The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-30 00:00:00

THUNDER STORM.

The storm of thunder and lightning. which passed over
this town on Thursday night week, visited, it appears, a
considerable portion of the south of Cumberland, and nearly
the whole of this county, and the districts adjacent. In Dent
a little girl, named Metcalf, was struck blind by the lightning.
A little girl was also injured in Longsleddale. The waters
near Cartmel were much swollen, trees were blown down,
and the roads in some places rendered impassable. The horses
in the mail between Lancaster and Burton leaped the • hedge,
and pulled the coach after them, but fortunately na accident
occurred. It was with the greatest difficulty they could be
kept on the road, so vivid was the lightning, and so terrific
the succeeding peals of thunder. The London mail, on its
way to Carlisle, was overturned about half a mile on this side
of Brough, from the horses being struck with lightning, the
flash of which was so vivid and powerful, as to drive the horscs
right into the ditch at the side of the road. One remarkable
circumstance in this case is, that the coachman was thrown cif
before the coach upset, and though he received no serious in-
jury, he had a narrow escape from being killed, the wheels
having passed over the brim of his hat ! The guard was
also thrown off, and had the tool box cast upon his
neck, lying on tho ground; but he, too, escaped any se-
rious harm. There were three passengers inside, who were
not in the least hurt ; but two of them, a lady and a gentle-
man, were so much frightened that they walked back to
Brough, where they remained. The mail reached Carlisle
about twenty minutes after its usual time. At Ulvarston, after
an exceedingly beautiful day on Thursday, the thunder and
lightning which prevailed during the night were unparalleled in
the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The rain began to fall
in torrents about half-past ten, and continued during the fol-
lowing day and night. For several hours on Thursday night,
the flashes of lightning succeeded each other with such rapi-
dity that the atmosphere appeared to be one continued, blare,
and the thunder scarcely ceased for a moment. The damage
done in the hay-fields has been serious, but providentially the
mischief appears to be confined to the meadows. All the lakes
in the vicinity have been much swollen by the tremendous fall
of rain. Windermere, most appropriately designated the
Queen of the Lakes, rose nine inches from the floods - and an
intelligent correspondent has calculated, that if the length of
the lake be taken at ten miles, and the average breadth at 630
yards (both of which estimates are considerably within the
mark), that beautiful lake received in that short space of time,
in addition to its previous vast body of water, no less a quan-
tity than 1,762,796 tuns ! We have not heard of much damage
being done in the neighbourhood of Keswick ; at Under Skid-
daw some large trees, over which the storms of ages had howled,
and left them previously unscathed, have been torn up by the
roots ; and from some of the largest forest trees in the vicinity,
some of the finest branches were wrenched by the violence of
the storm.—Kendal Mercury.

PROPORTION WHICH THE PRICE OF BREAD
BEARS TO THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

A Quarter of Wheat (imperial measure) of mid-
dling quality, will, it is estimated, yield of Flour 3921b5.
When the price of Bread was fixed by the Lord
Mayor, the sack of. Flour, weighing 2801b5.,
was calculated as sufficient to make 84 Quar-
tern Loaves, but the bakers admit that it will
make 86, or
The Flour produced from a Quarter of Wheat
being (as above stated) 3921b5., will, at this
rate, yield 5231b5. of Bread-nearly, but say

3731b5. 9oz.

Or in 41b. loaves .
Now the Quarter of Wheat yielding 130 loaves,
a rise or fall of ss. sd. per quarter is precisely
equivalent to one-halfpenny per loaf, inasmuch
as 130 loaves, at one-halfpenny each, amounted
to ss. sd.
Proportion of the price of Bread which goes to
remunerate the Corn Grower :
The average price of Wheat is now (21st June,
1834) 47s. 10d.
The Bran and Pollard may be worth, say

. 130

The value of the Flour will be
And assuming, as above, that the Flour produced
from a quarter of Wheat will make 130 loaves
of 41bs. each. This will give exactly 4d. as
the farmer's share, when the price of Wheat is
475. 10d., as at present.
Thus 130 loaves, at 4d. each, are
Value of Bran and Pollard ..

. 435. 4d.

Price of a quarter of Wheat 47 101.
And as the price of the 41b. Loaf Wheaten is at this
time Bd. in London, it appears that the glower
receives just half the price which the consumer
pays for his Bread ; which half, or 4d., is to be
divided between the Landlord, the Farmer,
and the Labourer, and for Rates, Taxes, &c.
The Landlord, say 1-4th
The Farmer's living and profit, 1-4th
The Labourer, 1-4th
Poor and County Rates, Taxes, &c., 1-4th

id.
ld.
ld.
ld.

The remaining 4d. per loaf must, therefore, go to the Mil-
ler, the Mealman, and the Baker.
If Foreign Corn were admitted duty free, or nearly so, the
price of Wheat must fall, at least, 1 Is. per quarter ; and this
reduction of price (which would ruin the agriculture of the
country) would, and could only, according to the foregoing
calculation, cause a corresponding reduction of id. in the price
of the 41b. loaf. Now, if we assume that a manufacturing
labourer be paid at the rate of two loaves per diem, his wages
would be reduced ls. per week ; and would this small reduc-
tion enable the British manufacturer successfully to compete
with the comparatively untaxed labour of other countries? or
even if it did so, would it compensate him for the almost en-
tire loss of the home market, consequent on the ruin of the
agriculturist ?

THE INVERNESS GREAT SHEEP AND WOOL

MARKET.

The number of English and Scotch staplers, as well as
sheep-rearers and wool-growers, present at this annual fair
on Thursday and Friday, was greater than at any- former
market. The clip, though considered lighter this season than
last, was admitted to be of superior quality. The sheep and
lambs were in good condition, but the crop of the latter was
not so goof as last year. The sellers on Thursday asked 28s.
to 30s. for the double stone of coarse wool, and from 245. to
255. for the single stone of Cheviot ; for Cheviot and Cross
lambs, from I ls. to 12s. Gd. were asked; but no sales what-
ever were effected until late on Friday evening. Lambs, in
general, were considered about 6d. a head higher than last
year • there was merely a perceptible decrease in the price of
wedders; ewes, however, bring better prices than last year.
One lot of Cross wedders sold at Is. 6d. below last year's
prices, while some lots of Cheviots brought from 2s. to 2s. 6d.
more than was obtained last season. Cheviot ewes were from
ls. 6d. to 2s. higher than last year. A few superior lots of
black-faced ewes brought upwards of 13s. A very superior
lot of Cheviot tups, from Dumfries-shire, sold at about
0/. 12s. 6d. Mr. Fraser, Inchberry, sold his Cross wedder
lambs at lls. ; and Mr. Morrison, Sealliscig, obtained 11s. 3d.,
which, we believe, was the highest price at the market. Che-
viot ewes brought from Iss.- to 225. ; bat it is said that a few
superior lots fetched 21s. We learn that a clip of black-faced
wool sold at 275. per double stone. The following is a note of
the comparative prices of the past and present year, so far as
the latter has yet been ascertained:—

SHEEP.

1E133 . 1834.
s. d. s. d. s. d. • s. d.
Cheviot. Wedders
Cheviot Ewes ao— 0 0 15 0— 22 0
Ditto Wedder Lambs - 11 6 96—12 0
lilack-faud Wedders l6 0— 23 0 16 0_ 22 0
Ditto Ewes OO 00 90— 13 0
_ _ _

Ditto Hogs
Ditto Lambs

7 6 - 12 6 100.126
60 -, 96 G - 11 6

WOOL.
Smeared Cheviot Wool, per single
stone of 241 b l9o— 206 22 0 23 0

266

Black- faced Wool, per double stone 20 0 21 0 25 0
Cross Wool, smeared and washed,
p. s. of 241 h
atto unwashed ditto l3 0 14 0 15 b 16 0
Grease butter is expected to be delivered in the north, free
of expense, at from 355. to 365. per cwt., and Ames ican tar, at
from 15s. to 16s. or 16s. 6d. ; indeed, some of the sellers of.
the latter think they can obtain a higher price.
SATURDAY.—Much more business was done to-day than on
any of the two preceding days of the fair. The Corrybreck
black-faced wedders, which last year brought 205., were dis-
posed of to-day at 225.; and the ewes from the same place,
which brought I Is. last year, sold this season at 13s. ; yet in
general wedders, as we have mentioned, brought lower prices,
while ewe,fetched higher than last year:, A principal wool-
grower in 'Sutherland sold his Cheviot- unwashed clip at
235. 6d. ; black-faced clips did not to-dayb ring above 265.,
although the rearers expected higher sums, and several infe-
rior clips were sold under that amount. A good lot of black-
faced wedders from Badenoch was purchased by a south coun-
try dealer at ..01s., and a lot of black-faced ewes, belonging to
the same stock, fetched 12s. The average price of American
tar rose to-day to 18s. per cwt.—lnverness Courier.

EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL CURIOSITY.—AS
Thomas Winter, of Soulby, near Kirkby Stephen, was on the
Bth inst. building a stable for the Rev. John Collinson, he had
occasion to break a blue whin stone, and in the centre he dis-
covered a small cavity in which was a living spider and several
young ones. It has been examined by several ladies and gen-
tlemen of the neighbourhood, who have all signed a declaration
expressing their belief in Thomas Winter's statement. The
stone and spider are now in the possession of the Rev. J.
eo llinson, who, we understand, has taken them with him to
his house at Kibblesworth, in the county of Durham.—Kendal
Mercury.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A PROTESTANT
CLERGYMAN.—Last night, as the Rev. Mr. Williams, rector
of Killican, in the county of Meath, was returning from the
house of a neighbouring gentleman to his own residence, he
was maliciously fired at from behind a hedge, and, we regret
to say, severely, although not dangerously wounded. He was
brought into Virginia, and what makes this a case of the great-
est atrocity is, that the unfortunate object of this cowardly as-
sassination, who is an exemplary clergyman and an active ma-
gistrate, was accompanied on a car, when the attempt on his
life was made by Mrs. Williams, and another female. This
is the first fruits of the Assassinating Commissien.—Newry
Telegraph.