The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-22 00:00:00

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN

THE WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. a. to s. s. to s.
Abingdon 44 50 30 34 22 30 38
17 52 29 31 25 43
36 48 30 40 16 22 33
38 50 32 36 26 30 39
Cirencester 44 51 27 32 20 25 32 40
35 46 26 30 26 30 46
Guildford 38 54 28 35 20 30 46
42 58 26 32 23 26 43 '
Hereford 36 49 23 32 22 29 96 40
Ilighworlh 42 60 32 42 28 34 511
Maidenhead 32 58 21 36 20 28 34 44 34 38
46 48 32 34 '22 29 34 40
Reading 34 57 25 35 20 27 33 42 35
44 54 30 34 20 28 41 46
Southampton 45 51) 33 40 28 32 42
Stroud
Tewkesbury 51 35 22 32 40
Uxbridge 40 48 28 32 17 28 40 42
32 52 24 34 20 25 33 42 33 48
Warminster 30 40 27 34 22 26 36 48
59 21 22 35
W0rce5ter..—......... 53 56 32 36 30 32 46 46 48
CHELTENHAM MARKETS.
Per Bushel. s. d. to s.d Per lb. d. tc d
Wheat
Barley 4 6 5 6 Mutton
Oats 3 9 4 9 Veal
Beans
['ease
'thy 6l. 10s. ;to 71. 7s. 00. per ton.;

. to s.d
7 9 9 0 Reef
4 6 5 6 Milton
3 9 4 9 Veal
6 6 7 6 Pork
4 9 6 8 Lamb
61. 10 s :to 71. 7s. Od. pc,
LEWES MA tiKE I.—Dec,

Per Quaver.
Wheat, White
-- Red
Barley

s. d. to s. d. Per Quarter. s. (4. to s. d.
56 0 60 0 flats
52 0 56 0 Pease 32 0 37 0
40 0 43 0 Oil Cake...l:i. us. ner Thousand.
HULL MARKET.—Dec. 20.
Wheat, Old 4Ss. 51s. (3s. New soi 5Fs. 63s
Foreign —B. —s. —s. In bond... —s. —s. —s.
Oats, Poland
-- Small or Feed.... —s. 20s —s. —s.
-- Foreign —s. —s. —s —s. —S. —d.
Barley, Norf. & Suf. —s. —s. 325. Linc. & Wold —s.3ls. 355.
Foreign
Beans ;pis 3,3'5. 425. Foreign —s.
Pease, 36s. 3ss. 435. Grey 325. ::6s. 40,.
Tares 40s —s. 44s Foreign

Rapeseed. in bond none ..... ..... Free, per last 321. 331. Qs.

HAMBURG MARKETS.
GRAIN.

Wheat, Marks 321 to 349
- Mecklenburg 270 to 3i5
Magdeburg 324 to 33d
-- Eider — to

Anhalt, white 330 to 354
red
Holstein
aye, Mecklenburg 222 to 228
Holstein
Archangel — to
Barley, Mecklenburgh 162 to 174
Magdeburg,' to
Lower Elbe — to'

Oats, Upland„. ..... to
--- Mecklenburg to
Eider
-- Holstein 10 to 144

Petersburgh & Riga to
Malt, Pomeranian 129 to 111
Buck Wheat
Pease, Upland, yellow 225 tr 4 216
Beans 19i to 253
Tares l6 to 234
Rapeseed to
Ditto Cakes
Linseed dittO 56 to 63

COTTON.— _ __
Carolina and Tennessee...B%to 10% Maranham 11%t012
Georgia, Ist sort 1114 12 Madras 6 8%
2d IOU 114 Surats 5 7%
3d and 4th ...... 6% 9% Domingo 0% io%
-- -

Mocha 7%ti
Batavia
Surinam 4
Rio 4%
Bahia
___ _

COFFEE.
3 B► 4 Domingo
6 La Guayra
5 Porto Rico
5( Havannah
6

SUGAR:— (Wit
Havannah, White ....... 9to It

.11 to
5
5' 7%
4b, 7

Brown
Itio, White 7

Mown 5 6

:It 8% Discount.)
Bahia, White
8r0wn.... 51,i h%,1
Pernambuco, White , 8
Brown 514 6

On Friday, some men who were throwing a rope for
the purpose of hauling in a barge at dravesend, finding
something heavy attached to the end, pulled it in, when
they captured a toad-fish, which held the rope fast in its
tremendous jaws. It measured about three feet in length
and twenty-eight inches in breadth, not including gills,
which were very large, spreading like a fan, attached to the
body by a broad thick lump of fleshy substance. In lieu
of fins it had a large orifice on each side, from which it dis-
charged the water. The mouth, when open, Was large
enough to contain a bucket of water ; the eyes and tail
were small, the latter somewhat similar to that of a dolphin.
—Maidstone Gazette.

Monday a Coroner's inquest was held on Baptiste
Constantine, an unfortunate Polish General. The deceased,
through his misfortunes, suffered great privation both bodily
and mentally, and the disinclination of some friends to assist
him any longer, becoming apparent, in a moment of distrac-
tion, on Saturday evening, he shot himself through the
breast with a pistol. His afflicted widow on taking him his
supper discovered him weltering in blood. Medical assist-
ance was immediately obtained, and he was conveyed to
the Bristol General Hospital, and although every thing was
done for him he expired of the wound on the following day.
Verdict—" Lunacy.".—Bath Journal.

CAMBRIAN SUPERSTITION.—Gwrach-y-Rhibp
—the Hag of the Dribble—derives her strange title from
the following circumstances :7—ln her various journies over
the hills, on her ill-boding errands, she is accustomed to
carry her apron full of stones, and as often as her apron-
string breaks the stones fall in such a direction as to form,
a dribble. There is something wildly and fearfully poetical
in the Hag. As soon as the day has declined sufficiently
to admit of her unseen progress, she hastens to the house
which contains the doomed person, and there, flapping her
wings against the window of the chamber, she calls upon
the sick by name, in a howling broken voice, as thus :
A-a-a-nni-i-i ! (Anni.) This visitation, it may be readily
conceived, is infinitely more than that of Canwyll-y-Corff ;
and as it. rarely occurs in any place but on the mountain,
or in the morass, the terrors of the prediction are height-
eat(' in proportion to the wildness and loneliness of the
scene. The Bodach-glas of Scotland, Banshee of Ireland,
and the Gwrach-g-ilihibyn of Wales appear to be the
" sisters three," who are invested with one and the same
ominous power. Such are the absurdities of superstition !
" It is enough," says a sensible writer, " for a man to die,
without being plagued with hags and banshees to increase
its bitterness ; and it requires no prodigious stretch of un-
derstanding to include, under the phrase of " makers and
lovers of a lie," all who, under any pretence, would pro-
long men's faith in what the current of human experience
proves to have been far removed from them by the kind-
ness of their Maker.—Cambrian Journal.

HERTs.--Preparations, ire find, are making to
bring the voluntary provisions of the new tithe bill into ef-
fect in this county, and no doubt commutations will be
effected with as much satisfaction, and in fact advantage to
the parties concerned, as they have elsewhere. The ne-
cessary steps have been taken in the parish of Hatfield,
and on Saturday Lord Melbourne left town to take part in
the proceedings. A Sunday paper mentions a case in Sus-
sex, where the rector and the tithe-payers have each
gained 2001. a year by a voluntary commutation. The
rector will receive 200/. a year more, and the parishioners
pay 200/. less—the expense of collection, &c. under the old
system having actually amounted to 400/. Need one word
more be said in favour of the new hill ?--Essex Herald..

BLANDFORD, DEC. 12.—Mr. Buckingham, M.P., having
delivered, at this place, a Course of Lectures on the Holy
Land, which gave general satisfaction to the crowded au-
diences that attended them, he was invited by the Com-
mittee of the Blandford Institution to return, and deliver
a Second Course on the same subject ; which he completed
on Friday evening last. At the close of the concluding
lecture, the Rev. Reginald Smith, rector of Stafford, near
Dorchester, rose, and addressed the audience to the fol-
lowing effect :
"1 rise with feelings of the greatest pleasure to pro-
pose a vote of thanks to Mr. Buckingham, for the very in-
teresting series of Lectures which he has just concluded ;
and I am sure, from the symptoms of delight and satisfac-
tion which I have witnessed in this large assembly, that I
am but speaking the language of all in so doing.—(Cheers.)
You, ,Sir (addressing himself to Mr, B.), have been
the means of conducting us through scenes of the
deepest interest to every Christian mind ; though it
needed not the powers of description and gifts of
eloquence which you possess to awaken our interest in
such scenes as those of Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of
Abraham, the Patriarch ; and the beautiful city of Damas-
cus, with its street called Straight,' where the Apostle
Paul halted. You, Sir, by showing us the fulfilment of
prophecy with respect to those places which you yourself
have visited, have strengthened and confirmed our Christian
faith. You have been the witness of the accomplishment
of those denunciations which the prophets Isaiah and Jere-
miah were commissioned to proclaim against Nineveh and
Babylon, those guilty cities of antiquity over which the
besom of destruction hath swept ; thus exhibiting the awful
instances of God's wrath against sin : and if any present
should have entertained any doubts respecting the truth of
those Scriptures to which you have so often alluded, I think
he must have heard enough from you to dispel those doubts,
and send him to his Bible with additional interest ; your
beautiful elucidations having made those parts now appear
plain which were formerly obscure. But, Sir, though, as I
stated before, it needed not your talents to render such
subjects attractive ; yet, set before us as they were, by your
powerful and descriptive language, which of us who are
here present could fail to be gratified and improved ?
(Cheers.) I hope, Sir, that those scenes of desolation and
ruin which you have so eloquently described with such a
semblance of reality, will have the effect of teachint, us,
more forcibly than ever, this Scripture lesson, that all flesh
is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the
field : the grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word
of God endureth for ever.' In conclusion, Sir, I beg leave
to tender to you the thanks of this meeting for the kind
manner in which you have come forward and favoured us
with these Lectures."—(Great applause.)
The Rev. R. KEYNES, in seconding the proposition,
expressed his entire concurrence in all that the previous
speaker had said ; and added that he had watched nar-
rowly, and could not discover a single expression that had
fallen from the lips of the respected Lecturer by which any
person could discover what was his political bias, or from
which persons of any party could receive any thing but
pleasure and satisfaction.—(Loud cheers.)
Lieutenant-Colonel KEANE, who presided in the Chair
of the Institution on this occasion, then rose, and pre-
sented the thanks of the Meeting to Mr. Buckingham ;
and in so doing, he said that he not only considered the
thanks of this Meeting to be due to the Hon. Gentleman,
for the pleasure he had afforded them here, but that he
deserved the thanks of the whole community for the great
public good he was doing in thus devoting his leisure and
his talents to the gratification and improvement of mankind.
—(Continued applause.)

(From the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette of Monday.)

At our Assembly Rooms, yesterday, Mr. Buckingham
delivered the First Lecture of his Course on the " Holy
Land," to a most numerous, fashionable, and attentive au-
ditory. The room was completely filled ; and the unusual
interest which seems to have been excited, was in no de-
gree disappointed. Persons of every religious and political
creed among us agree in allowing to Mr. Buckingham the
praise which is due to an accomplished man and an eloquent
speaker. His observations on the interesting objects in the
Bast—objects which his own eyes have looked upon—con-
vinced us that they are at once just and refined. Although
some of Mr. B.'s remarks have been made by,others, yet, in
his bands, they have a novel air, and possess the stamp of ori-
ginality. We especially admired his precision, and the more
so because of the extent of his knowledge. He can at the
same time take in a general, and yet a particular view of
objects ; show the connexion and reference they had to each
other, and how causes distant in time and remote from common
observation, operating through a course of ages and events,
have produced the modern effects which he exhibits. And
this he does in a style so truly graphic, that his hearers
fancy themselves to be real spectators of those distant
scenes of sublimity and delight which he describes. There
is besides a most pleasant variety in his choice of words,
together with a grateful redundance in the length and mas-
culine vigour in the whole structure of his periods ; which
are so full, so tempered with the just proportions of tone
and sense, that we are at once informed and charmed by
an accuracy without study, and an elegance without art.
If, however, there was one part of Mr. B.'s address more
delightful to the Christian mind than another, it was the
'frequent opportunities which he seized of showing the per-
fect accuracy of all Biblical descriptions ; and the able
manner in which he pointed out the judicious selection
which marks the figurative language of Holy Writ fre-
quently drew down the strongest testimonies of approval
from his well-educated hearers. Mr. Buckingham evinces
much discretion in avoiding the most distant reference to
those political sentiments which, as a senator, he is known to
hold. Hence, if his hearers, go to his lectures without pre-
judice, he awakes none ; but if that spirit should unhappily
exist, he presently subdues it. The distinguished qualities
of this gentleman as a public speaker can, we think, be de-
nied by no man who has any taste for intelligence, for ge-
nius, or for eloquence of composition.