BALLAD SINGING IN THE STREETS ------- To the Editor of the Sheffield Independent SIR.- I would wish through the medium of your inte- resting journal, to call the attention of our town officers to a very common nuisance, regularly practised at the top of Bower spring, two or more evenings in the week. It is that of ballad singing, -- a nuisance which abounds more especially on Saturday night, when the thoughts of shop- keepers are or ought to be otherwise employed, than in being forced to hear lewd songs continually rung in their ears. Trusting this will speedily be put a stop to, I remain, Sir, &c. A SHOPKEEPER Sheffield Dec 5 1833