The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-24 00:00:00

HULL, Jinn 22.

Swett •Exciusior.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 23s.—Buckinghamshii e, 6s. dis.—East Coast, 16s. 6d.—East
Lancashire, 3 p.—East Lincolnshire, 168.-111111 and Lincoln, 17s.—'
Leicester and Bedford, 20.4—Leicester and Tamworth, 245. 6d.—
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 2/. 15s. 6d.—Alalton and Brit:field
Junction, 21. 16s. 6d.—North British, Halves, 11—Ditto, Carlisle
Branch, 335. 6d. —North Staffordshire, 51. his. 6d.—North Western,
242.—Nottingham and Mansfield, 3s. dls.—Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham, 2ht —Wet,t Riding Union, 1. Is.

YORK, JUNE 22.
STOCK Excusnoz.—The sales are —Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 1% Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 13s.—London
and York, 11. 19s.- Mahon and Drifileld Junction, 21. 15s. 6d.—
Newcastle and Darlington, New, 91W —North British, Carlisle Ex-
tension, 11. 149 —North Western, 11. 4s.—York and North .311dland
(East and W e,,t Riding Extension), 11 W•

THE CITY OF GLASGOW AND

SIR ROBERT PEEL.

The following address to Sir Robert Feel received in the
course of three hours no less than 270 signatures, including
a moi.oity of the leading firms, merchants, and bankers of
that city. No public announcement was made that the ad-
dress was intended, so that the inhabitants at large had no
opportunity of signing, or, it is said, it would have received
many thousand signattn es :
"TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., FIRST LORD
OF WEE MAJESTY'S TREASURY.

"Sir,--,The personal and unmanly attacks which havti're-
cently been made upon you induce us, the merchants and
bankers and other inhabitants of the city of Glasgow, thus
publicly to express our entire satisfaction wit the great
commercial measures which you have proposed,to Parliament
during the prPsent session, our marked disapprobation of the
opposition which has been offered to you and to them, our
earnest desire that wou should persevere in the face of every
obstacle to support and protect these important measures in
all their integrity until they become the law of the land,
and our conviction that while they will prove of vital im-
portance to the welfare and prosperity of the empire, they
have been fully and favourably appreciated by the public
at large."

Signor Jannetti's Matin6e Musicale et Deolamatoire
will take place on Wednesday next, at the Opera Concert
Room, when be will recite a selection of poems from the most
celebrated Italian classics, and principally from Dante,
Madame Castellan, Mdlles. Corbari, Sanchioli, Brambilla,
and Vera ; Signors Lablache, Furnasari, and Corelli, and
Herr Pischek, besides several noted instrumentalists, will
assist this celebrated professor of Italian literature.
STEAM POWER.—Above one hundred thousand men
were employed for twenty years in erecting the great py-
ramid of Egypt. From a computation by M. Dupin, it ap-
pears that the steam-engines of England would equal the
whole product of this immense application of human labour,
in lifting atones, within the short space of eighteen hours.
A NEW USE FOR IDLE FIRE-ENGINES.—During the
recent excessively hot weather, theyolice Board of Glasgow
have employed a portion of the fire-brigade in watering the
streets and washing out dirty courts and alleys. The effect
has been very apparent in the increased comfort with which
parties have been able to perambulate the portions of the
city thus cleansed and cooled.

MODERN ANTIQUITIES. —We find the following
curious details in the Moniteur des Arts :—" There exists at
Rome secret workrooms of Sculpture, where the works manu-
factured are broken arms, heads of the gods, feet of satyrs,
and broken torsi—of nobody. By means of a liquid there
used, a colour of the finest antiquity is communicated to the
marble. Scattered about the country are goat-herds, who
feed their flocks in the vicinity of ruins, and look out for
foreigners. To there they speak incidentally ofthe treasures
found by digging a few feet in such neighbourhoods. The
English, in particular, are the victims of such mystification ;
and freely yield their money to the shepherds, who are
agents to the General Artificial Ruin Association, and know
well where to apply the pickaxe. They are careful, how-
ever, to spend much time and labour in fruitless search,
before they come finally upon the treasure; for which the
foreigner willingly pays. England is full of these anti-
quities of six months' age. Nor do the amateur numismatists
leave Rome with empty bands; for in that city are daily
coined, without fear of the law, the money of Caesar, Hadrian,
Titus, Heliogabalus, and all the Antonines—filed, pinched.
and corroded, to give the look of age. Paris may be said to
have hitherto, by comparison with London, escaped this
epidemy for the youthful antiquities of bronze and marble—
but she is devtured by the forgers of middle-age antiquities.
It is notorious with what skill and impudence certain cabinet-
makers manufacture chairs, tables, and footstools of the
fifteenth century, and how readily they find dupes. A young
antiquarian showed, lately, with great pride, to an artist, a
friend of his, a very fine article of Gothic furniture, which he
had just bought at great cost. 'lt is very tine,' said his
friend, after examination, and it will last you long—for it is
quite new. „
DEMOLITION Op CANONBURY ITOUSE.—This once
celebrated tavern, with its tea-gardens, is to be pulled down.
In another week or two not a vestige of either will be re-
maining. The grounds have been cut up, streets are laid
out, and boxes of brick and mortar will speedily occupy the
whole site. Thus, as the metropolis spreads out in every
direction, were it not for steamers and railroads, the toil-
worn citizens would be deprived of every chance of inhaling
fresh and health-giving air. The tavern cannot boast of any
great antiquity. Within the last century it was but an in-
considerable alehouse, and was subsequently from time to
time, improved and enlarged. An excellent bowling-green
and pleasant tea-gardens were added, and at length it be -
came one of the most respectable places of public resort near
town, celebrated for the festivities of corporate and parochial
1 bodies. Now its glory has departed, and in a little while it
be known no more,