The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT MARKET.

A fair demand prevailed for Rum ; Brandy heavy of sale, and
prices were on the decline; British Corn Spirits steady at
10s. 2d. per gal!on.
PROVISION MARKET. _ _

Butter was again in fair request, at full prices. Lard dull,
but not cheaper. Bacon steady.
HAY MARKET.

A good demand existed for Hay, and prices were rather
higher, the supply being short. Old Clover 3/. to 6/. ; new
ditto, 21. 10s. to 4/. 10s. ; Meadow Hay, 31. to 5/; new
ditto, 2/. 10s. to 4/. ; Straw, 365. to 38s. per load.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JULY 13.—Wind S. W.—Arrived from the River
and sailed, the Adventure, Cumberland, for Hobart Town;
Ruepers, Mason, Demerara; Barbara Gordon, Ritchie,
Quebec; Glasgow, Somerville, ditto; Fox, Fox, New-
foundland; Sprightly, Newton, St. Michael's; King Al-
fred, Knell, Messina. Arrived from the River, the Sym-
metry, Butler, for Sydney; Shcpperd, Jardine, Swan
River; Harlequin, Gerwood, Algoa Bay; Columbine,
Roberts, ditto; Annabella, 'Wood, Cape of Good Ilope.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 15.—Wind W.—Arrived the Hope,
Rowell, Memel; Prosperous, Lang, Waterford. Sailed
the Betsey and Sarah, Johnson, Sydney, for New South
Wales ; Madagascar, Walker, Calcutta; Mars, Roper,
ditto.
PLYMOUTH, Jut.v 15.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Royal
Consort, Weston, London, for Sydney.
FALMOUTH, JULY 14.—Wind Variable.,—Arrived the
M'Bean, London, for St. Andrew's. Sailed the
Pearl, Clough, for Cadiz. •
BRISTOL, JULY 14---Arrived the Albion, Hick, from
Cadiz ; Great Western, steamer, Hoskin, New York, sailed
Ist inst. Sailed the Lotui, Simpson; for 'Quebec'.
BRIDPORT, JULY 15.—Arrived the Lebra, Doric, and
Riga.
DARTMOUTH, JULY 13.—Arrived the Brisiss, Janson,
from Amsterdam. _ _

GLOUCESTER, JULY 14.—Arrived the Maria, Kramer,
from Memel.
PORT TALBOT.—The Ann Robeits, which was on the
bar, has been got off.
CORK, JULY 13.—Arrived Dominica, Brown, Quebec.
DROGHEDA, JULY 13.—Arrived, the Columbia, Fle-
ming, Quebec.
SHIELDS, JULY 13.—Arrived the Celintz, Jones, from
Rouen ; Townly, Muir, from I,diramichi ; New Jersey,
Dixon, Havre; Naylor, Staneland, Hamburg.
SUNDERLAND, JULY 14. Arrived the Septime, Cun-
ningham, from Quebec; Portia, Clark, ditto; Mentor,
Hopper, Havre ; Ury, Claxton, Rouen ; Elna, Poole,
ditto. Sailed the Solus, Edmund, for Quebec.
HULL, JULY 15. —Wind W. S. W , strong breeze.—
Arrived the Canada, Arrowsmith, from St. Petersburgh ;
John, College, Riga; Lord Wenlock, Gordon, from Pic-
ton ; Britannia, James, Tatmagauche ; Cleoped, Robin-
son, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Wilhclmina, Hanson,
Copenhagen.
LEITH, JULY 14.—Arrived the Mercurius, Wanbag,
from Drontheini : Anna Catherina, Nleuard, Guyaquil.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 15.—Arrived the Jim Crow, bound to
Rotterdam, got on shore yesterday afternoon on Taylor's
Bank, and filled—crew saved.

THE AWFUL UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE.-011 1
Tuesday morning Mr. Gardner, who holds an official situation
in the Stamp Office, at Somerset House, fell down suddenly
upon reaching his home, after having got out of his gig, and
almost instantaneously expired. He had reached the parlour,
and was met by Mrs. Gardner, upon seeing whom he exclaimed,
" Oh, dear me, I feel very bad indeed," when he became
speechless. A surgeon was sent for, but he found medical aid
unavailing. The un fortunate deceased, who resided at No. 9,
Rahere-street, St. Luke's, has left a widow and family.
DEATH FROM THE STING OF A FLY.—A
woman of Vernon, in Normandy, says the Moulton- Parisien,
has just died of the sting of a fly, after four days' suffering. It
produced the disease called the charbon.
A great number of people of various grades have
passed through this town during Sunday and Monday, on their
way to the grand meeting at Cambridge, as also the implements,
&c. One caravan containing a yearling bull and heifer, was of
such wide dimensions that, on arriving at Godmanchester toll-
bar, one of the gate-posts was actually obliged to be taken up
ere it could pass on its way.--Cambridge Advertiser.
It is stated, on pretty good authority, that there
are no fewer than 1,500 houses untenanted in the borough of
Bradford. This is a painful indication of the distress that still
exists.—Halifax Express.
BIGGLESWADE.—Richard Reed, coachman to
the Rev. R. Lindsell, of Broom, terminated his existence by
un
unfblowingortunate
man had returned from breakfast as usual, and was getting a
horse ready for his master, when the gamekeeper came into the
stable with his gun loaded; he put it down and went to feed a
dog, when deceased took the gun into the yard and placed the
muzzle in his mouth and discharged it ; he blew the upper part
of his head to pieces, and scattered his brains in all directions.
—Cambridge Advertiser.
FOWLING IN SHETLAND.—WhiIe sitting at
dinner in the cabin, we heard many interesting anecdotes of the
dangers encountered by fowlers in scaling the rocks of Shet-
land and Feroe, where fatal accidents arc so frequent, that the
people sometimes say to each other, " Your grandfather fell,
your father fell, and you must follow too !" Others boast over
their companions, saying, " Your father died in his bed, but
mine went off like a man !" The governor mentioned that
lately at Feroe a fowler descended safely by the usual convey-
ance of a rope; but when about to be drawn up again, owing
to some awkward entanglement, he arrived at the surface with
his feet upwards, Ills alarmed friends thought his head had
been cut off, and felt so relieved to discover their mistake, that
the whole party burst into a simultaneous peal of laughter, while
the adventurer was very glad he had any face to put on the
matter at all, and laughed heartily also. The upper part of
these cliffs generally overhangs the base ; therefore the
rockmen, when desirous to obtain a footing, are obliged
to swing themselves many yards out in the air, that the re-
action may shoot them back in contact with the precipice,
when they instantly cling to any little projection that offers,
and, after landing on it, anchor the end of their rope to a
stor,e, and proceed with a small hand-net, stretched on a
hoop, to spoon the eggs out of their nests, deposiling them
carefully in a sack which they carry behind, and when the un-
lucky bird sees her loss inevitable, by a curious instinct she
often pushes out the egg to save herself. An enterprising
fowler, standing on the projection, once, with a sheer preci-
pice both above and below him, of several hundred feet, ob-
served the end of his rope become suddenly disengaged from
its moorings, and swing like a pendulum far into the distant
space. if it escaped entirely away, he knew that death, either
by a fall or by the slower and more dreadful process of starva-
tion, must become inevitable; therefore, perceiving that the
rope, before it finally settled, would swing once more almost
within his grasp, he earnestly watched the moment of its
return, made a desperate spring forward in the air, clutched
it in his hand, and was saved.—Miss Sinclair's Shetland.
CURIOUS C I It CUMSTANCE.—During the morn-
ing of Wednesday a large flag-stone,weighing several stones, near
the Post-office, New-road, Driffield, attracted attention bybeing
observed to have risen about three inches from its bed, without
any visible cause. On being lifted up by Mr. William Clark,
bricklayer, to ascertain the cause, he discovered two large spe-
cies of fungi, or gross mushroom, growing under the flag.
The mushrooms were two and a half inches high, but much
flattened with the pressure, weighed one pound and a-quarter,
and the largest measured six inches in diameter. The power
must have been very great to move the flag, since it was fastly
bedded and wedged in between those adjoining. Similar circum-
stances have also lately occurred in other parts of the town,
which may be attributed to the present very wet season.
Hull Observer.
LIBEL BY A CLERGYMAN.— A legal friend in-
forms us that there is at present a very interesting case in the
court of Session. A Clergyman in the course of addressing
his congregation, alluded to a published work, the author of
which he denounced as "an infidel scoundrel." The author
has brought an action of damages, and great interest is excited
as to the law of the case—whether the clergyman's is a case of
privilege.--Ayr Advertiser.
SKELETON FouND.—Last week, under a large
heap of stones that had lain in a field, near to King's Mea-
burn, Westmorland, time out of mind, the bones o a full-
grown man were found by a son of Mr. Ralph Bird, yeoman.
They were deposited about 18 inches under the surface of the
ground, and in a state of decomposition, though entire enough
to ascertain that they were human. Twenty-two teeth were
fcund, which suffered little from decay. The time and manner
in which the bones have been deposited there will, in all pro-
bability, remain a mystery.— Cartisze Patriot.
The struggle for power is now at an end for the
Session, the most sanguine of the Tories seeing that the last
move of the Duke of Wellington has made the formation of a
Tory Government for the present impossible. ghat the Duke
could have turned out the Ministry, by throwing out the Canada
Bill, is pretty certain, but as by the ingenious step which gave
him the command of the existence of the Government he had
also disabled Isis own party, which could not form an Adminis-
tration divided on the Canada question, the only effect of break-
ing up the present Government would have been the restora-
tion of it, in default of any other, with increased strength. The
Duke has very cleverly performed that feat which Lord Castle-
reagh described as turning one's back on one's self. The
Liberal party is blessed with very accommodating enemies.—
E.rominer.
tragical event took place on Monday, in the
AveAnuedoSt, Cloud, near the Barriers de l'Etoil. A plumber,
who lived in a street in the Champs Elysees, and whose wife lard
quitted him, having heard that she was at a house in the Avenue
de St. Cloud, disguised as a servant, went thither, and not find-
ing her, supposed that he had been made the laughing-stock of
his acquaintances. He had provided himself with a pistol,
whether for the purpose of self destruction, or to take vengeance
is not lioyro, 130 p!1 bis disappointment at not find-
oinnriathlifs wife,isi. .he put it tp his head and .
I)leWolthei!J bruins. The
' noise of the explosion brought tp the pqt so zp nreorta, who
found the unhappy man quite tlen4, the 00111 being complete 'l
shattered by a triple charge of the instruwat of tleatruction.