The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

(JERI:ENT II ['ER IMPERIAL MEASURE
','neat .—Essex & Kent, i zilt—Chevalher •• ..

.. 59s to COs

Red. 47n tos4s
Ditto,White, New 5.s 60$ 1
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, lied.... -44 n 48s
Ditto, White • • • • • . 46s 52s
Irish, lied.— •••• —s —3
Ditto, White —s —s
Rye—Old • . • • ...• • . —s s
New. • • • • • . 31n 33s
Barley --Grinding .... 46s 29,
Malting ..... • lltin 31s
Chevalier 32s 33s
"Malt—Suffolk and Nor-
folk ... . 55s siin
Brown 46s 54s
Kingston And Ware 56s 59.
SMITH:

oats— Yorkshire and
Lincoln:Al., Food. iris 21i
rotato
Youglod and Cork,
81ack....... 155 17s
Cork, White ... 17e 21e
Scotch, Feed. •• • . 215 23s
Beaus—Tlck • • 32s 34s
Pigeons
l'eas—Grey ••• .. 355 37a
>taple..• • ••• •• Mks 37e
White. ••• • •• • 365 375
Boilers .•••• • • • • 37s 39a
Flour—Town-mule ~• 411 46s
Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 34.. 38,
Stocktn tic Norfolk 34s 31111
rxELD.

The imports of foreign st
under:—

(Ai( into London last week

From whence. Beasts.
Havre . ..... 15 —;
Rot.entani 421 ... 2,851
Amsterdam ... 79 ... 828 ...
Hamburg:l 128 ... 210
Harlingen ... 148 ... 818 ... 65
New Diep... . 27 ... 338

Sheep.

Lambs.

Calvet.

•••
172 ... 343
71
19
86
84

Total BlB
Correz•pundiog
week iii 1847_1;373 ... 5,141 ... 315 ... 586

5,045

Difference ... 555 less. 96 less. 78 less. 17 more
About 2,000 head of stock have been landed at the
northern outports from Holland and Germany ;
and 120 Oxen at Southampton from Portugal, in
wretched condition. The letter have been dis-
posed of at an average price of only 91 per head.
We were souv-what heavily supplied with the foreign stock
to-day, in the general quality of which, with the excep-
tion of the Beasts from Portugal, in number twenty-nine,
a decided improvement was noticed. On the whole the
demand was steady, and a fair clearance was effected, at
about last week's prices. From our various grazing dis-
tricts the arrivals of Beasts fresh up this morning were
moderately extensive as to number, but theii general
quality was by no means first-rate. As the weather
continued chaegeable and the attendance of buyers was
far from large, the Beet trade was in a sluggish state,
at prices about equal to those obtained on
this day se'nnight. The highest figures for
the best Scots were from 4s to 4s 2d per 81b.
The arrivals of beans tor to-day's market from Norfolk,
Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, and the northern coun-
ties, consisted of about 1,200 Scots, short-horns, &c.
From the western and midland counties, there were re-
ceived 600 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c.; from other
parts of England, 600 of various kinds; from Ireland, by
see, 40 Beasts; and from Scotland, 280 horned and polled
Scots, partly by railway. With Sheep, we were season-
ably well supplied. Their general quality, how-
ever, was not to say prime; and there was a great
scarcity of the best old Downs. For all kinds we
have to report a very steady inquiry, at fully, but
at nothing quotable beyond last week's quotations,
and at which a good clearance was effected.
There was a full average supply of Lambs on offer_,-
nevertheless, the demand for that description of stock
was firm, at Friday's advance in the currencies of 2d per
81b. The primest Down qualities sold at 5s 4d to 5s 6d
per Sibs. Prime small Calves were iii steady request, at
full prices. Otherwise, the Veal trade was in a sluggish
state, at late figures. In Pigs exceedingly little-business
was transacted, and prices were with difficulty supported.
Per sibs. to sink the offal.
s. d. te s. d.
Inferior Beasts..... 3 0 3 2
!,econd quality •.• • 3 4 3 0 Coarse-weolled ditto 4 6 4 6

I. d. to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4

Prime large Oxen 3 6 310 Southdown Wether 410 5 0
Prime Scots
Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 6 Large Hogs ••••• • 3 10 4 2
Prime small ditto
suckling Calves l6 0 23 0 Quarter old Pigs ..15 0 22 0
Inferior Sheep ..
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sheep. Calves. I Pigs.
I I
3,659 26.090 216 260
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts. I S
3heep. I Calves. I Pigs.
427 ,130
I+72III77GATE AND .IMULDENNA24.•
Very moderate supplies of country killed meat have
been received up to these markets since Monday last,
via., 300 carcasses of Beef, 600 ditto of Mutton, 500 ditto
of Lamb, 300 ditto of Veal, and 300 ditto of Pork. For
the time of year those on offer, slaughtered in the me-
tropolis, have been good, but f very middling quality.
Prime Mutton and Lamb have commanded a steady
sale, at very full prices. Otherwise the demand has
ruled inarlive, at barely late rates. About 1,000 car-
casses of foreign meat, killed in London, have been dis-
posed of at low currencies.

At per stone by the Carcase.

a. d. to a. d. s. d. to s. d.
Beef,inferior.• .... 2 8 210 Hutton, inferior 3 6 3 1
- middling •• •• 3 0 3 3- middling 4 0 4 4
- primelarge .. 3 2 3 4 - prime 4 6 4
- prime small .. 3 v 3 8 Pork, large.. 3 6 4 2
Veal.• ••••..• • .• • • 3 3 4 21 - small .. 4 4 4 6
Lamb. 4d 2d to 6s 4d.
BOROUGH AND SPITALPZZLBS.
Very large supplies of Potatoes are on sale in these
markets. An extensive business is, however, passing in
them, at from 31 lOs to 5/ 15s per ton. The imports
from abroad are falling off.
BOROUGH HOP BILAMICZT.
Our market is tolerably well, bat not to say heavily
supplied with hops, all descriptions of which are a very
dull inquiry at barely the late decline in the quotations.
The duty is called from 205,000/. to 210,0001. Sussex
Pockets, 2/ 2s to 21 6s; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 4s to
21 10s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 2l 8s to 51per cwt.
WOOL.
.

The imports of Wool into London, last week, were
confined to about 1,000 bales from Adelaide, 110 ditto,
from Odessa; 100 ditto, from Liamburgh; and 100-ditto,
from various other quarters. There is a slight improve.
ment in the demand ior the best combing sorts of English
Wool, at lull prices. Colonial qualities are tolerably
steady, at unaltered quotAtions.
TALLOW.
For most kinds of Tallow, both on the spot and for
forward delivery, the demand is steady, at prices some-
what in advance of th,•se paid last week. P.Y.C. on
the spot is quoted at 44s 6d for new and 445 for old ;
Town Tallow, 44s 6d to 44s 9d per cwt. net cash;
Rough Fat 2s 6d per Blbs.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
Edward Adams, a well-dressed young man, was
brought before Mr. Bingham, in custody of Inspector
Lund, of the A division, under the following circum-
stances:—

Inspector Lund said, on Saturday evening he was on
duty at her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, when
he saw a lady drop the pocket handkerchief, now pro-
duced, near the box entrance. A gentleman who was
passing at the time drew it accidentally along
the pavement with his walking stick. The
defendant, who was standing close by witness,
saw this and ran forward, and snatching it up put it in
his pocket, and was walking off with it, when a con-
stable who was present stopped him and brought him to
witness. He asked the defendant to deliver up the
handkerchief', and told him that it belonged to a lady
who had gone into the theatre. The defendant said be
should do nothing of the kind, it did not beloeg to
witness, and he, therefore, could not have
anything to do with it. Witness then asked
him for his name and address, and informed him that be
had seen him pick up the handkerchief, and if he did not
give it up he (witness) should take him into custody.
As defendant refused to comply with either nquest,
witness took him to the station.
In answer to the charge, the accused said he was is
waiter, and had been out of a situation six months. lie
admitted picking up the handkerchief; and thought he
had as much right to it as any one else.
Mr. Bificuast—What might have been the legal
character of defendant's act before he was told by the
constable that the handkerchief was dropped by a lady
just before, and that the moment he was told by the
constable that he had seen it drop ; by detaining it was
an act of positive theft, or, in the term of the law, lar-
ceny. It might have been just possible that he might
have been ignorant of that fact. He would, therefore,
give him the benefit of that doubt, and discharge biro
with a caution.

MITE/MITA FIRES.—Two extensive fires occurred
this morning, both of them attended with great loss of
property, and one with severe injury to a female. The
last fire happened at a private house in Duke-street,
Aldgate, about three o'clock, and although one of the
best localities in the City for assistance from the fire-
stations, the upper part of the premises were consumed
and the adjoining house damaged. The loss is covered
by insurance in this instance. The first fire occurred
in a broker's shop at Dockhead, and from the nature of
the property in the house, caused the whole to be de•
stroyed. The female above alluded te, in the confusion
that prevailed, threw herself into the street. She was
removed in a dangerous state to Guy's hospital.
EZITIIIMENTS IN Tfl MAISNES. WOOL/flat
Acct. s.—Lieutenant-Colonel Crittenden, Lieutenant-
Colonel R. Hardinge, K. 11., Director of the Laboratory
Department, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Chalmer,
Assistant Director General, attended at the Practice
Range of the Royal Arsenal, in the Plumstead-marshei;
yesterday afternoon, to witness experiments with a new
concussion shell, the invention of a Mr. D. A. Tucker,
and which, in military circles, has caused almost eS
much curiosity as the long range of Captain Warner,
partly from the difficulty of procuring an effective con"
cussion shell, and partly from the very high merits
which the inventor laid claim to for his shells. He 8191
it can be manufactured to any calibre," can be fire'
from " cannon on the old principle," explodes by simple
contact with body, hard or soft, ensures a longer range,
greater certainty of range, safety in handling and trans-
porting, so that it can be stowed on a vessel's deck
during engagements; explodes equally well under water,
not being dependent upon ignition, and is fearfully de-
structive. Lie also guarantees to alter all the existing
shells in the service to his own principle. Six rounds
only were fired from Z2-pounder guns at a ranges of 400
yards. Tho four first shells burst on striking the target,
the fifth a few seconds after striking the target, and the
sixth appeared to be a failure. The experiments were
constantly interrupted by the movements of various
vessels which passed up the river within the line of fire'
mien PROVIBIONS.—The vessel Queen Victoria
arrived in the river from Waterford, has brought 1,987
firkins of butter, 227 bales of bacon, 70 barrels and 100
kegs of lard, &c ; and the Corkscrew, from Cork, bl 9
brought 2.845 firkins of butter, 150 kegs of lard; 14 4
packages of salmon, several of eggs, and other articles;
the City of Limerick, from Dublin, 131 firkins of butter,
156 of paper, and it general cargo of merchandise; the
Ajax, from Cork, 1,650 packages of butter, 434 hscof
ages ot fish, 80 bales ot bacon, 150 boxes ot eggs. 21
general provisions, 210 of soap, 41 head of live csttleer
and several packages of port; r, lard, whisky, and ()thorn
articles, the produce of Ireland. It would appear tr
these arrivals, that the present disturbed state ef
southern portion of thu sister island, does not preee""
the usual supply of provisions to England taking place..
Coeviczs.—Fifty convicts from Cockatoo Island
and the gaol were put on b,,ard the Governor Philliposon
Wednesday, fur transportation to Norfolk Maud.
tralian Journal, Marcii 24,