The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

MARKS TS. —This day.

HAY.
1311,1ITHFIILD.—Meadow hay, £3 08 to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and .straw, £1 168 to £2 4s per load.
Trade heavy.
CUMBERLAND.—Moadow hay, £3 5s to £4 105 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 18e to £2 5s per load.
A quiet demand.
WHITECIIAPEL.—MottcIow hay, £3 Os to £4 105; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load.
A limited inquiry.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—Business remains very dull, but prices aro firm.
SUGAR.—There has been a fair inquiry, particularly for
refining descriptions, and late rates are well sustained. In
the reined market a steady business has been done, at
former quotations.

COPPlE.—Thedoraand for plantation Ceylon has been
good, and fully former terms have bean current.
RICE.—No dealings of importance have been reported,
and quotations are unaltered.
SALTPETRE. There have been a few inquiries, but busi-
ness has been dull, and prices are a shade lower.
TALLow.—The market has boon firm throughout the
week, and prices have been well sustained, a considerable
amount of outstanding contracts having been settled for
January to March delivery, but little business has been
done for the end of the year, this period being much
neglected. At Petersburg the price remains at 5O to
but export houses aro not operating. Exchange, 32} d.
To-day the market is hardly so firm. There are sellers at
44s 9d January to March, 45s 3d March only, and 45s 3d
April to June, for the end of the year 45s 9d to 46s is the
price. On the spot4ss is paid for new, and 44is 6d to 44s 9d,
old Y.C. 45s 6d, South American and Australian 44;
town tallow 445, net cash.

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COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.
s. a_
s. d.
Davison's Hartley 17 0 Walls End Haswell 23 0
Lambert's W.Hartley 16 9 Tuustall
Brady°ll's lletton .... 22 0

Ships at market, 29—sold, 22.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

The market opens quiet but firm. Sales pro-
bably 8,000 or 10,000 bales.

AN EARL IN A COUNTY COURT.—At the New-
market County Court at Cambridge, the CAUSO of
Ekin v. the Earl of Winchilsea was recently tried. It was
an action for £lO ss. for hire of carriages, conveyances,
lodging, ecc. The judge had received a letter from the
defendant, stating he had been overcharged 215., and en-
closing a cheque for £9 45., which was of course returned,
his honour saying he could not recognise a letter about a
matter ho was to hear and try. Mr. Ekin proved the earl
had engaged a carriage for four days at 255. per day, and
that the amount of lodgings was £3, which, with horses
and servants, made up the amount of his claim. Mr. Kit-
chiner appeared for the plaintiff, and hinted that the earl
could have no reasonable grounds for objecting, especially
as he had paid the same charge at previous meetings. Im-
mediate payment was ordered.
ARTIFICIAL BIRDS' NESTS.—The societies formed
for the protectian of insectivorous birds in Switzerland are
now setting up artificial nests. One of the members of a
society of this description who inhabits Povey, having
observed that many species of that kind select for nests
the holes they find in the branches of rotten trees, and
that they consequently do not find it easy to settle in
orchards, whore all the trees aro in good condition, began,
25 years ago, to set up rotten trunks in his grounds;
and since then he has had no need to trouble himself
in the least about clearing away caterpillars, that care
being entirely left to the birds, who perform their duty
admirably. His neighbours, on the contrary, who have
not had this foresight, have had their orchards laid waste
by insects. Tho Yvardum Society have gone the length
of placing artificial nests oven in the public walks and
communal forests, on the borders of the lawns, &c. All
those nests are now inhabited by hedge-sparrows, red-
starts, creepers, and tomtits, all which may be found in
Switzerland as high up as the perpetual snow-line. The
same practice has foumi its way into Germany.--Poln<ta,•
Science Review.