The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-30 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

CO, J 30
The supplies o ally o XrtsCAGE l
ot's grain lastAL
week. were tolerably
large; the quantity of Flour also was considerable, This
morning there is a good supply of most sorts of Corn from the
surrounding counties. The Wheat trade continues in a very
heavy state, and prices arc reported Is. to 2s. per quarter
lower than last Monday. Barley meets a heavy sale, but we note no alteration in prices. Beans and Pease meet a heavy
sale, on hardly such good terms as last quoted. Good Oats
found buyers at last quotations, but other sorts are very dull,
and rather cheaper. in the Flour trade no alteration.
A nittvitt.s LAST WEEK.—Englitth AVheat, 6,462 ; Bar.
ley, 4,4 i 7 ; lllalt, 7,836 ; Oats, 6,105 ; Beans. 1,627 ;
Pease, 1,186, Scotch Wheat, 332; Oats, 13,878; Irish
Wheat, -; Oats, 14,0755 ; FiSreign Barley, 7,1110 ; Oats, 2,175; Name, 450 ; Tares, 900 quarters ; English Flour,
12.887 sacks.
Wheat, Red (old) 68s
White (old) sBs 74s
Red (1025) 48s Ms
Flue 56s 611 s
------ Superfine 62s 64s
White(lB2s) 52s 66.
Fine sBs 62s
-------- Superfine 6ss 68s
Rye (new) Ms 40*
Barley ns 31s I
Fine (new) 37s Offs
Superfine 40s 42*
Malt slls 64*
—Fine 653 IVs
Yeas Grey (new) 13* 46s
(new) 46s 48s
(new) 40s 451
lloilsry 60* Slis

Beans, Small (new) ~ 4214143
------ (old) .•.•46s 48e
Tick (new) 40s 4s
(old) 42s 44.
--liarrow(new), 443 4b4
(old) ..."404 48$
Brunk 14s 40.
Oats, Feed f44s 270
—_----Fins 2tis .21M
Poland 20s 28.
28s 38s
Potatoe ns 30a
-------Fine 'los Sly
StOtch 32s 33s
Flour (per sack).. ilia tiOyt
Seconds . ins 64a
-- North Conntry 48s aUs
Bran 12. 13.

GENERAL AIYERMIE PRICE OF (MAIN, FR( m ;unit wry Rys
RECEIVED IN TitE WEEK El4l/11410 JAN. 21.
Wheat, fith. 3d. ; Barley, 375. Id. ; Oats, 255. 2d. ; Rye,
425, 4d. ; Beans, 399. 4d. ; Peas, 435. 2d.
The Average Price of Brawn or Muscovado Sugar, solnputell
Jan. 25, 1826, is 355. 4d. per rim

SMITIIFIELD MARKET, JAN, m.
The following iy an accurate Report of the mamba:. Maui
price, a tthnithtield Market this morning t

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CATTLE AT ituanzirr
Beasts 4,201 Sheep
Calves
To sink the Offal, per stone of tilh.
Beef 4s 3d to Ss 2d) 'Veal 's Ild to Os tid
M utton ...... ... 41 lOd to 6s 4d Pork ..,...... Sto 4d to Os 4d
Lamb tls d to Os Ad.

DAV AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
£3 10 to £4 10 !Clover
straw £l l to £2 O.

MARRIED.
On the '2Bth in t., at Bromley, in Kent, Mr. Thompson? mirgvon, of Wester;tam, to Harriet, 4,:ldest daughter of Mr. Toynton, of Bromley.

On Sunday, the 20th ink., at his house in Al tinehester.square,
the 7lat year of his age, Charles Mills, Esq.,M.P. for
'unviek.

I On the 27th inst., Mr. Francis George, of Blandford-street,
Manchester.square, aged 70.
Lately, at liarlaxton, near Grantham, Mr. Nicholas Hardy,.
aged 85 formerly and for many years a faithful servant in Lord
Brownlow's fatinly—This man's honesty was equalled oni,y by
his eccentricity ; he possessed considerable pr(!perty, soots of
which is in Grantham Canal Shares, and which lie has left
subjecit to the 'payment of a guinea each to the ringers and
singerl of Harlaxton, to ring and sing on the anniversaryof his
funeral, so long as a drop of water remains in the eanii. lie
also gave a guinea each to several distant relatiu Ili, with dirsc-
dons, with directions to his executor not to pay that sum to such
.of them as were seen to cry at his funeral; with several other
equally singular btqUests.
Stamford. Ile left 30s. to be spent in tea, fort
On Friday last, aged 88, Henry Porter, Cl_er theat.ttfeEcas?ytonine,utiet:ri
the poor poor women of his parish, in commemoration of his
funeral ; and themourners accordingly
during the burial. indulged in the beverage

On the 22d inst., About midnight Lieut. Prior, lt.Nio chief
officer of the Coast Ouard station At LiNorth. Ills death WA;
occasioned by typhus lover, which had been brought 04 iv
taking a severe cold in his exertions of endeavouring to to
the lives of the unfortunstecr, w of the merchant brig
of London, wrecked on the Ktation under his cornmand, on the
14th of December last.

Tll E LONDON JOURNALS.
DADA'
Extract: from the ittorning 1) vers., Jan. 30,1825.

[MORNING PO3T.]
DISTRUS IN SIIITALFIELDS.—WO would parti-
cularly direct the attention of our Readers to the
proceedings of the Meeting at the Mansion House,
on Saturday, with a view to relieve the dreadful
and extensive distress which now prevails among
the Manufacturers of Silk. Whatever difference
of opinion may prevail as to the causes of this
distress, we feel confident that there will be but
cue opinion and one feeling throughout the coun-
try as to the duty of assuaging by every possible
means the sufferings of its unfortunate victinis.
That the distress is only temporary, and that it
arises in a great measure from the general causes
which have produced a stagnation in most
other departments of industry, we firmly
believe. It is probable, however, that the
paralysis in this branch of trade is ren-
dered more complete than it would otherwise
have been, by the prospect of a new and untried
competition with the foreign manufacture, to'
which it. is soon to be exposed. The manufac-
turer dreads, and_ the consumer waits, for the
actual commencement of this competition—two
causes of stagnation mutually acting on and in-
creasing each other. We feel confident, how-
ever, that Government will be found, when
the moment of trial arrives, not to have exposed
this important branch of our national industry to
any competition which it will prove unable
successfully to meet ; that brighter prospects
will from that period arise ; that renovated
hope, firm confidence, and welt merited enjoy-
ment, will again be the portion of this industrious,
loyal, and meritorious part of c•ir people. We
cannot conclude without again expressing a confi-
dent hope that the characteristic generosity of
the British Nation will on this interesting occa-
sion shine forth in a.. ...a wonted splendour.
`.since wilting the above we have had the satisfac-
tion to be informed, that the Subscription goes on
most promisingly. Government have sent. 10001.
and Mr. Rothschild 100 guineas.

ETRE
We once more recommend with great earnest.
ness the sufferings of the journeymen silk-weavers
to general notice and compassion. It might. even
become n proper subject for ,the consideration of
the King's Government, whether, from the pecu-
liar circumstances of this case, .relief in some
shape or other might not he administered to the
poor creatures and their families from the public
resources, without creating any precedent, whence
unreasonable expectations might spring up here-
after in the minds of the labouring classes, or
pesr anal uesultable description of burdens he en.
tailed upon the finance of the country. The UM-
ter silk manufacturers have taken infinite pains
to persuade the world that, it is the expected
importation of foreign silks, to which the
suspension of the hornu manufacture, and.
the diimissal of the native workmen have been
owing. That is, they blame the law and the Minis•
tars for the condition ao which their own poor have
been reduced, and thus make a handle of hu-
manity itself against the freedom of commerce.
The journeymen in the silk-trade believe of
course in the efficacy of a cause which is prima
facie so probable ; and therefore it. is, that we
should feel it to he a kind and consolatory measure
toWardi ,these distressed people to afford them
some national succour. But as to the fact itself
—how stands it ? 'There is no doubt that the
opportunity of obtaining r French silks had con-
siderahly affected the anarket for those of English
workmanship. Aod why ? Not because the
British consumer would, if left to his own
judgthent, prefer the payment of 1301. for a
curtain quantity of. French silk, to that
of 1001. for the same number of yards in English,
hut. because 'the mind of the home-consumer has
not been ltlt to its own reasoniegs—because we
have been disturbed by the extraordinary, in
some respects contradictory,, and on all accounts
impolitic outcries of the manufacturers, who
assure us that they are unable to make up goods
within (50 per cent. in value of-the foreign article.
la not thisalirectly warning us to wait for. French'
silks, which we may get for 30 per cent. above
the first cost, whereas they will be worth twice
30? Is not this promising the British consumer,
and on the beat authority, a saving of -30 per
cent,, if ho will only prefer French to British
goods ? Anal this on the skewing .of. the British
manufacturers, who labour to depreciate their
own articles. To use a vulgar hut emphatic
expression, they cry " stinking fish ;" and not
only complain that no 'one wilt purchase it, but
would honks the Legislature into passing a law
that no fresh fish shall find its way to market.
it as n 5 not till after the above obseriations were
written, that we saw the report of a Meeting,
which had been held at the Ma nsiOn-house un
Saturday, for the professed purpose of raising a
subscription its favour of the silk-weavers of Spi-
taffields. The Bishop of Chester humanely and
becomingly attended the meeting as Rector of
the parish• of which Spitalfields forms is part; and
ample testimony was offered by his Lordship as
well to the magnitude of the distress, us to the
peaceable anti resigued spirit in which it was
borne by the sufferers. An attempt was made,
end with difficulty abandoned, by one of the
silk•manufacturers present, to thrust in II resole-
tioil upon Ow meeting, declaratory that the
cause of the suffering complained of was the ex.

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peeted operati►►n of the new taw in the approurh.
intt summer. But on the Bkhop of Chester
and the Lord Muyor threatening to quit

the meeting, iC an argumentative or (u)11-
,
fiat resolution was tar Hen to the proles.
ling Of II din 1)10 obi Pet, 1110 1iik.411a...
ilufacturf,r, give it up. If a private snhsciiption
be, adequate to Ow worthy end proposed, we
shall
rejoice at it in common with oursneighbours ; but
in ruse of its experienced inadequacy, the people
must, by other means, be saved from famishing,
as we are not such bigots to abstract principles,
that we could look on while our fellow•creatures
perished, for the sake of preserving a theory un-
touched, With regard to those of Our country.