The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-20 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
During the past week there were fair arrivals of Wheat, a
good supply of Oats, but trifling of other Grain. The trade
for Wheat was very heavy at a decline of 2s. to 3s. per quarter.
Barley in moderate request at declining prices. Beans and
Pease without alteration. The demand fur O.A. %Nas caered-
ingly slack, and lower prices must be submitted to. The Flour
trade has partaken in the general dullness, the consumers anti-
cipating a fall in the price.
?BIDES ON BOARD OF Silt?
Wheat, Red (old) s. -.5. Beans, Small (new) 439 4ts
-- White (old) ..... .-s. s.
-lied 1838) r4l. 58s --- Tick (new) 33s 36..
- Fine CO3. n4s. • (old) 3Bs. 40a
• Superfine 665. 68s -- Harrow (new) 355.388
-White (1838) ....695. 625.
Fine 66s. 703 Brank
-- Superfine ...... 725. 745. Oats, Feed s. s,
--Foreign free 58s. 783.
Rye 40s. 425. - Poland -s.-s,
Barley 'Os. 37s New °ss.2Bs.
- Grinding 30s. 345. - Potatoe 28,30 a.
- Malting 4os. 425.
Malt 565. 655, - Scotch 205.305.
- Fine New 665. Bss. - Irish 'As. ... 245.265.
Pease, Grey, New 3',11. 365. Flour Town (per 5ack)....605.625,
- Maple New 37s. 40s. - seconds 545.585.
---- White 40s. 423. -...-- North Country .... 505.52 .
- Boilers 425. 445. Bran l2, 13s.
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WELK
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour,
English 3,,91 qrs. 2,237 qrs. 8,552 qrs. 4,981 sacks
Irish - - 17,703 -
roreign
SHIT

:FIELD.

Last week's prices for Mutt
tained ; Beef, dull trade, inferi
demand for Veal and Pork
Beasts, 2,965 ; Sheep and
Calves, 98.

ton and Lamb were fully main-
tor qualities a trifle lower. The
underwent a slight reduction.
Lambs, 20,320 ; Pigs, 65 ;

DREADFUL FIRE IN BUCKLERS•
BURY, CITY.-(THIS MORNING.)

FOUR LIVES LOST.

A fire broke out this morning at about two o'clock, in
Bucklersbury. It originated on the premises, No. 30, in
the occupation of Mr. Richard Unwin, wholesale stationer.
Two engines were turned out, but great delay occurred for
a supply of water. Just as the fireman reached the spot,
a female in her night dress jumped out of the second floor
window, and fell on her back on the foot pavement will)
great violence. She was picked up and taken into one of
the adjoining houses, and it has been since ascertained that
she is much injured. From her the firemen learned that she
was the only one that had escaped, and that there were
eight persons in the house at this critical moment. Mr.
and Mrs. Unwin were seen at the windows of the third
floor, supplicating for assistance. The assembled multi-
tude called upon them to jump out, but they seemed un-
conscious of what was said. Mr. Baidwood, the superin-
tendent of the brigade, who arrived with the engines of
the Watling-street station, perceiving their perilous situa-
tion, gave direction to his men to fix the scaling ladders
that are carried with the engines to get at the unfortunate
creatures„ which was speedily carried into effect, and they
were brought down safely to the ground. Mr. Unwin's
children, who were in bed in the back room on the floor
that they ( Mr. and Mrs. Unwin) escaped from, were forgot
in the fright, and the feelings of the parents on this dis-
covery, was, as may be easily imagined, agonizing in the
extreme. One of the brigade, of the name of Dwight,
rushed up the ladder to save them if posssible, but was
nearly killed by the attempt by falling from the ladder.
Every effort was made to discover whether all had

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escape], but no tidings what,
/owing to the consternation that
time (.t being two o'clock), the bui_
every part, the flames raging most terrifica,'ly. Within half
an hour after the outbreak there were no les:, than eight of
the fire brigade engines playing on the flames, c's were also,
the engines of the West of England. The Lol'd Mayor
was on the spot by two o'clock, and offered every assist-
ance to the unfortunate sufferers ; we must likewise ob,'erve
that the conduct of the firemen and inhabitants was beyo.nd
all praise. The fire burnt with increased fury till five'
o'clock, but by six it was extinguished. Since then three .1
bDdics have been discovered in the ruins ; one is that of
the servant maid, about 20 years of age, and the others are t
the remains of the children, both girls, a;ed nine and ten. )
A young man, an apprentice to Mr. Lewin, there is no I
doubt has perished, and the firemen are en,vged searching I
for his body. The cause of tho fire has not been ascer-
tained. The property is insured in the Phoenix. i

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Silz— A report appeared in the columns of your valuable
Journal, of a meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry, to address
the Queen on her late magnanimous conduct, and a
speech in opposition to that address having been made by
a member of the vestry, bearing the same name as
myself, many of my friends have erroneously attri-
huttd the speech to rue, and have severely censured ray
conduct in consequence. I trust you will permit me to
state I am not a vestryman of St Pancras. but on: of the
Auditors of Accounts, which office entirely excliuigs me
from taking any part in the proceedings in the vestry.
I remain, Sir, your very humble servant,
C. T. CLARK.
68, Albany-street, Regent's Park,
May 18, 1839.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The arrivals this morning are two French, two Ostend,
and one Dutch mail, also mails from Jamaica, by the Pan-
' dora, to 9th April, St. Thomas's, Gth: April; and Hayti,
12th April ; with a great number of ship letters both from
the East and West Indies.
We have received Jamaica Papers to the 9th April, from
which we quote the following :
" There is little news from the country. The statement.
respecting the progress of the crops, and the preparations
for next year, are so conflicting, that we cannot hazard an
opinion. In some parishes we learn than matters are get-
ting on remarkably well, and in others as badly as they
can. Of course, even in the same parish, that may not be
dike. On some estates, after the canes have come to
maturity, the managers have set fire to them and burnt
them, finding it impossible to take them off, from the indis-
position evinced by the labourers. This is deeply to be
deplored, and it can scarcely be supposed that those who
incurred an expense of 201. per acre in cultivating the
cane would consent to burn them."
We have received Barbadoes Papers to the 24th March,

(From the Port of Spain Gazette.)
" We never witnessed, in this island, such an assemblage
in point of numbers or respectability, as paid the last tri-
bute of respect to the remains of our late Governor, Sir
George Fitzgerard Hill.
" We have been informed that there is no want of
ground- provisions on the estates generally, but as :he la-
bourers foolishly refuse to take that food in part payment
of their wages, hence comes the scarcity, as it is not worth
while for the planters to send it a great distance to be sold."
We have received Demerara Papers to the 28th March.
" This day, in presence of a large coneonrse of spec-
tators, his Excellency the Governor announced that the
Combined Court had waived its resolution of the preceding
day, respecting the British Import Tax.
The Estimates being proceeded with, many reduc-
tions were made, to take effect from the Ist July."
From Tobago it is stated that Lieutenant-Governor-
General Darling opened the House of Assembly, and the
reply to his Excellency's speech states that "the House
muq record with great concern that, notwitstanding the
free labour system may heretofore have worked better
than might have been anticipated before its coming into
operation, yet daily experience has of late sot only proved
that the labouring population are becoming less industrious,
but that a bad spirit and great indifference to their em-
ployers' interests at present are prevalent among them."
ST. VINCENT'S.—A letter published in the Gazette of
the 14th, on the prospects of the planters, states—" There
are many fine ships that have lain long in our portS,
awaiting a load, few of which have as yet got a hogshead
of sugar on board.

DEMARARA.—On the 24th ult. the French steamer of

war, Corsair, arrived from Cayenne, having on board
three French Commissioners, appointed by the French Go •
vernment to inquire lilt) the woikiag of the Negro Emanci-
pation Act through the French Colonies.
It appears, according to the accounts received by the
Siddons, of the 26th ult. from New York, commercial
affairs in the United States arc considered as improving.
Money was more plentiful, and the Stocks are getting up.
United States Bank, 114 i; Exchange, 81 to 81.
We have a very great number of arrivals this morning
both from the East and West Indies; the former are of an
old date, and the latter brings the West India news of a
conflicting description, so that no just opinion can be
formed. In some parishes the labourers work, in others it
is not the case.

Accounts have been received from the Mauritius, of the
Ist of February, which state, from the country districts,
that things are going on satisfactorily, and that the la-
bourers employed are doing their duty.
Consols opened this morning, 93% buyers for Money ;
for Account, 93+; and 93i for July Account; Exchequer
Bills, 32 34 ; India Bonds, 33 35 ; Bank Stock, 195 196:;
India Stock, 255 256.

In the Foreigh Market, Spanish Active, rather better,
1911; Portuguese 35i 36; Tnree per Cents. 211 22;
Belgian, 1011 1021; Brazilian 781; ; Mexican nothing
done; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 56±; Five per
Cents. 102,i 103.
The above market has rather improved on Saturday's
Icaving off prices.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock ' India Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. 9314 iii South Sea Stock --
31.4 per Cent - Old Annuities
---
Ditto lied. 99% New Ditto .
---.
New 2 !ii per Cent... ... ... ILOA, 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17 1 --.
New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, £1,090.. 32 85 pm.
Bank Long Annuities" toexpire Ditto 500 ... 32 25 pm.
Jan. 5, Igtill l4 7-16% Ditto Small 32 35 pin.
Oct. 10, 1859 - Ditto Commercial
pm.
Jan. 5, 16(51
Jan. 5, 1580 - Bank Stock for Account ... p.
April 5, IRSO. - India Stock for Account ...
Jan. 5. 1570 - Consols for Account.- bra,.

.41 ‘,i
PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds
Belgian Bonds -
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
D tto Account
Columbian Bonds ' • Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Columbia 1 Bonds, ItiN .....3114 4§ - Spanish Bonds..
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account - Ditto Accoust. lili !,41„i
Greek Bends — French, 5 per cent...—. —I. —c.
.Ditto Bonds, Ins - 4 per cent.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • Exchange.
Ditto Account ... ...... ..... —1 Dutch, 91.•,', per oent.

Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account ...
Ditto Account
Neapolitan , Ditto Acc0unt........ ......

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Wiled at 5/. pen.) '.:.0 15!,;;;
R,..,1 del Monte Mining Co., Registered M. We. lid.
Ditto Unregiitereil — B}4
Eastern Cistiwries Railway l6 10
13: ighton Railway
Lon .on and NVestminster Bank 2O 2314
lIALF-PAST ON-11.

:VERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATEEDAY.-The Mar..

ket is still dull, and prices rather in favour of the buyer.
The sales about 1,000 bags, almost wholly American, at
74d. to 94d.
Pernambuco Papers are rec&ved to the 243 d March'.
they are devoid of interest. Exchange 30k.
This day being both the Hebrew and Christian holiday,
and there being a thin assemblage at the Stock Exchange,
very little business has been done during the course of the
morning either in the British or Foreign Markets.
Private accounts from Canton state that an arrangement
had been made with the Hong merchants, for securing all
the ships in port, on a guarantee that the vessels had no
opium or Syree silver on board of them while in the river.
Consols may be quoted at present 932 Menu ; 931, for
the Account; Exchequer Bills 32 35 ; India Bonds 34
36 ; Bank Stock nothing done; India Stock 256.
Spanish Active 194 lower; Portuguese :36; Belgium
102 1014 - Colombian 31-1 ; Mexican 26i ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. 56i; Five per Cents. 1021.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS
Bank Stock , 'lndia Stock 256
3 per Cent. Rest 9214 ;Ditto Bonds
:3 per Cent.CCUS 93l4lDitto Old Annuitle:

354 per Cent. Red... .......... ... 99i Ditto New Annuities
New 3% per Cent 101 Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2d '6 pm.
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 '3(i pre.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 36 pm.
Jan. IS6O
Oct. 1059
Jar. 1060
FOREIGN FUNDS,
Portuguese Bonds, sper cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent
Russian Bonehr, 5 per cent ! T 27%
Ditto, Metallic..
Spanish, 5 per cent 19.1E
Ditto, Consolidated —
French, 5 per cent. i c.
Exchange
French, 3 per cent f. r
Dutch, DX., per cent.
IDitto,s per cent. lO3
RES

Asturian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent. 10.1 n,
Brazilian Bonds 72%
Buenos Ayr,, 6 per cent —
Chilien, 6 per cent —
Colombian, 6 p=r cent 29
Ditto, 182.1. 31%
D 411.11, 3 per cent _
6reek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct —
Mexican, 5 per cont. —
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 —
Peruvian, 1823,6 per cent —
SH,

Eastern Counties
London and Brighton Rniwz
London and Greenwich Hail
London and Croydon Rai

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The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Cus.
tom-house yesterday, and the Neptune, from Hamburgb,
at eight o'clock this morning. _

AYLESBURY.—A most infamous and cruel hoax
has been played off in this town, by which several indivi-
duals have been seriously inconvenienced, the feelings of
a respectably family deeply injured, and the whole neigh-
blurhood thrown into a state of alarm and horrified excite-
ment. Some young men of Aylesbury, posseqed of more
le:sure than sense, and influenced by the basest :ri I mat
corrupt feelings, spread a report of the dcath, by suicide,
of Mr. John Rolls Gibbs, the Editor of the Ay/es/Jur?
News, wrote to the Coroner, and also to the constable,
advising them of the horrible details, and the regular pre-
parations
P
parations were gone into for holding an inquest. Mfr.
Cowley, the Coroner, was put to the expense cf a•
jour-
ney, and the constable to the trouble of surnmo,ing a
jury. A pretended report of the Proceedings was also
diabolical
sent to some of the Provincial Journals, and the account
peGibbs'rs.
oefn
th is
is
now
going
the round of
plot have, by a
othfe
lucky accident, been discovered, and means are now being
resorted to for the purpose of subjecting the villains to that
punishment they so richly deserve.
Her Majesty and Court remove from Burling-
ham Palace, on Saturday next, to Windsor Castle, during
the Ascot week.

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