The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-11 00:00:00

HAY MA R KETS.—(At per Load of 34 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 5
Clover Hay 4 10 5 15
Oat Straw £1 10 to £1 121 Wheat !Straw... 1 14 1 16
Supply moderately good, trade dull; and prices stationary.

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SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Nye-grass Hay 3 15 4 4
Clover Hay (extra fine)....£6 o... Generally
Oat Straw £1 10 to £1 12 1 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16
Supply good, trade dull, and prices as last quoted.

DIED.—On Sunday, at Wiverton Hall, near
Bingham, aged 46, MARY, wife of JOHN MUSTERS, Esq.
of Colwick, and Annesley Halls; Mrs. MUSTERS is the
lady to whom Lord BYRON'S early poems are addressed,
and to whom he was so passionately attached ; she pre-
ferred, however, Mr. MUSTERS to the lame bashful boy
Lord, and on their marriage, he took her maiden name,
that of CtrAwowro, of which ancient Nottinghamshire
house she was sole heiress. On the death of the late Mr.
MusTEns, they resumed that name, and the name of CHA-
WORTH ceased in the county. O❑ the occasion of the sack-
ing of Colwick Hall by the rioters in October last, Mr,:.
MUSTERS was at home, and took refuge in the shrubbery ;
since that period she bas never recovered her health.__
Nottingham Review.

Our city still continues free of cholera—for

it is doubtful whether the death at Bonnington was not
the consequence of sheer intemperance—and we begin now
to indulge the hope that we may altogether escape its
visitation. In India, the movements of the disease are

extremely capricious. Often it passes one populous
town entirely, and falls upon others in its neighbourhood.
On the continent of Europe too, its progress was irregu-
lar ; and in this country, we have seen Berwick and
Dunbar remain untouched, though right on its line of
march. A well informed medical gentleman told us the
other day, that he thought the probabilities were greatly
in favour of this town escaping. The terrible hurricanes
with which we have been visited within these few days,

must have operated in our favour. The mortality is still
great at Masse!burgh, though it is abating. At Tranent
and Prestonpans the new cases are still numerous.—
Scotsman.

HONEST JOHN LAWLESS.—We congratu.

late this veteran patriot on the glorious triumph he has
gained over his enemies. Let those, and we hope they
are few, who ever fell into the current insidiously set in
against him, read the verdict of the eight gentlemen se-
lected to decide upon the charges brought against him,
which verdict appears in our present number, and they
must condemn and deplore the motives in which such
charges originated. With Mr. LAWLESS we have been
fellow-labourers for the last twenty years in the cause of
Ireland and liberty, and it is but an offering of justice on
our part to the historian of our country, as well as to
" the Irishman," who, with a spirit peculiar to the ge-
nuine warmth of his heart, fanned the flame of liberty
then expiring in the north into a generous glow : it is, we
say,„ but due to honest Jose LAWLESS to avow, that, in
the wide range of his literary pursuits, his every thought
and word were devoted to better the condition of his
country. In this the natural ardour of his mind may be
sometimes rather sanguine, but were he the vacillating
politician, ready at a nod to compromise his conscience and
his country, the charges he has so nobly repelled would
never have been thought of. The attempt to blight his
fame has had, however, a chemical effect upon the quality
of the ore it was meant to alloy.

" Envy will merit, as its shade pursue,
But, like the shadow, prove the substance true."
'Limerick Eveninß iost.

A REGULAR YANKEE STORY I—ln the
year ----- the ship --------, of , was o❑ the coast
of Japan, after the sperm whales ; she bad been unusually
successful, and was nearly full, when one day, two of her
boats being out, the headmost one struck a very large fe
male whale, which, having at the time a young one in
company, was unusually fierce ; upon being wounded, be-
fore they could " stern all," she raised her tail, and, with
a tremendous blow, stove the bo.it in pieces, killing and
wounding every one on hoard but one sailor, who, on
finding himself in the element, seized upon a❑ oar for his
support, until he could be picked up by another boat. The
whale had no• done all the injury she intended, for, upon
looking round and spying J irk upon his frail support, she
made towards him with open jaws, and—swallowed him,
oar and all ! For a few moments, Jack was utterly con-
founded, but, having recovered, began to think how he
should extricate himself from his unpleasant situation.
The entrance to the abyss looked too well defended by a
row of teeth, for him to make his /exit that way, while
the monster was in her element ; and not having JONAH'S
journal, that he might do as his predecessor had done he-
tore him, he well nigh gave up to despair; but " nil de-
speranclntn" is Jack's motto. He, at last, bethought him-
self of the only remedy which was in his power, and taking
out his jack knife, he cut a hole near the tail of the mon-
ster, and putting Isis oar through, happily sculled her
ashore! After she was dead, he made his way through
the same aperture by which he entered, was picked up by
another vessel homeward bound, and was on the wharf to
meet his old shipmates on their return, and received Isis '
share of the oil.—American Paper.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1832

In the House of Commons, last night, a brief but
animated conversaeon took place on the subject of
the Manchester massacre in 1819. Lord ALTIIORP
observed he had always been of opinion that a rigid
inquiry should have been entered into on the subject
of these atrocities ; but that now, from the lapse of
time, and the difficulty there would be in collecting
evidence, he feared inquiry would be of no avail.
Mr. J. WOOD was of a different opinion ; so also
were Messrs. HU:►tE and HUNT, who both thought
that even now, distant as was the period since

the massacre in question took place, a strict investi-
gation ought to be entered into. A spirited discus-
sion then ensued on the presentation of a petition by
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, from certain freeholders and others
of Hertfordshire, complaining that their signatures had
been fraudulently obtained to an Anti-Reform Address
lately presented to his MAJESTY by two Noble
Lords. This discussion was the means of eliciting some
remarks on the creation of Peers by Mr. O'CONNELL
which were marked by that Hon. Gentleman's usual
spirit and sagacity, and are well worthy of atten-
tion. A creation of Peers—or even the formal,
official promise of a creation, sufficient to enable
Ministers to carry the Bill through the Lords—is
what the country is now most anxiously and fever-
ishly expecting. An official announcement of this
sort would at once act as a sedative to the feelings
of the people, who, it is not to be concealed,
are just now, if not absolutely distrustful,
at least apprehensive and desponding. Commerce
languishes, because many of our leading capitalists
and manufacturers conceive that the existing state
of the political world is uncertain and ominous, and
consequently that speculations are not to be entered
into with safety. A prompt creation of Peers would
have the effect of putting an end to this uneasy
feeling. Ministers, therefore, will act wisely in
taking the subject into earnest and immediate consi-
deration. Thus only can the apprehensions of the
people be set at rest.
The House afterwards resolved itself into Com-
mittee on the Reform Bill, and made very praise-
worthy progress. The addition of to-day to the
debates, will, we trust, bring tip the arrears of
the week.

It is rumoured that the evidence which has hi

therto been given before the Irish Tithe Committee,
is of a tendency directly contradictory to Lord
GREY'S somewhat premature declaration in respect
of the stability of the tithe property in Ireland.
That declaration, however, has been construed by

those who are well qualified to interpret it, as less
favourable to the tithe system than some of our
contemporaries seem to suppose—the Ministerial
version being that Lord GREY will uphold the tithes
as long as their enforcement is maintainable by law,
and will not countenance any violent resistance to
them, so long as they are a legal demand ; but, by
no means, that his Lordship seeks to influence the
recommendation of the Tithe Committee,or to oppose
any measure that may be suggested by such Com-
mittee for the satisfactory adjustment of the ques-
tion. We so far agree with Lord GREY, that whilst
we abhor the injustice of the present system, we de-
precate all forcible attempts to deprive the Protestant
clergy of their dues, so long as they are legal, and
no longer. The probability is, that the period of
their legality will be of very short duration.
To the British Parliament, the main argument
against the tithes, is the impossibility of their col-
lection, just as the Catholic Association was the
power that extorted the accordance of the Catholic
claims. We should be better pleased to see
the question placed on the basis of justice or in-
justice, and to have it determined upon the issue
whether or not the property of the Law Church in
Ireland is held as a public trust, under the controul
of the Legislature'? Mr. SIIEIL, a few nights since,
cited authority for the well-known fact of the origi-
nal three-fold division of tithes ; and it is quite su-
perfluous, at this time of day, to attempt to con-
vince the public, that tithes have not been diverted
from their original object, whatever Mr. PERCEVAL
and Sir ROBERT INGLIS may say to the contrary.
The patience of the Catholic population under
this oppressive system is really remarkable, when
we consider the aggravation that is constantly aris-
ing out of such meetings as the late assembly at
Exeter-hall. The abuse, by the fanatic Protestant
priests who addressed the multitude on that occa-
sion, of the religion of the great majority of the
nation they proposed to instruct, was as disgusting
an exhibition as any that has for some time past oc-
curred. We know not what is unchristian if such
conduct be not so; nor can we conceive anything
less worthy the vocation of any Ministers of religion
than that practice of reproaching, at public meetings
called for benevolent purposes,those whose character