The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-24 00:00:00

THE KAFFIR WAR.

Now ready, in 2 vols. 13v0., with Maps and Numerous Plates, by
Major C. C. Michell, K.H.
C APTAIN ALEXANDER'S NARRATIVE
of a VOYAGE of OBSERVATION
Among the COLONIES of WESTERN AFRICA, in the Flag
_ _

Ship " Thalia ;" and of
A CA'MPAIGN in KAFFIRLAND, in 1836.
On the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Per Quarter.
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Grantham
Grimsby
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Lincoln
Spalding
Stamford
York

Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Pea •e.

L. to S. j C. to S.
46 85 2tt Li 2
53 29
0 55 23 33
38 35
42 60 12 37
46 85 26 :11
60 35
48 56 2B 33
50 561 26 34

.. to 5.
M 26

21 98
- 21
20 24
20 27

21 25
24 2C

s. to S. I F.
3(1 40 ;
4:1
38 46

'36 42 - -
40 42 I -
- 49
36 44 - -
32 41 i -

( From the London New Price Current of May 23.)
SMAR.—This afternoon the continued public sales of Mau-
ritius and the large arrivals of West India have again occa-
sioned a dull market, the business done in both the grocery
and refining descriptions having been extremely moderate at
prices 6d. under those of Friday ; the private purchases barely
reach 400 hhds. and trs. A public sale of 120 lihds. new
Barbadoes went off at a reduction on the former sale of Is.
mid. to fine sold at 68s. to 6.55. In the Refined Sugar Market
much inactivity prevails, and prices hate still a downward ap.

ara.144,144.412ippers itattopapaltasecLasitb-nasaia436amialvarrte
decline on previous rate's of 6d. to Is. ; small sales of fine
Crushed have been made at 325., and 101 b. Hamburg Loaves
at 365., even at which rates there are now few buyers ; the
grocers have bought sparingly at a reduction on former prices
of Is., lumps that would pass the standard having been sold at
735., those rather under at 725., small lumps at 71s. to 725.,
and large at 693. to 70s. This afternoon grocers and shippers
are still reluctant buyers, and double Crushed in small parcels
has been disposed of at 31s. 6d. ; grocery goods unaltered.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the importers continued free
sellers, and the three public sales, containing 8,587 bags, went
off at a further decline of 6d. a Is. , low dingy brown sold at
435. a 445. mid., and good 48s. to Ms. ord. and mid. bright
yellow 50s. to 525. 6d., good 535. 6d. to 545., and fine 625.
to 625. 6d.

EAST INDlA.—Brown and yellow at 525. to 565., ord. grey
to good mid. white at 575. to 635. ad., and damps 535. 6d. to
595. 6d., a small portion found buyers at 545. to 555. 6d. for
mid. yellow, and 595. 6d. to 635. 6d. for mid. and good white ;
privately a few small parcels at the high duty have been taken
for export at 295. a 325. ; 2,300 bags are announced for
auction on Friday next. This afternoon the public sales of
1,100 bags Bengal sold 6d. cheaper, and went off the high
duty fine white 295. 6d. to 315., mid. 265. to 295., damps
255. 6d. to 30s.

FOREIGN.—This afternoon the public sales of 348 chests 77
bib. and 58 bags Brazil found ready buyers at Is. to Is. 6d.
advance, Bahia mid. and good dry yellow sold at 19s. to
225. 6d., mid, brown 17s. to 18s. 6d., ord. 15s. 6d. to 16s. 6d. ;
Paraiba soft yellow 15s. to 18s., low soft white 21s. to 21s. 61 ;
Pernambuco soft yellow 17s. to 20s.

MoLAssas.—St. Vincent's and Barbadoes at auction were
all taken in at 265. to 285., being Is. below former prices.
COFFEE.-Jamaica of the new crop went off with much
briskness, fine 1215., low and good mid. 965. to 108 s., good
and fine ord. 635. to 935., unclean coloury 955. to 98s. 6d.
Demerara good mid. coloury, 104 s. 6d. to 1055., mid. 925.,
unclean mid. taken in at 845.-to 85s. 6d., and 60s. to 85s. 6d.
for good and fine ord. The operations in Mocha have only
been to a limited extent at late prices, a few lots at auction
were taken in at 71s. to 735. for good yellow ; there has been
a considerable business done in Ceylon for shipping at full 4s.
advance on former rates, 465. 6d. to 525. has been paid for
good ord. This afternoon the public sales of British Planta-

tion contained 147 casks and 100 bags, the mid. descriptions
went without spirit and 3s. a 4s. cheaper, good ord. sold at
former prices, unolean and low ord. sorts were unsaleable,
Jamaica mid. went at 101 s. to 1025., low mid. 995.
COCOA.-Trinidad dark gray at 395. a 445. 6d., red 425. a
475. 6d., the remainder was taken in and withdrawn; Trini-
dad gray and fair red at 375. a 50s.
TALLOW.—There has been very little demand for P. Y. C.
for consumption, and the price has given way to 435. 9d. ; for
delivery the purchases have been limited at 41s. Gd., which is
Gd. lower.

Oii.s.—For Oils the request has been only for limited
parcels; ord. to good went at 291. to 321. ss. ; Linseed has
sold steadily at 31s.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wirmson, MAY 23. —The state of the health, both of the
King and the Queen, will prevent their Majesties going to
town to-morrow, to be present at the state ball at St. Jamos's
Palace ; the ball will nevertheless take place. His Majesty
passed a favourable night last night, and his asthmatic attack
is getting better. Sir Henry Halford, Physician to the King,
has been in attendance on his Majesty; and Dr. Chambers,
Physician to the Queen, has also been at the Castle. His
Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, and
other visitors, are expected at the Castle, on Thursday. The
Duke of Cumberland came from Kcw, to pay a visit to the
King and Queen, yesterday.
The Duke of Cumberland returned to his residence at Kew,
on Monday afternoon, from paying a visit to their Majesties at
Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness came to town yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the
Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncan-
non, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobliouse, Mr.
Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Howiek. The Council sat
two hours and a half, and immediately after it broke up Vis-
count Melbourne left town for Windsor Castle to hare an au-
di Ate° of the King.
The appointment of Mr. Theodore Fay as Secretary of the
Legation of the United States at London, has been transferred
to the Court of Berlin. _

Count Pozzo di Borg(3, the Russian Ambassador, and M.
Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, transacted business yes-
terday at the Office of the Secretary of State fur Foreign
Affairs.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent's con-
cert, on Friday next, will be attended by several hundred of
the principal nobility. Madame Pasta and Madame Grisi,
with Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache, will assist under the
direction of Signor Costa. The second concert takes place on
the 3d of next month, for which the following vocalists arc en-
gaged—viz., Mesdames Grisi, Albertazzi, and Assandri—
with Signors Rubini, Ivanhoff, Tamburini, and Lablache, also
under the direction of Signor Costa.

Queen Adelaide's Fund, established by her Majesty
about three years since, for the relief of discharged female
pauper lunatics from the Hanw•ell Middlesex County Asylum,
is, under the direction of the Committee, rapidly extending its
benevolence to the afflicted.

Must/AL.—Mr. \Vessel, the foreign music pub-
rsher, has announced a series of Soirjes, for the purpose of
giving his f, iends an opportunity of becoming acquainted with
the newest German compositions, both vocal and instrumental.
A number of eminent professional Ladies and Gentlemen have
offered their assistance, and expressed warm interest in the
success of the undertaking. The first reunion is fixed for
Saturday next, the 27th May, at Mr. Pape's Piano-forte
Rooms, Frith-street, Soho-square.
Lady Penelope d'Arcy, daughter and co-heir of
The mss, Earl of Rivers, who married Sir George Trenchard,
was left a widow at seventeen. She wedded secondly Sir John
Gage, Knt., and thirdly Sir William Hervey, Knt., of Ick-
worth, in Suffolk. This fair lady and wealthy heiress was
wooed by three suitors at the same time, and the Knights, as
in chivalry bound, were disposed to contest the prize with
targe and lance; but the lady herself forbade the battle, and
menaced the disobedient Knights with her eternal dislileasure,
promising jocularly that if they had but patience, she would
have them all in their turns ; and she actually fulfilled her
promise, for she.espoused first Sir George Trenchard of Wol-
verton—secondly Sir John Gage, of Foile—and thirdly Sir
William Harvey, of Ickworth.—Burke's Landed Gentry.

The publc meeting at Cheltenham last ✓week
made all the necessary arrangements for the erection of the
" perpetual testimonial" in celebration of her Royal Highness
the Princess Victoria's birth-day. Lieutenant-Colonel Watson
presided ; and before the meeting separated it was agreed that
an address should be drawn up and presented to her Royal
Highness on Wednesday next, at Kensington Palace by a
deputation.

I am attached to the King, and to the Lords ; but I
em more attached to the Commons; and I will adopt the say-
ing of Rumbald in the reign of Charles the Second, as re-
corded by Burnet :—" I do not imagine the Almighty in-
tended that the greatest pert of mankind should come into the
world with saddles on their backs and bridles in their mouths,
and a few ready booted and spurred to ride the rest to death.
—Vicesimus Knox.

Upon the appearance of the earlier editions of Dr.
Courtenay's works, we expressed our opinion of Dr. Courtenay's
merits as a physician,
more especially as regards the success-
ful mode of treatment he has adopted to that class of diseases
to which he has devoted his time and talents. If we may
judge from the numerous editions these works have gone
through (the one on Strictures of the Urethra, 28 editions,
and the Treatise on Syphilis, &e. &c., 19 editions), the
public and the profession have equally appreciated their
merits. The present editions contain much valuable additional
matter, and we most earnestly recommend them to general
perusal. To those who may unfortunately be afflicted with
any of the maladies on which the treat, they cannot fail to be
a source of consolation, from the many apparently hopeless
cases, which have been successfully treated, whilst from the
admonitions and warnings given they may be read with advan-
tage by everyone,