The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-26 00:00:00

EDINBURGH—WEDNEspAy.

Wheat on the top, 3s Od up average, 3s 3d 1113*
Barley on the top, 8s Od up average, Os 10d VP•
Oats on the top, is 6d up average, Os lld up
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Beans on the top, is Od down average, is lld doW°
Total supply and sales.
Wheat 792 qrs sold 539
Barley 1550 qrs sold 1427
Oats 1496 qrs sold 926
Beans 76 qrs sold 6
Average prices.
Wheat, 61s 4d I Oats, 29s 7d
Barley, 37s 2d 1 Beans ...55s 10d 4,,,,
Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 50s Od; elci—
superfine, 48s 6d; superfine, 478 Od; fine, 45s 6d.

GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY.
To-day's market was well attended. Wheat ruled quit
barley, peas, and Indian corn each 6d dearer per boll. O
firm. Oatmeal 6d to is higher per 2801 b.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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MAILS DUE.
a.ustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton...„NoV.
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 43.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pauket • 0•' „ 5,
Ditto, by French packet.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and ~t. flelena Out•
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou...hampton NoV
3.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oa. 2
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southacapton Oct. 28'
lndia (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton NOV.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 29'
Ditto, via liarseilles Nov. 1
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 23;
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct- 2".
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseille
Newfoundland
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, oy Canadian packet, via Londonderry „Oct
cc'est Cosu.t of Africa, Madeira, and Tenable ....Nov; 'CP'
Wrest Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) Oct 29
. "
Cuba and Mexico Oot• 29°
Bermuda, via Halifax Oct. 24
Bahamas, via New York. NoY•

THE COMPILER OF JOE MILLER'S JESTS.'icit
seemed as if Mottley were to be haunted by that bill' r
genius, of his, ill-luck, to his life's end. He had no s°°ll,(ilt
got into a fair connexion with the theatres than the g°:
took the use of his right hand away, and thenceforth 'Ad
was a confirmed valetudinarian. Mottley was in this
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predicament, crippled and half bedridden, when one doll ,
1739, quite early, Mr. Read, of Dogwell-court, called t
him touching a little literary business. It was thought ",,""fi'a
it would be a profitable jest to gather together all the gua
things about town, put them into a shilling book, i 1",
make the late Joe Miller, notoriously as impervious Wee
joke as a Quaker, its foster-father. Mottley would lly'sre
been a name of names for the title-page, one would ha t
fancied ; but Mr. Read held differently. Mottley Wasf;
a dead player, and Miller was. People who knew anYtb-0
knew that the late Mr. Miller was one of the dullest d°ggi
ever sipped ale out of a black jack ; and when they
° fArl
with their own bodily eyes Joe Miller's Jests on e.VYiI
stall, what a merry sensation there would be in all the °
actor's old haunts about Drury-lane, and what a stir aul°lle
;
the mighty butchers of Clare Market, who would ul3°ettji
shilling, every butcher of them, to see what it cm/I,lr,
mean. Mottley even sunk his name, assuming that Elijahf'
Miller's " lamenting friend and former companion," ,0
Jenkins, Esq. Anyhow, it was a bouncing shigiljg
worth, and Mr. Read cleared a very handsome profit. LA ,
us hope that Mr. Read did not forget the widow.---9°
" All the Year Round."

Births.
the Ist Sept.': at Muree, the wife of
BRIGHT—On
Bright, 19th Regiment, of a daughter. a s•
COBHAM—On the 25th inst., at Morden, the wife of
Cobham, Esq., of a sou. vpar
DAVEY—On the 24th inst., at 15, Norfolk-square,
park, the wife of Horace Davey, Esq., of a d9,Ogbterer
STORMONT-0n the 24th inst., at 28, Charles-street
fair, the Viscountess Stormont, of a daughter.
Marriages. „tb0135
BUCHANAN—MELLOR—On the 24th inst., at Net""
Church, near Huddersfield, John E. Buchanaltter
merchant, London, to Hannah Maria, third dallqr o.
Thomas Mellor, isq., Spring Lodge, Thong Wilier
VARDERA—Srms—On the 24th inst. at at St. James's, 510 c;•,
dilly, John F. Verdera, of Vinaros Lodge, 11,v•°°I'Siel°'
Middlesex, to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of v' •
Esq., Jermyn-street, Haymarket.
Deaths. e, the
DENT—On the 21st inst., at Hallatou, Leicestershire'
Rev. John H. Dent, M.A., aged 72.
COURTUB On the 24th inet., at Vernon Cottage? )nary
wife of Mr. John Courtus. Coloecl
HEMMING—On the 25th inst., at 92, Gracechece'
Mrs. ary Ann Heming, aged 47. be 11
rwe_
NAIRNE— M m
On the 24th inst., at Grove-hill, Caw
Capt. Alex. Nairne, 11.C.5., aged 81. a OViell'
OwEN—On the 22d inst., at Nowbridge, Mr. nay-
bandmaster Royal Scots Greys, aged 53. , Vsck'
WlLsox—On the 25th inst., at Putney, Isaac NV's°
late of 116, Wood-street, Cheapside, aged 75- gr. C.
WARREN—On the 20th inst., at Richmond, SerreY'

Warren, aged 61.
London : Printed tnd Published by Wl.l. LIAO•
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Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C°
Middleoex.—Fliday, October 6, 1860.

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