The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-21 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY ARKETS.

NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 19.—Since this
day se'nnight the arrivals of fat cattle from Edinburgh and the
counties on the north-east coast of Scotland, into this town by
rail and sea, have been about 250 head. Also a good season-
able supply from the border counties, both of which are of a
very superior quality ; and a large supply of sheep and lambs
for the time of year. The former is fully an average in point
of quality, while the latter is only very indifferent. The supply
of beef will comprise about 560 head of beasts, there being a
good attendance of both local and distant buyers, together with
the cool state of the weather, all breeds are in active request,
and a clearance will be effected. The supply of sheep and
lambs is 6,000. The mutton trade is tolerably active at former
rates, 3et a considerable quantity remains on hand, while lambs
are excessively heavy, at a decline from id to Id per lb from
last week. Prices—Beasts, prime Scots, 6s 3d to 6s 51 ;
middling, 6s; good steers, 6s; middling 5s 6d to 5s 9d ;
inferior beasts, 5s per stone of 141 tis Sheep, 5d to sid;
lambs, 6d to bid per lb sinking the offal.
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JUNE 19.—There were
in the market to-day 74 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs
imperial, whereof 63 sold thus: —0 at 11 lOs Od, 25 at 119 s 6d,
21 at 11 9s Od, 6 at It 8s 6d, 11 at 11 Es Od, oat 1/ 7s 0(1.
Average price of the whole, 118 s lld 8-I2ths. 8 sacks flour,
whereof 2 acid at 31s, 0 at 30s, 3 at 295, and 3at 28s. 6 sacks
barleymeal, none sold. 1 sack pea..‘emeal, which was not sold.
24 sacks pot barley, whereof 15 sold thus: —I at IlBs Od, 2 at
It 5s Od, latl/ 4s 6d, 3atl/ 3s Od, Batlc is Od. 1 sack
brosemral, which sold at 275.
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JUNE 19.
Supplies of ail kinds moderate. Oat straw, from 6s Od to
7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 5s 6d to
7s Od ; barley ditto, 5s Od to 7s ed. Hay from 7d to 9d per
stone.

BELFAST, Julia 18.—The supplies of grain and oatmeal
at this day's market are moderate, and prices remain
unchanged. Indian corn is in good request, at prices nomi,
rally as on Friday. Wheat, 9s Od to lOs 6d ; oats, 6s 90
to 7s 6d ; oatmeal, 12s Od to 12s 10d ; yellow corn,
81 Od to 81 15s Od ; white, 81 12s 6d to 81 15s Od.
Oatmeal is also a small supply, and yet prices are 3d lower.
turn lower, and a dull sale at 7d to 7,-(1 per lb. Indian
corn a slow sale to-day, at a small abatement in value.
Potatoes, per stone, 19d to Is; ditto, per cwt, 5s 4d to 6s Od.
Fruit—Apples, per dozen, 6d to 9d; pears, per ditto, Od to Od;
grapes, per lb., 8d to 10d; lemons, per dozen, Os 9d to Os 10d;
nuts, per quart, 6d to 8d; wall-nuts, per hundred, Is to is 3d;
chest nuts, per ditto, Is Od to Os ; cocoa nuts, 6d to 8d each;
American apples, 10d to ls Od per dozen ; mixed pickles, 10d to
Is. Butchers' Meat— beef, per lb, 4d to 7d ; mutton, 5d to 7d;
veal, 6d to 7d ; lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od per quarter.
Fish—Trout, Os 6d per lb ; brett, 3s Od to 4s Od;
soles, Is to 2s Od per pair. Poultry—Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s a-
pair ; chickens, is 6d to 2s per pair; ducks, Os to 2s 6d per
pair ; turkeys, 03 to Os each ; geese, Os Od to Os Od ; egg's
per doz, 5d to 6d. Hay, is 2d to 2s Od; straw, oat, 9d to is 2d ;
ditto, wheat, 8d to is Od per cwt.
BANBRIDGE, JUNE 18.—Oatmeal, from 12s Od to 12s 64
per cwt ; Indian meal, 9s 6d to 9s 9d per (cwt ; flour, first, per
1121bs, 15s 6d ; second, 14s Od ; third, 12s Od ; fourth, 95 6d;
bran, 6s Od ; wheatmeal, 12s 6d to 14s Od ; wheat, from Os Od
to Its Od per ewe of 1121bs ; oats, from 7s 4d to 73 641
per cwt of 1121bs; barley, 7s 6d to 8s Od per cwt;
best butter, firkin, at the scale, 6;14 per lb ; roll, Od
to 6id per lb ; beef, 3d to bd ; mutton, 4d to 6d; potatoes,
for seed, Os Od to Os Od per cwt ; for table, from 6s Od to
Os Od per cwt ; hens, 10d to is Od each ; chickens, I°d
to Is 2d per pair ; ducks, Is 10d to 2s 4d ; turkeys, 2s 6d to
3s Od each ; geese, 2s 4d to 2s 9d ; eggs, hen, 5d to Od per
dozen ; duck, Od to 6d per dozen ; turkey, 10d to Os per dozwentt
goose, 030 d to is 6d ; hay, upland, from is 8d to 25 Pe
ditto, lowland, from Os Od to Is 4d; straw, from Od-tor
dlcOad;..
turnips, Od to is 8d ; pork, male at market this
lamb, from Od to 7d per lb. Weight of bread at Hamiltyern:
Moore's bakery, 4lbs for sd. Old grain whiskey, at l‘l
Robert Belt's, 6s 3d per gallon, duty paid.
BALLYMENA, JUNE IC—Oats, 7s Od to 8s Od; oatmeal,
123 Od to 12s 9cl per cwt ; butter, 7d ; beef, 3d to 6d per lb ;
mutton, 3d to 6d ; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 175 Od;
third, 15s Od inferior third, 13s Od ; fourth, 10s Od ' • bran,
Os Od to 6s 8d; Indian meal, white, per cwt, 9s 6d to lOs ;
yellow, 9s 6d to 10s Od; potatoes, 3s Od to 6s Od per cwt; hay,
is 3d to 2s Od per cwt; American flour, 30s ptr barrel; tallow,
4s Od to 5s 4d per stone; flax, 4s to 63 6d ; straw, 8d to lld ;
hides, 2s 6d to 6s Pd each ; pork, 35s Od to 41s Od per nvit;
turnips, 8d to is per ditto; carrots, Os to is per ditto ; beans,
5s 9d to 6s 6d; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d.

COAL MARKS'
Ord's Redheugh
'Canfield Moor 12s Ed
Wylain
Wall's End, &c
Gosforth
Eden Main
Bell
Hetton
Morrison l4s 9.
llartlepool l7s Od
Heugh llail
15s 9d

ESTERPAY.
South Hartlepool lss 3d
Adelaide Tees lss 9d
'Cowndon Tees 143 9d
Richardson's Tees 14s Od
Seymour Tees
south Durham l4s 9cl
Tees
DerwentwaterHartley 14s 3d
Nixon's Merthyr 20s Od
Ditto, C, rdiff
Ships at market, 28.

MILTON A TRUE HERO.—Nincl Milt on approaches
nearly to my conception of a true hero. What a picture
have wo of that sublime old man, as—sick, poor, blind,
and abandoned of his friends—he still held fast his heroic
integrity ; rebuking with his unbending republicanism the
treachery. cowardice, and servility of his old associates I
Ho had outlived the hopes and beatific visions of bis
youth ; he had seen the loud mouthed advocates
of liberty throwing down a nation's freedom at the foot
of the shameless, debauched, and perjured Charles the,
Second—crouching to the harlot-thronged court of the
tyr,nt, and forswearing at once their religion and
their republicanism. The executioner's axe bad been.
busy among his friends. Vane and Hampden slept tea
their bloody graves, Cromwell's ashes had been draggel
from their restiag-place ; for, even in death, tbk
effeminate monarch hated and feared the conqueror CE
Naseby and Marston-moor. He was left alone in age,
and penury, and blindness, oppressed with the knowledge-
that all which his free soul abhorred had returned upon.
his beloved country. Yet the spirit of the stern old re-
publican remained to the last unbroken, realising the:
truth of the language of his own Samson 11 gonistes :
" Patieuce is the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude,
Making them each their own deliverer,

Aud victor over all
That tyranny or fortune can idEct."
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places, and the curses of wantons and the jests of buf-
foons regulated the measures of a Government which.
had just ability enough to deceive, just religion enough.
to persecute. But while Milton mourned over this'
disastrous change, no self-reproach mingled with his,
sorrow. To the Jest he had striven against the op-
pressor, and when confined to his narrow alley, a pri-
soner in his own mean dwelling, like another Prome-
theus on his rock, he still turned upon him an eye Or
unsubdu; d defiance.—People's Journal.
RUTLAND TESTIMONIAL.—A meeting was held at
Leicester, on Saturday, for the purpose ot agreeing t° aa
address to be presented to the Duke of Rutland, on.
attaining the fiftieth year of his lieutenancy of Leices-
tershire; and for the purpose of deciding on the appro-
priation of upwards of 1,4001., which had been subscribed
for a " Rutland Testimonial." A congratulatory ad-
dress having been agreed to, it was further resolved—,
" That a bronze statue of the Duke of Rutland,ones!
granite pedestal, be erected in the market-place, iieie
ter, provided a site can bo procured for the same."
It happens in conversation as in different gamee.
One person seems to excel, till another dot a better, and
we then think no more of the first.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.