Star.
London, England, 1816-12-11 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS, iECIMBER 10.
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, Corrox.--s The imports of Cotton' last month
(London, Liverpool, and Glasgow) were 31,553
bags ; the sales are estimated at above 90,009 bags ;
the decrease of the stock is, therefore, very ccnside.
rable ; the prices are in conseqnence improving ; the
purchases last week in this market are estimated to
exceed 1709 bags-1000 Pernami, chiefly of the
lowest quality, sold at 231; for the better descrip-
tions 23;d a 230 were repeatedly offered and rejec.
ted ; 100 good fair Maranharns were takers at 233 ;
70 middling &alias at 22d a 220 • I 1 1 Orleans fair
190 ; a small parcel good at 2144 ; 180 Berhice
and Demerary 2011 a 221 d ; 90 Grenada and Car-
riacou 20fd a 20-Icl ; 120 Surat, in the house at I2V.
a 150 ; a few Bourbons were sold at various pi ices,
forming no criterion of a market currency.
" LIVERPOOL, Dees faBER 7.—As the dealers have
for some time past been laying in pretty considerable
stocks, there has been lesa demand this week, though
we cannot notice any reduction in prices, except in
Spanish Cottons, which were offered by auction yes.
terday. These consisted of 470 Cartbagenas, 300 of
which were sold. at Ind to 17d for fair to good fair
quality ; 280 Laguiras at 153 d to 16.1, averaging
160 ; and 63 fair St. Anderas at Mid. The sales by
private contract have Wen as follows :-450 Bowed:
at 170 to 180 for inferior to fair, ISO to l9i for
good fair to good. and a few prime at 20ii to 2uid ;
420 Orleans at 18d to 19d for inferior to fair, and
20d to 22d for good fair to very good ; 90 Sea
Islands at 2s 2d for fair to 2s 5d for fine quality ;
.146 Peinambuco at 230 to 2a () d ; 200 Maran-
hams at 221 d ; 190 Bahias at 221 cl to '230; 100 De-
merara' at 20id to 230 ; 3.5 Carriacou: and Gre-
'ludas at 201 d to 21d ; 48 Bat badoes at 19d to 2014
60 Carthugenas at 160 to 171411, 310 Surats-at 15d
to kid ; making together with those sold by auc-
tion about 37(10 bags. The arrivals are 838 bags."
SUGAR.—There was little business effected in the
Sugar mark,..t last week ; the prices were without
any variation ; the inferior browns were particularly
heavy, and are now lower in proportion than good
and strong Muscovadts ; several pArceis lately taken
on speculation were sold privately, at rather rediced
prices : but generally, the holders, particularly of
descriptions suitable for refining, wer.? very firm, look-
ing with attention to the rapid reduction of the stock
here, and the trivial quantity reported in the ware-
houses of Liverpool and Glasgow.
The market this forenoon col,tinnes exceedingly
languid, scarcely a board of sugar sold, yet the hal.
ders evince little disposition to give way ; the stock
here is nearly three thousand casks less than at the
same season last year ; prices remain the same as
last week. For shipping the prices declined 2s a3s
per cwt. partial offers are made for spring shipments,
deliverable about the Ist of March. Melasies conti-
nues in steady request at 36s 6,1 a 375.
In Foreign Sugars there has been little or no busi•
nets doing ; last week 779 bags of East India de-
scriptions were brought forward, sold on East India
Company's terms : yellow 32. Gd a 40s 63 ;—soft
white 45s a 41's 6d ; good white, 52s a 60s 63 ; two
lots, fine white 70s a 74a 6d ; a few ordinary yellow
Havannahs have been sold to-day at 475.
COFFge.—For some weeks past Coffee has become
an article of considerable speculation ; the stock in
the West India warehouses is perfectly trivial, com-
pared with the quantity of preceding years ; the
prices are also still moderate; under these circum-
stances, speculators anticipating that our stock will
be inadequate to the demand when the spring ship-
ments commence, have purchased largely ; the pro-
portion of the stock in the warehouses thus held is
very considerable. The East India descriptions
being more plentiful have not met with a propor-
tionate demand ; the prices since the last sale by the
Company have little varied. Last week the public
sales of West India, Sec. were limited to 394 casks
and 226 bags ; the whole went off with muck brisk-
ness; good ordinary Jamaica pale 72s Gd, line ordi•
nary 794, 79s 6d, and 80s ; good middling 933, 914,
and 935, in considerable parcels; one lot fine mid-
dling 101 s; ordinary Dutch 68s a 72s ; fire ordi-
nary 81s a •81s 6d; middling 86s a 87s Gd ; three
lots fine ordinary, or ordinary middling Dominica
Coffee, realised 86s 6d ; 110 bags Bourbon 74. s a
78s ; two lots 85s a 925. Alter having stated the
speculation in Coffee, and the high prices in conse-
quence obtained, it ought to be particularly remar-
ked, that the export houses generally have shewn
little disposition to purchase, the quotations from the
Continental markets being low ; arrivals direct hail
taken place, and several purchases reported at out-
ports at very moderate prices.
The public sales of Coffee this forenoon consisted
of 226 bags and 115 casks chiefly Dutch descriptions;
small Triage 62s ; ordinary 67s 61 a 7'ls 6d ; mid-
dling with colour 91s a 926 ; a few lots ordinary
Dominica 78s 6d ; generally the prices of Coffee
may be rated 2s a 3s higher than our last : within
the last three weeks the advance is fully ten shillings
per cwt. on West India, and about 5s on East India
Coffee.
TZA.—The Tea sales at the India House will not
finish for some days ; prices are lower than last week.
Russ, BRANDY, AND HOLLAND:I.—The Runs mar-
ket is exceedingly heavy ; no sales have been made
at any depression. Brandy and Geneva are equally
heavy.
SALTY/TlM—The public sale of Saltpetre last
week consisted of 401 bags, prompt Ist March, de-
,osit 14th December ; the whole went off freely at
paSs a 431 6d.
Faun.—The season approaches when the demand
foe Fruit is expected to be very extensive ; the re-
quest has already considerably increased ; common
Spi!,nish fruit is much inquired after ; there are no
arrivals of Currants and new Turkey Fruit. •
TOZACCO.—The stock of Maryland Tobacco is re-
duced to 762 hhds. and of that quantity 240 bhds. of
the new changed bands last week for export; we
believe the purchases of Virginia are confined to the
immediate wants of the manufacturer for home con-
sumption $ the stock last month has considerably
decreased, it is now below 9000 bads; 403 bales
ordinary Brazil Rolls were reported for shipping
under 2d; there is only 350 bales of that description
remaining ; our market prices continue considerably
above the currency of. Holland, and the other
Icountries of Europe.
latsu PROVISIONS, ite.—The supply of India Beef'
being extremely abort, it has become an article of
considerable request ; slie• prime WS continues in

mid), .demand s there is little Tat Pork ie firstl
hands/ Mess in very limited request. Bacon is with.
'tit variation ; the butter market is still in a very
depressed state, sales are effected with much difficulty.
POTitritt—ln Ham--psfore, where they do not fal.'
low hr whe.tt, but take a full crop of potatoes, this
rror is abundant, and is shipping at Portsmouth for
Ole ports on the Yorkshire coast, at 555. to 60s. per
ton, or about 4d. for the stone of 14Ibs. The popula.
;ion and consumptions of • that town and neighbour.
hod are not near so large as they have been used to
be. In 1813 and 1814, the Hampthire millers began
to feel the disuse of .their stones, by the growing habit
of the labourer to sulasjst his wife and children on po.
tames, at 4d. per stone, sufficient for five or six for a
.day. •
WilltAT.--01 the harvest this season (more deficient
in quality than in quantity), it is estimated that there
is a proportion equal to two or three millions of sacks
of flour, quite unfit to make a wholesome, eatable
bread, which, even to hold together in baking, should
be baked in tin cases. Nearly all this can be made
good and wholesome food by being used in the tom '
of biscuit, such as our sailors and soldiers ler the last
twenty years have eaten, and with it fought so bravely.;
This quantity is nearly equal to the year's sustenance
of two millions of the people ! This economy and
use deserve some consideration. The sea and land
biscuit ovens of the army an 4 navy are now happily
idle, and those for the merchants' service, in all the
ports, have not one half the employ they are capable
of ; if this corn be not so used, the greatest part of it
must go ro the pigs, and hogs are not wanted—we
have more than we can use, and cannot pay the
feeders. Government has purchased its still large
supply of prime pork, about 25,000 cwt. in Ireland,
; under 31b. per lb. for the meat alive.

Saturday se'nnight, as a farmer, of the name of
Foley, who resides near Newtown. was returning
from Waterfard, he was assaulted by four armed
men, severely beaten, and robbed of about ill&
On the same night. the house of Mary Brien, pub-
lican, who lives close by the Chapel of Ballyduff, was
a:tricked by eight armed men. Her three sons, with
pitchforks and such weapons as they could find, re-
pelled the villains by a proper and resolute spirit of
resistance.
Sunday ss'nnight, Denis Heffernan, on his way to
a fair in the county of Clare, stopped at the house of
Jane Donohue, in Limerick, and when in bed, two
persons took. from under the bolster his small-clothes,
containing 85 guineas, with which they made off.
Last week Mr. Winson, a baker, late of Chamber-
street, Goodman's-fields, in attempting to go en board
a Dundee smack, fell into the river, and was drowned.
Saturday an Inquest was held at the London Hos-
pital, on the body of a Miss Mayson, seven years old,
who, as she was sitting by her mother's fire side,
while she went to market, a cinder flew from the fire
and set her pin-afore in a blaze, by which she was
so much burnt as to occasion her death in a few days.
Verdict—Accidental Death.
Another Inquest was held the same day, at the
Mother Red Cap. Camden Town, on the bodies of
EUz. and Jane Maya% twins, six months old, the
daughters of Mr. W. Mayan. The mother found
;bent dead by her side on Thursday morning. They
were very well the night before, and it is supposed
that she unfortunately overlaid them.. Verdict—Died
by the Visitation of GOD.
Yesterday an Inquisition was held at the sign of
the Load of Hay, Haverstock hal, St. Pancras, on
the body of DUNCAN WATTS, who was killed by a
waggon. Verdict—Accidental death.
A most distressing accident occurred last week
near Llanelly, Carmarthenshite : by the falling in of
the pit of a colliery in that vicinity, three or four
workmen were entombed ; every exertion was making
to relieve the unfortunate men from their dreadful
situation.
Between twelve and one o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, a poor fellow was found in a passage in High.
street, Bloomsbury, by the watchmen of that district.
He had taken shelter there for the night. Tfiey re-
quested Lim to walk on to his lodgings. He did not
..nswer, but walked towards Monmouth-sot et, and
they walked the contrary road. Between two and
twee o'clock they again found him lying upon a step
in the same street. They asked him, it he had no
lodgings? he tried to answer, but could only move
his lips, which gave no utterance. They raised him
upon his feet, to assist him to the watch-house—he
walked a few yards and from weakness fell upon his
knees. They got him upon their shoulders to carry
him to the watch-house, but before they arrived with
him he wasalead. The deceased is apparently about,
fifty years of age, the most complete picture of ex-
treme human misery, having no linen upon his back,
and his bones almost through his skin. By his dress,
be appears to be a workman out of employ. He has
not been owned.
The meteor lately seen at Glasgow was also very
visible at Perth. It made its appearance in the S.W.
in the form of a small star, and gradually increased
in magnitude till it reached the zenith, waien at sub-
tended an angle nearly equal to that of the f ull mown.
In shape it resembled a paper kite. Alta- passing
the zenith, it again seemed to diminish in sze, owing,
no doubt, to its gradually receding from the observer;
'till its altitude was equal to about SO deg. when it
exploded like a skyrocket. The report of the explo-
sion, which is described, as More tremendous than the
noise of the loudest thunder, reached the car about
three minutes after the meteor vanished, so that it
could not be less than 40 milendistant, and probably
about 27 miles above the surface of the earth. From
the various particulars collected concerning it, its dia-
meter must have been about 240 yards. The light
which it yielded was very considerable, being suffi-
cient to render.* smallest objects visible.
EDINBURGH, Dec. 15.—0 n the morning of the
30th ult. the Christian, of Montrose, with a cargo of
barley for Grangemouth, struck upon the north end
of the Carr Rock, lying about two miles a Fifeness.
The crew had just. time to cut the lashings from the
beat and get into it, when the vessel went down; but
' they got to Crail and landed there in safety- As the
mast appears at low Water, hopes are entertained that
she may still be weighed, and got into a place of
safety. The Commissioners of the Northern Light-
houses have had artificers at work during four suc-
cess* seasons, at the efection of a *tone beacon on
tbiar most danaerous sunken reef, and the 16th course,
which brings the building to high water of spring
Mat has been just secured for the winter.