The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-21 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.--('rte Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
Although the supply of English wheat in to-day's market
was very moderate, the demand ftions. or all kinds ruled heav
qua-
y
at Monday's decline in the quota
lity of the samples was good.
The show of foreign wheat was rather extensive, and
the millers purchased cautiously. In the currencies, how-
changed hands
ever, no change took place.
emrealmt
o;dboruatteo,ats beans, and
Floating cargoes of grain were a slow sale.
Owing to large arrival the barley trade was in a
the quotations were
state, non former terms.
and
sluggish
steadily,pealsr, e
theb a las
tuaep
extreme
t liesrlel
m inquiryoef
rates.whi e furh w
The flour trade was heavy,
barely supported.

ARRIVALS THIS WERE.
Wheat. Barley. ' Malt. Oats. Flour,
1,610 1 390 870 1 530 1,340
890 --
2,020 860 at.
brl4

English
Irish
Foroign

'2,870 113,160

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef, from 28 8d to 3s 8d ; mutton, 2s 101 to 4s Od;
lamb, 58 Od to Cs Od ; veal, 3s bd to 4s 8,1 ; pork, 38 01
t,) 4s 4d per Sibs by the carcase. W a have a slow sale for
all kinds of meat.

BOIIOI7GH HOP.
Goad and useful new hops are in fair request, at full
prices. in all other kinds very little business is doing.

Da. BERNARD.—Last night Dr. Bernard way present
atWyld'a Reading-rooms, Leicester-square. lie we' re-
ceived with very warm congratu'atione, and made a
speech on the occasion of his health being drunk. H
said :—"Gentlemen,-1 thank you for these demonstra-
tions. You do not drink my health, but the health of
your own coui.try. You drink to Liberty. But my
mouth is shut until after my last trial. I must not
speak. Yet I must express my gratitude to you and
the jury who tried me. I relied firmly,on a jury of
Eugli h nen. I must speak no more. I thank you trona
ray lieut.!:

NAVAL AND MIL ITARY INTELLIGE.NCE.

Orders have been received at Chatham by the
officer commanding the depot companies of the
20th Regiment, directing 300 men of that regiment
to be held in readiness to proceed to Clonmel for
the purpose of forming a second battalion of that
corps at that station.
A considerable improvement has been effected at
Chatham in the cooking for soldiers. Formerly it
was the custom for the men to be supplied daily
with boiled fresh beef and mutton for dinner, with-
out any variety whatever. Those of the troops,
however, who were willing to avail themselves of
it wore permitted to have their dinners baked twice
a-week. Latterly the attention of the public has
• been aroused to this subject, and one benefit result-
ing from the evidence taken before the commission
is that a large and commodious bakehouse has
been erected in Chatham Barracks, and the troops
belonging to the first and second battalions
of infantry are now supplied with baked
dinners every other day, the men, as may be sup-
posed, accepting this boon with much satisfaction.
No bakehouse has as yet been erected for the use
of the third battalion of infantry quartered in the
hu's at Brompton, or for those at St. Mary's Bar-
racks"; but it is understood that a similar plan will
be shortly adopted at those establishments.
The Boadicea, old 42-gun frigate, has been taken
into dock at Chatham for the purpose of being
broken up.
The- Rochester freight-ship has arrived at Chat-
ham Dockyard with war stores for that establish-
ment from Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's store-transport Dee,
.in Woolwich
basin, yesterday commenced shipping a newly-
organized invention brought forward by the Engi-
neer officers of the dockyard for superheating steam.
The apparatus hitherto used on board that vessel
for mixing superheated and plain steam is ordered
to be removed, and the new apparatus to be fixed
entire. According to a report of some experiments
entered into for the satisfaction of the Board of
Admiralty, the new invention affords the advantage
of superheating the whole of the steam required for
propelling the machinery without the admixture of
any portion of the ordinary steam. An arrange-
ment of tubes, such as has been heretofore em-
ployed, hasbeeu considered inconveniently adapted
to steam-boilers, and instead of causing the steam
to pass through a series of tubes to be superheated,
the present invention conveys it through cham-
bers or boxes, which may be adapted in size
• and form to any convenient part of the boiler, and
may be heated by theflameissuingfrom thefurnace
or fireplace before passing into the flue. The boxes
are connected together in such a manneras to cause
the steam to circulate therein in a serpentine direc-
tioa, so as to bring it in contact with as great an
amount of heating surface as possible. The super-
heated steam is conducted to a mixing chamber or
slide-jacket, where it may be combined with com-
mon steam before being passed into the cylinder
of the engine. The mixture of superheated steam
with common steam does not, however, appear
to form a part of the present invention, which
simply consists of a n6vel construction or arrange-
ment of the boiler, in which steam may be super-
heated, or superheated steam may be produced, and
applied in any manner that may be desired.
The freight-ship Bencleucla arrived and moored
off Woolwich Arsenal yesterday morning, and com-
menced shipping a heavy cargo of gunpowder and
ammunition for the Mauritius, consisting of 1,200
barrels.
The Baling Grove arrived at Woolwich from the
Itralkland. Islands on Monday, bringing home a
number of pensioners and their families, whose term
of settlement in those islands has expired. She pro-
ceeded yesterday to the Wt st India Docks to dis-
charge 200 tons of damaged guano, deposited there
ex the Great It-public, which vessel was some time
back disabled off that coast.

The screw steamer Lady Jocelyn, Capt. Bird,
belonging to the European and American Com-
pany's fleet, which took out troops to India, arrived
at Cowes yesterday at noon, on her return, with
passengers and cargo, and proceeded to the Thames,
where she is to discharge.
Rear-Admiral Sir H. Dude Chads, K. C. 8., will
sail to-day for Lisbon with the Renown, 91, Capt.
Fo beg, carrying his flag; the Diadem, 31, Capt.
Moorsom, C. B. ; the Curacoa, 31, Capt. Mason ;
and the Racoon, 21, Capt. Paynter. They have all
been well tried during the past few days, and we
believe several naval officers are going in them as
am►teurs to witness the trial steamings and sail-
ings. The place this squadron has occupied for some
months at Spitiread will speedily be taken by a
larger fleet of nobler proportioned ships. There are
four already at Portsmouth in every way ready for
the pendant of commission and the reception of
officers and men ; they are the Royal Sovereign,
131, Victor Emmanuel, 91, Caesar, 91, and Algiers,
91. All the gear, boats, masts, yards, and stores
are ready for these ships as soon as the order is
given to equip them.
In the list of screw sea-going ships available at
the home ports the screw corvettes Curacoa, 31,
and Racoon, 22, were omitted.