The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-02 00:00:00

MARKETS.

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY, -At this
market to-day there was a large supply of English wheat, at
fully Is, per qr. lower. For foreign wheat there was no sale.
Barley was nominally unaltered. Beans were firm. Peas were
ls. per qr. cheaper.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY. -The
cattle trade to-day has been characterised by a fair amount of
firmness. About an average supply of beasts has been on sale.
Prime beasts have been in request, at quite Monday's quotations.
For other quotations there has been a moderate inquiry. Sheep
have changed hands to a moderate extent on former
terms. Calves have been quiet, and pigs have sold slowly.
Per 81b. to sink the offal : -Inferior beasts, 39. 6d. to 4s. 2d. ;
second quality ditto, 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; prime large oxen, 4s. 10d.
to ss. 4d. ; prime Scots,ss. 6d. to 55.10 d. ; inferior sheep,
3s. 6d. to 35. Bd. ; second quality ditto, 4s. 4s. 6d. ; prime and
wooled sheep, 4s. 10d. to ss. 4d. ; prime Southdown
ditto, ss. 6d. to ss. 10d.; large coarse calves, 3s. Bd.
to 4s. 4d. ; prime small ditto. 4s. Bd. to ss. 10d. ; large hogs, 4s.
2d. to ss. ; small porkers, ss. 4d. to ss. Bd. Sucking calves,
and quarter old store Pigs, 20s. to 255. each. Total supply :-
Beasts, 1,815 English ; 400 foreign. Sheep and lambs, 12,440
English ; 2,650 foreign. Calves, 405 English; 275 foreign. Pigs,
40 English ; 40 foreign.
GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY.-The supply of
cattle at this Market to-day was not equal to that of last week,
either as regards number or quality. All kinds were
in demand, and an advance of 3s. to 4s. per
cwt. on last week's quotations was readily obtained.
Top current, 765. 785. per cwt.; secondary, 725. to 745. per cwt.;
Inferior 608. to 675. Of sheep and lambs the supply was large,
but generally of middling quality : top sorts were in demand
at prices similar to last week's. Inferior qualities were very
dull, and scarcely saleable. Sheep, top current, Bd. to 80. per
lb.; secondary, 71d. to 6, d. per lb.; middling and inferior, 6d.
to 7d. per lb. Lambs, top, 265. to 30s. each; secondary, 18s. to
245. each ; middling and inferior, 9s. to 12s. each. At the close
of the market good sorts were well sold, but nothing like a
clearance could be effected,
DUBLIN CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY. -The supply of
cattle at this day's market was by far the largest of the season,
which caused a slow trade at barely late rates. There was also
a large supply of sheep, and, although the demand was hardly
so beLsk as on this day week a good clearance was early effected
at about late quotations. Best bed Ma. per cwt., mutton, Bd.
per pound.
BIRMINGHAM IRON TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.-There
was a small attendance, owing to the festival attractions. The
works are fairly engaged, only a small portion being at a stand-
still. United States orders are good. Merchant bars are selling
well on home account. The pig iron trade is quiet. There
are large stocks of puddled bars on hand. There was no change
in prices. The demands of the Ironworkers for an advance of
wages will be considered at a committee of the II onmasters'
Association to be held on the 10th inst.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. Opening
Report.—lmport, per bill of entry, 1,340 bales. The market
openee with a good demand at firm prices, without excitement.
The sales were expected to reach 10,000 bales. Americans were
were still sought for. Closing report.—At this market there
was a good steady business done during the day, without any
material feature, beyond perhaps a slight improvement in the
price of Bengal cotton. The sales were called 12,009 bales, 3,000
of which were on speculation and for export.
MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—This mar
ket was rather firmer to day in consequence of the news to
hand of further successes of the Germans. No increase of busi-
ness Is as yet perceptible, and the more active cotton market in
Liverpool has had no influence here as yet. The business doing
was exceedingly small and of a miscellaneous character ; and at
prices which shewed little or no change from those current for
some days.

BRADFORD TRADE REPORT, THIIRSDAY.—WooI has re-
mained remarkably firm during the past week. Country rates
are against this market, and the staplers, who having been try-
ing to replenish in the growing districts, have found it impos-
sible to buy at such prices as would enable them profitably to
resell here. Wethers are most in favour, especially lustre and
demi-lustre ; and Down ewes, Down tegs, picked hogs, and half-
bred wools, are a slow sale, and full as easy ; while some other
descriptions have established id. advance from the lowest. To-
day's market is rendered more cheerful by the news of Mao
Mahon's defeat. German merchants make more inquiries for
yarn, but only to test prices, as they have not yet courage to
buy. Spinners' prices are weak, and the power of production
greatly exceeds the present demand. For piece goods there is
a fair business for the home and American markets. Goods are
bought chiefly from stock, or for quick delivery. Plain fabrics
for Germany, probably for mourning, are going rather better.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE, THIIRSDAY.--Sugar
is steady, but the demand is less active. Common to good
Egyptian, 21s. 6d. to 245. per cwt. Coffee in fair request, at full
prices. Middling to good Plantation Ceylon, 665. to 965. 6d. ;
small to low middling, 575. to 625. per cwt. Tea has been
quiet but steady. Saltpetre dull. Fine Bengal nominal, 295. to
295. 6d.

LONDON TRADE REPORT, TRIIRSDAY.—TaIIow has been
dull and drooping. Old, Y.C. spot, 425. 3d. ; new, 445. 3d. ; last
three months, 445. per cwt. Oils have been quiet ; linseed dull,
at 295. 3d. to 295. 6d. spot. Rape firmer, at 41s. 6d. spit, and
395. last three months. Metals have been dull. Tin inactive,
at £126 for Straits.

METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, THURSDAY.
—There has been a fair supply. The trade has been steady.
The following are the last quotations :—Prime old hay, 120 s.
to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 110 s. ; prime new hay, 115 s. to
120 s. ; inferior ditto, 00s. to 105 s. ; prime old clover, 140 s. to
150 s. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime new clover, 120 s. to
130 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 1108. ; and straw 245. to 325. per
load.

CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, THURSDAY.—There
was a fair business done at this market to-day, and prices were
ful sustained.

GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TIIIIRSDAY.—At this market
to day a firmer business was done at 51s. 9d. cash. Closing firmer
buyers. Sellers 61s. 10d. Closing Report.—There was a quiet
business done at 51s. 80. and 51s. Bd. cash. Closing rather
sellers at latter quotations.

A. military and acting chaplaincy at Hong Kong
has been conferred upon the Rev. John Piper.

Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen is about leaving
England, and his friends have determined on giving him a
farewell soiree. It will take place at the Hanover-square
Rooms on Monday, the 12th inst.
THE FRENCH PEOPLE AND THEIR RITLER.—The
craving for glitter and fame; the tendency to grasp at
these rather by sounding adventurous achievements with-
out than by silent effort within ; the pretension to stand
at the head of nations and the thirst to patronise and
plunder them ; all these faults which lie in the Gallic
nature, were fostered to such an extent by Louis XIV., by
the first and by, let us hope, the last Napoleon,
that the national character has suffered the deepest
injury. Glory in particular, which one of your
Ministers has recently, called the first word in the French
language, is rather its worst and most pernicious ; one
which the nation would do well to strike out of its
dictionary for a long time to come. It is the golden calf
round which the nation has for centuries kept up its
dance ; it is the Moloch at whose altar it has sacrificed,
and is even now again sacrificing its own sons and
the sons of neighbouring nations ; it is the Ignus
Fatuus which has lured it from fields of pros-
, perous labour into the wilderness, and often to
the brink of the precipice. And while those earlier
monarchs, Napoleon I. especially, were themselves pos-
sessed by this national demon, and therefore went even
' into their unjust wars with something of sincerity, with
the present Napoleon it is the conscious cunning design to
lead the nation astray into aims of cool self-seeking ; to
draw their attention away from their moral and political
destitution within, that is, by ever alad ever stirring up
the national passion for glitter, fame, and depredation.
Against Russia in the Crimea, against Austria in Italy, he
was successful. In Mexico he met with sensible disaster.
Against Prussia he let the right moment slip. At the
beginning of this year the world could for a moment be-
lieve that he was in good faith, leaving this path and
turning to that of internal reform, in the sense of rational
freedom and administrative amendment ; till his back-
ward spring to the Plebiscitum convinced all the world
that he was still his old self. From that time Germany,
too, had everything to fear—rather should I say, every-
thing to hope. That unity which he desired to frustrate
is ours. The unheard-of claim which lay in his demand
on the King of Prussia was as comprehensible and
intolerable to the poorest peasant in the march as to the
kings and dukes south of the Main. The spirit of 1813-14
swept like a storm through every German land ; and
already the first events of the war have given us a pledge
that a nation which fights only for that for which it feels
both the right and the power in itself cannot fail of its
end. This end for which we struggle is simply the equal
recognition of the European peoples—the security that
for the future a restless neighbour shall no more at his
pleasure disturb us in the works of peace, and rob us of
the fruits of our labour.—Dr. Strauss in the Allgemeine
Zeitung.