The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

Per albs. to sink the offal.

I. d. to s. d, 11. fi. to 8. d.
Inferior Beasts..... 3 2 3 4 Second goal. Sheep 3 6 3 11
Second quality •... 3 6 3 S Coarse-weolled ditto 310 4 0
Prime large Oxen.. 3le 4 0 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4
/lime Scots ...• .. 4 2 4 4 Ditto but of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 3 Large Hogs ...... 3 2 3 8
Prime small ditto .. 3 3 310 Small Porkers .... 310 4 2
.uckllng Calves ..13 0 25 0 Quartz!' old Pigs ..1E I 22 0
Inferior Shoop • • . 3 2 3 4 Lambs .......... 0 0 0 0
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET,
I Sheep. I Calves
3,920 310.

Bouts.
1,436

rigs.
290

Beasts.
98

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Sheep. Calves.
420 140
SCOTCH.
Sheep. I Calves.
70

rip.

Beasts.

NEWGATE AND LEADENEALL.
These markets were very heavily supplied with each
kind of Meat, nevertheless the demand was steady, on
the following terms:—

At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. 1 s. d. o s. d.
,inferior...... 2 6 2 8 , Mutton, inferior •• 2 8 210
middling 210 3 0 middling— 3 0 a 4
primelarge .. 3 2 3 6 primo .... 3 6 310

Primo small .. 3 8 310 Pork, larie.... •... 2 8 3 4
meal • . .... 3 0 310 small •• .. 3 6 4 2
ROILOUGH HOP MARIERT.

We have no material change to notice in this market.
Fine Hop*, of the present and last year's growth, are
scarce, aid quite as dear. In all other kinds only a
moderate business is doing at late rates. New Mid and
East Kent Pockets, 61 10s to 12/ ; Ncw Weald of
Kent ditto, 61 5s to 81; ,New Sussex ditto, 51 15a to
61 15i ; New Farnhams, 12/ to 13/; Yearling Kents,
31 to 41 12e; Yearling Sussex, 2/ 8a to 31 17s; Old Hops,
11 to 41 per cwt.

COLONIAL.
&MAR.—There has been an active demand fur British
Plantation, and an advance of 6d pi r cwt has been paid.
Bat Laloes has been at 41s to 41s 6d for fine yellow, and
at 38s to 40s 6d for mid to good.

REFINED advanced t 9 49s 6d, and 508 for brown lumps.
EAST INDIA —Madras has been brisk at full pricey;
good and fine grocery 29s 6d to 445, and good
and fine white 41s to 435. Bengal has had
a brisk sale by auction ; good and fine strong
yellow, 42s 6d to 443; low and mid 37s 6d to 40s;
good and fine strong brown 35s 6d to 375; strong white
44s 61 to 463 ; and Benares ord fine yellow like
Mauritius 353 to 395; Mauritius privately has realised
fuller rates.

FOREIGN.—Porto Rico has been sold at 363 to 394 for
low and mid yellow, and at :303 6d to 43s 6d for
good and fine. Java went at 32s to 33s for ord and low
brown, at 36s 6d for mid grey. Havannah has been
bought in at 39s 6d.

COFIEE.—The value of Plantation Ceylon has been
barely supported. Low mid has been sold at 59s to 60s
6d, and up to 64s for mid coloury. Native is also lower,
good ord ils to 525, and real good ord 52s 6d. Madras
has been sold at 56s 6d to 61s 6d for fine and fine fine
ord pale, and at 45s to 47s for triage, being full prices.
Its West India and other samples there has been no par-
ticular change.
Cocos.—This articles has been dull. Trinidad has
been sold at 40s to 45s for low grey to mid red, and at
47s for good.

SALTPETRE.—Extreme rates have been paid for
good and fine rough, but lower sorts went heavily.
SPlCES.—Nutmegs have been a shade cheaper-1s ld
to 3s 3d per lb. Macs has beets sold at is 4d to 2s 63
per lb, being full prices. Cassia Lignea of first and
second quality has been steady. Bourbon Cloves, 7id
to 71d per lb. Malabar Pepper, 311 for half heavy;
white rather cheaper.
COTTON.— The market is quiet at about previous rates.
TEA.—At the public sales 19,800 packages were
offered, and 4,300 sold without spirit at previous sales'
prices.

TALLow.—This article is quiet at 3Ss 3d to 38s 9d
per cwt on the spot.
RlCE.—Extensire purchases have been made privately
in Bengal, at 9s 9arto 10s 6d for mid and good mid,
being fuller rates.

GREEN FRUIT.—The demand continues good, the
moderate price of all kinds having its influence on con-
sumption. Oranges have not sustained the advance ob-
tained last week. Two cargoes of Seville China, one of St.
Michael's, and 800 boxes Lisbon, sold by Keelicg and
Hunt, at :public sale, went. at a reduction of Is to 2s per
package. Lemons are in request, and the stock is nearly
cleared from first hands. A cargo of good quality has
been sold at an advance of Is per case. Chesnuts, 3d to
4s per barrel higher. Black Spanish 425, Barcelona 41s;
Brazil, in fair demand.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at NIL Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief
Justice WILDE, and a Special Jury.)
DAKIN, ADMINISTRATRIX, V. BROWN.
In this case Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Ogle, and
Mr. Needham were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr.
W. H. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Edwin James, rupre-
seated the defendant.
The action was brought, under Lord Campbell's Act,
by the widow and administratrix of the late Mr. Dakin,
the eminent tea-merchant of St. Paul's Churchyard,
who, it will be remembered, was killed in the summer
of 1848, by the explosion of a boiler, which he
was using in his endeavours to perfect an
improved method of roasting coffee. The de-
fendant is a straw - bonnet - maker, in Wood-
street; Cheapside, and the manufacturer and patentee
of a patent cellular steam-plate for boilers, at
Great Suffolk-street, in the Borough. The defendant
tiad supplied by contract the boiler which burst and
killed the plaintiff's husband on the occasio❑ referred
to; end this action was brought to recover a compensa-
tion in damages from the defendant for the bereavement
and sorrow which had been eccw_ioned to the plaintiff
and her childr, n by the explosion, which the plaintiff
alleged had arisen from the badness of the metal of which
the boiler was constructed.

Mr. Alfred Waterhouse proved, on the part of the
plainiff, that it happened at a warehouse belong-
ing to Mr. Dakin, situated in Shoemaker-lane,
Earl-street, Blackfrisits. The building consisted of
four storeys, in the topmost of which the boiler which
bursted was placed, the furnace (which communicated
with the boiler by means of a hydraulic pump) being
:thuabal on the ground floor. The cylindrical boiler
which bursted was in court, and arpeared to be aheut
two feet iu diameter and three and a half feet long. I;
was'fixed in solid brick-work, with two inches of sand
all round bet%.ecia the brick-work sod ihs ovEn. Ile
cylinder was not heated in the ordinary way, but by
infants of but water from the furnace on tha ground_
fl 'or, which was poured into a series of lungitudinai
halts placed round the mucnine, at intervals of about
half an inch. .4. silver cylinder, in which tho coffee was