The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENNALL.

Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 4s to 5s ; Lamb, 5s 4d to Gs 4d ;
Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s per Blbs, by the car-
case. Ducks, is 6d to 2s 6d; Rabbits, is to is 8d; Turkeys,
4s to 6s 6d ; and Pigeons, 6d to 10d each ; Fowls, 3s to
7s per couple; Eggs, 7s to 8s per 100; Fresh Butter, is ld
to Is 3d per lb.

BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, 108 to 21s; Cod Fish, 3s to 9s ; Haddocks, 6d to
is 6d ; Whitings, 4d to 8d ; and Lobsters, 10d to 3s each ;
Soles, 8d to 3s per pair; Eels, 4d to is per lb; Mackarel,
18s to 24s per 100; Salmon, is 4d to 2s; and Salt Fish, 2d
to 8d per lb.

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NEWPORT.
Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 2d ; Lamb,
5s 6d to 6s 4d; Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 4d; and Pork, 4s to as 2d
per 81bs.

WEITECHAPEL.
Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s ; Mutton, 45 to 5s ; Lamb, 5s 4d to
6s 4d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 45 to 5s 2d per
81bs, by the carcase.

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from
is to ls o%d ; of household ditto, 10d to lld per 4lbs loaf.
RIDE IWARBET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 21/0d to 23/4d per lb ; do. 641 b to
721 b, 3d to 3%d ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3%d to 33/4d ; do. 801 b to
881 b, 4d to 41/2d; do. 881 b to 961 b, 41/2d to sd; do. 961 b to
1041 b, 5%d to 6d; Calf Skins, each, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; Horn
Hides, 13s; Polled Sheep, 5s 6d to 6s 6d ; Kent and Half-
breds, 4s 8d to 5s 6d ; and Downs, 4s to 4s 8d; Shear-
lings, 8d to 10d; Lambs, 2s to 2s 3d.

HAY DTAIitHETS.
SITITUFIELD.--Meadow Hay, 2/ 12s to 31165; Clover ditto.
3/ 12s to 4/ 16s ; and Straw, 11 10s to 1/ l4s per load. A full
average supply, and a heavy demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 14s to 31 18s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ 12s ; and Straw, 11 10s to 1/ 15s per load.
Supply good, and trade dull.
WHITECEIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2l lOs to 3/ 15s ; Clover
ditto, 3/ lOs to 51; and Straw, 1/. lOs to 1/ 15s per loaf.
Trade dull, at barely late rates.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The House met to-day at Twelve o'clock.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the medical
practitioners of Birmingham in favour of this Bill.
MR. MOTT, THE ASSISTANT POOR-LAW

COMMISSIONER.

Mr. FERRAND gave notice that on Monday, on the
order of the day being read for the third reading
of the Loan Discount Bill, he should ask the Right
Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Dc.•
partment whether the appointment of Mr. Mott as a
Poor-law Commissioner bad received the sanction of the
Government, and also other questions with respect to the
offices held by Mr. Mott. The questions conveyed
serious charges against Mr. Mott, which the Hon. Gtn-
tleman specified.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER advised
the Hon. Gentleman to modify his auestion:-, as it was not
fair to cast imputations upon Mr. Mott in the shaFe
of interrogatories.
Mr. FERRAND replied that the motion which he had
read was simply an extract from a Parliamentary paper,
which was laid on the table last week. He had merely
adopted the words used therein with respect to Mr.
Mott. The words were not his.

The matter then dropped.
LOAN DISCOUNT BILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
moved that the report on this Bill be received.

Mr. FERRAND said he wished to have a pledge
from her Majesty's Government that the Poor-
law Administration Bill should stand as the first
order of the day for discussion on Monday, and that it
should be taken first. It had stood first among notices
of motions for the last fortnight, but it had been put off
from time to time; but the Government had given the
most solemn pledge not only to him, but to other Hon.
Members, that it should come on for discussion before
the other orders of the day on Monday; but he feared
from what had recently taken place, for instance, the
motion of the Hon. Member for Waterford (Sir
W. Barron), which, after it had occupied nearly the
whole night in /discussion' was withdrawn at the request
of the Government, and from the delay that had already
taken place, that the Government intended to shirk the
measure altogether, and consequently to avoid the dis-
cussion of its merits. It was a most important measure,
and would affect at least 3,000,000 of the poorest class
of the population of this country, who were now living
on a diet which had reduced them to the most abject
state, and if the fever which was now desolating Ireland
was to extend its ravages to this country, he should
like to know what would become of the poor, who were
compelled to subsist on the diet which the Poor-law Com-
missioners allowed them, as it was a well known fact that
the diet sanctioned by them was not sufficient to keep those
who partook of it in bodily health, and he was anxious to
have the pledge to which he had referred from the Govern-
ment in order that the Bill be taken the first thing on
Monday. Unless he should receive this pledge from the
Government, he should consider it his duty, as an inde-
pendent Member of that Muse, to propose as an amend-
ment, on the order of the day for the third reading of
the Loan Discount Bill being read, that it be read for the
purpose of being discharged, in order that the Poor-law
Administration Bill should be at once proceeded with.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
the Hon. Gentleman had used a great deal of unneces-
sary violence in his address to the House.—
(Hear, hear.) He could assure them that the
Bill to which he had referred would be taken on Monday
night if possible ; and if the Hon. Gentleman would
look to the notices of motion for Monday, he would find
that his Noble Friend, (Lord J. Russell) had a notice on
the paper " that the Poor-law Administration Bill be
proceeded with before the other orders of the day."
Mr. FERRAND—.-Hear, hear.
The subject then dropped.
The report was then brought up, received, and the
Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday next.
TURNPIKE ROADS (IRELAND) BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from the
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Carlisle in favour of
the Health of Towns Bill, and praying for an alteration
in the 26th clause of the Bill.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL.

Mr. HAWES presented several petitions in favour a
this Bill.

The House then adjourned.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XXXIII.
GREAT NORTHERN EXTENTIONS TO

LEEDS AND VIAXEMELD:

The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock.
Mr. BALNES, on the part of the Leeds and Dewsbury Rail-
way, stated that he was instructed, on the part of the land-
owners opposing the Great Northern Railway to withdraw
their opposition to the further progress of the measure. But
stated, at the same time, that his clients were fully con-
vinced of the necessity and advantage of an independent ac-
cess to the town of Leeds, and as they conceived that the
proposed line of the Leeds and Dewsbury would afford these
advantages, he claimed to be heard against the
merits of the proposed Great Northern scheme, should
the Committee be of opinion that in consequence of the
withdrawal of the opposition as to the proposed levels
and crossings of the Great Northern Railway, that that line
should be allowed to proceed with their case.

Mr. Sergeant WitimauAm, on the part of the Great
Northern Railway, contended that this opposition having
been removed, he was now entitled to proceed with his Bill.
Mr. TALBOT, for the Midland Railway, opposed the re-
opening of the case.
'The room was then ordered •to be cleared. Upon our re-
admission,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee were of opinion
that a great waste of the time of the Committee had taken place
in consequence of the opposition not having been withdrawn
at an earlier period, but as they conceived that the public
interests were of paramount importance, they should allow
the Great Northern Railway to proceed with their case, on
condition that a plan should be deposited by twelve o'clock
on Monday, showing definitely the mode by which they pro -
posed to meet the difficulties of their levels at the point of
crossing the Leeds and Dewsbury line.
The Committee then adjourned till Thursday next, at
twelve o'clock.

MR. GROGAN'S BENEFIT.—Grogan,
per of the Lyceum, who, for the
kee Glarsot gfoarnty, the box xhabs book-
keeper of
faithful servant to the public, takes a benefit at the Lyceum
on Monday, when we trust that those who have so often
benefited by his civility in his time of health will not forget
him in his time of affliction.—(Poor Grogan is suffering from
the effects of a paraly tic stroke)—but rally round him in
force.
TRUE PRACTICAL FREEMASONRY.—The poor of
Sherborne received, through the Lodge of Benevolence, a
timely gift on Tuesday evening, when upwards of 700 poor
families received a loaf each, proportioned to their families.
The bread was purchased by the third part of the produce of
Dr. Wolff's gratuitous lectures. The W. M. Bro. E. T
Percy, attended at the Town-hall, and assisted by five of the
brethren of the Lodge, distributed the bread with order and
regularity, by tickets, in about an hour. We need not say
how gratefully, during the high price of bread, it was re-
ceived. We understand the portion for Ireland is placed at
the disposal of his Grace the Duke of Leinster, the Grand
Master for Ireland; and the portion for Scotlantl at the dis-
posal of his Grace the Duke of Athol, the Grand Master for
Scotland. Truly may we say of our valued brother, Dr.
Wolff, that he is a faithful labourer in the vineyard of
Masonry.
SUPPLY OF SALT.—ST. ÜBES, MAY 7.—The stock
of salt appropriated to foreign ships is reduced by late arri-
vals to about 8,000 moys, or 5,600 tons, but
mostthereof h
that
aatfurther
quantity of about 10,000 moys reserved for the native shin
ping : as these have no where to take it,
tit, will be distributed to foreign ships,