The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-15 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from
the Returns 4 made in the week ending the 11th day of April. 1837, at
3.!5. 4id. per • Ilundrea Weight, exclusive or the lmties of Customs
paid or payable thereon oil the Importation thereof into Great Britain.

Mr. Bentley has obliged the lovers of finished com-
position, shrewd observation, pleasantry, wit, and tickling
satire, by collecting into a volume of his capital " Standard
Novels" Headlong 11011, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian,
and Crotchet Castle; a pocket book that no one should be
without who contemplates a coach or steam. boat journey in the
ensuing, or indeed, in any season; or who is ever likely to
have spare half-hours on his hands. The author, moreover,
has revised his works, and written a preface, which tells much
in a small compass, and describes so felicitously the subjects of
his satire.—qectatQr.

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(From a letter publishel in the D arch Slaa Courgifq7%
• CONSTANIINOPLE,
Grand efforts are making here for the exe
new commercial project, which if it is carried ii 54.
as it is probable, will be equaily important and advalAgreoti7.`
to the commercial intercourse between Persia and
land, and by which the interest of Russia may be (quay
promoted to the disadvantage of Turkey.
The plan is to open an entirely new channel For the trans-
mission of the productions of Persia to Europe, which have
hitherto come by way of Constantinople. These produc-
tions, which are of great importance, are to be conveyed on
payment of a transit duty over the territory of that king-
dom to Poti, on the Black Sea. •

This place is to be declared a frce port, from %Illicit the
English merchants may export those goods which they have
hitherto obtained at Constantinople fur consignment to
Great Britain.

According to the statements that arc made, arrangements
will be effected that those goods, instead of being sect
through the Bosphorus to be sold in England, may be sent
up the Danube. English goods will be sent by the same
channel to Poti, and the commercial transactions between
the two nations will in future take place it that depot only.
The English merchants in this capital will not look
with a favourable eye on this arrangement, with which they
are not yet acquainted, because they will lose the whole or
the commission which they have gained by these transac-
tions hitherto ; but the loss that the Turkish Government
will suffer by the reduction of the revenue of customs will
be far more serious ; for it is estimated that duty is annu
ally paid on goods to the value of 160,000,000 or piastres,
which will be entirely lost by this new plan.
A Greek house here, which has great connections with
London, will soon remove its establishment to Persia, and
in the sequal commercial houses will be established at
Erzeroum, where there is an English Consul, at Tauris,
and at Poti.

While the renewal of the tariff is waited for, the Cus-
tom-house officers of this capital molest the European trade
by demanding three per cent. worth of the value of the
goods, or of the goods themselves. In the end, however,
an arrangement is made by making payments on account,
which are to be regulated afterwards.

The duties being continually evaded by smugglers of all
nations, the Government seems to have resolved to allow
only its own subjects to export goods. By this method
the Porte will, indeed, be able to punish smugglers, which
it cannot do with respect to European smugglers.

SUSPECTED MURDER AT EALING.

DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN HEAD.

During the last three or four days great excitement has
been created in the neighbourhood of Ealing, Brentford,
&c., by a report being extensively circulated that a human
head had been discovered in the privy of the beautiful and
picturesque priory of Wyllie, Esq., a West Indian
merchant, Castle-bar Park, near the village:of Ealing. Im-
mediately on the --intelligence reaching the station-house of
the T division of police, at Brentford, Inspector Manguard
proceeded to Mr. Wyllie's residence, and from the inquiries
which he instituted the following particulars have been as-•
certained :—On the afternoon of Wednesday, the sth inst,.
a carpenter named Jones, while employed in doing some ma •
•pairs to the privy in question, accidentally dropped his ham—
mer down into the soil. He immediately got a rake, and'.
commenced raking for it, when, finding it entangled with .
something, he drew it up, and was horror-stricken at finding •
that, instead of its being his hammer, it was the head of a .
human being. After recovering from his surprise, he ac—
quainted Mr. Wyllie of the discovery, who instantly ordered'
it should be cleansed from the soil with which it was covere4
and sent for Dr. Dickenson, of Ealing, to examine it. 0111
that gentleman's arrival he pronounced the head to be t'aast
of a female, and said he considered it must have been tairied
there a considerable time. The jaws, the right car, part of
the nostrils, and the back hair, were all decayed, and the
remainder presented a sickening spectacle of mortality.
How the head came in the above situation is a mystery
the privy having been entirely emptied not five years since .
Various reports are in circulation on the subject, and er,ry
female who has been missed from the neighbourhood d•
~ring
the last twenty years is supposed to have met a fate
similar
to that of the unfortunate Hannah Brown, whose.; horrible
murder and mutilation have excited such iotcr.
ise, interest.
It is, however, generally believed that the 1,-,er.4
question
is that of a young woman of considerable tersee,tai'. attrac-
tions (whose name for obvious reasons we sr,ppress) , ser-
vant in the neighbourhood, who disappeared, rather better
than lour years since, in a most tnysteri'aus manaer,, .and of
whom no tidings have since been obtr.ined, althougi
.great
exertions were at the time made to trace her.
The head has since been removed to the station-ht-ase at
Ealing, where it is at present deposited, and Inspector Nati-
guard, on Thursday, forwarded information of the discs very
to Tholnas Stirling, Esq., the Coroner for that portio. of
Middlesex, who yesterday ordered a Jury to be SURICIIOI ‘ed
for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances.

Th 6 publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.