The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-01 00:00:00

3113 ER.

Leamington l7

STEEPLECHASES.
OCTOBER.

Bromley 1 Ealing ; l5
DECEMBER.
St. Albans
Kingsbury 8 I

111ARKE7S.—(.1 his Day.)

CORN.

Tho continuance of fine weather and the steady progress
of the wheat crops towards au early and abundant harvest,
has increasing effwct upon the trade, and prices are dachn.
ing perceptibly.

From the country markets the reports speak of renewed
heaviness, and with even moderate supplies prices are 26
to 3s per qr. lower on the week.

At Mark-lane tbis morning there was a moderate attend-
ance, and for wheat the tone was depressed.
The arrivals of English wheat were not heavy, but
sales were not to be effected easily at 2s per qr. decline.
Of Foreign Wheat supplies were liberal, and it was ex-
tremely difficult to sell, at 2s to 3s per quarter decline.
On the coast there are soma 36 cargoes, for which it is
difficult to find bidders.

Flour in better supply, anu decidedly cheaper to sell.
Barley a quiet sale, without much change in price.
Beans and peas remain without material change.
Oats in Weady request, at previous rates.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

With good supplies of stock and dull accounts from the
dead meat market, prices this morning suffered general

dopression.

Of beasts there were 34 from Scotland, 2,806 from
various parts of England, and 1,380 from the continent.
The beef trade ruled very heavy at a decline of fully 2d
per stone. Of sheep and lambs the supplies include 4,500
from abroad. For mutton the sale was very slow, and to
sell lower prices have been taken. Lain'e also still on re-
duced terms.

Of calves 198 arrived from abroad. The trade was
heavy and sales depressed.
Pigs sold slowly at late rates.
At market: Beasts, 4,220 ; sheep and lambs, 28,740 ;
calves, 204; pigs, 300.

Quotations : Beef, 3s 4d to 5s 2d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 58 ;
veal, 3s 4d to 5s 2d ; pork, 3s to 4s 6d ; lamb, 5s 61 to
6s 10d.

13RI7ISH RULE IN LYDIA.

By skilfully availing themselves of the mutual
jealousies and dissensions of the native princes,
Clive, IVarren Hastings, and the Marquis IVelles-
ley, laid, broad and deep, the foundations of the
Anglo-Indian empire; while their successors, by
open war or covert wile, gradually built up
the towering and stately edifice, not less
the object of envy to Continental nations
than of pride to Englishmen. Were mankini
moved more by reason than by passion and
sentiment the people of India could not do
otherwise than rejoice at the change from an un-
stable, vicarious, and capricious mode of Govern-
ment, to a system that holds prince and peasant as
equal before the law, that affords impartial protec-
tion to person and property, that maintains peace,
and fosters plenty throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Alen, however, are neither
mere machines nor seraphim. They cling to old
associations, to the customs of their forefathers, to
the prejudices of youth, to ancient tradition—
whether religious, political, or social—and, above
all, to national independence. It may be true
that nationality, as we understand the word, did
not exist in the pre-English era—at least it was in-
applicable to India as a whole, though each frag-
ment had a nationality of its own. Thus
so to speak, a nation ; the
Sikhs likewise; were,
the R:ijpoots, most decidedly;
the Mysoreans, the Beugalees, the people of
Oudh, were all distinct nations. It is the
British Government that has effaced these die-
' auctions, and bestowed a certain homogeneity
upon the most heterogeneous agglomeration of
peoples on the face of the globe, not even excepting
the Austrian empire. This process of fusion will,
no doubt, prove ultimately in the highest degree
beneficial to the various populations of India,
though fraught with the elements of extreme peril
to the permanence of British supremacy.—Saint
Fuels, edited by Anthony Trollope.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at flu days' sight is about 110,i per cent. At this rate there
is a trifling profit on the importation of 014 from the
United btstes.