The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-10 00:00:00

THE MARKET S.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
The arrivals of English Grain and Flour last week were
moderate, and of foreign Wheat considerable. The malket
was throughout the wet k nearly as on the preceding Monday.
'This morning the fresh supply of all deser'ptions of Corn has
been again moderate. 'I he millers showed a disposition
readily to purchase the bust samples of new Wheat, and
they gave prices fully equal to last Monday, and for
few of the finest higher rates were obtained ; and
other qualities firmly maintained last quotations. New Barley
comes good, and sold at 345. to 37a. per quarter. New Tick
Beans at 345. ; Old Beans are dull. New Boiling and Grey
Pease maintain, last week's terms ; some few Maples obtained
38s. 'I'1;! o.:t I,ade is firm at the terms of this day
se'eunigh
Flour has met a slack demand at last week's prices. The
duty on Thursday will probably be Is. on Foreign Wheat.
mu:Es ON BOARD OF SHIP.
,Vheat, fled (old) 56, '6, Beans, Small (new) - 36' "
t•
42,.4,-6.
White (01d)... cnq 70,
Red 18:3S' ....
--- Fine 'Bi 10,
Superfine.... Ills 635. HarroW (new) ......... >. 31.
---Wh.te (1533) s2s. sfis.
......--- Fine s7s 6 s. Brank 32,..w—
-. ...... Si,
........ Superfine .624 665. Oats, Feed
Foreign free 66s Sos, New 27..,25h
Rye 5165. 283. Poland ...........s.
Barley 32s. 34a. New 245...„26''
Grinding —s —s. --Potatoe 27s.av •
Malting
Malt. 465. 54s Scotch 28,3°,'
Fine New 56a. 62s Irish 2Us. 22 ..2,,„—
Pease, Grey, New .31s. 365. Flour Town (per sack) 564.6 u '
-- Maple New s. —a. seconds 50-.5,“'
-- White 36s 99s --... Ntrth Country....... 5G5... 10` '
• ;

- Boilers qB6. 40, I Bran 9
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WE"'
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Flour 0
EnglishEngll, 4,723 qrs. 459 qrs. 9,870 qrs. 6,0e6 it
Irish - - 16,336
Foreign 32,313 - 910
SMITHFIELD.
There was a large supply to-day, but trade was dull, al*
though the weather was cooler. Prime Beef declined 4d.
per stone, inferior sorts 2d , as compared with this day week'
No variation occurred in Mutton or Pork. Fine Lamb rose
2d. per stone. Veal was also a little higher. Beef 3s• 2d•
to 43. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 6i. ; Veal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 2d.,
Pork, 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. ; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d.
Beasts, 3,619 ; Sheep and Lambs, 28,200; Pigs, 330;
Calves, 172.

SA39 brio.

FISH MARKET.
Supplies to a fair extent ; but no great consumption of gab
in London just now. Turbot, .53. to 21s. ; Soles,
2s. 63. per pair ; Lobsters, 9d. to 2s. 6d. each: Salmon, Wu'
to Is. 2d. per lb. ; Whitings, 3d. to Bd. each ; Haddock, 4(1. t°
Is. each.

HOP MARKET.
Very few Flops at market, and very little doing. Picking.'
going on well. Prices for new Hops are asked very high. Tb
duty is backed at 165,0001. to 170,0001.

SEED MARKET.
Scarcely anything doing in any kind of Seed. The arl4sllAs
are moderate. Rape and Canary were a little easier; Linseed
and other kinds unaltered.
PROVISION MARKET.
This department continues quiet, and prices, when we wento
to press, were unvaried from those of last week. The stoc'h
are generally heavy.
TALLOW MARKET. The
This market is still in a state of something like fever. 4'l,
prices asked are 525. 6d. on the spot, and 535. 6d. to arri*
in the first three months of next year.
COLONIAL MARKETS.
To-day we hive nothing doing either by public sale (7:
private contract, and things continue very sober. For tb.,,
week there is but a moderate business advertised : for to
we have public sales of 4,700 bags of different kinds of PrPPer;
115 chests of Cassia Lignea, 4,000 bags Java Rice, 20 Wet
of Cloves, 20 cks. of Nutmegs, 10 cks. of Mace, 1,000 bags °
Saltpetre, 4,000 bags' Bengal Sugar, and 130 hhds. of Bar"badoes. The Imports to-day are light.-reerrJr

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, SEPT. 8.
We had again a small supply of Wheat at market to-al
from the farmers, but very large coasting arrivals, which I'll
a fair demand, at a declind. of 2s. to 3s. per quarter on the rat
ml
of this day se'nnight. For Rye the sale was limited• fite
prices rated is. per quarter lower Oats, though in awdera
supply, scarcely maintaiuc(i. our last quotations. Malt
had soft
fair request, at lato prices. For New Barley we
~13", ea.
inquiry for huli!,,g, but Old samples were quite negle', s
In Be'.;:s and Pease there was little passing. Flour Mee"
°let! sale, though offered at a reduction of 4s. per sack.
r.ew Olt.
Wheat, Northumberland a.... 565. 1,75.
—s - '•lNorfolklk must Sutlolk o.ls 68s —B ---'.
........-.. Berwick and Scotch 584. Gas —s• `•—
Foreign ,, s
...
~.... ....s.
Rye, Nsrfslk Au d Suflolk .. 36, 40s —s. --1. ~.
---Foreign —s. —s —s4 —5.5
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... SOs. :=3s ..8. ....4' ',l
- Grinding and Feeding 29s. 31s.
Malt, Norfolk and Sutfolk sss 59s --- —4. ..
Beans, Small —s. c„..„. 40s. Vs.
Tick s. s 395415.
Pease, White 184 42s —ll4 —4'
_ Gray Ms 405....... —s."4.
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe '26s. 29; —s. ---s*
Feed
Foreign
—s. —s --s. —4.
Flour (per sack) 495. 53s —l.
DERBY CORN MARKET, SEPT. 7. L.,,i,
Our Cora Market was very dull to-dky and yen), little !got
ness done, Wheat was ss. to 6s. lower than last week",n, tO
Wheat, 655. to 695. ; Oats, 255. to 283. ; Barleys"--*
365. ; Beans, 435. to 455.

CORNWALL MARXETS.
(Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.)

Wheat.

oat,

Truro ti• d. to
flelsrone
St. Austell...
Bodmln — 0
Liskeard - 0
Launceston — 0
Carnelford - 0
P,nzance 2l 0
24 0

s. d. to s d. s. d. 1010 0
O 12 OA 8 g
092 0 8 v
• 9 6 0 8°
O 9 6 0 7
O 9 6 ° 0
O 9 0 —0 8 0
O 10 0 7 0 0
O 11 0 °

r. d.
25 0
e 5 0
25 6
24 6
22 I)
9, t 6
24 0
26 0

LIVEXPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 8,',/ith'
Our Cotton Market continues perfectly steady, 11°,00
standing a poor ilemand. The transactions of this day
oe
limited, only
Surat, 41d., ;30 B:,bia, Bad. ;70 Pernarn. 91; 2'lsp
2.500 bags having met with pnrcliasers,
American, 53-d. 7i1,-d.---Total, 2,500.

TRAGICAL EVENT.

rIVE CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHER ref,b,f`"
BY POISON, WILFULLY ADMINISTEIIr-
THE MOTHER. a oe
Y;octioari ttiolenes,t,atieicho.finmaornalastiotiiltahl issecnoseu,ntry. no,rie
soblein•ara4nidi chartle';:dist
its community, it seldom falls to the lot of a public Pure id
to lay before his readers the details of so heart-rendiei, our
horrifyine• a tragedy as that of which it is this wee
melancholy duty to communicate the particulars. refer
The scene of the shocking occurrence to which wi:0006:
is a small hamlet, called Fairhurst, in the township 0' 00°
nargh, between eight and nine miles from this tow°,ivife,
about six miles from Garstang Edward Sanderson, his plsre
and tkieir fire children, resided. at Fairhurst, in which °D
Satelersoa has lately been occupied as a day laboureri. bac
Thursday morning last, Sanderson went to his we'. d fire
was t expec.ed home to dinner ;ha left his wife au tae
children in their usual state of health, and did not °AI,OO
a•)3thing particular in the demeanour of the latter. .1
half-past 12 o'clock at noon of the same day (Thur,daL,'',.s,l
John Brewer, of L t gletCoite, was assing Sarl"-.rste"
house, when he was called to by Mrs. Sanderson, wh° eate°
to him, that they, (meaning herself and children) one'
s ,me pu 'ding for dinner, aid she was afraid there wssed hi°
thing in it which had poisoned them. She also request
chit'
chit-
to go for a surgeon. Mr. Brewer, at this time, saw t° Sick,
dren, and they, as w, II as their mother, appeared to be
and the younger children en re vomiting,
n
A medical man, resident in the neighbourlicod, was ir 05
tender:cc before one o'clock, and he found both the met"- send
children in so dangerouS a state that he was induced t° both
for Messrs. Smith and Clarkson, surgeons, of Gars:sr-Sidi&e
of which gentlemen tench red their assistance with alt Pea;otief#
promptitude. The medical gentlemen, by use ofbeie vik
and other means, exerted themselves in every possi ossible;
during the afiernok, to mitigate the sufferings, and if Poly
preset ve the lives of t}:e ill-faked family, but mela
relate, their efforts were utterly fruitless and unavailingo/41
The names of the children were—Eleanor, 12 Yearsisels„,o
Daniel James, 9 ; Margaret, 6 ; Robert 4; and Which
years of age. Previous to the shocking affair of wrijoyele:
write, they were all promising children, and in the e..it b),
of go .d heath. About five o'clock, Robert, the youni°;ved,
but one, after enduring the most acute sufferng, gres,,
very short time afterwards, Williams also expired in" intelle
agony. At this period, we understand from aorly that
ligetot informant, who was present during "press, t'os
whole of the time the dreadful drama was in proghe resd
the scene was at once awful and harrowing. [I. terr°Ac:
and sobs of the three surviving children—the geast4, tbe
and death-stoicken appearance of the (bit-4g mother-7 tile :to
spair and alternately wild and subdued distraction °or jefiltho
Meted father—the lifeless remains of the tw°
who, a few hours before, were " all gay with li,c,ators, rot
significant and horror-excited silence of the see Tie effelne,
salted, in their united influence upon the mind, t way 5° of
that appalling thrill and heavy emotion which we
sEhich
times see portrayed in the pages of romance, but
rarely used as the representatives of reality.
they
The next two children, Daniel James and IV'ar' .„Iten
guished in great anguish for about an hour longer' bad
also died nearly simultaneously. Not a long A
last
after the portals of life were closed upon the twned
victims, ere Eleanor, the eldest of the dire-fate had
brea:hcd her last. Long before her dissolutiolhas fast ;0,
come quite plain that the iron hand of death
I:.cderod try
closing within its grasp the mother of the five.ll'T t"eeX
cents. Bofore her death this unhappy woman st bad tor
consequence of her being in debt "her neighbouraut so,
senic their bucks on her, and that she had, thereforeVron.
senic into the pudding to poison herself and elii‘ife. dare
also made some communications to the Rev. oor creator
we have not heard to what effect. The Piclock.
She
died in excruciating torture, between 9 and 11 °a.
was 32 years of age. st/PP
be Oce
This dreadful catastrophe has, as may
_... and sew
m createdii i
nthe
the stir,ownagirtsyt
„deugrree degree
it of
occcounsrt‘cdr.n ati no
Idens
weorp;
that, a short time ago, Sanderson kept They dis#
which was principally managed by his wice•
~_,iged to n%
not successful in lousiness, and were °' 1,,
of about 401., which they were. unabledecease° 0 th 4
the mind of the
continue the shop, having incurred debts
tot
ot "d-iisvreabcatorgace:
to OP°
This, it appears, preyed upon
• and she has frequently of late been been heard
.
--
most melancholy forebodings,—Preston ele•