The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 lOs to .£4 lOs; clover
£ I lOs to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s por load,
Trade quiet.
GuAtnEntANn.-31t.‘adow hay, £3 lOs to .£4.153 Od; clover,
£4 lOs to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load.
A moderate deinaud.

WurrEcuAvEL.—Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 lOs ; clover,
lOs to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 163 to £2 4s per load.
Trade slow.

THE LATEST PRIZE FlGHT.—,Messrs. Napper and
Baldock, the pugilists who met in fierce (very fierce) con-
flict on Tuesday last, deserve well of the profession. They
have rescued the noble art from the imputation of not
being business, which two of its devotees, by a very mild
encounter, lately brought upon it. If any two people in
this world ever meant business, they aro Messrs. Napper
and Baldock. Their contest was altogether a lively affair.
Not only did the principals " light, and gouge, and bite
and kick" each other, but the seconds, in addition to
taking an occasional share in a trouble in which either Mr.
Baldock or Mr. Napper foucd himself undermost, drew
life-preservers against one another, and were only pacified
by an offensive alliance against the referee, who was
threatened with annihilation, and received so much towards

it that he was knocked eff his seat, and departed the ring,
leaving the fight undecided. How is it that the railways
carry these assemblages of ruffians ? Are the directors
who control the Charing• cross and Cannon-street stations
addicted to the fancy? One thing is certain, that the
shareholders are small gainers, as the greasiest and dirtiest
of the crowd not only took and retained by force seats in
first-class carriages, " notwithstanding the loud protesta-,
tions of the half-frightened and much• bewildered porters,'
but upon the arrival of the train at Greenhithe rushed off
over the embankment to avoid paying their fares.—London
Review.

ALARMING FIRE IN CHEAPSIDE.—This morning
as Reynell's groat clock was chiming a quarter-past two
o'clock, Conductor Silk received information that a fire had
broken out in one of the lofty houses almost facing that
well-known establishment. The Conductor at once pro-
ceeded with the Royal Society's escape, when he found that
a fire had taken place in the premises occupied conjointly
by Mr. R. Hart, a wholesale boot and shoe manufacturer,
and Mr. Thos. Beck, a stationer, situate at No. 81 in the
beforenamed thoroughfare. Captain Shaw, the chief of
he Metropolitan Brigade, with two steamers, by Shand,
Mason, and Co., was almost immediately on the spot, and
a good supply of the New River Co.'s water having been
procured, the firemen, with the aid of hand pumps and
buckets of water, were enabled to extinguish the fire, thein
damage done being as follows :—Mr. Hart.—Back room
first floor, used as office, and staircase
tents damaged by heat, dm Cause of fire, I
damaged by fire ; front room, used as warehouse, tscieedcounp-
grioleat, itc. flue. Mr. Thos. Beck, stationer ; shop door,
broken, and upper part of house damaged by
past ono' oclock,
This (Friday) morning, about a quarterioke out in the
another fire of an alarming characster
.o•Dging.
to Messrs.
a blocked
floor,
still-
house of the extensive premises
chemists, Prince's-
Heathfield and Dunn, inanufac
square,when he found a
Conductor Briggs at-
tended with the Royal Societye
The conductor went to work,
number of hogshead on firn..ossing.
during the time lost in
Wilson-street, Finsburyescape,
and kept the fire from prnonl,d
thereby saved a vast amount
sending for the engines,
The
fined to the still-house. The firm
happily con
Metropolitan Brigade having arrived the
flames were
' Westminster Fire-office.
d in the
was insure
CLEVERNESS.—Whatever people
' GENIUS AND
of property. T
may say, genius is gentle and full of tenderness. .It
11 to the children of •
which belongs per aps
is cleverness
me very dull and sad people have genius,
world. So
though the world may not count it as such ; a genius for
love, or for patience, or for prayer, may be. We know the
divine spark
is hero and there in this world ; who shall
say under what manifestation or humble disguise ?—The
Village on the Cliff; in the " Goriihill Magazine" for -No-
vember.
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.--The N'orth
German Lloyd screw steamship Bremen, Capt. H. A. F.
Neynaber, from New York on the 13th inst., has arrived
off Cowes, and proceeded for Bremen. She brings 12 pas-
sengers and $67,200 in specie for England, and for Bre-
men 38 passengers, $5,000, and a full cargo. From the
21st to the 25th the Bremen experienced strong N.E. gales
and afterwards fine weather, with light, westerly breeze.
On the 17th she passed the Bremen ship Magdalene,with
passengers for New • Yolk -, •in lat. 41.38 N., long. 60.30 W.;
23d, in lat. 49.15 N., icing. 19.45 W., the British barque
Achilles, of Liverpool ; 25th, at 9 a.na , the Hansa steamer,
from Southampton, for New York. .
A CHOLERA COMMISSION.— It was announced
some weeks ago that a sum of money would be
granted to Mr. Simon-to enable him to institute a full
scientific investigation into the recent outbreak of cholera
in the metropolis, and the names of very competent men
were freely mentioned as likely to take part in the inquiry.
A little later we heard that so munificent a stun as ..Zeoo
would be allotted towards the expense of a thareughisncru-
tiny into the origin of an epidemic which has slain
er e soof much w y
thousands of human beings. Of course thesevi
lavished on the
less value than cattle, hence the thousandsffered to the doctors to
cattle plague inquiry, and the trifle:
this be done? The
investigate cholera. But
willeven
11. J. N. Radcliffe has
last we hear of the matter is that-ort on the subject. Mr.
been instructed to prepare a
discharge this duty with the
Radcliffe will, we doubt not, . .
has before exhibited in similar labours.
ability and care he
But were we not promised a commission ? Mr. Rad-
ciffe would be an excellent member of a commission, but
associated with him. Surely a few
others ought to be
dfor such a purpose 1— Al 1. 1
~ et tea
hundreds could be spare
Tress.