The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

TETE COUNTRY MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 22. - Throughout the week
here nas keen an absence of activity in the derrand for
(liar, but holders 111.4inv.; continued to exhibit much
tirmo,,es, the previous currency was fully maintained in
the moderate business passing. The same remarks apply
to oa'meal. Into Liverpn-A and Runcorn the imports of
oatmeal ram Ireland considerably exceed those of any
preceding week during the present season; the supplies
of oats hence are likewise liberal, and tctrably fair of
flour. From abroad the arrivals of wheat and flour are
large, but only moderate of other articles. At our maiket
this morning no material change was observable in the
state of the trade. The transactions in all articles were
on a very limited scale, but there was no anxiety mani-
fested to press sales, and late prices were steadily ad'
her,d to.

READING, Dxc. 22.—Wheat, per quarter, 308 to 50. ;
barley, 25s to 295; oats, It3s to t'Os ; beans, 30s to 335;
peas, 308 to 325. Fat hogs, Sc to 8s 3d ; porkers, 8s 3d to 8s 6d
per score. Poultry—Geese, each, 5s dto 61 Od; fowls, per
couple, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; ducks, per couple, 34 Od to 3s 6d ;
butter, per lb, Is to Is Id ; eggs, 10 to 12 for Is.
DALE EITH, DEC. 20.—The relative weight per four bushels
of the three prices of wheat were 18st filb, 17st 71b, and I7st
3119. Oats, 1 !st 10Ib, I Ist 121 b, and 10st 811) Barley, 16st 01b1
15st 91b, and 14st 9:b. Peas and beans, 19st 31b, 18st 71b,
and 17st 71bz
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
283 Wheat .....,..£2 0 0 £1 12 0 4:1 10 0
181)3 Oats
11;9 Barley
35 Peas and Beans 1 10 0 1 6 6 1 0 0
Average of wheat 34s Id.
ABERDEEN, DEC. 21 —Grain—Oats 138 6d to 14s, 401 b per
bushel ; oats, new, 00s Od to 00s; foreign oats, COs Od to ON Od
per qr.; barley, 18s to 19s Od, 521bs per bushel; bear, 18s to 19s,
521bs per bushel ; wheat, 40s to 45s ; oatmeal, lls 6d to 12s tid
per boll ; flour, 33s to 00s per sack. Provisions—Beef,
6d to 8d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 6d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 6d
to 7d ; pork, per lb, 4d to 6d ; lamb, per ib, Od to Od;
tallow, pe- stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 10d to ls Od ;
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 6d to 8d; hares, each, Os
to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, peril), 7d to Sd ;
eggs, per doz, Is to I, 2d ; cheese, per cwt, 18, to 235; hens, per
pair, 35 Od to 3s 6d ; chickens, ditto, Is Sd to 2s Od ; ducks, ditto,
Is 8d to 2s Cd ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od to Os Od; turkeys, each, 4s
to 5s Od; geese, ditto, 4s to 4s 6d; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 00s to 52s ; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, Od
to 7d ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 14110 s
3s 6d to Os Od; poi k fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large.
3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of '204 lbe, Os to Os.
Meal—Oatmeal, is 2d to Is 3d; barley dust, 7d to Od;
peasemeal, Is 94 to Os Od; sids, 6d to Od ; bearmeal, Is 9d
to Os , flour, is 8d to Is 104 ;
.barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barley
lour, Is Id to Cs bd.

H UNTLY, DEC. 18.—This being the day of a cattle
market here, we had a gool many samples of grain
shown, and several sales made, at the under-noted prices,
delivered here, viz.:—Common oats, 401bs per bushel,
12s to 12s 61 per quarter; bear, 52 do. do. 16s to 16s 6d
do. Oatmeal, per boil of 1401bs, 10s to 10s 3d.
GLASGOW, DEC. 20.—At our market to-day the num:
leers were—oxen, 798; sheep, 3,030. The supply of
cattle in the market was large, which caused the sales
effected to be in favour of the purchaser. Beef down
fully 2a per cwt. on best quality. Best ox beef 48s per
cwt., second quality from 42s to 44s per cwt. Bulls,
cows, and interior animals, difficult to sell, and prices
same as last week-30s to 40s per cwt. Sheep much
about the same as last week. Best wethers Sid per lb.,
4d to Ofd current, old ewes 3d to aid per lb. At the
close of the market several lots of sheep remained unsold.
DUBLIN, DEC. 21.—There was but a moderate supply
at our corn market to-day, with a fair demand for every
description of grain at prices of Tuesday, and in some
eases distillers' oats and malting barley braught an ad-
Vance of 34 to 6d. Rather more business was done in
Indian corn, but without change in price. White wheat,
18: to 235; red ditto, 17s 6(1 to 223; barley, Ils 6d to
14s 63; oats (old), 9s to las 6d per brl.; oatmeal, 10a to
lls 6d; seconds their, 12s 6d to 16s per cwt.; Indian
corn, 26s to 30s per 4801bs.
Coax, DEC. 21.—We have a few arrivals of foreign
grain. The supply of home grown is tolerably good,
the receipts for the week amounting tot—whet, 2,837
brls at 16s to 22a per brl; barley, 2,997 brls, tBs to
lis 84 per brl; oats, 6,181 brls at 7s to 9s 3d per brl.
In the green market wheat has maintained its value.
Barley, however, has rather given way in price, while
oats have manifested an upward tendency. We have
had little business passing either in prepared Irish or
foreign wheat, and prices remain without alteration from
our quotations of last week. A. few parcels of superior
grinding barley have changed hands at late rates, but
malting samples are scarce and eagerly looked for.
Owing to the high pretensions of holders, who are very-
firm, but little business has been done in oats, on which
an advance of 3d per barrel was sought to be established.
If the prices of last week were submitted to, a fair
amount of business might have been done. We quote
prices 9s to 9s 33 per brl free on board. We have en,
improved demand and experience a very free sale for all
descriptions of foreign flour, but Irish continues to be
neglected, and complaints respecting its working Val'
ties rather increase than otherwise. We have no altera-
tion in prices. The demand for Indian corn has also
improved, and more business has been done in the articho
The enhanced terms, looked fur by holders, have, how'
ever, tended to cheek business. We quote prices 61121 6a
to 61 155 per ton. Indian meal is not a very free sale,
Flour— First 12s 64 to 13s Od ; extra 14s Od
seconds, lls to 12s 6d ; households Os to 104 6d; thirds, 7s to Si
per cwt. Oatmeal 9s 6d to 105; Indian meal 6s 6d to 64 9d; wheat.
meal. 9s 6d to los per cwt. Indiah corn 125 s Od to 1.275 6d per tote
Bran 31 O. to 3/12s 64 per ton. Hay—Farmers 16s to 375; average
325; dealers 3 sto 40. Od; average 00s per ton. Straw—Fanner.
16s Od to 25s Od; avenge 245; dealers 25s Od to 28s 04:4
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to bid ;
household loaf 5d to 51d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
9i per lb. Eggs —6s6dto 6s 8d per hundred. Coals
Newport 155 ; Lydney 17s ; Landore 155 ; Best Neel"
Culm 14s per :ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per evrt
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 3id to sd; mutton 4d to sd; veal 4d to
Od; pork aid to 4d; bacon 7d to 8d; sausages 5d per
lb. Hops t,/ ()s per cwt. Bangor slates 3125 6d to 315 s pet
ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ 5s ; Valonia 14/ to 04 French
715 a; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool les to 123 per stone-
Hemp 321 to( 01 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18. to Ills ; red
ditto 24. to 265 per barrel ; Newfoundland 9' Os to 11/ Pet
ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton; deals, first quality, lSi
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to 181;
salted 14s to 201 per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 20 per iv'
Potatoes, white lid to 9d ; Minions lid to 12d ; Guano—;
Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangels
19s per barrel.

RAILWAY A.RKETS-
LI DEC. 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions t -day were as fol'
low.— London and North-Western, 110% Ditto, Nei
Quarters, t_ls. 9d. p.— .itto, Fifths, p.—Midland,
Ditto, Halves, 22% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (N°'
4), 61. 83. 9d.

MANCHESTER, Dsc. 22.
STOCK ExcHANGE.--The transactions to-day were 'I
follow :—Lancashirs and Yorkshire (West Riding Union),
67§ dis.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (0 ), P'
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby 60,-
Shares , 71,E—Ditto (121. 10s. Shares), 2n. —North tafford-
shire, 9 13-16 n. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4),
Scrip, 6%

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BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 22.
S mit Excrlims.—The only transaction to-day was -•
London and North-Western, 1111,"
YORK, DSc. 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were al
follow:—Great Northern, 714—North Staffordshire, 75,x!
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (New_astle Extension),
111. Bs. 9d.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Dec. 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were 101
follow :--Caledonian, 11—Newcastle aid Carlisle, 66—North
British, 31. ss.

GLASGOW, DEC. 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were ag
follow: —Dundee and Perth, 10—Edinburgh and Perth,
9d.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 414—Glasgow, Kir
marnock, and Ayr, 4334.

A SAFE BET FOR BOTH PARTIES.--TWO bloods re':,
cently entered a tavern in New York where they bad
frequently resorted, and, calling for suppi r and twa,
bottles of champagne, informed their host that they WI
laid a wager of such a repast as they had ordered, $11!:
had agreed to refer the question to him. They bored
he would wait for his pay until the decision, and then
charge his amount to the loser. The landlord assented,
and tbey sat down to a hearty supper. When they bad
finished, mine host had the curiosity to ask what via!
the nature of the bet, and was not a little chagrinod
when he received for answer that it orignated in a diag
cute as to the direction the brick meeting-house steeple
would take should it ever fall. The one bet it would
fall 4. ast, the other west.

ARTILLERY,ROYAL WOOLWICH, DEC.
Captain A. Benu's Company, 2d Battalion, and Captain
Gambier's Company, of the same battalion, arrived tq
head-quarters hero yesterday evening from Dublin, V°
immediately marched to barracks. Major Mee's Cow'
party, Bth Battalion, at present at Dover, and Captain,
Hill's Company, of the same battalion, at Weedon and
Pembroke, will be relieved early in the ensuing month,
in order that the first eight companies on the roster for
foreign serv:ce may be at head-quarters ready for em'
barkation on the shortest notice.
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