The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-16 00:00:00

TLIA.MES,

DANGER ON THE ROAD.—James Wilks, a tall, elderly
man, was brought before Mr Paget charged with being
drunk while in charge of a waggon and four horses in the
Bow-road, yesterday afternoon.
The case was clearly made out against the prisoner.

Police-constable 301 K said the prisoner was seated on
the box of the waggon. The reins of the horses were
thrown on one side, and the animals were proceeding
slowly along the road towards Essex. The prisoner, who
was very drunk, w s quite incapable of managing the
horses. They were without any control at all,
The prisoner said he was very sorry for being in the
state in which he was discovered. Ho had drunk a little
too much. As to the horses, they could take care of
themselves. He drove wichmt reins yesterday.
Mr Paget—Then there was great danger to passengers
crossing the road ?
The Prisoner—There was no fear of that.

Mr Paget—There was great danger. If any woman or
child had been crossing the road the horses would have gone
over them. There was no check.

The prisoner said his duties were very heavy. He was
on duty 25 hours, from 9 o'clock one night until II the
next, taking animal charcoal between Irish-row, East Ham,
and the sugar baker's in Whitechapel.
Mr Paget—l consider this a wry serious offence. A
drunken man driving four horses and a heavy waggon along
a public road wit:lout reins, Ycu are fined 20s, and in
dufault 14 days' imprisonment.

IEARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with
home-grown wheat. For selected parcels there was a steady
demand at full prices; otherwise, the trade was dull at
about Monday's currency.
With most descriptions of foreign wheat the market was
well supplied. Generally speaking, sales proceeded slowly
at the rates current on Monday.

Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at previous
quotations.
The market was seasonably well supplied with barley.
Good and fine malting'qualities were in steady request at full
prices, but for inferior produce the demand was very in-
active, at late rates. .

In malt, a very moderate business was transacted, on
former terms.

There was a good supply of oats on the stands. Generally
speaking, the trade was firm, and Monday's prices were
well supported.
Beans met a slow sale, at late rates. For peas, the trade
was quiet, at previous quotations.
In flour, only a moderate business was transacted, at late
prices.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 4lO 120 2,260 600
Irish 760

Foreign 3,760 1,560 11,370 40 sks
brls

BOROUGH HOP.
Our market is very firm, and all descriptions of hops
fully supported precious rates.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade
rules firm, at the annexed rates :
Beef, from 2s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 5s Od ;
veal, 3s 10d to 4s Od; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per Sibs
by the carcase.

THE DANISH WOUNDED.—The committee which
at the outset of the Danish war was formed, under the pre-
sidency of the Marquis cf Clanricarde, to collect funds for
the relief of the sick and wounded of the Danish army,
have just remitted a final sum of £124 15s 6d to the Danish
committee at Copenhagen, roaking a total of nearly £9,200
collected in England, and remittted to Denmark for this
benevolent object. Th e collection of such a sum for the
relief of the wounded of a foreign army is no slight evi-
dence of the sympathy felt in England for the Danes in
their gallant struggle against an overwhelming force.

En !.LAMBERT.—" Mr Lambert will see company
At his house, Number Fifty-three, Piccadilly,next
Albany, nearly opposite St James's Church, from eleven to
five. o'clock. Tickets of admission, One Shilling each." He
was one of the lions of London for a time. His exhibition
room (what a famous place Piccadilly has been for giants,
dwarfs, lean people, and fat people 1) was visited by the
high born as well as by the vulgar ; and he appears to have
been respected as well as looked at, for he was a kind and
sensible man, He was always shocked at the idea of any
personal indignity or insult being cast upon him on the
ground of his bulk by coarse minded parsons; and
this known susceptibility was generally respected. Mr Lam-
bert was healthy in spite of his obesity. Some years earlier,
when he was thrice the weight of an ordinary man, ho could
carry a weight of 500113. During the last fl'teen years of
oh life he drank nothing but water, and was usually cheer-
Cul and good-humoured. His bulk increased year by year,
until, shortly before his death, in 1809, he attained the
unprecedented weight of 739;b• (nearly 53 stones). His
coffin was 76 inches long by 62 inches wide, and con-
ained 112 square feet of elm. The coffin was
regularly built upon axles and wheels ; and not
July the window, but also the side of a room, had to be taken
down, to afford a passage for the bulky man. The wheeled
coffin was drawn to St. Martin's churchyard, where a gra-
dual descent was made to the grave by excavating the
;round. We remember seeing, a few years ago, at a boot-
.eaker's in the City, a pair of shoes, the counterpart of some
which had been made for the weighty Daniel by a former
jroprietor of the shop; they were, as Thomas Hood said of
t stage-coachman's great coat,
Too broad to be conceived by any narrow mind.
Dokens4 " All the Year Round,"