The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-15 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 31 Ss to 5/ 15s ; clover do.
4/ lOs to 6l lOs ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ lOs per load.
A moderate supply and a steady demand.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 12s to 5/ 15s ; clover do.,
4/ 1.5 s to 61 lOs; and straw, 1/ 6s to it 12s per load.
Trade firm.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 31 lOi to 5/ 14s; clover
do., 5/ Os to 61 15s ; and straw, 11 6s to 1110 s per lose.
Trade dull.

Lord Alfred Paget and Mr. caaeme.- Lave been stay-
ing for some days with Mr. Bramley-Moore, M P., at
Aigburth, near Liverpool. During their stay they
visited almost everything of interest in the great com-
mercial capital of Lancashire.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.—The first of the new metro-
politan police uniforms was issued on Monday to ti. E
division. The Chief Commissioner, Sir R. Mayne. act-
ing on the report of the Hyde Park Riots Inquiry Com-
mission, that policemen's numbers should be more legible,
has this year discontinued the scroll-work on the collar.
The number and letter are thus made much more promi-
nent.

THIS BRITISH MEDALS FOR THE FRENCH ABET.—
General Lord Gough left town yesterday evening, with
a numerous staff, to present to the officers and soldiers
of the French army the medals sent by the Queen as a
recognition of their brilliant services in the Crimean
campaigns.

ROYAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC BOSPITAL.—Her Majesty
the Queen has graciously been pleased to present the
muuificent donation of 1001. towards the expenses of the
recent enlargement and improvement of this institution.
DEATH OF LIEUT. GEORGE 'MACKENZIE. —Died, oo
the 13th inst., at Perth, Scotland, at an advaticed age,
Lieut. George Mackenzie, ~f the Royal Perth Militia,
author of the " System of the Weather in the British
Islands" (1821), of the " Elements of the Cycles of the
Weather and Prices of Corn" (1846), and of various other
publications and reports on meteorolo4y. The records
of the unremitting observations of the deceased for up-
wards of sixty years, from their minuteness and con•

a • -
tinuity, are well known to be highly valuable, and,
although unacknowledged by successive Governments,
may yet prove cf essential service in the practical appli
cation of a science to which Lieut. Mackenzie devoted
an unpretending and laborious, hut unrewarded, life.
LORD LISTOWEL'S VISIT TO lIIS TIPPERARY ESTATE.

—The young Earl of Listowel recently visited his exten-
sive estates in the barony of Upper Ormond, and was
received with every mark of respect and affection by his
numerous and happy tenantry, by whom his noble father
was greatly beloved, and who have every reason to lee-
Hove that the son will walk in the footsteps of the
parent. His lordship was particularly well pleased to
witness the comfort enjoyed by so many of those who
hold farms under him, and who appear thriving and
contented.—Limerick Chronicle.

SEBASTOPOL.--A. letter written from Sebastopol on
the 2d inst. says :—" The 9th Regiment, on board the
transport Resolute, and the 39th, on board the Simo(ru,
left yesterday fur Canada. The Russians decline buying
horses ; mules are selling for 4f. 40,000 French have
left Kamiesh for Algiers and for France. The Tartars
are arriving in numbers at Balaklava, to escape from
the Russians. The Russians have promised to respect
the tombs of the English."
ST. PANORAS.—At the weekly meeting of the Board
of Directors of this parish—F. T. Streeten, Esq.,
churchwarden, in the chair—it was resolved that in fu•
tut° the bvead ehould diaoontinuo the practice of dining
at the ratepayers' expense on Tuesdays. and that in
future the meetings be held at two o'clock in the after-
noon instead of 10 o'clock in the morning, as heretofore.
How TO DISTRESS.—Mr Justice Erle recently decided
that a person might make a distress by entering through
an open window, but he was not justified in opening a
window he found closed. Even if a man dropped down
a chimney, and thus got into a house without opening
a window or anything else which was closed, he would
be guilty of trespass.
FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT HIILL.—On Fri-
day, while three boys were on the railway bridge on the
Humber bank, a goods train passed under on its way
to the Victoria station, and a crane, which was in one
of the trucks, caught the top of the bridge, and broke
it down, precipitating two of the boys on to the car-
riages along with the broken bridges. One of them,
named Cooper, was thrown upon the line, and was killed
upon the spot, the back of his head being broken in,
and both his legs were also broken. He was removed
to his father's house. The other, named Macintosh, had
the left side of his head seriously fractured, and was re-
moved to the infirmary. Cooper was 8 and Macintosh
11 years of age. The latter is now lying in a pre-
carious state in the infirmary.—Hull News.
The " Societe Generale des Clippers Frangais" is the
first of those really international undertakings, of a
commercial character, following upon the brotherhood
of arms between England and France, so likely to ex-
tend the amity and unite the material interests of the
two countries ; yet it comes before the public with pos-
sibly stronger claims to attention in the more selfish
view of individual gain than in consideration of its social
progress, because those who participate in the operations
of the company must naturally profit in proportion with
the united influences brought to bear under this new
political phase. If British commerce with the east can
profitably employ her first-class steam-shipping, by so
much greater must be the benefit of the shipowners if
the trade of France be combined with it ; and that this
ensues the readiest evidence is supplied by the co-opera-
tion of the council in France and the committee of
supervision in England, announced in the prospectus,
composed, as they are, of official, mercantile, and nauti-
cal gentlemen of high station and unquestionable ex-
perience ; and as this enterprise opens with lines of
clipper steamers of established reputation whilst the
property of the General Screw Company, and with every
advantage of previous knowledge of the most practical
kind, there would appear to be no reason whatever why
this undertaking should not satisfy social and political
expectation, and the individual requirements of profitable
investment.