The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-18 00:00:00

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have no decline to notice in value. Notwith-
standing the quantity of Oats brought forward was
again limited, especially that of home growth, the Oat
trade was rather dull. In prices, however, we have no
alteration to notice. All kinds of Bears, the supply of
which was on the increase, moved off slowly at late rates.
The inquiry for Peas was restricted to small parcels, at
last Monday's prices. Indian corn and meal were held;
at extreme rates of value. The quantities on offer were
small. In flour, rather a limited business was trans-
acted. No change took place in prices.

CITRRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Kheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier..
Red. .• .. •• • • 50s to 578 Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto,White, New 56s 64s Lincolnsh., Feed. 21s 24s
Norfolk and Lin- Potato ...... 253 27s
coin, Red... • • 508 56s Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White.. •• • • 55s 61s Black .•• • • 183 20s
Irish, Red •••• • • • • —ll Cork, White . 208 238
Ditto,White• ••• • • —s Scotch, Feed. 24s 26s
Rye—Old •••••• • • • • • • —B e Beans—Tick ..... 343 373
Pigeons ... 37s 398
Barley—Grinding .•• • • 27s 303 Peas—Grey .. •• • 333 423
Malting .•••• • • • • 30s 338 Maple... • • ESS 42s
Chevalier • • •• • 34s 35s White. .... ... 38s 40s
Ifalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers • •. 40s 438
folk •• • • • • 57s 59s Flour—Town•made •-• • f-Os 538
Brown .•• • • • • 48s 55s Suffolk ••••• • • • •• 453 48s
Kingston and Ware 608 • 63s Stockta & Norfolk 443 48s
SMITHFIELD.

Last week's imports of foreign stock into London
were as under:—

Lambs. Calve?. Pigs

From Beasts. Sheep.
Nieuport 144 ...
Bremen l5B ... •••
Harlingen
Rotterdam
Hamburgh
Hjerting. 3 ...
Havre — 34 ...
Amsterdam ... 52 ... 529 ... ••• 38
Antwerp ...... 50 ...
Ostend ... ... 50

..... • •• •-•

... ""

... -'

3:13 12

231

Total 1,163 5,407
Corresponding
week in 1847 1,168 ... 3,297 ... 176 ... 315 120

Difference ... 5 less. 2,110 more. 55 more 68 m. 108 1.
Full average time-of-year supplies of stock have been
landed at the northern outports from Holland and Ger-
many, viz, 3,60 head, in the quality of which no im-
provement has taken place, if we except the Calves,
which have been landed in gocd condition. At South-
ampton, 120 oxen have been received from Portugal, 92
of which were disposed of to the local butchers at fair
prices, the remainder having been forwarded to this mar-
ket per railway. Other cargoes are expected to follow.
The following statement shows the total imports of
foreign stock into the United Kingdom, during the first
seven months of this and the two preceding years, end-
ing on the sth of August:-
1846. 1847. 1848.
Oxen
Cows
Calves
Sheep
Lambs
Pigs
To-day we were again somewhat heavily supplied with
foreign stock, a large portion of which was of very mid-
dling and inferior quality. All breeds met a dull sale,
at drooping prices. The supply of home-fed Beasts on
diler was very extensive as to number, it considerably
exceeding that shown on this day se'nnight; but its
general quality was comparatively inferior, especially as
relates to the droves from the western and midland
counties. The attendance of both town and country
buyers was by no means large, while the Bt of trade
ruled exceedingly heavy, at a decline in the quotations
of Monday last of 2d per 81bs. We may observe, how-
ever, that a few of the very primest Scots were disposed
of with difficulty at 45 per sibs. A large number of
Beasts were driven out unsold at the close of business.
From the northern districts we received about 1.200
short horns ; from the Eastern, Western, and Midland
counties 1,100 Herefords, runts, Devons, short horns,
and Irish Beasts ; from other parts of England 1,200 of
various breeds ; and from Scotland 220 horned and
polled Scots, partly by railway. The remainder of the
Bullock supply was derived from abroad and the
neighbourhood of London. There was a slight
falling-off in the number of Sheep ; neverthe-
less, the demand for that description of stock
was heavy, and prices receded 2d per Blbs. A few
very superior old Downs, which were scarce, produced
5s per Blbs. Long-woolled Sheep generally were very
dull. There was a fair average number of Lambs in the
market. All breeds moved off slowly, at barely stationary
prices. The sale for Calves was far from active, yet
Friday's advanced rates were mostly supported. For
Pigs the inquiry was steady, at last week's improvement
in value. Neat small Porkers sold as high as 5a 2d
per 81bs.

Per alba. to sink the offal.
a. d. to a. d. a. d. to a. d.
Inferior Beasts-- 210 3 0 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4
second quality ••.. 3 2 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8
Prime large Oxen.. 3 6. 3 8 Southdown Wether 410 5 0
Prime Scots .• • ... 310 4 0 Ditte eut of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs ...... 4 0 4 6
Prime small ditto .. 4 2 4 4 Small Porkers .... 4 8 5 2
Suckling Calves ..17 0 25 0 Quarter old Pigs —l6 0 24 0
Inferior Sheep .. • 3 8 4 0 Lambs •• .• •... .. 4 0 b 0
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
I I
Sheep. Calves. 1 Pigs.
1 27.400 216 413
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
817 3,170. 1 110
, I
NEVITGATE AND LEAD ENU A ILL.

Beasts.
4,70$

Rather extensive supplies of country-killed Meat have
been received up to these markets since Monday last, they
having consisted of 350 carcases of Beef, 600 ditto of
Mutton, 400 ditto of Lamb, 220 ditto of Veal, and 540
ditto of Pork. Those on offer slaughtered in the me-
tropolis have been seasonably good; nevertheless, the
general demand has ruled firm. Beef, Mutton, and
Lamb have sold at full prices. Veal has advanced from
2d to 4d, and Pork Gd to 8d per Sibs. Ups ards of 1,600
carcases of, foreign meat have found buyers at full cur-
rencies.

At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. i s. d. to E. d.
lleef,inferior...... 2 8 210 Mutton, inferior •• 3 6 310
- middling .... 3 0 3 2 middling•• 4 0 4 4
- primelarge .• 3 2 3 4 , prime •••• 4 6 4 8
- prime small .. 3 4 3 6 1 Pork, large.• •••• • • 3 8 4 8
Veal• ••••••• • • • • • • 3 6 4 4 1 -small •. 410 8 4
Lamb. 4s Od to 5s 01.
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELBS.

These markets continue to bo heavily supplied with
potatoes, the condition of which is falling off. The
best samples are selling readily at from 61. to 61. 3s. per
ton, and the value of other kinds is well supported, with
a good business doing.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
Several fresh parcels of new Hops have arrived here
of good colour. The Sussex qualities have sold at
from 90s to 955, and the Kent ditto 95s to 105 s per
cwt. The prospect of a large growth has sent up the
duty to 205,0001., and had a depressing influence upon the
demand for yearling and old Hops, ut drooping prices.
Yearlings—Sussex pockets, 21 2s to 2/ ros; Weald
of Kent ditto 21 5s to 21 12s ; Mid and East Kent
ditto, 2/ lOs to 51 per cwt.

WOOL.
Very large quantities of Wool were imported into
London last week, viz. 202 bales from 11,nabay; 236
do., from Trieste ; 549 do., from Hamburgh ; 422 do.,
from Taganrog; do., 4OO from Port Beaufort; 400 do.,
from Adlaide; 90 do., from the Cape; 600 do., from
Algoa Bay; 1,600 do., from Sydney; and 19 bags from
Jamaica. The public sales held since our last report,
have been well attended by English and foreign
buyers, and a fair average quantity of Wool has been
disposed of, at full prices. The supplies on offer in the
private contract market are large; while the demand
fur all descriptions is in a sluggish state, at unaltered
quotations.

L.
Since our last report oTAL
maOW ur rket has ruled very active,
and prices havo advanced 2s per cwt. P.Y.C. on the
spot is selling to-day at 47s 3d to 47 6:1, and nearly
equally high rates aro demanded for forward delivery.
Last week's delivery was good. Town Tallow is
47s fid to 47s 9d per cwt. nett cash; rough fat has risen
to 2s 81d per Sibs. Letters from St. Petersburgh re-
present a good trade to be doing there at improved
quotations.

WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENTS ON
THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
Mr. Wilson having been engaged by the committee of
the Whittington Club to give two of his ever popular
entertainments, on Wednesday and Saturday evenings,
the large room of the Crown and Anchor was crowded to
excess with eager listeners. Mr. Wilson never was in
better voice, and the entertainments were received most
rapturously. The first evening he sang a selection of
favourite songs, and on Saturday he gave his beautiful
entertainment on Sir Walter Scott's ' Lady of the
Lake," which was listened to with breathless attention,
and applauded to the echo. W here all the songs
are so exquisite it is difficult to particularise, but
the audience seemed greatly delighted with the fine
spirited boat•song, " Hail to the Chief," with Norman's
song "The heath this night must be my bed," and with
the " Ave Maria," which was beautifully sung. After
the Lady of the Lake, he sang some of his charac-
teristic songs, and in such a way as only he can sing
them. " Young Lochinvar" was demanded a second
time most vociferously, as were some of the humorous
songs.
Mr. Wilson is about to pay a visit to America, where
we doubt not his entertainments will be as success-
ful as they have been everywhere else ; for although
many of his imitators have gone there before
him, yet the Americans do not require to be
told that Wilson, as ho was the first, is still
the best of all who have attempted this species of
monologue entertainment, for in all styles he is equally
at home. In his plaintive strains he causes many a tear
to flow, in his humorous ones he provokes the liveliest
laughter, and in his martial strains he inspires the most
sluggish hearer with heroic enthusiasm. Befcre he
crosses the Atlantic he is to give a farewell' enter-
tainment in Exeter llall, which, large though it be,
we are sure will not contain all the friends that would
like to rally round Scotia's Minstrel on this occasion.
Next Thursday is the night on which he sings his
farewell strains; the programme is made up of all his
finest and most attractive songs, and the cheers of
those whom he has on many an occasion delighted
will lighten his way across the mighty deep. Success
to him in his journey through the United States, and
may he soon return to his " ain countrie!"

EARLY CLOSING OF BBANKERS.—Messrs. Coutts
and Co., the bankers, have issued the following circular
to their customers, announcing their intention of joining
with the other West-end bankers in (-losing business at
the earlier hour of fcur P.N.:—" It having been signified
that the closing at four o'clock by the Bank of England,
the City bankers, and joint-stock banks has been carried
out with complete success, and (it being considered of
great importance that a uniformity of hours should con-
tinue to guide all banking houses, Messrs. Coutts and
Co. beg to give notice that on and after Alonday, the
2d of October next, the hour of closing will be four
o'clock, instead of five o'clock, 49 at present."

FRANCE.

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
Saturday nrght]:—
The Moniteur du Soir announces, on the authority
of a letter from Turin, that Charles Albert refuses to
renew the armistice which is to expire on the 214
inst. It is added that he has at present 102,000
men under arms, and that he will have assembled
150,000 before the expiration of the truce. It is
further asserted that he has given orders to purchase
four steamers to be armed for war.

Tho Committee of Legislation has examined a pro-
position, made by M. Xavier Durrieu, for depriving
the Executive Government of the faculty of suspend-
ing journals during the state of siege. After hearing
the author of the proposition, it decided, by a majority
of I 1 to 8, that it would recommend the previous
question to be moved upon it.
The Central Democratic Committee has, in conse-
quence of the retirement of M. Horace Say, put
forward M. E. Adam, M. Gervais (de Caen), and M.
Roger (du Nord) as its candidates.
M. Louis Blanc has written a letter to the editor
of the Reforme, in which he postively denies that he
has exerted his influence in the clubs, or among his
partisans, on behalf of Prince Louis Napoleon.
The Lieutenant-Colonel and Chefs de Bataillon of
the 4th Legion of the National Guard of the Banlieue
have addressed a letter to the General Commanding-
in-Chief of the National Guards of the Seine, com-
plaining that General Piat, the Colonel of the Legion,
has so described himself in the addresses he has pub-
lished in support of the candidateship of Prince Louis
Napoleon, that he has identified in a manner the
Legion with his proceedings; they protest against it
being supposed that he is acting with the co-operation
of the Legion.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
THE FRENCH ON THE COAST OF AFRICA.—We have
heard from good authority that Commodore Sir C.
Hotharn, the Commander in Chief on the coast of Afr'ca,
is not at all satisfied with some late proceedings of the
French squadron at Nun( z and other parts of the
African coast, and has made several representations
the home Government on the subject.
THE SLAVE TRADE.--We have heard, from very good
authority, that Lord Palmerston is at the present mo-
ment negotiating another treaty with the Brazilian
Government for the more effectual suppression of the
slave•trade. His Lordship has proposed that the Bra-
zilian subjects captured in the act of conveying African
negroes, for the purposes of slavery, shall be delivered
up to the Brazilian authorities, to be tried by their own
national tribunals, and punished accordingly if proved
guilty.
The camp at Everton is to be broken up about the
20th instant, when two companies of the 81st, now sta-
tioned at Chester, will rejoin head-quarters, and be re-
lieved, it is expected, by the head-quarters, and three
companies of the 46th. The 81st are next on tarn for
Ireland, in the north-west district. Several large build-
ings have been taken for the reception of the troops,
until proper barracks have been built, fur which pur-
pose the Ordnance department are in search of land of
about 25 acres.
CANDIDATES FOR COMMISSIONS.—WO are glad to find
that the Secretary-at-War has sanctioned the introduc-
tion into all the military libraries of the work we com-
mended some time since, and called to the attention of
the military authorities, published by Quartermaster
Doherty; it is entitled " Private Soldiers, Non Commis-
sioned Officers, and Candidates for Commissions," and
contains good advice for his own future advantage, and
the good of the service.
TOWER OF LONDON.—The Commanding Officer of the
Fortress ordered a few days since, the light 12-pounder
guns mounted, opposite to the Warder's Hall, to be
lowered into the ditch, which has been well drained,
and made into an excellent drill-ground. The
non-commissioned officers of the battalion of Guards,
stationed in the Tower, were drilled during the
week at gun exercise, under a sergeant of the Royal
Artillery ; but the gun was found to be of too heavy
calibre, and has been replaced in its old position. An-
other gun will shortly be provided for the use of the
men.

Captain Peter Richard, C. 8., late Flag-Captain to
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, in the Hibernia, 104,
and appointed Superintendent at Pembroke Dockyard,
vice Rear-Admiral Gordon Falcon, has arrived in town
from Naples, and will proceed forthwith to Pembroke.
Captain the Hon. R. F. Hastings, appointed to the
command of the Cyclops steam-frigate, arrived in town
yesterday, and has proceeded to Portsmouth to take up
his appointment. The Cyclops proceeds on the Ist of
next month to the coast of Africa, taking the mails to
Madeira, Cape de Verds, Sierra Leone, an,l Ascension.
Captain Hastings relieves Captain Rodney Eden, in the
Amphitrite, 26, which ship proceeds to the Pacific, and
relieves the Calypso, 20, Captain Worth, ordered home
to be paid off.
The Commission appointing Admiral the Hon. Sir
Thomas Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief, to
succeed Sir C. Ogle, at Portsmouth, has been duly
signed by the Earl of Auckland, &c., during the visit of
the Board of Admiralty to Portsmouth this week.
GENERAL 0/FICERS' INCREASED PAY.—Major-Gene-
ral N. Thor❑ has succeeded to the increased pay of five-
and-twenty shillings per diem from the 21st ultimo.
In recording these additions to a general officer's
income, it is our custom to revert to the services of the
recipient. On this occasion we follow the practice with
singular pleasure, for there is a long roll of gallant ser-
vice to the credit of Major-General Thorn. He en-
tered the Army in October, 1802. Accompanying the
3d Buffs to the Peninsula, he served with them from
August, 1808, until January, 1809, and again in June,
1809, when he commanded the Light Company at the
battle of Telavera. Fr(,m January to March, 1810,
Major-General Thorn was employed as an Officer of
Observation in Spanish Estremadura, after which he
assisted as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General
with the Second Division of the Army, and continued
in that office until the close of the war in 1814. He was
present in that interval at the battles of Busaco and
Albuhera, the first siege ut Badajca, the actions of Ar-
royo de Moline), and Almaras, tha battles of Vittoria. the
Pyrenees, Nivelle, the Nive, Garris, Orthes, the action
of Aire, and the battle of Toulouse. Scarcely had the
Peninsular war terminated when Major-General (then
Major) Thorn proceeded to Canada as an Assistant
Quartermaster-General, and was present at the battle of
Plattsburg. He has been once wounded (at the Nive)
and has had three horses killed.

Major-General W. 11. Sewell. C. 8., has succeeded to
the increased pay of twenty-five shillings per diem.
The Major-General is a Peninsular officer, and has been
in the army two-and-forty years. Ilia last employment
was in India, where he commanded a division of the
Madras Army, having previously held the office of
Deputy-Quartermaster-General.
ADMIRALTY Ecosolm—Whilst the Admiralty are
reducinc, our dockyard men, and cutting down the royal
dockyards in all directions—whilst fancy frigates
remain untouched in the royal docks for months,
when other ships wanting repairs are rotting at their
moorings, their Lordships, with that wise economy
which characterises their administration of naval
affairs, prefer to employ contractors on the Thames to
build, alter, and improve her Majesty's ships in their
private establishments. In our national dockyards we
cannot afford to pay our artisans more than 4s. per day;
but to the contractor on the Thames, 7s. a day to the
shipwrights, and 15 per cent. besides to the master for
profit, both on wages and material, is scarcely thought
an adequate remuneration. The Blenheim, screw guard
ship, was altered and converted upon this scale, and cost
between 40,0001. and 50,000/. ; and the cost of La
liegue, similarly converted, and just released from
Green's yard, will be pretty much to the same tune.
She has been i❑ Green's dock for two years, and
during this time the Admiralty has been charged
three guineas a day for its use, and some ten shil-
ling a day for the use of a storehouse to keep the
Government materials in which Mr. Green is using in
the work. On all the materials drawn from the
dockyard the contractor is allowed to charge 15 per
cent. on what it is booked to him at. lie has his own
price for his own materials ; he has seven shillii.gs a day
for his workmen, and 15 per cent, on the seven shillings
a day for profit. And this heavy extra expense is in-
curred in time of peace, when we have so many exten-
sive establishments, and are actually reducing the num-
ber of me❑ in the dockyards for lack of employment for
them 1