The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

T LIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J LILY 19,. 1870.

MARKETS.

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY. —Fresh up to Mark
Lane, this doming, the' receipts of "wheat from Essex and Kent
have been limited, and the arrivals from abroad have been only
moderate:, The prospect of a general European war has produced
much excitement in the trade. Wheat has been very firm.
English-has risen 65., and foreign, ss. to. Bs. per quarter. For
barley' there has • been a strong "demand, and prices have
risen is. to 2s. per quarter. Malt has been steady, at full
prices. For oats the inquiry has • been-active, and an improve-
ment of 2s. 6d. per quarter has ensued. Beans and peas have
Item firm, and fully 2s. per quarter higher. Flour has been
,steady. Town rates have risen is., and otter qualities 4s, per
2801 b.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY -Supplies
of stock on sale here to-day were short, and the show of really
good animals was small. A large number of Spanish beasts
came to hand, but both these and the arrivals from Tonning
were below the average quality. There was considerable
animation in the demand, and choice beef advanced 2d. per
81bs. ; really prime Scotch and Herefords selling at ss. Gd. per
81bs. The number of sheep in the . pens was short, and
the quality of the animals was generally inferior. Prime South
Downs and half-bred wethers were in request, at an
improvement of 2d. per Blbs. on the week, the top price being
ss. 6d. per 81bs. Calves and pigs were unaltered in value ;
while lambs met a steady sale,-at late rates. Beasts have sold
at from 3s. 2d. to ss. 6d. ; sheep, 3s. 4d. to ss. 6d. ; lambs, Os. 4d.
to Os. Bd. ; calves, 3s. 10d. to ss. Gd. ; and pigs, 4s. 6d. to ss. Bd.
per 8 lbs. to sink the offal. Total supplies :-Beasts, 3,540 ;
sheep and lambs, 21,300 ; calves, 290 ; and pigs, 170. Foreign
Beasts, 1,660 ; sheep and lambs, 5,100 ; calves, 260 ; and
pigs, 60.
METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, MONDAY.-The sup-
ply of meat has been short. The trade has been firmer, as
follows :-Beef, from 3s. 4d. to ss. ; mutton, 3s. 10d. to ss. ;
lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. ; veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. ; and pork, 3s. Bd. to ss.
4d. per 81bs. by the carcase.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.—The supply of stock
at this market to-day was•much less than on last ➢Monday. The
demand was fair for best cattle. Sheep and lambs were higher
in price. Middling deseription was without alteration. Beef,
6d., 'lid. and Bd. per lb. Mutton, 7d. to 81d. per lb. Lambs,
lid. to 9d. per lb. There were at market 1,810 cattle, and
11,890 sheep.

LONDON TRADE REPORT, MONDAY.—The tallow market
is firm, at 455. 6d. for Y. C. on the spot, and 475. last three months.
Saltpetre was less excited, and the extreme price of 275. could
not be obtained. Linseed oil firm, at 31s. 3d. spot, and 31s. 6d.
Hull, spot. English brown rape unaltered. Metals are steady.
English pig lead is quoted at £lB 10.
COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS, MONDAY.—Sugar : The
market has opened- quietly, but rates are firm for all
descriptions. Very little produce has changed hands.
Rice—Owing to the probability that several cargoes now on the
way to Germany will be directed to England, the market has
ruled very flat, notwithstanding an advance of OS. to Bs. per
quarter in wheat. Corn is still drooping in value. Coffee—There
is nothing doing in any description, and prices shew weakness.
Provisions were excited to-day.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—This market
opened quiet to-day, at about Saturday's rates. The sales will
probably reach 7,000 bales.—(Close.)—The market closed quietly
to-day. Sales, 6,000 bales, of which 500 on speculation and for
export. 4,090 American sold at 54d. to 101 d. ; 160 Pernambuco,
10d. ; 150 ,Maranham, 10d. to 111 d. ; 250 Egyptian, 11d. to
13d. ; 10 Smyrna, 9d. : 40 Peruvian, 101 d. to 111 d. ; 1,300 Surat,
Gad. to 9d. Imports, 602 bales.
MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, MoNDAY.—Business re-
mains in a great measure suspended, owing to the war between
France and Prussia, that being the principal topic of discussion
on 'Change, almost to the exclusion of ordinary business. The
grave aspect of affairs on the Continent causes buyers to delay
any purchases they had contemplated making until the course
of events is more plainly discernible. Meanwhile, there is no
pressure to sell, and prices are tolerably steady, though sellers
refuse no reasonable offers.

AGRICULTURE AND THE CORN TRADE.
At the commencement of the week, says the Magnet,
the corn trade was in a state of suspension owing
to the uncertainty attending the political situa-
tion. Small retail purchases were made from
time to time by millers, who shewed no dis-
position to operate in the face of the early increase
in stocks, which will take place on the reaping of the
harvest, which may be expected to become general in
about a week or ten days. The Continental crisis which
has now arisen, however, afforded a good pretext to
factors for demanding more money, as in the event of an
European war our foreign trade would be greatly inter-
fered with. As soon as war was actually declared the
market became much excited, and valued tended rapidly
upwards. Parcele of grain afloat were held at a rise of
ss. on the week, and transactions were actually reported
at that advance. Stocks, however, are still large, and
there is a large quantity of surplus produce available
for export from America, so that there is little fear
of any great scarcity prevailing for the present. The
wheat plant is lcokin, well, and is rapidly approaching
maturity. The dry forcing weather of the past few
weeks has had the effect• of hurrying vegetation for-
ward, and the quality of the wheat of 1870 will probably
be very good. If we can only secure dry weather
for carrying the crop, we shall have had a remarkably
propitious wheat season this year. On all well-farmed
lands the plant presents a most satisfactory appearance,
but en some light soils the plant has suffered from bhe
long-continued lack of moisture—especially where sown
late—being light and thin on the ground. It may be
hoped, however, that the return on heavy soils will
make up for the deficiency on light ones. Barley on
light and gravelly soils will certainly give a return under
the average, but the recent rains have benefited the crop
generally. There can be little doubt, however, that the
yield of the plant will be much deteriorated this year, as
this is a cereal which requires no inconsiderable quantity
of moisture. Oats are in a similar position, being short
in the straw and thin in the ear; nevertheless, this crop
has vastly improved of late. Both Scotland and Ireland have
this year had a sufficient rainfall to benefit the crops,
thereby standing in marked distinction to England.
Here all crops are short in the straw, but this does not
appear to be the case in North Britain. Roots have
greatly improved since the late rain, and the prospects of
forage generally have changed for the better. Wheat
yesterday at Mark Lane sold- at a rise of from five to
eight shillings a quarter.
We have had (says the Mark-Lane Express) an entire
week of real Midsummer weather, and the smart rains
which have fallen occasionally have served to fill out the
ears of corn, as well as hasten its maturity. Not
only has the cutting of oats commenced, hut
also of peas, and we have heard that some
Talavera wheat has been cut as well. Rain will yet
favour the late corn, especially the beans, which are
very short; but the wheat generally would be better
without it. The meadows still look too brown, though
improving ; but along the southern roast as well as
in the north and west, they have throughout the season
fared better than the Midland and Eastern Counties.
As a whole, wheat continues to look well, though some
pieces have been blighted ; and on all the light lands,
which were almost burnt in June, there must be hot only
a bad yield of hay and spring corn, but also of wheat.
The influence of the war has already had a hardening
effect on prices, just as they were receding, and a
sort of paralysis has come over parts of Germany and
France during the uncertainty of politics. Paris is
rather dearer for wheat, as well as several other places
in France;
.but the grain first to be affected will be oats,
for which, in -a time of peace, the French have been pay-
ing great prices, and the requirements of cavahy will be
enormously costly, and perhaps produce an order in
Council against the export of oats ; while our supplies
from the Baltic and Russia will be considerably les-
sened.

A serious stabbing case occurred in Liverpool on
Saturday night. Two seamen, named Frances and Allen,
quarrelled, and during the altercation, Frances, it is said,
stabbed the other man three times in the arm. The
wounds are considered dangerous.

ESCAPE OF A FEMALE PRISONER.—Mary O'Neill
who was convicted at the last Newcastle Sessions of rob-
bery from the person, and sentenced to seven yearepenal
servitude, escaped on Sunday mornin from Newcastle
Gaol. She had broken away a bar from her cell win-
dow, then got on the roof of a washhouse adjoining the
boundary wall, and by means of a short rope descended
on the other side of the wall, which is 25 feet high. Up
to Sunday evening she had not been captured.

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICES.—The
select committee appointed to inquire into the nature of
the diplomatic service resumed their sittings on Monday,
afternoon, Mr. Bouverie in the chair, when it was ex-
pected that Mr. Otway, the Under-Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, would have been examined ; but as soon as the
committee met it was notified that in the present state of
things, war having just been declared between France
and Prussia, it would be very impolitic on the part of a
British Minister to express any opinion with respect to
continental missions, and accordingly the committee, after
a few questions necessary to complete the evidence of the.
Hon. Mr. Lytton, adjourned.

COLOUR IN THE SENATE.—John Chinaman has as
yet no possible place in the temple of the constitution ;
for the definition of citizen of the United States requires
either an American birth or a naturalization, and all our
naturalization laws still require that the would-be citizen
shall be a free " white " man. As a new naturalization
law is before the Senate it was to be supposed that this
point would come up, and it did. Mr. Sumner moved to
strike out the word white " wherever it occurred. This
immediately excited several senators who represent con-
stituencies that do not admire the Celestial, and they
opposed the motion with clamour. It is noteworthy
that they are irreproachable republicans and gentlemen
who always kept their seats with commendable patience
when Mr. Sumner was in the habit of making exactly the
same motion in favour of Sambo. Hereupon, therefore,
arises the inquiry, wherein lies the inferiority of yellow to
black—what is there in a black man that we should yield
to him we refuse to the man of intermediate colour? It
will be one of the funniest things in- political history to
hear our Senators making arguments against the China-
man that shall not condemn their own several courses
with regard to the negro.—Herald.
TIIE "GLORIOUS FOURTH."—The New York
Herald declares that the Fourth of 1870, with the Union
restored, and equal civil and political rights established
in the supreme law of the land, was the grandest ever
known. The Tribune of the sth indulges in the following
reflections :—" The unusually cool and beautiful weather
yesterday was provocative of more than usual
enthusiasm, and the celebration of Indepen-
dence Day was more general than it has been
for many years before. - The incidents, however, were of
the stereotyped kind. In this city there were the morn-
ing parade, the afternoon meetings and speeches, and the
evening sulphurous swindle in all the public parks. The
celebration in the city was comparatively quiet in con-
sequence of the absence of many thousands of citizens on
excursions to parks and villages, and the sea-shores in
the vicinity. At Woodstock Conecticut, President Grant
added by his presence to the interest of the occasion.
Everywhere we observe that the celebration of the day
has been marked by less of parade and more of quiet en-
joyment. fewer Chinese crackers and more American sen-
timent, than in days past. In Paris and other continen-
tal cities, wherever a few Americans were gathered
together, there was speech-making and gladness of heart ;
and indeed, well-nigh the world around the Star-Spangled
banner was toasted, and the bird of Freedom rhetorically
exalted in honour of " the Fourth."