The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP,

For most kinds of hops there is a fair demand, and
prices rule firm. The supply of hops is moderate for the
time of year.
New Mid and East Kents Bos to 190 s per cwt.
New Weald of Kents
77
New Sussex
17
Yearlings loos to 140 s
1,

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of moat on sale are tolerably large. For
most descriptions there is a fair demand, at our quotations.
rer 81b by the carcase.
a d a d a d a d
inferior beef 2 .0 3 4 Inferior mutton.... 3 6 3 10
Middling* do. 3 6 310 Middling mutton.. 4 0 4 6
Prime large do 40 4 2 Prime do 48 5 0
Prime small d0....4 4 4 6 Veal 4 4 5 4
Large pork 310 4 8 Small pork 4 1J 5 4
Lamb, Os Od to Os Oct.

COLONIAL.
TEA.-- The public sales of China produce terminated
yesterday, and scented descriptions sold at slightly reduced
rates. 5,118 packages passed, of which 3,154 were sold,
being without reserve.
SuGan.—The market has been exceedingly dull, and the
few transactions reported in West India were at about
previous rates. In the refined market, common lumps are
quoted 43s 6d per nwt.
COPFEE.—There has been a good demand for plantation
Ceylon, which sold readily at slightly enhanced rates ;
other quotations remained at about previous values.
RICE._-Business has been very dull, and quotations re-
main without change.
SALTPETRE.—No business of importance has been re-
PortPd ; late ratoc howev or are sustained.
TALLow.—The market has been more animated, and
slightly enhanced quotations are now current for both pre-
sent and forward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is marked
46s 9d ; April to June, 475; and last three months, 49s
per cwt.

MRS. CHAS. KEAN'S BENEFIT IN NEW ORLEANS.
—The engagement of those admirable artists, Mr.
and Mrs. Kean, is fast drawing to a close, and the lovers
of the Shaksperean drama will soon be compelled to take
their final look, in this city, of these faithful personators
of the Bard of Avon's genius. The fact that this is the
last time we are to see and hear Charles Kean and Ellen
Tree, whose names have been as household words in
our mouths for so many years to us, lends a melan-
choly interest to each of their performances at
the St. Charle's ; and we attend each with the
same feeling with which one takes fresh leave daily
of a friend, knowing that the inevitable last greeting is
fast drawing near, and that the sad "Farewell" must surely
soon be said. It is, perhaps, a sympathetic feeling with
the artists themselves that induces them to exert all their
powers in their several performances, so as to leave behind
them in New Orleans a reminiscence of their talents and
their last delineations here that shall long dwell, as a ten-
der pleasure, iu the memory of the lovers of the legitimate
drama. These remarks are incidental to the announcement
that Mrs. Kean will take, to-morrow night, her last benefit
in New Orleans. Think of that, all ye veteran admirers of the
palmy days of Manager Caldwell's time ; all ye whom we
have heard so often speak so warmly of Ellen Tree's first
appearance here, in 1838 ; all ye who would render to un-
fading genius a token of yourundiminished regard and ad-
miration. In every way she has deserved the public es-
teem as an artist, as a wife, as a mother. The lofty parity
of her character, the undimmed lustre of her intellect and
her genius, have consecrated her name in that little host
of women whom the world delights to honour ; and,
in associating her life's destiny with that of the son
of Edmund Kean, it was felt that genius, intellect
and purity were most appropriately allied in one of those
unions so rare, yet, when met, so unhesitatingly the object
of the world's respect and admiration. Let this occasion
show that our minds are not wholly wrapt up in the mate-
rial pursuits of life ; let us turn aside, for the nonce, from
the coarser occupations that bring the mind to the level of
the earth, earthy; let us tender to this great artist such a
proof of our true regard as will cause her, when once more
esconced in her home beyond the broad Atlantic, now and
then to cast a thought of grateful reminiscence to her
friends in New Orleans.—New Orleaas Daily Picayune.
GOOD NEWS FOR GAS CONSUMERS.—A company
is now in course of formation for the purchase of the
patents granted to Mr. Isham Baggs for his improvements
in the manufacture and use of inflammable gases. The
combustible gases producodunder the patents are hydrogen
and carbonic oxide, and these are made exclusively from
coke by the decomposition of water—for though iron is
employed in this decomposition, it is revivified and restored
to the metallic state at every succeeding stage of the ma-
nufacture, and so on again and again ad infinitum, without
waste and without removal from the retort, the hydrogen
and carbonic oxide being generated separately and passed
into the same gas-holder for mixture and subsequent con-
sumption ; coke, therefore, and water are the only sub-
stances really consumed in the process. A ton of coal in
round numbers will produce in the ordinary gas manufac-
ture an average of 9,000 cubic feet; but under these
patents the coke is entirely consumed, and produces, from
only 13 cwt., no less than 40,000 cubic feet of gas.
It is proposed by the projected company to erect works on
a smaller scale, in the first instance, where at present there
aro no works, and the inhabitants require gas, in order to
demonstrate the practicability of the invention. The
holders of shares in the first company will, wording to
the prospectus, be entitled to substantial advantages in an
enlarged company to be afterwards formed, and various
other inducements are held out which promise a large re-
turn for the capital invested. At the worst no loss can
result even to the pioneers in the new undertaking, for the
small works erected, in the event of the enlarged company
not being formed, will be carried on for the manufacture
of gas in the ordinary manner—the arrangements neces-
sary for the testing of the new invention being easily
applicable to old and accepted plans of manufacture. The
success of such a company as that proposed will be hailed
with the utmost pleasure by every gas consumer in the
kingdom, because in the event of success, of which there
appears to be no doubt, it will render them independent of
the galling monopoly which has so long been exercised by
the old and established gas companies throughout the
country.

SERIOUS EXPLOSION AT A BLAST FURNACE.--On
Wednesday a very serious explosion took place at the blast
furnaces, Twedale, belonging to Messrs. Hipkins. Tbe.
furnace keeper and three other men were severely burnt
by the molten fluid which was thrown over them. It is
hoped, however, that the injurios in any of the cases will
not prove fatal.