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

CORN AVERAGES.

to? PENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
y__"ne Week ended Sept. 30, 1847, made up from the Returns of the
`4.Peetors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
r`r Imperial Quarter.
hi e- k WHEAT. I BARLEY.' OATS. I REX. I BEANS. I Pius.
•• 183. 6d 311 10d 23s Od 355 2d I 42s 5d 144 s 4d
The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended.
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, --ALES IN FRANCE.—French naturalists have
a:,,tuni these few days been greatly puzzled by a remark-
e 'Phenomenon. At the palace of Compii';ne several
-ung and very vigorous crocodiles were discovered in
one of the chambers. All the savants were called to-
gether to discover the cause, but for a long time—though
It/150Y contending opinions were advanced—no satisfac-
,Y reason could be arrived at for such an extrardinary
Treumstance. At length the cause was made self-evi-
nt• for it appeared that the crocodiles were first
7,;acovered in the very room in which the ex Queen
l'hristina let falls shower of tears. Two of the animals,
ri Very excellent spirits, have been sent as a maternal
present to Isabella.—Punch.
140,EAREFACED RECOGNITION OF WRITE SLAVERY.—
e have heard much of "white slaves" in the mann-
iteturing districts, but we had no notion that the trade
tlwehite slaves was carried on in Lancashire, with as
concealment as in Brazil or South Carolina. We
eve been much shocked by the following paragraph in
iktet Week's market accounts, under the head of—" Cotton
h_ allnfactures.—Grey domestics, of stout make, have
Zen in request for the Persian and Arabian markets, but
e demand from those sources having subsided, sales are
Enw More difficult to be made." There is something in-
nuitely cruel in this cool announcement of the sale of
vi4reY domestics"—men who have grown old in the ser-
a-4/of their heartless masters, and who, in their old
Yooare flung on the Persian and Arabian markets, to
h.tne, no doubt, the victims of infidel cruelty and
this barbarous
usage. We recommend Exeter Hall to look to
13 barbarous practice.—Punch.
11117181'r OF THE DUCHESS OF VICTORY TO MAN-
tataTEß.—On Monday evening last, La Duquesa de la
ttoria (the wife of General Espartero, Duke of Vic-
thY), arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, from
Ofe,p.orth, accompanied by Senhor L. Muriette, nephew
priuni Grace, end Senhor Manuel de Ysasi, his Grace's
ilef:ato secretary. The Duchess and her companions,
terrnpanied by Mr. lluharty, of this town, visited yes •
lie ay Messrs. Stirling and Beckton's cotton factory ;
444s„ra. Sharpe, Brothers, and Co.'s Atlas works ; and
jah:,k;oates's print works. They also called upon M'.rk
b„htils. Esq., at his warehouse in Churchoatreet. The
t"eness and party left Manchester for London by the
/areas train on Tuesday afternoon.—Manchester Guar-

t Tuz MEXICAN BATTLES.—Yesterday the Ameri.
:a vessels in the port of Liverpool were decked out
!t.!l flags and streamers in honour of the victories
akned by General Scott.
'I3IITR-WESTERN EXPRESS TRAINS.— Yesterday
: directors of this company arranged for additional
tereta trains, to run daily from Nine Elms to Dorches-
rowati,4, Salisbury. The alteration commences to mot--
,t, 'tic
roles` of October, and will effect an entire change
the
tire tbl 'pq,„ ea e.
usu7rAL FREE 110SPITAL.—Yesterday evening the
h 114 meeting of the governors of the above charity was
/11.1 en in the board room of the institution, in Gray's
its Cane-road. From the report it appeared that since
been nstitutien, in 1828, the number of patients who have
lette relieved amounted to upwards of 230,000 without
hei " °f recommendation, destitution and disease only
ng requisite. Hundreds of patients daily crowd for
ilrission. numbers of whom are obliged to be rejected
itenw.ant
of adequate funds. The usual routine busi-
haring been
chairman. transacted, thanks were voted to the
SUSPENSION or RAILWAY CALLS.--The requisi-
tion
noticed in our last, and to which were ultimately
appended the signatures of three hundred firms and in-
incluning most of the principal mercantile
pirS in Manchester, requesting the Mayor to call a
ken meeting to consider whether any steps can be
'a to limit the drain occasioned by the heavy railway
calls on thethe floating capital of the nation, and to diminish
pressure now so injuriously affecting the trade of this
stricti; 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,
Gu dim(Thursday), at eleven o'clock. Manchester
DEATH
o- TUE PION. GEORGE H. PROFFIT.—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 announcment 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
ntlr own fair city of the west, we had hardly ventured
to expect that at the present moment, when so many
ether places of importance are competing with us for it,
t, hat opportunity would have been afforded us.— Western
44oninary.
STRAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—The steam-boat Lake of
the Woods arrived at our wharf on the sth, from the
~,,
LJPPer Missouri. This vessel was chartered for a trip
In the Yellowstone River, but when at the mouth of the
Little Cheyenne River, about 500 miles from her desti-
nation, she burst her steam connecting-pipe, scalding
Mr. Thomas Calloway so as to cause his death in about
six hours. No other person was injured.—St. Louis
Republican.
TIM TURNPIKE AND TOLL-BAR NUISANCE.-"—On
Tuesday a numerous public meeting of the ratepayers
and inhabitants of St. Pancras took place at the South-
ampton Arms Tavern, Camden Town, for the purpose of
:°,n3mencing an agitation for the abolition of the turn-
iKeß and toll-bars throughout the metropolitan and sub-
ban districts. Mr. Ramsey was at eight o'clock called
o the chair. Several resolutions w ere agreed to, and a
wll,l9l4,itteo appointed to pursue the agitation ; after
va ma a vote of thanks W4l) posed to the chairman, and
° 11190 tin mitted.