The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

To-day is observed as a strict holiday in the City, and there
is nothing particular to communicate, for parties merely call
for their letters, and this but in a few instances, and take
them home for perusal.

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)
This being a holiday, no business was transacted at Mark
lane or in the Borough.

SP.= TIIPXELD.
For the time of year, the supply of Beasts on sale here to-
day was moderately extensive, owing to which the Beef trade
ruled dull, and Monday's prices were with difficulty sup-
ported. There were in the market 300 Scots from Scotland,
and 50 Beasts, together with 40 Sheep, from Holland. The
number of Sheep was small ; hence the Mutton trade was
firm, and previous rates were steadily maintained. This
being the great Lamb market, the supply of that description
of stock was good, though not quite equal to that at some
previous corresponding periods of the year. The trade was
brisk, at an advance in the currencies of from Gd to is per
Blbs. From the Isle of Wight, 233 Lambs came to hand.
Calves moved off steadily, at an improvement of 2d per 81bs.
In Pigs and Mulch Cows very little was doing.

Per albs. to sink the offal.

s. d. s. d
Inferior Beasts •—• 2 6 3 0
Second quality ditto. 3 2 3 6
Prime large Oxen.. 3 $ 3 10
Prime Scots .. •... 4 • 4 2

d. to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 4 4 6
Coarse-woelled ditto 4 6 4 8
Southdown Wethers 4 10 5 0
Ditto out of the wool

Large coarse Calves 4 6 5 0 Large Hogs •. 3 6 4 6
Prime small ditto .. 5 2 5 6 Small Porkers • ... 4$ 5 0
Suckling Calves —l3 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep .. .3 10 4 2 Lambs .. 6 0 S 0
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Sheep. Calves. I Pigs.
I 4,930 170 i 263

•
Beasts.
760

NEV/GATE LEaDENNAT.a..
Lamb sold steadily, at higher rates. Otherwise the de.
mand was in a sluggish state.

Al per stone, ►y the Carcase.

a. d. to a. d. — ----- a. d. to s. 4.
Beof, inferior...... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior •• 3 6 3 8
- middling .... 2 8 216 middling.. 310 4 2
- prime large .. 3 0 3 2 prime • ..• 4 4 4 6
- prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, 1arge........ 3 4 4 4
Veal •••• . • • • ...... 4 6 5 4, - small .. .•.. • . 4 6 5 2
Lamb. 6s 2d to 8s 2d.

EXPORTATION OF WHEAT FROM BARBARY
PROHIBITED.
Gibraltar, March 31, 1846.
Sir,—l have the honour to communicate that credible
information, though not official, has reached this place,
of the Emperor of Morocco having prohibited the ex-
portation of wheat from his dominions, owing, it is said,
to the continued drought causing fears to be entertained
for the growing crops.
Saffi, Casa Blanca, and Mazagan, on the western coast
of Barbary, were the principal ports for the shipment
of wheat, and many cargoes were recently sent from
thence to Marseilles and Genoa.

The exportation of barley has been prohibited for a
long time past. Rain is much wanted in the south of
Spain.—l am, Sir, respectfully, &c.,
(Signed) LLOYD'S AGENT.
W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LIME
HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

Between four and five o'clock this morning a most
terrific fire broke out in Three Colt-street, Limehouse,
near to the church, which at one period threatened the
total destruction of the entire neighbourhood. The
devouring element was not extinguished before six
houses fell a prey to the flames, and eight others were
seriously damaged. The fire was first discovered to be
raging in the lower part of the premises of a Mr.
Hunt, cheesemonger, No. 40, Three Colt-street, which
in a short time enveloped the entire building, the
inmates having escaped with great difficulty. The
greater part of the building, as well as the ad-
joining ones, being wood, the fire spread
with the utmost rapidity, and in a few minutes
No. 39 and 40 shared the same fate. Messengers were
instantly dispatched for the engines, but by the time the
engines from School-house-lane, Wellclose-square, and
that from Jeffery-square arrived, about 12 or 14
houses were destroyed and partly consumed ; the un-
fortunate inmates of several of them having escaped in
a state of nudity, while others were only able to save a
few things, with but little of their furniture. The en-
gines having at length been got to work and a plenti-
ful supply of water obtained, the firemen, assisted by the
police and other., through very great exertions,
by abeut five o'clock succeeded in stopping the
further progress of the flames. The follow-
ing is the official report of the houses destroyed and
damaged :—No. 40, Three Colt street, Mr. Hunt, cheese-
monger, destroyed ; No. 41 and 42, Mr. Elwes, butcher,
ditto ; No. 39, Mr. PariS, King's Arms, all destroyed
but the cellar ; No. 38, Messrs. Haywood and Green-
wood, grocers, ditto ; No. 1, Mr. Moyes, King's Head,
seriously damaged ; No. 1, Limehouse-lane, Mr.
Cricklee, fishmonger, partially destroyed ; No. 3, Mr.
Gardiner, grocer, ditto ; No. 95, Mr. Browne, pastry-
cook, ditto ; No. 96, Mr. Hyde, fishmonger, ditto ;
No. 97, Mr. Dicks, dealer in china ; No. 98, Mr. Reeves,
pastry-cook ; and No. 99, empty, all destroyed. The
damage done is estimated at about 2,0001. No informa-
tion can be obtained as to the cause of the fire.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN EXETER.— On Thursday
morning, at half-past two o'clock, Inspector Hamlin, of the
Exeter night police, being upon the Quay, observed flames
issuing from the back part of the premises of Mr. James L.
Thomas, tallow-chandler and starch manufacturer, on the
opposite side of the river. The alarm boll was sounded,.and
messengers were dispatched io the different engine-houses, to
give intimation of the fire. Ileanwhile the alarm had been
given to Mr. Thomas and to other persons living in imme •
diate proximity to the scene of the conflagration ; and
every effort had been made to remove as much property as
time and circumstances would admit beyond the reach
of the devouring element. It was feared at one time that
the fire would spread considerably, and those who thought
their furniture might be endangered by it had hastened
to remove it, and we regret to add that in the confusion
which ensued there is too much reason to fear that many
robberie.s were committed. The shop and lower rooms of
Mr. Tb othas's premises were cleared as far back as the in-
tense beat would allow; bet in the manufactory and store-
rooms -the first had already attained to such a head that i:
was :learcely possible to save anything. From the corn-
bustilsle nature of the property—principally tallow and cot-
ton, i tither in a manufactured or unmanufaetured state—
with which the premises were stored, the progress of the
flames was more than usually rapid; and eye-witnesses of
exp.srience have assured us that the conflagration, while it
lase el, was one of the most terrific in appearance ever re-
membered in the neighbourhood of this city. The whole of
the_ lower part of the city was illuminated, and the flames
were distinctly visible at a distance of many miles. Mr.
Thomas's stock and machinery were insured in the Norwich
Union office, and the buildings in the West of England. The
irteuranee in the Norwich is to the amount of 2,0004, but it
is estimated that this amount is insufficient to cover his loss,
as lie had recently made a large addition to his stock, and
his stock of manufactured goods was at the time more than
ust tally extensive. The origin of the fire is attributed to
sp, tntaneous combustion. We understand the men found
some cotton burning some hours before, which they suc-
ceedsd in extinguishing.— Western Luminary.
NVEYANCE OF THE SOUTH MAILS BY THE MAN-
uLTE.sr rER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—We are glad to
learn that this long-desired accommodation to the commer-
cial -public of Manchester has been at length effected ; and
that, from the Ist June next, the mails to and from Birmiug
ham, London, and the south, will be transmitted along the
Manchester and Birmingham line, between Crewe and this
town instead of being conveyed round by Warrington at a
loss .o'f nearly an hour each way. This boon has not been
conreded to the oft-repeated and almost importunately-urged
req nirements of the mercantile community of this town
ancf. neighbourhood. It is not granted in answer to the
me morials of the merchants and manufacturers, of
the. two commercial associations in this town,
or of the corporation of the borough. No ; two
railway companies, who had rival interests, have now amal-
gamated; and that which has all along been the interest of
the community, having also become the interest of the com-
bine d railway bodies, the thing is at once settled. The secret
hist oly of the resistance, by the Post-office authorities, to the
rep drements of the public at Manchester, would present a
cnri .ous picture of the way in which public business is some-
tim es managed. But this has now gone by; and all that we
sha 11 add on the subject is that for the increased facility to
correspondence, which will be afforded by the proposed
c ba.nge, we have to thank—not the Post. office, or the Trea-
s ery—but that desirable combination of circumstances, which
sakes it the interest of individuals or companies to do that
s Nell is right in itself and best for the public.-211anchester
lliardian.
WINDSOR, THURSDAYEVENING.—THR STATE APART-
-11 AT THE CASTLE.—Previously to the arrival of the
C curt at the Castle, yesterday afternoon, an order had been
is rued for the State apartments to be closed to the public to-
in:or-row (Good Friday). This morning, however, the order
was countermanded, and the State Rooms, together with the
Peor and Tower, will be open as usual. Before the recent re-
gal: itions came into operation for the admission of the public
wit bout the payment of a fee, the Castle, while the Court was
at' Windsor, was closed on Tuesdays and Fridays. It having
s mowed
bee n, as we are inforMed, suggested to an illustrious per-
son
Lmberlain) expressly states the Castle is open on Tues-
day s, Thursdays, and Fridays, great disappointment would
be occasioned to visitors to Windsor if the apartments
(without due notice having been given) were to be kept
dosed, it was immediately commanded that the former order
f o
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DISTRESSING CALAMITY.---FORTY-FIVE PERSONS
I hLOWNED.-A very lamentable occurrence took place last
v Peek at Werden, between Sarrebrouck and Sarrelouis. A
f v-Ty-boat with fifty passengers, of all ages and both sexes,
" at d two carriages with horses harnessed to them, returning
1 .iam market, was sunk after having struck violently against
1,14 bank, and only five persons were saved, the rest perish-
ing in the Sarre. This catastrophe is attributed to the care-
less ness of the ferryman and the breaking of the chain, when
the rapidity of the current hurried away the boat, and the
shrieks of the females alarming the horses, they moved to
ono ..side of the boat, which overbalanced and sunk.
G.ArtBETT V. ADAMS AND OTHERS.—The solicitor for
th e plaintiff in this case, reported in our paper of yesterday,
ur der the head of Gloucester Assizes, states that the plain-
tifi 'was not nonsuited, but had a verdict on the Ist, 2d,
an, 1 sth issues. On the 3d and 4th issues a verdict was
entered for the defendant, with libarty to move to enter it
als( for the plaintiff, subject to the authority of the court
abs ye.

s PAUL'S CATUEDRAL.—Workmen have been for
sem. a time engaged in putting up additional doors at the
sout is entrance to St. Paul's Cathedral. The old doors are
very . 1 'wavy, and have seldom been opened except on special
occa el ons. The new doors are light and partly glazed, the
same; is those on the opposite side, so that the public can
new Is 3 admitted at either entrance.
°l4 Monday, at Gloucester, the Marquis of Worcester,
as f(ea eman of the grand jury, handed in a true bill against
P the h. V. Disney Robinson, fora libel on Jane Barker, a lady
wh( ,se name has lately been before the public in connexion
wit the name of Earl Fitzhardinge. The trial will, in all
pr obaility, be traversed until the next assizes.— Cheltenham
Rug ride.