The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-24 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £3 58 to £4 158; clover,
£4 Oa to 15 15a Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load.
Supply moderate.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay £3 58 to £4 15s ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s ; and straw, '.£l 16s to £2 4s per load.
A fair demand.
WiIITECHAPEL—Meadow hay, £3 5s to £4 15s ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od i and straw, £l. las to £2 4s per load,
Trade inactive.

Hastings Hartley COAL MARNET.
Price per ton at the 1 of the market.
c oso
s. d.
s. d.
Walls End Haswell.•• 23 0 Eden Main
20 3
Harton ..... 20 Walls End Hetton 23 0
t• ............. 3
Iletton Lyons 20 3 Hewarui
Ships at market, 12—sold, 11.
...... 18 3 Tunsts.ll

THE LATE JULES GERARD, THE LION KILLER.
—Some particulars have at last come to hand,
tardily enough, of the death, two years ago, of Jules
Gerard, the Lira-killer. These particulars have been ob-
tained by the French Consular agent at Sierra Leone, who
communicated them to his Government. According to in-
formation given by M. Huchard, a French merchant
guides and protectors. His baggage and
esta-
blished in. the Shuboro, and by Ali-ben-Alahomed, Gerard's
interpreter, the hardy explorer fell a victim to the cupidity
and ferocity of the negroes whom ho had engaged as his
at first pillaged repeatedly during his journey from Sera-
boo to Marna by the chief of the former village. Being
thus deprived of all that was absolutely necossr.ry for him
to continue his route, Gerard sent back his interpreter to
Sierra Leone for a fresh supply. The latter, on his way
back to rejoin his master, learnt at the village of Nio-
Jupan that he had been drowned by the Kosos, who had
conducted him from.Woola, to Makalay, and that his body
was foundin the river Jong, Which flows on the territory
of Shuboro. According to All's account the body when
found was quite naked—the arms tied behind his back, and
a piece of wood with a large stone attached was fastened to
his waist. Ali tried to recover his instruments, but could
not do so. The provisions he had were taken from him by
the negroes, and he himself was beaten, bound, and kept as
a slave. Gerard had formed the project of traversing
Africa from Sierra Leone to Algiers, passing through Tim-
Eagle. thuctoo.

DEATH BY DROWNING IN TIIE THAMES.—Yester-
day morning a lad employed on one of the vessels in the
Pool, was getting a bucket of water, when, owing to the
frozen state of tho deck he slipped and full overboard. 110
was immediately sucked under a raft that was lying
alongside. This was cut adrift, and the boy was got out
of the water, having ruptured a bloodvessel, and although
all was done that was possible to resuscitate him, he did
not recover. The body was removed to the deacihouse to

await an inquest.
FENIANISM IN THE NAVY.—The festivals of
Christmas-day on board the largo line-of-battle ship Li-
verpool, stationed at Bantry, were disagreeably inter-
rupted by eleven to twelve sailors on board. It appears,
when half-seas over, they made use of expressions annoy-
ing to their loyal comrades, and even went so far as to
boast of being Feniaus and admirers of the Head Centro of
that scheming body. They were immediately arrested,
and after being tried, two were sent to Mountjoy, and ono
was flogged—a second is, we also learn, to undergo a
similar punishment as soon as his health will permit it.
On their boxes tieing searched several portraits or photo-
graphs of Stephens were found, and some reading matter
which tended to show Fenian proclivities. •Skibbereen