The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-18 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2110 s to 41 4s ; clover do.,
3/ 10s to 5/ ss; and straw, 1/ 3s to 11 8s per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND. —Meadow. hay, 2/ 128 to 4/ 8s; clover
do., 31 10s to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load.
A moderate demand.

WHITECRAPEL.—MOadOW hay, 2/ 103 to 4/ 4s ; clover
do., 31 103 to 51 8s; and straw, 1/ 3s to 11 8s per load.
Trade slow.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.—/ esterday.
Admissions on payment, 497 ; do. by season tickets,
275 ; total visitors, 772.

Mr. Charles Forder, belonging to her Majesty's
Customs at Southampton, has been appointed at the
head of the Tide Surveying Department at Cardiff.
THE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. The
Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato, Captain
Woolley, sailed to-day with the West India and Mexi-
can mails, 88 passengers (including whom were assis-
tant surgeon Webb, Lieutenants Luke and Green, and
the Rev. J. Henry, for Callao), specie value £5,000,
jewellery value £7,000, and a full cargo. The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain
Neil Cook, also left to-day, with the mails for the
Peninsular Ports, 35 first-clase, 18 second, and 11 deck
passengers; bar gold, value £28,913, and a good
cargo. Among the Sultan's passengers were the Hon.
Captain Elliott and family, for Gibraltar ; Captain
Westropp and lady, for Cadiz, &c. The United States
mail steamer Fulton leaves Havre to-day, and Cowes
at daylight on Thursday morning, with the French and
English mails for New York.
GORDON CUMMING'S EXHIBITION.—Yesterday being
the 400th time that Mr. Gordon Cumming has appeared
before the public to portray his exploits and adventures
in South Africa, the occasion was signalised by the intro-
duction of several new views and features connected
with the lion bunter's career, tending to enhance the
interest of the exhibition. The whole representation is a
highly satisfactory one, exhibiting a graphic: and inefface-
able picture of the interior of a contiut3nt, which is
already enjoying a large share of public attention, and
is probably destined to awaken still greater interest at
no distant period. If any doubts have existed in some
minds as to the accuracy of the narratives, they are now,
indirectly at least, removed by the testimony of African
missionaries, and among others of Dr. Livingston; and
however wonderful Mr. Cumming's adventures may
appear, there is now nothing on the face of things to
impeach their perfect credibility.
CHICAGO AND THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD..—At a meet-
ing of the Board of Trade of the City of Glasgow, held
at their rooms on Wednesday, Nov. 19, S.. Howe, Esq.,
in the chair, Wm. Bross, Esq., made a few remarks on
the commercial importance of the Canadian Grand Trunk
Railway, and offered the following preamble and resolu-
tions, which were seconded by George A. Gibbs, Esq.,
and were unanimously adopted : " Whereas the Grand
Trunk Railway has recently been opened for travel and
traffic between Montreal and Toronto, which, with con-
necting lines, gives Chicago another thoroughfare to the
Atlantic seaboard ; therefore, resolved—That the con-
gratulations of the Board of Trade of the city of Chicago
be hereby tendered to the citizens of Canada on the suc-
cess of this important commercial enterprise. Resolved
—That we regard with special favour the establishment
of a line of propellers between this city and Montreal,
connecting therewith ocean-going steamers, and that in
our judgment when once the advantages of this route are
fully known it will be triumphantly sustained by the
rapidly increasing import and export trade of the West.
Resolved—That the growing commerce of the Lakes re-
quires greatly increased facilities of transit to the ocean,
and that we respectfully urge upon our Canadian neigh-
bours the importance of enlarging the Welland Canal,
and the construction of the Georgian Bay and Ontario
Ship Canal, should the route be found practicable, at as
early a day as possible. Resolved—That the congratula-
tions of this board be presented to the citizens of Mon-
treal at the success of their great railway festival on the
12th and 13th inst."