The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MON)iA Y EVENING, JULY 14,

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.

I MARKET liFiWS.—(This Day.

RAILWAYS.

C
this .

CORN EXCHANGE.

Only limited supplies of wheat wero on sale in the lead-
ing country markets held on Saturday. Most kinds sold
steadily, and fine parcels were rather dearer. In spring
corn and flour very little change took place.
Our advices from. New York state that rather large sup-
plies of wheat and flour continued to arrive from the inte-
rior. For shipment to England, some important purchases
had been effected. The Continental markets have become
less active.

Bletchle7
Buchq.b.anish.
Clydosdalo o.
Col. Stour Wy.
Sud. and Hal.
E. Lin.ff...6 pc
E. Un. H. Sh
Gies. Barr. Sz
Neils. Direct
Do. New
, Giztr.d; Dn. Fr
Hrtipl. Di`
Hull & Selby
Do.- Shares.
Do. Shares.
Lon.& Green%
Do. Preference
Lon., Til., &
Lowestoft gr.
4 par cent. •
Do. 6 per ct.
Manch. Bxtn
and Matio,:li
Middlesbro' &
Redcar

N. We,,..
L.49;N.W.
E. Un. &
E. C...
E. Count.
Caldonise.

6 100
00 105

12 14
135 139
4 ...

Do
Gt. Nre3 co
Yk. ;.how.
& Borw.
Y. &N M
Do
Do

Up to our trarket, last week, the receipts of home-grown
produce were very moderate. From abroad, we received
6,295 quarters of wheat, 757 barley, 7,395 oats, 2,503
beans, 3,853 peas, 100 tares, 4,717 linseed, 1,656 rapeseed,
6,700 Indian corn, 81. sacks and 16,075 barrels of flour.
For the time of year about an average supply of English
wheat was received fresh up to-day, coastwise and by land
carriage, and the show of samples of both red and white
was tolerably good. For most kinds, especially for the
finest qualities, we had a moderate demand, at prices equal
to those paid on Monday last.

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S. East° -
Do
Poto &Co

12 - isi
234 21.;
117 - 121

Norfolk...
Do. ....
L.& N. IV.
& Midid
Stckton &
Darlingt.
Midland..

The weather to day is by no means favourable, and we
learn that harvest work will be commenced a week or te'h
days later than last year.

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Midid.Bradf
Newmarket
Bury E. G.spc
Est.sp.e.
Do. 6 per et.
Do. Fixeds p
Prest. & i Yr
Do. t Shrs. A
Roystu.& Hit.
Shot. Roth.ati
Gooleg.s p. c.
Shrews. &H er
S. Staffordsh.
Wear Valleygr
por cent
Do

94 '26

There was cnly a moderate show of foreign wheat. The
demand was by no means active, and the sales were mostly
in retail. Importers, however, were firm, and the quota-
tions were well supported.

En. Cann.
E. Count
Do

57 b 9

The Paris market on Saturday was dull for flour, at
drooping prices.

L.&N.W
Do

. - -
In floating cargoes of grain very little was doing.
The few samples of barley in the market were taken at
very full prices.

Ut Northn
Lancas'a
Yorksh.
T. Brassey
M. MClean
Stockt.
Dariingt
De

135 - 138

7+ -
21 20

. -
Malt was slow in sale, and prices were nominally 5s to 6s
per quarter lower.
The supply of oats was very modarate, and the oat trade
ruled steady, at full quotations.

33 14
92 ••- 96

Beans were in short supply and fair request at late rates.
Owing to a large import from Canada, peas were dull,
and rather lower to purchase.

Wilts&Comrmt

I Gtwootu .

The flour trade was steady, and Norfolk qualities were
the turn higher.
ciiitaescY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.

Wheat—Essex gt Kent,
Red new 693 to 803
Ditto •• .... old —s -8
Ditto, White new 69s 833
Ditto.... .... old —s —s
ziorfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old ---8 -3
Ditto new •••• .. 67s 7751
Hy•• ........ —s —s;
[how .• .......... 40s —Bl
Barley—Grinding..... 365 39a
'Waiting 418 435
. . 435 45s
M alt--fiv.frolk and Nor-
68s 74s
.... GO, 623
'CingstmandWare 68 75s

Malt—Chevalier •• 753 to 763
Oats— Yorkshire and
Lincolnsk., Feed 25s 27s
Potato
Yoaghal and Cork
Black •
• 223 25

Cork, White ..... 24s 27s
scotch, Feed.. •• 27s 30s
Beans—Tick •••• • • •• 37s 40s
Pigeons ...... 42 45,
Peas—Grey ...• .•• • • • 38s 40s
Maple. •• •• .• •• 423 41s

!*kite... •• •• •• 44s 49S

Boilers • •• •• .. 44s 49-
Flour—Town-made. •• 64s 67s
Suffolk . 51s 52s
4tooktn ez. Norfolk 51s 52s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

For the time of year, moderate supplies of foreign stook
arrived in the port of Loudon last week—the total import
being 7 629 head. In the corresponding week in 1855 we
received 4 ,710 ; in 1854, 5,788; in 1853, 9,306; in 1852,
7,071; in 1851, 7,189 ; and in 1850, 4,481..

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WERIC.

Beasts.

Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs

From
Ostend
Amsterdam lB
Tonning 99
Elarlingen
Calais
Rotterdam l5l
Dordt 2
Antwerp
Oporto 204
Hamburgh 626 1,761 ...

1856.

THE LATE DIVISION AND THE
FAMILIES.

(Pion a Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser.)
It shows strongly the great influence of the families,
that Lord Palmerston should havo been led to make
such an unfortunate compromiae, and give his watchful
rival, L'rd John Russell, such a triumph on Thursday
night. Happily, a division among themselves, and the
desire of L rd John not to remain longer in obscurity,
has defeated the attempt of the peers to dictate to the
other powers in the Constitution, and to subject the
Crown, in one of its most useful prerogatives, to the
House of Lords. Originally consisting of life peers
alone, that house has fallen into the prejudice of heir-
ship, as some one calls it, that it denies the right of the
Crown to summon to a place in its councils, either for a
session or a lifetime, any one who may deserve it.
How destructive of the power of national self-govern-
ment by the people it is, that a Premier, so powerfully
backed by the popular choice, should have to submit to
such aristocratic influence, acting in an underhand way,
and, as the event proves, providentially defeated when it
is challenged to an open division ! How often has -Lord
Palmerston been forewarned of this danger in these
columns, and exhorted to rely morn upon the people and
upon intelligent public opinion ! He would not then
be exposed to defeats by such comparatively unpractical
and -inefficient leaders as Lord John Russell and Mr.
Gladstone.

The division of Thursday night exemplifies a combina-
tion of the old Bedford Whigs with the Peelites and
the extreme Liberal party against the Minister, with
his personal friends and Government following, and
backed by the Tories and the House of Lords party. The
number of honourables and eldest sons of peers on the
Government side is very significant. Thus we have, on
the Ministerial side, sons of the Dukes of Richmond,
Marlborough, Montrose, and Cleveland—no less than
three sons of the Marquis of Anglesey, who certainly is
well represented in the Lower HOWSE—sons of the Mar-
quises of Normanby, Aylesbury, Abercorn, and Head-
fort—sons of the Earls of Powis, Radnor, Belmore,
Cowper, Cam?erdown, era wfurd and Balcarres,
Bradford, Cadogan, Manvers, Mayo, and Ennis-
killen—sons of Lords Deere, Forrester, Ravens;
worth, Hatherton, and Mostyn ; besides several Irish
peers, and relatives, or near connexions by marriage, of
almost every nobleman in the peerage. Such; indeed,
is the composition of the House of Commons at pre-
sent, that at least one-half of its members are so en-
tangled ; and if it were not for the hopes of a pure
Whig Cabinet, and that a share of' the power of Govern-
ment would again fall to certain influential 'Whig
families, it is certain that the Commons would never
have asserted themselves to the extent they have.
The influence of the peers over the small rotten
borourhs in England is strikingly exemplified in this '
critical division. There are a number of small decaying
places in England of no political significance, and mostly
in the bands of noblemen who have seats near them, or
else carried by lavish expenditure of money. Of these,
in the division of Thursday night, the peerage was able
to command 26 votes, while the other parties united,
with even the old Whig aristocracy, had only 12 votes
from this source.

Tnus, we have the Tory lords, the Earls of Malmes-
bury, Bathurst, Sandwich, Po wis, and Somers, repre-
sented in another form by their rotten-borough influ-
ence, at Christchurch, Cirencester, Huntingdon, Lud-
low, and Reigate, and making the members for those
places vote for what they please. This is only a small
sample of the way in which those wretched pretences
of electoral bodies are used to keep the Commons in
check. Of those 80 votes in Parliament, public opi-
nion has indeed a very small hold ' • and although the
evil is in some degree balanced by the divisions be-
tween the grandees as to the manner of using this
influence, and by the Bedford family, for instance,
bringing the close borough of Tavistock to weigh
against Woodstock or Cricklade, still the justice,
which the rightful owner is said to get when unjust
appropriators fall out, is proverbially precarious, and
not exactly that which it suits the dignity of a
free people who pretend to self-government to submit
to and be satisfied with. The farce of giving the nation
only the benefit of the scraps which fall to the ground
wnen the aristocratical factions are quarrelling about
the possession, is surely to end soon ; and it will not be
long of doing so when th'e general body of readers under-
stand that in the division !kV; published in the papers,
they are to read, for the name of the hock. member who
votes, that of the noble marquis or duke oehind the
scenes who makes his nominee vote as be pleases.
There is no one who is not pleased to see Sir W.
Williams in Parliament ; but to see him there as
the nominee of a Whig marquis is not so pleasant to
intelligent Englishmen. Submitting to enter by a fiction
as "a representative of the twelve dozen electors who
never vote for the marquis's borough of Caine, who can
tell how mach or how little of fiction or sham may
forced into his votes and views ? Thus amthe very best
things we have, and the best men, corroirted and made
comparatively useless to their country by the system
followed. Hardly anything in Parliament means what
it pretends to mean, and plain honest men, who have
not deeply studied the subject, are lost in a sea of shams
when they attempt to understand the general working of
Parliament, and conduct of legislation.