The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-17 00:00:00

THE WEEK

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Wheat, 62 lb.
Barley, imperial quarter 3B 6 43 0
Do. Grinding, 49 lb.
Oats, 391 b
Old Beans, 6610 b l6 6 is 0
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New White Boling Pease, 3 imp. bush.
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MEETINGS OF CREDITORS ON MONDAY.
It Wilkinson, flannel-factor, Addle-street 1 at 2
T. Turner, upholsterer, New Bond-street 1 I.

At a wedding in South Carolina a young lawyer
moved, "That one man in the company should be selr.eted
as president ; that this president should be duly sw,orn to
keep secret all communications in his official der,artment
that night ; that each unmarried gentleman and lady should
write his or her name on a piece of paper, and under it
place the name of the person they wish to Inarry ; then
hand it to the president for inspection ; and if any gentle-
man and lady had reciprocally chosen each other the pre-
sident was to inform each of the result; P:tl those who had
not been reciprocal in their choice I.iept entirely secret."
After the appointment of the I:,resident communications
were handed up to him, awl it was found twelve young
gentlemen and ladies hp
.":1 made reciprocal choices, and
eleven of the twelve r.',atches were solemnized.
We believe that very little idea existed of the ex-
tent of want of- Church 'Room in the diocese of Bath and
Wells until actual inquiry ascertained its magnitude. It
appears from a state►nent recently made at a public meet-
ing in this city that to provide the inhabitants of Bath
alone with the means of attending public religious wor-
ship four additional churches are required ; and, even with
this increase, that only one-third of the inhabitants would
be accommodated. Two more churches are needed afr.
Bedminster, two at Taunton, one at Bridgwater, and, one
at Yeovil, to afford the same proportion, and a new &arch
is also wanted at Clarendon, in consequence of the present
one being remote from the greater part of the inhabitants.
—Bath chronicle.

Every week brings Its accounts of acts of despair
committed by unfort,:inate Polish refugees in France. We
learn from IClayP:nne, that a few days ago an officer of the
Polish artillery shot himself in that town, being no longer
able to 'dear the misery of being hopelessly separated from
I;.s country and friends. On Sunday last a young Polish
Officer put an end to his existence in the same manner at
Orleans ; and, on the same day, Mine. Niementoska, the
mother of three children, died, after lingering for four months
in a state of extreme distress, having exhausted all the means
her family could supply for their support.

QUEER FRUIT.—In an account of St. Domingo,
that appears in the Jamaica Royal Gazette, the narrator
says—" Speaking of fish, I must not forget the shell-fish ;
but I refer to them only for the purpose of noticing two
species—the oyster and the black crab. The former lite-
rally grow upon trees ; that is to say, they adhere to the
pendant branches of the willows that grow on the margin of
the water, and in this- state are brought to market, and sold
at so much per stick. But assuredly I should never have
guessed them to be oysters. Their shells generally re-
semble those of the mussel rather than the paudore. They
arc very sweet and wholesome, nevertheless.

A meeting of the working classes took place on
Friday, at Stockport; at which the following motion, among
others, was adopted :—" That it is the opinion of this
meeting that Labor is the creator and real supporter of all
wealth and capital, and that all who labour have a right to
dispose of their own productive energies, both of body and
mind, as they think proper. This meeting, therefore, view
with alarm and astonishment this abortive attempt, on the
part of the masters of Preston, to destroy the only legiti-
mate means of protecting their rights, viz., their Union."
The neighbouring market towns of Minchead,
Hatchet, and Dunster, in Somersetshire, are said to have
only one attorney between them ; and a gentleman in the
neighbourhood lately, having a deed to. execute in the pre-
sence of a professional man, had to travel 18 miles before he
could find one.