The Sun.
London, England, 1821-03-15 00:00:00

QUEBEC TI3IBER.

Per Load. Per Foot.
Sells at present - - - - £3 5 0 £0 1 3;
Add Loss as per foregoing statement 1 16 .9 0 0 6

The price at which the Importer will 1 , 7 0 2 01., be able to sell without any profit j "
NOVA SCOTIA TIMBER.
Sells at present - - - - £3 0 0 IV 1 23
Add Loss thereon, as before shewn 112 8 0 0 71

Shews the Price at which the Im-
porter will be able to sell without 4 12 8 0 1 104
any profit - - -

MEMEL TIMBER.
Sells at present - - - X 6 .5 0 £0 2 6
Deduct.profit, as before shown - 0 7 2' . 0 0 1
Shews the Price at which the Im-
porter will be able to sell without 5 17 10 0 2 .11.
any profit. • - - - JJ
Consequently the Canada Yellow Pine Timber has only
16s. ld. per Load or 4d. per foot advantage. over the Baltic
Timber, which is not a sufficient difference to enable it to come
into competition in the market.
And as Red Pine Cost £2 Is. Gil. at Quebec last year, if
from this Cost is deducted that quoted for Yellow Pine as above
(viz. £1 2s. 6d.) there will be 19s. to add to the above 1..'5 ls.
which will bring out the sum of £6 Os. 9d. for the price of Red
Pine ; consequently this article will Cost about 3s. per Load
more than Memel Timber. _ .

The foregoing licing the comparative Statement of the Arti-
cles in Arne of Peace : if it is prorwed to make the Ditties a
Permanent Measure, in case of 14 ar the Statement will then
stand as follows : •

QUEBEC.
To Prime Cost Duty and Charges Ll 19 3
Carrying Freight of last war - 5 I 9
9 3

• BALTIC.
To Prime Cost Duty and" Charges - 4 11, 7
Carrying Freight of last war - - 2 0-0
\ 611 7

0 17 8

By this statement it appears, that the Baltic Timber can be
imported in War into London 17s. Bd. per Load -less than the
'Canada Yellow Pine; and less than the Canada Rea fine by
£1 6s. 6g.• per Load of 5(1 feet.

St. Patrick owes St. David a turn, as the Gen-
tlemen of the Stock Exchange would term it, or,
as is commonly said, " One good turn deserves
another."—On the Ist instant was the ,Second
Drawing of the Lottery, and it was also St.
David's Day, on which Day an entire Prize of
£)21,0(30 was the property of one of the Tickets
sent to Ireland ; therefore St. David behaved
very politely to St. Patrick, and we think the
Shamrock will not be outdone in politeness or
generosity by the Leek ; therefore as next Sa-
turday is St. Patrick's, Day, and the Last Day
of Drawing of the Lottery, the Hibernian Saint
ought to draw a X 21,000 to be the property of
the Taffies, and that would be paying the Cam-
brian Saint in his own way.—This may easily be
done, as there, are Three ...321,000 Prizes to
draw, and «l 6 must be drawn NextSatarday.

The Town Crier of Westbury, in Wiltshire, a
few daysago,proclaimed by sound of bell through
the principal streets of that town that his em-
ployer was ready, to serve the inhabitanbi with a
quartrn loaf, a pound of bacon, and 4 sack of
tatoes,for two shillings !

•
[British Press.] '
Advice, we understand, have reached town
from Italy, stating that a strong Russian;arma-
ment is actively preparing in thee Black;Sea, for
.the purpose of co-operating. effectively. with the
' Austrian army, agaihst the Government: of
Scaly is said to 'be the chief object of the
RuSsian..expedition, and an opinion prevails in'
Italy that by some secret understanding .be•
tween the combined Powers; Russia is to hold
possession of the island of Sicily so long as
the Austrian army shall . maintain the occu-
pation .of • Naples and the Neapolitan. territo-
ries on the, Peninsula. - The Russian Mitiister
at the Porte has reeeived instructions to demand
from the Turkish Government a free passage
for the Russian fleet, and the Austrian Minister
is to promote this object with his utmost influ-
ence. Russia has long desired most earnestly to,
poSsess a naval establishment' in the -Mediterra-
nean, and Sicily offers the most tempting means
of enabling that ambitious power to realize her
wishes. We further learn that the Austi ian Ca-
binet, as if apprehensive of the policy which
might, in the event of an unsuccessful campaign
in Italy, be pursued by the Sardinian Govern-
ment, has proposed to the King of Sardinia to
exchange Piedmontese troops, to the number of
20,000 men, for Hungarian troops to an equal
amount : the former to be incorporated with the
Austrian army, while the latter were to occupy.
the fortresses of Piedmont; &c. The proposal,
we understand, was instantly and indignantly re-
jected.