The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-24 00:00:00

SON, LONDON, MONDA Y EVENING, MARCH 24, 1845.

MARKET NEW S.-(Til LS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-(MONDAY.)
Since Monday last the arrivals of ErOish Wheat,
Barley, Malt, and Oats, have been only limited,; but
those of Scotch and Irish Oats have somewhat increased.
Of all other kinds of Grain the receipts have been small.
Fresh up from Essex, Kent, Lineoinsiiire, and Cam-
bridgeshire, very little Wheat came to hand, and the
show of simiple.s was, comparatively speaking, small.
Owing, h(lveyrr, to the announcemt nt of a large failure
in the Flour trade—the amount of liabilities being esti-
mated at very little short of 50,0001, 30,0001. being on
this market—considerable effect was thereby produced
upon the Wheat trade, which ruled extremely inactive;
indeed, fencer sales took place than for many weeks past,
and last week's prices were with difficulty supported.
At the close of the trade a clearance was note fleeted.
The quantity of tine Foreign Wheat on offer was by no
means large ; yet it was more than adequate to meet the
wants of the buyers. Holders were firm, and, in the few
sales concluded, obtained full prices, particularly for
selected qualities. Of English Barley the show was
small ; but that of Foreign, tree of duty, proved tolera-
bly g‘ od. Makin.. parcels mostly sold at full curren-
cies. In other kinds, next to nothing was doing, yet
their value) was supported. The show of Malt was rw.her
limited, yet the trade with that article was in a very de-
pressed state, at barely last week's figures. The supply
of Oats being on the increase, we have to report a dull
inquiry for them. The best Potato samples were quite as
dear. Other kinds were the turn lower. Beans, Peas,
and Flour very inactive, at barely late rates.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier 64s to 65s
Red . .. •• • . 46s to 52s Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto, White...... 488 568 Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 23s
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoc 23s 24s
coin, Red..... 38s 43s Youghall and Cork,
Ditto, White 4os 47s Black . •• . 20s 225
Irish, Red .... .. •
Ditto, White.... • • —s —s Scotch, Feed. •. • . 22s 23s
Rye Old
New. ••• • • • 35s 36s Pigeons 3BB 39s
Barley—Grinding .• • 27s 30s Pease—Grey. ..
Malting 138 35s Maple
Chevalier .. .. •• • • 365 —s White .
Malt—Sutlolk and Nor- Boilers •• • 368 38s
folk.
Brown s6s GOs Suffolk 33s 35s
Kingston and Ware 60s —s Stocktll & Norfolk 33s 35s
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
Wheat—Dantzic • • 35s to 36s , BeanS
Ilamburgh
Barley 20s 24s Flour--American .•• • • 198 —s
Oats —New l7s 18s Baltic
Feed
Since this day se'nnight the importations of live stock
from abroad fur our market have not exceeded fifty
Oxen and Cows, together with thirty-two Sheep, all
from Holland. To day we had on offer twenty-seven
Beasts and twenty Sheep. Although a slight comparative
improvement was noticed in their quality, it was far
from first-rate; but there was no appearance of the epi-
demic amongst either :he Beasts or blacep. The former
spld heavily at from 141. to 191., the latter 11. Bs. to
1/. 17s. per head. The weather having become much
milder here, as well as in Holland, larger im-
ports may be shortly expected, as we learn that
great numbers of stock are no ,v ready in
most of the shipping ports .in that country, espe-
cially at Rotterdam, waiting a conveyance to England.
The arrivals of Beasts fresh up from our various grazing
counties were somewhat extensive, for the time of year,
as to number ; but their general quality was inferior.
We much regret to observe, that at least a fourth of
them were suffering severely from disease ; indeed, on
no previous market-day of the present year have we no-
ticed so large a portion of the stock thus affected. To
show its extent, is e may state that upwards of 100
Beasts and 300 Sheep were left on the roads, it being
impossible, from their lameness, to convey them to the
metropolis ; while from 20 to 30 Beasts and 60 Sheep
were carted out of the market to day alive and slaugh-
tered, from the same cause : hence, of course, great
losses have been sustained by the graziers. Many of the
Beasts left unsold must, we fear, undergo the same fate.
As we have befOre remarked, the supply of Beasts was
good, owing to which the dead markets being heavily
stocked, and the unwillingness of the butchers to pur-
chase largely during the season of Lent, the Beef trade
was again exceedingly heavy, and Friday's depression in
the currencies of 2d p.,-r Sibs was barely supported, the
very highest figure for the best Scots not exceeding
3s 10d per 81bs. The primest Beasts were nearly all dis-
posed of, but numbers of the inferior breeds left the
market unsold. Fortunately for most parties, the number
of Sheep were rather limited, which caused the Mutton
trade to rule tolerably steady, at prices about
equal to those obtained on Monday last; the best old
Downs selling without much difficulty at 4s 6d per Blbs.
No Lambs came to hand from the Isle of Wight, while
from other quarters that description of stock, arising, no
doubt, from the -low currencies obtained on Friday last,
were rather limited. Down qualities sold slowly, at from
5s 10d to 6s; other breeds, from 5s to 5s 8:1 per 81bs,
being about stationary figures. With Calves we were
but moderately supplied, yet the demand for them, espe-
cially the middling and inferior qualities of Veal, was in
a very sluggish state, at barely, in some instances, a
trifle beneath last week's quotations. Frain Ireland we
received 120 Pigs, while from our neighbouring counties
the supplies were moderate. Neat small Porkers sold
steadily; other kinds of Pigs slowly, at late rates. The
Bullock droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam-
bridge comprised about 1,900 Scots and Home-breds,
while from the northern districts we received 250 Short-
horns; from the western and midland counties, 350 He-
refords, Devons, Runts &c.; from other parts of Eng-
land, 400 of various Creeds ; and from Scotland, 130
Horned and Polled Scots.

Per 81bs. to a
a. d. a. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts .. • . 2 6 210 Second quality ditto 3 8 310
Second quality ditto. 3 0 3 2 Coarge-w0011,..d ditto 4 0 4 2
Prime large Oxen.. 3 4 3 6 Southdowu Wethers 4 4 4 6
Prime Scots ••• • 3 8 310 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 310 4 8 Large Hogs •. . • 3 0 3 8
Prime small ditto .. 410 5 0 Small Porkers •.3 10 4 4
Suckling Calves, .18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep • ••2 10 3 6 Lambs ...... • ...
_5 0 6 0
SUPPLY Al MARKET.
ISheep. I Calves, I
rigs.
20,300 44 315

[llk the offal.

Beasts.
3,004

NEWOATE AND LEADZNUAIL.
Considering the season of Lent, full average supplies
of country-killed Meat have been received up to these
markets, since this day se'nnight, in good condition.
Of Lambs about 600 have come to hand, being of
course in addition to the receipts given in our tabular
statement below. The supply of Meat slaughtered in
the metropolis is good. Prime Mutton and Lamb are
in steady request, at full prices ; otherwise the trade is
inactive, and the quotations are with difficulty supported.
At per stone, by the Carcase.
a. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Beef, inferior•• •••• 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior .. 2 8 2 4
middling .••• 2 10 3 0 middling.. 3 2 3 4
prime large •• 3 0 3 2 prime.... 3 6 3 8
prime small .. 3 2 3 4 1 Pork, 1arge........ 2 8 3 8
Veal. •••• • • • • . 310 410 small ..... 310 4 4
Lamb, ss. to 6s.
ARRIVALS DURING TILE PAST WEEK.
Beasts Sheep Calves rigs.
15 400 500
22 500 700
8 100 120
5 90 50
20 120 100
2153
2000 2,0 190
00
200
40 30
30 100 30 150
25 200 100 200

Scotland
Yorkshire • • •
Norfolk
Suffolk
Cambridgeshire
Essex
Surrey

Devonshire •• •
'Wiltshire .... .
Other parts ...

Tcaal ........
Previous week's arrival

163 2,070 .420 2,240
328 2,250 600 2,130

Difference since our last .. 65 180 180 110
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELD3.
Very few Potatoes hare arrived at the water side
during the last ten days, yet the supplies offering in
these markets are seasonably extensive. Prime parcels
command a steady trade at full prices ; but in other
kinds only a moderate business is doing.
3302.017 GS SOP MARZET.
We have to report a very limited business passing in
all kinds of Hops, yet prices are, generally speaking,
supported.

WOOL MARKET.
The imports of Wool in the past week have been
xtremely small, yet the quantities cf both English and
Foreign, as well as Colonial, offering privately, are some-
what extensive. The demand, however, is active, and
prices are steadily supported.

HIGHLAND SOCIETY of LONDON.
This convivial Society held, on Saturday, at the
Freemasons' Tavern, their anniversary festival in
commemoration oe the victory of Alexandria, in which
so many Highlanders had distinguished themselves
on the 21st of March, 1801. Good Friday having this
year fallen on that day, the gathering took place on
the 22d. It is usual for the Society to invite all the
officers who had been present with the army in
Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercremby, but the hand of
time has made sad havoc, amongst those brave men,
and the present long and severe winter has been the
means of confining several of them to their homes by
indisposition, so that only a few of these veterans
were present, viz., Col. Sir John M. Wilson, Col.
Elwin, Capt. Kelly, R.N., and Capt. Feed, R.N.
The Gallant President of the Society, Lord Saltoun,
was prevented from attending in consequence of the
death, on the previous day, of his brother, the lion.
Wm. Frazer. The chair was, however, very ably
filled by The Chisholm. Amongst the general com-
pany present we observed Major-General Duncan
M'Leod, Major-General Briggs, Colonel Sir John
M'Ra, James Matheson, Esq., of Achany, M.P. who
wore a magnificent Highland dress, Lord Reidhaven,
Colonel and Major Burns, sons of the poet; Captain
Maitland, R.N.; Captain Rigmaiden, R.N.; Captain
Lamont, R.N. ; Captain Kelly, R.N. ; Captain Innes,
R.N.; Captain Charles Forbes, Captain Kincaid, Dr.
Power, Captain Tulloch, W. Sprott Boyd, Dr.
Stewart Chisholm, R.A. ; Robert Coates, Esq.;
W. W. Scrimgeour, Esq.; Thomas Lawrence, Esq.;
D. C. Guthrie, Esq.; J. Gordon Duff, Esq.; J. Tul-
loch, Esq.; J. Masterman, Esq. ; Geo. Bain, Esq.;
John Burnie, Esq. ; John 11l'Gregor Esq. ; Hugh
J. Cameron ; W. Judd, Esq.; T. Archer, Esq.
Before dinner the Society held a general Court, at
which the proceedings of the Society, and other
matters of business connected therewith, were brought
before the Court by Mr. G. Bain, the Honorary
Secretary, after which the company proceeded to the
banquet in the magnificent hall of the Freemason's
Tavern, preceded by her Majesty's piper, Mr. Angus
Mackay, and his brother Donald, the Society's piper,
formerly in the service of his late Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex.
About one hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner,
the majority of whom were attired in full Highland
costume. This gave a most picturesque appearance
to the gathering. It looked like a tableau vivant
from Sir Walter Scott. The gallery was occupied
by ladies. During the dinner, which was an excel-
lent one, and which included most of the national
dishes of Scotland, in addition to the most recherché
of the products of the cuisine of France, and the solid
roast and boiled of Old England, the band of the Scots
Fusilier Guards played several popular airs. At the
conclusion of the dinner, the pipers paraded the room,
playing a Highland national air, which was received
by the company with shouts of enthusiasm. Grace
having been said, the cloth was withdrawn, the toast-
master Toole, the Took, proclaimed silence for
The CHISHOLM, who in proposing the first toast,
briefly alluded to the circumstances under which he
had been unexpectedly called upon to assume the
chair. Their President, Lord Saltoun, was un-
avoidably absent in consequence of the death of his
brother, the Hon. W. Frazer, and in alluding to
that melancholy event, he could not forbear paying a
passing tribute to his memory.—(Cheers.) They
had not only to regret the loss of his valuable ser-
vices to that Society, but to the world.—(Cheers.)
In consequence of that unexpected calamity he had
been called upon to fill the chair. He would not
ask their indulgence on the occasion, as that might
imply a Fresumption on his part, on the one hand,
that any exertions of his might contribute to the
hilarity of the evening, or on the other that his
short-comings might damp it—(Cheers)--but he
would ask them all cordially to unite in assisting to
pass the evening with true Highland feeling, and
true Highland enthusiasm.—(Cheers.) He had now
to propose a toast, dear to them as British subjects,
most dear to them as Highlanders—" The Queen."
Drunk with all the honours.
" God save the Queen,"—By the band.
The Cuisuome, in proposing the health of the Queen
Dowager, alluded to the well-known benevolence of
that respected lady, and stated that on being recently
applied to for her patronage for a benevolent institu-
tion at Inverness, the capital of the Highlands, her
Majesty had not only granted her patronage, but had
also sent a liberal subscription. The toast was drunk
with three times three.
The CHISHOLM then rose to propose the Prince of
Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.—(Cheers.)
Ile proposed that toast under peculiar circumstances.
He could not but recollect that this was the year
'4s.—(Cheers.) A. hundred years ago the ancestors
of some of those present would have told a different
tale.—(Cheers.) But what brought them out in
'46 ? in what character did they appear? They
appeared as the gallant subjects of their Sovereign.
It was their loyalty that made them take the field.—
(Loud cheers.) It was to support that Prince who
was the lineal representative of the heir to the British
Crown that their ancestors went to the battle-field—
(Cheers) —and that same feeling of loyalty would
induce them now to stand up as firmly and un-
dauntedly in support of those who now occupied the
throne.—(Cheers.) They were now, in 1845, sur-
rounded by English officers, but he could not forget
that their ancestors, in 1745, met them on other terms
at Preston Pans.—(Cheers and laughter.) So far
from forgetting it, the remembrance of it should
excite in them the spirit of emulation as to who should
best serve their Sovereign and their country.—(Loud
cheers. As the descendant of one of those clans which
had been out in '4s—(Loud cheers)—he would not
be ashamed to do or afraid to suffer in the cause.of his
Sovereign anything that his ancestors had done or
suffered for the sake of the Stuarts. He called upon
them heartily to respond to the toast of " The Prince
of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family."—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk enthusiastically.
The Cnisnoem next proposed " The Health of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chief of the
Highland Society."—(Loud cheers.) From all that
they had heard and seen, it was evident that true High-
land feeling reigned paramount at present in high
places.—(Loud cheers.) He proposed the toast should
be drunk with Highland honours.
The toast having been drunk, each man placed his
left foot on his chair, and his right foot on the table,
and waving his plumed bonnet, gave that enthusiastic
and inspiriting shout which is so often heard on the
battle-field, when the clans
" Like reapers descend to the harvest of death."
The appearance of the Hall at this moment was most
picturesque. The magnificent costume of the high-
landers, the animation of their features beaming with
delight as they cheered, the enthusiasm with which
the sound of the bagpipes which immediately struck
up was greeted until impelled, as it were, by an irre-
sistible force, they rushed to the dance, and began a
Highland reel, contrasted forcibly with the tame, dull
matter-of-fact manner in which the business of the
evening is usually gone through at English dinners.
The Cllisnoem then proposed " The Army and
Navy," a toast never omitted at any public festivity,
but one which was more peculiarly appropriated to the
present military festivity, inasmuch as the highlands
had devoted so many of her gallant sons to the de-
fence of their country in both services.
Drunk with three times three;
Sir J. Melte, on the part of the army, returned
thanks in Gaelic.
Captain KELLY, in returning thanks on the part of
the navy said, that he was proud to believe, from the
manner in which the toast was always received, that the
services of the members of his profession had met
with the approbation of their countrymen in the
effort which they had made to protect this sacred is-
land from the invading foe.—(Loud cheers.) All
the attempts of the French, who at that time had
extended their tyrannous grasp over the whole of
Europe, had been ineffectual.—(Cheers.) This sa-
cred isle had by the efforts of the navy been pre-
served from violation by the foe.—(Loud cheers.)
And if an enemy should again be induced to make
the attempt, that same patriotic feeling which now
slumbered in their breasts would be again aroused,
and again would the navy deserve the approbation of
the country.—(Loud cheers.) He thought that those
now growing up would find, if necessity should re-
quire it, that the navy would protect them against
any inroads which an enemy might be daring enough
to attempt.—(Cheers.) He believed that those who
came after us would be as well protected by the navy
as those who went before us had been.—(Renewed
cheering.) He returned his grateful thanks to the
Highland Society of London and to the Highlanders
of Scotland, of whom they were the representatives,
for the manner in which the toast had been re-
ceived.—(Loud cheers.)
The CHISHOLM said, that the last toast which they
had drunk was, " The British Army and Navy," but
there was another army which comprised in it many
British soldiers and officers, whose services had of
late years been no less remarkable than the services
of the Queen's regiments.—llear, hear.) Ile was
proud to see among them that evening, two general
officers of that service.—(Cheers.) They had all
heard of the glorious deeds which that branch of the
service had performed.—(Loud cheers.) They had
all read of the sufferings of the Highland regiments
at Kurrachee. He therefore proposed, and he was
sure they would drink the toast with enthusiasm,
—" The British and Native Soldiers of the Indian
Army."
The toast having been drunk with three times three,
Major General lePLeop returned thanks.
The Cnisimem, in alluding to the enthusiasm with
which the last toast had been received, said,
that the one which he was about to `pro-
pose was calculated to excite somewhat
different feelings. It was emphatically the toast of
the evening—" The Memory of Sir Ralph Aber-
crombie and the Heroes who fell with him at Alex •
andria." The Highland Society had. selected the
anniversary of that battle for their annual meeting
because they considered that on that day their coun-