The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

MARKETS—( This Day.)

CORN.
The general tendency of the trade continues in the di-
rection of higher prices.

From the cond.'. ent buying orders still come to hand,
and from shipping ports quotations come very high com-
pared with prices current here, whilst the supplies now on
passage are much diminished.

From the country markets the reports to hand this
morning quote an advance of is per qr. for wheats all
round, and firmer for other grains.
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At 3lark-lane this morning there was a fair attendance,
and the tone of the trade was very firm.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

The markets in general wear a quiet but steady aspect,
with fair supplies coming to public sale during the week,
and only a limited private inquiry to-day.
PROVISIONS.

BUTTER.—In English a steady business passing, at late
rates. Foreign in good demand this morning, at the late
advance. Best Friesland, 126 s to 128 s per cwt.
Cheese in steady request, and for good old qualities rates
are very firm.
Bacon firmly maintains the advance quoted at the close
of last week.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The market this morning was shortly supplied with
beasts, and in consequence of the good reports from the
dead meat markets, rates are very firm, tending against
buyers, whilst of lambs and sheep there was a good num-
ber at market, and a slow demand.
COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, April 20.—Market firm, advancing to
higher. Stiles probably 15,000 bales.
WOOL.

The markets for both English and Colonial are firm,
with moderate transactions. The next public sales of the
latter are expected to commence about the 14th of May,
and to offer something like 200,000 bales.
BOROUGH HOP.

Messrs. Henry Turnbull report the market quiet, with a
limited demand for home grown samples. Bavarians and
Belgian hops still engage attention at late values. Coati_
nental advices report firmness in the variuus markets. At
Worcester last Saturday both the supply and demand was
of a limited character, and prices nominal.
TALLOW.

The market is quiet, but steady. Y. C. on the spot,
440 6d; April to June, 4ls 6d; Juuo, 44s 9d; last three
months, 455.
Stock, 22,528 casks; delivered last week, 724 casks
arrived last week, 701 casks.
NEWGATE AND LEADENLIALL.

MEAT—Tho supply of bewf this morning was short, and
prices advanced 2d per stone. Mutton rather plentiful and
no dearer, with dull trade. Veal, pork, and lamb
steady. The quotations were—Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 4d
mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; veal, 4s 4d to ss; west country,
Be 4d to 3s 8d ; pork, 4s to 4s 8d ; lamb, 5s to 6s 2d per
atone of Sibs by the carcase.

POULTRY.— Supplies moderate, and markets fairly
cleared before a late hour, prices ruling steady. Fowls,
common, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Surrey chickena, 4s to 5s ; fowls
6s to 8s ; ducklings, 7s to 8s ; goslings, 9s to lOs ; pigeons,
9d to Ild ; rabbits, tame, is Gd ; wild, is to is 2d ; quails,
is 6d each.

EGGS.—English, 8s; French, 6s per 120; plovers, 2s to
2s Ud per dozen.

CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses have been issued
for a Cabinet Council o❑ Wednesday neat, to be held at
the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in
Downing-street.

A NEW TENOR.—Report speaks highly of a new
tenor, Mr. Jess 6 Burleigh, who, under the auspices of Mr.
A. Chappell, is about to make his debut in London. His
voice is said to be remarkably fine. A tenor just now is
much needed, and we hope expectation will not be dis-
appointed.

p. T. BARNUM ON TIIE WITNESS STAND.—The
great showman has recently been defendant in a suit
brought by a Mr. George Cooke, of Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut, to recover damages for encroaching on his mill pond,
Mr. Barnum having built an ice house on the shore of the
pond, which, it was alleged, displaced water which would
have turned the water wheels of the mill for about three
minutes. In his defence he stated that the land on which
the ice house was built belonged to his wife, " Charity,"
and this brought on a warfare between himself and the
plaintiff's counsel, which is recorded as follows : Counsel
_Mr. Barnum, are you sure that the property was nit
bought by your own money ? Barnum—l had no money
at that time ; my wife had all there was in the family ; I
was a subject of "charity." Judge (smiling) —Charity
suffereth long. Mr. Barnum—Without charity I was
nothing in those days of Jerome clocks. Counsel-11r.
Barnum, you are now worth a million of dollars ? Mr.
Barnum (gravely)—l am glad to hear it. Counsel—Are
you not worth it ? Mr. Barnum—you so inform me, sir.
Counsel—You are worth a million and a half ? Mr. Bar-
num—Better yet. Counsel—ls not this true ? Mr. Bar-
num—l shall tell you if the Court so directs. Judge—
What is the object of the inquiry? Counsel— I wish to
know how he has made $1,500,000 within a few years.
Mr. Barnum—l am not aware that lam obliged to give
the gentleman lessons in the art of money getting. Coun-
sel (to the Judge) —Shall not the witness answer my ques-
tions. ju _Mr. Barnum may do as he likes about it.
If io
he s
hasndogeobjection to telling you how ho has made
t
money, he may do so. Mr. Barnum (taking a pencil and
a largo sheet of law paper)—l certainly have not the
slightest objection (commencing to make figures rapidly),
but it will involve some little delay to the court. I shall
be obliged to figure up my profits on the " What is it,"
then the Gorilla, the Mermaid, and enter into some pretty
nice calculations regarding the net proceeds of the Woolly
Horse. 1 shall also be compelled to re-write out a cata-
logue of the museum, and in the course of about five days
we shall probably begin to get some faint gleams of light
on tho subject. The Court informed the witness that the
answer might be waived.

The L. 240 Times has an article strongly commending the
conduct of Sir Roundell Palmer in having absented him-
self from the division for going into committee on the
Irish Church. The substance of it is that the hon. and
learned gentleman kept his conscience clear and lost the
woolsack. It is, of course, obvious that unless Sir
Roundell can be properly " educated," he can never
form a member of a Cabinet which will be
called upon to devise the machinery for disestablishing
the Chnrcb in Ireland. It is not a case in whieli an
eminent lawyer may quarrel with his leader and trust to
time to bring about a reconciliation. But, according to
present appearances, it is a difference of opinion which
would 'prevent Sir Ronndell from working with his party on
a great question of public policy. How quarrels are made
up was illusfrated in the case of Lord Palmerston and the pre-
sent Lord Westbury. When the Liberals were in Opposition
in 1858, Lord Palmerston made his usual anti-ballot
speech, on the introduction of Mr. Berkeley's annual
motion. He had no sooner sat down than up rose Sir
Richard Bethell, whom Lord Palmerston had made suc-
cessively Solicitor and Attorney-General, and made a
trenchant attack upon his late chief. Yet within twelve
months Sir Richard was again Lord Palmerston's Attor-
ney-General, and two years afterwards he was Lord High
Chancellor in the Cabinet of the same Minister. Should Sir
Roundell Palmer not reconcile the destruction of the Irish
Church with the expressed convictions of a lifetime,
who, it is asked, will be Mr. Gladstone's Lord Chancellor?
Certainly not Lord Cranworth, in the 78th year ot his
age, and no friend of legal reforms. Scafeely Lord West-
bury, after the events of 1865, and With the recollection
of his onslaughts upon Mr. Gladstone in the session
of 1857, when in charge of the Divorce Bill. Would
Sir Robert Collier receive the Great Seal by virtue
of necessity, or would he be content with a
judgeship so as to make way for Mr. Coleridge —a pro-
motion without parallel since the days of Lord Brougham's
elevation ? It is obvious that unless Sir R. Palmer will
consent to act, the woolsack will be one of Mr. Gladstone's
difficulties, and it may safely be assumed that consider-
able pressure will be put upon the hon. and learned
member for Richmond to induce him to work with
Darts'. .