The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-15 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

A very limited quantity of English Wheat has been re-
ceived here during the present week, and the show of samples
was, consequently, small. Although the attendance of
millers and others was scanty, the demand for the above
article was scanty, the demand for the above article was
steady, at fully Monday's quotations. For Foreign Wheat,
free of duty, the inquiry was active, at Tory full rates.
Bonded Grain was much neglected. The Barley trade was in
a very dull state, the malsters buying sparingly. Malt had
a drooping appearance, with an average quantity offering.
Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were very dad.

ARRIVALS.
Whims. Bailer. 1
Englisb L 1,410 qrs. 2,180 qrs.
Irish.
loreign - ----
Malt, 1,'270 qrs.

Oat.. i !lour
840 qrs. 1,290 sack&

SWLITIITZULD.
Notwithstanding our market was but scantily supplied with
Beasts, a large portion of which was of middling and inferior
quality, the Beef trade was in a very depressed state. How-
ever, the primest Scots sold at prices about equal to those
obtained ou Monday ; but the value of all other breeds had a
downward tendency. The fresh arrivals from Scotland con-
sisted of 58 Scots. The numbers of Sheep were only mode-
rate, while the Mutton trade was tolerably steady at about
previous currencies. In Lambs very little was doing, at
barely lute rates. Prime small Calves commanded a steady
.sale ; other kinds of Veal a slow inquiry, at our quotations. A
good business was transacted in Pigs. Mulch Cows were
selling heavily, at from 161. to 191. 10s. each.

Per Sibs. to sink the of.d.
I. d. to s. I. d. tonal.
Interior Beasts 2 4 9 8, Inferior 5heep......... 0: 6 3 0
Second quality ditto 210 3 8t Second quality ditto... 3 2 9 6
Prime large Oxon -3 2 9 0, Coarsa..woolled ditto.. 3 I 4 0
Prime Scots. &c 310 4 0' Southdown Wethers 4 $ 4 6
Large coarse Calves 3 $ 4 6/ Large ...... 910 31*
Prime small ditto 4 8 410 Small P0rker5..„...... 310 4 4
Suckling Calves, each IS 0 VS 0 'Quarter old Pigs. dahl6 0 11

SUPPLY AT MARXIST. -
Busts. I Sheep. Calves. I Pigs
I
6611) I 3,260 136 I 50
1/EVITGATIII AND ZIZADMINZALL.
The supply of Meat was but moderate, whil• the demand
was heavy, on the following terms :

At per stone, by the Carcase
s. d. to s. d.l
Beef, ..... 9 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior ......
- saddling 2 2( - middling
-- prune large .«.. 210 9 0( - prime .........
--- pima small ...... 3 2 3 4 Pork, large. ..........«..
Veal •••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 6 4
Lamb, Ss 8d to ss. Bd.
)110310179311 MOW MILAWILIIIIT.
This market still continues very scantily supplied with
both old and new Hops. The demand, in consequence, is
active, on very full terms. 'Weald of Kent pockets, 61.4. to
6/ 16s ; Mid Kent ditto, Cl 12s to 91 lOs ; East Kent ditto,
61 15s to 91 10s ; Choice ditto, 101 to 111 lle ; Sussex ditto,
Cl to 61 13s; Farnhams, 81 15$ to 111 lle; Mid Kent bags,
6/ 15s to 8/ 10e.

I. d.tes.d
It 6 9 E

210 2 2
34 3 6
2 4 II 8
3 6 4 4

SLGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been dull
this week, the supply not being large, and the sales were not
above 550 hhds and trcs, exclusive of to-day's. Prices are
barely so high.
MACRITIUS AND BENGAL.-4,651 bags of the former sold
at 63s to 66s for good to fine yellow, and at 59s to 64s for
grey, being 6d to is cheaper; and 9,568 bags of the latter
were offered, but went also 6d lower, viz., 50s 6d to 51s for
damp brown, 66s to 69s for good to fine white, and 57s to 66s
for yellow ; there were also 1,387 bags in bond, which sold
at 33s to 33s 6d for yellow.
FOREIGN.-298 hhds, 2 trcs, 15 bris Cuba realised 19s to
20s per cent.
RI:MN/W.—Sugar has not quite supported its value. Brown
Lumps have been at 75s 6d per cwt. A cargo of Havannah
has been sold privately.
COFFEE.—British Plantation has been firm. In Ceylon
there has been a decreased business ; the auctions have com-
prised 2,144 bags, which were nearly all taken in at 70s 6d to
71s for good ord pale, and 77s to 85s for the other qualities.
In East India sorts, 1,645 bags were mostly taken in at 33s 6d
for Singapore, and 53s to 55s for Company's Java, being full
rates. Some Salem at 4cl duty, was taken in at 85s for good
yellowish ; 1,578 bags Costa Rica sold at 503 to 57s 6d per
cwt, and 538 bags Manilla at 40s to 455.
Rux.—The market is firm. The Government contract has
been taken at 2s Oid per lb. for proof, half East and half
West India.,

RICE.-2,876 bags Bengal were taken in at 12s to 12s 6d
for sound, 9,518 bags Java at 89 6d to 9s per cwt, and 186
trcs Carolina at 18s 6d for good bright white. The Java sold
afterwards at about 8s 6d.

SALTPETRE.—Of Bengal, 640 bags sold at 26, 6d to 27a 6d
for 7} to 4ilbs refraction.
SPICES.-91 bags White Pepper were taken in at 54d to
Sid for good bold dingy, and 41 bags Black 2jd to 24c1 per lb.
Jamaica Ginger has realised 518 s to 1312 s per cwt. Pimento
has been in moderate demand.
Corrox.-a-The market has been dull.

TEA.—The market has been quieter, but holders generally
require former rates, which checks business.
TALLOW.—Y.T.C. is 41s to 41s 3d on the spot, and 24s 6d
for three months.

' PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
A neat little farce, entitled Gone to Texas, the production,
it is understood, of Mr. J. Oxenford, whose former contribu-
tions to the stage have achieved much popularity, was
brought out at this house on Wednesday evening, and met
with complete success. The plot of the piece turns on the
deception practised by a gentleman, of easy habits and de-
cent exterior, upon a milliner's assistant, whom he induces to
become his wife, under the pretence of having a comfortable
situation and a trifle in the funds ; whereas, in fact, he is, on
the contrary, in general difficulties, and much annoyed by
duns and bailiffs. The exasperation of the lady at making
this discovery, through the medium of a very chatty maid-
of-all-work, is only heightened by finding that the second-
floor lodger is her jilted lover, one Frederick Rapture, who
has taken to the cornet-a-piston as a solace for his grief, and
as a means of melting her obdurate heart. The manner in
which he declares his passion, and the ability with which he
executes the obligato accompaniment of the " Light of other
days," has no other effect upon Mrs. Swellington (the changed
name of the lady) than creating supreme contempt for the in-
dividual, who thus dares to intrude himself upon her privacy in
the hour of misfortune, and the comfort she seeks in the altered
position of her affairs is in the reflection that Swellington
was always " unexceptionable in his choice of a Yalentia
waistcoat," and unsurpassed in the tone with which he " or-
dered up a glass of mixed." Swellington being driven from
pillar to post, at last avows openly to his wife his distressed
condition; and, in order to gain time for the arrangement of
his difficulties, proposes that he himself should go round to
the creditors, none of them being acquainted with his person,
and tell them, as "a friend from the family," that he (Swell-
ington) had " gone to Texas." With this determination he
goes to the legal representatives of one of his creditors, and
assumes the name of Rapture, and while descanting upon his
own virtues, is attacked by that gentleman, and charged, on
the authority of a letter from Rapture's father, with carrying
on an intrigue with Mrs. Swellington. This was the best
scene in the piece ; the rage of Swellington in discovering the
supposed intrigue between Rapture and his wife, and which
is attributed to remorse for his conduct by the legal adviser,
was inimitable ; the way in which he expressed, sotto wee,
his determination to annihilate the guilty couple, and the,
broken delivery of his sentences, when, in a state of fear and
jealousy, he gave vent to his opinion, elicited much applause
from all quarters of the house. The whole affair is not
explained till Rapture, at the suggestion of Mrs. Swelling-
ton, has assumed the part of Swellington, and finds him-
self arrested at the suit of one of the numerous creditors,
who is lenient enough to accept 101. as a compromise. From
first to last the piece was kept up with much spirit, Keeley
and his wife taking the parts of the married couple, Fitz-
james that of Rapture, and Granby, the lawyer. Mrs. Keeley
displayed her usual vivacity of character and played ex-
ceedingly well; her surprise and chagrin, at finding herself
the dupe of her husband, was only equalled by the acidity,
with which she treated the communication of the servant,
relative to the state of her master's affairs. Keeley never
flagged at all in his exertions to bring his character out pro-
minently, and at the fall of the curtain the announcement of
the repetition of the piece every evening was received with
unanimous applause. After the many translations and
adaptations that we have had of late from the French, it is
rather refreshing to see something which at all events, among
its particular class, approaches near to English manners and
English customs, and which may be found in the every-day
walks of life.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 12.—The average price of wheat last
week was 17f. 40c., and that of rye 10f. 67c. per hectolitre ;
the import duty, therefore, remains as it has been for some
weeks past, 37f. 50c. on wheat, and 21f. 50c. on rye, per
1,000 kilogrammes ; the export duty on both 25 centimes
per 1,000 kilogrammes.
The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day, ter-
minated the examination of the articles of the project of law
relative to the loan of 84,656,000 francs, destined fur the re •
demption of a portion of the debt contracted with Holland ;
it then proceeded to the vote on the whole of the laws. Of
the sixty members present, fifty-two voted for the law, three
against it, and five declined voting.
The King and Queen returned yesterday evening at half-
past six o'clock from Ghent.
We have stated that the financial plans of the Dutch Ca-
binet had been approved by the first Chamber of the States
General, by a minority of 12 to 6. The Nederlandisch Avond-
bled informs us that the Ministry had nearly received a
check which would have caused its dissolution. The suf-
frages at first were equal, nine for and nine against the law
by which the project should have been rejected, if the Mi-
nister of Finance had not, by a speech, in which he entered
into new developments," detached" three votes from the Op-
position, and so gained the majority, which voted for the law.

•
AN ENGLISHMAN AND lIIS PASSPORT.—We find
the following in the Boulogne Guardian of the 7th :—" An
English gentleman has been tried by the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police of that town, for having insulted Messrs. Ber-
geret and Loisel, the commissioners of police at the pass-
port-office at the port, in execution of their duty. The
defendant, when called upon to state what he had to
say in his defence, said that on the night in question
he landed at Boulogne, via Folkestone ; that on pre-
senting himself at the Custom-house he was asked for
his passport; that having been informed at the Secretary
of State's office, where he had obtained it, that no one had a
right to dispossess him of it, he had refused to have it ex-
changed for another ; that from hence arose the altercation
with which he was charged, which bad given rise to it, and
for which he was marched off to prison. The Court, after
retiring for a short time to deliberate, sentenced the defendant
to pay a fine of 100 f. and costs. The case excited consider-
able interest amongst the English residents here. The
British Consul was in attendance during the whole trial."
EMBANKMENT OF THE RIVER THAMES.—Her
Majesty's Commissioners of Sewers for the limits extending
from East Moulsey, in Surrey, to Ravensborne, in Kent, have
issued their warrant to the several occupiers of wharfs and
premises on the southern shore of the river Thames, to the
following effect :—"That, whereas the wall or bank of the
river Thames within the parish of St. Saviour, in the borough
of Southwark, in the county of Surrey, is by reason of the
high tides become defective, and of insufficient height to
resist the waters from overflowing the dwellings of the inha-
bitants, and the low grounds and places thereto adjoining
within the said parish, to the great detriment and loss of the
owners and• occupiers thereof," &c. It is then ordered that
the several resident tenants on Bankside shall raise the em-
bankment 18 inches eastward and westward, It is much to
be regretted that the embankment as proposed long since
was so precipitately abandoned, particularly as the expense
will fall very heavily on those wharfingers who hold their
premises on lease only. A public meeting will shortly be
advertised on the subject.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A poor fellow named Hil-
lier, of Bishops Cannings, narrowly escaped cutting his
throat, a few days since, in a rather singular manner. He
was cutting hay in a field at Spitalcroft, when his foot
slipped, and he fell to the ground with the bay-knife in his
hand, the blade of which completely laid open his neck from
the jaw to the ear, exposing the principal arteries He was
immediately attended by Mr. G. Waylen, and is, under his
care, going on well.—,Devizes Gazette.