The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-30 00:00:00

HILT 111.8.113 LETS.

s "831ITIIFIELD.--TTCM;TICT;Thj,3I to 31 15s; New
tlitto, 21 Bto 31 5s ; Old Clover, 4/ to 51; New ditto,
al 10a to 4110 s ; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 13s per load.
Supply hut moderate, and trade rather dull.
trbIBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 31 165;
tew ditto, 21 8s to 3/ 5s ; Old Clover, 41 to 41 185 ;
ew ditto, 3110 s to 4i 8s; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 14s
Per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at our
-quotations.

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BITECRAPEL—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 15s ;
New, ditto, 21 8s to 31 Ss; Old Clover, 41 4s to 5/ ;
New ditto, 31 I2s to 41 168 ; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 13s
Per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Sept. 30, 1847, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Walc s
Per Imperial Quarter.
.• IWHEAT.1WHEAT. I BURLEY.' OATS. I RYE. BEANS. PEAS.
536 6d 131 s 10d 23s Od 35s 2d 142 s 5d 44a 4d
The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended.

CROCODILES IN FRANCE.—French naturalists have
*Wain these few days been greatly puzzled by a remat k-
Able phenomenon. At the palace of Compiegne several
`Soong and very vigorous crocodiles were discovered in
'ne of the chambers. All the savants were ca.led to
tether to discover the cause, but for a long time—though
many eompraling opinions were advanced—no satisfac-
tory reason could be arrived at for such an extrardinary
circumstance At length the cause was made self-evi-
dent• for it appeared that the crocodiles were first
discovered in the very room in which the ex Queen
:Christina let fall a shower of tears. Two of the animals,
in very excellent spirits, have been sent as a maternal
present to Isabella.—Punch.
„.,,BAREFACED RECOGNITION OF WHITE SLAVERY.—
'WQ have heard much of "white slaves" in the menu-
titcturing districts, but we had no notion that the trade
ill white slaves was carried on in Lancashire, with as
little concealment as in Brazil or South Carolina. We
have been much shocked by the following paragraph in
Ilast Week's market accounts, under the head of—" Cotton
tanufactures.—Grey domestics, of stout make, have
„en in request for the Persian anArabia makets, but
`ne demand from those sources having subsided, sales are
1/.1"" more difficult to be made." There is something in-
itely cruel in this cool announcement of the sale of
„11l
grey domestics"--men who have grown old in the ser-
'L
,ev of their heartless masters, and who, in their old
age, are flung on the Persian and Arabian markets, to
ecome, no doubt, the victims of infidel cruelty and
harsh usage. We recommend Exeter Hall to look to
tills barbarous practice.—Punch.
VISIT OF THE DUCHESS OF VICTORY TO MAN-
,I.EsTEn —On Monday evening last, La Duquesa de la
Victoria (the wile of General Espartero, Duke of Vic-
ttY), arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, from
re north, accompanied by Senhor L. Muriette, nephew
1:k his Grace, and Senhor Manuel de Ysasi, his Grace's
private secretary. The Duchess and her companions,
tiompanied by Mr. Huharty, of this town, visited yes
tec
e4"ay Me-sr;. Stirling and Beekton's cotton factory ;
3 essrs. Sharpe, Brothers, and Co.'s Atlas works ; and
xc
pk"r• Coates's print works. They also called upon M rk
7,iiiPs, Esq., at his warehouse in Church-Greet. The
Duchess and party left Manchester for London by the
"(press train on Tuesday afternoon.—Manchester Guar-
dia,.

141 E MEEICAN BATTLES.—Yesterday the Ameri
pan vessels in the port of Liverpool were decked out
with flags and streamers in honour of the victories
gained by General Scott.
SOUTH-WESTERN EXPRESS TRAINS:— Yesterday
the directors of this company arranged for additional
express trains, to run daily from Nine Elms to Dorches-
-IZand Salisbury. The alteration commences to mor-
till'', the Ist of October, and will effect an entire change
111,10 time table.
tmtyria, FREE HOSPITAL.— Yesterday evening the
hold sleeting of the governors of the above charity was
rl in the board room of the institution, in Gray'sits lane road. From the report it appeared that since
Institution, in 1828, the number of patients who have
iZnerr.elieved amounted to upwards of 230.000 without
beingut. recommendation destitution and disease only
re • ,
adrait,aioqulsite. Hundreds of patients daily crowd for
fer wantnl numbers of whom are obliged to be rejected
ness htvyin"r adequate funds. The usual routine busi-
chairman. g b en transacted, thanks ware voted to the
SUSPENSION
noticed ' Op RAILWAY CALLS.—The requisi-
tionin our last and to which were ultimately
appended the si
in-
dividuals, incl gnat res o u f three hundred firms and in-
' u"lng most of the principal mercantile
houses in Manchester, requesting the Mayor to call a
public meeting to consider whether any steps can be
e_ taken to limit the drain occasioned by the heavy railway
ls on the floating capital of the nation, and to diminish
the pressure now so injuriously affecting the trade of this
district ; this requisition has been presented to the
Mayor, who, in compliance with it, has convened a
public meeting of bankers, merchants, traders, and other
inhabitants of the borough, to be held in the Town-hall,
tomorrow (Thursday), at eleven o'clock.—Maxchester
Guardian.
DEATH or THE HON. GEORGE H. PRorriT.—The
Louisville Journal states that the Hon. G. H. Proffit, or
Indiana, formerly a Member of Congress from the
Evanseville district, and more recently Minister to Bra-
zil, died in that city on the 7th instant.
JENNY LIND IN EXETER.—To most of our readers
this announement will be interesting, and to many of
them we know it will afford unlooked. for pleasure. We
confess that, anxious as we were to have an opportu-
nity of listening to the " Swedish Nightingale" within
our own fair city of the west, we had hardly ventured
to expect that at the present moment, when so many
other places of importance are competing with us for it,
that opportunity would have been afforded us.— Western
-Luminary.
STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—The steam-boat Lake of
the Woods arrived at our wharf on the sth, from the
`-)PPer Missouri. This vessel was chartered for a trip
to the Yellowstone River, but when at the mouth of the
Little Chap-lane River, about 500 miles from her desti-
nation, she burst her steam connecting pipe, scalding
.Irlr. Thomas Calloway so as to cause his 6- ..th in about
sex hours. No other person was injured.—St. Louis
-i?epublican.
THE TURNPIKE AND TOLL-BAR NUISANCE.—On
Tuesday
a numerous public meeting of the ratepayers
and inhabitants of St. Pancras took place at the SJuth-
utnpton Arms Tavern, Camden Town, for the purpose of
en,rntneneing an agitation for the abolition of the turn-
•F'Kes and toll-bars throughout the metropolitan and sub-
urban districts. Mr. Ramsey was at eight o'clock called
te
the chair. Several resolutions were agre.nl to, and a
ew(llurnittec appointed to pursue the agitation ; after
teich a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and
" meeting separated.