The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-20 00:00:00

WHITECHAPEL.

Coarse Meadow Hay £4 5 to £4-11
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow 5 I 5 5
eadow and Rye-grass Hay
Clover Hay •
23 2 4
OM Straw £2 oto £2 21 Wheat Straw

( From the London New Price Current of May IQ. )
The following articles have been brought to public sale this
week bales of Bengal safflower partly sold at 375. to
655. for inferior and mid. ; of 40 tons of ivory only part, was
sold at 14/. to 301., and a parcel of scrivelloes teeth, at 101. to
16/. ; 21 chests of Singapore tortoiseshell was bought in at
335. to 345. ; 13,000 deer horns, 40s. to 41s. ; 70,000 buffalo
horn tips, 221. 6d. to 255. ; a few lots of Ceylon sold at 235.
to 30s. ; 14 tons of Ceylon deer horns were partly sold at
343. 6d. to 355. ; 40 tons of Ceylon ebony, part went at 141.
55., rest taken in 111. ; 27 tons of Camwood were taken in at
16/., and 140 tons of antimony ore at 7s. ; 704 baskets of Singa-
pore M.-o)P, shells taken in at 555. to 705., and 118 baskets
of Bombay, at 355. to 60s.
SuoAa.-A public sale of 120 hhds. of Barbadoes went off
heavily, at prices is. 6d. to 2s. under those of the last sale,
mid. and fine yellow selling at 595. to 655. 6d. ; by private
contract sales of gray Jamaica for the pan have been made at
525. 6d. ; St. Vincent's rather better at Ms., with colour at
555. The refined sugar market continues in a dull state, and
a further reduction in prices of 6d. to Is. has been submitted
to ; small sales of double crushed have been made at 325. ;
lumps at the long price that would pass the standard at 735,,
and those rather under at 725; 10 lb. Hamburgh loaves equal
to the standard may be purchased at 365. on board. This
afternoon there was still little business doing ; the prices con-
tinued at 725, for lumps rather under, 735. for those to pass the
standard, and 325. for double crushed.
MAURITIUS.--.This afternoon a public sale of 2,138 bags

DEVIZES CORN

Per Sack. s d. a. d.
First Wheat 28 0 to no 0
Second °l 0 27
Third
1809 Sacks of Wheat 801(11 26 8
at the average of 3

lARKET.—May 18
Per Quarter. s. el. I. e
Barley 26 (1 t• 31 6
Oats 23 0 30 o
Beans (per sack) l9 0 25 0
Flour (per bag) 4l 0 43 0
Bread (per gall.) 1 2 0

Yesterday, between the hours of eleven and twelve,
a spirited horse belonging to Mr. Audle, of Fenchurch-street,
on returning from the West India Docks, with a small cask of
goods in the cart, took fright, and began to kick at a most fu-
rious rate, and after a few minutes plunged forward at a fright-
ful pace. The driver, who was in the cart at the time, used
every effort in his power to check his progress, but the infu-
riated animal dashed forward with a rapidity that betokened
certained destruction to everything that came in his way. At
length, however, it ran its head with such violence against the
lower part of an iron lamp-post at the corner of Bedford-street,
that its under jaw and the greater part of its tongue were lite-
rally cut away from the head, and fell to the ground at his
feet. A farrier in the neighbourhood was sent for, but as
there could not be the most remote idea of relieving the poor.
animal (which was worth at least seventy guineas), it was killed.
At an early hour on Tuesday morning Ramsgate
was thrown into a state of great alarm by the discovery of a
fire on the premises of Mr. Hubbard, upholsterer and furniture
dealer, situated in Broad-street, which at first threatened de-
struction to the surrounding buildings. Immediately after the
ringing of the alarm bells a large body of the townspeople as-
sembled on the spot, who, with the assistance of the police,
succeeded in saving the principal portion of the valuable furni-
ture with which the premises were stocked. The town engine
was soon broukht to the spot, and worked with such admirable
effect, under the direction of Mr. Foster, the engineer, upon
the flames, as ultimately to confine their ravages
to the build-
ing in which they commenced. Mr. Hubbard is, we under-
stand, insured in the Phoenix fire-office. .
A very great stimulus has been given to the silk
manufacture of Spitalfields in consequence of the approaching
grand ball at the Opera-house, under the patronage of the
King and Queen. Her Majesty will appear in a splendid
Spitalfields silk dress, and his Majesty will wear an em-
broidered waistcoat of the same manufacture. It is expected
that all the company will act upon this hint. Some of the
most eminent of the manufacturers have been paying upwards
of 1001. a week each more for labour since the determination
of their Majesties to patronize the ball was made known.
The fete will be upon the most magnificent scale, and we un-
derstand that the great fete at the Opera-house at Milan has
suggested the character of the decorations. The Queen's
dress is to be scarlet with flowers of gold.

On the third reading of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway
Bill last night, in the House of Commons, a rather ani-
mated discussion took place in respect to a clause contained
liv the Bill to prevent travelling on Sunday. With that:
unchristian and pharisaical assumption of exclusive merit
whici) too frequently distinguishes a certain party, most in-
trusively prominent in endeavouring to shape the opinions
of others according to their own narrow, not to say bigoted,
prejudices, and to shear Christianity of its beautiful and
divine proportions, by limiting its doctrines to the most selfish
interpretation, Mr. Dunlop made an observation, or rather an
insinuation, to the effect that the opponents of the clause were
not actuated by a proper reverence for the Christian religion..
This uncharitable insinuation was effectively and indignantly
repelled by Mr. Roebuck, who exposed the cant and hypo-
crisy of those who would affect to force men to work out
their salvation by the efficacy of an Act of Parliament.
The Honourable and Learned Gentleman gave a number of
extracts from the opinions of Archbishop Cranmer and
1 Archbishop Whately, as well as from the sacred writings,
to prove that the Sunday was not ordained as the Sabbath
by the Christian religion, but had origin in mere custom ;
that, in fine, " the Sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the Sabbath." The discussion to which we refer will be
read with much interest, and we are happy to add tlwt the
clause was rejected by a majority of 32, in a House of 198
Members.—Morning Advertiser.
The speech of Sergeant Talfourd, in moving to bring in
his Bill to amend and vonsolidate the laws relating to pro-
perty in the nature of copyright, was one of the most: truly
eloquent that has been heard in the House of Commons
for some time. Its eloquence was of that description which,

springing from the heart, appeals to the reason.

The logic

of such a speech may be said:to be its sentiment—for it was
less by elaborate reasoning, than by the charm of moral truth
and the splendour of elevated thought, that it captivated the
fittention of its audience, and commanded their conviction..
Such an effort of mind in the present House of Commons,

where, night after night, so much dull, feeble, prosing parrulity
is heard, in the way ofspeech-making, is refreshing, and not the
less so because it is rare. It ,may sound strange in the ears of

some, that a Learned Sergeamt.shotdd have been capable of
touching the springs of fine emotion and generous sympathy on
a question of law ; but the prerogaavo of genius is to make

:he imagination and the feelings contLibute to the elucida-
:ion of truth, and the triumph of pure reason. Without

any unnecessarily florid displays of langolages or imagery,

well did Sergeant Talfourdenibellish and relieve his sub-

ject with the associations of literature, and the trophies

of intellect.

He alluded to the achievements of genius

with pride ; he touched upon its misfortunes with the
tenderest pathos. He chastised with merited and mas-
culine rebuke the cold charity of the world, which has
wept over the tomb of its noble victim, and raised the

statue to the immortal mind whose earthly sufferings it
neglected. Sixty years, within which to secure the
produce of works of intellect to the descendants of those
who have devoted themselves to the cultivvtion of litera-

,ure, science, and the arts, is surely not too Jong a term.

What a reproach it is in the history of our literature that,
the descendants of a Shakspeare or a Milton ,should be
allowed to pine in want, or be driven to solicit the aid of
private bounty, of public alms, while their works are en-
riching others, and carrying the fame of Eng Lind to the
farthest bounds of civilized creation! The literature of his

native land is already indebted to Sergeant Tallourdfol• one

of the finest dramas with which, in modern times, it h
been enriched ; but the talent and successful energy which
he has displayed in kindling the sympathies of the Legisla-
ture, and awakening its sense of justice on behalf of the
neglected rights and plundered property of these whose la-

. .
bours invest -a
nation with its intellectual glory, greatly in-
crease the obligation.—/Iforning Herald.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.

LECTURES ON THE BRITISH POETS.

Mr. Montgomery, the talented author of " The World
before the Flood," and other works, has been lecturing for
the season at the Royal Institution. On Tuesday he com-
pleted the series, which afforded much instruction and en-
tertainment to his audience. The subject, " the principal
British Poets," was quite congenial with his own mind, And
he treated it in an able manner. He took a rapid view of
the poets of the earlier ages, enumerating many names, but
dwelling only on a few who had earned deserved fame.
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Howard, Milton, Spenser, and a
galaxy of others, were successively brought under notice,
and their beauties and blemishes pointed out. The claims
of these celebrated poets have been so frequently discussed,
that little novelty could be infused into this portion of the
subject. The modern writers offered more interesting mate-
rials. Mrs. Hemans received a very strong, but well de-
served, tribute of applause ; and a portion of her " Ode to the
Deep," was recited as a specimen of her powers. Words-
worth was said to be unrivalled in his ability to unite the
pathetic with the picturesque. Campbell, it was observed,
closely copied Rogers, who was " a good exemplar ;" and
Moore could write well when he liked—his lines were Inat
sic and his numbers harmony. Poetry has preserved the
vigour of primitive speech ; in early society mankind spoke
mystically and symbolically, and even adopted a mode of
writing by heroglyphics. The poet has adhered to this
system, and has continued to personify all inanimate na-
ture, by which he constructs his finest imagery, and forms
his grandest conceptions. Southey has approached the
nearest to Homer, Virgil, and the immortal classics—
whether he will ever equal them Mr. Montgomery could
not say, but believing that the laureate is still at work, if its
18 years he produced five unrivalled essays, in the 18 years
which have elapsed since the publication of the last, he may
have matured a work that shall place him by the side of the
authors of the " Iliad," the " Xneid," the " Jerusalem De-
livered," and the " Paradise Lost." The " History of Al-
fred" was given as a theme, worthy the pen of such a con-
sumate master. Of Scott, it was remarked, that imitating
the style of border-ballad writing, by the use of antiquated
terms and vivid descriptions of ancient manners, he has
formed a popular style in which he ranks first. His true
and striking powers of description have never been equalled ;
in these he however sometimes reached the grandest and
most sublime, but at others he sank into the feeble, tame,
and tautological.

Byron, whose ruling passion was a desire of fame, al-
though he-affected to despise it, struck out a new and bold
style of versification. With the most splendid abilities, he
uses the plainest of composition, making use of common
words and phrases, in a way such as no one before ever at-
tempted, and such as few, if any, will ever again succeed in.
His outrages on decency and his moral laxity are heavy
blemishes—they will go down to posterity with the offspring
of his intellect ; but, said the Lecturer, if they are presented
in judgment against him at the latter day, surely good
angels will bear his redeeming qualities before the tribunal,
where they will meet a merciful consideration.'

Mr. Montgomery, true to his profession, may be said to
lecture in poetry. This is sufficiently appropriate to the
person and the subject ; but in language so flowery,and sen-
timents so elevated, the mind gets abstracted and confused.
You are more troubled to follow the fancies of the speaker
than to attend to the marrow of the discourse, which loses
in a great measure its effect, from having the appearance
of being laboured.' Mr. Montgomery's " conceits," though
" pretty," as Spenser would call them, are certainly some-
times as far-fetched and hyperbolical as some of those quaint
worthies whose curious compositions he so amusingly intro-
duced in his earlier lectures.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY- 19.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
at Five o'Clock. _ _

-
I KINNOUL presented a petition in favour of
Cb urch-rates, from a place in Perth.
Lord KENYON presented similar petitions from places
in. Oxford and Essex.
Lord STRADBROKE presented a petition from the
Civardians of the Union of Clayton, in Kent, in favour of
•the Poor Law Act. _ .

Lord BEAUCHAMP presented a petition in favour of
Church-rates. _ _ .

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition in favour of
the West Cork Mining Company, from the Shareholders ;
also petitions against Church-rates from places in Hereford.
and Lincoln.