The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-13 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY

English ......
Scotch ..
Irish.
Foreign ......

Per 81bg. to sink the offal.
0. d. to e, d.
Inferior Beasts..... 2 8 210
Second quality •. • • 3 0 3 4
Prune large Oxen.. 3 6 3
Prime Scots ... ••• 3 10 4 0
Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 6
Prime small ditto .. 3 8 310
•'uckling Calves ..18 0 25 0
Inferior Sheep . 3 0 3 2
TOTAL SUPPLY
Beasts. I Sheep.
660 11,800
FOREIGN
I Sheep.
570
Beasts. I SCOT,
Sheep.
190 200

SUPPLY.

Beasts.
40

Calves.
159

I Pigs,

Calves. 1 Pigs

Lamb. Is Od to 53 Od.

FORElGN.—llavannah has been sold at very full rates;
low and fine 203 6d to 238, and good and fine 223 to 233
6d per cwt. Porto Rice went at high prices; low and
mid 39s to 41s, and good and fine 42s to 433 6d. Per-
nambuco mid grey 41s, and low 375. Java ord grey 40s
to 41s. Zanzibar mid and ord brown 33s 6d to 34s 6d,
and mid yellow 363. A cargo of brown Cuba sold at
19s. 6d.
COFYEE.—The market has been very quiet and de-
pressed. Plantation Ceylon has been lower, good and
fine 65s to 703, mid 54s to 553, fine and f fine ord 40. to
47a 6d, and pea-berry 54s to 61s. Native has been.dull
at 35s 6d to 36s for good. Mocha has been offered to
competition, but was bought in. For Rio full prices
have been paid. Vest India samples have been dull of
sale.

COCOA.—The market has drooped. Trinidad low and
mid grey has been sold at 35s to 41s, good at 42s to 445,
and mid to good red at 43s to 46s 6d per cwt. Grenada
38s 6d to 41s for mid to good bright red.
DICE.--Fair prices have been obtained for the better
qualities of Bengal, but the market rules lower than
last week ; good white 9s 6d to 10s, and for a few par-
cels lOs 6d. Madras, 83 6d to 9s.
SPICES.—Best Cassia Lignea has been sold at 96s 63
to 98s per cwt. Allepy Pepper has been taken in at
2fd to 2id per lb. Jamaica Ginger has been sold at
76s to 106 s, and Bar badoes at 39s per cwt. Sumatra
Pepper has been firm at 2id per lb for good clean Bitted.
INDIGO.—The sates comprise 13,787 chests. They
have not been going off briskly, and barely previous
rates have been obtained.

90%
90141
93

Rum.—A moderate business has been done in proof
Leewards at Is 5d to is 6d, and in East India at is 3d
to is 4d per gallon.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 38s to 38s 3d per cwt. on
the spot.

TEL.—The market is steady.
GREEN FRUIT.—A cargo, consisting of 20,000 Pine
Apples, ex Susan, Collings, from West India has been
offered by Keeling and Bunt, at public sale, and
realised good prices, this description of fruit in-
creasing in public estimation. A good demand exists
for Lemons, bat in consequence of the washy con-
dition of most of the parcels, no improvement in price
has taken place. The stock of Lisbon Oranges is re-
duced to a small compass, and the price has improved 2s
to 3s per box. Nuts are dull of sale, without alteration
in price.

SCHOOL-DAYS OF PRINCE RUPERT. Rupert
meanwhile was placed at the University of Leyden,
with his eldest brother, Prince Frederick Henry.
Schoolboy experiences and events, however deeply
they impress the character, leave little to record,
and we only learn that our Prince became well-
grounded in " mathematics and religion," and
was, " indeed, made Jesuit- proof," so that those " subtle
_priests with whom he had been much conversant, could
never make him stagger." Nevertheless he was by no
means an exemplary scholar, for he had an utter distaste
for the learned languages, and infinitely pre-
ferred amusement or military exercises to the
most abstruse metaphysics. War was a passion with
him from his earliest hour of intelligence, and he eagerly
devoted himself to every matter connected with its

science. Modern languagesthus became interesting to him,
and he mastered those of France, Spain, and Italy, to his
great ultimate advantage. " But his chief delight was in
military discipline, wherein he perfected so much under
his different tutors for the infantry and cavalry, that at
the age of fourteen he was judged worthy of command-
ing a regiment."—Eliot Warburton's Memoirs of Prince
Rupert.
DRY ROT.—ENORMOUS FUNGI UNDER CHURCH
PEWS.—The pariah church of Holy Trinity, in Cork,
after being extensively repaired, was re-opened for Di-
vine service in April, 1829. In November, 1830 (hut
eighteen months afterwards), the congregation was
annoyed by an unpleasant smell, which, on ex.
amination, was found to proceed from dry rot
of the most alarming nature. On opening
the floors under the pews a most extraordinary appear-
ance presented itself. There were flat fungi of immense
size and thickness, some so large as almost to occupy
a space equal to the size of a pew, and from one to
three inches thick. In other places fungi appeared,
growing with the ordinary dry rot, some of
an unusual shape, in form like a convolvolus,
with stems of from a quarter to half an inch in dia-
meter. When first exposed, the whole was of a beauti-
ful buff colour, and emitted the usual smell of the dry
rot fungus. Whatever may have been the surprise at the
rapid growth of the plant, its action on the best Memel tim-
ber was a source of greater astonishment. I took up (says
Sir Thomas Deane), with nearly as much ease as I would a
walking cane, that which eighteen months before, was a
sound piece of timber (one of the joists) from 12 to 14
feet long, 6 inches by 4 inches scantling; the form
of the timber remained as it came from the
Mt, but its strength and weight were gone,
During a great part of the time occupied in the repairs
of the church the weather was very rainy. The ex-
pense incurred by the repair was very considerable ;
but it is satisfactory to state that there has not been
a re- appearance of the dry rot since that time, now a
period of sixteen years. The facts, adds Sir Thomas,
strengthen me in my opinion, that the best economy in
extensive repairs is to be cautious in the use of old
timber, and if it must be used, not to permit new timber
to come in contact with it. The seasoning of timber is
seldom sufficiently attended to.— The Builder.

James Wallack, that old and esteemed favourite of
the public, takes his benefit to night at the little theatre
in the Hapnarket, when, it is to be hoped, he will
be honoured with a bumper. He presents his friends
on this occasion with Sheridan's comedy of the
School for Scandal and Bayle Bernard's drama of Ernes-
tine. I❑ the former (which, in its cast, will embrace the
entire strength of the company) he will himself sustain
the part of Charles Surface, and Mrs. C. Kean that of
Lady Teazle, and in the latter Mr. Wallack and Mr.
Cooper will appear in their original characters,

CORN-EXCHANGE—FRIDAY.
Since our last report, the arrival of English Wheat,
coastwise as well as by land carriage, have been very
small, and the show of samples here to-day, was trifling.
All kinds commanded a steady, though not to say brisk,
inquiry, at fully Monday's quotations. The imports of
Foreign Wheat have not exceeded 9,680 quarters. Tte
holders, generally, were firm, yet only a moderate busi-
ness was transacted, at previous currencies. In floating
cargoes of Corn, very tew transactions were reported.
Grinding Barley was scarce, and held fbr more money.
Malting and distilling sorts supported late rates. The
quantity of Malt here and on offer was not large. All
descriptions were steady, at full prices. The transac-
tions, however, were small. Fine sound Oats were a
trifle dearer. The value of other kinds was well sup-
ported. Both Beans and Peas were the turn dearer.
Indian Corn, Meal, and Flour as last advised.
ARRIVALS THIS WEBB.
I Wheat. Barley. 1 I
Oats.
1,050 qrs. Flour.
40 qrs. 630 qrs. 1,670 Akie
I
9,680-
-..
......_
2,790 2,300 11,800
Malt. 4,250 qrs.
szvnTnrszza.
Our market, to day, was very scantily supplied with
Beasts, in, for the most part, middling condition. For
all breeds the demand ruled firm, at, in some instances, an
advance in the quotations of Monday last of 2d per 81bs,
the very primest Scots producing 4d per 81bs, and at
which a good clearance was effected. The supply of
Sheep was very moderate. Prime old Downs moved off
steadily, at full prices. In other breeds, only a moderate
business was transacted, at late rates. Larebs—the
number of which was on the increase—sold slowly, but
we have no further decline to notice in their value. The
Veal trade was dull, at Monday's currencies. In Pigs,
scarcely any business was transacted. Milch Cows
were heavy, at from 141 to 181 each, including their
small Calf.

a. d. to s. d.
Second val. Sheep 3 4 3 6
Coarse-woolled ditto 3 6 3 8
Southdown Wether 3 8 310
Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large Hogs ...... 3 2 3 6
Small Porkers .... 3 8 310
Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 21 0
Lambs .......... 4 0 i 0
AT MARKET.
I Calves. I Pigs
---___ND 280
!

NEVTGALTE AND IMADENELEiLL.
These markets were tolerably firm, at full rates of
currency.

At per stone by the Carcaae.
a. d. to a. d. I a. d. to a. d.
Beer,inferior• •••• • 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 3 0 3 2
middling ••• • 2 6 2 8 middling.. 3 2 3 4
primelarge .. 210 8 2 prime —— 3 6 3 8
prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.... ••• • 3 2 8 6
Veal .... ...• 3 0 3 8 small 3 1 4 0

OOUGEL SO nitaRRET.
The planZ
tatißon accounts being considered worse than
those received last week, the demand for the best Hops
has become firm, and prices have advanced 2s. per cwt.
All other kinds moved off slowly, at late rates. The
duty is called 65,0001. to 80,000/. Sussex pockets,
2/. 12s. to 41. 108.; Weald of Rent ditto, 31. 3s. to 4/.165.;
Mid and East Kent ditto, 31. 10s. to 71. 2s. per cwt.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—There has been a good business done in
British Plantation at about last week's rates to a slight
decline. At auction Bardadoes realised 40s 6d to 41s 6d
for fine yellow, and 36s 6d to 37s 6d for low.
REPINED.—Brown lumps have been sold at 51s to 51s
Gd, being quiet.
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius, 7,339 bags, nearly all
found buyers at 6d reduction for the grocery sorts, but
previous rates for the rest; fine and very fine
yellow, 405 to 42s 6d; good, 38s 6d to 395;
mid, 37s to 38s; fair to good grey, 37s to 395; low, 36s
to 36s 6d; and good and fine brown, 34a 6d to 35s 6d;
Bengal 8,660 bags, chiefly white and grainy, about halt
found buyers at 6d decline, strong white 44s 6d to 46s
6d, superior 47s to 48s, low and mid white Benares
39s to 40s, good to fine 40s 6d to 425, good to fine soft
yellow 37s 6d to 395, and low and mid 33s to 36s 6d.
Not much has been done privately. Madras, 600 bags,
realised 39s to 39s 6d for good strong yellow, and 40s
for fine.