The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The country markets held on Saturday were, for the
most part, very moderately supplied with wheat, in which
a fair average business was transacted, on rather higher
terms. Most kinds of barley moved off steadily, at ex-
treme rates. Oats, beans, peas, and flour we% tolerably
firm.

The continental markets continue dull. In prices, how-
ever, no material change has taken place. Steady ship.
ments of produce continue to be made from America.
Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English
grain were moderate. From abroad we received 25,532
quarters of wheat, 8,721 barley, 50,307 oats, 3,339 beans,
725 peas, 60 tares, 5,783 linseed, 7,410 rapeseeds, 2,340
sundry seeds, 1,438 sacks and 12,711 barrels of flour.
The quantity of wheat received fresh up to our market
to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, from Essex, Kent,
Szc., was only moderate, and, owing to the return of mild
damp weather, in very middling condition. The attend-
ance of millers was rather limited, and the demand for
most kinds of wheat of home produce was in a sluggish
state. Compared with Monday last, however, no quotable
change took place in prices. At the close of business,
most of the inferior samples were unsold.
We had an extensive show of foreign wheat. For home
consumption only a moderate business was passing in it ;
nevertheless, holders were very firm, and late rates were
supported.

Floating cargoes of grain were in request, both for Spain
and Portugal, and Kubanka wheats sold as high as 72s
per quarter.

The supply of barley was rather extensive. Fine malting
samples sold at full prices, but inferior kinds ruled rather
dull, at barely late rates.

Malt, the show of which was moderate, was in fair re-
quest, at last week's currency.
There was a very large supply of foreign oats in the
market. Good heavy qualities were steady, at late rates.
Damp samples hung on band.
_ _ _

Beans were dull, and prices were a shade lower—viz., is.
per quarter.

Peas realised is beneath previous rates, and the demand
was rather heavy.

The flour trade was rather dull, but not cheaper.
CURRENCY PER. IMPERIAL MEASURE/.
,Malt—Chevaller •• 76s to 77
Pats— Yorkshire and
Lineolnsk.,Feed 23s 25s
Potato .
Youghal and Cork
81ack....... 20s 22,
Cork, white ..• •• 24s 27s
Booteh,Feed••• •• 24s 29s
Beans—Tick ......... 38s 40s
Pigeons •••• 40, 43;
Peas—Grey ..•• •• •• 365 39s
Maple •• • • 403 42s
White.••••—•• .. 40s 42,
Boilers
Floor—Town-made..• 58s 60s
Suffolk 453 483
Btooktn & Norfolk 45s 48s

Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red new 49 to 633
Ditto.. • • .... old —s
Ditto, White new 54s 72s
Ditto
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Rod, old —s —a
Ditto new •• •• 49) 65s
Rye—Old • • ••• . —s —s
New •••• •• 38s 4251
garley.—Orinding .• •.. 34s 383
Malting .••• • • • 35a 393
Chevalier • • . . 42s 48s
hialt—SuffolkandNor-
folk •• • • ...... • . 66s 75s
Brown 63s 61s
Kingston and Ware 763 78s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were
very moderate, viz., 3,548 head. In the corresponding
week in 1855 we received 4,545 ; in 1834, 5,831; in 1853,
4,765; in 1852, 4,869; in 1851, 3,628; and in 1850, 5,734
head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WANE.

From Busts. Sheep. Lambs.
Rotterdam.— 212 -. 1,053
Ostend
Tonning 6l 19 ".
Harlingen
Thep -
Afedemblik-.- 79 -. 1,123 -.
Dordt ll 51
Antwerp ."
Schiedam

59 ... -

Calves. Pigs
128 ...

4E ... -

T0ta1.... 596 .. 2,769 ..

... 183 ...
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
1855 791 ...' 3,649 98 7
1854 1,098 ... 4,461 274
1853 9BB 3,655 - 128 ... 24
Advices from the north of Europe state that many of
he usual shipping ports are now frozen up ; consequently
decreased importations of stock may now be calculated
upon. The immense increase in the value of stock through.
out Spain renders shipments to this country very doubtful.
In France both beasts and sheep are still high in price.
Our market to-day was hut moderately supplied with all
kinds of foreign stock, for which the demand was by no
means active.
Flesh up from our own grazing districts the receipts of
beasts were rather limited for the time of year. The
general quality of the stock was tolerably good. Although
the attendance of buyers was moderately extensive the beef
trade ruled inactive, and, in most instances, prices were
2d per 81b. lower than on this day se'nnight. The top
figure for the best lots was 4s 10d per 81bs,, and a fair
clearance was effected.
We wore scantily supplied with all breeds of sheep, and
the mutton trade was firm, at fully last Monday's quota-
tiuns. The best old Downs produced 5s 2d per Sibs.
The supply of calves was limited, yet the veal trade
ruled heavy, at a decline of 2d per 81bs.
In pigs very little was doing, at barely late rates.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton.
shire, wo received 2,000 shorthorns ; from other parts of
Engl-nd, 500 of various breeds ; from Scotland, 350 Scots;
and from Ireland, 400 oxen.
The great Christmas market will be held here on Mon-
day next.

Per 81bs to sink the offal..
I. d. e. d.
Inferior Beasts.... 2 10 to 3 2
3ecend quality.... 3 4 3 8
Prime large oxen 310 4 61
Prime Scots, dm. 4 8 410
hiforior Sheep ...3 6 316
Second quality ...4 0 4 4
Primo crse.-wlled.4 6 4 S
TOTAL SUPPLY.

s. 4. s.
1
:PrimeSonthdown 5 0 5 2
illekrge cr se . calves 310 4 G
Prime small do 4 8 5 2
Large hogs
Small porkers 4 6 5 2
Suckling calves-23 0 30 0
Quarter old piz,s.2l 0 28 0

FOILEION SUPPLY.

Beasts 7:••••...........• 4,480
itieep . ...........18,120
Pigs ••••••••••

Sheep ...... ••• ...... 1,700
Calves......
Pig 5.......... -
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle
Market, on nonday, Dec. 10, 1855, and this day, Monday,
Dec. 8, 1856.
Per Slbs, to sink the offals.
Dee. 10, 1855.1
s. d. s. d.
Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... 3 Bto 3 10
Second quality ditto 4 0 4 4
Prime large oxen ... 4 6 410
Prime Scots, die ... 5 0 5 2
Coarse and inferior sheep ... 3 4 3 6
Second quality ditto ... ... 3 8 4 2
Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 4 4 6
Prime Southdown ditto ... 4 8 5 0
Lambs 0 0 0 0
Large coarse calves ... ... 4 0 4 8
Prime small ditto 410 5 2
Large hogs ... 310 4 4
Neat small porkers 4 6 5 0
Beasts... ... 4,288
Sheep ... 22,880
Calves... 135
Pigs ... 510
SUPPLIIIB ON Sans, Dec. •11,,1854.—Beasts, 6,181; sheep,
22,820 ; calves, 107; pigs, 240.
December 12, 1853.—Beasts, 7,037; sheep, 25,830 ; calves,
243; pigs, 295.

r.ec. 8,1856.
sd. 6. d.
2 10 to 3 2
j 3 4 3
10 4 6
14 8 410
,13 6 310
HI 0 4 4
;!1 6 4 8
50 5 2
Ilt) 0 0 0
10 4 6
;14 8 5 2
38 4 4
1,4 6 5 2
4,480
18,120
122
220

NE WGAT g AND LE IDENH ALL.
The markets continue to be well supplied with nearly
all kinds of meat. Generally speaking, a full average is
doing, as follows :

Per Blbs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d. '
Beof, interior 2 6 210
Do., middliug 3 0 3 6
Do. prime large 3 8 4 0
De., do. small 4 2 4 6
Perk, large 3 8 4 4

s. 4. e. 4.
1 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 4
I Do., middling 3 6 4 0
i Do., prime 4 2 4 6
Veal 3 8 4 10
1 I Perk, small 48 5 4

BOROUGH HOP.

The show of hops is good, yet the demand is steady, and
prices are well supported.
Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ lOs to 5/ 15s; Weald
of Kent, 3/ 5s to 4/ 14s; Sussex, 31 Os to 31 160.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
Coastwise and by land carriage, the arrivals of potatoes
have not been extensive since Monday last. The imports
have amounted to 1 sack from Jersey, 11 from Emden, 3
bags from Leer, 4 from Tonning, 65 from Rotterdam, 5
from Harburg, and 6 baskets from Hamburg. The trade
is steady at full prices.
York Regents, 100 s to 110 s per ton ; Kent and Essex do.,
90s to 100 s ; Scotch do., 808 to 90s ; ditto nuns' 1003 to
105 s ; middlings, 503 to 60s ; Lincolns, 90s to 1003; blues,
80s to 903.

LITERATURE.

Art and Nature, at Homc and Abroad. ky George
W. Thornbury. Hurst and Blackett, Great
Marlborough-street.

As
usual at this season, we have heaps of books
lying on our table for trial and judgment ; and we
have taken up work after work in hopes of meeting
with something to cheer and expand our wintry,
gas-dried brain. The first was a ponderous tome
on "Political Economy," the second, on "Eliptic
Integrals ;" the third, on " Spherical Conic Sec-
tions ;" the fourth, a fashionable Novel, redolent
of a diabolically wicked young lord, and an' emeti-
cally weak young lady ; the fifth, a fashionable
Poem, teeming with attempts to give the Pandean
pipes the importance of an archangel's trumpet,
and affording numerous directions touching the
most romantic way to Hanwell, via Parnassus. The
sixth, was on the " Trigonometry of the Parabola,"
the removal of which exposed a tumid pamphlet on
"Chancery Cases."

Under the influence of a touch of the bile, a first-
class chilblain, and a foggy, freezy atmosphere, we
conscientiously abstained from discussing any of
these books ; feeling that however beneficial and
just it may be for a critic to exercise the rod, he has
no right to use it when saturated with the pungent
pickle of his individual and private concocting—
whether that pickle be formed of the subtle poisons
of mental malice, or the sharp drastics of physical
irritability ; so we were about to vacate the chair
of office when one of Caxton's Satanic retinue,
guiltless of soap and water as the walls of
Newgate, made his appearance, swiftly and
silently placed Mr. Thornbury's volumes be-
fore us, and flitted, in a style that proved him fully
competent to "double" the parts of Caliban and
Ariel. We glanced into the pages with a dogged
sort of indifference, but were reused from our
apathy by the first sentences we lighted on, and we
dipped into the various chapters wish as much re-
freshing sense of enjoyment as a bird of the desert
experiences when it bathes and laves in the gushing
tide of unexpected waters.
The contents of Mr. Thornbury's work are the
result of tramping-artist tours, and, allowing for a
not unpleasant degree of Claude Loraine colouring,
a more charming set of tinted etchings have seldom
been presented to the public portfolio.
The author has taken rapid sketches on his
thumb nail, and worked them into genial and
graphic pictures. " Beggars," as treated by his
pencil, though in a prominent foreground, are most
agreeable company, winning our sympathy and
admiration, whether we will or no. He delineates
"Fountains," with a free and sparkling touch ;
from t helimpid stream that murmurs in the gorgeous
Alhambra, and the crystal dribble from the lion's
mouth in the Roman market place, to the trickling
run in the Temple Gardens ; flinging, however, a
denouncing shadow ou the Trafalgar-square absur-
dities. He gives us outlines of French and Bog-
lish manners, without offending the self-love of
either Frog or Bull. He introduces us in a most
judicious manner to " The Schools of Painting,"
pointing out their separate characteristics with
earnest ability. He handles " Cromwell in Long-
acre" historically and daintily ; and his " Forty
Winks in the Colosseum" will induce no looker-on
to participate iu the drowsy indulgence. His
starry bit on " Fire Flowers" is brilliantly amusinr,
and sedately suggestive ; and " Nature in Old Bar-
lads," " Five Cities," " The Witchery of London,"
and numerous other chapters, are as entertaining
as instructive. But let us take a sample colour or
two from his palette, though we are aware that we
shall not do justice to his charming sketches by
picking out a solitary cerulean light or neutral
shadow. There is some truth in this :
Observe London, its houses jostling each other, no
space even round its cathedral, its dense noisome alleys and
its choked up river, that is the city of trade. Observe Paris
with its fountains and arches, its hugepublic gardens, that
is the city of the people of public spirit and national
vanity. Pride is rich, and content with private reality,
vanity must have every building an altar to its own
glory. Pride is the idol of London, vanity of Paris.
Two or three Wellingtons, Sir Robert Peel, a king or two,
a duke, and a queen, aro almost all that London can set
against all the records of national glory that adorn the city
of the Seine.
And in this also :

Like most Englishmen, I have been educated in a Fe-
per horror of foreigners as a race. I looked upon one as
something between a bravo of Venice, a black-legged bil-
liard marker, and the Wandeling Jew. They never wore
shirts, or wore them too much, objected, on principle, to
washing, eat with their knives, played at cards night and
day, were fond of stabbing you, lived on frogs and oil, and
were, the whole pack of them, infidels, duellists, and
swindlers. Those who were not counts, were barons ;
they wore massy thumb rings of uncertain gold, on un-
doubtedly dirty fingers, hated the English, smoked, and
wore beards. In spite of this, lam ashamed to say I like
them ; and have found the French intelligent and polite,
the Germans hearty and honest.

• •
•
• •
• •
English politeness to be seen in full bloom, requires fine
weather, a holiday, a full purse, and contentment. French
sentimental politeness blossoms in the roughest weather.
At a great railway station English travellers taking re-
freshment, are mere cattle feeding, trampling and goring
each other to get to the manger. French voyageurs are
noisy, and hustling, but still smiling and considerate.
The two hungers have a different character • one is that of
' a northern, sharp air, eager, and a little wolfish; the other
anxious but discursive, and choice. A. hot sun takes off the
keen edge of appetite, drives you to Nebuchadnezzar
salads and playful experiments with spice and sauce.

Hogarth comes under the brush of his disciple,
and a most interesting portrait is produced. Mr.
Thornbury says :
Hogarth was what Johnson would call a good hater,
but he had heart enough to like a joke, and to love chil-
dren. There is no great harm in a man who can do that.
He was the greatest physiognomist that over lived, yet he
never heard of the science. Civilised life leaves certain
marks by which men may be read. The coppersmith has
green teeth, the shoemaker large knuckles, the cobbler
black thumbs, the groom a straddling gait, and the sailor a
rolling walk. All these, and some million other traits,
Hogarth know. Ho seems to me always to paint as eve-
nal wrote, in a fever of honest indiguation, the scene is
acting below under his window. His pictures are healthy
bitter tonics that brace and strengthen our moral feeling.
His world is no barley-sugar and fairy world, but a dim,
terrible spot poised between earth and heaven.
Over his rivals, and even over Reynolds, of whom it is
said he was envious, he had one great advantage. He en-
graved his own pictures, roughly but boldly, perpetually
adding not merely touches but thoughts. Other pictures
strayed in saloons, his crept into inns and cottages. His
works teem with characters of his own day—Pitt and
Handel, Pope and Garrick ; ho has Figg, the prize-fighter,
and oven Whitfield. To realise his popularity, we must
imagine a painter, with the satirical power of Popo and
the fun of Leech. His scenes are London scenes, and the
actors were the spectators' own friends. All were amused,
of whatever ago or rank. His mind was like a forest pool,
to which the lion and the wild bird came together to drink.
As he flow at all follies, so he struck at all professions,
from a quack doctor and hypocritical priest, down to brutal
drovers and cruel shoe-blacks. His pathos is rare, but
deep. When he sheds a tear, it moves us, because it is a
tear sullenly and reluctantly shed by a strong man. There
are always children to calm his crowds, and his deepest
vice has some touch of innocence to keep up our faith in
the possibility of goodness. His madman laughs, but the
nurses sorrow ; his idle apprentice curses, but the broken-
hearted mother weeps. When the sea of beggary and vice
seethes and roars about the wretched praying man in the
hangman's cart, there is one woman to shed tears on his
coffin, the only mourner among ten thousand yelling devils.
For mere fun, was there ever anything so deafening and
uproarious as the scene of the " Enraged Musician ?" the
dustman bawls, the milk-woman screams, the ballad-
singer yells, and the child cries, the drummer drums, the
pewterer hammers, the paviors thump, in the distance
bells are ringing, while cats squeal from the roof-tops.
No wonder the musician, with fingers in ais ears, pulls
up
the window and roars out loud for peace.
Hogarth's minute touches of humour are innumerable.
What can bo more admirable than his " Ten Command-
ments," with the crack running through them, the poor-
box with a cobweb over the slit, the miser's shoes soled
with pieces of the cover of a Bible, and his poor poet's
scheme for paying the national debt. Few things are more
felicitous than his speculator's complicated machine, all
wheels and pullies for drawing a cork, and the starved cat
looking wistfully for food in the open plate-chest.
Hogarth's works will laugh at the light of centuries,
and set centuries of men laughing. A picture hashownhe
advantage over a book, It appeals not to the head,a_s_v
law
is of one nation only, but to the eye, that speaks
hlals
the-
guages. These works cannot grow old while man
old heart, and the old way of loving and hating.
Hogarth has had no imitators, because he was
i gi inimi-
table ; he had no predecessors, therefore,
ho was ornal.
He taught us all, painters or not, one lesson, that seeing
deeply one age is to know all ages. Of Hogarth alone of
painters, it may be said, that ho was never monotonous,
never wearisome, always in earnest, always in good
humour, always English.
" The Buttery of Haddon Hall" takes us dream-
ily back to the legendary times of velvet-mantled
page and bell-capped jester ; of tapestried arris and
secret portals ; of antlered halls and Lincoln
Green. We can fancy such a medley picture as
this when Haddon was in its palmy state

w Thosewere days when there were shoutings over ale-
stoups, down-stairs and up-stairs, songs and clamour, and
waiting-women are dancing to the tabor, with Ned Snaffle
the groom, and Will Martingale the huntsman, and all the
house is busy with feasting. Three dead bucks have just
been chosen for the spit, and the biggest cask of September
is deliberately broaching, and red-faced cooks are peering
into smoking pots, and serving-men are curling their hair
and fitting roses to their shoes, and even Bob, the odd
boy, is washing his face in the fountain, where the sultan-
peacock stares and nods at him from the marble urn of
flowers opposite. There are horses trampling in the court-
yard, and grooms hissing at their work, and Lady Alice is
putting on her blue and silver, intending to-night to be as
she always is, " queen of hearts." The old lord is at
bowls with the chaplain, who is quarrelling and quoting
Scripture; and the young lard is trying his new cross-bow
with Robert the falconer at the Dove cot, just by the
Mews ; and Will the warrener is snaring rabbits in the
sand-pit, and Jack his boy setting a mole-trap, made of
springy hazel.
Those who luxuriate in a prime " Havannah
or howl of " Bird's-eye" will think our author a
capital fellow thus to give a " silver lining" to his
" Smoke Clouds"
In spite of all the awful examples—the man atGtluyn's-
who was:opened, and found to resemble, internally, an
clean flue ; in spite of the youth at Camden Town, who d; ieind
1
from a poisonous puff entering his gaping epiglottis
spite of the respectable individual whofelldow.
down t
Whited:lapel, and ran yard of clay' through his larynx
a xat;