The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-05 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
The arrivals of all kinds of Grain are very inconsidei
able, except Flour, which is pretty good. Fine Wheat
fully supports Monday's terms, other sorts as last noted.
Barley and Pease remain es List reported. There being
plenty of New Beaus at market, this article is dull sale at
last prices. The sales of Oats to-day have not been exten-
sive, yet this article is full as dear as on last market day.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley.
1,400 qrt. I 40 gra

English
Irish
Foreign

Oats. I Ilniw.
70 yrs .1 3,Mticks,

FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE.

This morning's market was tolerably well supplied with

the various kinds of fish in season. Salmon was the only
sort of which there was a limited stock ; of Brill and Soles
there was a great quantity, and their quality appeared time,
as did also Cod and Turbot. I.obsters this day were
extremely scarce.--The following were the prices :
Prime Turbot, each W. •Od to 2(13 Od.

Inferior,..—.., ~....
ditto 9 0 10 0
Finest Salmon, per lb. 1 2 1 6
Ditto Grilse 0 0 1 0
Fine Whitings, per 13 ' 5 C 10 0
Fine Soles, per three pairs 0 0 5 0
Live Flounders, per quartern
Brill, each
Fine Cod-fish, each 0 0 10 0
Inferior ditto
Live Eels, per Mb.
Fine Lobsters, per score 0 0 60 0
Best Common Oysters, per bushel
Natives 2O 0 29 0
No variation in the prices of other fish since our last.

PUBLIC SALES.-(THIS DAY.)
AUCTION MART.

BY MR. DANIEL SAHTH.—The following valuable
and highly improvable Estates, in the environs of

Windscir, in three Lots :
Lot 1. A modern Cottage Villa, with numerous
offices and out-buildings, stabling, gardens, and about
four acres of very rich orchard ground, within a
quarter of a mile of Windsor, near the Long Walk,
and upon one of the principal approaches to the
Great Park, commanding delightful views of the
Castle and Forest—knocked down at 1,3901.

Lot 2. Two Leasehold Houses with front Shops
and other appurtenances (now occupied as one
house) situate nearly in the centre of the town, in
Peascod-street, 680/.
Lot 3. A highly improvable Estate (equal in
value to freehold, being copyhold of inheritance),
comprising a compact farm of about 60 acres, with
a• newly erected house, barn, stabling, and other
farm buildings, in the centre of the land. It is
situate at Iver-heath, within two miles of the capital
market town of Uxbridge, and the great Oxford-
road, a sporting part of the country, with several
packs of hounds, and an abundance of game: also
about eight acres detached, 1,270/.
A handsome Freehold residence near Vauxhall,
containing nine or ten bed-rooms, two drawing-
rooms, dining-room and library, hall, and good
domestic offices, with court-yard, four-stall stable,
and various out-buildings, also a very capital large
walled garden, terminating in a raised terrace, with a
handsome summer-house, &c., upon the beak of the
river, over which it commands a cheerful and exten-
sive view.=-Part of the garden is leasehold, but a
very large sum has been expended upon the pre-
mises within these few years in the most substantial
improvements, 2,060/.
The Chertsey Bridge Wharf Estate.-----This
valuable and highly improving property, comprising
an extensive wharf, with various buildings, adjoining
Chertsey-bridge, contiguous to the town, upon the
high road to London ; together with a substantial
and commodious residence, with garden, yard, &c.,
and about three acres of land adjoining, 1,0501.
By Messrs. STEVENS and BRENCELEY.—One un-
divided third part of a leasehold estate, comprising
a substantial brick-built dwelling-house, with double-
fronted shop, and warehouse of three floors in the
rear, situate No. 48, in Skinner-street, Snow-hill, in
the city of London-5901.
By Mr. SHUTTLEWORTII.—One hundred and
sixty-eight shares, of 50/. each, in the Hibernian
MiningCopipany, declared forfeited under the Acts
of Parliament for regulating the said Company, and
to be cold in pursuance of the provisions thereof, at
per share—from 11/. to 121. ss.
A Freehold Estate, comprising nine brick-built

dwelling-houses' being Nos. I to 9, Cornelia-terrace,
near Barnsbury Park, Islington ; and also a lease-
hold estate, situate at Camden Town, of the value
of 1201. per annum, in ten lots—
Lot 1. Containing six rooms, and a long plot of
ground behind, estimated value 35/. per ann.-260/.
Eight other lots exactly similar to the first--
Lot 10. A leasehold estate, pleasantly situated on
the banks of the Canal Regent's Park, comprising
four houses, held on lease for a term, of which 72
years are unexpired, at a reserved rent of .5/. per
annum—net rental 99/. per annum--8001.

Among the productions with which the earth
has been teeming this season, we must notice
mushrooms, for which the neighbourhood of
Aylesbury is famous. In a meadow of ten acres,
near Waddeson, 20 bushels, it is said, were lately
gathered in one morning.--Bucks Chronicle.
A horse, belonging to Mr. Hall, horse-dealer,
of Heavitree, late in July, ascended to the hay-
loft, up a flight of thirteen stairs, three feet wide,
and where he was discovered, taking it coolly,
with his head protruding from the tallet window.
_ _

—Annals of :Sporting:
ORIGIN OF THEATRICAL BENEFITS.—
Mrs. Barry is recorded as the first performer,
male or female, who ever had, what is now un-
derstood by the term, a benefit. This privilege
was procured for her through the influence of
James 11., and she alone possessed it until just
before the commencement Of the eighteenth cen-
tury. The poverty of the divided theatrical
companies then induced the managers to employ
this expedient for paying their actors and actresses
more directly out of the pockets of the public ;
and it not unfrequently happened (at least the
performers made the accusation) that the paten-
tees appropriated to themselves all the proceeds,
under the pretext of house-expences, and left the
performers to their remedy.
SAGACITY OF ELEPHANTS.—EIephants in
peace and war know their duty, and are more
obedient to the word of command than many
rational beings.—lt is said they can travel, on
an emergency, two hundred miles in forty-eight
hours ; but will hold out for a month at the rate
of forty or fifty miles a day, with cheerfulness
and alacrity.—,, I performed," said Forbes, in
his Oriental ' Memoirs,
b`
y‘ mßaangyobal gtojColonel
ourneys
upon an elephant, given
eating ; nothing could exceed the sagacity,
docility, and affection of this noble
long
X
gnadruped ;
if I stopped, to enjoy a prospect, he remained im-
moveable until my sketch was finished ; if I
wished for, ripe mangos growing out of the com-
mon reach, he selected the most fruitful branch,
and breaking it off with his trunk, offbred it to
the driver for the company in the houdah, ac-
-1 cepting of any part given to himself with a re-
spectful salam, by raising his trunk three times
above his head, in the manner of the Oriental
obeisance, and as often did he express his thanks
by a murmuring nOise. When a bough ob-
structed the houdah, he twisted his trunk around
it, and though of considerable Magnitude, broke
it GS with ease, and often gathered a leafy branch,
either to keep off
the flies, or as a fan to agitate
around him, by waving it with his trunli; he
generally paid a visit to the tent door during
breakfast,
I to pro ere sugar-candy or fruit, and
to b e cheered b the i uoiniums and caresses
y ei , . . . he
.
deservedly
met with. No spaniel could be more
innoceftl playful, 'or
I y fonder of those who no-
ticed him, than .
this docile animal, who on par-
ticular 0 •
ccasions appe,ared conscious of WI ex-
altation
above
the brute creation.

BARBAROUS MURDER AT PRESTON.

(FROM OUR OIVII REPORTER.)

The dreadful sensation that was produced in this town
by the inhuman murder of Scott and his wife, by their
own daughter, had no sooner subsided, than the inhabi-
tants were again thrown into the greatest consternation by
the_ perpetration of another diabolical murder, on Saturday
night or early on Sunday morning last, not half a dozen
doors from the house where the ill-fated pair resided.
A poor old man, named Edward Gregson, who kept a
small chandler's-shop,in Bridge-street, some few weeks back
took compassion upon a youth whom chance threw in his
way, who was in the most abject distress, and the old ►nan
permitted bins to come backwards and forwards to the
house, and his table was always at his service—and it is
believed he is the fiend beneath whose hand his benefactor
has fallen a victim. Late on Saturday night last, the old
man's brother, his son, two other friends, and the suspected
person, were at his house, and drank two quarts of ale,
and about 11 o'clock they went "away, the stranger going
out first, not stopping for the rest. The old man said he
should go to bed directly, and desired his son to call for
him next morning, to go to the Roman Catholic Chapel.
The son then went home, and heard his father fasten his
door. Next morning (Sunday) about 11 o'clock, he
called, and found the door open : be called his father
several times, and not receiving any answer, he went up
stairs, when to his horror, he beheld the mangled body of
his aged parent stretched across the bed, dead and cold.
The affrighted youth ran into the street, calling "murder,
murder !" as ?food as he was able; and it being church time,
vast crowds of persons flocked to the dreadful spot. The
constables of the town soon came, and Thomas Miller, Esq.,
the Mayor, was instantly made acquainted with the san-
guinary deed. The Mayor directed that instant inquiry
should be made about the town, as to what strangers were
about, and whether any persons were seen about the house
during the night, or early on Sunday morning ; but we re-
gret to say, all efforts to trace the assassin have as yet
proved fruitless.
The murdered man, when discovered by his son, was
deluged in blood : be was partly dressed in his Sunday
clothes, so it would appear the horrid act was committed
•not many hours, when young Gregson went to the . house.
There were two dreadful wounds in the throat, and the
poor old man's hands were nearly cut to pieces, as if done
by his grasping the instrument with which the murder
was effected.

It was always thought Gregeon had a horde of money,
and it is, therefore, believed that that was the object the
villain had in view, in taking the old man's life, as all the
drawers and other places, have been ransacked. Search
has been made every where for the youth who was fostered
by the deceased while living, and nothing whatever can be
heard of him.