The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-19 00:00:00

AN AMAZON.

.
On 'Momlay, between fdur and `fire o'clock in
the afternoon, as. Mrs. HowEs, wife of Mr.
HowEs, Solicitor, of this town, was returning
front Mr. J. nitKvss', the Dor-Wns,' to 1-Ingbrook;
in company with' a. Miss PIRKINij., front Newn-
ham, they we: a! stopped by a villain', near the side
of the Canal, when I\lrs. 11. tool him, of the in.pro-
priety of molesting ilient, and insisted upon his
suffering them to pass Ttictly, on wiltid,,:vith im-
precations; he dematmed their money.—Mrs. H.,
positively 'refused to give him any, on which be.
gave her a slap on theface, this she very spiritedly
returned. ; The villain then seized Miss and
threW bet' into the hedge and tore her cloths ;
Mrs.. fl. innne'diately on' his •back being towards,
her, caught him by the thioat, and gripvti hint so
tightly that he begged-she would release him, pro•
uiisin Gas
.they should then proceed without fur-
ther interroption. The villain, however, on find-.
it,, -himself disengaged, immediately turned to
Mrs. IL and St • " Noa., my Lady, I will be
rcvelsd of you, I have 'a knife in toy pocket, and
Twill have both- your lives, and your money;'—
Mrs. IL now told hint „e should. not have her
money but with litu' hie. A violent scittlie en-
suet 4 when NVes again. fditunate enough
to get such hold of hint as to enable her to pre-
vent him f:-ont carring his threats into ,exccu-
don, and to secure hint till a person can to tier
assistance.' They inituediately took the fellow
before a Magistrate, who co-nnitted hint to the
county gaol.—(Northamptoo Mercury, Oct. 15.)

FINE ARTS.----The Sculptor engaged to con-,
struct a Statue of illr. MAD/SON., had at first de-
terinined to represent him as a Jupiter Tonal's—
but now; we hear, the design is clial)ged to a
Flying Mercury.
Air CLAY, one of the American Commis-
sioners, from his well-known fondness for smaok-
ing, is called by his friends Pipe-Clay.
A curious circumstance occurred at Kingibridge

a few day:: since. A woman went to a tradesman
of that town, under pretence of telling fotttines,
and informing him she could by her art double
any sum put into her hands,' the tiadesman pro-
duced tventrpounds, which she apparently tied
up in a smaii parcel, and returned to guru,, telling
him to put it away for 2 days without looking at
it ; •at the expiration of which be was to examine
the parcel, and would find forty pounds enclosed.
We need scarcely add that, on examination, only
blank paper Was found, the woman having very
adroitly -secreted the money.
A fatal and somewhat extraordinary accident
happened at Stafford, on Tuesday evening_last,•
about seven• o'clock. Five or six farmers who
had been caronsing:-after• the sports of the day,
were very-imprudently riding at full speed through-
'the Foregate-street, when they came in contact-
with a cart, drawn by two horses, belonging to
an unfortunate man who 'was quietly pursuing'
his business, and 'who ttas riding at the time ei-
ther in his' cart, or upon the shafts' ; the conse-

quence was that the inn was. killed upon the spot
by. fract ore Of the skull, and the shaft_horse was
forced down ; bat, cNtraordinary to relate, Abe
horse which was knocked down tvas not injured,
though ',the fore-horse, which remained upon his
legs; died in two days afterwards ! Two. of the
own on horseback were thrown off their horses by

the concussion ; hut as they were not known, we

cannot tell whether they have. suffered for their
criminal folly.' They remounted and rode
The 1141110 of -the deceased WaS JAMES BALL, of
Moss Gate, Folfold; near sane-end, a fishmonger
atid pot-seller. life %vas a middle aged mans,: and
has-left- a -wife and two children.—Coroner's ver-

diet, Accidental Death.— (Bir►ning-haw Herald,
Oct. 17.)

titY ASSE:qBL'Y.

DUBLIN, OctoBER 14, 1.'14.

The first business brotAlt, before the Sheriff:3
and Con-mous was the Report of the Conouit tee.
appointed to investigate the causes ot, the hig'
n nisproportiouate price of Bread.---It is t,
follows

‘• vvlre, the Committee appointed at loa-;t Quarte:
Assembly, to inquire into the causes -of\the pru:
sent It ;it Price of .liread and Malt Liquor, her
leave to report, that from the most atultent-ic
sources of information on this subject, your Com-
mittee find—, •

" That the average price of wheat on the.l2th
and 14th August, 1812, was 89s. 10d. per barrel,
and the price of the quartern loaf vas then is. 8:1.
The average price of wheat on the 13th August,
1813, was 495. 6d. per barrel, and the price of
the quartern loaf was then Is. 1121.. And the
,average price of wheat on the 19th August last,
was 325. titY. per barrel, and 'the price of the
quartetu loaf then 1141.
" .lour bears.a much higher price ,in piCopor-
tion thin wheat the reason of the greit d
rence between the prices of bread and wheat is,
because the price of bread is',struek from the ave-
. rage prices of wheat and flour sold to bakers
only, and the flour purchased by them hears a
great disproportion to wheat, both iu quantity
and price. The,proportion in quantity that wheat
bore to flour, in the week ending :.20th August
last, was only as 9 is t0'5250, there being but 9
sacks of wheat sold to bakers, and sacks
of flour purchased by them. iii 1813, the propor-
tion of wheat to flour so sold, was as 36 to 56.
" If the wheat- soln. to iiii,lers was allowed to
betaken into the iissize, it mould greatly reduce
'the price eit bread but no wheat can, under the
prt7,eni Act of ParliaMent; be takeh into account
bat.what is sold to bakera.

" In the week ending the 20th August last,
there were sold altogether 1300LoTcls of vlteat,
at the average of 525. 6d. per barrel, and the ave-
rage price of flour was 24,t. 111 d. I,)cr ewt.
" By the Government compamtion., 14stones
of flour is equal to a barrel o 1 what, as the bit-,•-
rel Of wheat should, after being .grohtul, produce
that qhantity of flour, beside bran.
" The millers buying ‘vheat bd. per bar-
rel, and selliug the flour 11.0, per cwt. re-
ceive about 16,,. 1-,1)..0n each hated they grind
but out of this they haye to'pay all their expences.
The reason why the boxers do not usually buy
wheat, being so- much cheaper than flour, is,
that wheat is a ready money article, and they ge-
nerally have not capital to purchase tt, but buy
flour, on which they are allowed a credit of 61
The bAers lime only I Is, Stl. allowance on
baking a sack of flour, containing- 21 cwt. which
floni will niaLe eighty_ qu:Arter ',owtes, us follows.:
Slippo4e 80 quarteen karts it d. per -.3 15
;Yikta poys fur th,.. 8 .9 4

AHowanze.

11. 8

. •
" The brt.nd now made arid sold in Dublin no-
der the name of wheaten f?ecad, is made of the
sane quality of materials as the second, hrcad was
formerly compos-d, and it is really only hortse-
)bolo bread the ptiui c now get, •for which they
pay the %I:beaten bread price ; no bread is now
sold wider the name of irOusr hold.. -The weekly
rowiumptim of flour its Dublin is aliout 4000
ba!,,,s, making 3,200. sacks ; each suck produces
20 peck loaves, making-64,000 peck loaves con-
sumed weekly ; anti. rue rtdr,.!renee iii price her,,vecu
-u heatai and hen(sehold is sixpence per peck loaf,
Ivhichamounrst'O.l-;6001. weekly; which, in eleveii
y,,r\ , to ;vii, since the passing of the Baker's Act,
amounts to the enormous sum of 915,200/. It is
the power of opulent turn to purchase great
go,,h:ities of \diem-, and to store it so long as they
" Your Committee find the.'average prices of
barley in the last years. Were as folloy:s :
February 1812 per bared . c.")
1803 ditto lOO.
1814 ditto ,26,, 40_
_ -

Mr. GIFFARD said, that ,Hotwit;pitAilding the
enormous sum thus fraudulently levied on the
public, by forcing the peoplq to take household
bread under the name of Nvheaten ; •vet, whoeVer,
looked upon the professors of the I)::king
,trade,
must see, that the sum of almost a million ster-
ling, to which this accumulated frau] amounted,
haft never centred with them—nay, he mirth
doubted, if they and all their kindred were to be.
sold as slaves to the Dcv of Algiers, whether they
could raise the tenth part of it for their redetnp-
tiOn. 'Where then had it gone Certainly to the
millers and other prisons concerned in monopo-
ii%ing the bread corn of the country,--men who
ruled-and contrunled the market at their pleasure—
some of whom formerly had putchasol with that
destructive tnedittinof commerce, Country (their
own) Batik Notes, and theti cincd.to the ruin of
the farmer. Sonic: law, he maintaiu,ed., must he ‘,
passed to cottitteract this evil : such 'a
law, he
hoped the committee, with the .help of legal
advice, would-be able to form, and therefore he
moved,
" That they lave leave to" sit aga:n• hi order to complete
their labour."
Ordered accordingly:

BOXING EXT2A.—A resolutely contested pitch-
ed battle took place on Mowinay Downs,- below
the Vaie of White flor4, on Monday last, between
two amateurs of the fast, rilessrs. Crossetnd Wing-
field, farmers, in Wiltshire, of considerable pro--'
party. There 19d been a gnidge beiireen the
parties since a wrestling match between them at
a neigshbouring fair, which, at. length- broke put
into an Open challenge last weok, and 1001. -a Side
r, as depositod to tight for on. Monday. The hest
round hits were exchanged one for one, as if by
agreement, • but with considerable weight and
quickness," for seven minutes, the conti-
tenances of the combatants were completelyde-
strioyed, and the roond .finisited by Crosst't
doubling up his adveysary by a hotly blow.
..Se-
veisteen rounds of this sort, were fought with
much equality, but there was 'no shjting or
sparring for wind ; it was spent in death.l.ke,
hitting; unfit neither had 14t the 'reinti.nw of a
feature. • Bath at last tell. after fighting fifty mi-
nutes, and as Crosset could not Ilse again,
held was declared continercr.