The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-24 00:00:00

WOOL.

There is a slight improvement in the sal3 for English
wool, at the late decline in prices. Foreign 'and colonial
qualities move off slowly, and the quotations are barely
supported. Last week's imports were 52 bales from Ham-
burgh, 151 ditto from Bombay, and 1,486 ditto from
Sydney.

DS.

Linseed and cakes are stead,
week. In other articles very
carnip,*nito, per bash. 22s to 24 :1

ly, and quite as dear as last
little is doing.

Swede • • •• .. • • 22s 24s
Wristard, Brown • . • • .. 123 I 4s
White, new • • • • .. 133 16s
Tares, Winter, new.... 9s Od 90 6d
Old • • • • • • • • • 7s Od 8s Od
Canary, per quarter .. 488 Ms
gye grass • • • .. • • 24s 283
CloTer,RedEng. (owt.) 583 643
White • . • • .... • • 54s 848
Foreign Red.. • • .. 523 64a
White.... 623 90s
Trefoil, Italy' • . • • • • • • • • 263 33,

Carraway ..... 433 46s
Coriander......., •• .. 173 18s
Hempseed, per quarter 4ts 445
Linseed, Eng.,3owing.. 70s 743
, Crushing ... ••. .• 66s 68s
Retie •. . • ...... 683 70s
Odessa .......... 63s 70s
Linseed Cake, pr. ton—
English .• . 101 Os 11, 103
Foreign, per ton 915 s 111 10s
Rape Cakes, pr ton 6115 s 71 he
Rapeseed, New. prlst 31108 331 Cs

TALLOW.

Our market is very dull, and prices are still drooping,
ps.C. on the spot has changed hands to-day at 64s 3d to
64s 6d per cwt. Town lallow is 61s 6d net cash. Rough
fat, 3s 50 per 8 lbs.

LB5O.

1851. 1851.

1853.

Stock this day •• • i '.,t0326835,71:10(15a.
3---000143 430,5006;,29
3-----06-40s2.08004:13t0
t----04270580,98060414
Price of Y. C. •• • •
uDeitltoivefryannlasjtanweeelk. • • ,
87110271
37,08;78
,71:30709
801,,,:53175
11
Arrivals last week.. 394 1,138
It ttofrom Janet.... 90,551 98,101 104,10912 G 3l
Price of Town .. •• .. 33s Od 39s 6d 38s Od 488 6d

ISM.

33,894
t,',ss 3d to
64a 6d

943
88,957
1,003
99,536
64s 9d

RETURN OF WIVES AND CHILDREN OF SOLDIERS.
Yesterday, an important return to Parliament was
l; and , the
returns are
made, "as far as can be ascertained." There are no
printed, showing the number-of married women belong.
ing to each of the regiments belonging to the East, the
number residing in barracks, and the number of soldiers'
children. The number of women " legally married,"
is returned at 3,262. The number residing with their
numberhusbands o f i n
soldiers' barracks
i s
children,retur
data by which the number of women married without
leave can be separated from those married with leave ;
but it may be assumed as a general rule, although by nn
means accurate, that the women residing in barracks
are all that are married with leave. .In the list are six
472d22. at
Thel,7 1
regiments under orders for special service, not in the
East, and of that number 628 women are legally mar-
ried, 206 residing with their husbands, and the number
of children 747. Therefore there are 2,638 women
legally married belonging to the regiments ordered to
the East, 1,50 d resided with their husbands in barracks,
and 8,475 the number childro,

FOREIGN.
10 9 Antwerp&Rotterdam 34d xn
5 3 Belgian Eastn. Junc. 1
20 8 Beziers to Graissessac 5 4d
20 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India,Scrip id 1 p
••• . . Central of Italy
20 all Charleroi& Erquelin —
174 all Demerara
20 14 Dijon and Besancon — p
20 8 Dutch Rhenish 4l
20 all East Indian 1 2/z
20 2 Do. Extension 1 a
5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula p
20 10 Gd. Junet. of France
25 10 Grd. Trunk of Canada ~.d
100 30 Do. Debentures lO 5 d
100 all Do. do - •
20 10 Gt. Central of France 41 - 3 d
204 all Gt.WesternofCanada
Shares 214 22
. . . . Do. Bands (Ist is.)'s7 9 11
204 1.54 Hamilton & Toronto —14 p
100 all Do. 6 per cent.
20 5 Lake Const. & Basle
5 all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c
prof dis
20 15 Luxembourg •'4l 5
10 10 Do. (Railway) 2l
5 2 Do. Prof — 1 •
5 3 Do. (Canal) — It
10 5 Do. 6p. ct. prof l/
20 8 Lyons and Geneva 34 —21 d
20 12 Lyons & Moditerran. . •
20 10 Madras ll
334 334 Matta Antonia
10 all Do. do. New
20 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry
• -20 all Namur & Liege (with
interest) 6 - 71
20 all Do. (ex interest) —• ••
16 all Northern of Franoo 291 291
Do. 20L. 3 p.
20 all (fmy.B.& Ain& Shs.) .
10 all NorwegianTrunkYkof .8
xn
20 10 Paris and Lyons. lll Ili))
40 all Ditto Bonds
10 all Paris and Orleans 4l -43xd x-d
20 all Paris and Rouen 32 •34
20 all Paris and Strasbourg 284 - 29
20 10 ParisCaen &Cherbrg.
101 104 Quebec & Richmond ... •••
20 all Rouen and Havre • • x d
20 12 Royal Danish 2 1d
5 2 Royal Swedish — d
20 all Sambre and Mouse 7i 8
6 Do. 54 p. cent. Pref — •• •
20 6 Southern of France ... —Pm
20 8 St. Andrew's and
Quebec (A) •••
84 all West Flanders 3 -- 4
10 all Do 54 per c. Pref ... d
20 10 Western of France. . 14 --24p.xd
10 7 West. of Switzerland ... d
20 2 Wiesbaden
20 , 15 Zealand 6 5 d
MISCELLANEOUS
5 all Aubin Coal and Iron ... •.•
25 174 Australian Agricult. 37 38
20 14 Australsn.Pcific•Mail 15
10 8 4ustraln. Royal Mail ...
10 4 Berlin Water Works ...
50 40 Brit. American Land ...
5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg.
and Reduction Co
100 324 Canada 75 84
5 5 Crystal Palace ..
4 2' Crystal Pal. of France • ...
20 3 Eastern Steam • •••
25 20 ElectritTolograph(A) 16 18
25 all Do. (B) ..• •••
1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir.
15 14 Gen. Steain Navigat.
20 18 General Screw Steam ... ... 13
20 74 Irish Beetroot Sugar ...
20 10 Magdalena St. Navig.
1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel
10 3 Netherlands Land—. 1 3
2 .1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter.
Steam Navigat. Co. ...
1' all N. B. Australasian — 1
1 4 Do. New
20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam —•
5 all Peel Er. Ld. & Mina d
50 all Peninsular& Oriental
50 35 Do. Do. ••• ... .39
2 all Portland Iron Co iP
100 60 Royal Mail. Steam
1 all Scot. Austral. Invest 21 x d
25 25 South Austral. Land 34 136
1 all Submar. Telegraph.. 1
1 all Do. Registered —l
100 280/an Diamen's Load 10 11

LETTERS FOR SARDINIA VIA .11ELGIUM.

GENERAL POST-OFFICE, April.—Letters for Sardinia,
when specially addressed to be forwarded in the Prussian
Closed Mails via Belgium, may in future be 'sent either
unpaid or paid to their destination, at the option of the
'sender.

The combined British and foreign postage chargeable
on such letters will be :-Is. Od. for a letter not exceed-
ing oz. in weight ; 2s. Od. ditto exceeding oz., but
not exceeding 1 oz. ; 4s. Od. ditto exceeding 1 oz., but
not exceeding 2 oz., and, so on, in proportion, accord-
ing to the scale for charging inland letters.
Postmasters will bear in mind that letters for Sardinia
are forwarded, as a rule vid France (and are liable to
the rate of postage laid down in Instruction. No. 13,
1852), unless they are specially addressed to be sent
by any other route. -

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, April 24.—Wind this day at Noon, N. to
N.N.E. ; fresh breeze, and cloudy. at times, with dry, cold
weather. The Mercury has tisen considerably within the
last 48 hours; frdm abbut 29'30 it has gone up to about
30.50, or from nearly Rain to Fair.
COWES, April 22.--,-The Frisk (smack), of and from Jer-
sey for Alderney, with bricks, was abandoned by the crew
and some of the passengers, after being ashore on Alderney
Rocks, and fallen in with yesterday, off St. Albans, with
two men and a woman (passenger) on board, with jib fore-
sail, and mainsail set, and displayingsignals of distress, by
, the Larne, frOm Callao to Leith, which put two men on
board, and who brought her in here to-day.
PORTSMOUTH, April 23. —Wind, N.E. Arrived—
ll.M.'s at Centaur. from Rio Janeiro and sailed next day
for the Baltic ; Jeanne Catherina, Gothenburg, for Gee-
long, with deck tanks leaky ; Eveline, London, for Galli-
poli. Sailed—Albatross (s), Gallipoli; Blundell, do.
FALMOUTH, April 23.—Wind, N.E., strong breezes.
Arrived—Johanna Maria, from Skien •' Sir Isaac Newton,
New York, and sailed for Hamburgh ; Red Rose, Bourges ;
Castor, Venaros ; Princess. Royal, Marseilles, for Lynn ;
Robert, Stettin ; Concha, Marseilles • ' Ocean, Gibraltar.
Sailed—Eden, for St. Malo ; Johanna, Amsterdam ; Elide,
Korsoe.

OFF THE START.—Albion, from Madras ; Gloria Deo,
Messina.
PLYMOUTH, April 23. —Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Blanche,
from Corunna. Sailed—Historia, for Port Philip ; Lady
Elgin, do.; Maria Hay, Geelong; Wilhelmiue, Manilla;
Andes (s s), Gallipoli.
POOLE, April 22.—Wind, N.E. Sailed--Nelson Packet,
for Newfoundland. •
HARWICH, April 23.—The Albertina (brig), of and from
Gottenberg, for Bordeaux, with deals, got on shore on the
Hasborough Sand last night ; seven of the crew saved ;
the master, master's wife and child, first and second mates,
and one seaman, left on board. It blew very hard all last
night from the Eastward, and still , continues • several ves-
sels have put in here for shelter.

HULL, April 23.—Wind N.E, by N. Arrived—Grey-
hound, from St. Michael's ; Elizabeth, Mazagan ; Faders
Minde, Rukiobing ; Uranus, Udsetta.
LIVERPOOL, April 21.—The Frances Watts, from Rio
Janeiro to Now Orleans, was totally lost near the mouth
of the Mississippi, 6th April ; part of cargo (coffee) saved,
partially damaged. •
CLYDE, April 22.—Arrived—Harmonia ,from New
York. Sailed—Sarah Jane, for Philadelphia; Agitator,
Alexandria. •

SCILLY, Feb. 21. Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Rhoda,
from Leghorn; Sibella, Colombo; Samson, St. Domingo,
for Falmouth, with a leak in her bows ; San Jose, Tra-
pani, for Christiansand.

_
LAIIIIVIG, April 19.—The Norwegian squadron is under
orders to put to sea fr9m Horten on the 19th April, to join
the Swedish squadron at Karlscrona.
SHOREHAM, April 22.—The Rambler, from Cork to Lon-
don, which was ashore betwdhn this port and Brighton on
the 20th, has been got off the strand this morning and
brought into the harbour.

MiitiEL, April 18..—A pilot, who has been ,on board
H.M.S. Conflict, reports that there have been eleven ships
captured, four of wfiich have been sent in here, and seven
despatched to Kioge Bay. Two of them are reported to
be laden with munitions of war.
MEMk,, April 20.—The weather is settled and fine,
wind light, at W. On the 18th April, at 4 p.m., as Com-
mander Foote, of H.M.S. Conflict, was returning to the
vessel in a boat with the surgeon and five men, in crossing
the bar the boat was swamped ; the surgeon and one man
were saved. Commander Foote and four men drowned.
The Mary Ann Cook, from Swinemunde, which was on
shore, 7th April, about five miles south of the harbour,
could not be got off, and has since been condemned.
The Cowslip, from Swinemunde, which was on shore on
the South Mole, opposite the lighthouse, April 7, •has been
condemned. The Masters and crews of the above vessels
have been transferred to the prizes about to leave for Hull.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.45 a.m.
Arrived;--Somnanth, from Bombay; Ponachan, Mobile;
William Rathbone, New York; 'Lindisfarn, Gothenburg ;
Nordcap, Copenhagen ; Plenty. and Culloden Castle, New
York.

Off the Port—Danube, screw steamer.
PLYMOUTH, Monday, 10 a.m.
The hired screw steam transport Victoria, Captain Ley,
No. 72, which left Greenhithe at 5 o'clock on Sunday
morning, with the 19th Regiment, was off Plymouth, all
well, at five o'clock this morning, proceeding, under steam
and canvas, at the rate of 12 knots an hour, for Malta and
Gallipoli. Off Shoreham she saw a paddle-wheel man-of-
war, of about 750 tons, steaming to the eastward.
The Victoria has seen nothing pf the Frencn fleet.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.22 a.m.
Wind N.E.; tide half flood; blowing strong.
Arrived, April 23.—Moselle (steamer), from Hamburg ;
Tunis, Gothenburg ; Neptunus, Amsterdam ; Falcon,
Stralsund; Christiana, Longsound ; Tre Lover, Copen-
hagen ; Skeohd, Landscrona ; Mary Ogle, Ranclers ;
Adolphe Karsture, Woolgast ; Peter Lauritz, Danzig ;
Helena, Uddewalla; Carl, Stettin ; Zeldenruish,
Stral-
sund.

24th—Ravensbourne (steamer), from Antwerp; Candi-
date (steamer), Hamburg.
Sailed—Ryswyk, for Melbourne.

• DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m.
Wind, N.E., blowing strong.
The Anemone lies in the same state as reported last
night; several more of the ship's stores have been landed.
The wind is still blowing' strong from the N.E.„, with a
very heavy sea upon the beach.

PIE COAST. DEFENCES IN. SUSSEX.--Greit- prepara-
tions are being made to place the coast 'defences in. the
most satisfactory condition, and two batteries are now
in course of erection at the mouth of Littlehampton
Harbour, near. Arundel. The works are rapidly pro-
gressing, and it is expected by Mr. Lobb, who is super-
intending- their construction, that they will.be com-
pleted by the latter 'end of June,
_or_the commencement
of July next. EaCh battery is being constructed to
.mount five guns each gun being capable of discharging
a 42-pounder. It is also proposed to erect a spacious
barracks near these batteries, for the accommodation of
a troop of 50 marines, exclusive of officers, for manning
the guns of the batteries.,
•
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.--It is stated, 171 a puha-
mentary paper ordered at the instance of Mr. Brady, that
there were in England and Wales, according to the census
tables of 1851. 1,771 physicians, 13,470 surgeons or apo-
thecaries, 14,039 druggists, 4 aurists, 14 oculists, and
1,041 dentists. In Scotland there were 511 physicians,
1,576 surgeons or-apothecaries, 1,194 druggists, and 113
dentists. In the Isle of Man and Channel islands there
weicalso 46 Physicians; 116 surgeons and apothecaries,
5eti5a,n51,5,2i23528; ;dseuartgisetos,nsl,lo6r
7at
aotuhjectoari, e4s,;
92 druggists, and 13 ,dentists. The totals are conse-
qls7li6t2l
uhgYgsii
and oculists, 14.