The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-18 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. 18.

We have bad no arrivals of any description since Monday,
yet the Wheat Trade was heavy, but not cheaper. Fine 1
English Barley being scarcely in demand, what few samples
were left over from Monday's arrival were readily disposed of I,i
at an advance of from Is. to 2s. per quarter. Oats were also
brisk in sale, and fine samples obtained Is. more than on
Monday. In Beans and Pease there is no alteration.

PRISONERS IN TUE MARSIIAi.SEA, reff
rence to a Police Report from Union Hall, re-
specting the allowance to King's Bench Prisoners
for debt, under the Stat, of 53 Geo. 111. which
appeared in the Papers of yesterday, we have re-
ceived the following explanation :—ln consequence
of the great increase in the number of prisoners
confined in the King's. Bench and Marshalsea,it
was found that the sums allowed by the Act 'were
inadequate to the payment of sixpence per diem to
each of the prisoners, and information ió that
effect was comMunicated to the Magistrates of
the County of &trey. On the I 4th July last,
the subject was taken into consideration at the
Quarter Sesiont, at Guildford, and pursuant to
the power vested in the MagistrateS, an (Wo-
of COurt was then made, whereby the allowance
was reduced from sixpence to fourpence per diem,
and such Order will remain in.foece Until altered
or rescinded by the same authority.

ELOPPMENT--Late on Ptiday night last, aO,
young lady, daughter of a respectable inhabitant,
eloped from Tewkesbury, in a post-eltal3e, with a
young widower (one of her father's servants,who
buried his wife only a tew Weeks since), on a ma-
trimonial excursion ; but the news having reached
the father's ears after he had retired to rest, he
arose and pursued them with such alacrity in a
chaise an'! four, that he overtook them at Wor-
cester, and brought the fugitive back to her ta., ,
mile the next morning. • -.4

DISTRESSING CASE.—A poor-discharged soldier,
named Gaily, very recently arrived in town from
America, not being able to procure employment,
had been compelled to send his daughter out, to
sell a• little fruit. On Saturday morning last she
left home in Oxford buildings, as usual, and has
not since been heard of by her distracted father
and mother. She is about 12 years old, rather
tall of her ages and a native of New Brunswick.
What increases the calamity of the poor people
is their inability to avail themselves of the usual
means of endeavouring to discover their lost child.
AN EARTHQUAKE.—A smart shock of an earth-
quake was felt in this place, and to a consid, rable
distance round the town, at about 20 minutes past
twelve, on Tuesday night. \We have not yet
learned how. far it may have extended ; but we
understand that it was felt with peculiar vio-
lence along the banks of Loch Ness. The noise
seems to have been greater or less according to
local circumstances ; in some places it was very
loud, in others. more gentle, but every where a
tremulous motion was, for a few seconds, com-
municated to moveables. The night was uncom-
monly serene, with clear moonlight ; and while
not a breath of wind was stirring on the surface
of the ground, in the higher regions of the at-
mosphere, the clouds were driving rapidly from
smith to north. Lighter shocks are said to have
been felt at ninein the evening of Tuesday, andi
at four in the morning of Weduesday. We have
heard of no accident or damage from this visita-
tion.---(lnverness Courier.)

On Saturday, a most melancholy circumstance
occurred at Dover, to a young man by the name
hof John Stewart. About eight o'clock he left his
work, as tallow-chandler,. And was observed by
rkvO children running along the beach towards :1
Haydn'', and when nearly opposite he ran in the
sea and was drowned. The children came to the
boatmen and gave the -alarm, who immediately.
hastened to the spot, and took the body out of
the miter, but, alas ! the vital spark had fled.—
He was-a sober, steady lad, much respected by i:1;
his master, Mr. T. Reynolds, in whose service
he had been several years. The young women?
who was to have been his wife, was informed of
the circumstance in the market, whilst purchasing
at tides for the wedding dinner, which was to
nave taken place on the following- day.—A Coro-
ners Inquest was held on the body, who gave a
verdict of---Mental- Derangemcht.