The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-22 00:00:00

PROVISION MARKET.

Owing to the frost the stocks are not large. The demand continues
good, at d Tv! en we left the market today, prices remained generally as
last week.

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
The stt?ply today good, but owing to the sudden thaw there was
i3srcely any business done; prices much as on Saturday.

TALLOW AND OIL ➢IARKET.
P.Y. te.day is 4 Ss.
Fish Oils are on the decline.
Seal at 401. to 41/.

Cod has been sold at 381., and Pale

METAL MARKET.

There is something like a general move in this market, and prices
of most kinds may be regarded as advancing. Spelter is an exception, it
fetches now only 151. per ton, which is lower.

COLONIAL MARKETS.

There were no public Sales to-day of Colonial produee except of Wool,
which do not begin until the evening. This commodity sells briskly
at 4d. per lb. advance on last Sale prices. There is a fair business ad-
vertised for the week; the principal Sales are of Mauritius Sugar, Salt-
petre, Wool and Drugs. Now the weather has changed so much busi-
ness of all kinds may be expected to revive. In Canadian produce, we
have to notice that Canadian Balsam has risen from 3s. to 7s. per lb.
within the last month.

INDIGO SALE.—(FIFTH DAY.)
This sale progresses to-day much as it has done in every respect
before, which we have reported. If any alteration in price, the article
is a little cheaper.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

DERBY CORN MARKET, JAN. 20, 1838.

Our market day being exceedingly cold, was ♦ery small. Most sorts
of Grain found buyers at 2s. per quarter advance. Wheat 565. to 629.;
Fine Barley, :30s. to 34s ; Oats 20s. to 265.; New Beans, 345. to 38s. ;
Flour being scarce advanced 3a. per bag.
NEWCASI LE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—Jan. 20.
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Our supply of Wheat was again moderate from the interior at this
day's Market, and we had no fresh arrivals from the coast, which caused
the whole to be in good demand, and at an advange of Is. per quarter
on the prices of last Saturday. Barley also being scarce, brought Is.
per qr. more money. Oats were in large supply, and sold freely at last
week's rates. In the demand for Malt there was no improvement,
sales being difficult to effect at our quotations. For Rye we have rather
more enquiry, and prices are a shade higher. In Beans or Pease we
can note no change. Flour meets a fair demand at an advance of Is.
per sack.

New. Old.
Wheat, Northumhcrland
- Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 60 f..... 665. Cs. 1
Berwick and Scotch l3s. s —s We.
---- Foreign
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk
Foreign
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflhlk SOs. 34s -s. —s.
Grinding and Feeding 23s. 24.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk s2s 57;. —s. --s.
Beans, Small —1 —8 rrh Si s.
Tick —s. --is 33s. 84s.
Pease, White 13s. 3,a. . ... --g, .—.4,
-- Gray
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... Es. 255....... 255. 275.
—.---- Feed
Foreign
Flour (per sack) —s. --8 4ls. 445.

An old woman named Mary Clifford died on Fri-
Friday at Brighton in a state apparently of the greatest des-
titution, but after her decease was found to have left a will,
bequeathing to her son property to the extent of 1,000/. She
lived in so miserable a manner, and presented altogether such
an appearance of extreme poverty, that every one who saw her
was deceived by her looks; the tax-gatherers had remitted her
rates ; the assistant-overseer and his deputy, keen as such per-
sons usually are, were her dupes. The deputy visited her at
her house, and reported the case as one which required
" great attention," as appeared by the parish-books, and re-
lief was accordingly granted. Yet this wretched old creature
(she was 72 years of age) had, in the usual phrase, " seen
better days," and received the advantages of education. She
was a native of Stone, in Staffordshire, had filled the situation
of governess in the family of the Earl of Glasgow, and also of
Mr. Hare Townsend, of Guilford. On becoming a widow,
twenty years ago, she hired a lodging-house at Brighton. At
her death she had 180/. in the Brighton Savings' Bank, up-
wards of 100/. in the Bank of England, a bond on a gentleman
of property residing here for 6. 00/. with other securities for
money lent. So completely did she carry on the deception,
that her son, who is a jobbing carpenter, aged 50, was quite
ignorant that his mother possessed any property, and was pro-
portionably surprised to fied himself heir to the above sum. It
is painful to add that the medical men who attended her are
of opinion that her death was accelerated by the want of
nourishment ; and her death, possessing such means as she
had in her power, cannot be considered but as an act of suicide.
FULMER, BUCKS.—On Monday last a servant
having been sent by his master from Eton College to fetch
some wine from the Rectory-house, Fulmer, was accompanied
by the owner of the horse he had hired, whose name was John
Knight, who took a gun with him to shoot larks by the way.
On their arrival at Fulmer, Knight, without the common pre-
caution of removing the cap from the nipple of the percussion
gun, concealed it among the shrubs on the front lawn. After
loading the cart, as it left the premises, he stooped down and
pulled the gun from a laurel in which it was concealed, with the
muzzle towards him, when it is presumed a branch or other im-
pediment caught the lock, and discharged the whole contents
into his breast. He fell on his face, groaned once, and was a
corpse. Knight was a fly-owner and driver at Eton. He bore
an excellent character for sobriety, civility, and attention, and
has left a widow and two children. During a severe season
like the present, we are sure to hear of numerous accidents,
because persons who know little of the danger confidently and
carelessly make use of guns. The greater number of these
accidents would be avoided if the two following cautions were
attended to :-1, When a gun is carried into wood, or handed
through a hedge, never let it point to yourself or any other
per.on. 2. Never let your gun out of your hands without re-
moving the copper cap ; a percussion gun without a cap can-
not be discharged, and is therefore safe. An inquest was held
on the body of John Knight, by Mr. Charsley, the Coroner,
on Tuesday, at the Black Horse, Fulmer, and a verdict of
" Accidental death" returned by the jury ; who observed, on
viewing the body, that the passage of the charge could Le
traced from the deceased's hand through his coat sleeve and
lapel to ilia right breast, through the lungs, heart, and dia-
phragm, down to his left side above the hip bone.