The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-18 00:00:00

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.

22i. tid.l Oats is. 91:113ean5_..... P. 6,1,
Barley Izls. 10(1.1 Rye 14s. 0:1

HAY IIA RK grs,—(At per Load et 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE vil JAMES'S.)
roarst. he ,vy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 11l to £2 15
\ew Meadow Hay 3 5 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 10 5 0
t lover Hay
35 5 5
Oat Straw ...... XI Bto £1 101 Wheat straw 1 14 1 16
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
New Meadow Hay . 10 3 lu
Useful ()Id Ditto 3 0 310
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3lO 4 5
Clover Hay (extra tine)...£s 10 —Generally
Oat Straw ...... XI 6toXI 8 I Wheat Straw 112 114

O❑ Saturday next the KING will hold a
Grand Installation of the Knights of the Garter, at
Windsor. All the great Ministers of State will attend
the ceremony,

At one o'clock, this day, the Marquis of
LANSDOWNE, Lord GODERICH, Lord ALTIIORP, Lord
MatatoußNE, Lord DURHAM, the Duke of RICHMOND,
Earl Of CARLISLE, SIT JAMES GRAHAM, Lord JOHN RUS_
SELL, the It'ght Hon. CHARLES GRANT, and Mr. STAN-
LEY. assembled in Council at the Foreign-Office in
Downing street.

At two o'clock this afternoon Air. O'CoN-
NELL, and about twenty other Irish Members, had an
audience of the CHANCELLOR of the ENCIIEQUER in Down-
log-street.

Sir ROBERT PEEL appeared in the House of
Commons, on Turfylay night, tolerably- early; and appa-
rently rather unexpectedly, for there was a momentary sus-
pension of business (Sir GEO. CLeitx's motion about the
non-return was on at the time) till the Right Hon. Baro-
net had adjusted himself in 1143 seat, and convinced all
gazers that it was really himself:

Since 1822 there have been completerl in the
southern districts of Ireland, under the superintendence of
Mr. GRIFFITHS. the engineer, more than 205 miles of
roads in extent, at an expense of 125,6401. 13s. 7d.
So numerous are the canals of Amsterdam
that they are said to divide the city into uo less than 90
different islands, communicating by 2SO bridges, either of
stone or wood.

The black-legs who lately plundered a young
man of the whole of his fortune, are said to have made a
precipitate retreat to the Continent, with the whole or
greater part of their booty.
By the time the Reform Bill reaches the
Upper House, Peers, it is thought, will be more numerous
in London than Commoners; the latter, especially the
Anti-Reform Members, are leaving town daily.

OLNEY BRIDGE.—It appears that Olney
bridge, which is immortalized in C .wrza's Task, is
nevertheless doomed to destruction. Its " wearisome but
needful length" is about to be removed, and a new and
handsome structure substituted.

Mrs. BISHOP (late Miss RI VIERE), thwill, it is said, make
oiantehetchoematprre shortly after the com-
e.
herney'?
dl ye-br:ta,
at
et
p prriudrey
mencement of the season. She is slid to possess a voice
of great sweetness and compass.

,
The New River, we hear, is about to disap-
pear; the proprietors think they can make more by cover•
ing it over and building on it th:in by leaving it to the
Cockney disciples of WALTON to fish their maiden min-
nows in.

Lnrtltit: tatoua rNl:).4.vEerayo, pwrieth-
valeAnt atGD Ct.ALjE.
the°° ‘4rea end of t
a musical cognomen, has bad good cause shown him to
S h 7;
Espouse a certain fair vocalist.—(The persons here meant
are the Earl of Fire and Miss Cawstr.)
EXTRAORDINARY IIEAT.--As a proof of
the great heat prevailing in this quarter last wei-k, a
corre,.pordent mentions that at Rostrevor, on Wednesday,
front twelve to two o clock, the thermometer, in the cool
shade, stood at 92 deg. ; temp. 132 deg. ; mean temp. 92
deg, t _Neter Telegraph.
Tiremunich Journal, the Austana, states
that
to join the city to the continent by a wooden bridge, two
Aconlyany has engaged to build
the bridge on condition that it shall receive a toll for
nice will soon cease to be an island. It is intended
miles arid a half Ling.
thirty years.
Harvest promises to be nearly as early this
fearu in the
whereas, in former veers it used to he three or
four weeks later.
Highlands as in the lower districts of the
nt
There was cut at the Mains of Dalvey,
StrathsPeY+
on the 25th and 26th July, a large field of
barley.
__Elgin Courier.
country;
s;
Notwithstanding the state of alarm in which
the public mind has been for some tune kept upon the
subject, we can announce with confidence that there hardly
period when less disease of a serious or con-
tavgeiro
character was known in the various public hos-
pitals of the metropolis.
Sir WALTER SCOTT'S assertion in his letter
to the Editor of an Edinburgh Piper, that "his mind had
never been drawn to the study of French politics," is
either a slip of the pen, or a singulif instance either of in•
accuracy or self-condemnation in this distinguished writer,
who, to do justice to his " Life of NAPOLEON," must, we
imagine, have studied French politics very minutely.
ever
7sa ca a
PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.—We extract the fol-
lowing from a New York Paper of the 21st ult. :
o Those who are familiar with the recent accounts of the
prosperous condition of the descendants of the mutineers
of the English ship Bounty, residing at the place, will
learn, perhaps with some surprise, that the whole number
of them have emigrated from the island, on account of a
deficiency of the necessary means of subsistence. Captain
Nirtt.caxt of the whaling ship Maria Theresa, arrived at
this port yesterday, informs, that while at Otaheite the
lEnglish transport ship Lucian arrived there with all the
inhabitants of Pitcairn's Island, with the purpose of fixing
them in a settlement at Otaheite, on account of a scarcity
of water at the former island."—New Bedford Mercury.
MR. STANLEY BEFORE FIE WAS A SECRE-
TAIM—In Ireland, where his family have an estate (I be-
lieve in the county of Limerick), he occasionally spent
some time, and built a house there. His motive in this
undertaking was the creditable one of giving employment
to the poor, for whom it is observable that he has taken
every occasion to express a strong sympathy When in
Ireland he led a secluded and somewhat extraordinary
life. He held no kind of intercourse with the gentry in
his neighbourhood. tz
acquired amongst them a reputa-
tion for strangeness; he lived alone, was a great walker,
would pace rapidly for some 14 or 15 miles along the high
road with a staff in his hand, and with a slouched hat on
his head, and was designated as " the odd gentli.man from
Englatill."—New Mont/dy

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FRO3i LLOYD'S.

DEAL, AUG. W. light.—Arrived from the river
the Winchelsea, for China.
ST.ANDGATE CREEK, Aur:. I7.—Arrived the Favourite,
Simmons. from Archangel • Carron, Strad-lan ; Adam, Sadler;
Agnes, Miner • and Trusty, St. l'etersbt..rith.
PLY MOUTI-I ' 4V,ti f6:—Arrived the Dispatch ,
,atch Crabb from
Odessa ; and Violet, Biala; from Lisbon.
FALMOUTH, Aro. 16.—ArfIrtd the Hotspur, Mitcheson
from Jame'. Off port, the Sisters, (ohet, from Cette.
Bills-I'm, A un. 16 Arrived the Bristol, Tripp, from
Jamaica; and Sir Walts3r Scott, from Lisbon.
MILFORD, AUG. 16.—Atr;ve,1 the Loyal Briton, Coulson,
from Quebec.

I.WERPOOL, Aro. 10.—Anivel the Nautilus, Jacobs, from
[Averponi
COItK, Au 6. la.—Alrived the Dido, Luscomb, from Per-
lamboco.

ABERDEEN, AUG. 15.—Arritki the Regalia, Phelp, Maria,
and Indian, Reid, from Ureenlmd.

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Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, at Antwerp.
dated August 16 :
" The Belgic vessels, which were taken possession of on the 4th
n st. by the Dutch force in this river, hate been liberated. Two
r three frigates and corvettes which were Ivingabo+re Fort Lill•
have dropped down the river. The Zeuw and a few tither ship,.
of war keep their station near J.lllo. Some of the gun.ly,ats
which were place a last February before the Citadel and Tete de
Flanders have dropped down before the town, and appear to have
o-orned the station they held in February. All is perfectly quiet
here."