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 Os to £5 ; prime hay, £5 lOs to £6 Os ; inferior ditto,
£4 5s to £4 15s ; and stra,x, £1 6s to £1 18s.

Foreign Nail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton. .... Jan. D.
Ditto, via Y. Arseilles ..... .........Jaa 25
Ditto, via Po.anza ........ ........ ......... ...Jan 28
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Feb. 3.
Ditto, by French packet . Jun. 22.
Cape Verds, by Brazil paoket ...... ....... - ...... Feb. 3.
Cape of Good Llope, Ascension, and St. Helena.... Jan. 12.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. Jan. 16.
Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan 9
India, via Southampton . . ..... ....Jan. 9
vitto, via Marseiles
Malta, Og,ypt, &0... ....... ......... .............. Jan. 9.
Ditto, Marseilles Jan. 8
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Scutharai ton
Ditto, Marseilles ~ Jan. 13
Jan 13
Newfoundland .. ....... .
Portugal ... ... . Fen. 3.
United States, lanada, California, &c., by British
packet
Ditto, by Canadian packet Jan 15
Ditto, by L cited States packet
Ditto ditt c (Baltimore)
West Coast of Africa, Madeira. and Teneriffe Jan.l7
West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baba-
mu) Jan 13

Fa*land Islands ....... Feb 3•

FOREIGN CATTLE.—In the four months ending on
the 2Gth of Deecmber 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. Garot 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
The 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.—
Western 11 orniny 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 are 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
like nature to those sold by retail on the premises ;" and
also " where the occupier of any workshop is a person 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
c'ay from after sunset until 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 Luskin , has just been published by Mr J. W. Benson, of
25, Old Bond-street, 59, Westbourne-grove, and the City Steam
Factory, 58 and 60, 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 India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for
themselTensgtdhoemWatch best adapted for their use, and have it sent
to them with perfect safety. Mr. Benson, who holds the appoint-
ment to the Prince of Wales, sends this pamphlet to any address
on receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too ettengly
TOG:4==d it to tlatutice ci PN. !ntpdisiPlardwiF,