The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-11 00:00:00

LEICESTERSHIRE.

H. Elmhurst, c Potter, b
Kettle ..
E. B. Hartopp, Esq., c Clif-
ford, b Clurke . 0
H. Hoskins, Esq., C. Leigh, b
Potter
W. Benn, E q., b Clarke 2 not out 7
K. Fenton, Esq., b Kettle...... 26
Cornet Lawson, b Clarke l4
Carlyle, Esq., b Wilmot
J. C II arris, Esq., run out
C. Coleman, Esq., not out 2 not out ...
W. Svddon, Esq, c Clarke, b

Wilmot
It. Brown, Esq , absent.. .....
Byes, 4; wide, 11

90
Leicestershire therefore won by nine wickets.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, JUNE 7.

5 per Cents. ........ • • •• • •
4 per Cent........... • • •• •.
3 per Cent.-- • • . • • •• •
21,i per Cent.
1 per Cent... • • •• •• • • • •• ••
Loan, 1834 .. • • . • • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto, 1839 .• • • • • •• •• • • ••
Bank Shares ..............
Est4rliazy's L0an..........

89? g

. •• •..... 1,130

RAILWAYS.

The Northern.. .• ........
GloggnitZ .. •• ••• • ••

.• .• •• .• .• 97%

SUDDEN DEATH THIS MORNING.—The female
servant of Mr. Souper, secretary to the Thames Plate
Glass Company, Savoy-street, Strand, after giving the
keys to the men at six o'clock, as was her usual custom,
took a walk on the wharf, when after a short time she
returned to the kitchen of the dwelling house, and her
mistress wishing to give her some necessary directions,
proceeded there, and found her a corpse. She was about
twenty-f ur years of age. A coro: er's inquest will be
held this evening, at the Savoy Palace, Savoy-street,
Strand.

CRUELTY OF TUE AusTRIANs.—For the honour
of humanity we had hoped to be spared the recital of
such atrocities as the Vienna Presse (Ist June) itself
records. The indignation which even this muzzled
organ of despotism cannot absolutely stifle, will be widely
spread through every country where a spark of manly
feeling survives. We give the paragraph without
further comment .—" Vienna.—According to our ad
vices from Pressburg. a married lady, convicted of cor-
respondence with the insurgents, has, been sentenced by
a court. martial to the punishment of flogging, and the
sentence has been executed. Our correspondent states
that even those of whose good disposition towards the
Government there can be no doubt, are indignant at so
barbarous an infliction. We lament, mostly deeply, that
such a punishment could be awarded. We can hardly.
believe that the penal laws, under which military com-
missions exercise their functions, leave no discretion to
the judges, to substitute some other penalty for one so
deeply wounding to the ideas and feelings of modern
civilization. We really must not give the Magyars and
other enemies of Austria such proofs that savage laws
can still be put in execution among us."
BLACKHEATH GOLF CLun.----:The gold medal an-
nually presented for competition by the noblemen anti
gentlemen of this celebrated club, which has now been in
existence for more than a century and a half, was con-
tested for on Saturday, on Blackheath. Some very fine
play was exhibited, and at the conclusion of the game it
was declared that the Rev. W. Marsh had carried oft
the prize in 143 strokes. On the reassembling of the
members at the club-house, it was stated that a golf club
had been formed at Bombay, and that the members had
done this club the honour of forwarding a medal for
competition, and that the contest for the same had been
appointed to Ow place on the second Saturday in Oc-
tober. In the evening the member, dined together at
the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, when the gold
medal was presented to the winner with all the custo-
mary honours.

EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.—At an interesting
meeting of the Church of England's Young Men's So-
ciety for Aiding Missions at Home and Abroad, held at
their Sloane. street Branch Institution, on Friday even-
ing last, the Rev. W. Cadman, minister of Park Chapel,
Chel,ea, in eulogising the s,ciety, and other similar re-
ligious bodies, observed that a little time back there were
he such societies. The cause of this was subsequently
explained by the Ti ctor of the parish, the Rev. Richard
Burgess, who showed that the reason why they did not
previously exist was mainly because of the then all
absorbing nature of business. Now, he added, that
success to a certain extent has marked the efforts of the
Early Closing Association, we &id societies of this kind
swinging up. Similar testimony to the extensive bene-
fits which the Early Closing Association is calculated to
confer, and has already actually conferred on the com-
munity, was borno by the Reverends W. W. Robinson
and W. Niven.

THE DAVIS' STRAITS FISHERY.—The well-known
whale ship Abram, is now fitting out at this port as
quickly as possible for a voyage to Davis' Straits. We
understand that Lady Franklin has purchased a con-
siderable share in her, and although she is to be fully
(-quipped as as a whaler, instructions have been given, it
circumstances are favourable, to search Smith's Sound
and Jones's Sound in quest of Sir John Franklin. She
is to be commanded by Captain Granville, late of the
William Ward, of this port.—Hull Packet.
INCREASE Or RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The increase

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is 3,6001.; on the Landon and North-Western, with an
addition of 7 miles, the augmentation is 3,2501.; on the
Great Western, with an addition of 40 miles, there is an
increase of 2 5001.; on the London and South-Eastern,
without any additional mileage, 2,5001 ; on the Man-
chester and Sheffield, without any increase of mileage,
2,400/.; on the London aad Brighton, with the same
mileage as in the corresponding week of last year, the
increase is 2,1001.; on the Eastern Counties, with 27
additional miles, the augmentation is 1,7001.; and on the
Caledonian, with the same mileage, it is 1,5001. All the
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CARBONIC ACID GAS ENGINE/L-111 lately recom-
mending Baron Von Rathen to try the condensation of
carbonic acid gas in his locomotive air-bottles, generating
it from such carbonates of lime as marble or chalk, we
scarcely expected to hear so shortly of a definite inven•
Lion for the very purpose. Such is the case, however;
and it is proposed, in order to cheapen the process and
render it all the more likely to be economically practi-
cable, that the condensed or liquified carbonic gas, after
the expenditure of its power in expulsion from the air-
bottles or reservoirs should be re-absorbed by quick-
lime, so as to be as ready for re. agency, with the help of
sulphuric acid and the air-bottles, as ever; leaving sul-
phate of lime as a marketable residium. It is calculated
that, as a mere auxiliary, a steam-engine of 50-horse
power, by aid of such a carbonic acid engine, would be
equivalent to one of 95-horse power; and that, from the
saving of fuel, both marine and locomotive engines could
be worked with it to great advantage.—Builder.
NENAGU PRISON.—This prison is fearfully crowded
with destitute persons committed for most trivial of-
fences. Over 700 prisoners are now in gaol, and yester-
day (Tuesday) 50 vagrants from Thurles were added.-
7 ipperary Vindicator.
ANTIQUITY OF THE POTATO ROT.—Thomas Baker,
a Quaker farmer, who is supposed to have been the first
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beethouetptohteat)o,eianrt(l)7t3h6, at Norton, near e county of Durham, by
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ton (a village famous for this root), was plain of speech,
and, addressing his friends at the meeting-house at Nor-
ton, said " he was afraid some of themwere like the po-
tatoes of that year, which, under a fair outside, concealed
a rotten heart."
IMPORTATION Ole ZINC.—An importation has re-
cently taken pla:..e of a parcel of rods of zinc, rolled pre-
paratory to being made up or converted into bolt., ; and
although the zinc in the form alluded to might be consi-
dered in a ci ude or rolled state, the officers of the reve-
nue considered it to be chargeable with duty as being in
a partly manufactured state, and therefore the importers
urged a request to the authorities fer their decision. L
was considered doubtful whether duty could legally be
charged on the'artiele under notic2, which was stated to
have undergone no other process of manufacture than of
rolling, and therefore directions have been given for the
admission of zinc, when nejorted in the state mentioned,
free of duty.
CONIMUNICATION BETWEEN HULL AND HAMBURGII.
—Since our last, the two steamers the Helen Maegtegor
and the Transit, both carrying British royal mail bags,
have returned from the Elbe, having been unable to obtain
admittance in cons, quence of the strict blockade main-
tained by the Danes.—Hull Fade:.