The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-03 00:00:00

Barley. I Malt. i Oats.

Flour

Qrs. Qrs. S;aeAs
i 1,110 ; 4,730 1,45 .

9,930
5,1 i 0 8,460

SMITHFIELD.
Although our market to-day has been again scantily
supplied with beasts, the demand fur that dsscription of
• ,stuck, owing to the heaviness in Newgate and L-aden-
will, and the unfavoarable :Ante of the weather, was in a
very sluggish staze, at Monday's quotations. The gene-
ral top figure for the best Scots was 3s 8d per 81bs.
The numbers of Sheep were on the increase compart d
With those exhibited on this day su'unight. On tt.e
Whole the Mutton trade ruled steady, at the late irs-
provement in prices—the finest old Downs producing
4s 41 to 41 6d per Blbs. Calves—the supply of which
Was small—moved otr slowly, at late rates. The Polk
trade was heavy. Mulch Cows sold slowly, at from 141
to 181 each, including their small calf.
Per Bibs. to Sialtha odal.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to b.,'
infertor Beasts..... 2 8 210 Inferior Sheep . • 3 2 3 6
• second quality 3 0 3 2 Sscond qual. Sheer 3 S 310
Rime large Oxen .• 3 2 3 4 C mrse-woolledditto4 0 4 2
',Time Scots . .... . 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wether 4 4 4 6
Largo coarse Calves 3 0 3 6 Ditto outof the wool 0 0 0 4,
Primeamallditto .. 3 0 4 0 Large Hogs •••• •• 2 8 3 6
Buckliaz Calves —lB 0 24 0 Small Porkers •• 3 8 4 0
Lambs ........ 0 0 0 0 Quarter old Pigs •.16 0 20 0

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET
Beasts. I 8110. P. I Calves. I Pigs
729 3,500 152 I 308
SCOTCH.
I rigs
Beasts. i Sheep. I Calves.
50
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts.l Sheep. I
Calves.
I rig'.
60 600 40
NEVITGATE AND ZDADENNALL.

These markets were very inactive to-day, but we have

to material change to notice in prices.

At per stone by the Carcase.
a. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. e.
-nfer10r...... 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior •. 2 6 2 8
middling .... 2 4 2 6 1 middling.. 210 3 6
Primelarge •• 2 8 3 0 -- prime .... 3 8 310
Prime small .. 3 2 3 6 cork, 1arge........ 2 6 3 6
• ..11•• •........... 3 0 310 - small .• • ..... 3 8 4 0

BOROUGH SOP MARRET.

Pine eol;ury Hops are in moderate request, `at full
Prices. - In all other kinds so little is doing that the
quotations are next to nominal. Factors' prices, viz.,
ready money—East Kent pockets, per cwt 31 12s to
61 ss; ditto bags, 31 8s to 51 10e; Mid Kent pockets,
215 s to 51103; ditto bags, 21 to 41 ss; Weald of Kent
Pockets, 31 to Si 18s; ditto bags, 21 to 31 8s; Sussex
Pockets, 2/103 to 31 12s.
COLONIAL.
Suaen.—There has been no business doing privately,
and prices at the auctions have been about the same as
those which were current before the holidays. Refined
has been at 50s to 52s for grocery lumps. The only
Public sales have been 2,184 bags Bengal, nearly all
found buyers, grainy eellow ord 45s to 465, damp and
Washed 44s 6d to 465, white 503, damp 49s 6d, mid to
good white Benares 42s to 43s 6d; about 500 bugs wore
taken in at 31s 6d to 32s for damp. Khour Mauritius,
399 bags, sold at 39s 6(1 to 41s for mid strong and dry,
and 38e 61 for washed. Barbadoes, 160 hbds 16 tierces,
all Lund buyers, mid and good 41s to 43,, and fine 43a
6d to 44s per cwt.
CoFFEL—This article is very inactive. Good ord
Native Ceylon privately has been sold at 57s per cwt.
Rex—Previous quotations have been supported, but
without any animation in the market.
TEA.—There have been very few transactions, but
common Congou has been quoted is to Is id per lb.
Corrote.—The market is firm.
SPICES.—There has been a steady'. market both for
I'4l:lento and Black Pepper. Cassia Lignea has been at
104 s and 108 s per cwt.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. has been 37s to 37s 3d per cwt. on
the Spot.
- Tonacco.—The market has remained generally quiet
during last month for all sorts, and sales have been li-
visited. Importers have continued very firm to previous
Illtea, and the trade have shown no desire to increase
their stocks, on the supposition by the latter in many in-
ntanees that prices have reached their maximum, and
that the most judicious purchases are those of a very
limited,character. Imports, 854 hbds—deliveries, 804
i as, against 1 222 hhds in the corresponding month of
1849. In Virginia the demand has been very limited,
~;11;e,__5 not baying exceeded 120 hhds; prices have been
un 7 supported, and holders appear very sanguine us to
eraPsetive prices. There appears to be a strong feeling
fkveur of this article, and it is not improbable that
nigher rates will be established. Stock of both leaf and
lamps is gradually becoming contracted. In Kentucky
sud strips there has been very little done last
Inottb, and the general disinclination on the part of the
trade
to purchase has been met with an equal degree of
'ls"ifference on the part of holders. the latter not having
12,cmn the least inclination to make sales excepting at
lull rates; a larger extent of sales might have been
tratteected if a slight concession bed been made. Sales
11: klaryland have been upwards ot e 0 !aids, at 61 to 81;
'leveret mall parcels have been imported during the last
ta"th. part of which has turned cut of very ordinary
character. Havannah leaf of good and fine quality has
been in very good demand, and sales have been made to
. sconsiderable extent, at very full prices; this article has
untsiderabl increased in consumption, arising from the
high price of foreign segars, and we look forward to an
improved demand. The stock has considerably dimi-
tiahed in first hands. Havannah segars of good brands
ate
met a ready sale at improved prices, recent im-
Portations have been taken freely by the trade, and
tetircelY anything remains in the hands of ilia-
' leviers of an eligible description. Further arri-
- evela are shortly expected. Manilla cheroots have
slightly improved in demand, especially for exportation;
Prices remain firm. Manilla hel, nothing done; stock
nearly bare. In Yara and Cabs sales have been made
tot a fair extent at full prices; parcels of both descrip-
-have recently arrived, and are now in course of
Porto sampling, In Brazil, Havannah seed leaf, Florida, and
abt Ra, nothing done. Stock almost bare of suit-
e descriptions fur home use. Sales in German to
nil() extent have been effected of fine description for
"gar Purposes, and also of middling and ordinary for
bitting;
tltting; of the latter a very small portion remains in
hands of the importers, and is held at firmer pries.Th
e demand for Columbian (Ambale ma and Gave) has
;reproved, and sales made at a alight advance; pare Is of
both descriptions recently arrived, and are now in course
?_traampling, and are superior in quality to anything seen
a long time. In Amersfoort several sales have been
i°
made, both for segar and cutting purposes. In Holland
there,e it nothing now to be obtained of dry, suitable de-
ri
ptione, and a very small quantity here remains in the
the'ands Of importers. Negrohead and Cavendish—lli the
former_are a fair buatness ha: been done at high rates;
parcels have justarrived f which importers are asking
tee__fur
...-4riccd prices, which must eventually prevent ship-
ner4t& In the latter, scarcely anything done, in cense-
Zo4reince of the high prices asked, and absence of middling
8! Stalks dull of sale. Smalls scarce, and much
Inquired after.
GREEN FRUIT.—A good business was doing in all
of
sale t 6
Oranges are arriving from the Az .res, a cargo
sioe Michael, and one from Terceira, sold at public
Shortn.Y Keeling and Hunt, realised a high figure, the
tred crop being confirmed by recent letters. The
bo,,P generally has been good for Fruit the past year,
ve; in London and the provincial towns, affording a
eiasus.correct criterion of the prosperous state of al"
SU

lt, REY SESSIONS .—(THIS DAY.)
,-19.
Jin Tyler, 27, was indicted for stealing a silver
Pith' "sin, and key, from the person of Matthew
u..wooas, at Bermondsey.
%h111_,• Coombe prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock dere ndee ,
Prisoner.
Aftl:ro4ecutor stated, that on Christmas night, a little
~t,„;..."0 o'clock, ho was passing the Bricklayer's Arms
bef,7dB home when the prisoner (whom he had known
aid
stopped him at the door of the public-house, and
eniteil., to see him home. Witness told him that he
bt,." find his way home without his assistance, but the
•rliker persisted in going with him, and said
Int° had better take care of his watch." Witness
_ ked °I; and told him he was quite capable of
!liking care of it himself. The prisoner then snatched
tt from him and ran away. Witness followed him, and
the
hold of him, demanding his watch, when he saw
Watch
prisoner throw it into the mud. Witness picked the
up when the prisoner ran away. A little while
afterwards he in t the prisoner and asked him for the
k 7. The prisoner said he knew nothing about it,
tWhen he seized hold of him and handed him over to a
Polices:
at Qern
Oant Jackson, 5 M, said he saw the posecuttr
la gßling with the prisoner, and on his approach tie
142. was given into his custody.
Jur. CRARNOCK addre3sed the jury for the prisoner
"` !Pine length, and a verdict of Guilty was returned.
iii.TiztonCRUBDIAN sentenced him to six months at

130W-sTREET.—(THIS DAY.)
middle-aged woman, named Brown, the wife of a
-0 eat-garden porter, was charged with assaulting Mts.
Nathan,„ of Hertford-court, Vinegar-yard.
„ ne prisoner, who was very drunk at the 'ime, want
"o the complainant's house late last night, and knocked
:violently at the door. Mrs. Nathan had gone to bed,
bat on being told by her servant that a person wished to
speak to her she went down stairs and found the pri-
Blijnor at the door. No sooner d:d the prisoner catch
~ght of her than she "let fly," and gave her a sound
!•ara h;
23ng! She moreover suoceeded tu demolishing a
13:4 of Mrs:Nathan's shop-window, ani was proceed-
t to, further violence when a policeman came up, and
the liag taken into custody.
Abe Prisoner, who had a ohild in her arms, and who
"eisa lives. in Hertford-court, said the complainant's
',..rvant, an Irishwoman, provoked her in the first in-
"11/11°43) Or the would never have attacked any onc.

Besides, Mr!. Nathan had often abused her befor.,
and always behaved herself in a most unntighbouriy
manner.
Solc,mon, another inha',:itwit c,f the court, said all
the blamc attached to the prisoner. %NIL) was a desperate
character, so desperate, indeed, that in the co'itre of the
scuffle last night she nearly bit the end of witness's
right hand fore finger cff. Stre was . furiously drunk at
the time.
Mr. HENRY said it was evident to him that th pri-
soner was the aggressor. She had committed a violent
and unjustifiable assault, and she must therefore pay a
tine of 40s. or be imprisoned 14 days.

The fine was paid.
An elderly man, named John Riche dson, who was
dressed in a rough fustian suit, was charged with steal-
ing an umbrella from a shop door in the Strand.
It was a clear case. Ho wat seen to take 11D the
gingham, but before he could make off with it he was
captured by a policeman.
Mr. HENRY asked the prisoner what he had to say ?
The prisoner admitted the the ; it war a last resota co
to prevent his dying of starvatian, the parochial autho-
rities of Westminster having rr fused to relieve him.
Mr. HENRY asked him how he cattle to app. Er in a
prison dress 2—The prisomr s•iid he bei-n under
sentence of transportaaan fur a sheilsr oft nee—stealing
a coat, in f.ct—but tieing in bad hea!th, the Secretary id
State had ordeiel his lila-ration. Before he lost his cha-
racter, he followed the occupation of a gentleman's sr r-
lama aad filled one situation fir a 9 years: but cow that
his reputation was gone, his previatii good cum! act
availed him nothing, and he coula obtain no employ-
ment of any description. He had served three of ihe
seven years in the hulks.
Mr. HENRY said he cauld not have been sentenc:d 0
transportation for a triflirg offence. There must have
been something else be-s:des the act of stealing—a pre-
vious conviction, perhaps.
The prisoner admitted that he -had been cons idtc d
once before of stealing a hat-box; but in each ease di,-
tress had moved him to it. He was tried before Mr.
Sergeant Adams, at the Clerkena ell Sessions.
Mr. HENRY said he must sand him for trial again.
Nothing could justify a felony, and his previous se-
quaintauce of a criminal coutt ought to have taught him
that.
The prisoner was accordingly fully committed.

TIME, THE AVENGER.—One of our most deservedly
celebrated writers of fiction, the author of "Two Old Men's
Tales," " Emilia Wyndham," " The Wilmingtons, &c.,
is
again about to gratify the public with a new story bearing
the title of " Time, the Avenger." Those who are supposed
to know what is going on behind the literary scenes state
that the tale is one of the most effective the author has yet
written—in the depth of its interest and purity of its moral
rivalling her best work, " Emilia Wyndham," which, in
many points, it is said much to resemble.—Evening Paper.
HEROIC FEAT.—Last week a feat of heroic daring,
one that deserves more than a passing record, was performed
above the Falls of Niagara. Near the valley of Chippewa,
and about two miles above the cataract, a boat with a little
boy in it was seen drifting at a fearful rate down the current,
just above where the swift waters plunge into terrible rapids,
through which no boat ever lived. Three young men, and
their names are Joel Lyons, George Hoff, and Daniel Burn-
ham, leaped into a boat which lay at hand, and pulling gal-
lantly out into the turbulent stream, they caught the little
skiff just as it was sweeping to certain destruction, and
rescued from it the small mariner, half dead with terror.
The skiff disappeared in a moment, and the three heroes,
with consummate judgment and coolness, pulled diagonally
with the current for the shore, which they reached after a
desperate struggle, having accomplished a feat unparalleled
in the annals of Niagara river—no boat having ever reached
and returned in safety from a point so near the rapids. The
honour to which they are undoubtedly entitled from the
Humane Society will seldom, if ever, have been conferred
for an act of greater courage.-1 oronto Correspondent,
Afontreal Herald.
WINDING-EP OF RAILWAY AND JOINT STOCK
COMPANIES.—In connexion with the work of winding-up
railway and joint-stock companies, there is a case in one of
the courts of an official manager giving evidence, as former
secretary, against the company he is winding-up, and of
another official manager appearing on the lists of contribu •
tories in more than one ill-starred undertaking. It i 3 found
by the Masters in Chancery, on whom, it, a 4lition to the
transaction of the business of or qnary suits, devolves the
winding-up of ten companies a piece, each of which is more
than equivalent to three or four individual cases in the Coal t
of Bankruptcy, that these proceedings greatly embarrass
the ordinary business of the courts, in respect of which all
the suitors of the Court of Chancery pay, while the payments
in respect of the winding-up of these companies, in lieu of
fees, to the Suitors Fee Fund, are merely nominal. The first
joint-stock company likely to be completely woundup under
the Act is the Wheal Curtis Mining Company, the proceed-
ings for the settlement of the affairs of which were com-
menced in January, 1849, so that nearly two years will have
been consumed in winding-up this company's affairs, the
liabilities amounting only to between 3,0001. and 4,e 00/.
FIRE AT TUB PREMISES OF MR. BELL, M.P.—
Yesterday morning, at a few minutes before three o'clock,
the sky over the metropolis became suddenly illuminated to
an extraordinary extent, which caused a general turn-out of
the engines and firemen. For some time the exact seat of
the conflagration could not be ascertained. At length it was
gleaned that it was on the Surrey side of the river, near
Putney-bridge. The ts est of England fire-engine having
crossed the bridge, it was the first to arrive at the scene of
mischief, and several others of the London Brigade quickly
followed. The firemen then found a range of premises up-
wards of 60 feet long and 20 wide in a general blaze. The
property belonged to Mr. Jacob Bell, the newly-elected
Member of Parliament for St. Alban':, and it was situate in a
field at West-hill, Wandsworth, being used as stabling, cow -
houses, amid poultry stores. Fortunately the residence of
Mr. Bell is nearly half a mile away, so that it escaped any
injury. 1 here being no water near, the firemen were obliged
to stand and see the premises burnt down. Respecting the
cause of the fire, nu doubt is entertained that it was the work
of an incendiary.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT CUMNOR, BEERS.—On Tues-
day a fire, supposed to be the act of some dastardly incen-
diary, broke out on Lower Whitley Farm, in the parish of
Cuinnor, the property of Lord Abingdon, occupied by Mr.
11...ines, and consumed three large wheat ricks, a bay rick, a
stack of straw, a barn with its contents, about thirty quar-
ters of beaus, and another barn filled with wheat straw. Mr.
Haines is fully insured. It is lamentable to add that this is
the third fire, supposed to be the act of au incendiary, that
has taken place in the neighbourhood of Abingdon within
the last month. The two previous happened on a farm at
Kingston Bagpuize, tenanted by Mr. fitooks, who was also
fully covered front loss by Insurance. The tire of Tuesday
night raged so furiously, and the flames reached to such a
height from the strong wind that prevailed, that it could be
seen at the distance of ten miles. At present there is no
clue to the perpetrators of these cowardly offences.
EAST LOTHIAN.—It is somewhat singular that
after another year of low prices the demand for land should
be unabated. It is true that some farms have been re-lit
within the last twelve months at smaller rents than they
were let for a few years ago, but where leases have come to
a natural termination, the old tenants have readily given the
old rent; and where exposed to public competition, they
have in every instance fetched more, and that pretty much
in proportion to the improvements effected at the cost of the
previous tenant. It is evident that, even at present prices,
land can afford a handsome rent, and that without trench-
ing ou the wages of labour. While the farmer's prosperity
depends much on the rent promised, there is also something
in the mode of management pursued. Provided he possesses
skill and capital, and has security that he will reap the re-
ward of their proper application, increased production will
enable him to overcome the difficulties occasioned by low •
ness of price. These facts having become apparent to all
but the most prejudiced, the loud Protectionist prophecies of
agricultural ruin, uttered in 1849, have sunk into a whisper.
—Scotsman.

LORD ASHLEY'S SHIRT I—Start not, gentle reader.
If Lord Ashley could refer in public to the most necessary
article, be assured that what he said respecting it will bring
no blushes into thy cheeks. At the Mayor's dinner at Bath
last week, Lord Ashley, M.P., in acknowledging the drinking
of his health, sail, 1 call your attention to the fact that 1,
this evening, am suitably attired for this occasion. I have
upon my person, :at this moment, a very beautiful shirt,
worked fur me by the fair hands of the young women in the
establishment of my friend Mr. White—(Laughter)—pre-
sented to me with language of kindness and compliment,
which it would ill become Inc to record. I might have held
up that little article--(Loud laughter)—and in the presence
of ladies (for some there are here), exactly specifying what
it is, I might say with the great King of these realms,
" Huta suit qui mal y pease."—(Loud laughter.) Well,
gentlemen, this article of dress I have reserved for gala days,
and what day can be so properly a gala as when I am invited
to dine with my kind-hearted constituency ?—(Cheers.)
Whenever I wear this, it will serve me for a memorial,
:hough I need it not, of the invariable kindness I have re-
ceived from the inhabitants of this great town, and of the
duty which I feel of offering au unceasing prayer for the
peace, welfare, and the prosperity of this vast community.—
Sherborhe Journal.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steam-ship Severn, Captain Vincent, sailed to day,
with the West India mails, specie to the amount of 12,000[.,
and sixty passengers, amongst them being Dr. William Cas-
teldine Tucker, Dr. Beveridge, for Jamaica; Colonel Yule,
Captain Maxwell, Lieutenants Grantham, Sanderson, Barber,
&c. The Royal Mail Company's, steam-ship Teviot, having
undergone a thorough refit went out this morning on a tri4l
trip, preparatory to her taking out the Brazilian mails on the
9th inst. She will be commanded by Captain Rivett. The
Tay, Captain Chapman, with the homeward West India
mails, is expected about Saturday.
SOUTH SEA COMPANY.—Tbe half-yearly general
court of the South Sea Company was held yesterday at the
establishment in Threadneedle-street ; Charles Franks, Esq.,
took the chair. From the annual accounts laid before the
proprietors, it appeared that the receipts for the last halt-
year were 153,6381. 17s. 5d., and the outgoings for the same
period 88,6121. 45., leaving a balance of 65,0261. 13s. 5d.;
out of this would be payable the half-year's dividend on
3,662,7841. Bs. 6d. South Seit Stock at l per cent., amount-
ing to 64,098/. 14s. Gd., leaving a balance of 9271. lSs. 11d.
The chairman moved that the above dividend be made pay-
able on the same day as the Government funds. This having
been agreed to, the chairman stated that the effect of the
late sale and purchase of stock had increased their income by
about SO/- The court then adjourned.
GOVERNMENT CLERE.S.—A re-classification of the

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officials in some of the departments'at Somerset-house has
just been made known. By the new arrangement facilities
are presented for the advancement of those clerks whose
talent for public business, diligence, and industry, deserve
special notice; and it is understood that the claim of seni-
ority will in future pass unregarded unlAis supported
by the qualities above referred to. Reading the " news-
papers" tiy the clerks during office hours is expressly
prohibited by the turns of the Treasury order received at
Somerset-house.

MELANCHOLY DEATH BY DROWNING.—OH Satur-
day afternoon William White, a poor but honest and indus-
trious fisherman, of Portland, met with his death whilst toil-
ing in his daily occupAion. Ile had just returned from
fishing in the West Bay at the back ot Poi land, and bad
proceeded in his boat to take up come crab pots placed off
Portland Castle, and whilst (it is suppo,cd) he was in the
act of hauling up one of the pots, he tell overboard and was
drowned. 'l' his supposition is confirmed by his being found
with the line attached to one of the pots grasped firmly in
and around his hands. The accident was first discovered
by his boat being observed drifting with no one in it, and
but a short time previously he was passed, busily employed,
by the Princes steamer. Boats were soon on the spot, but
on its becoming dark they withdrew, and resumed their
creeping in the morning, when they soon found him in the
track of the steamer. lie was a ingle man, aged thirty-
eight, and his aged and ---in--firra parents were indebted to his
industrious habits for their maintenance. He bore a univer-
sally. good character.—Poole Herald.

TE!E SUN,