The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-25 00:00:00

NEWSPAPERS.

Returns of the Number of English Newspapers sent to, and of
Foreign Newspapers received from, the Continent of Europe,
Week by Week, from the time of giving effect to the last
Post-office Treaty with France, made up to the 31st January
last ; and a similar Return, for a similar Period, previous to
that Treaty

From the th
Treaty,
to the 3251

time of giving effect to the For a similar period previou s to the
viz. the 20th July, 1831,
Ist January,
.1337. Treaty.
English i Foreign English Foreign
Newspapers Newspapers Newspapers Newspapers
snt received sent received
to the from the to the from the
Continent. Continent. Continent. Continent.
Al.' Weeks end-
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I Number. Number. ing I Number. Number.
136 j 3,41 2,505 Jan. 12,1836 3,021 1,082
1,734 19
..D 3,43
3,573: 2,165 26
3,?85 9,440 Feb. 2
:...1 3,863 2,719 9
:... 4,143 3,112 16
~. 4,244 2,931 23
4,125 2,453 Mar. 1
4,648 3,695 8
4,461 2,8413 15
4,664 2,941 22
.... 4,768 3,473 29
.... 5,344. 4,0,42 April 5
.... 5,133 3,3:35 12
.... 4,919 3,480 19
.... 5,221 3,6,9 26
....I 5,399 3,519 May 17.
...' 5,611 4,329 10
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,I 5,719 3,6,7 17
6,1121 4,821 24
....1 5,860 3,591 31
~ 1 6,024 4,879 June 7
::1 5,635 2,204 11
.1137 (1,274 4,406 21
....1 6,316 3,473 28
.... 6,029 4,359 July 5
6,413 4,747 12
:t 6,793 4,1319 19
Post Office, March 13, 1837. C D. WAGS FAFF,
Superintending President.
Post Office, March 12, 1837. W. L MABERLY, Sec.

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Aug. '2
916
23 '
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Sept. 6
13
27

Oct. 4
11
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25
Nov. 1
8
15
22
Dec. 6
13 .

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Jan. 3,1937 6,t%74
10
17
24
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Foreign Post Office, Mal

General Post Office, Ma)

:intending President.
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lie gad in Caistor

The ancient custom of cracking t,
Church was performed as usual to a numerous company,
chiefly strangers, who came to the fair, and remained in the
town all Sunday to see it. The gad is cracked in the church
north porch three times during the reading of the first lesson,
and held over the Parson's head the whole of the time he is
reading the second lesson.-Hull Advertiser.
The meeting of the East and West Kent troops
of yeomanry cavalry, at Maidstone, is fixed for the 20th of
May. The review is to take place in the following week, at
the Mote Park, the seat of the Earl of Romney ; and it is the
Noble Lord's intention to regale the whole body of men with
a dinner on that day. Either the Duke of Wellington or
Lord Hill will review the troops. Should the weather prove
fine the spectacle will recall the recollection of the " Royal
review," which took place in the same park in 1799, when
the King and Queen and all the Royal Family, Ministers of
State, &e., reviewed there the Volunteer Associations of Kent.
A ball will be given by the officer% at Maidstone, during the
week.—Kentish Observer.
WRIT OF RIGHT.—At the Devon Assizes, on
Friday se'hnight, four Knights—Sir John Duntze, Baronet,
Sir John Duckworth, Baronet, Sir Robert Newman, Baronet,
and Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin, Knight—being summoned by
virtue of a warrant from the Sheriff of the county, appeared
in Court, each girt with a sword, to be sworn, in accordance
with the ancient ceremony. It is more than half a century
since this curious law procedure, which is the last recourse for
the recovery of real estate, has taken place in the county of
Devon ; and it may never occur again in England, as the
original statute is repealed, excepting in cases where suits
have been previously pending. The names of the parties in
the present cause are Henry Richards, demandant, and Lewis
Gidley, tenant ; the property in dispute being situated in
Clysthydon. The form of proceeding was as follows :—The
Counsel moved that the four Knights be sworn, after which
they retired to select 20 gentlemen from the Special Jury
lists, who are termed Recognitors ; the Knights then returned
into Court, and presented 12 out of that 20, who had been
elected by them at the present Assize to constitute a Jury for
the next Summer Assize ; which Jury will include the four
Knights, and will be denominated " The Grand Assize."
The attendance of the whole of the Knights (milites gla ;it)
cincti) is indispensably necessary at the approaching trial, as
the absence of one would render all the trouble and expense
incurred useless.
The following of the 13th, from Berlin, is front the
Augsburg Gazette :—" Recent accounts from St. Peters-
burgh state that the life of Prince Charles was lately in dan-
ger at a bear-hunt, but was saved by the intrepidity and judg-
ment of some other hunters. We learn also that the Empress
will immediately come into Germany, for the re-establishment
of her health by her native air, and the care and attentions of
her family. The Emperor, it is said, will join her in the
course of the spring. Before the departure of their Imperial
Majesties some grand reviews will take place in the environs
of the capital, in which 6,000 Russians and 4,000 Prussians
will take part. Preparations are being made for maintaining
a considerable army in the environs of Berlin during the ensu-
ing autumn." The same journal also has the following, dated
Lubec, 10th instant ?—" It is announced that a great change
is about to be made in the positions of the Russian troops. A
considerable army is to be moved towards the shores of the
Baltic and the Black Sea; thus indicating, on the part of the
Government, a resolution to be prepared for every event."
This county may be Conservative in a certain de-
gree, but the votes polled by Mr. Dashwood on a recent occa-
sion form the best proof that it is not so from " end to end."
—Bucks Gazette.

The Poor-law Guardians of the Wigan Union are
said to have established close Courts, excluding even the
Overseers of the Poor from their meetings. This appears
quite contrary to the present rule laid down by the Committee
of the House of Commons.

Extract of a letter, of the 12th instant, from
Nice :—The Grand Duke Michael has just quitted this city on
his way to Genoa, Florence, and Rome. This Prince who
travels under the title of Count de Romanow, refuses to receive
the honours due to his exalted station. He has appeared as a
private individual at several soirees, to which he was invited by
the Governor, the chief of the magistracy, and some foreigners
of distinction. He is universally noticed for his amiability and
interesting conversation. He is a very fine man, with a war-
like countenance, and unites with the form and manners of an
old French chevalier the decided tone of a soldier. He is par-
tial to speaking French, in which language he is a proficient;
and he constantly maintains that dignified deportment so be-
coming in a Prince. The city of Nice will long remember
his generosity, as during his stay he contributed a large suns
towards a ball for the benefit of the poor.—Galignani.
A short time since, a gentleman of " eminence"
wishing to ride a short distance, stopped a coach that was
passing, " Where to, Sir ?" asked the driver. " Oh, I ara
not going far." "We don't take'short 'uns," said the coach-
man. " Why," replied the gentleman, " I'm six foot two, and
if that a'nt long'enough, I don't know what is."

The following is an amusing and singular instance
of the prevalence of the influenza in Paris :—At the Duke do
Mortemart's the whole of the inmates of his extensive mansion
were confined to their beds. So incapable were they of moving
on one particular day, that the Duchesse, being the only per-
son preserving the use of her limbs, was obliged to take upon
herself the office of portiere, and open the door. The old.
Duke de —, who had called in vain several days, when he
recognised Madame de Mortemart, exclaimed, " At least to-
day the-portiere will not say that the Duchesse is not at home."
" I am not sure of that," answered the belle portiere, " for I
scarce know where I am."—" Nor I," rejoined the witty Duke,
" unless it be at the gate of Paradise, for there is an angel at
the door."

AUSTRIA AND TIIE AUSTRIANS.---A work of
considerable interest and importance is about to appear, we un—
derstand, under the above title, written with the especial view
of removing from public opinion the fallacies which prejudice
or injustice has long led western Europe to entertain with
respect to the people, manners, and government of this em-
pire. The author, it seems, for various reasons, declines
giving his name.

The first saurian remains were discovered in 1811
at Lyme Regis, and they continue peculiarly British, no ekele:
ton of the like kind hav►ng been found on the continent to this
day. Mr. Hawkins, born in the same year, seems to have
been fated expressly for these extinct reptiles of the old earth.
His collections are said to weigh 20 tons, and to occupy a tiu-
perficies of more than 1,000 feet.

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The following is from the Edaireur of Namur :--
" It appears that the custom of selling wives has reached the
continent from England. On Saturday a proprietor bought
the wife of a farmer at Natoye for the sum of 4,000 francs,
and 1,100 francs annual allowance for the children. The
contract was signed in a %vine-shop in that town. The woman
appeared very well satisfied with the bargain."
On Wednesday afternoon, a young sailor, doubtless
in his own opinion, a competent rider, having mounted a
horse, was galloping it through Whitefriangate, when he rode
over a boy who was in the act of stooping to pick something
up. The seaman, it is stated, had been exercising his riding
propensities with more zeal than discretion for several days.---
Hull Advertiser.
On Wednesday afternoon, about five o'eloelc, the
family of Mr. William West, a carrier, residing in Queen-street,
Hammersmith, were thrown into a state of the roost painful
excitement by the discovery that the unfortunate man had mado
a desperate attempt at self-destruction, by hanging himself to
a beam in the stable. Police constable Low, T 60, who was
on duty close by, instantly hastened to the spot and cut hint
down, when he was removed to his residence, and a surgeon
sent for, who, on his arrival, immediately opened a vein, and
adopted the usual means for restoring suspended animation,
which were attended with success, as he revived after about
two hours' exertions; but on inquiring at his residence yester-
day forenoon, it was stated that no hope of his surviving was
entertained. Mr. West, who is under 40 years of age, has for
a length of time suffered from the gout, which, added to pecu-
niary embarrassments, have, it is supposed, operated on the'
mind of the unfortunate man, and induced him to make tine
rash attempt.
A FACT FOR THE NATCRALISTS.—A cortn
'pendent informs us that he witnessed on Monday nigh'., 00
one of the docks a little above Fulton Market, a regto.-ar W.'?"
cession of the wharf breed of rats, which was spin:, five mi-
nutes in passing. The creatures passed, Qtlo by one, towards
a particular point; and, after all had passed! burhAS -correspondent.
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had the Curiosity to examine w 4peculatiou such a multitu,dc4
of the fraternity werc, k:Fott. Upon a closer examination 'tom
ascertained that tlley had obtained at entrance into a barrel of
HftiMi.ll aud soon after every Okle of the animals returned.
Vt(il Carrying a sea biseuit,„..-No, Po=i sun.