The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

WOOL DIELRICET.

Although there is certainly more firmness in the
demand for the best qualities of both English and
Foreign Wools, we can notice no positive improve-
ment in prices, yet many of the holders have refused
present rates. The imports have been 227 bales from
St. Petersburgh ; 73 ditto from Hamburgh ; 501 ditto
from Odessa ; and 47 ditto from Taganrog.

TALLOW,
This market has been dull all the past week, and
in some instances rather lower prices have been taken.
The weekly deliveries still continue to show a consi-
derable falling off as compared with last year; this is
partly accounted for by the mildness of the weather
causing the chandlers to use less, and by tallow offer-
ing for next season at lower rates.

COUNTRY MARK ETS.

W heat.

Baxley. I Oat.. I Beans.

Per QUittrer.l a, to s.
Bath 53 64
Blandford 46 52
',irk:pert 67
Chard 48 56
Exeer

B. to s. s. t., B. 8. to s.
25 23 :2 28 40 41
10 27 t.O 23 39 42

14 20 i 36 44
27 34 21 2si 40

Ppe

to S.
40 44

32 36

40 44
t 2 38
3ti 38
31 33

atcucester 52 5,1 :.2 ilB 24 38
Guildford
Newbury 44 62 *; 6 29 I 33 06 35
Reading, 42 65 26 52 18 YO 27 35
Salisbury 46 627 18 ;)(1
Shcrborile 150 56 21 32 2') 24 40 44
ShcptonMalletj 58 70 28 32 20 ".6 28 44
Uxbridge I 37 43 2 t 28
Warminster.,,, 44 56 •<4 no 20 25 I 1:6 42
Worcester 54 60 I'2 35 25 28 42
icovil. 151 60 24 28 2: 24 132 44
CAN'rERBURY MARKET.
Wheat, 561.: to 565. —s. ts —s
481, to 50e. 475. to —1
Ilarlay, Malting...—. 275. to 72s Grinding.. —l. to —3.
Oats lib. to 245.....,. 0 1 tw.v.•••••••• t 0 ...S.
Beans to 325. ~WV OId•WANNINP -s. to s.
Pease

d. t. d
Beef 6 7
Mutton
Vval

34 36
:S 40

3B 38

CHELTENHAM IIiARKETS.
Per Bushel. s. d. to s. Per lb.
heat C 9 7 9
datley 3 0 3 9
Oats 3O 39
':ears
I. cue 5 0 6 0'
Hay 41.55.
CHELMSFOII
Wheat, White 47 to 57

Pork
Lamb 7 0
te 41. 10s. (Al. per Itm.

1) MARKET.
Oats
Pease, Gray 27 21/
White
Beans, Tick 27 F 3
Mazagan it) 30
•

Red
Palley
Cheralicr 3l) al
Grinding 22 26

BRUSSELS, Dec. 18.—Yesterday morning at eight
o'clock salutes of artillery and the ringing of the
bells of the churches announced the celebration of his
Majesty's birth-day. The public buildings and the
vessels in the canal were ornamented with the national
colcurs. At noon Te Deem was performed in the
church of St. Gudule, at which the Ministers, the
Foreign Ambassadors, the civil and military autho-
rities, the two Chambers, and many persons of dis-
tinction were present. After the religious ceremony
there was a review of the troops of the garrison.
The Impartial, of Valenciennes, confirms the details
of the fatal accident on the railway. The inquiry
which is instituted will probably ascertain the cause
of this disaster; it appears that it was act at all the
effect of design, but that it was occasioned by a want
of care on the French line.
SUICIDE BY A MAN EIGHTY YEARS OF AGE.-011
Saturday morning a most determined act of suicide
was committed by an old man, eighty years of age,
named Robert Campbell, residing at o. 9, Church-
road, Stepney. It appears that he had been in an in-
firm state of health for some time put, and on the
morning in question his wife had occasion to go to the
Post-office, leavinu her husband in bed. She returned
in less than five minutes, when she was horror-struck
at finding him lying on the outside of the bed covered
with blood, issuing from a deep wound in his throat,
which he had inflicted with a razor. Medical assistance
was sent for, but he expired shortly afterwards. He
had at one period of his life been in very comfortable
circumstances, but latterly had been much reduced.
This, it is supposed, had preyed upon his mind, and
induced him to commit the rash act.

The Emancipation has a private letter from Amster-
dam, dated the 15th, which says that, according to
accounts from Batavia of 6th September, there had
been, on the 26th of August, a second fire at Soura-
baya, which destroyed 300 homes of the natives and
the Chinese.