The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN:

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1847,

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-(FRIDAY.)
The arrivals of English Wheat for our market since
Monday, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sam-
ple, have been on a very moderate scale, and the show
of samples of that grain here was small. On the
whole, the trade was firm, but no improvement
was noticed in the quotations. Nearly 30,000
quarters of Foreign Wheat have come to hand
this week, in, for the most part, middling condition.
The best parcels moved off steadily at full prices, but all
other kinds were quite neglected.
.Although the supply
of barley was small the trade was in a very sluggish
state, at unaltered currencies. Malt ready for delivery
sold in retail at full prices. The Oat trade, owing to
the large imports from abroad, was in a sluggish state,
at unaltered figures. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and
Flour, as last advised.
ARRIVALS.
Barley.
20 qrs.

English .... •• , Wheat.
3,090 qrs.
trig!. ...... 600 I_—
3,730
Foreign ....•• 29,690
Malt. 1,950 qrs.

Oats I Flour.
510 qrs. 2,210 sky.
I and
24,470 I 7,Blobrls

SIVOTEEPIZI.D.
The supply of Beasts on offer here was moderate as to
number, and very deficient in quality.
Scots, Devons, &c., sold readily, The primest
at prices fully equal to
those obtained on Monday, but the inferior kinds of
Beef were a mere drug, though we cannot call them
cheaper. There were in the market 22 Oxen from
Spain, 362 Oxen and Cows, 1,510 Sheep and Lambs,
tar a
td o e
4wda pers
and 248 Calves from Holland and Germany.
With shee we were but moderately supplied, while
terr Vomeal 2
the Muttonp trade was firm, and late rates were steadily
supported. The number of Lambs was good, yet the
sate for that stock was somewhat active, at very full
prices. Notwithstandin the su lY of
eve in Calves was
ly, li
treat,
h
ef
fi
gibs,grmat
about stationary prices. Mulch Cows were very dincludingfrom 161 to 181 each, including their small Calf.
an ad
v untore
s quotations
ull, at

:Prime large Oxen • . l'er 811,s. to sink the offal.
a. d, to s. d.
s. (1. to 8. d.
interior Beasts..... 3 8 4 0 second quality ditto 4 6 4 M
Second quality -• •• 4 2 4 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 410 5 0
'Prime
Scott ' ..... 410 5 0 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 4 4 410 Large .11°gs ......4 0 4 6
.I'rime small ditto .. 5 0 •5 4 Small l'orliers •• 4 8 5 0
4 6 4 8 tioutlidown Wether 5 2 5 4
Kuckling Calves •• 18 0 28 0 Quarter old l'igs •• 16 0 19 0
Ilferl" Sheep •• • 4 2 4 4 Lambs •••••• • • • • 5 2 ii 4

Beasts. SUPPLY AT MARKET.
V. 15 I Sheep. I Calves.
11,500 6-11
we I"II7`TGATE AND LEIADICNHAX.I..
had a very steady trade here, at full prices.

I Pigs.
2SO

13. dlO. to 34. d. 2
Bee f.interior...... 23. d 4. t o
1. d 6.
;Mutton, inferior ..
At per stone by the Carcase.
--middling .... 3 8 3 10 _-- middling.. 4 4 4 8
- prime large .. 4 0 4 2
---- prime • • • • 4 10 5 0
- prime small •• 4 2 4 4 Pork, large • • • • • • • • 3 8 4 6
Veal .• '' '' •••• •• •• 4 2 a 4 i - co n.ll • • • • • • • • 4 8 4 10
Lamb. 5e 2d to 63. .
2,1
1:10Rotrom HOP wi11.72,71LET.
Very ftlYollll44lo accounts haling been received from

the plantations this week, the demand here fur all kinds
of Hops—the show of which is gin d--rules heavy, and,
in some instances, a slight declu& has been ,uhmitted
to in the quotations. Tile duty is ea 117,1 180 000/.
Susiex pocktqs, 4/ to 41 10s; Weak! of hour rlitto, 4/ 103
to 5/ ss; Mid and East Kent ditto 51 10:, tu 7151 p. r t.

PROROGATION

PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

To-day her Majesty prorogued Parliament in person,
and—strange fatality —a f►ner day never dawned upon
the earth—for her Majesty, in all her pageants, seems
to bring fine weather and sunshine wheresoever she
goes. Go where she will, the genius of bright skies
and balmy air seems to attend her. So it was to-day.
Her Majesty rode in " awful state" to day, under as
bright a canopy as ever looked down upon this fair
earth—through as happy and as cheering a ciowd as
we ever witnessed, and looked as healthy and as
happy as we ever saw her look. So did the Prince.
The windows of the heuses in Parliament-street and
Whitehall, and various platforms in conjunction with
them, were fined with ladies, as is wont on such occa-
sions, and the struggles amongst the crowd, and the des-
perate attempts of the small knots of persons—females
especially—to maintain their stand manfully, was
amusing in the extreme. The proprietors of
crazy tables, and as crazy chairs and forms, sought pa-
tronage in a way to deserve it, and they must have
reaped no small harvest. We hope, however, that the
elderly gentleman whose excessive rotundity caused the
table on which he stood in Parliament-street to swing
wildly too and fro escaped without injury, and that the
lady who owned the desperate fabric helped him safely
to the ground. But that other districts of this great
Babylon pursue their wonted toils—that the hard
wrought artizan labours on, heedless of such displays of
national power and grandeur—that the ill-paid semp-
stress toils on for mere bread—one would think to-day
a national holiday; indeed, from the shoals of people
which poured from all directions towards the road which
royalty traverses in its journeys to its faithful Par-
liament

As the Queen passed through the closely serried ranks
of anxious spectators desirous, at any hazard, whether
from house or window, to catch a sight of royalty—and
the police on such a day as this form no mean
" foemen" for excited crowds to deal with—she was
enthusiastically cheered, and seemed to appreciate the
plaudits keenly.
She went to dissolve a Parliament which, unlike the
Parliaments of other states, has run its course. The
sand has run out—it has died a natural death. Strange,
eventful Parliament. Composed of great and powerful
parties at the outset, the sequence presents a strange, in-
congruous commingling of parties. The great Conser-
vative faction split up into fragmints, and protection, its
idol, buried in the dust by the very hands of those who
had upheld it as the greatest blessing, and worshipped
it as the got of their idolatary ; and the Liberal party,
true to their ancient principles dominant in the State.
Stranger vicissitudes surely never attended any Parlia-
ment since the passing of the Reform Bill than those
which have attended the Parliament which expired to-
day.

Her Majesty left Buckingham Palace in the usual
state, with all the accustomed pageantry, shortly before
two o'clock, and pursuing the same route as heretofore,
reached the old door of the new House of Lords shortly
before half-past two. The crowd at this point was
immense. Throughout the whole route the reception of
her Majesty was most flattering and gratifying.
After delivering the following speech, her Majesty
returned to Buckingham Palace in the same order and
with the same results as those we have thus chronicled.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH.

AIY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I have much satisfaction in being able to release
you from the duties of a laborious and anxious session.
I cannot take leave of you without expressing
my grateful sense of the assiduity and zeal with
which you have applied yourselves to the considera-
tion of the public interests.
Our attention has been principally directed to
the measures of immediate relief, which a great and
unprecedented calamity rendered necessary.
I have given my cheerful assent to those laws
which, by allowing the free admission of grain!
and by affording facilities for the use of
sugar in breweries and distilleries, tend to increase
the quantity of human food, and to promote com-
mercial intercourse.

I rejoice to find that you have in no instance
proposed new restrictions, or interfered with the
liberty of foreign or internal trade, as a mode of
relieving distress. I feel assured that such measures
are generally ineffectual, and in some cases aggravate
the evils, for the alleviation of which they are
adopted.

I cordially approve of the Acts of large and
liberal bounty, by which you have assuaged the
sufferings of my Irish subjects. I have also readily
given my sanction to a law to make better
provision for the permanent relief of the des-
titute in Ireland. I have likewise given
my assent to various Bills calculated to promote the
agriculture, and develope the industry of that portion
of the United Kingdom. My attention shall be
directed to such further measures as may be conducive
to those salutary purposes.
My relations with Foreign Powers continue to
inspire me with confidence in the maintenance of
peace.

It has afforded me great satisfaction to find that
the measures which, in concert with the King of the
French, the Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Por-
tugal, I have taken for the pacification of Portugal
have been attended with success, and that
the civil war which for many months had afflicted
that country has at last been brought to a bloodless

termination.
I indulge the hope that future differences be-
tween political parties in that country may be
settled without an appeal to arms.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

I thank you for your willingness in granting me
the necessary supplies ; they shall be applied with due
care and economy to the public service.
I am happy to inform you that, notwithstand-
ing the high price of food, the revenue has, up
to the present time, been more productive than
I had reason to anticipate. The increased
use of articles of general consumption has chiefly con-
tributed to this result. The revenue derived from
sugar especially has been greatly augmented by the
removal of the prohibitory duties on foreign sugar.
The various grants which you have made for
education in the United Kingdom will, I trust, be
conducive to the religious and moral improvement of
my people.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I think proper to inform you that it is my in-
tention immediately to dissolve the present Parlia-

ment.

I rely with confidence on the loyalty to the
Throne, and attachment to the free institutions of this
country, which animate the great body of my people.
I join with them in supplications to Almighty God
that the dearth by which we have been afflicted,
may, by the Divine blessing, be converted into
cheapness and plenty.

HOSPITAL FOR. CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST.—Yesterday evening, at a meeting of the
board of management, after the usual routine business
had been gone through, it was announced that Mrs.
Heron, of Montague. square, St. Marylebone, had be-
queathed the sum of 100 guineas to ward the general fund
of the establishment.

DRAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a drayman,
in the employ of Messrs. Elliot, brewers, of Westminster,
was asleep on the top of the barrels, as the dray passed
down Oxford-street, when a sudden jerk caused him to
roll off, and he pitched violently on his head. He was
taken to Middlesex Hospital, where it was found he was
labouring under concussion of the brain.