The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-13 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Moadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, f 3 Os to £4 lOs; clover
£4 Os to £5 12s Od ; and straw, .£1 18s to £2 5s per load.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 12s 6d ; and straw, .£1 18s to £2 5s per load.
Trade has been inactive in consequence of the weather.

THE JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS.---We are informed
that the Jamaica Committee have resolved to prosecute
Mr. Eyre for misdemeanour, under the provisions of the
Colonial Governors Act.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.— Tuesday —Engineers, at 8: "The Suez
Canal," Colonel Denison. Statistical, at 8: "Mortality in
London Hospitals, &c.," Dr. Guy. Wednesday—Geologi-
cal, at 8 : " Physical Structure of North Devon, &c.," Mr.
Etheridge. " Subaerial Denudation, &c.,” Mr. Whitaker.
Meteorological at 8. Thursday—Zoological, at 4. Numis-
matic, at 7. Linnean, at 8 : " Entoza in the Dog, &c.,"
Dr. Cobbold. —Athenceum.

DEATH OF MR. ROBERT BELL.—We have to
announce the death of Mr. Robert Bell, a gentleman well
known as an author and journalist. He was born in Cork
at the beginning of the present century, and his first lite-
rary employment was the production of two comedies for
the Dublin Theatre, which were well received. Ho after-
wards settled in London, and became a frequent contribu-
tor to the Monthly Magazine, the Atlas newspaper, and
other publications of the day. He was the author of a
"History of Russia" and the "Lives of the English Poets,"
which appeared in " Lardner's Encyclops3dia," as well as
of several other works, and he wrote " Mothers and
Daughters," "The Marriage," and some other plays, which
found favour on the metropolitan stage.
THE ABBE LISZT is engaged upon the composition
of a new Austro-Hungarian Coronation Mass.

HERR JOACIIIM has already left London for the
season.

THE PREMIER'S RECOVERY FROM THE GOUT.-
We are in a position to state that Lori Derby is now con-.
valescent from his recent attack of gout, and indeed able to
be about the house. As the public are somewhat anxious
on the subject they will learn with satisfaction that during
the last year his lordship has been more than usually free
from illness, and indeed has escaped confinement to bed
from the periodic attacks to which he was subject.—The

Lancet.
The following account of the Queen's book is
from the London correspondent of th© Springfield Republ
in
America, :—" The fact is not generally known, either here or
America, that her Majesty Queen Victoria has written a
work, entitled "Leaves from a Journal in the Highlands,"
which consists of about forty papers descriptive of her life
at Balmoral and the neighbourhood. The work is illus-
trated by photographs and woodcuts from her Majesty's
sketches. It contains, among other interesting matter,
three long accounts of incognito journeys de by the
Prince Consort and herself to different parts o made by the
Prince Consort and horelf to different parts of Scotland,
and the adventures which they met with. In one of the
papers she gives an account of the preaching of Dr. Nor-
man M'Lood of Glasgow, rind after,stating how astonished
she was that any one could preach 'so eloquently and
touchingly without notes ;' she adds, ' and then he prayed
so kindly for me and the Prince in the after prayer that I
was deeply touched ; but when he invoked God's bleasiug
on the children, I felt a great lump come in my throat."
She had not expected to bo prayed for so kindly by a
Presbyterian, and lost of all did she expect him to re-
member the children. I think there is something touching
in this simple note of the queen-wife and mother, which
shows how true a woman she is. Only forty copies of the
work have been printed for special friends and favourites,
but sooner or later it will of course be reprinted, and will
be a most interesting addition to contemporary literature.
What would the world not give for such a work by Queen
Mary or Queen Elizabeth? The copy from which I have
quoted bore on the title-page the following inscription :
" To dear Jeannie U—. In remembrance of many, many
happy hours—gone never to return again, from—V. R.'
Her Majesty has also written the preface to a life of the
Prince Consort, which General Grey is preparing for pri-
vate distribution.
Mr. Weed's assumption of the New York Com-
mercial Advertiser changes it from a free trade to a protec-
tion journal, at which the Iron Age greatly rejoices.
I)emorest's Young America is represented to have
a circulation of 15,000 copies.