The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-26 00:00:00

97 prisoners.

The Recorder in his charge to the grand jury congra-
tulated them upon the fact that the calendar was not
greater than usual in number, and that the charges
contained in it were not of so serious a character as they
were at some of the other eessions Qf the court. Their
duties, therefore, would net be of vary long duration ;
and he reminded them that nearly the whole of the cases
that would be brought before them had previously been
investigated by magistrates of great experience and legal
knowledge, and it would therefore be unnecessary for
them to go into a minute inquiry or investigation of the
evidence; but if a prima facie case were made out I
against the parties accused, it would be quite sufficient
to justify them in finding true bills. He said there were
very few cases to which he con.-idered it necessary to
direct their attention as involving any difficulties in
point of law. One of these was a charge of
manslaughter against two boatmen, which was of a
very peculiar character. It sppeared that the cries of a
woman were heard by the police under a tunnel upon
the Regent's canal. It was quite dark, and they had no
means of seeing what occurred; but it appeared that the
persons accused, who were in a boat upon the canal,
were asked to assist, and they lashed the body of the
woman to the stern of the boat and towed her through
the tunnel, and when she was taken out she was found
to be dead. The surgeon seemed to be of opinion that
at the time the rope was attached to the body life was
not extinct ; and, if this were tte case, and the prisoners
by their reckless and ignorant conduct had accelerated
the death, they would then ba amenable to the
charge made against them. Tic grand jury, however,
must be satisfied that the woman was alive at the
time the rope was attached to her before they could find
the bill, and ho could not he!p expressing his opinion
that the evidence upon this point was very slight. His
lordship said the only reinainilg case to which he con-
sidered it necessary to allude as one also of a peculiar
character, in which a clergyman, Dr. Vaughan, a gen-
tleman of high standing and Eosition, and who he be-
lieved was the vicar of :parish in the neighbourhood of
the metropolis, was charged with having made a false
entry in the register of that pirish. The offence was
enacted felony by an Act of Parliament of the Ist Wil-
liam IV. cap. 66, and which directed that certain
punishments should be inflicted upon conviction.
Tile circumstances did not wear to be very clearly
stated in the depositions, but from what he was able to
collect, it appeared that in this() instances where per-
sons had died without the district over which this rev.
gentleman had control application had been made to
him to allow the burials to take place in the burial ground
of his parish. -He was not bound to consent to such an
application, but it appeared that he did so upon condi-
tion that double fees were paid. The offence imputed to
him, under these circumstances, vas that in all these cases
he had caused false entries of the residence of the parties to
be inserted in the parish register, thereby
.making it to
appear that the death took place within the district and
not without it. It was difficult to imagine a motive for
such a proceeding, or that a gentleman in the position
of Dr. Vaughan should have been actuated by a desire
to retain the paltry additional amount to which he would
be entitled, but the act of Parlament did not require
any proof of motive or of object, and if the facts were
proved it would be their duty to return a true bill, and
if there were any answer to the charge that could only
be inquired into by the petty jury.
The grand jury then retired.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARYLEBONE.

ALLEGED PARENTAL INRIIMANITY.--A man and his
wife of the name of Mann, living at No. 2, Little Brook-
street, Hampstead-road, were brought before Mr.
Broughton on a charge preferred by Mr. Birchmore,
relieving officer of the parish of St. Pancras, of cruelly
neglecting their child, Wm. Mans, aged 9 years.
Mr. Birchmore having stated that he had brought
the case forward in consequence of the child having been
taken to the workhouse in a deplorable condition, and
of the complaint of the inhabitants, produced witnesses
in support of his statement.
A female named Lloyd, residing in the same house,
said that on Saturday morning she went into the back-
saw a tub, which is the dog-kennel, in
yard, where she
motion. She went to it, when she saw the prisoner's
son crouched up lying by the side of the dog, which is
as big as the poor boy. He was shivering, when she
put a covering on him. On Sunday morning, a little
after 12 o'clock, she again saw him there, when she
gave him a piece of bread and cheese. On the same
(Sunday) morning, about 8 o'clock, he was still there,
when she gave him a cup of coffee. She further stated
that the child was often provided with food by several
of the neighbours.
Mr. Birchmore said that he could bring forward other
witnesses. _

The father said that his son was a very incorrigible
youth, would not go to school and was a thief, and Mrs.
Mann, who was his second wife, made a similar state-
ment. _

S 328, who took the prismer into custody, stated
that when he apprehended the male prisoner he was
hissed by the neighbours.
Mr. Birchmore said that he felt it his duty to bring
the case before the magistrate, as it bad excited a great
sensation in the neighbourhood, and that he should di-
rect one of his officers to visit the home frequently.
Mr. Broughton observed that there was not a case
sufficiently strong to sustain an indictment, when the
prisoners wore admonished and discharged.

For the time of year, the imports of foreign stock into
London last week were tolerably good, the total supply
amounting to 5,032 head. In the corresponding week in
1851 wo received 5,148 ; in 1853, 9,018 ; in 1852, 5,135;
in 1851, 7,095 ; in 1850, 3,903 ; in 1849, 5,743 ; and in
1848, 2,321 head.
IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST VMS.

Sheep.

Lambs. Calves. Pigs

From RN-Ista.
Tonningen 261 --2:
Medemblik 63 ... 1,643
Nieu Diep 76 ... 120
Bremen , 205
itotterdam 129
Hamburgh „ 80
Antwerp -
Dordt lB

, . -

- ... - ... -
639 ... - ... 212

- ... 81 ... -

Calais —
Harlingen
Brake l2t)

23 ... 18

T0ta1....1,164 3,521 ... 329 ... 18
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1854 1,325 3,513 ... 300 2
1853 1,859 6,413 ... 519 157
1852 1,063 4,604 421 42
1851 1,149 „, 5,493 358 96
1850 856 2,496 407 133
1549 907 ... 4,525 ... 235 ... 76
The arrivals of stock from Ireland last week, direct by
sea, wore 43 beasts and 125 pigs.

Our letters from Holland state that the demand for
stock on French account has become less active. Prices,
however, rule very high.

The show of Irish stock this morning was composed of
400 beasts ant 1,403 sheep, ull in good condition. With
foreign stock we were but moderately supplied.
Fresh up from our own grazing districts the at rivals of
beasts were limited, but in somewhat improved condition,
All breeds sold briskly, at an adTance in the quotations
realised on Monday last of fully 2d per Sibs., and a clear-
ance was effected. The priinest Scots sold at 5s 2d per 81bs.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire we received 1,500 short horns; from other parts of
England 400 of various breeds; and from Scotland 80
Scots, chiefly polled.

There was a very limited supply of sheep in tho market,
and at least a moiety of it was in poor condition. The
mutton trade was active, at an improvement in value of
2d per 81bs. The best Downs were worth quite 5s 2d per
Sibs.

Although the supply of calves was limited the veal trade
ruled heavy, at Friday's decline in value of from 6d to 81
per 81bs. The highest quotation was 4s 8d per Blbs.
There was a moderate demand for pigs, and prices wore
well supported.
Per Sibs to sink the offal&
s. d. s. d.
Inferior Beasta....3 Bto 3 10
second quality.... 4 0 4 4
Prime largo oxen 4 6 4 10
Primo Scots, drc. 5 0 5 2
Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8
3econd quality ...3 10 4 4,
?rime erse.-wlled.4 6 4
TOTAL SUPPLY.

5. d. 8 d.
;PrimeSonthdown 4 10 - 5 2
[Large ors°. calves 3 6 4 0
Prime small do 4 P. 4 8
Large hogs
Sluall porkers
Suckling calves 24 0 30 0
IQuarter old pigs 22 0 28 0
1 FOASICiII SUPPLY.

.3eaats .................. 4,614 j 8ea5t5•......• ........ • . 1,332
iheep .•..•..—.. .. .. .. ..21,920 Sheep .. •••••... • . .. .. .. 3,200
valves ..........•• .• •i ... 193 Calves...• .. •...........•. 161
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on
Monday, Nov. 27, 1851, and in the Metropolitan Market
this day, Monday, Nov. 25, 1855.
Per Sibs, to sink the ofrals.
Nov. S 7, 1854

INov. 26,'55.

,
s. d. s. d. I,s. d. s. d
Coarse and inferior beasts 3 Bto 3 10;3 Bto 3 10
3acoud quality ditto 4 0 4 44 0 4 4
Prime large oxen
... ............4 6 4 1011 6 410
Prime Scots, ite 5 0 5 2i5 0 5 2
Coarse and inferior sheep
... 3 8 3 1013 6 3 8
siecond quality ditto 4 0 4 23 10 4 4
Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 4 4 814 6 4 8
Prime Southdown ditto
.. 410 5 04 10 5 2
Lambs „ 0 0 0 o'o 0 0 0
,
Large coarse calves 4 2 5 013 6 4 0
Prime small ditto ... 5 2 5 614 2 4 8
Large hogs
„, „. 3 4 4 6113 1$ 4 4
.„neat small porkers •
~ 4 8 5 0 4 6 5 0
Beasts_
,„ 4,614
Sheep
~„
,„ 27,210 21,920
Calves...
„,
,„
„, 152 199
Pigs ... „, 310
Surrmss SAL; Nov. 28, 1853.—Beasts, 4,343; sheet,
25,350; calves, 272; pigs, 210.
November 29,1852.—8ea5t5, 5,273; sheep, 25,539; calves,
233 ; pigs, 260.

NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL.
Large supplies of country-killed meat have arrived up
to these markets since Monday last. To-day the show of
meat slaughtered in the metropolis is but moderate. Ge-
nerally speaking the trade is inactive at our quotations.

Per Blbs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d.
Beef, interior 3 2 3 6
Do., middling 3 8 310 I
Do. prime large 4 0 4 2
De., do. small 4 4 4 6 }
Fork, largo 310 4 4

Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6
Do., middling 3 8 4 0
Do., prime 4 2 4 6
Veal 3 6 4 8
Pork, small 4 6 5 4
•

BOROUGH HOP.
The high duty has had the effect of producing consider-
able heaviness in our market. The business doing in all
kinds of hops is limited, yet we have very little change to
notice in prices. The imports last week were 61 bales from
Rotterdam and 161 from Hamburg. Mid and East Kent
pockets, 80s to 1208 par cwt ; Weald of Kent, 70s to 955;
Sussex, 65s to 90s.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
Large supplies of potatoes arrived up to these markets
last week, coastwise and by railway. Those from Scotland
were in very inferior condition. The imports from abroad
were trifling, viz., 38 packages from Rotterdam, 6 bags
from Guernsey, 2 hampers from Amsterdam, together with
3 bags from Ireland. W. have a slow trade, as follows :
York Regents, 10.1 s to 110 s; Scotch do., 90s to 1008 ;
inferior kinds, 65s to 70s ; Lincolns, 80s to 90s ; Essex and
Blues, 80s to 98s; Shaws, 75s to 95s per ton.

Household Words Almanac.
Everything Charles Dickens has adventured upon
in connection with his popular weekly print of
Household Words has succeeded, up to this time,
to admiration. As a periodical, Household Words
itself has acquired, and, let us add, most deservedly
acquired, a very high reputation. Insomuch that
its circulation from the outset has been what the
Dominie in " Guy Mannering" would have defined
as Pro-digious ! Nearly twelve volumes are already
ranged in goodly order upon the bookshelves of
many a household not possessing anything at all
entitled to the dignity of being defined as a library :
and yet collecting together in numbers from week
to week, in parts from month to month, in volumes
from half-year tohalf-year a workrepletefor the most
part in a remarkable degree with valuable instruc-
tion and delightful entertainment. Then, again,
the earliest offshoot of the original publication, the
Household Narrative of current events, is pretty
generally recognised by this time, we conjecture,
as about the most succinct, and well-digested, and
scrupulously authenticated epitome of passing
occurrences offered as yet to the public at large as
the periodical accumulation of the materials of con-
temporary history. Christmas after Christmas,
too, have we not had, in the form of an ample
threepenny supplement, such a batch of seasonable
stories fsr the winter fireside as sounded no less
pleasantly in the ears of young and old than the
crackling of a yule log, or the bubbling of a was-
sail-bowl, or the sputtering of roasting cliesnuts,
or the wild sough of the night wind thing the
sleet against the window-panes owtside and rum-
bling with a reminder of in-door comfort down the
throttle of the broad old chimney. Finally, we
have before us, in connection with Household
Words, another perfectly novel enterprise in its
way—a sort of model Almanac for the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, being "Leap
Year," as all the young ladies in the land should
take particular attention to remember ! House-
hold Words Almanac it is called—though it might
for that matter have been designated with perfect
accuracy the very Almanac of Almanacs. Four-
pence is the price of it. Twenty-seven pages com-
prise the whole store of its motley and manifold
information. Its motto is reverently—"O ye
nights and days, bless ye the Lord : Praise him
and magnify him for ever !" It has a calendar as a
matter of course for each month in due sequence—
but a calendar relating to nature instead of to
society. A calendar that tells off like beads upon a
rosary the memorable and noteworthy events of bo-
tany and ornithology—reminding us of the day, for
instance, when the leaves of the Goat's Leaf Honey-
suckle first opens, or that again upon which the
song of the missel thrush becomes first audible.
Besides which there are estimable notes prefixed
to each quarter. Hear how these are written, for
example, in illustration of the winter, and not only
of the winter, but of the solar system, and not
only of that, but of the stupendous and compli-
cated mechanism of the heavens. Firstly, there-
fore, baving remarked that " the length of day is
determined by both movements of the earth," and

that " out of-the varying proportion between day
and night arise the seasons"--the Almanac ob-
serves :---

"The earth runs, in three hundred and sixty-five
days and about a quarter, through a circle, in the centre
of which stands the sun, and while so doing it turns
round upon itself once in every twenty-four hours—
every day. These are its two movements. The three
hundred and sixty-five days and about a quarter make
of course the year, but the quarters of days are not
counted until they make one complete. Thus, with ex-
ceptions afterwards to be explained, a day comes to be
added (in February) to every fourth year, which is called
a Leap Year. This year 1856 is a Leap Year."
Adding immediately afterwards :
"The Moon is the earth's partner in the waltz about
the sun, and whirls between 12 and 13 times in a circle
round us—making so many lunar months—while the
great circuit of the earth through its whole orbit is being
made. Twenty-nine days, twelve hours, and forty-four
minutes is the true period of every such revolution.
The division of the year into months is of the Moon's
suggesting, but an artificial means of dividing it into
twelve months of unequal length has been found most
convenient. A rude division of the lunar month into
four quarters gave, probably, to most nations, the week
of seven days. Sometimes in the course of the waltz,
the moon happens to come more or less between some
part of her partner and the central light. There is then,
for that of the earth, a partial eclipse of the sun. Some-
times the earth gets between sun and moon, throwing
upon the moon her shadow more or less. There is then
a total or a partial eclipse of the moon. In this year
1E56 only one eclipse is visible in England, and that a
partial but considerable eclipse of the moon, MhiCh will
happen on the 13th of October.
Remarking in conclusion :

" The earth on which we live is one of a small num-
ber of stars, the rest of which we know by sight as
planets, which at different distances and rates travel as
we do in a circle round the sun. The San is a solid
body, distant from the earth ninety-five millions of wiles,
and is to in size as a globe two feet thick is to a pea.
The sunlight proceeds from an atmosphere which hides
the substance of tho sun itatlf, though waves in it pro-
duce breaks that are seen as shifting spots, sometimes in
fact forty-five thousand miles across and varying a thou-
sand miles a day. The sun is a fixed star routing o❑ it-
siir. Of the side of the moon which is turned always
to wards us, how much we see depends upon tla3 part of
it that lies at any time in sunshine. Its sunlight is one
moT,nlight. It contains lofty volcanoes, but no air or
aater. Except the few planets of our system all the
stars we see are suns ; with unseen planets like our own,
no doubt enlightened by them. And the suns, also, lie
in groups. Of such groups we see almost infinitely dis-
tant as faint cloudlets of light. But in our own firma-
ment the stars visible to us all are only those of our own
cloudlet. This cloudlet is proportioned like a dish, and we
are stationed in about the middle of its thickness. When,
therefore, we look through it edgewise it seems to us
like a band cr3wded with stars, and. it is called by us
the milky way. Of these stars many are so distant that
the light, which travels from them at the rate of

11,526,004 miles a minute, takes three or four years to
reach us."

In addition to which departments of the alma.
nac, astronomical and otherwise, there are others
of a more miscellaneous character not yet particu-
larised. There is a very useful one under the head
of " Serviceable Information," giving hints in re-
gard to " The Care of Health," in reference to
" The Choice of Food," in allusion to " Sleep,"
in the matter of "Exercise," together with sug-
gestions as to " The Rearing of Children," as to
" Unhealthiness in Trades," as to " Sick-room
Duties," as to "Air, Water, and Light," as to Do-
mestic Medicine," and "Domestic Surgery"—in fact
"wrinkles" de omnibus rebus, including a list, ines-
timable in its way, of " Counterpoisons." There
is another division of the Almanac, entitled
" Chronicle of Progress"—wonderfully suggestive
of its kind—supplemented by a series of curious
anecdotes, headed " A Hindred Years Ago."
Finally, there are, to crown all, tables, postal and
monetary, upon the subject of income or wages,
explanatory of the duration of daylight, of the
value of foreign coins as compared with the
English metallic money now in circulation, et
cetera, et cetera ! The whole is an astonishing re-
pertory of facts and figures that would have been
dear to the heart of Thomas Gradgrind. The
Almanac will be acceptable, however, to others
of a very different genus, to those numerous
readers of Household Words, who may be pre-
sumed to love not merely these worldly stores of
facts and figures, but with them and through them
the glory of the awful universe.

One _Hundred _Hymns : For Ragged Schools. Se-
lected by a Superintendent. Second Edition.
W. H. Miller.

Beyond all doubt the very best selection of
cc Hymns" as yet brought (to our knowledge).eeaeing
with-
in reach of the numerous and happily increasing
class of our Ragged School Teachersb.en
either
the generality of Hymn Books Hitherto
too childish, too expensive, or toohave
before us is a
voluminous. To
all this the little pocket volume
It is, all
most welcome and decided
exception.cheap as cheap can be—
things considered,
as "twelvec-- shillings" a bun-
twopence each copy, or .
admirably well com-
pacted It is, besides this, as
by a grain or two half
pacted as scarcely to. extend
an ounce in weight, its diminutive size admitting
exactly nevertheless of
tire, a centenary of hymns, afford-
ing
consequently, ample choice
enough oven, to
we may
theconjecture,
most fastidious. Added to which
the contents
arein every way so ingeniously adapted
to the Ragged -
s ohools as they are, that every verse
in the kook may be sung with equal fitness by
little children of five and sir, and by elder boys
and
girls of fifteen or sixteen. We are not aware
dn—Vlre being any other work precisely of this
character. It seems to us altogether without any
competitor. We are not at all surprised, there-
fore, to findit already in a second edition—and
shall be right !glad to witness its advance very
rapidly to the honours of a twenty-second
edition. For the little volume appears to us
to be altogether so good, so cheap, so wisely
adapted to its modest but lofty purpose, and BO
eminently ealeulated to sow germs of beauty and
truth in the minds of our poor, ragged, ignorant
children-from-the-streets, that we cannot but re-
joice at least over the mere thought of its multi-
plications before long by thousands and thousands.
A hundred hymns selected from sacred-song-
writers writers as famous and as popular as Watts,
Wesley, and Taylor, and Cowper, mightol children
hailed as a prize for our ragged school
expenditurec
ho
well be
worth winning for them by the
of considerably more than a few halfpence.
Yet at such a merely
m
no inal cost may
this charming little hymnbook be placed in
the . hands of many and many a poor