The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-14 00:00:00

MARKETS.

GLOUCESTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—There was a
fair supply of English wheat on offer, which sold freely at late
rates. Foreign wheat was m limited rt quest, except fine
qualities, which were scarce. Malting barley was dull, but
grinding was firm. Oats were unchanged.
DONCASTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—There was a
small supply of wheat at this market to-day. Seed lots fetch
higher rates, and grinding parcels maintain former quotations.
Best malting barley was in request ; secondary sorts slow sale.
Oats and beans were unaltered.

READING CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.-The usual fre-
quenters of the Exchange assembled rather later than usual this
morning, and actual business did not commence until late. The
supply of wheat was very short. Last week's prices were firmly
maintained. Of other corn best barley and oats were mostly in
request, and quite as dear. Beans and peas remain unaltered,
NORWICH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.-The tone of this
market to-day was firm. Millers offered last week's prices for
wheat, the best qualities of which reached in some cases to 6d.
per quarter advance. Good qualities of wheat sold from 50s. to
51s. per quarter. Barley, oats, and beans met with a fair de-
mand, the previous quotations being fully supported. Averages:
-wheat, 1,375 quarters at 50s. lld. per qnarter. Barley, 8,224
quarters at 365. 3d. per quarter. Oats, 30 quarters, at 375.
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.--,There was a
small show of farmers' wheat at this market to-day, and prices
ruled rather higher than last week. Factors are doing little,
but are standing firm for the old prices, with a desire for an
advance. Flour was also firm, at late rates. Oats and beans
were as before.
KIRKCALDY GRAIN MARKET, SATURDAY.-At this mar-
ket to-day there was a small supply of wheat. The quotations
for barley and oats were similar to those of last week. Wheat
fetched 455. to 495. 6d. to 545. per qr. ; barley, 31s. 6d. to 353.
to 375. 6d. ; oats, 225. to 245. 6d. to 28s. 6d. The average price
of potatoes was Bs. per bale, or £2 per ton.
LEITH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.-Wheat was down at
this market to-day. Flour remained unaltered. Barley was
down 6d. per qr. Oats were steady, and inclining upwards.
Peas were in demand, and 6d. dearer. Beans were dull, and 6d.
lower.. The arrivals for the week are-12,396 qrs. of wheat,
1,725 qrs. of barley, 51 qrs. of oats, 578 qrs. of beans, 587 qrs.
of peas, 3,333 qrs. of Indian corn, mid 6:028 sacks of flour.
DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET, SATURDAY.-There was a
large show of . cattle at this market, and it was of a better
quality than last week, and a fair trade was done at about last
weeks's prices. There were not so many sheep, and with a little
business done. Prices were not so firm. Pigs were in good
demand, but prices were unaltered.
METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SATURDAY.
-Mr. Charles James Eastern thus reports on the state of the
hay market :-There has been a moderate supply of hay and
clover on sale at the market to-day. Sales have been effected to
a fair extent, at fully the rates previously current :-Prime
meadow hay, 130 s. to 140 s. ; inferior ditto, 1105. to 120 s. ; prime
first-cut clover, 130 s. to 140 s. ; inferior ditto, 115 s. to 1255. ;
prime second-cut clover, 120 s. to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 105 s. to
1155. ; and straw, 305. to 345. per load.
METROPOLITAN HIDE AND SKIN MARKET, SATURDAY.
-Market hides : 561bs. to 641b5., 3d to 3d. -641bs. to 721bs.
3d
; 721bs. to 801bs., 30. to ad. ; 801bs. to 881bs., 3,d. to
4d. ; 881bs. to 961b5., 4d. to 4id ; 961bs. to 1041b5., 44. to 40. ;
1041bs. to 1121b5., 41-d. to w. Horse hides*, 10s. Od. to 12%
calf skins-light, 2s. to 4s. ; full, 7s. 6d. - Sheep skins-
polled, Gs. 6d. to 7s. 6d. ; half-breds, ss. to ss. 6d. ; Downs,
35.6 d. to 4s. 3d.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY. Opening
Report.—This market opened to-day with a fair inquiry, espe,
daily for American. Probable sales 10,000 bales. Imports,
4,140 bales.--Closing Report.—This market closed steady to-
day. Sales, 10,000 bales. Arrivals—Orleans, steamer via New
York, Bd.
LEEDS TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY.—VO; the end of the
fall, trade to-day has been good. A bright windy morning was
favourable to a correct choice of colours, and patterns of new
goods in various shades were more generally inquired for. A
new feoture is a demand for fancy Astracans and seals for ladies'
mantles, but in the Heckmondwicke district the outcry for rugs
and blankets for the French has for a time supplanted the seal
manufacture. Some Inquiries are made for tenders for police
clothes, both by LondOn and Manchester contractors. An offer
of a large French order for the needles of Chassepot rifles, has
been renewed to our steel workers, but much higher prices
than the Swiss • makers would likely take are insisted
upon. The French Vice Consuls are try4fig Leeds after
Birmingham, and other large towns. • The engineering works
here have important orders for pumping, blowing, and traction
engines, one large machine firm are to-day sending a £5,000 order
to the Philhpine Islands. The iron trade of Leeds goes on ex-
panding, and a new firm are building a very large furnace for
hetblasting purposes.
CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, SATURDAY.—There
was rather •more business at this market to-day, but prices
were the same. The decline for the week is 6d. and ls. 9d. on
medium sorts, and 3d. on fine sorts.

I'he Duke of Argyll and Mr. Bright were again
the only absentees from the Cabinet Council held on
Friday.
THE LEVEE EN - MASSE.—The Tours corre-
spondent of the Standard, in a letter of the 9th
instant, says :—A decree yesterday divides the levee
en masse into four bans, which will be called out
as required. The first ban is the single men.between
21 and 40. These are called out by the decree of Sep-
tember 29, but, like many decrees, that has been a
mere dead letter, and the men are for the most part
still in their homes. Does not this shew the utter
folly of issuing decree after decree without taking the
slightest care to see that they are carried out ?
The second ban takes in all married men up to 30, the
third from 30 to 35, the-,fourth from 35 to 40. No hint is
given of the dates at which these various bans will be
called out, but the general opinion is that, with the ex-
ception of the first, they will never be summoned at all.
It would, indeed, cause far less distress and inconvenience
to summon at once the conscripts of '7l and '72, This
would give 600,000 young fellows, even allowing for
the provinces occupied by the Prussians. Theso lads
would learn the use of arms and the necessary drill far
more speedily than the older men; besides which a large
number of the married men are at present enrolled in the
National Guard, and can be utilised for the defence of
their respective districts. It need scarcely be said
that the entire absence of hands for agricultural
manufacturing, and other purposes, by the absence
from home of all men, single or married, between 21
and 40, would be enormous, and that the number of
women and children who would be at once thrown upon
the State for support would be overwhelming. It is in
fact this very circumstance that Che family bread winners
are still at home that enables France to support war with
less suffering, except in the invaded districts, than is ex-
perienced in Germany. By all means make every
married man a National Guard, drill him and discipline
him to the utmost, and bring him into the field for
local defence ; but to take him away from his field or his
workshop until the very latest moment would be simply
an act of suicide for France, and such, I need hardly say,
it is generally considered to be here. Ido not suppose,
however, that M. Gambetta ever gave the matter a
thought when lie dashed off his first decree, ordering a
general levee en masse.

NOTICE.—KINATIAN'S LL. Whisky Depot. Kinahan
and Co. have removed to their new and spacious premises,
No. 6a, Great Titchfield-street, Oxford-street, loading
from Margaret-street, Regent-street, and Market-street,
Oxford-street. Kinahan's LL. Whisky.—This famous
and most delicious old mellow spirit is the very cream of
Irish whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure,
and more wholesome than the finest cognac brandy.
Can be obtained all over the kingdom, in the well-known
sealed and labelled bottles, or in bond for exportation at
the London Docks. Wholesale Agents to Messrs. Bass,
Guinness, and Younger, and Dealers in Foreign Wines
and Spirits.

lAllt 4N 1) POLDJE;

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EXTRAORDINARY CH AE ,of FRAUD.—Harold Brand,
a foreigner. aged 26 years, s charged before Mr. Paget
at the Thames Police-court, - obtaining .C6O by fraud and
two orders for the payment •' • money purporting to be
written by Mr. Mathias Mi ,elis, " practical tailor and
outfitter," of No. 91, High-street, Whitechapel. A few
weeks ago the prosecutor supplied a large quantity of cloth-
ing to the captain and crews of many Norwegian ship-
in the Commercial and Grand Surrey Canal Docks, in
Deptford and Rotherhithe, and intended to collect the
money for the same on the eve of the departure of the
ves6e!3 for Norway and the Baltic. The prisoner
and a servant in the employ ,of Mr. Michaelis,
however, obtained payment of nearly all the accounts
by a clever ruse. Yesterday a police-constable, named
James Wilson, No. 570 K, apprehended the prisoner in
Rotherhithe. He was remanded.
LAMENTABLE CONDITION OF 'PARENTS.—Geo, Graham
alias Keoley, a boy 13 years of 'age, was placed at the bar
at the Westminster Police-court, charged with stealing a
£5 note. Mr. Jones, linen draper, 40, Warwick-street,
Pimlico, said that the prisoner had been in his service for
five week up to the 31st ult. On that day he gave him a
£5 note to get changed, and he absconded. Police-sergeant
Randall, 9 B, said he took the prisoner yesterday at Liver-
pool, and brought him to London. He was then in
custody, charged with wandering about the streets
destitute. He stated on his way to London that he had
stolen the £5 note, and having gone to a slop seller
at the east end had purchased some new clothes, and gone
to his aunt at. Bolton in Lancashire ; but as he had pre-
viously run away from home with his father's watch, she
would not receive him. He then went to Liverpool, where
he endeavoured to get on board ship, but could not find
any captain to take him. Mr. Arnold having asked if any
of the prisoner's friends were present, his mother, a genteel
looking woman, stepped forward, and with tears in her eyes
expressed her deep concern at what had occurred. If the
magistrate would kindly impose only a slight imprisonment
or set him at liberty she would at present send him to school,
and then when old enough to sea. Mr. Arnold thought
he had better send him to a reformatory. The mother
earnestly entreated 'him not to do so. Her husband bad
had much experience as a warder at the Milbank Peni-
tentiary, and he said that six out of seven of the convicts
under sentence there had been in reformatories. Mr.
Arnold was sorry to hear it having been led to suppose a
better result. He should remand the prisoner to con-
sider his dispesal.
THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS' ESTATE.—In the
Chamber of the Master of the Rolls an application was
made before Mr. Church, Chief 2 Cle;k, on behalf of Mr.
John Day; trainer under the late Marquis of Hastings,
.to amend the certificate in the cause of the administration
of the estate, by admitting a claim of £856 due to Mr.
Day for various services rendered in 1868. It was stated
that the claim had been omitted entirely by mistake, and
that the solicitor to the estate admitted its genuineness,
and had, in fact, vouched for its accuracy. The Chief
Clerk regretted that he should have been caused to issue
an inaccurate certificate. Contrary to early expectations,
however, the estate had produced sufficient to meet liabi-
lities, and under those circumstances, with the consent of
all the parties to the cause, the certificate might be
amended.

LYNCH LAW IN LONDON.—The Dail& Telegraph reports
that a place in the uninediate vicinity of the Stock
Exchange has been the scene of a very remarkable appli-
cation of Lynch law. It appears that a youth of about
fifteen, the son of a stockbroker, was recently accosted by
a well-dressed person, who made criminal proposals to
him. The lad communicated the circumstance to his
father, who, after consulting with some friends, plarined
a scheme for tho chastisement of the offender. An ap-
pointment was made by the boy, and the " gentleman,"
on arriving at the place of rendezvous found several per-
sons in waiting, who, with somewhat peremptory polite=
ness, requested him to accompany them.- They con-
ducted him to the counting-house of the boy's father, took
him to a private room, fastened the door, and then
began a process of summary punishment. The unfortu-
nate wretch was soundly beaten with fists, and even, it is
said, with sticks; his coat was torn in two, a piece of his
nether garments was cut out, a bottle of ink was emptied
over his head, and, bruised, bleeding, hatless, and be-
grimed, he was then kicked out into the street, where he
staggered into a cab. Another account says that the Vic-
tim of the thrashing made no complaint to the police,
although after his punishment he had a good opportunity
of doing so.
THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. " How THE
DISEASE SPREADS."—At the Brentford Petty Sessions,
Roland Hawkins, farmer, A Greenford, was brought up-
on a warrant charged with driving cows suffering from
foot and month disease, along the high road, contrary to
the statute. Mr. Leggett, of Hanwell, one. of the in-
spectors appointed bythe Council, said : On the 26th of
October I was going towards Southall, when I svv the
prisoner drive seven cows along the high road for
about forty yards, and put them into a field.
I subsequently examined them, and found them. to
be suffering from foot and mouth disease. Prisoner ad.:
mitted that the cows were suffering from the disease, and
stated that he was merely bringing them from one part of
farm to another, and the reason that he did not appear
to answer the summons on the last bench day was because,
he could not get away conveniently. The Chairman then
said the disease was very- infectious, and persons wei•e
astonished at the manner in which the cattle disease ex-.
tended, but it was easily accounted for if farmers were so
careless as the defendant, who would be fined 405.,.in-,
eluding costs.
THE ADULTERATION OF TOBACCO.-Some of the secrets.
of the tobacco trade were exposed at the Birkenhead
Police-court, when Richard Clark, of Chester-street, was`
fined £75 for mixing his tobacco with sugar and treacle.'
It seems it has been Mr. Clark's practice, and probably
that of others in the trade, to mix 101 b. of treacle and.
101 b. of sugar with 100 lb. of tobacco, and -.ay doing this.
Mr. 'Clark says he improves the • tobacco and
&mins nothing in the weight. He makes him.-:
self out to be, in fact, a public benefactor,.
and doubtless thinks a man oan do what he likes "in the.
way of trade." Unfortunately for Mr. Clark's defence,
it was elicited that his tobacco containad 4.4 per cent.:
more water than if it was properly made, in addition to'
13.7 per cent. of sugar. This variation from the right
course of manufacture enabled Mr. Clark to increase his
profits by 5(1. in the lb., a very substantial reward for his
efforts to " improve the article," as he calls it. As some
years have elal)Sed since the defendant's factory was last'
visited by the revenue officers, it is not certain how long
his profits have been augmented in this way.—Liverpool
Courier.

ENGLAND AND THE ROMAN QUESTION.—It is re-
ported that Lord Granville and Archbishop Manning
have agreed together to nominate Lord Howard, of Glos-
sop, as the English representative at the European Conn-
-gress regarding the Roman question—subject, of course, to
the Queen's sanction.—Church herald.
INDIAN OCEAN.—The career of this horse, second
in the Liverpool Autumn Cup, has been most unfortu-
nate, andin a 'minor degree he has earned the distinction
of being a second Yellow Jack. Indian Ocean has started
fifteen times as a two and three year old, running second
on no less than seven occasions, and not once scoring a
win.—Sporting Life.
LOSS OF A SCHOONER OFF ' THE MERSEY.-011
Friday forenoon, a 'very severe gale from the N.N.E.
prevailed off the port of Liverpool, and a little before one
o'clock p.m. the schooner Four Brothers, of Chester,
bound from Fleetwood to Dublin with a cargo of coal, was.
driven ashore on the Burbo Bank, and soon filled and sank,
the crew taking refuge in the rigging. The signals of dis-
tresswere discovered by the Point of Ayr Lifeboat, which
at once put off to the rescue of the crew, and succeeded in
taking them ashore safely.
TH., ENGLISH EMBASSY IN PERSIA.—The new
palace for the English Legation at Teheran is nearly
finished. It stands outside the town, on the way to Yul-
hek. Its estimated cost is about £35,000, inclusive of the
30,000 tumans which the Persians have agreed to give for
the old residence within the walls of the city. Reckoning
what has been expended on the house at Yulhek, the total
outlay in Persia for the accommodation of our Minister
has been about £40,000 in the last few years —a sum which
cannot be considered otherwise than ample, and worthy
even of comparison with the liberal disbursements of the
East India Company.

THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA AND ENGLISH PHILAN-
THEOPY.—The Queen of Prussia has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the Committee of the English Inter-
national Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in
War :—" I have observed . with sincere admiration the
generous manner in which the English nation endeavours
to alleviate the fearful sufferings of the present war and
to participate in the care of the numerous wounded by
supporting. the existing societies and hospitals, by the erec-
tion of their own hospitals, establishment of depots, and
the distribution of gifts. In my relations with the German
societies, I feel it an urgent obligation to express this
to the English Committee for aid to wounded and sick
soldiers which- directs this benevolent activity, and in
their name, as well as in the name .of my countrymen
far and near whom this assistance has benefited, to 'offer
the most sincere and deep-felt thanks. By ouch proofs
of true humanity the nation does honour to itself and
preserves its old reputation of maintaining the interests
of humanity as everywhere the first consideration. It
may likewise rest assured that with us in Germany what
we owe to it in this respect is most warmly acknowledged
and feIt.—AUGUSTA, Homburg, Nov. 8 1870. A letter
from Homburg states that the Queen and Crown Princess
are devoting themselves exclusively to their families and
to philanthropic objects. Both are constantly visiting the
hospitals in the neighbourhood.
A BOON FOR LADIES.—Highly as sewing machines are
prized, there is one great fault to which they are addicted—they
make a great noise while doing the work ; a noise so great that
for a worker herself to talk at the same time is out of the ques-
tion. We need not say how trying this must be to a lady. To
be not only prevented from talking, but also from listening to
the gossip of those around her—the very thought of such a
thing is unendurable. Well, an inventor has come to their
rescue with a SILENT SEWING MACHINE ; and as it comprises
all the appliances and devicesfor varied work with which all the
best sewing machines are provided, and several in addition, and
exercises them all so NOISELESSLY that the ladies may gossip
even in whispers, and the infant or invalid sleep on in peace, we
expect that most of the old machines will ere long be heard, or
heard of, no more, and that " LA SILENCIEUSE," the Silent
Sewing Machine (at Messrs. POLLACK, SCHMIDT, and Co.'s,
210 A, REGENT-mum, LONDON, W.), will quietly take their
place, a 3 the universal domestic helper.—" investment Circular
and Financial ReCord," September 7, 1870. .

ye 11, Vitit2:l4oNDON, IVIONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1870.