The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-30 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(T/11 DAY.

CORN EXCHANGE.
Last week's arrivals were small of most kinds of Grain, and
here was a short market. Wheat firmly maintained last Mon-
day's prices. Fine dry Barley Is. per quarter dearer, other
kinds unaltered. 014 Hens as last quoted, new, being tender,
full ls. per quarter cheaper, Boiling 13,:as declined Is. per
quarter, and Grev Peas hardly maintained their late value.
fhe demand for Oats was fair, and prices were well supported.
In Flour a moderate trade, at former prices.
PRIG=S ON BOA RD OF Culp.
Wheat, Red (old) ......... 555. 7.:5. Beans, Small
,now) 44, 40,
lit----Whe (old) ..... .658. 80s. ----___ (old)
368 99.
(1839) ....... 548. fO,. --- Tick (new)
42,.441
---- Fine ............ GIN. 6.15. •---_. (old)
19, 4ls
----Superfine.„...cB4 SS.. -- Harrow (new) ;tis 46,
----- Wh te (19.3.0)....608 r 4.1 --------- (old)• -..-4
----.. Flee ............ ilne. Ili- Brank
--- Superfine ...... 728 75, Oats, Feed
---Foreign tree ...... 6i). 5.2..
Barlettyr. ............................. 468 40s. - Poland 26,,.2,..):.
y ......................... 30s 38,. New ........ 2g., 42
........ s.
---. Grinding ~,,,,,,,,• 308 268. - P0tat0e;:77,4,;••• '2B-.32.
----.. New .............
___,''3B.•
_27%
-. Making ............. 384. 448.
.......... 20..32,
Malt
565. 058, - scotch . .........
22..
.. .
25,
2, :
--- Fine New.. rxis. 745. - frith ....... *;;sack)....ss.„‘B2,
Pease, Grey, New 365. :38s. Flour 'P!ronnkL 34,.5e;
-- Maple New . ...... :".-Bs. 40,
28s, 40,. -----__.....- Ttrth Country,.,. LO, .',2.:
--- White
. ...
--- Boilers 40s. 4'2.. Bran 9, 10
LAST `tvic, K
Wheat.
~0•? 4r, 9-0 Ir.' 3,1258ack5,
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON Otirtutrthe:
3'352 qrs -‘l'
t 74 9 541 3,
and the supply
1.70 bst) ; 1,472 . rls
5,260
atttr~c©~
was brisk, at a general ad-
SMITHFIVIatt MARKET.
of all desert of cattle
There was auigopo:
hoice Beef at 54• per stone, and the inferior suits at
vance-c
The artvance in Alutton was
3s. 104. per stone.
not so great.
:}trirt, a
y
In Veal a fair trade was done.
_ ouns• Porkershigher
Price per stone of 8 lbs., sitAing the offal-Beef 3,
rates.
Veal 4s. 6d. t , Bd. to ss. 6d. ; Q .),..s 6tl, ; Mutton 4s. 4d. to ss.
44. ; Pork 4s. 64. to 6S. tIA u
,-,.. Heart of cattle at market-
Beasts 2,769, Sheep I4.aita, Calves 487, Pigs 409.
BILLINGSGATE.
The supplies were moderate, and so was trade ;
prices un-
altered. Turbot, ss. to 235. ; Carp, 2s. Cod, o
tos. to
123. ; sume
per bushelSal at market, price 35. per lb. ; O‘sters 425.
485.;
Iod. to Is. 6d, Whitings, 44 to Bd. ; and Haddocks,
BERMONDSEY WATER-SIDE POTATOE MARKET.
The supplies were good of most descriptions, but there was
not much activity in trade. The improved state of the weather
eagled the condition of potatoes to be better. The following
prices ruled ; York Reds, 755, to SOs. ; Devons, 625. to 655. ;
Jerseys,
555. to 00s. ; Wi.!.l,each, 50s. to 58s.

English .....
Irish
Foreign

HOET.
There was but little businessMAßK doing in this market. t,tit former
prices were mostly well maintained. The only kinds sold w ere
coloary and good qualities.

EVENTING RDITioN.

DAMN Nilo:,

LViac a Le!tei in The Sun ,lai, ht•acied Bishop
Philpotts Again !"

Christmas Day ! By Saints of old,
'T:s a day of joy, we're told,
A day of hope—a day of mirth,
Tr all who travail upon earth,
But—unless I wholly err—
Our modern Saint, Saint Exeter,
Tells us 'tis a day of gloom,
Dark as the portals of the tomb,
A day—not of benign salvation,
But—Episcopal damnation

" Hope," the dying Saviour cried
To the sinner at his side,
" Hope, for wide my Father's Hall,
There, there's room enough for all I"
But Saint Philpotts, with his eye
Uplifted proudly to the sky,
Reversing quite the Saviour's prayer,
For " Hope," straight substitutes " Despair,"
Bars the portals of salvation,
And fiercely thunders forth " Damnation I"

" Damnation l" 'tis the bigot's tool
Wherewith he scares the craven fool ;
The last, faint, hopeless, rallying cry
Of stern prelatic tyranny,
Atid falls most aptly from the lips
Of one whose name is in eclipse ;
Who hurls on each unlucky elf
The curse be fears will reach himself,
And fain would send him to that clime
Whither, in due course of time,
With priestly hate and spleen o'erflowing,
He himself, he knows, is going I

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SIINDAY.—Her Majesty and her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine Ser-
vice, this morning, in St. George's Chapel Royai.
The Rev. Mr. Musgrave preached the Sermon from
the first Book of Samuel, chap. 2, and part of verse 30.
The Rev. C. Knyvett chaunted the first part of the
Service ; the Rev. Dr. Goodall, and the Rev. Mr,
Musgrave, officiated at the Altar. The Te Deum and
Jubilate was Nares in C. The. Communion Se-rvice
Nares in F. The Anthem, " I know that my Re;icemer
liveth" (Handel), was very nicely sung by Master
Foster.

The Royal Suite included the Marchioness of Nor-
manby, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss Pitt, Lord
Byron, Mr. Rich, and the Hon. Colonel Grey.
The Queen and the Royal party walked on the Ter-
race of the Castle for some time on returning from St.
George's Chapel.

Her Mjesty, attended by her usual suite, rode on
horseback in the Great Park yesterday for an hour and
a half.

The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam-
bridge visited her Majesty, the Queen Dowager. on
Saturday at Marlborough House.
The Princess Augusta attended Divine Service yes-
terday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's*
The 'Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Vane from
St. John, chap. iv., v. 24. The Lessons were read by
the Rev. Mr. Hall, the Prayers by the Rev. Mr.
Knapp, and the Communion Service by the Rev.
Messrs. Hall and Knapp. The Anthem We will
rejoice in thy salvation" (Croft), was sung by Messrs.
J. B. Sale .Hawkins, and Hobbs. Sir George Smart
presided a"the Organ. Miss Vyse was in waiting on
the Princess Augusta.
The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam-
bridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning ie
Grosvenor Chapel.
The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr
and Col. Cornwall, honoured the Haymarket Theatre
with their presence on Saturday evening.
The Princess Augusta and the Duke of Cambridge
honoured Covent Garden Theatre with their presence
on Saturday evening.
The Council of the British Medical Association,
consisting of Dr. Webster the President, Professor
R. E. Grant, H. Smith, Esq., William Farr, Esq., Dr.
R.. D. Thomson, R. Davidson, Esq., George Pitcher,
Esq., Thomas Wakley, M.P., E. Crisp, Esq., William
Eales, Esq., George Parsons, Esq., J. Howell, Eager
G. P. James, Esq., E. Evans, Esq,, R. L. Hooper,
Esq., Dr. M. Hall, Dr. D. M.D.vao, J. M. Beane'
Esq., J. N. Bainbridge, Esq., and C. H. Rogers Har-
rison, Honorary Secretary, had an interview with the
Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Home Office._
Despatches from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of
the Mauritius, were received on Saturday at the
Colonial Office.

A deputation on the subject of the Police Bill from
the Borough of Mkt-At-bone, consisting of Mr. G. A.
Young, Messrs. H. Biers, Clapp, J. Loveridge, George
Glasier, Charles Marks, William Basebi, John Thom—
son, and J. W. Robinson, had an interview on Saturday
at the Home Office, with the Marquis of Normanby.

The Earl 'of Shaftesbury has a select party at
St. Giles's House, Cranbourn. Lord rend Lady Ashley
are stayinc, at the above seat.
The Earl and Countess of Clon mell, Viscount
and Viscountess Downes, Mr. Archdall, M.P., Colonel
and Mrs. Fleming, Sir George Colthiurst, and a select
party, are visiting the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Conolly,
at Castletowne, their seat in Ireland..
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon were ex—
pected to arrive in town last evening, from Paris, where
the Noble Earl and his amiable (;ountess arrived early
in the past week, from a tour in )Maly.
His Excellency the Baron Brunow visited the
whole of the corps diplomatic:sir on Friday last.
His Excellency Baron Gelsdorfr, the Saxon
Minister, arrived at Mivares Hotel, on Friday, from
Dresden, to resume his diplomatic duties, after an ab-
sence of several months.

His Excellency Baron Nieumann has arrived at
Chandos House, from a visit to Visentant Palmerston
and the Dowager Countess Cowper, at Broadlands,
Riots.

The Duke and Duchess of Br dford and the
Marquis of Tavistock have returned to Woburn Abbey,
from a visit to Baron and Lady Parka at Anythill.
The Duke and Duchess intend residing principal' at
Oakley House.

The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, ac-
companied by the Marquis of Chandos and Lady A.
Grey!lle, returned to Wotton on Tuesday last, from
Avington House, Hants. The Noble Duke and
Duchess, before leaving the above seat, mused a great
quantity of clothing, suitable for the season, to be dis-
tributed among the poor in the netighbowthood.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton left town on
Saturday for Walmer Castle, the. seat of the Duke of
Wellington, in Kent. The funtral o f the late Lady
Emily Agnes Grey Egerton toot plane on Friday last
at Grosvenor Chapel.
Major Wildman left Mir art's Hotel on Saturday
for Newstead Abbey, on a visit to Colonel and Mrs.
Wildman, who have returned to that romantic seat,.
from a tour in Italy.
Mr. C. W. Packe, 1V1.p.,
handsome sum of 1001. towards. the relief of the dis-
tressed working classes of Leic ester.
DISTURBANIZE IN TH E FLEET PRISOK.-----
On Friday a prisoner in the Flee
to the Marshal,'
:asnamsuedbscori:sedessotnb
insulted some visitors, who complained
and the offender was summoned totbe lobby to account;
for his conduct, but he refused to attend. The officers:
of the prison then west to coal pel him to go, but O'Ses-.
sons locked himself in his room and opporied their en--
p
trance The police force was. then "lied in, and by a'
got him to open the door, but, on their at-.
%ticked them with a dagger
temptingcknitiytea
police
nci t
drove
o takew ere eUre'd-, who lodged. the prisoner ice
themhir
the strong-room, wherern o out,
h
eat
and ultimata, • twenty of thy
he now remains.. On Saturday,
at the election for ra,,. ast
ket.m. took pow
for and against Q's er. the prat ,Hersto
essons, and several disturbances a
were soon quelled.
CURIOUSpIace, which •
t n
ARCUNISTANCE.--Shl ortly after tbo.
a gentleman was malt dos no from
and Huntingdon mail had lbeen robbed 113
L ond o n
toJanuaryCaxton,
Lst,
re-
specting in Cambridgeshire, to mal Le inquiries
speeting the robbery. While sta •
ying at the inn at
Caxton he was told that a letter-bag had been found
by some workmen when 'dulling dow a an old s,table
attached to the inn, in the space beta teen the cell
of the stable and the loft abov e. The 8 end
London
tlernan immediately inquired after the brig, and fel% a
that it was the London and. 011erton one, gu id co
rl ntainettent
number of letters from that place to J-4( m-00, Wnr„l„. ei
in the character of the time, and dated. I i 703. „", --t,,r
the letters was directed to be left at , the uo,Prh-e
Coffee-house, St. Paul's Churchyard, London' a
favourite haunt of the celebrated
people of Caxton generally bell( ye that this inn was
Die} . Turpia ; and
there can he little doubt that the b;lgi vas stolen from
the mail in 1703, and after the cas b if.. contained bas
beenabstracted, concealed where it was found. It t. "a
remained undiscovered for a perio' I of 136 years.--*
Derbyshire Courier. _

At the last siting of the Act thettly of Sciences,
M. Arago announced an important improvement in• the
process of the Daguerreotype. H about oit has bee nn e.
cessary, in order to give the gold.
Colour ed coat of w• dLree
r
to the silvered plate, to expose it for e some length °.'
time
to the vapour of iodine in 4 box, in which the che-
mical mical substance was placed., B tt e new mode
stead of placing the iodine. ;
di ti,),4
Y- be x, a plate is irrsa
impregnated with the ',opour., r lid this is placed lobe
flat hex within ball an inch of c ,Ibe: plate on whiob ! _
drawing is to betp.lten. The b, 'X is then shut, and pr minutes the silvered plate 1) as acquired the Pr°P..
tint. M. Dilguerre hopes soon to simplify the preealiY
7
of the mercurial vapour after drawing, in an eq
u
satisfactory way.—Galignani's Messenger.

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Viscount and Viscountess Eastnor have arrived
at Drayton Manor, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady
Peel, from their villa, at Leamington Spa.
CHNSTER TowN COUNCIL. —The banquet we
announced a fortnight since, has been fixed for the 3d
i.anuary next. Amongst the distinguished individuals
invited, are his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex,
the Most Noble the Marquis of Westminster, the Lord
Bishop, Lord Dinorben, Lord Combermere, the Mem
bars for the County, the Members for the City, the
Recorder, the City Magistrates, Lord Mostyn, Sir
T. M. Stanley, Bart., Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, the
Clerk of Peace for the City, the Clerk of the
Peace for the County, Dr. Thackeray, Dr. Edwards,
Dr. L. Jones. Dr. Phillips Jones, the Major Comman-
dant of the Garrison, Major Bailey of the Artillery,
C. Dundag, Esq., M.P , R. G. Temple, Esq., Sir it.
Buckley, Bart., G. Johnson, Esq., the Collector of the
Customs and Excise, Ray. W. Clarke, &c. &c. Covers
t will be laid for about 100 ; and the banquet is expected
to be of the most superb description. Our readers are
,aware that the Chester Council set an example to other
Cxporate bodies, by defraying the expenses of these
entertainments out of their own private funds.—
Chester Ckroniole of Friday last.
THE AucHTErtARDEE CASE —A summons
has been served at the instance of the Earl of Kinnoull
and the Rev. Mr. Young on the Rev. Mr. Ferguson
and others, members of the Presbytery of Auchterar-
der, " for 5,0001. in name of damages and in reparation
of the wrong done to, and injury and damage sustained
\
by, the Earl of Kinnoull, in respect of the illegal re-
fusal of the defenders to take trial of the qualifications
of the Rev. Robert Young as presentee to the church
land parish of Auchterarder ;" for " 8,000/. in name of
damages to Mr. young, in consequence of his hiving
h eon illegally, and through the wrongful refusal of the
,ik fenders to discharge their duty by taking trial of his
qL nllifications, in terms of the judgments of the Court
of ,Session and the House of Lords, kept out of pos-
sessi, In of the stipend, manse, and glebe of tbe parish
of Aochterardn ;" for " 2,0001. in reparation of the
injury done to hie character and usefulness, and to his
:talus .in the Church of Scotland, as a solatium for the
injury done to his feelings by anti through the illegal
)refusal ,of the defenders to implament the judgments
libelled e'' and for " 1,0001., more or !ess, as the ex-
penses of process to follow hereon."--Edinburgh
Courant.
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PENNY -POSTA GE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Ste,—Allow me through the medium of your co-
lumns to call attention to one or two points in the
Treasury Minute :-
Ist. It is stated that the stamps by which prepay-
ment is to be made will not be ready for some time,
but that the measure itself is to he brought into opera-
tion on the 10th of January. Now, Sir, will it not be
quite impracticable for the people at the Post-office to
receive the pence on, mark, and take account of every
single letter out of the immense number which will then
be posted? I cannot help thieking, that it will be
found so, in London particularly ; and, throughout the
country great inconvenience will be felt by the public
in having to pay a penny at the Post-office with every
letter they send, while the Postmasters will have to be
at their office windows from morning till night in addi-
tion to the increased trouble of taxing, sorting, and
weighieg so many more letters than they have been
accustomed to. In my opinion the success of the now
measure very much depends on the plan of pre-pay-
men. by stamps being introduced simultaneously with
the reduction to one penny, and unless it be adopted,
rely on it there will be endless confusion and serious
disturbance to the correspondence of the country.
2d. In reference to closing the letter boxes an hour
earlier than heretofore. This may at first perhaps
be found advisable, but surely, eventually, the public
will not thus be inconvenienced, or the advantages of
the new system will incur a serious drawback. If
stamps be used there will be no trouble of taxing, and
certainly by having more hands to do the work, the
same time may be afforded as at present.
While on this subject, you will allow me, Sir, as one
practically acquainted with the details of the Post-
office business, to allude to what may appear a trifling
matter, but which really deserves Mr. Hih's conside-
ration ; I refer to the present mode of conveying letters
in leathern bags tied with a string, a plan which occa-
sions much delay in operation, and is at once clumsy
and insecure. Could not something in the way of boxes
with Bramah locks be used, into which letters might
be sorted at the Post-office where they are posted ready
in some measure, for the delivery on arrival at their
destination ? As articles of value, and requiring care
will now be sent, it will be apparent how desirable it
is that some more suitable mode of carriage should be
adopted than that of clumsy bags, which arc often trod-
den info a mail-boot, by which letters are defaced and
frequently torn.
I merely throw out these crude hints in order to
draw public attention to them as well as that of the
authorities. Trusting they may be improved upon,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Dec. 28, 1839. G. B. T.