The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-15 00:00:00

CORN cll.

We. hbve` not many .fresh !,,f Wheat to..
day, the fade is eitceeding line is at legit
Price, other q'aidities hal;e little 'scde, hit rew
ptime samples of old that reitch 01.1 f Votar
thLi);
.B.irley is exceedingdull, ratter dult, and rar lower '; ey
?ease are cheaper ; 'Fia li t etms. 'full as high ; 'ls
continua in Idrge supply; with st4rate foreigHt ,irriva;t;,
which causes a further redudion lb the. price of this
article ; Flour in trait supplies, and phany sonnies
of Srecmds at less than our .currency.
• • •

Wheat 72$ a 8;-s a /1.41 od Beans - 45's a is
Fine ditto 2d6s a tc,9. od Tick CCallt; Zs a' Rs ott
Kye gs a 63s 04 ()a4 2ss a zis a
.los od.
Barley -43 s a 483 Od Pot2nd do. 3is a 32s 0,1.
Malt - 7,§3.4 82s od Rape - .131 - 471
IVllite Pease, 4.2 - .18s oil Fine How - ?is aOs ‘7,0
Grey ditto '- s'o's 3 42. S 704 Seconds - - ti.)S a Z..,S 400

•
The meeting of the Herefordbhire Agricultural
Society, on Monday, was nusnerougly'atteed. A
numbeeof fine hulla were exhibited,' and nuicit ad..
mired. Mr: Hovels, -of Abergavenny,
two 'Leicester sheep, the fore.(juarters. of which,
when slaughtered, weighed stib: -each, and ihe
• hinkuatters 451 b. betng.the largest and fattesi
ever killed in-that City,
' Leicester Fair an Saturday sennight .the shOw
of neat cattle-Was not large; in.catyes were in much
tapes' ; high prices ..v'ere- demanded for store stuck
that was promising and n.ceful.; beet 4:41. suutturi
were ready sale, at their fall 'liable.
At.i3anbury Fair, yesterday se'ont:ght, a sheep
the Leicester kind was exhibited, the flosi complete,
in all pointit, ever seen; which, although only two-
shear,
.weighed upwards of- j rib, per griJrzer.
A Fox in the neighbourhood of . Zilottrans.io.
Longdendale lately broke cover, and was pursoed
by the hunters of that pl,ce through the parishes
of Stockport, Castletun, trope, and Glossop, and
killed ,at Wilmore Clough, near ,Woodhead. after
ehace of sixty miles in six hourso7—lt
be the most singular dice within the tnettwiy of
the oldest bunter.Qn
Saturday: last at, information came on to he
heard before the Magtskrres of Bristol, against ';!
, wholesale "dealer in salt,' for selling a tragnrity
that article at a higher tate and price chap wai
se, lied by the, Justices at Their Q-rirter Sessions
and being convicted thereof, was fined iol.
A few, nights since -the. Prisoners- at Srapleton
made an attempt to csape. A.,Sentiner guard
'thought lic beard -a mite under his feet; arid, u pun
placing his ear to the ground., c:-old distir a.cer.
tarn that men were at work, undermining the Priicm
wall. Having very prutlentty!.,nt the Sentihels
the alert, without alarming the Prialonrs, thy
waited silently for-1114 event. Soon alter the earth
gave way, and aTrenclunan's head presented itself,
and at the'sarne moin uti ent a Imy.tt.
to his throat, with the terrible' word " sittrinder.'i
With this summons the Frenchman• prudentlyeour.
plied, and was .irns.nedi4tely, with thirty of his ad.
ventroua compaatons, taken out of the abbterrane_
oils passage. They were provided with provisions,
and hoping, at least, to ,hlrie a nia for it, were ex
tremely in,rtified at the failure of tilnir
vigilance of the Officers, atul th steatlii):4s u# th-.
men on duty, numit the highef.t ealunteni4f.iO3.
fever still continues,' but lelsens in mitigf.,irv,; at:
ak none of the attendants have t)..-en
is every probability that it will ioon oe ar an rri;,l.
On Satordly one of His Majesty's artillery
guns, laden With powder for the ::inuth
gazine_ , goinl into the flo-buttorrrd boa: at th::
LowLihts, North ad bury:. s,
put 'to the plaulco turned restive, when the. ~40,;id
being.'appgett to them, they atalle
plungeiVinto water, Where toes
shOit time, and were both drowned. Tin: d.-.l.:ver'3
life was in 'the Utmost danger, his hody,
scarcely any appearance of animation falixo:
out. The waggon and horses were dr.igged out
afterwards.'

On Tuesday se'nnight as Mr. Walter Scott was
returning from Chirton to Norris Shields he WAS
attacked by three soldiers, who attempted ro'roia
but, by atiudden and tinexpecctNi excaiunr
got 'out of their hands, and, owing to the datki;ess
of the night, madchis esclr.
• A man of the name of 13,m its was yesterday col.
mitted from the Police Offien.,' Hitton Garden.
charged with tile most 'Crpo.! treatment to his
own daughter. It was alledgccl unnatural
patent not only flpgged the child ,eitit knotted
cords, 90 .as to cut, the flesh' vry deep, but on one
ncetisinn thrust lice hand iwo the lire, and threw
hot cinders upon her when in bed. Ple'ettempted,
to justify his coodua, by alledgir% that the girl,
who is only twelve years old, WaS of an obstinate:
and dishonest disposition; btu of this no proof was
adduced.

. .
Monday night, between seven anal eight o'clock,
a fire broke out in a ,coJperage in -Nelloll.strecr,
Bristol, hur, by timely a4sist,mcc, was soon gqr
under, The damage w.is not ,csnsiderable ; but ail
elderly man, belonging to the • yard perished in th-
.
flames,

On Saturday last the wife of a Private belonging
to the Ayrshire Militia, who hill just come, into
Newcastle, on one of the baggage w4ggons, having
requested the liberty of warming herself in a Morale
in the nigh-bridge, was suchkenly taken ill,. and in
a short time delkvcred of a 134.
About one o'clock in the morning of Friday last
five men with their faces blacked, and. armed with
bludgeons an a horse.pistol, broke into the house
of Mi. Bockhorn, Grazier, of Sr. Wry's, in Rona-
,:ney Marsh, and alter entering the Nle.
and Mess Bockhorn, and, savagely Ansi brutally beat.
ing them, proceeded through the ilifftr,,nt rooms of
the bathe, end carried off every article of val'oe of
which they could lay their hods.
On Friday last a Foy.boat was tirlet in the Mir.
rows, at the mouth of itirldx harbour, with rim -e
Wren in it. By the atisistanee of other (Joao: etvo nr
them were taken of the bottom, aril the other
under her, a good drai'eralstlittlf.

On Wednesday, as a boy named Abrabarri.Long.
ley, employed in the catender whop, at Mr. Slyner's
dyeltoose, Lerdu, was imptutit.ntly playing too. near
op machinery, bis hea4 was caug:it by tht