The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-14 00:00:00

MARKET NE Ws.—( THIS DAY.)

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CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY.
the arrival or Enxhst, Whvat for our market this
wef k, has aniout.ted to 1,450 quarters, chi. fly in mid-
audition. Although the show of samples of that
grain here today was small, the demand for it was in $
very depressed scats, and Moaday's quotations were with
difficulty supported. o:dy 3,170 quarters of Foreign
ik bean; have come in stnek. 64;uro.y, yet we had very
large suoudes on offer this inortnu,.. All (1, scrii.t.ohs
sere dull in the extreme, and Somewhat lower to pue
chase. Malting Baxley, the supply of which was small,
sold at late rates. In gr;nding and distilling sorts, next
to nothing was doing. The sale for Malt was very dull.
at almost nominal quotations. The best samples of
Oats were held at lull prices. Damp qualities ruled
lower. All other articles, including Flour, commanded
scarcely any attention.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
1 Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. I Flour.
I
1,150 qrs. ! 1,810 qrs. 1,930 qrs. I 1,740 dr,*
-- •
1 610
2,7 00 I --

Lt:tiglish
Scotch ......

Irish. • .......
oreign ......

3,170 I 3,190
Malt, 2,590 qrs.
BOIR,OUGII EtOP reZZAUCET.
Calory samples of Hop. were in steady demand, to•
day, at full prices. The middling and inferior kinds
commanded very little attention. Sussex Pockets,
214 s to 3/ ; Weald of Kent ditto, 2/ 120 to 31 8s;
Mid and East Kent ditto, 313 s to 615 s per cwt.

WRITECHAPEL.
We had a very heavy trade, anti prices bad a down'
ward tendency. Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 35
to 33 10d; Veal 3s 10d to 4s 8d; and Pork 3s to 4s 4i
per Sibs by the carcase.

NEW DISTANCE SIGNAL FOR
RAILWAYS.

TO THE EDITOR uF THE SUN.
SlR,—Your anxiety at all times to do justice to the
inventors of the day, will, I have no doubt, give me a
spare corner to cororadiet the statement that theDislance
Signal is Mr. Stovin's, and that more than ten years ago
the same invention was offered and refused by several of
the railways—merely because it was not tram one of the
railway officials ! !! This has al ways been the case—they
keep the inventions and bring them out as their owe.
I may tell Mr. Stovin that the very party who bas been
ftti❑g them up for the South-Western Railway Compeni
knows this to be the fact! for he was shown the drawings
and they were explained to him two years ago ! ! Of
course Mr. Stovin has the command of capital, and is a
railway manager, and can do anything, But to this want
of fair play so many are now unemployed, and the hard•
working and industrious inventors are ruined and never
encouraged, or protected, but parties seem to glory in the
shame of doing an inventor. Your love of fair play Will
do me justice by inserting the above.
Your obedient servant,
R. RETTIE, C.E., Inventor.

London, March 14.

DISASTROUS FIRE IN THE MINORIES.--Last night,
at a few minutes before eleven o'clock, a fire of a veil
serious character, and attended with a great destructioe
of property, broke out in the spacious range of pre'
wises numbered 238 and 239 Minories, the lower poi'
tion of the first named house being in the occupation of
Mr. Shields, a straw-bonnet maker, and the latter in the
tenure of Miss Sprue, a staymaker. The buildings,
which were of considerable depth, were five floors bight
and at the time of the outbreak it is feared that the
whole of the residents were therein, and there is ground
for supposing, from the statements made by those who
have escaped, that one, it not two persona have perished.
The Royal Society's fire escape from Aldgate-pump
was at the scene in the course of a few minutes atter
the outbreak, when the persons who had escaped
cried out that several persons were in the upper part
of the premises, and begged of the escapeman to ears
them if possible. The conductor instantly placed hil
machine in front of the houses, and whilst he Was
at the top attempting to search the upper roue's
the flames shot out in a body, fired the canvass,
begging of the escape, and it was with the greatest
difficulty that the escapeman, in trying to save the lives
of his fellow-creatures, avoided falling a prey to the
fury of the fire. With all possible expedition the es-
gines of the parish, London Brigade, and West of Eng'
land Insurance Company reached the scene, when the
firemen found the flemes ascending so high into the air
as to endanger the adjoining property. The engines'
however, being well supplied with water, they went to
work, and by a little after twelve o'clock the fire Was
extinguished, but not until the whole of the premises
from the ground-floor were burned out. Amongst the
sufferers was Captain Preston of the Royal Artillery,
whose wife was in bed when the alarm was given, add
it was with great difficulty that she escaped. The lire'
men were at twelve o'clock searching the ruins, to see
whether any persons had been lost, as was rumoured.
The origin of the fire, or whether any of the sufferers
were insured, could not be learned during the excite'
ment which prevailed.
CHEESEMONGERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.--At
the annual meeting of the friends of this charity, Yestel4
day, Mr. Edward Corderoy in the chair, a report Was
read, stating that since it was instituted in 1835, for the
relief of decayed master cheesemongers and their
widows, 59 pensioners had been admitted on the funds;
that the expenditure during the subsequent 13 years
amounted to 5,7471., and that 7,0101. had been invested
in the Three per Cents. The number of pensioners
now on the funds was thirty-one, who were Bur
ported at a cost of about 50/. a month, or
about 6011. per annum. To meet this gros:s
outlay, however, instead of an increase in the sub'
scriptions, there had been a considerable falling off for
the last two years, so that in the previous year they were
obliged to sell out stock to meet their increased liabdr
ties: but that had not been necessary this year. The
subscriptions for the year were 4551., donations 3641 a
and interest on stock 204/., making the amount of re-
ceipts 1,0261. The amount expended on the pensioners•
for the year was 578/. 13s. 4d., which, with sundry
small expenses, made the disbursements 740/. 35. 7"
leaving a balance of 2861. ss. 7d. The report and se-
counts were adopted, the office-bearers for the year
were re-elected, and the chairman announced that the
result of the ballot was the election of the widow of Mr.
Baker, of the late firm of Baker and Co., Oxford'
street, and Mr. John Evans, late of Silver street,
Golden-square.

ADMIRALTY STottEs.—The following parties are
under engagement to supply, for the service of the naval
department, the several articles set against
their re-
spective names, viz., Messrs. Lemon Hart and Son, 11
further parcel of 50,000 gallons of rum; Mr. J. IV'
Gray, 55 tons weight of cocoa, including five tons for
screening; Messrs. W. Hewitt and Cu., 50 tons weigh'
of rice; and Messrs. Arboin and Co., about 30 gallons
of wine, required for the army service at Jamaica; and
the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
have issued the necessary directions to the proper au'
thorities for the delivery of the same, duty free, from the
several bonded warehou-es of the docks and elsewhere,
in which they are deposited, for removal to her Majesty's
stores in the victualling-yard, Deptford.
NOVEL COMPLIMENT TO A tiUDGE......Mr.
nald, marble-mason, Monkwearmouth, who was acquitted
on a charge of felony preferred against him at the recent
Durham Assizes, for blowing up an erection with gull-
powder which the prosecutor, Mr. Allison, the brew.e4
claimed as his, but which Macdonald contended to°
built upon his ground:, took a novel way of manifesting
his gratitude to Baron Alderson for directing the PI
to acquit him. On his arrival at his own home, where
his triumph was greeted by a great number of his friendly
he had a large flag stretched across the front of heis
house, bearing the following inscription:" Long
to Judge Alderson, the friend to truth and justice." Tbf:/:
exhibition attracted hundreds of spectators.— Goteshol
Observer.

REPORT ON THE CALEDONIAN CANAL.--Mr‘
Walker, civil engineer, has surveyed and reported ?11,
the damage to the works of the canal, caused by the dis,
astrous floods of the 24th and 25th of January. He clv•
culates that the repair of the breaches will cost 1006
10,0001. for additional security, Mr. Walker proposes ht°
raise the embankments and the upper lock gates at tu!
end of such of the reaches as require it. Mr. Walker
:
contends that the canal had nothing to do with the
damage done to the town of Inverness. If this be tho
case, the commissioners of the Caledonian Canal will r 1
be liable in any expenses.—Scotsman.

BIRTHS.
On the 4th inst., the wife of W. H. Harrison, Esq., of
daughter.
In the College, Ely, on the 9th inst., the lady of the B
J. 11. Henderson, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at the Priory, Wandsworth-road, II O.
H. Haes, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, the wife
of W. C. Courtney, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at Eaton-square, London, the lady of D'
Jones, Esq., of Pantglas and Penlyan,
son and heir.
Carmarthenshire, ,

MARRIED.
On the Bth inst., at St. Maurice Church, Winchester, ~A.;
N. Rich, Esq., 33d Regiment M. N. I. youngest son of b2..'
Charles Rich, Bart., to J. Albersine Frederica. fourth clang"
ter of Frederick Hill, Esq., of the Polygon, Southampton'
On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Handver-square, ao
Mole, Esq., of Park-street, Grosvenor-square, to Sarah, I"elict
tii,
of the late G. Cale, Esq., of Tettenhall-wood and Shares'L
Staffordshire.

DIED.
On the 12th inst., Mr. Archibald Scott, formerly of I,ll„rigr.
holm, Dumfriesshir, at Boughtrig, near Coldstream, Pe..
wickshire, in his 29th year.
On the Ftli inst., at Woolwich, Thomas Munday, Es?
aged €B, late of the lirm of Dean and Munday, Threa—.
needle-street, London.
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On the 9th inst., at Bath, Thomas Pycroft, Esq., 0-
f
Middle Temple. aged 75.
On the 9th inst., at the Lawn, South Lambeth, Mrs. I.lB'
seltine, aged 62, widow of the late E. Heseltine, Esq.
On the 10th inst., at Grove-lane, Camberwell, ThornA
Courthope, Esq., rged 74.
Mr 64
On the Bth inst., at Adelaide-place, Stepney-green,
S. A. Elliott, aged 61.

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