The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-15 00:00:00

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CORN AVERAGES.

(lENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
Frr the Week ended Nos.':/, itl3S, mate up from the lletorn6 of .1 -
Iri,pectorr in the iliffa erer-Cities and Towns !ri England and Wales, per
Imperial Quarter.
Wheat 7.2s lld 1 Oats
Barley...
I,IPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE ,:IX WEEKS
PRECEDING. _

Wheat......... 7s. Bd. I Oats
I Batley 3ls. 9,1 Rye ......... 35s 51 Pease 41s 2cf,

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.

Wheat. lBs. Bd. j Vats
Barley lss. 4d. I Rye

MUNICIPAL EXPENDITUIIE.-A correspondent has sent
us an account of the Municipal expenses of Salisbury ; but
as we are ignorant of the expenses of last year, we have
no means of instituting any comparison. He complains,
however, of five or six councillors being tradesmen, who
supply articles for the use of the borough. He adds, " the
Municipal Act says persons engaged in supplying the borough
shall not be eligible to be chosen of the Town Council,
and shall be liable to a penalty if disqualified, but there is
no fine for serving after they are chosen. The race-cup
and charities he says arise from legacieS which the old
Corporation received for thos3 purposes, but expended in
some other way, and now the inhabitants have to pay rates
to make up all deficiencies."

Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock,
as some men were employed pulling down an old house in
Shelton's-court, Clerkenwell, part of the wall upon which one
of them was standing suddenly gave way, and he fell with a
heap of rubbish from a height of nearly thirty feet, by which
he received a concussion of the brain. A man named Styles,
who was standing underneath, was buried under the rubbish.
On being extricated it was found that his arm was fractured.
Both men were immediately removed to the hospital, where
the former lies in a very precarious state. Yesterday morning
a journeyman painter named Downs, in the service of Mr.
Such, Bagnigge-wells-road, while standing outside on the
sill of the second floor window, of No. 7, North-street, Pen-
tonville, missed his footing, and fell on the steps of the door.
He was dreadfully injured, his skull being fractured, and one
of his legs broken. He was carried to the University College
Hospital.

Saturday afternoon several of the railway men were
discharged from their employment near Rotherham ; amongst
the rest an Irishman, who was about coming with the train to
Sheffield, but he refused to pay for a ticket for a woman who
was with him, and with whom, it was said, he had cohabited
for the last two years. As it seemed he wished to part from
her, the poor woman applied to those in authority for a free
passage. This was of course refused, when she said she
would drown herself. Soon after she threw herself from the
wooden bridge into the river; there being a fresh current in
the water at the time, every attempt to save her was of no
avail. One nan courageously leaped into the water to swim
to her rescue ; but the current was so strong that his own life
was placed in great jeopardy.—Derby Paper.
A most diabolical attempt to marder his wife was made
by a man named Whelan, on Sunday morning, under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—The fellow, it,appeared, was a servant
out of place, and had recently come up here from Limerick,
of which place he was a native. He was accompanied by his
wife ; they stopped at a lodging-house, where on Saturday
night some altercation occurred between them. The difference
was apparently reconciled, on which he proposed that it would
be best for thein to sail by the next morning's packet for Li-
verpool, to try their fortune there. She consented, and ac-
cordingly accompanied him to the quay, shortly after six
o'clock. It being some time before the hour of sailing, he
asked her to walk down the North-wall for the purpose of
keeping themselves warm. On getting beyond the houses the
villain suddenly caught his unsuspecting partner in his arms,
heaved the intended victim into the river, and fled. The poor
creature shrieked fearfully while being plunged over the quay
edge. Fortunately her cries brought one or the coast-guard
to her assistance ; he, without a moment's delay, dsshed in
after her, and succeeded in rescuing her from a watery grave.
She was conveyed in a state of insensibility to the station-
house in Sackville-place, where Inspector Rutland had the
most proper means promptly resorted to that the poor crea-
ture's case required. She was subsequently removed to
Jervis-street Hospital, where she lies at present. The police
are making the most strenuous efforts for the apprehension of
the miscreant.—Dublin Freeman.
Stolen from the National Gallery on Wednesday,
a brown silk umbrella, also a black silk umbrella, and a piece
of gold inlaid at the top. On Saturday night, between eight
and nine o'clock, from the house of Mr. Taylor, 28, Bennett-
street, Stamford-street, a stomach-pump and two elastic
tubes, four linen shirts, a corn rubber, a dressing case, be-
sides several other articles. On Sunday night the house of
Mr. Heikenbotham, pawnbroker, New-cut, was broken into,
and robbed of two silver waiters and several other articles of
plate. The same night the house of Mr. Scott, No. 19,
Prescott street, Newington, was entered and robbed of a con-
siderable quantity of clothes, and other property. On the
night of the Bth instant, or early the next morning, the house
of a gentleman at Glasgow was broken and entered, and
plate to the amount of one hundred pounds stolen. Sus-
picion exists against Andrew Lindsay, a gardener, who has
absconded.

Between one and two o'clock on Monday afternoon
last, as a poor man, named D. Griskett, was crossing the road
in Smithfield, a bullock, which was being driven by one of
the Smithfield drovers, suddenly made a start, and, coming
to Griskett, threw him into the air, and he fell with great vio-
lence to the ground. Before he could be picked up one of
the wheels of a market cart which was passing along at the
time went over him. He was conveyed by two men in an
wparently lifeless state to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where
it was discovered that his right arm had received a compound
fracture ; also that he was suffering both externally and inter-
nally from bruises occasioned by the fall. The poor fellow
lies in a very precarious state.

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MR. O'CONNELL AT THURLES.-111C D/16/in
Evening Mail of Monday has an elaborately dull articlethe
end and aim of which appears to be not merely to di '
sparage
Mr. O'Connell himself, who is politely designated a " sinhin(
demagogue," but also to prove that the cause advocated by the
Learned and Hon. Gentleman is irretrievably ruined. The
Thurles dinner is accordingly written down as a failure. vve
dnner in con,_c i
will, however, give a few of the detracting words themselves ,_
About 200 persons (saith the Mail), such as they were,
assa.t
down to dinner. Preparations had been made for 300. So
fir there was a.failure as to ' the physical numbers.' Of the
200 assembled, above 80 were Roman Catholic Priests; and,
in point of fact, the meeting (as it will yet be seen to demon-
stration)was
consult rather
ona convocationult e
rulterior
objects,of t h
thane Popish
a
Aliment to Mr. O'Connell : the one being in truth bu a pre-
text for the other. To swell the canonical muster, the raw
materials for the Priesthood, who are now receiving their
humanities and discipline in the Popish College of Thurles,
were all paraded for the occasion, and took their station be-
hind the chair. The rest of the company consisted chiefly of
grocers, small shopkeepers, and publicans, collected with con-
siderable difficulty from the neighbouring towns." Grocers,
shopkeepers, and publicans ! If true, how lamentable a fa:t.
The publicans too were no doubt Popish 1
On Monday afternoon we observed in St. Vincent-
street, two individuals in full and rather handsome Highland
costume, in a four-wheeled carriage, drawn by two beautiful
half-cocker half-spaniel dogs. A considerable crowd was
collected around them—they themselves were playing the
bagpipes, while a little boy, similarly attired, was beating a
drum and conducting the equipage. We were rather sur-
prised to see the equipage, and to find they were solicitine.
charity—think;ng tin) were fit ,u,ject., for the i,mire. Ti;
must be some new edition of the Wandering Piper.—Glasgow
Contitutional.