The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-28 00:00:00

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

1 Wheat. Barley. Oatd. Beans. Mole'
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to 8. s.
Abingdon—,— 62 80 32 48 28 38 40 b.: 44
61 72 30 46 28 32
Basingstoke— 58 81 32 37 24 28
29 42 46 40 42
Cirencester 38 78 38 40 40 42
Coven r 71 42 i 0 98 51
Daventry...... 68 72 38 44 28 34 30 44
Leroy 68 80 35 47 28 36 50 55 --
11‘ wden 72 24 40 42
Hungerford— 57 82 32 42 25 •31 SO 43 87
Maiton 68 76 35 33 22 33 --
Maidenhead« 63 83 35 11 25 32 37 42
Nottingham 57 79 33 45 29 36 48 53 40 65
Wantage (.6 80 30 46 22 28 36 46 --
Warwick-- 36 46 32 37
Wor;ester » 72 36 29 43
York 40 80 32 46 22 30 --
Per Bushel. s.d. 3. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s, d, s, d, s, d, s, d
Birmingham 76 93 46 60 40 56
_5O 70 68 73

Per Bushell s. d. s. d.i s. d. s. d.l s. d. s. d.I s, d, a, d, a, d, A, d
Birmingham 76 9 3 4 6 6 0 4 0 5 6 5 0 70 611 73
EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Dec. 25.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans.
First SN. Od. 425. Od. 30s. Ni. 455. Od . 45s Od •
Second 64 0 38 0 25 0143 6 43 0
Third 43 0 2: 0 20. 0 40 • 40 0
Average price of Wheat 3l. Os. 4d.

PRICES OF PROVISIONS 4:C.
Beef, per lb. .......... Os. 4d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter, 19. 5.10.1. to Is Od.
Mutton --.....—.... 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditt0—...—..... 010 011
Vea1........................ 0 7 1 0 Ditto, per cs t..... 84 • 92 0
POlli*rrowo 0 8 0 7 Eggs, per d 05..., 0 8 1 4
Lamo, per qr. ....... 2 0 2 0 OatStraw(kpi.)....lo 6 12 6
fallow, cwt............ 40 0 43 0 Wheat Ditto.,., 11 6 10 8
2uartern Loaf ........ 0 9 091 Barley Ditto ..,.... 6 6 0 6
Potatoes, 1419....... 03i 0 0 Hay, per 5t......—... 1 2 1 4
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.—Dec. 24.
Per Sack o f 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone ot 1419. i ITI Igo
First Oatmeal £2 3 0 First Oatmeal op 2 4
Second ditto
Barleymeai 1 14 0 Barleyraeal O. 1 10
Pesseraeal 1 10 6 Peasemeal 0 I 8
Pot Barley from 325. to 555. per sack.
GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—Dec. 25.
Wheat, per 3401 b. s. d. s. d.
... tats.....
British, old IS oto3B 0 Irish .
-- new 26 0 33 0 British .............. ~.. SI 0 24 I
d
Canada, free 0 0 Beans, per 26919.
Irish
............ ;I. •dn.t.25.3(11.
21 0 J
................ 24 8 21
00
2,

Barley, per 3201 b
English 35 0 36 0
Sottish 27 0 31 0
Dish

Sccatish .................
Pease, Scottish ...... 24 0 95 0
Oatmeal, per 1401 b.... 19 0 22 I
Flour, per 3801 b....... 54 0 60 0

ORNWALL MARKETS.
Lcbtlatsd at 24 gallons to the bushel.)

Wheat.

Barley.

Truro
Helstone
St. Austell
Bodmin
Liskeard
Launceston
Camelford
Penzance.

d. to s. d. B. d. to s. d.
—o7 0 4 0
W 10 0— 0 4 4
—094 0 4 6
—OB6 0 5 1
8090 0 9 4 e
0 8 7• Q S
80 C 5
7480-- 0 S 4

i Oats
a. d. to s. d.
—• 3 9
0 0
- 0
3 2
- e • I,
0 3 b
S
29 3 4
4 S 0

POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

GUILDHALL.
THE BASTARDY CLAUSE.—An interesting-looking
young woman was brought to this office yesterday by
Mr. Miller, the clerk to the Guardians of the West
London Poor-law Union, for the purpose of affiliating
a bastard child upon John Beswick, who bad agreed to
allow two shillings per week. It appeared that the
father was a servant living in Thavies Inn, and having
twenty guineas a year wages besides perquisites.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY—If the young woman
leaves the workhouse will you keep the child in the
house for the two shillings a week ?
Mr. Miller—We should make her take the child
with her, and allow her the two shillings a week.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY—Then I shall not agree
to two shillings a week, it is not enough ; he ought to
allow her three and sixpence a week.
Mr. Miller—That is nearly half his wages, and
would be inducing him to turn a bad character.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY—It is forcing the young
woman to turn a bad character ; it is forcing her into
the streets.

Mr. Miller—lt is a premium upon vice. ' What
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY—Nonsense,
woman would have a bastard child for two shillings per

week ?
Mr. Miller—The law considers the fault to lie with
no woman.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY-At least five-and-thirty
per cent. of the blame attaches to the man.undTehr!
framers of that law were very hard-hearted and
stood nothing of the female character. I shall make
an order for three shillings a-week.

How TO KEEP TAILORS HONEST.---""
tailors of Inverness are an ingenious race of men, and
fully as good craftsmen as their brethren in the sout.
We find, however, that their predecessors, a hundred
years since, were somewhat suspected. In the letters
of Captain Burt, written from this place about 1730, it
is mentioned, as a " notable precaution agail st the
tailors' purloining," that the following plan was adopted
by the inhabitants :—" This is to buy everythi
the ng
sttarhat
goes to the making of a suit of clothes, even to -
tape and thread; and when they are delivered out they
are altogether weighed before the tailor's face ; and
when he brings home the suit it is again put into the
scale, with the shreds of every sort, and it is exported
the whole shall answer the original weight."--Inverness
Courier.

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Watchmaker, &c.,
weight
47 Corwhill
(Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), L•nd•n•

On BIRTH
gS.
n the sth of S( ptember, off Au er, in the Straits of Sunda,
on board the ship Sunda, the lady of James Macpherson, Esq.,
of a son.
On the 26th inst., at Turnham-green, the wife of Frederick
Dodsworth, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., in Bedford-row, the lady of M. Allen,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, the lady of
Sir George Crowe, Bart., M.P., of a

MAR h IE D.
On the sth inst., at Terceira, Azores, George P. Dart, Pg.,
to Francisca Eliza Sampayo daughter of the Illustriss.imoe
Senhor Bento de Bettencourt 'Vasconcellos e Lemos, sod /IT' in
:
of the late Baron de Sampayo, Portuguese Consul:Gene
ra
London. Robert
On the 26th inst., at Almondsbury, Glocestershire,
Canu Lippincott, of Over-court, Esq., to Margaret Agnes,
youngest daughter of Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, of Almondsbury.

DIED.
At his house, Atholl-crescent, Edinburgh, on the 20th inst.,
Dr. Rogerson, of Wamphray Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.
On the 24th inst., at F.astbourn, Davies Gilbert, Esq.,
aged 7:3.
On the 24th inst., at Cheltenham, Lady Catherine C. 13reek-
nell, daughter of W. Charles, third Earl of Portmore, relict of
Joseph Breckneil, Esq., formerly of the Life Guards, and Lady
of the I3edohamber to Queen Charlotte.
On the 20th of September, on his passage between Calcutta
and Madras, Captain J. Walton, of the Larkins East Indiatnan,
aged 34.
On the 26th inst., in Brunswick-square, James Kinloch,
Esq., aged 74.

London: Printed and Pubiisheo l v AIURDO YOUNG, Of
No. 112, Strand, at The Su. Office, No. 112, Strand, in the
county of Aliddlesex.— Saturday, Deeember 2S, 1839.