The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

rapid state of consumption, and the quantity for all ,
manufacturing purposes was exhausted. The Learned
gentleman ridiculed the idea and demonstrated the
supply in many places to be adequate to any contin-
gent demands. In other localities, particularly in what
was termed the Upper Russell vein, the exhaustion of
coal was rapidly progressing, and would have been
completed in that district had not another vein in that
vicinity been found. Opinions as to the durability of
even the best veins of coal in England varied. Some
said that, fifty or sixty years would exhaust them,
other-said two hundred years. He then alluded to
the practice resorted to by coal owners and merchants
of deteriorating the quality of coal at the mouth of the
pit, by reducing it to fragments for the purpose
of increasing the bulk with a view of getting a
bonus allowed by Government. Several hundred
thousand chaldrons of coal were now destroyed
this way, fully amounting to one-third of the supply
brought to the mouth of the pit. London merchants
did the same, and became, in consequence entitled to
the reduction of duty. From certain data, it might
be affirmed that the coal of Newcastle would be gone
in a century, and their posterity would see the great
manufacturers of England obliged to come into Wales
and settle down on their hills. He was able to state
that there was little fear of exhausting their home
supply. The coal fields of this and the neighbouring
counties had abundance of store, and when the coal
fields of England were exhausted, those of the county
of Glamorgan would survive.—(Cheers.)
The Marquis of I3TJTE said he was anxious in the
discharge of his duty as Chairman to return his
very sincere thanks for the honour they had con
ferred on him by the present resolution, so kindly
proposed by his friend Mr. Barlow. He thought it
not inconsistent with that duty to permit the learned
Professor Buckland to address the meeting. He
had, on all occasions, been too much accustomed
to expressions of kindness and partiality.- in that
room to be surprised at its manifestation just now.
There was another circumstance which afforded him
much satisfaction—it was the expression of unanimity
in that room. He might be allowed to say that,
accustomed as he was to gratifying exhibitions of that '
nature, there was none that ever afforded him so much
pleasure as that which he enjoyed at the present
meeting. On occasions similar to the present, when
he attended, it was only to preside at meetings, com-
posed exclusively, perhaps, of the inhabitants of Car-
diff. Unanimity at such meetings might be expected,
but on the present occasion, when the meeting was
L attended by not only the inhabitants of this town, but
of other towns and counties, an expression of unani-
mity in the proceedings f the day was the more
acceptable. His Lordship then vacated the chair,
and the meeting, which it is no exaggeration to say
was most respectable and influential, separated.

THE THEATRES.
HAYMARKET.

No sooner does a clever actor make his appearance
than Webster, the most enterprising of managers,
immediately does his utmost to secure his services.
We are not, therefore, surprised to find Mr. Marble,
the prince of Yankees, on the Haymarket boards.
He made his debut at this theatre last evening, in his
favorite character of Lot Sap Sago, in the farce of
Yankee Land. We have so lately given an account
of the admirable pourtrayal by Marble of this cha-
racter, that it is unnecessary to go into this subject at
any great length. Suffice it to say, that his humour
was as dry, and his Jonathanisms as quaint as ever,
and that his whole delineation of the character was the
very:beau ideal of a " Help." He was well received
throughout by a crowded house.