The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

HIDE MARKET.

Raw Hides, at per stone of 161bs.—Best steers and
heifers, 5s 8d to 5s 10d ; Middling Hides, Ss 2d to
6s 6d ; Inferior ditto, 4s 8d to ss.

Sheep and Calf Skins, per Skin.—Market Calf, 6s
to 8s 6d; Long Wooled Sheep, 3s to 4s 3d; Short
ditto, 2s 3d to 3s 3d.
PRICES OF BREAD.

The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis
are from 7id to 8d ; of Household ditto, 6d to 7d rer
41b lonf.

WAKEFIELD CORN aiAlthEr
There was a fair arrival of Wheat, but a
-
sold last week ; for New there was P good deal of it was
I.tradv sale, at an advance
of Is. to 2, per quarter, and f..',,d at Is. per quarter. Barley
wag scarce and fetched tail prices. Oats and Shelling improved
in value. Beans U before. No variation in other articles.
T.Per qr. or 601 b. to the bushel.
Wneat. Red, Lam( and Kent ...... New 4.8.. 14/ 50 . 4 xtra srls.,
Norfolk .ad sOfolk. New 445. 5 Is. ... 'as.
Boston and Wisbeach New 441. 48a, ... 4.95. I
Yorkshire. N w 425. 164. ... 48s.
P..gl.sh, White New 48.. 544. ... 55
Old K d 425. 475. white 50s.
Foreign Itcd 4 ... 48, ... 535.
Per guar gr imperial.
Barley, Norfolk anal 5uf1ia......0 New :Gs. Lo :8,. I xtra 314.
Yorkohtle a d Lingo.nghite 25,. '27,. ... 291.
Sc tch
(in, di g _ .. 24.4_____ 26§. _ ... —s.

_ _ ... ...
Per qc. i f 631 b. ,t, th bue.el
Beane, New Mb. at . m —1
Oki "I'. 355. ... 36..
Oats, Potato• a d Pula d..... YU. ^:
see ..3.
b. ealiat •.. IOC. to lOygd., N w 101, t . Ild. pet Stn.. .
813,11irg • lt. to '24, per IA ad.
Malt
....................37., tine 89,. tier 1., d.
It tpened ”.... -/.os 30'.05. 31t. us. per Last

ERRATUM.—In the Foreign :summary, yesterday,
by an error of the press, Pekin was substituted for
Perm, a city in Russia, which had been destroyed
by fjre.
WEST LONDON RAILWAY.—Several parties have
applied to us for our views and advice with regard to
the new shares in the above railway. We never give
advice, but we will lay before them the facts as
simply and clearly as we can. About 140,0001. have
been spent on this line, and it is now estimated that
32,0001. will finish it. The proposal is, that 10 per
cent. shall be divided upon this sum before anything
is given to the old shareholders. The question then
is, what traffic will pay 10 per cent. ? If we allow
50 per cent. for working expenses, the amount on
long:line is about or under 40; then 6,4001. per year
receipts will just do it. But 6,4001. per annum for a
line of three miles, is 411. per mile per week. Now,
if the two short metropolitan lines, with which alone
this can be compared, receive the one, the Greenwich,
2331. per mile per week, and the other, the Blackwell,
1581., it will be hard indeed if this line, with the
London and Birmingham and Great Western at one
end, and the Thames at the other, cannot earn 411.
per mile per week.—Railway Magazine.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—As some workmen were
engaged in removing. the materials of the late Miss
Allambridge's house, in Cheap-street, in this town,
they exhumed five sculls and a
considerable quantity
of human bones, all at some little distance from the
surface. On removing a yew-tree that stood in the
garden one of the sculls was discovered under its
roots, the lower jaw and teeth in good preservation.
The others were found in different places in the yard,
and even under ; the flooring of the house. They
were but slightly decomposed ; indeed, the lines of the
brain, in the cavity of the skuls, were clearly trace-
able. The matter excited but little interest, as, from
its contiguity to the abbey, it is conjectured the spot
was formerly a part of those premises ; no vestige of
coffins, however, was discovered. The former inha-
bitants of the house, doubtless, little thought they
were in such close vicinity with the dead.—Sherborne
Journal. •

CALEDONIAN CANAL.—Mr. Walker, the celebrated
engineer, has just finished his survey of the canal, by
order of Treasury, preparatory to the arrange-
ments for repairing and completing this great national
work. There is no longer any doubt that the works
will be commenced in the early part of next season,
from which considerable benefit may be anticipated to
the unemployed part of our population. Mr. Walker,
immediately on reaching this end of the line, re-
turned to fulfil his numerous professional engagements
in the south.—lnverness Courier.
THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED.—The following
splendid specimen of orthography was, last week,
posted up on the gate leading to Mr. Atkinson's, the
Shi ewsbury Arms Inn, Oxton :—" Oxton 10 Octo-
ber 1842 Notise is here By given i Thomas Williams
Cunstabel off the Township off Oxton his intending
to give up that hoflise and that the inabetins of the
said Township Do Apint Another gentleman in my
please hes I have sarved 11 year in that hoflise.
Thomas Williams."--Liverpool Paper.
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se
PHENOMENON.—The
11e :
phenomenon is related by the Courritr de la
1.0
—On the 15th ult., during the prevalence of an
epi-
demic complaint at Villecey-sur-Mad, a commune
near Metz, a medical man was called in toattend a
woman forty-four years of age, suffering from the
prevailing malady. On entering the room where she
lay, which was on the ground floor, raised about half
a yard from the earth, which was damp, he observed
on the outside of the bedclothes a pale blue flame,
which went out on opening
the window but left a
pungent smell behind. The doctor, in re
fact, attributed it to the electrical state of the
sronambeer that
ago
atmos-
phere acting upon the person of the woman. Our
wasread relatedwillersm
remember
an almost similar account
Gaignani,in the English
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