The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-28 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN-EXCIIANGH, APIII- 23.—We hart a mid-
dling supply of lVheat this man ng from 11.• sex
and Kent, which in tile early part of the morning
sold readily at an ads..ince of from 2s. to 3s. per
quarter, hut towards the close the sales were
heavy; Fine Barley and Mall support their priee3;
Tick ileansleing in demand ire from 33. to 4s.
dearer than this day. week ; having some ar-
rivals of Foreign Oats, the trade is dull at I%fon•-
day'3 prices ; in' other articles no alteration.

Ftm.ign Wheat ''ills..7tls.
Fine dittn - -104 s. Lill.
EnKIWI Wheat - tits. 645.
Fine ditto - - 1031. 1261:
Old ditto Hs. Ilia.
Itye - • - 445. 44i.
Fine ditto - - - 695. —ll.
Barley - - -30 x. Ns,
Fitt, ditto - - OH. fiis.
Matt - - - lilt. si.
Flue ditto - - - 611*. 64s*.
WhitePease (boilers) 61s. 61s.
Fine ditto - - - 645. 661:1
'Grey Pease -38 s. 48s.

Fine trey Pease' -60 s. —l.
Tick Beans - • • 325. 40s.
Old ditto - - 601. 01 •
Small Tick Beaus 3as. 444.
Old ditto • - bat. 425.
reed Mita - - 124. 295.
Finetlitio - - • yrs.
Polaud 209. giq.
Fine ditto • • 164.
Potatoeditto - 425.529.
ltape Seed 6a1.1541.per last.
Fine Flour - • 100 s. it4l.
Kecoilds , - • 955: IGta.

SMITIITIZIM, APRIL, 28.—This day's Market hail, a 'coml.
derahle supply of prjme lleast.:, and the iLow of Cattle in
other respects was plenll4ll Beef, Lamb and Pork support;
last prices; Mutton and Veal arc cheaper; and the ttade itt
general was pretty brisk. Thu sales in the Hay-market were ,
,somewhat lively 1 [Jay has gut up iu price; Straw and Clover,
hare fallen in price.
-Annexed is x correct statement of the Prices and Numbers r

• To sink the OW per stone of sib.
Beef, 3s. Rd. to 4s. Bd. Mutton, Bs. ed. to 45. Cd. Veal,
4s. to ss. Od. 'Pork, 31. Bd. to 54.0 d., Lomb, Cs. to
Beasts, 2380. Sheep ond Lambs, 17400. Calves, 54Q. Pigs,
340.

HAY-mAitgET.--Ilay, 31. to Gl. Os. Strciwp 11. 10s. to 21.011.
Cluver, 41. to RI Os.

YORK ASSIZES, &c.

At the York • Assizes, just concluded,
• Blackwell, aged IS, was indicted for that he, to-H
(;ether with several thousands of tumultuous and
disorderly persons, did unlawlully assemble in the •
town of Leeds, on the 3d of December last, and .
.then and there did parade the streets of that place
with loaves dipped in blood, to the great terror of
the inhabitants, and against the peace, Ste. The
principal witness against the prisoner was Mr.
STUART WoRTLRY, M. P. who, with other Ma-
gistrates, exerted himself on the day in question
to quell the tumult. All die ringleaders soon after
the reading of the Itiot Act fled and escaped; but:,
Mr. WoRTLRY, who was on horseback, rode s's
close in pursuit of the prisoner, that he pent hint
up in a corner, where he secured him, and took
from him npole, on which there was a. bloody;
loaf and a placard, un which was inscribed "bread,
or blood." The prisoner, it apptated, was nut
himself a.distressed person. , Atter,a,trial of seve-,,
tel hours he was found guilty.; awl Mr. Justice.
BAN-Lav,. jn addressing him, ,took occasion to,
allude to the wretched fate of.Cashman,ivhO had..
lately fallen a dreadful sacrifice to the law, for
having joined a lawless multitude, which broke.
forth not only into violence and alarm,
,httt into►.
subsequent acts of outrage aud robbery.' The ex-
tent to which theie outrages had been carried,:
perhaps,. way 'never contemplated by.theunfortto.
note individual alluded to k. and the prisoner, like
him, might, in all hitulan probAbiiit y 4e091146
a [may to some dreadful art, had not the deluded.
multitude, of which he was a member, been
happily restrained by the Vigilance. of the
tracy. His. Lordship sentenced hinftO two years
imprisonment.

Groves; who was tried and acquitted at Bristol
Assizes, his, for the lust seven years, been the.
•terror of all Bristol, Gloucestershire, and Somer.
setshire ;. he has organiied and •trained a despe
yam gang, to assist hiM in every act of infamy anti'
delinquency ; and although be has been often..
tried, he hat invariably been acquitted upon. some
legal or technical informality. His boast is, that
be will nut be hung until he' arrives at the age of
forty. On the night -before•his trial he publithed.
the following couplet :
Ororgy Groves has nothing to fear
" From Bcoubazet or KerseytneTv."•
Upon being questioned some time since about the
distresses of the times, he obserieff—" Ah 1 they,
are very great ; have dipped into a hundred and
fifty tanners' pockets, attd.have not found a shil
ling !"

EXECUTION.---Nine unfortunate criminals ex-.
pieced their malefactions, by the farfeiture of their
lives, on Saturday week, ot Lancaster.' Previous •
to the falling of the platform, the cap of one of •
them, named M'Calloch, having heeo lifted up at
his request, he addressed the multitude, and told'
Them, that be and three of the others,,who were
ahem to he hung for the same crime (burglary), •
were Innocent of the •offence ; that they had not..
tinit the hair Of'i man's head ; and that he bait
pever'seen'the prosecutor till somedays,efter the
'robbery, when before the Magistrates. lie then
told their his name, and begged them to pray for
hiin and Isis fellow.;sufferers: A respite for a 'fort4
'hal been received for Ann Lord, convicted
,•of uttering forgedmotes.
GLUTTONY EXTRAORnIN'ARY.--On Tuesday
'ight, John Wright, n waterman at Cole-stairs,
Rntcliffe, multrtook,• fora wager of 'one guinea,
'and five shillings worth of grog, to eat.l3.4cor
oysters and 14 twopenny' mutton pies, and to
drink tWo pots of porter in one hour. The whole
'table was cleared in the 49th minute.. The
wnger'was consequently won in -eleven minutes
,within the given time, to the astonishment of
a numerous assemblage of the sons of Neptune.
Wright, at the finale, did not show the slightest •
signs of fatigue or sickness,' declaring, after he
had taken another cup or Cogninc,.be could, with
'perfect ease, begin de nouo.
Human Life has been frequently compared to
a Lottery, in which the Blanks greatly pretlomi.
'nate; but bow happy must be that man whose •
.life could justly he compared with the present
In all former Lotteries the Minks have quad.
rupled the Prizes ; its this, should an Adventurer
have Seven Chances, five of atm will prove for.
tunate. The last opportunity the Public will
have of obtaining the Four Prizes of 20,000/. will
be on Wednesday, as on that day they miry all
be sold by G. CARAOLL) 7,, Cvnbill, and 26, Qx.
ford-street.