The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-23 00:00:00

THE CORN TRADE.
LivEnroot, SAITRDAY.—Thera is a fair quantity of Aour
from Ireland this week ; but of other articles thence and
coastwise the arrivals are limited.

We have had a tole'rablv good demand for wheat, and mare
particularly for old, for which vcry full rates have been ob-
tained. The inferior descriptions of wheat have had little
attention.

Flour has had a steady nle, and bath • sacks .and barrels
maintain late prices.
Oats and oatmeal have each commanded a small advance.
Barley, beans, and peas, are without alteration in value.
Hum., TIITESDAT.—At to-day's market there was a mode•
rate supply of wheat from the farmers, and Mark-lane ac-'
counts being better, our millers were obliged to give rather
more money for good `wheat; secondary sorts ansaleable.
In beans, peas, and barley, no alteration.
Several samples of oats showing, and rather more money
paid._

In Linseed the business passing; is immaterial, and the
arrivals are not large. Linseed cakes have been selliug
'lower rates, and more buyers have come forward in conse•-
rittenCe.

No rapeseeds in the market. Enve calve? arrive more freoly,
and Flies are effeeted at full ratt:7,.
Bones are in good demand.

Guano tnoves'odPieCtlVeely at a shade more money.
-WAKEFIELD, Fat])Ar.—The supplies of all grahi are m -
derate. We bad more business doing in wheat to-day, aid
in some instances the fittest qualities made ;rather more
mown"; there was also a better inquiry for common sorts.
Fitie barley was easy sale, other descriptions in slow ra-
quest at previous rate..

Beans sold at a slight advance.
Oats ;(1. per stone, and Shelling 6d. per load higlien

Malt baore,

WAMIINGION, IV.EDNESDAY. At the -market the supply
of wheat is rather short; prices were about last weelja
quotation, with a slight tendency downNVards, Pay 7s. to
7s. 6t1., 78. 9d. and Bs. per 70Ib.
Oats (seed) 3s. Bd. to 4s. per 4511).
Flour, best seconds, 365. to 365.
Meal, 335. to 345. per 240 lb.
Of potatoes there were very few at the market, and all
were sold at 6d. per load more 'money ; Pink-eyes, 11s. 6d.;
Radicals, for seed, were dullbale at 6s. to Bs.. per load of 2551 b:

DREADFUL FIRE•
FOUR LIVES LOST,• AND SEVERAL PERSON-5'

SERIOtSIX INJUREP.
fhis morning (Monday), shortly before one o'clock, a fire,
attended with fatal consequences to four persons;--father and
three children,—and serious results to several other parties,
broke out upon the premises belonging to Mt. Timpson,
chemist, No 77, Crawford-street, Marvlebone. • The dis-
covery was made by a policeman of the D division, whilst
passing along his beat. Smoke which he saw issuing from
the shop window-shntters convinced him that the building
was on fire. Without delay the officer raised an alarm,
and after some trouble • succeeded in arousing several
of the inmates. Other constables having arrived at
the spot, some were sent for the fire-engincs and escapes.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Life from fire had
the escape from Baker;street, Fortnum-square, station very
early at the scene. The first thing the conductor of the
machine attempted to do was to ascertain if all theparties
had escaped. Before, however, he had succeeded in affixing
the escape to the front of the premises, a female, apparently
about forty or forty-five years of age, suddenly approached
one of the front windows, and threw herself into the street.
She fell partly on her back and head. The poOr creature
was picked up, but she was so dreadfully injured that the
only thing she could say was, " Oh, my poor children are in
the house." This becoming known, the conductor of the
escape ran up the machine in the expectation of being
enabled to save the .parties in the place. When, however,
he had got upon the top of the escape, a sort of explosion
occurred in the shop, which 'blew the shutters off, and the
flames rushing through set the escape in a blaze. The poor
man attempted to slide down the canvas bag, when he fel
through the hole made by the action of the fire. Falling
upon his head he received a serious, if not fatal, injury to the
1 skull. The female and the man were promptly removed to

the hospital.
The engines of the brigade from Baker-street, Portman-
square, King-strcet, and Wells-street stations were early
in arriving, and were set to work under the direction o
Mr. Staples, the foreman of the district. The County
engine from Regent-street, with Mr. Garwood and the com-
pany's firemen, -followed immediately after, and also the pa-
rochial engines of St. Marylebone. The mains of the West
Middlesex Company afforded an abundant supply of water,
and the engines having been set to work, a powerful stream
of the antagonist] element was thrown into the blazing build-
ing, but upwards of an hour elapsed before the firemen suc-
ceeded in getting the flames extinguished. By tMt period
the shop, kitchens, staircase, and the major part of the se-
cond floor, were destroyed, and the remainder of the premiees
seriously damaged by
As soon as the building was sufficiently cooled, a number
of firemen entered the wreck to search for the parties missing;;
Upon entering the second floor a sight of a most distressg
character presented itself. In one of the rooms were tote
seen the bodies of Mr. Robert Batters and his three children.
They wire not much burned, and death appeared to have re-
sulted from suffocation. They were got out as soon as pos-
sible, and taken to the house of Mr. Bateman, a surgeon op-
posite, and afterwards conveyed on the police stretcher to the
workhouse. The unfortunate man Batters was the husbrind
of the female before spoken of as having jumped out of tilt
window. They occupied the second floor.
Had it not been for the explosion of something in the silos,
which set the escape on fire, it is highly probable that tife
whole of the inmates would have been rescued by the machine-
men.