The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-24 00:00:00

HAMBURG MARKETS.
GRAIN.

Wheat, Marks 414 to 5.2
Mecklenburg 414 to s'o
Magdeburg
------ Eider 416 to 486
Anhalt, white 456 to 523
red 444 to 52S
Holstein
Rye, Mecklenburg 2Ol to 261
-- Holstein 255 to 282
Archangel to
Barley, Mecklenburg!" 221 to 234
Magdeburgb . 240 to 236
Lower Elbe to
COTTON.
-

Oats, Upland to -
- Mecklenburg 165 to :80
-- Elder l4O to i7O
Holstein 254) to.;280
Petersb.peltiga to
Malt, Pomeranian 195 to 20C
Buck Wheat — to
Pease, Upland, yellow-255 is rt.3o
Beans r,,t to '255
Tares ••40 to WA
btlygraeti. .a.o to 4SO
.
.... 34 to St
Linseed ditto r,2 to 5i

Carolina and Tennessee 7•Xto, 94 Maranham
Georgia, ht sort lOyi 0 Madras 7 73y
2cl *934 10 Surata 64 7
3d and 4th .... Sy.,, 9% Domingo F4 9
COFFEE.

Mocha le to if-
Batavia
Sumatra 4% 4%
Rio
Bahia 4% 54
SUGAR.— (Wit]
Havannah, White 6%t019
Brown...— SX ti 4
Rio, White 64 %
Brown

Domingo
La Guavra sl,‘ 614
Porto Rico 5% 714
Havannah ..... .........
1 8% Discount.)
Bahia, White 6% toB
Brown 5.4 6
Pernambuco, White 6%
Brown 5 6%

ATROCIOUS ACT OF INIIUMANITY.—One
day last week, a woman of the name of Katherine Ken.
nedy, at Rattray, while returning from Blairgowrie, where
she had been that afternoon, discovered on her road a num-
ber of sheep in a park near Blairgowrie, which were the
property of a Mr. Brown, there. The woman's covetous
propensities being stronger than her moral principle, she
was induced to take steps to appropriate one of the sheep
to her own use. When she got home about five o'clock,
she accordingly took a knife and a bag, and returned to the
park, taking with her her son, a young boy, whom she
furnished with another bag, with the purpose of killing a
sheep and carrying it home in a divided state. When the
woman and the boy arrived at the park the sheep ran from
them both with the exception of a large ewe which was near
her lambing time, and which was unable to run away.
The woman then laid hold of the ewe, and instead of
adopting the usual mode of killing sheep, she in the most
barbarous manner cut the ewe across the centre of the
belly, and two living lambs fell from her, which shortly after
their exposure to the cold, died. While the ewe was in
this state of great agony, the woman then cut off one of
the hind legs with the covering upon it, which was as
much as she thought she could carry away without detec-
tion, and another part of the carcase sho cut off to be
carried away by the boy, the remainder being left in the
field. Kennedy and her son have been examined on the
charge by the Procurator-Fiscal before the Sheriff, and
she is committed to the Perth Gaol for trial. Kennedy is
a stout, coarse- looking Woman.—Edinburgh Courant.
MINISTERS NOT MUSICAL.--It is a remark-
able fact that riot one of her Majesty's Ministers has a box
this season at twc Opera ; and it is equally strange that not
one of the Foreign Ministers at the Court of Queen Vic-
toria has this year indulged in the same luxury.—Herald.
ILLEGAL MARRIAGE.--On Monday a petition
was presented to the House of Lords, by Earl Stanhope,
from the guardians of Witham 'anion, Ess.x, "for the
adoption of a measure for the better prevention of illegal
marriages."

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. SMITH
AND CO.'S, THE DISTILLERS, THAMES BANK.—Monday
evening an inquiry was entered into before Mr. Higgs,
Coroner, at St. George's Hospital, on the body of James
Kittley. Waite, in the employ of Messrs. Smith and Co.,
stated that the deceased came on Saturday morning to the
grain-pit with a horse and cart, for the purpose of procur-
ing grains. The pit where the grains are kept is about
11 feet deep, and is rather dangerous when empty. The
men in the habit of coming for grains are always cautioned
to be careful, and arc ordered out of their carta when back.
ing them to the pit. The deceased was cautioned, but
did not heed wh4t was said to him, and backed the horse
and cart, and in backing rather sharply was precipitated
into the pit, the cart and horse falling upon him. The
Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, with a deo-
dand of one shilling on the horse and cart, and at the
same time recommended that Messrs. Smith should have
something done to the edge of tile pit, so as to prevent any
future occurrence of the kind. A clerk to Messrs. Smith
and Co. said that Mr. Smith was out of town' at present,
but he had no doubt he would accede to the recommenda-
tion of the Jury.

RELIGION AS A POLITICAL SENTIMENT.--
It has various modes of action. The machinery of State
necessarily acts upon it ; and the influence is reciprocal.
Just in proportion as religion operates on the mind of a
community, will it act on its political organization.
The measure of its influence in this particular is
that of its existence and prevalence. It is not a
question of propriety, but of fact, which we are attempting
to settle ; although it might be difficult to see why
a religious man has not as good a right to use his
political influence for religion as any other man has
to use it for any other purpose. Indeed, as a matter
of conscience, of duty, how could he consistently act
otherwise? Religion, with him, is the chief end of life,
and of existence ; it is that which makes the best society
on earth, and only that which can qualify for the so-
ciety of heaven. The grand and ultimate aim of
Cnristianity is to make all men religious, and all
kingdoms and empires subservient to religion. Such
is the obvious language of Scripture, and the Chris-
tian has no other rule of conduct. It is not, there-
fore, with hint a matter of doubt, or of indifference,
but a concern of dut3. The idea that religion can be se-
parated from the State is a figment of the imagination. It
never was, and never can be, either in Christian or Pagan
lands, and there is no other single power that can assert an
equal claim, or demonstrate an equal amount of influence.
—A Voice front America to Lngland.