The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-07 00:00:00

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. Feast.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to a. s. to a. a. to a. a. li. f
llaston
Gainsborough — 55 28 20 42 --
Grantham
Grimsby
llorncastle 42 Gil Z 2 37 j2O 24 38 42
Lincoln 44 59 91 32 14 25 40 44 --
Spalding -
Stamford ll 56 28 33 21 25 36 44 .....
York 5O 56 26 34 24 20 32 44
IRISH MARKETS.

CORK MARKETS.—Feb S.
Wheat (per 205t.)...228 6d. tors. 9d.1 Oats (per 14st.)
Barley (per 16st.) ...11 0 12 6 1 Flour (per cwt,) 7ll 20 0
Oatmeal (per cwt.) los. Od. to 16e. Od.
Beef, 4d. to bd. ; Mutton, 4d. to 6d. ; Veal, 4d. to 641. ;
Pork, 44. to ; Fresh Butter, 10d. to Ild. per lb.
PRICE OF BUTTER.
To the Merchants.

To the County

FirstQtudity _____
925. . __
SU
Second 9O 6O
Third
Fourth 69
Fifth 6l 53
Sixth

CLONMELL MA RKETS.— Fob. 3.
Per Cwt.
s. d. s. d. a. d. s. A.
New Butter BO oto 84 0 Hides (raw) 0 to '24
Oatmeal 12 6 13 6 Bacon Pigs 33 0 34 6
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Rendered Lard 0 44 0 Heads '25 0
Per Bag. 0
Flour, Second ... . . .. 34 0 I Flour, Thirds 0 14 0
—Household...— 0 32 01 Fourths 1.1. 0 --
Per Barrel.
Rapeseed 20 0 0 I Barley 12 013 tl
Bere 8 4 10 0 Coals
Per Stone. 4 6
Wheat 0 14 016 1 Tallow (rough) 4 0 3
Oats,

A FEROCIOUS WOLF.

(Frem the Journal of Grenoble.)
On the 30th of January, about ten o'clock at night 01,
peasants of the village of Avers were awakened by the noise 0
the church bells, which announced a farm on fire. Men ar4
women from all quarters instantly hurried to the somewhat distant
spot, forgetting the perils that beset their path, in the middle
of the night, at a season the severity of which had driven all the
famished wolves of the mountains to prowl in the plains, and even
around the villages. A father and son of the name of Josepll,
and another named Alloard, having set out before the otheisci
and being separated by a short distance from the others, had
nearly reached the bridge of Vareille, on the river EYbur°l4
when a furious she wolf rushed from the wooded part of tbe
road on old Joseph, threw him down, and devoured his face
and tore his clothes in tatters The unfortunate man had o°
defence against the ferocious animal, and his two companions
could do nothing but join their cries of despair to his. a
Nevertheless, the wolf abandoned its prey, and disappear°
for some time in the thickness of the wood ; but soon after it
came back more ardent, more formidable than ever. At thi,
instant many other inhabitants ran to the cries of Jasepb
his two friends, and were going to transport the wounde.,
man to the next village, when the wolf returning, rushed °"
the group. consisting of from sixteen to seventeen individuals'
tearing them one after the other. Surprised, without arlog9
and in the extreme of fright, the unfortunate peasants bad 0°
other resource than the obscurity of the night to escape the
attacks of the famished beast ; many of them, horrd")
wounded, lay in the snow, whilst the others tried to save
themselves by flight.
The scene of carnage and frightful desolation had lasted
no less than a quarter of an hour, when a young man, call
Correard, reached the spot with a hatchet, which he ha
taken when going to the fire. Without hesitating, tho
courageous peasant attacked the furious wolf, who, se°,,i9,l
this new enemy, abandoned the other victims for him, 1"-ci
Correard was fortunate enough to lay the furious animal delst
at his feet. A great number of the peasants were broug"t
home in a dreadful state of mutilation. It is to be hoped th 6
the wolf was not mad.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—An amusing novelty
was presented here last night, called 'Tis She ; or, Maid,
Wife, and Widow. Mrs. Stirling enacted three characters
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Miss Raveldeane (the maid), Mrs. Gabbleton (the wife), an
Lady Eliza Blackleigh (the widow), which are not, as is COlor:
mon in dramas of this description, the assumption of three PF
sonages by one, for the purpose of attaining some otherwlsc
unattainable object, but are three distinct persons of t'iv
drama, which as many actresses might have represented, oncf,
that, being sisters, the exact personal resemblance to ea
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other is of material consequence to the working of the
and, therefore, as the author of the piece has so contrived
that no two of them ever appear in the same scene, the ills
sion is more perfectly preserved by the three being undertalo°
by one representative, which, though it had the effect of (Wes-
sionina• some perplexity during the performance of the piece"
was sufficientlye cleared up at its denouement. Colonel Carlete°
(J. Webster), is the lover of the fair widow, but encountering
alternately the maid and the wife, and believing them to be one
and the same person, his addresses to each lead to laughably
confusion and rencontres of a no pleasant nature with Cherie;
Dorrington (Mr. Sidney), the lover of Sophia, Mr. Genrg,
Gabbleton (Mr. Wright), the husband of Mrs. G., and Alit
miral Triton (Mr. Brookes), the guardian of the three 13,15
at last the Colonel succeeds in obtaining the hand of ,"
inamorata. Webster did the little he had to do with juag;
ment, and Wright, perhaps, never before played so quietly
well. Mrs. Stirling was naive in the hoyden maid, gabbld'
after the " butterwoman's rate of market" in the wife, and
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looked and played the lively widow to the life ; and at the en a
of the piece she was called before the curtain to be congratulate
The river Thames yesterday was blocked up with ice
several times, but the ebbing and flowing of the tide occasinei
ally left openings in the stream, through which a few c°;_
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craft and boats were navigated with some difficulty, but 1"
other business on the river was at a stand still. There was ,8
passage over the ice to and from the Tender ship off t'' f
Tower, during the day, but the ice is too irregular to allow 0
any one to skate or slide over it. The bights of the Thames
in the pool and reaches below bridge are covered with fields
ice and icebergs piled one upon another, and a long and raP!„
thaw alone will open the navigation of the river. One Or
got into the London Dock on Sunday night, and another COI
Oporto on Monday evening. These are all the arrivals, Ola
the exception of three steamers at Blackwall, we have bear,
of for the last two days. The weather-wise say there is „
probability of the discontinuance of the frost for some
and we may, therefore, expect a much longer interruption 1"
commerce and the business of the docks and port of Londe°.
There would have been, aro this, a frost fair on the Thanleq
between London and Blackfriars-bridges, but the removal 0,
old London-bridge and the starlings, which in olden tirn_
obstructed the current as well as the ice, and the substitutio;
of a wide and clear water way under the present bridge, b
prevented any extraordinary accumulation of ice above brill,
and it now passes freely up and down with the tides, 0 1
occasionally causing a block from side to side.
The mention of broken necks reminds mt., of an
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anecdote of a hard-riding Leicestershire grazier, in the days °,l
the renowned Mr. Meynell. Getting a bad fall one day, an
being picked up apparently lifeless by some of the field v
whom he was unknown, they began to pull him violently le
his heels and his head, supposing, by the unnatural position if`,
the latter, that his neck was dislocated. Coming to him° a
however, during the operation, he thus addressed the g°oos.
Samaritans who had stopped to afford him relief,—a thing rt...
always to be looked for when hounds are going the [iCC
" Don't yo pull, gentlemen, I was born so." The fact wag',ns
lie came into the world like a wry-necked sheep, with '
head over one shoulder.—Nimrod.