The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-26 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

The Lord Mayor held a Court of Common Council yesterday,
for general business, which was very fully attend ed.
A petition from Mr. Buckingham was presented to the Court
on the subject of the East India Company's Charter, praying the
Court to take the lead in the formation of a Metropolitan Com-
mittee, or Grand Central Association, to which those already
formed, and still forming, in various parts of the kingdom may
look up for information and direction in the great object they
have of extending the commerce of the kingdom to all quarters
of the globe.
Mr. Buckingham was heard at the bar at great length, in sup-
port of his petition.
A discussion then ensued upon a motion by Mr. PEARSON.
that a petition be referred to a Special Committee for considera-
tion, in the course id' which Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER moved,
as an amendment, that the petition do lie upon the table, and
upon the question being put, the Lord Mayor declared the
amendment carried.

The petition was then ordered to lie on the table, and the
Court immediately adjourned.

The newspapers have all been in error in
stating that Capt. Ditto , who discovered the fate of L♦
PEROUSE, has been engaged by the French Government
to make another voyage of discovery connected with the
same event. His intended voyage will be of a very dif-
ferent nature ; his object is, however, for the present a
secret —Dublin Literary Gazette.

The Voleur contains a curious, not to say a
true, account of a strange freak of nature, which throws
the Neapolitan child, and even the Siamese boys, into the
back groupd. It is stated. that as a gentleman was walk-
ing wit, h his wife, who was in an advanced state of preg•
nancy, she observed on the outside of a gate a large printed
placard—" Joli appartement garni a loner." The lady
had a longing for this placard, and, as her husband re•
fused to steal it for her, a quarrel ensued, which very much
affected the lady. On the birth of the child, which took
place several years ago, some strange marks were per-
ceptible on the body, which in the course of time became
distinct, and were found to be the very words which were
on the placard, viz.—" Joli appartement garni a loner."
IMPROVEMENTS IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.
—For some days past numbers of men have been employed
in extending the width of the gravel-walks in the en-
closure in St. James's-park, and also in forming additional
ones. In digging at the north side of the enclosure, oppo-
side the site of Carlton-palace, a very fine vein of gravel
to a great extent has been discovered, which will preclude
the necessity in future in digging for that material in Hyde-
park as heretofore, and in which, it is said, the pits are nearly
exhausted. The old walks in the enclosure, as well as
those now preparing, are to be the width of the principal
one leading from Story's-gate in the direction to Bucking-
ham-palace, which is about fifteen feet wide. Notwith-
standing the inclemency of the winter the evergreens and
shrubs in the park present a remarkably healthy appear-
ance, and being so thickly planted in case of a failure
numbers of them must be removed in the proper season,
and will ornament other parts of the enclosure. We under-
stand it is intended previous to the completion of his MA-
JESTY'S new palace to lay out the Green.park in a similar
manner.

A female died lately:at Carluke at the advanced
age of 66, who during the last 20 years of her life, had,
by a number of respectable individuals, been considered a
fit object of charity ; so that when coals, ke. were distri-
buted among the poor of the village, her share was never
neglected. Shortly after her interment, however, a rather
unexpected discovery was made. The relations of the de-
ceased, in overturning an old bed, stumbled on a bag,
carefully rolled in rags, which, to their astonishment,
contained a bill for 1001., 19/. 15s. 6d. in silver, as per-
feet as if it had been newly brought from the mint, and
761. in bank-notes, in all 1951. 15s. 6d. The following,
among several other articles, were also discovered : 17
pieces of shirting, two pieces of fine linen ; 27 pairs of
stockings ; 51 muslin caps ; 31 handkerchiefs ; a parcel
of cotton cloth ; a silver watch ; a stone trough filled
with pins ; a bagful of lead bullets ; several bags full of
nails, besides quantities of children's marbles, hand-balls,
ike. It is needless to add, that the heirs were not
more deeply amazed than highly satisfied, at their good
fortune.— Caledonian Mercury.
On Monday se'nnight a lecture on temper-
ance was delivered by WILT IA3/ CILUICKSIIANKS (a car-
ter!), in the Caledonian Hall, Dundee. He said that he
had one qualification which others might not have, as,
nut many years ago, he himself had almost become a victim
to drunkenness. A view was then taken of the dismal
effects of drunkenness, as regarded the individual himself,
his wife, his family, and the public. The loss of all prin-
ciple in himself, the ruin of his wife, by forcing her into
the same habits, the beggary of children, the neglect of
education, the influence of evil example, and the endless
train of evils which result from such characters being let
loose upon society. He then entered into calculations to
show the immense loss which the country had sustained
by the vice of intoxication. There were in Dundee, and
suburbs, five hundred public houses; that, reckoning to
each of these only an income of four pounds per week
(which would not give above one pound of profit), there
would be spent in Dundee weekly, on drink, 2,000/. or
101,0001. per annum ; and, allowing the same rate to
the country generally, there would be as much drank in
the three kingdoms as would pay off the national debt, im-
mense as it is, in 15 years. The objects and necessity of
Temperance Societies were then pointed out.

EXTRAARDINARY DlSCOVERY.—Wednes-
dap morning, as the workmen were engaged in excavating
the ground on the eastern side of Somerset House, on
which the New University is to be erected, they disco-
vered, several feet beneath the surface of the soil, the re-
mains of a human skeleton, without any coffin or shell.
The discovery excited great astonishment ; but on the men
digging deeper, they discovered nearly a cart load of ske-
letons, some of which were nearly entire. The circum-
stance was mentioned to the authorities at Somerset House,
but no one could give any information respecting it, or
throw *any light on the subject. STowr:, the historian,
relates that several buildings were pulled down to make
room for Somerset House, among which was the original
Church of the parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, which then
stood on the scite of the houses east of Somerset House,
opposite the present Church. On the demolition of the
sacred edifice, the bodies of all those interred therein were
exhumed, and buried in a hole made for the purpose.
The exact spot is not mentioned, but there is very little
doubt that the repository discovered yesterday was the
place chosen for the occasion, and this supposition is
strengthened by the fact, that the pit appears to have been
of a square form, and the bodies, with very few excep-
tions, have been regularly placed one upon another.
Among them were two skulls, and several bones of extra-
ordinary dimensions, and which must have belonged to
a person of gigantic structure.
A melancholy event occurred lately in this
neighbourhood, which has created a strong sensation._
On the evening of the Ist inst. a fine girl, 15 years of
age, daughter to ALEXANDER MURRAY, farm servant to
Mr. BLAIR, at Peattie, went to the farm, as usual, for the
purpose of milking her father's cow, and left the byre,
about half-past five o'clock, in perfect health. Not re-
turning so soon as was expected, search was made, when
she was found lying with her face under water, in the
small stream which runs close to the village of Peattie,
apparently quite dead, and with the marks of a bruise on
her forehead and left arm. The flagon containing the
milk was found standing near the spot, as if set down by
her own hand. As she had lain in the water only about
three quarters of an hour, and some parts of her body were
still warm, the ordinary means of resuscitation were em-
ployed, but without effect. As various rumours were
afloat, respecting the cause and manner of her death, the
body was next day, and the day following, carefully and
minutely examined by three medical gentlemen. They
were decidedly of opinion that there were no marks of ex-
ternal violence to be found sufficient to have caused her
death. These were, in fact, so slight that they might
have been imprinted by the pressure of her head and body
upon the sharp and rough stones in the channel of the
stream. The most probable cause of the girl's death, in
their opinion, was, tha,t having hastily swallowed a large
quantity of beans and pease, as was proved by the inspec-
tion, a strong thirst had been excited ; she had stooped
down to drink from the stream, and the sudden shuck given
by the extreme coldness of the water (about 32 degrees
FA FIRES/1E1T) had either produced a cramp of the stoma,
an instant check of the heart's action, or other violent
spasmodic affection ; and when thus seized, she had fallen
forward on her face, and being unable to raise herself,
though the water was not more than five or six inches
deep, had been suffocated..—Perth Courier.

Bags, &c. Bags, &c.
Liverpool 83,159 123,828
London 2,133 8,033
o)asgow 5,740 3,665
Total exported in 1870
Same period 1829

Bags, Sze. Bags, &c.
199 565
350 363

1,479,
6,(429.

Extract of a letter dated 12th Feb. from a
gentleman in Bourdeaux :—" I have just been informed
of the wreck of the brig Pilot on the Olive bank near
Cordouan, every one lost, her worthy Captain SCOTT in-
eluded." The letter is from a merchant who is in constant
habits of business with Leith shipping.—Scotsman.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.—A London Journa-
list states, that " much alarm bad been excited in Edin-
burgh by the sudden illness of Sir WALTER SCOTT, but
he has the gratification to know, that his physicians con-
sider him so much recovered," &c. Now, it will be a
farther gratification to our London brother to learn, that
except a very slight indisposition on Alonday week, which
created no alarm even in his own family, he has enjoyed his
usual good health, and has in general been abroad cold and
ough as the weather is, every day.—Sc)tsman.
The will of the late Lord REDESDALE was
proved on Wednesday at Doctors'-commons. It is dated
January 7, ISM His Lordship bequeathed the whole of
his real and personal estate to his son (the present Lord),
subject to a legacy of 20,0001., and an annuity of 4001. to
his daughter, FIANCES ELIZABETH MITFORD. The per.
tonal property was sworn under 60,0001.

DR. Goocir.—We lament exceedingly the
death of this excellent man. He was Librarian to the
KING. Dr. Gooch was a physician, almost exclusively
engaged in attending the fair sex, and wrote works on that
subject, which will make his fame endure to the end of
time. He was a man highly gifted, learned, scientific, and
zealous, almost to enthusiasm, in the exercise of his profes-
sion. His practice was very extensive ; and his skill—the
amenity of his manners and his affectionate solicitude, so
fascinated his patients, as to make them uneasy at his ab-
sence and long for his return—indeed, " the sick room was
his kingdom." He wrote the celebrated paper in the
Quarterly, on the Plague, Infection, and Quarantine, and
was one of the founders and principal contributors to the
Medical Gazette, Ile had the entire confidence of the
present Loan CHANCELLOR on medical subjects, and was
generally consulted by him relative:to persons to whom in-
sanity was imputed, and whom it was sought to subject to
a commission of lunacy. Dr. Gooch was long an invalid,
and visited this town frequently for months together, some-
times in his profession, but more frequently on account of
his own health.—Brighton Gazette.

Among the Memorabilia of the late English
Opera House, it may be mentioned, that ir. the year 1709
it was the place where Air. WINSOR first exhibited
specimens of the use and effect of gas, which has since
become so magnificent a street light, but of which most of
his audience were then incredulous.

An adjourned meeting of operatives, who are
engaged in forming a National Union Association upon the
same principles as that established in llirniingham, in
order to obtain a reform in Parliament, took place on
Tuesday night at WALKER'S Coffee-house, Union-street,
Spitalfields. The object of the Meeting was to receive
the Report of a Committee which had been appointed to
obtain signatures to a requisition to the Loan MAYOR,
praying him to grant the use of Guildhall for a grand
Metropolitan Meeting of the Cities of London and West-
minster and the adjoining parishes. A mechanic having
been called to the Chair, several speakers delivered their
opinions upon the state of the country, which, it was
contended, rendered it necessary to reduce taxation,
abolish sinecure places, and to effect a reform in Parlia-
ment. The discussion was continued for some time in
this spirit!, and the meeting adjaurned at eleven o'clock.
FOOTE'S NOTIONS OF SCOTCH ONE-
POUND NOTES..—.ItI giving sumptuous dinners to the first
society in Edinburgh, his mode of preparing for these en-
tertainments was a strange kind of satire, by contrast,
upon " Scotch economy." JEWELL told me that while
FOOTE remained there, he papered up the curls of his wig,
every night before he went to bed, with the one-pound
notes of Scotland, to show his contempt for promissory
paper of so little value, which was not then in English
circulation ; and that when his cook attended him, next
morning, for orders—not orders for the play, but orders
for dinner—he unrolled the curls on each side of his head,
giving her the one-pound notes to purchase provisions ad
libitum, and then sent her to market in a seflan-chair.---
Colman's Random Records.

VARIATIONS IN THE PRICES OF
PROVISIONS and the WAGES of LABOUR, Ace

SINCE THE YEAR, 1729.

The following curious statement, showing the contract
prices of provisions, wages of labow, &c., from 1729 to
1819, at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, has just been
published among the Returns to Parliament :-
FLESH, PER HUNDRED WEIGHT.
1729,25 s 8d; 1730, 25s 8d; 1735, I 6311 d ; 1740,285;
1745, 22s 24 ; 1750, 26s 60 ; 1755, 27s 94d ; 1760, 31s
6d ; 1765, 27s 3d; 1770, 28s 6d ; 1775, 33s 54 ; 1780,
32s 6d ; 1785, 37s 640; 1790, 36s 100 ; 1795,
42s 100; 1600, 64s 4d; 1805, 60s 40 ; 1806, 611 ;
1807, 635; 1808, 635; 1809, 66s 64; 1810, 725;
1811, '74s; 1812, 78s; 1813, 655; 1814, 74s 60;
1815, 689; 1816, 51s 4d ; 1817, 51s 40 ; 1818, 595.
BREAD, PER POUND.
Average-1729, ld for 10 6-16 oz; 1730, Id. for
141 ox; 1735, Id for 12 oz ; 1740, Id for 9 13-I€toz ;
1745, Id for 15 9-16 oz; 1750, Id for 13+ oz; 055,
ld for 14 6-16 oz ; 1760, ld for 131 oz; 1765, 141 fur
94 oz; 1770, ld for 11 3-16 oz; 1775, Id for 9 5-16
oz; 1780, Id for 11 6.16 oz; 1785, Id for 104 oz.
FLOUR, PER SACK.
1790, 43s 4d ; 1795, 65s 8d; 1800, 96 ; 1805,
82s 3d ; 1806, 69s 64d ; 1807, 63s 84d ; 1808, 69s
104 d; 1809, Sys lid ; 1810, 88s. 4d ; 1811, 915;
1812, 107 s 5d ; 1813, 935; 1814, 70s 6d ; 1815, 444
9d; 1816, 64s Id'; 181'7, 86s 40 : 1818, 65s 11d.
MUTTER, PER PLItiND.
1729, 444 ; 1130, bd ; 1735, 30 ; 1740, 5d ;.
1745, Sad; 1750, 5/0 ; 1755, ; 1760, 510 ;
1765, 540 ; 1770, Wid ; 1775, 614; 1780, 6id ; 1785,
64d ; 1790, 644 ; 1795, B+o ; 1800, 11F1; 1805,
lld ; 1806, i 14d ; 1807, Is Old; 1808, Is 04d ;
1809, is Id; 1810, is ; 1811, Is 240; 1812,
Is 34d; 1813, is 3d ' • 1614, Is 2d ; 1815, Is 2d;
1816, 90 ; 1817, 8111; 1818, 11d.
CHEESE, PER POUND.
1729, aid ; 1730, 3+d; 1735, 24d ; 1740, 3+41 ;
1745, 2+o; 1750, 3+o ; 1755, 34d ; 1760, 34d ; 1765,
34d ; 17'70, 3+o ; 1775, 3+o ; 1780, sad; 1785, 310 ;
1790, 4d ; 1795, s+d ; 1800, 6+d; 1805,7+1; 1806,
; 1807, 740; 1808, 710 ; 1809, 80 ; 1810, 84d ;
1811, B+o ; 1812, 640; 1813, 844 ; 1814, 8P; 1815,
80 ; 1816, 60 ; 1817, 54d ; 1818, 6d.

PEAS, PER BUSHEL.
1729, Is; 1730, 4s ; 1735, 3s 6d ; 1740, 3s 6d;
1715, 3s 6d ; 1750, 3s 6d ; 1755, 3s 6d ; 1760, 3s.
6d; 1765, 3s 6d : 1770, 4s 3,1 ; 1775, 7s 6d ; 1780,
7s 6,1; 1785, 7s 6d ; 1790, is 6d; 1795, 91. 6d; 1800,
13s 5d ; 1805, 7s 9d ; 1806, Ss. 41d ; 1807, 14s 4+l;
1808, 19s lid ; 1809, 14s 10id ; 1810, 9s 5d ; 1811,
8s 9d ; 1812, 12s 81d ; 1813, 13s Sid ; 1814, 9s 4d;
1815,6 s 7+l; 1816, 7s 0!id; 1817,8 s 6id; ISIS, 10s 9d.
OATMEAL, PER BUSHEL:
1729, 4s 6d ; 1730, 4s 641; 1735, 48; 1740, 4s;
1745, 4s; 1750, 4s; 1755, 4s; 1760, 4s; 1765, 4s;
1770, 4s 9d ; 1775, be 3d ; 1780, 5s 3d; 1785, bs 3d;
1790, 5s 3d; 1795, 6s 4d ; 1800, 145; 1805, 12s;
1806, 10s. 3d ; 1807, 9s. 44d ; 1808, lOs 10d ; 1509,
I 1 s 9d ; 1610, 118. 7d; 1811, 11s 6d ; 1812, 13s 3d ;
1813, 13s 3d ; 1814, 10s 4d ; 1815, 10s 3d; 1816, 9s
2d ; 1817, 13s 9d ; 1818, 13s 6d.
SALT, PER BUSHEL.
1729, 58; 1730, 55; 1735, 4s ; 1740, 4s ; 1745, 4 ;
1750, 4s; 1755, 4s; 1760, 4s; 1765, 4s; 1770, 45
8d; 1775, 4s Sd; 1780, 48. Sd; 1785, 4s Sd; 1790,
4s 8d; 1795, 6s 1+1; 1600, 14s ; 1805, 16s 10i-d;
1806, 19s 9d ; 1807, 19s 9d ; 1808, 19s 9d ; 1809,
19s 9d ; 1810, 193 9d ; 1811, 198 9d ; 1812, I9s 9d ;
1813, 195 9d ; 1814, 19s 9d ; 1815, 19s 9d; 1816,
193 9d ; 1817, 19s 9d ; 1818, 19s 9d.
MALT, PER QUARTER.
1729, 29s ; 1730, 20s 6d ; 1735, 20s 3d ; 1740, 27e
; 1745, 23s Id ; 1750, 245: 1755, 228; 1760,24 s
9d; 1765, 30s Sd; 1770, 28s Sd; 1775, 375. 3d ;
1780, 318 ld ; 1785, 403 3d; 1790, 35s 6d: 1795,
488 3d ; 1800, 84s ; 1805, 855 7d ; 1806, 76s ; 1807,
738 1•?$d; 1808, 76s lid ; 1809, 848 bid; 1810, 84s
sd; 1.811, 735 6d ; 1812, 985 6d ; 1813, 96s 6d; 1811,
77s fild ; 1815, 695 7id; 1816, 69s 43-d ; 1817, 86s
10id ; 1818, 838 9d.

'tors, PER CWT.

1729, 21 5s ; 1730, 21 5s 10d; 1735, 31 9s 6id;
1740, 2/ lOs ; 1745, 3/ lls ld ; 1750, 5/ 4s; 1755,
21 15s; 1760, 41 13s 4d ; 1765, 71 3s 6d; 1770,
Si 16s 4d; 1775, 4/ 16s 6d; 1780, 2/ 14s 8d; 1185,
51 6s 4d ; 1790, 61 13s 9d ; 1795, 717 s 101; 1800,
161 159 9d; 1805, 6/ 11s 6d; 1806, 617 s 9d ; 1807,
5/ 191; 1808, 41 12s 6d ; 1809, 71 6s 8d; 1810,
71 6s 8d; 1811, 71 138 6d; 1812, 91 17s; 1813,
111 11s Sd ; 1814, 9110 s; 1815, 9/ 13s 7d ; 1816, 14/;
1817, 22145; ISIS, 71 15s.
BEIR, PER BARREL.

1730, 3s 9d; 1735, 4s 141; 1740, 5s 21d; 1745,
5s lid; 1750, 5s Sid ; 1755, 4s sid; 1760, 5s 74d;
1765, 7s 2d ; 1770, 5s 10d; 1775, 7s lid ; 1780,
is 311; 1785, 88 2-1-d; 1790, Ss 7d; 1795, 109 4id ;
1800, 20s 44d ; 1805, 17s 9Ad: 1806, 16s 31d ; 1807,
15s 5d ; 1808, 16s 5-A-d ; 1809, lis ; 1810, 17s 10d ;
1811, 16s aid ; 1812, 208 9id ; 1813, 21810 id ; 1814,
179 3-a-d; 1815, 155414; 1816, 15s 8d; 1817, 2037 d;
1818, 19. 7d.