The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-20 00:00:00

MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—This market was
fully attended to-day. There has been a large business in wheat
both for consumption and speculation, at ls. to ls. 3d. per cental
over last Friday's rates. Flour sold readily, at 2s. to 3s. per
barrel and sack advance. Beans, 2s. to 3s. higher. Saidi, 425. 6d.
per quarter. Oats direct are 2d. to 3d. per bushel dearer, which
checks business. Indian corn was' in good healthy demand, at
2s. 6d. to 3s. per quarter over Friday's rates. Round yellow,
365. to 365. 6d. per quarter. Imports : Ireland--Wheat, 172
quarters; oats, 3,667 quarters ; barley, 330 quarters ; malt, 9
quarters ; oatmeal, 605 quarters. Foreign—Wheat, 887 quarters;
peas, 959 quarters ; Indian corn, 12,428 quarters; flour, 10,498
sacks and 21,161 barrels ; oatmeal, 167 sacks.
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TIIESDAY.—Trade is very
unsettled, but not so excited as on Saturday. Factors scarcely
know what to ask, but Saturday's prices are fully maintained.
Millers are asking higher prices than warranted by the price of
wheat, to prevent a run on their stocks. Flour is sa, per sack
higher than a fortnight ago.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a
smaller supply of cattle, but larger supply of sheep on sale here
to-day. There was a good demand for beef, which sold on rather
higher terms, best qualities ranging from 9s. 6d. to lOs per
stone. Mutton sold at 84d. to qd. per lb.
SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, TUBSDAY.—At to-day's market
there was a better supply of cattle, which met a fair demand.
Sheep and lambs were less in number. Trade ruled steady, and
prices were in favour of sellers. Quotations were as follow :
Beef, first class, Bd.per lb. ; second, 70. to 71d. ; sheep from 7d.
to qd. per lb. ; lambs, Bd. to 9d. per lb.

LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The tallow market
has been less excited, but the quotations for Y.C. remain at 465.
spot and 495. last three months. Considerable anxiety is mani-
fested at the Baltic to learn the attitude to be taken up by
Russia. Hemp is very firm, £34 being demanded for St. Peters-
burg clean. Saltpetre is again higher, at 275. 6d. to 28s. for
Bengal. Linseed oil, £3l 10s. spot. English brown rape,
£42 15s. spot.

COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS, TIIESDAY,—The colonial
produce markets have been much excited to-day, and war
articles have sold at corresponding prices. Sugar.— The market
is very inanimate, and transactions are not sufficient to test
prices, which are very weak. The stock in London is now 97,493
tons, against 80,694 tons last year. Business in refined goods is
very limited, and pieces remain dull of sale. Coffee.—Sales are
on the most limited scale, and values are much depressed.
Stock, 21,830 tons against 20,694 tons in 1869. Rice remains
flat, notwithstanding the excited state of the corn market. Rum.
-- There has been a steady inquiry, and prices have been on the
advance. Jamaica, 3s. 9d. r Demerara, 2s. 2d. ; Cuba, is. 10d. ;
Mauritius, ls. 6d. to ls. 7d., per gallon.

METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY.—
The supply continues short and the trade firm at further ad-
vanced currencies. Annexed are the quotations :—Prime old hay,
110 s. to 1265. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; prime new hay, 90s.
to 105 s. ; inferior ditto, 70s. to 80s. ; prime old clover, 130 s. to
1455. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime new clover, 110 s. to
1265. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; and straw 245. to 365. per load.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, TUES-
DAY.—The supplies of foreign potatoes have been good, of Eng-
lish only moderate. The trade has been slow, at our quotations.
English shams, 78. to Bs. 9d. ; Jersey kidneys, Bs. 6d. to 10s. :
ditto rounds, 6s. 6d. to 78. Gd. ; and French, ss. to 6s.
per cwt.

LONDON WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.—The depression in the
manufacturing districts caused by the war, by failures, and by
the rumour of further existing complications, have checked the
inquiry for wool. At public sale, biddings for all qualities have
been much less extensive, at fully the recent decline.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TIIESDAY.—This market
opened quiet to-day. The sales will probably only reach 5,000
bales.

LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The woollen market
has been in an anxious state as regards the war. No doubt it is
a serious thing for our clothiers, that at the very beginning of the
autumn trade so formidable a check to it should have arisen.
Manufacturers and merchants concur that should the war last
twelve months, it will be one of the best things that has hap-
pened lately ; for the manufacturing districts of the North of
England will have become the carrier for the Eastern Hemis-
phere ; and English woollens will be acceptable where they have
been for some time superseded by home produce. At present
the sellers of home tweeds are in the worst case. Large quanti-
ties of their goods are on foreign consignments ; and the diffi-
culty will be to transfer them elsewhere. Nothing could be flatter
than business is because of the uncertainty as to to the course
events may take. The buyers from London and the large towns
are still absent, and fancy and plain new goods are at a com-
plete standstill. Woollens, cotton, yarns, oil, mangols, or rags,
if bought in a large scale, can be had at a loss to clear. The
hand-loom and the power-loom weavers still continue in
work. The hand-loom workers at best can only get twelve
shillings weekly, but hundreds have no employment at all.
GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TUESDAY.—Market opened
steady, with business at 535. 6d. cash and 535. 9d. fourteen
days—but subsequently realised 525. 9d. cash, closing rather
sellers.

At the public sitting of the Council on Monday
the formal vote on the dogma of Infallibility was taken
when 533 placets against 2 non-placets were recorded.
We believe we are correct in stating that the
Admiralty are still discharging dockyard hands at
Devonport. It is stated also that, in consequence of
the war, 150 dock labourers have been discharged at
Grimsby,
At a meeting of the London Commissioners of
Sewers, held at the Guildhall yesterday, the medical
officer reported that no less than 0,3311b5. of meat had
been seized at the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Mar-
ket during the week and condemned as unfit for human
food. On Friday Inspector Newman seized the hind-
quarters of an animal, supposed to be either a mule, ass,
or pony, which the justices had condemned as unfit for
human food. Further proceedings were ordered to be
taken in the matter.

kustria now has six universities, namely—Prague
(founded in 1348), Cracow (1364), Vienna (1365), Gratz
(1585), Innsbruck (1677), and Lemberg(l7B4). In 1868 the
number of professors in these establishments was 513, and of
students 7,899. Of the former 56 belonged to the theo-
logical faculty, 96 to the juridical, 174 to the medico-
chirurgical, and 187 to the philosophical; of the latter,
1,246 to the theological, 2,692 to the juridical, 2,124 to
the medico-chirurigical, and 1,837 to the philosophical.
4,058 of the students were Germans, 1,385 Czechs, 902
Poles, 483 Ruthenians, 423 Slovelis Croats, and
Servians, 336 Ma-gars, 184 Italians, 73 Roumanians, and
53 foreigners (English, French, and others). 5,936
were Roman Catholics, 889 Jews, and the rest of other
eligions.
It is said that the Daily News has despatched two
correspondents to France and Prussia, that Mr. White-
house is going as correspondent for the Morning Post, and
that Mr. Sala will have an assistant in Mr. Kingston in
the descriptions of the war sent to the Daily Telegraph.
The Standard is also about to send a special representative
to the front. The London Figaro says at the eleventh
hour permission was refused to Captain E. Hozier,
of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, to accompany Dr. W. H.
Russell to the seat of war, notwithstanding the fact that
on the previous Saturday he had purchased three splen-
did chargers, at Tattersall's, with the full knowledge and
acquiescence of the authorities
! The reasons
asssigned are that it is the intention of
Government to send a band of offi
cers ofin-
telligence and experience a kind of roving
special commission—to observe the tactics, movements,
and general operations of the combatants. mr. hear that
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Captain E. Hozier will be attached thereto n a position
of confidence and great responsibility. His military
rank renders him subservient to the authorities here,
and invests his conduct with a responsibility from which
Dr. William Henry Russell is happily free.

LAW AND POLICE

.A DANGEROUS PRACTICE —William Harrison Hislop,
ay traveller, residing in Bentinek-street,. St. James's, was
brought up at the Marlborough-street Police Court on a
warrant by Costigan, one of the warrant officers, charged
with using threatening language towards his daughter,
Eveline Hislop. The complainant, a little girl, said her
father, the prisoner, came home on the Bth June, having
been absent a week, with his face and hands blackened,
said he would " do for her," and very much alarmed her
and the other children, they not knowingit was their father
at the time. The prisoner's wife gave evidence as to
threats being used tows rds the complainant, and said the
prisoner was in the habit of Musing her and all the family.
The magistrates after remarking that the act of the
prisoner might have had a dangerous effect on the
children for life, ordered him to find two securities in £lO
each for six months.

FRIGHTFUL CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—A. costermonger
and his wife, named Shack emere, were brought up at the
Westminster Police-court, charged with shocking cruelty
to a child. The complainant, her own daughter, 14 years
old, was frightfully disfigured in the mouth. A number
of neighbours and witnesses were called, from whose tes-
timony it appealed that the prisoner lived at 24, Paradise-
walk, Chelsea, and for some time past the cries of the girl
have frequently alarmed the neighbours, who appear
deeply to have sympathised with her ill treatment. On
Thursday last her screams attracted attention, and
the father was -then seen to hit her as he would
have struck a man, and to kick her. On
Tuesday the neighbourhood was again put into a state of
great alarm by the child's shrieks, and the woman was
seen beating her in some way while lying upon her back,
and her father was then striking her with the buckle end
of a leathern belt. She was afterwards seen in the yard
bleeding and in a frightful state. Her father then beat
her and made a kick at her. Defendants denied the vio-
lence imputed to them—the mother saying she had never
touched her, and they declared that she was a very bad
girl. Mr. Arnold—Your conduct as parents is likely to
make her a fiend. You are remanded for a week.