The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-09 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.

Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at the following
prices :—Prime clover, £6 to £6 lOs ; inferior ditto,
£4 Ss to £5 ; prime hay, £5 lOs to £6 Os ; inferior ditto,
£4 5s to .£1 15s ; and strals, £1 6s to £1 18s.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Sonthampton Jan. 33
Ditto, via YArseilles Jaa 25

Ditto, via Pia.ama Jan 28
Brasil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Feb. 3.
Ditto, by French packet • • ~O J[ n. 22.
Cape Verde, by Brazil pacitet ...
Cape of Good IlJpe, Ascension, anti St. Helen-::*...
. * ...... 3
... 12..
China, Penang, anti Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 16.
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India, via Southampton ...... .......... • • ••••• •••J am 9
vitt°, via Marseilles
Malta, Egypt, So. Jan. 9.
Ditto, Marseilles - Jan. 8
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via

Scuthamiton
Jan. 13
Ditto. Marseilles ~
Newfoundland•
Portugal United States, anada, California, *St..; .1:1; * 31.3
packet • ......Jan --•
Ditto, by Canadian packet ...... • ..... •• • •Jan 15

Ditto, by L. sited States packet
Ditto dittt (Baltimore)
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 17
West Indies and Paoific (except Mexico and Baha-
mas)
Falkland Islands

FOREIGN CATTLE.—In the four months ending on
the 26th of Deecml-er last 1,818 head of cattle, chiefly from
Spain, were landed in Cornwall.
STRIKE OF CONTINENTAL WORKMEN.—A strike has
just taken place at a large cotton mill at Hodiment, near
Verviers, in Belgium, belonging to MM. Garet Brothers.
The cause of the suspension is a dispute between the
trade society and the masters of that firm respecting some
matters of detail. Order is maintained in the streets by
gendarmes. The working dyers of Bale have also struck
Tho swiss employers are seeking fresh workmen at Lyons.
THE PLYMOUTH PANTOMIME.—The lessee of the
Plymouth Theatre Royal owes a debt of gratitude to Col.
Pearson. Since the advertisement of that establishment
contained in the orders of the day of the Royal Marine
Barracks the audiences have nightly increased, and on
Monday evening the house was one of the most crowded
and brilliant that has been seen for several seasons.—
estern 3lorniny News.

THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY IN MILLINERY
AND DRESSMAKING ESTABLISHMENTS.—It is reported that
Mr. Tyrwhitt, when imposing a penalty a few days ago
on a theatrical dressmaker, for employing women after
half-past four on Saturday, stated that after the Ist of
January, 1869, employment must cease at two o'clock on
Saturday. The magistrate, it correctly reported, has
overlooked one of the prominent exceptions under the
Workshops Regulation Act,which legalises the employment
of milliners and dressmakers till 4 o'clock on Saturdays,pro-
vided they do not begin work before 8 o'clock in the
morning. If work is begun at six on Saturday mornings,
then it must cease at two ; if at seven, then at three ; if at
eight, then at four. No work is permitted after four o'clock
on Saturdays, "except in cases where not more than five
persons aro employed in the same establishment, and
where such employment consists in making articles to be
sold by retail on the premises, or in repairing articles of a
liko nature to those sold by retail on the premises ;" and
also "where the occupier of any workshop is a perso❑ of
the Jewish religion, and it is his custom to keep such
workshop closed on Saturday until sunset, it shall be law-
ful for him to employ young persons or women on that
day from after sunset uutil nine o'clock at night."
THE MANUFACTURE OF WATCHES AND CLOCKS.—
A most interesting and instructive little work, describing briefly
but with great clearness, the rise and progress of watch and
clock making*, has just been published by Mr J. W. Benson, of
25, Old Bond-street, 09, Westbourne-grove, and the City Steam
Factory, 58 and GO, Ludgate-hill. The book, which is profusely
illustrated, gives a full description of the various kinds of watches
and clocks, with their prices, and no one should make a purchase
without visiting the above establishments or consulting this truly
valuable work. By its aid persons residing in any part of the
United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for
themselves the watch best adapted for their use, and have it sent
to them with perfect safety. Mr. Benson, who holds the appoint-
ment to the Prince ol.Wales, sends this pamphlet to any address
on receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too strongly
recommend it to the notice of tho intenciingeurelia„r