The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.

FISH MARKETS.
The supply of fine Fish was very short, and of the common
sort there was not a large assortment ; prices rather high.
Turbot, Gs. to 18s. ; Soles, Gd. to 3s. per pair; Salmon 'carve,
Is. to 3s. per lb. ; 'Mackerel, 4d. to Gd.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKETS.
Supply moderate, and a pretty good sale at former prices.
Clover Hay, 3/. to 5/. 10s. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. 10s. t 4/. ;
Straw, 325. to 345. per load.

TALLOW MARKET.
The prices of Tallow were lirrn at 49.4. 9.1. on the spot, but
little business done. For New Tallow there was nu inquiry.
TEA MAR KET-
Little business done, but prices generally were supported.
Company's Congou 2s. 31d. to 2s. 4d. per lb. cash. The ge-
neral impression is that prices will be higher before the end of
July. The stock has been increased by the late arrivals, but
altogether it is not more than one vear's consumption.
COLONIAL MARKET.
Little done, but prices were maintained- for the few parcels
of goods that were actually disposed of. The arrivals of pro-
duce were small, but a good many ships were expected. In
Spirits there was little done, but prices did not give way.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY

DEAL, JUNE B.—Wind S. E.—Sailed the outwnrd
bound.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE B.—Wind S., moderato.—Arrived
the Ariadne, M'Leod, from Calcutta ; .sailed from the
Sand Heads 13th February, and St. Helena, 26th April,
Alexandria, Turner, for New Orleans; Medford, Walsh,
ditto; Swiftsure, Lyack, Smyrna; Challenge, Herna-
man, do. ; Laurina, Laguna. Off port, William Russell,
Pernambuco; Amelia, Laguna.
PORTSSIOUTH • JUNE 8. --Wind S.—Arrived the Prince
Regent (steam packet) Ilumble, from Gribraltar. Ar-
rived off the Vernon, Denny, Calcutta ; sailed 28th Fe-
bruary, from Cape of Good Hope 22nd April, St. Helena
6,11 ult. ; Windsor, Nesbit, ditto.
OFF THE WIGHT, JrJNE B.—The Arab, Westmoreland,
from Launceston.
COWES, JUNE B.—Arrived Frederick, Bogeman, Macao.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE B. Wind S. S E.—Sailed Samuel,
Walters, for Newfoundland. Off port, the Calcutta,
Chalmers, Hobart Town—sailed about 22 i February.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind S. to W. S W., fresh
breezes.— Arrived the Redbreast, Bruce, and Me!anira,
Simpscn, from Malaga. Off port, the Dorothy Gales,
Bantam, from Ceylon ; Frances Burn, Edington, Monte
Video—sailed March 4.
WHITEHA YEN, JUNE 7.—Arrived the Ruth, Ran.lall,
from Sierra Leone. The Wilson, Stoup, which still d
front Liverpool yesterday fur Montreal, has put into tiiit
harbour leaky.
HULL, JUNE B. Wind W. by S.—Arrived the Pc-
rnona, Blues, from Riga.
YAEMOUTII, JUNE 2.—The Zante Packet, Bretian, from
Newcastle to Zante, got on the Barber Sands to-day, but
was assisted off into the roads.

There will be a Cabinet Council to-morrow after-
noon, at which all the Ministers will be present.
Her Majesty has recently presented to each of
the clergy engaged in the ceremony of the Royal nuptials a
copy of the Holy Scriptures, magnificently bound in purple and
gold, as a token of her gracious favour. There is an inscrip-
tion in each, declaratory of the origin of the present in the
autograph of the Bishop of London.
His Royal Highness Prince Albeit has honoured
the Toxopholite Society by becoming their patron in succession
of their late Majesties, George IV. and William IV,
Her Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester
will have a small dinner party to-morrow ( Wednesday) even-
ing i.l Park-lane. This will be the first entertainment given
by the Royal Duchess fur sonic months past, owing to her re-
cent indisposition.
Lord Holland will entertain the whole of the
Cabinet Ministers at dinner to-morrow evening, at Holland
House, Kensington.
THE TEA TRADE, JUNE $, he deliveries of
Tea last week were not quite so large as in th pding seven days, being 361,2001b5. The trade has not beee rece
n very animated
to-day, but prices are firmer, Company's Congous having
touched 2s. 4d. per lb.
THE APPROACHING ANTI-SLAVERY CON-
vENTIoN.---We understand that M. I'Sambert, a dikinguished
Member of the French Chamber of Deputies, and a Judge of
the Court of Caseation, in whose honour medals have been
struck at the instance and the cost of the negroes and the free
people of colour in the French colonies, has signified his inten-
tion of taking part in the proceedings of the great Anti- Slavery
Convention, to assemble at the Freemasons' Hill, on the 12th
instant. He will be accompanied, by several other Members of
the French Central Society, notwithstanding the coincidence of
the sittings of the Convention with those of the French Cham-
bers and of the French Government Commission, to which
many of the French abolitionists belong.
The letters received from China by the Thomas
Courts state, that notwithstanding the pending warlike prepara-
tions as between China and England, the smuggling of opium
was freely carried on round the eastern coast. The notorious
opium clipper, the Lady Grant, had arrived in Tongkoo
roads on the 13th of January, ready to proceed on that passage,
and was expected to be absent at least one month in the chan-
nels of the various islands getting rid of the drug._ , The quail tity on board this clipper was valued at 100,000/. It appears
that high wages are given to these who enter the trade, and the
agreements between the commacders and their men are only
verbal. The Lady Grant was stated to be " armed up to the
teeth," mounting fourteen guns, worked by Europeans, besides
a full supply of all kinds of inis§ilet, and therefore feared little"
from the Alanciarin junks. Some of the men on board had ex:
pressed confident expectations of " obtaining souse Chirr4l:.:
tails (excellent for making watchguards) in a day or two. 11 I_
gives an idea in what estimation the courage of the natives of
the Celestial Empire is held by English seamen.
THE LAST AMERICANsM.—.4 4114,
dose
'31,1r
strong 3. PhY
sician practising in Penns.) I:4Xi,P/4
of nitre to a patient Ir,b9v,rini, Mutera severe cold,it caused so
co
profuse a peripira .10n during the night, that he wis found
drowned the next:morning, •

E VENING EDIT ON._-

A SPEECH WORTH HEARING,

Tice Quincy (Illinois) IVhig, of the Ist Febui:
ary, contains the followlin report of a recent speech
in the Senate of that State, on the Bill for repeal'
ing internal impiovements, :--
" Mr. Speaker, I rise, Sir, not to make
speech—speech-making is not my trade, but to tel
the friends of the repeal that I am foment them'
altho' I hate railroads as bad as any matton this
earth, prehaps, and I have a good reason to hate
,
them, yet 1 shall vote agin repealing them►
bekase all my constituents on this side o
the river bodashiously arc for them, acid
i
i;
a good many on tother side too•
are a fact, Mr. Speaker, I know very liltla
about rail-roads, but I guess I know as much as
some other folks do—We have had a rail-
road in Clinton for some years, across the bottom
there at Carlisle and one over Crooked Creek hot'
tom, in Marion, and of all infernal roads in ere'
tion, for roughness, they bang the better--gentle•
;
men may laugh—but it's no joke,—my constituent
have lost, in the sinole ►item of breaking eggs, S'f:
a handsome fortune. Scott,
in Carlisle, and a male tavern too, not It
of your Springfield greas yes, but a rioi
jam up chicken fixen tavern, told ma
that
who keeps a save
at
no mortal man could tell the eggs
had been broken in bringin them to tort
across that infernal railroad, and 'fully told me 1":1
same thing exactly about Crooked Creek RAT;
same smashing of eggs. You know Huey,
Speaker ? I wish you could have heara.4llle/
curse, the time his carriage was jolted up into eteir;
nal smash, crossing the same railroad. [Her,e:tilt
Speaker, unable any longer to control- his rowh
faculties, laughingly observed, The geollernBo
must confine -himself to the question, and to the
rules of the Senate.'] Well, Sir, as I was saPtigj
he cost; and he swore, and fairly snoopy
agin, but still he's for railroads. These alle,
notions, Mr. Speaker, and I could not sit Lle'-
without belching it out. [Here the orator turned
his head, and in an audible voice addressed
Senator to his right.]—, Uncle Peter, what's the
name of your 'Wolf bill but receiving no alower
he then, straightening himself up, again addressed
the Speaker. As lam now up, Mr.-Speaker, if
will give you my notions on Uncle Peter's 'lf
bill— [Here the Speaker interrupted him again
reminding him that the wolf question was °°
now before the Senate, and therefore its Merits
could not be diseussed.l—You're mistaken in your
man, Mr. Speaker ; not a cussing "I:
ratter, and if I was, I should be very far wag
cussing Uncle Peter's wolf bill. No, Sir; 1 "-s•
you and all this here Senate to understand :that
I am no Jupiter Iscariot, in this or any other mar
ter. I'm for that bill head and ears, no mistake 14
shave tail,—l go it, Sir, on the loud.—One in7rw
thing, Mr. Speaker, and I'm done,—the ge°l,l;
man from Shamrock county don't think
that's the name exactly either—but the two'
headed gentleman over thete, said the other
day—[Here the Speaker, assuming as muci'
gravity as possible, called the gentleman t°
order, and requested him to take his seat.] .After,
looking the Speaker stedfastly in the eye for at leas-
twenty seconds, with a wink of askance, he sait
Mr. il".„
Are you in ralc yearnest, Speaker, if so be
you are, you're into me about a feet, 1 'Spore
think, but, Sir—look out—l warn you, Sir, to keepa
skin'd eye for terrapin traps and mocassin track?
—I have rights, Sir, as the two-headed gende-
man over there, (pointing to the gentleman from
Hancock,) said the other day, that shall no be
trodden on nor treated with em done,-Sir
—I would, however, before I sot down, say 10 my*
friend from Union, not to look so serious, when
he tells his funny stories, in his speech, but to V,"
us a sort of a smile, as I do, when he comes Iv the
nub, or laughing part, so that we in-ay know when
to laugh too. 1 have now got over all I was arr!ri.
Mr. Speaker, and I will conclude this sPeeeb.

There
THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--
far as
is every probability of the line being opened for traffic 's
the Farringdon Road in the course of another • nurstli, after
which time it is the intention of our coach proprietors tC, ply
direct to that Station, instead of taking the lirestnt circuitous
route of Oxford, amt as the Farringdon.Road is little snore NO,
3Q Miles from Cheltenham, the journey' to LOndon will be con'
siderably shortened in point of tame.-..-Cheltenharn Journal.
THE RAILWAY.--Within the last few days the
bank w Vch separated the Birmingham and Gloucester wocka
frem the Cheltenham and Great Western, beiween the'Statiou
and Lansilown Bridge, has been cut through, from whicheir•
cainstan::e we should infer that a satisfactory arrangemenebas
been entered into by the Iwo Companies. The greatest-Ix:a'
tiens are making to complete the work up to the Lans
Bridge, and from the number of hands ein
ac-
tivity displayed, we should fancy that a very short space of ,
relit Cheltennur ure
suffice for the attainment of that ebjeet.--
Journal.
The vote
REPRESENTATION OF HALIFAX.------
of Mr. Charles Wood on Lard Stanley's Registration Bill bas
given great offence to the Whig section of his eonstituentsv,eal
they have begun to cast about for a new candidate. ,
names have been mentioned ; among others those Mr. Hu'
and Mr. Cobden.—Leeds Intelligencer. ploy-ed, and the,ti
THE LATE DREADFUL FLEE AND LOSS °l
LIFE IN THE CITY.—Mr. Price still remains at the residelie,
of Mr. Watkins, surgeon, of Neweeate-street, iN a. state them:
approaching to madness, and it is said that he has for source time
previous to the occurrence been affected with a nervous cona.
plaint. To this is mainly attributed his inability to rescue .111,5
unfortunate wife and children from the dreadful death 41111,c;
awaited them, it being ascertained from -the position of the
premises that he might, had he been possessed of sufficien.
nerve, have saved the whole of them by paesing them throoug.la
the trap door of the bedroom in which they slept on to thee 's,
Mrs. Price was very near her acceuehement. The body ls.
scarcely at all disfigured by the fire about the head and l'aer
but her legs were completely burnt off. The eldest bby rs
identified by a part of his corduroy trowsers which he rnsnaged
to put on when an alarm of fire was raised. The other chil"::73.
are so dreadfully burnt that their size is the only means by wil.
they can be told one front the other. The inquest is to tak
place this evening.
PEARL DIVERS.—When a boat arrives at
spot considered, from the nature of the bottom, as likely ti
prove favourable, the boat is anchored, and the crew
(livid
into two portions • one remains in the boat to receive the oys"
ters and haul up the divers, the others strip naked, and juini'
into the sea. A small basket, capable of hording from eight to,
ten oysters, is then handed to them, and suspended to their
le!t arm, the nostrils are then closed with a piece of elastic hot'''.
the diver places his foot on a stone attached to a cord, inhales a".
long breath, and upon raising his right arm as a signal, the roe'
is immediately let go, and he sinks to the bottom. After eu
lecing as many are within his reach, he jerks the line, 501
drawn at once to the surface. Forte seconds is the average,
one minute and thirty-five second's the ultimatum which they
eau remain below.— Weltsted's City of the Caliphs. • •
• it is in contemplation to open the railway betwis°.
Glasgow and Paisley in the first week of July.---Seotsman•„.
CCCKERMOUTII.—In consequence of- the jaw'
mous interference of the Tories at the late election at Cocker-
mouth, a Reform Association has been formed in that roan,
of which Sir Wilford Lawson, Bart., is president, and-T.Te "•'
Dykes, Esq., of Dovenby Hall, the vice. president: A (1197'
city of the electors have already enrolled their mines st:'
s'gned the important pledge. Cockermouth has nobly (let'''. mined neve-to lose its high name, never to allow an open or t
disguised Ti (Wyndham was the latter) to write behind /LP
name " Member of Parliament for Cockermouth." The ele4l
were very busy on the side of Toryism. About thirty voters,'
all Liberals, were prevented by intimidation from giving 'their
sulliages to Mr. Horsman.—Whitehaven Comespolden-i.
REPRESENTATION OF HALIFAX.—Theiv°2-e-
-of Mr. Charles Wood on Lord Stanley's Registration Bill ifss • given great offence to his constituents, and should, an election
occur early, the Hon. Gentleman would certainly lose has Oat'
e understand that several names have been. mentioned zof
likely candidates on the Liberal side, and among other , those • Mr. Hume and Mr. Cobden. If united the Liberal party can
carry whom they please..—Bradford Observer.
We are happy to bear that Lord Itossrnore is s 0
far recovered, that 'he Noble Lord's sons, the Munchers for "AlO-
naglian and King's County, will be able to attend on not' •
day in their places in Parliament.
REPRESENTATION OF DURHAM. IVlr'
Granger, the barrister, has visited the
city of Durham during
the past week, and is mentioeree as likely to succeed Mr. Mir-
lamd a, s one of its representatiees in Parliament.
1 HE VOLUNTARYP,ANCIPLE TRIUMPJIANr*
—For the last two years the inhabitants of Rod', in the c9(.1541 of Pembroke, have successfully resisted the imposition
-
Church-rate for that parish. It now ail-lards us pleasure to an-
pounce that the church party have given up all further atteluil to force the parishioners to supply the needful for the fabric
the church. This venerable edifice is now undergoing elm-
siderable repair, and the expense is to be defrayed by voluntary
contributions. A subscription has been opened for the pir pose, and promises to be a successful one. Thus the struggle'
which has for a length of time distracted this parish, and err en'
dared feelings the reverse of the charity, el joined by the Pr"'
ciples of Christianity' is terminated, and we trust will never be
renewed ; we hope that each party will in future strive to show
its Christian character by acts of kindness and forbearance to •
wards those who differ upon matters which only affect tbeeg.
selves and their God.— Welshman.
STATE OF TRADE._ There is not much
change since our last report, but business is improving. Prices
are firm, and mere hands are employed. —Leeds Mr 'Tray.
SUDDEN DEATH.-A very awful occurrence
took place at the visitation of the Arelnleacee of Worcester. at
Stratfordeon.Avon, on the 4th instant, 'lieW. Pruens •
pay
„, preparatory to the ser-
mon,
tvii:,,a(rtayo
hSandit
just concluded
enluedaerdWthaer
when lie was seized with rpoplexy. He ova; immediately
removed from the pulpit all-110'A in a dsiag state, and conveyed
k, fhe
to the house of a friend near the church. Medical aid was
speedily obtained, but too lc appointed preacher of
Reverend Gentleman expired within a short time after the
attack. The eireumsfance eau:: the
muds of the clergy asset...deice,
sad event. ttolieb(d'eoepf eat any avail,
in th-41
indeed of all who wileissed this

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SUDDE N IA
, ~
niouth, ytu was
inn man, in 0.,i.e.41...,1av of Mr. Gosling-, malster, &a., of Mon-
EA TI-I.—On Tuesday last, a labour-
in tlac,a‘'t of ,!riving some pigs to his master's farm, was seized
subject to occasional spasmodic attacks, Whilst
):rth a fatal paroxysm, from .the el7ects of which he suddenly
fell in .he road and airnost instantly expired. Ile had a few
minut-,:s previously told a lad who had accompanied him, that
ly. ',lad had a painful spasm whilst taking the pigs out of a mea-
dcw. The deceased was about 50 year. of age, and had an
aged mother entirely dependant' Upon him for her support:—
!.70 ioitOuathiee Merlin.

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