The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-11 00:00:00

PRICES AT SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES.

Corn, 11e. per bushel ; average price of Wheat, 71. Sd.
per bushel; Maize, Ils. ; Oats, 4s. 6d. ; fine Flour, 18s.
per cwt. ; Seconds, 16s. ; Pollard, 2s. per bushel ; But-
ter, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. per lb. ; Cheese, Is. 3d.
per lb. ; Eggs, Rs. 6d. per dozen ; Fowls, 2s. 9d. per
couple ; Turkeys, 12s. ditto ; Ducks, 51. ditto ; Geese,
10s. ditto ; Assize Bread, sid. per loaf ; Potatoes, 16s.
per cwt. ; Beef, 2s. 3d. to Rs. 10d. peF stone ; Mutton,
3s. 6(1. to 4s. ditto ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to 4s. lid. ditto.--
These prices are in Colonial money, and not sterling..
The Colony had suffered by continued drought, which had
damaged the crops considerably, and advanced Wheat to
the above high price.

SCOTCH PRIDE.—A carter, at one of the
ports in Scotland, had the misfortune to back his horse
and cart over the pier, into the river. The horse was
drowned, and the cart broken. When the merchants of
the town heard of the accident, they kindly resolved to
assist the poor man to obtain another horse and cart, be-
cause he had always been very steady and industrious.
But, In ! when they told him that they were about to raise
a subscription far him, the honest man scratched his head
and said, " Na, gentlemen, I'm muckle ohleeged to ye for
your glade wull, but I canna consent to be beggit for yet.
Ye see, the wheels o' the cairt are no broken, nor a bit the
Team., and the sheen (shoes) of the horse are a' four as pule
as new ; and I have just ta'en aff his skin, and celled it in s
gude market ; and so with the siller for it, and a little that
I laid by for a rainy day, I'll just try to do for mysell since
mair. But I'm as muckle obleeged to ye as if I could ttik
your siller. lei no pride, ye see, but just that I dolma
like ony thing in the shape of alme."— World.

Some apprehensions were entertained of a con-
siderable diminution in the amount of the current
quarter's revenue, but these, there is rcaaon
believe, will be obviated by the great productivencas
of the Excise department ; as, however, one-third of
the quarter still remains to be told, the precie result
must necessarily remain uncertain.
So far as the accounts have been computed up to
the latest moment, they stand thus :—There is a
deficiency in the receipts of the Customs up to this
date of the quarter, as- compared with a similar
date of last year's corresponding quarter, of about
310,0001., and a similar deficiency in the Stamps
department of about 50,000/.
But to countervail these deficiencies in the Cus-

toms and Stamps, the Excise accounts for the same
computation of time give an increase of 335,000/.
The conclusion, therefore, from the present state of
the quarter's accounts, is not unfavourable.—Morn-
lug Paper.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A FEMALE

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday evening, at
seven o'clock, an inquisition was taken in the
Vestry Ilall of -iaiat John's, Southwark, before
Thomas SinuiroN, Esq., Coroner, and a respectable
Jury, on ♦iew of the body of Mrs. Eleanor Willey,
aged 19 years, a respectable married woman, who
terminated her existence by poison, under the fol-

lowing truly lamentable circumstances.
Mr. Thomas Willey, husband of the deceased,
was a solicitor's clerk, and resided at the house of

Mr. Lowry, Tooley-street ; witness and his wife had
lately come to London from Colchester, where he
lately held a lucrative situation; on Monday morn-
ing last he left home early, and returned in about
half an hour ; he was preparing to go out a second
time, for the purpose of seeing a gentleman on busi-
ness, when his unhappy wife, bursting into tears,
exclaimed, " Oh, dear Thomas, do not go out for
half an hour or so, as I have taken poison, and I
wish you to close my eyes." Witness was shocked
beyond description, and instantly ran off for Mr.
Simmons, a medical gentleman, who attended, and
administered medicines to her; but she growing
worse, Mr. Baldwin, another surgeon, arrived with
the stomach pump, which was immediately applied ;
but no goad effects arose, and she expired in about
a quarter of an hour. The deceased had lately suf-
fered from great depression of spirits, which witness
attributed to his being out of a situation, and at the
prospect of their becoming distressed.
Juror—Had you recently been deprived of proper
requisites ? Witness—No, Sir, our friends sup-
plied us.
Coroner—Had you ever heard your wife threaten
to destroy herself ?--Witness : I never had.
Mary Davis, a respectable young female, was
sister to the deceased. On Monday morning last
she was sent for by Mr. Willey, and found her un-
fortunate sister lying on the bed in great agony; she
was not speechless, and gave witness to understand
that she had poisoned herself, being fearful that her
dear husband would not be able to provide for her.
Witness was with her when she died.
Coroner—Did the deceased and her husband live
upon good terms?—Witness : Very muck so; they
vs ere a most happy couple.
Juror—Are you aware of any other circumstance
that oppressed the mind of the deceased, besides
what you have mentioned ?—I am not, Sir.
Mr. John Simmons, surgeon, of No. 144, 'rooky-
street, was called in on Monday morning last, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock, and found the deceased
labouring under all the symptoms of having swal-
lowed poison. Hee death was unquestionably pro-
duced by arsenic.
Mr. Edward Baldwin, chemist, of Tooley-street,
deposed, that about eight o'clock on Monday morn-
ing the deceased came into his shop, and requested
to be furnished with an ounce of " arsenic," for
the purpose of destroying bugs; his apprentice
served her with the poisonous drug, and she went
away ; witness attended with the stomach pump,
and assisted the last witness in the use of it. A
short time before the unhappy young creature ex-
pired, she informed witness that she had mixed the
poison in a halfpenny wortb of milk, and then drank
it off.
Other witnesses were examined, who spoke to
the unhappy state of mind of the deceased some
weeks before she committed the rash act.
The Jury, after commenting !ipon the truly me-
lancholy circumstances of the case, returned a ver-
dict " That the deceased poisoned herself while in a
state of temporary derangement."
She had only, we understand, been married
seven months.

Game in the neighbourhood of Thorne, owing
to the quantity of rain which has fallen, and the great ex-
tent of what is called the breeding-ground, which has this
year been under water, is very scarce, and offers to the
'portal-man but a very poor prospect. —II all Packet.
On Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, the
village of Staplehnrst, in the Weald of Kent, was visited by
the most tremendous storm ever remembered in that part
of the country. For sores hours it had been oppressively
hot ; and between one and two it began to lighten fear-
fully, but without the thunder being audible ; it soon
after began to hail, and with such violence, that scarcely a
whole pane of glass is left in the village. The green and
hot-houses belonging to Mr. Wntsosr are complete wrecks.
The number of panes broken is 1200, besides at least 100
' broken about his house; and all the other houses are much
in the same state ; the storm did not extend to any great
distance.
BULL IN A GLASS SHOP.—Ou Monday
afternoon, a bull having gained a considerable distance in
advance of the drovers, who were following him from
Smithfield market, turned into a shop in Shoreditch, kept
by an Italian, a maker of weather-glasses and looking-
glasses. The bull, not at all miachiesonsly
marched round the eonnter without disturbing any of the
articles, and without accident, save one of his hind legs
breaking through a weak part of the floor. An officer,
named I3ucx, who was on the spot at the time, observing
that the animal.' attention We% direc,ed to the rejection of
his own horned figure in a large looking-glass near the
window, closed the shutter, and (:arkeneal the shop, and a
clear passage having been effected by the removal of the
counter, he., the ball retreated without having done the
slightest damage, and walked quietly up the street.
Itour.N, SEPT. 6.—The English actors, after
having played here with great, and, indeed, unexpectod
success (for the Rouennais art 7ery difficiles on theatricall
subjects, particularly when the perforincrs have acTnir,a
celebrity among the Parisians, who they say have po'lg
are t-
rnent), have left for Havre de Grace,
peJorm for three nights. During their
burt not-
prices of admission to the theatre were,
doubled,i
custom, the
withstanding this innovation upon establisbe:,.
t three extra.
house was on every occasion well filled, a!
as in Paris, Nii„
performances were demanded. flere,
of attraction ; and really
SMITHSON was the great magnet
that she -
first-rate talent.
become
she deserved all the enthusiastic applause received.
of the most extraordinary efforts
Her Jane Shore Was one
star
public will laugh perhaps,
I ever witnessed. The English where theyi
and sav that we English in France are as silly as the
French, and are led away as easily ; but if hiss SsirrnsoN
Should ge to England, she will, in the perforusance of this
character At least, convince an English audience that if
she was not a great actress at Drury-lane, it was because
:(1) oine opportunityarts soof displaying
a d in herra tie tfit
This is iiss SMITHSON'S most successful character. It • ,
Painful. The French surgeons who have seen he
scene, say that it reminds them forcibly of their! dying
expe-
rience at the death-beds of patients. -The oldplauof
throwing wreaths upon tile stage has been exten 1 acted
upon here with Miss SMITHSON ;and I '1"
Y
tun glad to say that
A /MOTT Was a great favourite.
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