The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SnITHPIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 18s to 51 10s ; clover
ditto, 41 Os to 61 6s ; and straw, 1/ 14s to 2/ 2s per load.
A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
CTJMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 5/ lOs ; clover
ditto, 41 Oa to 61 6s ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ 4s per load.
Trade steady, at full prices.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 31 3s to 5/ 10s ; clover
ditto, 4/ Os to 61 108 ; and straw, 1/ 14s to 2/ 2s per load.
Supply good, and trade rather dull.

EAST INDIA HOUSE FOR BILLS.—The amount paid
into the treasury of the East India-house for bills on
India from the Bth to the 23d inst. was 100,482/.
REPRESENTATION OF BRECON.--MF. J. Lloyd Vaughan
Watkins intends coming forward as a candidate for the
representation of the borough of Brecon, rendered va-
cant by the death of Mr. Charles Rodney Morgan. Mr.
Watkins is lord-lieutenant of the county of Brecknock,
and represented the borough in the last Parliament, In
politics he is a Libe•al, inclined to support the general
policy of the present administration. Nothing has yet
been said of a second candidate, and it is thought that
Mr. Watkins will be returned unopposed.

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LINES LEASED AT FIXED ItENTALs.
Leasing Closing Prices Badness
Shr. Paid ILlthwess. Compans this day
• this day.
50 all Bedford and Ln.&N.W•
Bletchley
St. 100 Buckghamsh L. &N.W. 100 102
50 all Clydesdale Jo CaWon.— 50 52
St. 100 E.Lincoln. gr
6p. cent G.,.Nort
1111 139 141
25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian.
Neils. Direct. •• •
25 all Do. New Do . ...... •
25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr Cit.Westn. 30
32
100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New.
Railway & Berw.•
50 all Hull & Selby YAN.bid. 108 110
25 all Do. 6 Shares Do ...... 54 55
126 all Do. 4 Shares Do ......... 266 276
12f all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern. 134 13'
20 all Do. Preference Do ......... 246 -25 i
St. 100 Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent Norfolk ... ...
R. 100 Do. 6 per ct Do . . •** •••
56 all Manch.Bxton
and Matlock & Midld. 21 3
50 all Middlesbro' & Stckton (ix
Redcar Darlingt. •••
100 all Midld.Bradfd. Miclland... 97 99
50 all Northern and
Easternsp.c. E. Count.. 59 61
5 all Do. 6 per ct Do ......... •••
5,, all Do. Fixed 5p .cDo . . . . •• • " •
2,) all Prdst. &Wyre L. &Is. W.
&LndzYk •.• •
1 12 Do. I Shares. Do . . ... . •• •
S 100 Roystn.& Hit. Gt.Northn 138 142
S. 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do ..... .. . . 138 142
2, 180 Shef. Roth. di Lancash.&
Goole g.5.p.c Yorksh..l . . •
12 9i S. Staffordsh MrMeleaM •.24 lid
50 all Wear Valleyg r'6 Doe t ezi
6 per cent Darliug . ---
25 all 'Do Do ......... 291 30
St. 100 Wilts&SomrstiGt.Westu. 95 97

NEW WORKS OF FICTION are announced by Messrs.
Hurst and Blackett, the successors to Mr. Colburn, as
preparing for publication during the present season,
from the pens of Miss Mitford, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Trol-
lope, Miss Pardoe, the author of " Emilia Wyndham,*
and the author of " Margaret Maitland."
THE GREEN PARS.—His Royal Highness, the Ran-
ger of the Parks, has caused two notice-boards to be
placed on either side of the Wellington Statue Arch on
Constitution-hill ; one of which is to the effect, that the
gatekeeper has strict orders not to permit any persons
driving any carriage or other vehicle to pass through the
gate into the Green Park, unless they be provided with a
pass ticket for that purpose, or who are not privileged
to do so ; and the other states that the keeper has di.
rections to prevent grooms or other persons from exer-
cising horses in the park, excepting those belonging to
the Royal Family.

The British Quarterly keview. No. XXXVII.
As a matter of course, there is a reference in this
as in almost every other periodical, great or small,
daily or weekly, monthly or periodically, to the
interminable Eastern Question the British
Quarterly, referring to it in an article headed
" The War—its Seat and its Prospects." And
almost equally, as a matter of course, there is an
allusion here also, under the title of " Trades'
Unions Strikes," to the recent disturbances in Lan-
cashire. Having turned over these pages with a
sense of exhaustion, the reader will experience a
feeling of relief in examining papers such
as those weighing in the balance of criticism the
philological labours of " Niebuhr," or portray-
ing the aspect of " Modern Syria," or introducing
us to Coleridge as a Theologian. Among the
.....
mis-
cellaneous contributions in the new number
the British Quarterly may be especially noticed
as curious one on " The Life and Writings of John
Pye Smith," another of the innumerable luminaries
blessed with that universal patronymic,Another,
yet more singular, paper is oddly entitled 46 Re-
cent Scientific Ballooning." Besides a double
Epilogue, on " Affairs
and on
ouro ~ "Books,"contemporary
the present number of
contains a charming chapter
Bea-
trice," a chapter at once critincal and biographi-
cal. Dante's
amusing
What is almost in this contribution,
however, is the dogged
the writer resolves that determination with which
Beatrice must have
been a real creature and no mere shadowy
myth, or phantom all
up to believe implicitlyeVry. He makes his mind
in Beatrice as a woman and
not as a mere imagining
of indignation : and he flies into a fury
that whenever any one presumes to con-
jecturethan a symbol of she was nothing more substantial
Celestial Wisdom, or what not,
born of the
divine Florentine's abounding and
vivific
imagination.

ST, PETRasBURGEL—The advices from St. Petersburgh
are to the lOth just., at which date a stoady rise
Was taking place in the prices of imported articles, and
especially of sugar, denoted an increased anticipation of
war. The rate of exchange Wag lower.