The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-29 00:00:00

DERBY SMITHFIELD.-MAY 26.

There was a less supply of fat beasts to-day, with a large
attendance of buyers. Best quality in good request, and
an advance in price easily obtained. Supply of sheep was
large, and fully maintaining former prices. Fat and store
calves not numerous, but well sold. A good show of fat
pigs.
The fallowing were the quotations :—Beef, 7(' to 7i 1;
mutton, 7d to 8d ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 7d tc 70,, per
lb. ; pigs, 10s 6d to 11s Od per score; rough fat, 5s 3 to t 1
per 141 b. ; hides, 44d to 64d per lb ; calf-skins, 4id
per lb.

LOCAL SHARE MARKET

LIVERPOOL, MAY 28.

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STOCK EXOHANkIE.—The market has not recovered from
its dullness, and closed quietly at about previous rates.
Eastern Counties, W. 16s. 3d. Lancashire and York-
shire, 1018—London and North Western, 105 48—Ditto
(Eiehth shares, new), d. 3s. 9d—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 438 Midlands, 831 / —North
Eastern, Berwick, 22—' aledonian, 368 i—Great Western
of Canada, 23.13.9.—Ditt0, new shares, p. 2—St. Helens,
117—Grand Trunk of Canada, 16--South Eastern, 224--
Dutch Rhenish, d. 14.

LEEDS, MAY 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE. North Westerns, 7 13-16 —North
Eastern, Leeds qrs., 21- p.—Midlands, 831—Victoria Milo'
d.

bLiNCHFSTER, MAY 28
STOCK EXCHANGE. The market to-day was doing 6
fair business, and prices rather easier.—East Lancashireg,,
98—Ditto, fifths, 7-16 p—Great Western of Canada, 23i g
Grand Trunks, 1 1--Leeds, 1011 —Ditto, new, 1-16 n•P'
Sheffields' 42i B—Ditto,8—Ditto, pref., 119 n. —Dovers, 22
Midland, 83i—Londons, 1043—Blackburns, 9.

3IRMINGHAM, MAY 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was very little business doing
in this market to-day, but the prices were firmer. Londou
and North-Western Eighths were done at 3s. 9d. dig."
Midlands, 831 i—London and North- Westerns at 104 fr"
Great Westerns, at 66 —Derbys, 54 s—South StafforclFF

" THE OLD TINDER•I3OI..—What an eloquent lecture
might be delivered upon the old-fashioned tinder-W.04,
illm-trated by the one experiment of striking a ligbt:
In that box lie, cold and motionless, the flint and steel'
rude in form and crude in substance. And yet, within
the breastof each, there lies a spark of that grand ele-
ment which influences every atom of the univsve
spark which could invoke the fierce agents of destruction
to wrap their blasting flames around a stately forest, or
a crowded city, and sweep it from the surface of the
world ; or which might kindle the geni.l blaze upon the
homely heattb, and shed a radiant glow upon a grout)
of smiling faces ; a spark such as that which rises with
the curling smoke from the village blacksmith's forge
or that which leaps with terrific wrath from the trouble"
breast of a Vesuvius. And then the tinder—the cotton
the carbon, What a tale might be told of the cotton:
field where it grew, of the black slave who plucked it, 01
the white toiler who spun it into a garment, and of the
village beauty who wore it— until, faded and desplee d
it was cast among a heap of old rags, and finally toun,
its way to the tinder-box. Then the tinder might te.o.
of its hopes ; how, though now a blackened mass, solli
ing everything that touched it, it would soon be welde:
to one of the great maaisters of nature, and fly nwfi
on transparent wings, until, resting upon some Ati
pine tree, it would make its home among the greed
leaves, and for a while live in freshness and beauty'
looking down upon the peaceful vale. Then the ete-
might tell its story, how for centuries it lay in the nee,
;
caverns of the earth, until man, with his unquiet spirit'
dug down to the dark depths, and dragged it forth, eeJni
ing, 'No longer be at peace.' Then would come tales ,:t.
the fiery furnace, what fire bad done for steel, and woof
steel had done for fire. And then the flint might tell ".1,
the time when the weather bound mariners, lighting tit
fires upon the Syrian shore, melted silicious stones il3;f
gems of glass, and thus led the way to the discovery
the transparent pane that gives a crystal inlet to tded
light of our homes ; of the mirror in whose face the la lee
contemplates her charms ; of the microscope and tt,
telescope by which the invisible are brought to eig!"h
and the distant drawn near ; of the prism by bozo.
Newton analysed the rays of light ; and of the pb°,o
graphic camera in which the sun prints with his ts
rays the pictures of his own adorning. And then 0,,
flint and steel might relate their adventures in the bno_l
field, whither they had gone together, and of fights tboeici
had seen in which man struck down his fellowman,
like a fiend had revelled in his brother's blood. Til;
even from the cold hearts of flint and steel, man trogri
learn a lesson which should make him blush at the `goof
of war ;' and the proud, who despise the teachinget.o
small things, might learn to appreciate the truths
are linked to the story of 'a tinder-box,' "—Front ";
Reason Why."
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