The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-16 00:00:00

MARKET NE W S.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNDSD A Y
The supply of English Wheat was but limited, vet the
demand for that description of Grain was in a sluggish state,
at barely previous currencies. In fine Foreign Wheat, as
well as Corn under lock, we have very few sales to report.
Barley and Malt were extremely dull, and prices were no
supported. Oats, Beans, and Peas were quite as dear.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
2,910 qrs. 3,550 qrs.

English • • • • • •
Irish
Foreign .• • • • •

Oats.
1,030
16,350
1,270

Floqr.
1,250

- 1 740
Malt, 2,360 qrs.
WIIITZCELLIPEL..

We had a fair average :4ply of each kind of Meat, yet the
general demand ruled steady at full prices :—Beef from
2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s ;
Veal, 3s 8d to .4s 8d ; aad Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81b, by
the carcase.

FLANDERS MAIL
BRUSSELS, APRIL 13.—Several of our journals have the follow.
in g intelligence:—
Our merchants have received information from London, Am-
sterdam, and Hamburgh, that Russia has just made a change in
the law relative to the duty on refined sugar. This change
is of the highest importance from the effect it will have on the ma-
nufacture of refined sugars in Europe.
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Four projects of law for new railways will be presented to the
Chamber to-morrow by the Minister of Public Works, viz. Liege to
Namur, from Mons to Munage, from Jernippe to Louvain, and from
Ypru to Ccnstrai.
It is hoped that a fifth project will be brought forward, which
would be equal or superior in importance to any of the preceding,
viz., a railway which beginning at Mons, or rather the basin of
Flenn, should run on the one side to Manberg, and convey our
coals from Mons to the canal of the Sambre and Orse ; and on the
other passing by way of Ath to Grammont Alort, Termonde
would be connected by way of Yell and Lockerow with the railway
from Antwerp.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 8.
5 per Cent. Metalliques. • • • • • • • •
4 per Cent. ditto.
3 per Cent. ditto..•.•
Loan, 1834 ••••••.• • • • • . • •••• • • • 155
12
Ditto, 1839 .• ••• •
Bank Shares • • • . • ......... ........... 1648
Esterhazy's Loau .
—Allgemeine Zeitung, April 11.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.—Monday evening was the
last night of the season at this theatre, and the performances were
for the benefit of Miss Davenport, who appeared first of all as the
Duchess of Guise in her own play, and afterwards as Lady Teazle
in the School for Scandal. Of her Duchess of Guise we have
already spoken. Her Lady Teazle was excellent, and will add
greatly to the already high reputation which she enjoys.
The house was crowded to excess, and she was received throughout
with the utmost enthusiasm. The Warlock cif the Glen concluded
the evening's amusements, in which Mr. Davenport, the father of
the fair manageress, took his final farewell of the stage in his
favourite character of Andrew. He addressed the audience at the
conclusion of the piece, and returned them his thanks for
the support they had given his daughter. Thus termi.
nated the first season of Miss Davenport's management
at thi Olympic Theatre. Whether it has bean a
successful season in a pecuniary point of view we know not, but in
a dramatic point of view it has been most successful. It has, in
the person of Miss Davenport, given us an accomplished artist of
the most versatile talent, and one who even now is unrivalled
as the representati-e of the juvenile heroines of tragedy
and comedy—who has made such characters as Juliet,
and Horatia, and Juliana, her own; and it has also
restored to the legitimate drama a theatre which had previously
been appropriated to the representation of melodramas of the New.
gate Calendar school. The gratitude of every true lover of the
drama is due to Miss Daysnport for her exertions, and we heartily
wish that success may attend her. Her powers ought to com-
mand it—her exertions always deserve it.
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE GREAT BRITAIN.—

In consequence of the unfavourable weather yesterday her Ma-
jesty has postponed her visit to this stupendous iron steam-ship
until next Tuesday. Her Majesty was to have embarked on board
the Dwarf, iron-screw steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Beau.
cham Proctor, at Greenwich Hospital. Every preparation had
been made at that place and on board the Great Britain, to receive
the Sovereign in a suitable manner.
SEVERE GALE.—Yesterday it blew a severe gale
from nearly N.N.E , accompanied with violent squalls and heavy
showers. The numerous tiers of shipping on the river rode heavily,
but none of them parted from their moorings. The tempestous
state of the weather since Sunday, and particularly yesterday, has
prevented the departure of a great number of vessels from the docks
and wharfs, laden and ready for sea, and which were cleared out-
wards at the Custom-house on Saturday and Monday. The wind
on Sunday and Monday being from about W. N. W., and therefore
favourable for the departure of vessels, several sailed from
the wharfs, but soon afterwards anchored in the Pool and
lower parts of ,the Thames, where they remained yesterday
afternoon. Owing to the violence of the gale yesterday,
several ships, laden with rich and valuable cargoes, from
India and China and other distant parts, although in tow of two
steam-packets, were compelled to anchor in various parts of the
river, above and below Gravesend. When this gale moderates,
they will be towed to their respective docks. Several continental
steamers are overdue. Considerable apprehensions are entertained
for the safety of vessels on the east and south coasts. About four
o'clock yesterday afternoon the gale moderated a little, but soon
afterwards resumed its former violence. Last night it continued
to blow very hard, and the atmosphere had a threatening and
gloomy appearance. Most of the shipping on the river and in the
various docks had their topmasts struck. Nothwithstanding the
boisterous state of the weather yesterday, the temperature was less
cold. At noon the thermometer at the Dockrnaster's Office, St.
Katherine's (a very exposed situation), which on Sunday and Mon-
day averaged 43 degrees, indicated 4814.
Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock,
a melancholy accident, by fire, occurred to Mrs. Elizabeth Mekins,
thirty-two years of age, the wife of a Freneh polisher, East-street,
Manchester-square. It appears that the unfortunate female was
busily engaged boiling some combustible ingredients for making
French polish, in an earthen pipkin, when it boiled over and
ignited. In her alarm, she placed the pipkin on the hearth, and
the fire communicating to her dress, she was instantly enveloped
in flames. Her screams brought the assistance of some lodgers,
who succeeded in extinguishing them, but not before she was dread.
fully burnt. She was immediately removed in a cab to the hospital,
where she lies without a hope of recovery.
ST. SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK.—Some thieves ob-
tained an entrance into the vestry of St. Saviour's Church on
Monday night, by breaking the stained glass window. After
forcing the locks of several cupboards and drawers without
finding anything valuable, and drinking one bottle of wine,
the parties retired. The plate, which appears to have been
the object of the visit, has not been kept in the church for
some years.
SUICIDE IN KENSINGTON-GARDENS.--Yesterday
afternoon Mr.Wakley, M.P.,coroner held an inquest at the Glou-,
cester Arms, Kensington, on view of the body of Mr. Henry Jenes
aged seventy years, who was found hanging to a tree in Ken.
sington-gardens, on the afternoon of Friday last. Mrs. Caroline
Dodds deposed that she resides at No. 51, Dorset-street, Salisbury.
square, Fleet-street, and the deceased had been a lodger of hers for
the last two years. Witness first discovered his death by seeing
the account of the body being found In the newspapers, when she
suspected, from the description given, that it was the deceased,
and went to the Kensington workhouse and identified the body.
Deceased left the house about twelve o'clock on Friday. He lived
filth witness as a gentleman, never doing anything, but she did not
know anything about his property. Latterly deceased had fallen
off in the payment of his rent, and went daily into the City, as he
said, about money. On Thursday last he told her he had been die.
appointed of money, and he appeared very much distressed and de.
pressed in mind. The Coroner said that in the absence of any
evidence of the state of deceased's mind, the jury had better return
a verdict Oat the deceased was found hanging in Kensington.
gardens, supposed by his own act, but as to the state of his mind
at the time there was no evidence to show. The jury, being of the
same opinion,,returned a verdict to that effect.
SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.—Last evening Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at the Malpas Arms, Charles-street,
Grosvenor-square, on the body of a man unknown, apparently
about 45 years of age. It appears that about half.past eight o'clock
son Saturday night last the deceased was observed by one of the
Royal Humane Society's boatmen, walking backward and forward
on the north bank of the Serpentine, in Hyde-park. Shortly
afterwards a plunge was heard in the water, about fifty yards from
the receiving.house. A skiff was rowed to the spot, and after
dragging about eight minutes the body was found about twelve
yards from the shore. It was conveyed to the receiving-house,
and the usual restoratives applied, but in vain. The deceased is of
fair complexion, with light brown hair, and his right eye was
blackened with a blow. He is about five feet seven inches in
height, and was dressed in a black dress coat, drab waist Coat, cor-
duroy trousers, blucher shoes, and linen shirt. All his clothes were
very old. No money or papers were found upon him to lead to a
discovery of his friends. Verdict, "Found drowned."
A correspondent states that an active emissary,
engaged in obtaining signatures to petitions against Sir Robert
Peel's measure for the endowment of the clerical college of May-
nooth, on being asked by a farreel, whose name he sought, what it
was all about, replied that " Parliament was a-goin to give the
papishes tithes all the same as the other clargy." " Oh, be they,
then here goes," said the petitioner to her Majesty's " faithful
Commone.nw-Monmouthshire