The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN WHEAT.

The highest quotation of white wheat of the first qua-
lity at Hamburg is 100 rixdollars current per last,
which answers to 325. 2d. the English quarter of eight
bushels imperial measure; and the highest quotation of
red wheat of the first quality at Hamburg is 95 rixdollars
current per last, which answers to 30s. 7d. the quarter,
and therefore the mesn price at Hamburg of white and
red wheat together is 31s sd. the quarter. The highest
quotation of white wheat in Mark-lane is 595. the
quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat is 535.
the quarter, and therefore the mean price in Mark-lane
of white and red wheat together is 565. the quarter. It
appears, therefore, that with the sum of 21. 16s. a man
may buy 14i bushels of wheat at El itriburg, whereas,
with the same sum, he can buy only eight bushels in
London.

The highest quotation of Zealand white wheat of the
first quality at Amsterdam is 205 florins per last, which
answers to 335. the quarter, and the mean price of wheat
in Mark-lane being 565. the quarter, it follows, that with
the sum of 21. 16s. a man may buy 131 bushels of wheat
at Amsterdam, whereas with the same sum he can buy
only eight bushels in London.

The highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality
at Antwerp is 8 florins current per hectolitre, which
equals 3Ss. 3d. the quarter, and the highest quotation of
red wheat in Mark-lane being 535. the quarter, it follows
that with the sum of 21. 16s. a man any buy 124 bushels
of wheat at Antwerp, whereas with the same sum he can
buy only 8 bushels in London. '1 he highest quotation of
red wheat of the first quality at Stettin is 38 dollars cur-
rent per wispel of 24 Behar's, which is equivalent to
265. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat
in Mark-lane being 535. the quarter, it follows that with
the sum of 21. 13s. a man may buy 164 bushels of wheat
at Stettin, whereas with the same sum he can buy only
bushels in London.

The mean or average of the prices of wheat of the
first quality at Hamburg, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and
Stettin, is 30s. I Id. the quarter, and the mean price of
wheat of the first quality in London being 661. the quar-
ter, it follows that the mean price of wheat in London is
SI per cent. higher than the mean price of the four above-
mentioned places.

The present duty on the importation of foreign wheat
into England is 335. Sd. the quarter, which is equal to
the following rates :—to a rate of 1231. Is. 6d. per cent.
on the prime cost of wheat at Hamburg ; to a rate of
1171. 3s. 6d. per cent. on the prime cost of wheat at
Amsterdam ; to a rate of 1161. ss. 10d. per cent. on the
prime cost of wheat at Antwerp ; to a rate of 148/. 14s. 4d.
per cent. on the prime cost of wheat at Stettin ; and to a
rate of 125/. is. 4d. per cent. on the mean price of wheat
at the four abovementioned places.

WESTMINSTER NEW PRISON.—This struc-
ture is now completed, and will shortly be in a state for
the reception of its wretched inmates. In the mean time
it is well worthy of public inspection, and will be found to
embrace an almost perfect specimen of all that a buil.ting
of this description can comprise. 'Whether so enormous
an outlay for such a purpose in an obscure outskirt of the
metropolis has been a matter of prudence, is altogether
another questions
A few days ago, a woman of very parsimo-
nious habits, named Mary Whitehead, died at this place.
She had no known relations, and was supposed, from her
style of living, to be in very narrow cirettinst inces. On
her deathbed she sent for a neighbaur, through whom a
highly respectable professional gentleman was called in ;
and, though she scarcely allowed herself the necessaries of
li'e, he found in the house upwards of 6001. in money !
Amongst the property were some notes of Pease and Lid-
dell's bank, issued in 1815, quite clean and new in ap-
pearance, evidently having clever been in circulation, The
deceased had been an annuitant of the corporation since
1800 ; and, except in two or three instances, invariably
applied to the town's husband for her annuity, half-}early,
on the day it was due, always complaining of poverty, anti
asking for Pease and Liddell's notes,....kfu/1 Packet.

This was an appeal from a decree of the Master of the
Rolls. The plaintiff is Mr. Albany Saville, and the de
fentlant, his sister, Mrs. Taylor, represented by the Mar-
quis of Salisbury and others, who are the trusties under
the marriage settlement of her mother. By that settle-
ment certain freehold property, together with 5,0001.
three per cents., were settled on Mrs. Saville, then Mrs.
Atkinson, with a power of appointment in favour of such
of her children as she thought proper; and, in the event
of he 7 not appointing, to the children generally. Mrs.
Saville. died without exercising her power of appoinim nt,
leaving a son, Mr. Albany Saville, and two daughters,
Ails. Jackson and Mrs. Taylor, to whom on their mar-
ri ige Mr. Saville, the father, made a settlement to the
amount of 50,0001. Forgetting, or being ignorant of the
existence of, the power of appointment in the marriage
settlement, which in fact gave him but a life interest in both
the tuded and funded property, he made over the Holme
Estate to a Mr. Farrell, and disposed of the divident's of the
5,000/. as a yearly gift to the governess of his daughters,
in compliance with the dying request of his wife. I
1817 the marline settlement was discovered by accident
in the office of his father-in•law's solicitor, and being a
man of business, he at once proceeded to remedy the defect
in Mr. Farrell's title to the Holme Estate, by prevailing
otshis children to join him in cutting off the entail.
Some time after this he made an additional settlement of
15.0001. on his daughters, 10,0001. to Mrs. Jackson, and
5,0001. to Mrs. Taylor, but without stating that it was
intended to be in lieu of the 5,0001. to which they were
entitled in right of their mother. The question now was,
whether this settlement was so intended. The Master of
the Rolls bad decided that it was ; but his Lordship
declared it to be his opinion that, as far as Mrs. Taylor is
concerned, it appeared not to be so intended: and he
therefore revered his Honour's decree, and directed tlat
Mrs. Taylor should be paid her third of the 5,0001., with
the accumulated interest. From the circumstances of the
case he said nothing with respect to her costs.