The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

JURKALDY_FEB. 5.

We had fair supplies of wheat and oats, but small of
barley. Fine barley is per qr. dearer, ordinary much the
same as last week. Oats 6d lower. Wheat a ready sale ;
as also barley.

Wheat (N). Barley (N).
First.... 34s Od 25s Od
Second.. 42s 6d • 328 Od
Third .. 46s Od 34s 6d

Oats (N).
19s Od
23s Gd
25s Od
Oats (0).
—s Od

Wheat (0). Barley (0).
First.... —8 Od Od
Second.. —s Od —s Od
Third .. Od Od

—s Od
—a Od

COAL MARE
(Prices of Coal per Ton at

ET—FEB . 7.
the close of the market.)

s. d.
Haswell Gas. l3 0
Byass's Bebside West '
Hartley .14 9
Walker Primrose 12 6
Tanfield Moor Butes 12 0
Tanfield Moor 11 9
Ward's West Hartley 14 0
Buddle's West Hartleyl4 9
Wylam l4 6
Davison's West Hart-

Walls End.

_ _
s. d.
Hetton....
Tees . lB 0
Heugh Hall 16 6
Whitworth l4 6
Nixon's Merthyr. 21 0
Fowell'sDuffiyn Steam 21 0
South Durham... 16 0
Eden 16 6
South Hartlepool.. 16 9
Framwellgate l6 0
Braddyll's Hetton 17 0
Trimdon Thornley 15 0
Benson l6 3
Hartlepool. l6 9
South Kelloe l7 0
Caradoc l6 6
Stewart's l7 9
Eden Main .16 0
Elm Park 14 6
Barton l5 6
West Kelloe ..15 9
99—Sold, 74.

ley 14 9
Lambert's West Hart-

ley 14 9

Walls End.

Acorn Close 16 6
Russell's Hetton 17 0
Cassop l7 0
Montague Garesfield 12 0
North Harllepoal 14 6
Brandon.. l6 6
Gosforth 15 6
Ships at market,

MEDITERRANEAN EXTENSION TELEGRAPH COM-
PANY.-At a meeting of this company yesterday, Mr. S.
Gurney in the chair, the report was adopted unanimously,
and a dividend declared for the:past half year at the rate of
6 per cent. per annum. The defect in the cable between
Cagliari and Malta has been repaired, and through com-
munication re-established. Nothing certain can be stated
as to the cost incurred by the accident, but it is estimated
at about £l,OOO. A portion of the cable raised from a con-
siderable depth in the sea was found to be as perfect as
when it was first laid down.

It is some mitigation of the financial prospects of
the present year that in October next annuities will expire
to the amount of £306,000, thus effecting a saving in our
annual payments on account of the National Debt equal to
such as would result if the debt itself were to experience a
reduction of £10,200,000. Three months later—namely in
January, 1860, the extinction of the Long Annuities will
effect a further annual economy of £1,599,500, a sum equal
to the interest on £53,300,000. Consols, while there are
sundry smaller claims of tontine and other life annuities
also to fall in. Although these reductions will involve no
lightening of taxation, since they have all been calculated
upon in the arrangements regarding the income-tax, it is
desirable the circumstance of their being about to occur
should be known throughout Europe. The fact of our
being able in ease of the worst to raise loans to the extent
of £70,000,000 without rendering our burdens next year
greater than they are at present may produce a good effect
on the possible eve of complications, the ultimat triumph
in which will most likely turn as usual upon considerations
of finance.

MICRO-PHOTOGRAPHY.—I was recently handed
two small pieces of glass, it the centre of one of which, by
dint of close and painful examination, I discovered a speck
about 1.16 th of an inch iu diameter, which bore somewhat
the resemblance of the portrait of a head ; in the other was
also a speck about one-eighth of an inch in diameter, but
which I could not recognise as any particular object. By
holding the first piece of glass up to the light, and looking
through a powerful magnifyer, I discovered a perfect por-
trait, and in the other a group of five portraits, equally per-
fect. To what use might not this mode of photographing
be put I In war the most elaborate instructions might be
carried in a button or the head of a pencil-case, and the
General or Secretary of, War needs but a magnifying glass
to save the use of spies, and men frcm hanging; the whole
archives of a nation might be packed away in a snuff-box.
—.Photographic News,