The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

pi tiCE OF 111 HEAT IN WALES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
—I send you the prices of wheat per imperial
measure
at the undermentioned towns :
lerthyr
[ay
A bergavenny 11s. Bd. or 935. 4d. ditto.
B, 'econ lls. Od. or 88s. ditto.
And yet: with these exorbitant prices staring the poor in
tobfe.
foreign wheat cannot be imported under a duty
per quarter, the aggregate average of the six
weeks, en ding July 23, being 645. 2d. per quarter ; and
avert tge is struck, not impartially, but by excluding
t. thel ist of prices selected for determining the ave-
fro man y great and important districts where the
rage .tion. and consequently the consumption, is very
popes Row k rig is this disgraceful infliction on the
great. 'y to ls.st ?Itis a singular fact that the Tory
communii ch is much patronized by the Rev. Divines of
paper, Whk.-' gives no account of the market prices
the diocese, '-riat in which it circulates. If this boiste-
within the dist. qutinues, wheat will be up in this neigh-
five shillings per quarter more ; and
broouusrhmo'oedathfoerurc.ca
lthough these are the market prices,
let us reflect that b. Vs to the shop and wants a peck, or
yet if a poor ruarticT his immediate consumption, he pays
more, of whes.t '')
at the rate of 1.5 c
l: 0 nor cent. more. These are facts,
limatie fact of all is that the poor are
r
to keep up the landlords' rents.
• 7, 1841. CYAIRIL
andthu thus mulcted ul nictoedstinit
Abergavenny, AtTA •

SIR J. GRAIL. NM'S IGNORANCE.
OF THE h
aiSemhUoNtnhgsta d :hoe!
TO THE .ElAlr, ,f* your valuable paper to
Stu,—Allow me a corner ,
-s by
point out one of the many fallac-. ;r weaker brethren.
cites of monopoly seek to delude tilt-
Two gentlemen of some consideratit.. ' munciations
Tories having (I suppose to neutralize the of the
contained in the Scripture against the oppresso.. „.
poor) resorted to the sacred volume for the purpos, of
learning political economy, have discovered the astounci- ;
ing fact that Tyre owed her submission to Herod from
her being compelled to import corn, and they tri-
umpharaf4r point to this fact as an argument for the
maintenstmte of the present system of Corn-laws.
Those learned Thebans " who have calumniated chro-
nology by a most preposterous anachronism," are a re-
mle Whig statesman and an ambitious parson. Sir
Names Graham having written against the Corn-laws all
his life, has now resorted to a clerical tutor for arguments,
in support of his new-fangled opinions, with what suc-
cess I will leave you to judge.
He quotes from the Prophets passages applicable to
Tyre when " her merchants were princes, which were
written about 400 8.C., as descriptive of her condition in
the year of our Lord 44, when those very prophecies had
been fulfilled, when she had been "swept with the bosom
of destruction," and when her site was a " mere rock
for fishers to dry their nets on." When the occurrence
referred to in the. Acts took place, New Tyre, which
had been built near the site of the old city, was an insig-
nificant town, subject to Rome, under the immediate do-
minion of the Praetor of Syria, and might well fear the
wrath of Herod, the Vicegerent of the Emperor of
Rome. But their very argument may be turned against
them. Tyre, the mart of the East, in her days of greatest
prosperity imported all her own corn (Ezek. xxvh. 17)
Judah and the land of Israel, they were thymerchants;
they traded in thy market wheat of Pannag, and honey,
and oil, and balm, and so did every nation of import-
ance in the ancient world—Rome from Sicily and
Africa, Athens from the Black Sea, Carthage from
Sicily and Spain, &c., and this fact is never alluded to
as a cause, even a secondary one, of their decline.
A misstatement of this kind can only have arisen from
ignorance, or a deliberate intention to deceive ; of the
latter I would fain acquit an English clergyman and a
would-be statesman ; of the former I fear, disgraceful as
it is to both, they must plead guilty. If the guides of
the flock are so deficient, how benighted must be their
followers !

With respect for your zeal and activity in this and
every cause you advocate, believe me, yours truly,
King's Bench-walk, Temple. A BARRISTER.

LESSONS IN PUNNIANSIIIP.—Mr. T. Hood,

professor of punmanship, begs to acquaint the dull and
witless that he has established a class for the acquire-
ment of an elegant and ready style of punning, on the
pure Joe-Millerian principle. The very worst hands are
improved in six short and mirthful lessons. As a speci•
men of his capability, he begs to subjoin two conun-
drums by Colonel Sibthorpe

COPY.
" The following is a specimen of my punning before
taking six lessons of Mr. T. Hood :—Q. Why is a fresh-
plucked carnation like a certain cold with which children
are affected ?—A. Becaush its a new pink off (an hoop-
.
ing-cough.)"
" This is a specimen of my punning after taking six
lessons of Mr. T. Hood : Q. Why is the difference be-
tween pardoning and thinking no more of an injury the
same as that between a selfish and a generous man ?—A.
Because the one is for-getting, and the other for-giving."
N.B. Gentlemen who live by their wits, and diners-
out in particular, will find Mr. T. Hood's system of in-
calculable service. _

Mr. 11. has just completed a large assortment of jokes,
which will be suitable for all occurences of the table,
whether dinner or tea. Ho has also a few second-hand
bon mots, which he can offer a bargain.

*** A GOOD LAUGHER WANTED.
—London Charirari.
FREAK OE NATURE.—A person in Perth,
who keeps collections of canaries, about a month ago had
one hatched, with 'only one wing and one leg. It was
not supposed at first-that the creature would survive, or,
if it did, that it would not be able to hop through the
cage to supply its wants, and that it would require to be
fed so long as it lived. But so far from this being the
case, it is as active as its more perfect mates, and is in
every respect as lively and as thriving.—Yerthshire
Courier.
THE TEN HOURS' SCIIENf E.-On Monday
evening last Lord Ashley met a party at the Crown Inn,
Deansgate, to unfold his views respecting a Ten Hours'
Bill. The place,. and a packed meeting, had been pre-
pared by Mr. Turner, of London, formerly of this
county, his Lordship's forerunner in his peregrination
through these districts. Several of the company openly
evinced their dissent from his Lordship's views, which
appeared to bo all for restriction, and none for freedom
of trade. Mr. John Doherty, of Manchester, accompanied
his Lordship, and on a motion by him, seconded by Mr.
Turner, a vote of thanks was given to his Lordship for
the interest displayed by him in the question of a Ten
Hours' Bill. It is something curious, that in a meeting
of nearly 100 persons, there could be none found to move
the vote of thanks excepting his Lordship's satellites.—
Bolton Press. .
THE WEATHER.—We have had another fickle
week ; the hay harvest is now nearly done throughout the
county ; it has been protracted and expensive, aad doubt-
less a large quantity is much injured ; good hay will next
year be of high value. The temperature has been rather
warmer this week than last, which, is very favourable to
the hops—we live very good accounts of them, although
in some yards the winds have done damage. The wheats
have in many places been much beaten down by the
rains ; on Tuesday last, in the latter half of the day, the
rain came down in torrents ; the river Wye was at that
time lower than it has been throughout the summer ; on
Wednesday morning it rose very rapidly, and while it
was a few miles below the city bridge quietly pursuing
its meandering course, a few miles above the bridge it
was swelling fast, and laving the banks in a most fretfu
mood. Reaping will commence next week in many of
the forward parts of the county.—Hereford Times.
Mrs. Catherine Ferguson, relict of the late Rev.
Leslie Moodie, D.D., minister of Inveresk, died at Kil.
kerran, on the 27th ult. Mrs. Moodie was the aunt of
the present Sir Charles Ferguson. A series of remark-
able coincidences have been noted regarding the death ot
the venerable lady. She was born at Kilkerran, in the
very room Where she died ; and her husband died on the
27th July, 1840, being the very day of the year on which
his widow departed this life.—Scotsman.
The Great Liverpool, Captain Engledue, left
our harbour on Sunday morning for Gibraltar, Malta,
and Alexandria. She had fifteen passengers and a
valuable cargo. Moorings are to be laid down immedi-
ately for the Oriental, and will be ready for her on her
next arrival. —Hampshire Guardian.
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall have been on a visit

for the last few days at the residence of Roger Hall,
Esq., of Narrow-water. They have proceeded thence
to the seat of Colonel Blacker, county Armagh ; and
they may be expected in Belfast in the course of the
week.—Belfast News. •
THE UTILITY 07 THE TOAD --A few days
ago, a toad was observed in the neighbourhood of Settle
feeding on catterpillars, which it appeared to catch by a
rapid movement of the tongue. So eager was it in the
pursuit of its prey, that it raised its forelegs on the stem
of a gooseberry bush, and when the catterpillars were
thrown at it, it continued to catch them in the same
manner, never missing its aim. It is hoped that such
facts as this will tend to deliver a much-injured animal
from a contempt which it never deserved ; and that the
i
poor " paddock," n place of being the object of cruelty,
will at length be enabled to take its place among animals
of a useful and respectable character—be considered by
the gardener as an useful assistant, and permitted to pa-
, sue its ttvocations unmolested.
NAUTICAL NOVELTIES IN SOUTHAMPTON.
—We remark, among
geurs, that on the 15th of August, the yacht-built
schooner Louisa will leave Southampton for th
Good Hope and Calcutta, offering peculiar
nity is now comforts to
.passengers.—An opportunity a
the pre-
sented for enjoying a trip to Brighton brnxiisine
e--d-jan
screw,
Prin-
cess R04.i1l steamer, propelled by the A 1
peculiar facilitiese and
Tuesday': She
leaves Southampton for Brighton every,
_yd e,
in the
made her first passage from Brightonalf ; li'
Isle of Wight, in five hours andtarebe_q from thence to
three-quarters ; and
Southampton in one hour and
.b
present time, the entire
1 —Within two months of t
Mail Navigation Coin- I
re-
turned from Hyde to Shoreham in four hours and a half.
steam fleet of the West India
bePen built, and make a trial
at which the vessels haveivi
ht, to ascertain their re-
ton from the different ports
pany will arrive at Southam
'cruise round the Isle of g
spective rates of speed.
CovE
ny.—The cause of la-
IMPORTANT
at 5
DI!) much earlier a stage of life than
is attributed to the friction
them. But according to the Hertford
ttoss'eteoefththe
of the tongue '4'911
owing to the sweetness of their lips, as it is
Courier, it is
established h-- everybody's saying so), that
decayingt
her sex,
a fact
(we" the teed.
sweet things rot
the parish of Blidsomer Norton,
cottage at Welton, in
CURIOUS AFFINITY.—There are residing in
dmother, two grandmothers,
three mothers,
one great'gran
two grand-daughters, one groat grand-
one brother, one sister, one uncle, one
daughter, one son, .
e widow and four fatherless
t-uncle, two nieces, on abut five
grea
the whole amount to but five persons !
tali:: daughters,'
children, yet
Salisbury Herald.