The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

CORN.

The general tendency of the grain trade has become
dull, with less firmness in prices. From most of the coun
try markets the reports to hand this moaning report a slow
demand, with easier rates.

At Mark-lane to-day the attendance was moderate, and
there was but a limited inquiry for any kind of grain.
English wheat moved off in retail without quotable
change from the rates of Monday last.
Foreign wheat was not offered on lower terms, but prices
were to some extent nominal, there being little disposition
to purchase.

Flour was purchaseable in some cases on slightly easier
terms.

Malt sold slowly at unaltered currencies.
Barley, beans, and peas quoted without variation.
Oats met a quiet sale at the rates of last market day.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

SUGAR —Refined sugars met a quiet sale. Common
lump, 40s 6d to 41s ; best lump, 39s 6d. to 41s ; pieces,
32s 6d to 38s ; Dutch crushed, 38s to 29s per cwt. Raw
sugar continue to sell slightly in buyers' favour.

COFFEE. - The demand continues steady, but not
sufficient to take off the whole of the supplies at present
offering. Sales are not, however, pressed at any tangible
decline. _

COCOA.—Common qualities are not much in request, but
fine, being less plentiful, is advancing in value.
TEA.—Tha general market remains without change.
The public sales have gone a little irregular, but not to
alter current quotations.

RICE continues without activity. White Brazil, 12s to
17s 6d ; cargo, 9s 9d to 11s 6d ; Madras, lls 6d to 12s;
soft grain, lls 3d to 12s 6d per cwt.
COTTON is quiet, with easier tendency in prices.
METALS.—Quotations are unchanged, and but little in
passing.

Cus.—The market for all kinds is dull.
TURPENTINE.—For American refined, 20s Gd to 30s, and
quoted with limited transactions.
TALLOW.

But little ifi passing, and quotations are nearly sta-
tionary. Y. C., on the spot, 42s ; spring, 425; March,
42s 3d ; last three months, 435, to buyers.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

MEAL—The supply of dead meat, without being heavy,
was fully adequate to the demand, and prices remain much
the same as befe.re. Beef, 3s to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s to
4s 2d ; veal, 4s to 5s 4d ; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 2d per stone of
81b by the carcase.

GAMH continues scarce and dear. Hares, 3s. 6d. to 4s. ;
pheasants, 3s. Gd. to 4s. ; partridges, 2s. 6d. to 3s. each.

COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. s.—Market opens steadier. Sales
probably 10,000 bales.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris Is about at par, and
the short exchange on London Is 25f. 15z. per 41 sterling.
on o nnparing these rates with the English Mint price of
41 c‘s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.brs that
gold is nearly ooe-tenth dearer in Paris than in London.
eourse of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight is about 110 per cent. It At this rate there
is a slight profit on the importation of gold from the
United States.

There is not the slightest truth in the report pre-
valent this morning that Bird, the milkman, one of the
witnesses in the Fenian prosecutions had been shot.
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.—On Saturday the 72d
Highlanders arrived at Monk's Ferry railway station, Bir-
kenhead, from Manchester en route for Dublin. The regi-
ment is under the command of the Hon. Major Rice. The
soldiers were Lilletted on the various publicans in the
town. On Sunday afternoon the steamer Simoon entered
the Alfred Dock, Birkenhead, and was to receive the regi-
ment on board yesterday, and to sail last evening.
A DUTCH RIVAL TO MADAME IDA PFEIFFER.—A
letter from Laghouat, Algeria, in the Akhbar, says:
" Madlle. Tine, the Dutch traveller, who passed several
months last year in this colony, and had organised a nume-
rous caravan to cross the desert as far as Timbuctoo, has
been constrained, in consequence of the whirlwinds and
frightful storms which have prevailed in the Sabarasince
her departure, to return to the shelter of this town."
FORTIFYING POLICE-STATIONS.—The Government
have determined to fortify the police-stations in London,
it being the preliminary step to a scheme of general forti-
fication of all tho police stations and barracks in the United
Kingdom. The head office of the Metropolitan Police
force at Scotland-yard will be the first to be placed in a
state of defence; and with this object Messrs. Clarke and
Co., Re.thbone-place, Oxford-street, aro manufacturing bul-
let-proof shutters for the windows of the station. The
shutters will be so constructed that they can be closed al-
most instantaneously; and an apparatus adjusted inside,
which will make them proof against any fusilade of small
arms. The doors, it is surmised, will be similarly pro-
tected. When all the stations in the metropolis and su-
burban districts are provided with the ball-proof shutters,
the stations and barracks of the police in Ireland, it is
stated, will next be placed in a state of defence.
A SPECTACLE NOT SET DOWN IN TIIE BILL.—A
few evenings since there was a performance at the Wor-
cester Theatre of the opera of "Rob Roy." In the last act
a Scotch reel had to be danced. The manager and his
leader of the orchestra had not been on good terms, and on
the evening in question their disagreement rose to a
climax. The music to the dance was played so strangely
as to draw down hisses from the audience, and dreadfully
bother the performers. The manager interfered, and
stated to the hissing audience that one of the company
should play the dance music instead. This was done, and
the reel at last satisfactorily reeled through. Shortly
afterwards the leader, having occasion to go on the stage
to perform a violin solo, took an opportunity against all
theatrical rule and propriety, to break out in an address to
the audience. This was too much, and Mr. M'Fayden
the manager, bolting on to the stage, collared the oratori-
cal delinquent with intent to lead or drag him off, but he
would not consent to bo easily removed from before the
footlights, and a smart pummelling and cuffing match was
enacted, to the infinite delight of the audience, who mani-
fested the interest they took in the game of fisticuffs by
uproarious shouts and cheers. At last the manager suc-
ceeded in dragging his refractory subordinate from the
stage, and the pair disappeared at one of the wings
Shortly after, however, the fiddler reappeared in his place
in the orchestra, but here he was soon revisited by the
wrathful manager, who, with the aid of a policeman, re-
moved him, and finally thrust him off the premises.
EDMUND KLAN.—Mr. W. H. Payne, of Covent
Garden, mentions the following interesting incident
connected with the last appearance on the stage of
Edmund Kean :—When I placed Edmund Kean in the
wheel chair, his dresser offered him some cold brandy
and water, which he put on one side with his hand, and
seeing Mr. George Bartley—the stage, or rather acting,
manager—he looked up in his face, with an expression
I have never forgotton, and said, "Bartley, it is all
over 1" " Well," Bartley remarked, "if ho refuses that,
it is all over !" At this moment, Warde came through the
side door from the boxes. He was not dressed for the
part. Wo waited half an hour, and then resumed the
performance.

A FAMILY POISONED.—Five members of a
German family named Stang, in Chicago, the head of which
is reported to bo one of the wealthiest Germans in the
city, have been poisoned, although not fatally. A young
daug'lter of the family, aged 16, was arrested as the
poisoner, on the statement of offe of the children that she
put the poison into the coffee. The young prisoner charges
her mother with the deed, and states that her parents
were so avaricious and grasping that they ill-treated her
when she did not earn sufficient money to suit them.

1 Closing Business
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at Caledonian . 100 77 774 77 I
it 'Cambrian
- Cork and Bandon.-- - - -
20 Cornwall all 3 4
it Dublin & Belfast June lO9 741 751
et Dun„Perth,&Ab.Jtinc '•6o 70 72
100 E.London, scrip Certi all -
160 - - d
st Glasgow &S. Western 100 98 100
st Great Eastern, Ord.stk. 10u 314 32 31j
it Do. E. Angl. it. No. 2 100 6 6
at Great North of Scotland 100 ' 1i .6
it Great Northern lOO 107 0 I
it Do. A stock .. 100 108 110 104 81 91
at Do. 11 stock lOO 1221 la
at Do. New. is. at 25 pin 10' - -
at (it 6, and W. 01 Ireland 100 97 9
at Gt. Western -Original 10 451 16:2) 14 6
at Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. 100 -
Do. South Wales
at Do. W. siid.-Oxtord LOG .4.5 30
at Do. Newport l% 29 3,
at Do. Hereford lOO -
st Lancs.slore lorkailirai lot, p.:61 '2t:l 1251
at London and Blackwalll lot - -
at Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast; 10v 451 46 43
at I-on., Chat., and Doveil 100 18 1661 17/
at Do. •Iletrop. Ex. A NO -
at Lou. & North IVesterb 100 11.14 1:81.1181 1 •91
at Lou. 4 South NVesterr let t. 5 9ubv
at Man., dhel., Liucuit, 10c; i 3 14
at Aletroputitan....
ai Do. New - -
at Du. Exteuntun all 100 i 1004
at netropolttan District all • - - 175
2C ( DO. do. do. 10 --
10 Do. and St. J01111.b1i; 6 - -
st .slid land
- Do. ZU Share 7 - -
st Do, 13irmin.. & Derb) 100 73 77 76
- slid Kent . . all - -
it North British
st Do. l d., Pth., & Dun lOO - -
it Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 104 105 101
25 Do. G.N•E purchast 16.13.1 - -
at Do. Leeds
it Do. York lOO 95 97
it Do. Carlisle •.. 100 - -
st Do. Stock. & Darling, all 132 124
15 Do. do. 1860-61 lB - p •
at North London
et Do. do. 1864 5 . lO -
Do. do. 1866
10 North Staffordshire
it N. &S. W. Junction
st. Scottish Central -
- Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 100 -
Do. Scot, Mid. stook lOO -
- Shropshire Union
at South Devon lOO 13 15
et 'south Eastern
10 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 5 10
it 'Pair Vale
10 Do. C .
- Dale of Neath - -
- Waterford & Kilkenny 10i• - -
10 Waterloo & Whitcha 1 6 - -
West Cornwall lou - -