The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-21 00:00:00

MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TuESDAY.—Opening Report.—
There was a good attendance of millers and dealers at the open-
ing of this market to-day. • There was a fair inquiry for wheat
at Id. per cental advance on Friday's currency. Other articles
were unchanged. Indian corn, 28s. 6d. to 295. per quarter.—
Closing report.—There has been during the day a full atten-
dance of buyers at the market and increased confidence
among holders. Wheat closes a good, per coital dearer for all
kinds, and a full extent of business has been transacted.
Canadian peas, 365. 6d. All other• articles are much about the
same as on Friday. Indian corn closes at 275. 6d. to 275. 9d.

LEEDS CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a good
'attendance of the trade to-day. rine wheats are in request, at
is. per qr. advance ; the secondary sorts, however, are no
dearer. There is a good demand for fine malting barley, at is.
advance, but inferior descriptions are also unaltered. There is
not much change in other articles. .

HULL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—The supply of English
wheat is small, at an advance of is. Nothing is doing in foreign
wheat, it being relatively.dearer than English. Barley is is. to
2s. dearer. Beans, peas, and oats are unaltered.
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TIIESDAY.—At this market
to-day there was ,a better supply from farmers than last week,
but business was dull, at Saturday's advance of one shilling per
quarter.

NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—At this market
io-day the supply of beasts was smaller, of sheep larger. The
market was active. Prices for best beef Bs. 6d. to 9s. 3d. Other
kinds, 7s. 9d. to Bs. 6d. Sheep sold at about last week's prices.
METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a
larger supply of meat on sale here to-day. Consequently the
demand was less active, but • without any material change in
prices :—Beef, from 3s. Bd. to ss. 2d. ; mutton, 4s. to ss. 4d. ;
veal, 55.. to ss. 4d. ; and pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. per 81bs. by the
carcase.

COLONIAL AND. FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET, TUES-
DAY.-Tea.-The public sales of china tea have progressed with
fair spirit, but prices have occasionally ruled in favour of
buyers. Sugar.-Large supplies have been on offer, The mar-
ket has been quiet, on former terms. Dahs Barbadoes, 245. to
255.; good brown and good bright yellow, 255. 6d. to 30s. ; refined
grocery, 265. tb 28s. ; brown Jamaica, 255. ; Grenada, 245. 6d. ;
fine and superior crystallised Mautitius, 355. 6d. to 36. Cof-
feehas been dull and drooping. Middling and good bold colony,
83s. 6d: to 12s. 6d. ; fine .bold colony, 735. 6d. ; rather small,
655. per cwt. Cocoa has -been dull, and Grenada sorts have
fallen 25.. Common to fine. 435. to 695. 6d. ; common to fine
Trinidad, 595. to 80s.
LONDON TALLOW MARKET, TUESDAY. -The market is
steady New Y.C. spot, 445. 6d. ; last three months 445. 6d.
LONDON METAL. MARKET, TUESDAY.-Scotch pig iron is
dull, at 51s. 9d. cash. Tin is quiet. Straits, £124. Copper is flat.
Chili bars, ££63los. to £64.
• LONDON OIL MARKET, TUESDAY.-Linseed is steady, at
30s. 6d. t 0.305. 9d. spot. Rape is quiet and unaltered.
METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY.
-There was a moderate supply on sale at to-day's market.
The demalid was active, and prices were firm :-Prime old hay,
1265. to 1355. ; inferior ditto,• 110 s. to 1205. ; prime new hay,
115 s. to 1255. ; inferior ditto, ICOs. to 110 s. ; prime clover, 130 s.
to 1425. 6d. • inferior ditto, 115 s. to 1255. ; prime new second
cut clover:22os. to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 115 s. ; and
straw, 30s. to 345. per load.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TNESDAY.-Opening Report.
-Import, per bill of entry, 7,380 bales. The market opened
with .a good average inquiry. Holders are firm. Prospective
sales, 10,000 bales:-

LEEDS TRADE. REPORT, TUESDAY.—In the cloth hall there
was a large attendance to-day, not only of the local houses, but
of the buyers, for London, Manchester, and some Irish and
Scotch houses. It appears that there is no further
extension of German orders, but manufacturers de-
pend a good deal upon their early arrivals. In
the absence of any fresh foreign trade the market
was no more lively than it has lately been. Some selections
were made of goods suitable to the season, but it is too late to
expect much enlargement of the home demands. It will hence-
forth most likely be no more than of a hand-to-mouth charac-
ter. In the tweed department waterproofs of various
shades are in occasional request. Fewer Victories have
been sold than for many weeks past. Fancy ceatings
for winter have also fallen off, but spring designs of the same
class of goods are greatly inquired after : it is rather early for
much business in them, but nearly every merchant, has his full
supply of samples. Both, in the iron and wool trades there is
full work. Engines, machines, and tools are made at all the
works acccording, to the fullness of their resources.

MANCHESTEIit TRADE REPORT,' TUESDAY.—This market
to-day skews no signs of animation in any branch of business.
The inquiries for,yarns and goods have been extremely few, and
Prices have ruled but very slightly in favour of buyers. Yarn
is fully as steady, as cloth; and many spinners prefer waiting
rather than make any concession in price, as the opinion is
gaining ground that the negotiations for peace may be success-
ful, in which case we are sure to have a rebound in
prices, though it may not be of long duration. The
transactions of the day have been of limited extent.
Very little has been done in yarn,s for shipping. For the home
trade fair sales have been made, as manufacturers are low in
stocks of yarns. The cloth market is very flat, but there is no
pressure to sell, nor are there any large offers in the market.
Quotations to-day :-39-inch shirtings, 71bs. ordinary to best
makes, Bs. lid. to Bs. 9d. ; ditto 811bs., Bs. 9d. to 10s. 3d. Num-
ber 40's mule yarn, is. 2d.; 30's water twist, is. lid. The market
closes quiet, and barely steady in price.
' BELFAST TRADE REPORT, TIIESDAY.—Yarns.---Although
the transactions of the past week were not so extensive as in the
week preceding, still a fair amount of business was accom-
plished, and a more cheerful feeling seemed generally prevalent.
Some manufacturers seemed disposed to invest with confidence,
acting under the impression that prices have reached the lowest
point. COnsiderable sales were effected. In a certain number
•of tow webs there is -no change to.note in position. For the
home trade there is an increased amount of busi-
neis., Transactions on • cross Channel account increase
in series. From the Continent appear orders to a limited
extent. Stocks have become somewhat reduced during the
week. Prices were well maintained. In some cases spinners
declined to enter into contract for future delivery. Medium
numbers, line weft, 3s. 6d. per bundle.—Linens: Brown power-
loom light linens, for bleaching. An increased amount of busi-
ness has been accomplished, but the demand is again quiet.
Stocks are stationary. Prices are slightly in favour of the
buyers.=Heavy Linens : The improvement in the de rand last
announced continues to prevail. Stocks are stationary.
Prices are well supported. Cloth suitable for the
foreign clothing trade : The business accomplished
is merely moderate. Stocks and prices shew little altera-
tion.—Cloth for dyeing and Hollands : The demand is
steady. Medium fine sets and coarse sets are a dull sale. Prices
are tolerably steady. Stocks are not increased.—Roughs of
approved makes : All widths again met with a fair demand.
Rates were firm. Stocks are small. Common makes continue
difficult of disposal, at very irregular prices.
GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The market
to-day was dull. A thousand tons was done at 51s. Bd. cash,
closing buyers.

CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, TUESDAY.—A good
business was done at this market to-day at previous rates.

The engine of the mail train which was precipi-
tated into the river at Tamworth last week was on
Monday extricated from the •position into which it was
thrown, and it was found to be not irreparably damaged.
The bed of the river was afterwards carefully searched,
but no more dead bodies were found. The driver, Taylcr,
and the fireman, Davis, were buried at Stafford, and
about seven thousand persons attended the funeral.
Before the coffins there were one hundred and fifty of the
company's servants, and.behind as many clubmen of the
Foresters' order, to which the driver belonged.
IN A FRENCH PRlSON.—Captain C. C. Heller re-
lates that on the last day of August he was captured by a
French corvette, whilst in command of a Hamburg
steamer. After fourteen days he was sent to Dunkirk.
He says :—Here I was thrown, with the men, into a
common prison hole, and, like a criminal, I had to give
up my watch, money, knife—in fact, everything I pos-
sessed. Two buckets of water were given us, the one
for drinking, the other for washing purposes. In-
stead of a towel, we used the slips of our shirts,
and our fingers served the purpose of a comb. At
8 a.m. we got one loaf of bread between us for the
whole day, and, for want of other instrument, had to tear
it up with our fingers and teeth as best we could. Besides
this, we had twice a day a kind of soup, consisting of
warm water, bread, and the parings of potatoes, turnips,
and cabbage—a food only fit for our German pigs. For
the night we got another bucket of fresh water, and on
Sunday two loth (loz.) of meat. Like cattle, we were
driven in the evening to bed, and in the morning to wash-
ing. This laited six days, and lam still trembling with
rage when I think of it. I entreated and paid the keeper
for a piece of paper, and wrote the first day to my consul,
complaining of the treatment, but only succeeded in
getting permission to buy some victuals with my own
money, and to go under escort on board my ship in
order to pack up my clothes, &o. Alas ! there was
little to pack ; all the best things had been stolen. It
would carry me too far to describe to you all our suffer-
ings. All my endeavours to be treated as a human being
were of no avail. After six days'confinement we were
conducted in chains to Lille, where we were to be set free
on parole : but a guard of 20 soldiers and six gendarmes
were unable to protect us from being pelted with stones,
dirt, and women's slippers by the inhabitants. I was,
with three of my officers, provided with money. and we
travelled with a compulsory pas-Tort via Paris to this
place, where we live comfortably in an hotel at the cost
of the French Government. There are 17 other masters
Of German ships here, and we are all doing very well.

THE WAR.

SEDAN AFTER THE BATTLE.

A correspondent of the, Gonstitutionnel, writing from
the neighbourhood of Sedan, says, " I have returned with
a sad heart from a rapid excursion to the field of battle,
and I 'can hardly describe the feelings I experienced
'during the hours I wandered over the scene of the gigantic
struggle of the first of September. My guide was a poor
peasant from the environs of Aubecourt, who had been
ruined by the• devastations of the enemy. Being un-
Willing to pass through Sedan for fear of being stopped I
went along hy the Meuse by the side of Bazeilles. After
some- hours we came to the village, which is now a heap
of ruins. Bazeilles contained 2,000 inhabitants; and was
situated in the midst of fine plantations of poplars:
It was full of foundries,' forges, and manufactories,
one was in the chateau where Turenne passed his earliest
years, but all that now remain are the ashes of a terrible
auto-da-fe. -All the houses -have been burned to the
ground• by the Bavarians. In the midst of the blackened
walls one can see the remains of the corpses which were
burned, and the sight is a most heartrending one. In the
neighbourhood thero reigns a silence, a gloom, and a
lugubrious appearance which freezes one. Never since
the beginning of it have I more fully realised the
savage character of the war which our enemies are waging
against us than when I witnessed these ruins, mixed up with
fragments of human bodies. No ; this is not what can be
called fighting; the Huns of Attila could not have acted
otherwise. I passed away from this scene of horror, turn-
ing to the right towards Sedan. I went over a part of the
battlefield. The fields are full of tombs where the bodies
have been hastily put in,' and hardly covered up with
earth here and there. I shuddered to see the figure of
cone of them appearing on the top of the ditch. At each
step I fell over caps, broken guns, chests full of ammuni-
tion; the bodies of horses half devoured by worms and
flies,,and still fastened to the regimental carriages. The
atmosphere soon 'became suffocating, and I was obliged to
leave this infernal region, which casts into the shade the
descriptions of Dante, As we were going off, my guide
called my attention to a long dark line in the direction of
Balan. It was a train of prisoners whom the 'Uhlans
were taking into Germany. They marched in a serried
line, some leaning on their sticks, their heads down and
grief depicted on their faces. Oh, how much they appeared
to be suffering-. I yielded to the 4olicitations of my guide
and gained the shelter of the woods before the IThlans per-
ceived us. • He informed me that every day some of these
prisoners contrived to escape from the hands of their
gaolers, and regained their liberty. The week before last
a Zouave escaped from one of these convoys,and the escort
did, not notice his escape until he had got some
distance. They fired at him without touching him, and
he, gained the shelter of a wood just as a detachment of
Uhlan.s started in pursuit of him. He hid in the thicket,
ared with a Chassepot he picked up on the battle field,
44 brought down a rider. The Uhlans, greatly irritated,
dismonnted to seize him, but before they could get to him,
he killed eight of them. The rest jutnpect on horseback
and rode off. This brave soldier contrived by the next.:
day, to procure a peasant's suit, and went to
Fleigueux, where he conversed with • my guide,
arid. from whence he started for Paris. Many
of., our officers and soldiers who , are prisoners prefer
to run the risk of being shot rather than be taken to Germany
and endure the insults of their escorts. The anecdote of
this xoufwe's escape, which the Prussians do not contra-
dict, chews that our men are capable not only of
breaking their chains but of making a glorious retreat.