The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

BREAKING UP OF THE MORMON

SETTLEMENT.

The Mormon community at Nauvoo have left their
temple and what they believed to be their " promised
land," having vainly endeavoured to resist the hostility
cf their neighbours, and have commenced a long and
difficult march in search of a quieter home in California.
The New York Courier and Enquirer contains the fol-
lowing particulars of their movements:—
" The Mormons are fairly en route for California.
They have all left their old residence, and at the last
accounts were just crossing the head waters of the
Chariton river, about 150 miles west of Nauvoo. A
Locofoco paper has been established at Nauvoo since
their departure, and contains some very interesting items
of intelligence concerning the progress of the expedi-
tion, and the general prospects of the country.
It states, on the authority of a letter from a gen-
tleman travelling with the company, that everything has
gone on well, that the party is in good health, and the
grand caravan moved slowly, but peacefully. Their
progress has been materially retarded by the
want of fodder for their live stock; the grass not
having fairly started, reduced them to the necessity
of labouring for the farmers on the route, to supply
the deficiency. They travel in detached companies,
from five to ten miles apart, 'and, in point of order,
resemble a military expedition. The editor of the
Hancock Eagle, the paper referred to, says that he
visited the camp before it broke up. It was in the rigo-
rous weather of February, and the tents were
blockaded by snow-drifts ; yet the scene seemed cheer-
ful and animated. From appearances he thought
it certain that they would suffer most severely before
reaching their destination. It was the intention of at
least some of the companies to halt in the valley of
the Sweetwater river, and put in a crop for the sub
sistence of themselves and others who may follow.
Numbers were on their way from the Eastern states
to join the expedition. The same paper says, that in
the whole town of Nauvoo it would be impossible to
purchase a drop of ardent spirits I No drinking,
gambling, or any similar vice, had ever been intro-
duced there, though, as a new class of emigrants
was pouring in to take the place of the Mormons, it
seemed altogether probable that they would bring with
them the accompaniments of 'civilisation.' The Temple
was for sale, and a wealthy bachelor gentleman from
the south had arrived, with the intention of purchasing
it. His object, it is said, is to convert the Temple
into an asylum for destitute widows and orphans,
and to purchase lands and town lots, and endow it out
of the rents of the same. The Eagle contains the
following paragraph concerning a prospective improve-
ment in Nauvoo:—' The agent of an eastern company
has arrived here for the purpose of selecting a site
for the erection of manufactories. By throw-
ing out a wing dam into the Mississippi, and cutting a
short canal, water power can be obtained here sufficient
to drive all the machinery in the state. A fall of
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that this city will, in time, become the Lowell of
the West''

ST. DUNSTAN IN THE EAST.—It having been re-
solved by several influential
parishioners that some testimo-
nial of their respect
Thomas Banning, for his unremitting exertions in the affairs
of that parish, and more particularly during the years 1822
and 1845, when he
served the office of churchwarden ac-
and esteem should be presented to Mr.
countant, their resolution was carried into effect on the 29th
inst., when a handsome piece of plate, with a suitable in-
scrition, was presented to him by a deputation of parish-
ioners, acconapan'
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rector. es by the Rev. Thomas B. Murray, their

POTATDES FROM NORWAY.—A cargo of forty tons of
potatoes from Norway is announced for sale in the present
week, in Monument-yard, as applicable either for seed or for
consumption.

LO WELL —ITS ASPECTS—MANU-
FACTURES CONDITIONS OF LABOUR—
REFORM.
(From the New York Tribune.)
We spent a few hours in the " City of Spindles" last
week, looking with interest on its thrift, its enterprise,
its busy population. We looked thoughtfully into its
rattling, whirring factories, and anxiously into the faces
of its labourers.
Lowell was never more active, more " growing," or
apparently more prosperous than now. New factories,
new works of all kinds, new dwellings are being con-
structed; and the company, which is now running some
fifty carpet. looms, is about to tear all down, and cover
an acre with mills, in which some two hundred lawns
will weave carpets, with a spinning-mill, dying rooms,
and everything complete for making the car
petings directly from the fleeces. The new ma-
nufacturing city going up a few miles lower
on the Merrimac seems to have abstracted
little of capital, enterprise, or business from the " Man-
chester of America." The rep, al of the tariff is re
garded there with general incredulity and partial da
fiance. We were shown several descriptions of goods
(heavy checks, brown drills, Ste.), which the makers
assured us caul l not be made in England or any where
else cheaper than they are now made and sold at Lowell,
while some, they were confident, could be sold in Eng-
land at a profit if all tariffs were abolished on both sides.
In carpets the English have greatly the advantage in the
cost of stock (working in a great proportion of ground
rags, while ours are made entirely of unworri wool), but
they are woven cheaper in Lowell than anywhere in
Great Britain, owing to a great Yankee improvement of
machinery, though the girls who tend the carpet looms
of Lowell (hard and difficult work) earn their dollar a
day, which no carpet weaver in Great Britain can do.
The cost of a good ingrain carpet at Lowell is SO cents
per yard against 67 in Leeds for what passes for a similar
British article, though the British is vastly inferior in
strength and durability.
No tariff that will pay Polk's war expenses can be
low enough to swamp the bulk of the Lowell manufac-
turers. In fact, they rather seem to doubt the Govern.
ment's ability to get along with as low duties as they
can. Certain descriptions of fabrics, of which the mar-
ket price depends rather on style, fashion, or novelty,
than on actual cost, would suffer from a reduction of
the tariff ; but Lowell could stand this far better than
the younger and feebler manufactures of other sections:
in fact, she would receive an incidental benefit from the
check necessarily given to the extension and diffusion
of manufactures through the country. If any body ima •
gines that the West is to be benefited at the expense of
the East, or labour achieve a triumph over capital by
reducing the tariff, then that body will find himself mis-
taken in the event.
Visitors to Lowell generally see but one side of the
picture—the bright or the darker ; we endeavoured to
look fairly on both. With one class, we saw and were
delighted with the general activity, the ready employ-
ment for labour of almost every description, the won-
drous inventions and combinations of machinery whereby
such stupend am results are produced that ten thousand
workers produce more and better fabrics than one hun-
dred thousand could have done a bare century ago. We
do not believe there is on the face of the earth a com-
munity of thirty thousandpeople who add so much every
year to the amount and value of articles necessary to
human subsistence and comfort as do those of Lowell.
He who views Lowell in this light only, may well go
away admiring and delighted.
Yet there is another and, as we have intimated, a
darker side of the picture, which is not the less real be-
cause it has usually been grossly exaggerated by those
who have presented it to the public. He who tells you
that the working men and women of Lowell are slaves to
the capitalists—that the men must vote as their em-
ployers direct—that the women are so crowded, over-
worked, badly fed, &c., that they are dying of consump
tion and other chronic diseases, do grossly vary from the
truth. We believe it is a fact that a majority of the
workmen usually vote against what is supposed to be
the interest and the wish of their employers; at all
events, we know that they vote as they please, and
that it would be impossible to make them vote otherwise.
Manufacturing labour is not such a heaven that able-
bodied, strong-limbed, two-handed men are eater to sell
their souls for the privileae of doing it ; and our manu-
facturing labourers are quite as intelligent and as
independent as any other class of labourers for wages.
He who employs a few men and is constantly with
them, may possibly influence their votes ; but a
great company, employing its hundreds, can never
even know what sort of ballots its workmen see fit to
deposit. Even though it were to attempt to exert
an undue influence, and go to the length of pro
viding a peculiar ballot, it could eff ct nothing.
The inside of a vote need not correspond with its exte-
rior ; and the workman generally knew how to get a
living before any company hired him. We believe the
cry of political tyranny raised against the corporations,
by those who justify the national executive in exercising
this very same power over the nation's servants which
they justly stigmatise when exerted by a private com-
pany, is unfounded and unjust. There may have been
instances of undue influence, but not one by corporations
where there are a hundred, openly, notoriously, by the
Federal Government by whose partisans this clamour is
raised.
On another point, we obtained the unanimous testi-
mony of all parties in Lowell that the Corporations have
been unjustly assailed. We have heard it asserted as a
notorious fact by intelligent demagogues here, who have
made it a current belief among tke ignorant here, that
the workmen in factories are paid half in barter, goods,
store-orders, &c. Nothing like this is true. The workers,
whether male or female, for the Corporations have uni-
formly been paid every two weeks, and paid wholly in
cash—none of your shinplaster trash, borrowed or bought
at a discount of a broker, but par money, such as will pay
rent, a note in bank, or any thing else. Honour to the
Boston Banks for their noble stand years ago in behalf
of a Uniform Currency throughout all the country,
whereof Boston was the commercial centre 1 That much
abused policy known as the Suffolk system' has shielded
the labourers of New England from heavy aggregate
losses and infinite vexations.
As to the regulation which requires the " operatives "
(we cordially detest the term), who are in the employ of
any manufacturing Corporation in Lowell, to board at
some one of the boarding-houses on the grounds of that
Corporation, we believe it was intended for the good of
labourers, and has done good. These houses are rented
at low rates ; the prise of board in them is moderate
(1 dol. 25 c. to 1 dol. 37 c. per week); and it is not pre-
tended that the Companies have any interest in the mat-
ter, except to have board cheap and the labourers handy
to their work. In fact, many workmen board elsewhere
than in Corporation boarding-houses, as all have the right
to do who have relatives to board with. No inquiry is
trrtide by the companies unless some of the boarding-
house keepers complain of being so slenderly patronised
that they cannot live and pay rent. This produces a
requisition that the labourers shall board on the premises
according to the regulations. There is no complaint that
board is too dear, rather the contrary; but many of the
boarding-houses are too crowded, and lack accommoda-
tions essential to health and cleanliness. We believe these
are equal to those enjoyed by labourers in cities gene-
rally, but they ought to be improved. We should think the
girls especially, who are mainly farmers' daughters
and have been accustomed to ample sleeping room, op-
portunities for washing, &c., would remedy the matter
themselves by just uniting to pay 25 or 37i cents more
per week, on condition of having ample and comfort-
able accommodations. There is no regulation in the
way of this—nobody would wish to prevent it—and
they would still earn more, beside their board, than is
earned by working women almost anywhere else than in
American factories. Will they not think of this ?
We fear there is not care enough taken to provide for
the ventilation of the factories. We know that ig-
norance and indifference in this respect is all but uni-
versal, but this is no excuse. The owners of factories
are usually men of decided intelligence ; they under-
stand the laws of life and health ; they are aware that
the mills are often required to be kept at as high a
temperature as is consistent with health ; that a hundred
human beings being employed for day after day in one
room must have large and constant supplies of fresh air,
or their health will suffer. We entreat them to give
earnest heed to this matter, not only in building new
factories, but with reference to those now existing.
They should at least consider that ventilation is
cheaper than hospital treatment, which we believe in
Lowell is afforded to those who need it gratuitously.
The great master evil in operation atLowell, however,
and too generally in American factories, is that of ex-
cessive hours of labour. At Lowell, all hands are ex-
pected to begin work at five A.M., and to labour, with but
half an hour's intermission for breakfast, and as much
more for dinner, till seven P.M , making thirteen hours
steady employment daily. The working day is a little
longer at some seasons and a little shorter at others, but
this is about the average, and it is entirely too much. It
is a severer tax on human energies than formerly, because,
with the progress of maehinery, the attention required is
more constant and the work more exacting. Many
of the girls tend three looms on plain weaving where
one was formerly thought enough, two certainly so ; in
some cases a chain is to be lifted at intervals, requiring
a very considerable muscular effort ; and though this
may be more healthful than merely mending threads and
supplying spools all day, it not the less contributes to
increase the fatigue created by thirteen hours of scarcely
remitted toil. Most of the women employed in the fac-
tories are still Young ; a large proportion mere girls of
fifteen to twenty ; and when it is considered that they
are hereafter to become wives and mothers, it will be seen
that the preservation of their constitution is of the highest
public importance. And it is not enough that they
should continue healthful and vigorous. They should
have time for and be encouraged to form habits of daily
reading and study. Yet what can be expected of girls of
slender forms and immature strength, who, findk them.m
selves first at leisure a little before. eight
after having been on their feet
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they be expected
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now to apply themselvesaw.. ith?alacrity and perseverance
to any means of mental. improvement ?to Surely notf.
Hence must grow habits of indifferencebooks and o
mental
frivolity, very mournful to think of as character-
ising
the mothers of those who will rule the destinies of
our country in the next generation.
Now we know very well that women are more un-
healthfully employed, confined more hours, and far worse
paid in many other branches of industry, than in manu-
facturing. We know that those engaged hi sewing in
our cities, are a special instance of this—that there are
thousands on thousands of household servants, for whom
even "Sunday shines no holitlay," and who'
would be
deemed upstart and affected, if they should even indicate
a wish for mental improvement. It is_ not a question
whether manufacturing is worse than other employment
for women—we have often enough expressed our
conviction that it is not—that the introduction of this
branch of industry into New England has largely con
tributed to emancipate woman there from pecuniary de-
pendence, and to increase the reward of her honest toil.
There is no question with us as to the utility and ad-

vantage of sustaining and cherishing manufactures—we
inquire only whether more good may not be done, more
evil prevented, while we cherish them—and we insist
that there may be. Let our manufacturers spare no
pains or expense to make the situation of those they em-
ploy just what it should be—let the hours of their labour
be reduced, and everything essential to their health pro-
vided, without reducing their wages--and then let
the country be appealed to to sustain our own truly
free labour against the cheaper vassal service of the Old
World. Rely on it, though a tariff of one hundred per
cent. were demonstrably necessary, the country would
cheerfully impose and unflinchingly maintain it Who
would not eheerlully pay a beggarly rent a yard is ore
on cotton fabrics to secure such a result? NV ho would
earn how many agents of BirmioghAtn and Leeds went
showing and rubbing their trumpery specimens through
the committe rooms oc Congress, while our labourers
were p'osperous. healthful, contented, and Kapp) ?
The Great National Fair at Washington next week
will naturally draw together a great number of persons
engaged in manufactures from all parts of the country.
Wh• will they not come together there and consider
whether soul, thing cannot be done, may not be done, to
limit and render uniform the hours of labour in future
throughout the country? A voluntary resolution thus
framed and acted on would exert the force of law over
the whole Union. It would do more to establish and
secure the protective policy than reams of undeniable
statistics and cart-loans of convincing speeches.—
Friends of Home Industry ! will you not think on this
subject and speak out ? Speak now.

LAW INTELLIGENCE
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 1.
(Sittings in Banco.)
TURNER V. DARLINGTON.

Tbis was an application by Mr. Bodkin for a rule
calling upon the defendant to show cause why the plain
tiff should not be discharged from prison, to which he
was committed by a magistrate for an alleged breach of
a contract entered into between him and his employer.
It appeared that plaintiff is a working miner, and had,
with many other workmen, entered into a contract with
the defendant to work in the mines of the latter for a
term of eleven months, under certain regulations. The
plaintiff and the other workmen absented themselves
from the works for reasons which they assigned to be
good and sufficient, and for this the defendant laid a
complaint against them before a magistrate in Lanca-
shire. where the mines are situated, and they were by
this functionary committed to prison, upon the ground
that they had violated their contract. The case now
came on to he arguei.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Fluddleston appeared for the
plaintiff; Mr. Cowling, Mr. James, and Mr. Fry for the
defendant.

The COURT, having: heard the Rrguments on the one
side and the other, decided that there was not sufficient
in the information to warrant the committal in this case,
for that various just reasons might arise to warrant a
man in absenting himself from his work without any
breach of contract—such, for instance, as the act of
God. On the whole, in this case it did not appear to
the Court that there was any violation of the contract by
the plaintiff.
Mr. BODKIN, counsel for plaintiff, here remarked that
there were five others in the same position, and that the
decision in this case would govern the whole.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Louis Pontowsky, a foreigner, who pretended that he
could not speak a word of English, was brought before
Alderman Gibbs for final examination charged with
having stolen a clock, the property of the Directors of
the Marine Assurance Company in Cornhill, and a
watch, the property of Mr. Johnson, perfumer, of
Cornhill.

John Baker, a City policeman, stated in, answer to
questions put by Alderman Gibbs, that the prisoner
spoke the English language perfectly well as they came
along the streets from the Compter to the Mansion
House, and understood the nature of tl e charges against
him. Witness &so said that, upon apprehending the
prisoner for stealing the clock, he found in his waistcoat
pocket a watch which Mr. Johnson identified.
Mr. Robert Johnson, of No. 68, Cornhill, stated that
some days before the prisoners apprehension, he had
deposited his gold watch in the drawer of a looking-
ulass in one of the upper rooms in the house. The
thief must have walked into the house in the broad day,
and had taken away several trinkets of value which had
been deposited in the same place.
The prisoner said, "Me no speak a word of English.
Me not steal any ting. "
Alderman GlBns.—l shall commit you for trial, for
robbery. I dare say you'll understood that ?
The prisoner.—No ; me not understand one word you
say.—(A laugh.)
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Frederick Chapman, a millwright just arrived from
Bedfordshire, was charged by Mr. Gale, solicitor, of
Basinghall-street, with having assaulted several females
walking that morning from St. Paul's to the Poultry.
The defendant was quite lively and indifferent for a
while.

Mr. Gale said that as he walked along St. Paul's, he
saw the defendant with a bag half across his shoulder
apparently filled with implements of work, which he
swung about in such a 'winner, that many females were
struck by it, and no deubt hurt. The fellow cared
nothing about expostulation, but laughed at the mischief
he was doing and jogged on, thrusting his bag of tools
against the women whom he seemed to have marked out
for that sort of sport. There was no policeman visible
until witness reached the Poultry, when he instantly
gave the defendant into custody.
. .

- A gentleman, who had been in Cheapside at
the time, said that he received the first notice of the de-
fendant's ruffianism by a blow from the bag of tools him-
self. He heard several ladies complain. The defendant,
in fact, walked as if there was no person in the street
except himself, although the crowds were great.
Alderman GIBBS—Was he drunk?—The witness said
there was no appearance of intoxication about the man.
The defendant—l couldn't be drunk, for all I drinked
was one point of beer, and that wouldn't make I drunk.
Alderman GIBBS—And what have you to say? The
defendant—Why, oy was going along quoiek enough,
and the people pushed, and oy warn't to blame. (Here
he looked round and laughed.)
Alderman Glens—You have just come from the
country? The defendant—Oy; just corned by railway,
and I'm going to another part of the country to work.
.
Alderman GlBBB—Then you must pay twenty shillings
for this conduct, or go to prison for fourteen days.
The defendant—What, poy twenty shillings! I ha'n't
got no twenty shillings to poy.
Alderman GIBBS—Then you must go to gaol. We
must not have people knocked about in this way.
The coutryman retired from the bar in amazement,
and upon getting close to the " lock-up," appealed to
some of the policemen, and supplicated their influence
with the alderman to induce him to reverse the sentence.
Finding, however, that his intentions were thrown
away, he said, " Well, I'll pay the money, but moind, I
I think it's very cruel."
Ann Wood, a well-known imposter, was charged with
having shammed fits in the street.
The prisoner played her old character to such per-
fection, that several persons supposed she was in the
agonies of death, and medical aid was procured, but the
surgeon who saw her, knew the nature of her disease,
and caused her to be taken to the police-station, whore
she speedily recovered, and begged to be allowed to go
home unassisted.

Alderman Gins said, that upon one occasion, the
prisoner had been sent to her parish in the country, but
she arrived in town some time before the officer who
was ordered to accompany her.
She was committed to Bridewell for two months.

SCROOBY GIBBET POST.—Most of our readers are
aware, that for several years past a gibbet-post has been
exhibited near the Scroobv toll-bar, on the north road,
about two miles to the south of Bawtry. On the 3d of July,
1779, William Yeadon, and his mother, Mary Yeadon, the
keepers of the Scrooby toll-gate, were cruelly murdered,
and the house plundered by a person of the name of John
Spencer, a native of North Liverton, who was shortly after-
wards taken, and on his trial, for the horrible tragedy at
Nottingham, a few days afterwards, he was found guilty, and
sentenced to be executed, and afterwards his body to be hung
in chains in accordance with the express words of his sen-
tence, After the lapse of a few weeks, a party of soldiers con-
veying a deserter passing by the place, the sergeant fired his
carbine, loaded with ball, at the corpse, and hit it, which
caused a stench, almost unbearable for several days after-
wards. The circumstance becoming known, the party was
followed, and the sergeant taken, and on being subsequently
tried by a court• martial he was found guilty and degraded
into the ranks. Years rolled on, and the body gradually
became less and less, until nothing was left but the chains
which originally shackled it, and these in course of time
fell and were secretly conveyed away. For several late years
the post, with its withered and weather-beaten arm, was the
only vestige left of that deed of blood which sixty-seven
years ago filled the minds of the inhabitants of the surround-
ing districts with horror. But time, which levels all
past
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tial objects with its corroding breath, had for yearsco re and on
gradually gnawing this once loathed stump to itsa
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FRENCH SHAWLS.—It havingtask, and it
Foreenocfh duty,go a
goods
the Board of Customs that an importer of f
free
had recently imported into this a
fringe,
the Commissioners
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with the same, with directions to
them and the officers under their control and supervision
to take care thataofriotub
articles of this description be charged with
the duty legally due thereon, viz., ten per cent. ad valorem,
under the resolutions of the House of Commons, trans-
mitted
to them in an order issued by theßoraesrodlui in Anlsarrceh-
last, directing the same to be immediately carried into
effect. Woollen manufactures are, by the
ferred to, now free ; the fringe, therefore, which was at-
tached to these woollen shawls, destroyed the privilege and
rendered them liable to the duty named. This
decision is of
importance to the trade and the importers of French and
other foreign manufactures of this
_description.
THE LONDON MAILS FROM MANCHESTEE.—On and
after Monday next, the Ist of June, a mixed mail-train will
be dispatched from the station of the Manchester and Bir-
mingham Railway, London -road, Manchester, for Birming-
ham and London, at a quarter past six o'clock in the morn-
ing, arriving in London about one o'clock, which is about
the same time that the morning mail train now reaches
London, starting from the Victoria station at four in the
morning, and going round by Newton and Warrington.
There will be a similar train from Liverpool, starting at six
in the morning, and joing that from Manchester at Crewe,
whence they will form a joint mail train southward. There
are numerous and important alterations contemplated at the
Post-office, and which are also intended to commence on
Monday next, if the requisite preparations can be completed
in time. We believe that the London mails will arrive here •
a Hale earlier than at present.—Mane. ester Guardian of
Saturday. _ _

A singular suicide took pl-ice a few days ago at
Ligueil (Indre et Loire). A man named Alatburier, over-
come by some domestic troubles, went into a vine-ground,
and having made a pile of faggots set it on fire, and laying
himself upon it was consumed. His body, which was not
discoyerad till the morning, had become a calcined meas.

MARKET NEWS. —(YESTERDAY).
CORN EXCHANGE.
The past week's arrivals of English Wheat have been mo-
derate, but those of all other kinds of Grain of home produce
have been limited. From Ireland and Scotland very little
Grain has come to hand, while from abroad the receipts have
been by no means extensive. Fresh up, the arrivals of
Wheat of home produce were small• but of fair average
quality. The stands being scantily filled with samples, the
demand for all kinds of Er glish Wheat was steady, at fully
the prices obtained on Monday last, and at which a fair
clearance was effected by the Factors. The accounts
which have come to band by this morning's post respecting
the appearance of the wheat crops are very favourable,
Notwilistliating the show of free foreign Wl.eat was again
small, that descrii,tion of produce, if we except the very
finest parcels, which sold in every instance at full prices,
moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Bonded Wheats, the
supply of which was somewhat on the increase, commanded
very little attention, yet a few thousand quarters changed
hands on certificates, at lOs to Ils per quarter.
The stock in bond is now extremely large.
We had only a moderate quantity of Barley on offer. Fine
qualities nmved I f at very full currencies ; but all other kinds
were a mere drug, though we cannot call them cheaper.
The show of Malt was moderately good. The demand was
wholly of a retail character at late rates.. Although the show
of Oats was trifling, that article met a very inactive inquiry.
Fine dry parcels sold at last week's prices, but the middling
and inferior kinds were 6d. per quarter lower. Both Beans
and Peas ruled excessively dull, at barely late rates. In
Flour next to nothing was doing, and some good marks of
town-made sold at 475. per 280Ibs.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Wheat—Essex & Kent, M alt—Chevaller • • • • 63. tO 650
Red, New.... 44s to 588 Oats—Yorkshire and
Ditto,Whitc, Old.. 49s 63s Lincolnsh., Feed. 23s 245
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe ...... •• • • 305 331
coin, Red..... 44s 50. Yougln.l and Cork,
Ditto, White •• • • 49s 595 Black . 23s 241
Irish, Red •••• • • • • —s —s Cork, White..... 225 271
Ditto, White ••• • • • —s —s Scotch, Feed. .... 26s 290
itye—Old •••••• • • • • • . 325 33s Beans—Tick ......... 301. 261
New. .••••• • • • • • • 31. 33s Pigeons 425 481
Barley—Grinding .•• • • 25s 27. Pease—Grey . ........ 315 310
Malting . • • 29s 32s Map1e........... 335 361
Chevalier •• • • 335 345 White ........... 375 280
slalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers .........39s 410
folk 55s 59s Flour—Town-made .• . 505 535
8r0wn........... 51s 52s Suffolk ..... 39s 410
Kingston and Ware 62s 63s Stocktn & Nortblk 415 421
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
Wheat—Dant.ic...... 538 to 563 Beans •
llamburgh ..... 48. 50s Pease •••• • . • • 303 33s
Barley . ..... ....... 203 24. Flour—American .• .• • 26s 271
Oats--New 24s 25. Baltic 27s - 295
Feed ...... • 19s 205
SMITHFIELD.
The imports of live stock from abroad, since this day
se'nnight, into London, have consisted of 68 Oxen. 25 Cows,
260 Sheep, and 26 Lambs, from Rotterdam ; together with
15 Oxen, 45 Cows, and 3 Sheep, from Harlingen, in, com-
paratively speaking, excellent condition. At Hull abbut
300 head of Beasts and Sheep have come to hand from Hol-
lan4. We had on sale 50 Oxen from Prussia (shipped at
Rotterdam, and included in the above), and 30 ditto from
Holland, which moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices.
Annexed is a statement of the arrivals of stock from
abroad, in the three months of the last three years, ending
on the sth of April : _ _

_
1844 1845 1846
Oxen
Cows
Calves
Sheep
Lambs
Pigs
The arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning, though con-
siderably less than those on this day se'nnight, was, owing to
the warm weather, more than equal to the wants of the
butchers ; hence the Beef trade was in a very inactive state,
at bareli, but at nothing quotable beneath last week's prices.
From IN orfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we re'
ceived about 1,500 Scots, Homebreds, and Short
Horns; from the western and midland counties, 400
Hereford's, runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of
England 300 of various kinds ; and from Scotland, 295 horned
and polled sorts. The numbers of Sheep were seasonabll,
large; yet, on the whole, the Mutton trade was steady, and
previous rates were well supported in every instance. The
supply of Lambs was moderately extensive; yet the sale for
that description of stock was firm, at very full prices. I°
Calves, very little was doing, at Friday's depressed figure!:
The Pork trade was unusually dull, and the quotations lieu •
downward tendency. The general quality of the stock Witi
very good.

Y, d to 11. d
Second quality ditto 3 6
Coarse-woolledditte 3 10 4 "
Southdown Wethers 4 t 4 4
Ditto out of the wool
S 4
Large Hogs 3
Small Porkers .... 4 8 419
Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 16 9 g
Lambs .......... 5 0 w

Per 811 gs. to sink the offal.
s. d. e. d
Inferior Beasts .. •• 2 6 2 8
Second quality ditto. 210 3 4
Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8
Prime Scots ...... 310 4 0
Large coarse Calves 3 8 310
Prime small ditto .. 4 0 4
suckling Calves ..18 0 29 0
Inferior Sheep .. . 3 2 3 6

1 piss.
2130

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. Calves.
2,644 24,290 I 114
NEWGATE AND LZIATIENITAX.X.
Notwithstanding the prevailing warm weather, the arriv"
of country-killed meat up to these markets since Mcnday
last have been on the increase, and of full average
The supplies of meat slaughtered in the metropolis having
been somewhat extensive, the general demand bag been in
a very inactive state, and the quotations have had a down;
ward tendency. About 50 carcases of foreign Beasts, an
100 ditto of Sheep, have appeared on sale. quality.

At per atone, by the Carcase.
a. d. to a. d. 8. d. to S. t
Beef, inferior...... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 3 4 3 0
- middling ••.. 2 . 6 2 8 --- middling.. 310 4 _ _

prime large ••2 10 3 2 prlme7:.; 4-6
prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.... •..• 3 4 4
yeah—. .... •• • . . 3 8 4 8 small ........ 4 4 410
Lamb. 5s Od to 6s 2d.
ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK.

Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs.
25 260 180

Yorkshire •• .• .• •• •. 30 300
Lincolnshire
Norfolk • •• • . 30 120
Suffolk .• • ....... •• .. •.•• • . 30 200
Cambridgeshire

240
120
80
100
80

Essex ........................., 20

Surrey ................
Devonshire ...................
Wiltshire ...... ••• • .• •• • •• •• .