The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

wand for both descriptions has subsided. Smoked and
gibbed Herrings are plenty and very dull.
FRUITS.—The demand for Malaga is limited, the large
sales of last week having supplied the immediate wants
of the trade. Sales of 600 boxes good bunch Raisins at
1 dot. 25c. ; and 1,000 ditto ditto, inferior, at 120 c. ;
about 3,000 half and a quarter boxes at 70c. for the
former and 32c. for the latter ' • 500 ditto Blooms at 110 c.,
4 and 6 months; 80 boxes Malaga Lemons, 225 c.; 300
boxes Figs, 31c. ; 70 cans Bordeaux Prunes in glass and
fancy boxes at 13c. to 15c., all 4 months. A cargo of
new crop Currants, also one of new Smyrna Figs are
hourly expected.
FLOUIL—Since the arrival of the steamer Great
Western there have been 3,000 to 4,000 brls. Genessee
Flour sold at 6 dols. 75c. for export to Liverpool, and in
addition several thousand brls. are being shipped on
owners' account. The article, however, remains exceed-
ingly dull, and holders are disposed to sell. Sales are
making at 6 dols. 621 c. a 6 dols. 69c., and some are re-
ported at a trifle less.
GRAlN.—Wheat has arrived more freely. The sales
have been 3,000 bushels Virginia at 1321-c. for milling;
2,000 ditto Illinois, for export to West Indies, at 140 c.;
14,500 ditto Illinois for milling at 137-ic., and 7,000 ditto
ditto at 135 c.; 400 ditto Genessee at 135c.—a1l cash.
Rye is in demand with a light supply. The last sales
were at 73c., but the article would now command three
or four cents more. Barley has advanced, and sales have
been made of several thousand bushels at 75c. The ar-
rivals of corn are light. We quote Southern at 67 to
68c. measure; and Northern and Jersey at 70 to 72c.;
Ohio 1,700 bushels sold at 71c. on time, and 1,600
bushels 69c. cash. Oats are now plenty at 51 to 52c.
Northern.
ITE3IP.—Sales of 300 bales Manilla, in lots to arrive
from London and Salem, at 170 dollars, 6 mos. In
other kinds there has been nothing of importance done.
HlDES.—Within the week there have been consider-
able supplies of all descriptions, which has caused the
demand to fall off. There have been sales of 5,000
Buenos Ayres, on terms not made public. Prices have
fallen about 4of a cent. per lb. About 4,000 remain in
the market unsold. There has also been a sale of 800
Monte Video, on terms not transpired. The brig
John Enders, arrived last evening, from St. Catherine's
with hides.
INDIGO.—We _notice sales of 6 serous Caraccas at
125 dollars, 6-rnos ; and 20 ditto, Guatimala, on terms
not transpired.
laoN.—There have been no sales of importance this
week, the only one we notice is 30 tons English at 36d1s.
LUAD.—The market for Pig Lead is not so firm in con-
sequence or further arrivals. No sales are making.
PaavlsroNg.-:!-All descriptions, with the exception of
new pork, of which the supply is limited, have come in
more freely this week, and the market closed yesterday
rather heavy at our quotations. Beef and Pork have
been in fair re.quest, but no change has taken place in
prises. New Lard is selling, as high as 8 cents.—old at
6 cents. The arrivals of Butter have been large during
the week, but there has been no change in prices in con-
sequence of it. Cheese firm, and prices advancing.
Dressed Hogs sell at $1 a 4i. New Hams at 91. Shoul-
ders 5i a 6 ; and Bacon sides at 61 cents.
SALT.—The demand continues, but the supplies of
Liverpool are light. The sales have been 1,000 sacks
Liverpool Fine received, and 1,645 do. previous to ar-
rival, on terms not made public ; 3,450 bushels Turks
Island, supposed at 28 cents., 4 months.
SPIRITS.—Great inactivity has prevailel during the
week in the market for all descriptions of Foreign. We
have heard of only one sale of Brandy ; 40 half-ppes of
Bordeaux, a new brand, on terms not made public ; 10
pipes Gin, various brands, have been sold at 80 a 85
cents. ; 10 hhds. St. Croix Rum, 83 a 85 ; 5 hhds supe-
rior Scotch (Islay) Whiskey, 2 dol. Domestic whiskey
has rather an improving tendency, sales of 400 good
western bbls. at 20 a 21 cents. ; 200 States Prison 291-,
450 New Orleans 201 a 20i. Considerable sales of
drudge casks have been made at 21+ a 22 cents.
Wooe.—Sales the present week have not been exten-
sive, and prices remain the same. At auction sale yes-
terday about 70 bales Buenos Ayres, in the bur, of
washed and unwashed, were sold at from 161 a 7i- cents.
FREIGHTS—TO Liverpool and London are active, but
to Havre rather dull.

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SEAMEN'S WAGES.—To Europe, 15 dol„ India, 13
dol., South America, 14, Coastwise, 15 dots. a 18. Sea-
men are scarce, and there is some difficulty in obtain-

ing them.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
In compliance with an applioation from a deputation
of officers, headed by Commandant Baron de Lahaye,
the Minister of War has added to his intended budget
for 1843 a sum of 50,000 f., in augmentation of the an-
nual grant for the 494 officers put on the reformed list
in consequence of the events of 1815 and 1830, without
previous inquiry, before the law of the 19th of May,
1834, on the Etat des Officiers. This sum, added to the
100,000 E, granted to them in 1839, on the proposition
of Marshal Clause], will afford to these officers two-
thirds of their retired pay.
The new pavement at the entrance of the Champs
Elysees, from the Place de la Concorde, is laid with
square blocks of stone, previously steeped in bitumen,
which, by enteringinto the pores of the stone, renders it
impermeable -to the wet, and inaccessible to the frost.
This process is; said: to:.,Pe -applicable to most kinds of
stone with advantage.„., -
Fifty extra pupils, over and above the number lately
determined by the annual examination, have just been
admitted into the ,EcoleZflytectulique for the special
service of the engineers and the artillery.
The Prefect of Police has just issued an order, that
the persons who take charge of canes, umbrellas, &c.,
at theatres, public balls, concerts, &c., shall only receive
a filed sum, viz., for a cane, umbrella, or sword, ten
centimes ; fora cloak or other article of dress, 25 cen-
times. In public balls at theatres and other places,
commencing at a late hour of the night, double the above
amount is allowed.

The operations for extracting the twisted tube from the
artesian well of Grenelle are going on as actively. as cir-
cumstances will admit. The tube is got up only In frag-
ments, all of which are strangely contorted and flattened.
About 600 feet have thus been brought to the surface,
the water continuing to flow all the time in abundance,
and much charged with dark coloured sand. As soon
as the whole bore is again free a strong iron tubing
will be let down into it.

A fire took place on Sunday night, between 11 and
14, in the warehouse of a military accoutrement manu-
facturer, in the rue St. Denis, but by the prompt arrival
of the firemen the fire was got under before it had ex-
tended beyond the warehouse, in which, however, every-
thing was destroyed.—At about the same hour, another
fire broke out in the Marche des Patriarches, in the
Passage d'Orleans St. Marcel. In the course of half an
hour -a dozen sheds were burnt down, but the fire was
then got under.
A lion from Senegal, which had been in the menagerie
of the Garden of Plants six years, died a fortnight ago,
and a lioness, his partner, took his loss so much to heart
that she refused all food, and has survived him only a
week. Among the animals lately added are a small stag
from Brazil, which has never before been caught alive ;
a carnal or dromedary with two humps, a species not seen
in France for thirty-five years ; and the black tiger,
whose landing at Havre we have mentioned, and which
has reached Paris in good condition.
A considerable number of workmen from Belgium and
the northern departments of France, who were employed
on the fortifications, have just left Paris to return home,
the state of the weather no longer admitting of their being
occupied. The soldiers of the engineers corps are now
employed in making measurements of all the work hi-
therto executed, in order that an account of the progress
hitherto made may be laid before the Chambers.
The following distressing aceident is related in the
Journal du Havre :—" The Newcastle collier Julia,
Captain Robinson, homeward bound from Rouen, was
for a tide moored off the north jetty of Havre.
In the night of Saturday she endeavoured to get '
under weigh, but, baffled by the weather, and find-
ing that she was drifting towards: aboiv,,
in
4..pttilotisshesiptuuattioount,
two anchors and brought up
within half a cable's length of thebreakers. Here she lay
the whole of Sunday, notwithstandingasst several boats had
. !
the danger of the Julia,
gone off to her, and tendered ht4ristance, which was
declined. In the evening
several captains of English
vessels in the harbour, seeing
and not knowing what had taken place, expressed their
of the Elisabeth, I astonishment, and Captain Nort OP,
used some strong terms of reproach at the want- of
humanity in the Havre seamen. He was told of the r
Robinson,but being still e-
peated refusals of Captain seep.
tical, Martin; the master oght
f a tug-boat, offered to taie
Captain 'Northop on board the Julia, that he mi
ascertain the truth of what had been told him. The
boat was launched, and reached the collier, but, resist-
ing the remonstrances of Captain N. orthop, who went
on board, Captain Robinson again declined moving
from his station. The boat, in returning, was upset
near the pier. Martin and three of 11. s men got
safe upon some piles, but seeing one of his companions
struggling with
the waves, Martin fastened a rope
round his body, and, leaving one end on shore, swam
out again. He -caught - the drowning m
hauled safe to land, holding the other by the hand.
and was
and. They
were both senseless from exhaustion, but are recovering.
Catain Northop and two other men were drowned. The
body of the Captain was washed on the beach, and all
the English ships in the harbour hoisted, their flags half-
maif high, in sign of mourning for his loss. The Julia
Was brought into harbour yesterday."
Mattet, a refractory recruit of the class of 1838, as we
mentioned some time ago, being hard pressed by the officers
in search' of him, prevailed upon Conor, an associate, to re-
present him, and surrender himself in his name. In June
last Coner went to the gendarmerie barracks in the Marais,
and constituted himself a prisoner, signing the name of
Maret. He had not been long in confinement before
one of the gendarmes recognised him as an old ac-
quaintance, but 'Conor, with a grave countenance,
denied all knoWledge of him, and even of his own
wife and her sister, whom the gendarme knew, and
brought to the- barracks. The , wife, who knew
Maret, and where -he was, betrayed his retreat,
thinking thereby—to release her husband ; but, when the
real recruit was brought, they were both detained, and
brought before the c,init of Assizes, for the offence of
signing a false name to a public document. They were
tried yesterday
and convicted. Conor was sentenced to
imprisonment fur two, and Maret, fat three years.
A sailor of the French bit; of war, Cygne, stationed
at Monte Video, having fallen from the tops on the
deck, and been killed some time since, his comrades
with great generosity, raised a subscription: among them-
selves of 1,000 fr., for the benefit of his widow.
The statement that the exhibition of the painting of
M. Paul Delaroche, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, was
to be closed on the 15th, appears to be erroneous. The
exhibition will remain open the whole of this month.
In repairing the tower of the church of St. Etienne-
du-Mont, the old dial of the clock, which is near the
summit, is being changed for one that is transparent, and
it will be illuminated at night.
A few nights since, three whales of the kind ()ailed
" blowers," or " bottle-nose whales," were fowl(' on the