The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

THE ,CORN TRADE.

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Hutt, TansDAy.,-;We cannot report any more briskness
iu the.corn trade during the past week. At to-day's market
there was a fair show of wheat
.from the farmers, and the
condition improved. Last week's Priees. were fully main-
tained. In free foreign nothing doing. There 'area fevi in-
quiriee for bonded,'withont, flowerer, leading to business. N..
:alteration in the Value,of 'spring co!n. In linseed there has
been very little' passing. • Linseed cakes are very chill of
sale, at rather lower rates. Rapeseed is unaltered; the ar-
rivals continue very small. Rape cakes are very scarce, and
maintain their price. Bones are inquired. for, but nut much
act ual business pjssing. Guano goes otf in retail..
NVAKEFtzu), Fittt)Av.—We hare a small supply of each
article to this daystnarket, at which there is an improved
uwnintohtielde.exTclit
demand tbr all dt-lciiptions of gr,.tin. The finest qualities of
continue
Wheat are scarce, and obtain 15..t0, 28.' abbye list Friday"s
inferior qualities,
rate's' Other swims :111V
ibnest°f sortstl
of barley are 14. higher; With more business 'don's, in other
qualities. Oats are id. per stone; and shelling fully ls. per
load•higher. Ni alteration in beans or other articles.

,TREASERE FOUND IN A MISER'S Hovel:.—Some
months since, it will be recollected. that a commission of
lunacy was issued upon..a .maiden Jody named Sarah Carey,
whose age was •,upwards of eighty, and whose singular
penurious habits had, rendered her notorious in the neigh-
boarhood of her residence in the Cannon-street-road. Al-
though possessed 4f .considerable property, with, it is said, a
s herself-este n
invested in
iintifillthy rags, and deniedseclusion, herself
even'
nsidered the common necessaries of life..
w )fiila st, b
a ot) lre.
dressedicno'
She had resided in the same-dwelling. for a period of forty
years; and when the inquiry was held in the course of'
November last, the jury could only gain access by forcing
the pannels of the chamber, when •.the unfortunate lady was
found in the most deplorable state of filth and wretchedness.
The jury having found her of unsound mind, she , wasl
speedily removed and placed under care. The house has'
since been undergoing repair, and for some time after her
removal search. sea* made for supposed treasure, but first
without effect ; and it was not till very recently, upon a more
diligent search, that a discovery was made of what appeared'
to be waste paper, behind a beard in a closet, but which
proved to be Bank 'of England 'notes consisting of fives,
other
fifties, and hundiede(some-of Abraham Newland, • and coma
of the date of 1808), amounting to no less than 4,160/. In
placesv aiue .0t 1,
doubloons,ooo., aonldd
450 guineas,oz. and
plate,
worthold gao.
dl7
ins,
a t
he
the
whole being worth six or seven. thousand Rands. On tbe
' report recently made to the'Lorcl Chancellor, the gold and
plate were ordered to lie sql4ind the produce, with the other
cash, invested.
FIRE IN A COAL-PIT.—On Tuesday forenoon last,
about ten o'clock, a fire was discovered in an air-pit belong
ing to Mrs. Bullock, near Kenyon-lane, Wigan. The pit ip
question is an old air-pit, at the bottom of which is a fur-
nace, to draw- the damp air from the other pit; -and it is
supposed that the flirnace was.left in •an insecure state, and
must have ignited some coals. The workpeople commenced
filling up the mine with. earth, and pouring water down the
shaft in order to extinguish the fire, which had risen to a
'considerable height above the level of the mouth. Fertu-
nately the fire was confined to the one spot, but it will pre-
vent the miners frOm folloWing their employment
.until the
earth has been removed, or another pit open 'for air. Al.
though the fire appears at present •to be extinguished, it is
feared it will again break out.—Afeenchester Examiner.
Contents of the enhrged Observer of Sunday, March
15.—Latest news from America by five days, brought by the steam
ship Cambria, which arrived at Liverrel on Saturday; .contents of
Boston and New York papers to 2a and Ilalifax to the 4th of March ;
names of 41 passengerd. -Windsor' election of Mr. Neville on Satur-
day. Arrival of news on Saturday from Poland; Cracow oveupied by
the Austrians. •Marylebona meeting,-nn SaturdaY, on the Metropo-
Buildings Act. Contents of two official despatches from the
Earl of Aberdeen' to the British Minister in Switzerland. Four
columns of the trial at Bedford, " Coultas e. the Rev. Dr. Bowes."
. column on the subject of the pioneers of civilization at Liberia, on
the Gold Coast of Africa; and 32 columns of the latest miscellaneous,
;news, A Monday afternoon (*server is regularly published.
Broligham gave an elegant entertainment on
Saturday last, at the Noble Lord's residence in Oraftou-street.
CALITIoN As To POTATO • SToraNc.—Professor
lienslow communicates two . coriowt instances of spontaneous
ignition having nearly taken
place in consequence of fibrous mate-
riots being used to store potatoes. In one case a labourer at Ilitchin,
observing that some potatoes intended for seed were sprouting, stored
two bushels in perfectly dry bean-dust, the refuse after thrashing
and removing time stalks ; but the moisture from the potatoes so
maturated the hean,dust, that it heated and became charred ; some of
the potatoes were half reasted, and had it remained unnoticed a few
days longer the &Atage would probably have been burnt down. In
the other case, Mr. Joseph Rand, of flturilelgh, in October last, laid
tip a quantity
of potatoos in a small chamber olds malt-house, care-
fully packed in layers with dry "malt dust," which tails through the
kiln tiles. About a fortnight ago the Excise officers, in making thelr
inspection, lighted upon this heap, and happening to stir it up, found
the interior hi a state approaching to ignition, the potatods par-
boiled, or half baked, and the malt-dust perfectly charred. Imme-
diate steps were taken to remove the heap ; the potatoes being chiefly
rotten, were thrown away, and the malt-dust was laid on another,of
the same material,
be carried upon the land ; but in a Short time
it heated again so powerfully, that no time was lo,t removing It
from the
affected by the heat.
premises, the walls and floor of Which had been visibly

EXTRAORDINARY LITTER OF PIGS.- Mr. Rayner, of
Enfield, a sow which littered down t wenty-slx pig* and twenty-
four:are now alive, .ancora five, weeks old, ,Jhey, wr.re gx,the fdus!,
a1"414 1941$ 4t414 ',very ousaka ultfalifol7 1)7 tt,g 495 v.