The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-18 00:00:00

keep the trade in a dull state, and a iurther fall of about
2s. per quarter has taken place in the price of wheat at
the principal provincial markets held since Monday,
making the total decline from the highest point 4s. to ss.
per quarter. Within the last few days the inclinatiOn
to buy has somewhat increased, and we are disposed to
think that the downward movement is about to be ar-
rested. For some weeks to come farmers are likely to
be occupied with wheat sowing; and as the stocks in the
hands of the millers have been a good deal decreased of
late, it is not improbable that, with an improved de-
mand and short supplies, a firmer tone may be assumed
by sellers.

The accounts from Ireland do not speak so despond-
ingly of the state of the country this week as before.
There, as on this side of the Channel, the late crops of
potatoes appear to have turned out rather better than
had been calculated on; which circumstance, and the
dull advices from England, together with the arrival of
several large cargoes of Indian corn at some of the
principal ports, had caused a small reaction in prices of
provisions.

At Mark-lane business has remained in a quiet state
throughout the week. The supply of wheat coastways
into London has been extremely small, only 2,907 quar-
ters having been reported up to Saturday evening ;
whilst, by land carriage scarcely a sample has appeared
since Monday. The trifling nature of the arrivals has,
however, had little effect beyond that of imparting some-
what more confidence to factors. Neither on Wednesday
nor Friday could higher terms be realised for even the
best qualities than in the beginning of the week, but at
previous prices, the few lots exhibited on the Essex and

Kent stands were placed without much difficulty.
Holders of free foreign wheat were generally very firm;
and though the transactions were on a restricted scale,
former terms were steadily maintained. A few pur-
chases of low quality were made towards the close of
the week for shipment to Ireland, but, on the whole, the

operations were not of much importance. Bonded wheat
has met with some attention for export to France, and
prices have been paid for the article under lock relatively
higher than those at which similar qualities have been
offered free; fcr a cargo of moderately good red 585.,
and for middling Dantzic 60s. to 61s. per quarter having
been realised. Several purchases were reported to have
been made on Wednesday, and on Friday two or three
cargoes were again' taken on French account; as, how-
ever, the imports from abroad have amounted to 11,322
quarters during the week, the stocks in bond have been
rather increased than diminished since our last. The late
fall in the value of wheat has not as yet produced any
effect on the averages; indeed, the last general weekly
return (625. 3d.) is 6d per quarter higher than that for
the preceding week. There is consequently no prospect
of the duty rising.
The nominal top price of flour has remained stationary;
Norfolk and other ship qualities have, however, in par-
tial instances, been forced off at slightly reduced terms,
and American flour has been sold somewhat cheaper.
The arrival of the latter has been small, 595 barrels

having come to hand within the last eight days.
The market has been moderately supplied with barley
of home growth; and of the 4,163 quarters of English
received, only a comparatively small proportion has con-
sisted of really fine qualities. Superior malting samples
were, consequently, held a trifle higher towards the close
than in the commencement of the week, but the rise in
price was not of sufficient importance to render any alte-
ration in quotations necessary. The sale of distilling
and grinding barley was more or less interfered with by
the receipt of 13,129 quarters from abroad, principally
of secondary quality; even these sorts were, however,
not by any means cheaper on Friday than on Monday.
The brewers have bought malt cautiously, and in some
cases they have succeeded in purchasing a little below
previous rates ; but should the present value of barley
be maintained, that of malt cannot well recede.
The arrivals of oats from our own coast have consisted
of only 672 quarters, whilst from Scotland 1,271 quar-
ters have come to hand; and none from Ireland. With
such scanty supplies of home-grown corn a rise in prices
would have taken • place, notwithstanding the arrival of
21,244 quarters from abroad, if there had not been some
quantity of the latter previously on the market. The
necessity to clear vessels where the lay days were about
to expire, caused factors to be more moderate in their
pretensions than they otherwise might have been, and
the business done both on Wednesday and Friday, was
at similar terms to those current in the beginning of the
week. The wind having blown constantly from the
eastward for several days past, it is fair to infer that
nearly the whole of the oats recently shipped froth the
near continental ports for this market are now here; and
unless a change of wind should bring us an Irish supply,
the market may soon become bare, a large proportion of
the foreign oats having already gone into the stores of
the dealers.

Though the quantity of beans brought forward has
been moderate, some difficulty has been experienced in
their disposal, and Monday's currency has barely been
supportcd for English. Egyptian beans have been held
firmly at former rates, but there has not been much
doing either in parcels on the spot or cargoes to arrixe,
Of English peas very few have come to market; and
the best white boilers, as well as handsome samples of
grey and maple, have been held pretty firmly.enlgi,i4;
white peas, of which the arrivals harp. i•-- '-,
have been offered on'er;:,,i----,4,eiY
Indian corn
out er,;ans wucit attention.
Having scarcely any out
terms with-
on the spot, its exact
...-.1“. ,cannot be well quoted; cargoes to arrive have, how-
ever, been rrue,y urn-. cr,P, ....1 ..,.I,pro bargains have been
closed lower prices have been accepted.
FOREIGN.

There appears is hare been a moderate business done at
some of the principal ports in the Baltic in wheat for
shipment to England ; but, from the generally low
stocks of old in that quarter, and the scanty manner-in
which the farmers have hitherto brought forward sup-
plies of new, the actual sales hare not been large. At
Dantzic about 240 lasts changed hands during the week
ending the 7th November, a small portion of which had
consisted of fine high-mixed, the growth of 1842, for
which 575. per quarter had been realised ; but the bulk
of what had been sold had been of ordinary quality,
not weighing more than 591135. to the bushel, at a price
equal to 495. per quarter, free on board. The arrivals
from the interior down the Vistula had been very small,
owing to the want of sufficient water in that river to
float down the barges. The weather had become very
cold, and an early close of the inland navigation was ex-
pected The total exports of wheat from Dantzic, dur-
ing October had amounted to 3,182 lasts, upwards of
1,000 of which had gone to Holland, France, Belgium,
and Jersey, and the remaining 2,000 lasts to British
ports. Several vessels had come to hand, which had
the effect of causing a small decline in the rates of freight.
A large ship had been chartered for Liverpool at ss. 10d.,
and another had been placed for London at 6s. per
quarter for wheat.
Frorri Konigsberg we have letters of the 6th instant.
Beyond a purchase or two of oats and peas, the former
at 19s. to 205., and the latter at 40s. per quarter, very
little appears to have been done there in the grain trade.
In wheat absolutely nothing, and in barley only retail
sales had taken place.
Letters from Stettin, of the 9th inst., inform us that
a good many ships had arrived at Swinemunde, the load-
ing of which would, it was expected, give some impetus
to the business in corn. Meanwhile hardly a sale had
been made, and the value of most articles have remained
nominally unaltered. Barley for spring shipment had,
however, been offered at reduced terms, contracts hay.
ing been closed at 30s. per quarter.
The accounts from Rostock of the 9th are wholly
without interest, no supplies having been brought to that
market of sufficient consequence to allow any business
beyond that of a local character being done.
At Hamburgh some purchases of wheat appear to have
been made on French account, and the advices of Tuesday
last from thence state that quite 4,000 qrs. had been
taken for that destination at a price equal to 535. 9d. per
quarter. Barley had moved off somewhat slowly, and
the value of this grain had tended downwards. New
Saale had been held at 38s. 6d., but the highest bid ob-
tained had not exceeded 375. 9d. per quarter. The de-
mand for oats had also fallen off materially.
In the Mediterranean comparatively little wheat ap

pears to have been brought for shipinent to England,
most of the supplies from other parts having been
directed to Marseilles, where prices continue very high.
A letter from Genoa, dated the 6th of November.
states that a good many wheat laden vessels had ar-
rived there, but that many of them had orders to pro-
ceed to Marseilles. Marianopoli wheat was worth at the
first named port 545. 3d. to 565., and Polish Odessa, 565.
to 575. Bd. per quarter.—Mark-lane Express.

PARDON TO THE CONVICT DONOVAN.--It Will be
remembered that on the occasion of an Orange-Galic
affray in the streets of Bradford, at Whitsuntide,
.e 1844,
1 Donovan
a person was killed, and a man named D
and sentenced to transportation for i
was tried for the homicide, convicted of amnnaiwnsaslaugalwhate3%
Dpornoovvedaninwhasis
innocent; and that an alibi could
t.
was
strongly protested by his friends
last at Bradford,
favour. When Lord MOrPe laidh
before his Lordship,
evidence on the subjectbe clearly tht
the
This having been done, Sir
of the Home Secretary.
communicated the decision to LOrd
who engaged to bringwascase under the consideration
George Grey has .
letter, bearing date White-
-1840 •—" My Lord—Having had
hall, 2d November, . • . .
consideration the application which I had the
under .
in the following
Morpeth,
honour to re - ceive from your Lordship in behalf of Da-
niel Donovan, who was convicted at
York Assizes, in
July, 1844, of manslaughter, and sentenced to be trans•
ported for life, I beg to acquaint your Lordship, that,
under all the circumstances of the case, I felt warranted
in taking measures for the grant of a pardon to this
convict on condition of his not returning to the United
Kingdom, should his conduct have been good since his
arrival in Van Diemen's Land." The intelligence has
been received with great pleasure by Donovan 's friends,
and has, of course, been communicated to his wife and
family, who are living at Cork.—Leeds Mercury.
MEND YOUR WAYS.—A few days -ago, while
locked up in Gracechurch-street, where we stood mo-
tionless for twenty-five minutes, " by Shrewsbury clock,"
we made an approximate calculation of the time lost
annually for want of proper road room. The result wits
startling, as our readers may see, if eney call to mind
that less than 9,000 hours make a year, and that if only
double that number of persons lose half an hour in the
day, more than three hundred years of active life are
wasted within the twelvemonth. This is very far from
the amount of time really wasted (satisfy yourself of it,
curious reader, by calculating the number of
.persons in
every yard of road, when you are next compelled to
creep from the Poultry to St. Paul's), and although it
may be laughed at as fanciful, unquestionably deserves
to be remembered--The Builder. _

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Mr. Thomas Moore, the celebrated Irish poet, is
much recovered.—Limekiek Chninicle.