The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-(MONDAY.)
The arrivals of English Wheat for our market, last
week, coastwise as well as by land carriage, was less than
2,000 quarters. That of all other articles of home pro-
duce was equally small, and of but middling quality.
From Ireland and Scotland, the receipts were confined to
a few cargoes of Oats. The imports of foreign Wheat
were large, viz., 38,657 quarters, chiefly from the near
Continental ports—the supply from Antwerp alone ex-
ceeding 16,000 quarters—and the Black Sea. The other
foreign arrivals comprised 2,303 quarters of Barley;
5,582 quarters of Oats; 665 quarters of Rye; 642 quar-
ters of Beans; 303 quarters of Peas; 2,697 quarters of
Tares; 9 quarters of Linseed; 45 quarters of Rapeseed;
174 quarters of sundry seeds, principally Clover; and 4,302
sacks, together with 1,570 barrels of Flour from France and
the United States. Large supplies of foreign grain are still
on their way from the Black and Mediterranean Seas.
The supply of W heat fresh up to this morning's market
from Essex, Kent, Suffolk, &c., was again very limited,
and a large portion of it was greatly out of condition.
Notwithstanding that the attendance of both town and
country buyers was larger than for some time past, the
demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was ex-
ceedingly heavy; and, where sales took place, factors
were compelled to submit to a reduction in the,quota-
Lions of Monday last of from ls. to 2s. per quarter. So
heavy was the trade, arising in some measure from the
damp state of the samples, that prices were almost no-
minal. The market closed heavily, and a total
clearance of the stands was not effected.
There was a large quantity of Foreign Wheat on offer.
This had a very depressing effect upon the demand for
that article. Nearly the whole of the importers were
anxious sellers; hence the demand, from the unwilling-
ness on the part of the millers to get largely into stock,
in the face of the continued heavy imports of flour from
France, was dull in the extreme, and the currencies gave
si ay, compared with those paid on Monday last, from
Is to 2s per quarter. Floating cargoes were offered at a
still greater reduction, without finding purchasers. The
stocks in warehouse are increasing. We were but mo-
derately supplied with Barley; nevertheless the sale for
that article was dull. Malting samples were unaltered in
value; but grinding and distilling sorts ruled a shade lower.
Literally nothing was doing in Malt. In prices, how-
ever, although the supply was but moderate, we have no
change to notice. With Oats we were scantily supplied.
The best qualities sold at late rates. Damp samples
were a mere drug. In Beans next to nothing was pass-
ing, at last week's reduction in value. Peas of all kinds
were heavy, and lower to purchase. Indian Corn and
Meal nominal. Flour of all kinds was offering at is to
2s per sack lower. French qualities, 33s to 34s per sack.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.

Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red. ...... • . 39s to 473
Ditto,White, New 433 54s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red. •• 40s 463
Ditto, White • • • • 423 51s
Irish, Red • • • • • • • • —8 —5
Ditto, White • • • • • • —3 —8
Rye—Old • • • • • • • • • • • • —s
New....... • . 25s 28.
Barley—Grinding . • ... 23s 26s
Malting . .... • • • • 28s 30s
Chevalier •• • • • • • 318 32.
%fah—Suffolk and Nor-
folk ........ •• • . 578 Ms
Brown.•.. bOs 54s
Kingston and Ware 58s 598

Malt--Chevaller•• •• .. 493 to 60s
Oats Yorkshire and
Lincolnsh., Feud. I6s 19s
Potato
Youghal and Cork,
Black . •• •• 143 193

Cork, White ... • • 16i 19;

SeotCh, Feed. •. • • 20s 23s
Beans—Tick. •• • • 275 295
Pige0n5.......... 34s 36s
Peas—Grey .•• • • • 34s 36s
Maple •.•••• • • • • • 35s 36s
White• .. •• ••- • • • 24s 26$

Boilers .. .
Flour—Town-made 3/15 42s
Suffolk ... ......
Stockta &Norfolk 30s 335

SEED MARKET.

Really fine parcels of Clover seed, both red and
white. are held at considerably enhanced rates, although
the arrivals from abroad continue liberal. Canary Seed
is a slow sale, at barely last week's prices. Linseed and
Rapeseed dull. In other seeds very little doing. The
inferior parcels of Linseed Cakes have declined fully
5s per 1,000.
Turnip,Wbite, per bush. lis to 12to
Red and lla 12g.
Mustard, 8r0wn.... • 6s 110
White .... ••• • .. Ss 12s
Tares, New .. •••• • • • • 7s is
Old .. •• • ..... - 4s 5s
Canary, per quarter ..100s 12,s
Rye grass.. -••- . 20s 24
Clover, ItetlEn,. (cwt.) 35s 13s
White ........ •• 35s 55,
Foreign lied...—. 35s 59s
White • ... 35s 56s
Trefoil .............• 13s 19s

Carraway ••••• • .. • . !95 31s
Coriander •• • . 18s I9s
Hempseed, per quarter 32s 34s
Linseed, Eng. ,owing • • 50s 52s
Crushing ...... 383 40s
Baltic •• .. 38s 403
Odessa .
Linseed Cake, pr.l,ooo—
lOl 8s 111 53
Foreign.. 61 155 51 Os
Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 4s 415,
Rapeseed, pr cwt. 271 105 301 Os

SMITHFIELD.

During the past week a fair average time of year
supply of foreign stock—as will be seen by the annexed
return—has been received in the port of L6ndon. The
total importation has amounted to 1,695 head, or less
by 921 head than in the preceding; but more by 1,094
head than at the corresponding period in 1848. The
general quality of the arrivals has turned out tolerably
good; and the following table shows the quarters from
whence they have been derived:—

IMPORTS INTO LONDON.
From Beasts. Sheep. Calvet.
Ostend... — .. 212 ...
Rotterdam 245 ... 864 ... 108 ...
Antwerp ..... — ...
liamburgh 2O ...
Harlingen lO4 ...

Lambe.

••• 10 ••• ...0

66 ..

Total 363 ... 1,142 ... 181 ...
Corresponding
week in 1848... 203

289 ... 10 ...

Difference ... 166 more. 852 more. 75 more.
Within the last few days a statement has been issued
by the Board of Trade, purporting to give the total
imports of foreign stock into the United Kingdom
during the month ending Feb. 5, 1848 and 1849. The
statement in question is as under:—

Oxen
Cows
Calves
Sheep
Pigs

1848.
478
245
t 76
728

1849.
577
235
196
766
28

29

Totals
It must be obvious to all acquainted with the subject,
and more particularly to those who have watched the
progress of the arrivals, that the above returns are ex-
tremely inaccurate. That correct official statements are
invariably important, not a doubt can be entertained;
but those so extremely erroneous as those given above
are calculated to mislead the grazing community, as well
as the public at large. To prove our position, we here
give the arrivals of stock in London only from the 6th
of January to the 3d of February inclusive, the period,
doubtless embraced in this official document.

ARRIVALS OF STOCK FROM ABROAD INTO LONDON FROM
THE 6TH JANUARY TO THE 3D FEBRUARY, INCLU-
SIVE, CURRENT YEAR.

Week ending Beasts. Sheep. Calves.
Jan. 13
Jan. 20 ...
Jan. 27
Feb. 3

Total actual arrivals 893
Corresponding month
in 1848

Now, it may be asked, how have these discrepancies
crept in? When it is shown that a larger number of
sheep alone came into London than the whole of the
stock stated by the officials to have arrived in the United
Kingdom? The fact is, a most serious, we will not say
wilful, blunder has been committed by some parties, and
the sooner it is corrected the better. It must be under-
stood that the Customs, in London, publish daily a state-
ment, compiled from the ships' manifests, of the imports,
deliveries, Sze., of all articles reported. Those returns
prove the accuracy of our own, and the absurdity of those
published by the Board of Trade. The arrivals of stock
since our last, at the various outports, have been
small, but increased supplies are expected. Let-
ters from Holland, state that the disease so much
prevalent amongst the sheep during the greater
portion of last year has greatly subsided.
The supply of foreign stock here, today, was very mo-
derate, and, for the most part, beneath the middle
quality. All kinds were dull in the extreme, and quite
2d per Blbs. lower than last week. For the time of year
the arrivals of Beasts fresh up to this morning's market,
from our various grazing districts, wore large, and of

1845; 1846.

ism.

Stock this day • • ....I 21,933 ' 17,430
Price of Y. C. •• .. 39s to 425 9d
[ 03 00 to 43P

1 0,28 1

9,762
50s to
50s 3d

1549.:

I to 43s
- -
Delivery last week: .. 1,542 f 918
Ditto from June 1.... 73,157 75,354
Ar' ivals last week • ; 31 717
Ditto from June 1 ... 77,104 77,388
Price •f Town ....., 42s 45 Gd

51s 3d

924
70,844

70,502
63s Od

1,780
85,004
1,299
16,665
515.

29,081
40s 6tl
to Os

1,590
82,660

433
104,203
431

IMPRISONMENT OF THE REV.
MR. SHORE, M.A., BY THE BISHOP OF
EXETER.

(THIS DAY.)
A public meeting of the friends of civil and religious
liberty was held this morning in Exeter Hall, for the purpose
of considering the case of the Rev. Mr. Shore, with the view
of procuring an alteration of the law which precludes se-
ceding clergymen from preaching as Dissenting ministers,
and of obtaining his immediate release from prison.
The Rev. Mr. CRAIG, a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, was called to the chair, and in opening the business of
the day he remarked that the meeting had been convened to
consider a question of deep importance to the civil and reli-
gious world, namely, the liberty of the subject for conscience
sake, which now wore an aspect which had no parallel since
the days of James 11., and which had been produced by an
artful and unjust interpretation of the ecclesiastical law.
The Rev. Dr LEIFCHILD then implored the Divine
blessing upon the proceedings of the meeting; after which,
The Rev. Mr. Tiroar.aur related the circumstances under
which Mr. Shore had been incarcerated in St. Thomas's gaol,
Exeter. The Rev. Gentleman, he said, was preaching at
Spa Fields Chapel, on Friday evening, and at the close of his
sermon, which was so effective that it drew tears from his
gaoler, who was one of the congregation, he was arrested
on a warrant issued by the Bishop of Exeter.
Since then a letter had been received from Sir Eardley
Wilmott enclosing 204 and from Mrs. Thompson the sister
of Mr. Baptist Noel, and the Earl of Gainsborough, enclosing
10/., in furtherance of the object of the meeting. Two letters
had also been received from Mr. Shore, from which he would
make the following extracts :—" The key has at last grated
on my prison door, and I trust the cause of religious liberty
will be promoted by the reverberation. My acemmo-
dation is rather rough, but, although unconscious of wrong,
I must remember that I am a prisoner in a gaol, a place for
felons. I find that the Bishop's agents are already quibbling
by saying that I am placed here merely for costs; but how
did those costs arise? Simply from preaching in an uncon-
secrated chapel or building; and even if the costs were
entirely paid, I should still be altogether at the tender mercies
of the Bishop. He could still keep me in gaol, and that all
my days, for contempt of court, in preaching as a Dissenting
minister. Will the people of England allow such an
outrage to continue under the sanction of law ?" • •
" I hasten to write you another note, in the hope that I may
be in time for the post to-day, that Mr. Barnes, the Bishop's
secretary's clerk, has been here, and told me that if I would
pay the costs I may be free; I told him to the effect that if I
had not preached as a Dissenting minister the costs would
not have been incurred, and that I had not the means of pay-
ing them, and that he well knew the Bishop was still able to
keep me in gaol, even if the costs were paid. I told him,
however, that I should not now have any communication
with the Bishop of Exeter either directly or indirectly, that
I regarded the matter as entirely in the hands of the people
of England, and that I did not purpose to take any step in
the affair. I awn just come from chapel, where I have attended
the service. The thought struck me very forcibly, what re-
spect can these prisoners have for the laws, when they find
a minister among their number for merely preaching the
Gospel ?"

S Volca in the meeting suggested that a history of Mr.
Shore's case ought to be related from the beginnig to the end.
The CHAIRMAN said the suggestion should be complied
with.

Another Voron asked if the slossion of Mr. Shore had
anything to do with Popery ?—(Cries of" No, no.")
resTolhueti lotnev;wMhirc.h was as Ythfeonllocwams:e—for Resolved that this rard to move the first
as-
sembly, having heard the statement relative to the apprehen-
sion and imprisonment of the Rev. James Shore, M.A., feels
it to be its first duty to offer to that gentleman the expres-
sion of its deep sympathy and Christian affection in his pre-
sent afflicting circumstances, and assures him that prayers
shall be offered continually to Almighty God in his behalf,
and every effort shall be made for his liberation which the
constitution of our country and the spirit and precepts of the
Gospel of Christ can suggest and sanction." After entering
into a lengthened history of Mr. Shore's case, which must be
already familiar to our readers, he adverted to the excuse
which had been put forward for Mr. Shore's arrest, namely,
that it was not for preaching, but for costs. It
must be remembered, he said, that though he
might be imprisoned now for costs, if he paid those costs, he
would still be liable to arrest if he attempted to preach, or
for the act of preaching on Friday. This quibble of costs re-
minded him of the little boy's game of one leg up and one
leg down.—(A laugh.) If the costs were paid, Mr. Shore's
conscience would carry him into the pulpit, and from the
pulpit he would again be conveyed to gaol for costs, so that
unless some change were made in the law, Mr. Shore would
have to oscillate between the pulpit and the prison. That
might be the way to Exeter town, but it was not the way
to London town.—(Laughter and cheers.)
Lieutenant BLACSHORE seconded thu resolution, and it
was put from the chair and carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. Smurros moved the second resolution as
follows ! " Resolved, that this assembly deeply laments
before God and man that any Church, professedly Christian,
should have the power to inflict upon any one, not excepting
a minister of the Gospel, protracted law-suits, heavy law
charges, and imprisonments, in the name of the religion of
Jesus Christ, it being inimical not only to the spirit of the
British constitution, but utterly at variance with the spirit
and positive precepts of the Founder of our holy religion. In
the name of civil asd religious liberty, in the name of Chris-
tianity, in the name of the common brotherhood of Chris.
tians and of mankind, this assembly solemnly denounces the
existence of such power, whether possessed by ecclesiastical
courts, and avows its deliberate conviction that its exercise
in the cane of XL Shore especially, ill.* that he had 104 the

Established Church and had become a Protestant Dissenting
minister, is unjust, cruel, and unchristian, and that as
British subjects this assembly will use all lawful means for
pardon of conscience and liberty of worship, in behalf of all
men, especially the minister of the Established Church."
The Reverend Gentleman said he agreed fully with the spirit
of the resolution, but he would not pledge himself to any
after proceedings in this case. It appeared to him, however,
that the imprisonment of Mr. Shore looked very like return-
ing to the bigotry of James the Second's time; and he
was quite sure, that from the Queen downwards, with the
exception of the Bishop of Exeter and his followers, who was
a worthy successor of Laud, all would raise their voices
against the law that a seceding clergyman of the Church of
England could not preach as a Dissenting minister.
Mr. JosErn Dawson seconded the resolution, but he
doubted whether Mr. Shore was imprisoned for preaching—
it was for the non-payment of the costs of proceedings which
he himself had instituted.

The Rev. J. &Tam= ;aid, if the opinion of Mr. Dawson
were to hold good, the Bishop of Exeter might have knocked
Mr. Shore down with a bludgeon, and then, when the
Rev. Gentleman was taken to an hospital, he might say.
" Oh, he has been confined in the hospital, not because I
knocked him down, but because he has a wound on his head."
—(Laughter and cheers.) The fact was, had the Bishop
never have prosecuted Mr. Shore, he never could have been
imprisoned for costs.—( Hear, hear.)
The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously.
A committee, consisting of twenty-seven gentlemen, with
power to add to their number, was then appointed to or-
ganise an agitation Against the proceedings of the Bishop,
and to take steps for holding a public meeting in the
Large Hall.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting, which was a very crowded one, broke up.

PUBLIC BUSINESS NOW BEFORE THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS-MARCH 12.
PUBLIC BILLS.
Title of Bill. Progresss.
1. Affirmation-waiting for Committee.
2. Bribery at Elections-referred to Select Committee.
3. Buckingham Summer Assizes-passed into a law.
4. Clergy Relief-waiting for second reading.
5. Commons Inclosure-passed into a law.
6. Consolidated Fund (8.000,0001.)-passed into a law.
7. Conveyance of Real Property Act Amendment-
passed the Lords, and waiting for first reading.
8. Copyholds Enfranchisement-ordered, but not yet
presented.
9. Distraining for Rates-passed the Commons, and
now in the Lords.
10. Elections and Polling Places (Ireland)-waiting
for second reading.
11. Greenwich Markets Regulation-waiting for
second reading.
12. Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland)-passed into
a law.
13. Indictable Offences (Ireland)-waiting for Com-
mittee.
14. Inland Revenue-passed into a law.
15. Insolvent Members-referred to Select Committee.
16. Landlord and Tenant-waiting for second reading.
17. Life Policies of Assurance-waiting for Committee.
18. Lunatics (Scotland)-waiting for second reading.
19. Marriages-waiting for second reading.
20. Marriage (Scotland)-passed the Lords, and wait-
ing for second reading.
21. Navigation-waiting for second reading.
22. Offences (Ireland)-withdrawn.
23. Out-door Paupers-passed the Commons, and now
in the Lords.'
24. Outlawries-read a first time.
25. Overseers (Cities and Boroughs)-passed the
Commons, and now in the Lords.
26. Parliamentary Oaths-waiting for second reading.
27. Petty Sessions-passed the Commons, and now in
the Lords.
28. Poor-laws (Ireland) Rate in Aid-waiting for
second reading.
29. Protection of Justices (Ireland)-waiting for
Committee.
30. Public Roads-read a first time, and afterwards
withdrawn.
31. Public Roads (No. 2)-ordered, but not yet pre-
sented.
32. Qualification and Registration of Voters (Ireland)
-waiting for second reading.
33. Real Property Transfer-referred to a Select
Committee.
34. Real and Personal Property Conveyance-waiting
for second reading.
35. Recovery of Wages (Ireland)-waiting for second
reading.
36. Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scot-
land)-passed the Lords, and waiting for second reading.
37. Relief of Distress (Ireland) (50,0001.)-passed
into a law.
38. Spirits (Ireland)- waiting for third reading.
39. Summary Convictions (Ireland)-waiting for
Committee.
40. Vice-Guardians of Unions (Ireland)-passed into
a law.
Total number of public Bills passing and passed
through the House of Commons 40.
Besides the above-mentioned Bills, the following are
under the consideration of the House:-
Committee of Supply.
Committee of Ways and Means.
Adjourned debate on the subject of Sicily.
Adjourned debate on the subject of Local Taxation.
There aro also 129 private Bills in various stages be-
fore the House.
Select Committees of the House of Commons aro now
sitting on the following subjects:-
Army and Ordnance Estimates.
Bribery at Elections Bill.
Ceylon and British Guiana.
Fees (Courts of Law).
Fisheries (Ireland).
Insolvent Members Bill.
Privileges.
Poor-laws (Ireland).
Public Petitions.
Real Property Transfer Bill.
Selection.
Slave Trade.
Standing Orders.
Steam Navy.
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues.