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HE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.
There was a.fair amount of business transacted, and
full. rates
.were given. The quantity pressed for sale
was small, but some large and important auctions have
been announced. IZaw Sugar firm, and wanted ; brown
West India 575. to 605., and yellow 61s. to 68s. per cwt.
Standard lumps 775. per cwt
TEA MARKET.
The biddings at the public sales wero brisk, and
nearly the whole offered, amounting to 10,000 chests,
were sold at full rates.

TALLOW MARKET.
The market was dull, and the tendency of prices down-
wards ; sellers of P. Y. Candle at 475. 6d. on the spot,
and, the saw for artival.

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
There was a moderate supply of Hay and Clover, with
a good demandi the fine and middling qualities were in
request, and fully realized 2s. per load higher ; the ordi-
nary a fair trade. Clover, 21. 12s. to 5/. 10s. Hay,
2/. 10s. to 4/. 109. ; New Hay, 3L to 41. ss. ; Straw,
U. 12s. to 11. 14s.

POST OFFICE.
MONTHLY STATEMENT OF LETTERS DELIVERED IN
THE UNITED KINGDOM :-
week endinglAug. 21, 1842 .
week ending Aug. 22, 1841 .
Week ending Nov. 24, 1839
Increase since 1841, on the week's
letters • • • . . . 135,931
Increase since 1839, on the week's
letters • • • • . . 2,247,907

. 3,833,880
. 3,097,949
. 1,585,973

SURREY THEATRE.
Alr. Butler made his first appearance since his re-
turn from America at this theatre last evening, in
the character of 'Ben Nazir, the Saracen, in Colley
Grattan's tragedy of that name, This character was
written expressly for the late Edmund Kean, and, if
Ive mistake not, under his immediate superintendence.
As might be expected, therefore, it abounds in those
trrifie bursts of passion, in the delineation of which
ean was so pre-eminent ; and had the tragedy been
Produced at a time when he was in the full possession
I:1 his powers, Colley Grattan's Ben Nazir would no
doubt have become quite as popular as Maturin's Ber-
lren• The tragedy, however, was not produced until
hL.ean had fallen "into the sere and yellow leaf." After
Ts last return from America Ben Nazir was pro-
'Laced at Drury-lane ;at that time Kean's bodily
Powers were so exhausted by disease, that he had not
12ll3'sinal energy sufficient to go through the character,
hile at the same time his memory was so impaired
ch
at he could not repeat ten consecutive lines of his
btrt• Under these circumstances, as might have
een expected, the tragedy failed. Kean, however,
t","(1 the manliness to take all the discredit of
failure on himself, and always spoke in the
hest terms of the capability of the part.
From that time, now fifteen years since, until the pre-
sent, the tragedy of Ben Nazir, although printed, has
pnever been performed in this country until last even-
-1,,,g• During his recent professional trip to America,
13;ralutler revived the tragedy of Ben Nazir, the play
,„cltale popular on the other side of the Atlantic,
gr the audience of last night ratified the
4,eision of the American play-going public.
toa character of Ben Nazir, to the dew-
h,l2,alent of which everything else in the piece is
-ire subservient, is a compound of craft and ferocity.
13The -Saracen has all the plotting, hypocritical, un-
"neipled cunning- of Richard the Third, joined to the
thtrific energy of Bertram. In the delineation of this
ti oacter Mr. Butler was most happy. With tempta-
ens, which to a less judicious actor would have been
to esistible—" to tear a passion to rags, to very tatters,
sillit the ears of the groundlings," Mr. Butler
Ir'er mice o'erstepped the modesty of nature."
to e was "not too tame neither, but suited the action
tac word." He was energetic without rant, im-
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• sioned without bombast, and his performance, as
klight have been expected, was completely successful.
.w ever was actor more heartily applauded, and never
ere applauses more richly deserved. The tragedy
les been admirably got up, the scenery is beautiful,
4.21(1 the costumes gorgeous. It was followed by. the
-"vv drama of Welcome Home, and the evening's
performances concluded with the farce of Bathing,
12? which George Wild kept the audience in a con-
stant roar. The house as usual was crowded.

M UORONER'S INQUEST.—DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A
10.411, AHED NINETT.SEVEN YEARS.—This morning, at
7,;_'enio'clock,an inquest was held at the sign of the
Tlll3urg Arms public-house, in Webber-street, New-cut,
ru beth, before William Carter, Es q., the Coroner for
"*Y, on view of the body of William Humphries,
,ged 97 years, who was found lying dead in his bed on
t.slidaY mornint, last, with his thinat cut. The soft
ins of the neck were completely cut through to the
rle The evidence adduced proved that the deceased
Ilitted the act himself ; he had for some time past
eltn
n bedridden, and his mind had evidently become
`"leeted by the infirmities incidental to his advanced
Years- Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
LOULOGNE HARBOUR.—We understand it is defi-
Intively settled that our jetties are to advance six hun-
dred yards farther into the sea, so that vessels drawing
twelve feet water will be enabled to enter them at all
:tours of the day and night. When they will be cora-
enced is one question—but, when finished is another.
our English readers must not imagine that we—no, not
We, but the poets-et-cleaussces, have yet learned. to go
ahead by `team, as our unfortunate hamour too plainly
demonstrates.—Boulogne Gazette.
In his early glorious days, Buonaparte was as thin
as
"ter gruel. His face was sharper than is usual in
(lur race, and that enabled him to cut his own way to
Preferment. Fat men ar generally good for nothing
:but aldermen and judges`;
although at the Sandwich
-Islands they are made into chiefs.
SALMON •AT THREE-PENCE PER POUND.—A great
Quantity of salmon and grilse have been taken at New-
rort, Pembrokeshire, this year, indeed, much more than
r the last ten years. The selling price is three pence
Per pound.— Welshman.