The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—We are indebted to Mr. Bright for a
very great pleasure and a still greater disappointment
in the perusal of his speech to his Irish constituents.
The circumstance were such as taxed his powers to
the utmost. Besides the intrinsic gravity of the sub-
ject, it has been for ages the Gordian knot of British
statesmanship. Mr. Bright has just returned from
the magic soil which dooms its inhabitants to an
endless circle of miserable errors, and with whose
mysterious influence its rulers and visitors are also
affected. His heart still throbbed with the horrors
he had witnessed, when he spoke from its fullness at
a meeting of the Society for Financial Reform.
What ho said on that occasion,
,however, was of a
nature to provoke rather than satisfy curiosity,
and the result was, that while we, on our part,
challenged Mr. Bright to propose some positive,
practical, and sufficient measures for Ireland, the Irish
residents in Manchester and Salford, who amount al-
together to 60,000 or 80,000, were equally anxious to
hear him out on so absorbing a theme. Thus stimu-
lated and primed, piqued and invited, Mr. Bright did
his very best en Thursday evening, and we have
seldom read an address which sustained its interest
so well and so long. Yet we must add, and we add
it with sorrow, Mr. Bright leaves the subject very
much where he found it. No sober judgment can
assign a higher character to the speech than that of
an eloquent and clever electioneering harangue. Tl.e
speaker, as too often happens on that stage, is lost in
his audience. He sinks into the obedient mouthpiece
of the 80,000 men who remember the country they
have left better than that which has afforded them a
home, and who forget that of the 400,000 inhabitants
of Manchester and Salford, nearly all, like themselves,
are exiles, or the descendants of exiles, from over-
stocked agricultural districts. In fact, it is the post
of O'Connell which Mr. Bright here assumes. Lest
we should overlook his new character, he writes it
himself. "I can never lose hope of a country," he
says, " which numbers amongst its sons such men as
Grattan and O'Connell. I will never despair of a
people that have known how to admire their genies
and to venerate their patriotism." What is this but
an attempt to ascend the vacant throne of a dema-
gogue who conducted Ireland to famine and rebellion,
and to a tenfold aggravation of all her social ills ?
The measures proposed by Mr. Bright, in reply to
our challenge, are very soon stated. They are, the
restriction of entails to lives in being, and the conse-
quent diminution of life interests; the equal division
of property among the children of those who die in-
testate ; a registry of property, with other arrange-
ments for its cheap and easy transfer; an ad valorem
duty on settlements; the greatest possible multiplica-
tion of freeholders; compensation to all existing
tenants for any improvements they may henceforth
make in their holdings ; the admission of all rate-
payers to the franchise ; aelarger share in the Imperial
representation ; a fairer distribution of the Irish con-
stituency ; and the abolition of the Established Church.
We are not aware of having omitted anything from the
list, yet neither does it present any startling novelty in
its details, nor does it show unusual judgment in the
selection. Had we been asked to say what Mr.
Bright was likely to propose, we think we could have
found him a catalogue of grievances very similar to
the above, and perhaps we might thereby have saved
him his visit to Ireland. All these propositions have
been so often discussed that is scarcely necessary to
re-open the controversy on their merits till they
come before the nation in a more tangible form. So
far as regards the emancipation of property, the Le-
gislature has already taken a very great step. Under
the Encumbered Estates Act so large a mass of pro.
perty will soon be freed from its encumbrances, di-
vided, and thrown on the market, that land is in some
danger of being unduly depreciated. Compared
with this sharp and decisive remedy, Mr.
Bright's own measures promise but a tardy
relief, excepting only one which would, in our
humble opinion, amount to the immediate con-
fiscation of every acre in Ireland. We mean his
plan of tenant-right. Taking the Irish as they are
—their want of a conscience in dealing with land-
lords, who, as Mr. Bright tells then", are their enemies
and oppressors—their imaginary arithmetic, their
habit of agrarian combination, their invincible liti-
giousness, and their inexhaustible ingenuity—we
entertain no doubt that every tenant would set up
such claims as would soon oust the landlord from all
interest in his freehold. We expressed this opinion
long ago on the Bill Lord Lincoln brought before
Parliament, and unless Mr. Bright can produce a
very different sort of measure, our remarks on that
occasion apply to the brief outline in the speech now
before us. Perhaps it is not very necessary to be ever-
lastingly explaining to the Irish how it comes to pass
that they lie at the bottom of European society.
The subject should not be very palatable either to
the lecturer or to the pupil. When, however, an
Englishman of no common ability, and the repre-
sentative of our largest purely manufacturing consti-
tuency, tells the Irish that all their misery and
degradation arise from one cause, and one cause only,
viz., British oppression, it is time to throw in a word
or two just to save the Irishman from a delusion as
hurtful to himself as it is injurious to us. The
lamentable result which Mr. Bright refers to one
cause is owing to a vast concurrence of causes. The
unmixed Celtic origin of the people, their excitable
and imaginative temperament, their religion, their
remoteness from the centres of civilization, their not
having passed through the ordeal and discipline of
the regular feudal system, the natural fertility of a
soil which yields food without tillage, the indulgence
of a climate which allows huts to do the duty
of houses, and turf to answer the purposes of
fuel, the discovery of the potato, and the com-
parative want of minerals—these and other causes
must be added to a cause which confessedly has
occupied a very high place in the authorship of
Irish misfortune—viz., the neighbourhood and do-
mination of a mixed, an energetic, a calculating, and
a political race, that which is commonly called
the Anglo Saxon, but which does in fact combine the
active elements of all the most dominant European
families. Ever since Ireland, then in a state of utter
anarchy, was annexed to the English crown, it
brought a continuous succession of difficulties to our
statesmen, who, often with the best intentions, backed
by the greatest abilities, never attained anything but
a superficial and short-lived success. The necessities
of Government compelled them to adopt rough and
summary measures, confiscations, and severe coercive
laws, and although it is very easy for gentlemen in
the middle of the 19th century to criticize the conduct
of soldiers and statesmen in the 16th, 17th, or 18th,
or even now, at the beginning of the 19th, it is still
possible that the men of those times did the only thing
possible, rough as it was. The difficulty certainly is
rather older than Mr. Bright would make it. "To
tell the literal fact with regard to Ireland,'
he says, " the soil of that country has
been, for two or three centuries past, in the
possession of the enemy. The present possessors of
the land are the successors of those who were the
possessors of it through conquest and through confis-
cation ; and the laws of this country—of the Imperial
Legislature, and of your Legislature, when it was
under the power or the corruption of ours—the laws
which have prevailed in Ireland from that time to
this have made it impossible for the Irish people to
become possessors of the soil of their own country.
In fact it is in the possession of those who have neces-
sarily been regarded—if I may quote the very noto-
rious expression of a very notorious individual--' as
alien in blood, in language, and in religion.' " Three
centuries ago Spenser described the condition of
Ireland at very great length and from actual experi•
ence ; and his description applies to the letter to the
present day, excepting that, out of the mass of indi-
genous barbarism, which has continued nearly un-
changed from 1550 to 1850, there has meanwhile
risen up, under the auspices of British proprietors
and settlers, here and there, an oasis of indus-
try and civilization. That sueli a people, white
it derived some benefits ,should also suffer some
evils from the contiguity and connexion of a more
civilized race, is, unfortunately, in a too close accord-
ance with a thousand examples to be thought an im-
probable charge. Alternately corrupted and repressed
by British faction, and ever hoping to gain something
by our intestine divisions, it was always thrusting it-
self into scrapes from which it could not fail to come
off the wont. A great deal may be done slowly
and gradually, by the application, not exactly of Mr,
Bright's measures, but of the general policy indicated
by them—namely, the deliverance of the land from
settlements and mortgages, and the subdivision of the
large estates into portions accessible to industrious and
rising men. At present, as if to show the feebleness
of political contrivances, the most effectual remedy
is that which Providence has applied in the failure of
the potato and in emigration. For two or three
years nearly a thousand a day have quitted Ireland
for a country which they may now almost call their
own. " In fact, as Mr. Bright says,
"the export of Ireland consists now of
Irishmen." Of course there is danger, as there
has already been mischief, in the final alienation and
the accession to another state of so many unfortunate
men disaffected to our rule. Doubtless, if a war
should arise to-morrow between this empire and the
States, the Irish citizens would hold up their hands to
a Tan against us. Yet, on the whole, the two countries
have been drawing closer and closer of late years ; all
sober and reasonable parties in the Union wish us
well, and even the Irish mobocracy will favour us in
the matter of free trade. Nor is it impossible that,
on quiet reflection, after the efforts we have made for
Ireland during the last few years, they may at length
allow the alleged injuries of the 16th and 17th cen-
turies to descend with their authors to the grave.
The true and sufficient reply to the angry memories
which our peacemaker has thought fit to conjure up
is that which he himself has suggested. The great
mass of the people of England are, and ever have been
in exactly the same social circumstances as the Irish
population. Lancashire is a county of outcasts, an
Adullam, a settlement of voluntary exiles, from ,

every nook and corner of these isles. Once in
that county, they start all fair; end, if a
man does not get on it is his awn feult. "In
this neighbourhood," says Mr. Bright, " you find
that nearly all the manufacturers were themselves, or
their fathers, or their grandfathers, in the ranks of
labourers—they were mechanics an:l so forth ; and
through the openings which have arisen continually
in this district, by their superior skill and industry,
and by something occasionally which men call '4 good
fortune,' they have emerged from the ranks in which
they found themselves, and have become men of capi-
tal, directors of great industry, and great bent: lectors
to the population amongst whom they live." Very
true and very well put. It is exactly the same with
this overgrown metropolis, which is a vast mass of
provincialism. Nine-tenths of our tradesmen and
merchants sire of rural origin ; so arc nine.
tenths of the men you meet in the streets. Ilave
they any reason to complain that their fathers or
grandfathers were younger brothers, and left without
land; that they were oppressed and defrauded, that
they could not obtain the secure tenancy of their
farms, and were sent adrift without compensation
for improvements ; that as labourers they had no hope
of becoming farmers, or as farmers they had no hope
of becoming proprietors ; that they paid tithes to a
parson they hated ; or that they had not the free
exercise of their religion ? No. They are now all
the better for these things, and can afford to smile
at their domestic traditions of tribulation and wrong.
So we may say of the Irish and their present
troubles. Forsan et /lac olim nerninisse juvabit.
POST.—We are by no means disposed to regard
with favour those systems of education which tend
to relax the restraints of wholesome discipline in the
training of youth. "Order," says the poet, "is
Nature's first law ," and it is impossible to implant
too soon in the human mind a sense of the value of
authority. On the general question of punishments it
is not our intention here to enter. It is admitted on
all hands that they
.should be proportioned to the
offence, and of such a character as not to interfere
with the sense of self-respect on the part of the
sufferer. Our attention has been called to this sub-
ject by certain proceedings in the Caledonian Asylum,
which have recently been the subject of investigation
by the authorities of that noble charity. Our readers
are aware that this institution was founded for the
support, education, and final settlement in life of
destitute children of soldiers, sailors, and marines,
natives of Scotland. The good conduct of an esta-
blishment so valuable to society, and so creditable
to the country, is matter of vast importance
and universal interest. It is not without deep
regret that we perceive, from a mass of corre
spondence now lying before us, that the case to which
we refer demands snore ample explanation, or more
satisfactory redress, than it seems hitherto to have
obtained from the governing body. It appears that,
so long ago as the 29th of October last, the Duke of
Buccleuch, as President of the Caledonian Asylum,
announced to Captain Charles Forbes, one of the co-
treasurers, the receipt by his Grace of a complaint
preferred by one of the guardians against Mr. Renton,
the superintendent of the institution. The statement
sets forth that Mr. Renton had caused four girls,
inmates of the establishment, to be stripped and
flogged, and that not on account of any culpable mis-
conduct, but for acts which were the involuntary
result of constitutional debility or bodily exhaustion,
"for which rest and medical treatment were the pro-
per remedies." The Duke of Buccleuch observes—
"l know nothing --of the case beyond the complaint ;
but it is one that must not be allowed to
pass without notice—it is one that requires
a most strict investigation, which I trust
will be instituted without delay, and be strictly and
fairly carried out." The matter was accordingly
brought by Captain Charles Forbes before a meeting
of the directors which had been convened, not for
that purpose, but for the consideration of certain al-
legations made by the superintendent against some of
the officers of the establishment. It is of less moment
to notice that those allegations were found to be
groundless, than that the complaint directed against
the superintendent himself was so far established
that he was ordered to be admonished by one of the
directors. Notwithstanding this decision, a certain
number of the directors, whose opinions appear to
have been in sympathy with Mr. Renton, succeeded
in preventing any record of the affair from appearing
in the minute books, and no resolution was passed
to prevent a recurrence of the proceedings which
had thus been condemned. In short, the investi-
gation, if, indeed, the proceeding can fairly be so
designated, was not conducted in that spirit of fairness
and justice so strongly recommended by the Noble
President. The girls who had been subjected to the
unmerited and degrading punishment were not exa-
mined, nor was the evidence of the matron, the
schoolmistress, or the maid servant who had been pre-
sent, sought or received. The superintendent himself
appears to have been the only witness in his own
case. He was directed to draw up an account of Isis
conduct in the business, and to transmit it to the
president. his statement, we learn was directly at
variance with the written account proffered by the
matron, whose testimony derived weight from an ex-
cellent character, proved through a period of eight -
and-twenty years. The • statement made by the
governess, or schoolmistress (Miss Mackenzie), is to
this effect :
" In respect to the flogging of girls in this asylum, I
beg to state that, on the morning of the day on which
the superintendent had the girls flogged, I was informed
by the servant of their conduct; and as I have always
found it sufficient to act on the emotions of the mind
rather than to inflict corporal chastisement, I admonished
them ; and it was not until the next day that my atten-
tion was edited to the fact that three girls had been
flogged, in the presence of the matron, during my
absence, and without my knowledge; and that they were
to stand in the corner of the room while their cons
panions took their food, and not speak or have any in-
tercourse for three days, which punishments they un-
derwent, as I had no power to interfere with the
superintendent's order. On the following Monday
another girl was flogged, for the same conduct, without
my knowledge, although I was in the asylum."
Mr. Erasmus Wilson is next applied to by one of the
directors, and is asked, in a letter from that gentle-
man, for his opinion as to the " moral and medical
effect of such punishments." Of the " moral" effect,
the director himself was, or ought to have been, as
competent a judge as the gentleman to whom he
applied ; on that point, therefore, the reference was
unnecessary; but Mr. Wilson's answer to the second
part of the query is pertinent and valuable. He says
that " the punishment of flogging for the cause men-
tioned—namely, for a disease—is in the highest
degree cruel and inhuman;" and he adds, that " whore
physical punishment is employed as a remedy against
the disease in question, and where a state of
fear and
apprehension is kept up, it is perfectly possible that
the result may be an increase of its irritability, end
even the establishment of a permanent and more serious
disorder." Such is the character, and such, very briefly,
are the facts of this revolting case. The system of
flogging girls, especially girls who have attained an age
of twelve years, under any circumstances, is offensive in
the highest degree to every rightly-constituted mind
We question, indeed, if the cause, so there be a cause
at all, be of much importance, when we are consider.
ing the moral effects of so unjustifiable a degradation.
But, in this instance, it would seem that the victims
of a contemptible and cruel tyranny would have more
properly been the objects of increased care and atten-
tion than of any punishment whatever. The stper-
intendent appears to be entrusted with unlimited
authority. In such an institution such a power ought
not to rest in the hands of any individual officer. A
committee of directors ought to superintend the entire
administration of the charity, and so prevent the pos-
sibility of abuses so flagrant and inhuman as this.
The business cannot be permitted to rest where it is ;
the public who support the invaluable institution
which has thus been disgraced will require with
peremptory and irresistible authority that such prac-
tices shall cease at once and for ever.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

Six o'CLoca.

CHESTER CUP.
40 to 1 apt Lady Eveljn
40 to 1 agst John Cosser
66 to 1 agst Lismahagow
66 to 1 agst Snowstorm
66 to 1 agst Sir Richard
66 to 1 agst Mounseer
80 to 1 agst Horn of Chase
100 to 1 agst Vesta

100 to 1 apt The Baroness
100 to 1 agst blelody

100 to 1 agst Cockerznoutli
100 to 1 agst Harriott
100 to 1 agst Clarissa

nEkunr.
9 to 1 agst Bolingbrolre—taken
10 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum
11 to 1 apt Knight of Avenel
17 to 1 2gst the Nigger
25 to 1 agst Sweetheart
25 to 1 agst Clit;eher
30 to 1 agst Mayors

LIVEEPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
15 to 1 agst Rat-trap—takun
15 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne—taken
16 to 1 agst Petri' Simple—taken
20 to 1 agst Sir John—takon
30 to 1 agst Farnham--taken
50 to 1 agst Reseue—taken
50 to 1 asst silent Friend—taken
50 to 1 agst The Hero—taken

The Duke of Wellington commences the new year
with fresh evidence of health and strength. The other
day he went out hunting, and actually rode between ten
,and twelve miles to cover.—United service Gaieties

-THE COUNT]
JAN. s.—Pr;
s. d. S. d.I

tY MARKETS.
:ccs to-day are um banged.
s. d. s.

Wllcat, per 701 b Barley, English, pr
i 01,1.. • 6 4to 6 6 imperial quarter 29 oto 31 0
. G 0 6 3 Irish, Scotch, and
Irish, new .. •• D
5 Manx,per
0., old 5 8— 5 10 Barley, Feeding.. 3 0— 3 4
re and wh. 5 9 6 2 Bye, per 4801 h .• 22 0 24 0
1 liint,:c.,lligh mixed 7 2 7 ti Beans, English, pr
.. 6 8-- 7 2 imperial quarts 31 0— 33 0
Rostoei: G 8 6 10 Trish and Scotch,
If aniburc;ll and per 4801 b— ..
_L 28 0 29 0
ower Baltic G 8 Foreign, duty pd. 25 3 25
Anlerle:m, xs, bite 6 8 10 European, per ins-
-Spa:o,li .1.! Italian, perial quarter.. 30 0
red 31
and white.. 6 0 5 Peas, English, per
TI and imperial quartr 32 0 33 0
. • 5 6 5 9 Foreign .. .. 29 0— 30 Ode,:sa, Polish .. 5 8-- C Malt, English, per
Do., contain 52 6 imperial quartr 50 0— 54
Jm., herd.. ••4 6 4 Do., Irish .•40 0 .-48
Egyptian .. .. 40— 4 5 Do., brown •50 0 o,its, per 451 b Flour, pr 52 0
Ety...lL-11, Scotch, 2801 b •• 31 0—33 0 and NVelsit .. 30— 3 2 extra fine— 34 0 35 0
Irish, new, best United States, per
mea ling .. 25 2 61 barrel .. 23 6—2 G 0
Do., mid and inf. 2 4 2 5 Calitidian • • .. 23 0— 24 0
Old .. • . • • 2 7 - 2 B'Oatmeal, English,
Intikin coal, per & Scoteh,pr24olb 93 0 24 0
.. 29 0— 30 Oi Irish, new .. • • 21 G— 22 0
Do. Meal, perl96lb 11 o—l 4 GI Do., old .20 0 21 0
MANCLIESTER, JAN, s.—'lho trade in the early part
of the week continued to exhibit an improving aspect,
although business was sotnewlottt interrupted by the
1134(11 character of the present season, a steady de-
mand was expt-riencod tar flour tit prices rather exceed-
ing the curs-,ucy of the preceding market day. Subse-
quently a quieter tecling has prevailed, and the dealers
end bsk,.rs, having purchased to a fair extent, seem now
dioposed to pause. On the other hand, however, factors,
whose stocks are reduced into a much narrow compass
tll7lll for some time past, remain exceedingly firm. Oat-
meal has me-, a moderato consumptive demand, without
change in valuq. At our war lc,,t this morning there was
only a limit( d business passing in any article; but the
iew transacions which occurred in wheat and oats were
it fully the rates of this day se'nnight, whilst oatmeal
and the lower descriptions of flour tvtr4 again be quoted
sae turn d,- art r.

WORCESTER, JAN. s_—There was a full attendance
of farm. is i. t the first market of the year, held to-day,
and o,!thouei samples were freely in offer, prices were
well maintained at the advance of last week. Good
wit at must now be quoted at 16s. Some inferior sera-
ph's are taken at 15s, but prime qualities have fetched
163 6d.. Not much business doing in barley, at from 3s
to 3s 6d per bushel. Malt in slow demand, at from 7s to
Ss p- r bushel. Englisa oats average 3s 3d per bushel,
uct Ir:sh from 2s 61 to 3s. Good English beans 4s 6d
t 4s 10(l per bushel; foreign 33 6d to 4s. Peas about
4s per bushel. Winter vetches 55 6d to 63.
At S:ourbridge market, ou Friday, there was a good
supply of grain of most descriptions, and a correspond-
ing dunand for it on the part of the millers and dealers.
For wheat especially the demand was good, and fair
samples realised Is per quarter more money without
difficulty. Barley also was in request, and superb r
samples advanced is per quarter in price. In beau
and peas a fair amount of business doing, and price
firm. Oats maintained last week's rates.
At Stratford-on-Avon market en Friday also there.
was a good attendance both of farmers and millers, it
being what is called the "new market." Wheat was
firm, anl in good samples Is per quarter advance was
obtainable; inferior qualities as last quoted. Barley
maintained previous rates, but without realizing more
tnoney. Beans firm, at last week's prices. Oats dull of
sale.

At Atherstone the show of Wheat was limited; other
grain an average supply. Wheat averaged 5s per buskiel;
prime qualities a trine higher. Barley cannot be quoted
higher than 26s per imperial quarter. Oats were sale-
able at 20s to 21s per quarter.
At Kidderminster rnqrket on Thursday wheat advanced
in price fully is per quarter. Barley in fair demand, at
6d to Is per quarter advance. Oats and Beans slow of
srt!e.

Wolverhampton market was barely supplied with
wlwat, and an advance of Is per quarter took place.
READING, J.N. s.—Wheat, per quarter, 30s to 50s;
barley, 255 to 28s; oats, 16s to 20s ; beans, 30s to 335;
peas, 30s to 325. Fat hogs, Os to Os Od; porkers, Cs Od to Os Od
per score. Poultry—Geese, each, 5s 0(1 to 6s Od; fowls, per
couple, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; ducks, per couple, 3s Od to 3s 6d ;
butter, per lb, Is to is 1(1; eggs, 10 to 12 for Is.
ABERDEEN, JAN. 4.—Grain—Oats 13s 64 to 14s 6d, 401byter
bushel ; oats, new, 00s Od to 00s ; foreign oats, 00: Od to 00s Od
per qr.; barley, 17s to 18s Od, 52Ibs per bushel; bear,l7s to 18s,
521bs per bushel ; wheat, 40s to 45s ; oatmeal, Ils 6d to 125 6d
per boll ; flour, 33s to 00s per sack. Provisions--Beef,
Gd to 8d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 6d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 6d
to 7d ; pork, per lb, 4d to 6d ; lamb, per lb, Od to Od;
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 8d to 10d;
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 7d to 8d; hares, each, OS
to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d to 8d;
eggs, per doz, 10d to is 2d; cheese, per cwt, 18s to 235; hens, per
pair, Ss Oct to 3s 6d ; chickens, ditto, Is 8d to 2s Od ; ducks, dittift
Is 8d to 2s Cd ; ducklings, ditto, Os to Os Od; turkeys, each, 4s Od
to 5s Od; geese, ditto, 3s 6d to 4s; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 00s to 525; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, a
to 7d; 41b loaf, 6d; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 14Ibse
3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large*
3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to es•
Meal—Oatmeal, is 2d to is 3d; barley dust, 6d to 7d;
peasemeal, Is 10d to Os Od ; sids, 6d to 7d:; bearmeal, is
to Os , flour, is 10d to 2s Od ; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barley
flour, Is '3d to Cs Od.

DALICEITII, JAN. 3.—The relative weight per four busbelf
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 71b, l7st 51b, and 164
81b. Oats, 13st 21b, 12st 11b, and lOst 51b. Barley, 16st 1011),
15st 121 b, and 14st 51b. Peas and beans, 18st 131 b, 18st 411,,
and 18st 31bs.

Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 4 2 Wheat ... ...... 3 0 £1 16 0 £1 10 0
1570 Oats
1099 Barley
33 Peas and Beans 18 0 15 0 14 0
Avei age of wheat........ 36s 2id.
GLASGOW CATTLE MARItET, JAN. 3.—At our market
to-day the numbers were—oxen, 532 ; sheep, 1,804.
Owing to the scarcity of cattle sales were dull, but pre'
vious prices were supported, and a good clearance wag
effected. Top price for best ox beet 503 per cwt, mfr.
rent from 44s to 48s, inferior qualities from 303 to 405
per do. The supply of sheep was considerably leas
than last day, which caused sales to be much more
easily effected. Best aged vvethers sid per lb, current
4.:11,1 to stl, middling and inferior from 3d to 4d per d°. All sold.
Conx, JAN. 4.—We have no arrivals of foreign grai°
to report. The receipts of home grown for the wet
amount to—Wheat, 1,167 barrels ut 16s 61 to 215 6
per barrel; barley, 1,870 barrels at 7s to Its 8d Riff
barrel; oats, 3.935 barrels at 7s to 9s 9d
per barrel.
the Green-market the value of all descriptions of greo3
is firmly supported, while for some higher rates are
given. In prepared Irish wheat wo have had but lit":
business passing. Prime foreign is in demand, and t();
'any of really good quality enhances prices are demanded'
There is very little malting barley offiring. In grinding
barley a few sales have been made at late rates. Sool
parcels of oats have changed hands at the currency fd
our last. We quote the value of the article 9s to 93
Per barrel, free on board. We continue to experience.
good demand for foreign flour which is taken readily
,a:
late prices. Irish however is neglected and dull of Wei;
With but a moderate business passing in Indi%
corn its value is fully supported, the current
prices for the article being 61 12s 6d to 6/
per ton. Indian meal meets a very restricted sale'
Flour—First 12s tid to 13s Cd ; extra 150 13'„
seconds, I Is to 12s 6d ; households Os to 103 6d; thirds, 6s W 4'4
I.
per cwt. Oatmeal 9s Od to lOs ; Indian meal 7s to 7s 3d; wheat,
meal, 9860 to 10s per cwt. Indian corn 132860 to 1378 6d per ter'
~,
Bran 3/ Os to 3112 s 641 per ton. Hay—Farmers 21s to 3 2s; averalt,
30s ; dealers 3's to 38s 00; average 36s per ton. St, aw— Farrar;
14s Od to 263 00; average 745; dealers 34s Od to 009
average 008 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 64;
household loaf 5d to Sid per 41b. Fresh butter. 8d
103 per lb Eggs-58 100 to 6s Od per hundred. Colus
Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ;
Best Ne th
t
Culm 14.3 per ton. Tallow 39s Od to Oos per e„ t,
.`"
Whisky, 25 0. p., 58 9d per imperial gallon.
70 —Beef 3_lsid to sd; mutton 4d to sd; veal
„,ar Od ; pork 3id to 4d ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d
Li
lb. Hops 13/ Os per cwt. Banor slates 312 a 6d to 3/ 50
ton. Bark—Barbary 7i 5s to 8158 ; Valonia 14/ to 01; Frene
715 s ; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 105 to 12s per stoiled
Hemp 32/ to GO/ per toe. Fish—Scotch herrings 18, to 19s; re
ditto 243 to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9! Os to 11/ ,f
ton. Timber-11Ierne), 851 per ton; deals, first quality, h,,
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to "j
salted 14s to 20s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 20 per b.
Potatoes, white 7d to 9d; Minions lld to 12d • Guano)
Peruvian, 11l 10s; Ichaboe, 91 per ton ; Tar.—Archalage
19s per barrel.
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BIRTH'S.
On the 4th ,at Charles street, Berkeley-41~ate,
the Countess of Craven, of a son.
On the 28:h ult., the lady of Charles Claridge, SCI•f
Albion-road, Holloway, of a son.
On the r9th ult., at the rectory, Orcheston,
St. biarf'9r
Wilts, the lady of Captain Henry Marriott, of a daughte;o,
On the Ist ins,., at the Hyde near Upton-on-Seve Worcestershire, the lady of Mk J
jor J. P. Woodward, of s
'l'ell, On the 3d inst., at tlaverstock-terrace, Hampstead,
Shoveller, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the
wife
Dr. Vores, of a daughter.
On the 8d inst , at l3othal Rectory, Northumberland, the
wifi! of the Rev. H. Hopwood, of a daughter. ker.
On the Al inst., in Upper Woburn-place, Mrs. E. Na barih, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 3d inst., at St. Mary's Church, Paddington, 1,,
Rev. IV. Cuthbert Barwizi, curate of St. James's Chtlf,o,c
Leeds, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late B. Hogb`"
Esq., of Waltham-abbey.
On the 3d inst., at Lympston Church, Devon, Mr. S 11114;
T. Sivol, of Mr. John Sivell, of Lprupstori, to 0,4
Elizabeth Ann Edwards, granddaughter of the late MOO'
Colman, E!,q.,

DIED.
On the 2d inst., en the Marine-parade, Dover, 11. L. —ll°36'
Esq., late Captain of the 3d (or King's Own) Dragoons,:.
On the 2:1 inst., Mr. John Webster, of Burnham, thic"-;..
On the 3d inst., at the Manor-house, Sheppertont -
garet, wife of James Scott, Esq.
On the 3d inst , at East Dulwich, aged 79, James putt
E q,woo
d,
On the 31st ult., at Tetbury Gloucestershire, Jacob T, -
Esq , :aged
01 the Wt., at Teignmouth, George Fiddest 513°11t:
only son (f the late Major George Short, of the 45th lle'
went N. 1., Bengal Anny.

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