The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Meat—The supplies of mutton this morning were largo
and the prices rather easier. Beef rather scarce, and quite
as dear. Pork firm. Veal very little on offer. The quo-
tations are—beef, 38 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s to 4s ; veal
4s to 4s 8d; pork, 4s to. 5s 4d per stone of 81b sinking the
offal.

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. s.—Sales probably 15,000 or 20,000
balm Market good demand and advancing; I higher.

An announcement has been received at Chatham
that Messrs. Napier and Sans, of Govan-yard,
Glasgow, have taken the contract for constructing
the new iron- clad ship Hotspur, for the Admiralty,
which vessel will be built under the superinten-
dence of Mr. W. Pearce, late of Chatham dockyard,
and now manager of Messrs. Napier and Sons' esta-
blishment. The Hotspur is intended to be an iron
ram, her length being 235 feet, and her breadth of
beam 50 feet. She will be the first vessel built in
this country to carry her guns, working on a turn-
table, in a fixed tower, although there are several
of these ironclhds built, or building, in the French
Imperial marine. Her armour-plating along her
broadsides will be 11 inches in thickness, with a
backing of teak of 10 inches, and the usual inner
iron plating. She is designed to carry an 18-tan
450-pounder gun on a turntable, in a fixed tower,
with four portholes, the gun working on the turn-
table from port to port. The tonnage of the Hot-
spur will be 2,637 tons, and she will be of 600-
horse power. The probable amount to be expended
on her this year is £30,000. She is to be built from
the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, C.B.

A court-martial was resumed at the Government
House, Mount Wire, on Friday, for the trial of
Sergeant T. Dawson, of the 2d battalion of the
Rifle Brigade, for conduct prejudicial to military
rules, in aiding and abetting Corporal Lucas in
writing an anonymous letter to his Royal Highness
the Duke of. Cambridge. Lieut. and Adjt. E. 11.
Chamberlin, of the Rifle Brigade, appeared to pro-
secute, assisted by Mr. G. H. E. Rundle ; and Mr.
T. C. Brian appeared for the prisoner. The charge
having been read the prisoner pleaded guilty, and
threw himself on the merciful consideration of the
court. Adjt. Chamberlin said that the prisoner's
general character was very good. lie was attested
on the 18th November, 1815, and had served 19
years and 11 days towards the completion of his
time. The prisoner was 37 years of age, and was
in possession of the Crimean medal, with clasps for
Alma, lukerman, and Sebastopol, the Turkish medal,
the Indian medal, with a clasp for Lucknow, and
the medal for long service and good conduct, with
a gratuity of £l5. The sentence will not be made
known for about a fortnight.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ATBIRMINGIIA3I.—At a late
hour on Friday night a fire was discovered on the premises
of the Britannia Flour Mills Company, in Prineess-street,
Birmingham. From some unexplained cause delay occurred
in getting the fire-engines to the spot, and by the time of
their arrival one wing of the building was a mass of flame
—this was the granary ; and so great a hold had tho- fire
obtained that for some time it was feared the warehouse,
which is separated from the other part of the premises by a
pair of massive iron doors, would also bo destroyed. For-
tunately the firemen were able to prevent this, but it was
getting towards daylight on Saturday morning before the
tire was safely subdued. Several thousand quarters of
corn have been destroyed, and the amount of loss has been
estimated at from £5,000 to £B,OOO. The origin of the
fire is in a great measure conjecture.