The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

Davison's West Hart-

ley 16 6
Wylum 17 0
alker Primrose 13 3
Eden Alain 9

Walls End.

Harton 17 6
Hetton l9 6
Cassop lB 6
Heugh Hall 18 3
Ships at market, 43 ; sold, 34.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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MAILS DUE.
A.ustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. April 18.
via Marseilles April 13
&sail and Cape Verds, by British packet. April O.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April --"'
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 3:,
via Marseilles April 1-
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton April 3.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 3.
via Marseilles April 3.
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. April 1
via Marseilles
Portuga1....
55:
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 3
via Marseilles April 6:,.
Newfoundland .. April 13
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... April 7.
...

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' by U.S. packet....
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and lb"enCearnidaedian April iv
Bahamas, via New York
packet April --:n.•
Nlexico.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 April 13
California. and British Columbia..

THE IMPORT DITTY Ow GRAIL—A committee
appointed by the corn trade represented to the Government
some time since that it would be a great convenience if file
import duty on grain were levied by weight instead of by
measure; the trade generally buy and sell by weight, and
it is of importance to the merchants that the returns made or
their importations by the officers of customs should corre'
spond, in the principle on which they are calculated, with
the accounts between buyer and seller. At present the duf9
is is per qr., imposed for revenue and statistical purP°"s
when the corn laws were repealed in 1846. The subject hell
been referred by the Treasury to the Commissioners of Cile'
tome, and they have reported in favour of a duty of 3d Per,
cwt on all kinds of grain, including lentils, millet seed, an
dari, which are considered fairly liable to the duty. It
calculated that the loss to the revenue by this change would
be over £2,000 year; but that is almost inappreciable in
revenue which has fluctuated in three years, from 1859 t°
1861, to the extent of £250,000. In 1857 it was under
£500,000; in 1862 it exceeded £BOO,OOO.

Births.
DAVIES.—On the 4th inst., at 30, Cherer•square, the Wire
of Henry Davies, Esq., of a daughter.
PEEL.—On the 31st ult., at Torquay, the Hon. Mrs. Fred'
Peel, of a son.
PEACH.—On the 3d inst., at Brighton, the wife of Edroulla
Peaca, of a daughter. f
SYKES.—On the 3d inst., at 91, Baton-place, the wife 0.
Alfred Sykes, Bsq , of a son.
Marriages.
SOLLY—COURTAULD —On the 2d inst., at Croydon, Lie
Lewis B. Solly, R.N., H.M.S. Irresistible, eldest albra
viving son of Samuel Solly, F.R.S., of Saville-rovrt `,
Susannah Ruth, only daughter of the late George COit
tauld, Esq., of Booking, Essex.
SPICER—RuscoE.—On the 2d inst., at East Barnet,llertbag:
Henry Speer, Esq., of Upper Holloway, to Eliz„abehia
eldest daughter of Thomas Ruscoe, Esq., of tillaer
House, Barnet.

Deaths.
BURER,-011 the 2d inst., at Lyraington, Lieut..
Colonel
Gabriel Burer, aged 86.
CAMPBELL.—On the 2d inst. at Glasgow, Wm. Catopbeill
'
Esq,, ot Tillichewan, aged 71.
GARRAWAL—On the 4th at Croydon, George Garr
4"

way, Esq., aged 48. Saint
JA.cicsoN.—On the 3d inst., at 8, Godliman-street,
Paul's-churchyard, James Jackson, aged 67.
MORGAN.—On the 2d inst., at Tenby, Miss Morgan, ag6l
52.
RonEY.— On the Ist inst., at •Longten, Staffordshire, tho
Hon. Ralph M. Robay, KL.C., late of Sydney, N,S.W•P
aged 55.
the
SHERWILL,—On the 10th Jan. last., at sea,
On board
ship Hotspur, Major James Lind Sherwill of the Belo&
Army.

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Strand, in the Precinct of the 3a7oy, n the Coure7
Itildleaex.--Tueachty, Airil 5, 1861.