The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-02 00:00:00

fA RKET.
of Grain t,

Wheat. Barley.
68s. 06. 40s. Od.
58 0 33 0
46 0 25 0
i'age price of Wheat
PRICES OF PROVISIONS,
Beef, per lb. Os. sd. to Os. 8.1. Freshßutter,l4....—s.lo.l. to Is. 2.1
Mutton 041 0 7 Salt Ditto—.— (1 11 1 0
Veal 0 6 0 9 Ditto, per cvs 0 100 0
0 5 0 7 Eggs, per d0e....,. II 0 1 1
Limb, per or. ........ 1 6 3 0 OatStraw(kpl.)-14 0 1;
fallow, (1 30 0 Wheat Ditto --13 0 15 6
Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 Si Barley Ditto 0 12 6
Potatoes, 141 b. 0 6 0 0 flayAserst.--......... 1 5 1 8

First
Second
Third
Ave,

Oats. Pease. Beans
34s Od. 525. Od. 52s Od
20 0 46 0 40 0
22 0 42 0 42 0

~.31.23. 1O d.

EDINBURGH MEAL
There was a middling supply of Ch
sales were rather heavy.

MARKET—Dee. 27.
dineal at this day's market, and the

Pm' Sack of 28016. Imp.
First Oatmeal
Second ditto .

Per Stone of 14th. Imp.
First Oatmeal .£0 2 6
Second ditto
Barlcyineal 0 I 10
Peasem cal
I,ls.3d,lfis —4Ol, 19,—Pas I, '2os

Barleymcal.
Peasenotal 1 14 0

Pot Barl,y—No. I,per cwt. li2s.--‘2d'

GLASGOW CORN

A moderate business doing in C
Wheat, is er s. d. s. d.
British, old 34 0 to :If; 0
new
Canada, free :l4 0 36 0
Irish
Barley, per 32u1h
English — 0 0
Scottish 25 0 29 0
Irish

CORNWALL MARKETS.
(Calculated at '24 gallons to the bushel.)

Wheat. Barley. Oat,.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to 1. d:.
Trur 0....
Helstone - 0 8 6
St. Austell t— 0 00 6 11 9 6 -,- 0 8 6
liodmin
Liskeard 0 17 0— 0 9 6 0 7 6
Launceston
Cainelford l6 0 19 0— 0 10 0 7 0 8 0
Penzance l9 0 21 0 0 11 0 0 9 6
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, DECEMBER 31.

We still continue to have a very fair demand for Cotton, and
prices have been fully supported for all kinds throughout the week.
Further arrivals of new Boweds having been suspended by adverse
winds, those at present on the market are going off at better prices,
and Egyptian is rather dearer. Speculators have taken 150 Surats.
1,000 Americans, and 50 Maranhams, and exporters nothing. 3,600
Americans, 250 Carthagenas, 100 Pernams, 200 Bahias, and 150
Egyptians have been forwarded into the country this month unsold.
The import this week is 3,246 bags. The sales are—
d. d.
150 Sea Islands.... 22 to 33
20 Stained ditto... 12 —l3
9,500 Boweds 73 —ll
Uplands 0 0
1,520 Alabamas 6a _lO3
5,230 Orleans 7*-11i
1,070 Surats
670 Bahias .. 9 —l2
- Carthagenas 0 0
- Bengals

d. d.
530 Maranhams lO to 13
570 Pernams 104 —l2*
Madras 0 0
100 West India 0 7*
Barbadoes
100 Demerarai'
1,030 Egyptians - 15
50 Peruvians
Laguayras 0 0
80 Bahamas

Total, 20,620 bales.
There has been a- good business doing in our Cotton-market, to
:he extent of nearly 3,000 bales, at full the prices of 'yesterday ; if
any change, American descriptions are dearer; particular94)f the
sales are not reported to-day.

Bales.
Taken on speculation this year . .
Same in 1835 ... 142,800

Forwarded to the country unsold this year 50,760
Same in 1835

Increase of import this year compared with the
same date last year
Increase of stock

Increase of quantity taken for consumption
Decrease of quantity taken for export

Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and
from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 24th
inst., and of. the Imports and Exports for the same period last
year:—

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The Corn wallis, 74, Capt. Sir Joshua Rowley, '.dart., is
ordered from Lisbon.
The Thunderer and Edinburgh were at Gil-raltar on the
16. th instant, and were to touch at Lisbon for the, purpose of
transferring their Royal Marines to Sir William' t:f.'N's
squadron, should the Rear-Admiral consider it desirable t'
strengthen this doscription of force on that station. The
Thunderer would then proceed to Plymouth, to be paid off,
and the Edinburgh, with the company of Royal Marine
Artillery on board, to this port.
The Inconstant, 36, Capt. Pring, sailed on Monday from
Plymouth, for the coast of Spain, and the Speedy cutter on
Thursday, for the same destination.
The Snake, 16, has been commissioned at Chatham, by
Commander Alex. Milne ; the Scylla, 18, at Plymouth, by
Commander the Hon. Joseph Denman ; and the Trinculo,
16, also at Plymouth, by Commander Henry E. Coffin.
The Messenger steamer proceeded to-day to Plymouth,
to be permanently kept there as a tug-boat for that har-
bour. The Pluto steamer is also ordered to this port, to be
solely employed in local matters. It is somewhat surprising
that this arrangement has not been earlier adopted.
The Sarearang, 28, Captain Broughton, will proceed to
Sp thead in a few days ; her destination is believed to be
South America.
The Atholl, troop-ship, sailed on Tuesday for Cork, As-
cension, and the Cape of Good Hope. She takes out stores
for Ascension, and 10,000/. to the Cape.
'The Carysfort, '26, Captain Martin, is expected at Spit-
head shortly, on her way to the Mediterranean.
The Confiance steamer is in this harbour, bound to Fal-
mouth, to convey the next Malta mail, but having been in-
jured in her quarter bulwarks and stern by a ship running
aboard of her in the River Thames, it will be Monday or
Tuesday before she can proceed.
The Echo steamer, bound to the West Indies, was com-
pelled to put into Lisbon by the severe westerly gales ;
when the last packet came away she was about to proceed
to her destination.

The North Star, Pelorus, and Pantaloon were taken out
of dock on Tuesday, and the Brisk was taken into dock ;
the latter is intended for service on the coast of Africa. _

The crews of the Fairy and Mastiff surveying vessels
have this week been brought to this port from the River by
the Messenger steamer, to fit out the Ariadne (intended as
a coal depot at Alexandria), and proceed with her to Leith,
where she is to take in her cargo of coals.
The crew of the Princess Charlotte, bound to Hobart
Town, with convict boys, having reported the ship unsea-
worthy for such a lengthened voyage, Admiral Sir Frede-
rick Maitland has directed a careful survey to be made of
her condition by two officers of the dockyard, and upon
their report will depend whether she is to proceed.
At Spithead—Wolverine, Princess Charlotte convict

ship.
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Samarang, Pantaloon, and Seaflower.
PROMOTIONS AED APPOINTMENTS—Lieut. S. 'G. Fre-
mantle is promoted to the rank of Commander ; Mr. Ben-
jamin Bynoc, Mr. Alex. Baxter, and Mr. Walter T. Bah
lantine, to the rank of Surgeon ; Mr. George Doubt, to
the rank of Purser. Commander A. Milne, to the Snake ;
Commander Hon. J. Denman,• Mr. Geo. Thos. Plumply,
Purser, Mr. James F. Boxer, Acting Master, W. Junes,
Boatswain, G. C. Hurst, Carpenter, to the Scylla ; Com-
mander Henry E. Coffin, W. L. Brown, Master, Mr. Isaac
llolmes, Purser, to the Trinculo ; Lieut. W. Luce, to the
Pigeon ; Lieut. John Tyssen, to the Stag ; Lieut. W. Lo-
vitt (who some years ago distinguished himself in defending
the Marquis of Huntley, transport, from an attack of
pirates, on the coast of Africa), to be agent for transportson
board the Hotspur, fitting at Deptford ; Mr. W. W. Wal-
ker, College, Midshipman, to the Harlequin ; Mr. Thomas
'l'ickell, College Mate, to the Excellent ; Mr. E. M. Hodge,
Mate, to the Seaflower ; Mr. G. M. Jackson, Midship-
man, to the Samarang ; Mr. Abel Parker, Gunner, to the
Charybdis.
ROYAL MARINES.—Mr. E. H. Pellew Usher, to be
Second-Lieutenant.

PROMOTIONS DURING THE QUARTER (exclusive of those
mentioned above.)—To the rank of Captain, W. P. Ha-
milton ; Commander, James Edw. Parbly ; retired Com-
mander, William Gibbons and William Parsons ; Lieute-
nants, Walter Reid, Lord Henry Russell, H. M. Tylden,
J. A. Mends, and Cyril Jackson ; Assistant-Surgeons, J.
Shaw, John Tennant, M.D., A. D. Bain, M.D., A. D.
Kerr, M.D., Henry Trevan, S. W. Webb, and John
Thompson, M.D. ; Purser, George Dix.
The following Table contains the number of Officers
on the Navy List of January in each of the years men-
tioned, from 1816 to 1837 :-
1816 1831 1834 1835 1836 1837

Flag Officer. s 343 216 193 175 162 154
Captains BB9 833 792 781 762 759
Commanders 894 1192 1144 1140 1119 1105
Lieutenants 3776 3357 3155 3093 3050 2994
Marine Officers 1336 893 856 837 833 831
Masters 693 524 485 481 477 454
Medical Officers 1537 1153 1017 1026 1020 977
Pursers 957 646 619 602 593 578
Chaplains.. 62 71 63 62 61 69

10487 8885 8324 8198 8077 7921
In the course of the year the List has been reduced by
the demise of Officers as follows :-8 Flag Officers, 15
Captains, 51 Commanders, 88 Lieutenants, 18 Masters,
42 Medical Officers, and 27 Pursers.

We have accounts from Rio Janeiro, which state
that from the Ist of January to the 14th of Dec., the ex-
ports of coffee had been 533,832 bags, against 467,824 in
1835. The new crop was considered two months behind
its usuallime.

FIRE IN MAY-FAIR AND Loss OF LIFE.—
About a quarter before three o'clock in the morning of
yesterday (New Year's Day) a disastrous fire, accompanied
by the destruction of life, broke out in the upper part of
No. 4, Chapel-street West, the house of a lady named
Avens, being the last in the row of houses which form the
western side of the quadrangle round Curzon Chapel, May-
fair. It is understood that the fire originated from the in-
discretion of one of the inmates, a gentleman lodging in the
house, who sat up reading very late, and his candle by some
accident ignited the furniture of his room. The flames
burst out with great violence and raged furiously, threaten-
ing at one time to destroy the entire row ; but, providen-
tially, the wind being northerly, was in a direction to keep
the fire off from the other and northers houses of the street.
The fire was very nearly, if not entirely, confined to the
house in which it broke out, the party wall between it and
No. 3 being very strong. But we have to state the melan-
choly fact, that a young servant girl, about 15 or 16 years
old, was burnt to death in the house, and about halt-past
ten in the morning her body was found amonc, the ruins of
the attic floor, which, with the roof and part of' the second
floor, had fallen in upon the first floor. So great was the
alarm, that the Hon. Miss Brande, who resides at No. 2,
and who is in an ill state of health, was instantly removed
by her servants to Chesterfield-street, the house of her re-
lative, Lord Deere, who came to Chapel-street several times
to observe the progress of the flames. Property was moved
from the other houses in the street ; and the family of Mr,
Holloway, the wine merchant, took shelter at a friend's in
the neighbourhood. Dr. Wilson, of 39, Curzon-street, the
adjoining house to Chapel-street West, thought it prudent
to remove the ladies of his family to a house a few doors
off ; but we believe they returned in the course of the
night. Mrs. Lane Fox was much alarmed for the safety of
her father, Mr. Bulkeley ; the back of her house in Curzon-
street, in which part his bed-room is, nearly adjoining the
rear of the house in Chapel-street, where the fire was.
This lady, at such an unseasonable hour, and in the incle-
ment state of the weather, went herself, through the snow
to ascertain the direction the flames were taking, and to
obtain admission for her father at Sir Henry Halford's, on
the opposite side of Curzon-street, should it ultimately be
necessary to remove Mr. Bulkeley from her house, which
happily was not the case. Several gentlemen lodging in the
neighbourhood gave active assistance in working the engines
until a sufficient number of police and firemen ar 91,0
flames were completely subdued between five
-^i^g. The house was insured in the County
and the furniture, &.c., in the Proteeter 011iee.

The regularity of communication from Ireland and Wales
through Shrewsbury, to London, has this week been
slightly delayed by an obstacle as remarkable as its rare.
On Saturday it was announced by London papers, that
snow storms elsewhere were impeding communication ;
and on Sunday we received a partial visitation in the fall
of a slight storm of snow, and delay of the mail from Lon-
don for upwards of three hours. On next mail-day
(Tuesday) no coach arrived, and the Welsh, the Che-
shire, and all the surrounding posts were delayed to await
its arrival. Wednesday passed over without the arrival
of a mail till midnight, when the Holyhead Mail reached
Shrewsbury, and put an end to the excessive suspense in
which the inhabitants were held for the preceding days.
The Ludlow Mail to Bishop's Castle did not arrive on
Tuesday, nor Wednesday, till two on Thursday morning.
A gentleman having the misfortune to be a passenger in
the Shrewsbury and Holyhead Mail, has given us the fol-
lowing detail of his adventures, during a journey of fifty-
two miles from London to Shrewsbury. lie started on
Monday night at the usual hour, the mail proceeding un-
dc. a storm of snow, to within three quarters of a mile of
St. Alban's, and nearly an hour was lost in going that dis-
tance. At St. Alban's the Shrewsbury and Holyhead
mail found several coaches and mails, the passengers by
which wen determined net to proceed, the coaches being
h covered with snow, and the mail-bags removed. The
of the Holyhead mail, however having ascer-
tained that his passengers were not unwilling to risk
the journey, set off from St. Alban's with six horses,
followed closely; by " The Bruce," Manchester coach ;
and having forced their way through several feet of
snow, they reached the bottom of the descent from
St. Alban's, where they found themselves completely
enguiphed, the snow being drifted several feet above
the mail-bags, piled on the top of the coach. To return to
St. Alban's now became impossible, and the guards having
supplied themselves with all the comforts the passengers
could lend from their stores, took up their watch, blun-
derbuss in hand, over the mail-bags, till Providence.
should send them relief. Meantime the passengers were
making the best of their way, in the mail-track, back to
" The Bruce," about 100 yards behind then,' the gen-
tlemen gallantly carrying by turns, the hapless ladies,
whose heads were considerably under the snow, when not
exalted on their deliverers' shoulders. In this plight they
all forced their way in safety, about one in the morning, to
the Pea Hen, at St. Alban's, where they :found the pas-
sengers, guards, and coachmen of three mails and four stage
coaches already in possession of the premises, and were glad
to receive the accommodation of a chair by the fire-side in
safety, after their toils. Several hundred hands meantime
were employed by turns in clearing the road, and at
noon on Tuesday they succeeded :in rendering it passable.
The Shrewsbury mai,l with its associates, then started,
and with great labour reached Daventry by ten at night,
where all further progress was ended by the impassable
state of the roads. Next morning at nine, another attempt
, was made to get onwards with six horses, and a mile and a
half was travelled with vast labour. Near the turnpike
gate two horses were taken from the Liverpool;mail, which
ran in the rear of the Shrewsbury mail, and yoked on be-
fore the six already dragging our mail, when suddenly the
bars of the coach snapped, and the six leading horses
bounded into the snow, leaving the mail and the two
wheelers in the midst of the drift! In this plight they
remained till fresh bars, &c. were brought from the town
of Daventry ; and the horses being re-attached, they ex-
tricated themselves from their perils, and proceeded on-
wards to Coventry, keeping the horses' heads above
the drift by riding on the footpaths, and having men in
every deep spot, scattering the snow, which in many places
reached some feet higher than the roof of the coach, though
in the adjoinings fields not a foot of snow covered the soil.
At Coventry the road became comparatively clear, and
the Shrewsbury and Holyhead mail, which kept the lead
of all the other vehicles, was greeted all along the road by

the cheers and welcome of the inhabitants. At nine
minutes before midnight on Wednesday night this mail-
coach arrived at the Lion-yard in this town : having con-
sumed fifty-two hours in the performance of this desperate
journey, which the Wonder coach had formerly rattled
over in twelve hours.—Shrewsbury Chronicle of Dec. 30.
All the mails due on Saturday morning arrived in the
course of the day. The Edinburgh mail-bags were the
last received, and were brought up in a postchaise and four
from Newcastle, where the coach was obliged to be left.
The bags reached the Post-office at eight o'clock at night.
Several of the mails which arrived:late on Saturday af-
ternoon cduid not be sorted in time for delivery that
night, but it was announced that letters brought by mails
not delivered up to ten o'clock on Sunday morning might
be had on application at the window of the Post-office
between ten and two o'clock in the day.
None of the north-country coaches had been able to
get beyond Newcastle on their way to town.
The snow is reported to be cut through on the lines of
road, so that traffic, it is hoped, will be generally resumed.
The snow has mostly consolidated into an ice-like state, and
is not likely to be affected by storms, so as to form into drifts
afresh. There does not appear to have been any heavy and
extensive fall of snow since Sunday week, except on the Yar-
mouth and Ipswich roads, where the guards who arrived on
Saturday night report a fresh fall of about a foot in depth.
The guards all describe the cold as beyond anything they

had experienced for years.
A gentleman who left Sheffield by the Hope coach of
Sunday week reports the coach did not complete its journey
till Saturday afternoon.
Between Nottingham and Mansfield, close by the forest,
they came up with three coaches blocked in the snow.
There was only a labourer's cottage for miles around, in
which the passengers had sought shelter. It was a
place with only one chamber above, and where ginger-beer
and cakes were sold. In all sixteen passengers were as-
sembled here, with a prospect of staying •several days.
Fortunately a pig had just been killed by the cottager!, so
that the supply of meat was good, there was scarcely any
bread in the house or hope of getting it. At places around
the snow was lying nine feet deep. The Hope left Mans-
field with eight horses, and was driven into Nottingham
with ten. At one place they picked up a poor boy nearly
perished with cold. The boy was got up by a gentleman
. .

jumping down behind while the coach was still moving, for
the coachman declared he could not come to a dead stop,
as if he did he should not be able to get the wheels in
motion afterwards.

The Dover mail bags were sent out on Saturday night
by a steamer, which had orders to touch and leave bags at
Margate and Ramsgate.
All the mail coaches due yesterday morning got in with
comparatively little difficulty. The latest arrival was the
Glasgow, which got in at half past three o'clock in the
afternoon. The Exeter, the Leeds, and the Liverpool, due
on Saturday night, came in during the night. As usual,
none brought bags except Government despatches, or those
bags of mails previously due which amid the confusion were
left behind.
The mail coaches were all started at seven o'clock last
night, but took out no bags.
The Dover land mail, which came in yesterday, had
only reached Canterbury on the outward journey, and had
thence sent the mail-bags on horseback, with instructions
to spare no expense in making the remaining distance. The
result, of course, cannot yet be known in town.
At midnight on Friday a mail-guard was sent out from
London by the Dart steamer, with instructions to touch at
Margate and Ramsgate, and there leave the bags for those
places, and that for Dover, which was to be carried for-
ward by land, and from Ramsgate to proceed himself
direct for Calais in the steamer. The passage to Ramsgate
was most stormy. The Captain was unable to put in at
Margate, and only after great difficulty got in at Ramsgate
at half past ten o'clock on Saturday morning. It was then
blowing a perfect hurricane, and the Captain refused to go
onward to Calais. On Saturday night the Lord Melville
came in, having been from Thursday night making the
voyage from London to Ramsgate. Yesterday morning,
the passengers by the Melville having been transferred to
the Dart, the Captain of the latter agreed to make the at-
tempt to get into Boulogne, the harbour of Calais being
still deemed impracticable. The bags were accordingly
sent on by the Dart, and the guard, returning to London
by the Lord Melville, reached the Custom House by half-
past six o'clock last night.
The guard reports that coming up the river yesterday
nothing was to be heard of but vessels sunk or ashore.
There had been a fresh fall of snow between Canter-
bury and Dover, and the roads were again blocked.
The provincial papers tire full of accounts of the preva-
lence and effects of the snow in all parts of the kingdom.
The particulars they give, however, do not present
any features, of interest, further than that, during the
storm, there has been almost an entire stoppage of com-
munication between the different districts, 119 between the
country and the metropolis. With the exception of tip.;
few melancholy instances which we have detailed wittlin
the last few days, however, we do not read of any e- ' re
ti
• a f life, but the 'damage to properr,.. and

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