The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten broad in the metropolis are from
7di. to Bd. ; of household ditto, sid. to 7d. per 4lbs. loaf.

HIDES AN!) SKINS.

Market hides 56 to 64 lbs, 24d to 3d. ; 64 to 72 Ibs, 3d
to ;72 to 801bs, 3d to 3P ;80 to 881bs., 3P to 4d ;88
to 961b5., 4d to 4id ;96 to 1041b5., 4d. to 411. Horse
hides, Os to 108 Od ; calf skins (light), 2s to 4s ; full, Gs 6d ;
polled sheep, lls Gd to 14s Od; half-breds, lOs Oct to lls Gd ;
downs, 7s 6d to 9s.

HAY.
IL SMITFIELD.-3.1-t3adOW hay, £4 8s to £6 Os; clover,
£5 lOs to £7 Os Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
Trade firm.
CIUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 8s to £6 Os Od; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 lds Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load.
A steady demand.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 8s to ..£6 Os; clover,
£5 lOs to £7 Os Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
Supply moderate.

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.
s. d. 4. ‘'.
East Hartlepool
Hetton lB 6 South Hetton 18 6

N.S taffordshire 17 0 Polisher Primrose ... 16 9
Kelloo

Shaw's Hartley lB 6 West Hartley
Hartlepool
Kepier Grange l7 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 3
Walls End Byron
Davison's W. Hartley 17 3 Eden Main
W.Wylam l7 6 Walker Primrose l4 9
Caradoc lB 0 Pittington l5 6
Buddlo'sWestHartley 17 0 Tunstall
Acorn Close l7 0 Tees
James

Ships at market, 94 ; sold, 72

THE WIDOW OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.—The
Washington correspondent of the Morning herald says :
—"When Mrs. Lincoln left Washington she took with
her to her prairie home the better part of the furniture,
upholstery, and decorations of the White House. Imme-
diately upon the death of the late President, Mrs. Lincoln
shut herself up in the Executive mansion, refusing to
leave her room, even to attend her husband's funeral. It
was at once given out that she was very ill; that the
murder of her husband had prostrated her ; indeed it was
at one time reported that the most serious fears were en-
tertained as to the result of her sickness. The obsequies
were brought to their conclusion ; the assassin had been
overtaken by the swift vengeance he had provoked ; the
trial of the conspirators had begun—still Mrs. Lincoln re-
mained in the White House. Meantime President John
son, unwilling to intrude upon the retirement of a lady
overwhelmed with a grief so appalling, kept "bachelor's
hall ". on Pennyslvania Avenue, attended only by his
friend, Preston King. Three months rolled away, and
Mrs. Lincoln was induced to give up the Executive
Mansion to its rightful occupant. She went to Spring-
field, Illinois. With her also went the bulk of the orna-
ments and furniture of the White House. These articles
--among which were carpets, window-curtains, chande-
liers, statuettes, when packed, 94 large dry
goods boxes, and their removal to the railway station
was effected by means of seven of Adams's great express
vans. These facts were hushed up, as well as might be,
and it was hoped that they would be forgotten. Congress
met, and among the first bills introduced into the House
was one offered by Mr. Wentworth, popularly known as
long John Wentworth,' of Illinois, appropriating $lOO,OOO
for the relief 'of Mrs. Lincoln—that, in the language of
the bill, being the sum to which Abraham Lincoln would
have been entitled' if he had served out his term. As
soon as it was announced that such a bill had been offered
and ordered to its second reading, a host of tradesmen, small
or otherwise, gathered in the lobbies of the Capitol.
These patriotic persons displayed an extraordinary inte-
rest in the passage of the bill. They proclaimed that it
was but a ' proper mark of national gratitude.' In fact,
so far did their loyal zeal carry them, that it attracted
the attention of the honorable legislators themselves, the
most of whom were for sometime at a loss to conceive
why the 'lobby' should be so deeply concerned in the
relief of Mrs. Lincoln. Awakened attention led to in-
quiry ; inquiry brought out all the facts. Wentworth,
chancing to go into the lobby, overheard a patriotic shop-
keeper enlarging upon the 'sacred duties of the American
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to an amount a little in excess of $7,000. This fact, with
others, became known. When the bill came up for deci-
sion it received but one affirmative vote—that, it need
hardly bo said, of Wentworth, the proposer, himself.
bill which was simply an amendment of the other, and
which gave to Mrs. Lincoln the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars, was then offered and passd by an almost unani-
mous vote. But a small portion of this sum, however, will
ever be enjoyed by the person for whose use it was
appropriated by Congress ; for when the bills of New
York tradesmen alone aro paid, there will be Jut
an incon-
siderable margin left. Mrs. Lincoln, iterefore, by her
extraordinary misconception of the nature of her privi-
eges in the White House—(l will use no stronger term)—
has lust seventy-five thousand dollars; for the sum ori-
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gmally named ($100,000) would, but for this misunder-
standing, infallibly have been donated to her."
IN THE LION'S DEN.—An unprecedented scene
occurred at the Cirque Napoleon on Monday night, during
the performance of Mr. Batty, the successor of Van Am-
burg, who is now exhibiting in Paris. The moment he en-
tered the wild beasts' cage the lioness was observed to be in
a terrible rage. The lions were also roaring and jumping
about, and Mr. Batty seemed to have lost his usual in-
fluence over them. The public, fearing to see him torn in
pieces, cried "Go out, go out I" Mr. Batty took the ad-
vice, and cautiously withdrew, walking backwards. The
cause of the extraordinary commotion in the cage was soon
ascertained. A few minutes before the commencement of the
performance the lioness had given birth to a cub, who was
thought to be an only son. The young lion was taken away
from her and given to a bitch to suckle ; but just as Batty
entered the cage the lioness unexpectedly produced a second
young one, and the lions wanted to eat it—a propensity said
to be very common with wild beasts when in a state of cap-
tivity. The fury of the lioness in defence of her offspring
and the ferocious attitude of her companions in the cage,
produced an extraordinary panic among the spectators, and
several ladies fainted. After a short pause Batty contrived
to separate the lioness from the cub, and the latter, about
the size of a cat, was held up by the nape of the neck for the
inspection of the company.
FURTHER SEIZURE OF AR3IS IN BELFAST.—Yester-
day morning information was obtained by the police
authorities that a box of arms was on its way to a hardware
establishment in tho neighbourhood of Smithfield, and

constables Fitzgerald and Drought, of the detective force,
having been set apart to intercept it if possible, succeeded
in doing so. Having seen a car with a suspicious-looking
box upon it in Great Victoria-street, near the railway sta-
tion, they searched the box, and found in it eight stand of

arms and ten bayonets, which they captured. The arms
were all perfectly new, and such asaro used by the military.
Another lot of guns, packed in a hogshead and consigned
to another hardware merchant in Belfast, were captured
by the Customs authorities and coastguards on being landed

ps.—Northern yesterday morning from one of tho steamshi

TV hi,q,
An effort is being made in Washington to revive
popular interest in the Washington monuments, upon
which no work has been done sinco 1859. Congress will
be memorialised on the subject, and an appropriation of
$2OO, 000 requested.