The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-29 00:00:00

WLYS

MARKETS.

LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUEESDAY.—TaIIow quiet, at
455. 3d. spot, 455. to 455. 3d. June ; 465. 3d., buyers, October-
December. Linseed oil, £3l ss. to £3l 10s. spot. English
brown rape, £42 15s. to £43 ; July-August, £42 105. to £42 155. ;
September-December, £4l 10s.; refined, £45 ; foreign, £4B.
Cocoanut and olive oils unchanged.
LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, TUESDAY. The sugar
market continues flat, but values are without further change.
Havana No. 121} to 13 have sold at 275. 9d. for the United King-
dom. Refined goods have been inquired after on previous
terms. Coffee has ruled steady at late rates. Stock 20,503
tons, against 19,336 tons last year. Tea has sold quietly, at pre-
vious quotations. Ruin remains firm for all descriptions.

LONDON WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.—At the public sales
of Colonial wool the attendance has continued good. Home
_buyers have operated freely, but the transactions for export
have been limited. Pieces have ruled steady. English wool
has been firm on former terms.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO' MARKETS,
TUESDAY.—The supplies of potatoes have been short. The trade
has been quiet, as follows :—English kidneys, 13s. to 16s.
Jersey ditto, 14s. to 15s. ; rounds, 12s. to 148. ; Cornwall, 15s. to
165.; Scotch, 13s. to 145.; and Lisbons, 12s. to 14s. per cwt.

METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY.
—The market was fairly supplied with hay and clover, for which
the demand was quiet, at a decline of ss. per load in the
latter. For straw the trade was better, at an advance
of 6s. per load. Prime meadow hay, 110 s. to 1205.;
inferior ditto, 85s. to 955. ; prime clover, 130 s. to 140 s. ; in-
ferior ditto, 110 s. to 1205.; prime second-cut clover, 115 s. to
1255. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; and straw, 265. to 365. per
load.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TIIESDAY.—This market was
thinly attended to-day. Wheat was rather irregular in value.
The demand was moderate. Most sales shew a decline of 2d. to
3d. per cental since Friday last. Flour is pressed for sale, at 6d.
to Is. reduction. Beans are very dull, Saidi, 395. 6d, Oats and
oatmeal are nominally unaltered. Indian corn was in fair re-
quest, at full rates ; round yellow, 31s. 6d. Imports—lreland,
etc.: Wheat, 459 quarters ; oats, 411 quarters ; malt, 19 quarters;
beans, 36 quarters ; flour, 153 sacks ; oatmeal, 542 sacks. Foreign:
wheat, 37,747 quarters; oats, 1,120 quarters; beans, 2,604 quarters;
peas, 1,356 quarters ; Indian corn, 22,305 quarters ; flour, 2,238
sacks and 8,398 barrels ; oatmeal, 1,156 sacks.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—This market
opened rather quiet to-day, at yesterday's quotations. Sales will
probably be 8,000 or 10,000 bales.
MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—This market
opened quietly to-day, and there is only a small business doing,
at barely steady rates. There is certainly less eagerness to sell
to-day than on Friday last ; and prices generally shew less irregu-
larity than on that date as producers consider they had already
reduced their prices to the full extent of the fall in the value of
cotton. They now await the course of events before making
further concessions. Meanwhile stocks are not on the
increase, otherwise in so quiet a market, and with
the prospect of an ample supply of cotton, the
pressure to sell would be much greater, as the latest
advices from India and China are still unfavourable. The buying
for these markets is suspended ; for cotton, owing to the large
stock in Liverpool, is in a weak position, and the prospects of
future supply are improved ; there is, therefore, a hope that
yarns and goods may touch a safer, because a lower range of
prices. Other foreign markets are also quiet, whilst the demand
for the home trade continues on a limited scale. It is well for
our market that the stocks are light, with considerable contracts
still in hand ; otherwise a severe decline in price would have
been the result, followed probably by a reaction which would
unsettle the trade and lead to other difficulties. Quotations are
the same as those of Friday.

LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The larger manufac-
turers report that they have received orders to a fair extent for
Meltons and Tweeds ; but scarcely adequate profits can be ob-
tained. Some of these manufacturers have home orders which
will absorb three months' work, but not many are in that happy
case. The small millowners are completed for little more than
journeyman's wages. The trade in woollens suitable for the fall
trade would be better if merchants' stocks were not so heavy.
There have been about thirty buyers fn the town from
the South from Scotland, Canada, and other large centres.
but finding the state of stocks they made only experimental
offers for tweeds. Coatings of medium quality commanded
little attention to-day. Considerable sales are expected for the
end of the week. Victorias, which are a broad twill, with a firm
setting of the threads and reeds, are in force for ladies' dresses,
and mantles in various attractive colours. Other fancy twills
of thicker makes move off less satisfactorily. In the domestic
coal trade there is a marked falling off. Stocking is going on,
and short time at almost every colliery around Leeds. The ship-
ping trade is the best. The iron and steel trades are busy; but
axle-making has received a check till the panic of the Newark
slaughter has subsided.
DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a
poor supply of beef at this market to-day, which sold at from
Bs. to 9s. per stone. There was a large supply of sheep, and a
good business was done. Mutton, 7d. to Bd. per lb.; shearlings,
Id. to 84d. per lb.; lamb, from Bd. to 9d. per lb. Butchers
seemed determined not to give the prices, and the market was
heavy until the latter part of the day, when business became
brisk.
LEEDS CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was only a thin
attendance at this market to-day. The wheat trade has been
very inactive. Millers are acting very cautiously, and to make
sales 2s. per qr. decline from last Tuesday's rates was sub-
mitted to. Barley nominal. Oats and beans were fully as dear.
Average prices for the week ending June 27th :—Wheat, 562 qrs.,
at 525. 6d. ; Oats, 20 qrs., at 275.
HULL CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a fair show
of beasts at this market to-day, but no business doing. Milch
cows rather higher in price. There were no sheep on offer.
There was a good show of pigs, which found few purchasers,
though offered at a slight decline on the prices of last week.
Trade was altogether very slow.
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HULL WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.—At this market to-day
there was a very large show of wool ; but sales were only mode-
rately brisk. Hog fleeces 21s. to 225. ; ewes 16s. to 17s.
GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TIIESDAY.—First report :
The market was firm at the following rates ;-60s. Bd. a month,
60s. sd. cash paid. Closing—sellers. 60s. 4}d.; buyers over.
Shipments from Clyde last week, 10,325 tons, against 12,868 tons
in the corresponding .week last year.
BELFAST LINEN TRADE REPORT TuEsDAY.—The business
accomplished in yarns during the week was of a good steady
character. Common weft linens, twos, being in special request.
Transactions on the home account, however, were.scarcely so ex-
tensive as during the preceding week. Some manufacturers ap-
peared in the market, who operated freely, owing to the con-
tinued unfavourable reports from Holland, France, and Bel-
gium regarding the coming flax crop. Some continental orders
have come to hand. Stocks have again become further reduced.
Spinners are considerably oversold. Prices continue firm, at
advanced rates of last week. For Brown power loom
linens, and light linens for bleaching manufacturers
decline accepting orders unless at advanced rates.
The demand, though of a fair character, is not by any
means active, and stocks have increased. Heavy linens have
again met with a moderate request. Stocks shew a slight in-
crease. Prices are firm. In cloth suitable for the foreign cloth-
ing trade, mBre business has been accomplished, still the orders
on hand are small. There is no change in prices. In cloth for
dyeing and Hollands the demand, though not active, was of a
fair steady character for approved makes. The stocks are not
extensive. Common sets a dull sale. Stocks are the same,
barely kept in check. Prices are steady. Roughs of approved
makes continue in request. Inferior descriptions changed hands
with difficulty. Stocks on the whole have not increased. Prices
are generally well maintained. There have been more inquiries
for linen handkerchiefs, still the business transacted has not
been large. Stocks are not extensive. Prices are barely tested.
There was only a moderate business done in Cambric handker-
chiefs. No change of importance either in stocks or prices.
CORK BUTTER MARKET, TUESDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 112 s. ;
seconds, 109 s. : thirds, 102. ; fourths, 995. ; fifths, 755. ; sixths,
555. 2,300 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts, 116 s. ;
seconds, 113 s. ; thirds, 106. 100 firkins in the market.

REPORT OF THE FRENCH MINISTER OF

AGRICULTURE.

M. Henzi, the French Minister of Agriculture, has
just published a report on the best means of mitigating
tha effects of the drought on the forage crops. The
prefects have been directed to distribute this
document to the agricultural associations, and
to give 'it all the publicity possible. M. Houze,
after remarking that on the deeply ploughed soils
the crops have suffered less than on those superficially
cultivated, advises the sowing of maize for summer
forage. He recommends, too, the cultivation of nettles.
M. Ht.nzd expresses great apprehension that the
drought will continue, and is especially uneasy respecting
the turnips. He recommends that they should be sown
mixed with Tartary buckwheat. Vine-leaves, observes
the minister, make good autumn forage, and in Lower
Languedoc sheep are allowed to brouze in the
vineyards after the vintage. This year he expects
acorns, chestnuts, and beech nuts will be in demand. The
report goes on to enumerate several other resources for
the cattleowner, such as Jerusalem artichokes,
the stalks of several cereals, and the small leafy
branches of several trees, the elm, birch,
poplar, &c. Agriculturists are advised to sow rye
grass, winter oats, colza, and turnips, along with the
autumn rye. In default of straw, the report suggests
ferns, rushes, dead leaves, heath, and dry turf. Coming
to the question of the scarcity of water, M. Henz6 pur-
poses to purify the contents of the ponds and pools by
filtering them through charcoal.

CONSUMPTION IN AUSTRALlA.—TheMelbourneAge
discusses at some length in a recent number the curative
influence of the Australian climate upon diseases of the
lungs or pulmonary consumption. Arguing from statistics
furnished by the colonial hospitals, the writer concludes
that the long sea voyage acts as an invigorating tonic
where the disease is in its earliest stage, and that in such
cases the changes of habits which life in a new country
involves may also be productive of considerable benefit.
But in every case where the malady is established it
is mere cruelty to expose a patient to the certain
discomforts of life on shipboard, and to an early death in
a distant land, if its shores be ever reached. Whether
from " empirical restlessness, a desperate throw for
health, or the desire of getting rid of troublesome
patients," the system of encouraging the emigration of in-
curable as well as curable cases, prevails largely among
English doctors. During the past four years one out of
every sixteen patients entering the Melbourne Hospital
has been consumptive, and the chances of recovery
may be estimated from the fact that 52 per cent. die
there.

THE FENIAN PRISONERS' INQUIRY COMMIS-
sioN.—In the course of the present week it is expected
that the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the
treatment of the treason-felony convicts in English
prisons will commence their sittings. The Commissioners,
of whom the Earl of Devon is chairman, have made the
following provisions for conducting the inquiry :—The
prisoners will be afforded full 'opportunity for making
oral statements before the Commissioners respecting
their treatment. A private room will be provided, in
which the prisoners can make their statements in the
absence of any prison officer, and after a distinct intima-
tion from the Commissioners that the prisoners shall in no
way be prejudiced as to their future treatment by their
statements so made in private. Full opportunity will be
given to the prisoners to make any written statement they
desire, and the Commissioners will receive any written or
oral statement from any of the prisoner's friends, or from
any person acting on their behalf, which shall be revalent
to the treatment of the convicts. The evidence of a
released prisoner, in this respect, will also be received.
The Commissioners have recommended to the Home
Secretary that access should be given to the prisoners by
their friends at reasonable hours and under proper regula-
tions, for the purpose of assisting them to prepare their
statements. The report and evidence will be made public
at the close of the inquiry, which will be held at No. 3,
Parliament-street, Westminster. One of the first wit-
nesses will be the notorious O'Donovan Rossa, who some
month's since was returned member of Parliament for the
county of Tipperary, but whose election was declared
void by a resolution of the House of Commons.