The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-27 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Earley. I Oats. Flout
English ...... .... 2,470 qn. 1,920 qra- 1,490 gra. 2,360
1ri5h......... ..... - --- T'...•
F0reign.......... - -
Malt, 3,520 arc ---

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This being a holiday market, the supply of beasts
offering was very limited, but fully equal to meet the
wants of the butchers. In prices we have no variation to
notice from those obtained on Monday. The numbers
of Sheep were small, yet the sale for them was in a
sluggish state, at unaltered figures. Prime small Calves
sold freely, t t very low prices ; but, in other kinds of
Veal, next to nothing was doing. The Pork trade was
firm, and the currencies were supported without diffi-
culty. Mulch Cows sold slowly at from 161 to 191 each.
Per Blbs. to sink the offaL
s. d, to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts ..... 2_ 8 210 Second qualityditto.. 3 6 3 8
Second quality ditto 3 0 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 310 4 0
Prime large Oxen 3 8 :3 10 Southdown Wether E 4 2 4 4
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs
Prime small ditto 4 0 4 6 Small Porkers 9 8 4 0
Suckling Calves, each 18 030 Quarter oldPigs,eachl6 020 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I
Sheep. J Calves. I Pigs.
633 2,100 54 287
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The supplies of Meat on sale were by no means large,
yet the trade was in a very sluggish state, and prices
were barely supported.

At per atone, loy tne Carcase.
a. d.tos.d. a. d. to a.
Beef, inferior 2 6 210 Mutton, inferior ...... 8 210
midtling 3 0 3 2 - middling 9 0 3 4
- prime large 3 4 3 6 - prime ..... 3 6 3
-- prime wall 3 6 3 itB Fork, large 2 Y 3 4
Veal ........» ..... 3 4 4 4 ...... 3 6 4 0
ZOROUGLI HOP 14.8.3t1L15T.
Notwithstanding the supply of Ilops on offer is ,but
limited, the demand continnes extremely inactive, at
almost nominal figures.—Sussex pockets, 71 to 81 ss;
Wealds, 61 18s to Si ; Mid Kent, 81 to 101 15s ; East
Kent, 71 7s to SI ; Choice, 101 to 121; Farnhams, 101
to lot 10s.

COLONTAL
The produce markets being closed for the holidays,
we have but little to report.
COTTON.—There has been a fair business doing, at
full rates, about 5,000 bales having been sold.
TEA.—The market. is steady.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 40s.' 3d. to 40s. 6d. per cwt. on
the spot.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS. DEC. 24 —The average price of Wheat last
week was 17f., and that of Rye 10f. 62c. per hectolitre.
The Belgian Consul at Sincapore has visited, by order
of his Government, the ports of Chine, open to European
commerce. The Government has just received from the
Consul a detailed and very interesting report on the
general commerce of the Chinese empire, and especially
on the several articles of import anti export, the condi-
tion of sale, &c. A selection of patterns has not yet ar-
rived. The report will, however, be sent to the Chamber
of Commerce, which is directed to communicate it to the
merchants and manufacturers of the kingdom.
Between seven and eight hundred compositors and
printers of Brussels met yesterday, ou the invitation of
the Provincial Committee of the printers, issued some
days ago, in consequence of tho reports concerning the
suppression of literary piracy in Belgium. This impor
taut meeting was conducted with the greatest decorum
and propriety. A permanent Committee of five mem-
bers was chosen by a great majority, after which the
meeting dispersed in the most orderly manner.
BREDA, DEc. 20.—For some time past a great plan
for the advantage of our trade has been in contemplation.
This is the snaking of a canal from this city to the
Dloerdyk, which, it is expected, will revive our declining
commerce and manufactures. There have been several
meetings on the subject, and we learn that a petition has
been presented to his Majesty for the formation of a
Chamber of Commerce. It is proposed that the canal
shall be navigable by steam-boat, and other vessels, to
Oosterhout and Gertrindenberg.

HER MAJESTY AND THE PRINCE CONSORT'S
NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.—WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—(FROM
A CORRESPONDENT.)—The distribution of the Queen's
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert's annual gifts to
the poor and needy families of Windsor and of that part
of the parish of Clewer which is withi❑ the borough,
which will be dispensed through the medium of the
Lord Steward of her Majesty's household, assisted by
the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay (the Queen's do-
mestic chaplain), agreeably to the recommendation of
Mr. John Clode, jun., and the other churchwardens of
the parish, will take place on New Year's eve, in the
riding.school at the new royal mews in the Home-park.
It is expected that her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, attended by the members of the royal
household, will be present to be witnesses of the grati-
fying scene. One hundred and eighty pairs of ten-
quarter blankets will be given to that number of families,
agreeably to the recommendation of the parochial au-
thoritirs. Nearly two hundred families, averaging five
children in each, will also be supplied (the quantity
being regulated according to the number of children),
at the same time with beef, plum-pudding, bread, po-
tatoes, and ale, and also one hundred weight of coals to
each family.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.—There is at present
a man at work on the Hungerford-bridge who, as a boy,
witnessed the laying of its first stone. He is in possession
of all his 1 aeulties.—Puneh's Almanack.

RESPITE OF WILLIAM POTTER.—On Wednesday
morning Mr. Noble, the Governor of York Castle, re-
ceived a respite from the sentence of death, in the case
of William Potter, convicted at the late Yorkshire As-
sizes of arson, at Wistow, near Selby, " until the further
signification of her Majesty's pleastiro.'',,,boncaster
Gazette,

At seven o'clock in the evening, the happy party hrnk,
up, Mr, Rowe havin businn7:s which cane him into the
country. E.T.-re is a young mita, 27 yeal'b of age.
A further decided advance towards the completion of
the lighthouse on the Goodwin Sands, has been made,
the height to which it is now brought above high-water
mark being sixteen feet. By New Year's day an eleva.
thin of thirty-four feet above high-water mark is ex-
pected to be attained, when the workmen will be regaled
on the sands near its site.

On Christmas-day the lending library at the Green-
wich Union• house was opened for the use of the in-
mates. Upwards of 200 volumes were distributed, and
the effect was so signally beneficial that the master, Mr.
Ellis, had not, last evening (Thursday), a single case of
insubordination to report to the board of guardians,
which had arisen after the festivities of Christmas-day.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
John Elston was charged before Mr. Traill with caus-
ing a disturbance in the Queen's Bench prison, and as-
saulting Caldwell, the turnkey.
On the preceding night, when the clock struck nine,
the time for the departure of all strangers, the defendant,
who was there, refused to quit, saying that his wife was
there, and that he would be d—d if he would stir out of
the place. Remonstrances were of no avail ; and when
the turnkey took the defendant by the arm to eject him
from the prison, he turned upon him, and gave him a
severe blow in the eye, and knocked him down. In the
course of the examination, it was stated that no man
could have acted with greater violence, and four men
were employed in taking him to the station-house.
The prisoner pleaded " Christmas time" in his de-
defence, but Mr. Traill fined him 3/.; and in default he
was committed.

Thomas Warnall and Mary Ann Tyler, two young
persons, were charged with being concerned in the fol-
lowing alleged'outrage:—
A Mr. Hubbard said that as he and his friend were
walking along Kent-street the preceding night he re-
ceived a severe blow from some person behind. He
turned round and was struck again, knocked down, and
surrounded by six or seven persons, who kicked him
while he was lying on the ground, and he lost his hat
and a gold pin out of his shirt. He added that the female
prisoner scratched his face while he was on the ground.
His friend was also assaulted, but they both admitted
they were not sober at the time.

The prisoners denied the Charge, and said they were
assaulted in the first instance, and as some doubts were
entertained by the magistrate that the complainants were
mistaken in the identity of the parties, he ordered them
to be detained until inquiries were made.

LLOYD'S SHIPPIING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 27.—Wind Northerly, moderate breeze,
and cloudy.
DEAL, DEC. 26.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Pandora,
Manilla ; Thomas Lee, and Asiatic, Woof, Calcutta ;
Brooke, Camphine, Ichaboe, for Grangemouth.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Hen-
drik, Hudson, New York.
OFF SALCOMBE, DEC. 25.—Thunder, Ili° Janeiro.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Dor-
drecht, Dutch transport, Surinam, for Amsterdam.
Rtutioura, DEC. 26.—Wind E., moderate—Arrd.
Esmeralda, Lancelot, Gambia for Rouen, with rudder
damaged, sailed Oct. :30 ; Hebe, Billingsley, Quebec,
24th ult. ; Queen of the Isles, London, for Buenos
Ayres, leaky, having struck the ground on leaving the
Downs.
OFF PENZANCE, DEC. 23.—Salem, Gilbert, New
Orleans. 24. Windhound, Rio Janeiro, for Antwerp.
CORK, DEC. 24.—The Heywood, for Africa, which
got on the bank near the Spit Buoy 12th inst., and the
Vanguard schooner, which got ashore near Roche's
Point 14th inst., came off this morning.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 26.—Wind S.S.E., moderate.—
Arrd. Culdee, Campbell, Sueir, Hoskell, and Princess
Royal, Hoodless, Calcu, ta ; Boston, Stunner, ditto, and
Cape of Good Hope; Isabella, Thorpe, and Parker, Reid,
Demerara ; Bombay, Reid, New Orleans ; Alabama,
Augustus' Head, Higginson, and Harriet, Rockwell,
Charleston ; Swordfish, Green, Mirarnichi ; William
Fisher, Montreal. Sld. Alexander and Prince Albert,
Bombay ; Liffey, Barbadoes ; Ellen, German, Berbice;
Severn, Havannab. Off, Constellation, Angra Pequina.
ICHABOE.—Arrd. Her Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt,
Cape of Good Hope, to relieve her Majesty's ship Isis.

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Owing to the thick weather and contrary winds, we
continue to be very scantily supplied with all descrip-
tions of Grain, consequently very little business is doing
in any article. Scarcely any English Wheat was on
show, and the few sales effected in it were at prices
fully equal to those obtained on Monday. In fine
Foreign Wheat a fair business was doing, at late rates.
There was a few runs of Barley on sale, by land-car-
riage samples, and which were held at full prices. The
trade, however, was by no means brisk. Scarcely any
Oats at market; these, as well as Beans and Peas, were
unaltered in value.