The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-11 00:00:00

THE SUN,

Gialgow, Bunn ribs, and
Carlisle
Glasgow,Kilmar.,& Ayr 5.0
Do. Preference Consol. -.•..•• • •••
Great Northern
Do., A Deferred ... . ....... •••
Do., % B 6 per Cent.
guaranteed ..... 61,4 ...... 3
Do. Extension 2%
;mat South. and West.
(Ireland) ... 42%
Great North of England.loo
Ditto, New, 40/ 4O
Ditto, ditto
25
I)itto, New, 30/ ......... 30
Ditto. New, 15/ l4 .. ..
Great Western .... 75% 76%
Ditto, ,•;) Shares 5O ...... 43
Ditto, 1-4 Shares
Ditto, Fifths .. 20
Ditto, New 17/... ..... 13 ...
Huddersfield and Manch. 30
,„..Ditto, Thirds
Liull and Selbv
Ditto, Half -Shares 25 ......
Ditto, % Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ......
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, % Shares
1)o. Quarter Shares l7 % —
Do. ......... 9
Do. Sixteenths 6% —
Do. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 ..... 414
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 5 ...... 51/2
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 ......
Ditto 1,4 (late Hud-
dersfield and Shelf.) 43
Do.(Woltetield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) ... 50
Do. (W. Riding Union) 7
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. % Shares (A)... 9% —
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50
Do., Half Shares 25 ..
Do., (blue) Scrip....., 2%,„
Leeds and Thirsk ..... . 50
Ditto, New ...... ....... 35 •• ••.
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport . 31,2
.iverp., Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction... 21/2
London & 'Rockwall-131. 65.85
Do. Extension 221/2.-- . ...
London, Brighton, and
South Coast SO
Do.Guarant.s per et..,
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per et. 50
Ditto, ditto-- 1852 50
Ditto, New 5/., guar.
ti per cent. .. 5 .....
L3nilon and Greenwich 12/15s 4d...
Ditto, Preference... 18/175 25...
London and N. Western 100 .....118 119
Do Quarters (L.& B.) 22
Ditto, New
Ditto,Fifths ..... .. .
Do. 401.Shares(L.M.) 95
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 9 -
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 9 10%...•..
Do. 10/. M. & B.) C. 1
uon,t. & S. Western SO
00. New 50/. ..... 42%.. ..
Do. New 40/. .. 34
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50
Ditto ditto .....
Ditto. Thirds.. ......131. 6s. 8d —
Do.. New Scrip, 1848,
cf. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls ...11. 13s. 45 — ......

-
G 14

L midon, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... 114......
Londonderry &Ckderaine 2834

LondonderryLondonderryand E7nis-
27%
••• 00000 •''''

Lowestoft (4 per ct.) ... 20
Ditto (6 per ct.)

Mam;heslei,Buxton,and
. 4
is /4
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire -.100
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18
Ditto ditto (No. 2)...
25
Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 1114
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 40
Ditto ditto . 13
Ditto ditto
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire l5 . ***
Do., Grimsby Dock... 20
Do., Manchester and
Lincoln Union..... 41.25.
Midland ... ... ..•100 „. 781 A
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo ......
Do., do., 50/. Shares... 2e 91.
..
A....
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
••• •• ........
Do•Consol•Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct. -.100 llB 1181/
Ditto,Brist. & Glecstr. 38 ......
Ditto, ditto ...........141. 185....
Ditto,Leieest.& Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo
Midland Great Western
Irish
Illiddlesbro' and Reclean
6 per cent. guar.
NewcastleandCarhs m
...100
Do. Quarters 25 .....
Nswmarket
Do. Extension .........21. 12s — ••••
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor .. 20
N0rf01k...............100
Do. New 201.
DO. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20
Do. Guaranteed .51-A, pe. 5
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2
Northern Counties Union 4 ...
North British ........ ... 25 143/
Ditto, Halves .
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, Extension O% —
Ditto, Thirds .... .. 84 3743/4
North & South-Western 2
NorthlStaffordshire
North Wales . 3l/2 —
North-Western . lO
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50

Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Roy6ton and Hitchin ... 2
Scottish Central. 25 •• ...•••
Scottish Midland 25
Ditto, New
Sheffield, Rotherham,
Goole (Nor. Div.)
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 4 „ .—

Shrewsbury and Binn... 9 ••••••
Ditto ditto. Class B. 5
Ditto, New Guaranteed 6
Shrewsbury and Heretd. 2
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Ditto Halves ... ditto 81,2 .
Ditto Oswestry 1734
Ditto New
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO -- • • •••••_
Shropshire Union 4 .„. ........
South Devon... ...

-
22%

Do. Preference
mouth Staffordshire
South Eastern
Do., No. 1 24
Do., N 0.2.
Do., No. 3 .......
Do., No. 4 Thirds
6%34 • • •
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole 5
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1.... 6
Taw Vale Extension ... 8 .•• •
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway
Vale of Neath ..•
W aterford and Kilkenny 171. ..•
Waterford and Limerick 47%
Watertd,Wxird,s,Vicklw,
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ...... 50
Do. do. do. ... 25
Do. do. do. ... 10
West Cornwall ...... 6
c'r'est London
)o. Do. Ist Class ... 20
Do. Do. 2d Class 2O
hitelliwan & Furness 13
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... 914
Wilts, Somorset,& Wey-
mouth ........
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. ........ 25
Do. Original New and
Berwick ...... 25 ..... 24%
Do. Extensiox No. 1. 15
Do. do. No. 2......... 15
Do. G.N.E.Preferenca 8
York and North Midland 50
Ditto, Preference 10
Do. East and W est Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Italian (late Ita-
lian and Austrian).
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 17
Ceylon
Demerara ... 15
Dendre Valley... 4
Direct Bombay and
Madras ss. . ......
Dutch Rhenish ......... 7L,4.. .• •• ......
East Indian 314 ......
Great Indian Peninsular
Louvain Is la Sambre ... 71,i —
Luxembourg... 7
Ditto ...
Madrid and Valentia... 2
Namur and Liege
Northern of France...
Orleans and Bordeaux... 7
Paris and Lyons
Do. Do. .
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen .... 2O ...
I Paris and Strasbourg

102

121/8

25%
144

1,0/8

761
43

171,,/

4%

1%
35 %

41,4

287.4

118%

101%

38%

75!4

9%
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EAST INDIA WHEAT.—We observe that an arrival
of 30 casks and 227 bag. of whoa: has taken place by the
vessel Gold, n tirrived in tlw docks from Bombay,
and consigned to the East India Company. This im-
portation of wheat from the East Eiiiies is, we believe,
one of con,iderable, if not entire novelty, and is, there-
fore, very r warkable and worthy of especial notice.
LANERCOST ABBET.—The Woods and Forests
Commissioners, with charactuistic taste, have actually
roofed the abbey with blue slates, and have thereby suc-
ceeded in making it look very like a tithe barn. The o'd
abbey was a magnificent torso; few will care to visit the
restored antique.—Carlisle Patriot.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHAS GE-MONDAY.

Owing in a great measure to the prevalence of strong
contrary gales of wind, the arrival of English Wheat
for our market, last week, coastwise, amounted to only
1,454 quarters. That of all other articles of home pro-
duce was equally limited. By land carriage, very little
Wheat or Barley came to hand; but the receipts of
Malt and Flour, per railway conveyance, were season-
ably large. From Ireland and Scotland, the fresh supply
was chiefly confined to a few hundred quarters of Bar-
ley, Oats, and 250 barrels of Flour. The Foreign im-
ports exhibited a considerable falling off, they having
amounted to only 5,168 quarters of Wheat; 2,748 ditto
of barley; 5,580 ditto of Oats; 725 ditto of Rye; 4,653
ditto of Beans; 480 ditto of Peas ; 904 data of Tares;
12,492 ditto dittq; 2,043 ditto of Rapeseed ; 22
ditto of Mustard seed ; 252 ditto of sundry
other seeds; 3,315 sacks and 1,621 barrels of Flour.
Most of the sack Flour came from France,
and the barrelled ditto from the United States.
The quantity of English Wheat received fresh up this
morning from Essex and Kent was very moderate, coast-
wise as well as by land carriage. From Lincolnshire,
Cambridgeshire, &c., scarcely any Wheat came to hand.
Generally speaking, the samples were in damp condition.
The show of parcels was again very limited, owing to
which, the falling off in the foreign importations, and the
limited stocks held by the principal millers, the demand
for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was firmer than
for some time past. Some few of the factors refused to
sell the finest samples of white except at an improvement
of is per quarter. We believe, however, that no actual
advance was paid by the millers for any description;
hence we call the English Wheat trade steady, at
prices fully equal to those paid on Monday last,
and at which a good clearance was effected.
The quantity of fine Foreign Wheat on sale was not
to say heavy, yet it was more than adequate to the wants
of the trade. Really fine parcels of both Bed and White
were in somewhat improved request, at extreme rates of
currency. In the middling and out of condition sorts
scarcely any business was transacted, at late figures.
Grain in bond was entirely neglected. No transactions
took place in floating cargoes worthy of notice. We had
a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry for the best
Malting Barley, which, in some instances, was
held for a trifle more money. Grinding and dis-
tilling sorts, both English and foreign, were
a slow inquiry, at unaltered quotations. Al-
though the quantity of Malt on offer ready for deli-
very was small, that article was a slow inquiry. Par-
cels for forward shipment were very dull. With Oats
we were very scantily supplied. Fine Potato samples
ruled firm, at a trifle more money ; and the value of
most other kinds was supported without difficulty.
Beaus commanded scarcely any attention, and prices
had a downward tendency. All kinds of Peas were
very dull, but not cheaper. In Indian Corn and Meal,
very little was doing. The Flour trade was dull, at last
week's prices.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
?heat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier 60s to 61a

Red. ........ 41sto 548
Ditto,White, New 47s 58s
Nortblk and Lin-
coln, Ited.• • 45s 51s
Ditto, White.. •• •• 48s 548
Irish, 1ied........ —s —s

Oats Yorkshire and
Line°lush., Feed. 17s SO,
Potato ...... ..•• 20s 24,
Youghal and Cork,
Black ....... 153 20s
Cork, White 17s 22s

Ditto:White • • • • • • —s —s
Ryo—Old • • • • • • • • • --s —s
New. • • • • • • ...... 28s 30s
Barley—Grinding ..... 27s 29s
Malting . ... • .... 32s 33s
Chevalier • . • • ... 33s 34s
Malt—Suffolk and Nor-
folk • • • • • • ...... 5Gs .59s
Brown ..... • ..... 478 55s
Kingston and Ware 59s his
THE SMITHFIELD (

Scotch, Feed. •. . . 215 25s
Beans—Tick ..... .... 288 32s
Pigeons ...... •• .. 37s 39s
Peas—Grey ..•.. • • • . . 373 38s
Maple ....... .. .. 37s 39s
White ... • ....... 37s 39s
Boilers ..• ••. . . . 38s 40s
Flour—Town-made... 41s 46s
Suffolk .•••• • • • .. 368 355
Stocktn & Norfolk 35s 2.Elg
diRISTMAS CATTLE
RKET.

The pc-at Christmas show having been appointed to
be held to-day, the market at an early hour—long before
daybreak—was enlivened by one of those scenes not, per-
haps, to be witzessed to the same extent, and with the
same effect, in any other portion of the globe. The im-
mense amount of property, in the shape of live stock,
presenting itself at one view—and, allowing a fair aver-
age price for each Beast and Sheep, it certainly fell
little, if anything, short of two hundred thousand pounds,
such, in fact, being about the amount paid into the hands
of the money takers and others in the course of the
day—was a sight not speedily to be forgotten by those
unacquainted with the merits of stock; while to those
who derive a pleasure in examining practically the
various points of the animals, a finer opportunity
seldom, perhaps never, presented itselt for the
exercise of their favourite study. Here were Beasts and
Sheep, of almost every breed in the United Kingdom,
including foreign blood, collected together from all the
various.counties for the Christmas consumption of the
metropolis, and which, taken collectively, may be justly
considered a wonderful show. Before entering into a
detailed consideration of the supply, we purpose glanc-
ing at what is passing in the agricultural world, having
direct reference to the production of live stock. For
some time past we have observed a great difference of
opinion amongst even the leading agriculturists, as to
whether the system now so generally adopted of " forc-
ing" animals—both Boasts and Sheep—destined for sale
in this and other cattle markets, has turned out so profit-
able as was at one time anticipated. It is well understood
that Beasts, as well as other stock, fed upon natural food
only, are a longer time reaching that weight which would fit
them fur the butcher than those which have derived a
large portion of their fat from the consumption of oil-
cake. The question, therefore, to be solved is, which
system pays the best, or, rather, which entails the
greatest loss, as there are no two opinions that the fat-
tening of cattle, unless under peculiar circumstances, is
almost invariably attended with a direct pecuniary sa-
crifice, whatever may be the indirect gains. Early ma-
turity, we have been told, would render grazing a pro-
fitable business, but we look in vain for such a gratify-
ing result. The system has been now pretty generally
tried; this market, as might be well imagined, from
the large supplies which have found their way hither
during the whole of the present year, and which
we have duly reported to our readers, has been,
so to speak, inundated with Beasts of two and three
years old, which have carried a moderate weight of
meat upon their backs, but a very small quantity of in-
ternal fat. The actual quantity of consumable home-
fed Meat disposed of has not, therefore, been so great,
compared with the numbers of Beasts disposed of, as many
parties appear to have conceived. This deficiency, how.
ever, has, to a great extent, been made good by the
foreign importations. The Dutch Oxen and Cows,
which are frequently six, seven, eight, and nine years
old ere they arrive in this country, are well adapted
for consumption in poor localities ; and we find that,
from the comparatively large supply of fat yielded
by them, they have sometimes paid the butchers
better than the English stock. This is the
great secret of the tolerably ready market they have
obtained here and elsewhere, although it is admitted
that the returns to the foreigner have been miserably
small. The question to consider is—will the rage for
early maturity continue? We think it will, from its
enabling the graziers to " turn their money more fre-
quently ;" while the advocates of box feeding have thus
an opportunity of proving—others of testing the sound-
ness of their doctrines.
As has been the case at corresponding periods of the
year, from the foreign beasts and sheep not being fit for
Christmas consumption, the imports of live stock from
abroad, since this day se'nnight, have been very mode-
rate, or as under:—
From Beasts.
Rotterdam 382 ...
Antwerp
Hamburgh
Ostend.. .
Harlingen ... 58 ...
Amsterdam ... 75 ...

Sheep. Calves.
796 ... 70 ...
.. 20 ...

Pigs.
2

.....! ... ......
5 ... -

••• '-'-''

Total
.625 ... 2,342
Corresponding
week in 1847 258

Difference ... 367 more. 848 more. 25 more. 2 more
The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was toler-
ably good; but when compared with the English Beasts
and Sheep, sadly deficient in quality. Prices ruled low,
and great difficulty was experienced on the part of
the salesmen, mostly Dutchmen, in effecting transactions.
We have already stated that the exhibition was a good
one. The observation may be equally applied to the
number as well as to the quality of the Beasts. We
have, perhaps, witnessed some heavier stock in the
market, but never so large a number, the latter exceed-
ing the supply at the corresponding " Great Day" in
1847 by upwards of 1,500 head. This great increase
may be chiefly accounted for from the plentiful supplies of
pasture and artificial food, arising from the continued
mildness of the weather, and the few losses which the
western and northern graziers have sustained during the
present year. The droves from Lincolnshire, &c., were
very extensive, and the condition of the northern Beasts
was decidedly better than last year, when there was a
slight falling off in the Short Horns. The Herefords,
which for weight and symmetry, we class amongst the
best Beasts in the show—were in good force. The
Devons were in greater number, and of fair even quality.
With North Devons, Welsh Runts, Scots, Sussex Beasts,
and other breeds, we were well supplied. The arrange-
ments made by the City authorities for the reception of
the stock were of the usual kind; but a large portion of
the Beasts were formed in " rings," not only in the
market itself, but in the neighbouring thoroughfares.
During the whole of the day immense numbers of per-
sons were in attendance—some expressing their astonish-
ment at the prodigies before them, others giving their
opinion upon this and that point. The annexed state-
ment shows the number of Beasts exhibited, and the
prices obtained for them at this period, during the last
nine years:—
Years. Beasts shown. Prices.
1839 5,074 ... 3s 4d to 5s Od
184() ... 3,528 ... 4s 4d Sc 8d
1841 4,500 ... 3s 8d 5s Od
1842 ... 4,541 ... 3s 4d —4s 8d
1843 4,540 ... 2s 8d —4s 4d
1844 ... 5,713 ... 3s Od —4s Gd
1845 ... 5,326 • . 3s Gd —4s 8d
1846 ... 5,470 ... 3s 6d —4s 6d
1847 ... 4,282 ... 4s Od —ss 8d
For the time of year we were heavily supplied with
Sheep in excellent condition. The finest portion of the
Sheep show were the forty-two Gloucester Ewes offered
for sale by Mr. Weall, the property of E. F. Whittiug-
stal, E,q., of Langley Bury, Hens, and several remark-
ably fine Downs sent by S. Addams, Esq., of Ware.
There were nearly 4,000 Sheep more in the market than
at the corresponding season in 1847.
STATE OF THE TRADE.
As might be anticipated, from the numbers of stock
brought forward, and the somewhat unfavourable
weather for slaughtering largely, the Beef trade, not-
withstanding the large attendance of both town and
country buyers, was exceedingly heavy. The primest
Scots, Herefords, Devons, &c., were selling at prices
varying from 4s to 48 4d per Slbs, being figures con-