The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-17 00:00:00

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORWICH SATURDAY.
of
At this market to-day there was a limited supply
wheat, and prices ruled about 1s per qr. higher than last
week A large supply of barley, and a general dulness per-
vading the trade, prices for malting qualities gave Wad
about is per quarter, while to dispose of other qualities a
still further decline was acceded to.

White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s ; old red aitto,
(weighing 631 b), 58s to 63s ; new red ditto (weighing
601 b to 631 b), —s to —s; best malting barley (weigh`,ri°
521 b to 531 b), 50s to 52s • runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 521 b),
46s to 48s ' • distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 36s to
40$ ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas (maple)/'"
to 38s per qr. Flour, 44s Od per sack.

NOT TING HAM—SATURDAY.
tho
There was a moderate show of wheat to-day,
condition of which was not first-rate. There Nos
tolerable demand, and all dry sorts were is per van,'
dearer There was a pretty good supply of barley, but toe
demand ruled slow, and prices, except for the finest %I/ea;
lities, were rather lower. The uantity of oats en "
was middling, and there was as teady demand at price
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equal to those of last week. Beans declined is per qr
Peas dull and receding.
Old white wheat, 68s to 73s ; old red, 60s to 67s ;
white, 66s to 74s ; new red, 58s to 63s per 36 stone. Oats,
old, 32s to 38s; new, 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans. ,
Ms to 58s ; new, 44s to 52s per 38 stone. Fino floor, 'd
to 46s per sack.

LEICESTER—SATURDAY.
At to-day's market the show of wheat was hardly 6,,e
large as usual. A fair share of business was transacted'
and prices 2s per qr. higher than last week. Superior sorts
of barley in moderate demand at late prices. Rather mere
doing in oats, at last week's prices. Beans a dull trade, a'
is per qr. less money.
New white wheat, 68s to 70s ; now red, 60s to 68s
white, 76s to 768 ; old rod, 66s to 70s per 36 stone. fir,
ley, for malting, 42s to 50s per qr.; grinding, 32s to 8,4
per 30 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 40s ; now, 24s to 30s per
stone. Beans, old, Ms to 60s ; new, 46s to 50s por 38 stone'
Fine flour, 48s ; seconds, 418 to 46s per 20 stone.

YORK—SATURDAY.
There was a limited supply of wheat at this market
to-day, and the demand was steady, at an impiovemen'
on late rates. In barley a limited business was done, 3t
reduction of is per qr. A healthy inquiry for oats, at late)
prices. The supply of beans was fair, at rather loWer
rates.
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New white wheat, 56s to 64s ; new rod, 48s to 58s pe,
stone. Barley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grinding'
33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 24 stone.
Beaus, new, 50s to 54s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to 7°s'
Flour, 45s to 47s nor sack of 2801bs.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Dec. 2°.
Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 14'
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet........ • •Jan• 4'
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Asoension, and St. ilelena Dec. =8•
China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Dec
Ditto, via Marseilles ,.Dec. 14
Faikland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Deo. 14.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., Dew. 2).
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 14'
Ditto, via liarseilles
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Doc. 14"
Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 14
Ilanritius, via Southampton
D„. Dec. 23
.4
Ditto, via Marseilei`
Newfoundland
Portugal
Jan. Dec. 1.
49

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet.. .. Dec.
Ditto, by United States paokut, via Southamp-
ton
•

Ditto, ilia Curk
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Dec. 14.
IVest Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
liondurai) • Dec. 14
• •
Bahanr...4, via New York.
Cuba aid Mcxico ...... Dee. 2"
..
Bermuda, via Halifax Dee. 19

The QUESTION SETTLED.—The Illinois'staff
Journal says: --" There has been some question to
to which city in this State should rank next
n/
Chicago in size. Quincy has claimed the postlio lid
and so also has Peoria. Springfield is the sec,
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city of Illinois, and the votes polled in the biro
cities named, at the last election, denaonstr,
the fact. The vote was as follows :—SPrn't,
field, 3,119 ; Quincy, 3,080; Peoria, 3C -,,a
It thus appears that Springfield is thirty-nine f
of Quincy, and one hundred and three aheaubst
Peoria. In addition to this, it may be stated t .s.,
over four hundred persons whose names were reLiv
tered on the poll books did not vote last Tne,s7e:
These figures settle the mooted question, and
dare Springfield the second city in Illinois.
The Nation, in oneof its articles, remarks that-ai
"As a rule no person should overtax his nstioy
average strength. To this rule, however, the cc us
mon sense of mankind admits very nutnerp°ol
exceptions. Physicians in times of g,,e13; ,
sickness, nurses, watchmen, and night worr-,.„cin
soldiers in battle or on forced marches, saiLc`....
storms, firemen, lawyers trying important eanteh
these are only a few cases out of many in 3v-- to
duty, frequently and imperiously requires Inceuvir
exert themselves beyond what a due regard to ‘,,iso
best physical condition would admit. There are er
other cases in which there may be no especial dangof
of overtaxing the strength, but where the natn_reber
the occupation absolutely requires a greater ii,u-der
of hours' labour than would be desirable. unevy
this head may be included ordinary domestic ore
ployments. A woman, for example, must take ors
of her family, often without much regard to liciled
of labour, for a man's breakfast must be cc°
before he can eat it."

Births.
u sorrow,
Conn—On the 14th inst., at Cedar Villa' Sutton
the wife of C. F. Collier, Esq., of the Middle 'T,311313
barrister-at-law, of a daughter.
0-f ort'
CHILDERS—OII the Ist ult., at Rangoon, the wife
E. Childers, of a son.

Marriages. oh ad),
BARTON—COLLIS—On the 13th inst., at FertnoY of
N. C. Barton, Esq., R.N., son of G. C. Barton, -11aest
Ropehill, Lymington, Hants, to Jane Lloyd, of
daughter of the Rev. M. A. C. Collis, D.D., rec"
Queenstown. Lea,
LEWER—SnAw—On the 13th inst , at St. Margaret'
Kent, Alfred Lower, Jeri, Royal Horse Ari)ol.,et,
son of E. Lewar, Esq. 3y Hall, Wimhorne, aor
to Bossio, eldest daughter of Col. 11. J. Shaw, (-4°v
of the llerbert Hospital, Woolwich.

Deaths.
DowDEN—On the 13th iust• , at Clapham-common,
Bowden, Esq., aged 68.
-Her-
BLACKFORD—On the 11th inst. at 33, Charles-street,
keley-square, the Ladrlsabella Blackford, aged 80. to
BRADLEY.—On the 7th inst., Wollesey-road, St°
dlcP
Newington, of consumption, Thomas Earnshalv j3l•3tally
aged 46. He has left a wife and seven children to
unprovided for. R.I.P. v qv/
CIIESIIAM—On the 14th inst.,at the Hoo, e's
Dowager Lady Chesham, aged 74.
LucENA—On the 12th inst , Barham, near Canterbury,
J. L. Lucena, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Loudon.

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LL WHISKY. DUBLIN
EXHIBITION, 1865.
D celeVrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the
üblin. Prize Medal.
eo°
It is Pure, Mild, Mallow, Delicious, and very Whole-
, Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ;
DY the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or
uholesale at
R. GREAT. WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W.
(Nerve the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
Rinahan's LL Whisky."

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LOndon, Dec. 14,1866.

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CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
• House, 14th Dec., 1866.
TJIB COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
r, the' OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
T'iNITED KINGDOM of 'GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
'L'AND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready
to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract
py supplying Her Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth with
leyredWedges of Beech, under a Contract for twelve
Calendar months certain, and further until the expiration
of three calendar months' warning.
The average annual consumption, together with a Form
t! the Tender and Conditions of Contract, may be seen in
the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department,
'-cludralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received
after Two o'Clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be
noticed unless the Party attends, or an Agent for-him duly
authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
111-daliralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
- Tender for Beech Wedges ;" and must also be delivered
at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty,
Bfterset Hduse, accompanied by a Letter signed by two
I,eartonsible persons, engaging to become bound with the
arson tendering in the sum of £2OO for the due perfor-
ce of the Contract.
By Order,
ANTONIO BRA Y,
Registrar of Contracts and Public
Securities.

•
1U GUNMAKERS and Others.
I.
The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of
tece, lying PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for
:"EECH-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not
Treating which may replace the present Service Rifles in
future manufacture.

The following are the conditions considered essential in
military non-repeating Rifles:—
A. WEIGHT.
Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet.

B. LENGTH.
be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the
noTlloo wof the butt-plate to muzzle.
~o. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP.
.Da-ust not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packod for
oerviee.

D. CARTRIDGES.
Rnst carry their own ignition.
B. SIGHTS.
The foresight must be such as to admit of a bayonet
fixed according to the present system.
F. STOCK.
„Nrust be such as to carry a light metal cleaning-rod, and
illinrw a sling to be used.
G. .
Rust not exceed that of RECOIL
the Enfield Rifle by more than
10 per cent.
H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE.
Rust be as little liable to injury bylong-continued firing,
I",?ligh usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to
uree, eh-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable,
4'8% of being used without accident by imperfectly trained
ill en, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni-
°rni qualit—

L THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE.
_ Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp,
and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for
tiller's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci-
dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of
being manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform
X. CALIBRE.
Optional.
L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE.

Optional.
Optional.
N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE.
„Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without
Irtling, the cartridges being arranged on a table.
". ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST.
The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more
than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500,
and bin. at 300.
The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty
shots each.

P. TRAJECTORY.
Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1
deg. 30 min.

Q. FOULING.
„The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent,
•. 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds.

R. PENETRATION.
The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than
that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle—
Vs 4., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48
hours in water.
Distance 30 yards.
s. LUBRICATION.
Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant
nY be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought
4ecessary by the competitor.
111.
N arms will be received without the usual proof marks.
specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed,
sting the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a
hished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu-
4itien, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War
r, uface, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867.
1, specifications and specien arms will be considered
the Ordnance Select Committeem and its associate mem-
"viers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for
iar, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds,
tried and recommend for further trial such of the systems
8 may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all
such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to
dWarrant their being included in the competition, the con-
tions of which are stated in this advertisement.
Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish
tort experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity
munitionhe secimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am-
per arm, within four months after date of de-
mand- Each competitor will be required to disclose to the
Zrunittee the exact nature of the lubrication he may ern-
"m:s% A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted
;ae rnPetitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of
Supply of ammunition required.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the
trrh 'which, on combination of all qualities, is considered
Y the committee to be the best submitted.
tan
second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at-
'lei9g a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu-
lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism.
.i.A• third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua-
:Lies which will be principally taken into consideration in
Yrarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power
~ sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in
various climates, and general serviceability. -
It The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but
tthey may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which
le cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con-
"▪ 'dered as those above-mentioned.
It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances
,r 1 a competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but
"iteh prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be
given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the
:
otryiee. •

Iv=,
MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS.
„ 'Tap,-azine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re-
rtved and examined in a manner similar to the Breech-
;lading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48
Breech-
;lading es, including the stock.
The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex-
clusive of the charges in the magazine.
bay' tolet
ils!n dispensable that the arms be made to take a
he
ag
Secretayry
eaof State offers a reward of 300 for the b
boest
azine or ReptingArm produced that fulfils the ave
onditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at
resent define the standard of accuracy or other conditions
°,he fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted.
hose Magazine orßepeating Arms, which are accepted
r further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each.
ttrZhis sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per

1, The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious
tt°velty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be
luopted into the service without proper acknowledgme.n.t,
;It'd that the name of the individual with whom it origi-
aies shall be recorded in connection with it.
if tho rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted
into the service, it will bear tbe inventor's name.
J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director
of Ordnance.
'face, Oct. 22 1860.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now In the Refugee. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
.cs,ooo, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lotbburv, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. Tho Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
%re, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give broad and coals to poor families
in want._ Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Roy. D. GILBERT. D.D., No, 22
E.O.

ROYAL FREE lIOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-oross.
Patron—Her Alost Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free adm:ssion to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support o.i voluntary contributions and I-.,ra.ctes
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
.lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4.000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable et
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Janson, and Co., Abchurch•lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; llerries and Co. ;
Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne,
and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet
and (.10., Bernere-streets and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
STANFOIW SKITIF, Secretary,

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