The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-09 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR;.

The average price of Alescovada Sugar, fiorn the returns made
in the week ending the sth of Sept., 1337, is 335. 34d. per Cwt.,
exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable on the Imparta-
tion thereof into Great Britain.

TORY CANVASSING.—Any body who looks
through our poll-book will be astonished to see what a
number of persona keeping beer-shopci or holding public-
houses in expectancy, voted at the last election in favour of
the Tory candidate. We ourselves were somewhat amazed,
knowing that independent voters of this class generally hold
opinions of an Ultra-Radical tendency, But it seems there
has been " re-action" amongst them, produced by causes
heretofore unintelligible ; but Mr. Cornelius Shrivel! has
" let the cat out of the bag," and has given a clue by which
the whole mystery may be unravelled. This portly gentle-
man applied to the Magistrates on Wednesday se'nnight,
for the third time, to ask a licence for his house in Upper
Russell-street. " Why," exclaimed the presiding Justice,
somewhat surprised at the man's request, ".you have been
refused twice already !" Cornelius bowed his head with
,a
modest sort of " I itnoirr have a motion," and persuasively
urged, as though this argument could not be withstood,
" But I've been promised since." The Justices upon the
Bench were evidently taken aback at this bold assertion,
for none of them had the least recollection of having given
Mr. Shrivell, either by themselves or their friends, any
pledge of the sort ; and Mr. Seymour therefore advised
Mr. Shrivel! to find out the Magistrate who had deceived
' him, and bring an action for " breach of promise." It is
a curious fact that Mr. Cornelius Shrivell, who in 1833
voted for Wigney and Pechell, on the last occasion gays his
support to Sir Adolphus Dalrymple. The coincidents of
Mr. Shrivell's " re-action" vote, his having been " promised
since," and the breaking up of the Tory influence oa the
Brighton Bench, are very' remarkable. We merely draw
the attention of our readers to the facts, from which they
will form their own conclusions.--Brig/icon Guardian.

About twelve years ago a young man, then a
teacher, wrote a tragedy, in five act's, the hero of which
WAS Philip 111, King of France. The author sent his
manuscript to the Committee of the Theatre Francais, who
acknowledged the receipt of the work, but took no further
notice of it. Philip the Third, quietly inurned in one of
the cartons of the theatre, was denied even the honour of
being read. The author soon forgot his tragedy, the more
so as he had meanwhile engaged on a commercial career.
A few days ago a letter was brought him, bearing the sig-
nature of Vedel, director of the Theatre Francais. Nothing
was further-from our author's thoughts than his Philip the
Third, and yet to the offspring of his youthful muse he was
indebted for his new correspondent. N. Vedel, in looking
through the manuscripts neglected by his predecessor, had
found this tragedy, had read it, an! felt convinced it was
no ordinary production. The Committee were of the
same opinion, and the tragedy being unanimously approved
of, was ordered to be put into rehearsal immediately.—
Natinnal.

-A practice, it seems, exists in Mark-lane, which, it
has been justly observed, would be " more honoured in the
breach than the observance." It is thus that purchases
made en one market day may be cancelled if notice be given
of the intention by 10 o'clock on the next. By this means
neither buyers or sellers are ever at a certainty, and the
price of bread is raised to the public on a nominal rise of
corn, which in reality may or may not take place.

Between four and five o'clock on Friday afternoon
last, while two apprentices of the late Mr. Joseph Eliot,
blacksmith, of North Shields, were arranging titer master's
stock, preparatory to a sale of it, they met with three or
four bomb-shells. They took hold of one of there, whether
with a view of getting the powder out of it, or with what
other object we know not ; and while Southern, the elder
of the young men, held it by a chisel fixed in the hole, and
tiro other struck it with it hammer, the shell exploded. and
carried away half of Southern's hand, and seriously injured
his bowels and the lower parts of his body. He was taken
to the infirmary at Newcastle, when it was found necesulry
immediately to amputate the arm lieloc.v the elWwl "d we
rear there is great out ot• his recovery, 'lda of the shell],
after passing through the roof of the slop, fell in 1-)°r"."'
§trpct and another piece fell in Millmrneplapc, f4tuoately
doing no damage beyond breaking &law squares of glass in
a shop in Milburn-place-bank.--T fee Mercury,