The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-05 00:00:00

COAL AIIAR

Per Ton. s. d.
Adair's .--.----- 14 0
Beaumont l2 9
Charlotte
Dean's Primrose —. 12 9
Fast Percy.,... . 14 9
Ellison Low Slain 12 9
Felling Main— 13 0
Hebburn Ma,n
!-Inlywed
Kenton West.. l4 3
• 'rd's Iledhugh 12 9
Pontop Windsor l3 6
Shipcote . 12 9
15 01
Pownley l3 6
West Hartley . . 16 0
W.E. Bell, Robson, tt Co. 15 0
Ditto Burraton 15 0
Walls End Bell & Brown 14 6
W.E. Clarke and 14 0
Ships arrived since

GENERAL. AVLRAtiIo. VRICE ISH CORN,

For the Week ended Aug. 31, 1.33, made up from the Returns
of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England
and Wales, pet Imperial Quarter.
11' heat—. 545. Ela.l
Oats -19 s. Id.l Beans..--.. Nis. 7d.
Barley—'27s 2d 1 Rye —. 325. 10,1.1 Pease...—. 38s. Id.
I AGGHECIATE EKAGES OF THE hIX NV EEKB PRECEDING.
Wheat--.... 555. 1
5d.1 Oats ....•..•. 19s. 4d. 346 lat.
Harley 265. 4t1.1 Rye 325. sdl Pea5e..,...... 383. 3d.

DUTIES ON FORF:IGN CORN.
Wheat..--. 31s. Bd. Oats .—..... 188. 3c1.1 ISs.
31
Barley .--...225. Ind.' Rye `2lB. 31.1 Pea5e....... I.ls. tid.

SCOTCH MA K ETS
HADDINGTON CORN NI A ItHET.—Aug. 30.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans.
First 6 s Od 31s Ott 211 s Ott 9.96 Pd 3t Od
Second s2s Ott 9.5 s Ott ISs 01 9.tis Od :''Js Od
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Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First 6O& Od 29s Od 21s 4d 31s Od
second stis Od 25s Od Od 28s Od
Third 42s Od 22s Od IRs Od , 26$ Od

Beans.
31s Od
28, Od
‘26s Od

JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.—During
the delivery of one of those tedious and interminable
speeches that are often inflicted upon the House of Repre-
sentatives, a 'Wernher who had occupied the floor for many
hours, was called to order, on the ground that his remarks
were not pertinent to the question before the House. " I
know it," said he, " I am not speaking for the bent-fit of
the House, but for posterity." " Speak a little longer,"
said John Randolph, in an under tone, " and you will
have your audience before you."—.American Paper.
NOVEL CONTRACT.—A celebrated exhibi-
biter of " educated" fleas in this town gave notice on Sa•
turday that he was willing to contract for a certain
number of live fleas at the rate of one penny per flea, with
a proviso that no cat, dog, or pigeon fleas would be ac-
cepted, and that none but real bed fleas must be offered.
Sever"l " breeders" sent in their tenders; and this
" ianci,r" purchased a lot consisting of eight fl-as for five
pence—for on examination he found that one in•ect was
dead, another had lost a leg, and one or to were otherwise
injure d._—Brighton Guardian.
PAINTER'S : 'llsEitiEs.—Requestinga '!ady,
w ho is the bearer of a squiht,
peculiar expression,
Omer to catch a
to oblige you for a moment
by looking at you, in
when she, half surprised and half angry, wondering at
your stupidity, exciaiins, " Wiiy, indeed Sir, I have beer.
looking at you this halt hour." Hearing a per-on say,
" Well, to he sure, if it wasn't tor the face 1 should
think that was meant for Miss E."—it being intended for
that identical person. Painting an old gentleman, who
the first hour grins and chuckles you out of all patience,
aud 'heti, by way of makitt4auainds, fails asleep the

The weather during August has preserved one
general character—that of drought, continued
drought ; yet the tokens of rain have been numer-
ous, though fallacious. Skies have lowered, and
winds blown hollow ; the sun has risen amidst
columns of towering vapour, and set behind dense
masses of cloud ; the deep murmur of the sea, and
the roar of the artillery in its port., have been
heard rolling far inland ; but these, and many other
prognostics, have been seen and heard without pro-
ducing their usual results; even long-closed wounds
and rheumatic limbs have twinged and ached in
vain. Once or twice there have been a few partial
showers, but too scanty and transitory to produce
any permanent effect on the arid surface of the earth.
There have been some cold nights, containing a
portion of frost in their composition; and there have
latterly bee some dank and heavy mists, which the
sun has not had the power to dissipate until after
day has far advanced. It is seldom that such a season
occurs for the gathering in of crops ; from the com-
mencement of harvest to the present period nothing
worthy of the mane of rain has occurred—nothing
to induce a suspension of the important rural labours
which have been in full operation. It has been
more like a cominerital harvest, in those southern
climes where the farmer cuts his ripened corn, and
separates it at once from the dry and rusting straw,
on the earthen threshing-floor, the threshingftoor of
Araunah, under the open canopy of Heaven. Such
a process might have been practised this year in
many parts of England; and with such a season it
would seem almost impossible that the farmer could
make any error in the due housing of his crops.
Mistakes, however, have occurred, and cold, damp
samples of wheat in the market are evident proofs
of it. The anxious farmer has been stimulated to
cut and carry his corn occasionally too soon, both
by a desire of profiting by the fine weather which
actually existed, and by fear of that change which
the prognostics we have before alluded to continually
led him to expect as close at hand. The uniform
continuance of fine weather has nearly brought the
harvest to a close in the south of England; in the
north, though more forward than usual, it is not so
far advanced ; for there, in addition to the usual
causes which retard the harvest, heavy and
unseasonable rains have partially fallen, sus-
pending the labours of the season, and, in some
degree, injuring the sample. Even in our southern
disrrrcrs patches of spring corn are still to be seen
standing, which, having been sown late, and for the
most part %egetated much later, present an uneven
crop, with a large proportion of the ears still imma-
ture. Harvest, however, is pretty generally near w
a close : these patches of unripe grain form the ex-
ception, not the rule ; and it is well they do sr), as
the sample must necessarily be very inferior. There
has been little opportunity as yet cf verifying the
conjectures %%Inch have been hazarded as to the pro-
ductiveness of the various crops, or adding much to
what we have previously reported on the subject;
it may, however, be as well to state, that although
the barley crop on the dry hills is very thin and
scanty, yet certainly, on cutting and cartying it,
there scents to be a larger bulk than there d.d ap-
pear ally possibility of being collected, and, as the
ears in many cases are long and fine, this grain may
possibly yield a better produce than was generally
anticipated. In few years, however, will the pro-
ductiveness of good and mellow soils over inferior
and harsh ones be more strikingly apparent. This
is exemplified, not only in the b rile, crop, but also
in that of turnip., which, on light porous soils, and
the harsher loams of the hill country, present nearly
a failure, while on land of a better quality, nearer
to the springs, or less disposed to part with its
mois ure, they have continued to grow in spite of
the draught, and beyond all anticipation, present-
ing frequently a strong and vzorous crop. What
a seasonable and due proportion of rain may do for
those numerous plants which a searching eye may
yet discover lingering between life and death, in a
state of dwarfish torpor, on our middling soils, it is
impossible to say. Of this, however, we may be
sure, that if the ruin does not speedily arrive, a very
ext ensive failure of the turnip crop must ensue;
while, on the other 'and, should sufficient rain fall,
speedily and not heavily, on the present heated sur-
face of the ear tit, the growth of turnip plants, now
almost invisible to the observer's eye, will be
promoted in a manner almost beyond calculation or
belief. Indeed, unless showers come quickly to
their aid, the situation of the uplands wilkbe mise-
rable; pastures and leys are as brown and russet
as the fallows, and as bare; the young grasses in
the stubbles afford but little, and to eat that little
into the heart will be derail w theta; cattle and
horses are foddered on hay, and where springs are
not at hand, ponds are exhausted and dried up.
Sheep alone seem to dwell on what farmers call
roast meat ; and this, too, mainly depends on their
having a plentiful supply of water, a commodity now
not always readily accessible on high downs arid bills.
This scarcity of her bage and the state of the turnip crop
have thrown a temperary dulness, ot to be wondered
at, over the sale of she: stock ; nevertheless, there
is reason to believe that, unless food should continue
to be unusually scarce, the demand will again exceed
the supply, and prices, at least, tesutne their former
standard at the autumnal fairs. Wool, too, has re•
ceded in value, and buyers are lying on their oars
for the present, unwilling to make purchases, except
on such terms us holders are not willing to accede
to. Indeed, the state of trade in the manufacturing
districts, the probable demand, and the relative state
of the supply both at home and abroad, tender it
probable that prices may be maintained; at the same
tune it must be remembered that it is only up to a
certain point that the demand for wool can be ef-
fectual, front the impossibility of selling the artic!ca
manufactured from it when their price exceeds the
means of customers. There is riot much variation in
the corn market : from the different condition in
which new wheats are offered a considerable differ-
ence id their prices arises, and, from the soft state in
which much comes to hand, a briskness has occurred,
coupled with some advance in good samples of old
wheat.

We observe that the apparatus for roasting
and Lolling by gas is coining into use. At the gas works
at Elgin, on Wednesday Let, a company, consisting 01
twenty six gentlemen, sat down to a dinner prepared by
means of this invention ; and all were highly pleased with
the manner in which the articles were dressed.

NATIONAL GALLERY.—It would appear
as if the intention of erecting a National Gallery, to form
one side of Trafalgar-square, lies not been abandoned.
notwithstanding the discussions in Parliatnent on the
subject ; for last week a pole was placed in the ground,
pointing out the spot where the front of the gellery would
terminate, near to St. Martin's lane, leaving the portico of
the Church open to public view, but not the whole of the
root of the church. According to this plan there are fifty
feet allowed tor the breadth of the gallery or galleries, for
two it is said are still intended ; buc, there will run
be more than a space of seventeen feet between
them hr the rear and St Martin's workhouse, which, it
is contended, will be sufficiently wide, as there will be no
windows at that side of the galllery, because it will be
lighted from the top with ground glass in the same man-
ner as the grand gallery of the new Palace. It was in-
tended that ti,e n ,ble portico of Carlton-house should
nom part of the flout of the National Gal ery, but should
,hat lie the case we inrigine it would interfere with ti.e
view of the v,rtico of St. Martin's Church, and the ob-
jection would mill remain to the erecting the gallery on
the site intended. The building, however, will not be
,Ndumenced, according to the prouii-e of Lod Duncannon,
,ieroie t!.e plan ia laid rief,ire the House of Commons sod
approved by Porlialueue.

Mr. Powell, the printer, of Hand-court, Upper
Thames-street, came to the Justice-room yesterday
to mention to the LORD MAYOR a plan of robbery
which he had reason to believe was now very much
practised in neighbourhoods where warehouses were
numerous. Late on Sunday night or early on Mon.
day morning a robbery was committed in his dwell-
ing-house by some persons, who descended to his
premises from the top of the very high buildings,
called the Chequer warehouses, in Chequer-yard,
Dowgate-hill, or from those called the Doublehood
warehouses, in Upper Thames-street. The atten-
tion of the Deputy of the Ward had been called to
the circumstance of two persons being seen on the top
of the first-named warehouses at seven o'clock on
Saturday, and notice of the fact was sent to those
houses which were in the immediate vicinity, but it
was never supp ised that the premises of Mr. Powell
could be in any danger; and, until all the clothes
were missed out of the two-pair rooms, no idea was
entertained of an incursion by thieves. It was then
perceived, upon examination of the premises, that
the fellows who entered had been very careless of
the candle which they brought with them, for parts
of the walls against which the light was placed were
much scorched, so that the inmates might have been
burnt in their beds. A phosphorus box and articles
considered necessary to a housebreaker were found
in the apartments which were plundered. Au en-
trance was, no doubt, effected at the windows of the
printing-rooms, and on the top of the high buildings
were found two stockings tied together, by which
it was calculated they let themselves down on the
premises, and were thus enabled to enter.
The Low MAYOR could speak of the London
thieves from a Ling knowledge of their ingenuity.
N 3 doubt a boy bud been dropped down by some
experienced hand upon the premises, and instructed
how to act. It was well known that boys were
proud of being employed on such dangerous occa-
sions, and Mr. Powell had reason to be thankful
that his premises had not been set on fire, a cala-
mity which certainly might have occurred.
MARYLEB ONE.

CURIOUS CASE —A young man, dressed in the
fii•si style of la-tuoti, who gave his name Mr. James
Thorn, was charged with hav►ng assaulted Mr.
11, a young man of equally fashionable appear-
ance. It appeared troth Mr. I:l‘Gilt's evidence,
that the defendant, who was an old acquaintance of
his, kept a very dashing lady at tzt, Charlotte-
stieet, Portland-place, where he was in the habit of
paying him an occasional visit. About a week
since, Mr. M'Gill met his friend's lady taking an
airing in the Park in a phaeton, when she beckoned
him to her, and alter a little conversation, politely
invited him to tea on the following day. He kept
the appointment, and on being ushered up into the
drawing-room by the servant, he found the lady alone
on the sofa. Toe fascinating demeanour of the fair
one made the moments glide away so smoothly,
that Mr. M'Gill prolonged his visit to a late hour.
The next day he repeated his visit, when he found
11r. Thorn with the lady. He addressed him as
usual," How are you to-day, Doctor ?" and he was
in the act of drawi:ig off his great coat, when Mr.
Thorn jumped up, apparently much excited, struck
him three tremendous blows on the face, bundled
him down stairs, and pushed him into the street,
throwing his hat after him.
Mr. HAWLlNsokr—tle was jealous, I presume,
and probably not without reason.
Mr, M-G II said he had no cause to be jealous, as
he (Mr. M•Gill) could not do otherwise than ac-
cept the lady's invitation —Mr. Thorn was fined 10s.