The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-17 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

IPSWICH, APRIL 16.
The supply of wheat at market this day was small, and the
growers were unwilling to submit to the reduction advised of
in London on Monday. It sold at a slight abatement upon
last week's price. Of barley there were several samples very
fine in quality, but the malsters having secured their quantity
fur the season this article met a very dragging sale. Malt
neglected.

PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER.
Wheat, red
Ditto, white
Barley,:malting ... :12s to 00s Rye
Ditto, grinding ... tlos to COs Malt
Beans ..... . . ..... 008 to 00., Flour, per sack
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK. ENDING APRIL 13, IMO.
Wheat 831 quarters at 395. 10d:
Barley
Oats ....... ... ... - , 9 —s. Od.
Beans ..... ......
Peas ......... ..... .
__„ —s. Od.

HULL, Aram 16.
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states :—Arrivals in-
crease—the trade does not improve, and is altogether in a
very unsatisfactory state ; millers are merely buyers from
hand to mouth, although no doubt universally low in stock.
and the supply of English is fully adequate to this kind of
buying without foreign, which is also generally held for com-
paratively higher terms. Farmers brought forward a mode-
rate supply of wheat for this day's market, and which met a
free -sale at Is below the current rates of last week. Very
little doing in foreign, for the reason assigned above, and no
extent of choice on the market. Only the finest and picked
samples of barley are now taken by our maltsters, and such
are
not procurable on lower terms; other descriptions of malting
are next to unsaleable, while grinding goes off pretty freely at
our low quotations, and some few parcels have been taken off
the market by speculators. Beans are somewhat firmer, and
not many remaining on sale except Egyptian, of which a large
cargo is afloat. Very little business passing in either oats or
peas. Buyers have the advantage in linseed, which is dull,
and cakes are easier to buy. We are without a quotation for
rapeseed, and rape cakes suffer a decline. Bones are firmer.
The following are the present prices of grain
8. N. S. 8.
Wheat, English, red 34 to 36 Peas, white and yel. 22 24
Do. white 36 38 Do. grey 2O 22
Dantzic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 45 46
nigsberg 4O 44 Do. Petersburgh ... 38 44
Pomeranian and Do. Riga&Archngl. 38 —42
Hamburgh . 34 36 Do. Konigsberg .... 36 39
Danish, Holstein, & Par ton.
Friesland 3O 34 Lins. cakes, Hull 6/101 to 0/0s
Russian and Odessa 30 32, Do. fine foreign . 61 53
Oats, English
Do. Danish—. .11 13 Rapeseed
Do. Friesland l2 14 Rape cakes...77s 6d to 003 Od
Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 —l4 Tares, English 2Bs —00 s
Barley, malting lB 20 Do. foreign 20s —30 s
Do. grinding.. 16 18 Guano 6/ to 1015 s
Beans
Do. foreign .. .20 23,Rye meal ; 5/ 155
COAX, Aram 15.—Flour—First 12s to 12s 6d ; extra 14s;
seconds, 11, to 12s; households 9s Od to 10s 6d: thirds, 7s to 9s
per cwt. Oatmeal lOs Od to 00s; Indian meal 6s 9d to 7s ; wheat-
meal, 9s 6d to 105 per cwt. Indian corn 1304 to 137 s 6d per ton.
Bran 4115 s to 5/0s per ton. Hay—Farmers 23s to 425; average
O0s; dealers 40s to 48s Od; average 42s per ton. Straw—Farmers
14: Od to 26s Od; average 21s; dealers 00s Od to 008 Od;
average Oos Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6id ;
household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
93 per lb. Eggs-4s 4d to 45 5d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 155; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ; Best Neath
Culm I4s per ton. Tallow 405 Od to 00s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 55 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 6d; mutton 5d to 6d; veal fid to
; pork. 31d to 31d; bacon 6d to 7d; sausages 5d per
lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 5s to 81 5s ; Valonia 141 to 01; French
7153; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 103 to 12s per stone.
Hemp 321 to 00/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 16s to 17s ; re d
ditto 20s to 221 per barrel ; Newfoundland 9' Os to 111 per
ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s,
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to 20s;
salted 15s to 21s per cwt ; calf skins 24d to 21cl per lb.
Potatoes, white 8d to 10d ; Minions 12d to 13d ; Guano—
Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel,
195 per barrel.

SALE OF ENCUMBERED
ESTATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Since the publication in The Sun of a letter
which I lately addressed to you on the subject of the
Solicitor General's Bill for facilitating the sale of en-
cumbered estates, two letters have appeared in the Irish
papers, in which the writers, Mr. Sadleir, the Member
for the borough of Carlow, and Mr. Vincent.Scully—like-
wise, I believe, a Member of Parliament—express an
anxious desire to promote the object of what appears
to me, in common with yourself, an ill-advised, because
most partial, adaptation of a measure, which might be
rendered extremely useful if but equitably applied. I
should certait.ly be slow to assume that these gentle-
men mean to adopt in its entirety the famous maxim of
that notable Jurist. Monsieur Prudhon, "Ls propriiee
test le vol," and to deal with property accordingly,.but
I must say that in the present instance they seem to me
to advocate that very anc ent yet somewhat question-
able practice of political economists, known in the
homely language of our forefathers as " the robbing
Pt t r to pay Paul." Having pointed out the
very restricted line of argument to which both
theso Learned Gentlemen have so closely con-
fined themselves, whilst pursuing it at great length—
viz., that considerable benefit would be conferred on
certain parties by the Bill in question"—the damage
likely to a?,crue therefrom to others being deemed un-
worthy of consideration, I will not follow it further,
granting that such might be its effect; but shall merely
observe in a general way, that their argument is equally
applicable to the defence of robbery in its most simple
form. A ten-pound note pilfered from my pocket might
doubtlessly prove useful as well as welcome to somebody
else; but whether the utility of robbery be thereby de-
monstrated, is a question which need hardly be put even
to those who have so largely employei a similar method
of reasoning.
But to return, Sir, to the purpose with which I first
wrote to you, I would ask Englishmen to take a more
extended view of the proposed measure than has yet bet n
opened to them by any of its advocates, to consider
whether its provisions be grossly unjust towards the
unencumbered owners ( f land in Ireland; and if they
be, whether the measure itself can prove useful
to the country at large? It bas often been aske
of
d,
why Ireland has ever thus bitterly complained
English rule ? It is because this practice of
legislating for expediency, without regard to equity, has
bred in that country a contempt for the law as a thing
wholly apart from justice. After the experience of cen-
turies, is then the system to be persevered in? and with
a people whose characteristic trait is still, as it was in
the days of Coke and Davis, that " under the sun thei
•
are no greater lovers of justice;" but before English-
men can rightly understand this question as it regards
Ireland, they must be inf)rmed how utterly different aro
the circumstances of landed property here from what
they are in England. Why, at the present time it is
next to an impossibility to procure money upon its se-
curity, be that ever so good. This, however, they may
be enabled to comprehend by recalling the somewhat
analogous position of the mercantile interest in England
n the autumn of 1847, when men of great wealth and

usdoubted credit were brought to the verge of bankruptcy
by the restriction of money; let them picture the Go-
vernment as coming forward on that occasion with a Bill
enabling the Bank of England to relax its rules in favour
of a particular section of a particular class of merchants,
and that in such a manner as would necessarily increase

the pressure on the remaining portions of the mercantile
interest, what reception would such legislation have met
with in England? Would it have been tolerated? 'Yet
similar in character is the mode of legislation which it
is now proposed to apply to Ireland. But I hope that
ere this sufficient cause has been shown by others to

justify the demand that full and mature consideration
be given to Sir John Romilly's Bill, and asking leave
to thank you for the space in your columns which has
already been allowed me for this purpose,
I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
C. H. BOWEN.
Monkstown, April 10.

MADAME PULSZILY'S " MEMOIRS OP A HUNGARIAN
LADY."—The Edinburgh Review, just published, contains a
very interesting notice of this remarkable work. "The
nationality of the people, their martial prowess, and present
unhappy fate (says the Review) have invested Hungary with
the interest of a second Poland, and Western Europe must
be naturally desirous to learn something of their civil and
social life. These volumes are the joint production of M. and
Madame Pulszky. While the latter records her impressions
and recollections of Hungarian life, we have to thank M.
Pulszky for a Very able summary of the history of Hungary,
from the days of Arpad to the reign of Ferdinand the First,
and the reform movement—a history which abounds in in-
teresting incidents and useful lessons for the statesman and
the philosophic historian. Madame Pulszky's narrative of
her wanderings and dangers is agreeably diversified with
sketches and anecdotes from Magyar life, as well as with
ancient legends from Hungarian history and modern pas-
sages in the late war of independence. It cannot fail to ex•
cite an interest in all classes of readers—in those who open
a book only for amusement, as well as in those who look
to literature for something more enduring."
SnocziNG ACCIDENT.—About ten o'clock yester-
day morning John Jane, one of the men employed to unload
the ice from the barges at the Wenham Lake Ice Company's
stores, near the Waterloo-bridge, met with so serious an ac-
cident that his life is despaired of. The blocks of ice are this
year unusually large, some of them exceeding 5001 b. in
weight, and a horse is employed, by means of ropes and
tackle, to raise them from the barge to a platform, fr, rn
which they are carted for storage to the ice-houses. The un-
fortunate man was employed to detach the blocks from the
ice-tongs on its reaching the platform. By some means one
of the blocks in its ascent caught the beam which crosses
the barge, and the horse, not being stopped in time, pulled
down the poles to which the tackle was fixed and the plat-
form, front which the poor fellow was precipitated heal fore-
most, and fractured his skull. He was immediately con-
veyed in a cab to the Westminster Hospital, and, from the
extent of his wounds, not the slightest hopes are entertained
of his surviving more than a few hours.
DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.--On Friday, as
the workmen on the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway
were sinking for ballast gravel on a part of the estate of Mr.
T. G. Parry, at Higham, near this city, they disinterred
twelve skeletons, all apparently the remains of full grown
men. Some of the skeletons were lying somewhat con-
fusedly, as if the bodies to which they once belonged had
been rather carelessly consigned to their common grave; but
others, and one in particular, had evidently been respectfully
interred, and the coffins formed of blocks of Painswick
stone, had been built round them. It is conjectured that
they were the bodies of some of the officers and soldiers who
fell at the siege of Gloucester during the civil wars between
Charles I. and his Parliament.— Cheltenham Journal.