The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

SEEDS.

The amount of business doing in most kind of seeds is
very limited. In prices wo have no change to notice.
Cakes are rather heavy.
Tarnip,White, per bush. 22s to 25s
Swede .. •• •• •• —s
%Stutz :d. Brown.. •• •• 125 20s
tflatte, new •• •• •• ss 11"
rires.Winter,new.• fld 7s Gd
Old— •• .• • • •• • • •• 7'
Canary, per quarter . IsSs 64s
Clover,RedEng (cwt.) tig 4 SOi
White •••••• • • •• 73s 903
stye grass.. -.... •• ••• 24s 30s
Foreign Red.. •• •• 623 72s
•• 70s 85,
Trefoil, uew.......... 403 404

Carraway (new) 42e 44s
Coriander .......... 214 3's
Flempseed, per quarter 54$ Ws
Linseed, Eng.iowing.. --s
Crushing •• •• •• •• 78s 84s
Baltic •• •• --s —e
Odessa .• •• .. —4l —5
LinseedCaks, pr. tots—

English • • ~.14 / 108 15 Os

Fox7elgn, per toi; 13' 10s 14 114
IRape Cakes, pr ton 7110 s 8 Os
'Rapeseed, New, pr qr.. Ws 912

TALLOW,

Our market has become son
rather higher than on Monday last
is quoted at 6Ss 3d per cwt. Towr

k.t firmer, and prices are
P.Y.C„ on the spot,
tallow, 66s nett cash.

1651.

1852.

1853. 11154. 1855.
43.341 34,563 21,374
61s Odto 59s 61 to 68s 3d
—s Od I—sOd to Od
2,680 1,919 1,284
67,038 51,483 79.241
2,783 77 3,319
87,667 50,046 54,073
63, 31 618 Od i 68s Id

463 Od
Stook this day 3661:3,5132w 44,270
Price of Y. C tGi 6d to od
Delivery last week • • 2,858 2,43;
Ditto from June 1.... 70,413 66,399
Arrivals last week.. 2,144 30
Ditto from Junel 91,112 70,041

Price or Town ..... ) 39' 61

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CRYSTAL PALACE.—FIVE SHILLING DAY, Saturday,
Jan. 12, 1856.—Admissions on payment, 57 ; ditto by
season tickets, 749. Total visitors, 806.
GUN-BOATS AND MORTAR-VESSELS AT LIVERPOOL.
The following are the names of the 14 wooden gun-boats
which are being built at the yards of Mr. J. Laird, Bir-
kenhead and Liverpool :—Ten gun-boats of 233 tons
each—Beacon, Brave, Blazer, Brazen, Bullfinch, Red-
breast, Rainbow, Rocket, Rose, and Raven. Four
gun-boats of 211 tons each—Blossom, Gadfly, Gnat, and
Garland. Mr. Laird is also building 15 iron mortar-
vessels on the same plan as the one built at his Liver-
pool 3 ard, and succeseully tested at Portsmouth a
few days ago. During the past year Mr. Laird
has launched about 20 vessels of an aggregate tonnage
of upwards of 20,000 tons, including her Majesty's
troop-ships Resolute and Assistance, 1,900 tons each,
two ships of 1,800 tons each, four of 1,700 tons each,
three of 1,200, and one of 1,000 tons. Messrs. W. and
C. Miller, Liverpool shipbuilders, are constructing four
wooden gun-boats for the Admiralty, of a similar class
F to those building by Mr. Laird.

(From the Derbyshire Courier.)
It is this week our melancholy duty to record the
death of Lieutenant Joh❑ Roberts, Royal Navy, the
proprietor of this journal, which occurred on Sunday,
the 6th inst., after an illness of only a few days' duration.
This sudden removal from amongst us of one so univer-
sally esteemed will he long and sincerely regretted, and
a blank will be felt by the inhabitants of the town and
neighbourhood which cannot easily be filled up ; whilst
to his domestic circle the loss will be irreparable. He
was ever among the foremost to prmuote and encourage
those institutions in this town which are conducive to
the general good, and more particularly such as are of a
charitable tendency. He was steadfast in purpose, pa-
triotic in principle, and the simple integrity of his life
caused him to be equally beloved and respected by all
—and they were many—who knew him : in his con-
scientious conviction of right and justice, the views he
has advocated io this newspaper have always been those
of a true and loyal gentleman, and their consistency
unimpaired when uuder most trying political cir-
cumstances. .

For a period of 33 years Mr. Roberts faithfully served
the Government is a civil capacity as postrna•tter of
Chesterfield, and it is now 28 sears since he originated
and first printed and publiiled this journal, and by his
untiring zeal and active care caused it to gain the re-
spectable position in the press which it now occupies.
Mr. Roberts was a director of the North of England Fire
and Life Insurance Company, and one of the leading
tradesmen of this town, and, though unmindful of office,
frequently shared in the duties of its Corporate body.
The strvices which Lieut Roberts rendered to hid
country in his naval career are thus recorded in O'Byrne's
Naval Biography
"John Roberts entered the navy Bth May, 1803, as
Fst.-cl. Vol , on board the invincible, 74, Capt. Rosa
Donnelly and John llollinworth, the latter of whom he
followed as midshipman into the Resistance, 36, com-
manded afterwards by Capt. Philip L. J. Roenhagen
and Charles Hole. In the Invincible he served in the
North Sea and at the blockade of Toulon ; and in both
ships he took an active part in the defence of Cadiz,
where be came into frequent contact with the enemy's
batteries, and was engaged at the siege, by the French,
of Fort Matagorda. After he had been for a tune sin-
ploved with Capt. Hole, in the Badger, 10, lie returned
to England in the Resistance, under the command of
Capt. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. He served
subsequently in the Devonshire, 74, Capt. R ,ss Don-
nelly, fitting at Sheerness—Jason, 32, Capt. Hon. Jas.
Win. King, flag-ship for some time of ET. R.ll. the Doke
of Clarence, under whom lie escorted L-uis XVIII. to
the c mast of France—Centaur, 74, Capt. Thos. Gordon
Caulfeild, in which ship he made a v,,ya4e to the Cape
of Good Hope—Eridanus, 36, Cap',. William Paterson,
lying at Plymnouth—aed Minden, 74, fitting for the flag
of Sir Rich. King, Commander-in-Chief in the, Etst
Indies, previously to proceeding whither he fought
under the officer last mentioned as Admiralty-Midship-
team (a rating he had filed on board the Eridanus), at
the batt'e of Algiers. For his conduct on this occasion
he was promoted 16th Sept., 1816, to the tank of Lieu-
tenant. For his services at the battle of Algiers Lieut.
Roberts received the war medal with one clasp. His
last appointments were iu June, 1317, and Feb., 1819,
to the Orlando, 36, and Malabar, 74, both commanded
by Capt. John Cavell, on the East India station,
whence he returned in Oct , 1819."

ONE OF THE MINOR POINTS OF ME
CUI:IZENOY QUESTION.

(From the Derbyshire Courier.)

Among the really unimportant matters which the ig-
norance cr sophistry of the Bullionist party has magni-
fied into affairs of moment is the " promise to pay"
whic`l stands on thu Bank of England note. What,
these gentlemen Pay-, does this promise to pay mean uu-
less we can receive whenever we please a certain amount
of the precious metal ?
Now the Bank of England note, like the Bank itself,
bas wonderfully increased in importance since its first
appretrance. The Bank Charter dares dilly 27, 1694,--
when some 1,300 merchants and traders subscribed
1,200,0001. They issued their notes with this " pro.
rise to pay," the only form uthich was then known. So
they went on increasiog in wealth and importance till
1797. Teen the Government being in great diffi,:ulties,
the flank having a,ivaet,(l bullion till they bad a .ne left
to advance, and specie leaving the country, a kind of
virt,ership was entered into by the Government and
the Bank—the Bank finding money and the Govern•
ment, by the Restriction Act, absolving them from the
payment of their notes in bullion. It was then I iiPco-
vered what an enormous latent power was possessed by
Reptie..-.entative Paper Money. With this we carried on
one of the greatest and most expensive wars on record ;
the country all the while advancing in civilisation and
wealth.

Had there been time for sound reflection, or had the
principles of money been better understood in 1797, it
would have been easy at that time to have established
a national paper money. Bills issued "floin the Ex-
chequer for 1/. and upwards would have been as well
received as were Bank of England "inconvertible" notes.
These Exchequer Bills would have borne on them a pro-
mise that they should be " received" at the Royal Ex-
chequer, and the Ballionist party would have been de-
prived of the quibble about " promises to pay."
Well, we are now better informed and " more en-
lightened" about money matters. What is now desir-
able is that National Paper Money should be issued un-
der the authority of Government, made a legal tender in
discharge of all debts, and recoverable for taxes by all
tax collectors and at the Exchequer.
In what form this National note should run is just
about as important as the colour of the Penny Postage
Stamp, as the words engraved on it " Postage one
Penny" is the present inscription—the numerals 1., 11.,
IV., would, without anything else, do just as well.
Many persons are proud of disputing about affairs of
this kind. One man would have a National Note with
the Act of Parliament set lo:th under the authority of
which it is i-sued, and all its uses and advantages ex-
plained. Very well :if we get the :-übstantial Note
we won't oLject to the shadowy inseriptizni. For our
part we incline to think the shorter the form of the
Note the better. "One Pound, receivable for Taxes,"
would do very well for us.
There is a consideration as to the convenience and
durability of the smaller denomination of 'Representa-
tive Money, deserving of some little attention. It would
be advisable, no doubt, to let metal money, for the fare-
tional pares of a pound be issued in preference to the
dirty, perishable paper money with which the German
States are supplied.
Money purely representative—a t )ken of value, and
not value itself—not at once " money and merchandise,"
is what we advocate.

In this representative money —whether piper yr me-
tal—let gold, silver, like iron, tin, and copper, tiud their
market price.

EXTENSIVE FIRE.

- -
Late on Saturday night, between twelve and one
o'clock, a fire brdka out on the premises of Messrs.
Hopkinson, pianoforte makers, New-road. The factory
in which the flames originated occui)ies the centre of a
chimp of buildings, bounded• on the west by Fitzroy-
row, a narrow thoroughfare filled with tenements occu-
pied by poor people, the New-road on the south, Fre-
derickstreet on the north, and Osnaburg street on the
east. Adjoining Hopkinson's factory, were the premises
of Grey and Davison, organ builders, and other large
factories, to which the fire spread. The police had most
arduous duty to perform. The scene in Fitzroy-row was
distressing, the poor people with their children in a state
of nudity removing from the scene of the conflagration.
The engines of the London Fire Brigade arrived in rapid
succession, and water being obtained, after several
hours' labour, they succeeded in obtaining a control
over the flames. The origin of the firs could not be as-
certained.