The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-30 00:00:00

CITY MARKETS.-(TWO O'CLOCK.)

In the Colonial Markets there continues to be a great
want of animation, and prices generally are heavy. About
10,000 hhds. of Plantation Sugars were bonded last
week ; and as the deliveries were limited to 2,600
the stock in the West India Docks has increased to 26,390
11Ms. and 2,155 trcs. Quotations are to-day much the
s dine as last week. In Coffee there is little business doing,
but prices remain without improvement.
The Market for Rust is as flit as it can well be, and
of this article of West India produce the landings last
week were heavy, viz., 2,500 puncheons, while the de-
livery did not exceed 423 puncheons, 162 of which were
for exportation. This stock is now 18,323 puncheons and
1,654
THE Fur. TRADE.—By public sale 46,825 North
American Dcer Skins were offered on Friday afternoon,
and about 29,000 sold. The finer sorts realized from
6s. 3d. to Bs. 61, seconds 4s. to 55., and thirds ls. 10d.
to Bs. per skin. First Winter Skins, 6s. 61 to 7s. 3d. ;
First Summer ditto,‘6s. to 7.. 6;1. per skin.
Hors.—The advices this morning from the plantations
in Kent, Sussex, &c. come worse. 'l'be fly is making de-
structive progress, and the duty is now called 52,000/.
More business doing in Hops at the previous prices. The
great stock of Hops and the little money now circulating
tends to prevent speculation.
In Srzces there is not much expected to be done until
the result of the quarterly sale for the Ceylon Gw.'erninent
is known.
BALTIC PRODUCE.-The increase of stock now daily
taking place, by the arrivals from St. Petersleireh, has
tended to produce more bustle in this market. Tallow is
quosed 375. 3d. to 375. 6.1. the stuck is 6,300 casks,
and the delivery last week 717 casks. The Exchange on
London at St. Petersburgh on the 13th inst. was 101.
Tallow 98 rubles. The purchases bad been 1,200 casks.
The demand for Hemp and Flax is dull.
SILK.-Since the conclusion of the sale, some business
has bteß done, and hopes of a revival of trade are indulged,
prices of zaw Silk being considered at their lowest kvel.
In COTTON there is a regular demand, but prices arc not
in advance of those last week.

The marriage of the daughter of a certain
noble and literary Baron, is, it i 4 said, to be precipitlted,
in consequence of disagreements with her mother,— Court

Journal:

MINISTERIAL DINNER AT GREENWICH.

On Saturday the Grand Annual Ministerial fish-
dinner took place at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern,
Greenwich. What the origin of this entertainment
was we do not know, but it has been observed time
immemorial. The dinner consisted of twenty-four
different kinds of fish, dressed in the very first style.
The white bait was in great quantities, and, in fact,
was considered the greatest delicacy in the room.
There were two tables laid in the form of a horse-
shoe, and Mr. Peel, at the request of the Duke of
Wellington, took the chair.
The grand apartment was decorated with green
boughs, and made a very splendid exhibition. At
five o'clock the company arrived in Whitehall
barges, and the dinner was instantly served up.
There were amongst the company, besides the
Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel, the following
noblemen and gentlemen :—the Lord Chancellor,
Marquis Camden, Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Dun-
glass, Lord Bexley, Lord Melville, Earl Powis,
Lord Ashley, Lord Granville Somerset, the Speaker
of the House of Commons, the Attorney-General,
the Solicitor-General, Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Herries,
Mr. Planta, Mr. Horace Miss, Lord Belgrave, the
lion. E. Ashley, Mr. R. Peel, Mr. Vesey Fitz-
gerald, &C. There were present fifty persons.
Mr. PEEL, after the usual loyal toasts were drunk,
proposed the health of the Duke of Wellington,
which was received with great applause.

The CHAIRMAN made some appropriate comments
upon the course of politics pursued by the Noble
Duke, and declared that no course could be more
admirably adapted to the condition of the empire.
The Ministry of his Grace was signalised by a great
measure, undertaken at a period of the most cr►tical
nature, and recommended by the most powerful of
all recommendations—an imperious and overruling
necessity. That this measure originated in wisdom •.
there could be no question, and accordingly its effects' -
were observable in the greification which it had -
yielded to all classes of his Majesty's subjects.
The Duke of WELLINGTON very briefly returned
thanks, and proposed the health of Lord Hill and
the Army.
The Lord Chancellor's health was next drank, oral
Mr. PEEL, iu proposing it,,joked upon a mistake
which had been made by the Lord Chancellor, just
before dinner. it happened that the Fox first din-
ner was given at the Ship Tavern on the same day,
at which the admirers of that Statesman are in the
habit of dining, and there were assembled there
Lord Holland, Lord Say and Sele, Lord Grey, Lord.
Durham, Lord Grosvenor, and several other Noble-
men. The Lord Chancellor, by mistake, betook him-
self to the Ship instead of the Crown and Sceptre,
and to the astonishment of all, walked into the pre-
sence of the Whig Lords, who, although they had on
notice of his approach, very warmly welcomed him.
The Lord Chancellor, upon finding such a number
of faces with which he had an unfavourable poli-
tical acquaintance, began to suspect that he had got
into the wrong box, and made the necessary ►n-
quiry. It is said that he started upon hearing
the name cf " Fox" mentioned, and taking
his hat departed with all possible speed to the
" Crown and Sceptre," where he was received
with greater warmth the moment be mentioned the
disaster. Mr. Peel thought that the visit of the DA -
Chancellor to the Ship was rather ominous. The
newspapers, if they got hold of it, would put fifty
constructions upon it. No doubt some of the in-
genious writers would draw inferences from it fa-
vourable to the political views of their friends, and
it certainly was as good a foundation for political
conjecture as some reports were.
The LORD CHANCELLOR could not have been
more sn'rprized if he had seen his venerable prede-
cessor in the room, when he saw the company as-
sembled at the Ship.
The Duke of 'WELLINGTON spoke little, ate little,
and drank less. The wines, which were of the
finest quality, were Champagne, Mozelle, Sauterne,
Claret, and Burgundy.
At a little after nine o'clock the company re-em- •
balked at the Stairs, and proceeded to Whitehall in •
their barges. There were, between boatmen and
servants, about 110 pert,ons.

The Duchess of CLARENCE, accompanied by
the Doke and Duchess of SA XE WEIMA R, and Prince
WILLIAM. and Princess LOUISA Of WEIMAR, Count and
Countess 111uNstra, Captain and Miss FITZCLAREXCE,
embarked at eleven o'clock yesterday miming, at the
Whitehal Stairs, on board the Trinity barge, and pro-
ceeded to the Thames Tunnel, where Captain Woon)tottr,
the Deputy Master of the Trinity House, attended the
party during their inspection of this extraordinary under-
taking. From the Tunnel the party crossed the river in
the barge to the St. Katherine Docks, which having
viewed, they next proceeded to the Trinity House, on
Tower-hill. The Royal and distinguished party returned
to the residence of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE,
at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Prince LEOPOLD gave a grand dinner on
Siturday at ithrlborough House, Pail-mall, to a numerous
party, who were invited to meet the Duke and Duchess of
GLOUCESTER.

The Princess AUGUSTA and the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER vieited the Duke of SUSSEX, the Duchess of
KEST, and the Princess VICTORIA, yesterday, at their
residences in the King's Palace at Kensington.

the Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to
town yesterday from his residence at Kew.

1 he Dublin Theatre, which a few years since
cog 75,0001., is announced by M. GEORGE ROBIITS for
peremptory sale next month.

- - -
Prince LEOPOLD entertained a number of
Peers to dinner on Sunday, at Marlborough House ; the
Speaker of the House of Commons and a numerous assem-
blage of the :Members of the House of C011:1111011.; were also
of the party.

Some of the Commissioners of the Parlia-
mentary grant for Windsor Castle, and Sir JzFrititY
WYATTVILLE, the Architect to the edifice, had a conference
with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury.
The Earl of ABERDEEN and Lord ELLEN'
BOROUGH visited the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at
the 'frcasury.

His Grace the Archbishop of YORK has ar-
rived at Cowes on a visit to GEORGE \rearm's, Esq. at
Egypt-house. The Marquis and Marchioness of AtscLz-
sEA and family have taken up their residence at the Castle.
Lady AsunnoKE and family, Lord WILLouGHBy DE
BROKE, Sir JOHN WRoTTEstliy, and. THOMAS ASSHETCH4
SmITH, Esq., with their yaelva, and several other families
of distinction, have also arrived during the week.—Hanis
Chronicle.

The election of a Provost for the Borough of
Tralee took place in the drawing-room of Mr. RICHARD
JEFPCOTT, grocer. Mr. CALEB CHUTE was elected by
three Burgesses. Mr. STEPHEN E. Rica, of Mount
Trenchard, was put in nomination by Mr. DAY, but the
Provost would not listen to the people.—Tralee Mercury.
The bedstead that King CHARLES the First
made use of, when a Frisoner in Catishrooke Castle, is now
in good preservation at a public-house in Newport. The
unhappy monarch's watch is also in the possession of A
clergyman in the island.—Hampshire Advertiser.

Miss Zoucu.—This most extraordinary
lady, who has Lately become such an object of public mil'
madversion anti interest, suddenly quitted her late reel'
deuce in Regent-street, last Thursday evening, under
curastances which have excited a considerable degree of
curiosity. • We understand that Mr. WooniN (the lady's
intench-d) also left his residence iu the Regent's Park, O
the very same evening, and, it is supposed, ,in compoli
with his fair inamorata, for the purpose of tying the con"
nuhi ii knot in a private manner, after which, it is conk°.
hired that the liberal young West Indian - and his spotl4
will proceed on their voyage to India.—Morning PaPer.
SHARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE.--Tile
Three Chapters, for JULY, contain not only the Maga",
zinc quantity of periodical literature, and that by some 01
the most popular writers of the day—Hoox, Sotrnsf.t
L. E. L., DARLEY, CUNNINGHAM, BAY LEY, &C, but IS •
embellished with a fine Engraving front one of Mr'
Wuxic's beautiful and recent Italian subjects. The •
Third, or Conyers ation Chapter, will furnish a most agreri
able Key to absent friends of the Sayings and Doings.
the Metropolis ; and annually the Work will form Tb.
handsome and independent Library Volumes.

LITERATURE.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XXI.

The usual shrewdness—business-like infor-
Illation, and rough caustic humour that have
distinguished this Journal ever since its com-
Mencement, abound in the present number,
which possesses the additional recommendation
of being of a more varied and miscellaneous
character • than any of its predecessors. The
first article, which discusses the character of the
Corn Laws, is penned in a strong but far from
intemperate or unbecoming spirit. It is of
course opposed to them, and not without some
show of justice. We quote the following re-
Marks, as a sample of the style and manner of
this paper :
" So long as the necessities of the state can be supplied
without any remarkable alteration in the present mode of
collection, the Corn Laws may have a chance to stand.
lint the first necessity for any change, will probably bring
them in ruins upon the heads of the monopolists. For
instance, the first proposal of a Property-tax—which is a
thing already whispered as possible—would set all who
have property, on the discovery, that the Property-tax was
only a Subscription to maintain the landlords in an unjust
gain. It is in fact totally incredible, that any nation
*mild acquiesce in the imposition of a Property-tax, when
the whole necessity and demand for such an infliction
arose out of the determination of the dominant party to
hay restraints upon the industry of the community. Any
hesitation or difficulty in paying the fund-holders would,
in like manner, rouse all the fund-holders to the conscious
Oms, that the danger to them rose entirely out of the law
Rlticb determines, that the resources of the United Empire
%hall be limited to what can he supported on two bushels
of corn where there rniaht have been four. And in aid
of either or both of these, would be added the united
wing of all ranks or orders of society.—except the
Monopolists—that in their several places and degrees, they
*ere cut down and defrauded of their fair proportions, in
the same manner as would take place if the landlords of
the Isle of Wight had the power to confine the country to
the corn grown on their particular estates. Such an abuse
',light have done for the dark ages,—it might have had
'lame chance of being tolerated in the days of spiritual
itnd temporial villeinage,—but in a nation that has
4bnlishelt the slave trade and broken down religious tests,
it is incomparably too gross and shocking to hold out any
thence of permanent possession of the wrong. The
opponents of the Corn Laws may not at this moment be
very strong in Parliament; but they have a powerful de-
fensive position, which they will know how to use when the
time comes. If they cannot make the occasion, they will
trait Of the occasion comes to them. The other side are
jai a cleft stick ; they cannot go on long as they are, and
they cannot stir into any new path without demolishing
the Cern Laws.
" To wind up all, comes the tremendous danger of a
Minister's having the tact to discover how much his own
interests are depressed by a plan for keeping down the
eanntry to the standard of the landlord's. Debt, poor-
deficient revenue, press on the minister on every
; and he is to lie in this Castle of Despair, without
discovering that he has ' the key called Promise in his
Pocket' whenever be clauses to take the open road. A
vanunander of a patrole would be broken who should
totramit a similar niaseric ; and there is no reason why the
tinancipator of Ireland should be charged in such a sort,
till at least there has been time to try."

" The Life and Writings of P. L. Courier"
is interesting, but of little or no moment, either
Political, literary, or otherwise ; luckily it has
the recommendation of a judicious length.
I' Living Poets of the Magyars" is a remarkably
Pleasing specimen of some of the national
poetry of this Hungarian tribe. It is, We con-
tlude, the production of Dr. Bowring, a❑
author who has already favourably distinguished
himself by his numerous efficient translations of
the poetry of some of the more obscure nations
of Europe. " The Last of the Plantagenets"
4 a favourable and pithy notice of a recently
published romance of that name. " Cobbett's

Corn"—in this article the reviewer gives a very
amusing account of Mr. Cobbett's predilection
for hobbies (of which this Indian Corn is his
last and best beloved), and enters at some length
into the advantages and disadvantages attending
the general adoption of his corn. The article
it light and easy reading. " Discoveries in
Africa, Clapperton's Travels," is a faithful and
comprehensive digest of this celebrated traveller's
latest expeditions to that quarter of the globe.
" Memoirs of Vidoel" is penned in a pointed
and spirited manner, just the way in short in
which such an article should be commented on.
Considering he was a thief, Vidocq was a re-
markably honest man ; he relates his little pecu-
liarities of conduct with the most amusing sin-
cerity, and an earnestness to which the gravity
of Don Quixotte is a joke. " Isaac Taylor's
Translation of Herodotus" is an able review of an
able book; we particularly admire the introductory
observations on " the Father of History," one of
the most simple, garrulous, and captivating of
Greek writers. Dr. Southey's Sir Thomas
Vlore," attacks the weak points of the worthy
lint incomprehensible Laureate with infinite
Pungency and force of effect. At one period,
raving Jacobin, at another, a flaming ultra ;
bow a believer in ghosts, now a disbeliever,
whose chief object is to turn such points of
faith into ridicule ; one year the poor man's
friend; the next the aristocrat's uncompromis-
ing adherent; there is no author, living or dead,
Past or present, whose literary opinions present
such a strange, uncouth, disjointed medley
of prejudice and liberality, sense, shrewdness,
fancy, and stark-staring nonsense, as Dr. Southey.
tie is not one, but Legion, with an intellect,
which, like the ocean, swallows the streams from
the plain, the mountain, and the fen, with the
tame undistinguishing avidity. A judgment
Which should decide in accordance with the or-
dinary motives and feelings of humanity, would
be wholly at fault in speculating on a cha-
racter like the Laureate's. To use a hack-
Ojed, but appropriate phrase, " none but
itself can be its parallel." " Quipos, or
Peruvian Knot Records," is a curious disserta-
tion on a most curious department of the human
mind, as practised centuries since in Peru. We
41Inde to a mode of preserving and communi-
cating historical evidence, through the medium
:31 certain knots made on cords of dif-
'trent colours. As we would not mar
the interest of this article by any spare
's2' necessarily meagre quotations, we will dis-
4oiss it with an earnest recommendation to our
readers to take the earliest opportunity of ac-
• :luainting themselves with its contents.—
;Greatest Happiness- Principle" is an elaborate
defence of the- Utilitarian, or Benthamite prin-
gplea,. in answer to an attack made on them in
!ie last number of the " Edinburgh Review."
The article is ambitious, but far from happy, and
boasts
discoveries as old as the fourth or filth
chapter of " Cicero de Ofliciis." As an answer
Ito the Edinburgh Review" it is specious, but
hollow in the extreme. With the exception of
this heavy failure, the present number of the
Westminster Review" is a superiorone.

LADIES' FASIIIONA FOR JULY.

(F:o:11 Bale As,entbl(i.)

EVENING DP.::SS.— A dress of crape, the colour
of the Chinese rose, over white satin, finished round
the border of the ,kirt by a broad hem, headed by
Castillian points of crape bound with satin, falling
over. The body is d la Ravalane ; the sleeves
short and very full. The hair is elegantly arranged
in curls and bows, and ornamented with full-blown
Provence roses. The car pendants and necklace
are of pearls; the latter superbly disposed in rich
festoons. The shoes are of Chinese rose-coloured
satin, tied en sendales.

\\TALKING DREss.—A dress of fine jaconot mus-
lin, ornamented at the border by several tucks,
which are narrow, and ingeniously disposed in sea-
lops. An apron of lace is added, figured en co-
tonnes. The body is made plain, but is covered by
a fichu-pelerine trimmed round with broad lace,
and surmounted at the throat by a lace ruff. The
long sleeves are of the fashion, named Oriental.—
The bonnet worn with this dress is of Oiseau-dc-
paradis gros de Naples, trimmed slightly with the
same material, and white gauze ribbon striped with
blue. The gloves are of saffron-coloured kid, and
the shoes, which are fastened cn :wades, are of
black corded gros de Naples.
(From the World of Fashion.)

Very few have, as yet, been the departures for
the country ; and they have taken place chiefly on
account of declining health, or to preserve that of
the younger part of a family, who may be at home
for the summer recess. The capital, at the present
moment, is a scene of splendour, from the numerous
members of rank and fashion which grace her pub-
lic walks, her elegant and scientific morning amuse-
ments, and her public spectacles.
True, these glories are arrived at their zenith,
and ere another month shall have passed away, they
will be fading from the horizon of our now gay me-
tropolis ; but the splendid parties given by Royalty,
and by the Nobles of the land, have afforded lately
by their brilliancy an unrivalled scene of taste and
magnificence, and have also, it is hoped, been bene-
ficial to native talent and industry.
A very beautiful bonnet for the carriage morning
visiting dress, is of white crape, finished about the
crown by ornaments of the same material, and with
blond; under the brim are inlacings of white satin;
and on the crown tl:e puffs and ornaments are re-
lieved by very light aigrettes of real marabout white
feathers, being placed between, one of which ap-
pears beneath the left side of the brim. Another
elegant carriage bonnet is of striped blond gauze,
pink on white, and on the white space between the
pink stripes, is a narrow variegated stripe of various
colours, in bromic. This bonnet is ornamented by
folds and en bateaux of pink satin, and of the same
gauze-blond as the bonnet; the bows and strings,
which latter are in a loop, are of steam-yellow satin,
and plain pink doubled gauze, sewn together.
Among the new head-dresses is a cap for demi-
parure, of tulle, the borders doubled in bias, and
crowned by straw-coloured ribbons, long strings of
which, in striped gauze, float loose. A cap, fitted
for the theatre, is of rich blond, trimmed with Jaime-
vapeur, striped gauze ribbon, and ornamented under
the broad border, which turns back, over each tem-
ple, with bouquets of white, purple, and yellow
nareissusses ; these flowers are all double. A dress
hat lined with blue crepe-aerophanc, and trimmed
with the same, and with white tulle : two very long
strings or lappets depend from tl:e right side ; they
are formed of long puffings of white and blue crepe-
aerophane; under the brim is a bandeau of the same,
which crossing the forehead, terminates by a bar on
the right side. A plume of blue ostrich leathers
finishes the hat. A most superb dress hat for a grand
evening party, or for the opera, is of pink crape, bound
with a bias edge of pink satin; an ornament of
broad white blond appears, slightly full under the right
side of the brim, with a loop of pink gauze ribbon ;
and a most splendid willow plumage of pink and
white feathers, in stripes crosswise, covers the
crown, and plays with grace and elegance over the
brim. A dress hat for dinner parties, in rural ex-
cursions, is of white stiffened net, trimmed with
white satin
,fibbon : under the right side of the brim
is a small full bouquet of white and crimson stocks,
and a light plume of white marabouts waves over
the. crown. This hat is without strings, and the
brim is very shallow behind, giving to the hat some-
what the appearance of a dress bonnet. A pink
crape beret, with striped gauze pink ribbons, and
worn either with or without feathers, according to
the style of dress, is a very favourite cojfeure.
Except what .we have represented in our en-
gravings in the out-door department, there is scarce
any change since last month, except the pelerine-
mantelet of fine Indian muslin, richly embroidered,
with long ends depending to the feet, the ends
rounded. They are extremely elegant, as is the
oriental pelisse of muslin, fringed and embroidered,
and left open in the front of the skirt; very loose
sieves of the true Persian kind, are left unconfined
at the-wrists.

The ball dresses consist of coloured crape, over
white satin, and have nothing decisive as to the
form of the corsages, or to their style of trimming,
in which tie alteration or novelty can be looked
for, as they will now be sa soon laid aside, except
for the Fete Champetre, when, most probably,.
white tulle dresses will supersede every other.
The colours most admired are pink, etherial-blue,
straw-colour, spring-green, violet, and jonquil.