The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

PROVISION MARKET.

The only novelty in this market is, that Butter and Bacon of all
kinds are going down in price.

HAY MARKETS.
'I here was a good supply of all kinds of dry provender except straw,
which was in but moderate quantity. Prices of most kinds remain
much as before. Meadow Hay, 90s. to 955. and 102 s. Clover ditto,
106 s. to 115 s. and 1225. Straw, on the average, about 40s.
DRIED FRUIT MARKET.
There is a steady business doing privately, and prices continue firm.
OIL MARKET.
Prices are little better than nominal, and the market is as dull as can
well be conceived.

TALLO W MARKET.
This market is quiet, and the price to-day much as yesterday,
575. 6d. on the spot, and 475. 6d. to 48s. for delivery.

COLONIAL MARKETS.
There were a considerable number of public sales to.day of Sugar of
different kinds, Cassia Lignea, Ginger, &c. 3,900 bags Bengal, and
773 bags of Mauritius Sugar, 2,059 bags of Malabar Ginger, a little In-
digo, and some Cochineal. The market generally remains unaltered
from that inactivity by which it was pervaded last week. But little
disposition exists to purchase. The large quantities did not all sell,
and prices where altered are again lower. In Coffee of any kind
no business was done to-day. Tea is quiet, in face of the
nearly approaching sales. In Rice and Cotton nothing scarcely
stirring. For to.morrow we have again large sales of all
kinds of Sugar advertised, except Mauritius. There are also
some Drugs and Saltpetre. These are the principal. The im-
ports are light; the exports continue rather considerable, and
the deliveries at the customs for consumption continue to a fair
extent. British Plantation Sugar continues to sell without any anima.
tion whatever.

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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Maacn 19.
A ♦ery brisk demand has taken place for Cotton this day, and a large
amount of business was transacted at rather higher rates for middling
sorts. 7,000 bales are the quantity sold :-50 Laguayra, 71d. ; 500
Bahia 70. to 71d.; 150 Maranham, lid. to 91d.; 250 Pernam,
p 1.4 d. to 91d.; 200 Surat, 41d. to 51d. ; 5,850 American.

On the Ist inst. the British bark Reliff, laden
with coals, was totally wrecked off Peder Neira ; the master
and four of the crew were saved, the remaining three met
with a watery grave : and on the 3d inst., a Belgian brig,
name unknown, was also totally wrecked under the fort of St.
Braz and Cabo Razo—crew saved.
The proprietor of an immense number of waterside
carts in Liverpool, who has raised himself by industry to be
a man of considerable property, being in close conversation
with a gentleman about some private business, was asked by
the gentleman if he could draw an inference. " Not I," said
he, " but I bought a bay snare the other day, and I'll lay a
five pound note that she draws it, if it does not weigh more
than five tons."—Liverpool Telegraph
QUICK PASSAGE.—The quicket passage ever made
to Pernambuco was made in the autumn by the James Mat
thieson, of this port, which arrived out at Pernambuco in
twenty.!our days from leaving the Downs.—Liverpool Albion,

This case was before their Lordships no less than sixteen years ago,
when it was ordered to be adjourned, that further evidence
might be produced in support of the claim, This morning that
further evidence was proceeded with, and occupied their Lordships till we
left. During the interval that has occurred since the case was before their
Lordships,the then claimant, Alexander Home, has died, and his son now
claims the title of Earl of Marchmont, Viscount Blazonberry, Lord Pol-
wart of Polwart, Redbraes, and Greenlaw. The circumstances out of which
the claim arose were the following :—Sir David Home of Wedderburne
in Berwickshire, the common ancestor of the families of Wedderburn
and Polwart, was a person of high consideration in the 15th century.
He died 1469, having a son David,':avho predeceased him, leaving two
sons, George Home, who succeeded his grandfather, Sir David, in thefa-
mily estates of Wedderburne, and Patrick Home, afterwards Sir Patrick
Home, of Polwart ; the descendant of whom was Lord Chancellor of Scot-
land, and in 1690, was created Lord Polwart, by King William and Queen
Mary, and by Letters Patent from King William, dated at Kensington,
the 23d of April, 1697, he was raised to the dignity of Earl of March-
mont. By descent from him, the present claimant laid his right to the
title.