The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-11 00:00:00

JERSEY, St rt. 6.

The packet due nn TCIUSII3V did not arrive here
until yesterday. For these three days past there
has been scarcely a single breeze of wind, the sky
cloudy, and the closeness of the weather hardly
supportable. Last night there %vas a cowiiderab;e
fall ot rain, and there is every appearance of more.
The exportation of potatoes is so gl eat as to alarm
the poorer people. A petition, signed already by
near 400 of the inhabitants, is preparinz to he laid
before the Court Royal, for the purpose of putting
some stop to this evil ; but a report spread yesvoi-
day of potatoes having fallen considerably is -price
in the It it and London mat kets, will have a more
prompt effect in preven.ing the exportation of that
necessary article of life than any measure that can
be t;-diert by the Magiioracy herr; they were loading
on Friday at the pier at 2 d. the cabot of 42ibs..
Apples, for the same reason, are likely to tall iu
price, from a glut in the London market. The
grehit cider manufacturers here advertise to give 4
!ivies the eabot for pearmains, nonpareil, and
other fruits of the first duality; and 40 sots, that
is 20d. the calmt for de petit jean, feuillu, and
others of the 2,1 quality ; 3 eahots, or capital, are
about equal to 2 bushels Winchester.

Every Hrticle of provision is much dearer ;
many articles double to what they were last year,
or even during the war ; potatoes are more than
do►ible the !nice of last year, as well as butter,
which is now from 16 to 18d. per lb. There is
no abatement in the price of bread or meat ; the
former 311., the latter from 10 to 1341. per lb.
On Smithy, the 23d of last mouth, the ship So-
phia sailed from Guernsey, for the United States
of Ametica, with 90 passengers ott board, all
English artisans.

On Thursday last, the Fast Regiment of Jersey
Militia, commanded by Colonel De \Teat., was
inspected on the Greve d'Azette, by his Excellency
Major General Gordon, who was highly gratified
by the appearance and high state of discipline of
that fine Corps ; after 'stile!' the Regiment gave a
grand dinner to his Excellency and the whole of
his Stall.

At an adjourned ►ueeting of the Magistrates,
held at Hicks's Hall yesterday, an election took
place for the Surveyor to the County, in the room
ut CHARLES B\CON, Esq. deceased. At the final
close of the ballot the numbers were—
Mr. Sibley 2O Mr. Wyatt
Robinson
Ogle
Wilson
Rebecca lO

A trite hill was yesterday morning fannd by the
Grand Jury of Middlesex against Henry Hunt, for
an assault 'won Mr. Dowling.
We wish to call the attention of the inhabi-
tants of this toi,a to the intended inelosure of
Christ College Pieces, as it sometimes occurs that

the rights of tl►e public are too much invaded by
an Inclocure Act. We shall nut enter further into

this subject at preseot, as it will most likely en-
gage the attention of our present Mayor, whose
resistance to an attempted encroachment no the
privileges of the town a few months since are too
strong in our recollection to doubt his taking
measures to prevent the rights of the inhabitants
being sacrificed on the present occasion —(Cam-
bridge Journal, Sept. 10.)
A Gentlemen, noticing the great number of this-
tles on the poor lands in this county, states, that
in Germany they are used as food for horses, fit st
undergoing the process of beingsbraten in a sack
until the prickles are destroyed ; horses will then
devotsr them greedily. The writer states that he
witnessed a few years since the very great and
good effects of this food on a German cavalry re-
glinent in the British service ; the horses of which
were brought from a very poor state into good
• condition its a very short space of time. Thistles,
it is to be observed, have considerable diuretic
effects on horses.—(Solisbury Journal.)
We experience teal satisfliction in stating that at
Dudley, Stourbridge, Ste. the iron trade was neve,-
known so brisk as it is at this moment ; the foreign
orders are so great that it is impossible to get
through them with sufficient celerity; we may also
acid that the pipes and other apparatus connected
with Gas Works give employment to a vast num-
ber of hands.—The Nail Trade is also so brisk;
that the Masters at Dudley and Srourbridge have
recently been able to raise the wages of their
workmen. 'l'o a feeling and patriotic mind no-
thing can be more gratifying than to observe the
contrast which the above districts present when
the Antonin of 1816 is compared with the pre-
sent time—at the former period all was distress
and dismay, at the present, all is industry and
opulence.
Ott Wednesday morning a Gentleman of the
name of Johnson, residing; in Greek•street, Soho,
called to ray a short visit to a friend in Lisson-
street, New-road. During his stay he fastened
his horse by the bridle on the rail before the par-
lour window, when although it was only seven
o'clock, and the eye nt the master was almost
constantly kept on his horse, yet in this situation
some person or persons contrived to steal the
saddle, with which they got clear off.

One day last week Henry Henty, of Hurstper-
point, (lied suddenly—he went to bed the pre-
ceding night in perfect health, and in full expec-
tation of going to a harvest supper on the next
evening. His wife arose about five o'clock in the
morning, and left hint in bed, playing with his
children, and about half an hour afterwards called
hint to route down stairs, but receiving no an.wer
she went up, when the fonnd him- speechless,
and in less than halt an hour afterwaids he was
corpse.

ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning,
about half•past eight o'clock, a •middle-aged wo-
man, apparently in great distress, was observed
walking by the side of the river near Battersea-
bridge, and as her behaviour was such as to excite
suspicion of her intention, she was wa cited. In
a short time, thinking herself perfectly clear from
observation, she threw herself in from the side of
a barge. A Gentleman immediately went ih, and
succeeded in getting her out before she had been
it► the water time enon,,h to sink. The unfoi
nate creature, repenting of her rash attempt, told
her preserver, that she was a native of Oxford
shire, and had come to town with hopes of get-
ting employment, but tailing in her expectations,
and reduced nearly to starvation, she had de..ter-
mined on d: stroying herself, when his humanity
prevented her.

IRELAND.

LOUD TALUOI"S fOrR.

DI7BLVs:', SEPT. 7—V e,teurhiy vven:ng, says
The Cork Southe,.n Reporter of Thursday, his Ex-
cellency the Lora Lientenatit and suite, arrived at
Killu:'ney. Ile was received by
the Grenailier Company of the It,gtment,
and the Rind of the Kerry atni.fst crowds
~fipectators. The [O,, n was brilliantly illumi-
nated, and fill: the fashionable families in the
neighhourhoo,:, and the strangers in the town,
prottien,oied the street outside the 1-101v1. ilic
Excellency was to have visited the Lakes this
morning, and would not leave Killarney tut a few
days, when he would proceed to Cori:.