The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-22 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

WHITE CHAPEL.
There has been but a moderate :supply of Hay and
Clover this week, with a good demand, and prices
without alteration. Of Straw the supply short, with
a good trade. Clover, 2/. 10s. to 51. Bs. • Hay, 21. Bs.
41. 4s. ; Straw, 1/. 12s. to 1/. 16s. The trade was
good for prime meat of all kinds, and its quantity
being limited, prices were rather higher. Rough
meat (of which the supply was large) sold at very
low rates, a great deal at. and under, 3d. per lb. The
market, on the whole, was pretty clear. Beef, ls. Bd. to
3s. 6d. ; Mutton, Is. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal, 2s. Bd. to
4s. 4d.; Pork, 2s. to 55.; Lamb, 2s. to 3s. 8.
TALLOW MARKET.

Russian Tallow was firm, with an anxiety on the
part of the merchants to press sales. Fine Yellow
Candle on the spot 48s. 6d. per cwt. The deliveries
were very good.
TEA MARKET.

The market was in the same dull state, the trade
not eareinglto purchase.'

WAKEFIELD CORN MAIThEr.

The market was fairly supplied with Wheat. The trade
continued dull, but still the buyers were enabled to purchase on
quite as easy terms as on this day se'nnight. Barley ls. per
quarter lower. Oats, Shelling, and Deans were steady,
Wae.t, Red, Essex and Kent. s 45.. ti 49.. ..,sr 50-
Nortutix and SUnt/ik —s, 446. to 483. fine 506
-- Lin. and CAM —s. 11.1,1` —s. I,ne —a.
—.— Yorkshire —a. 426. to 445. :Ale •:6 ;
White . —s. 48,. to 525. fine F4'
....--- Foreign, tied. —s. —a. to 4” 8. fine 48s
___,...,,—..--... White --s.—a. to—s, nue 3i
Barley, Norfolk amf Sullolk '6s. to feSs. fine 30s
.--.-- Lincolnshire
------ Yorkshite Wald 45.,. to 275. fin: 99s
-- Foreign
Beans, New . 19s. to 353. fin( Skis.
-- Old .
Oats, Potato —a. to :Ws, fine t2i
—..- Poland —a. —s. to ilos. fine 22i
--- Vriezland and Small —s. •••••-r. to —a. One —...5.
---;-- Nealing ... 10e. to 10y4 d. pet Stone
ShAling 224. t., 245. per Loa,
Malt
Rapeseed . —1 Os :W. W. 21Y. Os. per Las,

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A gentleman of Black Torrington has an otter that
is. quite domesticated, and so tame that it accompanies
bringmand
themthat
o it
out
will
to
him about like a dog. The animal is so under corn-
igdos mater.--e riiVvertern tnznary.
EXTRAORDINARY F caLtch fish, and
ne of the most enor-
mous skates ever seen was caught at Skegness on
Monday last, and purchased b )3T Mr. T. Pridmore,
fishmonger, of Stamford, in whose shop was exhi-
bited. It weighed 1191bs. withoutand
thf; liver wn, 411 is t the entrails,.
9.11;. t t ttit;
size, is excellent.—Stamford Mercury. • •

LITERATURE.

AMI 4N NOTES FOR GENERAL CIR-
CULATION. 2 Vas..
Chapman and Hall, London,

ThOin A ho, remembering the recept;on Mr.
Dickens met with from the Americans—the Boz
mania, in fact, with which they were infected—
expected that on his return home he would pro-
duce a work filled with exaggerated praises of
the United States, will be surprised, on reading
these volumes, to find that they are anything but
hyperbolical in their eulogiums, but main-
tain a moderate, and to all appearance,
an impartial tone throughout, except on the
question of slavery, on which the author ex-
presses himself with a fervour of disgust and ab
1 lorrence, that proves hfin to be as uncomprom-
ising an Abolitionist as even Sir Fowell Buxton
himself. We should add, perhaps, that he is
! nearly as energetic in his reprehension of the
American Newspaper Press generally, which he
conceives to be quite a curse to the country,
abounding, as it does, according to his account,
in slanders and falsehoods of the grossest
order, and conducted, in seven cases out
of- ten, by mere illiterate adventurers, as
remarkable for their utter want of talent, as
for their utter want of all principle and decency.
HI we except these two points, Mr. Dickens'
remarks are, on the whole favourable to the
Americans, trot 'ln they are certainly penned in
no sycophantic *1)11.4 of adulation, and may pos-
sibly therefore ,disappoiakv.ohose whose national
vanity led'ilietiv to.' hope that the feted and
lionized B 4 wouldget the whole hog in their
favour. e.,;; work opeps with an account
of the ' . is VoSVe from Liverpool
IO
to Halifax, .:, ' ch, as2lit month was; January,
was somethirkof..:-the StOrmiest. On - gie third
morning of tbeikasel'a. departure, a std lien gale
came on ; the i4tiediate results we give in Mr.
Dickens' own .Vg-ords*.t-jt is the thiid morn-
ing; I am awakenedAtamy sleep byta dismal
shriek front my wife; WittOlemands to kfiow whe-
ther there's; any daner.- I rouse myself and
look out kfr gr.,1,: .Tl.444i'ater-jw: iii.. plunging
and leapinkUq -a, liar, c 4 dolpl7in all the
smaller artic* l';are 'afloat, except lily shoes,
which are stn el • 'On a carpet7bag,oiigh and
dry, like a ceuple. of coal-barges. Suddenly I
see them spring into the air, and behold the
looking-glass, Which is nailed to the wall, stick-
' ing fast upon.the ceiling. At the same time the
door entirebr'!Visappears, and a new one is
opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend
that the state-room is standing on its
head." The horrors of sea sickness are detailed
by Mr. Dickens with equal spirit and..humour;
and indeed the whole chapter entitled t'; he Pas,
sage out," will forcibly recal to the re4der's re-
collection some of the raciest and nufst whim-
sical descriptions in " Pick wick" and "Nickleby."
Of Boston, which was the first American city
visited by our author, he speaks .. in high
tennis of praise, observing that it is a
cheerful and beautiful town, and that the general
tone of its society is remarkably refined and in-
tellectual. He seems to have strayed curiously
into all its most out-of-the-way nooks. and
corners, and one Sunday morning, "in a chapel
down anwng the shipping, in one of the narrow,
old, water-side streets," he found a sort of
Yankee Boatswain Smith, named Taylor, preach-
ing a sermon to the jack-tars, , stuffed full
of nautical epithets and images.. Portions of the
sermon are quoted for the reader's edification,
and grotesque enough they are; but bad they
been otherwise, we. presume they would have
been unintelligible to the amphibious congrega-
tion. While at Boston, Mr. Dickens took the
opportunity of visiting a factory which is esta-
blished in the immediate neighbourhood, and
was surprised to find how much better it was
conducted, and how much cleanlier, happier, and
More respectable the girls were, than
is the case in our Lancashire factories. He saw
no squalid destitution—no .reckless, barefaced
vice—no deformity, the result of exceeding
labour—no brutal overseers with billy-rollers in
their hands, for the purpose of hitting a post-
man's double knock now and then on the skull
of some overtasked, sleepy child—no painful
scenes of this sort appeared in the factory at
Lowell, but everything wore a cheerful, sunny,
and improving aspect. Arrived at Washington,
the seat of the Legislature, Mr. Dickens was struck
with the disgusting practice of spitting, which
prevailed among all classes; his remarks on this
delicate subject will be found exceedingly whim-
sical and amusing. Niagara and its far-famed
cataract, he describes with the animation usual
with all travellers, when alluding to this sublime
spectacle; but as the subject is an intolerably
hacknied one, we prefer quoting our author's
humorous account of a stage-coach drive along a
Virginian road :

" The first half mile of the road is over bridges
made of loose, planks laid across two parallel poles,
which tilt up as the wheels roll over them; and in
.the river. The river has a clayey bottom and is full
of holes, so that half a horse is constantly disappear-
ing unexpectedly, and can't be found again for some

time.
" But. we get past even this, and come to the road
itself; which is a series of alternate swamps and gra-
rel-pits. A tremendous place is close before us, the
black driver rolls his eyes, screws his mouth up very
round, and looks straight between the two leaders, as
if he were saying to himself, ' We have done this
often before, but now I think we shall have a crash.'
He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both ;
and dances on the 'splashboard with both feet (keep-
ing his seat,. of course) like the late lamented Ducrow
on two of his fiery coursers. We come to the spot,
sink down in the mire nearly to the coach windows,
tilt on one side at an angle of forty-five degrees, and
stick there. The insides scream dismally ; the coach
stops ; the horses flounder ; all the other six coaches
stop ; and their four-and-twenty horses flounder like-
wise ; but merely for company, and in sympathy with
ours. Then the following circumstances occur :
" Black Driver (to the horses)—' Hi !
" Nothing happens. Insides scream again.
" Black'Driver (to the horses)—'..Ho
" Horses plunge, and splash the black driver.
" Gentleman inside (looking out)—' Why, what
on airth—'

" Gentleman receives a variety of splashes and
draws his head in again, without finishing his ques-
tion or waiting for an answer.
" Black Driver k(still to the horses)--'
Jiddy!'

.' Jiddy !

—"horses pull violently, drag the coach out of the
hole, and draw it up a bank ; Eo steep, that the black
driver's legs fly up in the air, and he goes back among
the luggage on the roof. But he immediately reco-
vers himself, and cries (still to the horses) ' Pill
"No effect. On the contrary, the coach begins to
roll back upon No. 2, which rolls back upon No. 3,
which rolls back upon No. 4, and so on, until No. 7
is heard to curse and swear, nearly a quarter of a mile
behind.

" Black Driver (louder than before)—' Pill!'
" Horses make another struggle to get up the bank,
and-again the coach rolls backward.
" Black Driver (louder than before)--' Pe-e-e-ill!'
" Horses make a desperate struggle.
" Black Driver (recovering spirits)--' Hi, Jiddy,
Jiddy, Pill!'
" Horses make another effort.
" Black Driver (with great vigour)---' Ally Loo!
Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy. Pill. Ally Loo !'
" Hiirges almost do it.

" Black Driver (with his eyes starting out of his
head)—',Lee, den. Lee, dere. Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy.
Pill. Ally Leo, Lee-e-e-e-e!'
" They run up the bank, and go down again on the
other side at a fearful pace. It is impossible to stop
them, and at the bottom there is a deep hollow, full of
water. The coach rolls frightfully. The insides
scream. The •mud and water fly about us. The
black driver dances like a madman. Suddenly we
are all right by some extraordinary means, and stop
to breathe.

" A black friend of the black driver is siting on a
fence. The blae's driver recognises him by twirling
his head round and round like a Harlequin, rolling
his eyes, shrugging his shoulders, and grinning from
ear to ear. He stops short, turns to me, and says—
" We shall get you through sa, like a fiddle, and
hope a please you when we get you through sa. Old
'ooman at home, se,' chuckling very much. Out-
side gentleman sa, he often remember old 'ooman at
home sa,' grinning again.
" Aye' aye, we'll take care of the old woman.
Don't be afraid:

" The black driver grins again, but there is another
hole, and beyond that another bank, eloie before us.
So he stops short, cfes (to the horses again) Easy,
Easy. den. Ease. Steady. Hi. Jiddy. Pill. Ally.
Loo,' but never Lee !' until we are reduced to the
very last extremity, and are in the midst of difficul-
ties, extrication from which appears to be all but im-
possible.
And so we do the tm miles or thereabouts in two
hours and a half; breaking no bones, though bruising
a great many ; and, in short, getting through the dis-
tance like a fiddle:"
Though Mr. Dickens' volumes are hastily put
together, and will in some respects disappoint
expectation, yet it is impossible to deny that
they are highly enterta'ning; but this not so
much from any particular shrewdness or ori-
ginality of observation they evince, as from the
rich fund of humour that pervades them,
and the frank, manly, firm, but concilia-
tory spirit in which they are penned.
No man of sense in the United States but will
rtad them in the spirit in which they were
written; but all the touchy, conceited fools in
Yrnkee-land will be sure to prick up their long
czils, and •denounce, in good set terms, the
ingratitude of the author, reminding him