The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-14 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

RAY MARKETS.—(Atoer Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND.
Coarse heavy Lowlan d Meadow Hay„..,, .£ 0
0 4 0 t. £4, 5
New Meadow Hay 0 5
4 100
Useful Old Ditto 4
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay •4 10 415
4 15 5 10
Clover Hay
Oat Straw ...... ...XI 14 to £1 161 Wheat Straw ll6 1I:
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £4 0 to £4 5
00 0 0
!dew Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto 4 5 410
Fine Uplansl Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clever Ha extra fine ......£5 le Generally .. ...... 410 5 0
Oat Straw 'l 12 '..£ I 141 Wheat Straw ll4 116
WHITECHAPEL.

Coarse Meadow Hay ..i4 0 to £4 5
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Itye.grass Hay
Clover Hay
Old Straw . ..£1 10 to £1 12 l Wheat Straw

COAL MAR
Per Ton. s. A.
Chester Main
Leaze's Main ....... l9 6
Pr saw 2l 9
Russell's High Main l9 6 1
South Hartley 22 0
Willington 22 l,
Wylana 22
Walls End Chirton l9 6
Walls End Gosforth ' W 6
Walls End Grace 6:9 y
Walls End Heaton 23 0
Walls End Hotspur .. .
Walls End Killingworth
Walls End Bensham
Walls End Walker 22
6
Ships arrived since

t KET.— Dec. 13 .
Per Ton
L .1.
Walls End Belmont
Walls End Braddyll's Hettou 23 6
Walls End Haswell
23 6
Walls End Lambton .13 6
6
Walls End Stewart's t.,3
Walls End Butterknowl
Walls End Adelaide 22
Walls End Gordon "2 6
Wally End South Durham.... 2
9
Walls End Tees 'A 0
Walls End Devonshire 2l 6
Blythe i9 ti
Cowpen 2l
6
Elsicar
last market-day, 28

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEE

Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. I Beans. Pease.
I Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. 0. to s. a. to s. a. to s.
44 50 30 , 34 '22 . 30 38
Andover 47 52 29 31 25 43
Birmingham 35 48 30 40
26 14 2
39 30 '2 33
Bridport ............... 38 50 32 36
Cirencester 44 51 27 32 20 25 32 40
Faringdon--.—. 35 46 213 30 26 30 46
Guildford ............ 38 54 28 35 20 30 40
42 58 26 32 23 26 43
Hereford 36 49 26 32 22 29 411 40
Hig h wort h 42 60 32 42 28 34 511
Maidenhead 32 58 24 343 20 28 31 44 34 38
M0nm0uth......—... 46 43 32 34 22 29 34 40
Reading 34 57 25 35 12.) 27 .33 42 35
44 54 30 34 20 23 41 46
Southampton 45 sn. 33 40 28 33 42
Stroud
Tewkesbury 59 35 22 32 40
Uxbridge 40\ 48 28 32 17 28 40 42
Wantage—....... 32 52 24 34 20 25 33 42 33 48
Warminster 30 40 27 34 22 26 36 40
21 22
W0rce5ter.—.......... 53 51 32 36 30 32 46 146 48
LEWES MARK.EI.—Dec.
Per Quaver. s. d. to s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. to sd.
Wheat. White ... 56 0 53 0 Oats lB 6 21 0
qel

Per Quaver.
Wheat, White .
..—.— Red

er. s. d. to s d.
.. 18 6 21 0
...32 0 34 0
us. per Thousamd.

~ 56 0 59 00,
.51 0 54 0 Pei
32 0 33 6 Oil

case
it Cake...ll/.

Barley

CHELTENHAM MARKETS.
Per Bushel. S. d. to s.d Pet lb. d. to d
Wheat
barley 3 0 46 1 Minton
Oats 3 0 40, Veal
Beans
Pease.
Hay 6l. Os to 61. 10s. Od. p r ton

• H U LL M A RKE P.—Dec. 5.
Wheat, Old s'ls. 533. 555. ......New 44s. 50s 545.
Foreign —s. s. —s. ln bond., —s. —s —s.
Oats, Poland
-- Small or Feed.... —a. 16s. 183 —s. —s. `.2os.
-- Foreign
Barley, Norf. & Suf
Foreign ,.., -a.- S. —S.
Beans 355. 3Ss. 403 Foreign ---9 s -.3.
Pease, White....._. 4-Is. 455. 4ils. Grey :Its. ads. 383.
Tares „, 3ss. —s. 37s Foreign ...... ... 365. 38s. 4Cs.
Rapeseed. In bond none Free, per last 23/. 251. Os.

DELAY IN THE ARRIVAL OF THE MAILS.-
During the past week the London letters have frequently been
delivered half an hour after the accustomed time. This delay
has principally arisen from the non arrival of the mail at Bir-
mingham; by the appointed hour, seven o'clock.
On Tuesday the train waited 20 minutes.
Wednesday 15 11,
Thursday 34 •
Friday 35 „
Saturday 30 ~
Sunday 30 „
Monday If 20 „
—Liverpool Courier.
A proposal has been made for shortening the com-
munication with New South Wales, by steam communication
with Acapulco to Vera Cruz, touching at Otaheite for coals,
by means of which the voyage might be accomplished within
fifty days. A plan by which the whole course may be com-
pleted in from 65 to 70 days, is by way of the proposed
steamers to Jamaica, and thence, through Panama, to Lima
and Chili, from the latter of whicn an extensive intercourse is
carried on with Australia in wheat. The coal at Chili is
found well adapted for use in steam-vessels.
Yesterday the United Service Museum was ho-
noured by a visit from its vice patron, the Duke of Wellington,
accompanied by Major-General Sir John Macdonald, and
other distinguished officers. His Grace was received by the
council and officers of the institution, and remained nearly
two hours examining the various collections. The sword
worn by General Wolfe when he fell at Quebec having been
pointed out to the Duke, his Grace kindly consented, at the
request of Major Shadwell Clarke, to present to the Museum,
the sword he wore at the battle of Waterloo ; an interesting
relic, well suited to the professional character of the institution.
THAMES TUNNEL.—The public can again be ad-
mitted to view this supendous undertaking—it appearing that
the whole of the water and strata of sand, clay, and gravel
which had forced their way into the tunnel during the last
irruption of the river have been entirely cleared out. Along
the comparative short distance which the works have now to
progress to low water mark at Wapping, a more effective co-
vering over the bed of the river is about to be deposited, by
permission of the Thanies Navigation Committee.
The following has been communicated to us by a
gentleman connected with the Peak Forest Canal Company.
The workmen at the Christ quarry at Bugsworth, which be-
longs to the canal company, have a horn in which they keep
oil for the axles of their waggons, &c. which they have been
in the habit of placing on the ground in an upright position.
To their very great surprise, they have several times recently
found the horn filled to the brim with very smell stones, and
nearly the whole of the oil gone. This circumstance puzzled
them exceedingly ; and, in order, to discover the way in which
the oil had been abstracted, they placed the horn containing a
quantity of oil in its old position, and covered the ground
abotit it, with soft clay. The next morning they found, as be-
fore, that the horn had been filled with stones, the oil was
gone; and the clay was covered with impressions evidently
from the feet of rata.—Manchester Guardian.
IRISH VERSUS ENGLISH ORATORY.—A meta-
phor, universally admired as characteristic of the old Irish
school of oratory, has so generally been curtailed of its fair
proportions, that it is quite time to restore them. In a note
to the Fudge Family, Moore says, " Alluding to a hypocritical
pretender to charity, the celebrated Counsellor B. asserted to
the jury, that' he put his hands into his breeches'-pockets like
a crocodile.' " The figure really employed by the eccentric
Knight was much more complete. A man of property had
affected to sympathize with the sufferings of some poor
people, aided them with money, and eventually seduced
their daughter. Sir J. knew that the way to inflame the minds
of a jury of his country was to leave something to their ima•
ginations, an object which would not be attained by present-
ing simple facts and reasons, nor even by a perfectly intel-
ligible and natural metaphor. What be actually said was :
—" He put his hands into his breeches' pockets like a
a crocodile, drew forth his deceptive gold, and feigned to shed
fictitious tears." There cannot be more beautiful disorder
than this? The crocodile's breeches'-pocket is a self-evident
proposition, compared with the feigning to shed tears; which,
however, must have been shed, because it is maintained, they
were tears of a spurious composition. There is, also, in a
tangled way, the admitted affinity between a crocodile's lachry-
mation and deceitful weeping in general. If the very same
thought could have struck an English pleader, he would pro-
bably have arranged it differently. " Gentlemen of the jury,
the defendant put his hand into his pocket, and drew forth the
gold that was intended, in the guise of compassion, to destroy
the peace of this poor family ; while tears as treacherous, and
as much at command, as tl.ose supposed to ba shed by the cro-
codile, when he strives to allure victims by his wail, convinced
the confiding and grateful creatures of his sincerity." Thus
amplified and evolved, the Monaghan jury would, most likely,
have given as damages, a twentieth part of what they did give.
—From Frazer's Magazine for November.
A CURE FOR LOVE.—About two O'clock on Sa-
turday morning, the 2d of December, the inhabitants of Steep -
hill, Lincoln, were alarmed by loud and apparently sepulchral
eres f.r help. Several people left their warm beds, and were
directedwidow ,wbbye thence screams
hikatesafrd for
thheel p
criesto
eea well before the house a
of a
ladder at the end, was put down, when
naacn
Rogers, was pulled up shivering with cold. The swain, who
proceed. A
y r
man,ope
is between GO and 70, had had a tender appointment with the
fair bereaved, who is less than half his age, but, having been
:I‘aimte d
h
tempted to drink a little too much, instead of getting into the
fair one's window he slipped into the well. The venerable
inamorato swears that nothing, but the above related accident
I could have cooled his love for the widow. —Boston Herald.