The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1866.

Day.

MARK LAM,.
The leading country markets held on Saturday were but
moderately supplied with wheat, which, with some few
exceptions, sold slowly on lower terms. All kinds of
spring corn as well as flour were very dull.
Throughout the Continent very little has been passing
in wheat on English account. The exports from America
continue on a limited scale.
The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week
were only moderate. The imports from abroad were
13,060 quarters of wheat, 230 barley, 35,076 oats, 830
beans, 1,916 peas, 1,840 linseed, 5,794 rapeseed, 18,626
maize, 300 sundries, 4,480 sacks and 1,850 barrels of flour.
The trade for linseed ruled quiet at about late rates.
Rapeseed was firm, but for agricultural seeds the demand
was steady.
Cakes, although steady in price, commanded but little
attention.

There was a falling off in the arrivals of English wheat
fresh up to our market to-day, as compared with Monday
last. The trade, in consequence, exhibited a somewhat
firmer appearance, and at the commencement of business
both rod and white produce was held at an advance in
prices of is. per quarter. The demand, however, was
without activity, and, for the most part, sales progressed
slowly, at the prices of Monday last.
Foreign wheat was in good supply. Tho amount of
business transacted was only moderate. In prices no
change took place.
Foating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates
Bailey was in short supply. The trade was steady a
late rates.
Malt sold slowly at last week's currency.
The market was moderately supplied with oats. The
trade for all qualities ruled steady at late prices.
Beans were in short supply. The demand ruled quiet
on former terms.
Peas changed hands at the prices of Monday last. The
market was scantily supplied.
There was a moderate demand for flour on former terms.
Mustard seed was very firm, and white qualities realised
as much as 20s. per bushel.
CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.
Wheat— Essex and Kent, red, old, par qr. 40s to 45s
Do. old 503 56s
D 0.,, white, old sBs 60s
Do., new
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s
Do., new, -
Talavera
56s 60a
Rye--
Barley—Grinding
Malting 343 41s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingstown and Ware
Chevalier 643 67s
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 19s 26s
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black l9a 25s
Cork, white 223 27s
Scotch, Feeding l9s 25a
Beans—Tick 383 42s
Pigeons
Peas—Grey,
Maple
White
Boilers Ar. 36s 40a
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b 443 50s
Suffolk 323 34s
Stockton and Norfolk
American, per barrel 263 30s
French, per sack 223 85s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
The supply of foreign stock on sale here to-day was
rather extensive, but for the most part in middling condi-
ion. On the whole the trade ruled steady, at very full

prices.

The arrival of beasts fresh up from our own grazing
districts were only moderate. Those from Ireland and
Scotland were very limited. Prime beasts sold freely, at
at advance in the quotations compared with Monday last
of 2d. per 81bs. ; otherwise, the beef trade was inactive, at
late rates. The top quotation was 5s 8d per 81bs. The
general quality of the stock was by no means prime.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire we received about 1,100 Shorthorns, &c. ; from other
parts of England, 490 various breeds; from Scotland, 6
Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 35 oxen and heifers.
The show of sheep was very moderate, and most breeds
came to hand in middling condition. All breeds were in
good request, at an improvement in value of quite 2d per
Blbs. A few very superior Downs realised 6s 6d, but the
general top figure was 6s 4d per 81bs.

' We were but moderately supplied with calves, which
moved off freely, at 2d per Blbs more money. The highest
quotation was 5s 4d per 81bs.
The pork trade was heavy, on former terms.
The lamb season is now over.
Per 81b to sink the offal.

s ds d
Crse- & inf. beasts... 3 8 4 0
Second quality do ..4 2 4 10
Prune large oxen ..5 0 5 4
Prime seas, ac.... 5 6 5 8
Crse. and int. stieep.4 0 4 4
Second quality do ..4 6 5 2

da d
Pme crs-wool sheep 5 4 5 10
Prime o'tliclown ou.a 0 1 4
Large coarse calyes 4 4 4 10
Prime smsll do 5 0 5 4
Large hogs ....4 0 4 6
Small porkers ..4 8 5 0

P.Y.O. is quoted at 465, and old 45s 3d per cwt. on the
spot. Town tallow, 44s 6d. Rough fat, 2s sid per Blbs.
Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Stock this day,,,,,,...... 42,215 42,148 32,774 27,444
Price of Y.C. ....... {4ls 3d to 42s 6d 46s Od 45s 3d to
..
41s 6d —s Od —s Od 46s Od
Delivery last week
...... 1,007 2,262 1,624 1,367
Ditto from June 1...,,, 13,307 15,529 21,466 18,960
Arrival last week ...... 1,639 1,134 2,579 1,525
Ditto Irc fa June 1.,.,,. 17,768 12,656 21,757 18,079
Pr co of TQWII ......... 435 9d 44s 3d 4753 d 478 3d

Foreign Correspondence on American
A ffairs.

A writer in a contemporary says : —The foreign
correspondent of a journal should be a man
free from strong party prejudices, not belong-
ing to either of the sides which may divide tha
nation he represents into two or more political par-
ties. If the newspaper for which he writes be a
leading journal, tending powerfully to influence the
opinion of the country in which it is published, it is
still more important that its correspondent should
be free from party prejudices. He ought fairly to
record the general tone of feeling of the mass of the
society in which he is placed. He ought truthfully,
without bias and without exaggeration, to state all
the facts. The object he should have in view is very
simple—to condense into a letter the leading events
which have occurred—the tendency of opinion
among the great body of the people—that his readers
may have a clear idea of what has occurred, and
may form a just conception of what may occur.
The correspondents of the limes should, above all
men, be careful not to give way to party rancour,
nor attempt to lead in a party spirit the public of
England, because the Times is a great national jour-
nal, and the influence of its opinions is felt over the
length and breadth of the kingdom. Of all corre-
spondents the most careful to write in an unbiased
strain should be those who profess to give
the news and opinions of America. It should
never be forgotten that our language is the
same ; and that misrepresentation and rancorous
party spirit return to the country from which the
sentiments came, to create among the people bitter
feelings of irritation, and stir up bad
_blood among
those with whom it it of paramount importance no
other than feelings of good-will should prevail.
After the terrible' blunders committed by the
Times, which tended so materially, by false
information, to misdirect English public opinion
during the American War, it behoves the great
organ to be more than ordinarily careful in record-
ing the political events now coming to a crisis among
our American cousins. Its Philadelphia correspon-
dent is a red-hot Copperhead, and, as such, totally
unfitted to record truthfully and without colour the
absorbing questions now distracting the Union.
He represents merely a section of the opinion of
the North, and a large section of the opinion of the
South. Indeed, that body only who were totally
defeated in arms, and who, if their present policy
be persisted in, will in all probability receive a
second defeat, which will annihilate them for ever as
a party. if the English nation would exercise their
own judgment and bring its own common sense
to bear, and not be content to receive as undoubted
facts the opinions of a violent partisan—though he
may be a correspondent of the Times—there would
be litttle chance of it being again so disastrously
misled as to the real sentiments of the American
people. Let it consider the objects for which
the great contest was waged ; the obstinacy with
which it was fought out ; the people who fought it
out ; and it will see that a powerful spring moved
the nation, and that an overwhelming power backed
that spring. What changes have occurred to
alter the state of affairs ? None whatever.
The weight of the highest official has given an un-
expected influence to the Democratic party, and
enabled them, by the aid of the South, to form a
strong combination in opposition to the Northern
sentiment which fought and conquered in the Four
Years' War. But this combination has not in
any way changed that sentiment. The North at this
moment is as determined to carry the policy for
which it fought as when it fought. And as a last
resort, it is prepared to impeach the PRESIDENT and
and
deatbl to arms.
esouthwsalnDtEl
y.INT• r , the
swept
away Democrats,before
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e Pi
nRsEt
this party, when fairly roused. Indeed the power
to which we allude is something more than mere.
party. It is a national principle, backed by the
brain, bone, and sinew of the Northern States.
People who care little for Copperhead or Radical,
German influence, for President
jf for IrishNsoN voteas a o
an
r
individual or Congress as a body of
individuals, are prepared to uphold the principle,
for which the war was waged, the symbol of which
is the national flag, and the ruling idea the great
and undivided Republican Union of America. The
mass of the people know that they are regarded with
hatred by the planters of the South. They know
that their object was to sever their States from the
Union, and they believe that these planters would
revive this object if power were again placed in their
hands. The Democratic party is a noisy section of
politicians, with a great deal of froth, but with very
little substance. With the aid of the South they
ruled for many years in the Union, and the people
were content because the Union progressed in mate-
rial prosperity, and their great Republican tree grew
vigorously, throwing forward its boughs and
branches, as they delight to see it grow. That vast
silent mass remain quiescent, attending to their
own farms, shops, trades, and general business, so
long as the Republic progresses to their satisfaction.
But let this body once be roused, let them be pene-
trated with an idea, and all opposition which can
be organised in the Union against them is as vain
as a wooden gate against the rush of a railway
train. We maintain that this body is penetrated
with the idea that the Union is endangered by
again giving power to the South ; and if this
be so, the junction of the Copperheads and
the South, led by the PRESIDENT, will be but
a vain show if they attempt to measure their
strength with that body whose decree is final
in any great national crisis. The Times cor-
respondent tells us a great deal of the doings of the
Philadelphia Convention, but not one word of the
feelings stirred up throughout the country by the
horrible massacre at New Orleans. No Conven-
tion, though composed of all the great orators of
the country, can talk away the blood there shed, nor
obliterate from the mind of. the nation the deep-
seated feeling now established of the undying,
reckless, unrelenting hatred of the South. The
talk of the Southern delegates may be as soft
and mild as the winds that blow from their
Southern States, their sentiments may be grand and
noble, their arguments may be based on the laws
of eternal justice, but their acts while in power
come up as a hideous nightmare and darken the
whole picture.
Could the people be persuaded that the interests
of the nation would be forwarded by President
JOHNSON'S plan of reconstruction, the chief magis-
trate would carry with him a power against which
the opposition of Congress would be as harmless as
the cry of achild. I most firmly believe—whether
right or wrong—that the national sentiment is
against the PRESIDENT ; and when the day of trial
has come, and the people speak out, every delusion
rising sun.
will be dissipated, like morning mists before a

Since this article was written we have received a
most hopeful telegram of the proceedings of the
Philadelphia Convention. To unite the States into a
cordial bond of union is the one great object, and
we would earnestly support the PRESIDENT or the
Congress, the Democrat or the Republican, who
acted'honestly or wisely with that object in view.
We fully believe that this sentiment rules that
great body of which we have spoken, and once con-
vinced of the wisdom and patriotism of the PRESl-
DENTinoewasuorregsanwisilil receive all oppo-
ceive the
ti
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will and
cease,the partyand he
his i s
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hearty support of the nation. That the PRESIDENT
carries with him General GRANT and Admiral FAR-
RAGUT in his Western tour is a most hopeful sign.
It will indeed be a happy omen for the great Re-
public if the black clouds which have been gathering
should disperse without a storm.

EW CONSULS.—General Y. J. Osterhause, re-
cently appointed consul to Lyons, has arrived and
entered on the duties of his office. General G. S. Dodge
has just entered upon his duties as consul to Bremen. Both
these are good appointments, and will give satisfaction.
They both served with distinction in the army of the
United Status during the civil war.