The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-22 00:00:00

110.14t'Y I/lARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELTAGENCX,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Stock Exchange being closed, there has been
a very limited attendance in commercial circles in
the City.
In the Discount Market scarcely any business has
been negotiated, and quotations remain unaltered.
the report of the directors of the Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company has been issued, in antici-
Pation of the meeting to be held on the 24th inst.
£hey recommend that a distribution be made of
£3 10s. per share out of the balance of profi
and loss account, and of £1 10s. per share as a bonus
from the insurance account, both free of income-
-laY, payable by warrants to be issued on the even-
ing of the 27th inst.
In the Corn Market to-day the attendance was
of quite a holiday character, and prices of home-
grown and foreign wheat remained unaltered.
From the various manufacturing districts the
accounts for the past week represent that business
in most departments has been exceedingly quiet at
!‘lanchester ; the approach of the Easter holidays
had caused a very limited attendance, and spinners
and,.i manufacturers evinced no disposition to extend
their operations. In the woollen districts of Leeds,
radford, and Halifax there has been little change,
an
d but few dealings have been effected in light
g°°clB. The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester
and Nottingham, however, have shown more am-
ation nwhile in the hardware districts of Birming-
o, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton no material
_alteration can be reported in most of the principal
branches of trade carried on.
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TA-

to. -IL-LASHING.—Every now and then the young
_ of certain daily papers may be seen performing an
t°,l:ler,lttiola which is exceedingly interesting and instructive
like the Xobinoor diamond, or Queen Elizabeth's martin-
tine' °r atk Elgin marble, or an Egyptian brick, or a Byzan-
Writeu:". What thehas got to do is, not to
young lion
stand archoaological treatise on it, but simply to
: over it for a column or two in a spirit of piety
Zaitnvirtue, and to lash his tail. If it is the Kohinoor
.17.11(1, he begins by recapitualing, in a tone of racy
fla
di
laritY with Greek and Latin authors, all the great
°Lds that have ever existed mince the world
fr▪
-6411; intermingling his narrative with quotations
Virgil Homer, Hesiod, JEchylus, Sophocles, Euripides,
sii, °, Plautus, Terence, and dashing off a few airy a,llu-
thsitlanB to Plato's cavo, the silver mines of Laurium,
lietra3, Cleopatra's pearls, the Arabian nights, and
6 Antoinette's necklace. When ho has finished lash-
o 3
graelais tail over the catalogue, all that he has to doi is to
back to the Kohinoor. There it is—the Kh
O I,ot the nugget which has been extracted by palr.
e
an slaves to the sound of a Greek overseer's whip,
I'o4l t
he dark abysses of Laurium. It is not the pearl
Whim, the
Roman gourmand melted in his snow-cooled
honey-sweetenedhi wine. It is not one of the famous gems
Lise Horace tells us that he could not afford to keep in
quiet Sabine farm. It is solely and simply the Koln-
Al-fet n and this is not the first but the nineteenth century.
Le r
f achieving such a feat of tail-lashing, the young lion
s quietly home, to his companions, till he is wanted
• 'l4 on a shnilar oecas:on of importanca.—Saturday Review.
Tup BURNING OF THE LARGEST HOTEL IN AME-
or ICA , the St. Louis Republican gives a full account
the total destruction by fire of the Linuell Hotel in that
te,ILY• The fire broke out in one of the servants' rooms on
14° "enth (the highest) storey, and rapidly spread down-
41as until the whole building was a heap of ruins. Tho
of
"glues were powerless to stay its progress, the great height
--e building rendering it almost impossible to throw
Wa the
fairly on the roof, and when this was accomplished
It
was of no avail, as the fire was spreading under the roof
nere it could not be reached. The Republican says.:—
The whole structure from basement to attic, inclusive,
eabracin
P room's, lounging rooms, stores, wine-col-
offices, &c., had the enormous number of 530 rooms,
"so of a public character were numerous and capa.cfouts
1,6,Y0nd those of any other hotel edifice on
_the Continent
actual cost of the building was 59')°'°°°' whit'
th the ground (valued at $326,400), makes the whole
,P4O $1,276,400, not to s eak of furniture, $500,000 worth
I,' which was imported andp put in. So that, when the
„"so was fully completed and furnished, the whole Imo-
'"ertY cost a million and three-quarters of dollars :"