The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAI , MAY 14, 1870.

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT ON IRELAND.

Earl Spencer is visiting Mr. Stewart Trench, EvAex
Castle: Carrickmacross. His Excellency, attended by
Mr. Trench, drove through tome of the most charming
parts of the county of Louth, a distance of some fourteen
or fifteen miles, on Thursday. He afterwards rode over a
portion of the extensive estates of the Marquess of Bath,
in the historic barony of Farney, to see the various im-
provements being carried on upon the property, and
especially in the building of good slated labourers'
cottages, farmhouses, &c. In the afternoon the
Earl and Countess were at Enniskillen, where they
were presented with an address, in reply to which the
noble lord said :—" Lady Spencer joins me in acknow-
ledging the kind welcome which the people of Enniskillen
have given us on our first visit to your neighbourhood and
town. I must congratulate the inhabitants of this town
on their peaceable character, owing to which
the presence of a large force is no longer re-
quired, as it unfortunately is in other places
in Ireland. As to the navigation of Lough Erne, it is
my earnest wish that it should be complete, but the suc-
cessful issue of such an enterprise must depend principally on,
the exertions of the inhabitants of the locality. The Go-
vernment can assist mainly by powers which must be en-
trusted to them by Parliament ; but I shall rejoice to be
in' any way instrumental in making the views of the
townspeople known to the Government."

MARKE rs -YESTERDAY.

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.—At Mark-lane this
morning the show of English wheat was only moderate. In-
fluenced by the wet weather, and the benefit likely to accrue to
agriculture from the same, the trade has been less active. Prices
have been without change. With foreign wheat the
market has been moderately supplied. The demand
has been inactive, on former terms. The show of
barley has been moderate. The trade has been
quiet, at previous quotations. Malt has been dull, at late rates.
Oats have been in moderate supply and limited request, at pre-
vious prices. Beans and peas have been quiet. Flour has been
firm. Arrivals.—English and Scotch : Wheat 97, malt 940, beans
110, peas 80 sacks. Foreign : Wheat 12,570, barley 8,460, oats
59,970, maize 3,250, peas 110, flour 990 sacks.
LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—The tallow trade is
fair, at 445. 9d. to 455. for Y.C. on the spot. Hemp and jute
steady. Linseed oil firm.
LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAY.—A moderate busi-
ness has been transacted in tea, at steady quotations. Sugars
have boen little inquired after, but strong refining sorts have
commanded late rates. Inferior parcels have tended down-
wards. Coffee has ruled fair for both native and plantation
sorts. Rice afloat steady.

METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.—The supply
of meat has been moderate. The trade has been rather steadier
at our quotations. Beef from 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; mutton, 3s. 6d.
to ss. 2d. ; lamb, 6s. 6d. to 7s. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. 2d. ; and
pork, 4s. to ss. 6d. per 81b. by the carcase.

BOROGUH HOP MARKET, FRIDAv.-L-The hop market has
continued very quiet. Very little business has been doing in
any description, at about late rates. Mid and East Kents, £7 to
£l2 12s. ; Weald, £6 to £8 ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 13s. ; Bavarians,
£6 6s. to £9 ; French, £5 2s. to £6 10s. ; Americans, £45 to ;
and yharlings, £1 10s. to £3 15s. per cwt.

LINCOLN GRAIN TRADE, FRIDAY.—At our market to-day
there was a fair attendanoe. Business was firm for all kinds of
grain at last week's prices. A general complaint of the pre-
vailing dryness was made by the farmers. They loudly expressed
their need of rain. Wheat is in better supply and demand, at
last week's prices. Other grain is unaltered.
MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRlDAY.—Market steady,
at last Tuesday's rates, but only a moderate business transacted.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY. —Large show of
wheat, and prices were easier where sales were effected.
LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY. —The demand for
wheat has ruled steady, at fully Tuesday's rates. Flour firm.
Beans scarce, and dearer. Indian corn rather easier.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY. —Sales of the
week, 82,750 bales, of which 46,500 American ; on specu-
lation, 16,800 ; for export, 7,375. Actual export, 10,500 ' • taken
by the trade, 58,500 ; import, 55,750 ; stock, 527,000, of which
320,000 bales were American. To-day's market firm Sales 12,000,
of which 3,000 on speculation.
PARIS, MAY 12.—Rape oil, current month, 127'75 ; September
December, 11015.

BERLIN, MAY 12.—Rape oil, May, 14 5-6 ; September•
December, 13k, Spirits, May, 151 ; August-September, 16k.
ST PETERSBURG, MAY 12.—Y. C., spot, 56 ; 3 roubles, 501
Clean hemp, spot 39.

HAMBURG, MAY 12.-,Rape oil, spot, 311 ; May, 311
autumn, 27k. Wheat, Tune-July, 119.
HAVRE COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—Stock, 94,270 bales,
of which 70,600 are American and 10,000 Indian. Afloat,
60,100 American and 30,900 Indian.

AMSTERDAM, MAY 13.—Banta tin firm, 781. Rapeseed
autumn, 77k.

HAVANA, MAY 12.—N0. 12 sugar, 14} ; Muscovado, 71

CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1T.15.;
seconds, 106 s. ; thirds, 955. ; fourths, 90s. ; fifths, 70s. ; 1,000
firkins in the market. Mild-cured : Frsts, 115 s. ; seconds, 112 s. ;
thirds, 103 s. ; 120 firkins in the market.

SOUTH WALES TRADE, FRIDAY.—The activity which we
reported last week as characterising the iron trade continues in
all departments. It was feared that the long-continued drought
would interfere with the operations at some of our iron works,
but happily that source of danger has been averted. For
railway iron there is a brisk inquiry, chiefly for foreign
ports. The home trade shews an average demand, whilst
for miscellaneous descriptions of make inquiries are active, and
prices gradually improving. A slightly better tone pervades the
tin plate trade, and a few sales have been effected at slightly
higher prices. Steam coal proprietors are shipping large quan-
tities of coal, their chief complaint being a want of tonnage,
rather than shortness of demand. The house coal trade evinces
little change, an average business being done. Employment is
good at all the collieries, the owners in some instances having to
complain of an indisposition on the part of the men to work.

THE LVW OF THE GREEK MASSACRE.
" Historicus," in a letter to the Times, examines the
bearings of international law on the late Greek massacres.
He insists with Sir R. Palmer that the law has been vio-
lated in the person of Mr. Herbert, and repudiates the
suggestion of the Times that the excursion upon which Mr.
Herbert was engaged might have deprived him of the special
right to protection to which he would otherwise have been
entitled. That protection extends to him at all times
and in all places. The case of a minister is different
from that of an ordinary traveller. The present is an
offence against international law, and we can here claim
to " look behind the Greek municipal jurisdiction, and to,
if neeessary, take the law into ottr own hands in a manner
which vroula not be justifiable in the case of common
travellers."

It'is understood that among the amendments to
the Government Ballot Bill will be one for the omission of
the provisions for scrutiny and substitution of inviolable
secresy ; another for removing the expenses from the can-
didates, and a third for the extension of the bill to
municipal elections. Sir C. Dilke will probably move
the first, and Mr. Fawcett the second, of these amend-
ments.

Mr. Robert Shields, of Sarahs-town, near Cross-
akiel, county Meath, was fired at the other evening,
through the window of the hall of his house while he was
ascending the staircase. Some grains of shot touched his
cheek. He had a grass farm, which the tenant said he
dared not hold, and gave up. He attempted to put cattle
on it himself.

The Weekly Register says it does not appear
probable that any very strenuous opposition to the dogma
of Infallibility will, after all, be made by the Magyar
or Slave Episcopate, Magyar Strossmayer is said to
have completely renounced any idea (if he ever had any)
of making any opposition, beyond a verbal one within the
Aula. There is every hope that the unanimity will be
nearly complete.

A. mysterious murder is under investigation in
Paris. Some persons employed in the washing barges
near the Pont d'Arcole remarked two persons, apparently
workmen, walking by the side of the river disputing.
They disappeared under an arch of the bridge. A mo-
ment after the report of a firearm was heard, and several
men, amongst them an inspector of police, hastening to
the spot, found the dead body of a man lying in a pool of
blood, with the face mutilated.

Mr. Edmund Yates, in a London Letter to the
TT estern Mail, says :—lt is understood that Mr. Seely,
the terror of the Admiralty, who has been singularly quiet
this session, has been occupied in preparing a thunderbolt
which he will shortly launch at the devoted head of the
First Lord. Of the nature of the charges to be brought
against the department nothing specific is known, but
the member for Lincoln is said to have prepared his case
with great care, and to be tolerably certain of proving it.
A very distressing accident happened on Thursday,
at Northowram, near Halifax. Mr. John Cawthera has a
coal pit there, and two of his sons, one aged twenty-six
and the other fifteen, were being lowered down the shaft
when the chain broke, and the cage and its occupants fell
to the bottom—about fifty yards—and were killed instantly,
A third brother, employed in the pit. at the time, had the
mournfnl task of assisting in bringing the bodies to the
surface, their father being also a witness of the melancholy
disaster.
WILLS.—The will of Admiral Sir Henry John
Leeke was sworn under £lO,OOO ; of Miss Harriet Luttrell,
of The Priory, Dunster, £70,000 ; of Joseph Gibbins,
Esq., of Houndshill, near Stratford-on-Avon, under
2300,000 • of John Cotton Wheeler, Esq., under £60,000 ;
and of Mrs. Harriet Fane under £40,000.

DESTITUTION Or THE SMITH FA➢IILY.—One morn-
ing a pompous little man called upon Sydney Smith,
saying that, being about to compile a history of distin-
guished families in Somersetshire, he had called to obtain
the Smith arms. " I regret, sir," said the reverend wit,
"my inability to contribute to so valuable a work ; but
the Smiths never had any arms,and have invariably sealed
their letters with their thumbs."
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SEA WATER FOR LONDON.---A "Learner writes
to the Builder sea water lake of ample circumference
would be a great boon to the inhabitants of London.
Salt water might be forced up, on an elevated part of the
coast, and conducted perenially, into a thermal reservoir.
Many lives would be saved, many morbid states cured
prevented by it, and the physical condition of the popula-
tion much improved. The surplus water might help to
flush the sewers.

ARREST OF AN ALLEGED SWINDLER.—Mr. James
Henry Pritchard, who has transacted large business in
Dublin in the tea trade, under the name of " Stephens
and C 0.," and who some days since was declared
a bankrupt, arrived in Kingstown on Wednes-
day evening by the mail steamer from Holyhead,
in company of Acting-Inspector Cooke, of the
G Division, who took charge of him in London,
where he was arrested. Mr. Pritchard was conveyed by
train to town. The property found with him was' duly
catalogued. It is stated that he had on his person over
£l,OOO in money, and in a valise a vast amount of valuable
property- consisting of gold watches, chains, rings, breast
pins, lockets, armlets, necklaces, brooches, pencils and
pencil cases, and a large number of documents. On
Thupda,y he pm brought before the magistrates and re-
manded.

A. new ktipeuthary magistrate for Sheffield has
been appointed isi tho person of Mr. James Edward
Davis, heretofore the stipendiary for the Potteries. Mr.
Davis was called to the bar 25th November, 1842, and
joined the Oxford Circuit, attending thf,Shropshire and
Staffordshire Sessions.

DR. ROWLAND, WILLIAMS'S WILL.—The will of
the Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams, vicar of Broad Chalke,
near Salisbury, one of the authors of "Essays and Re-
views," has been proved by the executrix and executors
---Mrs. Ellen Williams, the relict, and the Rev. Augustus
Jessop, Rev. John Pryce, and the Rev. John Owen,
clerks in holy orders. Deceased bequeaths his extensive
and valuable library of books "to the first town in Wales
or Monmouthshire which will provide a suitable reposi-
tory and means of paying a guardian of it, giving, how-
ever, the first offer to Swansea and the second to Carnar-
ven, the library to be usefully but prudently open to all
creeds, colours, and nationalities or ranks so ever."

THE FRENCH MINISTRY.—The Memorial Dip-
lomatique says that experience has confirmed the justice of
its denial of the rumours relating to the resignation of the
Ministry immediately after the Plebiscite, Those *ho
circulated the report lost sight of the object of
the Plebiscite, which was intended to confirm by
universal suffrage the liberal concessions of the Ministry
of the 2nd of January. Had the appeal to the people
resulted in a failure, in all probability M. 011ivier and his
colleagues would have resigned, but, under the present
circumstances, there is no occasion for them to do so. The
vacancies in the Cabinet will not he filled up until the
plebiscitary vote is verified by the Senate and the Corps
L6gislAtif, shortly after which the Journal Officicl will
probably publish the list of the completed Ministry.