The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-02 00:00:00

PRICE OF COALS.

Ma. EDITOR,—To enable your readers to judge bow
far the public have or have not been benefitted by the re-
peal of the coal duty, I send you a schedule of the pricts
charged by the first houses in the coal trade to their cus-
tomers during the last seven years:-
It+24 September 51s. 1829 October s2s.
1825 August 548 1829 February 42s.
1826 September sos. 1830 August 47s
1827 October s3s.
which last is, I believe, about the price at present.--I am,
Sir, yours, &c. A HOUSEKEEPER.

His Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND
passed through Gateshead, on his way to Alnwick Castle,
on Thursday morning. The circumstance was announced
by the bells of St. Mary's Church commencing a peal.
No sooner, however, were their " emotions" heard than
the churchwardens and overseers repaired to the church,
and indignantly ordered the ringers to desist, and never
again to offer such a mark of honour to any individual
who should be inimical to the liberties of the people. No
outrage was offered to the Noble Duke, the passengers in
the street by whom he was recognised treating him with
silent contempt. —D ur hanz Chronicle.
THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND IN
THF. NORTH.-Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of
NORTHUMBERLAND passed through Newcastle on Thurs-
day morning, on their way to Alnwick Castle. They
alighted at the house of the Misses DAVIDSON, in West-
gate-street, and a crowd having soon collected, the Mayor
and a large posse of constables were instantly on the spot,
with every appearance of their having been waiting in
readiness for the occasion. The officers were stationed in
different parts of the crowd, so that they might have a
full view of their proceedings ; and the Mayor himself pub-
licly ordered them to take into custody any persons who
should testify their disapprobation. Accordingly, when
his Grace entered his carriage, and there was a slight
hiss, FORSYTH, the head of the police, immediately took a
young man into custody, and marched him down to the
Court, and we understand he was shortly after liberated
upon undertaking to appear this day (Friday). Such is
a plain narrative of this occurrence, as we hare received
it from several eye-witnesses ; and without at all meaning
to justify or extenuate violence, or even offence, to those
who differ with us, we must say that the above appears to
us to be a most unwarrantable outrage against the liberty
of the subject. Is it to be endured that an Englishman
is to be thus seized by an officer, and dragged through the
streets like a felon, for merely hissing another ? We trust
such conduct will nowhere be tolerated in this country,
and public indignation has been already too loudly ex-
pressed to allow us to think for a moment that it will be
sutf•red to pass unnoticed in this town, whatever may Le
the result of the examination on Friday.—Newcastle
Chronicle.

A correspondent recommends the Board of
[Tealth, before they publish any further bulletins, to em-
ploy some person to tarts them into English, that those
for whose guidance they are sent forth may see more
clearly what their intended meaning is.
JEDEDIAIT Bux-coN, the celebrated calcula-
tor, was so absorbed in that sole talent which he pos-
sessed, that it is related of bins that, when taken to the
theatre, all he did was to keep an exact account its his
memory of the number of words spoken by GARRICK
during the whole performance, and of the number of steps
employed by the principal dancer.

- - - -
REVOLUTIONARY .JUDGE. The followinab
revolting picture cf. a French JEFFnEvs, is taken from
the " Memoirs of Count Lavallette." Tbi„ wan
was a
wretched foreign priest, called SCUNEpER, who gloried
in his assumed title of the " Mara; of the Rhine." For
sever:,; months he had acted as President of the Tribunal,
and General of the revolutionary army, terrifying Alsatia
with his cruelty and debauchery. He used to travel
through the provinces, followed by Judges, who were no
better than robbers, and by soldiers, who were his execu-
tioners. A guillotine, drawn by horses, like a field-piece,
accompanied him every where ; and when he arri;-ed in
any town not one of the inhabitants could count on
escaping. Sex, age, beauty, respectability, fortune--
nothing was sacred in the eyes of this wretch. Of all the
ferocious men who made themselves famous at that period,
SCHNEIDER, perhaps, bore the greatest resemblance to
NERO. The sight of death and blood gave him a sensa-
tion of unspeakable delight. The examples of this monster
of cruelty have in them a sore of orginality which makes
one shudder; and on„ would wic,ll tp doubt their truth, it
the testimony of 100,000 inhabitants, and the evidence of
facts, were not certain proofs of their existence. At
length ST. JUST had the monster arrested and sent -to
Paris ; there he was condemned, not for the crimes he had
really committed, but for prior conspiracies that never
had existence; so far was justice reviled.in those deplorable
times."