The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-08 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—The duty on wheat has advanced
to 9s. per quarter, and on flour to 5s 6d per barrel. The
market yesterday was generally inactive. Free wheat
and flour were both a shade easier to buy, but bonded
were held at fully late rates. Oats and oatmeal met a
dull sale, and prices were scarcely so good as on Tuesday.
Beans and peas were difficult to move. Malting barley
vi as is
_per quarter lower, but there was no change in
grinding parcels.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 6.—Although the business pass-
ing during the present week has been by no means large,
a decidedly firmer feeling has prevailed, and a tolerably
fair demand from consumers has been experienced for
flour and the best descriptions of oatmeal at fully previous
prices. Of barley coastwise, and oats and oatmeal from
Ireland, the arrivals at Liverpool and Runcorn are on a
more extensive scale than- of late, but of other articles
they continue to a limited amount.
READING, JAN. 6.—The attendance was rather short,
and a much decreased supply of wheat. This being the
case, there was a fair demand for that limited quantity,
and about the same prices as those of Saturday last were
given. Some inferior samples sold as low as 34s per
quarter. Barley was in fair supply, with a moderate de-
mand. Prime samples maintained late rates, but interior
descriptions were full 2s per quarter cheaper. Oats,
beans, and peas, which were in fair supply, are rather
lower in price, with but little doing. Wheat (old), per
quarter, 34s to 56s ; ditto new, 35s to 565; barley, 25s
to 365; oats, 16s to 21s; beans, 303 to 41s; peas, 303
to 42s.—Pig market: a short supply of stores, with a
fair trade. Fat hogs, 9s to 9s 6ci. Porkers, 9s 6d to lOs
per acore.—Poultry market: Fowls, per couple, 3s 6d to
4s 6d; ducks, ditto, 3s 6d to 43 6d; geese, each, 5s to
5s 6d; butter, per pound, is Id to Is 2d; Eggs, 8 to 10
for Is.

DERRY., JAN. s.—We have a large show of wheat
and barley, chiefly by farmers; sales proceed slowly, at
late rates. Oats and beans both dull sale, and the turn
cheaper. Wheat, 46s to 50s per 36 stone; ditto, red,
Ms to 525. Barley,3os to 333. Old oats, 24s to 26s per
24 stone. Beans, old, 44s to 47s per 38 stone. Flour,
34s to 38s per 20 stone.

SHEFFIELD, JAN. 2.—The following is the in-
spectoeb return:—

Qrs. Bls. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Wheat 2lB 2 ... 553 16 2 210 9 per qr.
Barley 4B —0 76 4 0 111 9 ditto
Oats . lB 0 ... 19 5 6 1 1 5 ditto
Beans 7 4 ... 13 15 0 1 16 8 ditto
P€ll3 0 0 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 ditto
Best household bread, 6d per 41b.
Second's ditto 5d do.

GLASGOW CATTLE AND SHEEP MARKET, JAN. 4.-

There was about an average supply of cattle brought
forward to-day, for which there was a steady demand, at
last week's quotations. Best Angusshire and East
Lothian oxen brought from 50s to 53s per cwt ; inferior
from 45s to 48s ; and cow and ordinary from 40s to 445,
sinking offal. The sheep market was more than usually
well supplied, and the demand was dull, at a slight re•
duction in prices. The best black-faced sheep brought
from 30s to 325, and the second descriptions from 24s to
28s each, or from sid to 6d per lb. A considerable
number of sheep, particularly these of inferior quality,
were left unsold.
DUMFRIES CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 3.—The number
of carcases of pork exhibited this morning amounted to
317, which met an early sale, owing to the favourable
morning for curing purposes, combined with a better
attendance of buyers, indicating an amended state of
public health in this and the sister burgh. Prices today
for the best articles 5s 7d; secondary and inferior 5s 2cl
to 5s ad per stone. The supplies of potatoes still limited,
more from a disinclination to open pits in the present
hard weather than to visit us—at least, this reason was
given us yesterday, on inquiry at an extensive grower's.
Prince Regents are still bringing from 4s to 4s 6d per
cwt, and coarser kinds in proportion.
DALLEITH, JAN. 4.—The supply of grain at this day's
market was less than last week; sales ready. Wheat
on the top per quarter same as last week, average 2d
up; oats same as last week; barley 6d per quarter down;
peas and beans also declined 6d per quarter on last
week's rates.

The relative weight per four bushels of the three prices
of wheat were 18st 81b; 18st 41b; and 16st 81b. Oats,
12st 91b; 12st 41b; and 10st 111 b. Barley, 16st 91b;
16st 01b; and 14st 10113. Peas and beans, 19st Olb;
18st 121 b, and 17st 21b.

Quarters. Best. Current. Inferior.
341 Wheat ... 21 12s odl2l 8s Oil I/ 14s Od
1,103 thits 1/ Is 41101 18s 8;101 193 03
726 Barley 1/ 12s Od 11 8s Od 11 is Od
27 Peas, &e. 11 108 0,6/ 8s Od 1/ 4s Od
Average of wheat, 2/ 4s 03 per qr.
ABERDEEN MARKET, JAN. s.—There vests a good at-
tendance at market to-day, and a fair business done at
our quotations. Oats, 14s to 16s, 401bs per bushel; bar-
ley, 24s to 25s 6d, bear, 24s to 255, 521bs per bushel;
wheat, 50s to 545; oatmeal, 13s to 14s per bull ; flour,
43s to 49s per sack,
ABERDEEN PROVISION MARKET, JAN. s.—There
was an average supply of vegetable end other provisions
at market to-day, except in dairy produce, which was
very limited. The demand ruled heavy at but. little va-
riation in prices. Beef, 5d to 7d; mutton, 5d to 7d; veal,
5d to 7d per lb; pork, 4s Od to 5 per stone; tallow,
4s 63 to 5s per stone; potatoes, 10d to Is per peck;
butter, 7d to Sd per In; eggs, 93 to 10d per dozen;
hens, 3s to 3s 63; chickens, is 63 to 2s; ducks, 2s Od tc
2s 6d; ducklings, 2s to 2s 6d per pair; turkeys, 4s 03 to
5s Od; geese, 4s to 55 Od each. Butter for exportation
(present cure), 52s per cwt. Eggs, wholesale price,
7d per dozen. Bread, 4lb loef, 83; 2'b loaf, 4d. Pork,
per stone of 14h, 3s 611; pork, fine small, 5s 63; pork,
large, 3s 6d to 4s 3d. Ship pork;per barrel of 204 lbs, 100 s.
ABERDEEN NEU,' MAIULETp.JAN. 4.—W120 iupply of

meal at market to-night was moderate—prices a shade
below our last questions. Oatmeal, is 4d to Os Od;
bearmeal, is 4d to Os Od; peasmeal, 2s Od to 2s 2d;
aids, 6d to 7d; Harley flour, is 5d to is 6d; barley dust,
7d to 8d; flour„ 2s to 2s 3d; barley, per lb. 14d to 2d.
BELFAST, JAN. 4,—As usual at this season the supplies
of grain are small, but, from the fine bracing weather, the
condition is good, and qaality better than usual. Wheat
sells freely at former prices, and lots come into better
demand at 91 15s to 101 for home-grown, and foreign
101 lOs to 121 per ton. Flour is in moderate demand at
former rates, and American sells freely at 28s to 28s 6d
per barrel. Barley maintains its value, and a small con-
cession on the part of holders would induce pretty large
sales of parcels. Oats maintain the advance noted last
week, and are in fair demand. Oatmeal is also in de-
mand at former rates, and is going rapidly into consump-
tion. Indian Corn is rather a slow sale at 71 lOs to
71 15s per ton, at which sotne holders decline selling.
CORK, JAN. s.—Flour—Fir,t quality, 15s 6d to 16s 6d;
second ditto, 143 Od to 15s 6d; household, lis to 14s;
third ditto, 9s to les per cwt. Oatmeal, 12s to 12s 6d per
cwt. Indian corn, 71 5s to 81 lOs OJ ; Indian meal, 91 to
915 s per ton. Bran, 41 5s to 5l 5s per ton. Hay—
Farmei s', 32s to 46s Od; average, 435 ; retailers , 42s to
50s per ton; old hay, 45s to 60s per ton. Straw—Far-
mers', 25s to 355; average, 28s; retailers', 003 to 00s
per ton. Whisky, at the Distillery, 25 over proof,
6s 3d per imperial gallon. Breed, 6d to lid per 41bs.
Fresh butter, 10d to 12d per lb. Beef, 3d to 6d; mut-
ton, aid to scl ; veal, aid to 4id; pork, Sid to 7d ;
bacon, bid to 9d; sausages, 5d per lb. Coals—New-
port, 17s; Lydney, 18s. Culm, 16s per ton. Potatoes,
white, 10d to 14d; Minions, 20d. Hides—Market ditto,
lls to 17s; salted ditto, 12s to 17s per cwt; market skins,
2d to 24d; calf ditto, 2d to 24d; veal skins, 3d to aid
per lb. Tar—Archangel, 18s per bl. Timber—Quebec
red pine, 31 15s; yellow ditto, 31; deal, 171 to 20/per
hundred ; Bangor Queens, 3/ 2s 6d per ton. Scotch
herrings,l9s to 20s per barrel ; Norway ditto, 00s. New-
foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 121 lOs per ton. Tallow
475. Wool, lOs to 12s per stone.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Jes. 6.

STOCK EXCHANGI.—The den-sand for shares has been
pretty active, and stock was in request at our quotations:—
Great Northern (A Shares), Deferred, 5 ex int.—London and
North. Western, 126—Ditto, Fifths, WA p.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, VA dis.—Midland
Stock, New Halves, 7 dis. ex jut.—North British, Quarters,
3,h—North Staffordshire, 3%—North Union (A), 210
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 8 per cent. guaran-
teed for ten years, 91A— Shropshire Union, 234 dis. es int.—
South-Eastern and Dover, .1.40. 4, Thirds, Ph—York, New-
castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), par ex int.
BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 6.

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STOCK EXCHANGE.— Few transactions took place to-day,
but there was a slight improvement in prices. The sales are
—North Staffordshire, 37i dis.—Shrewsbury and Birming.
ham (B), 4/. Is. 3d. dis.— Ditto, Preference, 18s, 9d. p.—
South Staffordshire, 4jq dis.

YORK, JAW. 5.
SToex EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows:—Great Northern, 914 dis.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (Extension, No. 1), 1434 dis.—Ditto, No. 2
(late New Berwicks), 143/4 dis.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase),
7yB die. ex int.

GLASGOW, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 16 IA—
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 82—Glasgow General Terminus,
10,— Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51. ls.—Glasgow,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 451,4—Ditto, Halves No. I, 5/. 3s. 6d.
—Ditto, Halves, N 0.2, 5/. 7s.—Scottish Central, 26.

DEATH OF ALD. ARCHBOLD.--We regret to have
to record the death of James Archbold, Esq., one of the
Justices of the Peace for this borough, and an Alderman
of the Corporation, which took place at his house on
Tuesday. A contemporary says;—"Few men have spent
a more active and useful life in the various public offices
which it has been his;lot to fill, whether corporate, ma•
gisterial, or parochial, or connected with the charitable
institutions of the town, arid few have been more conspi-
cuous for the correct discharge of the duties and chari-
ties of a more private and domestic character. The
deceased became a member of the old corporation at a
very early age, and continued one of the body up to the
period of its dissolution; and when the Municipal Reform
Act came into operation, his fellow-townsmen were not
unmindful of his past services, and elected him one of
the new body. He was more recently elected an alder-
man, and served the office of Mayor in the year 1846-7,
when his great hospitality and the efficient and attentive
manner in which he discharged the important duties
which devolved upon him, as chief magistrate of the bo-
rough, rendered him extremely popular." Mr. Arch-
bold was never married, and leaves an only and deeply
attached sister to deplore his loss.—Newcastle Guardian.
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used in a variety of cases. The Editor of the Mofussilits
instances that of a Coolie employed in his establishment,
who was " afflicted with myriads of Ringworms which
defied all the Meerut doctors, and promised to devour
the poor man, before he was even under ground." Hol-
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and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.

TWO DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN BETZNAI,GREEN.--""
On Saturday last two serious fires broke out in the pa-
rish of Bethnal-green, which were both attended with
considerable destruction of property. The first occurred
upon the premises of Mr. Charles Long, a eabinet-
maker, No. 112, Church-street. The flames originated
in the workshops at rear of the dwelling-house.
The engines of the parish, London Brigade, and West
of England Company having been sent for, they at-
tended with all possible expedition, when the firemen
found the entire range of workshops and all they con-
tained in flames. In spite of the most strenuous ex-
ertions of the firemen, Mr. Long's.. workshops were
totally destroyed, the back window sashes of the
dwelling burned out, and the furniture extensively
damaged by fire. The house, No. 111, in the same
street, belonging to Mr. Robert Clement, corn-chandler,
and No. 113, in the tenure of Mr. Joseph Newport, are
also materially damaged by fire, water, and the bast/
removal of furniture. How the fire commenced is st
present unknown.—The second fire broke out at noon in
a large store, about 60 feet long, belonging to Mr. Thos.
Phillips, a corn-chandler, in Ann-street, Pollard's-row-
The building was filled with hay, straw, and clover,
which proved such a powerful auxiliary to the flames
that very speedily the place was on fire from end to end-
The parish and other engines attended, and owing to the
abundant supply of water, the firemen were enabled to
confine the flames to that portion of the property, in
which they originated; not, however, until the premises
were burned down. Mr. Phillips, who will be a serious
loser, was not insured for a single penny.
STRIKE OF THE COLLIERS OF WIGAN AND TOO
NEIGHBOURHOOD —A large number of colliers assembled
in the Scholes on Friday morning, for the purpose of talc"
ing some steps t advance their pre sent rate of wages, or
otherwise to stint their labour to two or three days 5
week. About twelve o'cli ck at noon some two or three
hundred of them paraded the streets, accompanied by
band of music, and carrying three large flags bearing the
motto of " United we stand, divided we fall." A meet-
ing of the masters was expected to take place at the
Royal Hotel yesterday afternoon, and if no arrangeme,nt
is come to, it is the intention of tho colliers to give "a
their notices to-day.—Preston Chronicle.
EXECUTION OF JAMES KELLY, AT KIRKDALB.'""
It is little more than four months since it was our pain-
ful duty to announce a public execution at Kirkdale•
On Saturday, however, James Kelly, a young man'
aged only twenty-four years, who pleaded guilty at the
last assizes to having, at Stockport, cut the throat of his
sweetheart, Elizabeth Faulkner, a co-worker in the
same mill, forfeited his life to the offended laws. 00
the night before execution, Kelly, we understand, Was
restless and disturbed. e took his supper, howeven
and also his breakfast next morning, with the usual
relish, and declared to the governor of the gaol that even
if he had the offer of a reprieve, so seriously was his 000:
science tormented, that he could not think of accept
it.--Liverpoel Albion,
A serious acident from the escape of gas occurred.
on Friday evening at Clarence House, the town rer
dence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, .131
which the housekeeper and a footman were much .
jured. A charwoman in attendance on the housekeepere
was conveyed to the hospital, her injuries being more
dangerous than those sustained by the others. The oc
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cident took place in the china closet, where gas is in CO'
stant use.