The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-16 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended April 10, ,835, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englami and Wales, per
Imperial Quarter.
Wheat 39s 3d. Oats
I
Barleyls 7d. I Ilya
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS
PRECEDING. - •

Wheat ...... 395. 9d. I Oats
Barley 32s 5d I Rye

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Wheat 47s. td Oats
Barley l3s. 10d. 1 Rye

Upwards of 300 cards have been issued for the ball
at the Mansion-house, on Monday next.

PARLIAMENTARY TEST BOOK.—This little
guide to the political sentiments and votes of the Members
of the House of Commons may be consulted with peculiar
advantage during the present pause in the proceedings of
Parliament, consequent upon the dissolution of Sir Robert
Peel's Cabinet. In clearness of arrangement, arid the dis-
crimination with which passages have been selected from
the written addresses and public speeches of the Members,
it is superior to all competitors. Not only are the votes of
the last Parliament recorded against the name of each mem-
ber, but the votes of the present session upon those momen-
tous questions which have decided the fate of the Ministry
added ; thus furnishing the ready means of determining how
far the conduct of the Representatives of the People SINCE
FEBRUARY last, has corresponded with their solemn declara-
tions and pledges to their constituents before that period.
When the two great parties in the State are making active
preparations for a new struggle at the hustings, no elector
should be without the " Test Book."

THE CHARGE AGAINST. MR. VICKERY, LATE
GOVERNOR OF THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—The Middle-
sex Magistrates, of whom there was a very full attendance
this morning, went into the evidence affecting this person.
The evidence is of great length. Mr. Williamson affirms
positively that it was at the suggestion of Vickery he took
500 sovereigns in a bag, for the thieves, to an attorney,
giving the latter a 501. note for himself enclosed in a letter,
as being a more genteel way of doing it." Mr. Vickery
positively dentes this, but admits an attempt at negotiation
with Barnet Lepman, a dealer in jewellery, but keeping no
shop, and whom he first knew from his being in his custody
as a passer of bad money ; and Lawrence Somers, a coffee-
house keeper in Aldgate. His object, he said, was pure and
disinterested, but wholly failed. Mr. Broughton, according
to notice, said that their enquiry ought in the first instance to
be—do not the facts warrant a criminal indictment ? The
matter is not likely to be disposed of till a late hour in the
evening, as much difference of opinion exists.
SIR R. PEEL AND MR. J. MONTGOMERY.—We
record with no ordinary feelings of pleasure that our excellent
townsman and poet, Montgomery, has been honoured with the
grant of a pension. Those who are best acquainted with Mr.
Montgomery know full well that he would be the last man in
existence to ask at any hands a favour of the kind, and it will
easily be believed that he had not the most distant notion of
the honour being conferred upon him, and that he owes it
alone to merit, and to the discrimination and friendly feeling of
Sir Robert Peel, whose last official act was the completing
t:le instrument for the grant of this pension. The letter is
dated on the 10th inst., and was directed to Sheffield, in the
absence of I,lr. Montgomery, who was at the time sojourning
at Newcattle.—SlieSield

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