The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-18 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay -C2 10 to £3 0
Best New Meadow Hay 3 5 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 10 4 10
Clover Hay (extra fine)...X6 0 ... Generally 3 10 5 5
Oat Straw .£l 12 to XI :6—Wheat straw 1 16 2 0
Supply moderately good, trade rather dull, and pr.ces as last
quo• ed.

The prices paid for indigo at the East India
House do not decline as the sale advances. Since Tuesday,
1,922 chests have been sold, of which two hundred and
sixteen were Madras, and the remainder middling to fine
Bengal, almost all of them belonging to the Company.
—As they were put up at very low rates, the whole has
been sold, and the demand has continued so animated, that
the average advance of about 9.1. per lb., which took place
on the first day, has been fully maintained ; indeed, for most
descriptions rather higher prices have been paid, being
generally about Is., and in some instances Is. 3d. above
those of the July sale. Part of the Madras is considered
to have been taken on speculation, and the Bengal chiefly
for shipment.
The farmers at Newark have determined to sell
their corn by measure only.—•Doncaster Gazette.

We are happy to find, from a variety of
sources, that the bookselling trade, which so severely feit
and suffered by the pressure of the times not long since, is
now not only convalescent, but rapidly advancing towards
a state of sound and vigorous health.-- StockportAdvertiser.

There is preparing for publication, in the
course of the ensuing winter, the " Life and Times of
Daniel De Foe ; containing a Review of his Writings,
and his Opinion upon a variety of important Matters, Civil
and Ecclesiastical : also, an Account of many Contempo-
rary Writers." By WALTER WlLSON.—Litercuy Gaz.
A BIT OF RAW.—A gentleman travelling
North some time since, and having an itching for driving,
gave the coachman a shilling to permit him to take the
reins in hand, but finding it to be more labour than
pleasure, from the wretched state of the horses, he applied
the whip to a galled part of one of the animals; upon see-

ing which, Jehu cried out, " Gently there, Sir, if you
please, I keeps that 'ere bit of raw to myself, to cut a bit
of a splash when I goes through the town.—Drakard's
Stamford News.

DE BERRANCER, the celebrated lyric poet
and satirist of France, has published another volume of
songs, for which he is to be prosecuted. They are de-
scribed as seditious, and are said to contain severe attacks
on the Royal Family.

AWFULLY DISTRESSING !—A paper printed

in the State of Alabama speaks of a most deplorable and
alarming scarcity of young ladies. Every respectable female,
native or stranger, found there, is as soon as possible,
hurried to the hymeneal altar. The young men are as one
hundred to one to the young ladies !
THE COSSACK TROOPS.—The Cossacks
are divided into regiments of five hundred each, having a
standard and Captain for every hundred, independent of

junior officers—one, two, or more field-officers for the whole
according to circumstances, and a Lieutenant-Colonel, or
Colonel-Commandant, whose name the regiment bears.
In their bivouacs, as well as in their operations and attacks,
they seem to pay little regard to regularity ; and their huts,
those of the officers, as well as those of the men, in front of
which are picketted their horses, are formed in the
simplest and rudest manner imaginable—sometimes
three pikes or poles with branches and hay, or per-
haps their !akes, or cloaks of skin, thrown over
them from their dwellings. Dressed in a short, blue jacket,
without buttons, but hooked down the front—loose trou-
sers of the same colour—a cylindrical, and sometimes a fur
or forage cap—seated upon a cushion fixed to a high
saddle—mounted upon a small, bony, and by no means
Bucephalus-like, but certainly hardy, horse—armed with a
pistol stuck under each arm in a girdle, a firelock slung
across his shoulders, and a sword or a long twelve-foot
pike, the Cossack is, on the least alarm, instantly ready
for the combat. He is endowed by his nature and habits
with an instinct which peculiarly fits him for the duties of
outposts, and for their service (in which, by the by, I am
taking some lessons), I suppose the Cossacks the best
troops in the world.—Literary Gazette.
KYNASTON'S EVADNE.—" An actor of the
name of KYNASTON, a remarkably handsome youth, was
generally selected to mount the stage in petticoats, which he
wore with great success. A ridiculous distress that arose
from these shifts is thus handed down to us :—the King
(Cu/km.oo coming a little before his time to witness the

representation of the Maid's Tragedy, in which KYNAS.
TON enacted Eeadne, found the actors not ready to begin,
when his MAJESTY, not chusing to exercise as much pa-
tience as his good subjects, sent to know the reason ; the
Manager was perplexed, hut he repaired to the Royal,
box, and rightly judging that the hex f excuse for their fault
would be the true one, fairly told his MAJESTY, 'that the
Queen was not yet shaved.' The KING laughed heartily
at the Manager's embarrassment, and patiently waited
until her Majesty had divested her royal chin of the soap-
suds."---Essay on the Science of Acting.
A BARGAIN.—Dr. PHILIP, during his tra-
vels in Africa, met one day with a poor Bushman in the
desart. He Was seated upon a stone, and at his side lay
his bow and arrows, and his spear, and an implement for
digging roots out of the ground. The Dr. wanted to buy from
him some of these things as curiosities. The inan had
got into the habit of prefacing or concluding every
sentence •by the expression, Do youseeill
youm e ?' '
sell The
me
your
fol-
lowingbowauddilaulorgour‘es 7,cur,r,eldv:h—y,"doW Well, will
you see me, I would
sell them at once ; but, do you see me, if I
sell them, I cannot shoot game." " Well, will you
sell me your spear?" "0, yes, I would sell you
my spear, sure enough; but, dd you see me., if I
sell my spear, I cannot defend myself, do you see me."—
" Well, will you sell me your t oot-digger ?" Sure, I
would sell it to you ; but then I cannot dig roots, do you
see me ; so I should starve, do you see me." " Well, but
suppose I were to send you to a Missionary station, where
you could live by working, and be safe from your enemies;
would you sell these things to me?" The moment this
was hinted to the poor Bushman, he started up, and ex-
claimed, " Why then do you see me, take them all for
nothing ; I shall not need them there, do you see me."—.
Sorb, happily, is the prevailing feeling in South Africa, in
regard to the Missionary statism. Their very name is
" a tower of strength.".. W

BRUNSWICK ECHOES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—Most of your readers are, no doubt, ac-
quainted with the anecdote told of a certain, not
over-wise, Judge, who, when in the act of deliver-
ing a charge in some country Court-house, was in-
terrupted by the braying of an as 3 at the door.—
" What noise is that ?" asked the angry Judge.—
" Only an extrordinary echo there is in the Court,
my Lord," answered one of the Counsel.
As there are a number of such " extraordinary
echoes" abroad just now, you will not, perhaps, be
unwilling, Mr. Editor, to receive the following few
lines suggested by them.
Yours, &e. S.

liuc cocamus*, ait ; nullique libektius unquam
Itesponsura sono, C,ocamus, rctulit Echo. Ovid.

There are echoes, we know, of all sorts,
From the Echo, that " dies in the dale,"
To the " airy-tongued babbler," that sports
Up the tide of the torrent her "tale."
There are echoes that bore us, like Blues,
With the latest smart mot they have heard ;
There are echoes, extremely like shrews,
Letting nobody have the last word.
In the bogs of old Paddy-land, too,
Certain " talented" Echoe.t there dwell,
Who, on being ask'd, "How do you do ?"
Politely reply, " Pretty well."
But why should I talk any more
Of such old-fashioned echoes as these,
When Britain has new ones in store,
That transcend them by many degrees?
For, of all repercussions of sound,
Concerning which bards make a pother,
There's none like that happy rebound,
When one blockhead echoes another.
When K—nyon commences the bray,
And the Borough• Duke follows his track ;
While loudly, from Dublin's sweet bay,
R—thd—ne brays, with interest back !
And while of most echoes the sound
On our ear by reflection doth fall,
These Brunswickers pass the bray round
Without any reflection at all.
Oh Scott, were I gifted like you,
Who can name all the echoes there are,
From Ben-voirloch to bold Ben-venue,
From Ben-ledi to wild Uam-var
I might track, through each hard Irish name,
The rebounds of this asinine strain,
Till, from Neddy to Neddy, it came
To the chief Neddy, K—nyon, again ;
Might tell how it roar'd in R—thd—ne,
How from D—ws--n it died off genteelly,—
How hollow it rung from the crown
Of the fat-pated Marquis of E-7-y ;
How, on hearing My Lord of Gl—nd—ne,
Thistle-eaters, the stoutest gave way,
Outdone, in their own special line,
By the forty-ass power of his bray !
But no—for so humble a bard
'Tis a subject too trying to touch on ;
Such 'noblemen's names are too hard,
And their noddles too soft to dwell much op,
Oh Echo, sweet nymph of the hill,
Of the dell, and the deep-sounding shelves,
If, in spite of Narcissus, you still
Take to fools who are charm'd with themselves,
Who knows but, some morning, retiring
To walk by the Trent's wooded side,
You may meat with N—wc—stle admiring
His own lengthen'd ears in the tide !
Or, on into Cambria straying,
Find K—nyon, that double-tongued elf,
In his love of ass-cendancy, braying
A Brunswick duet with himself !
* i.e. Let us form Club,.."
-I- Commonly called Paddy Blake's echoes."
Seethe beautiful descriptitm of the chace in the Lady of the
Lake.

We learn from a correspondent at Portsmouth,
that Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON expresses, as was to be ex-
pected, much dissatisfaction at his recall. Sir EDWARD
appears in excellent health.—Brighton Gazette.

It became our duty last week to publish an
indisputable proof of the deep interest felt in this district
for the fate of Portugal, and we state a notorious fact in
adding, that the expression of sentiment then recorded was
only an index of that which pervades the whole of the ma,
nufacturing towns of the West Riding, upon the same sub-
ject. Whether the rest of the kingdom experiences a simi-
lar degree of mercantile sympathy in the fortunes of that
" ancient ally," we cannot take upon us to affirm ; but
we are certain that a just understanding of our political in-
terests, as a great European power, never will allow any
intelligent Briton to look with indifference on the internal
situation or the external relations of Portugal.—Leeds In-
telligencer.

A NEW DESCRIPTION OF HEMP.-Mr.
WHITLAW has now growing in his garden, at Bayswater,
a plant which he discovered in America, which promises
to be of great value to this country. Dr. WHULINGBERG,
of Pennsylvania, has given it the name of lJrpita Whitloa.
Mr. WHITLAW brought some roots from America, and
planted them in his garden in the spring of last year; not-
withstanding that the summer has been unfavourable, the
plants now appear in the highest perfection. It may be
cultivated in lands too wet for grain, and would grow well
in the hogs of Ireland. Each root sends forth from eight
to sixteen stems, of the height of five or six feet : the plant
being perennial, does not require, as our hemp and flax
does, to be renewed annually. With a top dressing it will
yield abundantly for many years. The fibre is stronger
than that of hemp or flax grown in this country ; and not
being subject to mildew, would answer well for cordage of
all sizes, as well as every description of fishing-lines. The
plant may be seen at No. 13, Bayswater-terrace, this day
and to-morrow, between the hours of eleven and four
o'clock. World.

CRINI. CON. CURIOUS INSTANCE OF
PRESENCE or MIND.—A paragraph went the round of
the newspapers lately, announcing the detection of a faux
pas between the wife of a Dublin merchant and her medi-
cal attendant. The circumstances which led to the dis-
covery were singular. The lady, who was of a very vio-
lent temper, of which her husband had but too frequent
proofs, happened to discharge a servant for some trifling
fault. The servant, determined on being revenged for the
loss of his place, sought an interview with his master,
and communicated to hint his suspicion that an improper
intercourse existed between his wife and her physician.
This physician happened to be the nephew of a Roman
Catholic priest, the visiting physician to a convent, and
was, moreover, remarkable fbr his attention to religious
duties. From these circumstances the husband refused to
give the slightest attention to the tale ; but, upon the ser-
vant's persevering in his story, he at length determined to
watch the parties. Accordingly he feigned illness and re-
tired early to bed on the next evening that the physician
visited his wife. The husband was not long in bed when
the lady came up stairs arid entered his bed-room. She
crept in on tiptoe to the bedside, and found him, as she
imagined, fast asleep ; but to make assurance doubly sure,
she pissed the light close to his eyes, and perceiving that
this did not awake hint, she fancied that all was right, and
hurried down stairs to her pious paramour. The husband
cautiously followed her, and, by a window at the foot of
the staircase, was enabled to witness circumstances suffi-
cient to convince him that he had not been deceived by his
servant. The first impulse was to take vengeance on the
parties, but as such a summary method would have de-
prived him of a legal remedy, he restrained himself, and,
retiring to his warehouse, brought his clerk also to the
window, in order to qualify him for being a competent
witness in any action he might raise. The husband then
returned to his bed. In the morning he communicated
what he had seen to his friends, and under their advice
he followed, nearly thirty miles ont of Dublin, one of
the Judges, all of whom were then on circuit, and
procured a judge's warrant against the physician.--
The warrant wits executed without delay, and the de-
fendant was lodged in prison, where he now is. The
liut.lland next turned his attention to his wife, who had
not the slightest suspicion that he was a whit more wise
than she wished kiln to be. He requested her to wont.
pony hint to her father's, for the purpose of witnessing
the execution of sonic legal instruments. She, of course,
made no objection, and they walked thither most lovingly,
arm-in-arm. On arriving at her father's, the husband,
with the utmost calmness, and (need it be added) to the
utter horror of his wife, told the father all the particulars,
and formally handed his daughter over to him. The phy-
sician is.,the tr.e. is
as we before stated, still in gaol, and ; 1 ;
expected to come on in the course of next term. It is
only necessary to.adtl, that no pecuniary motive prompted
the above singularly cool and determined behaviour, as, by
a divorce, the husband will forfeit very large expectations.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES,

The Dowager Marchioness of Exeter, from her seat at Roe-
hampton, for Worthing ; the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, for
her seat in Surrey ; Prince and Princess Lieven, for Richmond ;
the Honourable William Burrell, from Whitehall, for Dover;
Lieutenant-Colonel O'Reilly and the Duchess of Roxburgh, and
suite, at the Brunswick Terrace, Brighton, from Paris ; Mr. and
Mrs. W. Comae, from a tour, to their house at Hastings; Sir
Wiliam Burrough, Bart. at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burling-
ton and Cork-streets, from the Continent ; the Honourable Mr.
and Mrs. Trench and family, at ditto, from Ireland ; Mr. and
Mrs. Hardein and family, at ditto, from their seat in Stafford-
shire • Lo d St Asaph, at ditto, from Sussex ; the Hon. Captain
Ashbiirnham at ditto, from Sussex; Sir W. and Lady Oglander,
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Euston Hall, Suffolk ;
the Reverend Dr. Gilbert, at ditto, from Oxford ; Admiral Sir
Davidge Gould, Lady and Miss Gould, at Bryant's Hotel (late.
Warne's), Conduit-street, from a tour ; Mrs. Talbot, at ditto ;
Chiselden Henson, Rsq. lady and Miss Henson, at the Berners
Motel, Berners-street, from Brighton ; Osgood Hanbury, Esq.pat
ditto, from his seat, Holfield Grange Park, Coggeshall ; John
Kettle, Esq. at ditto, from his seat, Burton-on-Trent.