The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

MARKETS.—This day.

SMITHFULD.—Meadow ha Y.
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s perclover load., Trade heavy.
CUMBEHLJM.—Ifeadow hay, £3 5s to £4 105; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 1.88 to £2 5s per load.
A quiet demand.
WHITECITAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load.
A limited inquiry.

COLONIAL.
TEA. —Business remains very dull, but prices are firm.
SUGAR.—There has been a fair inquiry, particularly for
refining description; and late rates are well sustained. In
the reined market a steady business has boon done, at
former quotations.
COFFEE.—Tho demand for plantation Ceylon has been
good, and fully former terms have been current.
RICE.—No dealings of importance have been reported,
and quotations aro unaltered.
SALTPETRE. There have been a fow inquiries, but busi-
ness has been dull, and prices are a shade lower.
TALLOW.—.The market has been firm throughout the
week, and prices have been well sustained, a considerable
amount of outstanding contracts having been settled for
January to March delivery, but little business has been
done for the end of the year, this period being much
neglected. At Petersburg the price remains at 50} to 18. r.,
but export houses are not operating. Exchange, 32} kd.
To-day the market is hardly so firm. There are sellers at
44s 9d January to March, 45s 3d March only, and 45s 3d
April to Juno, for the end of the year 45s 9d to 46s is the
price. On the spot4ss is paid for new, and 413 6d to 44s 9d,
old Y.C. 45s
town tallow 41s, 6d,
net cash. South American and Australian 445,

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COAL MARICET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.
e. d.
s. d.
Davison's W. Hartley 17 0 Walls End Haswell... 23 0
Lambert's W.Hartloy 16 9 Tunstall .............
Bradyell's Hetton .... 22 0

Ships at market, 29—sold, 22.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

The market opens quiet but firm, Sales pro-
bably 8,000 or 10,000 bales.

AN EARL IN A COUNTY COURT.—At the New.
market County Court at Cambridge, the cause of
Ekin v. the Earl of Winchilsea was recently tried. It was
an action for £lO ss. for hire of carriages, conveyances,
lodging, ezc. The judge had received a letter from the
defendant, stating he had been overcharged 215., and en-
closing a cheque for £9 45., which was of course returned,
his honour saying he could not recognise a letter about a
matter he was to hear and try. Mr. Ekin proved the earl
had engaged a carriage for four days at 255. per day, and
that the amount of lodgings was £3, which, with horses
and servants, made up the amount of his claim. Mr. Kit-
chiner appeared for the plaintiff, and hinted that the earl
could have no reasonable grounds for objecting, especially
as he had paid the same charge at previous meetings. Im-
mediate payment was ordered.
ARTIFICIAL BIRDS' NESTS.--The societies formed
for the proteetian of insectivorous birds in Switzerland are
now setting up artificial nests. One of the members of a
society of this description
observed that who inhabits Poway, having
many species of that kind select for nests
the holes they find in the branches of rotten trees, and
that they consequently do not find it easy to settle in
orchards, where all the trees are in good condition, began,
25 years ago, to sot up rotten trunks in his grounds;
and since then he has had no need to trouble himself
in the least about clearing away caterpillars, that care
being entirely left to the birds, who perform their duty
admirably. His neighbours, on the contrary, who have
not had this foresight, have had their orchards laid waste
by insects. The Yvardum Society have gone the length
of placing artificial nests even in the public walks and
communal forests, on the borders of the lawns, &c. All
those nests are now inhabited by hedge-sparrows, red--
starts, creepers, and tomtits, all which may be found in
Switzerland as high up as the perpetual snow-line. The
same practice ha ,k. found its way into GerulanY.—P °pular
Scicnce &vim