The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-20 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

The show of English wheat here, to-day, was chiefly
composed of Monday's unsold samples. For most kinds,
wo had a slow inquiry; nevertheless, prices were well sup-
ported. The general condition of the supply was by no
means prime.
Foreign wheat—the show of which was moderately
good—moved off slowly, on former terms. In floating
cargoes of grain, very little wag doing.
We had a fair demand for all kinds of barley, and Mon-
day's currency was well supported.
The malt trade was very dull, at barely stationary
prices.

Oats, beans, and pass were in moderate supply, and
steady request, at extreme rates; but flour was very dull,
at last week's quotations.

ARRIVALS TIIIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
English k;1,030 1,090
I

Oats.

Flour.
980

Foreign...

3,310 I 3,680

2,640
5,520

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef from 3s Od to 48 2d; mutton, 3a 4d to 4s 8d ; lsmb,
5s 01 to 5s 83 ; veal, 3s 8d to 4a 8d; pork, 33 GI to 41 81
per Blbs., by the carcase.

BOROUGH HOP.
Our market is steady, and, prices are well supported.

The Vereins Bank of Hamburg have notified an in-
tended modification of their statutes to limit the amount
of capital that cau be called up to 30 per cent.
THE MOORS.--AYRSHIRE.--S0 far as Ayrshire and
Galloway are concerned, we can state, on the infor-
mation of those in charge of the very best grounds,
that a great season is not only expected, but, from
the short stock of parent birds; impossible ; and in
northern counties the reduction in the stock last
year was shown more conspicuously on tracts long
famous for grouse. Oar information is to the effect
that the birds were very strorg in the early spring, and
have continued without any appearance of disease, and
that so far as the hatching has proceeded there is every
prospect of good coveys ; but much yet depends on the.
weather, both for grouse and black game. Of grouse
the number of parent birds is very limited.—Ayr Adver•
fist
New graving docks on the Thames are in course of
construction in connexion with the Victoria Docks, and
upon an entirely original principle. By an hydraulic lift
and a contrivance for subsequently floating each vessel
into shallow water, where all the necessary examinations
and repairs can be conducted from workshops alongside,
the enormous cost of the deep excavations required
under the present system is to be avoided, an extent of
space being at once rendered available which at a com-
paratively shght outlay would enable any number of
ships to be accommodated,. A belief is stated that " by
this process our largest vessels—such as the Himalaya—
tray be completely docked in two hours, while from
eight to ten ordinary vessels may with facility be raised,
examined, and launched again, per day." The patentee
is Mr. Edwin Clarke, abd the capital for the works now
in course of formation-70,0001.—has been chiefly sub-
scribed among the principal London engineers and their
friends, Messrs. Stephenson, Locke, Hawkshaw, Fow-
ler, Hawksley, Berkley. and Bidder having expressed
full confidence in the sndertakiag.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE HOP .017 TY.—We have much
pleasure in finding that the appeal made by the hop
planters to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Satur-
day so'nnight, has not been entirely without effect, a
notice having been issued on Wednesday
last, to the
officers in the various " Collections," as under—" In-
land Revenue Office, 13th May, 1857. Sir,—The Board
desire that the payment of the first moiety of the hop
duty for 1856, be deferred until the 15th July next. I
am, Sir, your obedient servont, THOS. DODSON. The
Collector, &c." The concession thus made is unfortu-
nately somewhat limited in its practical utility by two
causes ; fist, owing to the brief period of postponement;
and, secondly, because of the lateness of the announce-
ment, coming as it does at a date when by far the great-
est portion of the planters had submitted to saerifices in
order to provide for the collection. This, however, is
no fault of Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who, it mast be
admitted, has responded with great promptitude to the
appeal made to him, and with au evident desire to spare
the planters from further immediate pressure. By many
of the smaller platters the postponement, even for two
months, will be hailed as a boon, however the delay for
so short a time may be comparatively of little import-
ance to others possessed of larger resources.—Sussex
Advertiser,