The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-26 00:00:00

FOREIG

Austnan, 5 per cent

Belgian, 5 per cent,. , 99%,
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayrt s, 6 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent
... .

Colomhan, 6 per cent.
Ditto, 1824

Dani;h, 3 per cent 74%
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexiegm, 5 per cent
Dittoe6 per cent., 1825
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent
(CLOSING PRICE OF S
Great Western Railway.
London and Brighton Railway
London and Birmingham Rail,
Ditto Quarter Shares
London and Greenwich Railw;
South Eastern and Dover

THE SILVER CHALICE OF ST. JOHN'S.—In
last week's Journal it is pompously announced " that the
Rev. E. Morris had been presented with a beautiful and
VALUABLE silver Chalice" for the use of a small chapel or
school-room in the upper part of the parish. Our readers
will be astonished to learn that the chalice was a toy gam-
bled or raffled for a few days previously, at a bazaar then
open at the Falcon Hotel, and is worth 10s. or 125.! ! ;
This needs no comment.
The "lucky bag" extended—trinket drawn,
Quickly consecrated by the man of lawn ;
Emblazoned forth in print next week is seen
" The splendid gift of Barnes, of Tal-y-clyn."
If Mr. Barnes should get a Title to Orders By THE GOWN,
the spec. will not have been a bad one.--Welsh Paper.
It is a singular fact, that the mayor, aldermen, and
councilmen of Manchester, who have just been elected by
virtue of the new charter of incorporation, have no build-
ing wherein to hold their meetings. There is a town hall
and a manor court room ; the former, however, belonging
to the Commissioners of Police, and the latter to the lord
of the manor. The Commissioners of Police, who, along
with the majority of the respectable inhabitants, were ad-
verse to the corporation of the borough, consider the char-
ter illegal, and refuse to countenance it, and the lord of the
manor will not give up his room to the use of the wise-
acres without pay. The best of the joke is, that the cor-
poration has no funds, so that each alderman and coun-
cillor must bear his own expenses. The advertisement
announcing the resolutions passed at the last meeting
states, " That due notice will be given at the next meet-
ing." The government of Manchester is now divided into
two parties, viz., the boroughreeve and two constables, ap
pointed by the lord of the manor and corporation.—
Morning Paper.
MURDER IN MANCHESTER.-It will be recol-
lected that a short time back a murderous outrage was
committed in Grimby-row, Manchester, upon the body of
a man named John Cunningham. The circumstances were,
that Cunningham was found by a watchman, with three
deep cuts in various parts of his left leg, of a very serious
nature ; and, on being asked who committed the outrage,
he said that three men had stopped him, and that on his
refusing to pay for a quart of beer for them they
knocked him down, cut him with some sharp instru-
ment, and then robbed him ; that he knew one of the
men, and that his name was Byrne. From his descrip-
tion of him, Byrne was apprehended, identified by
him, and brought up at the New Bailey several times
before Mr. Maud, and remanded, to give an opportu-
tunity to Cunningham, on his recovery, of appearing
against him. It appears the surgeons of the Royal Infir-
mary, where Cunningham was lying thought it necessary to
amputate the wounded leg. It was then thought proper in
anticipation of the worst results from the operation, that the
deposition of the poor man should be taken before a magis-
trate, and Mr. Maud attended for the purpose ; the evidence
of Cunningham was then taken in writing, and differed mate-
rially in several respects from what lie had before stated, es-
pecially in reference to Byrne, who, on being taken before
him, he now declined swearing to as one of the men who had
attacked him, and Byrne was consequently discharged from
custody. The operation was performed, but with little hope
of success, and Cunningham survived it only six days, ex-
piring on Thursday. The circumstances of the atrocious
affair are necessarily involved in much mystery, owing to
Cunningham being too much intoxicated at the time to
give such a full account of them as could have been wished ;
and there are but faint hopes entertained that his murderers
will ever be brought to justice. An inquest was held on the
remains of Cunningham on Saturday, when a verdict of
wilful murder against some person or persons unknown was
recorded.

An idle observation has been made, that chemistry
has done much for medicine, but medicine has done nothing
for chemistry. The same may be said of the feeders of prize
cattle. The feeders have done much to improve the breed
of beasts, but the beasts have not done anything to improve
the breed of graziers.

COGGESHALL CHURCH RATES.—On Tuesday
last, Mr. Stephen Unwin was summoned before the Ma-
gistrates at Witham, by the Churchwardens of Cogges-
ball, for refusing to pay 11. 4s. 21 d. due for Church-rate.
It will be recollected that some time since Mr. Fisher Un-
win was summoned for a Church-rate ; but it appearing on
the production of the book that the assessment followed
immediately after the minutes of the meeting, without the
necessary heading, the Magistrates dismissed the com-
plaint. Since then the Churchwardens had followed up
the resolutions of the Vestry by drawing out the rate in
the proper form, with a heading setting forth that it was
an assessment and rate at 6d. in the pound, for the ne-
cessary repairs of the Church, &c., made in pursuance of
a resolution of the majority in Vestry assembled on the
23d of 'August, 1838 ; and certifying that the several
particulars were true and corect as far as they had been
able to ascertain them. Mr. Unwin appeared, attended
by Mr. Mayhew as his solicitor. Mr. Mayhew contended
against the legality of the rate, as it was not made on
the day the resolution was agreed to. It was admitted
that the rate was made in November or December. A
long discussion took pace, in the course of which the
opinion of Dr. Addams that the rate was a good one was
produced. The Magistrates decided that Mr. Unwin
must pay the rate. Mr. Unwin declared he should allow
his goods to be taken—he should pay in no other way, and
left the Court.

SYDNEY, JULY 17.—We have much satisfaction
in announcing that by the late arrivals from England in-
formation has been received of the formation of two com-
panies in London, for the purpose of establishing a line of
steam-ship packets, of splendid accommodation, upon tbr:
American plan, to proceed at fixed periods to and from
these colonies. The gentlemen here who are connected
with these companies respectively aro Messrs. Swanston,
Learmonth, M'Killop, Furtado, Hewitt, and others. We
understand that the voyage is to be made from London to
Falmouth, Madeira, St. Helena, the Cape, Mauritius, Swan
River, South Australia, and the ports of Sydney and
Hobart Town. The return by the same course. The
whole of this voyage is calculated to occupy less than ten
weeks, the communication with Calcutta being now made
regularly on the average of seventy days, although the
Isthmus of Suez and the widest part of the Indian Peuin,
sula is land traverse. The advantages to these oolonies of
this certainty and rapidity of communication are toe ob-
vious to need remark, Property will of come become
much increased in Woe, in consequence (If these colonies
being Thus brought into so much cic,aer neighbourhood with
Britain. Five steam-ships of large size are, we understand,
actually now on the passage aut, to be employed between
Sydney, Hob,all, Tome, and South Australia. The gentle-
men here with whom these great benefits to the „Amy have
originated are entitled to the ‘lAnks.—Murray's
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