The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-28 00:00:00

THE SPECTATOR WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.
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mencement of the Third Volume, should givo their orders
to the Newsmen before Saturday the Sd January.
THE SPECTATOR avows the ambitious
aim of being at once the most informing, tae most
amusing, anti the fairest of al! Newspapers.
Its large, though not unwieldy size, enables the Editor,
by careful selection and laborious compression, t* record
every useful Fact and interesting Occurrence, whether at
bottle or in foreign countries; and at the same time to give
an uncommonly large apace to Original Compositions by
some of the ablest Pens.

Politics are treated chiefly as matter of history, and
with an impartial exhibition of all the leading facts and
arguments on every side, from every source. TIIE SPEC-
TATOR is not a sectarian or a ;partisan, in lany sense,
but a citizen of the world.

Fair Criticisms on all the New Books of note are given ;
and the beet Passages are selected, for the entertainment
of those whose time may be too much occupied to read
the original work.. The Drama is reviewed in a spirit
of benevolent, thoug'h free criticism ; and Music is treated
at 011Cia scientifically and popularly ae an elegant at t.
Being a Newspaper, and not a mere Literary Periodical,
THE SPECTATOR exhibits Life and Society as they
ezia ; but being also a Journal for Families, it systemati-
cally excludes from its p tges every pragraph, sentiment,
and expression, unfit fur universal perusal in respectable
circles.

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CONTEMPORARY TESTIMONIES IN FAVOUR
OF THE SPECTATOR.
From " Blackwood's Magazine" for April, 1829.
" North—There, James, lies the Spectator, a
new weekly Paper of some half-year's standing, or so, of
the highest merit, and I wish I had some way ~f strenu-
ously recommending it to the reading public. The Editor,
iodeed, is Whiggish and a Pro-Catholic—hut moderate,
steady, and consistent in his politics. Let us have no
turn-coats. His precis of passing Politica is always ad-
mirable ; his Mercantile Information—that I know on the
authority of as good a judge as lives—is correct and com-
prehensive; Miscellaneous News are collected judiciously
and amusingly from all quarters; the Literary department
is equal, on the whole, to that of any other weekly periodical.
I nowhere see better criticism on Poetry—and nowhere
nearly so good criticism on Theatricals. Some critiques
there have been, in that department, superior in exquisite
truth of tact to any thing I remember—worthy of Elia
himself, though not apparently from Elia; and in accounts
of Foreign Literature, especially French, and above all, of
French Politics, a subject on which I need to be enlightened,
have seen no periodical at all equal to the Spectator.
" Shepherd—The numbers you sent out by deserved a'
that you said o' them. It's a waist enterteenite and in-
structive—a waist miscellawneous miscellany.
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" North—And without Leing wishy-washy—
" Shepherd—Or wersh—
" North—The Spectator is impartial. It is a fair,
open, honest, and manly periodical."
From Mr. Buckingham's Address to the Readers of the
" Sphynx," May 2.
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" It will be remembered, that ou the first establishment
of the Sphynx,' its professed object was so to unite po-
litics and literature as to embrace almost all that was new
or interesting in either, on a plan somewhat between that
of the Atlas' and the Examiner,' but more nearly
resembling the former of these journals. This plan is
exactly accordant with that on which the Specta-
tor is conducted ; it being, indeed, the production of
the original Editor and writers of the Atlas,' under whom
that journal enjoyed celebrity at the very time Mr. Buck-
ingham assumed it in so far as a model. The Spec-
tator presents, perhaps, the most perfect analysis and
epitome of News that have ever been attempted in a weekly
paper. Of its P.,litical character, it may safely be said,
that while it is always favourable to the support of liberal
institutions and the happiness of the people, its advocacy
of those great principles has been marked by a degree of
prudence, judgment, and goad temper, which has obtained
for it the praise of those who hold adverse opinions. And
of its Literary talent, it may as truly be asserted, that no
periodic►l of the present day surpasses it—in the acuteness,
soundness, and fairness of its criticisms; or in the infinite
variety with which its pages constantly abound."
From the " Globe," May 28.
" A Paper distinguished among its weekly contem-
poraries for its perception of the ludicrous in manners, and
its piquant, yet not malignant satire upon the foibles of
society."
From the " Harmonicon " for June.
" A Paper supported by first-rate talent."
Au,ain, (in quoting a critique on the Italian Opera)—" The
wit, truth, anal spirit, of the annexed observations, which
appear in the Spectator of -this date, entitle them
to a place in my Diary. They ought, and probably will,
find a corner in every scrap-book in the dominions of our
Sovereign Lord the Binh."—Diary of a Dilettante.
From the `• Westminster Review," No. XXIII.

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GLASGOW CORN MA lIKET.—Dee. 23.
Our market this day is steady for Wheat and Oats, at
last weeks prices. Bailey is more inquired after, lin... no
change in the price. Beans and Pease unaltered.
Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. a. d. 1 Oats, per 2641 b. a. d. s. d.
British, old 330 to 34 0 I Irish lel 0 to IS 9
new 25 028 6 I British l7
0 19
9
Canada, free.. ..... .3l 0 34 0 Beans, les 2tiolb.
Ilish
Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish
English 25 0 27 0 Pease, Scottish ... 19 0 0
Scottish 24 0 .25 6 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 16 0 18 6
Irish 22 0 24 0 Flour, per 280113.... 50 0 52 0

CORNWALL. MARKETS.
TMU RO.—Wheat (average) 233. &I.—Barley 031.—Wt8,
11EL.3roN—Wheat, 223.. 6d.—Barley, 123. Bd.
Sr. AUSTl3l.l.—Wheat, 21s. to 24s.—Barley, 1 Is. to 133.—Oats,
S. to 9s. Ed.
BonmlN—Wheat (average) 235. o.l.—Parbay, 143.—Oats, 83. (;d.
LA u ?se ESTON—Wh ea t (average) 233. Od.—Barley, 12s. o,l—Oats,
83. Od.—Beef, &I.—Mutton, sd.
PENzANon—Wheat, 235. to 24:,—Barley, —s. to 163.—Oats,
Ss. to lire. Od.—Beef and ni,
Butter, !Id. per lb. 4d. to 51(1.—rork, 30. to Od.—
Ltsrmino—Wheat, 223. 6d. t £ss.—Barley,
to I Is. Od.
Sr. Cotuma—Wheat, 203. to 2:h.—Barley lls. to 133.—Beef,
and Mutton, 4d. to 51d.—Veal and Lamb. itit 'to rid.
13, NI,- oats, 10,

ALINING IN G ENCE. Tons. Cwt.
Quantity
ProducerCoppe Ore sold at Iteilruth last Thursday 3,223 2 0
A........................ 73s
Quantity of fine Copper ........... ....
. . ................................ . ........... 257 `i
Amount of We. L7,4024,1'14, SR,—Average