The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-29 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITHFIELD—Meadow hay, £3 Os Od to £4 5s ; clover
£4 Os to £5 15s Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load
A good supply.

CU3IBERIAMiD—Meadow hay, £3 Os Od to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s Od to £2 2s per load.
A fair demand.

WHITECHAPEL—Moadow hay, £3 Os to £4 5s ; clover.
£4 Os to £5 17s 61; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load
Trado inactive

New hay is quotod at £2 15s to .£3 17s 6d; and new
clover £3 to £4 los.

THE "FREE TRADE SYSTE3I" OF LICENSES.—
'What is called tho free trade system of licenses has been
again piactically upset in Liverpool. On Tuesday, when
theliconsing session commenced, there were 91 applications
for new licenses. Ten were granted, and of those three
wore for and in lieu of old licenses, the houses having been
pulled down. The ether seven were for restaurants to be
closed at seven at night and shut on Sunday. Yesterday
the magistrates did not grant a single license.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—WhiIe removing one
of the Surrey piers preparatory to the construction of the
new .Blackfriars-bridge, two founda lion stones of black slate
were discovered by the workmen. One of them is evi-
dently a stone that was laid with all pomp and ceremonial,
while the other and smaller one f )und near it was as evi-
dently stowed away on the same day, but prior to the cere-
monial, by some master workman, who took this advantage
of his opportunity to hand down his name to posterity.
The clear cut inscription on the first says :—" On the 23d
day of June, 1761, in the first year of the reign of King
George 111., the first stone of this the first pier was laid by
Sir Robert Ladbroke, Knt., and president of the Honourable
Committee for carrying this bridge into execution. Robert
Ifylne, architect ; Joseph Dixon, mason." The second
stone says :—" On the 23d dry of June, 1761, in the first
year of the reign of King George 111., the first stone of
this pier was laid by Joe& Diu'', master mason to this
bridge."

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11R. READ, M.P., ON 7HE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.

Mr. Read, M.P. for East Norfolk, known in the
eastern district as the tenant-farmer member, has
begun to mix among his constituents for the season.
At Messrs. Salter's sale of long-woolled shearling
rams, Mr. Read said when he first entered Parlia-
ment what struck him more than anything else was
the large number of men it contained who. had risen
from comparatively humble origin, and who, by
their ability and business talents, hail acquired great
xichcs, and had afterwards secured a seat in the
, imperial Parliament. But when he went into the
I Rouse of Commons he considered himself the most
1
wonderful man in it, becau33 there was no other in-
stance in which a man without birth, without sta-
tion, without riches, and without learning, had been
promoted to the high rank nal dignity of a knight
of the shire. The labour which was expected from •
a member of Parliam?nt really exceeded, however,
all the weight and dignity which might accrue to
him. Daring three or four months of the past
Session he had given an average weekly attendance
in the House of Commons of 50 hoUrs. He had
been on no . less than eight committees, indepen -
dently of ten or a dozen Irish railways which came
under consideration ; and when a man went into
the House at 12 o'clock in the daytime, and sat
there not for one day or for one night, but week
after week, until 12 or 1 in the morning, he need
not say that certainly entailed an immense amount
of work and anxiety. So much was be impressed
with this that he would just paraphrase the first two
lines Of-an old song, and say--

"Ye gentlemen of Norfolk, wholly° at home at ease,
Ye little know, I'm very sure, the labours of M.P.'s.

Mr. Howes, M.P., also addressed the meeting,
showing it gave him no fear, but, on the contrary,
very great pleasure, to think that the number of his
constituents would be increased.