The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-03 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

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CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY. •• .
Although the supply of English Wheat was again but .
moderate, the sale for that article was in a very depressed ~
state, and Monday's quotations were barely supported. Both, ,
free and bonded Foreign Wheats were a heavy. sale, and had .'.-.
a downward tendency. The best Malting Barley was kali
at full prices, but grinding and diitilling sorts were extremely ~,"
heavy. In all other grain not the slightest variation; ixas
noticed. •
ARRIVALS. - ' • • • • • Wheat. Bailey. Oats. Fleur. .
Engligh 1,910 qrs. 250 qrs. 800 qrs., 888 sacks, .•
Irish.. , _.
Foreign . 2,10 --;••• - 811 • ..--
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alt, 770 qrs. . - • . • • 1
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WHITZCHALPEZ. , •
We had only a moderate supply of meat, yet the general
demand was heavy, on the following terms :—Beef.from 29 2d
to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s ; Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s 2d;
Veal, 3s' 4d to 4S 2d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s 2d pertilbs.
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DUELLING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—There appears to be, an inclination in Eng- '
lishmen at the present moment to put a stop to the
wicked practice of duelling. This feeling is manifest
in all the speeches in. the late debate in the House
Commons, and yet lam sorry to find that no Bill'
appears likely to be brought forward.that will effec-
tually stop this degrading practic&—degrading, in the'
highest degree, to a people strongly attached to their
religion and laws. instead of boasting of the stite. of
society in this enlightened age, we ought to, be
shocked at it, if we are told that an officer in her .
Majesty's army or navy, or indeed any Mall in the'
rank of a gentleman, is obliged to settle a ,dispute
with his neighbour by taking his life‘ We are told
that gentlemen are obliged to resort to this foolish
praetioe, though strongly opposed to it, e‘nd that there
is no other means of settling their disputes in a.
manner that will enable them to keep their places in„
society.
Let us see what this honour is really worth 'that
must be kept by pistol-law. I believe there are
many men in this country--gentlemen by birth-and ,
education—that could not hit a man once in a thou- •
sand shots at the gentlemanly distance these gentle-
men duellists stand from each other. Some of the
professors of the art, I have no doubt, would hit their •
man three times out of five. To place a man who
scarcely ever saw a duelling-pistol before one of these
dead shots, as they are called, is- the most unfair and.
unmanly thing that human invention can devise. Ifr
duelling is to be the only gentlemanly way of settling
a dispute, let every scion of these gentlemen be taught
the use of the pistol at school, or by his private
tutor. We should then be enabled to ree,ognise
something like fairness and fairplay, which, we are
told, is the boast of Englishmen. If travelling tin-
kers, rogues, and vagabonds, would but resort to
.this
duelling for six months, we 'should hear no more of
it in society, where it ought to be scorned as an unsia-
tisfactpry and unchristian-like mode of settling (Es'
pates.
J. 11.
Warwiolt.

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EXECUTIONS IN SPAIN.
A letter from Orihuela of the 16th inst., published in
the Ministerial Castellano, gives the following radditiotga
executions:—
" The day before yesterday seven Of those whO
an active part in the rebellion were shot at Meant. Ity:4
said that up to fifty are to suffer this terrible punishment,
imposed by the Military Commission, and that: Morf,
than 200 will be sent to the presidios" (put, tO,hard
labour).
" Others have also been shot in their respective',
parishes."
The above seven, not including the " others" shot art ;
not kept account of, amounts already to 50 since -thi
siege of Alicant began, viz. : ,
At Aledy, February 3, '
At Alicant, March 8, : . . . ....... . ...
At Ali Cant, Montefbrte, and Concenteina, March_
12, 13, --and-1-6-.
4'
At Gallicia,•• March 12 At Bardelona, March - " " ,
At Orihaelai.March 14
' • " •` 150
Besides two Women sentenced on the 18th attareelo,o42_,/
to two and six years' hard labour reipectiielY; for being
privy to their hushand'a treasons and not informfwg
against them I - - • • - 1.
In addition to the 65 iti'dividuals deilotinced at Alicatv:l.
a few days since by .cleneral Roncali, the Madrid Miinisr
terial jortrnals publish alist of , 39, otihers; all of wltota
are sought for to suffets the.penalty of high treason; slid':
similar denunciations of being pasados: por arm as'-
(shot) are levelled at all who may secrete them 1 •

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THE Dtrrda , ImOmt-TAx.---We hare weeii /ed !
Dutch papers of the Ist instant; from which •t•--.4'•
an extract :—" TII HAptal,
agreeable ,re.
port that he loan is complete, and that therfat.Pro the extra"
ordinary ax will not' be required, is sprread here, andl
generally 13elieved.' But it seems that th"ofilcifil notice Cs el-
not be expected before to-morrow." ' • •
314-cHttNics' INSTITUTION, SOTYTILIMPTOIQEI7II.P'
1..x.G5.---Last night Mr. Wilson gave 9lie of hii,hrghly popular •
enteitainnients on the Songs of Sebtland; the„theatre. of
the InstitultiOn, ilie-pioCeeds of --Which- were generously de-,
voted by him to its
.funds,..ol4. being. the. place where Mr.
Wilson lira was called on to display his talents as au illuStia-
tor of national song. The evening passed off with, great
Ortrijel'lreriilaste°rntabirieinrint,hlthee,CPeltreenidt :117c4tereoseantdo?tpliirant"'
.ekhrththuesieasinnd
Mr., Wilson, in.;the name of the-Society; for his servitea:*P4
the occasion,' and presented Iti•rn witlyttlper on Whiell..was
beautifully written "the resolution to .COnimittee, makinghire ;an
henOrl,ry menitleF. of :ii,.i.lnstitution. 1 Mr. 'Wilson,iii
returning thanks for the. honour conferred onlim•;said that
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six years ago, whenke first gavehis-Lectnre's -there; , expected that they would have met With• such abundant sue, -
cess everywhere, and: that the cirCninetauce,shOuld
open-up-
him a new tithe of life, which he found both pleasant•and pro-
fitable: • The profitatle part, he said, had roused the envy of •
several of, is professional• brethren,- and all over the country • , he, had ho s'of imitatOrs;• who-did net: scruple to take, his • titles and cpy billa'*almust literally in word and forint '`
He read a ill which had been sent to-him-from Portsmaithr
announcin thatsnine person, stylinghimSelf-from' the Nan-
lity's Cone rts in London, WoUld give Nicht wi' Burns" '
there to-in rrdiv evening, and next. Monday would give his ,• ,
"popular" entertainment. of • 9.The Adventures of Prince:,
Charles," &c., a literal copy of "Mr. ' ;
amuses' the!audience by recounting several of the tricks of his imitator, some -of ;whom had even taken his name. One • who had ben purloining Mr. Wilsbn's titles, "A Night "wi' •
Burns," and " The Adventures of Prince Charles,' in the • • North of England; had gone away without " remembering"' to •".:
pay some of his accounts, when Mr. Wilson was waited
uponi -
on his arrival in the town, and asked if he had any objection,
to pay then, as the person had been giving the same enter- •
--tainments, and Mr. Wilson had, no doubt, something to do in' • the business: Mr. Wilson finished the evening's entertain- , ment by singing Burns's glorious song of "A' Ain's man •
for a' that, and was loudly Cheered on his retiring. UORTICiTLTURALSOCIETY OF - LONDON.—Yester-
day the members held. their. third spring.meeting, at: the ex
hibition rooms in Regent-street ; Mr. Solly, in the !" -
chair. Prestnt the Countess of Buckingham, Countess` Da
Salis, Hon: 1 milylfitig,"Hon. Miss Eden, 'Lady:Mary Stan-
ley, Lady Foster, Lady . Banburi, Lord Auckland, Mr. • Sturges Bourne, Sir 'Augustus }osier, Sir R. Joddrelli
Captain Davis, R.NI, Professor Lindley, Dr. Henderson, and others., The • Duke of DeVonahire, 'President of
the Society, exhibited some . specimens •of Dendra. ,
, • bium, with clusters of, orange-coloured aromatic flowers,
cultivated at Chatsworth, -but originally' brbugbt
over from the Indies. ' IVIr. Pole :presented a' cucum-
ber
of 21i inches in length. ' Sir Edivard Antrobue•
seine Calceplaria, and Mrs. Lawrence Orchidaceous plants.
Among the novelties was a plant called Phycella•Cloacra, • .
brought over to this country originally 'by Humboldt, and a ',,');;;.,4°A1,1i
curious plant called' Pilate's Nightcap, a large concave' -`
shaped flower; identical with that described by Humboldt inz
his travels as being gathered. by children in Peru, and used,
in summer as decorative caps or head-dresses. 'A new ?Pe"' cies of garden-Wall of slate was exhibited, and *gold medals"
were awarded to Mrs. Lawrence) and the Duke of Devon-
shire's gardenir. The total ;amtnintiV of rain, as observed' in
the Society's gardens at Chiswick from March 19 to April 2.
is estimated at 0.19 inches.
THE LAST OF THE ROYAL GEORGE'S CREvr.-7-41-
fe* days since died, at •Morden College, 'Blackheath, Mr.
Webb, one of the last, if not the Only, surviving officer who
held rank on board this unfortunate ship, with the exception
of Admiral Sir Philip:Durham. At the time Of this unfortu-
nate calamity the late Mr. Webb,: who was a, niidshipman, ,
had a narrow escape froth the fate which awaited.hundreds of
his less fortunate companions. 'lie was one of a heat's' crew:
who had permission to go on-shore under the
of a lieutenant. The boat had rowed off some;,:®,
when a brother midshipman. reqUesteXthat b@ mightreerar.w.
as he had forgotten 111 dirk. The lieutenant aqede,cl.lT,
request, and the midshipman wilsrpnt do b6ard "hilt, longer than the irascible lieutenant desired," he, io.re' chide.4,lo%,
for the-crew to row away, the :boat, Which' hadlscar,cebrAt.l,d •
out of the reach of
.the whjrlpoolicaused by-the-W6364)0e, s"
before the ill-fated vessel capsized. Mr. Webb,, who never
ranked higher than a lieutenant, quitted the nary to embark
in mercantile pursuits, and so became qualifred to pass the
latter portion of his days under this hospitable root: He was
very eccentric in his habits, and although upwards of ninety
years of age (twenty of which he had spent in this asylum),
he retained his faculties unimpaired until they last.

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