The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-03 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Dec. I

WHEAT, EllgliSh, White, per 70Ib.
--- Red 5 S 6 0
----. Scotch, Welch, and AlAtix
-- Irish, White 5 3 6 3
11,~t
--.--- Foreign
Ovrs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 45114 2 8 3 3
-- Irish
- Foreign
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 13 0 ns 0
-- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs.
-- Feeling 3 4 3 6
ISOANs, English, per 1:111.crial quarter 42 0 45 U
--- Irish, &c.
Foreign
. . . .

.- -
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter
- Foreign

Iloua, English, per IMlb. at o 35 6
..--....-•
Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 24ows ..... 22 0 24 6
INI•IAN CORN:, (Mr 4401 h. - U u
RYE, per toper al quarter l2 0 :',6 0
MALT, per Imperial quarter lB U :8 0
I mi•oirr OF Gasis fir the Weeken.ling Nov. 30.
.... . _ . _

Wheat. I Oats. Barley Flour. Oatmeal.
OrsQrs. koreign, 13r15.1 lrish, Ste gas I I.oso
1,796 493 1,911 -- 171 1,845

SLATE TRADE.—WhiIe the improving state of
commerce in all its various branches is gladdenin,, every part
of the empire, we rejoice to find that our own neighbourhood
shares in the general feeling. At this moment the slate
trade is flourishing beyond all former example. Though
several new quarries have lately been opened around us, the
supply is by no means adequate to the demand. In Car-
narvon and at Port Madoc, the quarry proprietors have
the utmost difficulty in procuring vessels of a large size—
such vessels, that is, as are required—to carry their freights
to the metropolis and to the towns which constitute their
principal market, on the southern and the eastern coasts of
the kingdom. The fact speaks for itself, and needs no
comment.—Carnarvon Herald.

It is reported that the Rockites are at work in the
county of Cork. On this rumour, the Dublin Relzislcr re-
marks—" the Rockite notices were probably serval by Con-
servative agents for the parsons, if not by parsons them-
selves. Alittle collusion would be sufficient to get up a
mighty pretty system of so-called midnight legislation. The
times are strangely out of joint with the Tories, and the
avidity with which every trifling occurrence is seized upon
and distorted, sets the ingenuity of " correspondents" as
sharply at work, as though the journal had publicly an-
nounced its readiness to give " any money for an outrage."
GuERNsE v.—A very large bird was recently
observed hovering over a fish-pond at the Bray du Valle.
A man fired at it, but the shot did not strike it. It con-
tinued poised on its outstretched wings for some minutz,s,
and then descending with the velocity of an arrow, dis-
appeared beneath the water. from which it presently
emerged, bearing, a fine mullet in its talons, and flew with
its prey to 'a wall The man again fired and broke its
wing. A dog ran to seize it, but the bird throwing itself
on its back, seized the dog's jaw in its talons with such
tenacity as required considerable force to disengage him

MR. GRATTAN'S NEW WORK.--We arc requested
to state that Mr. Grattan's new work, " Agnes de Mans.
feldt," is now ready, and may be had of the publishers,
Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street ; of their
agents ; at the libraries ; and of the booksellers- in town
and country. Also Mrs. Jameson's " Characteristics
Women," a new and beautiful edition.
THE FOUNDER OF THE VALE OF REALM—.
This gentlemen .closed his mortal career on Thursday last,
at the Vale of Health, Hampstead, at the age of 71. In
1791 he was appointed to the situation of Assistant In-
spector of the Postoffice, and soon after became Deputy!
and, with very little intermission, attended from six o'clock
in the morning until eight in the evening during a period of
forty years. It is somewhat curious that Mr. Woods Was
the founder (if we may be allowed the term) of the Vie Of
Health. After many years trouble and anxiety op ,no sub-
ject he succeeded in obtaining a grant from the Lord of the
Manor of Hampstead of a large plot of groursd, which, front
its being covered with water, a bog land, 'appeared anything
hilt advantageous to the speculator; ',an Mr. Woods, like
the Matthew Clear of Jerrold, "'Saw his way." He set to
work upon his long-contort-sated darling project. He
cleared the bog, and fore,,ed solid foundation, not unfre-
quently assisting PP:esonally ; and that site nhich, forty
yearS ago, was 7.11 unwholesome disgusting place, the recep-
tacleJ"•adhorses and all kinds of putrid filth, is now the
Val of Health ; a place some time the residence of Shel-
l's:3i, and some lines written on a window by him ,are still to
be seen, •as also by his friend Lord Byron ; and this spot is
considered at present to be the healthiest throughout
Hampstead. The inimitable actress, Mrs. Glover, resides
in a cottage in the Vale.
AULD WARLD STORY.—A townsman, who fan-
des hensenssatilitY in " chronicling small beer," seems anx-
ious would record sn anecdote, which, like the incidents
in Wsiverley, claim affinity with a period when he himself
war; althorn, and his mother but a lassie. Well ; a gen-
tleman who had. been -a soldier from his youth upward,
retired at last from the tented field, and established his
head quarters on a very handsome family estate, situated
somewhere in the south of Scotland. Between fighting
and farming the contrast is great ; but as the veteran had
seen enough of the one, he was very willing, by Way of
amusement, to try his hand at the other. At the time al-
luded to, it was the practice in many parts of Scotland to
tear large herds of geese—a species of husbandry which
still obtains in not a few sections of merry England. And as
the geese, from their number, required to be herded, the
duty was generally assigned to a boy, who by means of a
long whip, drove them a-field early in the morning, and
home again in the evening—that they might escape the
fangs of foxes, foumarts, and other enemies. The gentle-
man alluded to was an early riser, and one morning, as he
went abroad to breathe the caller air, he overheard a mu-
tiny,
.not among the men he had so honourably com-
manded, but among hipedS, so clamorous that they seemed..
to be demanding a court-martial against the slothful herd,
who had cheated them so long out of their breakfast. The
culprit was of course roused with a vengeance, and scolded.
lustily in soldier fashion ; and when asked what he had got
to say for himself, cunningly replied—" Got, Sir, I kent the
geese wanted to lay, and that I shouldna tak' them out
ovvre soon." " Lay! you little scoundrel, did you expect
the ganders to lay too ?" " No, Sir, but the geese 'll no.
lay without them.."—huntfries Courier.
In the month ending October last there entered
" inwards" at the Custom House of Yarmouth port, from
foreign ports and coastwise, 306 vessels, the tonnage of
which amounted to 24,933 ; and with cargoes " outwards"
120 vessels, and their tonnage 8,560. The harbour and
port are in excellent order, and have afforded shelter to a
very large fleet during the late gales. •
EFFECT OF _LIGHT ON VITALITY.--Frogs, in
passing from the egg to maturity, go through an interme-
diate state, in which they are called tadpoles. They then
not only have no limbs, and possess a tail, but, like fishes,
live in water, and breathe by means of gills instead of lungs.
Dr. Edwards took a considerable number of frogS in this
state, and dividing than into two portions, placed them
under water in perfectly similar circumstances, except that
the one portion was exposed to light and the other was ex-
cluded from it. This difference had the very remarkable
effect of retarding the transformation of the latter to the
state of perfect frogs. Whilst the tadpoles in the light had
undergone this change, seviiral of those in the dark retained.
thcifeoriginal form, but had greatly increased in size. The
effect of the absence of light appears likewise to be shown
in the colour and structure of the proteus, and some other
animals,. which inhabit situations into which light never
enters.—Saturday Magazine.
On Monday last a gentleman of this University,
whilst bunting with Hr. Drake's hounds, rode his grey
mare over a fence and hi-oak, measuring twenty-eight feet
four inches ; what, renders the above remarkable is, that
the gentleman weighs upwards of 13 stone.—Oxford Journal.
We are much concerned to find that the wild and
anti-social scheme of exclusive dealing, has been adopted by
a few young men of aristocratical families in the Univer-
sity, in order to influence the borough elections, and who
have formed themselVes into a club for that purpose, under
the notable title of the ",University Pitt Club."—Cam-
bridge Press. .
BOOK or GEM,.—" The plan of this work
is such as to secure for it the patronage of men of taste—
the lovers. of .the liberal arts. This exquisite volume,
crammed from top to ta•with strength, depth, and rich-
ness—with passion, imagination, thought, and language—
is equally addressed to the young and to the old, to the
learned anti to those who desire to learn, to the simple, to
the subtle, to all mankind. We can conceive no look so
fitted for universal popularity."—New Monthly.
At Wakefield Courthouse, on Monday, the Rev.
William Cockcroft, curate of Felkirk, was brought before
the Magistrates charged with appropriating to his own use
part of the money arising from the small tithes. Many
witnesses were examined to prove the money they had paid
to the curate. The cause occupied the Court till after
eleven o'clock at night, when John Armytage, Esq., the
Chairman, said that the accounts appeared to be very com-
plicated, and the evidence altogether of such a nature as
not to warrant the Magistrates sending the matter to a
higher court. Mr. C. was accordingly discharged.—Hali-
fix Ea press.
FALSE PACKING OF COTTON WOOL.—The
notice we last took of the false packing of cotton wool
has procured us a good deal more of information on the
subject, the result of which assures us that our state-
ment . was in no respect overcharged. Many spinners
confirm the justice of the complaints we published, by
facts of which they have personally had experience ; one
gentleman has stated to us the particulars of a lot of
cotton that he has been obliged to return,—we believe,
this week ; another has sent us two samples taken out
of the same bag on Tuesday, but varying we should
suppose at least 2d. per pound in quality, and complains
grievously of the extra trouble and expense which be-
come necessary in sorting cotton, especially on the part
of spinners for export, who always find it necessary to
ha particularly attentive to the uniformity of their yarn
in colour and quality. Every one at all acquainted with
such matters knows that, owing to. the impossibility of
examining the quality in the inner part of the bags of
cotton, purchasers are altogether necessitated to buy in
the confidence that that part of the cotton which they
do not see is of equal ,value with that which is accessible.
to them ; and since this confidence must exist, all breacheS
of it ought to be exemplarily punished. We therefore
repeat the expression of our hope that finanal applica-
tion may be made to the proper department of his ,•Ma-
jesty's Government, for their co-operation in securing the
adoption of Measures to put down the practice of frau-
dulent packing ; and—since representations from public
found to command more prompt and.
belies are generally
decided attention than those from mere private indivi-
duals—that the Chambers of Commerce in Manchester
and Liverpool may be called on either to originate or second
such applications. In the Liverpool Mercury of yesterday
appears a letter from A Cotton Broker, referring to our last
week's article, from which we extract the following passage
6, The Manchester Guardian mentions, as an extraordinary
circumstance, that it has been named to the wrier of the ar-
ticle in question, that the whole of two lots of cotton, one of
200 and the other of 120 bales were, tho preceding week, re-
turned to the sellers, being unfairly packed. 1 believe the
tact will prove that no fewer than 500 bales were condemned
that week alone, and returned to the sellers, at least such was
the report on 'Change, that is to say, in eutise parcels, and
wholly exclusive of odd ones—one, two, thine, and four bales
returned by different brokers, for hei,-.g falsely packed, or
otherwise unmerchantable. So exten,tve have the frauds
bss-
come, that this morning the principal managing clerk of' ono
of our leading selling brokers, declared to me on 'Change,
that it was the entire employment of one person of their esta-
blishment to see after returned cotton."
There can be no question theu as to the magnitude of
the evil, or that it has attained such a head as that nume-
rous instances of litigation are almost certain to occur ; and
that all confidence in trading in the article will be destroyed,
unless something be done to put an end to the frauds which
are practised. It is right, however, that it should be
clearly understood that cottons from the East and West
Indies, and from the older American cotton states, Carolina
and Georgia, are generally very fairly made up ; it is rarely
indeed that any complaint of fidse packing is made us re-
gards cotton from those countries. The planters of the,
Brazils, • and those Americans whose produce is shipped
from the Gulph of Mexico, are the persons who require to
be bron6ht to ac;,aunt.—Manchester Guardian.