The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

RAY MarLIEZTS.
SMITUFIELD.—Coarse Meadow I.la 31 lOs to 4110 s;
10s
Useful ditto, 4/ PS to 5/ ; fine Liand ditto, 5/ to,
1/
8s ; Clover Hay, 41 103 to 61 6s ; Oat Straw, 118 s to
Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12s per load. Sup-
Ply' but moderate, and trade firm.
Useful ditto
Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/12s;
..u,sehll ditto, 4/ 14s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 5135 to It
lis at 105 •, Clover Hay, 41 12s to 61; Oat Straw, 118 s to 11 't
;avNeVrage supply,falr heatStrav, 11 12s to 11 15s per load.
and a steady demand.
WRITECEIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/10s to 41 10s;.
toUseful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 513 s to,
8s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/10s ; Oat Straw, 11 8s;
11 10S j Wheat Straw, 11 113 to 11 13s per loael.
both cations. Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at our quo-

HAILS MEAT DIAILIEET S.
HAM, OCT. 16.—Prime Beasts and Sheep were
Sady demand, at a trifling improvement in their
. In all other kinds of stuck very little was doing_
fs from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s ; Veal, f
32 4d to 4s
; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 4d per Blbs.
AttuNIAL, OCT. 15.—Although we had only a limited
'I43PIY of fat stock on show to-day, the general demand.
„w s in a sluggish state, at our quotations :—Beef, from
Sd to 4s • Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d ; Veal, 3s 6d 1
18 ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per 81bs.
ertICHESTER, OCT. 16.--We had a fair average suppilty
of fat stock on sale this morning, while the trade v. as,
on the whole, firm, and prices were well supported. B( ref,
from
:=s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 4s ; Veal, 3s 6d
,4 ; and Pork, 2s to 3s 6d per 81bs. Suck)
lad
3 elileh si,lBsto 30s; quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to .fos;
tact'. Cows, with their Small Calf, 161 to la lOs
SOUTHALL, OCT. 16.—With Beasts and Sheep we were
Zerll supplied, the time of year considered, but the Inn n-
k? of Calves and Pigs were comparatively small. Ea ch
.2nd of prime stock was in steady demand, at fully list
7eek's quotations ; but in all other qualities only a
1611 c ilited business was done, at late rates. Beef, from 2s
4 to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 4d to
and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d per Sibs. Supply
.IjaSt
so 41 ; Sheep, 1,820 ; Calves, 50 • Pigs, 60.
D
-"°MronD, OCT. 16.—For most kinds' of fat stock. the
RuPPly of which was tolerably good, we had a fair in-
28ir.Y, at full prices. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mrttton,
10d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; and Pork, 2 s 10d
I°_ as 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 32s ; quar-
ter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Milch Cows, with
their Small Calf, 161 to 201 each.

CORN AVERAGES.
Forte AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH COHN
in Week ended Oct 12, 1614, made up from the Returns' of the
Pfetor • in the differe,,t Cities and Towne in England ants Wales,
Wi.44"teriPetial Quarter.
Barley •""•••• 46s 3d I Oats
********* 6d 1 Rye 37s 10d I Pease ,.. 34s Od
Wetke. AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS
MHEAT. ,EARLEY.I OATS. RTE. BEANS. TEASE.
14 Sept 7
..
....... 58 11 35 9 20 5 34 4 38 1 33 10
21.7.... 45 11 35 11 20 1 35 9 37 S 31 6
.•• 28
.•••.. 45 3 35 6 20 5 35 7 37 3 33 1
'Jct. 5 . ""*" 45 9 34 5 20 5 37 3; 36 8 33 0
12 .... "••• 4.1 1 33 9 20 6 37 51 36 8 33 5
... "" so 3 33 6 61 37 10 ;36 11 34 0
AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS
I‘lo.l. I it yOatse
aWahrieeavt .
36i 41.1 Pea5e.........335. 7d.
..... 20s.
1:111T4 S ON foRIIGN CORN.
Od. --Oats
..... ". Od. F Rye ..... 6F. 6d.1 Pease ......... 9 6d

FLANDERS' MAIL AND DUTCH

PAPERS.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
irg • Ti,
—"GUE, OCT. 13.—The latest accounts from
a la, state that in consequence of the extraordinary
,"Ircnlght, the rice harvest has failed this year in several
*Parts
theof Java. This grain had also risen in price, but
report that the Government had prohibited the ex-
Portation is not confirmed. Some private letters speak
of
failure of the coffee crop in the central parts of
uara
a.
llt
hvraner, member of the Committee of Natural
.4t°ls7, has discovered considerable beds of coal in
wrneo, en the banks of the river Mertapoora, and like-
tse a very fine kind of iron ore. He has likewise a
ereat
0 number of new and curious animals, and specimens
Zatavii.
179 different kinds of timber, which are expected at
Our British neighbours in India are now more and
more sensible that the Netherlands Government makes
Ceat efforts to suppress piracy. The Pocla Penang
azette announces that among others, forty persons,te
natives of Penang, who had been sold as slaves by h
Pirates, had been restored to liberty and sent home.
rhe esidents at Riouw and the naval officers, by
Whnsu means this was effected, have received the thanks
°f the Governor-General of British India.
aWe see from the Java papers of last May, that our
nturnissarY Inspector has been appointed for Borneo,
aPpointment hich is probably connected with the
events that have lately taken place—the attack_
_orn
the
btwo English vessels, with the death of M .
is...a-array in the river Koetie, the plunder of the Belgian
isuhtlt Charles soon afterwards, and the expedition of our
Is.'int Which punished the Sultan of Koetie by burning
"Is Chief Kampong Tangarong. The country of Koetie
itt
to Part of the residency o. f tthe
,south-ea=t coast of
r 4 e°, and the Dutch Residen , who resides in Ban •
gftroassi,
g.
BTEnuam, OcT. 12.—We learn that in the last
''
wof the Central Navigation Committee at Mainz, a
t 0 as made by the Dutch Government entirely
°ll the !"/ at least considerably to reduce, the duties
THE ir'glition of the Rhine.
Paper ,F4,,QUE, OCT. 14.—We have received the Java
that 3d and 6th of July, from which we hear
Captain 30th of June, the Dutch ship Kad Thiel,
e' hevalier, sailed from Batavia on the annual
iTn-Y:ge to Japan.
A Dutch squadron, which had gone
witlelatrich of Pirates to the south of Sambas, had met
ei..h,lta, and sunk one of their vessels, and captured
tnb'• others, with their crews, which had been brought
~,,oarnbas
/3Ru
YgsterassElS, OCT. 19.—The King arrived from Ardenne
The ay afternoon.Atoniteurpblishes the royal ordinance with the
e:ez.etatl,liiokns,oafnthe import duties on machines, on certain
Printed ou dyed or printed calicoes, or on dy
at°,l.cluty on 11
d on white dyed embroidered, &c., tu e.
white or unbleached calicoes is to remain as
104 j ;on dyed or printed calicoes, 325 francs per
dyin oeg-arcahmednif. Silks unbleached, or half white, for
Silkf h()Ir Printiny, to pay the same duty as at present.
not eb yed, or printed, including foulards (but
Per t•lbc)nds, which arc to pay as at present four francs
in__
tette n„,
gr—"lne), 10 francs per kilogramme. Cotton
importn aeture of French origin not to pay the additional
long dutY for one year, nor those of the Zollverein, so
ovas he treaty of the Ist of September, between the
to Jeern treaty
of
shall be in force. French silks
44free from the increase of duty as long as the con-
" of the 16th July is in force, and those of the
Septeenirebin till the expiration of the treaty of the Ist of

~.tictua BELGIAN
peNrFcCenNty, 3.—Baus8zLe, Om 14
Loan of Loan, Five per Cent. ...........
Lean of Thirty Millions Four per Cent 98%
'''......-___-"------------'. Three per Cent — _
........._— Thirty-seven Milliens, ditto . ......
---.....„_......... 1844
.............
..................•••• 7
102
----------------- (1840)..........
Society af
14art of City, 1843, F.our—per Cent.
.»••••»•»•«•«»
Four and a Half
60%
Bank of Belgium Five per Cent per Cent.
Issue of 1841.. ' s
..., ...•.....•..• —
...Brusels Paper....;..bct.: 15.
DUTCH FUNDS.—Amirrnanam, OCT. 14.
Da
662 i Bine.
Actual Debt, :1% per Cent 62;i 62%
onto, ditto 5
.. 99% 100
~.
~ . per cost.
99 11CN
',:1,14t0 t Byndoic,4i per cent
80% 901 i
‘.l , ditt er cent ...
147 147%
Co
Company, 4;i per cent.
ran 1837.
_ 5 per cant -...... ..... 96% 13'.‘
Ithange on London, Onemonth ......... 111 15
Two months.... l2 C 74
Hainburgh, One intnth ..... .... 35 64),.
Dutch Pa Two m0nth5......... 25 37%
pers, Oct. 15.

:10 to
12 to
f2O to
20 to

I) R b-‘-cd ___ • - --
ADFUL—CONFLAGRATION AT
BLACKWALL.
k roke This Tnorning, about half-past three, a dreadful fire
l
",av out at Blackwell, in the bar of the Britannia
ern, and spread with rapidity. The A, B, and D
engines of the brigade, the West of England, as also
°llntY Fire Office, West India Dock, parish, &c., were
11°°11 brOUght to bear on the flames, but every exertion
Pon the part of the firemen was useless, and very speedily
e India House Tavern also shared the same fate
rora thence the flames reached the Plough, the Arti-
clloke Ring's Arms, and George taverns, and by six
numerous auxiliaries, kept continually throwing copious
htreitoas on the burning mass, b not an im
cold
be made till property to the amount
of aterssion least
lOMa had been destroyed. By ten O'clock the destruc-
tio
Was at an end, when an examination took place as
to the
origin of the fire, the loss of property, and names
I.)f persons interested in the dreadful calamity. The fol
",.!11, may be relied on as correct :
Britannia Tavern—All destroyed.
Phoenix Fire-office.
India House Tavern—Completely consumed. Insured
11:1 the Hand-in-hand-office.
Plough Tavern—
Lice Roof, &c., destroyed. Insured in the
nsed Victuallers'-office.
Artichoke Tavern—Roof, &c., destroyed. Insured in
the Sun Fire-office.
furin%intig;re 4e
s,
Arms. Tavern—Considerably damaged. The
, insured in the Union Fire-office.
, nion Fire- George Tavern—Furniture damaged. Insured in the
Tavern—
Union
lilal
Also two private houses—Furniture damaged by re-
°. , and neither insured.
It was not known how the fire originated, and the in-
mates had several narrow escapes.
We -

Insured in the

are authorised to state, that her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to appoint Monday, the 28th
ist:, for the opening of the New Royal Exchange. her
limety will enter the City at Temple-bar at 12 o'clock.
---
paWESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—On Monday the carriage
rrs f Westminster-bridge was closed for further re-
By a recent Parliamentary return. it appears
that from the year 1810 to 1838,a sumof 83,0971.6:-. 91d.
wad expended in the repairs and alterations of the
ge, together with charges for professional and other
cervices. The cost since 1838 in the repairs and altera-
tions amounted to 82,6611, and a further sum was re-
quired of 52,8791., and if the footpaths were made the
altule aR London-bridge, an additional sum of 40,0001.
Would be expended. The total income of the property
longing to tha Commissioners of the Bridge is 7,4641.
I.ls. Bd. a year. It will be seen that the sum expended
Sears
1838, and the further sum required amount in. six
leara to upwards of 135,0001., whilst the income derived
Ir(m) the property of the bridge in the period only
illuAlllti IQ 44,7i74 100,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET-WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.

6 to -5 on Foig-a-ballagh
18 tfi') I agst The Cure
t ..241 to 1 agst Evenus

1 agst Alarm—taken
1 agst Col. Peel's lot—t
1 agst Forth's lot—t
1 agst Sir G. Heath-1

eote's lot—taken
17 to 1 agst Kedger
25 to 1 agst Minikin c —3O

to 1 taken
30 to I aptFitz-Allen—t
30 to 1 agst Connaught
Ranger—t
33 to 1 agst Old England—t
ENTRIES FOI

20 to 1 agst Golden Rule
i2otolagst The Altered One

35 to 1 agst Black Prince—t
'4O to 1 agst Pantasa—t
40 to 1 agst Lillah colt
150 to 1 agst Young Eclipse

—taken
50 to 1 agst Clear-the•way
50 to 1 agst Laird o' Cock-
pen--taken
1,000 to 15 agst Flahowlagh
—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Lycurgus

THURSDAY.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two-yrs-old, winner
to be sold for 40L, &c.:—Colt by Bentley, out of Emma—
f by Caesar, out of Vienna—Richard Cricket, f by Horn-
sea, dam by Sultan—f by Caesar, out of Linnet—St. Do-
mingo, Miscellany.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, winner to be sold for
3001., &c.:—Chatham, 5 yrs—Canton, 4 yrs—Ashtead
Pet, 3 yrs—Walpole, 3 yrE—Physalis, 3 yrs—My Mary►
2 yrs, and Tawney, 2 yrs.
Handicap Plate of 100 L, A. F.:—Minotaur, Bst 121 b
Scalteen, 7st 121b—Johnny, 7st 101b—Needful, 7st 101 b
—David, 7st B]b—Hyrcanium, 7st 81b—Revocation,
7st 81b—Naworth, ist 21b—Prosody, 7st 21b—Ashtead
Pet, Est 101b—Souvenir filly, fist 101b—Young Lochinvar,
Est 101b—Skeleton, 6st 61b—Plantaganct, 6st 41b—Cock-
fighter; 6st 101b—Coal Black Rose, sst 121b—Boarding-
School Miss, sst 121b—Crosby, sst 21b—and Five's-the-
Main, sst.

The Ratan affair was again proceeded with this even-
ing, and again adjourned.

ASSAULT ON A WIFE BY HER
HUSBAND, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
(Abridged from the Cheltenham Examiner.)
On Saturday morning the neighbourhood of Mount-
pleasant was thrown into a state of great excitement, by
a report that a man named Young, a coal-dealer, residing
there, hail stabbed his wife and two children, and after-
wards attempted suicide by cutting his own throat ; the
rumour spread far and near, and the house was beseiged
by the populace, who used no very gentle language to-
wards the culprit, and the policemen stationed on the
premises had some difficulty in preserving order among
the crowd. In the afternoon the depositions of the in-
jured woman were taken, at the house, before W. Gyde,
Esq.

The husband, Richard Young, apparently about forty-
five years of age, was lying in bed with his throat ban-
daged up, quite sensible and collected ; ho took no
notice of his wife when she came into the room, and took
but little interest in the proceedings. The floor and bed
clothes, and several of the articles, were spotted with
blood.

Mrs. Young deposed that her husband and herself had
frequent disagreements together, and she had separated
from him. Four days before the assault they had made
matters up. On the Friday night they went to bed on
very good terms. About four o'clock she was awoke
by a blow in the bowels, and putting her hand to the
spot, she felt the blood running from her. Her hus•
band, who was out of bed, cried out, " Mother Young,
Mother Young." She said, "Oh Richard, lam afraid
you have killed me," and begged of him to get a light ;
he did so, and went down stairs, leaving her in the dark.
She ran into her son's room, calling " murder," and
heard her son say, " Oh don't, father, dont't do it," or
words to that effect. She then ran out of the home
and into a neighbour's, who applied bandages to the
wound and stopped the blood ; it bled very much.
Henry Young slept in an adjoining room, and about
five o'clock was awoke by his mother rushing into the
room crying "murder." She told him to run into his
father's room ; he did so, and found his father sitting on
the side of the bed, and the blood running out of a great
gash in his throat.
James Spring, police-constable 37, deposed to being
called in directly after the occurrence ; he found Young
was lying on the bed,covered up in the clothes; he turned
him on his back, and found his throat cut, and the knife
produced lying beside him, the pen blade being open.
Witness assisted the doctor to dress the wounds, and
stayed in charge of the prisoner afterwards. He said,
"Policeman, we are not our own keepers ; do you think
I shall be transported ? I knew nothing of it till my
wife cried out I am stabbed.' I then recollected all,
and cut my throat, in hopes we might die together. I cut
ray throat because I thought I had stabbed my wife."
Mr. Henry Taylor, surgeon—On seeing Mrs. Young,
and being told what had occurred, requested to examine
the wound, and found it an incised one ; it was about
half an inch in length and one -eighth of an inch in depth,
and was just such a wound as would be caused by the
penknife produced. It was not at all dangerous, but
might have been serious.
This being the whole of the evidence, and the prisoner
declining to say anything in his defence, he was fully
committed to the assizes. Mr. Superintendent Russell
was bound over to prosecute, and the witnesses to give
evidence.

THE STATUE OF WILLIAM IV. Ths, beautiful
pedestal, which is intended for the statue of William
IV., was on Monday raised to its full elevation (25 feet),
and in a few days the statue will be placed thereon. The
site of the statue is most commanding, and will, when
completed, not only form an excellent point of refuge at
those immense thoroughfares, King William-street, Ar-
thur-street, and Gracechurch-street, but will also form

an interesting ornament, particularly when seen from
London-bridge. The statue itself has been already de-
scribed, and the whole will be erected under the direction
of Mr. Chadwick, by whom also' the tasteful sculptural
decorations of the pedestal have been executed. The
column or pedestal is the frustrum of a cone, formed of
large circular blocks of Hayter granite ; encircled at the
lower part of the base is a massive, chastely sculptured,
unique design of a chain cable. In the centre of the
pillar is a noble Grecian scroll, and immediately beneath
the capital is a circular wreath of oak leaves, with acorns
In these designs there is splendour as well as novelty.
COURT or ALDERMEN.—The following are the
names of the Aldermen voting on the question of ad-
mitting Mr. Salomons, without taking the declaration:—
Majority—the Lord Mayor, Lord Mayor Elect, Alder-
men Lucas, Sir P. Laurie, Farebrother, Kelly, Sir C.
Marshall, Sir J. Pirie, Johnson, Sir G. Carroll, Hooper,
Farncomb, Hughes-13. Minority—Sir J. Key, Alder-
men Humphery, Thomas Wood, Hunter, Challis,
Sidney-6. Sir C. Hunter and Alderman Wilson left
the Court before the division, or the majority would
have been fifteen.
ATTEMPT TO UPSET A RAILWAY TRAIN.-At
Durham, on Monday, William Atkinson, a young man
of respectable exterior, was charged with having ob-
structed certain carriages on the Durham and Sunder-
land Railway, and thereby endangered the lives of the
passengers. It appeared that on the 4th of August, as
the passenger train in the evening, from Hartlepool to
Sunderland, was proceeding down Seaton-bank—a steep

incline, two miles and a half in length—the conductor
observed something lying across the rails. He applied
the break, and this obstruction (which proved to be a
bunch of railway keys) was safely passed over. Further
along the line two similar obstructions were met with ;
in one case two keys had been placed in an upright posi-
tion between the rails, and had not these been removed
by the guard, who leaped from the train, there can be
no doubt the carriages would have been thrown over
on the incline, and many lives sacrificed. Near where
the last obstruction took place, Atkinson was seen
running along the line, and afterwards leaping over
a hedge. He was pursued by the guard, and when
he came up to him and asked what he was doing
there, Atkinson replied he was going to take a sleep.
He was removed to Sunderland. No other person was
seen on the line, or near it, for the entire distance from
Seaton to Sunderland. No motive could be assigned for
the commission of such a heinous offence by the prisoner,
or indeed any other person. It appeared that he had
been compelled to leave the carriage at the junction
which is near Seaton, when be wanted to be at Sunder-

land, in consequence of having only taken a ticket to
that place, and also that the servants of the company re-
fused to allow him to travel to Sunderland on the coal
waggons after the train had left; both these circum-
stances seemed greatly to annoy him, but no threatening
language was used by him. His counsel, Mr. Grainger,
commented on the absence of motive for the commission
of such an appalling crime, and suggested that it must
have been perpetrated .by some discarded servant who
harboured feelings of revenge against the proprietors.
It was elicited in the course of the investigation that
railway keys are laid about so loosely that any person
may easily obtain them for the purpose of overthrowing
trains, and also that the line is not watched by police-
men, at least only a small portion of it. The jury re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.
INTERMITTENT FEVERS.—Dr. Crawford states that
intermittent and remittent fevers are extremely prevalent
in Upper Canada, whilst they are ♦ery rare in the lower
division of the province. An extraordinary exemption
from this class of fevers is also observable in Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick. At Annapolis, Windsor,
and Fort Cumberland, in Nova Scotia, which are situated
at the embouchures of rivers, daily expozed to exten-
sive inundations by the rise of the tide, where the banks
for several miles exhibit a combination of mud, marsh,
and decayed vegetation, so generally considered
a prolific source of this class of febrile diseases—inter-
mittents and remittents are extremely rare ; and at
Froderictown, in New Brunswick, situated on the marshy
banks of a river, surrounded by a dense wood and luxu-
riant vegetation, these diseases are scarcely ever met
with ; proving that, although, on •some occasions, cir-
cumstances of this nature may favour the development
of this disease, its prevalence or existence is by no means
a necessary consequence or concomitant ; while, on the
other hand, this class of diseases has been very preva-
lent at Gibraltar, the lonian Islands, and Bermuda,
countries which are destitute of marsh, and compara-
tively barren of vegetation.—Medical Times.
A letter from Ilamburgh of the 4th says :—" Last
Saturday all the persons engaged on the daily journal,
the Correspondent Impartial de Hambourg, celebrated by
a dinner the sixtieth anniversary of the entry of one of
the compositors, named Hein, on the paper. During
that long period he had nut missed his work a single day.
He is now eighty-eight years of age, enjoys excellent
health, and does his work like a young man. There
were 220 persons present at the dinner, including all
the master printers of the place. One of these gentle-
men, M. Bodecker, sent 100 pine-apples, 4001 b. of fine
rapes, and an immense quantity of flowers for the
Mist."