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THE SUN, LONDON, 111'011DAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1558.

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CORN EXCHANGE.

The provincial markets, held on Saturday, were fairly
supplied with wheat for the time of year. For all kinds
the demand ruled heavy, and the quotations bad a down-
ward tendency. Barley, and all other spring corn, as well
as flour, were at slow inquiry.
The Continental markets have become rather heavy for
wheat; but spring corn has sold slowly. Our American
advises report dull markets for produce generally, with
steady shipments to England.

The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week
were moderate. From abroad we receive 18,998 qrs. of
wheat, 4,720 barley, 3),655 oats, 1,200 rye, 660 peas,
2,715 linseed, 3,070 rapeseed, 3,670 sundry, and 2,8.1
sacks of flour.

A few of last Monday's unsold samples of English wheat
were on offer here to-day ; but the receipts fresh up from
Kent, Essex, &c., coastwise and by land carriage, were
on a very limited scale. Notwithstanding that the stands
were scantily supplied, the demand for all kinds of wheat
of home produce was in a most depressed state, at a de-
cline in the quotations realised on this day se'nnight of
2s per quarter.

1 here was a large quantity of foreign wheat on offer, chiefly
ex-ship. For all descriptions we had a heavy inquiry, and
the quotations were fully is to 2.8 per qr lower than on
Monday last.

Floating cargoes of grain were dull, and rather cheaper.

No English barley at market, and the supply of foreign
was only moderate. The demand was in a sluggish state,
at about last week's quotations.

In malt—the show of which wag moderate—very little
was doing, at barely stationary prices.
Since Saturday rather a large quantity of foreign oats
has come to hand, and the oat trade was heavy, at 61 per
quarter less money.
Beans and peas sold at la3t Monday's currency; but flour
moved off heavily at Is per 280Ibs less money.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex & Bent, iMalt—Chevalier .. •• 66a to 685

Red •• .. new 3Ss to 43s

'Oats—Yorkshire and

Ditto .... old —3 —s
Ditto, White new 42e 51s
Ditt0........ old —s —s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, o'd —s —a
Ditto aew •••• •• 38s 4481
Rye—Old ............

Lincolnak., Feed 208 24s
Potato .• • 25s 31e
Youghal and Cork
Black. ••• • • • 19e 24a
Cork, White •• • • 208 30A
Scotch, rand. •. • • 208 25$
Scamp:4'lA 348 35,

New 32s 341
Barley—Grinding... • • 26s 30s
Malting . .... • . . 35s 383
Chevalier— • • . . 38s 4 I s
Malt—Suffolk and Nor-
folk.... • . 58s 68s
Brown .. 54s 563
Kingston tnd Ware 58s 66s

Pigeons .... 38. 43!
Peas—Grey .......... 40s 42s
41s 43s
White........... 41s 43•
Boilers ......... 42s 44,
Flour—Town-made... 38i 403
Suffolk 31s 34,
Stoektn & Norfolk 29s 31s

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and sensible obserVations Ctn., the profession of the interior and provisions coming in es they were wont
governess. It is remarked that•no one expects a to do. The wholearrangements seem to have been
mater to teach three:Or four languages, music me excellently managed, and the results everything
drawing, and the rudiments of an English educe- 'that could be desired.
tion ; and why should the governess, with prebe-
'
bly less means of .education, and less general know ,
ledge,.undertake; or be expec•ed. to undertake such - GRk..6IT ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS..
an impossible course of; instruction. A pleasing
little sketch is introduced, in, illustration of eta, ' NAPLES, May 28.-4 great eruption of Vesu-
vius took place during the last night. For several
arguments, svlricli will, probably be continued next
days past prognostics, familiar to the people of this
month. —.Titan is art old established !Tea , ceier- ,
country, though slightly appreciated by the scien-
tensing some good and. attractive. writing.
with i The
graceful domestic love 'dory is continued ! tific, have given rise to forebodings of a great
_ '.n.- i catastrophe. Slight earthquake shocks iu the gur-
, abated interest, and the, complication •of affairs rounding country have been frequent. On Monday
round the simple Rectory people is
thecontinuing to morning, in particular, a shock took place which
increase. The extracts from "New Books," at
end, give the reader some idea of the general cha- , line of -country from Naples to Salerno, skirting
ratter of the new publications.—The Money Bag Vesuvius, and thence in the direction of a str tight
is a new corner in the world of serials, and treats a
• line drawn from Salerno through Poteuz t, its in-
little :more of political .and cominercial,questions tensity increasing apparentl y with its distance feom
than .the. generality. A tale at the opening will ,
1 Naples.
gratify the lovers of romance, and those of more In the afternoon of ye terday Vesuvius presented
serious tastes 'will find the questions of the day re.»ara.ble appearances, whico, from their cone.
ablyendiy theories are t scussed and -comented.'on. he various spondence with those that preceded many fernier
curr treated of with ability and eniptions, left little doubt that they must be the
sagacity, and the work fills a place previously utr- precursors and harhingeis of a like peonomeuon of
occupied. .A paper entitled "The Raising of the -more than common intensity. The result fully
Siege," gives an entertaining• account of the late verified these anticipations.
tnini rial assailanSs. The Irish Metropolitan - Thee who are familiar with the structure of
offers a variety of entertainment to the general .
Vesuvius will remember that the mountain consists
reader who seeks an hour's amusement. A paper
of two peaks, the larger or southern being VesuviuS,
on "Associations with Ornithology," contains
properly so called, created with the great and well-
seeeral curious anecdotes respecting the old super- known crater ; and the laser or northern being
stitions and legends ;• and the feurth part of -that 'called the Monte Somme. Between these •" The Romance of Art," has some interesting artis-
, peaks intervenes a deep, wide valley, called the
tic records. There ate several tales commenced i At. io del Cevallo, suirounded• by a semi-circular and -continued, the 'most eemerkable being
wall of considerable height, formed by the con inn-
" The Irish Brigadennuati," a tale of the War i ante of a part of the MenteeSenana. This semi_
of the Succession,
.by the clever, but un- circular cavity is open to tlie west, and may be con-
refined, author of " WEtitefriare" The Sport- sidered, therefore, as looking over the bay direCtly
Sport-
in; and Yachting intelligence is given as usual.— towards the heights of Posilipo. It may be' well
Newton's London Journal has its customary infor- here to observe that the station from which the
region respecting patents and improvements. The
phenomena was seen was a villa on the heights of
opening paper is on the much-disputed gees' ion of Posilipo, looking directly, towards the mountain.
Artistic Copyrights.—The tales ed pencil of Chas. In tee afterno •n, fur some hours before sunset,
Bennett has invoked as an auxiliary the pen of
Robert Brough in the compilation of a monthly a thick cloud was observed • apparently to rise out
serial entitled of the
ground, and to cover the entire extent of
Shadow and Substance, consisting of the semi-circular valley of Attic), just described,
his allegori.2al fie-urea and, their shtidows, vvi h ac- while asinine'. cloud invested the great crater. As
companying prose eke cltee. We fear that this at- sunset approached the cloud collected over the
tempt will scarcely increase Mr. Bennet's repute- Atrio extlibited distinct traces of fire at its base,
tion, aria should much regret to see an artist. of where it rested in out ict with the ground. After
such undoubted ability deappoint his edinirers by sunsoe towards 8 o'clock, the spectacle became gra -
exhausting his rubject: The first and last of tile
sketches in dually aid awfully grand. The whole extent of the
(Lis 'number are the bos-, the middle
one heirs Are io del Cevallo assumed the appearance of a vast
gvery much exaggerated. —The Dictionar y fueta ..e, fromwhich enormous volume's of vapour
of Daily Wants is an excellent little work, giving arose, illumine te. i with a lurid red light, ding
all kinds of Useful information and receipts, for the ; from the fire beneath. The appearan procee
ce was such
low price of twopence.—Le Follet displays its usual as might be ascribed to the effect of a multitude of
attractions to the fair votaries of f'shion.—Roast- small craters each sending forth flames and hot
ledge's ,S"hakspeare continues its prosperous career , , steam, like those of the Solfatara.
and in this instalment completes the second part of
King Henry the Sixth.—Charles Knight's Popular Soon after 8 o'clock a broad stream of matter in
a state of igneous fusion issued from the side of the
History of England brings down the narrative to Atrio directed tweeds the sea with an extremely
' Monmouth's departure for Sco laud, and the War
of the Covenanters. The two nxt numbers will over the Meteorological Observatory aid the Her-
complete the fourth volume, and bring the work mitage, but its movement in that direction did not
down to the Revolulion of 1688. It should be continue. Towards 9 o'clock the spectacle rapidly
borne iu mind by the conductotP, that the History, diminished in intensity, and at that hour was
though popular in at le will not be so in its aggre7 scarcely visible, but later it broke forth with
gate price, and that, though issued at the moderate
sum of a shilling a part, yet, as the present pin (treater splendour than ever, and so continued
is during the night.
the 30th, and there are nearly twe
centuries to In the morning the appearance presented was as
come, crowded with events and cheracteie, the sum follows :—The talley of the Atria sent up, as on the
total will exceed the value of many standard his- preceding evening, vast volumes of cloudy steam,
tories:s--The first part of a History of Progress has but the fire at the surface of the ground was not
made its appearance, which ii' to be divided into visible, owing to the effect of the daylight. The
four. books. The first is to give a general idea of stream of lava mentioned as issuing from the
Albion before the Roman Invasion ; the second the side of the valley is alio visible to-day by the
Progress of the various Departments ; the third is
vapour issuing from every part of it, and its extent
to trace the Impediments to Progress from the has teen greatly increased since last night. It fol-
earl'est ages to the present time; and the fourth is lows a direction parallel to the ridge upon which
to take a view of the PreSentStete of Great Britain,
a the Hermitage and Observatory stand, and the
rid an inquiry into the Elements of Progreis.
Should then© ideas be full lowest point of the lino reaiked .by the issue of
fully carried otee they will steam and smoke is now (LI o'clock) close beside
Afford scope for a valuable work. As yet, it is
Hermitage.
scarcely possible to anticipate its character.—The the
set ial stories of Davenport Dunn and The Gordian
Snot are continued with their usual vivacity and
spirit.

Safurday, May 29.
Yesterday afternoon the torrent of lava, which
was rolling slowly parallel to the ridge of the Her-
mitage, and not far from that budding, was diverted
by the accidents of the ground in a direction trans-
verse to its former course, and, running southward,
it followed the direction of deep ravine, in some of
which it was concealed from view. It broke, how-
ever, into full view at length on that part of the, de-
clivity of Vesuvius proper which immediately over-
hangs Portici, and then took a course directly
down the declivity, presenting itself as a stream of
considerable breadth, the form and movements of
which was distinctly seen with the telescope.
During the afiernoon it continued its descent con-
stantly, tut slowly.
After sunset, and towards 8 o'clock, when dark-
ness began to set in a spectacle of sublim'i grandeur
prsented itself, far exceeding that of last night.
What appeared then as a confused furnace of vast
extent, sending up a lurid smoke and vapour, was
now seen with all its outlines with the utmost
distinctness, extending over the entire Atrio, be-
t we-n the Somma and Vesuvious, as a group of
craters in full activity, vomiting liquid fire.
Four of these craters, at least, could be disinetly
s: en. The streams of lava issuing from them
could be seen flowing as liquid fire iu various
direct.ons, often intersecting each other and coal-
escing. It is said that a pool of lava is formed at
one point from 80 to 100 feet in diameter. The
entire valley of the Atrio appears as a mass of
fire, not uniformly vivid, but in numerous bright
patches, intersected by streams of lava. The great
!Ate tm of lava descending the declivity towards
Portici has the magnificent appearance of a rift. r
of fire. The movement, however, is exceedingly
slow. The spectacle is varied and animated in a
curious and interesting manner by the numerous
visitors whom curiosity has attracted to the spot,
and who carry lanterns and other lights, which
are seen moving about in every direction in the
neighbourhood of the vast furnace of the Atrio, as
well as along the borders of the stream of lava de-
scending the mountain.

ADEN.

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The following summary, taken from the Bombay
Standard of the 30th of March, furnishes an excel-
lent account of the late disturbances at Aden :
" It is now just twenty years since this singular
settlement came into our possession, and for the
greatest part of this time we have enjoyed a mar-
vellous amount of immunity from annoyance from
the Arab tribes, considering the somewhat unsatis-
factory manner in which we squatted in their neigh-
bourhood. In June, 1840, the Arabs burst into
our cantonments, but were driven off with loss, and
they have never since then attempted to beard the
lion in his den, In 1841 a very hostile spirit had
been evinced by them towards us, and daily they
began to stop the supplies, on the plea that as they
had now been deprived of all revenue from Arlen,
it was but fair they should be suffered to fxsct a
duty on everything Sent to u.. On the sth of
o,3tobr, a party of 580 men of her Majesty's 17th,
commanded by Col. Pennicuik, under orders from
the p ditical agent, Captain Haines, proceeded into
the interior, and after a sweep of some forty miles,
during which several strongholds were dewroyed,
returned to the camp, having succeeded in the ob-
jects they had then in view. Some years after this,
a parry of officers who had un wisely gone into the
interior to hunt, were a'tacked during the
night, when one of them was murdered. The
matter was arranged without, so far as we re-
member, any resort to hostilities. For some years
past we were under the belief that our relations
with the interior had become so much improved,
and our commerce, consequent on the advancing
prosperity of Aden, hid become so valuable to the
tribes themselves, that there seemed no risk of
misunderstandings. It has proved otherwise, how-
ever, and for some time back the conduct of the
Sultan of Lahedge had been so unsatisfactory, that
it seemed doubtful how long collision could be
avoided. About the beginning of March he caused
the supplies of the garrison to be cut off from the
interior, while he patrolled 11. s people in apparent
bravado close up to our outworks. This was a
state of matters not to be endured, and accordingly
on the 18th of that month Brigadier Coghlan, the
Resident, ordered the following force to be got in
readiness—two 9-pounder field pieces with 50
European Artillerymen, and 20 gun lascars, 70
nee-commissioned rank and file Foot Artillery,
60 Sappers and Miners, 100 of her Majesty's 57th,
40 seamen of the Hon. Company's steamer Eiptiin-
stone, and 11 of the Aden troop—in all 650.
The officers were Brigadier-General Coghlan, com-
manding ; Captain Thacker, major of brigade ;
Lieut. Wilkins, executive engineer ; Lieut. Raye-,,
sub-assistant commissary-general ; Lieuts. Hen-
derson, Paisley, and Billimore ; and Assistant-
Surgeon Rustomjee Byramjee. Artillery : Lieuts.
Greig and Mote, in charge of Engineers and
working party ; Captain Brown, commanding de-
tachment of her Majesty's 57th ;
.Lieutenant Sir
Robert Douglas, Lieutenant Trageir, and Assist.-
Surgeon Griffin, of that corps ; Major Lynch,
K.L.C., commanding a detachment of the 29th
Native Infantry ; Captain Edgerly, Lieutenant
Phillips, and Ensiga Jopp. The seamen of
the Indian navy were under the charge of Lieu-
tenants Trollop° and Yates, Midshipmen Camp-
bell and Creagh, with some other officers whose
names we are unable to decipher, but one of
whom had a severe contusion from a spent ball.
The force marched at 4 a.m., on the 18th of March.
The first object of attack was a stronghold, called
Sheik Oman, a fort surrounded by a village, five
miles from Aden, and said to be occupied by 500
of the enemy. For the first two miles our advance
was unmolested. When day opened, a party of
the enemy was observed in our front, who seemed
to be conveying information to the reserve in their
rear. The guns were pushed forward from our
centre, supported by the Foot Artillery, the
Sappers, and seamen ; a detachment of the 57th
covered the right flank, that of the 29th' the left,
both being in skirmishing order. The cavalry
were held in hand to be employed wherever their
services might be required. A fire was now opened
on us by the enemy, and was briskly replied to,
the Arabs remaining cool and firm. As the-beat
was now getting-oppressive, the force was ordered
to push on, firing as they advanced. The artillery
threw shrapnell as often as opportunity occurred.
The enemy, now in considerable force, endeavoured
to get round both flanks and into the rear. Being
strongest on the right flank, Captain Thacker was
ordered to attack them with the Adenficn se, while
Major Lynch strengthened his skirmishers on the
left. They moved forward in this order until the
enemy took refuge under the wall., when both
village and fort were briskly cannonaded by the
field-guns. The order for ass.anit was then given,
the post of• honour being assigned to the seamen.
They rushed on at once, followed by a portion of
the 57th, when the place was ours. A small
mosque on the
right of the town was placed in
charge ofth e remainder of t he Eu ropean s. The bodyof
the enemy had by this time escaped in the direc-
tion of Lahedge. The fort was now destroyed, but
during the whole of the day a harassing fire was
,kept up from a distance by the Arabs. Early in the
afternoon terms were sent in to us by the Sultan of
Lahedge, and these conceding everything we de-
sired, were accepted, and. the force returned to
Aden. They had now been 13 hours out, mostly
in the sun. The Brigadier had been always in front
with the skirmishers. We had killed from 30 to 40
of the enemy, without any death casualty on our
side, a circumstance due to the range of our Enfield
rifles and our guns. The roads from this date have
been perfectly open, the communications with the

Dinisig the whole if yesterday the inhabitants of
Vie houses and vilages which lie in the direction of
the descending current of lava wero seen carrying
off their furniture and all moveables of value, even
to the doors of the houses and the windows with
their "jalousies." if the lsva continued its pre-
sent course to the sea it would traverse the Castella-
mare Railway, and destroy past of the town of
Portici, but the people here, who aro familiar with
these phenomena, say that such a catastrophe will
most probably be prevented by a ravine of great
depth and extent which is interposed b.tween
Portici and the foot of the declivity, and which
will recoive the lava before it can arrive at the
town.

DEATLI OF A CENTENARIAN.—Last week, Janet Ross,
spinster, residing in the Newtown of Tain, died at the
advanced ago of 105, She was a native of the parish of
Creich, Sutherlandshire. During the last 40 years she
resided ill the same room in Hartfield-street, Tain.
Except a faring iu her eyesight, she retained her facul-
ties to the lase—lnverness Courier.
COMMAND OF THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.—Thore is
now, we believe, uo donb:, as t t the selection of R'ar-
Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Rappel as the Commander-
in-Chief of the Channel Squadron. Great fears were
entertained at one time that the command would be
given to a worn-out officer, whose unpopularity, with
',mart young seamen is well known, and whose day is,
in fact, paseed : and it is no small relief, therefore, to
lee.ra that ono of the meet vigorous and at the same time
jusly p .puler admirals in the service is the officer cho-
sen. If men understand that they are to be kept at one
inces wit routine of drill end gunnery, and gunnery and
drill, front Monday till Saturday night, it requires no
very intimate knoeledge of sailors to predict, that the
ships will, like the Marlborough, remain for months
wits only the marines and idlers on board. Had the
Marlborough been blessed with a popular captain, there
is no knowing what effs4.l it might have had upon the
unemployed sailors. It is strange how small a matter
will turn the current of popularity ; but the fact of
ship's remaining half-manned for three or four months is
considered tantamount to an admission that there is
something wrong about the ship or captain. It will be
seen how long the Orion, the ship destined to bear Sir
Henry Rappel's flue, takes in manning. If the is not
manned offhand we shall be greatly surprised, and shall
be inclined to accept it as an ill omen. Sir Henry is
well known to the best description of men we have in
the service. He is known as one fell of fight, and he
humours "Jack's" predilections by despising and de-
n6uocing hunibug. He will take care to have the squa-
dron which may be placed under his orders in Rood
fighting condition, and it will not be his fault if the
crews of the ships do not, In due course, become seamen
8 well as gunners.—United Service Gazette.
ELOPEMENT FROM PARIS.—A considerable sensation
has recently been created in Paris by a scandalous
adventure, in which one c f the highest functionaries was
engaged, and which has led not only to a separation from
hie wife, but an exposure of the mode in which the im•
provernenls of the streets of Paris have contributed • e
the improvement of this functionary's fortunes. Then
we have the murder of M. de Rosier, by a fellow officer,
M. de Mercy. The offender was guilty and condemned
to death, but his punishment is also commuted ; and
last week we Lad what may be called t! a assasslinsation
of M. de Peoe—an affair which still coetinues to attract
much of the public attention. This week another affair
is the subject of interest, and happily it is not of the
t-agical character of the others. A son of M. Fould,
the Minister of State, has contrived to fall in love'with
an actress of the Theatre Frar c tie, and as he could not
acoomplish his object on more favourable terms, he de-
termined to marry her. For that purpose he has car-
ried the lady off to London, and it is not yet known
whether the parties are married or not. In the mean-
time the affair has been referred to the Duke de Mak-
koff, who will no doubt do all in his pourer to preveet
the heir of the Jew Minister from becoming the hus-
band of a'Christian actress. As usual, under the present
regime in 'Fiance, the papers have been ordered, under
the penalty of suppression, not to allude 'to the mishap
which desolates the hearth of the Minister of State.—
Co atinantal Review.