The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-03 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS, Nor. 2.

COTTON...4' he prices or Cotton cannet be stated
lower,, yet the market- is apparently heavy: it. ought,
howeyer, to be.mentioned, that come considerable sales
have taken place privately in Surat:, and shout MI
Bourbons have also been taken to the market ; the prices
have not yet transpired. The accounts from Liverpool
this morning are very. unfavourable for Cottons; that
market was heavy and.lower.-
SITGAR.—The demand for Moscovades this week
has been steady and considerable; the holders of good
Sugars are asking rather higher prices, and are not
eager to effect sales; the brown descriptions_are still
heavy. In the Refinetl market there is little ejteration
to notice ; the quantity shipped lately has. been incon-
siderable, notwithstanding the present .export season,
previous to the close of the northern navigation. The
demand for home consumption continue; regular aid
ex tenet ve.

•
COFFIR.—The good and fine ordinary Jamaica
Gas p& a am*
1-10611 the' p ve n has een steadily maintained ; the
request appears to he chiefly for home consumption.
RL'3l, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS,The Rent
sale of Tuesday last attracted much attention ;
quantity brought forward was so large—Kls puncheons,
and the whole peremptorily sold ; the prices of stronk
Ruin declined 3d. a dd. per gallon ; the inferior strengths
nearly supported the previous prices.
On Wednesday atiother public sale, consisting of 1116
puncheons Jamaicas was attempted; only one or two
lOts,abont 20 puncheons, sold; tits remainder was tidiest
in at the previous marl:et prices. The market by pri-
vate contract may be stated liras at the prices of thit
public sale, bat very few purchases are reported.—
Brandies are again iti demand, and an advance of 2d. per
gallon has been realised, a sale of favourite marks being
reported at 4s. 6d. Geneva is rather lower.
FRUIT.—The whole of the Currants in the importers
bands in this market were sold on Friday last at HOs.
and declared by the trade to be re-sold at 1153. per cwt.:
a cargo of new is arrived at Bristol. Some partial
sales of new Muscatells have been made this week by
private contract from 100 a I:2s. and the parcel of new
Lexias at 41s. The demand for new Fruit is rather
proving; a cargo of new Denias is also arrived at Out..
port, bound for this market.
'l'l/RAC CO.—There is great briskness in the demand
for Tobacco, the principal purchases are on specntatioa ;
it is estimated that about 2000 him's. have chanted ha ads
within ten days; the priers are about 4(1 per lb. higher.
TA LLOW.—Foreign Taliows continue heavy, a... 1
are rather lower. The Town market is to day fittated
463. 6.1. which is 2s. lower than last week.
SALTPETRE.--By public sale thii foreman, a largs
parcel saltpetre of last sale, which realised 2 le:. i
253. sold to day at 225. (A. and 235. 13 per cent. re*.i..:•
lion 225. 6 I.
CoURSE OF EXCII
Amsterdam, 12 14 C. Y.
Ditto, at sight, 12 11
Rotterdam, 12 15
Antw.cip, 12 7
gAiltiout. 27 II •
Paris, 3 days sight, 4500
Ditto, 2 90

NG E YESTERD IY.
Itithaa, 342 linr(...l(,na, 3:4
3.14 Gibraltar. 3.11
Leghorn. 17 Genoa, 4.3 i
N14:111, 33 Venice, 27 (kt

r, 30 We Janeiro 47
lenno, 118—Bahia, SI
Dublin, per cent.
Cork, 9 per cent. [per or.
For. gold in bars. 31. 111. 191 d
New Doubloons, —I. —s. d.
New Dollars, 4s. 93d.
Silver in bars, Standard,
4s. I Id.

Boraeaux, 25 90
Frankfort on the 31n1ne, 156
Petersburgh, Of S U.
Vienna 10 20 Et Flo.

Trieste, 10 20 Er. Fko.
Madrid, 36 Cadiz, 36

Cranahall, in Buckinghamshire, the !eat of R. R
Marsack, Esq. was manly destroyed by fire, at urn
o'clock on Thursday morning the flames were so api.l
in the dead of the night, that the inmates had a diffi-
culty in escaping. The fire began in the !aunties-, a
wing of the house, hut not detached, and retict ha :e
been occasioned by same clothes left to dry taking. fire.
The interior of the house, together with the furniture,
were demolished in less than an hour. The house
had been beautified and ornamented in September I i.t.
SHOCIING ACO DEN TS.—Between eight anti nil •
o'clock on Wednesday night, as a poor labouring matt
and his wife, the latter in a state of pregnancy w •re
pausing by the Ansrel pubic-house, at Islington, met
perceiving the dap of the cellar at the next house op,'
the unfortunate H011t414 fell down into the cellar, a
depth of eight feet, ar.d was taken up nearly lifelr-s,
having broken two of her ribs. The house was under
repair, and the labourers had heft work, and ti:rglt to
bitilt down the flap.
Yesterday, a rounz woman, named Elizabeth How-
ell, who was employed in the fluck.n►anufactury ut
Messrs. Taylor and Co. Red Cross•sstrcet, Southwark,
was at work at an engine, at. what is termed •• feeding
the devil," by unpplying it with pieces tof woollen and
dock, when unftritanately the engine broke, and her
hand was drawn amongst the cogs and teeth, -tiol was
torn to pieces in an instant. She was cool-eyed
Guy's Hospital, where the arm was amputated imme-
diately. She is in a very preca ious condition.

ROll :IE4Y AT BRIXTON HOUSE OF COURECTION.—
A flour-will having been erected for the purtose of
giving- employment to the pris.mers, it was discovered
a few days ago, after t hey had done work. that a coati-
tity of the flour had Lru s den The same thing was
discover d on the two succemling days ; upon entini.y
an aperture was f, and iu the wall at the hick of the
will leading into the prisoner's wards, through which
they stole the flour, and wades cakes of it.

bEATII TtIROVGII tcxca•sivt: D:IINKING —Yester-
day afternoon an inquest was b••Id before Mr. Shelton,
the coroner fur the city of London, at the Crowe, an 4
Anchor, New-street-hill, Shoe-lane, on the body of an
elderly gentleman of the name of Battle, who met with
his death in the following manner :—Frotra the wit-
ness examined before the coroner and the jury, it ap-
peared that Wed.sesday last was his birth-day ; that
he laad Lady indulged in drinking that day, and that
he did not return home to his lodgings until early on
Thursday morning. On the people of the house coin-
ing down in the morning, Mr. Battle Iva. found lying
at the b •flow of the stair-case quite dead, and there
appeared a wound or e.•ntu,ion on the side of his
head, which. fr tut circumstances, it is supposed he.re-
ceived b., falling backwards down stairs. Mr. Ivy*"
a respectable surgeun in the neighbourhood, examined
the body, and expressed his opinion that the 000nd
was not of so severe a nature as to be fatal, but that
he believed that death was ocea.ioned by apoplexy
through excessive drinking►. 'lite comm.: an i• jury
were of the some
.opinion, and Warned verdiut
cur ingly.