The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-24 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY,

CORN EXCHANGE WEDNESDAY.
During the present week the arrivals of English Wheat
for our market have been on a very moderate scale, and of
inferior quality. The show of samples of that description of
Grain here was small; hence the demand for most qualities
was steady, and Monday's advanced prices were well sup-
ported. Scarcely any free Foreign Wheat was on offer ;
nOtertheless, the sale for that article was inactive, at previous
quotations. The best malting Barley moved off steadily at
full currencies. In other kinds, exceedingly little
was doing. Malt, the aupp,ly of wbich was by no
means large, sold slowly, and prices ruled about stationary.
We have had a fair average supply of Oats on offer, while
the Oat trade was tolerably steady at late rates. Beans,
Peas, and Flour moved off in retail quantities, at but little
alteration in value.

ARRITALS.
Wheat. Earley. Oats
1 Fleur.
English .....• 280 qrs. 1,420 qrs. 710 qrs. 2,750 aks
Irish ...... • • - 900 19,120 -
Foreign .....• 4,830 - 2,580 -
Malt, 1,410 um

WEITECHAPEL.
Although 'the supply of each kind of Meat on sale was
large, the general demand ruled active, at very full prices.
Beef, from 3s to as 10d ; Mutton, 31 6d to 4s 6d ; Teal,
3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and• Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d per Elbe.
by the carcase.

LAMBETH--THIS DAY).—This morning Mr.
Henry received 10s., sent by the Editor of The Sun, from
" A Friend" at Sheffield, for the sufferers by the late high
I tide at Lambeth.
The Duke of Duccleuch left town last evening for
Dalkeith Palace, where the Noble Duke and Duchess are
expected to remain until after Christmas.
The Marchioness of Wellesley, who has been stay-
ing soma time on a visit to the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Howard at Paris has retu.med to town, and has since left
for Cortessy Hall, the seat of Lord Stafford, where a small
party is about to assemble.
The Right Holt. Sidney Herbert, Secretary at
War, left Carltoh-gardens last evening, for Wilton-house,
the seat of the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, near Salis-
bury, where a family circle is about to assemble for the en-
suing holidays. The Right Hon. Gentleman, owing to the
pressure of public business, is expectod to return to town on
Friday next.
Cards of invitation have been issued to several
noble and distinguished personages for a grand banquet,
which will be given by her Majesty on New Year's Day.
Their Highnesses Prince and Princess Nicholas
Esterhazy have joined the Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle-
mentina Villiers at Middleton-park, Oxon, from Wakefield-
lodge, where they had been staying on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Grafton.
The Duke of Devonshire has left DevOnshire-
house, for Wortley-hall, on a visit to Lord and Lady Francis
Egerton, who are surrounded by a distinguished circle at that
splendid country-seat.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester have
arrived at Gopsall-hall, Leicestershire, to pass the Christmas
with the Earl and Countess Howe and family, from visiting
the Earl and Countess of Cardigan, at Deene-park, near
Kettering.
Earl and Countess De Grey come to town on
Saturday next from Bath, and early in the ensuing week
repair to Wrest Park, Beds, where they purpose to receive a'
succession of distinguished visitors during the next month.
We understand that the Earl of Harewood will
succeed the late Lord Wharncliffe as Lord-Lieutenant of the
West Riding of Yorkshire. The late Earl of Harewood was
the Lord-Lieutenant of that Riding for many years.
The mortal remains of the late Lord President of
the Council (Lord Wharncliffs) will be removed from Cur-
zon-street,
for interment in the family mausoleum at Wort-
ley-hall, near Sheffield, on Friday or Siturday next. The
present Lord Wharncliffe, the Hon. James Stuart Wortley,
the Hon. J. Chetwynd Talbot, and other relatives of the late
Noble Lord. will attend the obsequies.
REMARKABLE BIRTH.---Mrs. Sheet the wife of a
respectable victualler, at Enniscorthy, in the sixty-sixth
year of her age, gave birth to a male child on the 27th or
28th of last month, to the surprise of the inhabitants of that
locality. Her eldest child is upwards of forty-sey... years of
age.— Werford paper. -w_ _
CONSUMPTION OF BUTCHER'S MEAT.---The num-
ber of cattle and sheep annually sold at Smithfield lilts
doubled witatin the last century, whilst the weight of the
• carcase has also more thaa doubled in that interval. In the
early past of het century (1710), according to an estimate
made by Dr. Davenant, the net weight of the cattle sold at
Smithfield averaged about not more than 370 pounds, whilst
calves averaged about 50 pounds, and sheep 28 pounds.
In 1800, the net weight of the cattle was estimated at 800
pounds, and of calves at 140 pounds, and of the sheep at 80
pounds.
BERWICK RAlLWAY.—Grahamsley and Reed, the
enterprising railway contractors, are getting on rapidly with
their works on the southern portion of this line, and in order
that they may be enabled to work by night as well as day,
they have laid down gas for nearly two miles, so that the
country will be illuminated b 1 night.—Bcrwk4 rfarder.
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