The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-25 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The show of now hops continues limited, and the de-
mand is steady, at, in some instances, a further advance
in the quotations. Old parcels aro held for money. Mid
and East Kent pockets, 96s to 160 s ; Weald of Kent,
95s to 112 s ; Sussex, 95s to 112 s per cwt.

COLONIAL.

SUG&R.-A fair business has been done in British Plan•

tation, the supply of which is moderate, and full prices
have been obtained. Barbadoes sold by auction for low
to mid yellow, at 35s 6d to 37s 6d for good, at 38s to 38s
Gd, and for fine 39s to 39s 6d. Demerara crystalised, sold
at 370 to 38s 6d for mid and good, and at 35s to 36s 6d for
ord. Refined was more active, low to fine grocery lumps
45s 6d to 48s Gd. East India Mauritius has been sold pri-
vately to some extent at the previous rates and by auction,
fine brown realised 33s 6d to 34s 6d, and low to good 30s to
335. Mid grocery brought 34s 6d to 355, and low to fine
soft yellow 29s to 335. Bengal has been at fuller rates, low
to good white Benares, has been sold at 36s Gd to 38s 6d,
fine at 39s to 40s, and mid, like Mauritius, at 35s 6d to 365.
Foreign—A good deal has been done at stiff prices.. Per-
nambuco by auction, sold at 308 Gd to 33s for low to
good brown, and at 34s 6d for low, mid, and yellow.
Bahia has reached 35s to 37s 6d for low to mid white, and
low to fine brown has since been taken in at 30s 6d. Yel-
low Havannah was mostly taken in at 37s to 438 6d for mid
yellow to florettes, a few parcels selling at 35s to 378 for
low to mid yellow.
COFFEE.—There was a fair demand early in the week, at
full prices, but a re-action has since occurred, and prices
are lower. Native Ceylon has been at 48s to 48s 6d, and
more recently at 478 6d to 48s. Mbcha declined is. Yes-
terday mid sold at 72s to 72s 6d, fine fine ord clean gar-
bled at 68s, and triage at 44s to 53s 6d. Plantation Ceylon
was last taken in at 58s 6d to 63s for mid and good of fa-
vourite marks, a few lots of low mid and mid selling at 54s
to 575, and bold triage at 48s 6d to 535. Jamaica good ord
has been sold at 465, and blocks at 375. Foreign has been
held firmly.
COCOA.—There has been more activity, and Trinidad
went at 33s to 34s Gd for grey, and 35s to 39s for low to
good red. Guayaquil brought 34s to 35s ; and Para, 28s.
RICE.—FuII prices have been obtained, Bengal good
white selling at ng 6d to 12s.
SPlOES.—Batavia nutmeg have realised 2s 6d for mid,
and mace 2s 6d for mid ; dark ginger was taken in at 51s
for mid Cochin ; Jamaica sold at 67s to 154 s for small to
good bold white. Penang pepper was taken in at 3icl for
fair, and nd for mid ; and Batavia at 3id.
COTTON.—There has been a quiet but firm market.
TEA.—A fair business is doing, and the current rates
wero—Congou ord to mid 9d to lOd, mid 104 d to lOid,
rather blackish leaf is to is lid. Twankay, good ord to
mid, 10c1 to 11d, mid to Hyson kind is to is ld. • Hyson,
good ord is 2d to is 3d, and is 4d to is sd, and mid to
good mid is 8d to 3s 6d ; Gunpowder is 4d to 38 ; Canton
kind 9cl to is 4d.

TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is quiet at 44s 3d per cwt on the spot.
INDIGO.—Tho sale has been remarkably even through-
out, and has concluded by establishing prices as mentioned
below. The orders both for export and home use were
large, as evinced by the quantity sold, viz., 9,400 chests,
which although less than was sold in February, 1852, is
considerably above the average of the February sales for
the previous five years. Of the quantity brought forward
it is estimated that 3,377 are bought in, 3,201 witndrawn,
and 8,200 sold, to which may bo added about 1,200 of the
bought-in and withdrawn, making the total quantity sold
say 9,400 chests; of wnich 6,000 are for export, and 3,400
for homo use and resale. The following are the quotations
as compared with the last October sale :—Good and fine
shipping fid to 8d per lb higher; ordinary ane defective
do. 4d to 6d do. ; broken and consuming, 41 to 6d do. ;
m9Aras, good and fine, 3d to 4d lower ; do. middling ordi-
6d to 8d per lb higher,
nary, pa Krpak, good and fine,
do. middling and ordinary, 3d to 4d do. 1

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TATTERSALL'S—THURSDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
13 to 2 agst Miss Mowbray.
Bto 1 agst Bourton.
9to 1 agst Oscar.
12 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie.
14 to 1 agst View Halloo.
20 to 1 agst Peter Simple.
26 to 1 agst Carrig.
25 to 1 agst Abd-el-Kader.
30 to 1 agst Benedict.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Contentment.
15 to '1 agst Lampedo.
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Scarecrow.
40 to 1 agst Truth.
40 to 1 agst Newminster.
2000 to 60 agst Braxey.
DERBY.
9to 1 agst West Australian.
15 to 1 agst Pharos.
15 to 1 agst Orestes.
20 to 1 agst Umbriel.
25 to 1 agst Ninnyhammer.
40 to 1 agst Orinoco.
40 to 1 agst Vanderdecken.
50 to 1 agst Ethelbert.

The room was thinly attended, and the betting flat and
unimportant.

THE HEREFORD RACES AND STEEPLE CHASES.— In
consequence of the continued severity of the weather, the
races postponed from last week to this day, will not take
place.

- SUTTON STEEPLE CHASES.—In 'consequence of the
frost, these events, announced for this day, are postponed
until Friday next.

ORIGIN OF CERTAIN WORDS.

All the words of dignity, state, honour, and pre-emi-
nence with one remarkable exception (to be adduced
presently), descend to us from the Normans—sovereign,
sceptre, throne, realm, royalty, homage, prince, duke,
count (" earl," indeed, is Scandinavian, though he must
borrow his " countess" from the Norman), chancellor,
treasurer, palace, castle, hall, dome, and a multitude more.
At the same time, the one remarkable exception of
" king," would make us, even did we know nothing of the
actual facts, suspect that the chieftain of this ruling race
came in, not upon a new title, not as overthrowing a
former dynasty, but claiming to be in the rightful line of
its succession ; that the true continuity of the nation had
not in fact, any more than in word, been entirely broken,
but survived in due time to assert itself anew. And yet,
while the statelier superstructure of the language—almost
all articles of luxury, all that has to do with the chase, with
chivalry, with personal adornment, is Norman throughout
with the broad basis of the language, and therefore of the
life, itis otherwise. The great feature of nature, the sun, the
moon, the stars, the earth, the water, the fire, all the prime
social relations, father, mother, husband, wife, son,
daughter—these are Saxon. The palace and the castle
may have come to us from the Norman, but to the Saxon
we owe far dearer names, the home, the hearth, the house,
the roof. His "board," and often probably it was no more,
has a more hospitable sound than the other's "table." His
sturdy arms turn the soil ; he is the boor, the hind, the
churl ; or if his Norman master has a name for him, it is
one which on his lips becomes more and more a title of op-
probrium and contempt—the villain. The instrument used
in cultivating the earth, the flail, plough, sickle, spade, are
expressed in his language ; so, too, the main products of the
earth, as wheat, rye, oats, bere, i. e., barley ; and no less
the names of domestic animals. Concerning these last
it is not a little characteristic to observe, and Walter Scott
has put the observation into the mouth of the Saxon swine-
herd in Ivanhoe, that the names of almost all, so long
as they are alive, are thus Saxon, but when dressed and
prepared for food become Norman—a fact, indeed, which
we might have expected beforehand, for the Saxon hind
had the charge and labour of tending And feeding them,
but only that they might lie on the table of his Norman
lord. Thus ox, steer, cow, are Saxon, but beef Norman ;
calf is Saxon, but veal Norman ; sheep is Saxon, but mut-
ton Norman ; so it is severallywith swine and pork, deer
and venison, fowl and pullet. Bacon, the only flesh which
may ever have come within his reach, is the solitary ex-
ception. Putting all these together, with much more of the
same kind, which might be produced, but has only been
indicated here, we should certainly gather, that while
there are manifest tokens, as preserved in our language,
of the Saxon having been for a season an inferior and
even an oppressed race, the stable elements of Saxon
life, however overlaid for a while, have still made good
their claim to be the solid groundwork of the after
nation as of the after language ; and to the justice of
this conclusion all other historic records, and the present
social condition of England, consent in bearing testi-
mony.—Trench's Study of Man.

THE SIX-MILE-BRIDGE AFFAIR.—The bills against the
soldiers in the Six-mile-bridge prosecution have been
ignored by the grand jury of Clare.
THE THREATENED STRIKE AT SOUTHAMPTON. A
meeting of stokers and coal trimmers—not very nu-
merously attended—was held at Southampton yesterday
evening, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the best course to adopt to obtain an increase of wages.
After some discussion, it was determined that no strike
should take place, the feeling of the meeting being
evidently in favour of waiting to see the result of the
seamen's strike. It was, however, arranged that a
respectful memorial should be presented to the directors
of the several steam companies, setting forth the wishes
of the men, and asking for an increase of pay to 4/.
a-month, the wages given at present being 70s. It was
stated by sonie of the stokers that provisions, clothing,
and house 'rent had latterly advanced materially in price,
and that, as the general value of labour in this country
is steadily rising, the men employed in the subordinate
departments of engineering branches should ))e ade-
quately iemunerated ; but the speakers deprecated any-
thing like hostility to their employers in the shape of a
sudden, unjustifiable demand. The wages given now to
this class of men are, by the General Screw Company,
4/. per month ; Royal Mail Company, 3/. 10s., " with "
grog ; Peninsular and Oriental Company, 3/. 10s.,
" without " grog.
SUNRISE OVER THE RUINS OF THEBES.—Just as the
flush of dawn was beginning to become faintly visible in
the east, Mohammed pointed out to me the lofty palm
groves, encircling the northern limits of the temple of
Karnak. We were then entering on the sacred territory
of Thebes, and that I might enjoy the first sight of the ruins,
I desired him to put me on shore alone. I landed on the
left bank, and with a sort of boyish eagerness at which
the philosopher may smile, ran with all my might in or-
der to reach a particular point, spoken of by the his-
torians of the French expedition, by the time the
sun's first rays should stream into the dusky valley
from behind the crest of the Arabian mountains. But
the propylaea and mighty ruins of Karnak, towering
far above the date-palms, like the pinnacles of a
mountain, were not the principal objects in the magnifi-
cent landscape then assuming form and consistency be-
fore me. The glories of man's works became almost
invisible in the blaze of glory diffused over God's works
above the tabernacle of the sun, crimson, purple,
amethyst, and gold, piled up like a mountain in
the Orient, over what appeared to be a flaming sea,
diverging north and south, seemed to suggest to
the imagination the hidden appearance of some divinity
behind that screen of dazzling splendour. Presently,
earth seemed to mimic heaven in brightness ; the crest
of the Arabian mountains, encircled with a halo of vivid
colours, glowed tremulously for a moment, as if to smoke
and burst forth in flame, when the sun rose, as if with one
bound, from behind the line of the horizon, and all nature
became flooded at once with light almost too bright for the
sense. Then stood forth the ruins of Thebes in all their
grandeur. Time seemed to have receded 4,000 years,
and to have given back the city to me as it was in the
age of Rameses. Wreaths and columns of white mist inter-
penetrated, and glowing with light rolled here and there be-
tween the antique structures, concealing their imperfec-
tions, over-canopying what might have been the mass of
private buildings, and imparting to the whole the aspect
of a stupendous city, displaying its pinnaclesonly through
the luminous vapours of the morning. The broad Nile,
illuminated and almost crimson by the sun, rolled its
flashing waters from south to north with overwhelming
majesty.
I looked around me on all sides, at the
towering mountain peaks behind Gournon, at the
Memnomum and antique temple of Medinet-Habou, at
Karnak and the avenue of sphinxes, at the Arabian.
mountains, at the palm-groves and the village. —.From
an Egyptian, Pilgrimage.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Deafness—New Discovery. 39,
Albemarle-street, Piccaay, observe, opposite the York
Hotel. The organic vibrator, an extraordinary power-
ful, small, newly-invented instrument, for deafness, en-
tirely different from all others to surpass anything of the
kind that has been, or probably ever can be produced,
being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible ;
it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and
at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing
noises in the ears are entirely removed ; and it afford;
all the assistance that possibly could be desired. The
Royal Exhibition valuable newly-invented, very
powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut,
to discern minute objects at a distance of from four to
five miles, which is found to be invaluable, for yachting,
and to sportsmen, gentlemen, and
gamekeepers. Tele-
scopes, possessing such extraordinary power, that some
31 inches, with an extra eye piece, wilt show distinctly
Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars.
.They supersede every other kind, and are of all sizes for
the waistcoat pocket, shooting, military purposes, &c.
Opera and race-course glasses with wonderful power ; a
minute object can be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles
distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacle.—S. and B.
Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, observe, opposite the York Hctel.
[ADVEIITISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills
are an infallible remedy for Tumours, Swellings, and
Contracted Joints.—Ann Carter, housemaid, residing
with a family in Burton-crescent, had; an immense tumour
on her right knee, which increased to such a size that she
could not bend the joint, and was in consequence obliged
to leave her situation. Her medical attendant informed

her there was no chance of cure, and that it would be

necessary to amputate the limb. This opinion not satis-
fying her, she commenced using Holloway's Ointment
. _

ind-Pills in good earnest, and, by God's blessing, they
have been the means of effecting a perfect cure, and she

has resumed her foriner situation:—gold by all Druggists,
and at Professor Holloway's, 244, Strand.