The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-09 00:00:00

MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

CORN EXCHANGE.
There are this week good arrivals of most kinds of grain, and
,a
considerable quantity of Flour. The Wheat trade remains firm at t"e
terms of Monday. Barley continues to sell heavily. Beans and Pease
are unvaried. There is a fair demand for Oats at former quotAti°n_L
The Flour trade was become very dull in consequence of the increasF"
quantity. _

. ,
ARRIVALS.:
I i
Wheat. Barley. Oats. I FI"T' kg,
English
Irish - 25,470 .......
Forelgu — —.-- ..........

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.
A very poor market in every respect, as far as the supplY was
COn -
cerned. The demand was good, and higher prices were obtaino •
Beef rose 2d. and Mutton 4d. per stone. Veal and Pork were
also
higher. Beef, 31. 4d. to 41. Bd. Mutton, 4s. 4d. to 55. 2d. Lain
Gs. to 6s. Sd. Veal, ss. to Gs. Pork, 4s. 4d. to 5.. Irish, 33. Sd" ..
4s. Beasts, 170. Sheep and Lambs, 1,300. Calves, 82. Fig', ~R.

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Fish to-day rather scarze, but trade good. Turbot 64 to 25a. Snie6
6d. to 2s. 6d. per pair. Cod as high as 20s. each, scarce suadliear. I,°b:
sters Is. and is. 6d. to 4s. and ss. each. Whitings 3d. to Bd. and
each.

PROVISION MARKET.
The only reaction in prices from last week in this Market is in nutter'
we than
which, of all kinds of Foreign and Irish, are Is. to :25. I°-r
last week.

HOP AND SEED MARKET.
There was no variation to-day in the prices of Hops, and business WO
steady. Seeds, of all kinds, fetched Monday's quotations.
TALLOW MARKET.
There is something rather wild in the quotations of Tallow :
54-
Mt
now. Some have gone as far as to say that P. Y. C. was 5
This is extravagant ; but we believe the price to be between 516•
and 52e.

WOOL MARKET.
Both English and Foreign Wool are in good demand, and price.
very firm.

COLONIAL MARKETS.
These markets are dull, but still we have a considerable number of
public sales to-day. British Plantation Sugar being affected by the
Raw Sugar Market generally, which is heavy, sells slowly at prices
tending to decline. Refined may be bought at 375. for fine crushed.
The principal sales to.day of colonial produce are 10,300 bags of Mau-
ritius Sugar, and about 4,000 of Bengal, Siam, and Bahia. These sales
began without spirit, as was expected, and sold slowly when we tear
at prices tending downwards, and part bought in. Besides thes
of
e,.
there were about 1,800 bags and casks of different kinds
Coffee, amongst which was very little British Plantation.
not
Coffee market was firm previously; and these small sales were
of sufficient magnitude to alter it. We left it much as before. of Teat Tea
nothing doing, as the public sales are approaching. The quantity t
declared now for sale is 176,000 packages. Rice, 4,000 bags 0-""). e.
public sale sold at firm prices. Saltpetre is flat and tending to
Spices are rather flat than otherwise. Rum is firm.
The Imports of Colonial produce are now very considerable,
part waft
Foreign Sugar to.day at public sale fetched former prices.
bought in.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MLItCII 8. t our
About 3,500 bags of Cotton have found purchasers this del 4
th ta e
last quotations. In consequence of the exceedingly heavy impOr oo
k-
market remains in a flat condition :-2,850 American, did. 7id• ;,30,
Surat, 41d. 51d.; 150 Egyptian, Bid. 12d. ; 200 Bahia, 7fd•
total 3,b00.

TEMPERANCE FESTIVAL IN g

NOUR OF MR. BUCKINGHAM.

(From the Philadelphia National Gazette.)
A Temperance Festival will be held in our City on the
evening of the 20th inst. (Tuesday,) in honour of the 1-10.0.
James Silk Buckingham, late Member of the British
parlia-
ment, who, by his indefatigable labours while Chairman of I,
Committee appointed to investigate the causes and extent
drunkenness in the three kingdoms, awakened the attention
of the British nation to the importance of the Temperance
cause, and gave it a great impulse in that and other conntries;
To accommodate the number of persons who it is suppose,,."
will wish to honour and hear this gentleman, who is him
an eloquent defender of temperance principles, the Committee
of Arrangement have procured the Arch-street Theatre.
The festival will be simple, consisting of ice creams, fruitof
&c. Tickets of admission one dollar.
During the festival several resolutions will be offered, and
sustained by some of our most prominent advocates of the
temperance cause.
The Committee respectfully invite all officers and members
of Temperance SJcieties, and ladies and gentlemen genetallY,
in the city and liberties, to unite with them on the occasion._

Tickets can be had at the Temperance Office, 144, Ches-
nut-street ; at Mr. H. Perkins' Book-store ; at 42 North 6th
street ; at Mr. Reed's, Corner of Vine and 2d, and of Col.
G. Robinson, No. 60, Filbert-street ; and of each of the
Managers. The number of tickets is limited. Such, there-
fore, as wish to attend, will do well to supply themselves early-
MATTHE W NEWKIRK, Chairman.
J. MARSH, Secretary.
The following gentlemen have consented to serve as officer°
of the Tuniperance Festival :
PRESIDENT—MATTHEW NEWKIRK, Esq. ,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.—Mathew Cary, Joseph R. Ingersolii,
Thomas Flemming, Thomas Earp, Dr. L. P. Gebbar •
William W. Baldwin, John Weigand, Dr. George H. Burgers'
Joseph S. Riley, Robert Earp, Dr. John Bell, Dr. Vandyke:
Charles Elliott, Thomas Watson, Dr. D. F. Condie, Colonel
Robinson, J. T. Smith, lime S. Ashton, E. C. Smith, Ostnoil
Reed, Isaac Boi!eau, George W. Hamilton, Dr. Charlet°
Griffith, Joseph H. Hoffman, James Hunt, Thomas Elates'
Thomas Wakham, Job R. Tyson.
MANAGERS.—CoIoneI Thomas Robinson, Robert Earl'
Leonard Jewell, Jasper Corning, David McClure, George
Donahue, Dr. Bryan, Jacob S. Beck, George W. Reed, JO;
-,1"
L. Stams, George Simpson, John Manderson, John ti*
Pecbin, George R. Smith, William H. Hamilton, Charles
Aitken, Jesse Y. Caster, Benjamin Crawford, George NV-
Whiteling, Arnold Buffum, William Dulty, John A. Dungan'
Peter Crane., jun., Dr. Joseph Mitchell, Thomas K. Triase.

The Dowager Countess de Salis entertained the
Russian Ambassador and a select party at dinner, on Wedn444
day evening in Carlton-gardens.
An eminent chemist has lately discovered, from
nute analysis, that the faces of the Barnsley bachelors contain
sufficient metal to make spectacle frames for the whole of the
spinsters of that place.—Doncaster Gazette.
Among the commitments, last week, to the \\Tilton
(Somerset) house of Correetion, was that of Ann Pain, spin-
ster, for stealing a heart on the 14th instant—St. Valentine's
Day.
Three persons—a father, whose name was Keefe,
his wife and their son—perished in a snow-storm on Wed-
nesday. They lived in a miserable hut, between Mr. find-
son's mountain and Lord Middleton's, and when the storm,
came on, one of the sons left the hut and went to the house 01
a man named Donovan, about twenty perches distant.
others were to have followed, but not arriving he suppOsea
them to have gone to the house of a man named Kelley ill a
different direction, and on Saturday, when the weather cleared,
he went to see after them. At Kelley's, however, they had
not been, so he proceeded to their own house ; there, buried
in the snow, and standing upright, he found father, mother,
and brother—a hand of the latter grasped in one of each of
the former—dead ; the face, hands, and ears of the child eaten
by a dog.—Cork Paper.