The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-17 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

LEEDS, MAY 15.—0 - arriinizi (if grain fO-(-I:l7n—re—n,-

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ct.rtiLittett vtitli ;12 t.t.e ...at h, r, busiiwts,
but the sales mails are at rather improved prices. Barley
nominal ; oats and shelling steady ; beans fully as dear.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MAY 15. -- We have
about 490 head of fat beasts on offer here to-day, 100 of which
are from the northern counties of Scetland ; the principal of
the supply are from North Northumberland, Berwick, and
Roxburghshire. As a whole the qnslity is good. With sheep
the supply is seasonably good, both in quantity and quality,
including several lots of hoggets out of their wool ; also about
163 very good lambs, which are a ready sale. Respecting the
demand, the beef trade has considerably imi.rovei from last
week, at fully mod. advance. It is now nine o'clock, and few
remain unsold. The number of sheep is 4,C,0). The im-
provement in the beef trade has had an influence on the
demand for sheep. Though sales are now easily effected, yet
we cannot quote much advance in prices. Pigs are a large
supply, and in good demand ; several lots of which are bought
for the south. Prices—Beasts, 5s to 63 31 per stone of
141bs ; sheep in wool, 51c1 to 6d; shorn, 41d to 5 t4cl per lb,
sinking the offal.
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MAY 15.—There were in
in the market to-day 84 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs
imperial, whereof 71 sold thus : —45 at 118 s Od, 9at 1176 6d,
l 7 at 1/ 7s Od, 0 at 11 is Od, 0 at I/ 6s 9d. Average price of the
whole, 11 7s 83 4-12ths. 12, sacks flour, whereof 2 acid at
325, 4 at 30s, 2at 295, and 4at 28s. 3 sacks peasemeal,
whereof I sold at 20s, and 1 (bean meal), at 16s 6d. 24 sacks
pot-barley, whereof 16 sold thus:— 1 at 1/ 6s Od, 2 at It 53 Od,
4 at 114 s 6d, 5 at 114 s Od, 4 at 113 s 9d.
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, MAY 15.--
Supplies of all kinds again large. Oat straw, from 6s Od to
7s 6d per kemple of 16 stones trop; wheat ditto, 6s 03 to
7s Od ; barley ditto, 5s Od to 5s 6d. Hay from 7d to Od per
stone.

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BELFAST, MAY 14.—Grain—As usual at this season the
supplies are short at our stock market between Friday and
this day. We have a fair demand, and steady prices. Wheat,
9s Od to 105 6d ; barley, 6s 6d to 7s ; oats, 6s 9d to 7s 6d ;
oatmeal, 12s Od to 12s 8d per cwt. Indian corn in
moderate demand, at about last week's prices.
Yellow 81 2s 6d to 8/ lOs per ton, and white
5s less. Butter—firkins, first 9d ; crocks 9d ; firkins,
third 7#d; crock bid per lb; shipping price 70s to 86s per cwt.
Potatoes, per stone, 9d to 10d; ditto, per cwt, 5s to 5s se.
Fruit—Apples, per dozen, 6d to 9d ; pears, per ditto, Od to Od;
grapes, per lb., Sd to 10d; lemons, per dozen, Os 9d to Os 10d;
nuts, per quart, 6d to Ed; wall-nuts, per hundred, Is to is 3d;
chest nuts, per ditto, Is Od to Os ; cocoa nuts, 6d to Ed each;
American apples, 10d to ls Od per dozen ; mixed pickles, 10d to
Is. Butchers' Meat—beef, per lb, 4d to 7d ; mutton, 5d to 7d ;
veal, 6d to 7d ; lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od per quarter.
Fish--Trout, Os 6d per lb ; brett, 3s Od to 4s Od ;
soles, Is to Is 6d per pair. Poultry—Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s a•
pair ; chickens, is 6d to 2s per pair; ducks, 2s to 2s 6d per
pair ; turkeys, 3s to 4s each ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; eggs,
per doz., 5d to 6d. Hay, Is 2cl to 2s 2d; straw, oat, Sd to is 3d ;
ditto, wheat, 10d to is 2d per cwt.

COAL MARKET.-.-YESTERDAY.
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main l2s Od Lambton
Hasting's Hartley l3s Od Morrison l3s 6d
Ravensworth's W.Hart 12s 6d Russell's Hetton
Tanfield Moor .... l3s Od Stewart's
Wall's End, &c. Kelloe lss Oci
Brown's l3B Od Whitworth

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. . 13s 6direes
Riddell's ..... ... ...... ... 13s Ed Llangcnnech . 22s 6d.
Eden Main
Bradd,yll's netton l6s Od Ships at market, 128.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRI STOL,'. MAY 16.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The Share Market to-day was somewhat
firmer, and there was an evident disinclination on the part of holders
to sell at the present reduced prices. The sales are—Great Western,
Quarters, 6% dis.—Ditto, 17/. Shares,: 4%—Taff Yale, Quar-
ters, 28%.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share market was rather betteeto4ay,
and prices were a shade higher. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 221. Shares, 7% dis.—Lanca-
shire and; Yorkshire, Fifths, 47. dls. Ditto, Preference, 11%
London and North-Western, 126% —Ditto, New Quarters, Is. 3d. p.—
Midland, 67—Ditto, Halves, 3s. Id. c. dii.-111anchester, Shrews-
bury, and Lincoln, Quarters (No. 1), guaranteedi,7% per cent. till
1853, 7% dis.—North Union (A), 220 —South•Eastern and Dover,
21% —Ditto (No. 4), 6% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original
N. and B.), G. N. B. Purchase, guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, Vs.
9d.—York and North Midland, 29.

2U.NCIII STER, MAr 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were as follows :--
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters, 3 p.—Ditto (C), 3 p.
—Dorer (No. 4), (9 —Wharfdalcs, 2% dis.—Eastern Counties,
8 1-16—Great Northern (B), 1% di3.— Leeds, Preference, n 15-16
Ditto, Fifths, 4% dis.—Aorth estaffordshire, dia.
BIRMINGHAM 2Oty 16.
STocir EXCriANGE.—The following are to-day's transactions :
Birmingham and t xforcl Junction, 25—Wolverhampten and Stour
Valley, 10% —Eastern Counties, B—Chester and Holyhead, 15—
Midland Stock, 67—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A.), 61-3 dis.—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19 .
YORK, MAIr 15,
STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol-
lows :—Great Northern, 101. 3s. 9d.—Caledonian, Preference, 11%
—North Staffordshire, 125—York, Newcastle, and Berwick(G. N. E.
Purchase), Si. 19s. 3d.

FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—Yes-,
terday a meeting of the electors of Southwark (convened
by the high bailiff 1 ursuant to a requisition addressed
to him for that purpose) was held in the Town Hall, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the best mode
of co operating in the objects, and furthering the views
of the Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentary Re-
form Association. At one o'clock the high bailiff (Wil-
liam Pritchard, Esq.) took the chair, and, having read
the requisition he had received, said he had derived
great pleasure in acceding to it, inasmuch as the meet-
ing was convened for the purpose of considering a
matter of vast and important public interest, and which
was now occupying a very large portion of the public
attention—(Cheer.9.) Ho then read two letters he had
received from Mr. Alderman Humphrey and Sir Wm.
blolesworth, the members for the borough, announcing
their inability to attend the meeting in consequence of ,
being obliged to attend at twelve o'clock in their place
in Parliament, on the discussion and anticipated division
upon Mr. Page Wood's Affirmation Bill. A number of
resolutions, iu furtherance of the objects of the meeting,
were then proposed and seconded by Messrs. Liking-
ton, Blake, Thwaitcs, Douglas, Pellatt, Bronterre
O'Brien, and other gentlemen, and the whole of them
were carried. A petition was ordered to bo presented
to the House of Commons founded on them. Thanks
were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting
broke up.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterclay a quar-
terly general court of the governors of this charity was
held at the board-room, Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn-
fiel,ls. Mr. E. F. Burton in the chair. The report read
by the secretary stated that the number of patients dar
ing the last quarter was 396; of whom 252 were dis-
charged cured or relieved, 32 proved incurable, died, or
left tor disorderly conduct, and the remaining 112 are
under treatment. The out-patients during the same
period numbered 4,772—meking a total of both classes,
since the opening of the charity, of 132,943. The re-
port having been adopted, and a reference made to the ,
high estimation in which the, charity was held (as testi-
fied by a subscription of 2,0951. being made at the anni-
versary on Saturday), Mr. W. Moody proposed the
thanks of the court to the worthy chairman, who had
recently undergone three months' treatment in the hos-
pital for a very severe and dangerous accident. In
seconding the resolution, Mr. T. G. Sambrooke expressed
his gratificetion at finding Mr. Burton become a gover-
nor,
and subsequently chairman at a quarterly court,
after availing himself of the medical and surgical skill
of such a public institution in preference to the high
professional services that his position and affluence en-
abled him to command. The Chairman, after acknow-
ledging the compliment, trusted that none of the go-
vernors present would have a similar occasion to witness
the behind-Lcenes of the hospital, although his experi-
ence and observation, in one respect, had afforded him
the most pleasing satisfaction. Some routine business
having shortly occupied the attention of the court, the
meeting separated.
THE POISONING CASES AT GIIESTLING.--A verdict
of " Wilful Murder" has been returned by the coroner's
jury against Mary Ann Gearing, the widow of one' of
the poisoned men, and mother of the others. Since the
accused has been in custody, she addressed a letter to
her children. It was intercepted by the gaoler, and the
magistrates have taken it as evidence against her. The
fulfowing is an extract:--" My dear children—l never
bad-any poison for to use after I had the last, which you
know was before your father died some time. I could
not recollect yesterday, when I was in court. If poor
James could know, he would be very sorry for me to
suffer fur him; for when he wanted poison to kill vermin
in the horses, I always got it for him. He used to tell
ale what to get, and not let anybody know whom it was
for. I have got it for him many times. The last that I
ever got for him was that week that he was getting
better. He said to me, Mother, ye must go and get me
some more stuff for my horses.' I went and got him
several sorts, and then mixed them all together, and
done them in the oven when I had been baking, and he
never meant to give it them. I did not let any one see
it. I threw it away after he was dead. My dear children,
I never had a bit of poison for myself afterwards."
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BIRTH.
On the 11th inst., at Bishop'sAs
Teignton, Devonshire, the
wife of Capta'n A. G. West, R.N., of a son.
On the 13th inst , at St. John's, hill, Battersea, the lady of
the Rev. J. M. Soule, of a son.
On the 13th inst., at Rottingdean, near Brighton, the wife
of Commander George S. Reynolds, R.N., of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Amwell• terrace, Pentonville, the lady
of T. M. Wilkin, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 12th inst., at St. Lawrence Jewry, City of London,
Alr. E. A. Fawcett, of Lawrence-lane, to Jane, daughter of
he late Mr. A. Harrison, of Sandford, Westmoreland.
On the 15th inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Mr. G.
Wagner, of Upper darlotte.street, Fitzroy-square, to Letitia
Sarah, third daughter of the late Major Sallery, formerly of
Downham, Norfolic.

DIED.
On the 12th inst., at Hampstead-heath, J. T. Gordon, Esq
Captain 15th Regiment B.N.L, late Principal Assistant-
Commissioner, Upper Assanr, aged 42.
On the 13th inst., aged 48, W. R. Morris, Esq, late of the
H.E.I.C. Bombay Civil Service, fourth son of the late J.
Morris, Eso., East India Director.
On the 13th inst., at the Elms, Cookham, Berks, aged 22,
William Alfrpy, second son of the late James Walter Bur-
rows, Esq.
On the 15th inst., at West-square, Lambeth, aged 86,
William Fry, Esq , formerly belonging for 86 years to the
late Transport-office.

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