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

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2110 s to 41 4a ; °lover do.;
31 103 to 51 53; and straw, 11 3s to 11 8s per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ 128 to 4/ 8s ; clover
do., 3/ lOs to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ N per load,
A moderato demand.

WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 103 to 41 4s ; clover
do., 3/ 106 to 5/ 8s; and straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 8s per load.
Trade slow.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.—Yesterday.
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-class, 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 tho public to portray his exploits and adventures
in South Africa, the occasiou was signalised by the intro-
duction of several new views and features connected
with the lion hunter'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 continent, 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 fleet-
ing of the Board of Trade of the City oaf
feCewlarsewtna,r_k:cio.n,
at their rooms on Wednesday, Nov. 19, S. Rogi3eW'phel'i
in the chair, Wm. Bross, Esq., made
the commercial importance of the Canadian
Railway, and offered the following preamble Grand Trunk
tines, which were seconded by George lb'4Gaibnbd,:eoqlu:
and were unanimously adopted : "WhereasA. the Grand
Trunk Railway has recently been
end for travel and
traffic between Montreal and Toronto, which
neoting lines, gives Chicago another
e
Atlantic seaboard ; therefore,thoroughfare wi t with can
the -
gratulations of the Board of resolved—That the con-
be hereby tendered to the T
citizensrade
ooff
Canada
yoonf Chicagothe 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 epxport trade of the West.
R
Resolved—. That the growing commerce of the Lakes re-
quires gteatly 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 suocess of their great railway festival on the
12th and 18th