The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-12 00:00:00

CORK, MA.uca 10.

Barrels. Currency.
O White wheat 00s Od to 00$ Od 00s Od-20 stone
0 Red wheat OOB Od to ON Od
O Ditto oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 do
O Ditto oos Od to 008 d)
O Barley 00s Od to (.0s Od
O Ditto oos Od to 00s Od. 00s Od-16 do
0 Ditto OOB Od to 00s Od
O Bere 001 Od to 00s Od Os Od
382 Oats 10s Id to 10s 6d
38 Ditto ... les 6d to lOs 9d 00s Od-14 do
• 0 Ditto OUs Od to 005 Od
34 Pigs 20s Od to 32. 6d ' 00a Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:—
()barrels white wheat; 0 red ; 0 barley; 0 bent; 17 oats ;
1 pig.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week
Wheat. 290. Barley, 895. Oats, 3,391. Pigs. 471.
Return of Cattle sold for week ending-March 6.
Co- air.. —PigslelOur73. Sheep,-7First 126 892. C
to 141 Ocr;s' l3eatrla. 159 Od ;
seconds, I Is Od to 12s Od; households 9s to 10s 6d; thirds, 76 to 9s
percwt. Oatmeal 108 6d to I Is; Indian meal7s 6d to 8s0d; wheat.
meal, 10.0 d to 10s 6t' per cwt. Indian corn 715 s Od to 7110 s pet
ton. Bran 85s to 87s 6d per ton. Flay—Farmers 25e to 3 )s; averag€
28s; dealers 32s to 4 Ocl; average 35. per ton. Straw—Fir-mei s
169 Od to 21s Od; average 18s; dealers 00s Od to 00s Oti.
average 009 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 01;
household loaf bp to Od per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
10d per lb. Eggs-4s 4d to 4s 6d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 15. Od ; Lydney 15. ; Landore 00s ; Cohn,
12s 6d per ton. Tallow 38s Od to 40s per owl
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 5d to 60; veal 5d t,
7d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausage.. bd per lb. Hops
818 s to 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 2/17s 6d to 3/ al pa ton.
Bark, red 71to 81105 per ton. Fleece wool 14s to 158 per stone.
Hemp 29/ t 0341 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 19c to OCs; red
ditto, 241 to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 111 pe
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine, 3/ 5s ;
ditto, 2/ 158 per ton; deals, 151 to 18/ per 100. Hide,
Market 188 to 255: salted 208 to 26. per cwt ; calf skin
3d to •Od per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to 8d ; pink .
10d to 12d. Guano— Peruvian, 101 10. to 1 ll; lehabee,
to 9/ oh par ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barreL

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Duke of Northumberland, the new First Llrd o

the Admiralty, has bestowed the first good service pen-
sions that have fallen in' hand, by the promotions of
Admirals O'Brien and Lloyd; to Captain Str W. E.
Parry, superintendant of Hasler, and Captain Peter
Richards, C. 8., superintendent of Chatham Dackyerd.
If any curiosity has been excited in the naval world
as to how the Noble Duke will distribute the immense
patronage which appertains to the office of First Lird
of the Admiralty, this early indication which his Grace
has given of his appreciation of the claims of officers of
senior standing and of good service, will tend to assure
the navy and the country that justice, impartiality, and
discretion-are the Noble and Gallant First Lord's cha-
racteristics. Sir E. Parry is now the senior on the cap-
tains' active list; and he has hithertoo been passed over
in favour of many who are not enly junior, but who have
not the claims that Sir Edward has to the good-service
pension. He cannot expect to bold the pension for any
length of time on accouutof his flag rank; but it is be-
stowed even at the eleventh hour is a most gracious mark
of appreciation of his services on the part of the Admiralty,
and the handsome way in which it has been conferred
reflects credit and honour on both pareies.
Everybody knows that Sir Edward Parry is the most
distinguished of Arctic voyagers, but he also served
with distinction during the war in early life, as
will be seen from the following sketch of his
career, &c., in " O'Byrne's Biography." We may
add that. he has served on full pay no less than
thirty-four years. He was born Dec. 19, 1790, is fourth
,bfiyar
first, in
ei
sae e daughterloBn2dsecondly
ianof d
al:ju
arg.eh,Rt Rigby,
of and yourgest surviving son of the late Dr. Parry, an
(eLlo Nri wtt enl3h:t Stanley h oHf Amt da physician,er rr lee yd
the relict of S. Hoare, jtin., E-q., of Hatcpitead. Ile is
in the 63d year ( f his age. He Is au LL 1). of Oxford,
F.R.S. London and Edinburgh, meinbsr of the Imperial
Academy of Sciences at S-. Peteraburgh, and is the au-
thor of a small work entitled " Thoughts on the Parental
Character of God."

" This efficer entered the navy, Juno 30, 1803, es first-
elass vol., on board the Ville de Peril, 110, Captain
Tristram Robert Ricketts, bearing the flsg of the Hen.
William Cornwallis, in the Channel, where, and in the
Baltic, he continued employed as midshipman tied
master's mate on board the Tribune, 36, and Venttuard,
74, Captain Thomas Baker and Henry Richard Wynn,
until promoted to the rank of lieutenant,
Janu-
ary 6, 1810. In the Vanguard he commanded a
gun-boat attached to the ship, and came into
frequent action with the Danish flotilla. His first ap-
pointment after his promotion was Feb. 9, 1810, to the
Alexandria, 32, Captains John Quilliam and Robert
Cathcart, in which vessel, besides affording protection to
the Spitzbergen whale fishery, he was much employed in
making astronomical observations, and in preparing for
the Admiralty charts, which were much prized, of
Balta Sound, of the Von, a harbour in the north-eastern
part of the Shetland Islands, and of various places on
the coasts of Denmark and Sweden. At the com-
mencement of 1813 Lieut. Parry proceeded in the
Sceptre, 74, Captain Robert Honymae, to North Ame-
rica, for the purpose of joining La Hogue, 74, Captain
Lion. Thonias Bladen Capel. On April 8, in the fol-
lowing year, having accompanied a detachment of boats
under the orders of Captain Richard Coote, to the
neighbourhood of Pettipague Point, on the river Con-
necticut, we there find him contributing to the destruc-
tion of 27 of the enemy's veseele, three of which were
heavy erivateers, and the aggregate burden of the whole
upwards of 5,000 tons. In the course of 1814 Lieut.
Parry furnished many of the junior officers on the Hali-
fax station with copies of his Practical Rules for ob-
serving at Night by the Fixed Stars,' a treatise which
was afterwards published in order to facilitate the ac-
quisition of a species of knowledge highly conducive
to the welfare of the naval service. In August,
1814, he exchanged into the Maidstoite, 36, Captain
William Skipxy ; and he next, in Jay, 1851, and
January and June, 1816, became in succession attached
to the Ardent, 64, Captain Sir William Burnaby, and
Carron, 20, and Niger, 38, Captains Nicholas Lech mere
rateshall and Samuel Jackson, all on the North Ameri-
can station, when, in March, 1847, he returned to
England. On Jan. 14, 1818, he obtained command of
the Alexander, brig, hired for the purpose of accompa-
nying au expedition to the Arctic regions under Captain
John Ross, with whom he returned home in the follow-
ing November. Owing to the failure of the enterprise,
a new one was determined on, and the conduct of it ere
trusted to Lieutenant Perry, who was consulted in the
choice both of his ships and officers. He accordingly
assumed a command, Jan. 16, 1819, of the Hecht bomb-,
and iu the early part of the ensuing May sailed from
Deptford in company with the Gripper, gun-brig, Lieut.
Commander Mathew Lidden, for the purpose of carrying
out the object of his mission-the discovery of a north-
west passage. In the course of the voyage, which,
although not thoroughly successful, exceeded in its
general results the must sanguine expectations of its
prOjecters, Lieutenant Parry penetrated to long. 113
deg. 54 min. 43 sec. W., within the Arctic circle, and
thereby obtained for the expedition the sum of
5,0001., the amount of a Parliamentary reward
which had been promised to such us should
cross the meridian of 110 deg. W. from Greenwich, in
the latitude of 74 deg. 44 min. 20 sec. A lull narrative
of his proceedings will be found in a volume published
by him in 1822, entitled • Journal of a Voyage for the
Discovery of a North-West Passage in 1819-20. The
Hecht and Gripper re-entered the Thames about the
middle of November, 1820, and were paid off at Dept.
'ford on the 21st of the ensuing December. On the 4th
of the former month Lieut. Parry was advanded to the
rank of commander; and on Deo. 19 the Bedfordean
gold medal of the Bath and West of England Society
for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com-
merce was unanimously voted to him. Withthesum of
of
500 guineas subscribed for the purpose, the explorer
the Polar Seas' was afterwards presented with a
o silver
er
vase highly embellished with devices emblematic thej
Arctic voyages; and on March 24, 1821, the city of
Bath presented its freedom to him in a box f oak, highly
and appropriately ornamented. Encouraged by the dis-
coveries made during the late expedition, and by the pre-
sumption it afforded of the existence of a north-west
soon made parieopaeroantifiot
desfotro
passage, the Admiralty
another, the command of which was ag
Captain Parry, who, on Dec. 3.0, 1820, received a com-
mission for the Fury bomb, with which vessel and the
Hecht, commanded by
Captain George Fred. Lyon, he
sailed from the Nom, May 8,
1821. After having
passed two winters in the Polar regione, the first to the
northward of Southampton Island, and the second at
expedition with its grand object still
important
Ingloolik, a small island lat. 69 der,. 21 min., long. 81
deg. 44 min., the
return ! to Deptford, where
unattained, but with the acq,tidon of much
geographical knowledge,
were paid off, Nov. 14, 1828. On lof
(whoa© valuable
the two vessels
pest-commission beer-
the following month Captain Parry
service bad been rewarded with a
ing date Nov. 8, 1821) was tippointed Aotieg-tayerega.
to the Admiralty;and on 26 he was presented vita..
the
t
o Winchester. Being s d
Jar. freie7dorB2o4f,
the
to citytake
Parry,charge c f
oan freshB of expeditionth following e et(to'
the frigid zone, Captain
swain sailed from Deptford with the same ships as
May
on the last occasion-the lied
nded by
Ina himself, and the Fur
a, however, being cow-
r The lr . ,by Captain Parkyns
Roppne.. Vki,stlsr was sent at Port
Bowen, in Prince Regen ' I Iwhere 11. 3 n et, the two vesse
remained from Sept, 28, 1824, unw
July 20, 1825. AO