The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-05 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

There was a very large supply, but the demand was very
dull. Prices as before quoted, with a tendency to decline.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Good Fish were scarce, and dear.
14421 TEA MARKET.

ThWewas no novelty in this market whatever.
WOOL MARKET.

The public sales continue to progress, but as they advm-ice they
become less brisk. Most of the Colonial Wool, however„ which
is put up sells.

COLONIAL MARKET.
Not much business done, and quotations the same as last quo
ted. British Plantation Sugdr in steady demand.

IRISH A3AI{KFT-..
DUBLIN MARKET NOTE fpr the W.LEK. ending JAN t 4

NI s

P rOn' i •
1,057 Wheat,per barrel :et at0ffi0......1 17 0 37 0
Bore
845 Barley 16 12 6 Lo
1,264 Oats •••••• 14 StentLe..o• 6 05 6
0 Four, per cwt... - 0
72S Oatmeal g stun': l4 0 0
Sold to Bakers only.
6,281 Cwt. Flour ....... „, 1
Average price of Wheat and l'our 6.5 b. 44' per sack
FN
.„'s
Receipts of Flour, 11,743 "*"'""*"
'. Cal to D
Sales of Do. ;t4,00•1r~ie romn
fur .1 to leas *.•

19 6
14 6

PRICE or IJR.Fri
Quarterr. 'tali V.,artecti
CORI. AILKETS,-Feb 1
Wheat (per 29zt..)13s 01. tz3th ‘H.lkrats (per 6A•tt,44,
Barley (per 105 t..) 7 0 18 9 iflor,r .24 7'

Oatineal ...... to .I •
Beef, 4d. to 7,1. Aluttiwt, ro6rl..—V:a
.1,4
Pork, Ofd. to sd.—Fresh Buttet,
Pince es Wulf. 4. _

.11" tI e tgo Tri
First Quality ••e ••. ...... m. 0., ..4-•
Second . z. 47 s
Third
44 .1-9

Faiirtl) • .......... •••••••••••••••: • 74 • I
.......

Sixth
CLON MEI I. M A BREIS.— Feb 1.
PerCwt-
a.
d. s. d. y, 1 .t.
g,,v Butter
(Tanya! .... ; 0 Ii 3 Bacon
Itentlerea Lard 0 92 '1 Heads

E 21,.
44 Ik. tour, Th.n.is `;::i
42 0 ----
Per 13arroL
Rapeseed ».•..........2(: 0 —oj Barley
!Sere tS 4 10 0 C ).Ils ..... V

Flour, Second 0

KILKENNY MARKETS.
W:.eat ,per barrel)2os. Od.to 375. Od.l Beef 'per .ss, (), to el. • '44,'
Par,ey 20 0 22 U Atutten I'Ec

hats
15 0 14 6 1 I'ork ............... ' 4 0 ti
Flour (per bag) :ao 0 4) C Veal .........,.... 0 0 ' !.
Rutter(percrvt.) 90 0 Az' 0 i bresh Butler.... 0 0 1 4)
I.llcon Pigs 3:i 0 36 0 Salt Atte .... ..... 0 6 0. V
Coals 1 0 1 2 l'otatoes(per It.) I, f 2 U: ;

DEATH OF LADY THEODOSIA BLIGII.
Her Ladyship, whose demise took place at her hotel in P
on Friday last, in her 70th year, was the second daughter
John, third Earl of Darnley, and sister .o the first wife of ''the
preient Marquis of Londonderry. Her Ladyship was mai 7 ictl
in 1790, to Thomas Cherbury Bligh, Esq., by whom she has
left a family.
_

The M-arquis of Abercorn and his brother L ord
Claude Hamilton, M.P., have, through Mr- J. Green, 7 most
generously liberated the poor debtors lately confined iu OX aagn
Geo!, by payment of the debts for which they have been res..
pect ively incarcei a ted. Scottish Standard.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has sent a do-
nation of la to the school at Kilkee, county Limerick..
Lord Jersey arrived in Berkele;•-square from
Middleton-park, on Monday evening, and agein left toe -n )es •
terday morning for Oxfordshire, where his Lordship w ill re-
main until the close of the week.

The Countess of Radnor and Lady Jane 13oti-
verio hare arrived in Grosvenor-street, from Longford Castle.
Ladv Jane, it is understood, will have the honour to offiei it,' on
Monday next, at the Chapel Royal, as one of her Mk testy 's
brickma ids.
By the mual official return published by the
Customs, the exportation of the precious metals from ?he. poll
of London to foreign and colonial ports for the week etalitv
the 30th of January, is as under :

Ounces.
Silver coin, Rotterdam 6,000
- Belgium
- Gibraltar
DEPLORABLE CASE OF DESTITUTION.—.
On Wednesday morning, a most affecting case of destitution.
was brought to light under the nest startling circumstances;
one of those incidents which occasionally stand cut in strong re-
lief from other cases of a like nature, and thus make the world.
acquainted with an amount of wretchedness in the lower classes
which all admit and deplore, but which few, we suspect, hate*
any proper conception of in the full loathsomeness of its details._
About live o'clock on Wednesday morning, a little boy came to,
the watchman in the Pleasance, and asked him to come to tiros
house, as his mother, he said, had cut her throat. The watch-.
man procured the assistance of another, and, sendirg for a sur-
goon at the same time, he proceeded to the house. On entering..
a scene disclosed itself which beggars all description. 13ehi,di
the door lay the wretched woman, still alive and weltering ins
her blood; and in a corner of the room lay the dead body of her •
husband, who had expired that morning ; while, crouching over'
a spark of fire, sat two children, giving vent to their distress ins
the most piteous manner. The house was without a single ar-
ticle of furniture, even of the humblest description ; the body or
the husband was covered only with a piece of canvass; the wo-
man wore only an old tattered gown, without any underclothing:
and theehildren were nearly in a state of nudity. There could
not be a doubt that the woman had been driven in a fit of des-
peration to lay violent hands upon herself, maddened by the
death of her husband, and the prospect of starvation for herself
and children. She was immediately removed to the Royal Infir-
mary, where, we hear, some hopes are entertained of her reco-
very ; and the children were brought to the police-office, where-
they now remain, and where, on food being offered to them,
they snatched at it with an eagerness which amply
testified to•
their famishing condition. It appeared that the wretched wo--.
man had effected her purpose at the time the children were asleep',
and that one of them awakening, was alarmed by the blotch
on the floor, and ran out to call the police. The husband, whose
name was Burnet, was formerly a letter-carrier in the Post-
office; but having the misfortune to fracture his leg, he Iva
the establishment with a small annual pension, which, we u"--
dertstand, he enjoyed up to the present time. He was, how-.
ever, a most dissipated character, never settled to habits of re—
gular industry, but sunk himself and his family gradually trout
one grade of wretchedness to another, till the occurrence of the
melancholy catastrophe which we have endeavoured imperfectly to describe.—Edinburgh Evening rest. ,
TOTAL ABSTINENCE. What are calleti
" grand demonstrations" appear to be of frequent occtuvence in
almost every town, village, and hamlet in England. Tem-
perance Halls," too, are springing up in several places, so that
soon we may expect to see every John Bull sipping tea insseasl
of drinking porter, and mine inn everywhere turned into a tea,
shop. What effect the ill-humour of the Celestials may have.
on John's " total abstinent" habits we cannot determine. Saltily
—arid Paddy particularly—as everybody knows, are both teetotally
temperate, an t exceed even John Bull in their devotion to the
tea-drinking principle.
A Correspondent states that a meeting of the
Liberal interest was held in the borough of St. Ives, on Wed-
nesday, Mr. Stansbury in the chair, at which it was resolved
to support a Liberal candidate is opposition to the present
Member, Mr. Praed.
Another fatal accident happened on Friday, the
24th ult., at the Victoria coal-pit, Bothwell Haigh, by two ex-
plosions of gas, whereby six men and boys were killed, aril
several others severely burnt.—Leeds Mercury.
Monday morning, as Sergeant Pascoe, T 19,
was on duty at the Ealing station-hcuse as acting inspector, a
man, evidently in an excited state, about ,34 years of age,
dressed in a countryman's srnockfrock, with highlow blots, en•
tered the station-house about 3 o'clock, and addressing the
above officer, inquired if a person who had committed forgery
were to give himself up, would he be taken into custody.. Pascoe
told him that would depend upon the circumstances, upon which
he.aaid ha knew a man who had forged an acceptance upon
Messrg. Cobb and Son, of Austinfriars, city, for the sum of
45E, for which cash had been obtained from Messrs. Wheeler,
bankers and brewers, at High Wycombe, Bucks, in support of
which he produced letters to that effect, which he
stated had been written by the party implicated.
Pascoe, suspecting from his manner that be was himself
the individual in question, kept his eyes fixed on Lim,
which, being perceived by the man, he sudeenly exclaimed, "
am he," and then stated that his name was John Williams, that
he was the son of Captain Williams, of Twickenham, and that
being reducedby his extravagant modcof life to the greatest dis-
tress, lie had determined on delivering himself tin to justice.
Pascoe accordingly detained him, taking every preeaution that
in his excited strte he did not lay violent hands on himself, and
in the course of the forenoon conveyed hi-u before Mr. G.
Baillie, a Magistrate of Hanwell, to whom lie related the grime
story, and he was remanded to the New Prison, Clerkenwell,
for further examination, when the attendance of the necessary
witnesses can be procured. In the afternoon Inspector Law.-
renco went to Twickenham, and had an interview with Captain
Williams, when he ascertained that the statement he had
was correct, and although he was so respectably conneeted,ee„
had long led a life of dissipation and vice, to the great griefof
his family.

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