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

HAY.

BurntFrELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 108 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs; clover
£4 Os to £5 12s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load.
WILITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s ; clove',
£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 PROSECIITIONS.—We are informed
that the Jamaica Committee have resolved to prosecute
Mr. Eyre for misdemeanour, under the provisions of tho
Colonial Goveinors 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. IVednesday —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.—Athencsum.

DEATII OF MR. ROBERT BELL.—WO 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. He 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 Encycloptedia," ae 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.
TIM ABBE LISZT is engaged upon the composition
of a new Austro-Hungarian Coronation Mass.

HERR JOACHIM has already left London for the
season.

THE PREMIER'S RECOVERY FROM THE GOUT.—
Wo are in a position to state that Lord 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 the Springfield Republi-
can :—" The fact is not generally known, either here or in
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 made by the
Prince Consort and herself 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'Leod of Glasgow, end after stating how astonished
she was that any ono could preach 'so eloquently and
touchingly without notes ;' she adds, and then he prayed
se kindly for me and the Prince in the after prayer that I
was deeply touched ; but when he invoked God's blearing
on the children, I felt a great lump come in my throat."
She had not expected to be prayed for so kindly by a
Presbyterian, and least 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 end 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 tho following inscription :
" To dear Jeannie Gl—. 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.
Demorest's Young America is represented to have
a circulation of 15,000 copies.