The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-01 00:00:00

MARKETS-YESTERDAY.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, TIIIIRSDAY.-Sugar has
been very flat, and prices have been with difficulty maintained.
Refined goods have been scarce, but prices are rather lower.
Very little business has been doing in tea. .Common congou
to ls. id. per lb. Coffee has sold on former terms. Good to old
Colony plantation Ceylon, 775. to 825.; middling, 71s. to 78s.
low middling, 655. ad. to GSs. ; pea berry, 80s. to 84s. 6d.
LONDON TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.-Tallow is firmer,
455. 3d. spot ; 445. ad. April to June ; and 455. Gd. last three
months.
METROPOLI*I7AN CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY.-In the
cattle trade to-day a want of animation has been apparent. The
Aupplics of stock have been only moderate, but they have been
sufficient for requirements. In prices no change has taken
place. As regards beasts,, the receipts from our own grazing
districts, as well as front abroad, have been limited,•but some,
good serviceable animals have been noticed in the supply.
For all kinds the inquiry has been limited ; nevertheless, prices
were maintained. The best Scots and crosses have sold at 4s.
104. to ss. per Sibs. Sheep, of which a fair supply has been on
sale, have changed hands quietly, at Monday's prices. Lambs
have been quiet.- Pigs have sold slowly.' Calves have been dull.
Boasts have sold at from 3s. 241. to ss. ; sheep, 3s. to ss. 10d.:
lamb, 7s. ad. to Ss. ; calves, 3s. 104. to Cs. Bd. ; and pigs, 4s. Bd.
to ss. Bd. per Slbs. to sink the offal. Total supplies-Beasts,
641 ; sheep and lambs; .6,655 ; calves, 138 ; and pigs, 10. Foreign
-]Beasts, 233; sheep and lambs, 1,390 ; and calves, 118.
LONDON WOOL MARKET, THURSDAY.-The market has
been without important feature. Both for colonial and English
produce the demand has been inactive, but prices have been
maintained.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET,
THIIRSDAY.—These markets have been moderately supplied
with potatoes.. The trade has been quiet at about late rates.
English straws, 120 s. to 130 s. ; regents, 100 s. to 120 s. ; Scotch
regents, 80s. to 100 s. ; rocks, 70s. to 80s. ; and French, 70s. to
755. per ton.
WMETROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, THURS.-
DAL—The supply has been short,"and the trade has been dull, at
our quotations. Prime. meadow hay, 765. ad. to 84s. ; inferior
ditto, Ms. to 70s. ; rowen,
.50s. to 655. ; prime clover, 110 s. to
1265. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 955.; prime second-cut clover, 1003.
to 110 s. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 90s. ; and straw, 265. to 30s, per
load.

LONDON METAL MARKET,'. THURSDAY.—Scotch pig iron
is firm, 555. one month. Tin has been steady, but copper and
other metals have sold slowly.
LONDON. OIL MARKET.—Linseed has been firm, at 325. sd.
epot. Rape is steady. English brown spot, 435.
LIVERPOOL COTTON • MARKET, THURSDAY.—The market
has been quiet. _ Sales, 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 were for ex-
part and on speculation. Import of the day, 13,750 bales.
LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, THURSDAY.—Market quiet.
Bars, 651 to 66 ; ores, 13.
GLASGOW IIRON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The market
has been than. An extensive business has been transacted, at
from Ms. 1034. to 555. lid.
CORK BUTTER MARKET, THURSDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1355.;
seconds, 130 s. ; thirds, 98s. ; fourths, 765. ; fifths, 565.
and sixths, not quoted ; 780 firkins in the market. Mild cured—
firsts, 1355. ; seconds, 130 s. ; thirds, 965. ; 30 firkins in the
market. -
HAVRE COTTON MARKET, MARCH 30.—The market has
been quiet, but prices have been regular. Mid Orleans, 136 f. ;
Omra loading, 1051.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 30.—Bahca tin, 71i.
PARIS CORN MARKET, MARCH 30.—Short supply of
wheat. Trade firm, 50 cents higher. Rye steady, 19.75. Barley
tirm.

Ships are being brought forward- for the next
Flying Squadron, but where the crews are to be obtained
to man them, says the Globe, is exciting some curiosity,
as the receiving ships at the home ports are almost as de-
nuded of men as the dockyards are of stores.
AN ANECDOTE OF LAMAETINE.—A. graceful story
is told of Lamartine. One day a penniless man of letters
called upon him, and, informing him of his sad situation,
requested the loan of a considerable sum of money.
Lamartine, who was much moved by the recital, opened
a drawer and gave him the amount. He then conducted
his unfortunate visitor to the vestibule. The season was
autumn, and as Lamartine opened the street door the un-
fortunate author shivered in his shabby great coat.
A sudden idea struck Lamartine, and calling
out " Monsieur, you are forgetting your overcoat,"
he quickly took down a handsome new overcoat
which was hanging in the passage, and assisted his needy
visitor to put it on with so much dexterity and grace that
the poor man, quite overcome, did not know how to
refuse a gift which was so delicately offered to him. Was
not Lamartine's pardessus as worthy of notice as the
celebrated redingote prise of the First Napoleon ?
M. HAUSMANN AND THE FINANCES OF PARIS.—
The Francais, which is supposed to be the chief organ of
the French Cabinet,makes some extraordinary statements
respecting the condition in which M. Haussmann has left
the Finances of the city of Paris. According to the
Francais, the magician who has revolutionised the exterior
of Paris preserved a profound mystery as to his proceed-
inns even towards his collobarateurs. If we are to trust
this statement the statistics laid before the recent Council
of State prove the financial situation of the city to be
worse than M. Haussmann's most bitter enemies imagined,
and to aggravate the matter, the members of the Muni-
cipal Commission, Councillors of State, and Ministers
who had to defend the ex-prefect of the Seine in the
Chambers, declare that they have been deceived, and had
no idea of true state of things. The rumour is cur-
rent that the deficit which was supposed to be 300,000,000
francs, will not be less than 600,000,000 francs.