The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-23 00:00:00

CORN.

The trade in its general features is quiet, but with less
of a drooping tendency in prices. The country markets
continue dull at late rates.

From the Continent the reports do not quote any im-
portant change.

The attendance at Mark-lane to-day was moderate, and
:he general demand slow.

English wheat in small supply and held for late rates,
which are not freely paid.
Foreign wheat not in heavy supply, and pressure to
sell, but the trade dull at late rates.

Flour moved off slowly at later quotations.
Barley fairly supported.
Beans and peas steady.
NENVGATE AND LEADENIIA.LL.

MEAT. —The supply of dea I meat at market this morn-
ing was light, but the trade being dull, prices were not
better—on the contrary, middling qualities of mutton
barely supported their recent value. Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 2d ;
mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4.1; veal, 3s 8d to 5s ; pork, 3s 8d
to 4s 8d ; lamb, Gs 8d to 7s 4d per stone of 81b LT the car-
case.

PouLTßY.—Prime qualities are very scarce and dearer.
Best Surrey fowls, 6s to 8s; chickens 4s to 5s ; best
Essex fowls, 3s Gd to 4s 6d; Irish, 2s to 3s; goslings,
Os to 10s ; ducklings, Gs to 8s ; pigecns, 10.1 to Is ; rah-
bit4, tame, is 6d, wild, is to is 3d each ; Ostend, 4s 2d
per stone.

Wild fowl continuo in moderate supply, and steady in
value. Pintail, is. Gd.; widgeon, ls. 3d. to ls. Gd. ; teal,
Is. to ls. 3d. each.

Eggs in steady demand. English, 9s. ; French, is. per
120.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The supply of stock to-day was shorter than on Mon-
day last, and salesmen opened by asking stiffer prices
but the dull trade at Newgate and Loadonhall renders
buyers cautious and checked the advance.
Of beasts there were 533 from Scotland, 2,171 from the
various grazing grounds of England, 116 from Ireland, and
440 from abroad.

The demand for beef was for some time active, but
closed dull, prices firm.
Of sheep the supplies include 4,600 from abroad.
The demand was steady, and prices tended upwards.
The number of calves on offer was 9G, of which 91 were
foreign.
The veal trade was brisk, and rates very firm.
Pork brought stiffer prices.
Total at market—Beasts, 3,260 ; sheep, 24,730 ; calves
90 ; pigs, 340.

Quotations per stone of Blbs. sinking the offal—Beet
3s 4d to 5s ; mutton, 3s 4s to 5s 4d ; veal, 3s 4d to 6s
pork, 3s to 3s 4d.

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Mareh 23 -. Sales to-day probably 10;000
bales. Market unchanged.

Miss BATEmAN.--This lady's engagement at the
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, which has been a most gratifying
success throughout, was concluded on Frid.ty night last.
The bill of faro consisted of " Macbeth" and the two last
acts of "Leah." The promise of two such performances
could not fail to draw a large house, nor did it. All
parts of the theatre were crowded. There was con-
siderable interest attached to Miss Bateman's Lady
Macbeth, as this was the first time that she has appeared
in that character in Glasgow. She exhibited throughout
a tolerably just and correct appreciation of the masculine
and wily consort of the usurper ; but it was in the mid-
night scene, where, in a fit of somnambulism, she reveals
the workings of remorse, that she math, the greatest hit.
Her got-up and whole manner of acting in this very
arduous and double part was superb. Never, in fact, have
we seen her rendering of this passage equalled.—Glasgow
Herald.

WHAT ARE TILE " TIMES"' REPORTERS ABOUT? asks
the Spectator—our contemporary adding thereupon in ex-
planation of this inquiry—half the best touches in Mr.
Disraeli's speech of Monday are spoiled in its version of it.
Mr. Gladstone's "dangerous candour" appears as his
generous candour the young Mcanius of the hour"
(Mr. Gladstone) appears as "the young Ascanius here ;"
the House of Lords' "perfection of demeanour" appears as
" perfection of manner." Mr. Bright "confesses" " the
principle of endowment" instead of "contesting" it, and
there are other blunders which maul Mr. Disraeli's epi-
grammatic sentences. It is the least accurate, we think
of any of the principal reports of his speech, instead of the
most so.

A contractors' trial of the engines of the double-
screw steam gunvessel Lapwing, 2, took place out-
side Plymouth Sound on Friday. She is 663 tons
burden, and belongs to the new class, of which
there are eight vessels, and was constructed at
Devonport. Four of them are having their ma-
chinery manufactured by the Messrs. Rennie ; the
Lapwing is the first of the four tried, and she is
supplied with two pair of engines to work her two
propellers. The trials took place under the super-
intendence of Captain George 0. Willes, C. 8., of
the Steam Reserve, assisted by Mr. William Diunen,
Chief Inspector of Machinery afloat, and by Mr.
Robert Nicoll, of the Keyham factory. Mr. G. B.
Rennie was present on the part of the contractors.
The mean of six runs, at full power, gave a speed
of 10.16 knots at a mean number of 116 revolu-

tions per minute, the mean pressure in boiler being
261 b. The vauum 25in., giving an indicated power
of 830 horses, being five times the nominal power.
These engines are of the ordinary type, without
surface condensers or superheaters, and were tried
under the regulations recently issued by the Ad-
miralty. The result may, therefore, be considered
satisfactory. The mean speed at half-boiler power
was 8.06 knots, the revolutions 97, and pressure of
steam 19th.