The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-11 00:00:00

PENZANCE, DEc. 9.—Off port, the Kossack, Mol, from
Riga. Sailed the Lady Wright, Wright, for St. Michael's

MILFORD, DEC. B.—Arrived Ann, Skinner, Quebec.

CLYDE, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Bengalee, Hamlin, Cal-
cutta. Sailed the Roger Stuart, Gordon, for Demerara.
KINGSTOWN, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Rifleman, Mills, from
St. John's, New Brunswick.
DUBLIN, DEC. 9.—Arrived Corib, Ceiling, Quebec.

LIVERPOOL, DEc. 10.—The Mona, Gla—si, from Cal-
cutta to this port was was left at St. Helena on the 22d
October, the crew being mutinous, and having refused to
proceed. The Aberlin, Nap, arrived at this port from
New York, boarded on the 2d inst., a derelict (reported
yesterday), and found a small hand-pump with the word
•' Miriam" cut on it.

SHIELDS, DEC. 9.—The Nina, Blacklam, of Sunder.
land, has put back with much damage, having been in
contact with a vessel off Scarborough, on the 7th inst.
LEI rn, DEC. 6.—The Fame, Norton, has put back with
bows stove, and rigging damaged, having been run foul
of near the Fern Islands.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY )

CORN EXCHANGE

The arrivals of most kinds of Grain have been small, of Irish
Oats good, and Flour moderate. Wheat and Barley firm at
Monday's prices, withiliittle doing. Beans and Peas no varia-
tion. Oats of good quality maintained their value, and inferior
parcels dull in sale. Flour supported its late quotations.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
There was a very good supply of all kinds of Meat, and the
demand was very limited-prices unaltered. Beef 2s. Bd. to
3s. 6d. ; Mutton 2s. 10d. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal Is. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ;
Pork 3s. 104. to 4s. 6d. ; Irish 3s. to 3s. 3d. per stone of
Sibs; Larks ls. to Is. 6d. ; Grouse 2s. to 3s. ; Gold Plover
6d. to Is. ; Black Game 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; Snipe 6d. to Is. ;
Surrey Capons 4s. to 7s. ; Fowls, Bs. to 4s. each ; Chickens
ls. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Pigeons, 6d. to 10d. ; Hares, 2s. 6d. to
3s. ; Teal, 6d. to Is. ; Hen Turkeys 4s. 6d. to 6s. t3d. ;
Cock Turkeys, 6s. to 9s. ; Pheasants, 3s. to 4s. each ; Wild
Ducks, 2s. to 3s. ; Rabbits 9d. to Is. 6d.
CITY FISH MARKET.
Good supplies, and a fair trads; prices much as last quoted.
Turbot ss. to 205. ; Cod 2s. 6d. to 12s. ; Soles od. to 3s. per
pair ; Lobsters 10d to 3s. 6d. ; Oysters 12s. to 40s. per bushel ;
Whitings sd. to 10d.. and Haddocks M. to 2s.
FRUIT MARKET.
There was a good business done in most descrptiions of
Fruit, and we may now expect this trade to be very brisk.
Second quality of Patras Currants sold briskly, in butts, at 755.
to 785., and Caroteels at 80s. ; New Turkey, 85s. to 87s.
per cwt. ; Valencia Raisins, 445. to 475. ; Turkey pulled Figs,
but languid, at 435. to 70s.

- COLONIAL MARKET.
B. P. Sugar sold slowly at 60s. for brown,63s. for middling,
and 68s. for fine ; 4,000 bags Mauritius went at from 40s. to
535. A small parcel of Ceylon Coffee sold at 101 s. 6d. to
102 s. 6d. A small parcel of Jamaica fetched 985. for fair or-
dinary ; 16 bags Grenada Cocoa sold at 455. for fair quality.
Good brown consuming Nutmegs at 4s. 6d.

—
POPULOUSNESS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
—The number of inhabitants to a square mile in Eng-
[and and \Vales is at present about 265. In West.
moreland there are little more than 70 ; and in Lin-
colnshire almost a purely agricultural county, there are
about 120. Mr. Farr states that in the East and West
London Unions the number of inhabitants to a square
mile is 186,046, and that the greatest density attained
in the heart of English cities is 243,000 to a geogra-
phical square mile.—Companion to Almanack for 1840.
LETTERS FROM BRIXTON ON TIIIIRSDAY.
—ln the comparatively small post district of Brixton-
hill, the office sent out upwards of 800 letters on the
first day of the new rate of postage.
WOLVERHAMPTON.—Our trade has not im-
proved, and the distress amongst the smaller manufac-
turers appears to be increasing rather than otherwise.
.
No large orders, and very few ones, have been
received by the factors.—Sts ibrd Layintmer.
A ludicrous affair took place a few weeks ago at
a place not one hundred miles from Perth. A man
who had some business to do at a distance from home,
told his better-half he would not be home till the next
day. Some disappointment having occurred, he did
not go the whole of the distance, but returned late
at night. His wife told hint she had felt very cold,
and she had placed a bag of chaff beside her in the
bed, and she wished him to lie down in another bed
in the same room. The good man did not like the
proposal. but stepped into the bed to remove the bag
of chaff, when 10, instead of chaff, he found a young
man, a neighbour of his. Only judge of the conster-
nation of the parties, verifying the old adage,
that two is company, but three is not." What ren-
ders the affair odd, is, that the husband and the man
bad hitherto been on very bad terms.
The most appropriate punishment for the com-
binators when detected in raising the price of coals,
would be a few days' solitary confinement in a black
hole.