The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-05 00:00:00

ANTIQUITIES IN SUFFOLK.

Somo workmen at present employed in digging gravel
on Stow-heath, about five miles north-west from Bury
St. Edmunds, the property of the Rev. E. R. Bcnyon, of
Culford, have within the last few days turned up many
interesting relics of ages long since past. The spot
appears to have beon a Saxon burying-ground, or the
place of sepulchre of an encampment, of which there
are some indications a few hundred yards to the west-
ward. Among other things dug up was a very rudely-
formed stone coffin, five feet eight inches in length in-
side. There was no lid to it, and it lay about fifteen
inches under the surface; it contained a few bones ,
several beads of various forms and material, a bronze
clasp, several pieces of corroded iron, possibly the re-
mains of some sort of defensive armour. Oa the left side
of the coffin lay the blade of a spear about eighteen inches
long, and some portion of the wood shaft could be per-
ceivd in the socket ; also the iron centre part of a
shield, about eight inches diameter ; the surround-
doubtless been composed of less
dilfrabileartmahtearviianlg, had entirely disappeared. A great
many graves have been discovered near the same spot,
but no other coffin as yet. The men work in a trench
running north and south, and the bodie s having been
ony thea dark
left
deposited east and west, as the work ptocceds the
streak in the yellow coloured gravel or sand, in which
sites of the graves are meroefly indicated by b
and
is si
de generallythe
corroded foun a
d remains
of a
spear bl No remains
of a sword have been found. Most of the gravesalso
contain urns, composed of dried or burnt clay; they
vary in size from
six to ten or twelve inches diameter;
some of them are inastat? of preservation. In one grave
I picked up several teeth in excellent preservation (pro-
tected, I bysuppose, the enamel), although the skull and
other bones had crumbled to duet.

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gave its last but one soiree of the winter season to
n overcrowded
.but elegant company. The musical pro-
gramme, as usual, was most excellent ; the first part opened
with Beethoven'sc Sonata for violin and piano, most exqui-
aicaini
sitely performed by those very accomplished artists Madame
and Herr GJffrie, followed by excellent songs sung by Miss
IVlagner and Herr Brickman, and a solo on the piano by Mr.
Kloss. • After this, Henry
Leslie's splendid quintett for
piano and wind instruments, was most masterly executed, with
great
,fidelity and precision, by Messrs. Waley, Pollock,
Baeae, Harper, and Snelling. Madame Lemair, with her
usual vivacity and melodious voice, gave a beautiful song
from Erizani, " In Volami," which was most enthusiastically
encored, and which finished the first part. The second part
consisted of songs: and:solos. Mr. Allen Irving, (from the
Conservatoir of Paris,) with a well trained and very , a
w
melo-
dious voice, delighted us with Donizetti's " Roalanztit,
well Miss Mary Rose with an English ballad, h
ici was
Young
beautifully sung and much applauded.
in an Italian song, Mr. Harper on the heMrni,ssM Brl:dtch Wusterman
on the flute ;Mr. Snelling on the bassoon, and Messrs. Gollmick
and Rummell were well received and app
lauded by the whole
finished, as usual, with great
company, and the evening
éclat at a very late hour.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN A CHURCH.—On Thursday
roof of a new church, been erected in
which has
_ieli
tile City-road,e
afternoon, as four men were pointing the slates under the
awheight ofy32wfeeerte at
Manchester, the scaffoldingfroolini h
gave way, and they fell
than badlyupon • d
were so bruise
floor of the edifice. Three of .
to makethem in-patients of the Royal
that it was necessary
Infirmary, and one of them, named Thomas Doyle, a slater,.
wthke
fracture of the skull, and other injuries,
had a compound .
reported at
hope of his recovery, and he was .
which left no
The emi-
to be in state. T
yesterday . a dying . the infirmary
load-
ing to their own want of judgment is
dent was a
beams on
'lig too heavily one of two thin fir horizontal .
two.
'which their scaffold rested, and which snapped
/Ina. Mr.
The church is a new stone edifice, erecting for the
Archer, and is to be dedicated to St. Mark.
gold at Paris
MoNETMARKET.—The quotation of
ar_fr,
i ) which,
is about par ( according to the new
tariff
ounce for
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s.
I°aidi.7 - and the ex-
standard gold, gives an exchange of 2 25.25,; it follows
change at Paris on London at short g
befr in London than
that gold is about 0.32 per cent.
dearer
the price of gold
in Paris. By advices from Hameburg
English Mint price of
is 424 per mark, which, at the
gold, gives an exchange
31. 17s. 100. per ounce for stanadar,_f .
1 ineurgh on London at
of 13.61 ; and the exchange t 1
short being 13.7, it follows that gold is 0.46 per cent.
Ham burgh. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is
1111
the par of exchange between England
and i
Apmerica beer cent., and ting 10i, ,2 „3.40 per cent., it follows that the
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cent. .
nominally o.Oi per in favour of England ;
exchange is allowance for difference of interest and
1 and, after making t
0 the present rate leaves a small profit on
charges of transport, r
from the United States.
; I the importation o gold .
L The D of Cambridge, who is still in a
Duchess. , ...E-
r'll shortly return to this country, when the Royal
0 many, will r her domestic
1 DCileS3 Will loan hment at Kew and
St. James's..
DauxteG THE POLICE.—The s:rgeants and men
of the police force doing duty at the dockyard, Royal
Arsenal, and in the town aiid vicinity of Woolwich, includ-
ing shooter's-hill, were drilled yesterday for one hour on
: the Dockyard Battalion Parade-ground, and they are to as-
' semble three times in each week for the same purpose, until
further orders. The police appear a remarkably fine body
of men, quick in learning the infantry manceuvres, in which
they are receiving a course of instruction.
1 A SMALL SHOT.—If the "calibre" of the British
Army is no better than its muskets, the sooner both are dis-
charged the better.— Punch.
M. Mazzini is about to deliver a lecture "on the
Italian question, with special reference to the condition of
Europe and the position of this country at the present
i time."