The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

COUNTRY IitARICETS.

CHELMSFORD—Juur 1.
Prices to-day were as follow :—"Wheat, white, old 40s Od
to 48s Od, new 38s to 56s ; red, old 37s to 495, new 32s to
47s ; barley, 25s to 27s ; chevalier, 31s to 37s ; grinding,
21s to 27s ; malt, 558 to 56s ; chevalier, 55s to 58s ; oats,
19s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 32s to 37s ; white, 33s to 35s ;
boiling 39s to 42; ; dun, new, 31s to 35s ; beans, tick, 342
to 36s ; Harrow ticks, 328 to 38s ; Mazagan, 31s
to 345.

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COLCHESTER —JULY 2.
Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 50s to 58s ;
red, 44s to 50s ; barley, 28s to 33s ; oats, 18s to 24s ; beans,
Maite, zagan, 3to 3s to 34s ; middle and small, 37s to 40s ; peas,
wh 40 s 42s ; grey, 36s to 38s.

Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn
in the port of London, from the follovii
the 27th June to the 2d July, both inclusi

, received
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COAL MARK
Prices of Coal per ton at ti

ET—JuLy 4.
M close of the market :—.

s. (1.
Buruhope l4 0
Carr's Hartley l6 6
Dean's Primrose l4 6
Hasting's Hartley 13 0
Holywell .. .. * H. -..•- 16 6
Howard's Wesiartley
Netherton 16 0
Longridge's Wst Hartleyl6 6
North Percy Hartley l6 0
Ravensworth W. Hartleyl6 0
Tanfield Moor l5 0
Tanfield Moor Butes l5 6
Walker Primrose l4 3
West Hartley 15 6
Wylam l5 6
Wallsend, &c.
Acorn Close l5 9
Gosforth 15 6
Harton l5 6
Heaton l5 6
Riddell l5 6
Ravensworth Pelaw 15 0
Stewart's Hartley 15 0
Framwellgate l5 9
Eden Main 16 3
Ships at market 15

s d.
Lambton Primrose 17. 0
Bell 16 3
Belmont 16 3
Hetton l7 0
Haswell 17 3
Lambton l7 0
Lumley 15 6
Pensher ... ..... . .
. . l5 6
Russell's liettou l6 6
Richmund
................. 15 9
Ste wart's l7 0
Russell's Hetton small 13 0
Cassop
..................... ,16 3
Heugh Hall . l6 0
Kelloe ...... . l6 3
South Kelloe 16 0
Boathouse 15 6
Tees
Adelaide Tees l6 3
Baekhouse l5 6
St. Helen's Tees l4 9
Close
Grey's West Hartley l6 0
Llangennech 15 0

;8 1 Sold ll3

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL, JULY 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been dull
and declining all day, and closed heavily at a fall of 1
per
cent. on all the leading stocks. Lancashire and Yorkshire
764 ; London and North-Western, 114, 14 ; Midland, 7 South-Eastern and Dover, 20j. 01;

MANCHESTER, JULY 4.
The business to-day was good, but prices were lower and
closed weakly. The sales were :—Leeds, 764, 3,4, $ ;
Dovers, 21, 20 15-16, i ; York and North Midland, 291 ;
London Stock, 1143, 4 ; Midland, A, i ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 12k, 4 ; Sheffield, 29k, i, i ; East Lancashire, 174.

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— Business was at a low ebb to-day,
as might naturally be expected under the continued sus-
pense respecting eastern affairs, but prices were not worse.
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley closed at
10i to 101; Shrewsbury Stock, buyers, at 60.

BRISTOL, JULY 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market throughout to-clay was
wh ic
very fiat
were the only sales effected being in Caledonians,
hdoat

COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY OF THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.
—The revenue of the Liverpool Dock estate for the year
amounting ened is larger than that of any previous year,
18513 d. in; acnd of 53,092/. 4s. 7d.
as it does to 296,081/. 19s. 4d.—exhibiting
mparison with 1852 ;
aoo vfn e 2 increase7loB6ll; o4fsn'l3lied7r.3e ?fe. overrl9b sac k t o the year
apes 185
find the revenue to have increased since that
period 108,795/. 17s. 3d. per annum. The decrease in
tonnage is principally in coaster; which pay very trifling
whilst there is an increase inl arge ships, which pay much
in
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more. The tonnage in Liverpool in 1852 was 3,912,502,
3a
ships decrease ;899,981, in 20,490 ships ;
12,525 in the amount of tonnage, during the past year.
in 3, the number of vessels, and
WEATHER RULES.—" The change of the moon," the
expression in general use in predictions of the weather,
is idly and inconsideratelyused by educated people, with-
isnho2wLin4g7
out considering that in every phase that planet is the
same to us, as a material agent, except as regards the
power of reflected light ; and no one supposes that moon-
light produces wet or dry. Why then should that point
in the moon's course, which we all agree to call " the new"
influence on our weather ? Twice in each revolution, when
atmospheric spring-tide may be supposed to exist.
when it begins to emerge fron? the sun's rays, have any
in conjunction with the sun at. new, and in opposition at the
exert some sort of influence,
atmospheric tide at all is denied by some naturalists,
any
• at most very problematical ; and the absence of
afuuldl ,
to
0n
and is
egular diurnal fluctuations of the barometric pressure
favourst
were so, atin the negave of.this proposition. But, granting
that id that the moon, in what is conven-
tionally called the beginning
the of its course, and again in
middle, at the full, did produce changes in the
weather, surely the most sanguine of rational lunarians
would discard the idea of one moon ,differing from
another, except in relation to the season of the year ; or
that a new moon on the Sabbath day, whether Jewish
or Christian, bad any special quality not shared by the
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new moons of any other days of the week.—Notes and
Queries.