The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-10 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Isaac Drew, a man in tattered garments, was
charged with preaching in the open air. At three
o'clock in the morning he commenced preaching in
one of the narrow courts in the Mint. He was sur-
rounded by half-:t-dozen drunken people, who inter-
rupted the preacher, and endeavoured to drown his
voice by mimicking end shouting out while he was
holding forth. The prisoner was so drunk that,
when desired by a policeman to come down from his
elevated position, he tumbled into the mud.
The MAGISTRATE asked the deferdant what trade
he followed besides that of preaching ? Defendant—
I am a pig-killer, your Worship, and the morning in
question I got up fo'to kill a pig, but, afore I went
to work, I thought as how I might read a prayer,
and so I gets my book, and out I goes to the gash
afore the house, and begins for to read out a bit,
but that ere policyman comes up, and, in a roughish
indecent-like kind of a manner, tells me to have done,
and so as how I did not leave off momently, he
grips me tight, heaving me like a bunch of cat's
meat into a barrow, and hauls me off to the watchus.

The MAGISTRATE remarked that three o'clock in
the morning was nn unseasonable hour to commence
praying, and fined him five shillings for drunkenness.
The defendant, on leaving the office, declared
that, as long as he lived, he would never make
an-
other attempt to reform the bad and immoral habits
of the many sinners 1010 dwelt in the Mint.

THE MARKETS.

COAL. MAR
Adair's 30s. 0(1.
Beaumont 27 6
Charlotte
East Purcy„......--* 28 0
liebburn Main 31 3
Holywell. 3O 0
Kenton West 39 6
Killingworth 30 9
Ord's Redhugh 27 0
Percy 29 6
larilield
Townley 2B 0
Wylam
Walls End Bell and Co. 32 0
Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 31 3
Ditto Bewicke and Co..— 32 6.
Walls End Brown's 32 0
Ditto Burraton 31 3
Ditto 28 0
Ditto Cram1ingt00.......... 27 0
Ditto Callerton —..-- 29 0
Ships at market, 7634—Shii

KET.—Juue 9.
Walls End Newmarch.... 325. Oil.
Ditto Gosforth 33 0
Ditto Hotspur,----- 31 3
Ditto Northumberland 30 9
Ditto Perkins and C 0... 31 3
Ditto Walker 32 6
Walls End Hetton 34 0
Walls End Larlibton---- 33 9
Walls End Stewart's ..- 34 0
Russell's Hetton's W.E 33 9
Ditto Russell's Lyon's-- 33 0
Blyth *NM* 30 0
Culm Trimsaram 27 0
Fordel 39 0
Hartley
I Silkstod

Bluth Trader —.

25 6
26 9
31 3
20 0
18 0
1934.

31 6

29 0

Liadell's Trader.

Wylam Trader

Hebbnrn small

Old Etherley small

rs *old, 5634 -:--Unsol

CMINTRY CORN MARKITS DURING THE

WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. r. s.
Abingdon.--..—.. 55 62 32 38 21 32 42
Andover. 55 65 22 34 20 M 52
Birmingham...—. 55 66 32 38 28 30 53
Bridport 56 74 32 39 25 30 54
Cirencester 48 tis 20 37 18 23 40
Faringd0n........... 54 80 35 40 26 38 46
Guildford .--. 48 74 24 35 20 30 42
Henley _ 54 83 30 35 29 30 40
Hereford 64 84 38 45 Gti 40 (40
Hi gwor t h 62 80 32 42 28 34 56
Maidenhead 65 84 28 38 22 51
Oakingham ......—. 56 70 30 36 18 32 42
Reading 41 86 18 41 16 31 44
56 68 27 37 20 28 50
Southampton 7O 37 40 28 32 42
Stroud
Tewkesbury 65 78 40 43 30 38 44
Uxbridge 48 74 21 32 19 32 41
Wantage.--...... 46 73 20 31 16 28 44
Warminster 41 74 21 42 24 30 46
Windsor ..........—.... 48 84 20 34 15 28 40
Worcester.--....... 60 63 :32 36 24 26 52
LEWES MARKET.—June 8.
White Wheat (per quarter) £3 3 0 to 10 0
Red ditto 2 18 0 3 4 0
Barley
Oats, New 1 1 0 1 5 0
Beans 1 16 0 2 0 0
Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousand.

CHELTENHAM MARKET.—June 8.
Per Bushel. a. d. to a. d. Pet lb. d. to d.
Wheat
Barley
Oats
Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb 0 0
Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork .
... 5 6

Hay 31. los. to 3/. 15s. per ton.

HULL MARKET.—June 8.
This market has been met to-day with only a moderate
supply of Wheat from the farmers ; the supply this week
from abroad is only limited, and the demand for either is
very trifling ; yet, on the business done, an advance of Is.
per qr. has been submitted to. The holders, especially of
foreign, are firm, and the anticipation of better prices
general. There is some little enquiry for lock Wheats ; the
prices demanded are less the duty, but not much passing.
There is scarcely any Oats offering' either English or
foreign, and prices without alteration ; very little passing
in Oats under lock. No Barley offering, and prices
nominal. Beans are held at late prices, and but little pas-
sing. Linseed is held firmly at the quotations below.
Very little passing in Rapeseed, and prices without al-
teration. _ _

-- -----
Wheat, Old —s. 60s 68s New —s 56s 634
Foreign —s. 635. 665. ln bond... —s. —s. —s.
Oats, Poland —s. 20s. Ns. Old --s. —s. 263.
Small or Feed.... —s. 123. 188. -s. —II. —s.
Foreign —s. 20s. 235.
Barley, Norf. & Suf. ... —s. 30s. 355. Linc. & Wold —s. 30s 350.
Foreign
Beans 31s. 38s. 425. Foreign .. —s. 303. 365.
Pease, White —s. 3'2s. 375. Grey --s. -s. —s.
Taros —s 308. 365. Foreign —s. 265. 30s.
Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —/. 281. 311.

,KETS.—June 2.

DUMFRIES MA
s. d. 8. d. s. d. s. d
Wheat, Imp. Bush... 79to80Butter,16oz
Barley 39 40 Eggs, dozen OO 04
Oats 32 39Beef, per lb.
Flour, 141 b.
Oatmeal "2 20 Veal O3 04
Potatoes, cwt.

Among the emigrants who have of late left
this part of the country for America, a considerable num-
ber have gone from the town of Lanark and neighbour-
hood. Among them there has been a great proportion of
young men. In the beginning of this week no fewer than
thirty individuals left that district with the intention of
sailing from Greenock with the George Canning, lying
at that port.— Glasgow Chronicle.
A well-dressed man threw himself from the
parapet of Waterloo-bridge between one and two o'clock'
on Tuesday morning. A passenger gave the alarm to
TYRRELL, the toll-keeper, but the tide was running
strong, and no waterrnan at hand. A girl of the town'
made three attempts to drown herself in the course of the
night at the same place, but was prevented by the police,
and at length lodged in the watch-house.

rostoPrlct.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
PROPOSED UNION OF GENERAL POST AND TWOPENNY'

POST RECEIVING HOUSES, AND ATIOLISHINO THE ofricm

OF COMPTROLLER OF THE TWOPENNY POST DEPART.

DIENT.

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The Twenty-first Report of the Commissioners
of Revenue Inquiry, lately published by order of the
House of Commons, relates entirely to the Post-
Office Department, in the management of which
some improvements are suggested. It recommends;
that the General Post letters and Twopenny Post:
letters should be received at the same houses, anti
that in each division there should be at least one:
•üb-sorting office, where letter•carriers might attends,
for the purpose of sorting the letters received, anal
thereby greatly abridging the time necessary for that
purpose, previous to their despatch from the, General
Pos!-Office.

The following extracts from the Report refer to
these suggested changes :
" The evidence of the acting officer at the General
Post-office at Charing-cross seems to favour, on
grounds not hitherto urged by us, our recommendtv-
tion to unite the duties of collecting the General:-
Post and Twopenny Post correspondence at the'
same receiving-houses. The business connected'
with the General Post correspondence commences,
at a late period of the day, prior to which there
little employment for the officiating personc. It is
within that period that the greater portion of the
Twopenny Post correspondence is received; in dis--•
posing of which, the services of these persons, now
partially lost by being made applicable exclusively.
to the business of the General Post, we conceive
might be made usefully available.
" Without entering into more minute details of
the duties performed in the Twopenny Post receiv-
ing-lionses, it would occur to us to propose a reduc-
tion of the total number of receiving-houses, and the. •
establishment of at least one in each division, which
should be considered a sub-sorting or sub-office, •
where a sorting might be effected (if not by a re-
ceiver) by letter-carriers attending for the purpose,
as suggested in our Eighteenth Report, or by other
responsible persons belonging to the establishment.
# •

" As it is our intention to propose the diseonti-
nuance altogether of the Office of Comptroller of
the Twopenny Post Department, in Gerrard-street,
Soho, (Mr. Musgrave) we must advert to the very
important duty which is described as belonging to.
him by the senior clerk, of regulating the town and
country letter-carriers' walks; to see what "alteration,
can be made for the ,benefit of the public. Front
the evidence above referred to, it is apparent that
although the checking and controlling the expend],
ture is enumerated among his duties, the Comptrol-
ler contributes very little towards any inveitigatiew
of the necessity of the expenditure, or of the accu-
racy of the charges; and though it is stated that
the warrants for the payments prepared in the,
Comptroller's office pass through the Secretary's-
office, and are seen by the Assistant-secretary, they
do not seem to have been subject to the scrutiny or
controul of any superior officer."
The Commissioners, in conclusion, recomiriend,,.
the abolition of the following offices :—Of Comp-
troller, salary and emoluments, 8531. 6s. Bd.; the.
First Assistant-clerk, 2151.; Second and Third
Clerks, 864 and 801.; the Office of Accountant,
•1001.; First Clerk, 1401.; Second, 1001.; Collector,
2201.; three Sub-Collectors at 1951., 1304, and .
100/. a-year ; and they suggest that the numbers of
all others should be rendered proportionate to the
wants of the service. The whole amount thus
saved will be about 2,5001. a-year.

COURT DINNER AT ST. PETERSBURGH.

The women all sat on one side, and the men on
the other, a very barbarous, unmeaning, ungallant
mode of accommodating friends; in one respect it
has an advantage, which is, the having a very pretty
object before your eyes; and no spur in life is equal
to having a very pleasant picture constantly in view•
These maidens, as aforesaid, all wore the order of
St. Catherine. A young and very pretty maid, in
answer to a question, relative to the star, said that
she was a Major-General--this was a piece of infor-
mation which accounted at once for half the mistakes
of the first Russian campaign, as I concluded the
commanding officers were generally old women.
The repast was sumptuous, of course, every luxury
of life seemed abundant, and wines of all kinds
sparkled in the glass; but I should say the femalp
part of the society were not half so well behaved
as the men—l mean according to those little nice
distinctions which mark the difference between
well-bred and vulgar people, such, for instance, as
eating, or conveying the food into one's mouth with
a knife as broad as a shovel, or as sharp as a
lancet ; seizing a carafe, and instead of allowing
the limpid stream to run silently and elegantly into
the glass, turning the glass mouth of the bottle sud-
dtn'y over, and allowing the water to go any where
but to its proper destination; cutting hunches of
bread &c.; but the most amusing part was the
finale. We bad drunk the health of poor Constan-
tine, it being his birth-day, in solemn silence, being
a great deal too knowing to wish him to have his own
before the sledge roads were formed. When the Em-
press suddenly rose, I was instantly as upright
as a hop-pole ; but my fat friend, and some
of the delicate maidens, made a regular seizure of
the bons-bons, sweetmeats, &c., in which they were
assisted by the servants, who did not exactly admire
this purloining of what they considered their own.
I never saw such a disgraceful scramble, female
Major-Generals, Lieutenant-Colonels- in petticoatr.
Chamberlains with their useless embroidered keys,
and all other ranks, actually pocketing the remnants :
" eat fair, but pocket none," was unknown to these
harpies, and it finished by our all jumbling out of
the room, with a rush somewhat resembling that
exhibited at the Lord Mayor's feast some few months
ago.—Anecdotes of Russia in the New Monthly
Magazine.

BIRTHS.

On the 9th inst. at Clipham-coturnon, Mrs. T. An-
derson, of a son.

On the Sth inst. the lady of J. Chitty, jun., Esq. of
Great Coram-street, of a daughter.
On the Sth inst. at Hampstead, Mrs. E. Toiler, of a
daughter.
On the 9th inst. Mrs. R. Aylwin, of Nelson-square, of
a daughter.
On the 9th inst. in Hanover terrace, the lady of A.
Bosanquet, Esq., of a daughter.
At the Presidency, Demerara, the lady of his Honour
Charles Wray, of a son.