The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-10 00:00:00

PORTER.

A Statement of the Quantity of Porter hiewed in Lon
dou, by the ten first Houses, from the otii of July.
1827, to the sth July, 1828.

Barclay, Perkins, and Co. Barrels.
:;05,V.39
Truman, Hanbury, and Co.
Whitbread and Co. I 80,844
Reid and Co.
Coombe, Delafield, and Cc.
Henry Meux and Co.
Calvert and Co.
Hoare and Co 68,381
Taylor and Cu 63,030
Elliott and Co.

The Lady of Mr. Secretary PEEL liar beep
confined fur some days by indisposition, which was brough!,
on by her giving a premature birth to a child, which
but a day. Mrs. Pim, was taken unwell on the road front
Brighton to London, where she had been staying fur about
three weeks. The symptoms she was seized with whii,
travelling, were so alarming as to the necessity of requirin;
medical assistance without loss of time, that extra post
horses were procured to bring her to town.
It is now acknowledged that the expense of
taking down the wings of the new palace in St. James'::
Park, and building others, will be .50,000/. ; a pretty round
sum for the country to pay for the error in taste of the as-
chitect, or of those by whom he was directed. It is sup-
posed that the dome at the top of the palace must also cow,:
down, and another be constructed, fin' which 50,000/.
snore will perhaps be required.--Morning Chronicle.
It has been said that the business of the ses.
sion will have been gone through on Friday, and that the
.

/louse migi:t adjourn in the middle of ncxt week but fin

the intended notion of Lord JOHN Russm,L. This is not
correct. The business of the session (in the Corrnnon)
will nut have been gone through until the Apprepf2atiov
Bill has 'passed that House, and the usual sessional ad-.
dresses been voted. The Appropriation Bill has not yet
been brought in, nor will it be till after the report of thr,
Committee of Ways and Means (in which the Budget will
be opened) has been received—on Saturday or Monday.
If the Bill be not introduced before Monday, it cannot be
read a third time and passed before Friday at soonest, as no
money bill can (in ordinary cases) pass through more than
one stage in the same day. The business of the session,
therefore, will suffer no delay by Lord hurt RUSSELL',
motion, unless some measures should grow out of it.

We have authority to state that the para-
graphs which have appeared in the London Papers, relative
to some distressing occurrences in the family of a much re-
spected Nobleman, are almost totally incorrect. After the
marriage of the son of a wealthy Baronet, which was an-
nounced lately in our Paper, the bride and bridegroom
went for a day or two to the countryXeeat of a Learned
Judge, and then earns to the residence of the bridegroom in
this county, where in a few days after the wedding, the
bridegroom was attacked by a brain fever; two days after-
wards similar symptoms were perceived in the bride, who
threw herself out of a window thirty feet from the ground.
The parents of both were immediately sent for express,
and the lady was conveyed to Brighton, where, we arc
happy to say, she is now recovering rapidly. Her hus-
band is also much better, and has,
watering place. It is utterly untrue that any attempt was
made on the life of the lady.—Brighton Gazette.
THE BATH AND CHELTENHAM" MAIL.—
been used in selecting the line
The inhabitants of this city have. expressed themselves
same day. and their approval of
NAYLEme, in contracting for a new Mail from Cheltenham
highly gratified with the public spirit LANEif..eMbeeslsiresie'gn e tae 11. ant
toth
of road : fur besides opening a speedy and advantageous
communication between the two
the discrimination
n ba
thati thbe
principal watering place's
in the kingdom, the new and beautiful road from Chelten-
ham to Cirencester abounds with romantic views well
worthy the admiration of travellers. The advantage ac-
cruing to Cirencester, Tetbury, Didinarton, and the nume-
rous towns and villages in that part of Gloucestershire,
will be great, and appear to be duly appreciated by the in-
habitants, as well as by the leading and influential country
gentlemen who have seats in the neighbourhood; all o:
whom have expressed their high sense of the benefits which
must result from the undertaking, and their determination
to support it by every means in their power. In conse-
quence of the establishment of this mail, a letter may arrive
in Bath and the answer be received in Cheltenham on the
same day, thereby saving a day and night in the postage
Letters for Cirencester, Tetbury, &c. will be transmitted in
a few hours, whereas, by the old regulation, they were sent,
ma Oxford, and did not arrive in Cirencester (only
miles) till the following morning. Great accommodation
will also be afforded to passengers proceeding to Bristol, as
the mail only remains in Bath a few minutes, and arrivt.'.
in Bristol several hours earlier than any other coach front
Cheltenham.—Cheltenham Paper.

TOADS AS ANT.•EATERS.---in tht autumjt
of last year, a pit, wherein I grew melons, was so much
infested with ants, as to threaten the destruction of the
whole crop ; which they did, first by perforating the &sin,
and afterwards eating their way into the fruit; and alter
making several unsuccessful experiments to destroy then,
it occurred to me that I had seen a toad feed upon them.
I accordingly put half a dozen toads into the pit, and iu the
course of a few days scarcely
al ant was to be found,...
Currop, Gard, Navazine.