for
Marylebone return to his place. Both the noble lord and
the hon. gentleman had attacked the navy, not sparing that
department to which he (Admiral Berkeley) had the honour
to belong. He would not indulge in insinuations, nor
would he state facts which he could not vouch for. He
would not follow the course of the hon. member for
Aylesbury, who stated things as facts, and, when they were
contradicted was only the more determined in reiterating
them. The hon. gentleman had complained of the Admi-
ralty having conferred a decoration on the gallant officer
who had served at Odessa. He begged leave to tell the
hon. gentleman that the decoration was not conferred
upon that gallant officer for his conduct before Odessa, but
that the late First Lord of the Admiralty had made up his
mind to confer that honour upon him for the services he
had performed at Lagos, and surely there could be no ob-
jection to Odessa being added to Lagos as a ground for that
distinction. The hon. member for Aylesbury had stated
that various sums of money had been paid for demurrage,
owing to the delays of the Admiralty ; he stated that
between 20,0001. and 30,0001. had been paid in conse-
quence of those delays. He bogged again to tell the
honourable gentleman that no demurrage what,oever
had been paid. It was true that transports which had
taken the troops to Constantinople had been detained
there in order to convey those troops to Varna ; and
he would ask the honourable gentleman, whether he
would have sent those transports about their business, or
would have retained them till the army no longer required
their services ? The hon. gentleman was also very unfor-
tunate in his remarks respecting the Himalaya. That vessel,
having performed its duty to the Government, returned to
Malta, when it so happened that the party who had char-
tered her wished her to go to Alexandria, she not being
wanted by the Government at that time to return with
troops to Constantinople. She went to Alexandria, and .
then returned to perform those duties for which she had
been engaged. The noble lord the member for Marylebone
said, last night, that althougu the army as a demonstration
was very good, it was not fit for action, and that the same
observation applied to the navy. Now, he ventured to
tell the noble lord, in the face of the house and the coun-
try, that we never had finer fleets, or admirals more firmly
resolved to carry on the war in the manner which the
country expected it to be conducted.
Lord D STUART assured the gallant officer he had
mistaken his observations ; he had never said that the
British fleet was not fit for action. What he said was,
that it had not the vessels necessary to conduct operations
in shallow water.
Admiral BERKELEY.—Since the noble lord disclaimed
the language, he would not further advert to it. The noble
lord, however, proceeded to say that
"There was a great deficiency of vessels of shallow
draught of water and of mortars. He was assured that
Cronstadt was accessible on the south side to vessels of
be2o avueeseseelasafwulitlyh
bmemoro-
herded, and the Russian fleets and arsenals might have
tars y
we (e)rnes
adeeat
t ablet
h eresi:e the and,
'cot hinaitg hi tf
supplied with requisite means
by the Government, and not received orders
command of the fleet been
to bold his
been laid in ruins before this, had the gallant officer in
hands.
The noble lord likewise said, "He believed it would be
i posshie to procure steamers of 200 tons, drawing only
three feet of water, which would carry one or two heavy
guns." Now the country would be extremely
obliged to
the noble lord if ho would teach the Surveyor of the Navy
feet of water,
how to build steam-boats drawing only three besides
engine boilers, coals, which would be able to carry two very heavy gunlsau.)
Thenas to the state and stores. (" Hear," andment that Cronstadt might be suc-
cessfully laughter.)
bombarded by twenty vessels, he begged to read
to the house an extract from a letter written by the gallant
admiral in command of the Baltic fleet. He had served
with the gallant admiral; ho knew his determination, and
he was sure that he would leave nothing undone on his
part to enable him to get at the enemy. (Hear, hear.)
Before the noble lord again talked of knocking down
Cronstadt, let him ponder on the passage he (Admiral
Berkeley) was about to read. Admiral Napier said
It has not been in my power to do anything with this
powerful fleet ; for attacking either Cronstadt or Sweaborg
would have been certain destruction."
This was not all ; Admiral Chads—than whom no man
possessed a greater amount of scientific knowledge-L-wrote
also in these terms,—
"After two days' inspection from the lighthouse, and
full views of the forts and ships, the former are too sub-
stantial for the fire of ships to make: any impression. They
are large masses of granite. With respect to an attack on
the ships where they are, it is not to be entertained."
It was said that the Government was not in earnest in the
prosecution of the war, and that Sir Charles Napier had
not been supplied with everything he wanted. Upon this
point ho must trouble the house with another extract
fiorn a report written by Admiral Seymour, who was Cap
tarn of the Fleet, and whose duty it was to see that the
fleet was provided with everything necessary for the ope-
rations of war and the comfort of the seamen. Admiral
Seymour wrote :
"We have never been any time in want of anything,
thanks to the provident measures adopted by the
Ad-
miralty."
(Hear, hear.) The passages which he had read proved
how unfounded the statements were which had beenmade
made an impression on thu country. (Hear.)
The 1 t 1
on the subject, and yet those statements, unlessthey re-
ceived a positive contradiction, such as that he had been
able to
statements g i v
put forth respecting the army, and he
eSecretary-at-War had co,
mu e e y rebutted the erro-
neoustrusted that ho had done the sate service for the navy.
• Only one observation further he felt it necessary to make
, respecting the noble lord's insinuation, that Sir C. Napier
had received instructions from the Government " to hold
• his hands." In the strongest language which man can use
, (continued the gallant Admiral) I declare - and as it is
, part of my duty to draw up orders for the admirals, I can
• speak with authority on this point—that there never was
, a British officer who had more completely a carte blanche
to undertake what he pleased. So far from his hands being
, tied up by the Government, they have afforded him every
encouragement to proceed. (Cheers.)

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