Star.
London, England, 1826-08-26 00:00:00

MARKETS AND FAIRS.

I.tvrarriot, Auo. 24:=,-The demand for Cotton continues good,
at steady prices, and the sales to-day amount to about 1,500 bags.
There continues a good- demand for Plantation Sugars, and we
consider the advance this week to be from 2s. to £s. tid. per cwt.
low Brown Jamaica brought at auction to-day 535. 61 In Mo-
lasses, also, considerable business has licen done, at an improvement
of Is. a ls. 6d. per cwt. _

Coffer• are steady, with a good demand. Pimento starer and
wanted.

About 4,000 barrels of Turpentine have been sol.:—.)rices are
fully 6 per cent. higher; good quality has brought 9s 6.1.. a 94. 9.1.
per cwt. Tar scarce and wanted. Ashes are much inquired fur,
Rut owing to the holders requiring advanced prices but few sal,,
have been made; 225. are freely offered for new Pot, and 14s. for
Pearl ; the demand for States Ashes continues for export, but no
sellers at former prices.
Dyewoods are steady, and more inquired for generally. Indigo
of good quality Wanted ; inferior obtains full prices. Cochineal sells
steadily at I ss. per lb. duty paid. To-day 600 bags Sicily Shumac
have been sold at being an advance of ls. to 1 s. Ed. on last week's
rates. There is a better demand for Olive Oil, but no advance in
prices ; speculators seem disposed to touch this article if at a trifling
reduction from the prices asked. Hides are looking up in conse-
quence of the principal holders withdrawing their stock from the
market. Considerable sales have been made In Palm Oil, as an
improvement of 10.. to 1/. per ton from last week; price now 221.10 x.
GLascow, Aua. 23.—The sales of sugar on Monday and yester-
day, though not extensive, have been tolerably fair. The supply at
market being very small, some of the holders have laid their sugars
aside for the present, looking for higher prices: the possibility of
distillation from this article Is much discussed, and seems to operate
sttongly upon at least one holder.
At Banbury Market, Thursday, Wheat sold from 6s. Od. to
7s. 341.—ileans, 6s. Od. to 7.. Ed.—Barley, 36.. Od. to 465. 04.
Oats, 34.. Od. to Ells. Od. per quarter.—Bread, is. 4d. the half peck,
and smaller in proportion.—Flour, 391. to 495. per sack.
At Uxbridge Market, Thursday, Wheat sold from 161. Os. to IW.
10c —New Wheat, 141. to 161. per load.--Bariey, 325. to 36L
Oats .'los. to 36L—liye, 40$. to 465. per Tarter.
At Ipswich Lamb Fair, Shearing. were a dull sale, and varied
from 255. to 335. per bead; the depression of the wools, and the
demaud for them being slow, many persons holding this stock, could
not become purchasers for lambs, which caused many of the flock_
masters to send back their ewes. The Beast Fair was supplied
with short-horned oxen, which were taken off readily, considering
the unfavourable prospect of the turnip crop. Several stands of
Galloway ,tots and heifers were sold at from 71. to 101. 10t.
At Romney Fair on Monday, from the long drought, the thew
of stock, consisting of between six and seven thousand, was but in-
different : the price of lambs was from 15s. to 20s. the greater part
of which were sold.

At Bridford Fair, near Salisbury, on Saturday, the 12th lust.
the number of sheep and lambs penned amounted to 34,000, being
4,000 less than last year. The sales of every description were ea.
tremely dull.

There was an arrival this morning from the Cape,
but it does not bring any news.
BUCKINGHAM.-Saturday, according to previous in-
vitation, the Marquis of CmAimee arrived at Buckingham, to dine
with the Gentry, Clergy, and freeholders of the neighbourhood.
Upwards of 150 persons of the highest respectability had assembled
by the time his Lordship arrived. After dinner, Mil Noisis Dossing
was admirably sung by three amateurs, and the day was spent with
the greatest harmony and conviviality.
The creditors of KNIGHT and Laczy'a estate book-
sellers, met yesterday, in Basinghall-street. It was
stated that debts to the amount of 15,0001. would shortly
be at the disposal of the Assignees.
Last week a fire broke out in a public-house at Wor-
minshall, Bucks, which was entirely destroyed. Mr. Miller, of
London, was most dreadfully burned about the head, neck, hands,
and other parts of his body, by the falling of the thatch on him,
while humanely attempting to save part of the property.
Yesterday, during the absence of tie mother, a Mrs.
Holmes, residing in the first floor of No. 32, Crown-street, Seven
Dials, a boy, about 14 years of age, on being left in charge of his
sister, 14 months old, she suddenly sprung out of his arms, fell out of
the window upon the pavement, and shortly after expired.
It appears that the atrangements for the establish-
ment of a branch of the Bank of England at Manchester are so fag
matured, that a building is taken in King-street, in that town, for
the purpose.
A man in the City of New York lately had a written
notice stuck on his house, offering his wife for sale without the in.
cumbrance of children. The woman sought redress at the Police
Office, but the offence, it appears, was not an itAktable one.
Tuesday, kliraGeth Hailstone was removed from
Bury Gaul, to be put on board the ship Sir Charles Forbes, lying in
the river 'fhames ; and Robert Ride (kit for execution at the last
Assizes) Thomas Smith and Joins Clarke, on beard the York, lying at
lacisport, all of whom are to be transported for life.
HORSE WARRANTY.-The received opinion hitherto
had been, that a horse sold under warranty, if unsound, may be re-
turned end the keep paid for; but Mr. Justice larraitimmt, in a
cause ai Brian), laid it down, that a person is not bound to tate
hack the' horse, but the buyer is to try to sell it within a reasonable •
time, and then be in entitled to recover the difference of the price'
and the cost of keep for that time: if you cannot sell it you must
kill it. Yur are not to put a defendant to two or three hundred
pounds expense for the keep of the horse, if he wont take it back.
In this cause 111 r, LIMN, a respectable Veterinary Surgeon, one of
the witnesses, gave it as his opinion, that blacadamised roads had
rendered horses more unsound in their feet than they used to be.
We observe an the ftioniteur a list of Pateots taken
out for new inventions or improvements upon existing
machinery in France, from the commencement of the
Revolution down to the present time. This list is re-
markable as showing the comparative inactivity of in-
ventive genius and industrious enterprise during the
reign of terror or the oppressions of despotism, !Ind their
sudden revival on the return of internal peace and social
security. The following is the enumeration to which
we have alludtd:
1 • In 1791 there were taken out 34; in 1792, 29; in 1793,- 4; in
the year 2,3; in the year 3,5; in the year 4, 8 ; in the year 5, 4 ;
in the year 6, 10; in the year 7, 22; in the year 8, 16; in the year
9, 54; in the year 10, 29 ; in the yekr 11, 45; in the year 12,44 ;
in the year 13, 63 ; in the year 14,47 ; in 1806, 74; in 1807, 66:
in 1808, 63; in 1809, 52 ; in 18140, 93; in 1811, 64; in 1812, 96;
in 1813, 98; in 1814, 53; in 1815, 77; in 1816, 115; in 1817,
162 ; in 118, 153 ; in 1819, 138 ; in 1820, 151 ; in 1821, 170; in
1822, 175 ; in 182.3, 187 ; in 1894, 217 ; bud in the arse six months
of 1825, 161.
An article published in the Prince of Wales' Island
Paper, mentions au arrival in the port, which was certainly a novel: y.
and excited much attention. lii. Cochin Majesty's frigate, T.ry
Lang, mounting thirty-two guns, commanded by Wora ha, VA .;..
roma, and his Majesty's brig Bucluang, Homer Koscsron, coat-
Blunder, from a cruise, last from Singapore, arrived on a visit to the
taiand. These vessels were lately built under the superintendence
of a Frenchman. The ship is a neat owlet of a vessel, measuring
about 360 tons. The hull, masts, Ste. are painted in a very fantastic
limners
Many years ago, when the North Hants Militia were
'Starching from Winchester to Waltham, under a burning sun, one
the privates contrived to procure, at a little chandler's shop, by
le
road side, a draught of wretched meagre beer. Within ten
Mutes after the man was a corpse. Over his grave is the following
Citaph, written by the Chaplain, at the express desire of the then
olonel, Mr. Hans SLorisrx :
1 Ilere rests at peace a Hampshire grenadier, •
i Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer.
Soldiers! beware ulhas uininiely fall,
And when you't.: hut, think strung, or none at all.

FAT.IL• DUEL IN SCOTLAND.

?ROM ?R CALEDONIAN MERCURY, 01 AM 24.

wtiegret to barn that a duel, which took place
yerterday morning at Hirkuldy, proved fatal to one of
the parties, Mr. a Gentleman at the heed of
a Public Office there, who was shot through the heart.
The other party, Mr. L-, a respectable merchant
in the burgh, has, we understand, in the mean time,
absconded. The cause of difference is said to have
originated in a money transaction.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

FROM TRR RDINBUROU COURANT, AUG. 24.

We are sorry to le trn that a meeting took place yes-
terday Morning on the north of Kirkaldy. between
George Morgan, Esq. and D.avid-Landale, Esq. both
of Kit Lildy ; when, at the first exchange of shots, Mr.
Morgan received his adversary's ball in the chest, and
unfortunately died on the spat. As the cause of this
meeting most undergo judicial investigation, we re-
frain from giving the particulars connected with it.