Star.
London, England, 1827-12-24 00:00:00

Wheat, English quarters 3,355
Do. Foreign
Do. Irish
Barley, British
Malt, British
Oats

7,099
937
876
3,591

1,090 (,American do. barrel*
SMITHFIELD MARKET. Das. 24.
Beef may be quoted 2d. per stone under Friday's prices, the best
Oxen not exceeding Si. td. Crl stone. Mutton has undergone a
similar decline, the best Downs not reaching higher than 4*. 10d.
per stone. Veal maintains the price of last market day, with a
firm appearance. In the Pork trade there .is no variation worth
noticing.—Beasts, 1,559; Sheep, 14,890; Pigs, 130; Calves, 70.
Beef, per stone, 4s. 6d. to Ss. 2d. Mutton, 4s. 64. to 41. 10d.
Veal, Ss. 8d to 6s. 6d. Perk, Ss. 4d. to 6s. 4d.—Hay, per load,
AD 7s. ad. to .64 111.44. Clover, £64 to .611 10$. 431 ea.
to al lit.

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L/VERPOOL, Dec. 22.
COTIVN.—The import this week is 11,252 bags, but the sales do
not exceed 7,950 bags, at a slight decline on American descriptions.
It is supposed speculators have taken one-third of the quantity sold.
—Advice+ from New York, of Ist December, quote prices of Up-
lands 9 to 11, and Premium of Exchange 111, lacing the same as the
quotations of 14th November.
Suns a, tcc.—There has been an extensive demand for Sugar, the
refiners haviig come freely intp the market, mad 1,66 u Mids. have
!wen disposed of, but prices are rather lower. Nothing Ins been
done in Mebsses; 130 casks Coffee have been wild at, in acme in.
stances, lower rates. There have been no transactions in Cocoa,
Ginger, or Pimento.
Paoustovx—So little basin's, has been done daring the week in -
either Butter or Provisioas.that it is difficult to quote prices correctly

A few days since, to Tea* a man named Hera, 11.
joiner, being employed by the Rev. S. Lane, to remove-,
a mantel-piece, in a house lately °cat pied by his sister,
di.covered a bag, containing four hundred guineas,
which had been concealed behind the woodwork. He
immediately carried the whole contents of the bag to
the owner of the house,-Exeter Flying Post. .
An inquest was holden on Saturday evening at the
Three Compasses Rosemary Line, on the body 9f W.
Cleary, an Irish labourer, whose . death wasoccasiOned
by his drinking a large ,quantity of full strength spirits
out of a cask, on one of the wharfs where h was at
work. Verdict—Died from excecsiie intoxication.
Saturday morning, as early as half part :even, o'clrick,
a number of persons assembled on Waterloo Bridge, to
witne,s a young man, a compositor, perforrit the fol-
lowing difficut undertaking:—One hundred stones were
placed one yard from each other, and the runner was
to start from the first stone, put one at a time into, a
basket, stationed at the place of starting, and proceed
on in the same manner till the whole were picked up.
The distance to be run, before the undertaking can be
accomplished, is five miles and three quartets, all bat
twenty yards, and the time allowed was..one. hour.
Owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, the
stones were placed on the pavement on the west side of.
the bridge, and the runner accomplished his task in 54
is.
minutes, comparatively easy.. ,
At one of the Holland HotisiSunday dinner parties,
a year or two age, Crockford'i Club, then formin - was
talked of; and the noble hostess observed, tha. fes
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male passions for diamonds was surely less ruin ail
the rage for play among men. "In short, you think,"
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said Mr. Rogers, " that dubs are worse than diaminsilt_
This joke excited a laugh, and when it had subs'
Sydney Smith wrote the following impromptu sellllol4
—most appropriately ox a card—
"Thovintiess that tt all that's brightest fades," . -
Unmindful of that grieve of %poles,
The Sexton and his Subs ;
How foolishly we play our parts !
Our wises on diamond set their hearts,
We set our hearts on club!
GIIETNA-GFERN MARRIAGES IN Faawca.....Tl4
Cour R.yal of Paris has been for some days engages!
in considering the validity of a marriage, which had
taken place at Gretna•green in 1821, between a French
officer and a young widow. This Lady seems. to have
had no other object in view than to preserve the enjoy-
ment of an income of 100,000 francs per annum, be-
longing to her son
.14 OA time a minor. Of this she
would be deprived wren before her son attained the age
of 18, if the second were -annutted:—The . Court pro-
nounced the marriage null sad void for want of a
previous publication at the. place of their abode. It
decided that the words " provided that," inserted in the
170th art. of the Cede Civik; made the publication a
condition essential to the validity of marriage ow .
("acted by Frenchmen in a foreign country.