The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 4 1856.

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MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

THE MAGAZINES.

trims instortess
itammais• Cempans.! Saturday. this day.
all -..•‘.:dford and London
Blehl]loy N. WeA.
100 Mickel:mash. L.&N.W. 94 96
i`'‘) Clydesdale . Caledon 94 98
all Col. Stour Vy. E. Un. &
Sod. and H:al. E. C ..... .
Ot Lin. z.'.l pc Gt. Nano.
all E. Un. H. Sh. E. Count. ...
W) Glas. Barr. & Caldoniau.
Neils. Direct •.. •
100 Do. New...... Do
all Olstr.4Dn.Fr Vrestr — ,„
all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New
Railway__ & Berw
all Hull & Seiby Y. &N3l. 104 106
all Do. Sharo7. Do
4 all Do. Shares. Do.. ......
all Lon.& Creenw S. Easton 13 —13 i
all Do. Preference Do 234 244
.10,) Lon., Til., &S. Pet° &Co llO 115 109 a
100 Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent. Norfolk ,„
. WO Do. 6 per ct. Do
all Manch. 117. tn, L.&N.W
and Matlock & Midld 2i
all Middlesbro' & Stckton&
Redcar Darlingt.
100 Midld.Bradfd Midland.. 91 E 3
5} Newmarket
Bury E. G.spe En. Coun. p ip
all .N.& Est.s p.c. E. Count. 55 57
ali Do. 6 7,er ct.1)'0.........
all Do. Fixeds p c Do •..
all Prost. INT., L. &N.W —
all Do. 4 tihrs. A Do
0 Roystn.&Hit. OtNorthrt
Shef.Roth land Lancash&
Gooleg.sp.c. Yorksh.
all Shrews.&Her T.Brassey 7>i— 8
S. Staffordsh. M. MC lean 3 -- I
WearValloygr Stockt. &
i per cent... Darlingt
all Do 3l ---32
)100 Wilt,* . GtWestn. 83 • 85

CORN EXCHANGE:

Blackwood.—The learned Recorder of Hull is
the hero of Maga for February. His earnest and
in many respects really masterly oration upon
" Labour : Its Rights, Difficulties, Dignity, and
*Consolations"—a lecture the dimensions of which
to our regret precluded us from transferring it to
our own columns from those of our Hull contem-

Most of the country markets held on Saturday were
very dull for wheat, at drooping prices. There was very
little inquiry for barley on former terms. All other kinds
of spring corn, including flour, were heavy and drooping.
The continental markets continue very dull, and a de
dine to some extent has taken place in the general quota-
tions. - From New York we learn that there was a fair
demand for flour on export account.
The arrivals of English grain up to our markets last
week were very moderate. From abroad we received
17,674 quarters of wheat, 7,291 oats, 5,824 beans, 15 tares,
7,539 linseed, 12,678 rapeseed, 110 sundry seeds, 1,326
sacks and 11,955 barrels of flour.
Fresh np to our market to-day, an increased supply of
English wheat came to hand, coastwise and by land car-
riage. The condition of the samples was ranch better than
on Monday last. For all kinds wo had an unusually dull
trade, and great difficulty was experienced in realising
sales even on lower terms. For some time it was difficult
to ascertain the decline in value, but most of the factors
considered prices fully 4s to 53 per quarter lower than on
Monday last.
There was a fair show of foreign wheat. The demand
ruled heavy in the extreme, and the currencies were
nominally quite 2s per quarter lower.
Floating cargoes meta very dull inqury.

poraries—has been made the theme of a felicitous
and thoughtful essay from the pen of a writer evi-
dently skilled as a reviewer in the pages of Black-
wood. Besides which have we not from his own
hand—the humorous preliminary chapter of canine
autobiography, entitled "Tickler among the
Thieves." A rather surprising supplement (as it
proves) to the twoclelightful contributions published
in the October and November numbers of Maga,
papers simply headed " An Old Contributor at the
Sea Side," but altogether unmistakeable as the
productions of Mr. Warren, though emanating
from him under the transparent mask of the strictly
anonymous ! Surprising indeed, we repeat, is the
' little episode here recounted by Mr. Warren in the
life of Tickler—Tickler, be it observed, of the Isle
of Skye, and not of the Noctes Ambrosianre. Sur-
prising in two ways—firstly, inasmuch as the loss
of Tickler was a quarter of a year since foresha-
dowed as by a sort of presentiment ; secondly, as
the " Old Contributor" then wrote in Blackwood,
hypothetically, as M.P. for somewhere, before Mr.
Goulburn's demise, before Mr. Walpole aspired to
represent the University of Cambridge, before the
borough of Midhurst was opportunely vacated, to
the end, as it were, that through it, as through the
most natural channel in the world, the author of
" Ten Thousand a Year " might follow in the
footsteps of his own Charles Aubrey until
they eonducted him within the walls of the Eng-
lish Parliament. There the readers of Blackwood
cannot but be right heartily glad to recognise him,
if for nothing else, for the sake of the famous master-
piece already mentioned, and for the sake, too, of
its no less memorable precursor, " The Diary of a
Late Physician." Another collective criticism,
under the broad heading of " Modern Light Li-
terature," weighs in a balance of Ebony certain
recent contributions to English poetry—distribut-
ing sugar-plums and raps of the ferule to these
" true brothers," as the Maga-critic calls them—
" Mr. Tennyson, the eldest of the group—Mr.
Dobell the sulky boy—Mr. Browning the bois-
terous one—aud Mr. Smith the younger brother,
desperately bent on being even with the first-born,
and owning no claim of birth-right." Another in-
stalment brings to a close the twenty-two animated
chapters descriptive of " A Military Adventure in
the Pyrenees." An exceedingly didactic writer
next apostrophises what he designates " The
Wondrous Age," with a lavish expenditure of ca-
pital vowels, (principally Os) and a prodigal scat-
tering abroad of hyphens and notes, both interroga-
tive and exclamatory. After italics, these are the
most significant tokens surely of your true Forcible
Feebles ! " Touching Oxtord"—[shall we ven-
ture to add " For the Evil ?"]—is a thoughtful and
suggestive letter addressed to Professor Nobel by
our old friend Tlepolemus. " The Ancient Coins
of Greece," an article so entitled, coming immedi-
ately afterwards, being in effect, as the reader will
discover on its perusal, an ingenious review of Mr.
Leake's learned Numismata .tTellenica. A smart
skit upon "The Drama "—ag it is—comes soon
afterwards. A skit (for the criticism is little more
pretentious in character) passing the chief among
our London theatres successively under examine.-

A few sales of fine malting barley were reported at about
stationary prices, but all other kinds were 2s cbeaper.
As regards malt there was literally no inquiry for it, and
prices had a downward tendency.
We were well supplied with Irish oats. The sale for
most kinds was heavy, and prices were in favour of buyers,
viz., from is to 2s per quarter.
There was a very slow inquiry for beans, the prices of
which were drooping—viz., 2s. per quarter.
Peas moved off slowly, and the quotations were not
supported, the fall being is per quarter.
The flour trade was heavy, and country markets were Is
to 2s per sack cheaper. Town-made flour fell 3s, or to 67s
pex sack.

PREFERENCE 3111 ARES.

109 - 111
107 109
80 85

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL• MEASURE
Malt—Chevalier .... 903 to Ms
Oats Yorkshire and
Lineolash., Feed 25s 29s
Potato . •• . 26s 333
YouthlA and Coe.,
81ank....... 23s 28s
Cork, W ?site ..... 26s 293
Booteh,','eed. •... 27s 33e
Reans—Tiek 368 40s
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey ......... 378 40s
Maple.. •••• • • • • 373 393
White. ........ 448 47s
Boilers. ......... 49s 51s
Flour—TowB' •made... 66s 67s
Suffolk .. ........ 52s 54s
StooktivA Norfolk 528 543

Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red new Sato 76s
Ditt0........ old 68s 803
Ditto, White new 56s 608
Ditt0........ old 715 83s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old 68s 78al
Ditto new .• •• 58s 76s
Rye—Old ...• ........ —5 —s
New . •• • • ...... 50s Ns
Barley—Grinding ••• •• 358 38s
Malting .•• •• 37s 3ss
Chevalier.•.• • • 388 403
Milt—guifolkand Nor-
folk •• •• • • ...... 74s 81s
Brown ..... •• ...• •• • 648 703
KingstonandWare 788 Sas

92 --• 34

95 - 97
15 - 16

5i - 61

- 124

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MA RKET.

The imports of foreign stock into London last week were
very moderate—the total supply being onty 916 head. In
the corresponding week in 1855 we received 1,362 ; in
1851, 2,709; in 1853, 3,770; in 1352, ; in 1851,
3,309; nn.l in 1850, 971 head.

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IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEIL
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs.
Rotterdam l3 I ... 18
Harlingen . 442 ... 230
Ostend
Antwerp •••
Hamburgh . 4

Calves. Pigs.
... 80 ...

I]G 118

108 - 110
103 105

t

T0ta1.... 540 ...

248 ...

- _... 120 ...

9i 10

There was a very middling show of foi-eign stoek in to-
day's market, both as to number and ouality. Of Irish
beasts there were exhibited 270, of sheer; 150 head, chiefly
'via Liverpool.

fi - 64
88 - 90
78 - SA
7; - 80
95 100

Compared with Monday last the receipts of home-fed
beasts were considerably on the increase, and nearly the
whole of them were in prime condition. Most breeds were
in but moderate request, at Friday's decline in the quota-
tions of 2d per 81bs. The highest figure for beef was 4d
per Sibs.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshiro we
received 2,500 Scots and short horns; from other parts of
England 600 of various breeds ; and from Scotland 280
horned and polled Scots.

9i - 91
16 -16 i
91 10i
70 -- 72
18i -- 194

94 - 94
13i -14
133 - 135

We were moderately supplied with sheep, but most of
them were in good condition. The mutton trade was by
no means so active as on this day se'nnight, and all breeds
of sheep sold at Friday's decline in value of 2d per Sibs.
The top figure for Downs was 4s lOd pat Blbs.
The show of calves was very limited. The veal trade,
however, was less active than on Friday, yet last Monday's
currencies were supported. A few very superior calves
realised 6s 2d; but the general top fi wire was 6s per Sibs.
We had a fair sale for pigs, the supply of which was
moderate, at last week's prices.

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Per Bibs to sink tho offals.
s. d. s. d.
Inferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 2,
Second quality.... 3 4 3 8,
Prime large oxen 310 4 91
Prime Scots, dm 4 6 4
Inferior Sheep ...3 0 3 4,
Second quality ...3 6 310
Prime erse.-wlled.4 0 4 4

d.
s. d. s.
;PrimeSontilown 4 6 410
Large erse. calves 4 8 5 4
Prime small do 5 6 6 0
Large hogs
Small porkers 4 4 5 C
Suckling calves 22 0 29 0
(Quarter old pigs 22 0 2S 0
FO&SON SUPPLY.

lil - 133
94 - 136
1 -
1 - 44

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TOTAL RIPPLY.

Beasts .. • ...... ......
_3.819

Beasts•• •• .• ....•• •••• • 552