The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-03 00:00:00

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

This Magazine, as also Bentley's Miscellany, have
reached us at so late a period, that we have been unable
to peruse them so attentively as we could have wished.
We have read quite sufficient, however, to satisfy us
that the present New Monthly is a very fair average
Number. Theodore Hook heads the list of contributors
with a continuation of his " Gurney Papers," which are
now beginning to be prosy and wire-drawn. The chapter
before us is the decidedly worst of the series. " Letters
from Ireland" are chiefly made up of descriptions of the far-
famed Lakes of Killarney—one of the most hacknied of
subjects—about which it is wholly impossible to say any-
thing new, or even interesting. " The American Bobadil"
is a sketch, and no flattering one, of native American cha-
racter, drawn by the author of " Highways and Byeways."
The sketch is evidently the result of personal observation.
Mr. Quin's account of his " Steam Voyage from London
to Paris" is full of amusing, graphic details. The subject
is a novel one, and can scarcely fail to please. The tale of
the " Lesson of Life" halts a little this month, chiefly by
reason of its dearth of incident. " Admiral Lord Mizen-
deck's Narrative" is a clever ironical quiz on naval novels,
in Poole's happiest manner. " The Manager's Note Book"
gives us some biographical particulars respecting Nell
Gwynne, and the late actor Pope, who in his earlier days
was, it seems, a great favourite with the town. The anec-
dotes illustrative of his epicurean predilections are enter-
taining. Here are a few of them :
" He had for a long time been throwing himself in the way
of an invitation to one of Dr. Kitchener's Saturday dinner
parties, at which the Doctor had written up in the dinner room,
" Come at seven, go at eleven ;" in which direction Colman
once inserted the word it, so that it read, " Come at seven,
go it at eleven ;" and where Colman was, there was no great
chance of going at eleven.
The Doctor and Pope met one morning at Kelly's ; be was
introduced, and invited for the next Saturday. The Doctor
lived in Warren-street, and Pope Store-street, and it so
happened they both dealt with the same fishmonger, in
Tottenham-court-road ; this Pope knew, and accordingly went
to the shop in the morning, and Inquired what fish bad been
ordered by the Doctor. " Salmon," answered the fishmonger,
showing him a very fine piece of fish. " That won't do, Sir,"
said Pope ; " that's common salmon—it must be Colvert
salmon." " That's very dear to-day, Sir," said the man ;
" seven shillings a pound." " Never mind," said Pope, and
gave the order ; and Colvert salmon was accordingly sent to
Warren-street. Pope, when at dinner, abuse] every thing at
table but the fish, which being praised, and Kitchener having
been told by the servant that Mr. Pope had sent it, he pub-
licly thanked his liberal friend for his very excellent presei.,t.
When the Doctor came to pay his weekly bills on the Mon-
day, he found—" To six pounds of Colvert salmon, by order
of Mr. Pope, 21. 25." Pope was never again invited-
Another friend of Kelly's had a cottage at Earl's Court, in
which he had an excellent collection of pictures. Pope was
not only a good judge of pictures, but a liberal-minded man
in everything but gastronomy ; he was invited to dine and see
the collection. Pope, it being his first visit, was placed on the
right-hand of the host, and, on the covers being removed, a
fine turbot made its appearance before him. Pope could not
restrain himself, and, rising from his chair with his knife in his
hand, said, " D—m your cook. Sir, she ought to be dis-
charged ; she has spoiled a fine Torbay turbot by smothering
it with horse-raddish :" and proceeded forthwith to scrape the
whole of it off with the knife. This, like Dr. Kitchiner's, was
his first and last invitation.

Jack Juhnstone once invinni Bannister, Dowton, Pope, and
two others, to an early beef dinner, at half-past four, as they
all had to play that night in the Rivals, upon which occasions
they always dined early, and limited themselves to one joint
only. Pope, for a wonder, approved of his dinner, and, at
the conclusion, declared that he had made a most sumptuous
meal, and that, were all the delicacies of the world now laid

before him, he could not swallow another mouthful. " That's
rather unlucky," said Johnstone, " for here's a haunch of veni-
son coming :" and at that moment Rooney put it on the table.
Pope's countenance underwent a sudden change.
" What !" said Pope, " a haunch of venison ! the object of
my idolatry and I not smell it as I entered the house and
have I been suffered to disgrace myself with boiled beef?—lt
is cruel, barbarous, and never to be forgiven I" He actually
cried for vexation, and immediately left the house.
In the last scene of The Rivals they were all on the stage
together. Acres (Bannister) should have said, " Odds capers,
I'll order the fiddles to the new rooms," &c. ; but he took
Falkland ( Pope) to the front of the stage, and said, " Odds
turtle and venison, I'll order a good dinner; what do you say to a
glorious haunch of venison? but my friend, Sir Lucius hero
(Johnstone), says you prefer boiled beef." All the actors,
naturally enough, laughed, but the audience of course saw no
joke in it.

THE CHRISTIAN REFORMER.
Sherwood and Co.

The first article in the present Number of this Maga-
zine is entitled " Mr. Wilberforce as exhibited in the
Quarterly Review." The writer adopts in the main the
view taken of Mr. Wilberforce by the Reviewer, and by
well chosen extracts from the lately published diary of
that distinguished person sets in a strong light the odd
mixture of piety and levity which seems to have entered
into the composition of his character. To those who
wish to see the essence of five goodly octavos comprised in
less than twenty pages, we would recommend this well-
digested paper. The following remarks on the ungenerous
as well as unjust conduct of Mr. Wilberforce's sons and
biographers, in attempting to rob the venerable apostle of
negro emancipation of his just share of influence and ex-
ertion in the advocacy of that great utuse, are so much to
the purpose that we willingly transfer them to our columns.
We must at the same time observe, that it is now hardly
enough to say that Mr. Clarkson " is accounted by some the
predecessor and instigator of Mr. Wilberforce in this good
work," as Mr. Clarkson has in his late work, in reply to the
Messrs. Wilberforce, set that point finally at rest by the
most decisive proofs :
For many years Mr. Wilberforce devoted himself to the
cause—sometimes promising, sometimes almost hopeless—of
Negro deliverance. He was supported in his arduous labours
by many of the excellent of the earth, but particularly by
Thomas Clarkson, who is accounted by some the predecessor
and instigator of Wilberforce in this good work, but whom the
biographers evidently wish to throw into the shade. This is
not generous, nor, with regard to their father, is it politic.
Their flippant condemnation of Mr. Clarkson's History of the
Abolition is reversed by the fact of the work having been pub-
lished years before Mr. Wilberforce's death, without any
public remonstrance on his part, and with the declared appro-
bation of the oldest and most zealous labourers in the same
vineyard. Cannot the biographers conceive of partnership in
benevolence without personal and selfish rivalry ? We would
not willingly believe that their ungenerous treatment of Clark-
son springs from political animosity ; for though this good
man be a Whig, he may plead in extenuation of this offence,
with the sons of Wilberforce, that their father owed his success
and reward as the Negroes' Friend to a Whig Administration,
and was partly indebted, by his own confession, for an asylum
and home in the decline of life, to the spontaneons patronage
of one of his sons, himself one of the biographers, by a Lord
Chan cellor who vian then a Whig, and had bean " something
more."
The Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire
into the state of the Registers of Births kept by the Dissenters,

is a document of considerable interest, and is drawn up with.
great care. We shall probably take occasion to noticece
t
more particularly hereafter. A pretty large space d
voted to a Report of the proceedings at the 40, Gene-
ral Unitarian Meeting, held in London for the purpose of
considering the best means of calling into combine& action
the influence of the sect as a body of religionists. The
speeches delivered on this occasion are given at some
length, and will, we doubt not, excite attention among
those who feel an interest in the operations of r eligious
bodies.

THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Sherwood and Co.
We cannot speak very highly of any of the art isles in
the present Number of the Montßy. " Alfred de Rosario
is, perhaps, the most interesting, and yet it does not rise
above mediocrity. The " Secret History of the Court of
England" is below criticism. If the " Stray Leavii!s from
the Journal of a Lady Emigrant" cost much trosible
in
the collecting, we are so wanting in gallantry as t o coin
pliment the collector upon possessing a stock of p
an hundred times greater than even the tolerably larg:
share to which we lay pretensions. The " Father'' 11
powerful sketch, though too much in the Monk Lewes and
Radcliffe vein. The literary notices are very cxefully
and very well written.

THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE.
This is a very useful and, at the present moment, when
rail-roads are so much the subject of attention, a v ery I°-
teresting periodical. It contains a great mass of r ailW
intelligence—reports—discussions on subjects connected
with railways—reviews—notices, &c., such as cannot be
found anywhere else ; and the whole is methodised lby Mr'
John Herapath, who seems well qualified for the arduous
duty of editor. The present number, we observe, co Maio°
forty pages extra,

THE SPORTING MAGAZINE
Contains, in addition to the usual sporting intelligencB
of the month, two plates, one of which, " Partridge ShOt;
ing," is very clever as a work of art, with a well-defiOu
and picturesque back-ground.

ASIATIC JOURNAL.
There is much local news in this Number, which cannot
but be interesting to those among our readers who are
themselves familiar with the East, or have friends or rela-
tions located there. Of the original contributions, the best
is the statistic account of China, which abounds in minute
details.

MONTHLY LA TV MAGAZINE.
This is a well-conducted periodical, in ev,9ry respect but
in its politics, which are those of fierce, rampant, Toryisw:
Yet there is no lack of spirit or ingenuity in those diatribes,
in particular, the opening article which the wrii:er quaintly
calls, " the tone, character, and real value of tll,e
tion of 1688," is characterised throughout by vie:our 50d
dexterous special pleading. We take for granted that it Is
the work of some practised lawyers, whose politics are f
as deep a Tory die as those of Sir Edward SuiTcler.
" Act for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor 83
Ireland," gives a digest, accompanied by occasional sel'i;
ments, of the late legislative enactment on this importal
and pressing matter.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
In the past week the arrivals of Grain and Flour were tole'
rably good, and of Foreign Wheat very large, and the condi
nued fine weather reduced the prices of Wheat, and rendered
other articles very heavy on sale. This morning has furnishe f
a good fresh supply of Wheat, and moderate quantities °
other Corn. The weather is still remarkably favourable fora
harvest operations. The factors sold Wheat very slowly, 911
for the best qualities they were obliged to take 4s. and other
sorts 6s. per quarter less than the terms of this day seannight'
Barley is very dull on sale, and scarcely supports its value, a*",
new is soon expected to appear. Beans sell at scarcely °
good prices as of late. New boiling Peas obtain 40s. to 42204
aryl new Grey, 35s to 365. In the Oat trade there ",
been a stock sale, and former terms are not quite maintained'
.
Flour meets a very indifferent demand, and the top price
declined ss. per sack. From the averages already knoW,9o.
there is great probability that the duty on Foreign Wheat '
be one shilling on Thursday next.

PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP.
Wheat, Red (old) ...... s6s. 76.5. Beans, Small (new) . 36g
White (01d)... 605. 705.
Red 1838)
,—.5.
•--- Fine ,85. t 0;. • (old)
-"*. ,365 35'''
Superfine 013. 635. Harrow (new) ...-- ' s.
White (1838) s2s. 555. -- (old) ....5.
V,. 365.
--- Fine s7s. Ws. Brank - ..... . i
...,,,
-- Superfine 625 665. Oats, Feed
Wg•'°. —Foreign free 66;. 80s. New
Rye '6s. •Ass. Poland
,9,'.,-,,
,

Barley 3•2 i. 345. New 245..a),.
Grinding —s. —s. Potatoe. 275.j,..'"
6,,-
Malting 325. 365. .30%
285.
Malt 465. 545, Scotch
---- Fine New 565. 625. Irish
Pease, Grey, New 2os.. ......
5622;:e9r,
345. 365. Flour Town (per sack) ......•50,.644.
Maple New - s. —s. 'seconds 50,•4'
---- Wh'te .365. ?Ps. —...—. North Country ...... 4 10'

Boilers 9Ss. 40s Bran ....................... - . ...;.. wEEIS .
1 .',r,
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 F10.,"%c0
English
Irish — Foreign 4l --
550 ----
17,155
4,171 brls.
, 2,451
- - -

SMITHFIELD.
Supply not so large. Friday's quotations were steady'
which show an advance on Beef and Lamb of 2d. per stone r
compared with this day week. Mutton unaltered. But littif
doing in Veal and Pork, and prices unvaried. Best Lamb
fetched ss. 2d. to ss. 6d.; Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d.;
Mutton,
3s. 10d. to 45. 6d.; Veal, 4s. 4d. to 55.; Pork, 4s. 4d. t°
ss. 2d.; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 6d. Beasts, 3,386; Calfe°
191 ; Sheep and Lambs, 25,978 ; Pigs, 350.
FISH MARKET.
Supplies good and prices much as they were on Saturd3l'
Turbot, ss. to ISs. and 16s. Soles, 6d. to 2s. 6d. per P 8111;"
Lobsters, 9d. to 2s. 6d. each. Whitings, 3d. to Bd. eac
Haddocks, 4d. to Is. Cod, Is. and 2s. to Bs. each.

HOP MARKET.
But little doing in the Hops, and prices shew but little 01:
nation, if any. East Kent Pockets, 1836, 38s. to 6t;
Middle Kent, 38s. to 565.; West Kent,-365. to 48s. ;
1837, Middle Kent, 70s. to 965, ; Pockets, 1837, East Ken
755. to 120 s. ; Mid!ile Kent, 755. to 965.; West Kent, B‘..
The duty is 165,0001.

PROVIg;ON MARKET.
The stocks generally are hoary, but little is doing and price
°
arc unvaried.

SPIRIT MAR;;;ET.
Proof Leeward Rums are 23. 10d. British Corn SPirits
are 10s. 2d. still. Brandy and Geneva afe unaltered.

TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. is flat, at 495. 3d. to 495. 6d. both ways.
COLONIAL MARKETS. •
Pr°:
To-day there is nothinl doing in East or West India boo-
duce, by public sale. For the week we have no great
ness advertised. For to-morrow we have 2,500 bags Ntbds.
Sugar ; 469 bags Mauritius ; 855 bags Bengal; 130 Pep,
Barbadoes ; 152 casks B. P. Coffee; Pimento, 20 bags;
ger, 50 casks Jamaica. The imports are not heavy.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, SEPT. l• dor
Our supply of Wheat was only moderate at Market to- 0
from the growers, but we had a great show of samples We,
Norfolk and Suffolk (a considerable part of which bad bes.
held over from last week), which caused the trade to rule e
ceedingly dull, and sales could not be effected except at rb
reduction of ss. to 6s. per quarter on the rates of last Satlito
day. Rye also was neglected, and the turn cheaper. Oal
met a limited demand at our quotations, though the stIPYO
was moderate. Malt maintained its price. Old Barley wc,
exceedingly dull, but New samples were in request for hulli",;
Beans and Pease scarcely supported late prices. For Flo_
we have no demand, and our quotations may be considered Ai_
most nominal.

New. Old.
Wheat, Northumberland sl3s 695. —4 - AO
Norfolk and Suffolk.... ........
Berwick and Scotch 6os. 665....... —s. 0..
Foreign
Rye, Norfolk And Suffolk -
Foreign —S. —s .13. ....S.. 11
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... —s. —s. —a. --1- a
Grinding and Feeding 3os. 325...... —B. —s• g.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk sss 59s —s. ---,.
Beans, Small',
—"
—s. —a 401: 4216 0
Tick —s. -..8 39s 415. 4.
Pease, White 183. 425..... —a. —4,
---- Gray Sys 40s B. ......S.
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... ... 26s 29s s, —B.
_ Feed 23s 27s S. ""'ns'
Foreign
S. 4...
Flour (par sack) s3s. 578
DERBY CORN MARKET, AUG 3l. Jo,
Very little business was done at our Corn Market t' ;
745' Wheat was rather lower than last week. Wheat 725. t° 35.'
Beans 425. to 445. ; New Oats 275. ; Old 28s. ; Barley
to 375.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET —Ang. 31. „ 724
NV:ieat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk ...... —s. 683. to 703. fin' 723.
-- Lin. and Cam.
Yorkshire 66s.'—s. to 693. fine oi,
NN>hite ~.
Foreign, fted ..................
Waite .....
-..5. —S. to --S. Ils" : 3.54.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ',Os to 333. n„"; $35.
Lincolnshire
Yorkshire \Vold
Foreign
.-8. to —B. fine 43P
Roans, Small .................................. .... —s to 398. ..- 440
-- Tick
Th. to 425. fin' 2115.
Oats, Potato
Poland ....................................... —s 2ss. to
ttoo 227655.. F:-. It
Friezland and Small —s 21s. to Zs. ..-
Stwlling ......
I,lealing .................... ' lll.-to ;3% d ;Per. st:,. Los',:
.... .
321 isi Ms Od. Los.
Malt. ............................................... a. 39s fine 435. per /AO-
Rapested .... ....................

CORNWALL MARKETS.
(Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel

k,,dwulatea at 24 gallons to the busl________
--------Oat . .
Wheat. Barley. 1 ns.
------,-- - .. d. t- 10!
a. d. to r. d. s. d. to s. d. 0
Truro
SHelstone . - 0 0,6
t. Austell — 0 255 6 0
„I, n" --
0 7 ,
Bodnun -
0 o',
Liskeard
Camelford
..... 0
Penzance.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SsPT~,VCbal'
The transactions of to-day amount to 2,800 bags• ',,,obsc
no change to report, except that the market was soealiicd'
steadier. Our last quotations were in all instances 4d•
1,900 American :J!,-d. 6:;d., 100 for export; 2.)0 Surrt';
to 44:1. ; 200 Pernam, 8141. to 94d., 100 for exP°to 9J. f
Egyptian, Mid. to lOid. ; 400 Maranham, 71d'
350 for export.—Total 2,800.

'lle. -I

us .a cThe Sun New
Proprietor of spaper has forwarded to
coot`s f. c py of a truly extraordinary edition of that Journal,
aing two admirable medallion portraits of the Duke
ellington and Marshal Soult, on a large scale—supe-
rior, we think, to that of the Queen in the " Golden Sun,"
whit hwe perceive shines with redoubled splendour. Po-
%Lc ally opposed as we are to The Sun, it may be supposed
t our praise is impartial ; and when we state that the
Par traits would grace a handsome frame, we conceive we
no, say no more in their favour.—Gloucestershire Chron.
at
Only a few weeks have elapsed since we directed public
tention to an exquisite piece of workmanship connected
7
w th the Printing department, by the spirited Proprietor of
111 e Sun, Mr. Murdo Young, when he published a striking
id beautiful medallion likness of her Majesty Queen
V ictoria, in his Journal, which was partly printed in gold ;
at id we have now the pleasure of stating, that since that
:riod a Donble sheet of The Sun has been published, con-
ta i fling veri correct medallion likenesses of those two cele-
brated heroes of the present age—the Duke of Wellington
'and Marshal Soult, accompanied with copious and interest-
lna
rn'imoirs of their eventful lives. By this spirited enter-
prise , every individual may furnish himself, at the humble
pric a of one shilling, with the well-finished portraits of those
rep owned warriors, who for many years kept the world
11W ake. The likenesses may be cut out from the paper, for
a purpose of being framed ; and certainly they would not
de mean the parlour of any gentleman by being exhibited as
or naments.—Comet (Guernsey).
James F. Smith, Esq., of this city, has received the Lon-
de n Sun printed in gold, as brilliant and rich as the Coro-
na tion itself. We have delayed our paper to give this ac-
count, for which, we cannot suppose that any apology is
rig cessary.—The Toronto (Upper Canada) Patriot.
The London Sun, printed in gold, has been received at
Vac New York Sun office, containing an account of the
Coronation with a portrait of Queen Victoria of England,
s'i, John": (New Brunswick) Courier.

A_GTLICULTURE-THE HIGHLANDS

Throughout the northern islands, of the Hebrides in porti-
co] ar, the lands, from continued sub-division and sub-letting,
are cast into lots so exceedingly small, that the occupiers can
ker 1.,
no horses to plough or harrow the_ground, or to execute
' )se multifarious processes of labour, which are exclusively
Is th,otted to horses in other quarters of the kingdom. hat
P us in other W
parts of the country performed by horses, the
,;001' hard-toiled Hebridean must perform for himself. In
nett of the plough, he must late and early ply his " cas-chrom,"
'or crooked spade. This primitive kind of utensil resembles
theh stilt of a ploueh, with a straight piece of wood attached
the lower end of it, forming an obtuse angle, and having. a
!ocket of ireu an the part that enters the ground. The stilt
!3 held with r'ot'e hands, and the lower part or " sole" is driven
rune the
in Which
Fund by means of a peg, on which the right foot
and ro.'esses. The instrument is exactly a crooked lever,
, the power is to the weight nearly as Ito 33-.
most:'o,, Thou the " cas-chroin" is much more expeditious in till-
-I°;VA the common spade, yet it becomes a tedious and
Th taborious task to till several acres of ground with it.
°fee consequence is, that the poor people must begin the work
same dti vation even as earls Christmas, and keep toiling at th
under the boisterous sand rainy climate of their country,e the middle or end of May, ere their labours are finished.
_Ye 'being thus exposed to the inclemency of the weather, they
t'irl seldom either dryly clad or shod. From this arises among
ti:,l%tihe prevalence of inflammatory complaints, diseased ac-
S tic dice e lymphatic system, as also acute rheumatism, pleu-
ases, typhus fevers, &c.
o_3*lesides that the "cas-chrom" mode of tilling is both toil-
;no, arid tedious, it very much injures the ground, as it does
.th.! turn it up in that regular manner which is accomplished by
~nstrtAnd this is not all ; when cultivating with this
za,: ment, is found necessary to convert the field into long,
to 7: ridges, and rounded on the top by heaping up the earth
croZAT off the water. The said ridges are also made as
Gi'eel7l irregular, and distorted, as the characters in the
th alphabet : and while the latter has no more, perhaps,
Imo" 'nut' acres in all, much of even that is lost by the broad
use,
spaces which are left between the ridges.
,white
is
the ground is turned over, the sowing commences,
u Is generally performed in a slow and awkward man-
er•
"'seed' h. Le sower goes backwards, and having a fistful of
his hand with the same three or four times, in
llet.rtic-alunkes
Position, before he disposes of it and is ready for the
-fhe most o liarrowing then takes place, which the women fbr
-strumwst Pall execute, by dragging after them the fatiguing in-
Inoor -eont. Owing to the lightness of the harrow which the
troo„;uroen are thus capable of dragging after them, the
0/47,4 cannot be made sufficiently smooth ; and to remedy
``.rac.:3Y comnaence anew with another instrument, called the
racare
, . which gives a smooth finish to the whole. The
W,
th L is merely a block of wood, having a few teeth in
.it
!nun :I"andle about three feet in length. The poor people
souse, 50 convey sea-ware from the shores, manure from their
,With the field, and peats from the hills to their dwellings,
With
1.,.43:,creel on their backs, which is fastened there by a
114tiv sing over theiribreasts. In harvest they have no alter-
best e but to carry home the produce of their possessions the
ben titaY they can,
the
potatoes by the creels, and the corn in
3
e 11Pi:M their backs.—Quarterly Journal
ef Agriculture.N
lstr.
D p4tRISON OF FOREIGN GRAIN.
Lorr,R,
WITH THE ENGLISH MARKET.

Faris is wheaten of white heaten bread of the first quality at
674 c. the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which is less than
6d. the loaf-of 4112. English weight, and the price of bread of
the first quality in London being 10, d. the loaf of 41b., the
difference is 75 per cent. that bread is dearer in London than
at Paris. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first
quality is 33f. the li hectolitre, which equals 50s. sd. the
quarter. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is
60f. the 15.9, kilogrammes, which answers to 375. Bd. the sack
of 2801 b. I,tlnglish weight, and the highest quotation of flour
of the first quality in London being 655. the sack it follows
that flour is 72/ per cent. dearer in London than
at, Paris, and
421 that with the sum of 3/. ss. a man may buy 4831 b. of fine flour
'Paris, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 2801 b.
44 London.
The following is the state of things in other parts of France:
23f
At Abbeville the quotation of wheat of the first quality is
50c
lily ,if •, of the second quality 22f. 50c., and of the third qua-
- -no, Voich gives a mean price of 22f. 33c., and which
kis
bihwer.s to 51s. 2d. the quarter. At Dijon the quotation of
theet 15 from 19f. to 201., which is from 435. 6d. to 455. 10d.
lof (111,:rter. At Blois the registered mean price of wheat is
quotv, which equals 455. sd. the quarter. At Rouen the.
6.-:e.,
fro,- "aen of new wheat is from 22f. to 231. 50c., which is
old. 'Zs. sd. to 545. 10d. the quarter, and the quotation of
Use
~.,. eat is from 21f. to 29f., which is from 48s. ld. to 50s. sd.
1.7 f stoirter.
At Marans the highest quotation of wheat is
• which
tegiStered e.quals 38s. I Id. the quarter.. At. Bergues the
the second Price of wheat of the first quality is 231.. 9. lc., of
"whleh give quality, 23f, 30c., and of the third quality 22f. Bc.,
428. IP.i'ves a mean price of 23f. 10c., and which answers to.
ft re ;',,,L,• the quarter. At Grey the quotation of wheat is
th°e - i• 60c. to 18f. 40c., which is from 40.. 3d. to 425. 2d.
whiql-,tter. At Dieppe wheat rules from 221. to 23f. 00c.,
bu ,relth's '.rorn 50s. sd. to 535. 10d. the quarter. At Bras-
of rti'l `"e quotation of wheat of the first quality is 21f. 35c.,
qiii he second quality 19f. 37c., and of the third quality 161.. t
438%,gives a mean price of 181. 91c., and which answers. of
wheat °Q. the quarter. At Soissons the highest quotation o
theeat °f the first quality is 21f. 13c., which equals 48s. sd.
bt !loaner. The highest quotation, of flour of the first qua-
the as 5,6 f• the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 345. 7d.
of fiae't of 2801 b. English weight, and the highest quotation.
follow Our of the first quality in London being 655. the sack, it
s that flour is 88 per cent. dearer in London than at
Seim°
52610, and that with the sum of 3/. 55.. a man may buy
be of fine flour at Soissons, whereas with the same sum
°4ll buy only 2801 b. in London.

NFINEMENT OF ALLEGED
MADMEN.

(From the Brighton Herald.)
" There can be no doubt that hundreds of persons have been
doomed to pass their lives in mad-houses, which they entered
la the full possession of their faculties, and that their liberty--
even existence—has been sacrificed to motiveso of cupidity or
tesenge. This is a dreadful thing, and w uld se, em to be an
irn
), Probable one in a country like England—yet tNe believe it to of more frequent occurrence here than perhaps in any
°ther country in the world. The Government in this, as in
.1.,"1:° man other instances, has allowed a public duty to fall into
441vato hands,Y who treat as a speculation—as a matter of pe-
-I,l'aiary loss and gain—the most dreadful calamity that can.
sons a human being. We might as well have private pr!-
cl„rls, as private mad-houses ; both arc receptacles for indivi-
;t , •.ais who have lost their right to a place in society, but whom
should be the constant care of that society to cure and again
itNu,eeeive back into its bosom. That many thousand unfortunate
res have been lost to themselves and to the world by a
1,4,(5e system of treatment, adopted designedly or through igno-
Cqee, is a slur on our humanity; that thousands of others
tt'it:e Passed a life of agony in a horrid state of confinement in
pri dungeons of a mad-house is a crying outrage on every
",,olleiple of justice, human or divine. Mad-houses do want a
A' ward as much as prisons did."
.. 14:),ur Contemporary then, gives the recent case of Mr. Pater-
Z ~r's seizure by some servants of a mad-house-keeper, con-
cling his observations with the following pertinent com-
lac ants :----" Thus it seems the law is null and void before a
vPri6cate signed by two doctors I A person has but to be
,:twl?iently assaulted, his feelings excited by brutal treatment,
a,n in step two doctors, feel his pulse, and declare that he is
8,0,4 ! Yes, to be sure, and so is every man in a degree in-
st'T when in a passion. Do the doctors remember the old
pio)';4g, Ira est furor brevis? Men are mad in battle—mad in
toneent disputes— and never more likely to become mad than
cp„i Charged falsely with being so. But there is a wonderful
b.ert-sserenee between confirmed insanity, or fits of raging mad-
iro , and those temporary ebullitions of temper when we may
tr,ed become violently excited, but never lose a certain con-
-01 over our words and actions.
future We should hope this affair would be investigated, and in
quir„sorne further authority than two doctors' certificates re
host to deprive a man of his liberty and place him in the
deprtidreadful of all situationye °laxly people of theirs—the
.mere idea of which would
senses"
Tr/
first - -,--s.r OHL A.Y;Tro: A N''C A. 1,1 A X ACC. -rend tile
Mersapd third fingers of the left hand—and, commencing with
.._n at the thumb, count on—the bent fingers will indicate
utontha which contain only thirty days.—Scotsman.

T
I`FIE "SOULT AND WELLINGTON WIND
SUN."

DAY)

This morning the Queen attended Divine Service at St.
George's Chapel. The service was King's in F. The Hen.
and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Rev. Mr.
Proby, officiated at the altar, and the latter gentleman preached
the sermon from the sixth verse of the 2d chapter of Paul's
Epistle to the Hebrews. The former part of the service was
read by the Rev. J. Gore. The anthem, " The Lord des-
cended" ( Hayes). Mr. Elvey presided at the organ.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Marchioness
of Norrnanby, Lady Mary Stopford, Baroness Lehzen, Lady
Gardiner, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Torrington, and
others of the Royal suite were present.

The Queen did not ride out yesterday. To-day her Ma-
jesty, attended by the Lauies and Gentlemen of the Royal
suite, walked on the Terrace and through the Slopes to Ade-
laide Lodge.
. _ _

The following were included in the Royal dinner party of
this evening :—.Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Mary Stopford, Lady Gardi-
ner, the Hon. the Misses Murray and Pitt, Baroness Lehzen,
Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Torrington, the Hon. Major
Keppel, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon. C. A.
Murray.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by
Lady Mary Stopford, drove to Cumberland Lodge this after-
noon in a pony phaeton.

Yesterday the Duchess of Hamilton took her departure.
Sir James Clerk arrived, and had the honour of dining with
her Majesty in the evening.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians is expected to arrive
at the Castle in the course of the present week.