The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-18 00:00:00

COUN7.RY MARKETS.

BRISTOL—SEPT. 17.
At our market to-day there was a good attendance of
millers, and a pretty good business was done in wheat, at
an advance of about is on foreign sorts. Barley, beans,
and peas also at an advance of is per qr. Old oats were
6d dearer.

LEEDS—SEPT. 17.
We have a fair show of grain to-day, and the business
was steady in both old and new wheat, at last week's cur-
rencies, In barley no change. Oats in active request, at
full prices, Other articles as before.

MELTON MOWBRAY—SEPT. 17.
There was a tolerable show of wheat to-day, which sold
fairly at an advance of is per qr. over the prices of last weak.
Barley a middling show, and late rates advanced ls. For
oats quotations were steady. Prices :—White wheat, 54s
Od to 56s Od; red, 52s Od to 54s per 36 stone; beans
firm, at 40s to 48s for old; new sorts, 544 per 38 at. ;
barley, 37s to 41s for malting, and 30s to 32s per qr. for
grinding; oats, 24s to 2740 d per 24 stone.

LYNN—SEPT. 17.
Our market this morning was fairly attended, and the
wheat was in fair supply. Several samples of new wheat
of fine quality brought is per qr more money. Barley in
fair demand, and higher in price. Oats a moderate show,
and fully as high as last week. Beans in request, and is
higher.
Old white 59s to 61s New.. ..53s to 61s
Barley. .....37s to 41s I Oats..
Beans .39s to 43s J Peas 48s to 540

NEWCASTLE-UNDER -LYNE—SEPT. 16.
At this corn market there was a fair show of wheat,
which met a tolerable demand, maintaining the prices of
the previous week—white making 598 to 668, red 48s
to 60s. The demand for barley was firm, and rather
higher in value. Oats were in fair supply, with a steady
sale, from 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans met with a
firm sale, fi om 40s to 488 per qr.

NORWICH CATTLE.
The show of store cattle to-day consisted of an excellent
supply of Scots, Devons, shorthorns, and Irish, with fresh
droves of bulls. A large attendance of buyers, but prices
in favour of purchasers.
Scots, 4s to 48 6d ; shorthorns, 38 6d to 48 6d Irish, 3s
Od to 3s 6d ; Devons, 3s 6cl to 48 (estimated weight when
fat).
Fat beasts a small show and sales firm, at 8s Od to 8s 6d
per 141 b.
Sheep--There was a middling supply of sheep in the pens
and a fair sale,
Fat sheep, 8s Od to 8s 6d per stone ; prime, 9s Od , with-
out a clearance.
Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs,. 15s to 20s ; fat pork,
7s 6d to, 8s Od per stone.

THE POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.---The amount
of business transacted on Monday at the Post-office Say
ings- banks far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of
those who arranged the details of the scheme, a very large
number of persons, male and female, of all ages and classes,
having become depositors. The money collected has already
been transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of
the National Debt for investment according to law.

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BIRTHS.
BU
buCHANAN.—Owife n
N. the 16th inst., at Bartonfield, Canter-
ry, the of Griffiths Buchanan, Esq., of a
daughter.
POWER.—On the 16th inst., the wife of Kingsmill Manley
Power, Esq., of the Hill Court, Herefordshire, of a
son.

WINNINGTON.— At Stanford Court, Worcestershire, the
Lady Winnington, of a daughter, stillborn.
MARRIAGES.
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Htheenrly6thpianrfista, aEtstqh.e, Chapel of
Pall-mall, Loudon,
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John Parfitt, Esq., of Bath.
Saints' RITmoRE.—On the 17th inst., at All
TILLBROOK—W
to Agneta, eldest daughter of the late
Susses, to Ada Byng, only child of Lieut.-Colonel Mor-
timer Whitraoi e.
) Knightsbridge, Major Tillbrook, of Tillington,

DEATHS.
ARNOTT.—On the 11th inst., at Westbourno House, Ems-
worth, Hants, Mr. John Arnott, of the firm of Greaves,
Arnott, and Lyall, Stamford-street, London.
BURROW.—On the 15th inst., the Rev. Thomas Burrow,
incumbent of Pinner, Middlesex, aged 57.
CAMPBELL.—On the 12th inst., at Kilberry, Argyleshire,
Esq., of Kilberry.
HJEoAlapnEC.—amOn
bethlle Ist inst., at Trinity-grove, Edinburgh,,
Douglas Cheape, Esq,
GARDINER.—On the 9th inst., at Caton-green, near Lan-
caster, the Rev. William Gardiner, rector of Rochford,
Essex, aged 57.
LITTLEDALE.—On the 15th inst., George Hy. Littledale,
Esq., late Ist Royal Dragoons, aged 37.
Slur NvITH.—On the 15th inst., at Nottingham, John Geo.
Skipwith, Es 1., aged 42.

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in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the Couety of Middlesex,
WeduesdaY, SePteMber 18,1881.