The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-20 00:00:00

HULL MARKET.—Oct.

Wheat, Old 445. 495. 525....... New 404. 425. 44s
Foreign —s. —s. A ln bond... —s. —s —s.
Oats, Poland —s. 22A Ms Old —s. 24s 25i.
-- Small or Feed.... —r. —s. 20s. —s. —s 433.
-- Foreign
Barley, Norf. & Sur
-- Foreign
..... - S. .
Beans
___ . 365. 3,5. 42.: Foreign _

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Pease, 365. 3is. 428 Grey 32; 264. 404.
''area 4os. s. 445. Foreign 945. 3ds. 384.
Rap eseed. in bond none Free, per last 321. 331. Os.

The Poor-law Commissioners have recalled and
suspended the order for forming the Worcester Union until
further orders.— Worcester Journal.

CHALLENGE---CLONMEL.—As other towns have
been challenging their neighbours to produce rivals for
their beauties, we cannot remain silent on the merits of a
real beauty of this town. But, reader, our phenomenon is
not of the fairer part of the creation—no, it is the " rale
broth of a Tipperary boy," and we will stake our Editorial
crow-quill against that of any member of the " fourth
estate," that no town in Ireland will produce a rival for
Martin Power. The far-famed Martin Power, a " sky
farmer," of great notoriety, but of Bacchanalian fame still
greater, is now seventy-two years of age, for the last fifty
years of which he has drunk, on an average (for it fre-
quently exceeded) thirty glasses of whisky per diem. On
one occasion he drank twenty-three pints of cider in less
than an hour ; on another, he and four others, between four
o'clock in the evening and daybreak the following morning,
in a house where they were hired to make cider, consumed
sixty-three gallons of that beverage, together with two
quarts of spirits, of which, our life on it, our friend Martin
had not the least share. On another day he drank to him-
self four quarts of raw whisky, and no later than Saturday
last he became " a case" for his Worship the Mayor,
having taken, according to his own admission, 40 glasses, an
excess of 10 beyond his usual complement. Our hero was
never known to be ill an hour, or in bed after four o'clock in
the morning. It is not a fortnight since he walked a dis-
tance of 40 miles, and his youngest child is but four months
old. Now, calculating the 30 glasses a day for 50 years
(as to the other items we will throw them in as a "
the total will be found to be 137 hhds. 23 gallons (about as
much as would float a man-of-war), the average cost of
which might be, as the lowest calculation Bs. per gallon, as
for many years of the above period it was 16s.—thus,
then, on the " leprous distilment" this man had expended
3,42 11. 125., which, if realised, would make him an inde-
pendent man ; whereas, at the present moment, be could
not command, perhaps, the odd shillings of that amount.
There may be some of our readers sceptical of the fore-
going facts, but we can assure them that the " character" is
well known to us, and that what we have above recorded
has been corroborated by his own acknowledgment, and the
assurance of the gentleman in whose employment he now
is, and of whose family ho has been an ancient follower.—
Conine/ Advertiser.

A farmer of the old school, residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Wallingford, having had occasion to visit the
metropolis, on his return was asked by some of his friends
in the market-room if he had not experienced much diffi-
culty in finding his way about London ; his reply was,
" Nae, dye zee, I did nae two zixpeny rides in a blunder-
buss I"—Reading Mercury.
GENUINE ELOQUENCE.—One man, whom I saw
sitting on the ground, leaning his back against the wall.
attracted my attention by a degree of squalor in his appear-
ance, which I had rarely before observed even in Ireland.
His clothes were ragged to indecency—a very common eir,
cumstance, however, with the males—and his face was pale
and sickly. He (7,id not address me, and I passed by ; but,
having gone a few paces, my heart smote me, and I turned
back. "If you are in want," said I, with some degree of
peevishness, " why do you not beg?" " Sure it's begging
I am," was the reply. " You did not utter a word." " No
Is it joking you are with me, Sir ? Look there!" holding
up the tattered remnant of what bad once been a coat :
" Do you see how the skin is speaking through the holes
in my trousers ? and the bones crying out through my
skin; Look at my sunken cheeks, and the famine that's
staring in my eyes I Man • alive ! isn't it begging I am,
with a hundred tongues."—Lcitch Ritchie's Ireland,
On Wednesday morning, about nine o'clock, an im-
mense body of fire was observed herofrom to burst out from
the Cliff at Holworth, accompanied with a prodigious vo-
lume of smoke ; the fire was extensive and vivid, and the
column of vapour rolling up the cliff presented a most inte-
resting sight, and attracted the notice of several individuals
on the Esplanade at Weymouth. On inquiry it appears
that the extraordinary high tide of Tuesday morning, fol-
lowed by that of the succeeding tides of the evening and
next day, all spring tides, have acted with unparalleled force
against the base of the cliff, and brought down a considera-
ble portion of its surface, causing an exposure of the inter-
nal ignited materials, and producing the luminous appear-
ance and copious exhalation of vapour IboV9 11}e0oRed.—
Salisbury Avoid,
On Monday morning, at a quarter to 4 o'clock,
during a very dense fog, the large steamer City of Lon-
donderry, from Dublin to London, with a cargo and pas-
sengers, got on the rocks under Dover Castle cliffs, a quar-
ter of a mile from the town, and on the receding of the
tide was left high and dry. The passengers. fron
derate state of the WAntil.
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sere not so much alarmed as
might have been expected. After lying there nearly
12 hours, with assistance the vessel was got off, and at
post-time was at anchor in Pover-ropds, and likely to leave
for London on Tuesday morninsl

Honourable Sir, aware of the powerful interest you take
in the improvemont of the working classes, allow us to in-
form you that though without an adequate building, the
work of instruction has been carried on by our Institution
for many years ; a lecture being delivered at the Philoso-
phical Theatre in Cannon-street once a week, and at the
Rooms in Old Meeting-street. Night Schools are regu-
larly open, wherein the young mechanics are instructed in
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Flinch,
Latin, Mathematics, Drawing, and Moral and Experi-
mental Science : there is also an excellent Scientific
Library, the books of which are read with the greatest
avidity.

Honourable Sir, allow us to express our admiration of
your eloquent and beautiful description of those scenes in
the Holy Land, which had the effect of kindling in our
minds images of grandeur and beauty which we can never
forget—images so vividly pourtrayed to us, that even in
remote years we shall be enabled to create enjoyment for
ourselves by recalling them to our memory.
In conclusion, permit us once again to thank you, on be-
half our Institution, and to venture the hope that your ex-
ample will not be lost on our fellow-townsmen, and that the
next time you address the body of our members, it will be
in a Hall erected partly by meaus of your highly talented
and philanthropic exertions.

MR. BUCKINGHAM'S REPLY

TO THE DEPUTATION FROM THE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE

OF lIIRMINGHA)i.
Sins—l receive, with feelings of the purest and most
unalloyed delight, the address which you have just read
and placed in my hands. To receive the public expression
of approbation from any class of our fellow-countrymen, is
an honour of which the noblest and most exalted by wealth
and station may be justly proud, and which the wisest and
most virtuous may be ambitious to enjoy, without endan-
gering their independence, or risking the diminution of their
worth. But if the approbation and gratitude of any one
class can be more acceptable than of another, it must be
in a case like the present, where he on whom you bestow
that honour has no pretensions of title, wealth, or power,
to recommend him to your favour, and where you, who con-
fer the reward, can have no hope of future benefits or ad-
vantages from the eulogies you express.
Believing you, therefore, to be as sincere and disinte-
rested as men can be in the expression of your thanks to
me, for the humble services which I have been enabled to
render you, I accept them with a pleasure of the highest
kind, mingled only with a regret that my power of aiding
your excellent object and design is not equal to my will ;
and that my means of serving you are limited to labon_ring
for your benefit, as the only way in which I can add to
your funds. As was said by the early Apostles of our faith,
I may repeat the expression--" Silver and gold have I
none, but such as I have I give freely unto you."
Of the sincerity of my desire to promote, by all the
means in my power, the formation of public Institutions for
the acquirement and diffusion of useful knowledge, the
best proof I can offer is this—that, in the sister town of
Sheffield, whose manufactures are of the same class and
description as your own, and which I account it an honour
to represent, I have never yet paid it a visit as its repre-
sentative, without adding, by labours similar to those which
I have exercised for you, some oonsiderable sum to the
funds of its Mechanics' Institution ; that, in every town
I visit, I am glad to extend a similar privilege to such In-
stitutions, wherever I find them ; and that, during the two
last sessions of Parliament, I have laboured with the great-
est assiduity to procure the passing of two Bills—the one
to facilitate the formation of public walks and public
gardens, for the healthy recreation and enjoyment of the
working classes, for whose pleasure and admiration the
beauties Of this lovely world were as much created as for
the rich ; and for the formation of public Institutions, for
literary and scientific information, and for the general de,
veloprnant of the intellect of the humbler classes of society,
whc have hearts to feel and minds to understand, as well as
those who are above them In station, and who require only
the due cultivation of the sentiments and faculties to prove
themSOVOi as fitted for rational and intellectual pleasures
AA the noblest in the land.
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listment of friendly sympathies in my views on the other, I
shall return to my place in Parliament with greater zeal
and greater power than ever, to advance the interests of
those industrious classes, in whose prosperity I shall ever
feel the deepest concern ; and among them, I can truly as-
sure you, that the Mechanics of Birmingham will never be
forgotten.

J. S. BUCKINGHAM,

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The effects of the late heavy rains begin to be felt
in different parts of France. On Saturday week the Nievre,
at Clamecy,. rose so rapidly, that in loss than two hours
the houses in the lower part of the town were inundated ;
hut there were no serious accidents, as the inhabitants bad
timely warning. The loss of goods, however, must have
been distressing to the labouring classes. By the evening
of Sunday the waters had abated, and the poor peor!1:,
were enabled to return to their dwellings.
The Wesleyan Meth,x. •
for the nur^b—
,,,,,sts are now in negotiation
.. —ase of the theatre at Boston, their Chapel in
tne town being insufficient for the crowds, who flock to it.
—Star in the East,

The iron illagees citiarterly meeting in this town was
lleld on Thursday lasts and was numerously attended. A
good deal of business was transacted, but' no rise in prices
took plaoeyq-#irylillOgni Qazafie, ' _