The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-12 00:00:00

OF 11ER MAJESTY'S TREASURY.

" The Memorial of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of
the Borough of Gateshead, in Council assembled,
" Showeth,—That your memorialists have every reason to
believe that the corn harvest throughout the United King-
dom has been most unfavourable, both as to quantity and
quality; and that the potato crop, particularly in Ireland,
has been a deplorable failure.
" That the consequences to be apprehended from such sad
circumstances are fearful in the extreme, and can only be
averted, in the opinion of your memorialists, by an immediate
sanction from the Queen in Council of an unrestricted impor-
tation of foreign corn.
" That the admission of foreign corn, duty free, inte the
United Kingdom, would not only materially relieve the pre-
sent wants of the country, but would tend to render perma-
nent the employment, and consequently the contentment, of
the people.
. " Your memorialists therefore earnestly entreat that you
will advise her Majesty in Council to order the immediate
opening of British and Irish ports to the free admission of
foreign corn ; and that you will recommend the Parliament,
on its re-assembling, to abolish every duty and restriction to
which the importation of food is at present exposed.
" And your memorialists, &c."
This memorial was not only adopted neon. con., but the show
of hands in its favour was general, and not a whisper of dissent
was beard. A similar memorial has also been adopted by the
Newcastle Council, but not unanimously.

NEW FRESCO BY RAPHAEL.—The Academie des
Beaux-Arts at its last sitting, had an interesting piece of in-
telligence communicated to it by M. Raoul-Rochette, its
perpetual secretary, and received by him from Jesi, the
celebrated engineer. It was that an immense fresco by
Raphael, in admirable preservation, bas been discovered at
Florence, in the refectory of a convent, suppressed at the
close of the last century. This work, which represents the
" Last Supper," was generally attributed to Perrugino, but,
on its being lately cleaned, Raphael's name was found on the
robe of one (,f the apostles, with the date of 1514, when the
great painter was in the 21st year of his age. This is the
period of his life of which Vasari and other writers on art
seem to know least, and this discovery fills up the chasm
which has hitherto been felt in Raphael's career.---Galignani.
CITY IMPROYEMENTS.—In consequence of the new
improvements taking place in the City, the parish church of
St. Benetfink, at the eastern corner of Threadneedle. street, in
the rear of the Royal Exchange, and which was built in
1675, is to be forthwith pulled down, and the parish will be
united to the adjoining one of St. Peter-le-Poore; some of
the families interred in the family vaults have already been
removed. Those whose remains lie under the body of the
church, will, it is said, be placed in the churchyard. The site
of the church when taken down (together with old houses at
the back), it is-contemplated, will be formed into an orna-
mental piece of ground, surrounded with iron palisading.
When the whole is completed the Royal Exchange will, both
in front and rear, be free from impediments to a full view.

THE PILCHARD FISHERY.—'We have great plea-
sure in stating that since our last publication large
quantities of pilchards have visited our coasts, and that
several thousand hogsheads had bgen taken in the
seins On Sunday afternoon, seven seins were shot
at Newquay, but in consequence of the boisterous state
of the weather, only three of them could bring their nets
together; and of these, two only secured fish—viz., " The
Rose," 400 hhds., and " The Speculation," about 500 hhds.
The quantity of fish that passed Newquay during Sunday after-
noon and Monday morning exceeded anything of the kind be-
fore witnessed. At St. Ives, on Monday morning, several shoals
of fish were observed passing to the westward, but too deep
for the seins to approach them. About one o'clock, how-
ever, other shoals made their appearance, and between that
time and the evening nine seins were shot : of these, we
regret to say that four missed the fish, and the other five in-
closed as follows :—Trewearne and Co. (2), 1,700 Hogsheads;
Wearne and Co., 500 hogsheads; Hocking and Co., 700
hogsheads; Victoria Company, 100 hogsheads; total, 3,000.
Yesterday, at the same place' (St. Ives), several shoals of
pilchards again presented themselves, and although many
passed in the morning in deep water, about midday Messrs.
Wearne and Co. shot one of their seins, and inclosed about
500 hogsheads, and in the evening one sein belonging to the
Messrs. Bolitho, inclosed a very large shoal, but what quan-
tity is not yet accurately known—report, however, save
nearly 1,000 hogsheads. On the same day, a sein was shot
at Pendean Cove, and inclosed a large shoal of pilchards,
but we are sorry to hear that, from some cause, they escaped.
A sein was shot at Sennen yesterday, but the quantity of
fish taken we cannot ascertain. Last night (Tuesday) there
was a lire on the hills at Mullion, and it is therefore conjec-
tured that the fishermen there have also fallen in with pil-
chards.—Penzance Gazette.

CHINESE GINGSR.—A novel description of article
was introduced last season from Canton, to a small extent,
in the shape of ginger, candied or preserved with sugar, both
in a dry and moist state, and it having been found to answer
the :purpose and expectations of the importers very well,
and eagerly sought after, the article has recently been
brought in much larger quanities, and will no doubt fie-
come a staple article of importation and be of very consi-
derable importance to persons engaged in the Chinese trade.
Having tasted some which has just been imported, we can
recommend it strongly as being moat excellent, both in its
qualities and properties, and a capital stomachic, without
possessing the biting qualities of raw ginger, or the excessive
richness of that usually brought from the East and West
Indies in a preserved state, and it will no doubt, when its
excellence becomes sufficiently known, become an article of
very general consumption.
MURDER.—The following announcement appeared
in the Government Police Gazette; of Monday :—" A man named
Patrick Wlntyre, on the morning of the 9th instant, committed
an atrocious and wilful murder upon the body of his wife at Hull,
Yorkshire, and had succeeded in effecting his escape. He Is de-
scribed as being a bricklayer, a native of Ireland, from thirty to
thirty-tive years of age, about five feet five inches high, fairish
complexion, hair incli led to be sandy and curly, face slightly
frewed, dark eyes, small sandy whiskers, and round made,
tlk in a round fustian jacket, supposal fustian vest and troll.
me, and cloth cap,

WORKING of the SLIDING-SCAL •
the .)
The following le(tterFrom relates S
tcotsmano the mode of striking It
averages, and shows some of the evils that attend gold et
alludes also to the difference in quality of the wheat ed
bMyarakr-elafenree,ncbeuttoth.oisurtoot
mm
n'raeber,
(the most important in Scotland), on the 31st of °e-
we have the following very striking variety of
Old Wheat. New Wiles
od.
First quality
57s lid'
aarykpetesr.haplns bHeadbedtitriegrmilnlustriiriot
Second ditto.
Third ditto
645. Od. . ........ 445. d the
Thus, between the best old wheat in the market, an coo
best new, there is a difference of l Is. ' • between the "third
qualities the difference is I4s. 8d; and between thelliat
or lowest qualities the difference is no less than 208. the
is called the second quality is the mean or average o.,,tive
whole sales, and may be taken to represent the couipai'„,at
value of the last and the present crop. Mark, then,"
follfw tlos : o that
he quality of the present crop had been equal t ~4ild
of the last, the average at Haddirigton on the 31st ult. Weurage
have been 725. 7d. And as the Haddington av tile
for the week merely exceeds by one penny that fel,n,a.
kingdom, the difference on the six weeks' average,
lating importation, may be assumed as nearly the ±-,Tlich
namely, 14s. Bct Now,
and foreign
was the six weeks' average, r
was 565. 2d., would thus be raised to 70s. 10d., in•
wheat should at this moment have been alinissible at
'lis;vit ;
stead of 16s. But prices have not yet reached their hich
and let it be observed, that a further rise of 2s. 2d., Weed
will bring down the duty only to 135., would have °P
the ports, if the grain had not been of inferior qualitY.
cheats
Thus the sliding-scale cheats the consumers, as Ct does
the farmers, by promising each a protection which is, tio
not give. It promised the farmer 565., and for the la
hs
years it has given about 465. A year of real scarcitle
come, and now it cheats the consumer, by making t 09.
mission of foreign corn dependent on a fictitious ay
erag
above the real average.
he difference in price between the best and the W°rsot
quality in lladdington-market was no less than ,4°4 log
the corresponding week of 1844 it was only 223.
price which so large a portion of the present crop brings
owing to deficiency of yield, quite as much as to defielereid
of quality. A given quantity of the inferior grain will fie
thirty to thirty-five per cent. less flour than the same %web
tity of the superior. The result is, that the real rise's that
greater than the apparent, and while the Gazette tells 1070 s,
the price.of wheat is 563., we are paying at the rate et
for our bread. s of
In the Edinburgh market on Wednesday the extroneod
price were still greater. Wheat ranged from 345. to 865'
in weight from 52 pounds the bushel to 66.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCOTSMAN. tere§t
Sir,—ln the present state of the country, it lufl',l."to
some of your general readers who have never looked ill'oner
existing corn-law, to give a short explanation of the in anti
in which the corn averages are struck, and the import
is regulated.
Under the former system, when the pressure of stecf
city began to bear hard upon the country, corn siJ,bich
lators had a method of " working the averages" 1-)Y 'd the
they irreg larly accelerated the ri-e of the price ache io-
fall'of the duty, so as to quicken the period wheloect
portation became practically free. In proposing ass
corn-law of 1842, Sir Robert Peel intimated th.d, t"'
an unfair practice in itself, and that he had provided sPrenof
means for repressing it, and working the i,yster
of
averages fairly. He then enlarged the number
re'
places from which returns of corn sales wiere,dced
quired, until they amount to very nearly three on- also
English towns. The duty of making returns was
of all
largely devolved on the officers of.excise. Returns, to,
sales by corn dealers, &c., in these towns were retl.ll tots'
be made, and upon a comparison of the (supnothset'ereloriosa,
quantity of corn sold in one week, with the prices r„,11, t,
average weekly price is made up for the kingdom. „
six of these weekly prices are then taken, and an aver.-gg to
them is struck, which last average is the price according
which the rate of duty on the sliding-scale is ascertain,e 000 d,
In striking the weekly average, the prices 'o'
,7ther.
bad, and indifferent wheat are all massed tog -,0:4
While all good wheat, therefore, may be fetching
hurt
it may happen, when a bad harvest has generallY vog
the quality of thee, wheat, that inferior wheats (se re.
just as dear, in reference to their quality) Inal bwebole,
turned at prices so much lower as to produce, on the - It
a low weekly average, and consequently a high d,utinote
is reported that some good Wheats were sold in Mar k-595,
last week at 745., yet the weekly average was ontY.4
sd. At the same time the average of the last six week
only 565. 2d., which fixes the rate of duty on the s'
scale as high as 16s. high
.°
Under the sliding-scale, the duty will remain as 69.
10s. so long as the average of six weeks' sales is undern to
At present there is not yet one week with an average, 'rtbe
605.; and. from the large bulk of inferior wheat 'lldot9
country, it would seem difficult enough to say when the 6,g•
will fall as low as even 10s. It will not fall lower than
so long as the average of the six weeks is under 695• that
In the meantime it is stated in the public prints.ber
bonded corn is leaving the country, to be sold at a itl!..tb,
rate in other countries which are threatened with derf',"
but in which no duty is imposed on its importation. ,
t i°
On Sunday night 100,000 herrings were ts-e f the
Gatwater, and on Monday night 200,000. The lessee °hta
fishery is said to have netted 1501. by these unneualdra"'
of herrings.—Penzance Gazette.
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A DRUNKARD'S END.—A woman, named - sloi
ejti
the wife of a market-gardener, at Kingsholm, near this the
(Gloucester), and who was in the habit of attendingajel
vegetable market, was found dead in a chair, on Tinhedere
morning, under the following circumstances, detailen,'";iiite
Mr. Joseph Lovegrove, coroner, and a jury :—Hannall the
—I am the wife of Charles White, and live next door "r sis
Bull Inn. I have known the deceased for the last rive°clod'
years. She came to my house between seven and eight o a;;(1
on Monday night ; I noticed that she was quite in lieln°,,rttle
could hardly walk across the kitchen. She had 3 '"„-f it
with her about half full of rum, and she drank otiti
several times between that time and about half-past e„heb
At this time I left her and went to bed, together withei%
sister-in-law, and got up this (Tuesday) morning tib°„l"4o,
o'clock, and found deceased sitting in the chair in the kitfie
just as she now is. [The body was exhibited to the itl-sP'
the same position as it was found ; the deceased had the
and
pearance of being asleep.] I called up my sister-in-larWolea
we thought she was dead. I went to my father, and he ic`desci•
Mr. Clark, surgeon, who pronounced her to be quite of
The deceased was much given to liquor •, she is about hot
years of age. Sophia Jones—l live with the last witness,g,,
fbr the last three months have been in attendance urnrgp
John Simms, the husband of deceased, at "Kingshohn. tiso
Simms had been severely injured by a bull.] The dec,,e,,try
was unwell from the bile for some time,
but it was to he;;;;
led
e
buted to the quantity of spirits she usually took. 5"" ge'
, , ,
home on Monday morning to look after the cart with tee
tables, and was in her usual health. She returned aholl'A
o'clock of the same morning quite tipsy, and went,,tcsgirt
she arose again about four o'clock, and partook of a 1,9-
ihed
chocolate. I left about six o'clock, and I saw her as deserve',
bythe last witness between seven and sight; she was.oeci
noisy and abusive. After we left the kitchen she cont'clesd.
very quiet ; I afterwards found her in the chair quite. sofa.
When at borne, she usually slept on a chair or on the led
The deceased was a drunken woman, and usually carne to
bottle of spirits with her. About twelve I had oeens, Tied;
come down stairs, and she appeared to be in a sow'
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that " the dee'lfiire
died from the effects of intoxication." Gloucester.'

Chronice. •
THEI ATTRACTIVE MAN (the title of the last ilbe'lr
novel from the pen of Mrs. Trollope) appears likely te olat
come the most popular of all the author's Very P°P,itet
works; but in the present production of this clever isalif
there is evidently something that renders the work Orr ill
attractive with the title. Notwithstanding the disclairaetio
the preface, there can be little doubt that her portrait 1300
hero is taken from an original, and a vast deal of speca.dolf
has been occasioned in certain circles, where every Wl's
handsome enough or agreeable enough to lay claim t 0 an
honours, has been named as " The Attractive Man."
ti me
FALMOUTH HARBOUR.—We adverted a short
ago to the defenceless state of Falmouth Harb°4
port of first-rate importance to our mercantile and
ing interest. We subsequently stated that we zitioo
reason to believe that- oar remarks had excited attevent*
to the subject in an influential quarter. At all tbr
buoys are now being laid down in Carrick Roads, co ,
late war, to mark the deep channel for frigates 0d , sa
of-battle ships; and we have been informed, fre`",oo;
official source, that two ships of large burden,
babli ships of the line, equipped as block shilO•
shortly ride at anchor in Falmouth Harbour. On similf
thorny we may state that the fortifications at P3nu
r,e;cf
Castle are, as we recommended, to be put into a state -tbae
ficieacy, and mounted wiflt guns of much larger calibre
any hitherto placed there.—Penzance Gazette. [
IT'
T 0 DVERTISEMENT.]—ANASPASIA IN THE 5 t o
martol, CoNsumeviorc—The Dispensary for the Trest°eAnoss.
Consumption, Asthma, and ether Affections of the Chest (b 1 ""
pasial is removed from 113, Strand, to 14, Leicester-place,' oeir
Cronin, physician to the Institution, has removed from 6, yr
street, Strand, to 14, Leicester. place, Leicester-square.
{ADVERTISEMENT.]—BOTANIC WATER AND in, off
GREASE.--When the hair is becoming thin, and rant 00
the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the head. is Lbe
of the two above-named articles, applied alternately-t'e hieti
tanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf and as a stlefice,
and the bear's grease as a nourisher. If any further ev eta
was required of the virtues of bear's grease for rentratiegused,
preserving the hair, Mr. Catlin's account of the quautttioe'
and the length of hair obtained by some of the North,
soh
rican Indians, would be a sufficient answer. Ross aauhe oso
119, and 120, Bishopsgate-street, who first introduced t"
of bear's grease in this country, and who fat and kill the :itb
trials, recommend the public to purchase none other bete, sto
their names and address printed on the pot, or the challieclt°
their obtaining a spurious article. All vegetable oils aPP
the hair are worse thin useless.
Cl°
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—AN EXTRAORDIN -
OF A DISORDERED LIVER AND STOMACH BY HOLLOW i the
PILLS.—" To Professor Holloway.—Sir,—Seeing t"a-etaa;
Earl of Aldborough was cared of a liver and stomach,
oil I
plaint by means of your Pills, I was induced to try these', 'tar'
have the satisfaction to inform you that your Pills bav!toilar
tainly, in a very short time, done wonders for me in a °failed
complaint, when calomel and other medicine at' hot bat
to give ine any relief. I send you my name and' addres4,oo
would rather that yen did not make them public."---N•D:t ent
costanunicatima is from a counsellor or barrister, egre-to so)
nence, of the Inner Temple, whose letter would be shown pre„
respectable person. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment? at 111'
fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, and h,,,
venders of medicine. •

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BIRTHS the 11'A9
On the 7th inst., at Diptford Rectory, near Totnes, Devon, j,
of the Rev, W. C. Johnsen,•of a. daughter. • •
'r'll ,
On the 7th inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of Major-Gene c.
Tickell,Bengal Engineers, of a son; 14 Eel' On the Bth inst., at Bath, the lady of Henry J. Marsha
a daughter. id
On the 9th inst., at Bromley, Middlesex, Maria, the wife of P.'
viri,' ef, Jennings, Esq., of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Wirnpole-street, the lady of J. Fulling
E sq., of a son.
ir
On the 9th inst., at Essex-street, Mrs. Edmund Boy-le Cr cl 3,
C
of a son. V.ir• .
On the 9th inst., at Mordea Rectory, the wife of the ileT*
to,
Raffles Flint, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., the wife of John Charles Parrott, Fog., CPI
common, of a daughter.

RRIE
On the Bth inst., at Twickenham, Will D.
iamßlake, Esq., ofßrigUioir
to Mrs. Ann Downes, of Slim-park-villas, Twickenham. , freely:
On the Bth inst., at the British Embassy in Paris, Wilha''"o,C.'
rick Baring, Esq., to Emily, eldest daughter of Sir B. Jenkill

n DIED.
On the 11th inst., at No. 9, Upper Charles-street, aw%tOr
tie
TA
square, Flora, the youngest daughter of Mr. Alexander IN O—
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On the Bth inst., at Winchester, Eliza Anne, the wife 0,
nant-Colonel Hunt, 3d West India Regiment.
On the Bth inst., Moses Mendes Da Costa, aged 65.
On the 9th inst., at Grove Hall, Hammersmith, MarY', 061`--
On the 9th inst., at Edeubridge, Kent, Mary; wife of ThorDa
ander, Esq., aged 50. 09r
On the 9th inst., at Clay,hill, Epson=, Elizabeth Ward, onif
viving daughter of the late S. S. Ward, Esq.
On the 10th inst., John Irving, Esq., M.P.

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