The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-21 00:00:00

renews.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FawAI•
There is a good supply'of grain to this days mar tins
and all descriptions remain witheut material alts ¢t'l,
in value, Wheat has met a fair sale at last week :11.10g,
Fine samples of Barley are rather scarce, but a to
quantity of For.?ign has I,een offering. No deviati°"
note in Oats, Beaus, and Shelling. bushel'
Per qr. of tiOlb. to the bung 41
F.rr ILL ,45 or 47,
Wneat Sunlk, Essex, and Red....... —to 48 49 ,4
Ditto ditto White... 41 ""
Norfolk Red 48 1
51
Ditto ditto ______ White... 52 i 4
Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red....... 46,, 47 ,4
Ditto ditto ... ..... White... ?"'l4 4i 45
...... Red...—.. 45 44
Ditto ditto White...
48 61 0
Foreig,
Ditto ditto White _ operli
Per quart(' ;,
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ..‘37 31 g
Yorkshire and Lincolnishirc D.' 0 0
Grinding
Foreign 5O
34 bosh!,
Per qr. o to 05 56
Beans, Small ......... ..... 4.? 34 40
Ticks ..... ........ ...... ......
Foreign ..... ....... ... 49••4*
048, Pntato aid Poland~ __.4
Mealing ...... 10d. to 12d., Foreign —el to --d• Pe; Lead'
Shqiling .......... 4
• 51• to 27L Od. Per 1/..d
Malt. 40. pot.
............ 23/.oa 25/. CIL 05'

ELECTION of COMMON COV—

MEN.-(THIS DAY.)

40-
. 'S of
This, the day annually devoted DAY
to. the eleetOtrithe
Common Councilmen for the different wards o`.ller.
City of London, passed in an unusually quiet Dill"

. .
In the parish of
WALBROOK, f,neac3
The LORD MAYOR, attended by his Civic suiw.-r 'see
the proceedings, in the Charity-school room• The Pthit
was crowded with an anxiously curious audience, but p
ward, contrary to expectation, formed no exceptW"re,
the general quietness, the gentlemen who had neP
sented the board during the past year having bee"

elected without opposition.
FAHRINGDON
th • tbi6
A similar result emanated from e wardmote alder
district, although Mr. Steill, of Paternoster-roe, self 0
voured to get up an opposition by proposing
bim
a candidate.
The proceedings in the other wards, we believe.% frrceis
sented no feature of interest. In the followinco,d-
there wait po contest :—Aldersgate, Basishs'eL,orehill,
street, Broad-greet, Cheap, Cordwainees,
and Cripplegatc,
PORTSOKEN WARD. , before
A wardmote was held at twe:ve o'clock tn-nti, et
Francis Graham Moon, Esq., Alderman of the
the Yard, ow
he Three Nuns Inn, Aldgate High-street, for
tion of Common Councilmen. businlsri
After the transaction of some preliminary /la-
the former members were proposed for re-electionto
in addition to them, William Scoones and George
were proposed. §_ hole
The non-freemen having been ordered to retire, P.
of hands was called for, and O°en°
Alderman MOON declared the following ge f sbet
elected to the office of Common Councilmen v,ricen
ward:—Messrs. Wright, Christie,
Judsum, Hayward, Danford, and Killby. tiehee°
A poll was then demanded on the part of the
cessful candidates.
The election will not terminate for three dttje•

111ARY.LEBONE VESTRY-
(THIS DAY.) -rz roof'.
This morning two gentlemen, residing in re'
tn.:et, Oxford-street, presented to the above veer) coo'
quisition from the inhabitants of Newman-street',
eerning the macadamisation of that street. ai•adO4
Mr. EDwARDB, one of the deputation, ree-i tie•
he /fi te
the vestry that on a previous occasion, te t
having been requested to cause this Wee pOt
be macadamisfd, agreed to do so the iieece
time the road required repairing. In Cl
of some repairs which were going on in Oxfora4bfere
, Newman-street had become the principal thoroetei g tbi
fur omnibuses, and it being now in a very het' '
inhabitants, a great number of whom were sobs obeel
much annoyed by the noise of the rolling of the .d
and, indeed, some of these artists had it.
they were unable to study, in consequence else
great number of hackney cabs and other orderlyyell
also made this street their thoroughfare, in .0
1
avoid as much as possible the wood pavement
ford-street. 1,5 811,f
A VESTRYMAN thought that not 003'.the crtotfi
c
coaches, but also a great number of the inhsb,;ore
Oxford-street, would be glad to fly to NeYO35"
to escape from the wood paving.—(A laugh.) tot "
The vestry, after a long distaision, resolved'
requisition should be complied with. *
„or'its
The VESTRY-CLERK read to the vestry a COw- to
tion from the Committee appointed sometime ti°l3P'
quire into a nuisance complained of by Mrs. Jenill
resident of Nottingham-terrace, New-road. ti (re
Some weeks ago a communication was receeie,,ielill;
that lady, complaining of the erection of som ""ve,
in front of several houses, of which hers wes„citi
which were contrary to the " New-road Act, :Toe e
ere,
of George 111. The committee aointed pi re
into the correctness of this lady's statement thitOuet° ,
ported to the vestry that they had examined into toriel;
of the erection complained or, that they were 13,tirie e,f,
and contrary to the Act, but that the cornrel—e,
of opinion that they were no public ineonvenier"rit °to'
therefore, if they were any annoyance to this lel it 14
her place to prosecute as a private individual,
unnecessary fur the vestry to interfere.

,•tr,)
AWFUL FIRE (THIS Vl' -
TWO POLICEMEN TO DEArr,, at i'S:.e
7_,,,, Bu_____RNT
houseA fire, attended with loss of life, occurre',:t'ret"'
origin
ooffitac,.aniGn,aotiltrilebdyef,odrEciliss-tqsin.treet, Russel-squaret the e•
1136'
dunce No.
67,
yeinkatesaelFasiine
posed to have been quite acccitdt eosdht,hisberuot6irieta:6o'ofottisticr:
it broke out with such violence between three °le
o'clock tir
this morning, that before the engines cos, (ttle
rive, even from the nearest station, the 1100° ‘4'- bone
mass of flame, and no effort could save it. 11%11 til_ei
with all its valuable contents, wa: destroyed.
ill ',,,efl'err
fire had in some degree subsided, it *l° ai,.lll'-oelicel
that some of the inmates were missing, *11",,,' V':
cardstables Wright and Birkmyne entered Wrootto'
when •ere about pioceeding to fin interior sPer3clotit,
crash, the
first and second floors fell with * trierc: cle,°,,in
lir
wel,a;tlai nt(lie tbhueriulinargorrtnuilniaste. Themen b"e'edr,e' ocr nsihrkeurl.°ll:i'/Igi ii
got out at eight o'clock this morning', oh efoolcii,
uttilasted and disfigured. It was imroediatelY ihere i
amtowaihtse dead-room of St. Giles's workhouse' "'bag /te
quest. The body of right, 67 ri, ~,,c1 l''
yethousespteaunfiolui found The house is a` mass of ruins, 'l4, ,
~,ie on either side of it have suffered consider°, to t'!,
inspectaboveor llawley,E, at ClerkonwellPolice-court IP
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wio get
Islington. It
THE CITY SAW -Atli Lq —leftte.--,,,,pc,
noon another tire broke out in the' extensive— 5a11...r0;
Messrs. Esdailc and Co., Wenlock-terrace, LI itri t.'
It originated in the room apprePrits ogio,,e°
of
freparing wood for lucifer m-tches. Having tie toe Aryl
their own on the premises, they were soon eet be VI
supplied with water from the, canal. Several of t, sifter
and. ,010
gado engine., were also quickly on the spo,t, then ?,
strenuous exertions, the damage was confineu to .dero
TI which the fire originated. The Joss 13 Nast
How the fire originated was not ascertained.