The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-19 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISII CORN,
For the Week ended April 13, IS X, made up from the Return:
of the Inspectors ill the different Cities and Towns in England
and %Vales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat,----tiOs. 04.1 Oats 24.1 345. 21.
Barley ..4s. Id. I Rye 335. 74.1Pea5e—.......... 345. 24

INIPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING.
Wheat-- 593. 5:( Oats 21s. 2d.1 Beans—..—, 345. sd.
Barley-,-- Ms. 5d.1 Rye --.. 313. &LI 353. Od.

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.

Wheat-- 275. Scr.l6;ts--- ---j&i. Fld.jieans......lSs. 3d.
Barley.-10s. 10d. Rye ..—..— ISs. 341.1 Pease...—. 16s. 9d

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15
Clover Hay 4 0 5 lo
Oat Straw ....£1 12 to £1 14 I Wheat straw 1 18 2 U
A moderate supply; trade steady, and prices stationary.
SMITHFIELD.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 C
Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay .....
Clover Hay (extra fine).....E6 o... Generally
Oat Straw X 1 11 to X 1 16 1 Wheat Straw 1 16 1 18
Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary.

GEORGE IV. AND THE CATHOLICS.-
The King's reluctance was deep-rooted and violent. The bare
mention of the subject exasperated him. He was known to
say, and only in his milder mood," I wish those Catholics were
damned or emancipated." The angered despotism —of this
alternative still afforded the hope that his intolerance might be
overcome by his seifish love of ease. It cost the Duke of Wel-
lington many months of management, vigilance, and perseve-
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first and greatest obstacles in his way. It appears from a pas-
sage in his correspondence with Lord Anglesea, that the King's
health or his temper was in snch a state, that for some weeks
the Catholic question could not even be named to him. Mo-
narchy, doubtless, has its advantages, but it is a matter of
serious reflection that under a government called free, among a
people called aivilised, the claims of millions, and the contin.
gent horrors of a civil war, should be thus dependent upon the
distempered humours and paramount will of a single unit of
the species.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library.

WONDERFUL MEMORY OF SIR WALTER
Scary.—llis memory, or perhaps, I should say, his recollec-
tion, surpasses that of all men whom I ever knew. I saw a
pleasant instance of it recorded lately in Campbell's " Pleasures
of Hope;" but I think I can relate a more extraordinary one.
Ile and Skene of Rubislaw and I were put out one night, about
midnight, leistering kippers in Tweed, and, on going to kindle a
light at the Elibank Marsh, we found, to our inexpressible
grief, that our coal had gone out. To think of giving up out
sport was out of the question ; so we had no other shift save to
send Bob Fletcher home all the way through the darkness, the
distance of two miles, for another fiery peat. While Fletcher
was absent, we three sat down on apiece of green sward on the
bank of the river, and Scott desired me to sing him my ballad
of " Gilmauscleuch." Now, be it remembered, that this ballad
had never been either printed or penned. I had merely com-
posed it by rote; and, on finishing it, three years before, I had
sung it once over to Sir Walter. I began it at his request; but
at the eighth or ninth verse I stuck in it, and could not get on
with another line; on which he began it a second time, and
recited it every word from beginning to end. It being a very long
ballad, consisting of eighty-eight stanzas, I testified my asto.
nishment. lie said that he had lately been out on a pleasure
party on the Forth, and that, to amuse the company, he han
recited both that ballad and one of Southey's (" the Abbot of
Aberbrothock,") both of which ballads he had only heard once
from their respective authors ; and he believed he had reciteli
them both without misplacing a word.—Hogg's Altrire Tales.

ORIGIN OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S THEO-
LOGICAL STUDIES.—When a philosopher of distinguished emi-
nence, and we believe not inimical to the Christian faith, has
found it necessary to make a laboured apology for a man like
Newton writing on theological subjects, it maybe expected from
an English biographer, and one who acknowledges the import-
ance of revealed truth, and the paramount interest of such sub-
jects above all secular studies, to suggest the true origin of
Newton's theological inquiries. When a mind of great and
acknowledged power first directs its energies to the study of
the material universe, no indications of order attract his notice,
and no proofs of design call forth his admiration. In the starry
firmament he sees no bodies of stupendous magnitude, and no
iistances of immeasurable span. The two great luminaries ap.
pear vastly inferior in magnitude to many objects around him,
and the greatest distances in the heavens seem even inferior to
those which his own eye can embrace on the surface of the earth.
The planets, when observed with care, are seen to have a raotion
among the fixed stars, and to vary in their magnitude and dis-
tances, but these changes appear to follow no law. Sometimes
they move to the east, sometimes to the west, sometimes to
wards the north, and sometimes towards the south, and at other
times they are absolutely stationary. No system, in short, ap-
pears, and no general law seems to direct their motions. By the
observations and inquiries of astronomers, however, during
successive ages, a regular system has been recognised in this
chaos of moving bodies, and the magnitudes, distances, am,
revolutions of every planet which composes it have been deter-
mined with the most extraordinary accuracy. Minds fitted an(
prepared for this species of inquiry are capable of understand.
ing the great variety of evidence by which the truth of the
planetary system is established ; but thousands of individual',
who are even distinguished in other branches of knowledge, arc
incapable of such researches, and view with a sceptical eye th.•
great and irrefragable truths of astronomy.—Family Library,