The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

'MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE—(MONDAY).
Daring last week the arrivals of all kinds of Grain as
well as Flour for our market coastwise were on a very
limited scale. By land carriage they were somewhat
on the increase. From Scotland very little corn reached
Us, but the supply of Oats from Ireland was one of the
largest received in any week since the close of 1847—it
baying exceeded 26 000 quarters. The foreign imports
were good, viz , 15,932 quarters of Wheat; 5,168 ditto
of Barley; 2,447 ditto of Oats; 970 ditto of Beans; 874
ditto of Peas; 530 ditto of Tares; 2,907 ditto of Linseed;
819 ditto of Rapeseed; 2,200 ditto of Indian Corn; 15
ditto of sundry Seeds; 2,396 sacks, and 1,837 barrels ot
Flour. The arrivals from the Baltic and Black Seas
during the present week are expected to be very small.
The quantity of Wheat received fresh up to-day from
Essex and Kent was very moderate, and in but middling
eonuition—that from Cambridgeshire, &c., was trifling
in the extreme. The stands were scantily supplied witi,
samples of both Red and White. As the millers almost
generally are waiting the new order of things—viz., the
decline in the duties on and after the Ist proximo—the
business transacted in Wheat of home growth was again
Still, however, the bulk of the English Wheats
told at prices equal to those paid on this day se'nnight.
The market closed free from animation. With free Fo-
reign Wheat we were tolerably well, but not to say
heavily, supplied. The best descriptions cold to a fail
extent, at full rates of currency ; but the middling
and out of condition sorts were a very slow inquiry, at
barely stationary prices. Wheat under lock was de-
cidedly slow in sale, yet it is held at prices within two
or three shillings per quarter of free parcels. It is cal-
culated that about 200,000 quarters have changed hands
during the last month. This will materially lessen the
quantity to be thrown upon our market during February.
Although the supply of Barley, both English and Fe
reign, was tolerably good, Malting samples were in
steady request, at lull prices. Grinding and Dis-
tilling sorts moved off slowly, at late rates.
The large influx of Irish Oats had a depressing effect
upon the Oat trade. The best English and Scotch Oats
Sold on former terms, but Irish qualities receded quite
6d per quarter. In Beans—the supply of which was but
moderate--next to nothing was doing, and prices had a
:downward tendency. All kinds of Peas were a dull
.fiquirY, at barely late rates. Indian Corn and Meal
Flour easier to purchase. The top price of Englii,h
was 443 per 2801bs.
eel CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
eat—Essex & Kent. Malt—Chevalier...... 593 to 60s

Red. ........ '4os to 48s Oats— Yorkshire and
laitto,lVhite, New 45s 56s Lincolnsh., Feed. 17s 20.
-Norfolk and Lin- Potato
coin, Red..... 40s 473 Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White...... 44s 54s Black . ...... 15s 19s
Irish, Red • • • • • • • • —BW —a
Cork, White . •• 15 s 20.
, Ditto,hite...... —s —s Scotch, Feed. •• .. 21s 25.
.9e—Old ........ ...—s a Beans—Tick
.
e 1-cow• •• •• ........ 28s 308 Pigeons .•. 36s 38s
arley—Grinding . .... 24s 26s Peas—Grey .. •••• • • • • 33$ 34s
3lalting .•••• • • • • 29' 30s
Maple. ••••• . • • • • 348 353
._ Chevalier ... 30s 32s White .•••• • • • . 28s 30,
Kalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •••.• • • • • 32s 34s
folk .. .... •• —57 s Flour—Town-made... 39s 445
Brown .——..— —46 s Suffolk .......... 338 36s
Kingston and Ware 58s 59s 1 Stocktn &Norfolk 338 362
SMITHFIELD.
Since this day se'nnight, the imports of foreign stock
140 London have been as under:—
From Beasts. Sheep.
Nordwyck.. .. 4u 18
Harlingen ..... ".
Antwerp •••
...... 500
ICatwyk ..... 67 . •••
'Ostend...
NieU Diep

Calvet.

Piga.

58 ...

es• ...•

- ..
98 ...

... 46 ...

3 ... --

Total 177 ... 1,122
Corresponding
Week in 1848.. 136 ... SOO

... 107 ... -

~,,,, 29 ... 1•1.7."'.

Difference ... 41 more. 322 more. 78 more.
At the northern outports, only about 400 head of stock
iThave been landed, and those in very middling condition.
here was exhibited for sale in to-day's market a very
linsitcd supply of foreign stock. As has been the case
fel' some weeks past, the Beasts were in very inferior
"adition and the quality of the Sheep and Calves was
4hdifferent. All breeds were a slow sale; but we have
Llll° actual decline to notice in the quotations. From our
rge grazing districts the arrivals of Beasts fresh up
"Is morning by " drift" and railway conveyance were
dmoderately extensive, the time of year considered. The
hts short horns came to hand in full average con-
-1 .
eh, but the quality of all other breeds was by no
moans' first-rate. The primest Scots were in mo-
sex,.
rt ".‘a requsst at Friday's decline in the cur-
tiolleles of 93 per Sibs, the rates of that descrip-
-4 of stock varying from only 3s 10d to 4s per 81b.
hater breeds uf Beasts were dull in the extreme, and
the
late fall in value was with difficulty sal ported. The
,e of the Beasts were not disposed of. The bullock
hos'ePfs from the nsrth consisted of about 850 short-
otj,,na• From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge-
th `e, We received 1.600 Scots, short-horns, &c.; from
bee western and midland counties 400 Herefords, runts,
ScoB, &c.; and irons Scotland 190 horned and polled
ecn`!' ot% ithstanding there was a further Sheep, somewhat
130 siderable decline in the number of we have
4stinaprovetnent to report in the mutton trade. Th(
equalld Downs may be considered steady, at prices
I,to those paid on this day se'nnight. All other
ilacts,?f Sheep were in moderate re quest, at last week's
(41,1`10aS. Most of the Sheep were disposed of. In
hi
p
te
Sul of wch was small, comrativel
Iva'ate.busils ness p
wasy doing, at late rates. The Pporak trade
Tholh a very sluggish state, at barely stationary prices.
tweilat"ck disposed of to .day was at an average fall of
Itst citY Per cent. compared with the corresponding mar
aY last year.

• Per albs. to sink the offal.
5. d. to S. A.
%fen°, 5. d. to 8. d•
cori, Beasts..... 3 0 3 4 al Sheep 3 8 4 0
Irbaie
t?,uality •• • 3 6 3 8 Co a secondr
se-wqouo 11. e
Netherddi tto 44 28
44
106
Mime
-,.rge Oxen.. 3 8 310 Southdown
Liq: Scots ...... 310 4 0 Dittoeutofthewool 0 0 0 0
Pritzecearse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large hogs ......3 6 4 4
Rue,— shlall ditto .. 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers ....,.
15 2
46 4 8
0 1 0
1111 fer; Calvpes .18
4 0 23
6 Lumber 0 Quarter old Ii gs••• s 3 0 0 0
"r Bhee .. ••• •• •• •
TOTAL ;CPPLY AT MARKET.
_ix..
Sheep. I Calves. I
160
r
I 17,430 67
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
la; I
'least'. Sheep. I Calves. I -
280 18
pub 17ZWGELTI2 AND LEADENHALL.
b,e -.. average supplies of country •
vi 4 received up to these markets since our
last report,
kilted meat have
ofzV3_Bo carcases of Beef, 800 ditto of Mutton, 190 ditto
Oa 'al, and 4,400 ditto of Pork. Those on offer
ughtered in
Jet th,„ - the metropolis
have not been
atonds,ayinlsanrgmee,
insto.„' general demand has ruledheavy,
04r oces, the tendency.
quotations have had a downward .
bePioretrk"araY have ot.st rved that country-killedme,
k, is sometimes selling at prices somewhat
in mina th?hse quoted in our reports; but they must bearts
betw
4 great difference almost invariably exaknd
t., ee.n the value
that killed in Lontloufn. provincial slaughtered meat
II At Per stone by the Carcase.
.
5. d. to s. d. i s. d.tos. 8.
..........o,lnifdearilOinr...... 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 3 2
......"---- prnuelagrge.• :: 210 3 0 1
middling.. 3 4 310
prime ••.. 4 0 4 8
Veal.P.rune Mall .• 3 4 3 6 Pork,large•• •• •• •• 3., 0 34
6
* 31.**** ••• • 3 4 4 4' small .- •• —••., 10
The --46017G711 AND SPITALFIELDS.
on a verarrivals of potatoes, coastwise, last week, were
The
iaa,.,__Y moderate sale, and in middling condition.
s
from
vorts consisted of 75 bags from Antwerp, 3,000
fton
, Ro
.11orde. nen, 40 sacks from Havre, and 60 tonsbt
saw-
ton
all'c. A steady business is doing in the .
esheavy.
Yes' at prices. Otherwise, tbe demand toe
chtutive Regents, 100 s to 150 s; Newcastle anlosdS:oek-
9ups, 6°,' sto 100 s; Scotch ditto, 90s to
.11 ditto
aO3 to ~'„s to 80s; ditto Reds, 60s to 803; ditto
.6' Whites,
to 63.5. ",,a; French ditto, 80s to 105 s; Dutch ditto, 403
) Belgian ditto, 70s to 905 per ton.
8 Rather ttOUOITOU HOP MARKET.
P 4
of nlere money has been paid for the finest
rre last year's growth, the demand for which is
Well 14 the Middling and inferior kinds of new,. as
ii-eer taoold Tr
, 1 „,, -.`'-)Ps, exceedingly little business is doing._
Ixont di,-.''''.lB3ex Pockets, 2/ 4s to 3/; Weald. of
.„ .. ..0 2/ „
"` as to 6/ ~,,, ..s to 3110 s; Mid and East Kent ditto,
1.• i• cwt.
The arrival Zr..ka„..
„.
,-, 4-sirOOL.
bah s from 13 °'
001 inr, I, ndon
Fri,
1 • ll Matirtv q
laY, 16 d ueli°'
A ' res, 18 ditto &Jai Ostend, 13 ditto
ito,
f....rso9inditto from the Cape, 1,794 ditto from
y_perivate contract -..svYerrlynelytt,tlaenibuls7tsnedsisttoisfdroominK enrl%tcihneg.
Ported 7p proac
11!ug public sales; yet prices are well sup-
-4 "ell' instance.
TALLOW.
theA fair delivery has taken pl ae since our last report, yet
...lueotations have further receded 3d per cwt. To-day
l'i'o
"tra On the spot is selling at 41s to 41a 3d per cwt.
7,511_w trans
for forward de:ivery are trifling. Town
4d4dPer sibs. , ,ti, 8 per cwt. to 42 Rough Fat has fallen to 2s
BA

feasts
~126.

Pigs.

IL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
fir, Justice Erie, after going through the bar, took
15 ai 1 Court peremptory paper, and heard the argu-
eint' in two or three cases, presented no feature
Nblic interest.

..ne prize of 100 guineas and a service of plate has
Just been awarded by the Society of Arts to Dr. Paris,
Iresident of the College of Physicians, and Mr. Fon-
-4144q4e, for theirAnc 911 Eorea4c

THE

SIR BULWER LYTTON'S EPIC.
KING ARTHU

Prior to our criticism upon the eight concluding
books of " King Arthur"—now formally acknow-
ledged to be the production of Sir Edward Bulwer
Lytton—we hasten to lay before the public come of
those inimitable portraitures of contemporary States.
men, Warriors' and Onitors, in the limning of
which the author of the "New ninon" has already
displayed such a felicitous capat.:ity. Although
there is, of course, no express allusion to the origi-
nals in the text of the poem, it is next to impossible
to mistake the identity ; and we make no doubt that
the application of each sketch would be sufficiently
apparent to the discerning, even without the help of
the names which we have presumed to prefix to
the different stanzas. The portraitures occur in the
course of a superb delineation of the twelve Knights
of the Round Table, the deathless twelve—
" Girding with subject stars the starry King."
First come the three counselling knights, Cynon,
Aron, and Llywarch, called for the bake of euphony
by his father's name Elidir; next the three knights of
battle, Cadi,vr, Lancelot du Lac (Geraint being sub-
stituted for him, for reasons explained by Sir Edward,
Vol. 1., page 207, note), and Dwaine; and lastly, the
three golden-tongued knights, Gwalchmai (G-awaine),
Drudwas (Drydas in the text), and Eliwlod (Lolod).
The remaining three are subsequently portrayed,
but, of course, without any personal reference ' • we
mean " the three ardent lovers of the island of Bri-
tain, Caswallawn, Tristan, and Cynon (for the last,
already placed amongst the counselling knights, Cara-
doc is substituted)." The homage paid to the genius
and patriotism of her Majesty's Principal Secretary
for Foreign Affairs in the lines which we have printed
in italics, is as nobly expressed as it is eminently de-
served.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
Of these was Cynon of the high. born race,
A cold but dauntless—calm but earnest man;
With deep eyes shining from a thoughtful face,
And spare slight form, for ever in the van
When ripening victories crown'd laborious deeds;
Reaper of harvests—sower not of seeds;
For scarcely his the quick far-darting: soul
Which, like Apollo's shaft, strikes lifeless things
Into divine creation; but, the whole
Once rife, the skill which into concord brings
The jarring parts; shapes out the rudely wrought,
And calls the action living from the thought.