The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

THE OVAL CLUB.

This numerous club had its winding-up match on
Tuesday, when there was a goodly muster of the ,
mem-
bers. The day's play gave these results :—Mr. Jones
side-Ist innings, 83 ; 2d innings, 19. Mr. Stapeley's
side-Ist innings, 19. Thus Mr. Jones' side won by 64
runs on the first innings.

DISFRANCHISEMENT OF FIVE THOUSAND ELECTORS.
—Yesterday Mr. John Fraser M`Queen, the barrister
appointed to revise the list of voters for the borough of
Marylebone, opened his court at the Court-house, Mary-
lebone-lane, for the purpose of revising the lists for the
parishes of Marylebone and Paddington. The only re-
markable circumstance in connexion with the revision is
the fact, that in the parish of Marylebone there are
nearly 3,000 who were on last year's register disquali-
fied for non-payment of assessed taxes on or before the
20th July. In the parish of St. Pancras there are up-
wards of 2,000 disqualified from a similar cause, and in
the parish of Paddington several hundreds, makingl in
the aggregate just 5,000 persons disfranchised from that
cause. It is understood that in future some determined
steps will be used by the local authorities to make the
electors acquainted with the necessity of paying their
assessed taxes on or before the 20th July. The court
will sit to-day at St. Pancras to revise the lists for that
parish.

- MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—SUPPOSED MURDER.—lnfor-
mation was communicated to the police of the following
extraordinary and mysterious circumstance :—At about
fout o'clock p.m. of Tuesday last, Joseph Hunt, of Ros-
lyn-street, Hampstead, on passing through a field, found
a man apparently dead. He i►nmediatly gave informa-
tion to Sergeant Hedges, No. 24 S, who hastened to the
spot, and discovered the remains of a respectably-dressed
man, who apparently had been dead several hours. On
examining his person a wound was found on his left
breast, supposed to have been caused by a pistol-shot.
On searching for the pistol it was nowhere to be found,
but about five yards from the spot he found a brown
paper parcel, containing several bullets, percussion-caps,
and gunpowder. The sergeant procured assistance, and
removed the body to the workhouse. Upon inquiry, the
officer traced him to be Charles Monkton, tailor, of No.
31, Henry-street, Pentonville ; that he left his home on
Monday morning last to receive the amount of a bill due
to him. He was then in good health and spirits, and
promised to return home in the evening of the same day.
We regret to say that he has left a wife (who is far ad-
vanced in pregnancy) and four helpless children in the
greatest distress. The police are pursuing the most dili-
gent inquiries into the mysterious affair.
SUSPECTED MURDER AT WESTMlNkEß.—Yesterday
morning, between one and two o'clock, considerable sen-
sation was created in the neighbourhood of Westminster
in consequence of a blind man being found lying on the
pavement bleeding profusely and insensible. About a
quarter past one o'clock, as police-constable No. 262 B
was going his round, he discovered the man lying on the
pavement bleeding from the head profusely, and insensi-
ble. He instantly raised an alarm, when it was ascer-
tained that the unfortunate man lodged at the house of
Mrs. Effennin, 3, Old Pye-street, Westminster, and his
name was Daniels, a blind man, 33 years of age : rumours
were in circulation that he had been thrown out of a
window. He was conveyed to the Westminster Hospi-
tal, but from the severe injuries he had received he shortly
expired.

DEFICIENCY OF COIN IN SYDNEY.-The inconvenience
arising from the scarcity of copper coin, and of small
silver money, has given rise among tradespeople to a
somewhat novel system of currency. Pieces of paper
called I 0 U's are substituted by a great many shop-
keepers for pennies and fourpenny pieces, and, instead of
lawful money, are given to their customers as change.
The facility of counterfeiting these pieces of paper has
led to a great deal of forgery.—Australiam and New Zecc-
lona Qawtte.