The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

FIRING AT TliE QUEEN.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said—Mr. Speaker, be-
fore I move the postponement of the orders of the
day which stand for to-night, I think it is
right that I should make a statement, in order to allay
any apprehension that may exist in consequence of
some of the newspapers of Saturday evening, in re-
porting the attempt made upon the life of her Majesty j
stating that the pistol fired off was loaded with
ball. I can state, although it is unfortunately true
that a pistol was discharged at the Queen as she was
returning home along Constitution•bill, yet that there is
no reason to acquiesce in the belief that the person who
discharged the pistol—who made this treasonable at-
tempt, which is more remarkable fur its baseness than
for its atrocity—(Loud cheers)—had loaded the
deadly instrument with ball.—(Cheers.) I am sure
if the attempt had been of a different kind,
that I should have had the cordial assent of the House
to an address to her Majesty, congratulating her Ma-
jesty upon having, under the care of Providence, escaped
from death—(Cheers)—and on the preservation of so
valuable a life.—(Loud cheers.) Her Majesty on this
occasion acted with her usual coolness and courage.--
(Continued cheering.) He begged to move that the
Poor-law Relief Bill be postponed for a fortnight.
Mr. J. O'CONNELL wished to state, as an Irish
Member, as it might be considered that the fact
of the person who bad fired at the Queen
being one of his countrymen aggravated his
offence, that at the moment of the greatest excite-
ment in Ireland among the fiercest and boldest, that not
one would have harboured the idea of personally insult.
ing her Majesty.—(Loud cheers,) Whatever misfor-
tunes might have befallen Ireland, it could not be for a
moment believed that any portion of the Irish people
sympathised with the recent act of a dastardly miscre-
ant.—(Cheers.) The motion was agreed to.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners Bill was postponed until the
Bth of June.

PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.
In reply to Sir WM. CLAY,
Sir GEORGE GREY said it was not the intention of
the Government to intoduce a Public Health Bill this
session. Only recently a Bill had been passed for
the consolidation of the sewers, and for promoting im-
proved drainage. The report of the Sanitary Commis-
sion was not yet ready.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
Mr. G. BERKELEY, pursuant to notice, wished to
ask the Noble Lotd at the head of the Government
whether he had in contemplation any measure for
the relief under which the agricultural interest
was labouring, and whether he was prepared to reduce
the income•tux charged under schedule B?
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had no measure in
contemplation on the subject first referred to by the
Hon. Member, and that it was not his intention to re-
duce the income-tax.
THE KAFIR WAR.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in
answer to a question from Mr. V. Smith, said,
that the accounts furnished to the Board
of Audit of the expenses of the Kafir
war being unsatisfactory to that board, he should
wait tiff further information was received from the Cape
before taking any further step in the matter.
BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to a question
from Mr. Sadleir stated that he could not fix any time for
the Government instituting any measures on the subject
of births, deaths, and marriages.
INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.
The House then went into Committee on the Incum •
bered Estates (Ireland) Bill.
On the Ist clause being proposed,
Mr. J. STUART said ho had already taken an op-
portunity of stating his impression of the importance of
this measure and his objection to the principle upon
which it was founded, but no answer whatever
had been given to those objections by any
one Member of the Government. Most of the
Irish Members, it was true, had expressed their
approbation of the Bill, but he was not surprised at that
when he remembered that they expressed similar appro-
bation last year of a measure which had since turned
out a total failure.—(Hear, hear.) This Bill, in
fact, was constructed on a principle which was
far more objectionable than that of the Bill of
last year. It contained provisions which it was the duty
of every English Member to attend well to. It proposed
to create a set of Commissioners, who were to be paid
out of the English Exchequer; and he objected to every
clause which related to this Commission, the more so, as
the duties imposed on it ought now to be
exercised by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
These Commissioners were not to be paid by the land-
owners or mortgagees of Ireland, but by the tax-payers
to the English Exchequer; and if these Commissioners
could perform one of the Lord Chancellor's duties
they could not see why they should not under-
take the whole of them.—(Cries of " Bear, hear.")
He quite understood the reasons which induced the
Lord Chancellor of Ireland to approve of the principle
of the Bill. It was the duty of the Court of Chancery
in Ireland to appoint receivers, and to regulate all the
ineumbered property in that country, and to keep it in
a legal state for disposal. He could well, therefore,
understand the reason why his Honourable and Learned
Friend had cited the approval of that learned and
eminent personage's opinion—for in fact the Bill was
intended to relieve the Court of the duty, whilst it re-
tained the emolument for the service. This was the

principle on which the Bill had been raised. If it was at
all necessary to obtain legislative in terference at all for
such a purpose as that for which the Bill was ,intended
to provide, the first point that ought to have been looked
to was to provide the foundation of a good title. l tad it
been advisable, he should have felt it his duty to use every
available means which the rules of the House gave him
to oppose the clauses seriatim as they were put from the
chair; but seeing the friendly spirit in which the Bill
was received by the Irish Members, he did not conceive
himself justified in wastin the time of lion. Members
by dividing, but he intended on the third reading to give
his most strenuous opposition, and to state his reasons
for doing so. Clauses one to eight defined the duties of
the Commissioners, and those on to clause fifteen devised
the means for enabling the Commissioners to fulfil
those duties. Every one of these clauses was faulty,
and unless the Government took the opportunity of
greatly amending them, he should at a future step
earnestly oppose their adoption. He thought it was not
right that they should be called upon to pay out of the
English Exchequer three new functionaries—thus giving
additional patronage to the Government, and appointing
persons for the performance of duties which ought to
be discharged by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
Colonel RAWDON said he had not any objection to
the general merits of the Bill. he had received from a
gentleman in 'Dublin, who was well acquainted with
Chancery practice, a letter which he thought it might be
just to read to the House. The writer
stated that the Incumbered Estates Bill would
be one of the most beneficial measures that could be
devised for Ireland; that it was prepared with clearness,
and that the provisions were so simple that no one could
fail to unde-rstand them.

Mr. SHAFrO ADAIR thought that the measure
would have a very beneficial effect in Ireland; but was
of opinion that one or two gentlemen should be ap.
pointed as Commissioners, who were acquainted not only
with the legal, but the personal management of estates.
It was incumbent upon the Government, he thought, to
appoint gentlemen to the office of Cotn.nissioner who
were possessed of the highest possible legal at-
tainments.

Mr. F. FRENCH repeated that he was opposed to
the Bill, because it would act most unjustly. Under it
many lards would be sold at but twelve years' purchase,
and the proceeds would be, therefore, insufficient to meet
the claims upo❑ them.
Sir JOHN WALSH was convinced that this Bill,
like the one of last year, would prove altogether
nugatory, and considered that the sale of property at its
present depreciated value in Ireland, would be like put-
ting up a house to auction whilst it was in flames. It
would be most difficult to get purchasers. Whe❑ capi-
talists purchased landed property, they did so expecting a
definite and regular revenue, unlike shopkeepers who
speculated when they purchased property. Capitalists
did not purchase property from philanthropic motives,
but to profit by what they did. Therefore, capitalists
would not invest their money in the impoverished dis-
tricts of Ireland. He objected to the arbitrary nature of
the Commission to be appointed under the Bill.

Lord JOHN RUSSFX,I, said the real question was
whether the whole state of Ireland was such as to
demand some extraordinary measures for re-
lieving it. Upon the motion for the second
reading of this Bill, it was admitted that there
were extraordinary oiroumstances to justify its intro-
dilation, and he thought, therefore, that the; Com-
mittee ought at once to proceed with the details
of the Bill. It was quite evident that the
present machinery of the Court of Chancery
was inadequate to facil►tate the speedy transfer of en-
cumbered estates, and that fact must be the answer of
the Government to the objection which had been raised
to the measure, that it imposed duties on Commissioners
which ought to devolve upon the Lord Chancellor.
Colonel DUNNE should oonsider himself unworthy
of being an Irishman if he did not protest against this
arbitrary Bill. If a Bill of this kind was to be passed,
he thought that when property was to be handed
over to Commissioners, the House ought at least to
know who those Commissioners were, and if Hon.
Members would divide with him, he would move that the
consideration of the first clause should be adjourned
until the names of the Commissioners were known.—
(Hear, hear.) He thought it monstrous that three un-
known men should be entrusted with powers scarcely
possessed by the Autocrat of Russia..--(Hear,

hear.) He had said that this Bill was
in blank, and to prove that it was so, he would only
refer to the tenth section, which gave a power to refer
disputed points to the Privy Council in Ireland, but
which stated no rules by which the Council weie to be
directed in their decisions.—(Hear, hear.) lie con-
ceived that the Hon. Gentleman opposite was entirely
mistaken in supposing that the Irish Members would
accept this Bill with anything like friendly unanimity.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

TATTERSALL'S_THIS EVENING
Six o'CLocK.

DERBY.

9 to 4 agst Flying Dutchman
7 to 2 agst Nunnykirk
11 to 2 agst Chatterer
6 to 1 agst Tadmor
18 to 1 agst Elthiron
18 to 1 agst Vatican
30 to 1 agst Honeycomb
33 to 1 agst Old DAn Tucker
50 to 1 agst The Old Fox

OAKS.
11 to 2 agst Clarissa—taken
6 to 1 apt Glauca
7 to 1 agst Sister to Arkwright
8 to 1 agst Woodlark— taken
12 to 1 agst Imperatrix

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, MAY 18.—Ftedericia has been
bombarded since 3 o'clock yesterday morning, 30 bombs
haying been, in the first instance, thrown into the for-
tress.

The day before yesterday, the Prussians occupied
our Aarhims, and they did not encounter any
of the men except a few cavalry patrols. Nor is
it known where the northern division of the enemy
is stationed. On the gradual approach of the Imperial
troops, the inhabitants leaving their property at stake,
take ships, and leave for Turin. The Danes at Fre-
dericia are indefatigable in-daily saluting the German
works of fortification with their bombs ; without,
however, causing much damage. When too energe-
tic the Germans make the Jutland peasants, who are
at work, upon them, immediately cease their fire.
On the 15th they saluted the:German entrenchments
with nineteen bombs, but only one of them took effect,
and killed a couple of men. Upon this, General Boni❑
placed the Jutland peasants in a mere exposed position
than they generally occupied, and the Danes imme-
diately gave over firing. The fortress of Frederide. is
now the stronghold, and although the Danes were
victorious in the first sally, it is said that their
loss was considerable, though the Minister of War
at Copenhagen gives the list at one killed and sixteen
wounded. The Danes assort that Fredericia will be able
to sustain a bombardment for three weeks. The event
will prove whether this is so or not.
COPENHAGEN, MAY 17.—An English war-steamer
arrived here to-day. It is conjectured that it is the
Hecate, which, according to the English journals, has
been sent hither with dispatches from Lord Palmerston.
HANOVER, MAY 16.—The Hanover Gazette is indig-
nant at the report circulated in the capital, and inserted
also in the Morning Pest, that the King of Hanover
would arrive in England in the course of twenty-four
hours. " King Ernest Augustus," says this journal,
"is made of rather tougher material thus to quit his
post in the prospect of possible contingencies."
The project of the German Constitution, as about
to be adopted by the German Government now delibe-
rating at Berlin, is said to be ready, and will soon be
promulgated. It comprehends a German union, and
differs only on some points of the administrative
formerly propounded at Frankfort. This Con-
stitution, as accepted at Berlin, is to be sub-
mitted to the Diet to be assembled this summer for
deliberation and acceptance. By this project the King
of Prussia will be at the head of Germany as Regent
of the Empire (Reichsverweser), and thereby obtain
the supreme command of Germany on a inure sure
and firmer foundation, than it he were now to accept
the Imperial Crown on the ground of the German
Constitution .—Hamburgh Correspondent, May 18.

THE BRAZILS.
The Sword Fish arrived here last evening, bringing
accounts from Rio Janeiro to the 10th ; to the 17th;
and Pernambuco to the 27th ult. There is no political
news of interest.

At Pernambuco cotton had advanced owing to the
improved accounts from Liverpool and a decline in price
was not looked for, whilst the rate of freight to Liver-
pool remains so low. First quality was quoted at 41d.
to 4id. per lb.
Sugars advanced 1 anna to 2 anna reis per arroba,
with a limited business. The stock is small.

Dry salted sides scarce at anna and five reis per
lb. Excharge had declined in consequence of the fall-
ing off in the supplies of sugar. The rate on England
stood at 264, at which business to some extent iv•.ts done.
A steamer had just arrived from Rio Janeiro, having
on board specie to be invested in bills.
Freights continued dull to the Channel and the United
Kingdom. The rates were 375. 6d., and 5 per cent. per
ton for sugar in bags.
Cotton to Liverpool 7-16ths of a penny and 5 per cent.
per lb._ _

- At Bahia Sugar was firm at 1,800 to 2,300 reis.
Exchange not so firm, at 26d. and 33. 4d.
Freights 403. to the Channel for orders, and 455. to
the Mediterranean.

At Rio Janeiro coffee was quoted at 3,000 to 3,200
for superiors; 2,750 to 2,900 goud first; and 2,400 to
2,600; regular stock, 40,000 bags.
Exchange, 26d.

Freights 355. to 40s. imr ton Channel.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.—The continual arrivals
of bread stuffs into the port of Cork have created quite
a panic among the Irish Protectionists, and all sorts of
gloomy prophecies are indulged in respecting the ruin of
the agricultural interests. In two days 26 vessels laden
with grain arrived in Cove. On Friday a fall took place
in Indian corn of 7s. 6d. per ton.
The petition praying for the commutation of the sen-
tence of transportation on the state prisoners to a short
imprisonment is this day being signed at all the Roman
Catho`ic chapels in this city. A similar movement is getting
up in the provinces. In consequence of an outrage on the
household and pfrs)n of Mr. Sharpe, a steward of Lord
Monteagle, in the countyllof Limerick, his Lordship has
issued an addresss to his tenantry there, announcing that
he has given orders to suspend all useful works upon his
property and dismiss all the persons employed thereon.
According to the Limerick Chronicle, the Marquis of
Sligo has been appointed to succeed Lord Harris as
Governor of Trinidad; he will be accompanied by
Arthur White, Rsq., as Colonial Secretary.
Emigration is proceeding at a rapid pace from the port
of Belfast. Some of the persons emigrating are of the
most substantial class of farmers. One man had 700
sovereigns in his trunk, and many more had sums nearly.
as large.

Mr. Butt left town for London, having been sumenont d
to attend before the Parliamentary Committee on Iribh
Poor•laws on Monday (this day).

THE IRISH STATE PRISONERS.
The following document has been forwarded to seve-
ral mercantile houses in the City of London:—
"To HIS EXCELLENCY THE EARL OF CLARENDON,
THE LORD-LIEUTENANT GENERAL AND GENERAL
GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.

" May it please your Excellency,
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of desire
most repectfully to represent to your Excellency the
general feeling with regard to William Smith O'Brien
and the other State prisoners, at present confined in
Richmond Bridewell.

" The high personal character which these gentlemen
bear, their long sufferings in prison, and tneir serious
pecuniary losses, have excited a lively and universal in-
terest in their fate among all classes of society, and men
who are unalterably opposed to all their political opi-
nions are most sincerely anxious that their lives should
not be wasted in painful exile or protracted imprison.
ment.

" The sincere humanity, and the respect for property
which they are known to have exhibited under trying
circumstances, have deepened this sympathy in their
favour. And we are thoroughly convinced, and can
therefore most respectfully and most confidently repre-
sent it to your Excellency, that it will meet the general
wishes of the country—now restored to profound peace
—if their sentence be commuted to the smallest punish-
ment your Excellency may deem fit.
" Trusting that your Excellency will take the prayer
of this memorial into your gracious consideration, with
that humane spirit which will meet the wishes of the
country, and which you have hitherto evinced towards
them, your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever
pray.

NA VA L IN TELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 20.--The Gladiator steam-frigate,
temporarily commanded by Mr. Thomas Leen, late
Master of the Royal Sovereign, at Pembroke, but re-
cently appointed to succeed Mr. Alexander Farley,
Master-Attendant at Chatham, who retires, went to
Spithead on Friday night, and sailed at daylight yester-
day morning for Plymouth and Milford.
The Basilisk steam-sloop, Captain H. T. Austin, C. 8.,
and the Niger, Captain Halsted, sailed yesterday morn-
ing at an early hour to pursue their experimental trial.
It is said that no real injury was sustained by the latter
vessel from the extreme heat of her funnel or smoke-
box, but that, finding everything in its vicinity getting
inconvtniently hot, and fearing ignition thereby, it was
judged most expedient to return to port, to endeavour
to obtain the application of such preventives as might be
deemed must efficacious for the purpose. These have
been supplied,
The Columbia, steam surveying vessel, Commander
P. F. Shortland, sailed yesterday morning to the west-
ward. Before leaving Spithead, Commander Shortland
corrected his compasses for local attraction on a plan of
his own, by turning his vessel to port and starboard
under steam, by this means effecting as much in two
hours as would have occupied a whole day with warps
in harbour.
The Fib-shire freight-ship sailed from Cnwes yester-
day morning, with detachments of regiments from Park-
hurst-barracks for the Cape of Goud Hope, passing
through Spithead.
The Comet packet, from Madeira (six days), arrived
here yesterday, and landed about 40 passengers.
The Lark shooner, Lieutenant-Commander Hall, en
route to Liberia, as a yacht for the President of that
new settlement, arrived at Madeira frcm Devonport on
the 19th ult., and sailed on the following day for the coast
of Africa.
The Rifleman, 4, Lieutenant Commander Crofton,
sailed from Madeira on the 20th, fur Rio.
The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Commander Henry Duma-
resq, arrived yesterday from Jersey, with si supply of
prvisions stores, &c.

Yesterday, being the day appointed for celebrating
the anniversary of her Majesty's birth, was observed aa,
a holiday at all the Government establishments. Ali
the ships and vessels were dressed in flags from 8 o'clock
A.M. till sunset. At noon the Vict,,ry, the Illustrious,
and the Excellent, in harbour; the Superb, at ,pithead;
and the platform battery, ashore, fired royal salutes.
Royal salutes were also fired by the Yacht Club bat-
teries at Cowes and Ryde.
WOOLWICH, MAY 19.—The arrangements to make
the Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Arnellus
Beauclerk, ready for sea were very successful, as she wee
able to leave Greenhithe at two o'clock p, 31. on Wed-
nesday last, with the North Star in tow, for the Aral°
regions.
The funeral of the late Mr. M`Callum took place
yesterday at two o'clock P.m. The coffin contain'
ing the body was placed on a 9-pounder gun carriage
opposite the Boatswain's residence in Woolwich Dock'
yard, and drawn to Charlton Churchyard, nearly "J.°
miles, by a number of riggers, who volunteered thelr
services to convey it in that manner as a tribute of re'
spect to the memory of the deceased. The union jack
was placed over the pall, and a number of the heads (1i
the departments, with all the warrant-officers Of the
doehyard and ships and steamers in the harbour in OP
form, followed in procession to the place of interment.
The body of the late Mr. Warren, quartermaster el
the Unite convict hospital ship, was found this moronl
in the river near the place where the Fisgard frigate'
moored, opposite the dockyard.

A WIFE POISONING HER
HUSBAND.
INIORPETIT, SATURDAY.—Considerable excAiet-eot
and feelings of horror prevail at the present till::
throughout this neighbourhood, in consequence of tu
discovery of another supposed case of secret peisonil
and the committal to the county gaol of the alleged
murderess. The circumstances connected with 1110
case, as far as they have yet been ascertained, aPPe.A
to be as follow :—Some few days since, a married
man, about 26 years of age, named William Hornsby'
who resided at Haltwhistle, was taken suddenly ill't
and he died shortly afterwards, from what was at first
believed to be inflammation of the stomach, produce:
by natural causes. The man's death having become
generally known through the district, a report le
came current that his wife, on the day Pr!'
ceding the death, had purchased some arsenic'
for the alleged purpose of poisoning rats
The neighbours and other parties at once made ill
quiries respecting the mysterious affair, which slit?:
fled them that the poison had not been used for t"'
purpose stated. Mr. Stephen Bird, the coroner,
therefore made acquainted with the suspicions thlt
were entertained that the deceased had not met h
death fairly. The result was, that that gentle:l
gave the necessary instructions for holding an inque9,
on the body, when, after the examination of suodrJ.,
witnesses, the inquiry was adjourned until Monday
(this day) to allow time for a post mortem examill,°:
tion of the deceased's body to be made, and also t
an analysis of the contents of the stomach to be 'Dor
Dr. Glover, and another medical gentleman of tbis
town, have been directed to proceed with this part ef
l
the inquiry, and it is stated that they have discovered
indications denoting the presence of arsenic.
magistrates have also taken the case up, and is'
evidence brought before them was of such a pato!°
as to warrant them in committing the deceased's wife
to Morpeth Gaol, on suspicion of murdering he'
husband.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS. ,
MANCHESTER, MAY 19.—With a moderate demand dorm,
the week prices have varied little, if at all,since last Saturdsl.
A fair business was done yesterday at Liverpool and grin
field at full prices. Large imports of Indian corn are met bfi,
correspondingly extensive demand for shipment to Irel'
At our market to-dav there is a moderate sale for the be',
qualities of each article, at the rates of this day week; second
and inferior samples go off very slowly at somewhat uncer
prices. _ _

- READING, MAY 19.—Wheat, per quarter, 34s to 565;
ley, 2bs to 355; oats, 16s to 235 ; beans, 30s to 40s; Pe 3os to 38s. Fat hogs, 8s 6d to 8s 94 ; porkers, 9s to Os Fer
score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; due
per couple, 3s 6d to 4s Od; geese, each,Os Od to Os Od; butte
per lb, lld to Is 04; eggs, lb to 20 for Is.
ABERDEEN, MAY 18.—Grain—Oats 15s Od to 16s Od,4olb„Ar
*
bushel ; barley, 00s to 245, 521bs per bushel; bear, 00s to 1,1
52 lbs per bushel; wheat, 46, to 525; oatmeal, lls 6d to 1254
per boll; flour,
,37s to 45s per sack. Provisions-13":1
4d to Ed per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 6d ; veal, ditte,,,,
to 7d ; pork, per stone, 4s 6d to 5s ; lamb, per Ib, 7d to v?.;
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 10d to 1:0;
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, each'
to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to IvL;
eggs, per doz, 6d to 7d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, .tt
pair, 2s Gd to 3s Od ; chickens, ditto, Is 6d to 2s ; ducks,drttai
$o
2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 2s 6d ; turkeys, each,
to 4s Od ; geese, ditto, Os to Os ; butter for exportation (Preeiie
cure), per cwt, 60s to 635; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen,
lb,
v:
to Od ; 4b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 14
3s 6d to
3s 6d to Os
3d Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork to
4s ; ship pork per barrel of '204 Ibs, 100 s.
Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to Is 4d; bearmeal, is 3d to 'Os tr!
peasemeal, 2s Od to Os; aids, 6d to 7d ' • barley flour, is 501. r
Os Od ; barley dust, 8d to Od ; flour, Is lOd to 2s; barley, pale*
lid to 2d.
DALK EITH, MAY 17 —The relative weight per fourbuaide
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 91b, 18st 31b, and 11:
51b. Oats, 13st 01b, 12st 7th, and lOst 131 b. Barley, 16st 51P,
16st lib, and 153 t Ilb. Peas Sand beans, 19st 61b, 18st 0*
and 17st 'lbs.
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior-
-188 Wheat ... ....£2.. 10 0 £2 6 0 £2 0?,
1180 Oats
116 Barley 015o15 v
43 Pease and Beans 1 12 0 1 8 0 1 5 °
Average of wheat........, 45s 54d. Of
CoRK, MAY 18.—We have to report immense arrivals,
foreign grain this week. A very large number of vessels hal
entered our harbour during the last few days. many of they'
indeed by far the greater portion, being grain laden.
however, most of these have only called for orders, and /1
therefore, in all probability, leave in a few days, we cannot losb
forward to any very long continuance of the der: ession %chi%
this large influx of bread stuffs has undoubtedly produced!'
this market. The receipts of home grown grain are trilling 1:
the extreme, those of wheat from the 1 tth to the 17th install"
both inclusive, amounting only to 37 barrels. We have ,
alteration in the price of any article of produce. In prepare
Irish and foreign wheat we have had little business passill
but we cannot quote any alteration in value. The value °
oats is firmly maintaiiied, and as stocks diminish daily tb;
article is likely to become dearer. We have no transactions et
any moment to record, nor any alteration to make from °oil
quotations of last week. In flour, as regards the primer
VW'
ties, we have a fair consumptive business doing, while for tlig
coarser descriptions we continue to experience a very active
demand. The large arrivals, already referred to, have can,'"
such a damp in the trade in Indian corn, that it is difficult tt°
give quotations correctly. We think, however, we are prettif
near the mark when we state that a decline of 5s to 7,6,
has taker, place in the article, in which but little busing':
is passing. Flour—Firsts 14s to 14s 6d ; extra 153 0(1,Z,
seconds, 13s Od to 13, 6d; households lOs to 12s; thirds Beto
per cwt. Oatmeal 13s Od to COs; Indian meal 8s 6d to 9s ; seteg
meal, lOs Od to Ilsper cwt. Indian corn 8; OsOdto 8/10s
per toll'
Bran 41 to 4/ 5s per ton. Hay—Farmers 40s Od to 41s; averse,
00s ; dealers 00s to 00s; average 00s Od per ton. St: avi— Faro'. ,g 1"
25s Od to 80s 64 ; average 00s ; dealers 00s Od to 00s O'
average average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 611%
household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, St"-
94 per lb. Eggs —3s 10d to 4s per hundred. Coals";
Newport 16s; Lydney 17s; Landore 16s; Best Nestt,
Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 435 6d to 44s per 0;
Whisky, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gallon. bleat
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 5d to 6id; veal Sid "„
7d ; pork 4d to 50; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d Pe;
lb. -Hops 61 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 3/ 5s PeZ
ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to 8110 s; Valonia 141 to 0/; Fong'
71103; English Olper ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone'
Hemp 34/ to 36/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 185 to 19s; re"
ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 10s to 12/
pet
ton. Timber—New Memel 4/ 108; old scarce; red pine d
153; yellow pine 3/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 201; second
quality 171 per 120. Hides—Market 103 to 16s; salted 119 t.
16s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2-111; market 2d to 2ict per Ib'
Potatoes, white 12d to 144; Minions 19d to 20d; Guano! - Peruvian, 11/ to 11/109 ; Ichaboe 9/ per ton ; Tar—Archangel' 19s per barrel.
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