The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-16 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of English wheat to this morning's market
were tolerably large, of which a considerable portion was of
the new crop. Old qualities were quite unsaleable, and
nominally 3s to 4s per quarter lower ; but for new samples
there was a steady demand, at from 54s to 66s per quarter.
Foreign wheat changed hands to a fair extent for export
to France, and for all good and fine descriptions prices ruled
firm.

Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request, at full
quotations.

All kinds of barley moved off slowly, at about previous
rates. New malting was quoted at 34s to 40s per quarter.
Good and fine samples of malt sold steadily, at full prices,
but inferior kinds were a dull inquiry.

The oat trade was dull, and loNv qualities were rather
cheaper.
Beans sold at rates previously current.
For peas the demand ruled steady, at 40s for new white,
and 38s to 40s for new gray samples.
Flour changed hands heavily, on rather easier terms.
ARRIVALS TIIIS WEEK.
Wheit. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
Eng1i5h........ 3,170 80 1 2,840 960 / 1,490
Irish. •• 690 '
Foreign.. •• .... 13,990 2,280 , 38,130 1 sack •
20,100 brie.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Only moderate supplies of meat continue on sale here.
Prime qualities move off steadily, at full quotations ; other-
wise, the trade, owing to the unfavourable weather, is in a
sluggish state, and prices rule somewhat easier.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
sdad s d s
uddlingmutto.n. 4 6
4 8
3 10 4 4
43 42
48 8 Prime do 4
Small pork .... 4 5 0
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Veal .. 3 6 4 4
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Large pork .... 3 10 4 6 Lamb
Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 8

BOROUGH imp.
The accounts are favourable from some parts of the
plantations, and a fair crop is looked forward to, the esti-
mate of the duty being £120,000. For all kinds of hops we
tendency.
have to repqt a dull inquiry, and prices have a downward

Mid and East Kent pockets 80s to 200 s per cwt.
Wealds 7os 170 s Sussex
65s 130 s „
Yearlings .......... llos 200 s ~
A pocket of new hops has cores to hand, and has been
disposed of at £25 per cent.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—At the public sales, which closed yesterday, there
da?fitpncle
fully late rates ; other qualities) however, were neglected.
in the better qualities, at
grocery qualities there was
a rather active competition, and prices tended upwards;
other descriptions fully maintained former rates.
COFFEE.—The
.dealings. have been to a fair average ex-
waSsuaufAanirs.b—uFsioureaagootdraaana
tem, and fine qualities of Plantation Ceylon have slightly
advanced.
RlCE.—Business has been less active. East India qua-
lities, however, sustained former values.
SALTPETRE.—Only moderate dealings have been re-
corded without any material change in prices.
TALLOW.—The transactions for forward delivery have
slightly increased, but operations on the spot have been
limited. The quotations aro—P.Y.C. spot 45s to 45s 6d,
last three months 45s per cwt.

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE CINQUE PORTS.—
The reports circulated that the new Lord Warden would be
instituted on the 16th inst. were wholly unauthorised and
erroneous. The day really fixed for the ceremony is the
28th inst. It is proposed to revive much of the ancient state
and pageantry appertaining to these formalities. The
detailed programme for the occasion has not yet been defi-
nitively settled, but it is understood that the magistracy and
corporation of Dover, together with representatives from
the five ports (Dover, Sandwich, Hythe, Romney, and
Hastings), the two ancient towns (Winchelsea and Rye),
and their outlying members, will assemble at Dover Castle
at noon on the 28th inst. for the purpose of receiving their
now chief. A procession will there be formed, in which
the various volunteer corps of the ports are expected to take
part, and by which the new Lord Warden will be escorted
to the Drop Redoubt on the Western Heights, where a
Court of Shipway will be constituted after the ancient man-
ner by the suitors who attend in obedience to his Lordship's
mandate. Here the Premier will be regularly inducted,
taking the usual engagements on the acceptance of his high
e will not bind him-
iar privileges and
very sufficient immunities
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peculiar
rea-
son that those peculiar privileges and immunities have no
longer any substantial existence. This part of the day's
proceedings concluded, a banquet will afterwards be given
to his Lordship in the new Town-hall, which has recently
undergone extensive renovation It is thought that, though
capable of seating some 400 or 500 guests, the hall will not
suffice to accommodate all the applicants for tickets. The
Volunteers of Tenterden, in their eagerness to do honour to
the Premier, threaten, it is said, to move upon Dover en
masse, and claim for themselves alone the lion's share of the
whole available space. A meeting of the inhabitants of Doves
was held yesterday (the Mayor presiding) to take steps for
the due conduct of the banquet. A proposal was there made
it was determined to
be specially erected
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adhere to the original plan, which offers this preponderating
advantage to the local mind, that it will afford an admirabla
opportunity of inaugurating the newly-decorated hall—a
matter to which the desire of some to impart a more popular
character to the banquet would necessarily have to give
way. Lady Palmerston and the Hon. Mr. Cowper are now
staying at Walmer Castle, the official residence of the Lord
i Warden, where it is expected they will very shortly be
joined by the Lord Warden,

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg abovs 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky ; c., clouds (detached) ;
f., fog. ' • h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m. 7 misty (hazy) ; 0.,
overcast (dull) ; r., rain ; s., snow ; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
,. nee (1 to 9).

The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yes-
terday.
PERPETUAL PENSIONS.—The " Finance Ac-
counts" show that we paid last year £16,000 for perpetual
pensions. The last pension of this nature was one of
£2,000 a year granted in 1814 to the heirs male on whom
the title of Viscount Exmouth shall descend. Since that
date no pension has been for a longer term than the life of
the person whose services were to be acknowledged and the
lives of his two next heirs.
FINANCES OF EGYPT. When the loan of
£1,120,0^0 was granted last year by a Paris banking-house
to the Viceroy of Egypt, on terms much below those of the
regular market, it was surmised that the transaction would
be but the first step to a series of new embarrassments
which would make his Highness still more dependent on
this kind of assistance. Instead of complying with the
economical conditions then promised, the Egyptian Go-
vernment have launched into extended liabilities, so that
the floating debt of the country has been increased to
7,120,000, exclusive of engagements to the amount of
£2,800,000 to the Suez Canal Company. As a:means of ex-
trication Messrs. Laffitte and Co., by whom the loan
of last year was supplied, now offer renewed assist -
ance, but on far more onerous terms. They propose,
it is said, that the whole of the floating debt shall
be converted into 5 per cent, securities of one de-
nomination, to be called Bons du Tresor ; and at the
same time the Egyptian Government are to create
£10,000,000 additional, which are to be deposited with
Messrs. Laffitte, with authority to dispose of them at 300 f.
for every 500 f. bond. Out of this sum the loan of £1,120,000
due to them is to be paid off, and the balance is to be ap-
propriated to the redemption of the floating debt. No fur-
ther obligations of any description are to be incurred.
Messrs. Messrs. Laffitte are to be the agents for paying the
dends at Paris and Alexandria; they aro to have 6 per
cent, commission on all sales of the bonds, and a commis •
sion of 1i per cent. on all payments. The transport of
specie, loss in exchanges, &c., are to be at the charge of
the Egyptian Government. There is to be a sinking fund,
commencing on the Ist of September, 1862, for the redemp-
tion of the bonds at par in about 20 years, and the Govern.
ment are to produce a regular annual budget. The sink-
ing
fund, moreover, is to be secured by the revenues of the
Delta, the balance of the Customhouse revenue, the revenue
of the Viceroy's private property, and, finally, all the re-
venues of Egypt in general. If this affair is carried out,
and the contractors are backei, as they are likely to be, by
all the material power of the French Government, it must
apparently promise one of the most profitable transactions
4 of the kind ever brought to completion.