The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-13 00:00:00

HAY MARKET.

Supplies moderate, and the demand pretty goad ; prices sta—
tionary. Hay 60s. to 655. ; Clover 70s. to 113 s. ; Straw 323.
to 40s. per load.

TEA MARKET.

This department, relieved from its recent anxiety by the news
from China, v. as very lively, and in a state of great excitement.
Large parcels have changed hands already, and as near as can
be calculated prices were 4(1. to sd. per tb. higher. It seems
to be the opinion of the trade that tea will rise 10d. to Is per

SILK MARKET.

The same means which have raised the price of Tea have
caused the ho!ders of Chinese Silk to ask an advance of 6d. to
I s. per lb.

TALLOW MARKET.
Parcels of P.Y.C. have been sold at 50s. per cwt.
COLONIAL MARKET.

Nothing doing—publicly. British Plantation Sugar sold
slowly, but prices were unvaried. Coffee rather brisk, owing
to the advances in Tea, and prices may be quoted Is. percwt.
highcr.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, FEB. 12.—Wind, W.S.W.—Arrived the Diamond-
Baldwin from Rio Janeiro; from the River, Scotia, Mobile;
King. Alfred, Knill, St. Michael's.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 12.—Wind, S. to W. S. W. squally.
—Arrived the Olderdan, Slotto, Hanson, Kid, Judge Thomp-
son, Drummond, from Cadiz.
PLvmouxtf, FEB. 12.—Wind, S.S.W.—Sailed the Slater
Rebow, Sadler, St. Michael's; Lady Rebow. Byring, ditto.
FA LMOUTII, FEB. 11.—Wind, W.S.W. to S.S.W. strong
and squally.—Sailed the Daniel Wheeler, Bouch, London.
The following. vessels which put into this port with damage
are discharging their cargo's, Konington de Nederlanden,
Sictzes, Amsterdam to Batavia ; Milman, Blayne, Belfast to
Jamaica ; Georgia Jessica, Messina to Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 12.—Wind fresh.—Arrived the
William, Hamlyn, trom:Caleutta, leaky, decks swept, 50 bags of
sugar thrown overboard; fletscy Hall, Coaker, Monte Video—
sailed 29th Nov. ; Calder, Turner, Monte Video ; Theristan„
Depuyln, New York—sailed 26th ult. ; Shakspeare, Hender-
son, New Orleans Swiftsure, Africa; Alfred, Ledetowe. St.
Michael's; Ashburton, Backay, Terceira; Allbay, Jamieson,.
Odessa ; General Parkhill. Sailed the Eliza, Loader, for
'
Rio Grande ; Zante, Campbell, Gulf of Mexico • Pct, Bulke-
ley, and Prima Donna, Strugnall, St. Michael's; Jane.
Bucan, Leghorn.
RAMSEY. FEB. 11.—Arrived the Superior, Loutill, from
Limerick, for the Clyde, having lost bulwarks, &c. ; Victoria,
Robb, from Limerick, for the Clyde, having lost bulwarks,
sail, &c., and cargo shifted.
RA MS6 ATE, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Union, Vonder Heycr,
from Ostend, far Teignmoutli.

The following has been received at Lloyd's:—
Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, Feb. 1:2, 1840.
Sir—With reference to my letter to ynu of the Bth inst., I
am desired by the Lords of the Committee of the Privy
Council for Trade to acquaint you, for the information of the
merchants engaged in the trade with Persia, that the Govern-
ment of that country pursue the same course as the Govern-
ments of Russia and Denmr.rk as respects the admission of ves-
sels from British ports with certificates from the Quarantine
Establishments at Standgatc Creek, Milford Haven, and
Mother Bank.

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
(Signed) DENIS LE MARCHANT-
To the Chairman of Lloyd's, &c. &e.

IN CENDIARISM I N SHEFFIELD.

We learn from a second edition of the Sheffield Patriot
published at noon on Tuesday, that five stacks were set
on fire in the neighbourhood of Sheffield on Monday night
and Tuesday morning. A stack of hay, belonging to Mr.
Vickers, was discovered to be iu a blaze at midnight on
Monday. So deliberately had the diabolical work beea
done, that the very boles on which the stack rested were
found burning. Near the spot a piece of paper used to'
ignite lucifer matches was found.
A large stack of wheat, the property of an old maidenly
lady, who farms Skinnerthorpe, was seen blazing about
the same time. An extinguished portion of a fire-ball,
apparently about four inches in diameter, made of herds,
steeped in rosin, was discovered in the barn. By the
mercy of Providence it had been prevented from perform-
ing the ir,tended object.
On Tuesday morning, about half past nine, at a farm
called Norwood, tenanted by Mr. Fernally, two stacks of
oats, and one of wheat, were discovered to be in flames.
In less than an hour, two;eng ines arrived, but most unfortu-
nately, there was not water sufficient to be had. The
stacks, about half-past eleven, were one awfal mass of
roaring and crackling flame.
Each of the farms, where the stacks have been fired, ill
distant from the other about a quarter of a mile.
The Patriot states that as the firemen were descending
the bill to Skinnerthorpe, a gun or pistol was fired at them.
The ball passed through the hat of one of the firemen,
named Turton. Had the shot taken effoct, a wife and six
children would have thus been deprived of their support.
There can be very little doubt but the shot came from some
one connected with the incendiary party, and that the design
was to prevent the arrival of the engine in time to be of
any use. No clue has yet been got to the perpetrators cf
any of the above crimes. On Saturday night and Sunday
it was rumoured through the town that the Chartists were
going to rise on the Royal marriage-day ; and that they
had threatened to mark that occasion, if Frost, Williams,
and Jones, were not pardoned.
Just before one o'clock, an express arrived from Norton,
a village distant three miles south-cast of the town, that
the vicarag.e was on fire. It was found that a beam had
ignited, owing to there having been too large a fire in the
grate. There is no ground far tii.e rumour, at first spread,
that the fire was the work of an incendiary.

M RDE 11.—The remains of the poor fellow who
was murdered a few days ago on the Pencader road, in this
county, hare been interred in Alt3blaina Churchyard. The
other man who has been so dreadfully stabbed by the same
murderous villain, is slowly recovering, and it is hoped his evi-
dence will be so far conclusive, as to justify the Jury in return-
ing a verdict of wilful murder, the evidence of the other wit-
nesses being, we understand, very inconclusive. We trust
there will be a strict and searching magisterial inquiry as to
the escape of the prisoner from the custody of the constable,
against whom at present there appears to be some slight impu-
tations of negligence.— Welshman.
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DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday last a
poor woman, the as ife of a labouring man, residing near Cole-
tord, in this county, committed a most dreadful act of self-
destruction by cutting her throat with a razor. Previous to the
committal of this truly horrible act, she had sent. away her chil-
dren (three in number) to the house of a neighbour, telling
them that. she should shortly fetch them thence. The woman
to whose house she had sent them, finding that she tarried long
took the children home. Finding the door fast, she looked
through the window, when a dreadful scene presented itself to
her view. The unfortunate woman was lying on the floor with
the razor beside her, the floor being partly covered with blood.
She immediately procured assistance; the door was forced open,
and the wretched woman was found as &scribed, with her
throat cut; her head was resting on her hand, she being still
alive. A surgeon was soon in attendance, who sewed or ban-
daged up the wound, but so determined was she to accomplish
her purpose, that she some time after tore it open, saying she
must die. She lingered till the Monday following, when she
expired. The reason she gave for the perpctratien of this
deed was, that she was compelled to do so, or kill her husband
and children, and she considered it best to destroy herself.
She had been observed fur some time to show a strangeness of
manner, and there is no doubt that she was labouring under a
degree of insanity. A Coroner's inquest was held on the
body, and a verdict to that effect returned.— Gloucester Jour.

THE CHIEF JUSTICES.—Chief Justice Bushe,
and his kinsman, Chief Justice Doherty, go the home circuit to-
gether. We know not to which of the members of this family
we have to ascribe an error which may be of great injury to the
interests of the subject. If we are truly informed, they have
announced the assizes period in Trim at a time when no record
can be tried there, although several were on the list. If Judge
Bushe's memory failed him in recollecting that there must be
fourteen days' notice of record trials, surely Judge Doherty's
knowledge extended far enough tJ have reminded him of the
fact.—Dublin Pilot.

DESTRUCTION OF A VESSEL BY FIRE.—We
find the following in the Liverpool letter of yesterday, filed on
Change :—" The Havre, Vernard, from New Orleans to
Liverpool, was off Cove on the Bth instant ; and, at three
o'clock, a fire suddenly broke out on board. She was observed,
at night fall, burnt almost to the water's edge, and it i, sup-
posed she sunk off Poor Head The crew were saved by a pilot-
boat."
A requisition is in the course of signature for
the purpose of convening a county meeting, to take into con-
sideration what measures ought to be adopted with reference to•
the detention of :he Sheriffs of the metropolitan county by the
resolutions of the House of Commons.