The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-06 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 15s to £5 8s ; clover,
£4 lOs to £6 lOs Od; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load.
A fair demand. _ _

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CUMRERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 103; clover,
£4 10s to £6 10s Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 148 per load.
Trade steady.
WHITECHAPEL—Meadow hay, £3 15s to £5 8s ; clover,
£4 15s to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load.
Supply only moderate.

CAPTAIN SPEKE'S LAST LETTER.—The following
is a copy of an unfinished letter which was found among
the gallant and lamented gentleman's papers, and which,
it is believed, contains the last words he ever wrote :
" Neston Park, Comtism, Sept. 14.—Dear Mr Tinne,-1
have been delighted by seeing the way in which you have been
handling the Nile question in the Times of the 12th. The
ladies' accounts of the way they were treated by those
ruffians up there is a perfect picture, as far as it goes, of
the true state of the system practised in those lands. There
is one other reason not alluded to which must have ope-
rated to thwart the ladies' designs—viz., the jealousy the
traders are so susceptible to of any one prying into the
nature of the country they have appropriated to them-
selves. Pray do keep working this subject, for no one can
do it better than yourself. No doubt, indeed, a consul is
much wanted in the Soudan; but then he should not be
trader, for no one can trade honestly in those regions.
have great fears about the fate of Baker. He ordered
Petherick to piece a boat for him at Gondokoro this and
last year, The boat was there, and the mon with whom
Baker went into the interior must have returned to that
port, else we could not have hoard of Baker's having gene
to Unyoro. This being necessarily the case, how it that
Baker did not send a line by them to is i
Petherick, unless
some foul play can answer the question ? For the love of
those you have lost, do bring retribution on the miscreants
who occasioned it. There is no richer land in the world than
the equatorial regions, and nothing more of importance to
the interesis of Egypt, as well as our own merchants, than
that of openinu up those lands to legitimate commerce."
COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A SERVANT GIRL.
At about a quarter-past 12 on Sunday morning last a bur-
glarious entrance was effected at the house of Mr Edward
Wood, of Oakham. Mr Wood, who is in business in Dud-
ley, was staying at his business residence, and the house was
left with only a servant girl and a younger son of the pro-
prietor. At the time abovementioned the girl, whose name
is Hannah Langstone, was aroused by hearing a noise in the
house. She at once got up and went down stairs, and found
a man in the back kitchen with a side of bacon on his
shoulders. She immediately caught hold of the bacon and
took it from him and commenced calling for aid. The
burglar attacked her, and while struggling with him,
kicked her violently tea the right thigh, which is bruised
and blackened severely. He ultimately made his escape
through the kitchen window, which he had forced in obtain-
ing an entrance. The girl endeavoured to prevent his
escape, but the man overpowered her and got away, without
however taking any spoil. As soon as possible an alarm
was raised and several neighbours came to the spot, but the
man had succeeded in getting beyond pursuit. Besides the
flitch of bacon. a ham was found cut ready for carrying
away. Detective-sergeant Davies, cf the Dudley force,
was called in, and his opinion is that the forcing of the
window is not the work of a " regular hand." The girl
is seriously but not dangerously hurt. Her courageous
behaviour is a general topic of comment in the town, and
we understand it is the intention of her employer to re-
ward her handsomely for plucky conduot.—Birmingham
Gazette.
At the Clerkenwell police-court yesterday a gerok
tleman named Lloyd was charged with having got
out of a train in motion on the Metropolitan Railway. The
affair took place on the 10th of September. Mr Lloyd
wanted to get out at King's Cross, but failed to do so before
the door of the carriage in which he was riding was shut
and the train in motion. He then opened the door and in-
sisted on getting out. The result was that he fell on to the
line a little within the tunnel and was taken up for dead.
Fortunately, however, he was only insensible, but was very
seriously hurt. The magistrate yesterday fined him is. and
costs, but the railway company declined to receive the costs.
At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday a police
constable named Gully was charged with assaulting
a married woman named Gompertz. According to the
statement for the prosecution Gully had behaved in a very
coarse and brutal manner to Mrs Gompertz. It was allegtd
for the prisoner, on the other hand, that ho had found her
making a great row, and had taken her into custody, and
that the charge against him was an afterthought. The
jury
unlit not agree upon a verdict, and were discharged.
DEATH OF THE FIRST NUTMEG PLANTER IN
GRENADA.—Mr. Robert Kennedy, native of
Perthshire, Scotland, who emigrated to Grenada in 1804,
and subsequently introduced the nutmeg into that colony,
expired in August last at the ripe age of 83. The nutmegs
sent from the deceased gentleman's gardens at Bellevue
carried the prize at the Great Exhibition of 1851. His
grays lies between those of his wife and daughter,
shadowed by the wide-spreading branches of his first-
planted nutmeg tree, in the midst of his plantations, where
he had himself directed it should be.-2 lie Grocer.