The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-27 00:00:00

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

Wheat. I Barley. 1 Oats. Beans. Pease.
.1111/I•Mimimmom •••••••.”.•••••••• .................... ............... ..••••.pmm.......
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to I. I. to s. a. to I. s. to s.
Bostui
Braintree 45 58 29 33 18 11 24 29 28 94
Brighton 4l 52 27 31 22 26 36 41 35 88
Cambridge 46 52 23 .... 18 —, 32 29
Chichester 44 52 28 30 19 22 40 42 36 40
Dunmow 42 55 24 33 18 23 24 32 29 * 31
Grantham
Grimsby 4O 50 28 33 18 21 36 40
Hailsham 46 52 26 32 19 21 30 31 29 94
Hitchin 4O 57 27 34 20 30 34 45
Ipswich 46 53 23 29 19 22 26 28 —lB PO
Lewes 4l 50 24 28 19 22 'OO 36 32 34
Lynn 4O 46 26 28 18 22 24 28 26 29
Maidstone 49 50 39 39 26 32 38 40
Norwich
Petworth
Romford
Sandwich
Tnetiord .....
Wisbech ....., 42 47 28 34 17 19 24 26 24 28
Witham 43 53 23 91 19 23 24 25 27 30
Yarmouth 150 55 al 32 *2O 23 38 40 28 30

.50 Per Quarter
73 Bostui
70 Braintree
67 Brighton
86 Cambridge
2) Chichester
60 Dunmow
35% Grantham
72 Grimsby .
22 Hailsham
29 Hitchin
66 Ipswich
13 Lewes
Lynn
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
COURT-3IARTIAL ON THE ENGINEER OP THE PRO-
% METHEITS.—The Court-martial which we announced
last week as ordered on Mr. Hand, the second
x engineer of the Prometheus, Lieutenant Commander
Pasco, was held yesterday at Portsmouth on
board the St. Vincent., 120 'flag-ship, Rear-
)l4 t Admiral Hyde Parker, Superintendent of the Dock-
-1,51) yard, acting as President, and the following officers
)1,4 , composed the Court:—Captain llenderson, C. 8., K.H.,
) of the Victory; Captain Sir T. Hastings, of the Excel-
, lent; Captain IL F. Rowley, of the St. Vincent; and
i 34 Commander Wilcox, of the Victory. G. L. Greetham.
Esq., officiated as Judge Advocate. The charge was
for gross neglect of duty by having allowed the water in
N one of the boilers to get considerably below its proper
level, and for not having taken the proper steps to ar-
;74 rest the mischief thereby incurred.
Lieut. Pasco, the commander of the Prometheus, in
;%., the course of his evidence, stated that he was aroused
,g from his cabin on the morning of the 28th Feb., then off
14 Madeira, by the stopping of the vessel, and en going to
inquire the reason he encountered an offensive smell of
something burning, which on investigation he discovered
proceeded from the engine-room, and from the feltusually
placed between the boilers, which he found had been
ignited by the port boiler being, in the absence of water,
nearly red-hot. On interrogating Mr. Hand, the engineer
34 in charge, he, in excuse for his neglect, said he had dis-
covered the state of the boiler, but was so frightened
.36 that he did not know how to act. Lieutenant Pasco,
then, on ascertaining the extent of the damage, and
,„ finding it impossible to get it repaired at Madeira, de-
termined to put back, and on arriving at Devonport,
represented the circumstances to the Commander-in-
'34 Chief, Admiral Sir D. Milne, Bart., G.C.8., from which
,36 port he was ordered to Portsmouth.
Mr. Frazer, the first engineer, and Mr. Wallace, the
second master, corroborated the evidence of the com-
mander, and Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer of the factory
at Woolwich, gave as his opinion that the damage
sustained by the boilers was the result of careless-
;l4 ness and neglect, and although the boilers were of the
P 34 tubular principle, they required no greater skill in their
management than did the old ones. They could not
be repaired in less than a month, and would cost from
300 L to 4001.
.34 In his defence the prisoner called two witnesses, one
of whom was an apprentice on board, who provednothing
in extenuation. The Commander, however, and Mr.
.14 Lloyd, gave therprisoner a good character both as to con-
-14 duct and qualifications:
The Court found him Guilty, and adjudged—
" That the prisoner be dismissed her Majesty's ser
vice, and that he is forthwith dismissed accordingly."

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE AME-
RICAN PRESIDENT.
Although, as we have already remarked, and are
happy on inquiry to.find, that no accident occurred
at the funeral. last Saturday, that of the parties killed
by th6lVxplbsion of the Princeton gun,• or, indeed, in
m the course.of .the day,._ a _narrow: escape was expe-
' rienced by the President of the United States, who,
in returning from the COngress 'Burial Ground in a
d 6 carriage, with his son, Mr. John Tyler, had his life
!i jeopardied and saved in a manner almost providential.
! 1 It seems the horses attached to the carriage took
fright, or started at the foot of the Capitol,. and
'li galloped off at a furious rate along Pennsylvania-
avenue, which at the time was crowded with
froiwn ith thethe funeral.
utmost W
hacks and vehiclei -of every description, and
persons on horseback and on foot, returning
,34rapidity, hen
it
we saw a s
stehde carriageSeventh-
'street, ev
th
as
'street, the danger of its coming in collision with other
gaearllreipa7negs saetemtheedtoimp maintehneirt; but the horses, although
speed, fortunately were
kept in a pretty straight course along our broad
avenue, where there was room enough for other
horses and carriages to get out of the way. - The
horses in the President's carriage continued their
course at full speed, notwithstanding .every effort of
the driver, assisted by. Mr. John Tyler, jun., to stop
them: When the carriage reached a point opposite
Gallabrun's European Hotel, a coloured man for-
tunatelytho President,, Mt.' John Tyler, jun., and the driver
succeeded in stopping. the horses, and thus
were most seasonably and happily rescued from' their
perilous situation.—National Intellipncer.