The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-24 00:00:00

HisDAY.) ISO-MARY OF NEWS

iIIARKET

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

Although the arrivals of English Wheat up to our market
since Monday have been but moderateithe number of samples
of that grain on sale was rather extensive, and of very supe-
rior quality. The finest descriptions sold steadily,other kinds
slowly, at Monday's quotations. In Foreign Wheat (the
show of which was not large) very little was doing, at late
rates. Bonded Grain was a mere drug. The imports of
Foreign Barley this week have been small, while the Barley
trade was inactive, at unaltered figures. In Malt exceedingly
little was doing, 3et previous currencies were supported.
Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour wore held firmly, at late rates.
ARRIVALS. •
barley. Oats. I Flour
I 240 qrs. 1,550 qrs. 2,750 sacks
5,550

I Wheat.
ppOish 2,380 qrs.

Irisii••••"." 00000
Foreign.

1,860 1 3,740 I --
Malt, 2,510 qrS.
Although our market was by no means heavily supplied
with Beasts—the first arrivals not exceeding 200 Scots,
chiefly from Aberdeen—the Beef trade was in a very slug-
gish state ; however, the best qualities of Beef sold at Mon-
day's quotations, but the inferior descriptions receded 2d per
81bs. The numbers of Sheep being large, the sale for them
was heavy, and the rates had a downward tendency. The
Lamb trade, owing to the large arrivals, was unusually dull,
at an abatement of from 2d to 4d per 81bs. Calves were in
large supply, and heavy inquiry, at a reduction of 2d per
81bs. Most kinds of Pigs went off on easier terms. Milch
Cows were a dull sale, at prices varying from 161 to 1915 s each.
Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
s d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Second qualityditte... 3 2 3 4
Second quality ditto 2 5 25 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8
Prime large Oxen 210 3 6 Southdown Wethers 310 4 0
Prime Scots, &c.
largecoarse Calves 3 2 4 0 Large Hogs 3 0 3 6
Prifne small ditto. 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers 3 8 4 2
Suckling Calves, eachlB 0 28 0 QuarteroldPigs,eachl6 .0 20 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I
Sheep. I Calves. Pigs.
6111 12,230 351 360

IV 7317'GATE AND LEADZNIECAZ.L.
V'e had a very heavy demand here on the following

,CTITIS

.
At per stone; by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d.i s. i. tog. 61.
Beef, inferior 2 0 2 4 Mutton, inferior ...." 2 4 2 6
middling ..... 2 6 '2 6-- middling..... 2 2 210
-- prime large 210 30, --- prime 3 0 3
prime small ...«. 3 2 3 4i Pork, large 2 4 3 6
Veal .....».».«.«...«.. 3 0 4 4/ 3 4 4 0
Lamb, 4s 6d to ta Bd.
BOTLOUGIit 110 P rol.filitKET.
A decided increase of ily being observed in nearly, or
quite, the whole of the plantations in Kent, Sussex, and
Worcester, from 20 to 40 having been found on a single leaf,
the demand continues very active, and full prices are ob-
tained for all descriptions of Hops. Sussex pockets 61 8s to
6114 s ; Weald of Kent 'do 6112 s to 71; Mid Kent do 71 to
101; Do bags 71 to Si lOs ; East Kent pockets 71 to 91;
Choice do 101 to 121.

CCLONIAT.,.
SuaAß.—The business operations of the present week have
been materially interfered with by the Races, and on one or
two days scarcely anything has been done. The large sup-
plies expected also check purchases. The public sales in-
clude 120 hhds new Barbadoes at 66s to 66s 6d for fine bright
yellow, and at 62s to 62s thl for mid. The private purchases
have been very small, say 400 hhds. We quote Jamaica fine
yellow 66s 6d to• 68s 6d, and Demerara and Berbice fine 65s 6d
to 66s 6d per cwt.
BENGAL-2,341 bags 56 chests only partly sold, and at 6d
decline; fine white 64s to 64s 6d; and mid yellow 57s to 58s.
Mauritius has been neglected.
FOREIGN.-1,249 boxes yellow Havannah were taken in
at 22s to 23s 6d for fine, and at 20s to 20s 6d for mid.
REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 77s 6d to 765,
and dull.
COFFEE. This article has also been dull, and where busi-
ness has been done, generally easier in price. At auction
12 casks 4 brls unclean Berbice were taken in at 70s for low
mid. Ceylon has been lower ; 1,342 bags partly sold, ord to
good ord at 503 to 535, and some damaged at 42s to 50s.
There have been 285 bags African partly sold at 31s for bold
pale yellow at 8d duty. Mocha has been sold privately at
74s to 76s for laid yellow. Singapore and Java have been in
some request.
Cocoa.-185 bales Trinidad were taken in at 44s to 44s 6d
per cwt., the market being drooping.
SPICES.—At auction there has been very little done ; 226
bags of Bengal ginger were taken in at 20s to 255. Cinna-
mon sells better. Pepper is steady.
RICE.-2,997 bags Bengal sold at lOs to Ils 6d for low to
good mid white. A fair private business has been done.
TEA.—A moderate business is doing privately, and holders
are inclined to ask steady rates, though the inquiry is not
very brisk.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is quiet at 40s to 40s 3d per cwt, on the
spot.

EPSOM RACES.

(THIS DAY -BY EXPRESS.)

THE OAKS STAKES
Of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old fillies,
Bst 71b each. The owner of the second horse to
receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the
winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police regu-
lations of the Course. Last mile and a half.
(155 Subs.) _ _ _

Colonel Anson's The Princess (P. Butler) 1
Lord Exeter's Merope • (W. Boyce) 2

THE DERBY.
PIGEON EXPRESSING.

It is an old remark that private enterprise beats
public competition ; and this was signally verified on
the " Derby-day" by The Sun Express from Epsom
Downs. Other Expresses are generally now per-
formed by steam, on rail or water, or by horses ; but
the Derby was clone by pigeons, which neither stop
for water nor turnpikes, but shoot along their straight-
forward course, rejoicing in the blue serene ! It is
with pigeons as with horses—quick or indifferent, and
they have this peculiarity in common—that as a
horse will always come home faster than he goes out,
so will the pigeon ; and to increase this feeling in
the bird, advantage is sometimes taken of natural
causes. For instance, a pigeon that left young ones
at home will travel much faster than an indifferent
bird. If " money makes the mare to go," instinct is
sure to make the bird to fly—and fly with increasing
joy at its nearer approach to home ! It was so on the
Derby-day. Our private Extraordinary Express
beat our public one so much, that The Sun was de-
livered on 'Change and all over town before our public
one reached the office. We had thus the exclusive
pleasure, not only of " distancing" our rivals, but the
rather Irish satisfaction of beating ourselves

SHOAL OF WIIALES.—Bantry Bay has been the
scene of great excitement, high enjoyment, and most
valuable occupation to the people of that locality, this
week, in consequence of a very large shoal of whales—
grampus species—which entered that harbour on
Monday, and found their way to the romantic bay of
Glengariff on Tuesday, the evening of which day
found all kinds of boats, weapons, and missiles in
requisition for the attack on the herd. An immense
number were secured. A correspondent states three
hundred, the value of which he computes at 1.5001.
Nothing could exceed the spirit-stirring character of
the whole scene, enhanced as it was by the beautiful
weather and splendid scenery of the bay.—Cork Reporter.
STEAM-BOAT LAUNCU. -- On Wednesday after-
noon a new steam-boat was launched from the building
yard of Messrs. Heighington, Battersea-fields. She is
called the Sunbeam, and is intended for the Putney
trade, to run in conjunction with the Rainbow, Thunder,
and Lightning. As a specimen of river craft she is un-
exceptionable. Her dimensions are as follow :—Ex-
treme length, 05 feet; breadth between the paddles,
12 feet 8 inches; and depth, 7 feet. She is built on the
diagonal plan, with three " skins," or linings, the two
first at an angle of forty-five degrees, and the outer one
longitudinally, the wood used being African mahogany.
All the modern improvements have been adopted, both
in her build and internal arrangements, and it is ex-
pected that she will beat even the Rainbow, which is the
fastest low-pressure boat up the river. The Sunbeam
will be propelled by two low-pressure engines of four-
teen horse power each, and furnisi..9d with Spillar's pa-
tent boiler. A select party were present: to witness the
launch.
DUBLIN, MAY 2L--THE POSTPONED JUDGZEIIT•
—lt is probable that the Judges of the Queen's Benc::
will not pronounce their judgment upon the motion for a
new trial until Thursday, the second day of term. The
Courts will not be formally opened until about one
o'clock, and the routine business, which is unavoidable,
will very probably occupy a few hours after their Lord-
ships take their seats on the bench, so that they cannot
have sufficient time to give their opinions seriatim and at
length, as it is expected they will.
BARBARITY IN BURTON-CRESCENT.—Considerable
sensation has been excited amongst the casual visitors to
Burton-crescent by a piece of extraordinary ferocity on
the part of the authorities. It appears that the iron
posts at the corners of the streets in that neighbourhood
have long been the victims of juvenile leap-frog, and it
was feared -that the constitution of the posts would not
be strong enough to prevent them from gradually wear-
ing away under the grievance. So far public feeling
would go with the authorities, who have a right to pro-
tect their posts to any reasonable extent ; but, in an
evil hour, the inhabitants have planted spikes on the
top of those posts—so that the boys, who cannot be
deterred from jumping over, are now in danger of
being impaled on the top of them. We have looked
closely into the law of leap-frog, and searched for a
statute on street-posts, but we can find nothing to jus-
tify the frightful cruelty that has been resorted to. The
old thumb-screw was the last remnant of Saxon savage-
ness, but the Vsn-penny nail has never been recognised
by any of our jurists, from Coke to the " Comic
Pllaelistone." Even the holdfast, as an instrument of
legal torture, is about to be abolished, by doing away
with imprisonment for debt ; and we therefore call upon
the authorities of Burton-crescent to erase the spike
from their criminal code immediately.—Punch.
AN EXCELLENT CHANCE FOR THE FAIR SEX.—
The following appears as a bona fide advertisement in a
Welsh paper:—" OPEN TO ALL WALES.—A handsim
young Gintlemin, whose extrame bashfilness has intuced
un to adapt thes inooshal mode of curtship, is wilful
o disposing o his hint an hart to the Savourneen dar-
lint who is of raal blud—tarnation its delicate soomitre
—plays the piano an bates the echoes o Killarney in
voice. Fortin of no considirashun, bane himself un-
kimmin rich !—Addres to ***, Cardinganshire."
A deputation, including Sir John Walsh, Mr. Price.
and Mr. Maynors, had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Excheqtler yesterday.

AND

Vittifir Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

EIGN.
The Memorial de Bourn states that the King and Royal
Family are expected towards the end of next week at the
Chateau de Bisy-, near Vernon. His Majesty intends OW
that journal) to visit the numerous works which have been
executed during the last year in the chateau and its depen-
dencies. According to the 11/inzoria/, the departure of the
King and Royal Family for Eu was to have taken place on
Friday or Sunday last, but the state of the weather pre-
vented it.
'The majority of the Committee on the Budget has declared
itself in favOur of keeping up the effective force of the EMI
at the number fixed by Marshal Soult.
The number of the four committees of the Chamber of De-
puties, on the. Rail-road Bills, went together to Rouen on
Sunday last. Several of the directors and an engineer Sci
companied them, and explained to them the different PrOsOd
the service. The journey was performed in one hour
fifty-five minutes.
The weather at Paris on Wednesday was uncomol°n/i.
fine, with a south-west wind. The quantity of rain the
had fallen within a few days was immense.
The Prefecture of Police of Paris has finished a statistic of
crimes within the capital and the Banlieu, which shows tlll)4‘e
crimes and offences have considerably diminished in nun*
since 1831, notwithstanding that the Banlieu in 1840 „
been enlarged by 135 parishes or hamlets, and the pop
tion increased by 267,266 souls. The number of persoos;.s6
rested in 1831 was 72,824, or about 200 a day. In the cou
of last year it was no more than 62,477, or about 171 a A.
Of these, 31,670 were set at liberty by the agistrates a
..'t
a short detention ; 26,171 were sentenced to imprison:ye%
for a few months, or discharged on giving bail for their g,°,5
conduct. Out of 4,636 brought to trial before the jury,2,'
were found guilty.
A letter from Nonancourt (Eure), May 9, states that tbr,
the four or five preceding days a thick fog, resembling 01°A%
and throwing out a disagreeable odour, had spread over 70",
coantry. The letter mentions that a potato crop i c°,the
pletely destroyed by it, and that fears are entertained '°'
fruit trees.
T Customs' duties at Marseilles, says a journal °I: t,ilevt
city, in 1814, scarcely reached four millions ; in 1829:,the
were twenty-one ; in 1837, twenty-seven ; and in 184- hieh
exceeded thirty-one millions. The number of vessels a'
have arrived and departed has increased in the same er°Cch
tion ; in 1842 there were 15,771, the total tonnage of inif the
amounted to 1,620,000 tons, 520,000 only belonging
coasting trade. doll ill
W e read in a Berlin letter of the 13th :—" Specula 0
- or
railroads continues on the increase. The applic.a, bog
shares in the intended road from Potsdam to Mague
amount to forty millions of crowns, whereas the capital
quired is only four millions."
avers;
A letter from Bologna of the 13th says The '.!
ment has just published the sentence pronounced by "ow
tary commission against the second category, w,.-e
sc"
prises the persons imprisoned at St. Leo, and who a- the
cused of having taken part in the expedition of Imola, °P sit
Bth of September last. By this sentence three persore ate
condemned to perpetual imprisonment with labour, fire
twenty years, twenty-nine to fifteen, and one to ten.
LAW AND POLICE. inaV
The case of Sir Augustus d'Este, the claimant of the ;ate
dom of Sussex was opened yesterday before the Coaf'rt' her
of the House of' Peers by Sir Thomas Wilde. The 'L.I4 it.
hearing was postponed, without fixing a day for resoliesd-
Thomas Callow, a young man lodging in Kings being
square, Shoreditch, was charged at the Guildhall withioti
engaged, with a person unknown, in smuggling a cig' eized
of tobacco, whereby he had forfeited 100/. The officer 5
coo.
the prisoner in a cab in Swan-lane, with two sacks, tobacco'
taming sixty, and the other sixty-one packages of tey„iitf
The value was 691. 155., including the duty. The full 1)5 "--
of 1001. was inflicted. Pr
Ellen Lindsay, a housemaid employed in Bucking's:- fete
lace, and Elizabeth Lindsay, a linen-woman, her siste'Aeta
charged at Bow-street with stealing a quantity of blstir
counterpanes, linen, and other articles of a similar (I'o4
tion, valued at about 401., the property of her Majestit $O.
James Lindsay, their brother, a surgeon, residing:l re
28, Upper Eaton-street, .Pimlico, was charged "601 ell•
cerving the same, well knowing them to have been ded.
After a very long examination the prisoners were renal:, re?
Harriet Eleanor Pelham, and her natural son, Wi„„ls°-wer
ham, were again brought up at Queen-square, to "'',l-Vree.;
charge of cruelty and neglect to a lunatic naraNee
st
Spencer, who was under their care. The evidence
to the state in which the wretched man was found Tr"- their
revolting. Both the prisoners were required to role
bail, and further inquiries will be made. The lunatic Peiced
in the workhouse. It is said that the Magistrate has_reaceolal,
a letter stating that Sir Brent Spencer left 6,0001. a" 0001
valuable furniture to the present lunatic,which the an°lkricar"
writer expresses his willingness, if necessary, to come
and prove. -ff.fris, for
Three fashionably-dressed young men, named '
lips, and Cummings, were fined 40s. each at Union" t ben'
assaulting a policeman, and causing an obstruction II
nington-gate, on the way home from the Derby. foden'tli
Two men, named Margeson and Elliott, were cha„,r.g..otreeti
breaking into the Lord Nelson public-house, in L'l,' liquor
Limehouse, where they wasted a large quantity of „gaol'
stole the contents of the till, and other property to a Ireceir
able amount. The evidence being conclusive, they lr
mitted for trial.
COITILT—FASNIONABLE• receif.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Alberi_eeieg.
a distinguished circle to dinner at Claremont this C'l.,eidr
The invitations were issued from the Lord CharabeP
office on Wednesday. 011
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose will give 6 •
banquet in Belgrave-square, on Friday next. tto 8
The Earl of Wilton will give a grand entertaininco t tb
Majesty the King of Saxony, in Grosvenor-square, lob/
close of the ensuing week. The Noble Lord was glee tai.
her Majesty as Special Minister to proceed to Dresden,
vest the King with the order of the Garter. tri Wei
Lord Cottenham entertained Lord Melbourne, the i-°,,clSi
Lady Holland, and a select party at dinner, on Wed°"
evening, in Belgrave-square. ift
Lord and Lady Newport arrived at the Hon. Col. Ali'
in Hill-street, on Wednesday, from Castle Bronrat.,„cbtoog_
fordshire, on their way to the Dowager Marchioness ntiherr
ham's seat, Bifrons, near Canterbury, where Lord
Conyngham and his youthful family are staying- tortslo
The Archbishop of Canterbury gave his annual en o
meat to the stewards of the Sons of the Clergtf,,
archiepiscopal residence at Lambeth, last evoi'3l'ib
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge dined. ..dllOl
Grace. The banquet was served up in the noble dine,,.,,,
formerly the grand chamber of the ancient palace. (ier,
dition to his Royal Highness the Duke of Carnbridesodefi
was attended by Baron Knesebeck), the Marquis of gets.
Earl of Harewood, Lord Fevereham, &c., were the
his Grace.
The Duke of Buccleuch had a dinner part/
evening, at Montagu House, Whitehall-gardens. ,j
the.,.C:eagetitt.if
DIISCEI.X.ANEOIIS-in
Chief Justice Penefather announced,
Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, that judgment in the P.
the Queen V. O'Connell and others, would be g-Lv dras
day (this day).
A meeting of the printsellers and publishers °L wedoe; of
held at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street, on diet
ere
last, to take into consideration the very pernici;tieas
the various Art-Unions on their trade. Res° of the eijia
proposed and carried unanimously, expressive wit ,
which, in their estimation, would probahlY !' ties. or
best interests of art by the operation of such probable
noittriey
On Tuesday last the second meeting of the °5t1171,.1 the
Lady Patronesses of the Polish Ball took Plac..s,e eleariliter
rooms; -and the full attendance indicated ve'; that el- her
great interest excited in the fashionable world 1)3 b, were, the
tainment. Among the Lady Patronesses presuertil.erhooyor
Grace the Duchess of Leinster, the Duchess of S
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Countess of Tank' i‘e of
countess Palmerston, &c.
Some further particulars of the late extraorciii;o7
whales at Bantry are given in the Cork Coota Gleogliar
terday: Mr. 'Thomas Eccles, writing ire:4l,ot one ea
(18th inst.), says, the " capture consisted of au" fat lifaAt
Bred monstrous fishes of the whale tribe,_ varPte o ar,
fifteen to thirty feet in length. As early as in thOotlici
Tuesday morning they made their appearance
bite
ore
hour." The editor of the Constitution addsrke of
correspondent calculates the number at 170• r'
covered with spectators, multitudes flocking frum"
the surrounding country to witness the sport."

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had a leg broken, and five others were very ae'le with °
The greater part of the other travellers escaped 46,0
wounds. Demi
We are informed that her Majesty the Quefei,/ler 0100
Adelaide intends to visit Belgium in company °will pipe
Prince George of Saxe Weimar. Her Majasg will '
the end of this month at Antwerp, where 1026
very short stay. - ofet tj
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Llay ratified the treaty between the German ust"
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Bernal, R. Graham, Sir J. CO e
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Browne, R. D. Goulburn, If. Tancred, A7r.
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Immediately after the Derby
ntleolti' ve
Wednesday, a fashionably-dressed ge ~,,e course!, ita 40
Twhe_gaseutthier°o;altiii%lile-l;
with a art' ai 10.1,1) ter
riding a spirited horse, turned to leave ,i' arl'" t Yr-
doing so his horse Caine in contact
diately took fright and ran away.
seat for a few minutes, but at length v__ appa*: pieny•
rible violence. Ile was taken
asuphienteuvr'n, wber °lit 0'
less state, and conveyed towar...._ t_
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assistance could be procured. The genieircuaLtnelgrot.e.l3o 700,
time was that he was killed, as his hweillivatioll /1% 0,4 ili.
ground, and he gave no sign oef.
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being carried off, bleeding profus ly a: ' at a o'l'4 .c. Aor
trils. The horse continued its coignes. _
cart, fu;
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through the town, where it ran against t 3
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chest and thighs dreadfully, so as to s
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the Comp" the ba.-
way meeting, to the effect
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