The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-02 00:00:00

EDL4Vigtn4Glt, AlYttirt

Oft Friday last the boys of Herint's
were publicly examined ; and it is out yistice to
state, that their appearance did much credit to.
themselves; and-t-ctle6ted the, highest honour upon
the Master and -other Teachers. The extent 'and
accuracy of their knowledge .in.C4ecraraphy, -
French, English Grarnmar, and Reading, were
-striking , and uncoMmon.. They read and recited
with much propriety and di,qin6tness. Their writ-
ing was admired, both for the ease and bold=
'ness of the current hand in general, and for the
beauty of a great many specimens which were
produced._ To the feeling benevolent mind it was
most gratifying to see 124 fine boys, v base ruddy
smiling: countenances bespoke the kind treatment
they experience, and the comfort of their situation,
well cloathed, well fed, and educated in a 'style of
the -highest excellence. What gave peculiar
terest to this scene,' was the presence of a Gentle-
r-Ilan who received the rudiments of his education
ti the Hospital. This Gentleman, who has at-
tained high celebrity, and realized a conSiderable.
fortune, and who is about to assert his claim as
heir in line to the dormant honours of a Noble
Scottish family,;is proud to acknowledge his obliga-
tions to this Seminary.. He has already given a
s,lbstantial proof of his gratitude by a handso ne
donation to the Hospital. Upon this occasion he
requested leave from the Governors to distribute
pies to
.the best scholars in English, Latin, and
French, intimating at the suite time-his- resolution
ton pay the like attention. annually during his resi-
dence in this place. His request was reatiilygrant-
ed. After the several classes were examined, all the
boys asseMbled in the Chapel of the Hospital, and •
F•ilng in) anthem. The prizes, accompanied with.
suitable admonitions, were presented to the -follow-
ing- Youths :---To STIRLING' BALLINGALL, as the •
best English 'Scholar, the first prize ';_the second
to JAMES CoNNI;;G:nAm, as the best Latin Scholar ;
and the third to GEORGE YOUNG, as the best• French
Scholar. The senior Clergyman present then as-
cended the pulpit, addressed the boys in a Very
1 affeaionate and impressive manner, and concluded
the whole with a prayer.

Increase of Bal ley.-----The following instance is,
perhaps, unexampled: 'A root was sele6.ted in a
field of well manured common flat barley,
which had ,be.n twice hoed,- belonging to Major.
STARKE, and lately cut at Langharne in Larinar-
thenshire ;. it had twenty-two stems of ripe barley,
besides C,r,:e or four off-shoots of a second growth,
and the totai produce of ripe corn, exclusive of the
second growth, was six hundred and eighty-eight
grains, all the produce or one grain.
A rail stock, measuring ten teet high, is at present
growing in the garden of Mr. J. Moffat, in Wood-
end, in the parish of Carlaverock. In the course of
this season it has afforded shelter to three birds' nests,
viz. -two wrens and a chaffinch.
A few. days ago Mr. WIGGLESWORTII, of Leeds,
killed a lamb,.-which had been reared in the fol-
loxing manner :—.-The parent ewe dying,soon after
it had been yeaned, a small Scotch cow fostered it
with an attention truly parental, and fed it regularly
from the teats.

Some workmen, in sinking a cistern at the fa&ory
of Meßlrs. GARDINER, Leicester, found, ten feet be-
low the surface of the earth, the remains of a large
Roinan bulding, the walls of which were fbur feet
thick, and composed of alternate layers of Forest
stone and Roman bricks.' From its similarity to the
Temple of Janus, it is supposed to 'have formed a
part of that work, from Which it is distant about.i 00
yards.
GAME.—The covies are pretty numerous, and in
some parts very large. On the 'Downs, in general,
the birds are rather thin. As the corn will -be near-
ly, if not quite, all down by the Ist of September,
(Monday next) it 'is expected to be a day of great
slaughter. The nides pf pheasants are unusually
plentiful, and the young ones are quite strong upon
the wing. In Lo'rd GAGR'S preserves, in the. l'lashet
Park, in Sussex, no less than twenty• four nests were
destroyed, in the Spring, by the-fall of o 31: timber.
This circumstance, although it may at fith-appear
a matter of regret to, the sportsmen concerned,
we are of opinion, has not greatly lessened the
number cf pheasants, as the respective pairs, in all
probability, built and bred a second time ; but the
young must, of couL.e, be backward, and perhaps
_hardly axle torise before the spaniels in the early
part of OCtober. Hares, as usual, are in great plenty
on the Downs.

.0n Monday night last one of the warehouses be-
longing to the Dumbarton Glass Work Company
was discovered to' be on fire, and notwithstanding.
too timely exertions of the workmen and the inhabi-
tants of, Dumbarton, the building, and glas:s to the
amount of near three thous And pounds, was entirely
-consumed. Fortunately the property was insUred.,
The name of Mr. Situkin, of the Crown and An-
chor Tavern, *as introduced yesterday by mistake
into a paragraph relative to a disturbance which:took
place at Astley's AMphitheatre on Friday evening.
it was another Gentleman of that name who gave
evidence upon that occasion.

That a " Knowledge of a disease is half its
cure," is' an adage which Lever was more fully
Verified than in the Venereal Disease, which; Pro-
tens like, assumes so many different forms, that it
requires no small pprtion of experience and know-
ledge to distinguish some- its symptoros from
other complaints, and to,apply with 'efficacy such
remedies as Will produce a radical cure • without
undermining the conaitution. The Anti- lmpeti-
gines, or Solomon's Drops, is the` long sought far re-
medy for all its stages, when Mercury or Antimony,
Nitrous Acid, and other Medicines so fashionable
of late, prove abortive. These Drops prove of -the
highest utility in ad cases of " depraved habit; with
affeCtions of the skin;" hence its efficacy in cases
of Scurvy, Scrofula, or Leprosy, as well as in the
cogfirmed Lues ; and hence by its sanative power it
expels.the virus out of the ,systern) anJ restores it
to cpnvalescence when impaired- by disease, or the
d&terious preparations of Mercury, Antimony, and
Aquafortis. This soverei,n remedy may now he
had of -all reputable .Venders of Gonuine IWdi-
elites throughout, the United Kingdom, in half-
- guinea and 338. family I?ottles,. containing tour_ I;:ss.dr

• LONDON ,vl.ttcl{.E.l.o, oi4.t.
•
RETURN OF WiIFA r IN MARK-LANE,
By Messrs. CHILD A., AS, Aelect
Including only front the 18th ~ft Aug: to the 2;d A tz..ustx
agreeably to,the new Act
126 Quarters at.ltits od
zB6 at Bjs od
45at86s od
69
58
147 at 83, od
94
179 ------ at 7fts od
490 at Bos od
40 at 79, od
403
152 - at 77S 61
,54
88 - at 76, OEI4
217
591 - at 74s .1
40
Total. 833 b Quarters
' 81. -7:1,1. lower

251 s2thirters at' 72i Q 4
at 7r 04
42/ at. 'oft
15.7 at 693- 01
303
036
90
'59
20

at 6.6. Od
at 65', oti
at ~64a od
at 56s od
'at 50 6d
at ito nQ
53, el
at ctl

tao
1557
234
--
zoo „
4.53
So , ,at 5.s *4
. —A veragt .65s Liu.
titan last Return.

. A RETURN OF FLOUR; •
From Aug. i 6, to Aug. 22, from the Cocket.ollim •
Sacks. s. d. Sacks. s. d Seeks s, cf.
21
750
, 9r, - 6667 1.) 67- 6:
:
1
- 7o /2. io - 66 6 8 63 •
'574 -btj o 90 - 66 0 6.) •
Total - -1.066 Sacks. ---Average 696.• 7d.
os• i2d. lower titan last ;aura.

2OUNTRY MARKETS (last Wecx} pei 5,;i~
-•.

W heat. Galley.
605 to 93S 33. oil to 395
635 to Bos 345 ofi to .ps
6)s to 84s j 3.tS o•t to 395
843 to 865 4oci.to 42..%
(265 to 84s •' 36s opt to 4z5
68s to .826 1 38$ Ott i 0.41,4

)atS.
6tl ott to Es
od j 3os od to 34s
od .F 276 od to
.s.v.•
2li 306.. Ott '32);
od sos ot: o 34i;
od 2,86 od to 3(1

PRICE OF HOPS.
. ' POCK ITS. ,
Kent, 41. tos. to 51. 125..
Sussex, 41. 1.-)s. to 51. !es.
FaralLin, 61: o.s. to 71. ..,ti.