The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.—(rHis DAY.)

COLONIAL MARKET.
In this Market considerable heaviness prevailed, and prices,
with one or two exceptions, were on the decline.
TEA MARKET.
Upwards of 10,000 packets were brought to the hammer,
which attracted little attention, and the bulk was either bought
in or withdrawn, there being no buyers at former prices—the
fow parcels that were sold established afurther decline of id. to
Id. per lb. Comp ,ny's Congou dull, and also rather lower,
Oid. per lb. cash.
_ TALLOW MARKET. _

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The transactions were on a very.limited scale, and previous
rates with difficulty supported. P. YC. 465. 9d. per cwt.
WHITECHAPEL MARKET.
Our supply was middling, with a fair demand for all sorts.
Clover, 3/. lts. to 5/. Is. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. 18s. to 4/. 10s. ;
New, 2/. 10s. to 31. ; Straw, IL 16s. to 21.

It was, for some time, a- generally received
opinion, that the climate and soil of South Australia
were uncongenial to the growth of wheat, barley, pota-
toes, &c. This idea, we have reason to believe, got
afloat, from the circumstance of some persons having-ir
the early part of the colony's existence, failed in raising
crops during the summer, and on land turned up for th,
first time. The absurdity of this opinion, which was
for some time prevalent, will now become apparent to
every one who will take the trouble to
:ride or walk a
few miles into the country in any direction around the
capital. In the course of compiling this publication,
we have ourselves had occasion to visit most of the
settled districts in the colony, and we can affirm, from
personal observation, that most. of the crops we have
seen could not be surpassed anywhere. We have seen
wheat gathered, within the last fortnight, which will
produce fifty bushels an acre; and we believe the farmers
will bear us out in the assertion, that produce of
all grain that was sown in proper season will average
thirty bushels an acre. In many parts of the country
—in the Mount Barker district particularly—the seed
liad been put in too late; and wherever this has been
the case, the produce of the crops will be indifferent.
This unseasonableness of sowing is to be attributed to
the circumstance of the settlers, in almost every instance,
not having obtained their land until about May, June,
and July. The utmost confidence, however, exists as
to the capabilities of the soil and climate even among
those wliose crops will be a partial failure this season ;
and no better proof of the existence of this confidence
can be had than the fact that almost every farmer is pre-
paring a double, many a triple and quadruple quantity
of land against next seed time.—South Australian News.
CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS REGULATION ACT.—
The Act of Parliament which received the Royal Assent
on the 7th of August last, will commence its operation on
the Ist of the neat month, as will be seen by reference to
the 4th clause-•—but the complete exercise of its powers will
be suspended until the Ist of July, 1842.
A TIPPERARY SHEEP-STEALER.—Not many
•
years ago there was in the county of Tipperary, a sheep-.
stealer, as notorious Borrowsky himself. It is easy
enoughrErris,
fot4;le t i carry
oeffve once you can catch it, a sheep in
lirr so fat, it is not much larger than
a bare ; but a wether, fed on the rich plains of the most
fertile of all Irish counties, is not so easily carried away,
body and bones. But our Munster plunderer was a huge
fellow, with all the bone and muscle of a Tipperary man,
fed up to all his capability and vigour On the stolen
mutton. He could, and often did, carry off from the
inidSt of a- flock a wether' of twenty-eight pounds the
quarter, and bring it home for the faastino• of himself
and his family. His practice was, to tie the sheep by
his feet, put his head between the hind legs, and thus
with the sheep, still alive, dangling head downwards, at
his back, home tradged, in the dark night, Terry Ryan,
and so he thinned many flocks, and none but himself and
family were the wiser. In this way he had, on a dark
night, got into Squire —'s deer park, 'and seized a
noble mutton, and tied and slung it over his head. Thus
he came to the park wall, which uras about eight feet
high, and still, weighted as he was, ventured to climb,
as oft2n he had done before. And now he is on the
Ttahinleder
top of the wall,• and pondering how best he may descend,
when the sheep makes a -sudden struggle, footing
gives way......_down lie goes, but, as he goes, the sheep
falls
Iceeps
battom--both struggle—the I,ropede ;neither
ear good one, that
rope presses the fellow's
can touch the.
does Terry, bydt- it is
sipsieLeed
lesdhoeitelitipsi dkf ei
et.
o.kgs.e
soon over With him. Next morning the herd:foluid Wiry
dead as mutton; but the wailer, though alittfe
still a sheep and no mutton, and so proved itself the
.lack Ketch of a thief, and the avenger or its race.—
. Otwoy's Sketches in Erris.