The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-11 00:00:00

C.IRN EXCHANGE, APRIL. 11,

Tanta is not a full supply of Grain in gent..
ral at Market to-day ; best samples of Wheat sup.;
port last prices ; Barley and Malt go of heavily'
and at something less ; Beans of best quality ate
2s. dearer ; Oats are iu plenty; the prices at ilia
article appear unaltered; Flour nearly as last week:
1
Wheat 445 a ses a sis od Ttek DCariS -' 265 a 3cps'ad
Fine ditto . sgs a sgs 041 Oats - - t 4-: t 1-4, a t9s
Barley - 7os ams 6 1 Pohind ditto los art.; t,cl.
Malt - - 4os a +is od Rape Seed - - jil a 311
Rye - - 325 n
,Iss od I'llte flour - .14' ti 47, 00
White Pease 33'a a 443 od Secunddo - 4o) A 44;
Bons . - 3os aßs od

Karim LE set off on Thursday last 'for Bath fidd
Bristol, on his road to Ireland. • 'Nothing has bent)
settled between him and the Drury..lane IVlannger
for next season.

MN, SIDDONs was so much improved in health
by her late excursion to Ireland, that if she hal nut
met with the shock which her great domestic loss
must have given to her feelings, she would have
been able to resume her theatrical labours with as
much spirii as ever.

Thebpera froth the pen of the Loured is not
likely to be brought forward ibis seawn at Drury.'
lane Theatre, but will most probably be one of- the
earliest novelties in the next.
Mr. Coos is not,-we understand, engaged at
Drury-lane Theatre.. .He is certainly a' very re.
spelab}e Affor, and
.much better qualified for a
high situation on the
,London boards, than several
who enjoy good salaries, with very indifferent pre.
tensions.

It is now said that Capt. CAU t.VtELD is not
engaged at Covent Garden Theatre, tor the next
season.

Lieut. JOHN GR LOG, is appointed to the corn..
mend of the Barbara, tender, to Grerntnic.

The average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sitgar,
computed, from the Returns wade for the. week e43_
ing' the 6th day of 803, is Forty-ene
ling! and Eleven l'elsce Farthing per . bundled
weight.

On Friday evening last, a melancholy accident
took place at the house of Mr. Carrington in
IVlount-strret, Grolyentlr-tlaArt. Mrs. Addetl.vs.
a lady whose husband . holds a situation of the
first rank in the service of the Eaq India Com.
pany, in the aft •of feeding a squirrel, opened
the door of its cage, when the animal, e:Ni;er to
obtain its food, ran out and hit her violentiy
by the finger, that she was Compelled by the pain to
utter a loud cry, and suddenly rise up; at the same
rime she unfortunately let the candle fall on her
clothes, which were iniMediately in flames. 'ln
this situation she screamed out, ran down stairs,
and threw herself down in the passage, at the par_
lour door. The whole family rushed to afford
assistance, and by rolling her on the carpet, and
using every means in their power, endeavoured
to extinguish the fire. She was conveed to bed,
burnt in a most shocking manner. Melival assist.
ance was procured, but she. was so macn burnt,
that, after languishing till five o'clock on Sayrday
morning, she expired.

On Sato/4a), as Mr. Too Liam, ofKnighbbridge,
was riding in Hyde Park, he was throwntroin his
horse and killed on the s-,ot.

On Saturday morning, between two and three
o'clock, t fire broke out in a house in Eyre.street,
Clerkenwell, possessed by a butcher. in the as..
sistance afforded by Mr.:Mentes engine, which int.
"mediately attended, with a plentiful supply of wa.
ter,
,the neighbourhood are much indebted.—By. the
'exertions of the firemen.belonging to, it, au& lo the
other engines, the flames were soon eitingu;shed,
having entirely destroyed the inside of the house
in which the fire originated, and materially dams.
eci the house immediately adjoining.
•Untwe.,Hat.t..—On Saturday thirty.seVen In-
formations were brought torward, Against some of
the most eminent Dealers of Butter in this Distritt,
fur an infringement'against the statutes.
By the statutes of the 36th Geo. It!. and a sub.
sequeni statute of the 0 h of his present Majesty,
it is expressly enaded, " That if any peraon or per.
sons shall sell, or expose to sale, any cAsk or casks
of butter, without each and every of them !Living a
brand-mark in legible charaderb, in manner foltuw.
ing, to wit: on the bouge of each cask. the Tare is
to be marked; and in the bottom also of each cask
is to lie branded, the name and residence of the
Cooper who made up, the cask, he or they shall for.
reit ten shillings." Fur noncompliance with Oleic
Aas, wholesome and wise in their provisions, the
present informitions,were brought.
Mr;Ow t v, who attended as Solicitor for the Pro.
secutio'n, stand, that he was employed by a CoM...
mince of the nelOSt :eminent dealers in that trade, to
endeavour to correet the abuses that had, in defiance
of thoSe Airs, crept into the trade. In Lona,,,n only,
by "the nefarious.praaicesearried on, the public were
robbed of at least 400,600 pounds of batter annually.
He did not mean to-ress for heavy 'penalties, the
objca was to corret the.abusc, as such he would be
content to take the common penalties of ten shillings
each firkin. , lie tlidn proceeded to prove his case,
which he did against every one of the persons in.
foi melt against. They were all convitted in the full
penalty And costs.