The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

HAY AND STRAW.

Supplies are of fair extent, and trace steady, without
quotable change in prices.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.
Sugar—The market is very quiet, with less firmness in
prices.

Coffee is in steady demand, and bringing full prices.
Rice is firm, and not active. A small parc3l of low
Bengal in auction went at las Gd per cwt.
Cocao—The market has passed off quietly without
change in quotations.
Tea --A moderate trade is doing at the previous cur.
roncy.

Oils of all kinds are strong in value.
Petroleum is firm at is 51-d spot.
TALL 0 W.

The market is firm. Spot 45s 6d to 45s 9(1; last three
months 45s ; December 40s.

POTATOEi.

The potato trade is extremely unsatisfactory, and the
prospect most unpromising. The supplies of English Re-
gents are very limited and very small, as well as indifferent
in quality, even as regards the best samples. These sell
sell slowly, at £7 to £8 per ton, and aro dear at that ;
seeond sorts, £6 to £7. English rock also come to hand
very bad, and:for best samples £ I to £5 are the current
rates. Middlings are plentiful, forming nearly the
whole of the present supplies of English. These
meet a sluggish demand at £3 lOs to _.£4 lOs for Regents,
and £3 to £3 lOs for Rocks. Of Shaws there are more
in the market. Flukes make a miserable show, small nu-
shapeable and unsightly, and they hang on hand at
£6 to £3 per ton. The foreiga supplies are
all worse than the English, from the prevalence of
dis:nse. During the past week or ten days not a
sample has arrived from Franca, Belgium, or
Holland, but that has consisted of from one to
three-fourths, blights. Prices can hardly be quoted, but
£5 and £4 is obta'ned with difficulty for the best sample.
Chats aro the only sort in demand, and in these there is a
a good trade doing at 30s to 40s per ton.
The supplies of green stuffs have become very short,
and are coining to hand much worse in quality owing to
the return of hot, dry weather. Cabbages sell at
2s to 4s per dozen head, greens 4s to Ga per dozen
bunches, carrots 4s to Gs per dozen bunches, and
loose £7 to £8 per ton; turnips, 6s to 12a per dozen
bunches; onions very short, and bringing £8 to £9 pet
ton ; vegetable marrow very plentiful and lower in price,
2s to 3s present quotation ; celery, is to 2s per bundle.

COTTON MARKET.

LtvEnron, Sept. B.—Sales, probably 10,000 bales.
Market steady.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

Arrived, Sept. 7.—Era, steamer, from St. Petersburg ;
Albatross, from Soderham ; Belted Will, from Canton;
Margaret, from Riga ; Constautia, from Dantsic ; Blue
Jacket, from Getle ; Queen of the West, from Antwerp ;
Garibaldi, from Rotterdam; Lionne, from Gravelincs ;
Marie, from St. John's, N. 8.; Druid, steamer, from Patras ;
Metropolitan, steamer, from Hamburg ; Atalanta, steamer,
from New York.

Sailed.—Wellesley, for Port Phillip ; Trinidad, for
Trinidad ; Blanche, for Jamaica ; Southern Cross, for
Hongkong; Fulton, steamer, for Dunkirk; Cologne,
steamer, for Boulogne.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning
Passed (in tow).—Queen of the Colonies, from Bris-
bane, for London.
Passed.—Catharina Fokka, from London, for Brisbane.

Mr. Baggaley, Q.C., and M.P. for Hereford, the
new Solicitor-General, will be sworn in before the Lord
Chancellor on Monday next.

LIFE BRIGADES.—The annual meeting of the
Tynemouth Life Brigade was held in the Town-hall of
that borough:on:Friday night, the Rev. H. Hicks iu the
chair. A very satisfactory report was read by Mr. J. F.
Spence, the secretary. The Tynemouth Life Brigade
was the first Volunteer corps of the kind formed is the
kingdom for the rescue of life from shipwreck. At South
Shields there is also a large brigade, and both the North
and South Shields Brigades aro in a high state of efficiency,
and have watchhouses and the most improved apparatus
for saving life kept in readiness in them. Since the for-
mation of the Tynemouth brigade 130 corps of the same
character have been established on various parts of the
coast of the United Kingdom. They co-operate with the
coastguard in case of wrecks, and are inspected annually by
officers from the Board of Trade, who make each corps a
grant towards its establishment expenses.
A new fever hospital, containing 28 beds on the
ground floor and five small wards above, has just been
erected at Chester, in connection with the General Hospi-
tal. The cost is about £2,500, and £5OO was contributed
by the family of the late Mrs. Wood, in accordance with a
wish which she had expressed, that a proper fever hospital
should be built in Chester.
THE " POTATO RIOT" IN CORK.—The Northern
Whig says that a good deal has been made in the English
journals of what has been called a " potato riot" in Cork,
with fighting and all its accompaniments, to as extent that
could hardly have been recognisable in Ireland. The thing
altogether was very much exaggerated, though there
seems to have been some little disturbance caused by per-
sons breaking into a potato market. Nothing serious,
however, occurred.
A WILD ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE.—The Journal
de Manners describes as follows the astonishment caused
in that village by the sudden apparition of a strange Eng-
lishman in the River Sarthe : —"Some workmen were em-
ployed in the construction of the new bridge of Juille,
when one of them, raising his hand, cried out, " A wild
man.' And so his fellow-workmen might well believe,
for at a little distance on the Sartho they saw a man, very
thinly clad, wearing an extraordinary headdress, and
rowing a long narrow boat with great dexterity. A dog
was his only companion. At the bridge there was a dam,
which seems to present an insurmountable obstacle to the
hardy navigator, but he jumped into the water with his
dog, got over the barrier of timber, and pulling his boat
over also, he continued his voyage. A few minutes after
a fashionable coupe fromAlencon arrived on the old bridge
with a young and handsome lady. Recognitions were ex-
changed between this lady and the seemingly wild man,
which showed that they were old acquaintances." This
"wild" Englishman is described by the French journals as
"Sir Wallace," and is stated to have come down the river
Sartho from Alencon to Maus, and preceding towards the
Loire.

THE RISE OF THE NILE. —The preparatory work
for bringing the waters of the Nilo into the canals has just
taken place with the usual rejoicings. The ceremony
was presided over by Cherif Paella. Several ministers and
high functionaries from Alexandria were present, as well
as an immense concourse of spectators. There were some
short time back fears of an insufficiency of water for agri-
cultural purposes ; but those doubts have been dissipated
by tel,gra.rns from Assouard, the river having risen higher
than at the same period last year. There is consovently
a certitude for an abundant irrigation, and the great works
executed for strengthening the dykos have removed all
danger of a rupture.

ROUGH PlETV.—Having been in the habit, anti
that before the time of Captain Cattle, of making a note of
things which struck mo in my stirlies, I found the ether
day, upon looking over some oil papers, the following
stanza from somo hymn, which I scud for the eat artaiu-
milt of your readers. Fi.o:n what it is taken, I know not,
but have no scruple in transcribing it; as, however, a!)-
surd, it clearly was not meant to be profane, and must
have been the production of some locksmith, who applied
the ideas and phrases of his art to pnrposos of theology :
" My soul is like a rusty lock,
.Lord, oil it with Thy grace:
0 rub it, rub it, rub it, Lord,
That we may tee Thy face."
Notes and (italics.