The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(Thi Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the week ended Oat. 22, 1857, made up from the Re-
turns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in
England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT 1 BARLEY I OATS I RYE 1 BEANS PEAS
55s 10d 43s Od 125 s 6d 35s 4cl 45s Od 43s 4d
TIIE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES.
WHEAT BARLEY I OATS I RYE BEANS rites
56s 4d 42510 d 265 Od 136 s 8d 145 s 7d 43s 4d
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.
Wheat, 122,132; barley, 65,252; oats, 10,786; rye, 932;
beans 5,251 ; peas, 2,207 quarters.

MEAT MARKETS.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The trade generally
ruled heavy, as follows :—Beef, from 33 Od to 4s 4d ;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 81; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s Id ; Pork, 3s 6d to
5s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, Oct. 21.—The supply of fat stock here to-
day, was not extensive, and prices had a downward ten-
dency :—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s
4d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 4140 d to 5s Od per 81bs,
to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, Oct. 21.—Tho trade riled heavy, and stook
sold on lower terms :—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 8d ; Mut-
ton, 33 6,1 to 5s 4d; Veal, 3s led to 4s 6(1 ; Pcrk, 4s
4d to 5s 2d per 81bs ; Quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 26s
each.

HAY MARKETS.
SUITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 10s to 41 03; clover,
31 15s to 51 03; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ Os per los.O.
Trade dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 21153 to 41 4s; clover,
31 10i to 5/ 03 ; and straw, 11 5s to 11 103 pot load.
A moderate supply aud a slop trade.
WHITEOHAPIM.—Meado A, hay, 21 12s to 41 Os ;
3/ 103 to 51 03 ; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ 93 per load.
Both hay and straw sold slowly, at barely late rates.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.--On Wednes-
day the aclmisrions o.n. payment were 1,958 by reason
tlekoto, 239 ; total visitors, 2,197.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock.

TATTERSALL'S—(This Evening.)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
9 to 1 agst El Hakim (taken)
9 to 1 agst Mcestissitna (offered)
100 to 8 agst Prioress (taken)
15 to 1 agst Cyrene (taken)
25 to 1 agst Fright (taken)
100 to 1 agst Ellington (taken)

LINCOLN RACES.—(This Day.)

BROCKLESBY STAKES.

1

Botany
Ellen the Fair
Sobiesi

SCURRY STAKES.

Polly ••••
Amorous Boy

Ambrosia

Eight ran.
LINCOLN HANDICAP.

Vandal
Fairy
Evelyn
Six rau. Won by a length; Liverpool broke down.
QUEEN'S GUINEAS.
Wm lock
Warderanlar6he
Gunboat

Three ran. Wen by a head.
NURSERY HANDICAP.

Cheery Chap
Incense colt

Sobieski

8
Seven ran.

ARRIVALS AT NEWMARKET.
In addition to the home trained at Newmarket, the
foflowing are here:—

CAMBRIDGE STAKES—Do nboyne, Fright, Barfleur,
• Kestrel, eerva, Rhimus, Bold Eaccleugh, Elcot's dam
colt, Dusty Miller, Nereus, RoDzi, Prioress, Babylon,
Vision, Theodora, Rosa Bonheur, Plush colt, Zuyder.
Zee, Bay Hilton, Peeping Tom.
TWO-YEAR-OLDS —Sunbeam, As Yon Like it, Anne
Develin, Nora Creina, Admiralty, Orchehill, Geneva,
Happy Prince, Lincoln Tom, Sunrise, Intercidoi A,
Silica, Syllabus, Tambourine, Woodmite, Hersey filly,
Babette Ally, Pinsticker, ady Canyngham,
Erringharn, Penserosa, Belle, Supple Jack, Yaller Gal,
Lady Elizah,tb, Duke of Duty, York, The Gourd,
Topsy, Fly-by-Day, La Fille du Regiment, Elspeth colt,
Yesa, Nobman Saab, Plague Royal, Silvertail, Mufti,
Waterer, Little Treasure, Glauca colt, Gleuluce colt,
Pnyaalis filly, Maid of Masham filly, Barba colt, Miss
Whip filly, Conspiracy filly, Brown Bess filly, Nina
filly, Marauder, and Blacksmith.
Foil PLATES, &c.—lnder. Skycutter, De Ginkel, Old
Tom, Nougat, Olympus, Flyaway, Wild Honey, Ceres,
Dramatist, Spinet, Martinet, New Brighton, Ida, Lady
Bird, Mabel, Tasmania, Slattern, Oltenitza, Orianda,
Theory, Kingmaker, East Langton, Merlin, Peter Flat,
Tournament, Rosati, Poacher, Bracken, Rotterdam,
Brazen, Cave Adullum, &c.
NEWMARKET, TRIIRSDAT.—ARRIVED.—MadIIe. de
Chantilly, a two-year-ulci from France, Lucca della
Robba, Inspiration, and Plumbstone. Rain has been
falling heavily all the day.

A WORD OF TRUTH FOR US.

(Front Punch.)

"To Mrs Punch, wai perfectly disgusted the
other day by a letter in the Tines signed by a Eleanor'--
but I do not believe a woman ever wrote a word of it—
attributing to women ext,avagance in matters of dress,
and calling upon us t, spend lees on our clothes—in fact,
go without new things his autumn altogether—and
give the money to the fund fur the relief of the Indian
sufferer,.

"The letter was printed in large letters, and I dare
say the editor chuckled very much over it, and thought
at a fine thing to get a letter, sigue with a woman's
name—as he would say in his slang mannish style—
' pitching into' women. But, I repeat, I don't believe
it was written by a woman, not a word of it. I have
no doubt it came from some mean-spirited wretch who
is always grumbling at his poor wife's milliner's and
dressmaker's for the few things she absolutely
cannot get on without—one, perhaps, who grudges
her even her wretched allowance, and shuffles about
every petty 121. 101. cheque as the quarter-day comes
round—for I am certain he does not allow her more
than 501. a-year. Relieving the Indian sufferers is all
very well, but suppose, instead of calling upon women
to give up their little indulgences in the way of dress
—l'm sure it's much more for the men that we dress
than for ourselves, whether married or single—the
men were to give up some of their expensive, bad, low
habits—V-eir cigars, for example, or their_curious and
particular or their Bette dinners at the club, nr
their sha.re of a drag to the Derby, or any other of
the thousand and one expensive pleasures in which
they are in the habit of indulging apart from their wives.
" Talk of cur extrava:;ance, indeed ! People mace a
mighty fuse about the milliner's bills of a certain bank-
, a upt's wife. Well, and if she was a well-dressed woman
—I suppose it was her milliner's bills that ruined ber
husband I should like to know how people—even men
—dare attribute this man's having got through 250,0001.
to his wife's extravagance, when it was proved in court
that even her miiliner's balls didn't exceed 3 0001. But
that is always the way with men. They think nothing
of the money they fling away in selfish, and too often
degrading pleasures ; but let a poor wife express a wish
for a new bonnet, ora dross fit to be seen in, and it is at
once grunts, and sulks, and talk about women'e' extra-
vagance!
" And then, as if it wasn't enough to have the men
talking such stuff, out mu-t come this ridiculous
Eleanor' in the Times, for all the men to cast up ty us,
and say, ' Look, there's one of your own sex at you, at
last !' That was exactly what my husband said. dem:-
How-
ever, as I said, I don't believe Eleanor' is a woman at
all. I believe it's that Mr. Jacob o.nnium, who, I under-
stand, writes the greater part of the Times under various
aliases.

"I maintain that, instead of spending too much of
our husband's money, our allowances, as a rule,
hethur for housekeeping or for dress, are far too shabby.
We are kept perpetually on the fret tl make both ends
meet. I'm sure the struggle I have with my tradesmen's
books every week nobody would believe ! Of course,
it's very easy for men to laugh, and say its because we
don't utiderstand arithmetic. I only wish they under-
stood ready-money dealing, and not getting into debt,
as well as we understand o.)mpound addition, substrac-
tion, multiplication, and division.

" I believe if Eleanor' really wants to give advice
that will end in saving, she ought to advise all the
married wen to give their c)eque.books and their bankers%
books to their wives, and bring them their money, and
let them keep it, and pay it in, and draw it out—in
ehoit, to rnake the women paymasters and cashiers, and
the husbands to receive quarterly allowances for pocket-
money from their wives, in-tead of paying their poor
wives miserably insufficient allowances for dress, as is
their usual practice.
"I have no doubt the ravine in incomes that would
thus be produced would not only leave a handsome con-
tribution to the Indian Relief Fund at the end of the
first year, but would, in a very short time, pay off the
national debt, if it could be appropriated to that pur-
pose, particularly if the wife had, in every case, the
optioneef determining what allowance she would make
her husband for pooket-money and clothes. I was very
glad indeed to find even from a man an admission of our
essentially economical nature and habits. To be sure, it
was from an American—the inhabitant of a country
where there has been some slight progress made to-
wards recognition Of the rights of our sex. I trust, Mr.
Punch, man as you are, that you sill not be mean
enough to throw this letter into your waste-paper bas-
ket, or retuse to print—l should prefer capital letters—
this passage to which I refer, from this enlightened
American writer :
" A Word for Women,—Some of the papers are
lecturing women upon an extravagance in dress, and
advi,ing them to retrench, especially during the present
financial difficulty. Doubtless there. are many cases of
unwarrantable extravagance in this way ; but do people
ever consider that two or three glasses of brandy and
hall-a-dozen regalias, indulged in daily by a man, to say
Soothing o' five and ten dollar dinners, amount to more
in a year than would be required to dress a woman up
•to the full requirements of fashion I Much of this talk
about the extravagance of women is nonsense. They are
almo t universally careful, and many a trader would to-
day have been safe and sound if he had listened to the
prudent counsels of his wile rather than the reckless
promptings of his own ambition. It is natural for weir
men to endeavour to shift the responsibility of their
folly to other shoulders, but it is rather too much to
charge a commerc;al revulsion like this upon one's wife
and daughters.'—New York Paper.
" For my part, I think the passage ought to be printed
in letters of gold and hung up over every double-bed in
England, between the watch-pockets.—I am, Mr. Fund,
`' A Vlonm."
your constant reader,