The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-06 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS. -(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY.
Although we had only a moderate supply of English Wheat,
the demand for it was in a sluggish state, and Monday's quo-
tations were barely supported. Foreign Wheat, free of duty,
sold steadily, but in bonded grain exceedingly little was
doing. The Barley trade was very inactive, and prices were
barely supported. blalt, Oats, and all other Grain moved off
heavily, at late rates.
ARRIVALS.

Wheat.
Eng1igh:......... 1- 1,350 qrs
Foreign... ..

Barley. ' Oats. kinur
800 qrs. 1,110 lrs. 1670.acks.
1 7,4.20

1 250

Malt, 300 ces:
WHITECHAPEI.

Our market to-day was very moderately supplied with
meat, while the demand ruled heavy at the following prices :
Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 10d; Veal,
3s 6d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per 81bs. by the
carcass.

PUGlLlSM.—Yesterday the long pending prize-fight
between Cullen and Rowe was decided near Gravesend. The
men were matched for a stake. of 501., and a good deal of
betting took place, Cullen being the favourite. A steamer,
provided for the occasion, started from Hungerford pier, with
the combatants and a strong muster of the pugilistic fancy.
On arriving at the appointed locality the men prepared for
action, and, after shaking hands together in the usual way,
they immediately commenced with great severity, when Rowe
soon gave evidence of his being the best " general." how-
ever, the men continued the contest with great courage and
science for fifty-seven minutes, when Rowe was declared the
winner amidst the cheering of his friends.
MAPLE WOOD.—lt having been the practice in
taking the dimensions of maple-wood, for the purpose of
charging the duty thereon, to admeasure the same singly,
notwithstanding the planks or slabs may be under twenty-
one feet in length, on account of the unusually large inter-
stices which would be occasioned by the irregular forms of
the plank, provided the same were piled for admeasurement
in bulk, under the provisions of the 29th section of the Act
sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 47, and the Board of Customs
being of opinion that maple-wood, in'common with all other
woods charged with duty by measurement, should, with re-
ference to the Act above adverted to, be measured in bulk,
have ordered that the proper officers do govern themselves
accordingly.
EFFECTS OF LARKING.—A few days a frg, ftt Bed-
ford, a party of men were amusing themselves bY destroying
a colony of rats in some old promises, Some of the Tway had
guns to make more sure of their game, and one of them, in
order to play a joke upon the rest, went inside the building,
and pushed a dead rat through a hole. This was no sooner
done than the guns were fired, under the impression that it
was a live rat making its escape, and part of the charges
passed through the hole, and shattered the man's hand off!
A sad verification of the proverb that the " biter WfiPIN.O
bitten."—Cambridge ciPrfict
qpt
PfriboliFP P. *riff,
1159, and Maxtan v PY,e, Wils. '409, it was heldithei
laying above 101. on a horse race (though fur 4 leff4l P 444)
Is an illegal h@t, within tjip statute of Anne, on 'the ground
that the statute ought to he extended to all sports as well 4§
games, in order to prevent excessive betting ktid in !.rnßil
v. Longbotham, 2 Wils. 36, it. was4lsc! 49SOSCI to 14,11 t,
foot racing.