The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-19 00:00:00

SMITH:

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X. s. £. s.
Lowland Mead. Hay 3 10 to 4 5
Upland Ditto ....... 4 0 5 0
Rye-grass-Hay 4 0 5 011
New Meadow Hay 315 4 5
A moderate supply, Ond a toll
prices.

FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE.
There was a great scarcity of fish at market this morn-
ing, indeed, so limited a supply has not been exhibited in
the market for a considerable time. Turbots, Cod-fish,
Seate, arid Soles, produced exceedingly high prices. The
following were the prices :
Prime Turbot, each 2ss. Od. to 30s. Od.
Ditto small, per do. 8 0 10 0
line Cod.tish, each ......... .l 0 25 0
Inferior ditto
Fine Whitings, per 15 0 U 7 6
Smelts, per 26 0 0 13 0
Scate, each
Dutch Plaice, per basket
Fine Soles, per three pairs I 5 15 0
Live Eels, per 51b. - 3 6 4 0
Live Flounders, per quartern
Fresh Herrings, per hundred
Fine Lobsters, per score
Inferior ditto
Shrimps, per gallon
Best Common Oysters, per bushel ..~.
Natives
29 0 28 0

THAMES TUNNEL.---(THIS DAY.)-•TIIC
operations for filling up the hole in the bed of the river
have within the last three days been continued with much
activity. Mr. BRUNEL, sen., is on the works this morning
giving directions to facilitate this object. He informed our
reporter that the last examination which he had made
in the diving bell, as to the success which has hitherto
attended their exertions to prevent the influx of the water,
was of a most satisfactory nature ; and hopes are indulged that
before the Meeting of the Proprietors, in the beginning of
next week, a most favourable report will be drawn up. Up
to this morning, about one hundred tons of clay, inclosed
in bags, have been thrown from the barges moored in the
middle of the river, into the aperture. This work is per-
formed only at about low water, and this afternoon a great
quantity will be cast overboard. Mr. BRUNEL expresses
himself in the most sanguine manner as to the completion
of the undertaking if capital were obtained. Mr. BRUNEL, jun., has not yet recovered from the injury he received on
Saturday last, and has found it necessary to return for a
while to his house in London, in order to have the benefit
of medical advice as often as necessary. The steam-
engine is in the course of inspection to-day, in order that it
may be ready to pump out the water as soon as the hole is
stopped. The exertions hitherto used to pick up the
bodies of the unfortunate men who were drowned, have
not been successful in a single instance • and it is, therefore,
concluded that they are embedded in the soil, which has
flown into the tunnel with the water. The accident is in
a great measure attributable to the recent boisterous state
of the weather, which rendered the tides unusually strong.
Had the Company been in a better condition, as far as re-
gards funds, it is understood the operation of forming an
artificial bed to the river, by the application of clay in the
line of the tunnel, would have been adopted, and such a
course would in all probability have prevented the recur-
rence of the accident on this day week. Mr. BRUNEL
says, " Let us have money, and the tunnel will be
completed."

MAIL ROBBERY.—On Sunday morning last
the poet-boy conveying the mails from the office in this
town to Ballinacarig, Colehill, and Ballymahon, was stop-
ped about three miles off by two men, one of whom held
the boy, while the other with a knife, cut off the mail bags
and carried them away. Information having'reached Mr.
A. BROCK, post-master here, he instantly proceeded to the
spot, accompanied by a party of the Constabulary, and after a
diligent search, found the mail-bags and letters in the ditch of
an adjacent field, the latter being all torn open, and the con-
tents (if any) taken away. The Castlepollard mail was
robbed about a month since, and it is presumed that both
depredations were committed by the same party.-- West-
meath Paper.

THE WEATPIEE.--All the low lands on the
line of the Thames and Kennet are flooded to a great depth,
some thousands of acres being covered with water. The
view from Coley towards the Kennet, and from Sydney-
terrace and the Ferbury tonsards the Thames, presents the
appearance of a wide arm of the ocean, rather than of the
peaceful meadows of those sylvan situations. Accounts of
similar inundations have reached us from almost every part
of the kingdom.—Berks Chronicle.

1 The late heavy falls of rain and snow have
- caused the Thames at Henley to overflow its banks, and
t inundate the country to a very considerable extent; the
rise for the last five days has been till go which the
continual showery weather tends still to keep up. The
have been impassable for foot pas-
road from that town to Wargrave, as well as those to
Reading and Marlow,
°engem for some days.— Orford Journal.
. The weather has been tremendously severe
in this neighbourhood since our last. The Exeter Mail
weather, the
Was about two hours later in its arrival,
. and was under the
necessity of leaving the city with six horses. We regret to
find that awing
sheep and lambs are suffering seriously from the rot; and
that, from the same
to the long prevalence of wet
cause, the season has proved extremely
fatal to the deer. We are, however, happy to add, that
the ravages of the wire-tvo;m are abated, and the growing
wheats look well to the
eye._
Bath Herald.
The very heavy fall of snow and rain within
the last ten days, added to the already overflowing state of
the Thames, has caused a dreadful flood in this neighbour-
hood ; we are sorry to state that this day, Thursday, the
water is across the street in Eton, and still continues to
rise; the inhabitants are in a state of alarm lest the waters
should arise to the height they were the 29th of January in
the year 1809. From the terrace the view is dreadful be-
yond description ; not an inch of land scarcely to be seen
for several miles ; the road from Datchet to Windsor is
completely impassable, as is the Clewer Road from Maiden-
head; rails are placed across the road to prevent accidents.
The road to Slough is also nearly in the same state. The
water this day has risen three inches ; scarcely a house in
Eton that the water is not from three to five feet in the
cellar. —Berks Chronicle.

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE gave
their annual Christmas ball and supper, at their seat io
Bushy-park, to their Royal Highnesses' domestics and their
friends yesterday evening.
The Duke of WELLINGTON sent communi-
cations yesterday afternoon to Earl DUDLEY; Mr. Hus-
KISSON, and Mr. CHARLES GRANT; the two first pro-
ceeded directly after receiving the communication to the
residence of his Grace, in Piccadilly, and had interviews
with the Duke, with whom they remained till between five
and six o'clock. Viscount PALMERSTON and Mr. CHAS.
GRANT had afterwards a conference with Earl DUDLEY,
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, Mr. PEEL,
and Mr. HENRIES, were in constant communication
yesterday.
. The Earl of CARLISLE ,transacted business
with the Marquis of LANSDOWNE yesterday, at the office
of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Sir ALEX. GRANT and Mr. WILAIOT HOR-
TON had interviews with Lord GODERICH yesterday.
Mr. FIERRIEs and Mr. WyNN transacted
business with Earl DUDLEY, at the Foreign-office, yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, Sir FRED.
LAMB left town for Plymouth, where Sir FREDERICK
will embark, and proceed on his embassy to Lisbon. Sir
FREDERICK has taken with him Viscount FORDWICII; the
eldest son of Earl COWPER.
We hear that the Rev. SIDNEY SMITII is
appointed one of the Prebendaries of Bristol.
Colonel RUDSDEL (Secretary to the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands) left town last
night for the lonian Islands. The Colonel took despatches
from the Colonial-office for the LORD HIGH COMAIIS-
SIONER; and also took despatches from the Foreign-office.
On Tuesday the members of the Noblemen
and Gentlemen's Catch-club held their first meeting for the
season, at the Thatched-house Tavern : Sir JAMES LANG-
HAM, Bart., in the chair; Sir W. DR CRESPIGNY; Vice-
President ; Sir GEO. WARRENDER, Sir GEO. CLERK; and
the Hon. ARCH. MacoosrAED, were among the members
present. Mr. ROBERT LEETE was elected secretary and
treasurer to the club, in the place of the late Mr. JOHN
SALE, sen. deceased.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—Lord and Lady
Nugent, in Pall-mall, from their seat in Bucks ; Dowager
Viscountess Melville, at her house in Portman-square,
from Brighton; the Earl of Lauderdale, at Warren's Ho-
tel, Regent-street, from his seat in Scotland ; the Marquis
of Carmarthen, at his father's, (the Duke of Leeds),
Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, from a tour; Colonel and Mrs.
Gore Langton and family, at their house in Grosvenor-
square, from their seat, Newton Park, Somersetshire; Sir
William Rumbold, Bart., in Albemarle-street, from a tour ;
Sir John Nichol!, Bart. and fan.ily, at their house in Bru-
ton-street, Berkeley-square, from their seat in Glamorgan-
, shire ; Colonel Gibbs and J. Hobson, Esq. at Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street, front a tour; John Campbell,
Esq. and Sons, at ditto, from Herts; Captain Hare, at
ditto, from Windsor; the Countess of Ashburnham, at the
Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets, from
Battle, Sussex; the Rev. Mr. Harrison, at ditto, from
Bath ; Colonel and Mrs. Todd, at the London Hotel, Al-
bemarle-street, from a tour; J. Cooper, Esq. and family,
from Nerot's Hotels, Clifford and Cork-streets; J. Nil-
hams, Esq. and Ladies, at ditto ; the Rev. J. Bellington,
at the Royal Hotel, St. James's_street, from a tour; J.
Resdon, Esq. at ditto, from Paris.
DEPARTURES.—The Marquis of Hastings,
from the Burlington Hotel, for Oxford; Colonel and Mrs.
Anwyleand family, frotn ditto, for Malta; Henry Burton,
Esq. from the London Hotel, fur Oxford ; Lady Thomas
and friends, from Nerot's Hotels ; General Cockburn,
from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce, from Baker-street, for
Brighton ; Captain Leslie, from Regent-street, for the
Continent.

CRANIOLOGY.—The lectures of Dr. Srußz-
iumr have been numerously attended by men and ladies
whose skulls have all possible indications.—Edinburgh
Weekly Chronicle.

KEAN has postponed his journey to Brigh,
ton, where he was to appear this week as Richard, in cot"
sequence of indisposition.

KEAN is also, it is said, rehearsing that
Virginias.

MACREADY is in daily rehearsal of the cha-
racter of Ribeaumont.
The new Tragedy at Covent-garden will be
brought out next week. Its title is the Serf. CHARLES
KEMBLE, YOUNG, WARDE, and Miss JARMAN, have cha-
racters allotted to them in it.
CONWAY, whose performances once so much
delighted, has left the stage, and taken to the pulpit.
The celebrated race-horse Leviathan, lately
purchased by Mr. DELVE RADCLIFFE for his MAJESTY, is
supposed to be the largest and most superb-looking blood-
horse ever produced in this or any other country. The
price was 2000 guineas. He is now at Newmarket with
the rest of the King's horses.— Worcester Journal.
Among the plate which adorns the Marquis
of CLEVELAND'S splendid sideboards at Raby Castle are no
less than twenty.one racing cups, the produce of the Noble
Owner's successes on the turf.— York Courant.
A publican appeared to give a prisoner a
character, and on examination it appeared that he had no
further knowledge of him than that he had frequented his
house for the last six weeks. Witness—" I always consi-
dered the prisoner at the bar, my Lord, as a fair and ho-
nest man." Judge—" That is, yon mean to say that he
drank his beer fairly, and paid for it honestly." Wit-
ness—" Exactly so, my Lord. "—Literary Gazette.
In the forthcoming distribution of the Deccan
prize-money, the amount appropriated to be distributed is
460,0001. Lord HASTINGS' share, as Commander-in-
Chief, will, we are given to understand, be abontsl,ooo/. ;
Sir Tilos. HISLOP'si 2,3001. ; that of a common soldier,
149. The agency atimunts to 21,000/. The Duke of
WELLINciox and Mr. ARBUTHNOT are the trustees for
the distribution of the booty. Mr. ARCHIBALD Clorr-
sELL and Colonel AnnourNoT, son of the trustee, are the
agents. Mr. CAMPBELL is the Duke's general agent, and
Col. ARBUTHNOT was at the time of his appointment, we un-
derstant, a minor, and had nothing whatever to de with
the transaction from which he is to derive so important au
advantage.

OLD BAILEY WlT.—(From a Lawyer's
Note book. )--A man tried for stealing a pair of boats from
a shop-door in Holborn, with which he ran away.—Judge
to witness, who had pursued and seized the prisoner—
" What did he say when you caught him ?" Witness—
"My Lord, he said that he took the boots in joke."
Judge--" And pray how far did he carry the jeke ?" Wit-
ness—" About forty yards, please your Lordship."—Li-
terary Gazette.

FINE ARTS AND LITERATURE.—By a de-
cree of the 12th January, the'Minister ofthe Interior has
formed a commission to which must be previously submit-
ted all propositions relative to the pensions of literary men,
to the purchases and orders of pictures, to the subscriptions
to works recently published, and to all other encouragement
to be granted to literature, the sciences, and the tine arts,
out of the funds of his department. The Members of the
commission are Baron CuvrEa, Perpetual Secretary of the
Academy of Sciences; President Baron FotjvhlEE, Per-
petual Secretary of the same Academy; Messrs. AN,,,Eux
and Mrcwauo, of the French Academy ; M. ABEL RA-
MUSAT, of the Academy of InscriptionS; and Messrs. le
Baron GERARD and FONTAINE, of the Academy of Fine
Arts.— Constitutionnel.

•
THE EYE-TOOTH OF ST. BERNARDIN.---
The following advertisement appears in the Journal des
Debats of last Sunday :
" Some ladies travelling from Perpignan to Montpellier,
in the diligence, have lost a mahogany box, six inches by
four, covered with gilt copper, containing a relict, with
the following legend :—.

COLMILI.O DE SAN BERNARDINO,
i.e. Eyetooth of Saint Bernardin, with a ring in the form
of a lyre to fasten it by. The finders are requested to send
it to the Mayors of Perpignan, Narbonne, Bezieres, Peze-
nas,, or Montpellier, where they will receive 100 francs
(U.) reward."

The Eye-tooth of St. Bernardin ! I This, we remark, is
the nineteenth century ! What a fine trade the relic-
mongers must have uf it:

WINDSOR, J.A.i.7..'718.—0n Wednesday her
Royal Highness the • DtiOess of GLOUCESTER, arrived at
the Royal Lodge, from Bagshot Park, on a visit to his MA-
JESTY, where she continued for three hours. Her Royal
Highness, after partaking of refreshments, returned to Bag-
shot. Yesterday the Duke of DEVONSHIRE arrived at the
Lodge, and had an interview with his MAJESTY.