The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-27 00:00:00

A HIT AT THE SPECTATOR•

(From the Times.)
A week Tory-Radical of the fast-and-loose school,
which has systematically earned the distinction qf doing
everything in its power to undermine the ultra-Liberal-
ism it p,•oji'sses to support, has thought fit, we under-
stand, to read us a lecture upon a recent article of
ours, written in anticipation of the city meeting in re
ference to New Zealand. From the requisition upon
which the meeting was convened, bearing as it did the
names of gentlemen known to be connected with the
enterprising Land Company, struggling for the ratifica-
tion of their assumptions in that quarter, we required
no extraordinary magic to divine the precise object they
had in view, or the drifty character their speeches
and resolutions were likely to exhibit. But conforma-
bly with the decided opposition which this journal has
all along given to their arbitrary and unaccredited
operations, we took the innocent liberty, a day or two
before the meeting, of doing what we could to embar-
rass and defeat the movement. To effect this righteous
purpose, it occurred to us that if we could succeed in
obtaining a large attendance of impartial men, fully
prepared to expect a demonstration on the side of honesty
and justice,we should create such a centre-temp:. for the
New Zealand jobbers as might do the country some
service. Accordingly we ventured to take a fancy to
misundertand the design of their muster , and there-
fore, dealing with it exactly as we dealt with Mr. \Val'
lace's motion about the Glasgow Peel Club, we thought
the best way of shaming and thwarting the New Zea-
land orators was to give them credit beforehand for in-
tending to expose the iniquities of Polynesian pillage,
and so to put them in their proper position before an
observant public.
But our galling banter, which Mr. George Frederick
appears to have comprehended only too well for his own
purpose, has been as little understood by the weekly
winpenny we have alluded to as if it had been written
in Latin. The deplorable owl screeches and solilo-
quizes as if our sarcasms against the New Zealand far!'
eiers, who afford him some harbourage amidst their
mouldering ruins, had been let off in serious ignorance
of their pretensions. What we have now written will,
of course, silence and shame his sightless solemnities.
This, we must nevertheless admit, may be doubtful, for
the owl is an ignorant owl, as well as stone blind.

THE MARKETS

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEER.

Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s s. to s. s. s. s.
Carlisle 62 39 130 41 43
.!.6 68 32 38 22 34
Morpeth 44 64 29 25 24 20 48 40 38 ,9
Penrith 69 38 30 33
Sheffield 65 38 26 45
‘,4f,
Winchester ..., 66 19 30 38 23 27 42 45 35 "",
Per Bushel. s.d. s.d.,s. d. s.d. s.d., s.d. I.
00 9 0 0 0 40! 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 p 0
Carmarthen... 00 Y 2 00 5 0 0 0 29 56 0 0 0 0 00
Cowbridge......... 10 0 11 0 5 0 56; 3 0 36 50 53 00 0
Swansea 84 9 6 0 681 3 4 44 56 6 0 0 0 0 0
Per 8011.
Barnardcastle II 6 16 6, 8 0 931 7 0 8 8 9 0 12 0 7 6 8.
Durham 126 178 80 90. 6 6 7610 0 11 012 0 130 n
Richmond.... 12 0 19 0 7 0 90 50 80 90 II 0 90
5t0ckt0n........,13 0166 9 0 99L 6 0 80 76 80 0 0 80

116 166! 80 931 7 0 8 8 9 0 120'
126 176 80 90. 6 6 7610 0 !30
120 19 0 7 0 901 5 0 80 90 110
!130 16 6 9 0 99L 6 0 80 76 80,
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.
I, Norfolk and Suffolk s. 665. to 71s. fine 75"
- Lin. and Cam.
- Yorkshire -s. 48s. to 58s. fine 62b
- NThite ... -s. 70s. to 745. fine 1773.
- Foreign, /led -s. 645. to 68s. fine 70f.
White -s. -s. to 725. nne 765.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk i. to 38s. fine 456
--- Lincolnshire
---- Yorkshire Wold ' 9s. to -s. fine Vs.
- Foreign
Beans, New ... 403. to 440. fine 465.
- Old 46s. to 48s. tine 500.
Oats, Potato -s. to 325. fine 3/..
--- Poland -s a. to 325. fine :6A,
- Friesland and Small -s. -a to fine 304
--- Iv.zaling
Shelling
Malt -.. -.4 445. fine 48s. per Load.
Rapeseed -1. Os. 25/. Os. 261. Os. per Last.

Wheat, Red,

NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE
Red. white.
Wheat, Northumberland s6s. 705....... 71s. 764.'
Norfolk and Suffolk— .........
Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 655 —l. els'
Foreign 6ss. 71a....... 695. .155*
Rye, Norfolk Sand Suffolk 4os. Vs —l. --s•
.-- Foreign 32s, 33s --•s. --..
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 3.8 s 445 —l. —4•
Grinding and Feeding 2os 325...... —s. ---'•
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 63s 73s ...-1. —'
Beans, Small 36s. 405....... -.". —4:
---•— Tick 42s. 445. —4l. —7
Pease, White 42s. 435. .... —a.—••
Gray .. —s. 4 —l. --s•
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe .......... 3os. 31s. —l. •—••
...-- --,..—..... Feed
-.-= Foreign .......... 305. 311 —l. **-11 .
Flour (per sack) sls. 535....... -- '"4"

eibcrdeen
Berwick
Coldstream
Cupar (Fife)
Dunbar
Elgin
Inverness
Kelso .......
Kirkaldy
Perth
The

SCOTCH MARKETS.

Wheat.

70 to SO
50 45

Barley.

28 to 34
10 26

Oats.

46 50
48 65
48 63
63 64
64 72
31 5l

to
23 30

----
Oatmeal.

24 26
26 31
26 49
35 37
34 38
25 29

- 30
W 26
40 43
0 59
32 33
32 34

37:t0 40
40 43

..... .....
40 42

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rim

•••• OW

:ow ....

43 "

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First
Second
Third

Debra.
321 Od
—a Od
—.. Od

First
Second
Third

Beams.
444
404 6cl
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