The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-11 00:00:00

THE SUN„ LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1841

EXETER MARKETS.
(From the Western Times.)
There was no material alteration from our quotations
of last week. The Cattle Market, owing to the fair hav-
ing been held on Wednesday last, was very thinly sup-
plied, and the attendance of buyers was also very small ;
the business transacted was trifling.
TOTNES, DEC. 7.—The supply of fat Bullocks' was
small and inferior in quality, the demand good, ar.d an
advance took place of from 2s to 3s per cwt. Cows and
Calves fetched very high prices. Store Bullocks were
not plentiful, and sold well. Sheep met a dull sale at
rather lower rates than on last market day. Corn.—
The millers and maltsters evinced little disposition to pur-
chase, consequently little business was done. Wool was
also very dull, and the same may be said of Potatoes.
Best Beef for Christmas, from 63s to 70s per cwt; good
market Beef, 58s to 635; second ditto, 52s 6d to 58s;
Cows and Calves, 56s to 635; Store Bullocks, 33s to 40s.
Sheep.—Wethers, 5301 to 6d per lb; Ewes, 54d to sid
per. lb. Corn.—Wheat, 14s 6d to 16s per bag of two
bushels; Barley, 7s to 8s; Oats, 6s Gd to 7s 6d per bag
of 21, bushels. Wool, lid to 7id per lb in the grease.
Potatoes, 2s 3(1 to 2s 9d per bag of 1401bs.
TIVERTON, DEC. 7.—Corn.—Wheat, 7s to 8s per
bushel ; Barley, 4s to 4s 6d ; Oats, 2s 4d to 2s Bd. Sup-
ply very good, demand moderate. Turkeys, 4s to
5s 6d each ; Geese, 3s 6d to 5s ; Ducks, 3s 4d to 4s per
couple ; Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s ; Butter, 10fel to is per lb. ;
Eggs, is to is 2d per dozen ; Potatoes, 16 lbs for 6d ;
3s 6d to 4s 6d per bag of 8 score. Supplies abundant,
demand slack. Shambles.—Beef, 53-d to 7d per lb
Mutton, 5d to 6d ; Veal, Gd to 7d ;. Pork, sid to 7d ;
Dry Bacon, 8d to 9d. Supply and demand good.
Cattle.—Fat Beef, 9s to lOs per score ;1 Store Cattle,
6s to 7s ; Cows and Calves, 121 to 13/ each ; Sheep, 5d
to 6d per lb. A tolerable good supply, demand rather
slack.

LITERATURE.

CULLOMPTON.--There was a remarkably fine exhibi-
tion of Cattle here on Saturday last. The prize heifer at
Ottery, the property of Mr. John Hole, of Plymtree,
and another the property of Mr. Henry Matthews, of
Bradninch, were exhibited. The beauty of these ani-
mals attracted universal attention and admiration. Mr.
Salter, of Clisthydon, but for the unfavourable morning,
would have driven in a beautiful fat heifer. There was
a particularly fine lot of young stock from Mr. John
Hole's herd. A large number of buyers attended, and
added to their provision for Christmas customers.

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
LEEDS, DEC. 10.—We have no new feature to notice
in the foreign wool trade this week. About the same
extent of business has been done as is usual at this season
of the year, which is generally .somewhat limited, but
prices are firmly maintained.
There has not been any increased demand for English
wool this :week ; the manufacturers, as usual at this
season, limiting their purchases as much as possible.
Low deep grown combing wools still go off more readily
than the finer qualities. In prices we do not quote any
alteration.

There has been exceeding dull markets at Leeds Cloth
Hall this week: On Saturday there was scarcely any-
thing done except in fancy cloakings, in good patterns,
the stocks of which are completely sold off, but on Tues-
day there was literally nothing doing—it was the worst
market we havehad during the year.

BRADFORD MARKET, TIIDRLAY.—This being our
winter fair, we have had a great influx of people attend-
ing the Piece Market, but few of these have been buyers of
manufactured goods, and only a limited business has been
done, and that chiefly in merinos, low figures, and lustres,
of which there is but a small stock in the market. Prices
without alteration. There is no altered feature in the
yarn branch in either demand or prices. There is no in-
dication of any increased activity in the wool trade, but
middle and low sorts of full-bred wool continue in good
request at late prices. The finer descriptions of combing
are dull of sale, and prices are disproportionately reduced.
HALIFAX MARKET, DEC. '4.—The Piece Market to-
day has not shown quite so much animation as on this
day week. There is no alteration in the yarn market,
nor any perceptible vatiation in wool. Middle wethers
are quoted at 121., and' Ocond ditto at 11/. to 111.55. per
pack. Common nolls'alid'brOkes about 91.

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THE SMITHFIELD CLUB DINNER.
Yesterday evening-the Members of this useful, numer-
ous, and influentitr'Club dined together at the Free-
masons"ravern. The Earl Spencer, President of the
Club, was in the Chair, supported on his right by Lord
Aboyne, the Hon. Wm. King, &c., and on the left by
Colonel Wood, M.P. for Brecon, Colonel Sibthorp,
Charles Handley, Esq., Chairman of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of England, and about 250 gentlemen con-
nected with the breeding of stock and the general ad-
vancement of agricultural pursuits.
The cloth having been drawn, the NOBLE CHAIRMAN
proposed the health of her Majesty, which was re-
sponded to with the most loyal enthusiasm, as was that
of the infant Prince. Upon the health of Prince
Albert being proposed, the Noble Chairman stated
that his Royal Highness and the Duke of Cambridge
had become members of the Smithfield Club, which an-
nouncement was received with enthusiastic cheering.
Upon " Success to the Smithfield Club" being given,
the Chairman observed that he had scarcely ever seen
a better show than the present one ; although there had
not been so much stock, great improvement had taken
place. The numerous improvements in implements of
husbandry, seeds, &c., would account for their success
in their receipts.—(Hear.) After a few other observa-
tions his Lordship stated that it was his determination to
do the utmost in his power to render every assissance to
the Club, as he felt assured it would be his own and the
farmers' fault if they did not by determination succeed.
In fact if the farmers would not act for themselves, they
would have themselves to blame, but he had every hope
that every man would do his duty. The Noble Earl con-
cluded by proposing "Success to the Smithfield Club."
Upon the health of the Vice-Presidents being given,

'Twas twelve o'clock, not twelve at night,
But twelve o'clock at noon,
Because the sun was shining bright,
And not the silver moon :
A proper time for friends to call,
Or Pots, or Penny Post.;
When, lo ! as Phoebe sat at work,
She saw her Pompey's Ghost !
Now when a female has a call
From people that are dead,
Like Paris ladies, she receives
Her visitors in bed :
But Pompey's Spirit could not come
Like spirits that are white,
Because he was a Blackamoor,
And wouldn't show at night !
But of all unexpected things
That happen to us here,
The most unpleasant is a rise
In what is very dear :
So Phoebe scream'd an awful scream,
To prove the seaman's text,
That after black appearances,
White squalls will follow next.
" Oh, Phoebe dear oh, Phoebe dear !
Don't go to scream or faint ;
You think because I'm black I am
The Devil, but I ain't !
Behind the heels of Lady Lambe
I walk'd whilst I had breath ;
But that is past, and I am now
A-walking after Death !
" No. murder, though, I come to tell,
By base and bloody crime ;
So, Phoebe dear, put off your fits
Till some more fitting time ;
No Crowner, like a boatswain's mate,
My body need attack,
With his round dozen to find out
Why I have died so black.
" One Sunday, shortly after tea,
My skin began to burn,
As if I had in my inside
A heater, like the urn.
Delirious in the night I grew,
And as I lay in bed,
They say I gather'd all the wool
You see upon my head.
" His Lordship for his doctor sent,
My treatment to begin—
I wish that he had call'd him out,
Before he call'd him in !
For though to physic he was bred,
And pass'd at Surgeon's Hall,
To make his post a sinecure,
He never cured at all !
"The doctor look'd about my breast,
And then about my baelc,
And then he shook his head and said,
' Your case looks very black.'
And first he sent me hot cayenne,
And then gamboge to swallow,—
But still my fever would not turn
To Scarlet or to Yellow !
" With madder and with turmeric
He made his next attack ;
But neither he nor all his drugs
Could stop my dying black.
At last I got so sick of life,
And sick of being dosed,
One Monday morning I gave up
My physic and the ghost 1"

Earl ABOYNE returned thanks, and regretted that he
iiad not hitherto attended to his duties as he ought to
have done, seeing the immense utility of the Club, and
although he had looked upon the office as a sinecure,.
he had the consolation of finding the duties skilfully
and ably. performed by others. His Lordship concluded
by proposing the health of their Noble President, for
which his Lordship returned thanks, observing that he
sincerely hoped each succeeeing year would, by the
exertions of his friends, be the means of promoting Isuch
improvements as would be of advantage to the country
generally. True it was, he had not been so successful
as he had been on former occasions, but that would not
damp his ardour. The Hereford stock bad bad the ad-
vantage for the show, 1841, which showed there was a
good run between them and the short-horned, which
would ultimately do great good by stimulating the breed-
ers of each kind of stock. Still, if his private opinion
were asked, he would declare it in favour of the short
horn to win.

The several prizes, as awarded by the judges, were
then distributed ; the various successful competitors re-
turned thanks. Amongst others, Col. Wood, of Littleton,
who, upon his health being drunk in consequence of his
being a successful competitor in two prizes of pigs, ob-
served that he felt the more pleasure in receiving such a
prize, as he should now be enabled to assist his poorer
neighbours.—(Cheers.) The prize medal he would keep
as an honourable testimony to himself, but with regard
to the money portion of the prize, he would give it to his
honest servant, who had had the care of the animals
which he had shown.

Several other toasts having been proposed by the
Noble Chairman, and responded to by the club, they
separated.

THE LATE LADY DURHAM.—We remember
no circumstance, since the death of her Noble husband,
that produced so great a shock on the public feeling of
the North of England. -With respect to the disposition
of her Ladyship's property we believe it will be found
that the most satisfactory arrangements have been made
in that respect. We understand that the individuals ap-
pointed to carry her intentions into effect, are the late
Earl's devotedly-attached brother, Mr. Hedworth Lamb-
ton, Lord Howick, and Sir George Grey. Her Lady-
ship's remains have been placed on board ship for con-
veyance to this country ; and we learn that it is intended
to deposit them in the family burying-vault at Chester-
le-street. It is consolatory to know, that her Ladyship
retained possession of her mental faculties to the last
moment ; and though:her sufferings were severe, that
she met her dissolution with the most calm and pious re-
signation to the Divine will. The young Earl of Dur-
ham and the Ladies Lambton, though perfectly conscious
of the irreparable loss they have sustained, have yet
borne their bereavement with far more fortitude than
could have been expected from persons of their years,
losing an affectionate and beloved mother amidst
strangers in a foreign land. It was the intention of the
late Countess to have wintered with her family at
Rome ; rr hither, we are informed, the latter have since
proceeded, under the charge of Lady l3entinck, who had
shown great kindness and solicitude in her attentions to
Lady Durham, during her brief but fatal illness.—
Durham Chronicle.

WORCESTER DECEMBER FAlL—This fair
was held to-day, and despite of the inclemency of the
weather, there was a good show of stock, and a tolerable
attendance of dealers. The number of sheep penned was
1,127 ; beasts, 469 ; pigs, 275 ; and horses, 108 ; being
an increase of more than 100 each in sheep, beasts, and
pigs, on the numbers at the same fair last year, and 1 in
horses. The beef generally was exceedingly fine. Six-
teen rare beasts were exhibited by Mr. E. Herbert, of
Powick, fourteen of which speedily found customers for
Christmas slaughtering. The general run of price in
beefas
was
xto7tdaf; and in mutton, bid. ; but there
business transacted that was looked
w
for.—Worcester Herald..
not6dten
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SCOTCH TITLES OF THE PRINCE or
IVALEs.—As the descendant of our immortal patriot,
King Robert the Bruce, the infant Prince is Prince and
Steward of Scotland, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick,
Lord of the Isles, and Baron of Renfrew, and, as such
stands at the head of the roll of the peers of Scotland',
entitle,d to exercise all the functions thereto belonging.
t,oThiii!sisceowldtaleittdhs.eon fi,Wrashtten
Scone, on the
The title of Duke of Rothesay was first conferred by
Robert 111, upon David Earl of Carrick, Prince and
introduction of
David fell a
victim to the ambitious views of hi▪ s uncle, the Duke of
Albany, leaving no issue, ,his honows
n'PfiP conferred
2S
theBt ethw
ducaloa rfdA oPf r dignityiScotland,
1398.
i n,
upon James, King TIC111(30 3 only surviving son, after-
wards James I. of Scotland. From that period the above
titles have been vested in the first-born son and heir ap-
parent of the reigning Sovereign, who, from the moment
's accessio
of his birth, or his pant n to the thrones be-
comes a Scottish Prince and Peer.---paiefwan mc,c144.4e.
1-1 Q? INTgpt.igsNce.--,—WOROESTER. DEC.
-
10,—Our Hop Market has little doi▪
ng, nor do we expect
any alteration in prices till after Christmas. Fine Hops
are become scarce. The scale returns of planter's Hops,
sold and weighed on Saturday last, is--new pockets, 21;
and old, 60—and new, 82; and old, 91, in the week.

HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL. album, London, 1842.
i If this be not the.best number of the " Comic
Annual" that its author has yet put forth, it is at
any rate among the best, which is no slight
praise, when we bear in mind how many exquisite
pieces of humour, in prose as well as in verse,
have appeared in the "Annual." The first
rhymed story, entitled " Miss Kilsmansegg„ and
her Precious Leg," has already been published,
though without the illustrative plates, in succes-
sive numbers of the New Monthly Magazine,
wherein it soon became a favourite with the public.
It is a clever bagatelle, but we do not rank it
among Mr. Hood'S most fortunate efforts, for
there is evident throughout it a constant and
painful straining after effect; the lines, too,
move on heavily at times, and the humour is not
always sufficiently obvious. It has none of the
ease, spirit, or raciness of the author's mock-
sentimental ballads, though we cannot deny that
its satirical flings are frequently very felicitous.
" The Friend in Need" is a prose story, embel-
lished with several capital wood-cuts, one of
which, under the quaint heading of " Enough to
sicken a Dog," represents a morose-looking
mastiff, evidently one of the old school, running
away with disgust from a litter of puppies, each
of whom is smoking an Havannah cigar with
the coolest arid most complacent air imaginable.
The contemptuous look and upturned nose of the
old mastiff, who is evidently shocked at such an
innovation on canine propriety, are full of ster-
ling humour. Phrenologists measuring the head
of a murderer, who is seated in his dungeon with.
chains round both legs, is a not less effective
plate. With what an air of smug self-conceit the
leading phrenologist of the party feels the ruf-
fian's head, accounting for his crimes, as one can
see at a glance, by the absence of some, and the
presence of other, bumps on his occupit ! The
Sheriff who is witnessing the scientific examina-
tion, wears the true official aspect; and his dull,
stolid, formal phiz does honour tot he Shrievalty.
But the criminal is the Most characteristic por-
trait. He is just the sort of fellow, with his thick
pug nose, short bull-neck, .bow-legs, and great
swelling calves, that you would expect to see
standing beside your bed at midnight with a dark
lanthorn in one hand, and a crow-bar in the other.
He was manifestly born for no other purpose than
to swing from an Old Bailey gallows, and furnish
the surgeons with a, subject, for dissection after
death. " None so deaf as:: those who will not
hear" is illustrated by an old maid, straight from
head to foot like a stick of• sealing-wax, who is
turning with lofty contempt from some poor little
beggar-girls who are supplicating herfor charity.
The withered old spinster has, it is plain to see,
long outlived all the charities of life, and has no
notion of being beset by such vulgar importuni-
ties in the public streets. Her nose tells you that
she has not yet taken the Temperance pledge,
and her eyes have a canting, hypocritical expres-
sion that has been cultivate and brought to per-
fection at the Tabernacle. We feel convinced,
indeed, that she is a rigid Methodist, one who
believes in the infallibity of Sir Andrew Agnew,
and is averse to all Sunday baking and travelling,
except when they interfere with her own per-
sonal comforts. " A Screw Loose" represents an
elderly gentleman starting aghast with horror
from an enormous boa-constrictor, who has just
escaped from his den, and is rearing himself up
for a spring, not ten paces off his victim. The
snake, as we can see by his look of satisfaction,
expects to make a pleasant dinner off the old
gentleman, who cannot, however, at all reconcile
himself to the idea of being thus compelled to
administer to the epicurean propensities of an-
other. He looks sadly woe-begone, and his hair
stands erect on his head, like so many wire
strings. We close our notice by an extract from
a "pathetic ballad" entitled' " Pompey's Ghost :"

FREDERICK THE GREAT and his TIMES.
2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1841.
There are many memoirs and scattered no-
tices extant of Frederick the Great of Prussia,
but we have never happened to meet with a
memoir su full and so every way satisfactory as
the present, which not only gives in detail the
leading features of the hero's political and mili-
tary career—for he was eminent alike as a soldier
and a statesman—but discusses also the charac-
ter of the remarkable times in which he flou-
rished ; and furnishes, in addition, biographical
sketches of his half-crazed father, the First
Frederick, and his celebrated ancestor the Elec-
tor of Brandenburg, deservedly styled by his
subjects " the Great." The Second Frederick
was beyond all question the most illustrious man
of the age in which he flourished, and on which
in some degree he stamped the impress of his
own character. Though a great portion of Eu-
rope was arrayed in arms against him; and he
was frequently opposed in the field by forces
immeasurably superior to his own ; though he
was reduced at times to such a state of despair
that he more than once thought of ending his
troubles by suicide ; yet, in the end, his indo-
mitable courage and perseverance vanquished all
obstacles; and at the termination of the famous
Seven Years' war, he was the only gainer, having
achieved the object for which he drew the
sword ; raised Prussia from an inconsiderable
State to the rank of a first-rate European Power,
and established his claims to the title of the most
consummate warrior of his age. The great blot
on Frederick's escutcheon is undoubtedly the
active share he took, in conjunction with the
Empress Catherine—a despot capable of any
atrocity—in the partition of Poland. The ex-
cuses he made for this infamous act of wanton
spoliation, when it began to excite the indigna-
tion of Europe, are anything but valid, and
indeed serve, if possible, to aggravate the enor-
mity of the case. But Frederick, though he
appears to have found a gentle biographer in the
author of the volume before us, was always a
desvat in his heart; and though he was laudably
anxious to promote his country's prosperity, yet
it must be after a fashion of his own. When,
however, the circumstances of the times in which
he lived, are considered, he may be pronounced
on the whole a liberal and enlightened Sove-
veigo I awl when we think of him in connexion
with Louis the Fifteenth, for whom he possessed
the most hearty contempt, lie shines with re-
doubled lustre. As a literary man—for Frede-
rick was ambitious of the character of an author,
as well as of a soldier and a statesman—he dis-
played but very indifferent ability. His works,
which are voluminous, have long since descended