The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

BREAD.

Tho prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis ars from
8a to B,d ; of household ditto, 61d to 741 per 4 lb loaf.

iIIDE,S AND SKINS
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 51d to 54,1; 641 b to 721 b, sid
to ; 7Zlb to 801 b, bid to 6d ; 801 b to 881 b, 6d to 61d ;
381 b to 961 b, 6id to 64d.; 961 b to 1041 b, bid to bid ; 1011 b
0 112ib, 0,1 to Od ; upwards, —d to —d ; horse hides,
103 Od to 113 Od ; Calf skins, light, 3s 01 to 5s Od ; ditto
full, 8s Ud to Os Od; Polled Sheep, 48 6d to 5s 6d ; Keats,
Os Od to 030 d; half-breds, 3s 8d to 48 3d; Downs, 38 2d to
3s 8d ; Shearlings, Os Od to Os Od ; Lambs, 2s Od to 5s Od.

HAY MARKETS.
SurraTlELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 4/ 4s; clover,
4/ 103 to 5/ 53; and straw, 1/ 53 to 1/ 10a per load.
Supply moderate, trada steady.
cumBERLAN. —Meadow hay, 2/ 1234 s ; clover,
31 16s to 51 6s ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 103 per load.
A fair inquiry.
WHITECHAPEL.--MkNICIOW hay, 2/ 14s to 4/ 4s ; clover,
3/ lOs to 51 6; • and straw, 11 5a to II 103 per load.
An average supply, and a moderate demand.

Queen's Hotel, Upper
Norwood, for London. Mr, J. Abel Smith, m.p has
Lord. Loftus Otway bits left the
left the came establishment for Peperharrotv Park,
Godalinit.g. Mr. M. Astenatan has ako left for Wal
thamstow.
THE CAPE MAILS.—We have pleasure • in •
stating that
the Union Screw Company, who have taken the govern-
ment contract for conveying the mails to the Cape of
Good Hope, will make Plymouth their port of arrival
and departure. The first mail for the Cape was taken
from Southampton by this company's steam-ship Dane,
on Tuesday last. Tile next mail will be despatched from
Plymouth.—Plymouth Journal.
We regret to announce the death of the Earl of
Buchan, which took place in London-on Sunday morn-
ing last.
The failure of Mr. William Summerekill, a silk manu-
facturer at Manchester, was aneounced yesterday, but
his liabilities are not supposed to be very heavy.
IMPROVED COMMUNICATION ACROSS TIIE SOLENT TO
RYDE AND OTHER PAras OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT BY THE
RTEST SEA PASSAGE.—The Lie of Wight Ferry
Company, w , icf• is to work the passage across the Solent,
only 2i miles between Stokes Bay and Ryde, has,
through the unremitting exertions of Messrs. Webster,
Fleming, and Ridaut, residents in the Isle of Wight,
and Directors of the Company, commenced the worts
connected with the intended pier at the Ryde Mplanade,
and when the Ferry and Stokes Bay Railway undertakings
are completed, they will be worked under a guarantee
from the South-Western Railway. The length o journey
between London and Ryde will be redttced to three
hours, or more than one hour less by the improved
than by the present route. The plans, which have
been sanctioned by Parliament, are designed byi Mr.
H. H. Fulton, the engineer of Westminster, andreom-
prise every accommodation as to the boats and laAding
places that the public could desire. The works are
being proceeded with by the contractors, 'Messrs.
Bennett and Benham, of Pimlico, and it is said a gcod
portion of the work rill be completed by ue4 winter.

* The writer, Mr. Shepherd, is supposed, from the tenor
of his letter, and his having gone out as a "Chinaman"
hpy, tq he en Eurasian clerk in Government employ, moss
likely is the treasury. The rebel Rajah he speaks of is
"Nola," the adopted sou of the late reishwa, but not.
alknlwledg,od by the British Government as his heir. The
writer seen' not to have been aware that General Sir IL
Who ler was mi rtally wounded (if not dead) before the
snrr oiler, else most probably such surrender would ne7er
bay been allowed by him.
t An Aycb, it is conjectured.