The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-14 00:00:00

The price of good Store andles in the 11;t;i1Sh.ops is as follows:
Candles, per dozen, Ss. Od. ; inferior, 7s. Ohl. ; 2•loulds, 9s. 6d.
Sixpence per doze,} discount for cash.

OAL M
s, d
Bell, Robson 8, Co. Hartley 19 0
Original Windsor's Pontop 21
West Hartley 2O 0
Wylam. 2O c
Walls End Brown's 2l G
Walls v'nd Heaton „ 2.3 1,
Walls End Hotspur
Walls End Killingworth
Walls End Newmarch 22 1.
Walls End Riddell's
Eden Main 22
Walls Endßraddyll'sfietton 2.i
Walls End Haswell 124 0
Walls End Hetton
ships arrived sinec

ARKET.

N. d.
Wzi.,s End Lambton ... 24 9
Walls End Stewart's ... 24 6
Walls End Hartlepool 24 6
Walls End Kelloe 24 6
Wolfs End Adelaide'' 23 9
W Its End Gordon 22 0
Vials Eud New Tees ... 23 6
Wa Is E.ndßichardson's Teesl9 6
Walls End South Durham.., 23
Walls End Tees 23 a
Walls End Tees Hetton 2l '9

Anthracite 3O 0
Blythe ..... 17 9

last market-clay, 53.

IMPORTANCE OF CORRESPONDENCE.--" In
modern times there *an be no surer index of the state
of a country than its correspondence, which is found to
be extended by every improvement in wealth, in com-
mercial activity, in education, and in the growth of
kind affections among the people. If our correspond-
ence, then, is to remain stationary, improvement must
stand still, nay, must go backward ; for our population
makes a steady and rapid progress. The excess of
births above deaths is more than 1,000 per diem. If,
then, the number of letters written should remain the
same, or should be of slow increase, the inevitable con-
clusion must be, that we are losing ground in the great
race. This, however, is the reductio ad absurdunt."—
" Post-office Reform."—Edinbu-sh Review—(Just pub-
lished.)

COLONEL THOMPSON AND THE ANTI-CORN
LAW BANQUET.—We perceive that Colonel Thomp-
son has declined to attend the Anti-Corn Law Banquet
at Manchester, on Monday. We are not surprised at
this, especially after the severe attack ea hich was made
upon him by the organ ot the League, about the period
of the late Manchester election—an attack, in our
opinion, highly injudicious, both as respected the Colonel
himself, the father of our Anti-Corn Law • literature,
as well as the large body of Radicals w,;th whom
the Colonel identifies himself. The circumstance
of the Anti-Corn Law Circular having thus lent
itself to do the work of a party, tended at the
time rather to the encouragement of a not: on,
which cannot be too carefully guarded against—namely',
that the Anti-Corn Law agitation had been got up
and carried on merely for Whig purposes. This, we
know well, it is not ; for it is essentially a Radical agita-
tion, in its crigin,..its progress, and its contemplated
objects. Col. Thompson wrote and laboured, in the
Westminster Review, to arouse public attention on this
subject, at a time whet he had no stimulus except his
own honest convictions of duty. He stood, in fact, al-
most entirely alone, for y Caes, in the advocacy of this
great question. He had neither public meetings not
Anti-Coin Law Leagues to back him ; and, as yet, the
Anti-Corn Law Circular was unknown. At length
(and in a great measure, we feel persuaded, through Col.
Thompson's labours) the Radical press was stimulated
to take up the question, and the popular attention be-
came thoroughly roused on the subject. But now,
when the Colonel should be reaping the reward and the
homier of his labours, he is turned round upon, and
sceld. d f..r " his extraordinary intrusion into OUR bo-
rough (reenely, the Whig borough of Manchester) at
the last election," and twitted for his " lamentable in-
(km tion," and as a" restless aspirant for Parlianiien-
tary hone ors !" (See Anti-Corn-Law Circular, Jan.
7th.) This may be Manchester policy, but, in our
opinion, it is by no means honest policy ; and is cer-
tainly unworthy of the highly independent tone which the
Circular has hitherto assumed, and the manly and un-
fiiiiehinz zeal which has ever distinguished it from its
commencement until now.—Leeds Tunes.
Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse, who have been
staying some time with the Duke and Duchess of
Beau tort, at Badminton, Gloue-zstershire, have returned
to Woolhedding, their seat in :;ussex.

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PLATE SUITED FOR :'IIESENTATION.-
Comm:tit-I.- or private irdtvuivais requirsng splendid or simple
articles of PLATE for presentation, may, by addressing a
paid lever as under, have drawings sent for their approval, It
is desirable letters should state about the sum intended to be
expended,

• 1 COX SAVORY,
Silversmith, &e. , 47, teraill Seven doors from Gracechurch-

i7reet),.bm-d-(-11;

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On
Will
the 11th E
inst., in Upper Berkeley-street, the lady of
orge es. of a son and heir.
On the 10th, inst.l,, at Liverpool, Mrs. Alfred Castellaio, of
twin sons.
Mts. Joseph Payne, of Grove-hill House, Camberwell, of
a son.

ALA RRIED.
On th• 11th inst , at Brighton, Griffith Thomas, Esq , of
Denma.-k.hill, Surrey, to Martha, ellest daughter of John
Woolley, Esq., of Beckenham, Kent.