The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-30 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET

This day's supply of Sheep, Porkers, and Milch Cows, was ra-
ther limited ; of Beasts and Calves moderately good. The trade
with prime Beef, Mutton, and Pork, was tolerably brisk, at Mon-
day's quotations ; with Veal very dull, at a depression of from
4d. to Bd. per stone. Mitch Cows fully supported their last week's
currency, an useful short horns, with her small calf, producing
from 191. to, in some instances, 221.
PRICKS FIR STONE OF BLBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL,.
S. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 9. 4 2 6 Large Lambs
Second quality ditto 3 2 3 4 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0
Prime largo Oxen... 310 4 0 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 4
Prime Scots, &c...,. 4 9. 4 6 Prime small ditto 4 6 5 0
Inferior Sheep 9. 8 210 Large Hogs
Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Small Porkers 4 8 5 9.
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 1) 4 6 Suckling Calves 12s to 40e. each.
S 'tat:down Wethers 4 8 5 V Quarter old Pigs Ns to 18s. each.
SUPPLY, AS FIR. CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Sheep and Lambs. Calves. I
Pigs.
3,980 145 110

Beasts.
724

NEWGATE AND LEADENH ALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
s. d. tog. d. s. d. tos. d,
Beef " 4 3 8( Veal
Mutton 2 8 4 Pork ~ . 3 8A,5 0

A gentleman of great research and literary
acquirements is now engaged in translating an old
manu-
script in the Welch language, to prove that ADAM was a
Weidman, and that Wales was the apcieut Paradise.

The silk trade is in a most depressed state,
circumstance which is chiefly to be attributed to the com-
petition of French manufacturers, supported by London
wholesale smugglers._Manchester Herald.

The trades of this town are generally in a
more alarmingly depressed state than has been known for
many years ; in one of our most staple trades, button
making, there is little doing ; the brass-founders complain
of the general and ruinous stagnation of business; failures
are almost daily occurring ; the general impression is, that an
alarming crisis is fast approaching. —Rirntinghant journal
EXTRAORDINARY REUUOTION IN WEAV-
ING PRICES.—In the year 1812 the price paid for weav-
ing a 600 fancy patent cotton net was Ss. 61, and 2d. per
shilling additional of master wages, making altogether
4s. Id. per ell of forty-five inches. Now, strange to tell,
the same fabric, with the patterns greatly improved, can be
manufactured at Barrhead, and, as times go, give pretty
fair wages to the weaver, at from one penny to twopence
per yard. This trade, is dull at present, and the weavers
are limited to half time.—Paisley Advertiser.

A short time ago the inhabitants of North-
lane and its vicinity were thro., n into dreadful alarm by
the discovery of (as they supposed) the hands and feet of a
human being, buried in a dunghill. The remains were
carefully deposited in a stable upon some straw, and a per-
son despatched to the police station to acquaint the officers
of the circumstance, Some of them repaired instantly to
the spot, but before they arrived, a professional gentleman
had been aqi,litted to examine the remains, who pronounced
them to be the legs and paws of a hear, which it appeared
had been killed by a perfumer in this town for the sake of
the grease, and skinned.—Brightpx, Gazette.

ST. LEONARD'S,—Our labourers, In exca-
vating the rock mar the arch over the road Hastings,
discovered the foundations of a chapel n-rid tower, which
is supposed to have formed the parish Church of St.
Mary Magdalen. In a prt within the enclosed ground
are two skeletons, sufficierAtiy k;,eriect for pronouncing one
to have been a atrOng Ckidt and the other a well-built
young roan, which are considered to have been buried 300
or SRO, yeao,