The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-20 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

In the past week there was a moderate arrival of Wheat
plentiful of other grain, and a considerable quantity of Flout
The trade was generally in a similar state to that reported of
Monday last. This morning the fresh supplies of all kind
of grain have been moderate. The finest samples of Whea
being scarce, have rather exceeded the terms of last Monday
other qualities are still slack in sale, and unaltered in value
Barley and Malt retain their late dulness, at the quotations o
last week: Beans sell slowly, without variation in value. Peas,
of both kinds are very heavy, and rather cheaper. The larr,
arrival of Irish Oats, chiefly of inferior quality, and the in
creasing quantity of English samples, have retidcr,,d this trail
dull, at Is. per quarter decline from the prices of last Mon
day. The bakers still purchase Flour slowly, and it is wit]
difficulty that the late prices can be maintained.

PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP.
Wheat, Red (old) .44. 623 Beans, Small (new) - 385.4:11.
---,White (01d).,. 60, 64. ------ (old) 44, 503.
-Red 1806) 44s. 30s. - Tick (new) r4: 361.
Fine 521. 55g.
-- Superfine ...... ...565. lids. - Harrow (new) 06.- 365.
--. WI( to (183(3)
------ Fins 545. 5Ss. Brank . 045.393;
-- Superfine 603 623 Oats, Feed 283.303.
.-Foreign free ...... ...-s. s. New 24. 278,
Rye 34s 38s. - Poland 05. 32s
' Barley 06s. 283. New ' 245.340.
- Grinding 28.. 31s. - I'otatoe 303 325.
- Malting 34;.37..
Malt 465. 55s Scotch 3O 334.
- Fine New 58s. 625. - Irish 'Ms. 2fis. 284.
Pease, Grey, New 31s. 37, Flour Town Mier sack) 523.55..
--. Maple New . 3iBs 393 -)seconds - 46., 560.
---- White 38s. 40s - North Country 42; 45,
---.- Boilers 40s. 425. Bran l6 11,.
ARRIVALS OF -

GRAIN L. LONDON DURING LAST WEEI
Wheat. Barley.
English
rs 1',1...1(1T:a. eks
Irish - 293 25,, 8.3 - 1 -
Foreign _ -.- - _

SMITHFIELD MARKET
This day's supply was very good, and the sale was dull at littl
alteration from the prices last quoted
Pi:Jells TER STONE OF BLB. TO SINK TUE OFFALS.
s. d. to s. el. S. d. to
Inferior Beasts .............'2 2 '2 4 Interim' Sheep 2 ICI 3 beyond quality ditto 2FI 3'2 Second quality ditto 3 6 3 ,
Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Coarse-m.4)llrd ditto__ 4 6 4
['time Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 4 4 4 8 Laige Hogs 4
Prime small ditto 5 0 5 4 , Small Porkers ..... 4 4 4
Stickling Calves each 0 35 01 Quarter old Pig icach; 12 0: 20
SUPPLY, AS TER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Beasts, I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs
'2 ,9 '5 • 18,5 0 113 345
A out 200 of the Beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; alx.ut I:00
th, other northern roads; about 5'20 tineieiding Irish) from the westeri
all midland dist•icts Non Ilona Norfolk, su Wolk* Essex, and Caul
b Algeshire; about 130 from K nt a.id Sussex ; and in rat of the remaidde
trona the marshes, &e, in the neighbourhood of London.

NEWGATE AND LEA
At per stone,
s d. to s tl. s 4 to s .1
Beef, inferior 2 4 .2. fi Mutton, inferior 2 6 3 1
- middling . ..... ...... 2 9 210 - middling 0 0 2 '
-- 'mine large - prime 4 2 4 '
prime small... ...... 2 2 3 4 Pork, large 3 ti 4
Veal

DENEIALL MARKETS.
by the Careast.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MAAKET.—Feb. 16.
Our supply of Wheat from the Farmers at this day's Markel
was good, but the coasting arrivals were very limited, and thi
whole was cleared off on similar terms to last Saturday. Bar.
ley is a very du'l sale, and prices have again declined Is. pc'
quarter. Oats, though in good supply, fully support lasi
week's prices. For Malt there are few buyers, though °fibre(
at Is. per quarter less money. Rye also is a slow Sale, an'
prices is. per quarter lower. In Beans and Peas there i'
little alteration. Flour is in limited request at our quotations.
New. Om.
Wheat, Northumberland .. 40.. 'il's
Norfolk and StiMAL: s4s. 60,...... .56.. ca,.
Berwick and Sc,tch... ....... .- fo ~ - 8....... —.. 56+.
Foreign
Rye, Norfolk and Stators
e'oreign
Barley, Malting, Norfolk .end Sul%lk 133 s 39s ....... —s.:—.s. .`.%
Grinding and Feeding ..
'Wis. his,
Malt, Nora}lk and SwF°lk 51,;. fit 15....... —s. —s.
Beans, Small IS. 425....... --s. —s. ,-
'Del-
- - ,
Pease, White. 10s 4.2 s ..-8., --C.
- Gray ,3s 3(ls
Outs, Northumberland, rotator 23,. 2tis 2ss. 28i.
Feed
--Fo-
reign s —8
Flour per sack)

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS.
To-DAY.—Statistical Society, 8.
To-Mottaow.—Architectural Society, Civil Engineers, Li
mean Society, 8 ; Horticultural Society, 2.
WE I) NES 1)A Y.—Geological Society, half7past. 8-;' -Medico. Dots
nica- Society, and Society of Arts, 8. • ' •-
THURSDAY.-Royal Society, half-past.B; RoyalSocietrof
terature, 4; Society of Antiquaries, 8.
Flt IDAY. —Royal Institution, half-past 8.: ,

MAP OF SAN SiSBASTIAN.-2—We have just bee"
favoured with a view of a well-executed little map, ,publishel
by Spooner, Strand, developing the position of the British :to°
Spanish troops in front of San Sebastian. The different for-
tresses are carefully marked, and .the, notes of reference -stat°
the exact number and the calibre of the guns mounted itycac",;
We recommend this map to the, notice of all WhO 1)(
made thoroughly acquainted with the military
.appearance °j
one of the strongest garrisons in Spain. ' „.„_ •
General Count Sebastiani is still in. Paris, and 35
not expected to return to England until after Easter;
leis Lz-
cellency has frequent audiences of his Majesty Louis PbiliP'.s
The villa to which Lord de licos has retired
Lordship, it seems, is not gone to the Continent) is at I-04,
Ditton, and is the residence of Colonel and 'Lady Georgia°
de Roos.

0 .ving to the land-floods, the backwater flOwinginn.l
the Thames is so great as very much to impede the upstrc-1
vessels, though towed by additional horses.
On Saturday night one of the most spletiditl.s)i,:cee
mens of the Aurora Borealis was observed in the vwestern.oh ,
misphere, and excited considerable attention. The 114,4' .fire
so extremely brilliant that many of the men at the Londonthe
establishments brought out their engines, and started hi en
direction of the supposed conflagration. Towards 01°4-
o'clock the lurid appearance gradually died away, and at hi'
past eleven it was no longer visible.
A select -party has been invited to dine this do c
with the Duke and Duchess of Bedford at Woburn, on II
return from Ireland.

SCOTTISH REFORM MARTYRS

A meeting was held this day at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, Strand, for the purpose of raising a subscription
to erect a monument to Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe
Palmer. William Skirving, Maurice Margaret, and Joseph
Gerrald, the Scottish martyrs who bad suffered in the cause
of Parliamentary Reform, in the years 1793-4. The
meeting was very numerously and respectably attended. At
ono o'clock the Chairman, Joseph Hume, Esq., M. P.,
appeared on the platform accompanied by several Mem-
bers of the Committee, and was received with much cheer-
ing. -Among the gentlensen immediately near the chair, we
observed Mr. Warburton, M.P., Colonel Thomson, M.P.
Sir William Molesworth, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M. P.
Mr. Wallace, M P., Mr. Potter, M. P., Mr. Wilson,
M.P. Mr. Williams, M.P., General Palmer, M.P., Mr.
Thornley, M.P., M. Scholfield, M.P., Mr. J. Gully,
M.P., Mr. Otway Cave, M.P., Mr. Evans, Mr.
M‘Leod, M.P., Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., Mr. J. Wilks,
M.P., Mr. Villiers, M.P., Mr. Gillon, M.P., Mr. J. Craw-
ford, Mr. Fergus O'Connor, Dr. Carpus, Dr. Wade, Mr.
Fearon, John Towel Rutt, Mr. Thatcher, of Boston, Ame-
rica, Mr. Murphy, &e. &c.
Mr. HUME said be was much gratified at seeing so nu-
merous a meeting upon the subject which was to occupy
their attention, because it was one of the very greatest im-
portance to every man. They had met to take into consi-
deration the conduct and sufferings of men who had been
the pioneers of Reform—of men who had led the way to
those improvements in the Government which had lately
been obtained.—(Cheers.) They had seen monuments
erected to conquerors who had not contributed much to
good government or the happiness of the people—
( Hear, hear)—then the question arose whether they had
not been tardy in manifesting their gratitude to those who
put themselves forward in times of difficulty and danger,
for the purpose of obtaining measures for the happiness of
the people.—(Cheers.) They had to look back now 44
• years, when these days of danger existed, and he saw
around him many of those who were experimentally ac-
quainted with the history of Reformers in those days ; but
all present would do well to read over those documents
which had been published and were distributed at the
• door. They would there see how justice and law had
been perverted in Scotland in the cases of the men whose
names were before them. He had been anxious many
years ago, when they raised a monument to the
. memory of Major Cartwright that the same honour should
have been done to these glorious names, but somehow or
another the matter fell through. The question was now
very apropos, for it would lead Reformers to know what
had been done under a Tory Government, and what they
might expect if they should again allow the country to be
cursed with a Tory .Government.---(Long continued
cheering.) In the year 1782, when the question of Reform
was brought forward by Wilks and Sawbridge, Mr. Pitt
and the Duke of Richmond stood forward as the warm ad-
' vocates of as large a measure of Reform as we had since
obtained. The Corresponding Society was formed for
the purpose of carrying out those same principles
as were advocated by Mr:Pitt, for the purpose of obtain-
ing an extension of the suffrage, without which we could
never have obtained good Government. Judge then of the
disgust with which they saw the same Mr. Pitt, as Minis-
ter, punishing by transportation these men for advocating
• the same principles which he advocated only a few years
before—persecuting them to death.—(Groans.) In the
sentence of transportation for fourteen years upon Mr.
Muir turned
.out, in effect, one of death. The first
of these unfortunate men was Mr. Thomas Muir, the
whole of whose history was such a catalogue of mis-
• fortunes as perhaps no man in the world had ever equalled
. in so short a time. This was the first victim.—(Cries of
Shame.")—Thomas Fyshe Palmer was the next. He was
sentenced to seven years' transportation. Ile served out
his time, but died on his way home, having been subject to
the same species of treatment as common felons. The
next was William Skirviug. He was tried on the 6th of
of January, 1794 ; he was sentenced to fourteen years'
transportation. Arrived in New South Wales ; and on
the Ist of March, 1796, be died from the sufferings and
privations be had been subject to ; he was therefore com-
pletely murdered by the treatment which he had received.
The next victim was Maurice Margarot, a merchant in
London. He was tried on the 13th of January for sedi-
tion—was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. He
lived to return to this country in 1810, and he died shortly
afterwards, broken in constitution—ruined in fortune—and
a martyr to the cause of Reform. There were gentlemen
present, who personally knew the great zeal that that per-
son had displayed in the cause of Reform, and they would
state it from their own personal knowledge.—(Cheers.)
The next was Joseph Jerrald, a barrister—be was sentenced
to fourteen years' transportation. He lay in Newgate for
a year, and if, in the course of that time, he would only
have changed his principles, he might have commanded any
terms from the corrupt Government of the day. He had
too high a mind to do so—he was sent to Botany Bay,
_ and there he died.—(Cries of " Shame, shame.") To none
of these unfortunate martyrs in the cause of Reform could
. the meeting give the least consolation—they were long
since at their last account—but it doubtless might afford
great consolation to their surviving relations. With respect
to Mr. Muir, the only relation of his that he (Mr. Hume)
knew of was his nephew, a Barrister, who was present to
assist at the proceedings of the meeting. Skirving had a
son, who had a family, and was living at Fife ;:and doubt-
- less to him the funds that might be collected at the meet-
ing would be of great assistance. Margarot's widow was
: still alive, and doubtless was in the receipt of only a small
income. He had only named these few individuals, be-
. cause the resolutions which would be submitted would give
au opportunity to the different gentlemen the Committee
bad selected to explain their views on the several objects
worthy the attention of the meeting. He (Mr. Hume)
would only suggest that this was not a new question, for in
Parliament it had been brought forward by Lord Lauder-
' dale and Mr. Adam, and there was only one man found to
second it. In the House of Commons Lord Lauderdale
had moved for papers upon the subject, but that motion
bad been rejected. He (Mr. Hume) had communicated
With Lord Lauderdale, who stated to him that he enter-
_ tained the same opinion now as he did then.—(Cheers.)
tf any gentleman would take the trouble of looking at
those opinions, they would see how completely the whole
• priuciple of justice was perverted when these unfortunate
men were condemned. He (Mr. Hume) had written to Mr.
'Adam, who had sent him the debate that took place, and
'• any person reading that debate would see that every por-
-lion of the proceedings that took place was not only illegal
but cruel. It was therefore for the meeting to testify their
- opinion of such proceedings as these. He would now read
the .closing speech of Earl Grey on the debate. What
does he there say of Mr. Pitt, and the others who had
been Reformers ? Mr. Grey said—" That Mr. Pitt had
. acted en their principles at the meeting at the Thatched
House in 178.2; that the doctrines promulgated from
thence by Mr. Pitt and the Duke of Richmond were
of the same tendency as those maintained by these
two unfortunate gentlemen ; nay, that the Duke of' Rich-
mond had gone greater lengths than either of them, in
recommending universal suffrage, and telling the people
that they must depend on their own exertions in procuring
Parliaraentary Reform ; and that the efforts of the Noble
buke and Mr. Pitt, in 1782, on that subject, might be re-
garded as having produced the exertions of Messrs. Muir
and Palmer in Scotland. But what was the result? The
Noble Duke and .Mr. Pitt sat in. his Majesty's Cabinet, and
gave their-sanction for carrying into execution the sentences
Passed on Mr. Palmer. and Mr. Muir, that they should be
banished for fourteen years, and doonfed to live with the
.outcasts of society."---(Hear.) Ile (Mr. Hume) did not
believe there was a Reformer in the country who would not
respond to the proceedings of that day ; and should mo-
numents stand to William Pitt and Henry Dundas, the
men who had conducted all those infamous proceedings
against the early Reformers, and had put ill force the whole
Power of Government to check Reform—should these mo-
tuinents stand, and the men who were the sufferers be
passed by in silence ?—(Cries of " No, no," and cheers.)
• it was owing to their efforts that they bad arrived at their
preowsent happy position, is which they were progressing fast
' tards attaining those reforms that the martyrs had
contended for—(Hear)---and hoped that the di las
procee s
of to-day would convince the Tories that the Reformers to
• 'I Oman were united.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Member for
:outhwark had said a few nights ago that " the Tories
cted with the malignity of one man." It was upon that
' tfilej stood ; and by that they succeeded. Let Reformers
.- °now that example, and by union let them show they were
I,equal in strength to the Tories. They might have
,41a differences, but those differences would not at
sil'a present moment manifest themselves.—(Hear, hear.)
r conclusion lie would say let one heart actuate all Re-
, l_c:vonersi and then' be had not the smallest doubt they
uld triumphantly succeed and carry through all those
u'r,'!ung reforms which were at present so much wanted.
saleers.)
Sir
s.ohition
IV. MOLESWORTII, on rising to move the first Re-
, was received with loud and long-continued cheer-
'
- "g• He said he was truly grateful for time kind manlier
which his name was received. The Committee having
• zeleetea ifim to move the first Resolution lie should coin-
-1..„%h oivyreading it for the meeting. It was this :
! the 7(l-1. That while as Reformers we hail with satisfac-
, e!.,of the great principles of good goyernment, awe
thus ar!ticipate their complete and not distant triumphs, we
• iliase,`!)!7k vpth admiration and gratitude to the heroic conduct of
sas4',l,7a,l,.pCatriets who, in days less happy than our own, were
His frie:uith rights and martyrs in time cause of the people,"
fortunate men Mr.
Hume had stated the history of the un-
rate ; he had told whose memory
they were met to commemo-
rnanner meeting of their sufferings, of the
ienels acindwfhaimeliliethey were torn from the bosoms of their
shores a
an s, and how they were sent exiles to the
unknown country ; bow they were placed