The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-14 00:00:00

SCOTCH MARKETS.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Oatmeal,
70 to SO 28 to 32 24 to 28 —to 46 to 48
Berwick 44 50 21 25 21) 25 33 35 43 46
Coldstream
Cui ia r ;trite) 41 65 26 31 18 22 21 26
Dunbar 5l 80 51 39 25 52. 40 42 40 42
Elgin
Inverness 45 65 33 411 27 23 :I'2
42 53 23 26 19 23 32 34
62 67 56 53 43 48 143
Perth .... 60 ^4 30 40 25 35 41 44 I
Tho size of the measure varies throughout the country.
HADDINGFON CORN-MARKET.—Oct. ii.
There was a good supply of Wheat ; sales heavy, and prices have
risen slightly.
I Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Pease. I Beans.
First 93s Od 42s 08 3:2s oaf —s 43s 01
Second 656 lid I 37s 63 25s Od —s 041 I 47s 08
'Third s4s 08 33s Od 22.1 Od Od —s Od
Average. 34 ss. 21. 11 12ths.
DALKEITH CORN MARKET.—Oct. 11.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Bean,.
First B6s orl 40slcd I 28s 03 I 43+ 01 I 43. MI
Second Os 0.1 35;03 26s 0:1 Cis al 4.4 01
Third . 4Bs 03 25s 01 21s Od —I —s 08

THE 78TH REGlMENT.—Saturday morning the
inhabitants were startled by witnessing the performance
of the novel ceremony of drumming a soldier out of the
regiment. The delinquent is John Stormonth, a native
of the north country, who joined the regiment some
years ago ; and who, from his conduct, had frequently
become the object of remonstrance and punishment. His
last offence consisted in picking the pocket of a recruit
in the guardhouse of 7s. 6d. For this crime he was
tried by a Court Martial a few weeks ago, and sen-
tenced to receive 150 lashes, and then to be dismissed
the service. The former part of the sentence was car-
ried into immediate execution ; and his stripes being
healed, the remainder was executed. The culprit was
brought out before the assembled regiment in front of
the new barracks, where his sentence was read over,
after which the facings of his uniform were publicly
cut off; and he was then marched down to the Castle
Gate, followed by the regiment, the band playing the
Rogue's March. Oa being dismissed from his punish-
ment, he took refuge in a public-house on the Castle-
hill.—Edinburgh Observer.
MYSTERIOUS OUTRAGE AT WINDSOR CAS-
TLE.—On Thursday morning last, about seven o'clock,
when some of the servants of the Castle entered the
private sitting-room of her Majesty (which is situated
at the south-eastern corner of the building), they dis-
covered that, during the night, the centre pane of the
window, which is of extremely thick plate glass, had
been starred (in which state it now remains), as if
something had been hurled at it from the outside ; and
on their going into an adjoining room, facing the same
aspect, and opposite the long walk, some three or four
of the windows were discovered to have been broken ;
and on searching about the room three flint stones, of
pretty considerable dimensions, were found under the
chairs. Mr. Russell (one of the Inspectors of police
attached to the Castle), was immediately apprised of
the circumstance, and no time was lost in instituting the
necessary inquiries as to who was the aggressor.
The Tories of this town are terribly annoyed at
the votes of two of their leaders having been disallowed
by the Revising Barristers, at their recent Court for
the revision of the list of voters for this borough. The
celebrated Billy Andrews (who is yclept a Reverend),
and the renowned Captain Dowes (famed far his toady-
ism to Buckingham's Lord), have no longer a right to
inta,rfere in the election of Members of Parliament for
this borough. We advise our neighbours to be on the
watch, or these gentlemen may, from sheer chagrin,
play some curious pranks. The mortification of the
Tories, at the result of the registration, is the greater,
because the efforts they have made at swamping the
borough have, during the past year, greatly surpassed
their exertions on all previous occasions. There are,
however, still too many " good men and true" for them
to accomplish their object.—Aylesbury News.
As smile workmen -were digging a vault in the
Abbey Church, Ramsey, on Wednesday, they found a
leaden coffin, about five feet from the surface, and five
feet in length, supposed to have contained the remains
of a young female ; but, from the length of time it
had lain there, nothing was found in it but part of the
oaken shell and a short thick piece of oak wood, with
a hollow place cut out of it, for the back part of the
head to rest upon, on which was discovered a quantity
of long platted hair, of a reddish colour, with a part of
the scalp attached to it. The hair was in a good state
of preservation, occasioned, it is supposed, by the nou-
rishment afforded it by the bark on the wood. The
coffin was not laid in the usual direction from east to
west, nor was it soldered, but banded together in a
rough manner, and without any inscription. It is con-
jectured that it must have ben placed there before the
church was built, which is nearly 1,000 years ego.— ,
Hampshire paper.
SCOTCH CHURCH, REPENT-SQUARE.—We
are informed that an elegant and valuable piece of plate
has been presented to the late pastor of this Church,
bearing the following inscription :—" In testimony of
their respect and esteem for an affectionate Minister,
and as a mark of their deep regret at having been so
soon deprived of his valuable ministration. This piece
of plate is presented to their late pastor, the Rev. peter
Macmorland, by the subscribers thereto, being mein b;trs
of the Scotch Church, Regent-square, London.—
Numbers vi., 24, 25, 26."
A paragraph appeared in several papers last
week, stating that .a daughter of Sir Thomas Lethbridge,
having become a Roman Catholic, had been expelled
her home in consequenue. This is not true • but some
years ago, the daughter of his elder son,
to'the great
annoyance of the family, did so, and nearly ever since,
by her own desire, has resided with Roman Catholics.—
Taunton Courier.

The opening of the Bute Ship Canal at 'Cardiff,
which has been constructed at the sole expense of the
Marquis of Bute, was celebrated this day in a manner
worthy of the vast commercial importance of the un-
dertaking. At seven o'clock the Mayor and Town
Council, with tho clergy, magistrates, and other inhabi-
tants of the town, assembled at the Castle, and a grand
procession, with music, barmen?, &c., baying been formed,
the Noble Marquis was publicly escorted to the works.
As soon as the proper state of tide had arrived the gates
were opened, and the firing of cannon announced the co-
trance of the Lady Charlotte steamer, which was the first
vessel that entered the looks. The Celerity followed close
in the wake of the Charlotte, and ahnomt immediatelyef er-
wards a tow steam-boat, called the Samson, hauled in the
Manlius, a fine American vessel of about 1,200 tons
burden, which had just arrived from Quebec with a
large cargo of deals, consigned to Mr. Thompson, of
this port. Some smaller vessels followed the Manlius,
the arrival of each being greeted with the deafening
cheers of the populace, from 12,000 to c2:0,000 of whom
had assembled on the wharfs to witness the ceremony.
The works ara of the most convenient and extensive
kind, and have been constructed under the arrangement
of AV. Cubitt, Esq., as principal, and George Turn-
bull, Esq., as resident engineer. The outer basin has
an area of one acre and a half, and the main entrance
locks connecting it with the inner basin are 162 feet
long and 86 feet wide. The inner basin stands upon
an area of twenty acres, is 1,450 yards long, and 200
feet wide. It extends very nearly to the town, and is
capable of accommodating from 300 to 400 veisels of
from 100 to 600 tons burden.
The people of Cardiff are fully alive to the vast im-
portance of the undertaking, and their gratitude to the
Noble Marquis, who, at a cost of about 280,0001., has
completed it, scarcely knows any bounds.
After the ceremony of the opening had been gone
through, his' Lordship proceeded to the Cardiff Arms
Hotel, where he had been invited to a public dinner, to
which upwards of 250 of the principal gentry and inha-
bitants sat down. The Worshipful the Mayor took
the chair, supported on his right band lty the Noble
Marquis, Lord Viscount Adare, Sir J. Morris, Bart.;
Rev. J. Webb, T. Fredericks, Esq. ; John Anderson,
Esq., &c. On his left by Lord James Stuart. Sir. J.
Guest, M.P. ; C. Morgan, Esq., M.P. ; the Chevalier
de Mascarenhas, Robert Oliver Jones, Esq. ; Captains
Owen, Phillips, Fisher, Smyth, Crawford, Deacon, &c.
The cloth having been removed, and the various loyal
and patriotic toasts duly honoured,
The CHAIRMAN rose to propose " The health of
their Noble Guest, the Marquis of Bute."—( Loud
cheers.) He was sure that all present would unit• with
him in expressing the regard they felt for the public
and private worth of the Noble Lord, to whom they
were all so deeply indebted.—(Cheers.) He could re-
fer them, as a proof of the benefits which his Lordship
had conferred on the county, to the infimary, public
schools, literary institution, and other public works ;
and, lastly; to the magnificent docks, to celebrate the
opening of which they had that day assembled.-
-(Cheers.)
The Marquis of BUTE rose, and was received with
the most enthusiastic marks of approbation. He said
he thanked them for the very cordial manner in which
they had drunk his health. It was only another mark
of the kindness which he had ever received from the
inhabitants of Cardiff and Glamorganshire—(Cheers)—
a kindness which was not peculiar to any one occasion,
but which, ever since he had known them, had been
permanent and uniform.—(Cheers.) He must be some-
thing more than a man who would not feel considerable
difficulty in acknowledging a compliment in which his
private and personal acts had been so particularly al-
luded to ; but at the same time, although he telt this
embarrassment, if' he had contented himself by briefly
thanking them, he should not have made the return
which their kindness deserved. The Noble Marquis
then proceeded to allude in becoming terms to the
ar-
dent interest which, ever since his early life, when by
the grace of his Sovereign he was appointed Lord Lieu-
' tenant, he had felt for the welfare of the county.—
(Cheers.) He saw that at no distant period Cardiff
must become an important commercial town, the outlet
,by which the treasures of their rich hills could be trans-
mitted to distant countries, and, therefore, overwhelmed
by the kindness of her inhabitants, be had looked to
see how she might be best improved. He looked
around him to the right and to the left, and all agreed
that the Eastern Holloways, at which the canal was
opened that day, was the proper point of entrance to the
port, and having been satisfied that that was the proper
point, he (the Noble Marquis) at once determined upon
the erection of the docks.—(Great cheering.) He had
never doubted the success which must accompany the
undertaking—and therefore he had acted.—(Cheers.)
The Noble Marquis, after further alluding to the pro-
ceedings of the day, and expressing the satisfaction
which he felt at seeing so many Consuls for foreign
States present, concluded by proposing " The health of
the Mayor of Cardiff." .
The CHAIRMAN returhed thanks.

T. W. IiOOKER, Esq., then proposed, in an appro I
priate speech, " The health of the Marchioness of Bute."
The MARQUIS returned thanks.
The VICE-PRESIDENT then said he had great plea-
sure in proposing to them the health of a Nobleman I
known to them from childhood, and for whom he was
sure they all entertained the utmost regard—" Lord.
James Stuart."—(Cheers.)
Lord JAMES STUART, in returning thanks, pointed
out the benefits which would accessarily accrue to Gar-
diff from the erection of the great work which the enter
prise of his noble relative had achieved.
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Members for the
County."

Viscount ADARE, M.P., in returning thanks, said, if
every person of patriotic spirit felt proud at being pre-
sent at the proceedings of that day, how much grgater
must be his pride and gratification as one of the Mem-
bers of their County ?—(Cheers.) If the Government
had undertaken such a gigantic work the v‘hoie nation
would have responded to it. How much more deeply
ought they, then, to feel when they found it completed
by the munificence of a single individual ?—(Great
cheering.) He would not say in the Noble MarquiA
presence all that be felt, but he could not refrain from
saying that he greatly honoured his public-spirited and
noble conduct.—( Loud applaule.)
The MAYOR gave—" The Members for Merthyr and
Swansea."

Sir Joimq GUEST, M.P., returned thanks, and des-
canted at some length on the commercial importance of
the undertaking. Bristol had long been called the
Queen of South Wales, but Cardiff would now have
some of her trade ; and unless he bestirred herself
their open and convenient port, would receive a great
portion of the trade which kow winded its way up the
tortuous and sluggish Avon.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN gave " The Consuls for Foreig■
States," which having been acknowledged by the Che-
valier de Mascarenhas, Fowler, H. Visger, Esqrs.,
&c., some other toasts were drunk acid responded to,
after which the company rose for the purpose of pre-
paring for the ball, which took place afterwards at the
Cardiff Arms Hotel.

In the evening there was a grand display of fireworks,
and the day altogether was the most gay ever remem-
bered in the county.

SUNDAY TRADlNG.—Vigorous efforts to pre-
vent all shopkeepers from trading are general ; and the
following extracts from various Acts of Parliament have
been distributed :-29th Charles 11., cap. 7, " No per-
son, on pain of forfeiting 55., is allowed to work on the
Lord's day (except works of necessity or charity) nor
use any boat or barge, or expose any goods to sale, ex-
cept meat, in pubiic-houses, or milk and mackerel at
certain houses. Milk may be sold before nine o'clock
in the morning and four in the afternoon. Mackerel
may be sold before and after Divine service." Ist 0,
Charles 1., cap. 1, " Persons publicly crying or exposing I
to sale herbs forfeit them to the poor. Butchers killing 1
or selling any victuals to forfeit 6s. Bd." 1 and o
,
George IV., cap. 50, and 3d George IV., cap. 106
" Bakers not to sell or expose to sale any brtaa , a
Sundays, or deliver any bakings after half-past o
ne
o'clock, nor to take any ia after a quarter to ale
,on
O'clock." First offence 10s., second 205., and
every ,
subsequent offence 40s.
Z. greaterev,,hat
.
remainspart of the
THE CitoPs.—Between Ed:roJurgh and Patti.
isi
nntehaerlbyerons-'eyrPir to be cut
crops is .
cu-k rcalopdin,ged
is fully ripe, and with tb`e exception of a few green plots
on the acclivities of tV,,, p t, ,
•en Lanus, a few days
weather may suffie'c; to gather in the last of
good
_ sheaf of a to-
lerably good her vest. In the bleak moorland country
to the south of Penicuik the
and there is P,ttle probability of crops are thin and late,
.. the scanty produce being
brought ho'-de ingood
Eddlestniv the condition. In the vale of the
cellent ir, quality,erops are bulky in quantity and ex-
of the and
k may be all housed in the course
',.oresent t; • Along the banks of the Tweed,
from Peebles week.
to Glenormiston, the harvest is all but
orev,er., and is, on the whole, reckoned a good one. A
+eatable farmer informed us that he bad rarely had a.
1 ,etter crop, and that the damage sustained throughout
the country by the late floods, though great, would ultii-
'stately be found much less than was at first conjecturt-d.
----Scotsman of Wednesday.
A DAINTY DISH TO SET BEFORE THE.,
QUEEN I—On Monday last one of the finest i
P-i.ce that
has been caught for many years was landed f, ;on' the
meadow pond,, at the back of Cumberland Lc' dge, Vir-
ginia Water. It measured three feet ter, inches in
length, and its girth was twenty-thre-a inches. It
weighed twenty-eight pounds and thr se-quarters. It •
was intmcJately forwarded to the Queen, rib* tow.
..
mat ided it to be prepared ;loyal table,
for the
It was
served up to her Majesty and go. ests at tl se lig' pal dinner
pr rty at the Castle, on Thursday evening. 'Three kit,
weighing together forty poi.dris, were
criu?. ht on Tu'es-1'
atty and Wednrsday last, taose to the v' . at R 1 ieir .ur Sudsy
Hall, near Windsor, by two amateur
.
• cur ,
;St. Alban's, fishermen from

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