The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-09 00:00:00

LEEDS, JUNE 8.

,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is no material change in the
tone of the share market this morning, though, on the
whole, the transactions show a slight decline, except in
Leeds Northerns, of which there were several sales at 16k,
which is an advance of 2s. 6d. upon previous days quota-
tions. Caledonians were (lone at 34 • Lancashire and
Yorkshires, 781; Midlands, 721; North-Westerns si• and
,
York and North Midlands, 301.

SERIOUS MisTlKE.—Yesterday morning a serious
mischance, which is most likely to terminate fatally,
happened to a man named Frederick Howlett, a car-
penter, who resided at Mary-street, Hampstead-road.
He was at a gentleman's house at Paddington, when
one of his fellow workmen told him that he had found a
bottle of Old Tom in a cupboard. Howlett went, and
finding it so labelled, took a hearty draught, when he
instantly fell down, it being nitric acid, which had been
emptied into a gin bottle and accidentelly left in the
cupboard. Without loss of time he was taken to
Albert-ward, St. Mary's Hospital, where the stomach
pump was applied and antidotes were administered, but
the unfortunate man now lies in a most precarious
state.

A VOLUMINOUS PROTEST.—At a late anti-slavery
dinner in Connecticut, the address of the women of Eng-
land to those in America was piled on the table with the
26 folio volumes of signatures. One journal says --" It
formed a pyramid as sublime, if not as high, as that to
Cheops.
WEDDING DIVINATION.—Being lately present on the
occasion of a wedding at a town in the East Riding of
Yorkshire, I was witness to the following custom, which
seems to take rank as a genuine scrap of folk-lore. On
the bride alighting from her carriage at her father's door,
a plate covered with morsels of bride's cake was flung
from a window of the second storey upon the heads of
the crowd congregated in the street below ; and the
divination, I was told, consists in observing the fate 1
which attends its downfall. If it reach the ground in
safety, without being broken, the omen is a most unfa- 1
vourable one. If, on the other hand, the plate be shat-
tered to pieces, and the better, the auspices are looked 1
upon as most iappy.—Notes and Queries.
A young man of about thirty, dressed in seedy
black, was yesterday placed at the bar of the Tri-
bunal of Correctional Police to answer the charge of
vagabondage. His appearance was strange—his face
was pale and without expression, and his hair was so
long that it fell on his shoulders, and at times
covered his face. The President asked him his name
and profession ; but he gave no answer ; and as it was
intimated that he was a &adman, an interpreter
was called. He was then questioned through the in-
terpreter in English : " What is your name ?"
" Donald Ross." " Where were you born ?" "In the
parish of Edderton in Scotland." What is your profes-
sion ?" " I have noother profession than to profess
Christ." " Have you any papers to show who you
are ?" " I have not ; in my religion we must go by the
grace of God." " Have you been long in France ?"
" I disembarked at Calais on the 26th January."
"What did you come to France for ?" "To preach my
religion." "And what is your religion ?" " I follow the
commands of my Great Father God and am only respon-
sible to him." " How have you lived since your arrival in
France ?" " On the charity of the rich." "You possess no-
thing ?" " Almost nothing, but I have still a French far-
thing in my pocket." "In your own country in Scotland,
how did you live ? Did you exercise any profession ? " " I
was a schoolmaster in the parish of Edderton in
the county of Ross." "Have you any relatives ? " "My
father and mother and four brothers and sisters."
" This young man," said the President, "is a forigner,
and does not appear to possess has intellectual faculties.
We must obtain more information respecting him, and
it will be well to write to the English Embassy." The
case was ordered to bo put off for a week, to afford time
for applying to the Embassy.
A CROWS' COURT-MARTIAL.—WeII, I have heard the
crows talk to each other, and seen them plant
sentries out when they seed me a watchin' of
them, and once I actilly saw them hold a court-
martial. The The old veterans came from all the ports
about here, and from all the islands, and bluffs and
shin
ioked foolishupandd
owne;naonughdth, eyocuulpmriatyhduepngehnids.heavvdhdaotwinle,
hslaedepdownhee,nl
hdeonv;oskon:ow Whether he had run off with
another crow's wife or *stole a piece of meat, or went to
and killed him,
1 arter consultin'
dis-
persed ; that's a uaturalefil
aldnthtgiard, or what, I don't know, but
they turned to and fell on him,
adjourned the court and dis-
t.—Sant /Slick's Wise Sam.