The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

PR IC ES OF POTATOI
York Reds (from vessel)
Scotch Reds ditto .
Kidneys

AT srITA LFI ELMS
....... 3s. to nt 103. par ton.
........ 2/. 103. to 3/. N ditto
........01. I•s. to 3/. 10s, ditto
..•.....21. Oa. to 21. ss. ditto
PRICES OF LEATHER.

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rer lb. d. to d:
Crop Hides, 30 to 401 h. each 101 IS
---10 50 l2 15
50 60
dull Hides
Butts, Vitriol
---- English l4 21
-- Foreign
Foreign Hides lO 12
Dressing Hides
Shaved 12- 13
Best Saddlers Hides
Horse Hides, English
___ * If rounded 2d . t

Per lb d. to d.
Horse Hides, German lO 21

- Spanish ------
12 ii
CalfSkins,3o to 401b.(doz )*l4 18
---- 40 50 •15 'll
--- 50 r)o Ila 21
---..,70 10( *l4 20
Seal SlOns, large n 15
-------- small 2O 21
Kips
Basils 7 12
Bellies
IShouldcrs 7 12
to 4d per lb more

PRICE OF CANDLES.
The price of good Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops is as follaws :
Candles, per dozen, 7s. ; inferior, 6s. CA—Moulds, N. Od.
Sixpence per dozen discount for ca'h.

PRIE RAW FAT, per stone of 61b.
Price of Tallow (aCs stated by the Tallow Melters) 2s. 104 d

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Fee. 19.
Our Cotton Market has been ♦ery well attended to-day by dealers
and spinners, IA ho have shown considerablo desire to purchase, and
have generally had to pay 1-Bth advadce on last week's rate in Ame-
rican. The sales are about 5,000 bags, ♦iz., 250 Pernams, 9id. 9id.;
200 Bahia, 861. 81d. ; 200 Lnguiras, lid. to Bd. ; 50 Egyptian,
9 qd. 9jd. ; 200 Surats, 4d. Gd.; and American, from 61d., Sid. for
Mobile, and 9d. for Orleans. The ♦essels noticed in our printed cir.
cular as being off, have arrived, save one from Bombay, wreaked; also
ono from New York.

THE YORKSHIRE METIIOD OF CURING BA-
CON. —The pigs are (as they call it) hungered twenty-four
and sometimes thirty six hours, before they are killed, then
hung twenty-four hours in a cool place. They are cut up and
conveyed to leaden bowls, and having with the hand wiped
salt over the swarth (skin), care is taken to stop the salt and
saltpetre into the shank ends, in order that it may effectually
reach the bone. The flesh side is then turned uppermost,
covered with salt, and sprinkled with saltpetre. For a twenty
stone pig the proportions are one stone of the former and one
pound of the latter. After lying about a week the bacon is
all retuoved_that which has been uppermost is put lowest,
and more salt is added to those parts from which it may have
disappeared. In three or four weeks it is fit to hang up to
dry, and it has never, in a single instance, been known to fail.
Mind the following obvious rules :-1. The pig must fast, this
relieves the ♦essels that, in a loaded state, are apt to putrify.
2. The killing must be quick and without irritation. 3. Tho-
roughly cooled before salting. 4. Not rubbed, as this only
exci'es the putrefaction process, and you can never rub salt
through the skin. 5. Placed in lead or stone, if at hand. 6.
Stop the salt well into the shank ends, and move it and add
salt as before directed, frequently.

TIIE WEATHER AND STATE OF THE RIVER.-
Yesterday the wind was from due east, moderate breezes,
with cloudy weather. At noon the thermometer in the Lon-
don Docks stood at 41 degrees, but at six o'clock, p. m., it
had fallen to 34, being two degrees above the freezing point.
The thaw, therefore, continues, and the snow around the me-
tropolis is gradually disappearing, although the roads in the
country are still nearly impassable from the drifted snow. At
high water yesterday morning (eight o'clock) the river above
and below bridge was completely covered with floating ice;
and navigation on the river was, for several hours, wholly sus-
pended, a great number of vessels, steam-packets, and smaller
craft, being blocked up in the ice. The ice outward-bound
sail, however, proceeded down the river with the ebb tide,
and at low water the Thames in the centre, above the Pool,
was nearly cleared of ice ; but on the return of the flood tide,
the river above Blackwall was again covered with drift ice.
No vessels went in or out of the St. Katharine's Docks on
Sunday or yesterday. Several coasting-vessels, lying at the
wharfs, cleared at the CuStom House and ready for sea, are
prevented from sailing in consequence of the great quantity
of ice close on shore. Several steam-vessels, which arrived
last evening from Scotland and Ireland did consideroble da-
mage to their paddle-floats by ploughing the ice above
Black wall.

The ice on the river had accumulated in the upper
pool to such an extent yesterday morning, at high water, as to
block up that part of the stream for some time, and several
vessels, on their way to the wharfs, near London-bridge, Bil-
lingsgate, and other places, were compelled to bring up.
h a rows of shipping off the Tower and Custom-house were
locked in among the ice nearly all day. The ebbing of the
tide, the rapid thaw, and the passage of the steamers up and
down, broke up and sunk a good deal of the drifting ice, and
the navigatio❑ was not so much impeded as on the preceding
day. The steamers which came up yesterday encountered
very rough weather during the gale of Friday night and Sa-
turday, and some of them have met with damage ; and every
ship which arrived has sustained injuries more or. less. The
accounts of disasters at sea during the late hurricane are nu-
merous and frightful, and the loss of shipping has been very
great. The flood tide in the evening again brought up a
large quantity of ice into the pool, but there is every ap-
pearance of a continuance of the thaw, and with the power-
ful aid of the sun, of which we have not seen much for the
last three days, the Thames, it is hoped, will soon be clear of
ice and snow, and n:.vigation and trade again resume their
wonted activity. All the docks were open, and many vessels
passed in and out. The Star and Diamond, Gravesend
steamers, are again voyaging backwards and forwards with
passengers ; the Woolwich and Greenwich steam-vessels,
with one exception, are still laid up.
AMSTERDAM, FEB. 16.—The Journals are al-
most all filled, from day to day, with long accounts of the state
of the rivers, in most of which the ice is still fast. The ac-
counts from Coblentz, however;say that the ice in the:Moselle,
near that city, had broken up. It is considered as a most
extraordinary circumstance that there was a constant traffic
over the ice below the Continent and the Island of Amelands,
which is two miles distant.
LIMBERG, JAN. 24.—Yesterday evening, at half-
past eight, we had two pretty smart shacks of an earthquake,
at a shprt interval, in the direction from East to West. We
do not hear that any considerable damage has been done.
CHRISTIANIA, JAN. 25.—Professor Hansleon
announces in one of our journals that on the Bth of this month
the mercury in the barometer was higher than we had ever
before observed it—viz., 29 inches 0,69 lines at ten o'clock
at night, though the sky had been overcast nearly the whole
time. In the obscri eery of Stockholm the barometer on the
same day was at 26 inches 43 lines.
BERLIN, FEB. 12.—The number of deaths in
this city last year was 11,045, and the births only 10,260 ; ex-
cess of deaths 786. The number of illegitimate children
was 1,515, or nearly one out of six. The deaths in 1837
were 3,438 more than in 1836, which was chiefly owing to the
cholera.
CITY INIPROVEMENTS.—The following is the
substance of a report made at the last Court of Common ,
Council on the subject of the projected new street from Far-
ringdon-street to the Northern-road :—" The Committee
directed the Remembrancer to give the necessary notices of
an application to Parliament for the formation of the proposed
new street northward, as far as West-street. On the 24th day
of November last they were attended by a deputation of Ma-
gistrates of the county of Middlesex, and Commissionfars of
Sewers for the Holborn and Finsbury division, who stated their
desire that in the application to Parliament, power should be
taken to continue the new street to Peter-street, near Cow-
cross, and that although the Commissioners had no funds ap-
plicable to the improvement, they were in hopes that if power
was given to take the property, funds might be found for that
purpose, and the Committee accordingly directed the Remem-
brancer to give the necessary notices to the owners and occu-
piers of property as far as Peter-street. Having taken into
their consideration the best means of raising a sum of money
for the continuation of Farringdon-street to West-street, they
were of opinion that a sum of 60,0001. might be raised on the
produce of the tolls payable at the several bars of the city,
which they considered would be amply sufficient for the pur-
poses required, and that the application of these tolls to the
purposes of public improvement would, in a great degree, ob-
viate the objections made by some persons to the payment of
them ; and they directed a petition to be prepared for an ap-
plication to Parliament for the purposes aforesaid."
AWFUL SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—By
the ship Troy, Wood, which arrived at Liverpool on Wednes-
day, from Charleston, we have the following particulars of the
melancholy loss of a vessel, name unknown, which was run
foul of by the Troy, on the night of Saturday, the 23d ult. ;
they are taken from the log-book of the Troy :—" Strong
breezes from south, and rain ; quite dark. Soon after 11
p.m. ran foul of a small brig, not previously seen, although
we had two men on the top-gallant fore-castle, placed there
keep a 100k-out; the brig swung immediately round upon our
starboard or weather bow. Sonic one on board the brig called
out to put our helm hard up, which was immediately done, and
the brig was clear of us at once ; she sank rapidly, and before
we had passed each other her hull had sunk with all on board,
and before she was half our length astern her topsails were out
of sight, and nothing but some very small articles floating from
her, nothing large enough to support a man. Two men were
observed struggling in the water, but were lost sight of before
we could afford any relief. It was almost instantaneous, and
could not have been three minutes from the time we came in
contact before she sank entirely out of sight ; put the ship
round as soon as possible, but could see nothing. It blew
quite fresh at the time, with rain, the ship under all sail, ex-
cept top-gallant sails; the brig had topsails only. We struck
stem on, but it all happened so quickly that we cannot posi-
tively say which way the brig was standing. We struck her
either forward or abaft her masts, for she winded round on our
starboard-bow without getting foul of our jib-boom. We judge
from circumstances that she was standing the same way with
ourselves, and that we struck her stern, or near it, because our
rigging to secure the bowsprit and jib-boom down were car-
ried away without injuring either of them, and the brig swung
clear of them. We lost cutwater-head and hand-rails, bob-
stays, gammoning of bowsprit, &c. Tried the pump, and
found the ship did not leak ; had not seen a sail before for six
days. Lat. 39. 40. long. 50. 55."
Jack Stevens, well known as the whipper-its and
huntsman, of the Pytcheley hounds, died last week at the early
ago of 42, to the great regret of all sportsmen to whom his
valuable qualities were known,

The fourth, and we believe the last Concert for the season,
of the above laudable institution, was given last night at the
Hanover-square Rooms. The selection was, in our opinion,
superior to those of the preceding concerts, and generally
speaking, the music was executed with that correctness which
the result of consentaneous feeling, acquired from the habit
of practising together ; a result which we find at the highest
point of excellence in the orchestra of the Italian Opera.
With the exception of the opening symphony, a composition of
that common place character, that wo were not surprised at
its failing to call the energies of the musicians into full action;
and of Mr. Frazer's scena, an highly ambitious affair, in re-
gard to the difficulties of the accompaniments, and which from
want of t.ufficient care at rehearsals, we apprehend, fell into
such confusion, that it was impossible to enter into the views of
the composer; with the exception, we say, of these two pieces the
concert was most ably performed, and its effect as a whole was
such as must have astonished those amongst the auditory (if
any such were there) who had been previously unaware of
the amount of pure native talent existing in this metropo-
lis, both in the practical department of music and in that of
composition ; for not only were all the pieces performed the
efforts of British artists, but we did not observe a single
foreigner a member of the band. The opening piece, as has
already been remarked, was a symphony, the composition of
Mr. T. M. :audio. It was common-place and old-fashioned.
If Mr. M. studies the compositions of the masters who have
flourished since the time of Abel, Bach, and Stamitz, he will
succeed better in his next attempts. A song by Mr. Wilson
followed. As a hiatus was left in the programme in this
place, we are ignorant who was the composer, and did not
think it necessary to inquire, as our curiosity was not excited
either by Mr. Wilson or the matter intrusted to him, which
in saying it was a " balled" we have said all. A cantata by
Huilah, the words by Shelley, was very feelingly sung by Miss
Wyndham, but was too long,consisting of five verses. The lower
tones of Miss W.'s voice were very effective. A piano-forte
concerto by Mr. Holmes, w as played with a great deal of neat-
ness and brilliancy. He has acquired immense fecility of
finger, and his style is remarkably good, but either the instru-
ment was an indifferent one, or Mr. H. does not succeed in
producing that full, rich tone which distinguishes some of
our first-rate players—Mrs. Anderson, for instance. The
concerto was a beautiful composition, with which much care
appeared to have been taken in the instrumentation. The
slow movement, a Scotch air, was much admired. The com-
poser was Mr. W. H. Holmes. A eanzonet by Mrs. Burnett,
" Where is he ?" although given with considerable feeling,
was more than Mrs. Burnett was quite equal to. An overture
by Mr. C. Lucas, concluded the first part of the Concert. It
was an excellent composition, in a fine style, and full of beau-
tiful harmonies, and happy instrumental effects. The over-
ture which opersed the second part, was, however, the gem of
the evening, and left all the other compositions far behind. It
was that to the " Naiades," by W. S. Bennett. Had the
name of some black-whiskered Italian been appended to it as
the composer, we will engage it would be often announced as
one of the chefs d'amvre for the " 7lst performers in Europe" at
at Pilati's Prominades, or between the acts at the Opera
Buffo. It was a most spirited and ingenious, and, above all,
to the audience a most effective composition. The audience
received it with the utmost enthusiasm, and encored it simul-
taneously and unanimously. Of Mr. Frazer's scena, " The
Spanish Matron;" by G. A. Macfarren, we have already
spoken. A Quartet, by Cipriani Potter, did not excite our
interest, although a known air was pressed into the service.
Quartets, however, do not tell, when heard after overtures,
and other full pieces. A ductt of Atwood, " Dear native
regions," a very pleasing composition was prettily sung by
Mrs. Burnett and Miss Wyndham, and a very good overture
by Macfarren concluded the concert. The room was filled
to rerletion by a highly genteel and respectable audience,
but it was evidently the friends of the members of the Society
who formed the mass of the assembly. The Society is not
patronized and supported by the higher orders as it deserves to
be. If, however, the higher orders knew what a delightful
evening could be passed in the hearing of native performers
and native compositions, brought forward is the way they
were last night, and if, moreover, they knew their duty to
their country and their countrymen, this S,:ciety of Musicians
would meet as extensive and as fashionable patronage, as if it
were as purely Fore'gn as it is purely British.