The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

BREAD.

The prices of wheiten bread in the metropolis are from
7d to 8d; of household do.; sjd to 7d per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 5611 i to 641 b, 44d to 41d; 641 b to 721 b, 41d to
5d ; 721 b to 801 b, 5d to old; 801 b to 881 b, 5d to 6d ;
881 b to 961 b, 6d to 6d; 961 b to 1041 b, --d Horse
, hides 886 d to lOs 6d; OH skins, light, 2s 6d to 4s ; ditto full,
6s 6d to 7s Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds,
Os Od to Os Od; Downs, 5s 6d to 7s 6d; lambs, 2s 6d to
3s 9d; shearlings, is 3d to is sd.

HAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 108 to £4 lOs ; clover,
do., £4 Os Co £s.Bs ; and straw, £1 4a to £1 9s per load.
Trade steady, at fully late rates.
CUMBERtAND.--Meadow hay, £2 lOs to £4 lOs ; clover
do., £4 5s to £5 8s ; 'and straw,,il 4s to £1 Es per load.
A slow inquOy, on former terms. -
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 lOs to £4 10s ; clove'
do., £4 5s to £s.Bs ; and straw £1 3s to £1 8s per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at late quotations.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS--(YEsTERDAy).
Lord REDESDALE, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor,
took his seat upon the woolsack a few minutes beforo five
o'clock.

Lord MASSARE NE presented apetition from the Cham-
ber of Commerce, Belfast, complaining of the exclusive ad-
vantages possessed by the watermen and lightermen on the
river Thames as likely to injure the liberty of trade.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the following
private bills were read a second time :—Earl Vane's Estate
Bill; Caledonian Railway; London and North Western,
Edge-hill to Garston, Railway; Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junction Railway; North British, Selkirk
and Galashiels Companies' Railway Castle-Douglas and
Dumfries Railway; and the Hampste!ad Junction Railway.
Grieve's Dikiabilitics Removal Bill was read a third
time.
Their lordships then adjourned till Monday.

THE NAVY.

It is stated that the following changes are to
take place in the Board of Admiralty, consequent
on the change of the Ministry :—Vice-Admiral W.
F. Martin Rear-Admiral Sir A. Milne, and Rear-
Admiral bir Henry Leeke, retire from the Board.
Vice. Admiral the Hun. Sir It. S. Dundas, K.C.8.,
will remain in the Board, and be the First Naval
Lord. Rear-Admiral F. T. Pelham, C. 8., formerly
private secretary to the Duke of Northumberland,
when First Lord, and subsequently one of the junior
lords under Sir Charles Wood ; Commodore Charles
Eden, C.B. (Controller-General of the Coastguard),
and Capt. Charles Frederick (commanding the
Csar), are mentioned as the successors to the re-
tiring officers.
It is stated in naval circles that Capt. 'the Hon.
S. T. Carnegie, C. 8., has been selected to fill the
office of Controller-General of the Coastguard, in
the room of Commodore Eden.
An Admiralty notice has been received at Chat-
ham Dockyard, to the effect that the whole of the
clerks, mechanics, and other persons employed at
that establishment are to receive the benefit of the
provisions of the Civil Service Superannuation Act,
recently passed. By this Act a great boon is con-
ferred on all the persons employed at the Royal
dockyards, whose superannuation allowances will
be increased nearly double those granted under the
old scale. Mechanics and others who have served
40 years and upwards in,the'Dockyard will be al-
lowed to retire on two-thirds of their pay, while
those who from age or infirmityare considered unfit
for further service will be granted a pension-on a
very liberal scale.
The screw steam-frigate Amphion, 36,attaehed to
the steam reserve at Chatham, has been commis-
sioned at that port, and is to have a complement of
340 men, It is understood that she will be attached
to the Channel squadron of observation.
The screw corvette Clio, 21, belonging to the
steam reserve ordinary in the Medway, has just
been commissioned, and is to be immediately fitted
for sea.

, The enlistment of volunteers for her Majesty's
navy still progresses satisfactorily at Liverpool.
The scrqw steam-frigate Liffey, 51, Capt. Preedy,
left that' port last night for Plymouth, with about
30 men who have entered for service.
. Yesterday, a court-martial assembled on board
the guard-ship a ordinary, Formidable,• at Sheei•-•
ness, to try Lieut. Robert ' Hamilton Handfield
'Mends an the following charge' ." For that he the
said Lieut. Robert Hamilton Handfield • Mends;
being in actual service and full pay in her Majesty's
fleet, and the First Lieutenant of and:belonging to
her Majesty's ship Trafalgar, did, on 'or' about the
hour of five o'clock in the morning of the-17th' day
•of June, 1859, absent himself without,' leaVe from
the barracks and her Majesty's doekyardlit. Sheer-
nesi." The Court 'was composed of the-following
officers :—President, Capt; 'Edward Mew HalSted,.
in command -of the Minotaur, Capt,' Superintendent
Gedige Goldsmith, C. 8., and in command of the'
Wellesley, Capt. Superintendent kundle, B.`Mrat-'_
son A.D.C., C. 8., and otheis. On the Deputy-
Judge Advocate reading the charge to the prisoner,
he pleaded guilty, under extenuating circumstances,
The Court deliberated for a considerable time, and
then sentenced the prisoner to be 'dismissed from
his ship, and placed at the bottom of the list of
Lieutenants.

The screw steam-frigate ACopaze, 51, -Capt. the
Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, was, brought from Hamoaze
on Monday to.the Devonpoit dockyard-for-conve-
nience in fitting out.•
The paddle wheel steam-tender Avon, 3, Mr.
lames H. Lawrence commanding, from Portland,
returned on Tuesday evening to 'Plymouth, with
Capt. Jerningham, of the gunnery ship Cambridge,
and several sick men belonging to the squadron".
The screw steam corvette Cadmus, 21, Capt. H.
S. Hillyar, left Plymouth Sound on Wednesday
for the Mediterranean.

The steam storeship Rhadamanthus, F. R. Stur-
dee commanding, with marihes and 10 tons of pro-
visions, sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday 'for
Portsmouth and Woolwich.

The brig Ran ..er,,at Devonport, is ordered' to be
sent to Ireland:for a floating chapel.
The iron screw steam transport Himalaya, Com-
mander Seccombe, was put out of Keyham oti Sa-
turday.
The screw steamship Donegal, 101, was commis-
sioned at Plymouth on Thursday by Capt. Glan-
ville. She will have a complement of 930 men.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Gladiator, 6; is
ordered to be commissioned in Plymouth with a
crew of 195 men.
Sails were bent on Thursday on board the screw
steamship Aboukir, Capt. Schomberg, at Plymouth.
The screw steamship Sanspareil, 70, was placed in
dock at Keyham on Thursday.
The lighter Hamoaze, Webber, sailed from Ply-
mouth •n Thursday for Pembroke. The lighter
Aid, Grundy master, sailed the same day for Ports-
mouth and Chatham.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Commander Charles Wake has been promoted to the
rank of Captain.
Surgeons—M. T. West, to the Mars ; T. R. Pick-
thorn, to the Amphion ; James Henry, to the Sidon ;

R. C. Russell, to the Cossack ; Dr. Mark Hamilton, to the.

Gladiator.

Assistant-Surgeons—John Caldwell, to the Mars;
Robert L. Bett (acting) to the Donegal ; John Ligterwood
to the Impetieuse ; Thomas Kipling to the Dauntless.

THE ARMY.

With the view of enabling the young officers and
troops at Chatham garrison, who are about embark-
ing for India, to acquire a colloquial knowledge of
the Hindustani language previously to their depar-
ture from this country, the authorities at the Horse
Guards have appointed- a first-class schoolmaster,
who is thoroughly acquainted with Hindustani, to
be stationed at Chatham for the express purpose of
instructing the officers and men in that language.
The North Durham Regiment of Militia assem-
bled for, training at Durham on Wednesday last,
under the command of Earl Vane.

The Royal. Monmouthshire Regiment of Militia
assembled at Monmouth on Wednesday last, for 21
days' training.
The Second Somerset Regiment of Militia will
assemble for 21 days' training, under the command
of Col. Pinney, at Bath, on the 13th of September.

Major-General and Lady Alice Peel received at
dinner, last evening, the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Lord
and Lady Lyndhurst, the Right Hon. Lord John Manners,
Lady Raglan, Lord Claud Hamilton, Mr. Seymour Fitz-
gerald, Mr. Algernon Egerton, and Mr. William Peel.
Riga, of
1)1 state that-
thewar
Lgerattienrmarkets
hadalready
like preparations of Prussia., large and unusual purchases
of oats having been made for that country.
LEGAL APPOINTMENT... -A m •
--orning paper be-
lieves that Mr. Walter Berwick, o th chairman f Rid-
ing of Cork, has been appointed e East
judge of the Bankrupt
Court, vice Macan, deceased.
It is stated in naval that circles .
Captain the lion.
S. T. Carnegie has been selected to fill the office of comp-
troller-general of the coast •of guard, in the room Commo-
dore Eden.
DIPHTHERIA..--The obituaryof the Stan ford
. . .
Mercury contains the "At Tumby
following notice .
Wood-side, in the parish of Coningsby, on the 18th inst.,
of diphtheria, Ellen, daughter of -Mr. J. Greenfield, aged
seven years. On account of the complaint the Rev. G.
Carter would not allow the corpse to be taken into the
church : the service was read in the porch."
MINING.—in the Mining Share Market there
has been but littllo change, and nothing very important
to remark or report upon, though late in the week a demand
es and rendered busine more
Sprang up for a few min ,
active than it East Russell receded
had previously been.
to 7, but on Wednesday rose to 8, and leave off 81 to 81
a report was received at the office of the company, on Wed-
nesday, from Capt. Richards, of Devon Great Consols, and
of a more favourable character,
that in the 88
showing
(which has several fathoms to be driven towards the winze
which went down so rich from the 66) the driving is upon
it only of the south portion of the north lode, and it will
take 5 fms. more, in the way they are now driving, to reach
the north wall
of the lode. Homersham's shaft is now
down to the 100, and a cross cut; will br driven about 3 fms.
to intersect the south lode, when driving upon it east will
be commenced towards the junction under the 88. North
Robert rose to 31, but leave off 7i to 3i.—Mining Journal
of this day.
FRENCH ADMIRALTY COURT.—Paris, June 25.
A decision of the Imperial Prize Court, dated June 22, 1859,
concedes to the parties interested in the fitting out of the
cargo of the Austrian vessel Esultanza a further delay of
15 days to produce their pleas of defence. Decisions of the
Imperial Prize Court, dated the same. day, fix a delay of 15
days for parties interested in the fitting out or cargoes of
the Austnan vessels named below, to produce their pleas of
defence—viz., Erminia, Matted Thian master; Pick/ilea,
Stupavich master; Constantino, Guirovich master; Giusta,
Gerolimich master; Genio Speculators, Spiridione chaster;
Maria Baccarcich, Nicole master. By a decision of the same
day, a delay, of 15 days has been fixe for persons interested
in the fitting out of the Austrian vessel Merezza 'Crivel-
lad. The case of the shippers by this vessel has been se-
parated from that of the fitters out. After. this delay the .
Court will proceed'to piss sentence upon the prizes men-
tioned in the present notice,

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