The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-22 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the Returns made in the week ending May IS,
is 245. 9id. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs
paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into
Great Britain.

SOUTIIEY'S LIFE OF BUNYAN.

(From the Times of yesterday.)

We alluded some days ago to the handsome no-
tice of Mr. Hone in Mr. Southey's " Life of Bun-
yan." The following correspondence has since been
sent to us : it displays in an advantageOus light the
modesty of Mr. Hone and the amiable and candid
disposition of Mr. Southey. The business, wholly
foreign to Mr. Hone's former pursuits, which is al-
luded to in the letter, is explained in an advertise-
ment in this day's Paper :

" TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. LL.D., KESWICK".

" 13, Gracechurch-street, London, April 23.

" SIII,-Late last night I got a copy of the new edition
of the Pilgrim's Progress, at Mr. Major's, and, this morn-
ing, my first employment is to obtrude upon you my
most sincere and respectful thanks, for your unexpected
and generous mention of my name, and recent writings,
in the conclusion of your Life of Bunyan.
" For obvious reasons such a notice from you is espe-
cially grateful to me, and is the more gratifying now,
when the humble doings you are p!eased to publicly favour
can benefit me no otherwise than by sometimes occasioning
reflection on the honesty of purpose which stimulated my
labours, and which consoles me after I have lost every
thing on earth, except my integrity and ten children;
these, I trust, I shall be enabled to keep to my life's end.
To further literary exertion, lam beyond the reach of er-
couragement.' At this moment, the last remains of my
ruined fortunes, a few of the books that assisted me in
working out my Every Day Book and Table Book
(which, by the bye, are mine no longer), are passing under
the hammer of an auctioneer, to realize a small instalment
towards insufficient means of commencing business, wl olly
foreign to all my former pursuits and addictions. I have
thrown down my pen for ever, and, at 50 years of age,
am struggling to enter on a strange drudgery, for the fu-
ture support of my wife and family.
" In the autumn of last year, while sojourning in a
quiet hamlet, I packed up a book or two respecting the
Pilgrim's Progress, with the intention of sending them
to you. I had misgivings, however, as to whether you
would receive from me, as a token of good-will, what I
unfeignedly desired to communicate in that spirit, and the
parcel was put aside, sealed up, as it still remains. In
that state, I shall forward it for conveyance to you, through
Mr. Major, simply to evidence my feeling towards you
several months ago. You may be convinced by it that
Your liberality has a kin in my own mind. After all,
perhaps, the best testimony I can give to the fact, that I
am duly sensible of your unlooked-for kindness, is the
promptitude with which I acknowledge the obligation.
" I am, Sir, your very respectful and most obedient ser-
vant, " W. HONE."

" TO MR. HONE, 13, GRACECIIIIRCH-STREET.
" Keswick, April 26.
_ _ _

" Sta,—Your letter has given me both pain and plea-
sure. I am sorry to learn that you are still, in the worldly
sense of the word, an unfortunate man,—that you are
withdrawn from pursuits which are consonant to your
habits and inclinations, and that a public expression of re-
spect and good will, made in the hope that it might have
been serviceable to you, can have no such effect.
" When I observed your autograph in the little book,
I wrote to inquire of Mr. Major whether it had come to
his hands from yon, elirectly or indirectly, for my use,
that, in that ease, I might thank you for it. It proved
otherwise, but I would not lose an opportunity which I
had wished for.

" Judging of you (as I would myself be judged) by
your works, I saw in the editor of the Every Day and
Table Books a man who had applied himself with great
diligence to useful and meritorious pursuits. I thought
that time, and reflection, and affliction, (of which it was
there seen that he had had his share,) had contributed to
lead him into this direction, which was also that of his
better mind. What alteration had been produced in his
opinions it concerned not me to inquire: here there were
note but what were unexceptionable,—no feelings but
what were to he approved. From all that appeared, I
supposed he had become ' a sadder and a wiser man :' I
therefore wished him success in his literary undertakings.
" The little parcel which you mention I shall receive
with pleasure.
" I wish you success in your present undertaking,
whatever it be, and that you may one day, under happier
circumstances, resume a pen which has, of late yew s,
been so meritoriously employed. If your new attempt
prosper, you will yet find leisure for intellectual gratifica-
tion, and for that self-improvernent which may be carried
on even in the busiest concerns of life.
" I remain, Sir, your's with sincere good will,
'• ROBERT SOUTHEY.'

The Austrian Ambassador returned to town on Wed•
needay.