The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

HOP MARKET.

Prices firm and the demand steady. The supply small, par-
ticularly of old qualities. The accounts from the Hop-grow-
ing districts were favourable.

TIIE WEATHER.—Nocav, MAY 17.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET
Barometer
Thermometer... 60 I Highest 7l I Lowest ... 44
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

PLYMOUTH —Mr. Collier and Mr. Bewes, tht
present Member for this Borough, have announced their inten-
tion of retiring in the event of a dissolution of Parliament.

NEW CA-USES.—It appears that the total num-
ber of new causes which have been entered during and after
the term just ended is as follows :—Queen's Bench, 2f).5;
Common Pleas, 115; Exchequer, 247.
DETENTION OF THE OUTWARD WEST
INDIA MAIL.—On Saturday a notice was posted at the Gene-
ral Post-office, stating that the letters for the West India mail
will be in time till Tuesday (to-morrow), the 18th inst. Ac-
cording to regulation, Saturday should have been the last day
for the receipt of letters to be forwarded by this conveyance,
and the reason that this regulation has been departed from in
the present instance is in order that the next outward packet
may be the bearer of the news relative to the decision of the
House of Commons on the sugar question, and in which the
West India interest is so much concerned.

Some doubt having arisen as to the precise
period when the Treaty between Great Britain and Brazil will
expire, we have been requested to state that, under any cir-
cumstances, it will continue in force until the 10th of Novem-
ber, 1844.
• NIONMOUTH.—SmaII-pox continues very preva-
lent in this town and neighbourhood, two deaths have taken
place during the past week. In consequence of several boys
in the Free Grammar School not having been vaccinated, the
School has broken up, and it is the intention of the Visitors
not to admit any boys on the re-opening of the School, who
cannot produce a certificate from a surgeon that they have had
the cow-pox properly, or the small-pox. It may be a satis-
faction to the public to know, that wherever the small-pox has
taken place after the cow-pox, it has been of the mildest des-
cription.—Hereford Times.
DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—This morning between
twelve and one o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out on the
premises of Mr. Bryant, cooper, Cross-street, Blackfriars• road.
The fire was first discovered by a policeman of the L division,
who observed flames issuing from the centre of the premises.
He gave an alarm, and in a few minutes the engines from the
West of England, Waterloo-bridge-read, and that from Wat-
ling-street, under the superintendence of Mr. Braidwood, were
on the spot. In the meanwhile the flames, from the combusti-
ble nature of the stock, gained a fearful ascendancy, and in a
short space of time, the whole of Mr. Bryant's premises were
enveloped in one entire scene of conflagration. The premises
extend a considerable distance in the rear of the houses on the
south side of Cross-street, and great fears were entertained that
they would take fire ; but, by the judicious efforts of the fire-
men, the fire was confined to the premises of Mr. Bryant, but,
which were entirely consumed. It is not at present known
the extent of the damage done, nor how the fire originated.
Mr. Bryant, we understand, is understand.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.--Names of Gentle-
men to whom the Court of Examiners granted Certifi-
cates of Qualification on Thursday :—Raymond Levi
Haynes, Holloway, Middlesex ; Thomas Guy, Howden ;
John Bean Armour, London ; Henry Piers, Weymouth;
John Cornish Trestrail, Truro ; John Ellison, Liver-
pool ; William Wilson, London ; William Okell, Knuts-
ford ; John Froggatt, Brixton ; Edward Henry Chase,
Hocking, Essex ; John Raynor Hatfield, Birstall, York-
shire ; James Moline, Godahning ; John Harry Evan,
Seaford, Sussex ; John Wilson, Huntingdon ; George
Harvey Williams, Holywell, North Wales ; George
Tennyson Moody, Grimsby.
THE DEBATE.—With respect to the inten-
tions of Ministers, or the probability of a dissolution of
Parliament, nothing has transpired. Our own opinion
is, that, whatever be the result of the present debate,
Ministers will not relinquish office, until they have had
the opportunity of laying the whole of the commercial
changes which they contemplate, before the country for
its consideration ; and that their future conduct, and the
advice they may tender to their Sovereign, will greatly
depend on the way in which these changes are received
by the commercial interests. We are happy to find that
these interests in various parts of the country are already
actively stirring ; and, in tho course of the next week,
we have little doubt that a very decided manifestation of
public feeling will take place. Of the character of the
debate, so far as it has proceeded, we shall not attempt
to say much. Nothing, it seems to us, can be more
striking than the superiority, in point of argument, of
the speakers on the Ministerial side of the House ; but
what avails superiority of argument against the compact
union, cemented by personal interest and party hopes ?
—Manchester Guardian.
BOOKS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.—Grecia, the
widow of Berlay, the second lord of Montreuil, and wife of
Geoffroi Martel, sovereign Count of Anjou, was, for those
times, a singularly well-instructed and deeply-learned Princess.
She was a great book-collector; and, if we Islay judge by the
liberality she evinced in the gratification of her literary tastes
in her own day, she would certainly have beat the most muni.
ficent of our own Roxburghians out of the field had she had
the good fortune to live in the nineteenth century. For a dopy
of the homilies of Haimon, Bishop of Halberstadt, she is re-
corded to have given two hunched sheep, twelve measures of
wheat, a similar quantity of rye, and as much millet; several
marten skins, and eight mares of silver. In another place, we
hear of a monastery having been built with the price of a fa-
mous missal, which a Viscount of Thouars compelled the
monks of St. Florent to give up to him in the year 1069.
Trellope's Summer iu Itiotern France.
A RICH MAN.—The late Edward Brown,
Esq., of Barn-hill. Stamford, whose death we announced last
week, is said to bavp died worth more than half a million of
property. The larger pail-, it i 3 believed, has been left to his
only surviving son, the Rev. Edward Brown, and the rest
amongst his three merited daughters (the wives of Mr, Co-
nant, the London Police Msistrate ; S. R. Fydeel, of Mor-
t cod ; and the Rev. Robert Doeker, of Wik s
er.eyi. and three
unmarried daughters. Amongst the legacies Is the swifts
cent sum of 11,0001. to the Stamford and Rutland Infirmary;
5,0001, for the specific purpose of building a fever ward; atii
6,0001. for the support of it for ever.--Stamford Mercury. •