The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-28 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH conN,
For the Week ended Dec. 22, 1537, :made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and 'fawns in Englan.l and Wales, P"
Imperial Quarter.
Wheat sBs 2d. Oats -
Barley 2l.s, 33. I Itye
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS
PRECEDING.

yvy~
Wheat 535. 3d. Oats
Barley 29s. EU. Rye

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Wheat ...... 2:ls. Bd. Oats
_,64
Barley lBs. 461. I Rye

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay.....
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto 42; (0
1"
51 £44
° 1:50
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay. 4£4
15 55 le
Clover Hay
Oat Straw £1 14 to £1 161 Wheat Straw 1 16 1 IS
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £4 0 to £4
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 4 5 4 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clover Hay (extra fine '5 10 Generally 4 10 5 0
Oat Straw £1 h.' t-i .£1 14 1 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 14

WHITECHAPEL.
Coarse Meadow Hay ,x4 0 to 1 !LIG
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto 4 5 ' '
Fine Upland Meadow and It ye.grass Hay 4lO `, 1155
Clover Hay 4lO .' 1 iii
Old Straw £1 10 to £1 12 I Wheat Straw

COAL MAT
S. d.
Holywell 2l 6
Walls End Bewicke and Ce '23 3
Walls End Gosforth

Per Ton.

KET.—Dec. 27. 4,
s. „
I Per Ton
g v
Walls End Butterknowl 2 .
Walls End Adelaide 22 g
Walls End Deanery 00,.,0 g
Walla End St. Helen's Tees
„„..
Walls End South Durham ... • x" g
Walls End Tees 23
6
Walls End West Iletton
Walls End Hartley 22
6
Walls End Staveley Main 2, : 6
Walls End Devonshire 2' 6
Blythe IS 6
2'2
Cowpen

Walls End Hotspur

Walls End Killingworth 22 9 I
Walls End Newm4rela 2l 9
Walls End Northumberland 22 3
Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 23 9
Walls End Hetton 24 0
Walls End Lambtnn 9
Walls End Russel's Helton 23 9
Walls End Stewart's 9
Walls End Hartlepool 2l 9
Ship. arrived since

last market-day, 89

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.

Cod Fish to-day were in short supply. Turbot, 4s. and bgi;
up to 20s. Soles very scarce. Lobsters, is. up to very li.qi
prices. Cod, is 6d. and 2s. to ss. 6s. and 7s. A plentliu
supply of prime Fish. Trade fair.

HUNGERFORD MARKET.
This market, like all the rest, is not recovered out of that
state which is brought on by Christmas. Fish much as 145 c
quoted. Buteher's meat, game, and poultry, rather tweet.:
tain in prices, but for the most part dear. Vegetables fetT.!
much about the prices of Covent-garden market. Tract°
generally here, as everywhere else; is not lively.
FREE TRADE.—TEA SALES.
These sales progressed to-day. The attendance of the
trade was fair, and the importers continue to buy in /arge,"l-
to support prices. The little that is sold fetches fbiltino-s
rates, and no new feature whatever is presented. It
yet known on what day the sales will finish.

TALLOW MARKET. • ter-
P. Y.C. to-day is dull at 455. to 455. 3d., which are Yes-
da)'s quotations.

COLONIAL MARKETS.
Canadian produce remains in the same state that we
stanced yesterday. The stocks of Ashes and Turpentine;
(both Canadian produce) are rather short than otherwise; bui,
we had all our arrivals for this season before the revolt t'9°.f
place. Timber is as generally at this time of the year,
tibe°,
in stock. East and West India produce of all kinds CO
destitute of public business, and unvaried in prices. still
The fire amongst the shipping opposite the Tower, IS
very great at this time (one o'clock), and Oil and Turpent t.
are fast consuming, and covering the water to a great exten
A cAtvo of wheat is now on fire.
for making up stocks, 3 t
This is the season of the year moot
a general remark, it may be observed, that the stocks of tlive
primary commodities are less than they were at thi6
last year.

The following melancholy accident happenea the
Thursday evening last on the farm of Sauchland, now
neighbourhood of Fala :—Two of Mr. Bain's servants, .9'foot
and a boy, were driving a cart loaded with straw from his atcd
at the Magazine to that of Sauchland. They Inrenter'Al
themselves on the cart above the straw, and bad .in2",ay. 11;
the road leading to the farm-house from the higuy`tb'e level.
that place the road is about ten or twelve feet abnYtetber the
of the fields, with no parapet or paling ,_. and v;',,,aa then
horse had started, or the force of the wind, which
i"diffolt
to say, but the cart was overturned. The man
very boisterous, had occasioned the catastrophe, it .3
were
and boYthsm.
pitched into the field below, and the loaded cart ahoye. b the
man was able to call out for assistance, it
Unfortunately there was no person near; and althna_g_entY
minutes before the cart could be removed. By. this tcl. The
boy was quite dead, and the man considerably injure..
was s
poor boy had fallen with his face to the ground--olcation,
recently ploughed field—and he must have died by s 'l'
load above
as his mouth was filled with earth, and the greatvas about
had prevented him from making any exertion. 11
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speedily recover.—Glasgow Herald.
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six incaes
coffin. seven feet nine inches long, two feed
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Church, near Taunton, the workmen last week accidentallY
wide, and two feet deep. The cover is upwards
A lion ram'
in thickness, and its weight nearly
re of a human s" up.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

(THIS DAY.)

One of the most terrific and destructive conflagrations
that has occurred for some time past in the metropolis
broke out this morning in the premises of Messrs. Davis
and Curling, wharfingers, at the lower end of Tooley-
street, and directly opposite the Tower. At about half.
Past six o'clock, some of the workmen employed in the
Warehouses gave the alarm of fire, which it was discovered
had made its appearance in the back warehouse, farthest
removed from the River. Messengers were instantly des-
patched to the different engine-stations, and in about half-
an-hour several of those in the neighbourhood were on
the spot, together with the large floating-engine moored off
Southwark-bridge. By this time the entire of the land-
side warehouse, which contained about four hundred tuns
of oil, five hundred tons of bark, about ten thousand
barrels of tar and turpentine, and a vast quantity
of naval stoles of a very inflammatory description, were one
mass of flames ; and a fresh breeze from the southward
carried the burning particles rapidly across the narrow lane
which runs between the warehouses and the wharf. The
latter was instantly in flames, and communicated with
three vessels moored off the wharf. One of these, the
Dream, of Limerick, had just got her cargo of 750
quarters of wheat on board, and was bound for France :
the others contained oil and tallow to the amount of about
12,000/. each, and in an incredibly short period they were
enveloped in flames, and together with a barge, or billy-
boy, burnt to the water's edge. It being low water at the
time and the vessels aground, no assistance could be ren-
dered them until the destructive element had gained such
an ascendancy as to render all the efforts of the firemen
unavailing.
Before eight o'clock the two engines of the London Dock
Company, the West India Dock Company's engine, and
about 16 others belonging to the London Fire Establishment
and other parties, were on the spot, but the supply of water
was very scanty, and they were consequently of very little
use. The floating engines were, however, soon supplied
with a sufficient length of hose to bring them to bear with
effect upon the premises, and poured a vast body of water
upon the flames. It was rumoured early in the day that
the warehouses contained a large quantity of gunpowder,
but our Reporter ascertained that this statement was
without foundation.

By the time the fire had reached the wharf, the scene
was one of terrific grandeur. The whole of Messrs. Davis's
extensive premises, extending over a space of six or seven
acres, being one brilliant mass of fire, which illuminated the
entire of the eastern part of the metropolis, while overhead
immense volumes of thick black smoke, mingled with fiery
particles, were wafted across to the opposite shore, creating
at one period serious fears for the safety of the shipping in
that part of the river. Notwithstanding the incessant ex-
ertions of the firemen, who were most efficiently worked,
under the direction of Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent,
the fire had, before nine o'clock, extended to a corn store
belonging to Mr. Goulding, and this was also entirely con-
sumed. The efforts of all parties were now directed to confine
the conflagration within the area of Messrs. Davis's ware-
houses and wharf, and these were happily attended
with success. Had the extensive turpentine works of
Messrs. Hastings, which adjoin the wharf, taken fire, it
is impossible to estimate what would have been the extent
of the casualty.
A little befor eleven o'clock the flames had nearly
exhausted themselves, for notwithstanding the vast body of
water which had for several hours been poured upon the
burning pile, the fire continued to rage with unabated vio-
lence until the materials by which it had been fed, were con-
sumed. The lanes and passages 'around the premises
were flooded to nearly a foot in depth with oil and
turpentine, and vast quantities, in a state of ignition,
continued pouring into the river, extending for several yards
around the wharf.
At half-past twelve a great portion of the river wall of the
warehouse fell in with a tremendous crash, and before one
o'clock all danger of the fire extending further was at an
end. The engines, however, continued to play without in-
termission up to the time of our Reporter leaving, and a
strong body of the M division of police kept the vast
crowd, who surrounded the premises, from interfering with
the workmen.
We understand that at one period it was suggested by an
officer of artillery who had crossed over from the Tower, for
the purpose of tendering the services of his party t o blow up the
buildings immediately around the warehouses to prevent the
spread of the conflagration, but Mr. Braidwood, to whom
the suggestion was made, did not think it necessary to resort
to such an expedient.
It is worthy of remark, that most of the property saved
from Fenning's Wharf, in the fire which broke out there
about eighteen months ago, was removed for safety to
Davis's Wharf, and all the property saved in the present
instance was conveyed to the churchyard at Horselydown,
or to Fenning's Wharf.
The three vessels destroyed are, we have been informed,
in the Irish trade, and are fully insured ; the premises of
Messrs. Davis and Curling are, we understand, also insured
in the Phcenix, Sun, and Globe offices, upon whom the loss
will be very heavy. It is impossible to ascertain with any de-
gree of accuracy the amount of the damage sustained, but it
cannot fall much short of 150,0001. We have not heard of
any lives being lost, and no serious accident, with the ex-
ception of one of the firemen, whose arm has been severely
shattered.

The Duke of 'Wellington will arrive at Belvoir Cas-
tle on Wednesday next, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland.
About one o'clock on Tuesday morning a cry of
murder was heard to proceed from the premises of Messrs.
Holt, Moorside, Bury, and the place was immediately exa-
mined to see what was the cause, when a man was found in
one of the ash-hole! of the dye-house. He appeared like a
negro, aad was supposed to be one, until they pulled his
neckerchief off, when, horrid to relate, the skin of his neck
and part of his flesh came away, and he was found to be a
white. As soon as the man could speak for agony, he told
them his name was Openshaw, and he was then recognised
as a block-cutter working on the premises. From what was
subsequently gathered, it appeared that the poor fellow had
left home that morning, and had spent the day at the public-
-louse. His wife had come from Tottington to seek him a t
eleven o'clock at night, and was near the place where he was
found. Afterwards he got into the yard, and from thence
into the dye-house, where he intended to spend the night,
but fell into some 'boiling colour, and in the sudden agony
threw himself from thence into the ashes. He was placed on
shutter and carried home to Tottington, where his mis-
fortune plunged his poor wife and five young children into
distress which. words cannot describe. He was mercifully re-
leased from his suffering about nine o'clock on Tuesday morn-

ing.—Shejfield Iris.
A MAN 01' SUBSTANCE.—In the forty-seventh
yoimne of " The Philosophical Transactions" is an account of
Edward Bright, a shopkeeper of this town (Maldon, Essex),
who was so enormously fat, that his size and weight are almost
unparalleled in the history of the human race. At the age of
twelve years and a half he weighed 1441b5. ; increasing in
bulk as he grew up; in seven years more he weighed 3361b5.
He went on increasing, and probably in pretty nearly the
same proportion ; for the last time he was weighed, which was
about thirteen months before he died, his weight was 5841b5. ;
:at the time of his death he was manifestly grown bigger since
ibis last weighing ; so that on a fair estimate his weight must
then have been about 6161b5. He measured five feet nine
inches and a half in height. His body, round the chest, was
:five feet six inches ; and round the belly, six feet eleven
inches ; his arm, in the middle, measured two feet two inches,
and his leg two feet eight inches. He died at the age of 29,
in the year 1750 ; after his death seven men were buttoned in
his waistcoat. Till a year or two before his death he was com-
paratively an active man, but afterwards his extreme corpu-
lency so overpowered his strength, that life seemed burthen-
some. He left a widow and six children. His coffin was so
enormously large, that an opening was obliged to be cut in
the wall and staircase to let it down into the shop ; and it was
carried to the grave upon a carriage.—Literary Bouquet.
Inspector Haining, C division, who ever since the
mysterious robbery of jewellery committed on the evening of
Thursday last, at the residence of Lord Somerville, has been
actively engaged in endeavouring to discover the perpetrator,
has ascertained that the thief obtained access by means of ske-
leton keys to an empty house. No. 36, in the same street,
from which, after passing over the roofs of eight houses, and
climbing in the dark three walls, upwards of ten feet high, he
entered Lord Somerville's by means of the front attic window,
and then proceeded down stairs to the bed-rooms, where the
property was deposited. It appears that on his return, for
the purpose of making his exit, he heard a child scream, and
ran down stairs, and escaped through the front door with
his booty, unseen by any of the domestics, who were in the
kitchen at supper at the time. In addition to the property
already specified, it has been ascertained that the fellow also
carried off a bracelet, consisting of eight rows of real pearls,
with a cameo clasp ; two large gold armlets ; a gold and
turquoise bracelet ; an Italian ditto ; a ditto, with two
valuable emeralds set in gold, with the name " The Hon.
Mary Doyly, obit. April, 1834 ;" three pairs of diamond
ear-rings, a pair of gold shoe-buckles, a quantity of Brussels
lace for a dress coat, &c.
IMPORTANT REVIVED CLAIM.—A large pro-
. petty, which, without comprising the capital, amounts to more
than 350,000 francs in leasehold property, of which the prin.
oil sal part is situated on the Boulevards Italian at Paris, had
fall en into abeyance on the death of G. Dumas, who died on
the 31st of May, 1777, and the State, in default of recognised
heirs, took possession of this rich inheritance. Claimants
have trome forward within the last few days. The legal claim,
it is alleged, has been interrupted by a long minority of the
rightful claimant. In fact, the Sieur Gravillon de Mainant.
One of the co-heirs, after long and laborious researches of
More than ten years' duration, is about to justify his claim by
documents which appear to be incontestable ; and he demands
to be put forthwith in possession of the inheritance of his
ceeusin, the Sieur Dumas. whose brother was Governor of
Pondicherry in 1774. This important claim causes consider-
ab.le excitement in Paris, and is about to be brought into a
cowl of law.-„National of Friday