The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-31 00:00:00

WHEAT AND FLOUR IN FRANCE COMPARED

WITH LONDON.

WHEAT.-The highest price of the best wheat in Paris is
25f. per 1 hectolitre, which is equal to 38s. 3d. per English
quarter. The highest price in Mark-lane, being 70s. per
quarter, thew is a difference 31s. 9d., or 83 per cent., and
that the same money, which in London buys but eight bushels
of wheat, is in Paris the price of fourteen and three quarters of
the finest wheat.

FLOUR.—The highest price of flour of the " first mark" in
Paris is 50 francs per 159 kilogrammes, corresponding with
31s. 6d. per English sack of 280 pounds. The highest price
of the best town made flour in London being 60s. per sack,
the difference shows fine flour to be 28s. 6d. per sack dearer in
London than in Paris, or 90} per cent. ; and that the 60s.
which in London will buy but 280 pouuds of flour, will in Paris
purchase 502 pounds of the best flour.

There was a murder committed in the parish of
Eglish on the 19th inst. Au industrious young man, named
Delahunt, from Ballingarry, spent the night of last Sunday
duck shooting, on a lough in Eglish. On the morning of
Monday, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, he
prepared to return home, having come to the determination
of calling at Toohy's house, on his way home, for a pistol
which he had previously lent him. Toohy's door being open,
and no one apparently inside, he entered without making
any noise, and sat down by the fire. Toohy being in the
garden with his man servant, he became terrified on behold-
ing a man with a gun taking possession of his house ; he
sent his boy for the police, who were protecting a man in
the neighbourhood, named Hector, who was lately visited by
Captain Terry. The police arrived in about ten minutes,
and one of them, a fellow named Ring, gliding by the wall
up to the door, peeped in, saw the man inoffensively sitting
by the fire, then stepped forward, and, presenting his car-
bine, he shot his unsuspecting victim through the neck.
The ball entered in the front, tore the trachea, passed
through some of the principal vessels, came out at the spine
below the shoulder, and was flattened against the opposite
wall. 'The unfortunate victim gave one plunge, and fell
across the fire a stiffened and bloody corpse.—Clonnicl
Advertiser.

On Thursday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the house of an
elderly lady named Johnstone, Alsop-terrace, Regent's-park,
by which, we regret to say, Mrs. Johnstone,taged 81 years,
fell a victim to the Sam .s. The dreadful calamity is be-
lieved to have been occasioned by the old lady standing too
near the fire-place, and her dress coming in contact with
the bars of the grate she was instantly enveloped in flames.
Her shrieks instantly brought the, domestics to her assist-
ance, who soon extinguished the fire. Medical aid was in-
stantly called in, and every means were resorted to that
could be devised to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortu-
nate lady, but death terminated her sufferings on Thurs-
day night. Mr. Rose, with the engine and firemen from
the King-street station of the London Fire Engine Estab-
lishment, promptly attended, but their services were not
required.