The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-21 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAP. )

CORN EXCHANGE.
The leading country markets held on Saturday were bu t
moderately supplied with wheat, in which only a limited
business was transacted, on somewhat easier terms. Fin.
barley realised full currencies ; but other kinds were a
slow sale. The value of malt was well supported. In all
Aber kinds of gram, including flour, very little wasdoing. Most of -the continental markets have been in
a very inactive state. In prices, however, no material
change has taken place. The latest accounts from the United
States are to the effect that flour was in fair request, at
full currencies.

Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English
;rain were very moderate. From abroad we received
10,936 quarters of wheat, 2,410 barley, 3,864 oats, 2,495
,)eans, 1,256 tares, 10,294 linseed, 3,499 rapeseed, 427 sun-
dry seeds, 9,202 sacks and 17,060 barrels of flour.
Fresh up to-day from Essex and Kent the arrivals of
wheat were on a very moderate scale, and in but middling
condition. From the east coast the supply was limited,
but we had a fair sprinkling of red qualities from the mid-
land counties per railway. Notwithstanding that the show
of samples was by no means extensive, the demands for all
kinds, owing to the comparatively small number of buyers
in attendance, and the continuous imports of foreign flour,
was in a very inactive state. In the general quotations,
however, no change took place, although damp parcels
,vere in some instances offering on easier terms, to save de-
murrage. •
For forward delivery very few transactions took place.
some of the growers were less firm, in their demands.
With foreign wheat, we were tolerably well, but not to
say heavily supplied. Good heavy qualities sold slowly,
it last week's currency. In all other kinds, very little was

doing, at barely late rates.
Since our last, a larger business has been doing in float-
ing cargoes off Falmouth, although the arrivals have been
large.
The show of both English and foreign barley was very
moderate. Selected malting parcels changed hands at pre-
vious rates. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off slowly
on former terms.

_
Rather a large quantity of malt was brought forward ;
yet a steady business was transacted in most kinds, at full
prices.
There was a moderate sale for good fresh oats, at full
currencies. In other kinds, comparatively little was doing.
Very few English beans were brought forward, but the
supply of foreign was good. The trade was in a sluggish
state, on former terms.
TEAS—The supply of which was limited—sold slowly, at
late figures.
The demand for all kinds of flour was heavy, and qua
tations were barely supported.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.

?neat—Essex lz Kent,
Red .... new 42sto 48s
Ditto•• • ........ old 505 545
oitto, White new 44s 541
Ditt0........ old 495 GOs
Norfolk and Lin-
co,n, Red, old 475 53s
Ditto rew •..... 57s 478
stye—Old •••• ........ 29s 12s
New ............ 29. 32s
itrley—Grinding..... 285 30s
Malting ..• •....• 3ls 34r
Chevalier.. .• $55 s9s
441t—SaffolkandNor-
follc•...•• 545 hEs
irow-n ..• •• .• 465 525
KingstonandWare 575 60s

Malt—Chevalier •. • • 61s to 63g
'Oats Yorkshire and

Lincolnak., Feed 161 221
Po.ato mg 241
Youghal and Cork
Black.

Cork. White ... .. 16s 955
Scotch, Feed. •• .. 215 255
Beans—Tick ......... 341 331

Pigeons •• •• 443
Peas—Grey ;Is 35,
Maple. •• •. 33s 36s
White........... 36 401

Boilers ....... • • 38s 421
Flour—Towa-mßde..• 4I s 461
Suffolk •• • • ...... 32s 3#S
Stoektis & Norio'k 32s $l,

SMITHFIELD.

During the last week, the impoi is of foreign stock
into the London were seasonably good—the total arrivals
amounting to 2,488 head. During the same period 112
1852 they amounted to 1,726 ; in 1831, 2,124 ; in 1850,
1,920; in 1849, 1,944; and in 1848, 898 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER.
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
22,1 ... ...

From
05tend...........

Harlingen.— ... 436

33 ...

Artwerp.... ... 104 ...
Rotterdam .179 ... 1,216 ...

15 ... --
241 ... --

Total .... 615 ... 1,577 ... ... 296 •••
Th. yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs•
1852 337 ... 1,205 ... 184 ...
1851 466 ... 1,395 ... ... 219 ... 4
1850 579 ... 966 ... 193
1849 351 ... 1,433 ... ... 160 ...
1848 424 ... 313 ... ... 131 ...

To-day's market was but moderately supplied with
foreign stock, the general quality of which was inferior.
There was a decided falling off in the arrivals of home-fed
beasts fresh up this morning, and their was no improve"
ment in their weight. The attendance of both town se
country butchers being large, the beef trade ruled brisk,
at an advance in the quotations realised on Monday last of
quite 2d per 81bs, and a good clearance was effected with-
out difficulty. The primest Scots sold readily at 48 2d
per 81bs.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we
received 1,400 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of
England, 600 Herefords, runts, Devons, short horns, Sc.;
and from Scotland, 640 horned and polled Scots. The re"
mainder of the supply was derived from abroad, and the
neighbourhood of the metropolis.
We were again very scantily supplied with all breeds of
sheep • hence the sale for that description of stock was
very firm, at a further rise in the currencies of quite 2;
per Sibs. The primest old Downs, in the wool, realiseu
5s 4d, in some instances 5s 6d. per 81bs; out of the wool,
4s 4d per 81bs, at which the whole changed hands. M
least one-fourth of the sheep were shorn, but dealers
generally gave the preference to those in the wool, owing
to the unusually high price of skins.
The few Dorset lambs in the market sold at from 5s 44
to 6s per Blbs.
caltvheesnsvolidse,the vealsteadily, trade attadeswligahs tinadaysalnucgegii;
theP rqi imme
t ati o small
ns; otherwise,
state.

Pigs, the supply of which was moderate, sold at fall
quotations.

Per 81bs to si

ink the offal&

s. d. s. d.
Inferior Beasts ...3 0 to 3 2
Second quality ...3 4 3 6
Primo large oxen 3 8 3 10
Prime Scots, &c. 4 0 4 2
Inferior sheep ...4 0 4 2
Second quality ...4 4 4 8
Prime crse.-wlled.4 10 5 0

1. d. N. d.
Prime Southdown 5 2 5 4
Large crse. calves 3 4 4
Prime small do 4 4 4 8
Large hogs 2lO 3 2
Small porkers 3 6 4 0
Suckling calves 21 0 25 0
Quarter old pigs 19 0 24 0

TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts

4,946

FOREIGN EILTPFLT
704
Beasts 950
Sheep
Calves
--
Pigs

Sheep
Calves
Pigs

.17,030 I
.. 192 1
~. 220 1

A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on
Monday, March 22, 1852, and this day, Monday, March 21,
1853.

2er_Blbs, to sink the offals.
March 22, 1852. Mar. 21,1853
a. d.- s. d. s. d.
Coarso and inferior beasts ... 24t0263 0 to 3 3 6
Second quality ditto ... 2 S 3 0 3 4
Prime large oxen ... 3 2 3 4 3 8 SIP
Prime Scots, die ... 3 6 3 8 0 4
Coarse and inferior sheep ... 2 8 210 4 0 4
Second quality ditto . 3 0 3 6 4 4 4
Prime coarse woolled dito 3 8 3104 10 5
Prime Southdown ditto ... 4 0 4 4,5 2 5 2
Large coarse calves ... 3 4 310 3 4 4 8
e small ditto ... 4 0 4 6 4 4 4 s
Large hogs ... 2 6 3 62 10 3 ‘,
Neat small porkers... 3 8 310 3 6 4 v
3,859 4,91
... 23,070 17,03"
Ca'ves... 155 190
Pigs
„, 380 230
SurrLiEs ON SALE, March 24, 1851.—Beasts, 3,
18,270; calves, 119; pigs, 310.
March 25, 1850.—Beasts, 3,395; sheep, 22,050
pigs, 184

,692 ; sheOP,

calTes, 108%

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of country-killed meat continue good--
those slaughtered in the metropolis but moderate. On Pt)
whole, a full average business is doing, on the following
terms :

11.1 1E FRENCH EMPIRE.

4_ -V
Te find the following in the Union on the in-
"v•rc'sting and always popular subject of liberty :
" What is the use of disputing about liberty ? Liberty
r :ehti -ye speak of civil or political liberty—is something
ve, and cannot be either judged or defines without
taking into consideration the habits and wants of each
Pe. ople and each period. How, therefore, can the liberty
.ef one period be compared to the ifoerty of another ?
Liberty is not an abstraction, is 'not an absolute idea,
and is not subordinate to inflexfOle conditions or forms.
was France in 1789 free ? Certainly not, if liberty is
What was seen in 1791. or 1793, and afterwards in 1797,
and again in 1801, or in 1804, or in 1851, or, if one likes
It better, in 1848, or, in fine, in 1851. Still more, has
''ranee ever been free ? No, if her liberty be compared'
to, that of all other States, from Greece to the United
States. But ask the same question of any people what-
ever, and you will inevitably have the same reply. The
liberty of Sparta was not that of Athens ; far from it !
The liberty of the Cretans had nothing in common
With that of the Sicilians or Carthagenians. And what
Was the liberty of Rome ? A dominating Senate, patri-
cians masters of the people, a perpetuity of empire
under the name of customs of their ancestors, and
then 30,000 or 40,000 citizens with 300,000 slaves.
that the veritable and unchangeable type of
1 rt 'be ? For a century, English liberty has been made
the universal model of all constitutions to be establishes'.
what is that liberty ? Could we support the most feeble
bur cation of it ? The Charter of 1814 was at most a
Ps Indy of it. English liberty is a classification of society
with a landed aristocracy at the top armed with political
privileges. Just attempt to propose something similar
to that in France, broken up as it is into little morsels
Tr land, to that scattered democracy, ricketty but
haughty, extenuated but sovereign. It would break
'everything to pieces rather than subject itself to a pri-
'ileged class of that kind. How chimerical, therefore,
18 it to attempt to render liberty subordinate to certain
tYPleal and preconceived forms, according to which per-
sons would deem themselves entitled to affirm that one
People is free, and that another is not ! At most it can
be declared that there are institutions in themselves
More in conformity with the natural right of defence
or of protection in a political society ; but in that
nothing
e" absolute, The institutions of the middle
age were 'not without connection with that right of
kinds. defence,
but they were themselves of very different
The communal constitution of France was
tot thre as that in Italy, or in Flanders, or in
Spain ; and yet it was everywhere the real basis of
liberty. To speak only of France, it is an historical
truth that .her liberty followed infinite variations with-
out any one being able to affirm that it ceased to exist.
The establishments of St. Louis were establishments of
liberty, and the ordonnances of Louis XIV., even in
their despotic form, were a new modification of enfran-
Thisement. To deny this would be to fall into the
;gnorance and silliness of liberalism ; parties, since 1825,
have had time to learn a little history. Does it follow
that the new times ought to bring back the old forms of
his
? To all appearance no one has any such idea in
'us mind. It is sufficient to know that each period, in
Spite of constraints or resistances, produces its liberty
With its most natural forms. And it is of no use abus-
;lig the old Weerty, for no oiie can say if the new will be
ti.etter. Posterity alone has a right to decide the point.
Let us tlw.n leave aside 'B9, and let us not be proud !
v e would not certainly support what then remained of
feudal right ; let us not boast to have supported the
sZunt of revolutionary impost levied on us. Each
has its acts of servitude even in liberty, and the
i;r6 gztablished society is that which in submission is
wa.7B the most certain or its dignity."
L"rd Stratford de Redcliffe, English Ambas-
884c)r at Constantinople, who has been passing
8 colsb-le days at Paris, has left for Vienna, on his way
t
his post. From Vienna he will proceed to
-leste, where a steam-frigate is waiting to receive
• M. de Bourquency, and M. Delacour, French
Ambassadors at Vienna and Constantinople, have
also left for their respective destinations.
trThe Moniteur contains the official promulgation
'the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded
?etween France and Fuscany, and which will come
1.4 to operation on the 10th of April next.
A commission has just been appointed to exa-
-441.31.p e whether the special exercises of the Chasseurs
11. i Vincennes cannot be applied to the French in-
fantry in general.
The Senate met yesterday for the reception of
t 46 senators nominated by the decrees of the 9th
February and the 4th and Bth of March. They
took the oaths, and the Senate then occupied itself
'ith the 23 bills adopted by the Legislative Body.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer says—" The
Works on the Bordeaux Railway, near Angouleme
and Poitiers, are urged on at present with great
_,.itetivity. Hopes are entertained that the whole
..,..'lstance from Paris to Bordeaux may be run over
rvards • July 15, and that the Emperor and the
t,'":spress will inaugurate the section from Poitiers
Which is
on their journey to Eaux-Bonnes,
kyttich is to take place about that period. The
rrleans Company will open the section from Nevers
Moulins
Mo r in the first fortnight of May, and that
A.
""ta Moulins to Varennes-sur-Allier in about six
leeks after, which will carry the railway close to
vichy.",
The Monitcur publishes a decree by which ores
of all kinds except sulphur are exempt from duty
when imported by French vessels, and subject to
the payment of lfr. per 100 kilos. by foreign ves-
iels. Liquorice root, imported by French vessels,
le_also exempt from duty, and charged 2fr. per 100
kilos. by foreign vessels or by land.
The cold on Saturday was severe. The thermo-
meter of M. Chevalier stood, at six o'clock in the
rooming, at 4 deg. 9-10ths centigrade (24
Fahren-
tlit), and at noon at 1 deg. 4-10th s centigrade (29f
ahrenheit) below the freezin. g point.
M. Michel de Bourges, one of the leaders of
two
troa-Republican party, died at Montpellier w
Ye ago.
Yesterday the Emperor gave private audiences to
Monseigneur Garribaldi, the Popes
.Nuncio, and
+.7M. de Hubner, the Austrian
ry presented the answers to the notification
peror's marriage.Plisteri of the
The Debats declares that the English fleet was
sent for by Colonel-Rose spontaneously, and not at
the request of the Porte.
Madame do Montijo left Paris for Madrid.
A leading Nantes journal, the Union Bretanne,
States that it is 'the resolve of the Pope to Tim-
-11?-ence his journey to France early in May, where
410 intends remaining for about two months.
The Emperor has ordered an opera to be pre-
pared in honour of his approaching coronation,
to be called The Coronation of Charles the Seventh.
The conflicting reports which have agitated the
Bourse for the last few days, have not tended to
wise
the drooping prices of our late quotations.
411 e, Three per Cents. have experienced a decline
,of 50c. for cash, and 95c. for the account ; the
-;,,suur-and-a-Half per Cents. (cash), sc. lower, and
tie. ditto for the account. The depreciation of
flank Stock amounts to 25f. The following are the
test 'quotations :—Three per Cents. (cash), 79f.
t'Oc. ; ditto, for the account, 79f. 40c. ; Four-an
a half per Cents. (cash), 103 f. 25c. ; ditto, for the
account, fo3f. ; Bank Stock, 2,700.
At the Casino yesterday the French Three per
Cents. were at first constantly offered, and declined
t° 76f. 70c. Afterwards, some purchases having
been
made a reaction took place, and the last price
Was 77f. 80e.