The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-05 00:00:00

N, LONDON: FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5,
THE SU
PRICES OF SHARES

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
HAMBURGEI, SEPT. 30.—A1l the measures taken by
the Danish Government indicate plainly it is resolved
again to incorporate Schleswig into the kingdom, and
to make it as it once was, a Danish province. It is
evident that, reduced by the revolution of the two
Duchies to its present state, Denmark can no longer
materially and geographically exist as a kingdom, and
that at no far distant period it will disappear from
the map of Europe.
The Sardinian party of Sweden and Norway, con-
jointly with those of the same party in Denmark,
have long since meditated and projected the position
of the two kingdoms and their administration under
one sceptre. The Duke of Saxe Cobourg has just
abolished lotteries in his state.— German Papers,
October 2.

bags of Penang went 7s to 8s for cargo, and 5s to 6s for
damaged.
SPICES.—To-day at auction 26 chests of Bencoolen
Cloves in part sold at is 43 to Is 6d, low 16 2d 40 bags
pod Pepper taken in at 703 ; 96 bags of Pimento sold at
44d to 5.0 per lb, and 412 bags Bengal Ginger export
sort at 20s ad to 22s per cwt.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the dulness in the market for
saltpetre further increased, and at auction a email part
only of 727 bags found buyers at rather lower rates—
mid damp grey Calcutta went at 27s 6d for 5 per cent,
and at 27s for 10i to 7 per cent.
SPIRITS.— Holders of Jamaica ask full rates, and sup-
ply the market with less freedom, still the home and ex
port demand is yet limited, and confined chiefly to the
better sorts. The value of 28 to 30 per cent. over
proof is from 2s 2d to 2s Bd, 32 to 38 over 2s 9d
to 3s, and fine 3s 2d to 3s 10d per gallon.
The business done in East India has been small, still
there are not sellers under is 3d for proof of fair quality.
In Leedward Island the sales made have been small at
Is 4d to is 5d proof, and there are not free sellers; a
smaller quantity is also on offer. In Demerara the
sales made have been trifling at Is 10d to 2s 2d for 28 to 40
per cent over proof. In the Brandy market there has been
less activity this week, still hcilers are firm, and will not
sell, but at fully last week's rates, home trade deliveries
are still upon a large scale, and several parcels have been
expected. Of old sorts few parcels are to be obtained.
In the value of British made Spirit there is no variation,
but dealers operate with caution, and the stock is getting
larger. The demand for Geneva is limited at Is 9d to
Is 10d, and fine at 2s 3d to 3s 3d per gallon.
FRUlT.—Sitee our last we have had a good many
arrivals of new Fruit. On Monday four cargoes 03
Currants arrived from Patras and Vostizza, and one
since from Patras. The price opened at 425, at which
they continue. Very few sales have been effected.
as the growers feel much disappointed with the
quality. The arrivals of Valencia Raisins are
very heavy, no less than thirteen vessels this week,
and several others reported. The quality is very fine.
The price was altered on Friday from 46s to 425, at
which it remains. Thera has been a good demand ft)!
old Currants at 36s for msd ; fine old Voetizza 425.
Several large sales of old Valencia Raisins have been
effected for exportation.
TALLOW.—To-day at auction 579 pkgs South Ameri-
can Tallow were only part sold at 31s 6i to 35s ad ;
700 cks Sydney 32s 93 to 36s 6d; 10 cks 3 skins Cape
34. 93 to 36s 3d.
Miss.—For Seal Oil the market is firm, and supplies
are smaller than in the former week fur all descriptions;
sales t.t Pale are made at 361 lOs to 371, straw and
tinged 341 to 361, brown and yellow 30/ to 33/ per tun.
Cod is held with much fimness, and at 28/ lOs to
291 several parcels have been disposed of. Southern
from 321 to 34/ for good and fine, and at 291 to 311 foe
low to middling. Sperm—sales of fine Colonial have
been made at 811 to EA and Ileadmatter 821 to 841
Cocoa Nut is not much in request; Cochin is offered at
33s to 355, Ceylon 32s to 345, and Sydney at 293 to 31s.
Linseed Oil continues in excellent request for home
trade purposes, a: d there is a good export demand. 01.
the part of Crushers there is also firmness, and the)
obtain 285 6d to 29e per cwt on the spot. Repeseee
Oil is much wanted. Pale has been selling at 39
6d to 40, brown 38s 6d to 395, and Foreign at 41s t
42a. For Olive the demawl has been active, and prices
are on the advance. Gallipoli at 431 10:3 to 441 10
Spanish end Sicily 421 lOs to 43/, and other descrip.
lions 411 to 42/. Lucca in jars has been sell
ing at 51 17s to 6/, and Florence in half
chests at 17s to 21s. Barn is yet dealt in witl
caution, and prices are on the decline, although there n
only a moderate supply, and a fair consumption. The
value of fine sort is 30s to 3 s 6d per cwt, and s vera
parcels are shortly expecter'. Lard and Ground Nu
Oil dull of sale, and can be obtained at a reduction,

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM.-
YANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING•

LONDON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5.

ZOINT-STOCEt 33./IrTZB.

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Name of Company. Dividend
per
Amount Paid Prise. t
Annum. Share.
_ -_-- ------- ---
A s. d. 1 2. d. I
.iustralasis • • •• •• •• • • 31. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 24% 1
Brltsh.North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
\
Ceylon • • • • • • • • •• • • • • 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
C donial. • • • • • • • • -
•• • • 5/. per ccnt.lloo 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire • • • • • • 15/per cent.l -
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lonian • • • • • • • • .• •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Londu and Westrainstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0
13 20 0 0
0 - 1i4%
- -
London Joint-Stock . • • 6/. per cent. 00 0 0 10 0 0 17
Pcoviucialof Ireland•• 81. per cant. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New... .. - .. 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. . • • - - 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia • • • • 51. per cent. - 22 10 0 -
Union of Australia.. :: 6L per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 26
Ditto .............. 61. per cent - 2 10 0 -
Onion of London... •• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid ..... , - 40 0 0 40 0 0
IN S URAN CE COIITP.B.IVIES.
Dividend Amount
--
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--•----1 -
A s. d. £ s. d.
Albion • . • ...... • • • • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 60 0 0 75
:Alliance net. and For. 7114 s 6d & bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 19%
Ditto Marine••• •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
A.tlas . • •• • •
iiritisti Commercial - 7s.per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life 5 pr ct.& be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19
11. 100 0 0 10 0 0 60
145. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14
Eagle • • • • - - 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
' Eng.& Saot•Law •• •• 5/.per cent. 50 0 0 2 12 6 -ouropezo Life •• •• •• 4t per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15
Family Endowmet Sec. 41. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 -
cemasons' .• • • • .. •• 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 -
G 1 he ••. • • • • .• •• • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 120
1 G zardian • • • • • • • • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49%
I,npe-rial Firo •• •• •• •• 121 per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220
. tnperial Life • • • • • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15
11:R:enmity Marine • • •• 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 13 1 35
4 Law Fire • • • • • • • • • • • • - 100 0 0 2 10 0 214
t I..AW life.. •• •• •• .... 11. 165. 100 0 0 10 0 0 41%
L.e..:al and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 4%
Lo* ..dcn Fire • • • • • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 104
'' London Ship • .• • • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
s; dartne • • • • • • • ...... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 9
,c, tied. Invlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21,,
02
'ational Lean Fund•• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 --
xtional Life.. • • -
t‘' 'slladium Lill 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 210:
rt.' Pelican • • • • • • • • • • •• • • - - -
L,: ..'nonlis - - 141
Eizotector Life.. • • ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
": Provident Life • • • • - - 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
41 cock I.ife. • • • • • • • • • • • Is. 5 0 0 0 10 0 5.!
at loyal E.:4change •6/. per cent. Stock. - 200
1 Fire.............• • . • • • • .... 61.105. - - 203
"'" Ditto Life .• • .. •• •• 1/. Os. - - 44
Ile Jaiversal Life.... - .. 10% pr cut. 100 0 0 9 0 0 -
)t, flotoria Life • 51. per cut. - 4 0 0 4
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19 Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Pei
t Annum. • Share.
Cee ---- -- -
10 £ s. d. A s. d.
Last and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 131
ip• ~
, I.%st Country - 2]
Eh' london • -
al( Ditto Bonds • • • • • • • • I, 41. per cent. - - -
fit} 4: . K atilarine • • • • •• •• I 4 per coat. Stock. - -
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-
Ditto, Scrip.... • • ~ • - -
e i' Ditto Bonds • • • • - - -
rho ismithampton •••••••• 11. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -

ITALY.
The Giornale di Roma of the 25th ult. publishes a
decree, instituting in each province a board of censor-
ship,
to which all matters connected with the schools
are to be preferred. General Wimpffen had been
succeeded in the civil and military government of
Bologna by Count Thurm, Governor of Parma.
Seventeen Tuscans, who had formed part of Gari-
baldi's band, were removed from Bologna on the 26th
to the Tuscan ifrontier. Eight other executions had
taken place at Bologna.
The Venice Gazette of the 28th ult. announces
that the cholera had completely disappeared in that
city. Six vessels, with Neapolitan refugees on board,
having been denied admission at Ancona and Pescara,
and being in want of provisions, had returned to
Venice. The Austrian Governor would rot allow
them to land, but supplied them with provisions and
passports, to enable them to navigate freely in the
Mediterranean.
By a decree of General Gorzkowski, Civil and
Military Governor of Venice, dated the 26th ult.,
commerce and exportation of intellectual productions
of every kind published at Venice and in the province
from March 22, 1848, to the 23th of Aegust, 1849,
and alluding in the least degree to the late poli-
tical events, whether executed in print or
lithography, in engraving, painting, sculpture,
or coin, is prohibited. Printers, engravers, book-
sellers, and artists, possessing such articles intended
for commerce, are bound to declare them within
five days. The materials that have been employed
to produce the said articles, such as lithographic
stones, dies, &c., are comprised in the prohibition.
Transgressors to be judged by court-martial and
condemned to fine and imprisonment.
The Venice Gazctte of the 28th ult. announces the
arrival there of the Neapolitan frigate Ruggero, for
:he purpose of taking on board the battery of artil-
ery which General Pepe had taken to Venice against
:he orders of the King of Naples.

TURKEY.
A large fleet of steamers has hem collected in the
waters of the Bosphorus and in the harbour of the
Golden Horn ,- and between the entrance to the Black
Sea and the Propontis, or sea of Marmora, there are
twelve ships of the line at anchor, fully-( quipped and
plentifully supplied with arms and provisions.
It is allowed on all sides that no nation in Europe
can exhibit a finer fleet at this moment, and compe-
rent authorities affirm that both officers and seamen
perfectly understand their duty.
In the army of 100,000 soldiers assembled round
the Turkish capital, drilling and reviewing are going
on from daylight till dusk, and the Seraskier, and the
Pachas under his command, are constantly moving
about to inspect the troops.
The Consular business of Russia and Austria is
transacted by the Prussian Legation. That friend of
order and legitimacy the Emperor of Austria is en-
deavouring to foment an insurrection among the
Greek subjects of the Porte. Like his brother of
Naples, he chooses thieves and murderers as his
especial pets and allies.

COURSE OF EXCIIA
I-aster:lam 12 4
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 2y4
'.c.tterdam 12 4X,
kntwerp • • ............ 25 90
a imhurgh •.1.1.8. 13 14
iltona • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Paris, 3 days' sight .• • • 25 55
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 77Y,
larseilles •••••• • • .. .• 25 80
. 25 80
S'rankiort on Maine.... 122%
Peter sturgh, Sil. Rblo 363 g
3,nlin • • .. •• ........
Tienna, eff2e. fib."... 10 55
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 55
Niadlid •• • . •••••• • • •• 501,
Cadiz •• ••• .• •• .• •• •• 5031
1111)a° .•
Suctions
• • •• • • • • • • • • ••

DAY.)
atbraitar•••••••••••••• •••••
Leghorn •••••••• •• • • •• 31 15
aeaoa • ..... •••••• 26 20
ililan .• .. • • • .
vaples . • .•.• • .. 46
Calenno, paroz .. 121
Messina . • • • • 121}
Lisbon •••••.•• • • • • • • • 531.
iporto ••.. • •• . 53
ato Janeiro ••• • „ • •
auenos Ayres ..
ew York, 21 dayesight
Philadelphia ...•

THE BRAZILS.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 4.—The Seagull packet, Lieu
tenant Smail, Commander, has just arrived with the
Brazil mails, having left Rio Janeiro 16th August,
Bahia 24th August, aril Pernambuco 30th August.
She brings on freight about 24,0001 and the follow-
ing passengers :--Alessrs. Ellis and Davidson,
Mrs. Piget, and Comte Zabirlo, late Russian
Consul. General in Brozil. At Rio nothing
important of a political nature had trans-
pired; business transactions for the month
of July were characterised by much flatness; the
march of European politics continued to impede that
activity which might other wit.e have been expected in
produce. Of imports the receipts were moderate,
and the arrivals were principally confined to the last
week of July; the market, in the interim, was with•
out animation, and its monotony only occasionally
isy some inquiry for re-export. 'The bust-
-1 ness in exchange was to an average extent, but II
other respects transactions in the money market were
very restricted.
From the Ist to the 16th of August more activity
had prevailed with coffee and exchange, as well as
same articles of import in demand for re-export ;
whilst of others, previously ecarce, the receipts were
excessive, and prices had sensibly declined. An
active inquiry for coffee (principally for Europe)
had caused a material advance in prices. The sales
from the Ist to the Bth of August had amounted to
73,000 bags. In freights the transactions had been
likewise extensive, but the rise in coffee and exchange
bad caused a reduction in the respective rates, and the
number of disposable vessels exceeding the quantity
of produce in the market, a further decline was looked
tor. The rates paid had been—Channel 403. to 503.;
London, 555. ; Havre, 50f. to 53f.; United States, 70c.
to 80c. In specie the rate of exchange had impeded
business, and quotations were nominal. Exchange at
Rio, 26 ; Bahia, 251; and Pernambuco, 26.
The Seagull left the following ships of war at Rio:
—Her Majesty's steamers Hydra and Crescent ;
American, Brandywine, 60 ; French corvette, Seri-
euse, 28, and brigs Chasseur and Entreprenant, 14,
frigate Algeria, 48 ; store ship Chandenay ; Portu-
guese corvette, Iris, 18, Vasco de Gallia 80. Her
Majesty's ship Apollo arrived on the 7th August, and
sailed on the 10th for Ilha Grande to land troops and
clean the ship, she being in quarantine. The Kestrel
arrived the 7th of August with the River Plate mails,
whence she sailed the 23d July; she left again for
the River the 15th of August with mails. At Per-
nambuco were—her Majesty's steamer Griffin ; Bra•
zilian ship of war Euterpe, 20, and brig Capiherihe,
10 ; schooner Legalidade, 8 ; Canope, 6 ; steamers
Guapiassu and Thetis, $ guns each.

PRICES OP BULLION, FEB CZ,
Foreign Gold inbars.. £3 17 9
Portaged Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
ipanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .• ...• 0 4 9%
lAitver to bars ...• ..•• 0 4 11%

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

BANKRUPCY SUPERSEDED.
John Wright, banker, South Shields.
BANKRUPTS.

James Tidmarsh,lrapiegent-street, to surrender.
Oct. 17, at two, and Nov. 20, at half-past one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee;
Lt,pard, Williams, and Bannatyne, Cloak-lane.
James Buddry Russell, grocer, Norwich, Oct. 16, al
two, and Nov. 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
B-ook9. official assignee, New Boswell-court; Wortley
Norwich.

Crigglestone,
Yorkshire, Oct. 17, at eleven, and Nov. 20, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee;
Clarke, Southampton-buildings, Holborn.
Henry Craske, grocer, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk,
October 16, and Nov. 14, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Joht3on, official assignee, Ba,inghall-
street ; Walter and Co., Symonds-inn.
William Woods, ironmonger, Mount-street, Walwortb,
Oct. 12, at one, and and Nov. 29, of at half past one, at
he Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee,
Coleman-street; Solomon, Chester-terrace, borough.
road.
Daniel Mallet, lighterman, College-street, Belvedere-
road, Lambeth, Oct. 13, at half-past one, and Nov. 26
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
official assignee, Guildhall Chambers; Barnard, York-
road, Lambeth.
Thomas Birch, hackney fly proprietor, Clifton, Bris-
tol, Oct. 19, and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ;
rrehern and White, Bucklersbury ; Sabine, Bristol.
John Richards, licensed victualler, Cefncoedcymmer,
Breconshire, Oct. 18, and Nov. 15, at twelve, at the
Briston District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bris-
tol; Phillpotts, Cardiff.
Samuel Robinson, cotton spinner, Barnsley, York-
shire, Oct. 19 and Nov. 22, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Ascroft,
Oldham, Lancashire.
George Smith, shipbuilder, Liverpool, October 17,
and November 3, at eleven o'clock, at the Liverpool
District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ;
Keightley and Co., Chancery-lane; Holden, Liverpool,
Joseph Morris, butcher, Tentenhall, Staffordshire,
Oct. 13 and Nov. 10, at twelve, at the Birmingham
District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birming-
ham; Corser and Underhill, Wolverhampton; Motteram,
Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham.
James Redward, fishmonger, Portsea, Oct. 16, at one,
~nd Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Pow-
nall end Cross, Staple Inn, Holborn; Edgcombe and
Son, Portsea.
John Holden, earthenware manufacturer, Burslem,
Oct. 20, and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham;
\Volston, Furnivals Inn, London ;
.13isoop and Twigg,
Staffordshire Potteries.
Mary Bell Shoolbred, cotton manufacturer, Manchester,
Oct. 15 and Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Had-
field, Manchester; Johdson, Son, and Wcatherall,
Temple.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, Oct. 5.)
SUGAR,—To-day West India Muscovado was operated
in with caution for all purposes, and on the part of some
of the holders a greater desire was evinced to sell at a
reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt; still the pur-
chases amounted to only 450 hhds, &c., including 70
hhds chrystalized Demerara at public sale, which
realized from 39s to 49s for yellow, and brown 35s 63 to
38s 6d.
REFINED.—Tc-day there was no variation in the value
of It fined Sugar, but not much business was concluded.
The demand for Bonded Crushed Sugar is still limited,
at former rates, and there are free sellers.
MAURTTIUS.—This afternoon there was not much
desire evinced to make purchases in Mauritius Sugar,
and at a public sale of 4,000 bags rather lower rates were
acceded to; fine and fine yellow went at 38s to 41s 6d,
low to middling 35s 6d to 37s 6d, brown 32s to 355, and
low 28s to 31s 6cl per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at public sale 6,966
bags 165 chests Behgal Sugar were offered, and about
half sold at rather lower rates ; low to fie white Benares
went at 31s to 42s 6d, soft yellow 333 to 375, brown
ditto 31s to 325, strong yellow. 41a to 43s 6d, and white
ditto 44s to 44s 63. Of „Penang 3,101 bags 35 bals 538
cases were sold ; white at 37s to 395, and yellow at 33s
6d to 36a per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To• day there was no public sale of Fo-
reign Sugar, and by private treaty 560 chests damaged
yellow Havannah were only in part sold at from 38s to
43s 6d for low to fine quality.
MoLAssEs.—The market for West India has still a
firm appearance; last week's rates are well supported,
and purchases to a fair extent ha►e been paid; the sup-
ply of all sorts is also much reduced. Bengal Treacle
is not much wanted, still holders ask 14s 6d to 15s per
cwt, and evence firmness.

EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOSION Or FIRE DAMP.-
A curious though serious case of explosion of fire damp
or gas occurred on Sunday last, in a house in Gidlow-
line, Wigan. On Sunday night a messenger was dis-
patched from the house in question to Mr. Winnard's
surgery, and it was stated that a Mrs. Crook had been
severely burnt by an explosion of gas in the cupboard.
Mr. Winnard was absent at the time, attending to an
urgent cholera case, but Mr. Hutchinson, the medical
gentleman from Liverpool, who had been engaged to
assist Mr. Winnard during the prevalence of the epide-
mic in this township, was in attendance, and it is said
that he received the statement of the messenger with an
amount of incredulity, which is only to be accounted -
by his inexperience in a colliery district. A woman
burnt by an explosion of gas from a cupboard—he could
not believe it! However, he proceeded to the honse,
where he found Mrs. Crook in great suffering, having
been severely scorched about the face and neck. It was
stated that she was going to the cupboard with a lighted
candle in her hand, when the terrific explosion of fire-
damp took place. Mr. Hutchinson, it would appear, was
still " hard of belief," and Crook, the husband of the
woman wh) was injured, asked h'm if he would wish to
see a repetition of the explosion, stating that it would be
attended with no evil consequences. Mr. Hutchinson
assented, and we may be sure that he exercised no s
ed and
mall
degree of caution when the cupboard was open
the light applied. Crook, however, was unfortunately
less apprehensive, and a tremendous explosion taking
place, ho received a serious burn on that very sensitive
organ of the human physiology—the nose. The people
in the house screamed, and the greatest consternation
prevailed. It is stated that the body of flame ran along
the ceiling and escaped out at the door, but Mr. Hut-
chinson says that ho did not observe this phenomenon.
We should state, for the information of those who may
be unacquainted with the locality, that the house is
situated immediately over a coal-mine, and tho gas must
have made its way through the earth into the cupboard.
The woman, we are sorry to say, is still in a very preca-
rious state; but Mr. Crook's nose is, according to the
last report, in a state of convalescence. Wigan Times.
ST. MARTIN, LUDGATE.—Last night, a vestry
meeting was held in the vestrprcom of the parish of
Saint Martin, Ludgate, for the purpose of making a
poor-rate, and church-rate, and for other business. Mr.
Benjamin Fellowes, senior churchwarden, presided.
The minutes of the last vestry having been read and
confirmed, the vestry:clerk read the statement of the
parish accounts, showing that a rate of eightptnce in the
pound would be required for the support of the poor ;
and a rate to that amount was accordingly moved and
agreed to. It was next moved and agreed to that a rate
of threepence in the pound should be levied for the old
church-rate, there being in this parish an extra rate to-
wards payment of a debt incurred for church repairs and
improvements, which it is understood will be liquidated.
It was next moved tied egreed to, that a vote of 51.
should be granted to the Royal Society for Escape
from Fire, towards defraying the expenses of the statical
in this parish; and in passing the vote, testionn.v was
borne to the value and usefulness of the society. he
vestry then terminated.

Cocoa.—There are ready sellers of West India upon
former reduced terms, still few buyers are to be
m
with, and the supply at merket exceeds dealers wants.et
At public sale 48 barrels and 156 bags Trinidad were
taken in at 38s to 41s for ordinary and middling. and 8
barrels St. Vincent's at 38s per cwt. For Foreign
sellers are disposed to accept the low terms of 25s to 27s
per cwt.
TEA.—None has been submitted to public competition
this week, but by private treaty the market is plentifully
supplied with most descriptions. Fine and good descrip-
tions of Congou have been dealt in with caution at
Is 3d to Is 9J, and at these rates there are
willing sellers; supplies continue to get larger. For
other sorts a good dtmand exists, and the market is
firm; ord and good ord at 9d to 9id. In the market for
Green there has been much dulness, and holders are will-
ing sellers at rather lower rates; there is also a larger
quantity on offer. Scented Teas are not much wanted,
and can be obtained at a slight reduction, as supplies are
better.
ICoirsz.—This afternoon there was little desire on
the part of shippers or home dealers to operate in
Coffee, and most sorts can be obtained at rather lower
rates. At public sale 51 bags Mysore were sold; good
ordinary red at 35s 6d, yellow 375 64, fine ordinary
454, damaged 33s 61 to 353 6d. 216 bags Plantation
Ceylon, middling 53s to 549, low middling 50s 64 to
52s fine fine ordinary 445. 673 bags Rio were taken in
at 325 to 32s 6d for ordinary broken mixed with black.
32 half-barrels roasted and partly ground were bought
in at 4d per lb in bond. 184 cases Tellicherry were
sold, fine and fine ordinary at 505 to 52i, good ordinary
44s to 48s, an'l pea berry 56, 61 per cwt. The value
of Native Ceylon is 38s 6d to 39s per cwt for good
ordinary.
RIM—To-day East India Rice met with attention,
*and the public sales went at full rates; of white Bengal
2,104 bags were sold at 93 to 11si and low at 8s; 3,822