The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

STATE OF EDUCATION.

In the three months, July, August, and September,
1838, there were 27,670 couples married in England
and Wales, whose marriages were duly registered, and
copies of the registers transmitted to the General Re-
gister-office.
Of these, the number who did not write their names,
but signed with a mark, was—men, 8,733 ; women,
13,624.
The proportion per cent. of those who signed with a
mark in the whole of England and Wales, in the
metropolis, in North Wales, and in South Wales,
together with Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, is
as follows :

Men. Women. Mean,
England and Wales 32 ... 48 ... 40
The Metropolis ll ... 25 ... 18

North Wales 39 ... 70 ... 54.5
...
South Wales, including Here-
46 56 ... 51
fordshire and Monmouthshire
The above return includes all classes, and affords,
perhaps, the best test that could possibly be obtained
of the state of education as regards writing among
the adult population, and shows to what extent they
profited by such means of education as existed about
ten years ago.

LLANELLY RAILWAY.—There is little doub
but this line will be opened to the public on or abou
the Ist of January next year.

The trade at Birmingham is extremely bad ; re-
mittances to a large amount were expected by the last
Great Western from America, but none came, and even
one of the largest houses was obliged to have recourse to
the assistance of a banker.
WHEELER THE CHARTIST.—James Wheeler,
printer, of Whittle-street, Manchester, who is well
known in this town as having taken an active part in the
late Chartist agitation, and against whom an indictment
was found at the last Liverpool Assizes for sedition,
was apprehended by Mr. Beswick, on Thursday morn-
ing last, and. brought up at the Borough Court, before
C. J. S. Walkar, Esq., and John Brooks, Esq. Mr.
Beswick having stated that he took the prisoner into
custody under a Bench warrant, Mr. Walker (address-
ing ing the prisoner)--You must find two sureties ielsn
each, and be bound over yourself in 1001. VV,,,l:_co have
That is too much for a poor man like me, who "
worked hard all my life. It is too muchnfingd.moyingprnino:
thing but speaking the truth, and m
been required in all the other
Hanging-ditch, and
Oldham-street, and
prin-
ciples. Mr. Walker—Two suretiessasioonsl77ls,fheeasuhtaiev:,
their respective re
Mr. William Willis, bookselleerr,:
Mr. Abel, Heywood, booksellnto
Wheeler himself; then entered
'left th C t
cognizances ; after which theye ourlllatt
chester Guardian.
ome French officers have
Tux's, Nov. 2z.--S
to partwithwhat is •
he him-
lately been here to buy horses for the army in Algiers.
Unwilling as the Bey is. . _
self much in want of (13ein,, busy organising his army),
the requisite P
ermission has been given, and 300
Greek residents
l, it here
horses
will, it is expected, be embarked for the French
possessions
I3in`r Consul,e ase nfet ewd
thanking d aa3n.
days.
addressile
to
him for his well-timed
a
Sir . Read e,
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tib
ssful interference in behalf of the poor
Greekjustu
s gunsmith who had the misfortune accidentally
to kill a Mussulman, and was about to expiate his
involuntary offence with his life. The Russian Consul,
under whese protection the poor fellow lived, had
refused to interfere. A Maltese vessel, the S.
Crucifix, exploded here on the 10th instant. Eleven
of the crew were killed. The captain and one
of his men happened to be on shore at the time, and
thus escaped the fate of their comrades.
There will be forty tables at the Anti-Corn-law
dinner in Manchester on the 9th of January, each table
calculated to accommodate 75 persons. Tickets are
now selling quickly—a good sign, seeing that it will be
still four weeks before the dinner takes place.—Liver-
pool Chronicle.

EVIAING EDITION.