The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-01 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

Strrrarinn. Old meadow hay. 2/ 1.5 s to 41 4s ;
now do., 315 s to 3113 ; old ,:lovto. 31. 15s to 51 Oa ; new
do., 31. 103 to 41. 4s; and straw, 1/ 103 to 11 13s per load.
Trado steady.

UIINBERLAND. - Old meadow hay, 21 158 to 4? 4s ;
new, do., 215 s to 31 15s ; old clover, 3/ 153 to 51 Os new
\ do., 31. 10s to 41. 4s; and straw, 11 103 to 1/ 133 per
load Supply moderate, and demand steady.
WHITEOHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 21 153 to 41. 4s ;
new d0.,,3/ 5s to 3115 e ; old clover, 31. 153 to 5/ vs ; new
do 3/. 10a to 414 e; and straw, 11 93 to 1/ 12e per load.
A fair demand.

FIRE IN VIE CALTON JAIL, EDINELJEGII.—.A~ fire of a
rather alarming character broke out early yesterday
morning in a block of buildings at the jail, constituting
the washing-house and the matron's apartments, sea,
and separated from the main- erection by a court-yard,
The fire was first discovered about four o'clock by the
night-watchman, who perceived smoke issuing from the
crevices of one of the windows. He gave the alarm, and
a messenger despatched immediately to the fire-office re-
turned with an engine, which commenced to play upon
the buildings. The fire, which had originated in the
matron s kitchen situated above the washing-house,
burned the flooring and reached the long-room under-
neath, where about 12 wooden compartments for wash-
ing were ranged. These were consumed almost before
the arrival of the engine. The flames swept with great
violence up a lofty wooden ventilator or cbimney con-
structed to cool the hewer, completely demnl:shing it,
and in a short space of time the washing-house and ceil-
ing were completely charred. On an alarm being given
the attention of the cfficers of the
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directed to the female debtors' room, m
the house, and occupied by a woman who had been con,
fined there sometime. They eueoeeded in rescuing her
without injury. Fortunately there was an abundant
supply of water at band, and by dint of hard exertion
the brigade succeeeded in mastering the flames soon
after five o'clock. The amount of damage done will
not, we learn, exceed 1501. The origin of the fire is
unknown.--Scotsman.
1?,41L TO TLIE HIGHLANDS.—It is with no ordinary sa-
tisfaction that we announce the completion cf the rail
way from Nairn jto Keith,. thus establishing through
communication by railway from Inverness to London.
On Monday afternoon a locomotive crossed the Spey,
and inaugurated the new era, which it is scarcely an ex-
aggeration to say has thus commenced in the Highlands.
—lnverness Courier.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
presents this week a decrease of 9,832/. ; the Great
Northern a decrease of 1,729/. ; and the Great Western
a vecrea,e of 1,108/.
The Journal of the Two Sicilia of the lfith ancounces
that the number of persons that lost their lives by the
hurricane cf Sala is 22, of whom only 17 have been
foiled ; the remaining five were carried away by the
ws ten.

Letters from Alexandria allude vaguely to the desire
of the Viceroy of Egypt to raise a loan. We have reason
to believe that this irapreßsion is not unfounded, hut bis
bighneFs's position is sufficiently anomalous to render
the raising of a foreign loan an operation of some diffi-
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QUICK PASSAGE.—The Albion, Captain Tone, one of
thn.General Steam Navigation Corafany'a b( Per-
formed the voyage frost► Lotition to Boulogne onTuesday
la.t in 7 hours 40 minutes, being the qaiekeet pastago
tver made on that ktation.