The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-16 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

The few
not to sayhabwr rsike:
have, come in
CORN EXCHANGE—FRIDAY.
Scarcely "Y English Wheat has been received up to
our market, coastwise or by land carriage, since Monday.
ply of which was small—that scoomndeiwtihoant.
-Dqu.ry, at fully the last improvement
in value. upwards of 93,000 quarters of Foreign -Wheat
ifresih up commanded a steady, though
gllgwas doing,
The finest qualities commanded a ready sale, at very full
cio)hraiectaseps ern; r but sd allel . other
In Barleykitids opnswretielxcyreteist lowld junuloli dull, liandini
Indian Corn, and
yet prices were mostly supported. Tao show of that
article was small. So little was doing iu Malt—the sup-
ere almost nominal.
eft steadily, at late rates- Beans, Peas,
ARRIVALS.
Barley.
Flour, commanded very little attention.
260 firs.
400
4,750 I
Malt. 1,510 are.
SMXTIEFIELD•
Although our market was very moderately supplied
with Beasts, both as respects number and quality, the
demand for all kinds was in a sluggish state, at barely,
but at nothing quotable beueuth, bleuday's prices. There

English •• •• • • Wheat.
1,270 qrs.
Irish. ..... ... 860
romign •• •• •• 23,630

Oats Flour.
.50 qrs. J 3,160 ski.
100 and
6,790 17,Wbrls

were on offer, 371 Bc asts, 1,540 Sheep and Lambs, and
212 Calves from abroad ; as, also, 194 Scots from Scot-
land. The supply of Sheep was, comparatively speaking,
small. As most of the butchers have purchased very
sparingly of late at Newgate and Leadenhall, the Mutton
trade, this morning, was firm, at, in some instances, an
advance in the currencies of 2d per Blbs, the primest old
Downs producing without difficulty, 5s 4d per Bibs. In
Lambs, a full average amount of business was transacted,
at a rise in value of from 2d to 4d per 81bs. The Veal
trade, from the excess of supply, was heavy, at barely
late rates. Pigs were very dull, but not cheaper. Much
Cows sold at from 161. to 191. each.

Per 81bs. to sink the offal.

s. d. to s. d•
Inferior Beasts..... 3 8 4 0
Second quality 4 2 4 4
Prime large Oxen.. 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots .. •• • • 4 10 5 0
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4
Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0
Aackling Calves .• 18 0 28 1)
Inferior Sheep .. • 4 2 4 4

Beasts.
99l

SUPPLY AT
Sheep.
I 11,470

I. (1. to 5. (1.
Second qualltydittO 4 6 4 8
Coarse-woolledditto 4 10 5 0
Southdown Wether 5 2 5 4
Pittooutofthewool --
Large flogs ...• • 4 0 4 6
Small Porkers ... • 4 8 5 0
Quarter old Pigs l6 0 19 0
Lambs

MARKET.
I Calves.
725

1270

rrEV7GATEI AND LEADENEALL.
We had a steady trade here, at very full prices.
At per stone by the Carcase.

s. d. to s. d.
s. .1. to s. U.
Beef, Inferior 3 6 3 8 Mutton, Inferior •.3 10 4 2
- middling
- prime large .. 4 0 4 2 prime 410 5 0
- prime small .. 4 2 4 4 l'ork, large.... •... 310 4 6
Veal ••••••••• • • • • • 3 10 410 - 5ma11..•..... 4 8 410
Lamb. 5s to Gs.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
The accounts respecting the growing bine being con-
sidered rather more favourable our market for all kinds
of Hops is in a very dull state, but we can notice no
actual decline in the quotations, although the supply on
offer is rather extensive. The duty is called from
145,0001 to 150,0001. Sussex pockets, 41 to 41 103;
Weald of Kent ditto, 4110 s to 51 ss; Mid and East Kent
ditto, 5/ 12s to 7/ 7s per cwt.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The business done in British Plantation has
rather increased, but the low qualities are still in com-
paratively full supply. Bright grocery kinds have been
at fully previous rates. Brown has been at 34s to 38s.
At auction Barbadoes realised 45s Gd to 46s Gd for fine
yellow; and St. Lucia 32s for low brown, and 38s to 39s
for low yellow; chrystallised Demerara sold at 43s to
17s 6d per cwt.
REFINED.—The demand has improved, and standard
lumps have realised 58s Gd per cwt.
EAST INDlA.—Bengal has maintained full prices. Fine
white Benares has been sold at 47s to 47s Gd, and ord at
445. Mauritius, good and fine yellow, sold at previous
rates; but brown and grey inferior went cheaper; 4,815
bags 19 casks, by auction, sold at 38s to 39s for low
yellow, and at 45s to 47s Gd for fine ; brown, fine and
good, realised 36s to 371 Gd. China has realised 43s to
43s 6d for low white.

FOREIGN.-St. Croix has been sold at 47s to 52s for
rood and fine, and at 465 for mid ; 1,027 bores 588
chests llavannah were mostly sold at 40s to 43s 6d for
washed low to mid yellow; Brazil was taken at 53s to
55s for good and tine white, and Pernambuco sold at
46s to 49s Gd for good and fine white.
COFFEE.—There has been a firmer market; Jamaica
has been in good supply, and fine qualities have had a
ready sale at full prices. Good and fine, 90s to 130 s 6d;
mid, 68s to 84s; and inferior, 38s to 445. Native Ceyloi.
Coffee has been brisker, at 37s to 3Ss for good and very
good ord. Fine Plantation is also sought after; mid
coloury at 69s to 74s 6d, and fine ord at 51s 6d to 545.
Mocha has been taken at 625.

RICE.—The market has been duller, and prices are
down to 15s to 18s for low to fine white Bengal, and 14s
to 14s 6d for yellow.
SPICES.—The demand for Pimento has been limited.
Sales at 5d to sid per lb. Pepper has been dull.
Black 21-d to 2Z-d, and white 3id to 5d per lb.
COCOA.—Low to fine is 47s to 555, being cheaper.
INDIGO.--At the auctions up to last evening the sales
went off briskly, and Kirpah is higher. The quantity
passed was 1,241 chests; there had been withdrawn 310,
bought i❑ 140, and sold 823 chests, making in all 2,412
chests.

TEA.—At the public sales of 5,700 packages yester-
day but little sold, though some parcels were taken after
the auction. Prices was without alteration.
Rum.—East India proof has been at 2s 6d per gallon,
and proof Leewards at 2s Bd.
COTTON.—The market has been good.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been 48s 6d to 49s fid per cwt.
on the spot, and 47s 3d for the last three months.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

. -
The Court sat by adjournment for the disposal of
felonies and misdemeanours within the liberties of West-
minster. For the performance of this duty, in which
was involved the trial of only one prisoner, no less than
72 jurors, 36 grand jurors, and 36 petty jurors were in
attendance.

The one case was speedily disposed of, when the Court
proceeded with the bail cases which remained over from
the last sitting at Clerkenvvell-green.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—It is not
yet officially announced when her Majesty will leave for
Scotland, but from the arrangements in progress it is
now certain her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, and suite will embark at Woolwich on Saturday,
the 31st of the present month, or Monday, the 2d of
August next. The junior branches of the Royal Family
are expected to remain at Osborne House during her
Majesty's visit to Scotland.
TILE BOSJESMANS, OR Busts PEOPLEIOF AFRICA.—
The line of demarcation between man and the lower
order of animals is very slight indeed : the American
Savage, the Hindoo, the Aborigines of Australia, and
the African Bushman, are all specimens of this distinc-
tion, but from their paucity of numbers the Bosjesmans
are the most extraordinary. Even in their own country
they are comparatively curiosities of humanity; they are
dying year atter year, and the specimens now exhibiting
are the first, and probably the last of that diminished
and diminishing species whom we shall see. Intelligence
they do possess to a certain extent, but it is the result of
instinct rather than of reason. They remain in this
country but a very short time longer, and the naturalist,
as well as the philosopher, must look on them with in-
terest. They have an infant with them which will soon
be admitted into the pale of the Christian Church by the
solemn Sacrament of Baptism. During the present
week they have been visited by the following distin-
guished individuals :—Mr. Baron Parke, Sir Robert
Peel and family; Lord and Lady Stanley, Prince Louis
Napoleon, Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, the
Duke of Newcastle and the Ladies Clinton, Marquises
Northampton, P.R.S., Douro, Ely, Normanby, Douglas,
Bristol; Lords Craven, Cadogan, Harrowby,
Arundel, Anson, Munster, Cantalupe, Jocelyn, Teynham,
Slane, Henley, Loftus, Albert Cony ngham, Mountcharles,
Burghley, Skelmersdale, and Adolphus Fitzclarence;
the Prussian Minister; the Bishops of Worcester and
Norwich, Mr. Commissioner Phillips; Ladies Peel, Pal-
merston, Ferguson, Darcy, Kinloch, Egerton, Seymour,
Anstruther, Portman, Exmouth, the Hon. Caroline
Norton, Mrs. Charles Dickens, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Sir
James Graham, Sir Richard Bulleeley, Sir A. W.
Crichton, Sir W. Massey Stanley, Mr. Alderman
Harmer, R. G. Lumley, Bransby Cooper, Robertson,
Gladstone, Albert Smith, Mark Lemon, Esqs., and Rev.
Dr.M'Neill,and a great many individuals connected with
literature and the tine arts. The Grand Duke Constan-
tine visited them previous to his departure for the pro-
vinces, and was highly gratified.
DE BEAUVOIR TOWN, KINGSLAND. A public
meeting of the house proprietors and tenants of the
above district was held in the large room of the Jolly
Farmers, Southgate-road, last night, to take into con-
sideration, and endeavour to provide a remedy, for the
impassable state of the roads and footpaths during
winter. It is well known that this is unlike any other
district of London, there not being a piece of pavement
laid down on any part of it, and the miry state of the
roads in winter is such, that it is absolutely dangerous
for delicate persons to venture out : property is thereby
much depreciated, while the rates are equally high with
those places where the comfort of flag pavement is ex-
perienced. The chair was taken, at half-past eight
o'clock, by W. R. Ives, Esq., of Doctors' Commons, who,
in a brilliant and forcible speech, stated the object of the
meeting, and was ably followed by Messrs. Matson, Pot-
ter, Pritchard, and others, and a deputation to the High-
way Board was appointed, to represent the necessity of
due attention to the interests of this now important
portion of the parish of St. John's, Hackney. A vote
of thanks to the chairman, and Mr. Hawkins, the secro
tart', was proposed and seconded, and the meeting broke
up at 10 s'.at. There is at present in the course of
erection in Albion square a very handsome edifice, in-
tended for a Literary and Scientific Institution, in which
will be lecture and class rooms, and library of circula-
tion; such has been much wanted, and it is expected to
be opened in September. It has been the subject of con-
versation that parties building houses in this parish must
have ransacked the regions of fancy and imagination,
also sacred and profane history, in search of names for
their various residences; instead of at once naming the
street and numbering it from one and upwards, each
brick erection is designated with some peculiar name,
according to the fancy and inclination of the proprietor,
so that a stranger to the neighbourhood finds it a matter
of no little difficulty to find the house, i.e. the " villa"
of Ms friends It is some time before the postmen be-
come familiarised to the beat.

According to the details of the vessels entered
inwards, it appears that the return for the port of London
shows an increase of 26 vessels and 18,782 tonnage, the
numbers for 1846 being 349 vessels and 148,926 tonnage
and for 1847, 375 vessels and 167,708 tonnage. The
Liverpool return shows an increase of two vessels and
1,608 tonnage; the Bristol and Hull return an increase
of 11 vessels and 3,989 tonnage; and the return for Clyde
and other ports an increase of 15 vessels and 4,753 ton-
nage, making a gross increase on the whole statement of
54 vessels and 29,132 tonnage. Among the items con-
stituting this result may be mentioned the increase in
arrivals from the Mauritius, stated at 2$ vessels, from
Bombay 10 vessels, from Singapore and Penang 10 ves
sets, and from the Philippine Islands 11 vessels. The
principal decrease has occurred in arrivals from China,
Calcutta, and Arabia. The clearances outwards establish
a decrease in the port of London of 37 vessels and 9,689
tonnage, the numbers being 247 vessels and 109,291 ton-
nage in 1846, and 210 vessels and 99,602 tonnage in
1847. There has been a decrease to the extent of 19
vessels and 2,616 tonnage in the case of Liverpool, and
of 13 vessels and 959 tonnage in the case of Clyde
and other ports. The only instance of increase is mani-
fested by the return from Bristol and Hull, where the
number of clearances exceeded those of last year by
5 vessels and 2,080 tonnage. Making allowance for
this exception, the total decrease then appears to
amount to 64 vessels and 11,184 tonnage; the chief
points in which a falling off has occurred being Cal-
cutta, Bombay, Ceylon, Arabia, Mauritius, and the
Cape of Good Hope. On the other hand, a slightin-
crease has taken place in the clearances of vessels to
s4lgaPoro and New South Wales.

THE LATE MURDER and SUICIDE

AT BERMONDSEY.

Last evening Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the
King's Arms, Hickman's-folly, Bermondsey, on the
bodies of Henry Thomas Parker, aged 21, and Matilda
Griffin, aged 19, some particulars of whose dreadful
deaths appeared in this journal on Wednesday.
Mary Ann Griffin said that her husband was a cooper,
and resided at No. 6, Hickman's-folly. The female de-
ceased was her daughter, and followed the occupation
of a laundress. The deceased male was an assistant
linendraper and lodged in her house, She had known
him about sixteen months. He was acquainted
with witness's daughter and kept company with her.
On Tuesday afternoon, about a quarter past four o'clock,
her daughter went up stairs from the kitchen to the
attic for the purpose of making the beds. Parker at
that time was writing a letter in the back room on the
ground floor. Shortly afterwards Parker came into the
kitchen, and asked witness to give him a piece of sealing-
wax to seal a letter. Witness asked him to whom he
had written the letter, and he replied, to his sister.
He then left the kitchen, and in the course of a few
minutes went up stairs. About twenty minutes after
that period she went into the back parlour to see if her
daughter had come down, but finding she had
not, she went up into the back attic, and
found Parker lying on the floor, and also her daughter.
The latter was lying on her left side in a quan-
tity of blood. She called for assistance, which
brought up some of the lodgers to the room. It was
ascertained that both parties were dead. He came is
and out during Tuesday morning oftener than he had
been in the habit of previously doing, and refused to sit
down to dinner, and looked so at her daughter as to ex-
cite her suspicions that he contemplated something bad,
and she told her daughter to be careful of him. Whilst
she was standing at the door she came to witness and
said, " Mother, what do you think Henry says ? He
threatens never to leave the house unless he is carried
out." Witness expostulated with Parker, and told him
that perhaps he would meet with some one he liked
better than her daughter; but he answered, " No; if I
live for seventy years, I shall never forget her."
The CORONER—Did you hear him say anything about
cutting throats? Witness—No; but I have heard him
say that if she did not become his wife, she never should
be the wife of another.

The CORONER—Having heard that, did it create in
your mind any fear ? Witness—Not at first; not until
I saw him look so strangely through the window.
The CORONER—Then, having found your daughter
dead, what is your opinion as to who caused her death?
Witness—My impression is that Parker did it. I have
no doubt on that point whatever.
By the CORONER—My daughter told me that she had
been to the fancy fair with a hair. dresser named Thomas
Nevilie. On Monday last Parker had a suspicion that
she had been in Mr. Neville's company, and he told me
on Tuesday morning that he believed she had been out
with him. Parker was naturally of a jealous dis-
position. Ile had been out of employment about a
fortnight.
Some other witnesses having described the circum-
stances under which the bodies were found, the razor
was produced, and identitied by Mrs. Griffin as being
one her husband borrowed on Sunday morning last, to
shave himself with, and which was deposited on a shelf
in the kitchen. Parker had access to that room.

Mr. Charles Martin, surgeon, of the Neckinger House,
Bermondsey, who was called to the deceased, said that
the female had an extensive wound in the throat, which
had divided the whole of the principal vessels. Upon
Parker's throat there were no fewer than three deep and
extensive cuts. He thought the man had first cut the
female's throat, and afterwards his own.
A letter, written by Parker, was read, in which he
alluded to the dreadful deed, but of too disgusting a
character to be made public.
The jury returned the following verdict :—" That
Matilda Griffin was wilfully murdered by Henry Thomas
Parker, and that he, the said Henry Thomas Parker, did
feloniously destroy his own life, he being, therefore,
guilty of jelo de se."
The CORONER. ordered Mr. Slow, the beadle, to take
charge of Parker's body, and he would send up his war-
rant for its interment on Friday night without Christian
rites.

DELAY OF THE OBSEQUIES OF

O'CONNELL.

A letter has been received from the Rev. Dr. Miley,
dated Sienna, July 3, 1847, from which we have been
favoured with the following extract:—
" We are unfortunately detained here by the sudden
illness of the Hon. Alember for Dundalk, Mr. Daniel
O'Connell. This will explain the contretemps which has
canted the sailing of the Montrose steamer from Genoa
without the remains of O'Connell."