The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-25 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are moderate supplies this week of English Grain, but
a considerable arrival of Oats and Flour 'mom Ireland. The
Wheat trade continues in a very dull state at Monday's prices
Barley, Beans, and Pease, remain as last reported. Oats that
are sweet and fine support Monday's terms, other sorts are very
dull, and rather cheaper. Flour unaltered.

A It KIVA LS.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour.
3,274 qrs. 996 qrs. 2,742 qrs. 9 , ,616 sacks.
1,650 21,188
4,810 5,60) 909

English ....
Irish
Foreign

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When the father of Lord GRANTHAM was
elevated to the Peerage, GRORGE 111. made some dif-
ficulty as to the extent of his property, which was in his
MAJESTY'S opinion too small for the maintenance of that
rank. The prep-nt LPrd, however, is already a wealthy
Peer, and he will ultimately be among the very wealthiest
of his order. He is heir to the title and estates of the
venerable Countess DE GREY, and also to the bulk of th.
vast possessions of Mrs. LAURF.NCE, of Studeley Park.
and Fountain's Abbey. in Yotksbire. His Lordship has
no family ; so that the infant son of his brother, Viscount
GODERICH, may be regarded as heir presumptive of three
Peer us and four very large fortunes. Lady GODERICH
surcee.ted, on the death of her father, the late Earl of
BUCKINGHASHIRE, to all the unentailed estates of the
HOBART family, including their splendid seat of Nocton
Hall, near Lincoln.—Boston Gaselie.

PRISCILLA WOODFORD, the girl who was
condemned to be hanged at the late assizes at Lincoln, for
arson, but who was afterwards reprieved. has been playing
pranks which perhaps may have a claim to originality,
and certainly show her to be wl at she really is,—an artful
young jade. After her condemnation, she was confined in
an apartment with a woman who was convicted of perjury,
and who it is supposed must have instilled in the girl a
notion that if she had been pregnant, she would have es-
caped the execution of her sentence. However, she told
the Chaplain, and others who were in attendance on her,
that she was " in the family way," and certainly was borne
out in her statement by her personal appearance, until the
matron discovered that she had stuffed the articles of her
dress in such a way as to indicate pregnancy in a very
precise mariner !—Boston Gazette.

FoG.—SHIPWRECK.--On the evening of
the 10th inst. a dense fog came on at Thurso and in the
Pentland Frith, which nearly proved fatal to several vessels
passing through, bound mostly to America. Had the
weather not been calm at the time, the consequences must
have been serious, as no less than three ships, tw o brigs,
and a schooner were thrown on shore at one time; they all
got off, however, with but little damage, except the ship
Lord Suffield, of and from Hull, bound for Quebec with
emigrants, which is a total wreck on the rocks of Tills, in
the Frith. The emigrants came round to 'fburso, where
they will remain until a ves-el calls to convey them to their
place of destination.—Edinburgh Paper.
INHUMANITY OF THE ARCHDUKE CON-
STANTINIC.—His most infamous act, if it be possible to
give any pre-eminence in acts all most pre-eminently,
wicked, was performed on the following occasion:—A
boyte playfulness
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of
the fortes, " The 3d of :flay for ever !" that being the
anniversary of KOSCIUSKO'S Constitution. The fact was
discovered by some of the innumerable spies, employed
even among these infants, to Nowortuoir, who insti-
tuted an inquiry among the boys. Not one would betray
poor PLATER ; they were all ordered to be flogged with
the utmost severity! The unhappy offender declared that
he had written the offensive words. The GRAND DUKE
condemned him to be a sol her for life, incapable of ad-
vancement in the army; and when his mother threw her-
self before his carriage to implore forgiveness for her
wretched child, he spurned her like a dog with his foot !
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A singular
circumstance happened during a hunt in Wales :—The
hounds having found a fox upon the Great Skirrid,
pressed on him closely, when reynard skirted a ledge of
rocks, nearly on the top of the precipice on the side of that
mountain, and on being perceived by three stanch old
hounds, they made a dart at him, and overbalancing them-
se:ves, fell headlong upon a ridge of rock about mid-way,
and bounding off again, fell with great force to the bottom,
a distance of 70 feet. A gentleman who was near the
foot immediately rode up, expecting to find the three dogs
killed, but to his great surprise he saw them all join the
rest of the pack in pursuit of the fox, without appearing
to feel any ill effects from their fall.— CarmarthenJournal
BEAR-CATCHING.—The inhabitants of the
mountainous parts of Siberia fasten a very heavy block to a
rope that terminates at the other end with a loop. This
is laid near a steep precipice, in the path in which the
bear is accustomed to go. On getting his neck into the
noose, and finding himself impeded by the log, he takes it
up in a rage, and, to free himself from it, throws it down
the precipice ; it naturally pulls the bear after it, and he is
killed by the fall. Should this, however, accidentally not
prove the case, he drags the block again up the mountain,
and r'iterares his efforts with increasing fury, till he either
sinks exhausted to the ground, or ends his life by a de-
cisive plunge.—Cabinet of Arts.

THE MAMMOTH.—Among the natural curi-
osities preserved in the Museum of St. Petersburgh, is
the skeleton of a mammoth that was found buried in an
iceberg in Siberia. As the ice gradually dissolved in a
summer more than usually warm, bears attacked the flesh,
which was in a state of preservation, and destroyed the
skin, but the skeleton was secured, with the exception cif
a single foot. It now stands close to that of a large ele
pliant, and though the one is not much less in height than
the other, a comparison of their joints shows bow superior
the mammoth must have been in strength and bulk.
From a part of the skin which has been preserved, it ap-
pears that the animal was furnished with long Bair, a fact
affording strong presumptive evidence that it inhabited the
cold latitude in which the body was discovered. and that
it was not, as some theorists have supposed, the native of
a tropical region.—Elliot's Letters from the North of.
Europe.
DURABILITY 01 VEGETABLE LIFE.—
Perhaps the most extraordinary tact on record with re
gard to the durability of vegetable life, and one that we
can seldom expect to meet with, says Dr. G. RKEII (in
his recently published Lectures on Carbon, Oxygen, and
Vitality), occurred some few years ago in the dissection.
or rather the examination of an Egyptian mammy, whirl
bad probably been preserved 3,000 yeare, in the hand of
which was found a bulbous root; this was put into the
ground, and found to vegetate as fresh as if it bad been re-
cently transplanted...—Neu. Entertaining Press.