The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-27 00:00:00

FRENCH AND BRITISH SILK COMPANY.

,000 Ells of Rich GROS 1)E NAPLES, in the most
Fashionable and Prevailing Colours, from 2s. Bd. to 3s. 44..

per yard, at THOMAS slid EDWARD CAItDEN and
Co.'s, 118, Oxford-street (late Riley.)
rr HE Nobility and Gentry are most respect-
fullyit invited to inspect one of the Largest and most
Splendid Assortments of French and British Silks, consisting
of Gros de Naples, Ducapes, Mantuas, Taffetas, Ste. &c.--
Gros de Naples 2s. Bd. per yard ; rich do. 3s. 4d. ; 5,000 ells of
rich Ducapes and Mantuas, from 3s. 10d. to 4s. 9d. usually sold
at 7s. Ild. ; Batiste, Crape, and Windsor Dresses, from ss. tid.
to 14.. .

.%1 essrA. Carden and Co. beg to call the attention of LacLae
(purchaFing that useful and elegant accompaniment to Female
CoAume, the French Promenade and Opera Cloaks), to their
rool-ms, where they will meet with an assortment of magnificettt
at. .1 ul.ioue Satin, Levantine, Gros de Naples, &c. trimmed and
lined with fur, from 275. 6d. tool. 15s. 6d.

Country orders punctually attended to, and all letters post
paid.—Carden and Co. No. 118, Oxford-street (late Riley).
es:k Corner of Regent Circus.

CHILBLAINS, RHEUMATISM, SPRAINS, &c.

BUTLERS' CAJEPUT OPODELDOC.—
Cajepat Oil, which is the basis of this Opodeldoe, has
been long esteemed on the Continent, as a remedy for Chronic;
Rheumatism, Spasmodic Affections, Chilblains, Palsy, Stiff-•
ness, and Enlargement of the Joints, Sprains, Bruiseii,
and Deafness; and the experience of late years, in England,
proees that it merits the high character given of it by the
most eminent in the profession, in those obstinate complaints..
Being combined in the form of Opodeldoc. it is rendered
more penetrating, and consequently much more efficacious.
as an external application. Rubbed upon the skin by means
of flannel, or the warhi hand, it allays morbid irritation of
nerves, invigorates the absorbents, and accelerates the cir-
culation.

Sold in Bottles, at Is. lid:, and es. 9d.. by Butlers, Chemists,.
4, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's; and 54, Sackville•st reet,
Dublin; Savory and Co. 136, New Bond street, itnd 410, Ro-
gent-Street ; and by the principal Aledicim Venders through-
out the United Kingdom.
Of whom also 'may lie'had the CHILBLAIN CERATE, an
excellent Remedy for Cbilhlains when broken.

.o'. Be careful to ask for " Butler's Chje p4i t Opodehlue.

THE EARL OF, BRECKOCK. —This Noblvtual,
who is the eldest son of the Marquis CAMDEN, meta very pasn-
ful and distressing accident on Saturday last, at Kingston. Ile
was walking alone on the railway leading down to the Pier,
and, accidentally slipping, his foot was caught in the hollow
of the metal, sad his leg, we regret to say, was fractured, and
the ancle dislocated. He was immediately carried to-Mr. Arm-
strong's Hotel, where, in consequence of the house being full,
as stated by the persons in waiting, he was refused admittance.
We understand that a gentleman and a lady, who were pas- -
sing, and who were ignorant of the rank of the stranger, in-
stantly offered him accommodation in their cottage, which eras
fortunately close at hand. The Noble Earl was removed
without delay, and messengers were dispatched to town for
surgical assistance, when Mr. 11PNamara, of York-place,
promptly attended, and set his Lordship's leg. The next day
he was visited by the Surgeon-General, and ,was sufficiently
recovered on Tuesday to be removed to Gresham's Hotel,
Sackville-street,—{Dublin Eveuing Post.)
MURDER AT CALCUTTA.-A dreadful event
happened yesterday in Fort William, shoat four o'clock, P.M.
A private of the 87th, of the name of Timothy Heavy, was ob-
served to sponge his musket, which being with soldiers a com-
mon thing in damp weather, elicited no peculiar notice. He
then loaded his piece, and set it down for a little near the wall
of, the barrack-room, and immediately afterwards took it up
again, and proceeded to the berth of Sergeant Henry Marshall.
A report shortly afterwards was heard, and one or two men
running up to the quarter whence it proceeded, found Sergeant
:Marshall lifeless and weltering in his blood. Heavy stood near
him, we believe, with the discharged musket in his hand, and
confessed to having perpetrated the horrible deed. lie was,
we understand, sober at the time, nor is there any reason to
suppose that he was deranged when he committed the fatal act.
It seems that some words had passed two or three days before
between the deceased and the prisoner, and that the latter ap-
peared-incensed at being ordered to perform some routine duty
or other by Sergeant Marshall. It is said that the prisoner, Nor
about the time, used some threatening language. We trust fbr
hisown sake that this maybe proved on his trial not to have been
the case. At the time that Heavy deprived his fellow-soldier of
life the latter was sitting at the table in the act of writing.—
Whether the prisoner warned the poor fellow or not we cannot
say, but we believe he did not. We ,conclude this from what
we have heard already; and from an inspection of the body.—
The muzzle of the musket could not havelieen fat from the side
of the deceased when the shot was fired. The serjeant, as we
have said, was in the act of writing. The hall entered his
'ght arm immediately below the elbow, passed thrash, enter-
ed the right side of the cavity of the chest about the fourth rib,
tore up the heart, and passed out c.f the chest on the lett side
about the third rib. The blood gushed out as from a kettle,
and the -man was dead instantaneously, never even moving a
muscle or uttering a groan. Serjeant Marshall was pay-ierjeant
of his company, and much respected in the regiment. He was
afine-lin:lc handsome man, in the prime of life, when thus un-
timely and fearfully cut off by the hand of violence. It is not
yet knows whether the prisoner is to he tr:::q1 by the Supreme
Court, or a General tiourt-martial.—(lndia Gantt(' Aug. 4.)

COAL TRADE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ..31.1N.
SlR—The Coal Market at Billingsgate should,
,by Act of Parliament, open 'at twelve and close
at two. Such however is not. the case,the business
doet not commence until one quarter of an hour
before two o'clock, and the confusion which ap.
,pears.dUring that time is purposely created to
prevent the curious from prying into their secrets.
'The class of persons attending here is .com-
posed 'of Factors and Buyers, each with
their Satelitea, as Clerks, Accounters, Cap-
tains of ships, and Lightermen. The factors
are the parties to whom the cargoes are consign-
ed, they have to pay the duty, clear the papers,
;aid sell the Coal, which they do at times be-
tel.e the rairket begins.- For the purpose of
getting a high price into the list,' or setting the
market going, they get some of the buyers to
Sien'a'return paper w.hich is filled up so as to an-
is.eer. their views. Some of the buyers on the
market -.freight Coals, in such case they bid
a high price for one quarter of their own cargo
sayiag that those Coals improve in quality, or are
rood in size, or that Coals are likely to be higher
nnextmarket day, and thus parties are induced to
sign for the remainder of the ship at a price far
vxcevding..its value, and which must greatly en-
haisce. the ,cost of the coals in the hands of the
-consumer:; and this system of enhancement is
carried so far, that some buyers have an agree-
meet with the pitman to allow them two shillings
per chaldron on all Coals brought from such a
• factor for his absolute use, or ls. per chaldron
on ail signed far or puffed up. It sometimes
happens that a --ship is sold, but the signing, of
the return of the prices at which sold is delayed
until the next market, in order to decoy
_the bystanders, and sometimes the person who
signs does not take a single Coal out of the ship.
ft is. customary to say to the factor, I will sign for
half a-ship at 365. if you will let me.have them at
345. this is done by first rate buyers to deceive the
public,and,to get 2s. extra from the under buyers.
Amongst the second rate buyers are some who are
obliged to take the Coals on whatever terms the
F actor thinks proper toimpose,and this in a certain
.degree accounts for there being three prices for
one and the same Coal on the same market day.
The buyers in retailing to the accounters sell
,_upon the price returned in the list published, and
the confusion and mysterious manner in wLich the
transactions of the market are conducted,
is purposely contrived, in order that the par-
ties to whom they are sold, may not know
.that 'they are deceived. The Clerks of the mar-
ket formerly were Coal-merchants, but that has
been in a certain degree done away with by an
order of the Court of Aldermen, and one of
Them,who carried on business some time after his
appointment, intended to have entered' into
it on a very large scale. The business be-
ing transferred to a relation, makes their in-
terest not direct. The only reason why
they wish to have Coals of an inferior
description called Wall's End is, that they may
mix them with Coals of a superior description,
without putting the names of the Coal on the
Vendors ticket. It is impossible to prove the
'infringement of the Act of Parliament on this
point, as the Clerks are so closely connected with
-the trade, that they refuse to allow the books to
be inspected, notwithstanding a penalty of
201.
is attached to the refusal. When the first rate
-buyers have a very large stock on hand, they bid
sometiines 2s. or 3s. per chaldron more than the
factors require; this continues sometimes during
two weeks, and one market scantily supplied, will
place them beyond the chance of a loss as that
- creates a real rise in the price. There are
two Coals that bring the merchant more than
• any other, viz. Tanfield and Hartleyi. The name
-being established, other coals are substituted,
as, for Hartley's, Cowper, Eastpercey, lia [heath,
Hampton, or Fordell; for Tanteld, Poutop,
Felling, or Beaumont. The supply of
these two coals is not sufficient for the London
Market, therefore the price necessarily must
be high ; this affords an extensive field for the
Virharfingers and Lightermen to exercise their
talent in substituting one for the other.—This
- will be explained-in my next.

ARGUS.

LANAI, PROJECTED by BUONAPARTE in EGYPT.

According to the estimate of the French engineers, who were
in Egypt with Buonaparte, the whole expence of a deep canal,
• which would connect the Arabic Gulf with the Nile and the
Mediterranean, make Africa an Island, and shorten the voyage
from Marseilles to Bombay one half, would not exceed 700,0001.
a sum considerably less than has been expended on some single
• works of the same kind in Great Britain. The canal, accord-
- ing to the scale proposed by the French engineers, would admit
sea-vessels drawing from twelve to fifteen feet water, at the
height of the Nile. But were the branch of Tymeh to answer
the purpose intended, sea_vessels of moderate burthen would
be able to pass from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, at all
times. To Britain, Russia, Germany, an the other countries
in the Northwest .of Europe, the route by the Red Sea, would
probably never supersede that by the Cape, for the India and
•China trade generally ; but to the French', Spaniards, Italians,
Austrians, and Greeks, who have ports in the Mediterranean,
.it would shorten the communication with Arabia, Persia, and
India,- from a half to two-thirds. The canal would thus afford
them vast advantages. There is no doubt, indeed, that it
would give a powerful impulse to the commerce of all the States
in the south and south-east of Europe, and greatly increase the
intercourse between Europe and Asia. Though goods might
,continue to be generally carried between Britain and India by
the present route, there is little doubt that dispatches would be
alWals transmitted by the canal, and that ships fitted up ex-
pressly for passengers would regularly ply upon the shorter line
of communication. Were it found practicable to employ steam-
power, it is probable that the voyage from England to Bombay,
which at present occupies four months, might be accomplished
by the Canal in six weeks, the distance being about 7,200 miles.

Dv EL.—A meeting took place yesterday morn-
ing at Crantord Hounslow Heath, between V. AT—K-1r and
B. T—Act—L—N, Esqrs., in consequence of a dispute ztt the
Berkeley Hunt. In the fire Mr. A. was wounded in the cheek
slightly, and the ailiLir terminated. The parties returned to
London in the same carriage.

ACCIDENT TO THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.
—An accident happened to the Lord Mayor yesterday morn-
ing, about ten o'clock, but we hope it was not attended with
any serious results. As his Lordship, accompanied by a
-Gentleman, was driving down Dawson-street, the coachman,
in consequence of the density of the fog, did not perceive a
large hole in the street, where the pavement was displaced,
until the coach was precipitated into it. His Lordship was
enabled to proceed into Morrison's Hotel, near which the tran-
saction occurred, but the coach was smashed in several parts.
This accident is the more to be regretted, as his Lordship has
been in a very delicate state of health for some time.—(Morn-
.ine Ilrgister.)