The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-15 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1849.

Gil!straps, who has an omnibus running to the
rai!way. I took it to the White Hart, Retford.
I left' Newark at half Tast two, and reached Ret-

Fortescue shirts have also been in demand at a
considerable advance, in anticipation of cutting the
lode at a very important point.
By Wheal Beset report we find, the mine is in a
highly productive position. A new aid more power-
ful engine is to supersede the present one.
At Wheal Seton account a dividend of 51 per share
was declared. The operations in September and
October gave a profit of 6231. 9s. 6d., which, added to
balance from last account, allowed the above dividend,
leaving to credit 2221. Bs. The mine has consider-
ably improved of late, with every probability of
further improvements being made. During the last
two months about 1,220 tons of ore have been sold,
and the profit anticipated for the next account is esti-
mated at about 1,8001. _ _

ford at half-past four o'clock. The box now pro•
duced is the box. The direction new produced
is that which was on the bex when I
received it. The directon is " Theophilis Burton,
Nt r:h Levorton." North Leverton is six miles from
ltetford.

•, •
Whham Drake deposed as forows:—l live at
Harle,phite, in Nottighamshire, and am a shoemaker.
The prisoner at the bar is my sister, and as far as I
am aware she is a single woman. I hsve a married
sister living at North Leverton. Her name is Bur-
toa. Her husband's name is Theophilis Burton. On
the 30th of November, by the direction of Mrs.
Burton, I went to the White Hart at Retford, and
received the box now produced. I saw "Theophilis
Bul-on" upon it. It was between eleven and five
o'clock in the evening. The direction produced I
believe to be the same. I took the box to my sister's
-hou=e at North Leverston. She received it from me,
but her husband came in afterwards. Burton and
myself opened the box in another room; we found
inside of it the body of a dead child. I saw a letter
in my sister's hand, which she gave me to read., I
know the handwriting. My siitcr burnt the letter.
One of her children cried for it, and then she threw it

At Whe.,l Tremayne account meeting a dividend
of 10e per share was declared, leaving a balance in
hand of .117/. 13s. lid. The mine is looking re-
markably well.
At the Mineral Court meeting the accounts showed
balance against the mine of 428/. 12s. 2d. during the
operations of five months, ending in October. A call
of 31. per share was made. Lady Greville, with her
usual liberality, has signified her consent to reduce
.the dues to 1 18th. The reports of Captains Webb
and Dale represent the mine in a very promising
position.
At the Tavy Consols meeting for September and
October the accounts showed a balance against the
urine of 2301. 16s. 41. The ore bills due, and rue
.'yet at Maturity, were more than sufficient to discharge
the,(l6bt, but to meet the expenditure of the current
two months, it would be necessary to make a call of
ss, per share at the next meeting. A vo'e of thank.,
was rassed to G. Strode, Esq., the freeholder, for his
generosity in remitting the bAlance of dues. The
report presented by the agent encourages the share-
holders to entertain a hope that the nine would soon
be in a position of meeting the costs.
At the Wheal Mary meeting the accounts showed
a balance against the mine of 9121 161. Id., and a
call of 10. s. per. share was male.
At Wheal Concord meeting a revolution was unani-
mothly adopted, that the purser furnish an account
current of the receipts and payments of the mine
from the commencement of workings, and the meet-
ing was adjourned until it be ready for consideration.
At the Herodsfoot adjourned meeting, the mine
wrcs divided into 512 shares, instead of 256, as for-
merly; and a call of 21. 10_i. per share wits made, to
pay oft' the liabilities.
Shares of the following mines have changed hands
durirg:the week :—Devon Great Consols, East Wheal
Rose, Tiecroft, Bedford United: South Tamar, Devon
and .Courtenay, Trethevy, Tamar Consul., East
Buller, Trelawny, TreviFkey and Barrier, South
Basset, Tremayne, Mary Ann, Trehane, Stray Park,
Bwich Consols, Heignston Downs, East Tamar,
Wheal Russell, Wheal Fortescue, West Wheal Jewel,
and Treleigh.
In foreign nines the transactions have been chit fly
confined to United Mexican, Copiapo, and St. John
del Rey shores ; but some few bargains have been
etf,.cted in Imperial and National Brazilian, Alters,
Linares, Australian. and Nerth British Australasian
.hares. _

into the fire. It was a short letter. There was no
name. It ran thus .—" There will be a box left for
yen at Itetfond ; please to fetch it as soon as possible "-
I do not knoW the handwriting.
Thea; hilisi Buiton, the husband referred to by the lest
witness deposed as follows live at North Lever-
ton, and am a blacksmith. MY wife is the sister of
the prisoner. I re:aived a letter oil'Friday, the 30 h
of November last. The Asper now produced was the
envs!ope of the letter. It bears the Londan and
Itetford post-marks. My wife destroyed the letter,
hut the contents were as has been stated. Ido not
know the handwriting. It was to this effect :
There will be a box at itetford on Tuesday ; fetch it
away as soon as possible. On the same day the last
witness brought me a box, wl ich I opened with a
chisel, and found it contained the body of a dead
child. The next morning I gave the box and its con-
tsnts to a policeman.
Edward'Sinith, the policeman, depesed to receiy•
ing the box from the last witness. The box and the
a rani:Tr now produced are the same I received. It
contained the dead body of a male child. The direr
tion I found on Gingley- hill, about a mile and a half
from! he residers: of the last witness. The child was
naked, with a handkerchief round its neck tied
tight. There were bruises on the left tem-
ple and 1-ft ear, which must have been
inflicted by a severe blow. The clothes which I now
produce were found in the box. They were all shown
to Mrs. Johnson, and are the same that she has sworn
to to day. The child was quite fresh in appearance.
Mr. Francis Blsgg, surgeon, of South Retford,
deposed as follows :—I am a surgeon, and have been
in practice since 1830. On Monday, the 3d of Dec ,
I was called in to see the body of a child at the Royal
Oak,l North Leverton. The body was lying
on a table. It was a male child, from eighteen
months to two years old. It appeared
to have been dead but a very short time ;
I think it could not have been dead more than a
we, k, and perhaps not so long. I examined the child.
I observed great lividness in the face, particularly in
the eyelids, which were swollen ; also the tongue, the
breast, and between the teeth; the hands were
c!enched ; the nails were blue. I observed a contu-
sion on the left side of the forehead ; there was also
a bruise on the left car. I performed a post mortem
examination, and on the scalp I discovered extensive
blows or bruises on the upper portion of the left
side of the head, which must have been
inflicted by violence with s nue blunt instrument.
On removing the skull I discovered corresponding
masks on the' left membrane of the brain. On turning
back the outward membrane I found a considerable
quantity of extravasated blood on the,left hetnisilPre
of the brain, and the brain generally was congested.
I then opened the body, took out the stomach,
and found rather more than half a pint; of fluid i it
r-sembling gruel; also vend small portions of meat
undigested. The stomach was perfectly healthy, as
where the whole of' the abdominal viscera. On
opening the chest I fe and the right lung completely
collapse 1 ; the left lung, we h. the exception
of the lower portion, was in the same
state. In the lower portion of the left lung
I found a small quantity of air. A hand-
kerchief was tied round the neck which inflicted
some injury on it. These were all the appearances I
observed. The violence on the head, no matter how
it was produced, was in my judgment sufficient to
cause death. The state of the neck, in my opinion,
indicated that such a pressure had been used in tying
the handkerchief that might have produced death.
Sergeant Whitcher deposed to having found on
the premises in Harley-street some white handker-
chiefs, marked in iiik" S. Drake," which correspond
with the one found in the box. He had also received
a bunch of keys from the prisoner, one of which
unlocked the box. •
Mary Ann Wignell identified the box and wrapper
as belonging to the prisoner, having seen them in her
room. She slept with the prisoner.
The prisoner was then remanded till next week.

From the Barossa Range Mint s, letters have been
received, dated 11th June and 9th July, reporting
operations as progressing very satisfactorily ; 40 tons
of ore had been raii(-d at the Bremner, and 15 more
would be ready for shipment in two months. Thp
per centage of copper was 25 for 25 tons, and 16 for
15 tons ; the latter would be smelted there. Th(-
wet season made the roads all but impassable, and
rather delayed work at the mines. At the Lyn(!och
Valley Mine. the ground was hard, and recourse was
had to blasting. The quantity of ore raised there was
above 30 pir cent.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
The Court met yesterday, and after the transaction
of some routine business the following report of the
Committee of Health was read :

" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your
special committee, appointed on the sth day of July last,
to consider the means necessary to be adopted with rela-
tion to the cholera, do hereby certify that on the 13th
day of September last we were summoned by the Right
Lion. the Lord Mayor to attend his Lordship forth's iih
at the Msn:ion•house, for the purpose of receiving a
communication of urgi nt consequence from the Board of
Health appointed by her Majesty under the authority
of the Act of Parliament conferring upon the Board the
general superintendence of arrangements in resp, ct of
the public health, during the prevalence of cholera, or
other epidemic, or contagious disease. Your committee
immediately obeyed his. Lordship's summons, and. were
informed byhis. Lordship that having received a very
forcible representation from the Government Board of
Health concerning certain arrangements they dei m- d
necessary to he adopted within the city, he had, by
the advice of till City Solicitor, reqaested the Board
in a matter of so much moment to put the communica-
tion, which bad been orally delivered,: into writing.
that it might be laid in official form before your cow-
mitts e ; and your committee do further certify that a
written communication from the Board of Health was

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of this dsy.)
REDUCTION IN THE ARMY.—The plan proposed
for a diminution of the strength of the troops is, we
hear, to abandon the West India colonies as military
stations, which will relieve and place at the disposal of
the authorities at home, six regiments of the line. We
strongly deprecate such a measure, and trust that it
may never be carried into effect. The local colonial
Governments might find the means of forming colonial
corps for the protection of their lives and property ;
but this would be inadequate to meet any sudden broil
or commotion which might occur amongst the black
population, or on the occasion of a practical attempt
to land and plunder the inhabitants. Buccaneering
in full force would return to those shores, and the
islanders wouli be in a perpetual state of excitement
and alarm.

Major-General Thomas Banbury and Major• Gen.
J. W. Aldred have respectively succeeded to the
Unattached Pay of twenty-five, shillings per diem.
The services of the former were limited to Surinam,
Holland, and the American war. The historian is
silent as to the war service of the latter officer.
THE COLONELCY OF THE 80TH FOOT.—As DO
one really knows who is to succeed to a vacant
Colonelcy until the Commander-in-Chief an-
nounced it himsolf at the Horse Guards, we
make ,a point of abstaining from lending oar-
selves to the tdle rumours born of the wishes of
General Officers and their friends. We cannot,
however, Shut our ears to the current on diti, and
therefore, we may mention that club gossip and cer-
tain convictions of what ought to be, point to Major-
General Douglas Mercer, C. 8., as the probable suc-
cessor to Sir E. K. Williams. _ _

Captain Tulloch, lately returned from an inspection
of the pensioners resident in North America, is at
I'ilbury Fort forming the local companies as convict
guards for embarkation to Australia. The ship Eliza
sailed from Gravesend on Thurday, with the first
company for that colony.
STAFF or IRELAND.—Major-General his Royal
Highness the Prince George of Cambridge, having
proceeded on leave of absence to attend the funeral of
the Queen Dowager, Colonel Cochrane, the
Deputy-Adjutant General, has taken the com-
mand of the Dublin District. Major• Gen. Wemyss,
e. 8., having arrived in Dublin on leave of absence,
Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, K.H , has assumed the
command of the Athloe district. Captain Seton,
74th Highlanders, Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-
General, has proceeded from Dublin to England, on
leave. _ _

MEDICAL STMT.—Staff Assistant Surgeon Touch,
embarked in medical charge of the detachments in the
ship Waverley at Cowes, on the 14th instant, to
Malta. Assistant Surgeon Deakins, 3d West India
Regiment, having exchanged with Staff Assistant
Surgeon Manners, that officer will embark in medical
charge:of the detachment of the 97th Regiment, in the
ship Prince Albert fur Jamaica, and after wards join
his regiment in the West Indies. Staff-Surgeon
slspleton is on leave of absence from the depot
battalion at the Isle of Wight, to 30th Dec., 1849.
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.—Lieutenant Oxenden,
late of the 43d Light Infantry, has been appointed
barrack-master at !long Kong.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Mining Journal of th's day.)
The share market continues firm, and an active in-
quiry is still made for most of our leading mines.
Several regociations, which were pending last wee k,
have since come off. The present prosperous position
of the mine generally, and the apparent firmness of
the metal market, with the advance in tin and lead,
affords every encouragement for safe and remunera-
tive investment.

Devon Great Consols continues in request, and
business:deing in them.
Condurrow, South Frances, South Tolgus, Tre-
bane, Mary Ann,
.Carn Bren, and East Wheal Rose
among the several mines in request.
Tincroft is represented to have improved since our
last, both in the shaft and 90 end, which is now worth
401. per fathom. Several transactions have been
done. Tamar Consols is increasing her returns; the
profits from the mines and the smelting department
averages nearly 1,0001. per month. A dividend of
11. pee share may be anticipated next month.
Heignston Down is reported to have improved,
especially in the 35 fm. level, where they have a lode
worth full 301. per fm. Shares have been dormant
for some months, and buyers are now to be found at
an advanced price. The profitable and improving.
position of Bedford United, and the progressive im-
provement in South Tamar have caused several large
transactions during the week.

of the committee that the public and the corporation
are under the deepest obligation to that gentle-
man for his zeal and industry in exploring the
:sbutles of mis?ry and ni,b, and in fathoming to
their depths the causes and means of propagating epi-
demic and contniuus disease, as well as for the ability,
Firmness, and courage with which he has given his opi-
nions to tiro world in a form calculated to awaken
scnsble apprehension and to lead to their mitigation and
relief. And your committee cannot close their report
without expressing tht it opinion in the strongest terms,
snd their conviction as the result of information they
have received in the progress of their labours, that it is
the paramount duty of the corporation to appoint some
permanent committee, composed of representatives of
the several wards of tie city, to devise and carry into
execution at me broad and comprehensive measures for
improving tho s,mitary state of the city and the condi-
tion of the humbh r closes of its inhabitants; and for this
purpose we tire o! opinion that your committee should be
dissolved.
" All e hich is respectfully submitted to the judgment
• of this ion. Court•"
The report was ordercd to be printed.
After the transaction of some other business, the
Court adjourned.

ROWING HATCH.
OXFORD V. CAMBRIDGE.
This mites came off this afternoon, which, after a
very spit iled contest, was won by Vie Oxonians.

IRELAND.
(Faom OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 14.—The Case
of Catherine Devine: ag4inst Captain WManus,
which had been five days on trial, concluded this
afternoon, at half•past three, by a verdict for the
plaintiff-3501. damages, and sixpence costs. The
announcement of the verdict was received with great
satisfaction by a crowded court. The jury were in
consultation only 45 minutes. Not a point has been
reserved for the defendant.

t;ariey

This morning's Freeman contains a correspondence
of immense length between the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt
and Mr. J.P.Connell, and the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt
and:Mr.:Maurice Leyne, on the:subject of the proposed
junction of the Repeal Association and the "Irish
Allance." The clergyman above named has been
making strenuous exertions for the amalgamation of
both sections of Repeaters, but it seems without sue-
seas, notwithstanding the fervent desire expressed by
both for an union. The summary of the negotiation is
this : Dr. Spratt suggested that there should be a con
ference of the Conciliation Hall and Alliance Repealers,
and that this conference should consider the terms of
union. To this proposition the Alliance acceded, and
appointed a deputation, composed of nine members,
to meet a similar number from the committee of
Conciliation Hall. The latter, however, through Mr.
J. O'Connell (who is the entire committee himself)
declined to meet the Alliance in conference, until
they (the Alliance) should unreservedly adopt the
" peace policy " of the Association. Mr. Leyne, on
the part of the Alliance, declared their willingness to
accept the fundamental rules of the Associa-
tion "as founded in 1840," but not what
is generally called " the peace resolutions
of 1846," which Mr. Leyne designates an " unhappy
document. Mr. Leyne likewise offered to refer the
matter to Dr. Blake, R. C. Bishop of Dromore, Dr.
Spratt, Robert Holmes, barrister, and Sir Colman
O'Loghlen, to prepare a fundamental rule to keep the
new agitation: within the limits of the Constitution.
Mr. J. O'Connell, in reply to the propositions of his
"misguided and unfortunate relative," says that if the
Alliance party be sincere in their avowed wish to have a
perfectly legal organization, they can have no difficulty
in adopting of the resolutions of 1846 (which reserve
"physical force" fur self-defence), and the adoption
of which he makes a sine qua non. Co the matter
rests—both only agreeing to differ, and apparently,
as far from union as ever. The fact is, neither party
is sincere, for the self-interests of both are antago-
nistic, in
.a. way I need not explain just now. So
far as this question of " union " goes, reason
lies on the side of John O'Connell, for pugna-
cious gentlemen, of such as: those we bear of, by
the last arrival, of 'boxing in the streets of
New York; and who, by the way, were amongst the
most respectable of the party—would scarcely stand
tamely the supremacy which John O'Connell apes,
in sadly ludicrous imitation of his father. But this
correspondence is marked with a slander upon vir-
tuous misfortune—a dastard stab at fallen greatness,
which I did not think John O'Connell capable of
uttering or inflicting. I could scarcely believe my
eyes when I read the following passage in his long
letter closing the correspondence, and in reply to Mr.
Leone's proposition :
---
"I shall not waste time with the totally and Judi.
criously unfounded assertions in his letter, as to the pre-
eminence of the seceders in education, property and
intelligence; and as to their carrying with them the
opinion of the country, Neither shall I trifle with you
by discussing Mr. Le3ne's heroics about Tell and
Washington, to whose mimes he certainly does not do
much honour in associating them with those of the un-
settled, vacillating, and dreaming Lsmartine, the mock
Rousseau of his day ; and the knave and terroist,
Kossuth. And the republication of the document of
1846 will answer,:aufficiently for all right-minded men,
the strained referesces to America, Belgium, and poor
—poor Poland!—more enslaved by the distractions
caused by a small faction among her own children than
by the power of Russia."
Such is the competition amongst the steamers at
this station, and the lowness of fares, that immense
crowds of poor people are leaving, even in this cold
tempestuous weather, for Liverpool. Feeling curious
to know the fares, I inquired at one of the offices this
afternoon, and found that the Dublin Company were
charging ls. 6d. each for deck passengers, without
changing the cabin fare; whilst the Waterford Com-
pany, who have put on boats to annoy the Dublin
one, is carrying deck passengers at one penny per
head, cabin 2s. 6d., horses ls. each, pigs 3d. a piece,
and other freight at a similar preposterously low
figure.
THE FUNDS (THIS DAY).—Three per Cent. Consols,
for Opening, 914 i; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent.
Stock, 97i I; Midland Great Western, and Royal Canal,
23j 24; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 5i 6; Great
Ssuthern and Western, 34; Ditto, Preference, 4 p. ;
Wicklow Copper Mine, 91; Dublin Consumers' Gas, 5

laid before us, in which a system of house to house
visitation within the city was strongly pressed upon
the corporation, and the committee was likewise attended
by Mr. R. D. Grainger, the medical superintending in-
spector of the General Board of Health, by the orders of
the board ; and that gentleman, in very forcible lan-
guage, and by arguments the most convincing, supported
by facts within the range of his owe personal observa-
tion, and others to a sindler import, verified by medical
men of high authority, placed the subject before us in
such a light that your committee concurred with the
Lord Mayor in opinion that we dared not encounter the
serious responsibility of delaying, for a single day, to
carry into execution, to the best of our means and judg-
ment, the duty which this communication had cast upon
as. We immediately gave direction to Mr. Simon, the
officer of health, instructing him to retain the assistance
of a sufficient number of qualified medical men to under-
take the required service; and having regard to the im-
portant benefits conferred upon the public in the year
1102 from the unity of action produced by combining in
one body the medical men attached to the board
with the medical officers connected with the various
parishes within the city, the Officer of Health laid before
us a scheme for this purpose, which we thought expe-
dient to adopt, as uniting a large amount of efficiency
with a due regard to an economical expenditure of the
corporation funds. By this arrangement, which was in
force from the 13th of September to the 12th of Octo-
ber, when the cholera was reported to have sub,ided, the
constant service of eleven competent medical officers was
obtain( d, whose duty it was daily to visit the inhabitants
of the several houses within their allotted district, under
the immediate superintendence of the medical officers of
the respective unions, and subject to the general super-
vision of the Officer of Health of the city. Upon the
medical officer of the union the duty was devolved of
visiting at all hours of the day and night ell cases of
cholera and choleraic diarrhea', which were brought to
light by the system of domestic visitation within their
renectire districts; they likewise prescribed for and
supplied to the poor all re quisite medicines, and they
also made up the prescriptions of the medical visitors
and furnished every applicant with all necessary instil
tines, free of cost, to the parties visited. In
order to secure unity f action, and to obtain accurate
information upon every point necessary to be known to
enable the Officer of Health rightly to direct the powers
and agencies placed at his command, the medical officers
of the union daily attended him in consaltatior, to com-
pare the results of their experience, and to desire means
the more effectually to discharge their respective duties
under his superintendence. And we do further certify
that we caused a notification of these arrangements to
be made to the inhabitants throughout the city; and
being anxious to avert any exaggerated apprehensions
which this unusual step might otherwise occasion, we
caused an address to be issued to the inhabitants, in
white we familiarly explained the causes and objects of
the course about to be adopted, and invited the co- ope-
ration of all classes. And we do further certify that at
our weekly meetings we were attended by several inha-
bitants of different parts of the city, complaining of
nuisances prejudicial to health, and tending to the
spread of cholera and other epidemic diseases; and this
committee not having neon invested by law with
similar powers to those which were devolved upon
the City Board of Health during the visitation of
the cholera in the year 1882 we were unable to
grapple with those evils in the manner we should have
desired to do if they had fallen within the scope of our
authority. The clearing of the shores of the Thames at
the outfall of the several sewers within the limits of the
city having been specially committed to us by your
Hon. Court, was duly executed under our orders; and
we annex to this report a certificate of the City Archi-
tect as to the cost of constructing works permanently to
abate t 1 a noxious and offensive nuisances occasioned by
the discharge of the fetid contents of the sowers upon the
shores of the river at low water. From the information
we received during the progress of our labours, we are
of opinion, and do recommend, that it should be com-
mitted to ono of the committees of your lion. Court to
abate the nuisances in the way suggested by the City
Architect, or in some other effectual form. We do fur-
ther certify that we have had our attention especially
directed by the Officer of Health to the injurious influ-
ence of the crowded state of the burial-grounds within
the city upon the health of the inhabitants; we are
deeply impressed with the necessity there exists for
the application of an effectual remedy for this evil,
which we believe can be to otherwise removed than
by a legal prohibition of further interments in the
city. We have been invited to consider a project,
suggested some years since, for the corporation to
proviee a suitable piece of land, in the vicinity of
London, which (as has been since effected by the city
of Oxford) might be rendered available for all the city
parishes for the interment of their dead, to which the
canon low rights of parishes might attach, subject to all
the privileges of the parochial officers, both lay and
ecclesiastical. This subject of intramural interments is
very fully and ably treated by Mr. Simon, in a report
laid before your committee, which was also submitted
to the Commissioners of Sewers, who have caused it to
be printed. We abstain from doing more than invite
the attention of your Hon. Court to an early considera-
tion of the matter, being of opinion that its speedy set-
tlement is of deep importance to the health and comfort
of the inhabitants of the city. We do further certify
that the insufficiency of the water supply, Ile existence
of ill-ventilated slaughter-houses within the crowded
parts of the city, and the wretched state of the
dwelliegs of the poor, have been shown to us to
be the fruitful causes of disease amongst the

AWFUL FATALITY IN A FAMILY.—About two
years ago a boy, named Jones, in the employment of Mr.
Robert Grier, of Quatsford, rear this town, was sent to
lead a horse, and it is supposed that he tied the halter
round his waist. Tho horse teak fright and ran away,
dragging the poor fellow after him, gallopping across a
hop-yard, jomping two gates, and killing the boy in
stantly. Ate.ut six weeks ago a brother of this lad was
killed by falling down among a team of horses and the
waggon wheel passing over his head, leaving a wife and
two children to lament his death. Aco her brother, in
the employ of T. France, Dq., of Marley Hall, was
taking a lot of turkeys home in a cart on Tuesday last,
when they made a noise which startled the horse, and ho
gallopped (ff. The boy, in endeavouring to stop him,
was knocked ('own by the shaft of the cart. The wheel
going over his chest and head killed him on the spot.
Thus three fatal accidents of a similar nature have oc-
curred to three brothers within two years. It is but
justice to say that they were all honest and industrious
young men,— U'crcester Journal.

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A Pnouric lIEN.—A chicken the property of Mr.
F. Lee, Allendale, Northumberland, which was hatched
about the latter end of April, was discovered on the
9sh instant to have brought out SeVtlitC€ll birdli upon
sc,me planks on the attics of a cart shed. The u.other
of the same brQught wp twouty-six birds
SCO,SOP.—
Car lisle Journal.

Lhabitants, which, though commencing with the THE COUNTRY IVA R KETS.
humble, who are mere immediately subject, dto their WAKEFIELD, DEC. 14.—The arrivals continue liberal
influences', are prepigated and extended to all classes of of all articles. During the week country markets have
the community. All these topics are likewise treated ger:o..lllly made at me advance in prices, which has its
with great force and ability in the report of the Officer iauerce today, and we have a moderate business
of. Health, to which reference has been already int:de. pa,sipg at an improvement of is per quarter. No change
Your committee would have re juiced if it had been in the value of barley; the common qualities aro still
within the scope of their rowers to have applied even a very unsaleable. Ows and shill ng sell slowly at late
partial remedy feit some of these evils which it is the prices. Beans offered freely.
opinion of your committee may be, and ought to be,
mi•igated, if they cannot be entirely redressed; but your
commute were advised by the City Solicitor that the law
did not give them any jurisdiction in these matters.
Your cemnait tee are, however, happy to find they are all
under the inves igation of other bodies connected with
the corperation, and our committee hope that this in-
vestigation will lead to a partial remedy, and give rise to
legislative measures for their entire removal.
"In the course of your committee's operations they
have expended 6131. 15s. 3d., for which they have fi ono
time to time drawn upon the Chan.ber. This sum does
not icclude any remuneration for the professional ser-
vices of the eleven medical officers of the union cngsgesl
in the visitation. In the absence of all knowledge as tv
the amount and durwion, of the labours that might be
required of them, we were unable to make any previous
atreugement es to the quantum of remuneration to
hich they would be entitled; but since notice has been
ins, reed on the zummons for this Hon. Court recom•
mending an allowance of 20 guineas to each of the
medical officers, other facts have come to our knowledge
which have induced us : to recommend the sum of 30
guineas. „
" Your compitteo have further to express their un-
qualitlid admiration of the conduct of Mr. Simon, the
Officer of Health of the city of London, who, withoet
professional fee, and without your committee having any
claim upon his services, spontaneously devoted .o
their Uses his valuable time and energies from the first
day of their appointment to the close of their labours.
"To the per onal assiduity and professional charanr
and ability of Mr. Simon the public are in.debfed for tt e
admirable arrangements for house to house visitation, by
wh'ell the rersonel and locul knowledge of the medical.
officers of each union, in combination with the labours of
medical men specially appointed for that service, were
productive of the must beneficial results.
" Among the numerous reports made by Mr. Simon to
your committee, there is one general report which has
obtained our comnest attention, but as this report was
made to ,h. Commissioners of Sewers as well ac to your
committee, and as the Commissioners are by law em-
powered to deal with many of the evils therein
described, we refrain from discussing its details. It
would, however, ha unjust to Mr. Simon, if µo did
not, in this our closing report, express the opinion

New. Old.
WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel s. s, a. a.
Sufluik, Essex, and Kent, red 40 to 43 40 to 43
Ditto, white 45 48 45 48
Norfolk and Hunts., red ... —4O 39 —4l
Ditto, white ... ... 42 —45 43 —46 •
Lineoloshire and Cambridge, red ... 35 —3B 38 41
Ditto, white ... .. 42 —45 42 44
Yorkshire, red .., 38 38 40
Ditto, white 42 45 42 45
Dantzic and Kcnigsburg, white .. 43._ 46 42 —45
Lowerilaltie and llamburgh, red... 38 40 28 40
111edlerranean, red ... 34 37
BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:—
Norfolk and SutlOlk... 27 30
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire .. 23 —26
Scotch ..• ••• •••
Grinding per 30 stone ... 2') —2l ——
Foreign ... 23 —25 --
BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631b:—
inali, due 29 —3O 20 —32
Ticks , ... 28 —3O 28 —2l
ForeiAn ... • ... ... 27 —29 26 —3O
OATS, per stone
Mcaling . 94 to 101 Eli to 101
Feeding ... 8d to 94 8d to 9d
Foreign —d to —d 84 to 94
SHELLING, per load of 2611 b ... 21 —23 20 —22
MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels 32 35
PEAS, per Imperial Quarter
Blue and white boilers
Grey and Feed

[VATS.

ARM
Qrs.
• „.. ... 15,007
• ... 4 301
677
ans...
469

28 - :30 ---
25-27 ---

Qrs.

Ripeseed -
Shelling ... ... ... 213
Linseed .. .. 21
Malt ..• ... • • ...
Flour ... ... ...

as
••• ".

'eas

Tares
Ltvenroon, Dec. 14.—The arrivals from Ireland and
cnstwise inee Tuesday have been on a limited scale,
and Item Canada we have only received 500 loads of
()aunt al and 2,712 barrels of flour. From foreign ports
a fair su; ply of wheat has come forward, but small of
other articles. The exports in the same time have been
unimportant; The trade, without being brisk, has
evinced considerable firmness, and several parcels of
wheat have changed hands at lug prices. The weather
has been cold and damp during the past few days. At
this day's market there was only a middling attendaece
of the trade, but a fair business was done in wheat at
the full prices of Tuesday for foreign old, and an advane
of hl per 70lb on Irish new. Oats and oatmeal met with
a moderate retail demand, at late rates, as did barley.
beans, and peas. Geod qualities of flour were in rather
snore request, but inferior descriptions were extremely
difficult to move. Indian corn was again slightly dearer,
and 28s 61 was refused for prime American yellow.
EXETER, DEC. 14.--Cattle Market—The supply of
bullocks to-day was very small, as is always the case
the week after the fair. The few fat bullocks driven in
sold at 85 to 9, per score; cows and calves, 91 to 131.
Birreners, es 6(1 to 5s 61 per score. Butchers' calves,
5J to 51d. There was a good supple of sheep, most of
them lit for the butcher. Ewes, about 4id per lb;
wethers, sd; and for a few small prime articles, 51-el per
lb was obtained. There was a tolerable supply of at 're
pigs, but the demand was not brisk. Pork Carcases--
The supply was about equal to that of last week, but the
sale of large pigs was very dull. Prices ranged from 61
to 7s 31 per score. Pannier—Turkeys, 4s 6d to 6s 6rl
each; geese, 4s 6d to 6s Gd ditto; ducks, 4s ed to 5s
per couple; fowls, 2s 9d to 4s ditto; pheasants, 56 6d to
6s per brace; partridges, 2s 6d to 3s ditto; wood-
cocks, 4s 6d to 5s ditto; snipes, is 2d to is 6d; wild
ducks, 4s 64 to 5s ditto; teal, 2s to 2s 6d; widgeon,
36 6d; hares, 2s 61 to 3s each; rabbits, 10d; roasters,
4s to ss. Butter, lldto Is per lb; eggs, 12 to 14 for 1s;
potatoes, 8d to 9d per score; turnips, 3d to 4d ditto;
onions, lelb for is. Corn Exchange—One
remains pta tty near the same as that of last week.
Wheat is selling at 4s 10d to 5s 2d per bushel for the best
samples, and on the sshole the trade is rather firmer.
The quotations fur foreign wheat is 40s for red, and 453
for white, but this must be considered nominal, and in
consequence of the continued depression in English
whew, most of the foreign has been withdrawn from the
market, the holders being unable to effect a sale. Barley,
8s to 3s 31 per quarter; oats, is 9d to 23, Fine flour,
273 to 293 per sack, the ruling figure being 28s.
BItIbTOL tR MARKET, DEL 14.—We have only'
to repo-rt a moderate amount of business this week, but
prices are well sustained. Refined goods of all descrir
tions met a good sale, at rather improved rates. Runs
and molasses are without alteration.—Bristol Mercury.
RIPON, DEC, 13.—White wheat, 5s 3d to 5s 6d,
red do 4s 3d to 5s 3d; beans, 4s 3d to 48 9d per bushel;
barley 24s to 26s ; oats 14s to 22s per quarter.
SCARBOROUGH, DEC. 13.—Red wheat 4s 6d to 5s Od, old
ditto 5e 31 to 5s 9d per 5 stones; white oats 74d to Bd,
black ditto 7d to lid per stone; making barley 21s to 2314
grinding barley 19s to 21s per quarter of 32 stones; super-
fine flour 35s to 365, seconds ditto 29s to 305 per sack Or
20 stones.
WE'IVERBY, Dec. 13.—White wheat 15s Od to 166 03,
red ditto 133 6d to 14s Od; barley 228 to 141; beans
13s 63 to 14s 63; oats, 84d to 9d. Beef, 5s to 6s; mutton,
5d to 6d.
KNARESB^ROUCII, DEC. 14.—Wheat, 4s 3d to 5s Od;
beans, 46 31 to 5s 61 per bushel; barley, 24s to 265;
oats, 163 to 20s per quarter.
NORTIIALLERTON, DEC. 12.—White wheat 5s 6d to

6s 03, red ditto, 4s 6d to ss; oats is 6d to 2s 3d; beaus
3s 6d to 4s Od, barley 2s 6d to 3s Od per bushel.
MORPETII, DEC. 12.—At our corn market this day

COAL MARKET.—YITATE/WAY.
Bate's West Hartley... 16s Oct Hetton .... 193 ?ti
Buddle's W. Hartley.. 16s 6,1 Haswell 193
~
Carr's Hartley
Chester Main l6s 6d Russell's Hetton ..«.. 196 °cl.
Holywell Main ... l7a 3d Stewart's
North Percy Hartley.. 16s Od Caradoc .....
Ord's Redheugh
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 16s Od Whitworth 153 .-,
West Hartley
I sd
Windsor's Pontop.... . 15s Od 'St. Helen's Tees -
3d
Wall's End, &c. rises ...... ..........
Hilda l7s 6d Cowpen Hartley
Washington
Lambton Primrose
Belmont _ 18s 6d WhitworthCoke ...... 215 Od

Ships at ni

market. 43.

RAILWAY 611 it MARKETS
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to .day was inactive'
The only variation in prices was—Midland Stock, 48*

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 14.
STOCK ExcmiNcE.—The share market was very dad
to day. The transactions were as follow:—Lancashire
Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 6/.135. .d. dis. —London and Norte
Western, 112!4—Ditte, New Quarters, 94 p.—East Lao to,
shire, Preference, Quarters, 71/8 Midland, 49 -- WZlfi
Halves, 21% dis. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, 13
—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 61. Bs. 9d. c.
MANCHESTER, Dice. 14. SO
STocK EXCHANGE. --The transactions to-day were if
follow :—London and North-Western, Manchester and ild.
mingham (C ), Quarters, 1 thp. Manchester, She
and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 2 1- [6—Ditto, Preference, C-
ranteed 71/4 per cent., 9 9-16 c.— Ditto, Grimsby, 121. I'l6
2 % —Grimsby Dock, 49-16 Caledonian, Preference, 8 11"
pet
- Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 6% dis. —Ditto, °I)
Riding Union, 20!., 6172 dis. South-Eastern (No. '
Scrip, lA.

BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 14. ~0011
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is really nothing doing -'l3cl
our Stock Exchange. Transactions are at a stand-still; 1106
for some months to come, except privately, there is 13
hope of improvement.
YORK, DEC. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were le
follow : Caledonian, 111,42 Midland,49 4—York, ffeWcol
and Berwick (Newcastle Extensicn), 11%.
GLASGOW, DEC. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were
follow :—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (NO.
Ill.3s.—Monklands, 11.

THE POOR-RATES IN SOMERSETSHIRE.•-*At
al
Glastonbury large cattle market dinner, on M°l2-es
last, Mr. Ralph Neville stated that the poor-lej,
in the Wells Union had very considerably dunisiflot
In the parish of Meare they were 1501 less tbsi° the
year, and in Glastonbury they were 301. less, sn'eneto
union-house was inhabited by one-fifth loss of Psur
than lastlyear.

BIRTHS.
On the 13th inst., Mrs. James Johnston, of Botolpirl"1.00
of a daughter. A.sclels
On the 12th inst., at Tooting, the wife of A. W. Ga"—
Esq., of a son. MO'
On the 12th inst., at Liverpool, the wife of John
Oubrey, Esq., of a daughter. 04''
On the lath inst., the wife of Bonamy Dobree, jun°
of a son. i
John's,
On the 13th inst., at. Upper Hamilton-terrace, St• do-
wood, the lady of M. J. Soares, Esq., of a son. soil'
On the 13th inst., Mrs. Watts, of Coltman-street, o_f__!..„."

MARRIED. c 10"
On the Fth inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, George.--*Afelo
Esq., to Ellen, y( tp,gest daughter of the late J. ri
Esq., of Funtingdon, Sussex. e? - 0
it
On the 11th inst., at Cheltenham, William T. Forb )(-0
J
of the late Lieutenant-General Alexander Cosby ac fP'
Lieutenant, R.N., to Mary Susannah, eldest daughter 0
C. Bacon, Esq., Commander, R N. ,tert
min-
On the 12 h inst., at St. Jawes Church, Nest —„glft-
David Steel, of Spring-gardens, to Harriet, second clB—
the late J. Barett, of Sackville street, Piccadill-'

v 1.116
DIED
On the 9th inst., at Juniper-hill, Mickleham, Surrla tc"/
Hon. and Rev. Sir Henry Leslie, Bart., late Ch";-eiss
George 111 youngest son of Jame Cotie'coorr
Bottles, and 'Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart.,
of George 111. 1;8114
On the 9th inst., at the Shrubbery, Northfice"
Physician to the
Major Pardoe, aged 71. -rrisheP-
On the 10th inst., in the Harrow-road, Miss
Gordon, aged 73. Esq' 0
On the 12th inst., at Derby, Mellor HetheringtotiPtiorre
On the 12th inst., Caroline, daughter of Henry """
E5.q., of Bloomsbury-Square.
1COV) ill'
Lt,ndon: Printed and Published by idUBDO /40, it
No. 112, Strand, Printer, et The Sun Offlem,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savor. in the empty
111idet_emeri. Saturday, December 15, 1849..

new wheat sold from 28s to 38s, old ditto, 42s to 44a ;
barley, 18,8 d to 225; oats 13s 4d to 18s 8d per qr.
1111YL, DEC. 11.—We had a crowded market to•dtsly
and all kinds of grain met with a further reduction fro
the prices of last week. Wheat, 12s; barley, gi i°
8s 61; beans, 8s 6d to 9s; oats, 5s per bobbet.
LLANRWST, DEC. 11.,--We htid another poor fair to.
day. The cattle and horses brought forward were almost
unsaleable, there being no demand. There was a great
number of pigs shown. Large fat ones fetched about 3i
per lb., live weight. For stores sud sucking pigs there
was but little inquiry, and at very low rates.