The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-24 00:00:00

PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW

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Nov Hay. 3138 to 4/ Or N I Hoy . ; 31 S. ad to 41 0. Od
Old do. 010.0.1 tool 0. 041 New 410. 0/ tts 041 to 01 0. Od
Clover 0/08 Od to 0/ Os 0.1 I Clover 3/10. 0.1 so 4/ 1044 041
4. Oft to 148 6.1 Straw 11 148 0.1 to 11 M. Od

PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt.

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Kent Pockets 5OO to 72s pe► rot.
Sussex Pockets 44s to 5Ss per cwt.
No Bags ■t motet.

PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone et 21b.
Pries by Tallow (as Natal by Ibe Tallow-welters), 2s. 2id.

PRICES OF TALLOW, SOAP, Ice. per 11414.
Tow• Tallow ills 0.1 —II Od Yellow Soap
Yellow Rearis4l4lld —it 0.1 Mottled SSG
White ditto.--s Od —s Od Curd
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Swap dine... .S7s Oil —• Od Grooms ....i '7. Is
Molting Stuff 30. Oil ..... Od Good Dogs la Os
Ditto rough.,2o. Od —s Od

PRICE OF CANDLES,
From Tallow Cliandlers Hall.
Prim of Candles, per dozen, gs bd—Slonlde, 10. •J.
sd. per doses allowed for reedy snoopy.
N.B.—Tbe prices i■ the g I Retail Shops are from
71d. to Bd. prr lb.

RAW HI DES.
Rest Heifers& Steers, p rid. Ordinary.. is Sol to is 10d
is 4d to 3. 6.1 Illorkrt Calf.. each lOs od
Pdiddlior 30 Od to is id F.nit. Horse Os Olt to Os Gd

SHEEP SKINS.
Sheep . ls OA In 29 0.1
Lomb.

PRICE OF LEATHER.
Rills, 50 to bi 11,., each 18.1 to 20J pe. lb.
Ditto, Si to 66Ihs each I in ..—d
Dressing Hides lBl4 in 19i4
Fine Coach Hides . .. l9/.1 to 2054
Crop Hides 35 to Ott lbs. /or tatting 144 to 211.1
Ditto 46 to 5111b 5....
Calf Skims 30 to 10Ib1 224 to 27d
Ditto bite 711111 s. ........ tad to 314
Ditto TO to Nibs 214 to VII
%mall Seals (Greenland) IBd to 194
lArice ditto 164 to 154
Tanned Horse Hides 154 to 174
!lowish Horse Hides

DRSIRUGTIOP of Iie.CAMEDRAL of hOUEIV.
reltltTflrlt PARTICULARS"
At haltpast Ave o'clock of the 15th an electric ishatti ad-
vanced on the evoke of the town. Several eittps of Smolder
webw beard ; the loot, more terrible than the others, struck
with lightning the base of the steeple, which in an instant
set It on Are from the bottom to the very top of *pyramid.
Yon may imagine this terrible spectacle, and the dread
which Belted every body on beholding the Are." The lead
which rua down in large wave., the beams seperatteg front
.Ihe upper parts, and burning as they fell, till at length the
base emelt, no longer support the upper part, the pyramid
fell with a dreadful noise, and a cloud of horning smoke,
'slier, ■nd pieces of wood, rose from the volcano. The
wind was from the N.E. and blew towards us. The heat was
&marbly fen at our house; the ashes and splinters filled the
air, and were wafted, some of them, as far as the street Des
Curdeliert.
The knew in Du Change-street and De flae.street were
so heated, that the enginis played on them constautly to pre-
vent their catching Are.
In fallow, the ruins of the pyramid eel She roof of the
church on See, a part of the save was burst; all the cover.
int of the choir. of the sacristy, is consumed. The roof work
of the Place de la Caleadre, Street St. Romain, has also suf-
fered considerably; the interior of the church, however. lies
not rinfrered much, and the Archbishop's palace very little.
The houses in Du Chauge-Areet, coot igisone Pr Sae church,
are very moth damaged; ton of them were destroyed by
the falling of the binning steeple. Those also of St. Romsiu_
street have also ruffere I considerably; as also the Chapel.
This morning, el 'eves o'clock, the ire was nut above six
or wrest feet high front the lower part of the tower, het all
dilater is over. _

Besides the total destructios of the upper part, and the
calcination of the stones of the tower, the galleries and the
arches Lave suffered very considerably. It seems Certain,
however, that we have to deplore the loss of only one indi-
vidual, who was seat to the hospital in such a txtudition as
to be despaired of. The soldiers of the Garde Royale, the
Powspirrs, and several citizens, have bees wounded more or
le., but we have nut yet received any ce-.lai■ isfurination
ou this point. •

The following description of this once magnifi-
cent edifice, but now • mane of unsightly ruin, is
from Mrs. Stallard's Tour is Normandy
. • .

"The Cathedral Church, said to be erected by the Eng;
limb, of all the Gothic structures 1 have yet seem, is the
most cosily and niagoilicent ; the budding, of the Said
Gothic acted, is literally frosted with urinated,. This
Cathedral was founded A. D. 990, by Robert. Archbishop
of Rouen, brother of Richard the Seroud, Duke of Nor-
mandy ; but it was nut finished till the year 10432, when,
in the preseuee of Willtam the Conqueror, it was dedicated
to the Holy Virgin. lenmedietely over the large dour at the
western esteem?, carved is stogy, the root of Jesse is tepee.
seated, from whom" several branches were figures, ter-
minating is the centre with one of our Saviour, as the last
of the line. Above and around this subject, in several cow-
pattments, appear tarious histories from the Bible, carved
likewise in atone. Above smother door-way, in the west
front, the story of the daughter of Herodias dancing before
Hero-I, is represented in a most singular manner: she
appears like ors, of those dancers or tumbkris who were eel-
ph”ed for the ausuveroeet of Courts is the thirteenth ten-
tory, and is literally tumbling before Herod with her head on
the ground sod her bale in the air. Out the NEW front are
toned above eighty lgeres, of a colossal six, repremistieg
saints and apostles. There is not the smallest *re of stone,
not the beck of a niche, nor the base of a figure, but is co-
vered with the finest Gothic omit. Above the north door-
way the subject of the Last Judgment is admirably carved;
mid on emelt side the walls, without the entrance, stand two
female figures, their heads broken off, but their draperies
we of tasteful and eaquisite workmanship.
" The interior of the Cathedral is so imposingly beautiful,
that on entering the aisles the mind is struck with so toga-
!eatery awe.

In t►e choir we saw the spot where once were placed
the tombs of John Duke of Brdfued, Regent of Fiume;
Henry, brothe► of Richard the Post; and Camer.de- Lion's
hunt. A Bat atone now alone snacks each spat; the mono.
menus, with the effigies of Henry and Richard, having been
destroyed fur some comparatively trivial purpose, a con•
aidersbie time before the Revolution. A. D. IMO, the
heart of Ricbnsd I , enclosed in a silver box, was interred
near the high Ow of Rouen Cathedral, according to t►at
Prince's injunction before his deeease. A magnificent lamb
was erected to Hie memory of Richard, his effigy lay extended
upon it, and represeetrd hiss atoned le his royal robe,. A
balustrade of silver once encompassed the monument; bet
in 13Su, the Dean and Chapter of Rou►s ordered that it
should be melted. and applied as a contributive !cowards the
I,IIIIIOITI of the famous St. Louis, thee a prisoner amongst
the Pagans. Henry the younger, second son of Henry 11.
King of England, who was crowned both at Westminster
and Winchester, dories the lifetime of his father, yeti belied
first in the church of St. Julies, at "Inns, Rear his grand-
Gertf,ry Plantagenet, bet his body wan afterwards
removed to this Cello dial by she solicitation of the citiorns
of Rourn, to whose Henry had heiineathed it. In the chapel
of St. Remain Ise the remains of the celebrated Rollo, third
Duke of Normandy. as the tomb of Rollo there is an effigy
representing him. There is also a monument and effigy of
Wi!lison Isougeopee, Knuth Duke of Normandy, and sun of