The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-15 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 11 Os to £5 15s; clover,
£5 OA to £6 153 ; and straw, £1 Si to £1 123 per load.
Trade steady.

CUMRERLAND.—Meadow hay, LI to £5 178; clover, £5
lo £6 12s 6d; and straw, 8i to £1 Us per load. A,
fair datnand.

WIIITECHAPEL,—Meadow hay. £1 to £5 15s ; clover; £5
to £6 1.55; and straw; £1 8s to £1 128 per load. Supply
moderate.

COAL MARKET.
Prioce of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.
e. (1.
Holywell 17 9
Eden Main 12 0
Canfield Moor Butes 0
Burns' West Hartley lB 0
Byass's Bebside West
Hartley 20 3
Cowpen Hartley 20 3
Walker Primrose 13 9
Wylam 17 9

Walls End.

6. 0,

Walls End.

Haswell
liarton 19 3
South Kelloe .19 9

Ships at marks

Hartlepool 2O 9
East Hartlepool 20 9
South Hartlopool 20 6
halloo.. ..... .. 2) 0
South Hetton 2 0
Tunstall ..
Heugh Hall 20
Hotton 2l 0
Bchnont . 19 6
Caradoc 2O 9
Byron l9 9
Cassop 10 9

It, 42 ; sold, 42,

"The Psychonomy of the Hand, or the Hind an
an Index of Moral) Intel:ectual, end Social Development,
is the title of a new work promised early by Mr Pitman.

The author, Richard Beamish, Etq., F.R.S., &c., is
favourably known as the compi:er of the " Life of Sir Marc
Isambard Brunel." The " Psychonomy of the nand" is a
development of the system of M. D'Arpentigny, and con-
tains a notice of the chivomancie theory of M. Desbarrolles.
The work is iilustrated by 30 tracings, chi Elly from living
hands of various eadowment, selected from all grades of
society.

ACCIDENTAL HANGING. Yesterday afternoon
Dr Lankester held an inquest at the Vestry-room
of St Thomas's, Chancery-lane, on the body of Job Bart-
lett. an apprentice to a printer, who, by allowing his mind
to dwell constantly on the case of Muller, came to speculate
on the subject of hanging, and, white making some experi-
ments, lost his life through a misadventure. It appeared
from the evidence of several persons who worked in the
printing office of Mr Chipereile, of Chancery-lane, in
which the deceased was employed, that they saw him
about half-past six on Monday evening, and that ho was
found dead at a quarter before seven. Ever since the
murder of Mr Briggs his thoughts had run in that direction,
and often when speaking of the probable fate of Muller he
had said that he should like to be hanged. Edward Ride,
an apprentice, who discovered the deceased hanging, said
the rope which was about his neck was not twisted, and
was only tied by a single knot. His impression, confirmed
by many others in the same office, was that the lad was
playing at hanging, and that, as he was standing on thick
glass let into the floor for the purpose of giving light to
the room below, he might have slipped and become en-
tangled in the rope. He was of a cheerful disposition, and
no one ever supposed him to be serious when he talked
about his desire to be hanged. The rope was placed in the
room for the purpose of pulling up the windows for ven-
tilation. The coroner, in summing up, inclined to the opi-
nion that the lad did not intentionally commit suicide, and
the jury, adopting the same view of the case, returned a
verdict of " Death from misadventure."

TUE LATE SIR GEORGE CORN EWALL LEWIS.—A
beautiful memorial bust of the late SirG. C. Lewis,
which has been modelled by Mr Weeks, the sculptor, under
the direction of Mr Lowe, M.P., and is also a striking like-
ness of the deceased statesman, has just been placed in
Westminster Abbey by a circle cf Sir George's private
friends. It is a beautiful work of art, and the entire coet—
not including the fees of the Dean of Westminster, which
are stated to be very considerable, for appropriating a spaco
for it in our national mausoleum—is 215 guineas. It has
been erected in the westeria porch of the Abbey, and closely
aojoins the monuments of Sir \Vm. Follett, liemble, and
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Eyre Coote, Ice. ;At the bottom of the bust
is a beautiful.equare piece of polished marble, on which the
following inscription is engraved In memory cf the
Right lion. Sir George Cornewall Lewis! Bart,. of Harpton
Court, in the county of Radnor, successively Chancellor of
the Exchequer and Secretary of butte for the Home and
War Departments. In him eminence as a scholar and as an
author, large stores of varied knowledge, employed in the
advantage and instruction of mankind, and an earnest de-
votion to literature, unsullied by intolerance or envy. were
combined with a gentle and beneficent character, steadfast
pursuit of the public good, and the comprehensive wisdom
of a statesman. This bust is erected by many friends to
mark theiratlectionate esteem and admiration, and to record
his honoured name among the lasting dead who lie buried
beneath these walls. Born April 21, 1806. Died April 13,
1363."

Herr von Struve, the Russian astronomer, has
observed that in and around the neighbourhood of Moscow
the pendulum is sensibly diverted from its vertical position.
The inference drawn is, that the town is built on strata of
extraordinary density, or, the contrary, on an enormous
cavern, of 20,000,000 cubic feet in extent. By boring 3,000
feet this cavern is t uppoled to be attainable to the creatures
of the surface.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills Lt
60 days' sight is quoted 278 t 3 2SO per cent., and the pre-
mium on gold 157 to 158 i percent. Uo*.d still Ccut nues to
be imported in very moderate pantities.