The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

maintenance of such emigrant on arrival at such place, a
contract, to be approved by the commissioners, shall be
entered into for securing a sum of money to be supplied
to the emigrant on such arrival, according to the follow-
ing bc,fle:—

s.
To each person exceeding 14 rars of age 1 0
To each p,rson not exceeding 14 years of. age 0 10
6. It the emigrant be not conveyed by or under the au-
thority of her Majesty Government to the place of d. sti-
nation, arid the cost, or any part thereof, of conveying the
emigrant from the port of embarkation to such place
41,111 be defrayed from the fund above directed to be
provided, a contract shall be entered into for conveying
the emigrant to such place, to be approved by the said
Commissioners.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the anchesier Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, MARCH 13.—The checks that business
received last week, from the accounts brought by the
American packet and the overland mail have been felt in
a somewhat diminished degree to day. But though cotton
has recovered much of what it then lost, there remains, on
the whole, a strengthened impression that the present
range of prices must eventually be rather lowered by the
weight of the supply, and this impression tends to produce
caution in our market. In the letters received to-day
from Italy, previous orders are countermanded in con-.
sequence of dist usted paper having been put out by the
Leghorn Bank, and of a depreciation of the Tuscan and
Roman currencies by forced issues of inconvertible
paper on the part of the Provisional Govern-
ments. While, therefore, a slightly improved feeling is
perceptible, as compared with last week, still business
drags heavily, and not a little irregularity exists.
The transactions of the day have been of very limited
amount, buyers having shown no disposition to operate.
Prices have, consequently, been very imperfectly tested;
but it is evident that, although the quotations are gene-
rally the same as those of a week ago, yet, in most
things, sales could be effected only through some con-
cessions. Goods are, on the whole, firmer than yarns;
and, of the latter, spinnings for home manufactures are
better than those for exportation.
ROCHDALE, MARCH 12.—We have had a quiet market
to day, and the merchants have purchased very sparingly,
at last week's prices. In the wool market there is no
change to reporvirom that of the preceding Monday.
HALIFAX, MARCH 10.—The state of trade, in our
Piece Hall and in the warehouses, is about the same as
last week. The demand is not brisk, and is chiefly for
lastings, which go off at rates nearly equal to the ad-
vanced cost of the raw material. Yarns are firm, at late
rates, and the spinners are fully employed o❑ old orders;
but the shipping houses are extremely shy of giving out
new orders at the improved rates. There is no altera-
tion to quote in wool, which maintains its price with
considerable firmness.

HUDDERSFIELD, MARCH 13.—Tb0 market keeps up
the character of the last few weeks, and everything indi-
cates a steady, improved state of trade. A good business
is doing in the warehouses. In vestings, we have not
heard o many orders being yet received.
LEEDS, MARCH 13.—We cannot report any material
change hi our cloth market since last week. The amount
of business done at our halls to-day was about the same
as last Tuesday, and prices were unaltered. There is
little doubt the higher prices asked by the manufactu-
rers interfere with the business in some degree, and
check the merchants in their purchases.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
EDLNISURCH MEAL MARKET, MARCH 13.—There were in
in the market to-day 85 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2&)lbs
imperial, whereof 73 sold thus :—1 at 117 s 6d, 49 at 117 s Cdr
20 at 1/ Gs 6d, lat 116 s Od, 2at 115 s Od. Average price
of the whole, 116 s 93 7-12ths. 14 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at
335, 1 at 31s, and 6 at 303. 4 sacks barleymeal, whereof 2 sold
at 255, and 1 at 245. 18 sacks pot-barley, whereof 9 sold thus:
lat 1110 s Od, 3at 119 s Od, 2at 115 s 6d, 3at 115 s Od. 3 sacks
brosemeal, whereof 2 sold at 28s.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, MARCH 13.
Supplies large. Oat straw, from 6e to 7s per kemple of 16
stones tron ; wheat do., 6s 6d to 75 6d; barley do., 5s to 60.
Hay from 7d to 9d per stone.
CORK, MARCH 12.—Flour—Firsts 1456.1 to 15s; extra 16.;
seconds 13s to 14s Od ; households lOs to 12s ; thirds 8s L.) lOs
per cwt. Meal= Oatmeal Ila to lls 6d; Indian meal 8s ; wii.at
meal lls per cwt. Indian corn 7, Os to 7 12s 6d pen- ton. Bran
4t lOs per ton. Hay Farmers 24s to 42s Od; average 38s ;
dealers 30s to 48s ; average titis Od per ton. Str .w—Farmers
15..1 Od to 23s Od; average 005; dealers 27s Oil to 00s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten :loaf sict to Id;
household loaf 5d to 6d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d tO
lod per lb. Coals—Newport I 7s; Lydney 18s; Landore 17s',
best Neath Culm 16s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44$
per cwt. Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gal-'
lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton bd to 6d; veal
5d to 7d; pork 4d to 50 ; bacon 7d to 8d • sausages 6d per
lb. Hops 61 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 8/ ba per
ton. Bark—Barbary 61 to 71; Valonia 11/ to 131; French
61; English 61 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone.
Hemp 35/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 185 to 00s; red
ditto 25s to 27s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 10s to 121 pet
ton. Timber—New Memel 4/ 105; old scarce; red pine 3/
15s ; yellow pine 3/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 20' • second
quality 171 per 120. Hides—Market lls to 16s; salted lls to
18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2id ; market 2d to lid per lb.
Potatoes, white 10d to 12d; Minions 18d to 19d; Guano
Peruvian, 10/10s; Ichaboe 9/ per ton ; Tar—Archangel, 185
per barrel. Eggs, 4s to 4s 2d per hundred.
BELFAST, MARCH 12.—Butter—Firkins, first, 94d; crocks,
80 ; firkins, third, 7d ; crock, 60 per lb ; shipping price, 630
to 80a per cwt. Potatoes, per stone, 8d to 10d; ditto, per cwt,
4s 6d to ss. Butchers' Meat— beef, per lb, 4d to 70; muttony
5d to 7d • veal, 6d to 7d. Fish—Trout, 6d per lb ; brett, 30
to 4s; 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,
Hay,per dozen, 7d. ls 2d to is lld ; straw, oat, 8d to 15 ld ;
ditto, wheat, 7d to lld per cwt.
BANBRIDGE, MARCH 12.—Prices to-day are as follow:—'
Oatmeal, from 9s 9d to lOs 3d per cwt ; Indian meal, 8s Od to
8s 9d per cwt; flour, first, per 1121bs, 16s Od; second, 1456 d;
third, 12s Od ; fourth, 10s Od ; bran, 4s 6d ; wheatmeal, 12s 6d
to 14s Od; wheat, from 8s 9d to 93•9 d per cwt of 1121bs; oats,
5s 6d to 6s 9d ; barley, 6s 6d to Os Od per cwt ; American
flour, 28s 6d to 30s Od per brl; best butter, firkin, at the scale,
9d per lb; second, Bid; lump, 8d to 9d ; beef, 3d to sd;
mutton, 4d to 6d ; potatoes, 4s Od to 7s Od per cwt ; hens, 10d
to Is Od each ; chickens, 10d to is 4d per pair; ducks, is 10d
to 2s 4d ; turkeys, 2s 9d to 3s 9d each ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s 3d ;
eggs, hen, 5d to 6d per dozen ; duck, 6d to 60 per dozen ; tur-
key, Os to is Od per dozen; hay, upland, from is 4d to is 8d
per cwt; ditto, lowland, from is Od to is 2d; straw, from 8d
to 10d; turnips, 8d to 10d; pork, from 43s Od to 4,7 a 6d per
1121bs. Weight of bread at Hamilton Moore's bakery, 41bs for
51d. Old grain whiskey, at Mr. Robert Bell's, 6s 3d per
gallon, duty paid.
BALLYMENA, MARC, 10.—Oats, 5s 6d to 6s 2d; oatmeal,
10s Od to 10, 6d per cwt ; butter, 8d ; beef, 3d to 6d per lb ;
mutton, 3id to 7d ; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 178 Od;
third, 15s Od 1 - inferior third, 13s Od ; fourth, 10s Od ; bran,
5s 6d to 6s 6d; Indian meal, white, per cwt, 8s Od to 8s 6d;
yellow, 8s Od to 8s 6d; potatoes, 3s Od to 8s 6d per cwt; hay?
ll d to Is 6d per cwt ; American flour, 30s per barrel ;
4s Od to 5s 4d per stone ; flax, 4s Od to 5s 10d ; straw, 8d to Is;
hides, 2s 6d to 6s 6d each ; pork, 37s 6d to 47. 9d per cwt ;
turnips, 9d to is per ditto; carrots, Os to is per ditto ; being,
5s 9d to Os 6d ; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d.

COAL MARKE'I
Bate's West Hartley 14s Od
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main lls 90
New 'Fantleld l3s 6a
North Percy Hartley lls 6d
Ord's Redheugh
Canfield Moor ....
Walker's Primrose
%.1, est Hartley
Wall's End, &c.
Bewicke and Co.
Brown's
Framwell Gate .....
Gosforth .....
Gibson
Hedworth .....
Hilda l3s tad
South Killingworth
Eden Main
Braddyll's Hetton lss Od

• YESTERDAY.

Bell ..
14s 3d
Hetton
Haswell l6s 3d
Lambton
Morrison l3s 6d
Russell's Hetton
Stewart's
Whitwell
Caradoc .....
Cassop .. .
Flartlepool l6s Od
Thornley
Trimdon
4Vhitworth l2s 6d
Adelaide Tees
Hartley
Nixon's Merthyr 2os 6d
Whitworth Coke
Ships at market, 178.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Ilaxcu 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The market was rather flat, being settling
day.—The sales are—Midland Stock, 82—Great Western, Quarterly
214 dis.—Ditto, New 171. Shares, 11. 17s. 6d. dis.
LIVERPOOL, Mascu 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day is very 'tame, and WI/
business doing. Prices are again on the decline.—The sales are--
Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), Fifths, 3 dis.—Dittor
Halves (late Liverpool and Bury), 10 dis.—London and North-
Western, 135 ex dly.—Ditte, Quarters, New, 5 4 ex in. p.—Mldlsni
Stock, 79% c. ex div.—Ditto, New Halves 7% dis.—North Union (A),
216 —Shrewsbury and Chester, Now 101. fereference, guaranteed S per
cent., 1 Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, ;21. 6s 3d. dis.--
South-Eastern (N.. 4), Thirds, 7% —York, Newcastle, stnd;Berrvia
(Nos. 1 and 2), 1 dis. ex div.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 Pet
cent. guaranteed, 3s. 9d. dis.

GFIAM, Mason 14.
STOCK EXCIIANGL—The sales are —Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Stour Varney, 11M c.—North Staffordshire, 3 dis.—Shrewa-
bury and Birmingham (A), dis.—Ditto (B), 68s. 9d dia. ex
Shropshire Union, 214 dis.—South Staffordshire, 314 dia.
NE WCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAACK 13.
STOCK Excnatiox.- The business done in the Stock Exchange tO'
day has been as follows :—Midland Stock, 82% —North British.
Thirds, 4%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (original N. and B).
25%—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 19%.

THE MERCHANTS' AND TRADESMAN'S MEV:TAD
ASSURANCE SociETT.—The first annual meeting of this
society took place at the office, 5, Chatham•place, Bla,ck-
friars, yesterday, J. Mac Gregor, Esq. in the chair. The
report of the directors was submitted to the meeting,
and the accounts for the year were passed. It appears
that the society was incorporated in May, 1847, and that
the number of policies issued since that period up to the
31st of January last, at which time the annual account
was made up, was 183—representing an income 0f
1,8781. 19s. 5d., and insurances to the amount of 6,130'
Since the 31st of January, the society appears to have
rapidly increased its business. In the last six weeks, 50
policies have been passed, covering 16,0001. in insurance,
and 48W. 2s. 4d. in annual premiums, and there still re-
mains before the board for approval 26 proposals, repre-
senting 7,5001. for insurance, and 2051. 2s. Bd. for pre:
miums—making the number of policies 244; the amount
assured, 84,5301.; and the annual income up to the time
of the meeting, 2,564/. 4s. sd. Resolutions, electing gr.
Mac Gregor chairman for the ensuing year, and re-elect-
ing the gentlemen who vacated their seats by rotation 0
directors, were unanimously passed, and the meeting the'
dispersed.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.—CORg
MATTRESSES FOR SHIPS.—A number of experiments
were last summer exhibited on the Thames and in the
basin in Woolwich Dockyard, to prove the efficacy of att
invention by which the lives of sailors and passengers
slips, &c., could, in the event of shipwreck, be saved.
The invention, which was very simple, consisted in sub'
stituting cork cuttings or shreds in the place of horse"
hair, wool, or flock as the stuffing for mattresses, pilloWs•
&e., to be employed in ships and nautical craft of all
kinds. The experiments were perfectly satisfactory,
and were approved of by Sir G. Bremer and by mini
persons connected with the navy and by scientific mot
who witnessed them. The cork was cut into small vet'
micular shreds of various fineness, and a few pounds of
this material were found to possess a most extraordinarl
bue) ant power. The difficulty at that time was to pro-
cure the article so manufactured in such quantities as tO
render it generally serviceable; the instruments on'
ployed to cut the shreds, from the toughness of the cork,
not possessing sufficient power, or being sufficiently
adapted to cut large quantities, except by very slow
process. The consequence was the invention did not be*
come very generally known or used. Since that time
machinery has been contrived and is now at work on the
premises of the patentees, at the City Saw-mills, Rs'
gent's-canal, by which the cork is cut with the greatest
dispatch and facility, and can he furnished to any extent.
The recent lamentable loss of 170 lives on the coast of Es;
sex, would not have happened had the unfortunate vessel
which was wrecked had mattresses o/ this material onboard;
The majority of the sufferers might probably have escaped
by means of it.—The Times, March 7.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Surpassing Excellence
of Holloway's Ointment and Pills in the Cure of Old Wounds
or Scrofulous Sores.—Four years since, Thomas Watkins,
cotton-spinner, at Manchester, received a severe wound in the
arm by its coming in contact with the machinery; for a coma'
derable time he was attended by several medical men at the
Infirmary, who decided that nothing could save the poor man's
life but amputation. To this he objected, whereupon he Wes,
discharged as incurable. At this crisis his friends subscribed:,
a trifle to purchase some of Holloway's Ointment and Fills,
which remedies in a few weeks healed the wound, after so long
a period of suffering.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.
On the 12th inst., at Chatham, the wife of Captain Charles
Fanshawe, Royal Engineers, of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Leyton, Essex, Mrs. Charles Dawes,
of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Wembden, near Bridgewater, Mrs-
Henry Codrington, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., at Radnor-villas, Folkestone, Mrs. T.
Lucas, of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Grove-road, North Brixton, the wife
of J. E. Giles, Esq., of a son.
On the 12th inst., at South Lambeth, Mrs. E. B. Hewitt,
of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., Mrs. Allison, of Regent-street, of twine
—a girl and boy.
On the 13th inst., at Glocester-terrace, Hyde-park-gardener
the lady of W. Logan, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED:--
On the 10th ult., at the Palace of St. Michael and St'
George, Corfu, lonian Islands, C. B. Greenhill, Esq., Ordnance
Storekeeper, to Mary Jane, only daughter of the late J. J.
Russell, Esq., of London and Limerick.
On the 12th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,
by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Captain
Cockburn, of the 11th Regiment, eldest son of the late
Walter Cockburn, Eeq., to Emma Georgian& Eleanor, eldest
daughter of C. D. Halford, Esq., of Grosvenor-square, Oa
of West Lodge, in the county of Suffolk.

DIE.
On the 11th inst. D
, at Westhorpe-house, near Marlow, Field-
Marshal Sir George Nugent, Bart., G.C.8., aged 91, Colonel
of the Bth Regiment of Foot, and Governor of St. Mawes.
On the Bth inst., at the Firs, Kenilworth, aged 15, Ann
Ilassard, eldest child of Lieut.-General Thomas Stewart, of
the Madras Army.
On the 9th inst., at Old Brentford, Middlesex, T. Smith,
Esq., aged 76.
At tiru_es. on the llth inst., Emily Catharine, youngest
daughter of the Rev. Charles de Coetlogon, aged l7.
On the 12th inst., in A, ]ton-street, Dorset-square, Mari,
relict of the late W. Whitehead, Esq.
At Sawbridgewortb, _Hefts, on the 12th inst., aged 71,
El zabeth, rel ct of Mr. W. Beaumont, late of Bishop
Storttord.

On the I.:.th inst., at Lewes, Charles S. Cooper, Esq.

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