The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-14 00:00:00

HOP "MARKET.

The sales were confined to a few small parcels of the
choice kinds of Kent Hops, at from 111. Ifs. to 201. per
cwt., while other sorts were unsaleable on town terns.
WATERSIDE POTATOE MARKET.

'I he supply was larger, and the cold weather creazed a
good demand, and prices were well sustained. York red,
803. to. 883. ; Scotch red, 60s. to 70s. ; Jer3ey and
Guernsey, 575. to 60s.per ton.

THE EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUZv.

Slll,—lt has been repeated in your Paper, what had
been lately proclaimed by the ultra-Liberal press of Paris,
that on the day of the funeral of Napoleon, a million of
Frenchmen assembled will cry out for vengeance against
the English. Yourself, as well as your Contemporaries,
have very properly protested against this invidious asser-
tion of part of the French press, justly observing that the
captivity of Napoleon was but an object of expense and
annoyance to the English.
If we consider the real cause of the downfal of Napoleon,
and of a prostration greater even than his unprejudiced
enemies might have wished for, we shall find that it was
not England, although his open and proclaimed foe, which
brought about this catastrophe, but rather his own blood.
It was the family with which be had united himself by ties
most intimate ; it was Austria, which, deserting him alter
the battle of Culm, leaving no rocm for any subsequent
reconciliation whatever—it was that Power. 1 say, at
whose door the final miseries and misfortunes of that great
man must be laid. In having thus exposed the real authors
of Napoleon's catastrophe, we are borne out in our asser-
tion by the fact that the only relict of Napoleon, whom
it should seem impossible to absent. herself from the fu-
neral, will not be present on that occasion. Our pen
drops ! thinking that we have to mention Napoleon's wife
as the party guilty of such undutiful
'and heartless con-
duct 1 It is the Empress Marie Louise to whom we
allude ; the wife united to Napoleon by the tics of re-
ligion, and to whom he bore, up to his latest hour, a most
sincere affection ! Mark it well, ye conscientious readers,
the wife will nut, she never endeavoured or wished to
assist at the last honours paid to the memory of her late
husband !

We have not heard either that any preparations are
making at Parma, to offer sonic religious ovation to the
home-brought ashes of the husband of its monarch.
I shall not intrude further on your valuable columns,
although I could not forbear unburthening my mind in a
Journal which has always done justice to the memory of
that extraordinary man.
I remain, Sir, your's respectfully,
A GERMAN LIBERAL.

No. 3, Dean-street, Soho-square, Dec. 13.
[We give this letter as we have received it, and thank
our German Correspondent for adverting to a fact which
has not hitherto been noticed. He cannot fail, however,
on reflection, to see that he requires of Mar;e Louise what
not one woman in a million could perform.]

This morning, before daylight, the numerous
purchasers of the grand prize oxen, sheep, pigs, and
other cattle, that during the last week were exhibited at
the Horse Bazaar, King William-street, Portman-square,
commenced removing them from the Bazaar. The num-
ber of visitors has been vary great, probably twice as many
as that of last year, and the receipts, it is said, amounted
to upwards of 2,0001.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-I\IELANCIIOLY Loss
OF LIFE.—On Wednesday night, between eleven and
twelve o'clock, a destructive fire, attended with the loss of
five lives, took place in the house called the " Victoria
Tavern," in York-place, Aberdeen, occupied by Mr.
Howie and his family. The fire was at first discovered by
some seamen on board the Robert M‘Willam. Most for-
tunately was it that the wind was in the S. S. \V., as, if it
had been in the opposite direction, the damage to property
must have been immense. The fire, however, was confined
to the ground and two upper floors of the house, and a
small spirit-shop to the back of it, and its progress compa-
ratively arrested before getting to the cellar under ground,
which contained a small stock of whisky, and up-
wards
of a hundred barrels of tar. Shortly after two
o'clock, the fire was got under, when search was made
for the unfortunate inmates, and their melancholy fate was
soon too clearly revealed. The bodies of the whole
who had been in the house, consisting of five persons—
James Howie and his wife, and their two children, the
one twelve and the other nine years of age, and a man
of the name of Thomas Marshall, a sawyer, who had lodged
in the house—were found, burned black, amongst the
smouldering ashes. Front the circumstance that no
answer was given to the firtt alarm made by the
people who gathered about the house, it is evident
that all the unhappy inmates had been suffocated in their
beds, before the fire was discovered ; and from the attitude
.bodAiesille
of some of the bodies, and the expression of feature in •
re
presented,melancholyl'
corpse of Howie, as seen when discovered, it would 'Lit:
andthat
distressingt he yha d d
sighti d in
than
the
gfiovney.
laid in the dead-house on Thursday, could not
conceived. How the fire originated is still possibly
be
Aberdeen Herald. a mystery.—

EXTRAORDINARY DAY'S SHOOTING.—UII
Thursday, the 3d instant, the Marquis of Anglesea ac-
companied by the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Uxbridge, 'Lord
Alfred Paget, and Lord George Paget, enjoyed a day's
sport over a part of the Burton Manor, belonging to th. e
Noble Marquis. The sport vas extraordinary. The
ground shot over was only Lur small coverts, averaging
itirneg
only
about ten acres encl, and the shooting occupied
hours and a half. The following list a killed will t
prove
the diligence and care of the keeper i—Hares,-); _
Santa, 73 ; rabbits, 11 ; total, 71 9.—Statford,, iTe
,_
miner.

We are sorry to say that Captain Robert Peel,
of Bonehill, adest ~cn of Edmund Peel, Esq., broke his
leg whilst hul Ating wifq the:Atherstone hounds, on Wedi,es-
day last.—Stafford Gazette.