The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-28 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY•

CORN, EXCHANGE, SEPT. 28.
This week's arrivals of English Grain have been small—e
Irish Oats good, and of Foreign Wheat considerable. There
has been again a good extent of business transacted in Foreign
Wheat at Monday's terms, and some very fine has obtained
Is. per qr. advance. The Barley trade continues dull. Beans
and Peas are unvaried. Oats meet a fair sale at the terms last
quoted. Flour supports its valu2. Tnere is some hesitation
on the part of the factors to pay the present duty of 10s. Bd.

ARRIVALS,
Who::: Bdrley.
3,49) qrs. I 2,1,80 qrs.

01)ate. Ormr.
Entlish 0,ac 1
•
!nib I _ 17,430
Foreign 18,!,70 I --I 275
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Supply rather short to-day, but trade was brisker, and prices
of all kinds reduced 2d. per stone. Beef, 3/. 4d. to 4s. 4d.
Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal, 43. 4d. to tis. 2d. ; Lamb,
4s. 6d. to 53. 4d.; Pork, 53. to 63. Beasts 689, Sheep and
Lambs 6,010, Calves 252. Pigs 400.
CITY FISH MARKET.
Good Fish to-day were scarce, and prices high. Turbot,
53. to 21s. ; Soles, 9d. to 33. per plir ; Lobsters, 1031. to 3i•
each; Slimon, 10d. to Is. 31. and Is. 6d. per lb. for good'
Cud, Is., 2s , 83., and 10s. each; Whitings, 2d. and 6d. each
Haddock, 41., 10d., and Is. each.

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HOP MARKET.
There is a fair demand, and prices are high and advaccing•
Picking rather unfavourable. Duty, 160,0001. Many heavy
bets are that it will be this amount.
PROVISION MARKET.
A steady business is doing in this department, and prices
continue firm and uniform with what they have been for
some time.

DRY SALTEFtY MARKET.
Brimstone continues very firm, althoutgh attempts have
made to show that the monopoly was giving way in SieilY•
The news from Naples, via Marseilles, received this morning,
shows that the monopoly is in full operation, and prices in
Marseilles were very high end firm.
TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. very flat, and down to 51 s. both ways.
METAL, MARKET. 11
Every kind under this denomination is quiet, but prices of all
sorts are very firm. Spelter is quoted at 181.
COLONIAL MARKETS. been
To-day we bad not many public sales in this market, but
by private contract generally there is a good demand, and
prices continue very firm. B. P. Sugar in good demand from
the grocers, and prices firm. The approaching operation of
the New Refined Sugar Act prevents any business being done
in that department. To-day we bad public sales of Sugar,
3,600 bags Mauritius, which sold steadily at last rates, which
arc quoted at from 41s. for brown to 61s. for fine yellow'
1,060 bags Bengal Sugar sold with spirit, realizing,
their former value. Cuffee—This article continues firm 0
t)-day 50 casks Pritish Plantation sold at its formr
worth, which is high just now. Cocoa-80 bags Grenada
sold at prices between 395. and 52s , according to quality- lf,
In Spices Pepper is the most active, and prices appear as
to
they would go up. Pimento-150 bags fetched from 3d.11 od
4d. per lb. according to kind. Although we have not !'
any great amount of public sales this week, still on the whole.,
taking in privat4. transactions, there has been a very. gr
business done, and prices have been very firm and ateauY.
The Imports are heavy to-day.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 27. d
Our Cotton Market remains in the same state as reportecr
yesterday, no change having taken place either in the value.,u
demand of any description. 3,000 bags were parted or,
to-day :-230 Pernam, Bad. to 9d. ;50 Bahia, 74d: to
20 Egyptian, Ev. ; 200 Surat, 4ed. to .sd. ; 2,500 Araericall'
sd. to 7/d. Total, 3,000.

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" One of our Ministers," says the Journal de Par! ;
" has the singular mania of venting his ill humour by thrown
his hat on the ground, and, as his irritation increases, the
81;
offending castor gets kicked all round the room. The
of Prince Louis Napoleon has already cost his Excellency thre-
hats !"
A daring and extensive robbery was committed ,31
the Cinque Port Arms, Margate, during the absence of the
landlord and wife at the races on Thursday. UPwart of
3001. in sovereigns and notes, a gold repeater, three 5"-be
watches, and other booty, was abstracted from a drawer in t_,
bedroom. Some of the coin being ancient and marked
lead to a discovery of the parties, but for the present theY are
unknown. It is supposed to have been effected by so' 01
the cracksmen from town, whose avocations with the sera,
mob have been carried on to a great extent at the bazB
jetty, and races this season. —Canterbury Journal. part
SALMON FISHERY,,—The fisheries in this
d
of Scotland are now closed, after one of the most unpre
rho
tive seasons that was ever known, particularly in
Faith. The catch of salmon in the Devcron has been !..4
artlf'
small, and the grilse fishing still more unproductive,
which it is apprehended that the breed of salmon was get
injured by the severity of last winter, and unless very stricse,h..
gulations are enforced during the close time to prevent po
in g it is to be feared that the breed of this valuable fish
become extinct.—Elgin Courant. Wag
On Saturday, as the Westbury and Bath coach be
approaching this city, the off-wheel was separated frogs /tic,
vehicle, and the coachman and two outside passengers
males) were dislodged from their seats, and severely injure:,
the Moert
One of the ladies had her leg brakcn, but the fracture Was
not a very serious one. The horses continued to drag
And minus one of the wheels, for upwards of a mile a"' -

hail.—Bath —Baremember that in the course °f the
Our readers
summer a man named Alexander M'Donald was taken g intoset
havin e
custody arid committed to prison, on a charge of
fire to the premises of Mr. Isaac Walker, of Thornthwat.toas
near Keswick, for which he was sentenced to transportattt
at
for life, at the late autumn assizes. It appears, however, rohe
subsequently some doubts had entered the mind of the lea
unit,
°:
Judge who sentenced him, respecting the prisoner's g,
wake
and the High Sheriff of the county was desired to
quiries into the subject, and the result has been the free par
er/ 0e
e
don of the prisoner, who has been set at large.--Cumb
Pacquet. ted at
n NA, Ldnei.day night an inquiry was institud,
the Duke of Wurfemburg, Hatfield-street, Blackfriars-ru_ea
on the body of a female infant, aced
three months, name%
Ellen Sullivan, who met her death under the fullowsi7ognday
cumstances. It appeared from the evidence that on new
night the deceased's mother came home in a state of dru
t the
ness, and in that state retired to rest, and forgetting thad thus
child was in the bed, laid herself completely over it, strongly
ongly
deprived it of life. The Coroner and Jury having stroraict
commented on the conduct of the mother, returned a /-
of " Accidental Death." t
SYden:
For
some
time past several persons living a , f their
ham, Kent, have had their choice pear-trees stripped ° fingered
fruit, and although a strict watch was kept, the ugh t. filtieheee-
gentry have escaped detection. On Wednesday Iligbeitteed on
ever, two excavators, named Eade and Williams, et°l3,7'
the Croydon Railway, were found in the orchard of o'rsi.
Hams. On the former was found eleven and the IsSiiitb,
pears. Yesterday morning they were taken before EadeEsq., at the office in George-street, Greenwich, vibe° Gaol
was fined 101. and costs, and Williams sent to Maidstlee
iven
for three months. The depredations committed bi, table.
working on the above railroad have been very conslaer ester'
A regular set-to took place the day befurrrehle ceOf
day between two females in the Rue d'Areentuil. "e-eas °'
of the pugilistic contest between this Statira and tt°•-e-aeter•
humble life was a fickle journeyman baker of ale qmptieg
The seectetors of the disgracefulscene, so far from attetieoa-
to separate the feminine combatants, took pleasure'' f both
raging their ferocity, and it was not till the strength_offt their
was utterly exhausted, and their gowns were torn
tes etbl
backs, that the engagement ceased. Ina few 111.--u a ..-
journeyman baker, who according to the Horatian &Om,' eho
been the cause teterrima had, in his turn, a set-tf°,,ir eaeli
same ground with a rival pretender to the heart of Ills .n tieha'r
The police were ultimately compelled to interfere
attant, o
of the public tranquillity, and to carry off the eotneb,, , ,
both sexes to the guard-house. —Galignani of TuFsuave.„ 10"
OsTnicHEs.—Accotding to native testinVll9`4,sccei
male ostrich sits on the nest (which is merely ah°ll°ol defOdi
scooped out in the sand) during the night, the better vicar_ _
the eggs from jackals and other nocturnal plunderers ;. for tb.v,
morning he brommels or utters a grumbling sounogto dabre
female to come and take his place ; she sits on tbe.deeile °f for'
ing the cool of the morning arid evening. In the °sod ealC
day, the pair, leaving the eggs in charge of the settf,east br
getting that the foot may crush them, or the wild
°f
buseesois
them," employ themselves in feeding off the tops urseediti
the plain near their nest.—Sir James Alexander's 't of
of Discovery into Africa. bjec- de'
The Journal ile Prris, in noticing the sun, 0 f
the light weight of Paris ibresa,d, observes that the e°l:rice °0
ficiency of between five and six' ounces at the ever;teearlY
twelve sous for the 41b. loaf, represents a value °f terees'lney
sous ; and that each baker using a daily averag° ° &Vico°,
of flour, producing 300 loaves, the gain by th iv 6 r
eplie ,e 0 '
must be fifteen francs a-day, which being Teul , the is
's to f Pat
the number of bakers, and again by the da:t
an
o
shows that at the end of twelve months the francsinhabitf At
arc defrauded of no less a sum than 3,285,000 iiinekiln
to
As four men were employed about a part °f 9q),
Breedin, and whilst in the act of loosening the top part
kiln, which sometimes congeals (so as to leave tb eole of lost
the mass fell suddenly down, and the men having "rte wan
and
bars were all precipitated into the kiln, by which one
burnt' •c/e•
his life, and the other three had all their clothe ceeceo .
Bolton 10
were everything but literally roasted alive.----,,, Oettr.7'iu
In Wilkin's Leges Saxon, given by vr• sell wino
his History of England, are the prices of vario?;be fellotv•ent
England in the reign of Ethelred, about 997. f the ;
is the value of the undermentioned, in money °le 15°' oe•
'
time :—A man or slave, 2/. 163. 3d. ; a horse, d. ; an_
2
a mare or colt, 1/. 3s. sd. ; an ass or mule, 14:iicep, is. u
7s. ; a cow, 6s. 2d. ; a swine, 10id- ; 5 ad:fre
a goat, 4i-d. Dr. 113:, and
ANECDOTE OF DR. RADCIFFE.--- f pbYsl stet
entertained but a mean opinion of the practice ot,
the ens
consulted very few books. When Dr. Bathurs.totweer9_,
of Trinity College, visited him, he inquired 01:1,.ev, plait!reh,o
study was. To which Radcliffe, pointing tosis Radebtvbe
skeleton, and a herbal, replied, Sir, tbi heeic toligeete.
library." He held that the whole mystery efi
ePoidefer, the
written on " half a sheet of paper." This, 1°
ed tows 1. he
ports with that which he is said to have utter
actitioneclose
latter part of his life, that " when a young and at al° t
possessed twenty remedies for every disease.;
.:e had It° ere,
diseases for whirl' h
egeOrlif v
of his career, he found twenty
remedy."—Pettigrew'shienwirs of Physicians,