The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-02 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Our market is heavily supplied with most kinds of hops,
and the trade generally is heavy, at barely stationary
prices.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supplies of meat are extensive, and the demand rules
very inactive, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 84 to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 6d ;
lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 3d ; and pork, 3i
4d to 4s 10d per 81b., by the carcase,

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--YESTERDiT.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 151 11 16
Antwerp
Brussels —, 25 25 25 30
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 321 25 35
Frankfort on Maine — ll'4
Vienna
Trieste -- 12 70 12 80
Petersburgh — 331 34k
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Madrid

Cadiz
Leghorn
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon

50
30 25
25 47}
40
121
121.
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504
30 30
25 521
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122
1221
62
62

Oporto
Rio Janeiro

New York — • • ..
ForeignlGold in Bars (Stoaidard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars 4.... " 0 3 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 0 0

ExTENSITE ROBBERY FROM THE MIDLAND RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.—A system of robbery of -the most exten-
sive nature has been discovered to have been practised upon
the Midland Railway Company at Nottingham. For months
past articles entrusted to the company for conveyance have
been unaccountably lost, and heavy sums have been paid in
some instances as compensation. On Saturday morning,
Mr. Farmer, the detective officer employed by the company,
and Mr. Palethorpe, superintendent of the Nottinghamshire
police, went to the houses of two men named Robert Shel-
ton and John Manchester, in Clifton-street, Lenton, a vil-
lage near Nottingham. On the premises they found lace,
brocade, sugar, tea, tobacco, guns, rifles, a number of locks
for which the company had paid £49 compensation six
' months ago, and a quantity of other property, amounting
altogether to over £lOO in value, which has been identified
as having been stolen from the Midland Railway Company,
The prisoners were taken before Lord Belper and the sitting
magistrates at the County-hall, and were remanded for a
week. Both had been in the service of the company.
MISS MARTINEaU ON CRINOLINE,—Do the pet-
ticoats of our time serve as anything but a mask to the
human form—a perversion of human proportions ? A
woman on a sofa looks like a child popping up from a hay-
cock. A girl in the dance looks like the Dutch tumbler
that was a favourite toy in my infancy. The fit is so the
reverse of accurate as to be like a silly hoak—a mas-
querade without wit : while, at the same time, it is not
an easy fit. The prodigious weight of the modern petticoat,
and the difficulty of getting it all into the waistband, creates
a necessity for compressing and loading the waist in a way
most injurious to health. Under a rational method of dress
the waist should suffer neither weight nor pressure—nothing
more than the girdle which brings the garment into form
and folds. As to the convenience of the hooped skirts, only
ask the women themselves, who arc always in danger from
fire, or wind, or water, or carriage-wheels, or rails, or pails,
or nails, or, in short, everything they encounter. Ask the
husbands, fathers, or brothers, and hear how they like
being cut with the steel frame when they enter a gate with
a lady, or being driven into a corner of the pew at church,
or to the outside of the coach, for want of room..—Once a
Week.
SCOTCH TO THE BACK-BONE.—The terrace be-
hind Fife House, Whitehall, which looks upon the Thames,
is made entirely of gravel brought up by sea from Banff-
shire; the old Earl of Fife, when ho was made a British
p:er some century ago, havingvowed that if ho was forced
to live in London half the year, at all events he would
always walk on Scottish soil.—Once a Week.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM OF PATENTS.—
Number of visitors for the week ending Oct. 29 :—Morn-
lugs, 1,400 ; evenings, 579 ; total, 1,979. Since the open-
ing of the Museum free daily (May 12, 1858), 157,200,
THE TEMPLE CHURCII.—This very beautiful
building is again open (free) every day from ten to four
Divine service on Sundays at eleven and three.