The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-21 00:00:00

fully last week's enhanced currencies, they moving off at from
4s to 4s 2d per 81bs ; but all other breeds hung heavily on
hand, and some difficulty was experienced in effecting a
clearance at late rates. The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk,
Essex, and Cambridgeshire, embraced 1,900 Scots and
Homebreds • while, from the Northern counties, we
received 300 Short Horns, &c. ; from the Western and
Midland districts, 350 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c. ;
from other parts of England, 300 of various breeds ;
and, from Scotland, 180 horned and polled Scots.
Nearly 400 store beasts have come to hand from Scotland in
the week just concluded; but the number here to-day was
small, though, in consequence of the shortness of grass, more
than adequate to meet the wants of the few dealers in at-
tendance. Prices rule very low. The numbers of Sheep were
rather limited, yet the Mutton trade was in a sluggish state,
at prices barely equal to those paid on Monday last, yet the
best old Down in the wool were taken at from
4s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs. From the Isle of Wight
170 Lambs were received by the Southampton Rail-
way; while, from other parts, the receipts were moderately
extensive. Prime Down Lambs sold steadily at from 5s to
6s; but other kinds were a dull sale, at barely stationary
prices. The supply of Calves was rather limited, yet the
Veal trade was dull, at Friday's depression of 2d per 81b.
From Ireland we received 120 Pigs, the demand for which,
as well as English breeds, was heavy, at barely late rates.

Per Bibs. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d
Inferior Beasts •• 2 8 3" 0
Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6
Prime large Oxen • 3. 8 310
Prime Scots . .
Large coarse Calves 3 4 4 2
Prime small ditto •. 4 4 4 6
Suckling Calves, lB 0 29 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY A
Beasts. I Sheep
2,722 23,700

s. d. to s. d.
Second quality ditto 3 6 310
Coarse-woolledditto 4 0 4 2
Southdown Wethers 4 4 4 8
Ditto out of the wool 310 4 2
Large Hogs .• • • 3 0 3 6
Small Porkers .. .. 3 8 4 0
Quarter old Pigs • .16 0 19 0
Lambs .•. • • • 4 8 6 0
MARKET.
Calves. Pigs.
112 309

NEWOATE AND LEA.DENNALL.
The arrival of slaughtered Meat from Scotland, as wtll as
from various distant parts of England (as will be seen by the
annexed tabular statement) during the past week have been
seasonably extensive, and of fair average quality ; while
with meat killed in the metropolis we have been but mode-
rately supplied. On the whole the general demand was
by no means so active as was that on this day se'nnight ;
nevertheless prime Beef, Mutton, and Lamb were in steady
request at full prices ; but otherwise the trade ruled dull,
and previous rates were with difficulty supported. Nearly
400 carcases of Lamb have come to hand from Hampshire,
Essex, &c., and sold at from 4s 10d to 5s 6d per 81bs ; while
tan carcases of foreign Beasts, in good quality, have produced
from 3s to 3s 9d per 81bs.
At per stone, by the Carcase.
1. d. to s. d. a. d. to s. d.
Beef, Inferior— ••-• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, Inferior 2 8 3 0
middling •.• . 2 8 210 mlddling•• 3 2 3 4
prime large •• 3 0 3 2 prime •••• 3 6 3 8
prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large ...... .. 210 3 6
Veal •••••• • • •• • ••• 3 4 4 4 small ..••• • • • 3 8 4 0
Lamb, 4s 8d to 6s.
ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs.
20 495 430
30 680 600
15 100 100
10 110 120
12 200 85
15 300 90 200
30 400 120 300
6 90 100 180
14 180 90 200
20 200 100 300

Yorkshire ••• •..
Norfolk • . ..... ...........• •• .•
Cambridgeshire • ..... ....• .•
Essex ...... ..... ..........• • •
Devonshire• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Wiltshire
Otherparts ..

Total •••• • • • • 171 2,755 500 2,515
Previous week's arrival 140 2,060 185 1,659

Difference since oar last ...... 31 695 315 856
110111017GN HOP ASH ET.
For all kinds of Hops the demand since our last report
has ruled somewhat inactive, but in prices we have no ma-
terial variation to notice. The continued easterly winds are
considered by most parties as likely to prove injurious to the
plant. Sussex pockets, 71 to 8/ 8s ; Choice ditto., 8/ 12s to
81 13s ; Kent, 71 to 91; superfine mid Kents, 91 93 to 131;
superfine East ditto., 9/. 9s to 131; Yearlings, 71 to 8110 s.
DOUOUGH AND SPITAILPZELDS
Tne arrivals of Potatoes at the water-side continue large,
especially from the northern districts ; owing to which the
trade rules extremely dull, and the inferior parcels may be
purchased on easier terms.
WOOL WARM:MT.
The imports of Wool in the port of London during the
past week have been on a somewhat extensive scale, they
having consisted of 320 bales from the Cape, 250 ditto from
Bombay, 120 ditto from Hamburgb, 15 ditto from Moga-
dore, 135 ditto from Seville, 120 ditto from Gibraltar, 761
ditto from Sydney, and 400 ditto from various other quarters.
No public sales are appointed, yet the demand by private
contract is somewhat inactive at about previous currencies.
TALLOW
There is no change in this market since our last worth
notice. Fine Y.C., in small parcels, on the spot, is rather
above oar quotation, and for forward delivery, October to
December, the price is 38s. Town Tallow is 38s to 38s 6d
nett cash.

ERRATA.—In our report of the proceedings of
the House of Lords on Friday evening, the name of the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde was, in two instances, inadvertently sub-
stituted for that of the Marquis of Normanby. It was the
Marquis of Normanby who brought in the Bill for giving the
franchise to all persons paying the Property-tax, and it was
the same Noble Marquis who gave notice on the subject of
New South Wales.

THE HOMCEOPATHIC SYSTEM.—On Friday last Mr.
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the New Crown, St. Paul's-
terrace, Ball's-pond, Islington, on the body of Mr. Samuel
Friend, aged fifty-seven, landlord of the above house. It
appeared in evidence that deceased was found dead on the
floor of his bed-room, on the afternoon of Tuesday last. Mrs.
Berry, his housekeeper, said he had been ill for a conside-
rable period, and latterly had next to completely lost his
appetite. A friend of his had taken him to consult Dr.
Epps, for a week previous to his death—" And," added the
witness, " I was very sorry to hear that he had been taken
there." By the Coroner—He was only a week under Dr.
Epps, and had no signs of death when he first went to con-
sult that doctor. The Coroner—What did Dr. Epps order
him with regard to food ? Witness--A lamb chop, oysters,
arrow-root, &c. The Coroner—That's not exactly the
starving system. I held an inquest the other day ou the
body of a homoeopathic patient, who had been for ten days
kept upon water. On the eleventh day his doctor said he
might have toast and water, but strictly forbade his eating
the toast, lest.he should make blood too fast. On the twelfth
day, as I suppose, a supreme treat—a great " blow out "—the
homeopathic physician allowed his patient one spoonful of
beef-tea.—(Laughter.) Mr. Jefferson, a surgeon, who for-
merly attended deceased, attributed his death to affection of
the heart ; and having been shown some prescriptions, signed
J. E., and some bottles of medicine made up according to
them,the chief component part of which was "aqua pura ;"and
being asked by the Coroner his opinion of" the mixture," he
said it could not do any injury, nor could it cure any disease.
The Coroner—Do homcepathic doctors take homeopathic fees,
I wonder? Mr. Jefferson—l fancy not. It is a good thing
that they cannot do any harm. The Coroner—Do you say
so seriously? Suppose a patient was attacked with inflam-
mation, would homoeopathy do no harm then ? Mr. Jefferson
—I should not like to try it. I would stop the progress of
inflammation by active and proper medicines, not adminis-
tered in infinitessimal doses. The Coroner—To be sure.
Well, all I can say is, that John Bull, with all his reputation
for good common sense, is the greatest visionary in the world.
A stubborn, stiff-necked bull, indeed ! Call him rather an
inexhaustible, meek mulch-cow, for fattening every species
of quack. The jury, thinking that disease of the heart, and
not homoeopathy, caused the death of deceased, returned a
verdict of " Natural Death."
We regret to announce the indisposition of Viscount
Melbourne, chiefly arising from an accident which befel his
Lordship a few evenings since, on alighting from his carriage
at the door of his mansion in South-street. The Noble
Viscount, it appears, caught his foot in the folds of a cloak
in which he was enveloped, the consequence being that he
fell heavily upon the stone steps leading to the hall of the
mansion. The whole of his Lordship's left side was very
badly bruised by the fall, and we are sorry to learn the Noble
Viscount has been confined to his bed ever since the accident.
Prince Albert has called once personally on his Lordship.
Mr. Anson has paid daily visits to South-street, on the part
of her Majesty, and his Royal Highness, to make inquiries as
to the Noble Viscount's health. The Duke of Wellington
and a great number of the nobility have also called to make
similar inquiries. Dr. Copeland is in attendance upon his
Lordship.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.---OR Sunday, the 19th
inst., a gentleman, a passenger to Bristol by the twelve
o'clock down-train from the Paddington terminus of the
Great Western Railway, discovered, shortly before the
train arrived at Slough, that he had lost bis purse con-
taining Bank of England notes to the amount of 9001.,
besides 21. 10s. in gold and Bs. 6d. in silver. Immediately on
the arrival of the train at the Slough station, he proceeded
direct to the office of the electric telegraph, in a state of
very great excitement, not knowing whether he had been
robbed of his money in the railway carriage or had lost it
before he entered the train. Information of the loss was
instantaneously transmitted to the superintendent of the
telegraph at the Paddington terminus, who immediately pro-
ceeded to the booking-office, where the gentleman paid for
his ticket, where the purse and its contents were found un-
touched. Within five minutes from the time of the less being
made known at the Slough Telegraph-office, the gentleman
had the satisfaction of knowing, by means of this extraordi-
nary invention, that his property was safe, and shortly after-
wards he received it by the following train.

CONTINUED DISTRESS IN THE CANE TRADE.—
Sad and general complaints still continue to prevail in the
above, trade. The lots of cane kept back in bond are now
nearly all sold out, and at unheard of prices ; and if very
shortly hence a fresh cargo of stock does not arrive, there
will, of necessity, become a complete stand-still throughout
the trade. Of late years, the above article has been gra-
dually getting scarcer and scarcer, owing to the great re-
luctance with which owners of vessels consent to freight their
craft with cane. Being very elastic, it is with great diffi-
culty compressed into a convenient compass, and the stowage
of it is attended with considerable trouble, independent of
which it is a light freight, and very inadequately pays the
masters for the pains and trouble they are at in shipping it.
The dealers in the rattan article are wholly unable to meet
the orders they are daily receiving from large houses, whilst
the hands employed in the latter are doing nothing. A
speedy arrival of cane would just now tend to resuscitate a
branch of business which was never so depressed as it is at
present; nor is there a scarcity experienced in the rattan
stick alone, the cane trade is generally at an ebb, and fur-
nishes a theme for much discontent and disappointment. it
is not, perhaps, generally known that the rattan Is, unlike
all other articles of a similar nature, sold by the pound avoir-
dupois.
CALLS TO THE BAIL—The first series of calls to
bar in Easter Term, of the Honourable Society of the Middle
Temple was made on Friday, and on Saturday the after-
mentioned gentlemen were sworn in before several of the
benchers in the dining-hall :—Mr. P. J. Nagle, the second
son of James Nagle, of Ballyelis, in the county of Cork, Esq. ;
Mr. Charles Lavingtone Pannell, the only son of the Rev.
J. Pannell, of Oldsworth, in the county of Sussex ; Mr.
Henry Beeston, the second son of William Beeston, of Grove-
terrace, Kentish-town, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ;
Mr. Henry Leigh, the eldest son of Henry James Leigh, of
Taunton, in the county of Somerset, gentleman ; Mr. Alex-
ander Shea, the eldest son of Alexander Shea, of Gibraltar,
Esq. ; and Mr. William Holmes Edwards, the only son of
George Edwards, of Framlingham, in the county of Suffolk,
gentleman.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TUE CROYDON RAILWAY.
On Friday afternoon, about one o'clock, a carpenter in the
employ of the Croydon Railway Company was proceeding
up the line to his work, and had gone
peeracheoiuvtin'g n
a tiiiieleudpisttraanint
from the Croydon terminus, when,
approaching, he stepped over on to the down line; in an
instant a Dover train was upon him, and his transition from
life to death was the work of a moment. The body was
taken to the Windmill public-house, Croydon-common, to
await an inquest. _ _

A game at whist is about to come off, to be played
in quite a novel way by means of the electric telegraph. The
four players to be stationed--one at Southampton, and his
partner in London ; their adversaries at Gosport, and Basing-
stoke. The time it will take playing will be little more than
the period occupied at the usual game,