The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Owing to the general conviction that the crop is of a
fair average yield, the market here is very inactive, and
prices are gradually declining. Accounts from the Con-

tinent also advised less demand, and a fall in the quota-
tions. On the other hand, American reports speak of
more firmness in the market for all descriptions. We

quote :

Mid and East Kolas £9 I.os to £l2 Os per cwt.
Weald of Kent
77
Sussex 7 lOs to 9 Os
7)
Farnham ••• 9 lOs to 12 Os
77
Bavarian 7 Os to 9 98
/I
Belgians 5 12s to 6 103
~

Yearlings

9 Os

WHITECHAPEL.
Per 81b. by the carcase.

Beef 3s 2d to 4s 6d I Veal
Mutton ... 3s 4d to 4s 6d I Pork

LIVEI?POOL COTTON 111,4RKE1—This Da

Market opens without change Sales probably
0,000 bales.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoii.....Oct. 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles .........00t. 14.
Ditto, via Panama
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Nov. 4.
Ditto, by French packet Oct. 22
Calm Verde, by Brazil packet ......
,;ape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St.. Helena— Oct. 2i.
China, Penang, and Singapore. via Souillainpton Oa. 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles •••••• Oct. 14
Falkland Islands
dibraltar, via Southampton
Italia. via Southampton
........Oct. :3
Ditto, via Marseil es Oct. 11
Malta, Egypt, &o.
Oct. :3
Ditto, Marsalles Oct. 11.
MaurititiA, Capc of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Southampton
Oct. 20
Ditt via Mareei les
Newfoundland
Portugal Nov. 4.
Ditto, by private ship to Oporto . .
Ditto ditto to Lisbon
United States, Canada, California, &c., by British
packet
Ditto, by United States packet
Ditto ditto (New York)
Ditto ditto (New York)
Ditto ditto (Baltimore)
Ditto, by Canadian packet Oct. 11.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Oct. 17.
West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha-
mas)
Oct. 14.
Cuba and Mexico
....Oct. ‘9.
Bahamas, via New York
Nov. 11.
Bermuda, via Halifax

SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—The Birming-
ham Gazette records the sudden demise of the Rev. G. W.
White, rector of Darleston. The rev. gentleman went
to the parish church on Sunday morning in order to dis-
charge his duties, and was seized with sudden illness as
he was about to leave the vestry for the purpose of com-
mencing the service. The attack was so severe as to ne-
cessitate the removal of the rev. gentleman at once to tho
rectory, where medical aid was procured, but without
avail. He died about eight o'clock on Monday morning.
The rev. gentleman was in his 79th year.
AUGUSTA ANN MITCHELL.—This young woman,
convicted of robbing a groom, and sentenced by Mr. Payae,
at the Middlesex Sessions, to eight months' imprisonment
on the 3d of last month, was removed from the W estmin-
ster House of Correction on Wednesday, the 2d inst., to
the home (not reformatory) for the reception of fallen
women, of which Mr. Thomas is secretary. She had
since her commitment to prison been engaged in oakum-
picking, and when the decision of the Home Secretary
was made known to her her delight was great, and she
seemed to properly appreciate the exertions which had
been made in her behalf. While she remains an inmate of
the home she will be employed in domestic and other duties
of a light character, at the same time will receive every
attention with a view to her reclamation.

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THUNDER AND HAILSTORM AT LIVERPOOL.—
About five o'clock on Monday evening a terrific hail-
storm swept over. Liverpool, accompanied with vivid
flashes of sheet and forked lightning. So sudden was the
storm that the only notice given was a tremendous down-
fall of hail-stones, some as large as a pigeon's egg; then a
volley of thunder that seemed to run from north to south,
and an incessant flashing of lightning. The streets in the
lower parts of the town were ankle-deep in hailstone; and
several of the principal photographers' studies in Castle
and Lord-streets had theirglass frames smashed in, besides
other damage. The damage done to the fruit trees in the
neighbourhood and the conservatories must be immense.
A FRENCH STATUTE FAIR.—The Presse gives an
account of the vintagers' (statute) fair, which is
held every year at Argenteuil the night before the opening
of the vintage, and which took place on Thursday last. It
is impossible (says the journal) to form an idea without
being present of the peculiar features of this gathering,
which is of the most exciting and tumultuous kind ima-
ginable. A whole population of many thousands—men,
women, and young girls—arrive successively in dense
groups from all the villages in the environr, and instal
themselves, not in publichouses, but on the thresholds of
private domicile; in the road; and on the pavement of the
streets. At nightfall circulation begins to bo a difficult pro-
ss, and all the roads and pathways leading to the town,
already crowded with people, continue to pour in large ac-
cessions to the number of these rustic visitors, so that by
11 o'clock at night it is barely possible to penetrate these
agglomerated masses, whose undulations make one think
of the waters of the sea. The little town is now nothing
more than an immense bivouac, the surplus population
being estimated at 12,000 strangers. Some dance the foram
doles, others aro singing rondos ; some, again, are sleeping,
or trying to sleep, upon the ground; others, quarrelling,
shout;ng, and pushing one another about ; while in many
places fires are lighted, and potatoes and chestnuts are
cooked on wood cinders. No migratory encampment on
the plains of Africa ever presented so strange and original
a spectacle. Police agents pass the night in the midst of
immense crowds, to keep the disorder within moderate
bounds; and their duly on this occasion is no sinecure, for
they have much to do to suppress the affrays which are
constantly taking place. These officers are assisted by de-
tachments of brigades from St. Germain and St. Cloud.
The vine growers do not arrive at the fail until about 3
o'clock in the morning, when all singing ceases, as if by some
irresistible command ; angry disputants calm down, the
sleepers awake, and each cultivator is immediately sur-
rounded,interrogated, and beset by troops of vintagers cla-
mouring to be Weed, all boasting of their qualities and
aptitude; and all speaking at the same time—a veritable
hubbub. Towards 5 o'clock in the morning the bargains
are all made, and then the filing off begins. The vine
growers, like officers commanding a regiment, advance to-
wards home, followed by their little army of vintagers, •
whose joyous songs awake the echoes of the surrounding
neighbourhood,