The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY.

Wheat was in more general demand to-day, at the full
prices of Tuesday last. Flour steady at previous rates.
Indian corn dull. Oats and oatmeal in limited request, at
previous rates.

R IP ON-FRIDAY.

White wheat, 8s 6d to 9s 3d por bushel ; red, Gs 6d to is
9d ; beans, 7s 3d to 78 9d ; oats, 2os to 33s per qr ; barley
33s to 443 Od.

STAMFORD-FRIDAY.

Not quito so much wheat as usual, the demand was more
animated, at prices in favour of the seller. Barley was a
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small show, and sold at former quotations. Oats were n
good request, at recent currencies. A moderate show of
beans, which sold at last week's prices.
New white wheat, 64s to 67s ; red do., 58s to 63s per 86..
stone. Barley, malting, 50s to 535; grinding, 27s to 303
per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 28s to 32s per 21 stone.
Beano, 52Q to Me per 38 stone_ Peas as of late.

BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY.
The raw and refined markets continue extremely fiat;
and very little doing. Prices 6d to is lower.

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.

s. d. s. d.
Original Hartlepool 19 0 Walls End Hetton 19 0
Tees

Lambert's W.Hartley 16 0 Walls End Haswell... 19 0
Brancepeth Cannel l7 6 Davison's W. Hartley 16 3
Caradoc l7 9 Hartlepool
Cassop
Holy well Main l6 6 West Hartley
Pensher Primrose ... 17 0 Tunstall
Riddell
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Ships at market, 102—sold, 24.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar, 18.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet. ..... Mar. G.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena_ _Feb. 27.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Feb 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. 19.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Fcb 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. 22
Ditto, via Marseilles ... Feb..l9
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 10.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 22.
3i:turning, via Southampton Feb. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16.
Newfoundland
Portugal
....Mar. 6.
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon ..
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet ....a ...Feb. 21.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton .. .......... ....... .
Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Feb. 22
Wet Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) ... Feb. —.
Bahann..., via New York. Mar 7.
Cuba and Mexioo - Feb. 23
Bermuda. via Halifax ...... Mar. 13.
ITest Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife ....Mar. 8.

A. CHILD FLOGGED TO DEATH BY ITS FATIIER.---
A preacher, by name Joel Lindsley, residing in
Albion, Orleans county, New York, in Juno last delibe-
rately beat his own child to death because the little folio',
would not leyeat curtain prayers. The child was, at the
time of the murder, only three years of age. The evidence
given on the trial of Lindsley shows that the crime was
attended with circumstances of the greatest atrocity'.
Lindsley beat Lis child uninterruptedly for two and a half
hours, using a strip of shingle, or thin clapboard, as the
instrument of castigation. Lindsley finally discovered that
the child had been seized with a fit. He laid the little
fellow down, and the mother ran for assistance. The
child died in a few minutes. When examined the
body of the child was found to be literally covered
with bruises and abrasions; the finger nails had been tore
up, and the hands almost pounded to jelly; the soles of the
feet were blistered ; the body was one gory wound. It
was charged that Lindsley had previously tortured 1-115
child by roasting its feet with a lamp ; there was no direct
evidence on this point, however, although the juryplainlY
believed the charge well founded. Lindsley is a graduate of
Amherst college, Massachusetts ; he has been known as
a rigid Puritan. The jury found him guilty of man-
slaughter in the second degree—it having been shown that
he was a man of almost ungovernable passions—and be
was sentenced to two years' itnprisonment in the penitee"
tiary at Auburn.

THE MILITIA SYSTEM OF AMERICA. —Tile
Nation writes one of its able articles to prove
that the National Militia of America cannot, for
reasons it enumerates, be made the well-disciplined,
well-appointed, effective force it is popularly repre-
sented to be. The Governor, in his late message/
stated that the National Guard of New York CO'-
sisted, on the Ist of December, 1866, of 104 regi
ments of infantry, 3 regiments of cavalry, 1 regi-
ment of artillery, 1 battalion of infantry, 2 bat-
talions of artillery, 1 battalion of cavalry, 1 inde-
pendent battery, 2 light howitzer batteries, and
squadron of cavalry. The Nation declares this
force exists substantially but on paper. That out-
side cities there is neither company nor battalion
drill—that in time of warit is difficult to get militia to
take the field even for a few weeks, and that the places
of the unable and unwilling are filled by raw re-
cruits. Many members, when ordered, have refused
to go, for, so long as they were not mustered into
the national service, they could not be tried bi
United States officers, and they felt secure against
the result of a court-martial, managed by State
officers. It asserts that in case of war the militia
regiments now forming or formed would not be the
force relied on, but the volunteer organisations that
would then spring up of themselves. It deprecates
therefore the large sums which of late have been appro-
priated to this object, and the bill now introduced
into Congress, to add the costly, cumbrous, a. 04
utterly inoperative machinery of the national inihrti:
system, to the legitimate functions of the IN a
Department.

Births.

BATTI:eI2-011 the 14th inst., at Gloucester-terrace, TrYcle:
park, the wife of Captain W. A. Battine, 17th Laneerm
of a son.

FARQUHAR —On the 12th inst., at Carlogie, Abordeensilif°
the wife of Admiral Farquhar, of a son.
FERGUSON—On the 14th inst., at 33, Chester-square, SS's'
Ferguson, of Pitfour, of a daughter.
STEWARD—On the 14th inst., at,Weston, Mrs. S.W. s°l"
ard, of a daughter.

Marriages.
ANSTRUTHER—ADAM— On the 14th inst., at St. P3nell
Church, Windham G. . Anstruter, Esq., younger s°
of Sir W. C. AnstrutheCr, of Anstrhuther and Cartnict 1
Bart., to Ellen Anne Katherine, elder daughter of Jo'
Adam, Esq., Boulogne, late Surgeon madras a
STREATFIELD—TAYLOR—On the 14th inst., at C,ll,lti.st
Church, Albany-street, Richard Streatfield DV, e'
~-ter
son of the late Major S. R. Streatfield, to Iza, daug.
of 11. Taylor, Esq., of Chipchase, Northumberland.

Deaths. , rah,
BELL—On the 14th inst., at 6, Melville-street, Edin'll-I,.N't
Charlotte Hay, wife of W. Bell, Esq., of the Stock -'-'--
change.
CLOVER—On the 13th inst., at Birmingham, Ge°l.s6l'
eldest son of 11. Glover, Esq., aged 15. c
AlAoms—On the 14th inst., Sir Arthur Magehis, f
METCALFE —0 n the 14th inst., David Metcalfe, EA'
Leeds, aged 85. 05-
PLUMMER —On the 14th inst., at 99, Pentonville-bill,
lington, John Plummer, Esq., aged 83.
rivaStO'
ROBINSON-0 the 14th inst., at The Grange,
Derbyshire, Margaret, wife of Henry Robinson,
aged 90.
SAUL—On the 14th inst at the Minories, Abraham
aged 88.

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