The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT MARKET.

The only novelty in this market is in Rum, which sells to
a considerable extent. Prices are looking up, and in some
instances more money has been obtained.

HOP MARKET.

The market is quiet, and farmer prices rule. The accounts
from the hop-grounds continue to be good for the plant. The
duty to-day is 140,000/.
TALLOW MARKET.

p, y. C., 483. to 48s. 6d. on the spot, and 465. 61 for
delivery.

WOOL MARKET.

This commodity continues to sell steadily at last sale prices.
We think the public sales improve rather as they advance.
COLONIAL MARKETS.

The sales to-day were numerous rather, and some of them
heavy, and calculated to depress the market. Of Sugar there
were 5,900 bags Mauritius, 4,051 bags and 261 boxes Bengal,
and 5,500 bags Manilla. All did not sell, and prices are much
as yesterday, both for these descriptions and B. P. Ccffee,
343 casks and 350 bags B. P., and 365 bags Ceylon, which went
much at previous rates. Cocoa, 23 bags Trinidad, went much
as before, and so did some small parcels of Spices of all de-
scriptions. No alteration in the value of Saltpetre at public
sale. On the whole, we have not had any great buzincss eon°
during the week ; and prices of commodities where altered from
those of last %Neck arc lower. This is the case with raw Sugar
in pa•ticular.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 5.
We have no alteration to report from yesterday's basiness.
Our market wai again quiet, and the entire sales amount to
3,000 bags, for which late prices were obtained; 70 Egyptian
01d. to 10d. ; 200 Surat 44-d. to ; 150 Pernam 9d. to
9d.: 601 Bahia Bad. to Bftd. ; 2,520 American sfd. to Bd.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat.

Barley.

Oats.

Beans.

Pease.

SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—Yesterday a General Court
of the Proprietors of Stock in this Corporation was held at the South &.a
House, for the purpose of declaring a dividend for the past half year, and
upon other affairs; Charles Franks, Esq. in the Chair. The Chairman
stated that it appeared, by the accounts just read, that the amount to
be provided by Government for the payment of If per cent. on the
capital of the Company, as guaranteed by Act of Parliament, was
4,4041. 15s. 11d., for which an application had been made to the
Treasury. He moved that the dividend beagreed tu.—Carried.
MONEY-MAKING IN SOUTH AMERICA.—The
love of money-making we know to be a pretty universal passion; but
we think the following development of that highly popular feeling as
striking a one as we have ever met with :—" Friend," said the cone.
mender of a garrison ha Mexico to an English resident there, who had
bought some powder for blasting," Friend," he said," in not giving me
the preference you have been ungrateful." " The preference for
what ?" "In the powder." " I did not know that you had powder
for sale." " But I have though, in the Arsenal when a friend wants to
buy; I would have sold it you at hajf-price I" . . ." A governor of
a place on the coast of Mexico actually offered to sell, to the master of
an American merchant ship, the brass guns of the fortress under his
command."—Ruschenberger's Voyage Round the World.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary meeting
was held yesterday afternoon in the museum, in Leicester.square, Vis.
count Eraybrook, Vice-President in the Chair. The report of the
Council was read by the Secretary, the Rev. John Barlow. It announced
that the receipts of the past month were 1,769/. 15s. )od., and of ex.
penditure—to the menagerie 953/. 10s. 11d., the Museum 243/. 2s. 3d.,
and the general establishment 142/. 13e., and there had also been in.
vested in the reduced three per Cents. 631., making a total of
1,3441. Gs. 2d., and leaving a present balance in hand of 1,3591.
4s 3d. The Council had also the previous day given instruc-
tions for the further investment of 7201., which would complete the
whole amount received for compositions since the formation of
the Society, but exclusive of those who bad died. The number
of visitors to the museum was 678, and the sum received there.
from 61. I is. Amongst the donations to the menagerie was a fine
female dshikketaei, or wild ass of the Indies, from Colonel Pot.
tinger, and a male Reeves Chinese pheasant, presented by Sir
Thomas Baring, fur which the especial thanks of the Society were
awarded. The number of visitors was 37,776, and the amount
received 1,148/. 7s. An experiment was now in careful pro-
gress at the gardens which, if successful, would tend much to the
reduction of expenditure in the keeping of the animals, by the
substitution of horse flesh for other food, and which as yet seemed
to agree with them perfectly well. The report further stated,
that all the illustrious foreigners who had attended at the
coronation bad been invited to the collections of the Society as a
compliment to her Majesty, the Patroness, and to the countries
which they represented. In answer to a question, it was stated by
the Secretary that the present amount of capital funded in stock is
10,431/., which would be further increased by 724/. The sul.ject cf
the great pressure at the gardens on Sundays was adverted to by several
Members. I t was stated that tickets for admission on that day were
openly sold in the Park, and that by these means, and other similar
frauds, the admission of improper characters could not be prevented.
The Noble Chairman stated that on the last Sunday two cases of forgery
were detected at the gardens, which, as well as breaches of the privi.
leges-of the Members, were very common. He also announced that for
the greater convenience of Members on the succeeding Sunday, the box
for tickets would be removed to one side of the entrance gate, and which
would probably have some influence in diminishing the pressure.
IRON WELDING.—A practice has for some time
prevailed at Keswick of welding iron and steel, with a mineral which is
said to be very abundant in that neighbourhood, and is found to answer
the purpose much better than sand or borax, inasmuch as it affortis a
decidedly better protection to the fusing meta's. It is used ht the sate e
common or simple way as sand, requiring no further care or inane.,
went. Two, three, or more Pieces of cast steel may be welded together,
and drawn out, hardened and broken across the junctures, which cannot
be observed ; or iron and steel can be welded together in the same way,
as perfectly, and with as much ease as the mildest steel or iron.— Carrde
Patriot.
The Glasgow bakers have advanced their bread Id.
The 41b, fine loaf is 10d., the household ditto Bd.
Ott Friday, as a gentleman was driving a young
horse in a light outside car, the animal took head, and dashing vio-
lently against the iron pallisades of a house standing at the corner of
Gloucester.street aed Gardiner.stteet, drove it and the masonry upon
which it was secured into the area beneath, plunging down himself and
carrying the car along with him. The gentleman fortunately leaped off
in time. The singularity of the case is, that the horse was uninjured
beyond slight wounds on the knees, and the damage of the car was con.
fined to the breaking off the end of one of the shafts —Dublin Pilot.
On Monday an inquest was held on the body of a
very beautiful young woman, who was found drowned in the canal on
the north side of Dublin. She had been dead some time when her be-
reaved friends were made aware of their misfortune. She was eery
respectably connected. Her father is an influential Member of the
Commons, consistent, and I believe wealthy. This young lady had
formed an unhappy attachment for a very unworthy object. For a long
time, however, she would not hear of anything to his prejudice, until
she learned that lie had contrived to gain access to a bureau of her
mother's, from which he stole 200 sovereigns, but not unohserve.l. Ile
was immediately secured. At his trial the proofs ptoduced left not a
shadow of doubt as to his guilt, and he was transported for life. Since
the sentence was put into effect her mental agony has known no dinned.
tion ; her spirits entirely deserted her. She was most kindly used by
her sympathising parents and other relatives, but in vain ; she snlud,d
herself from all intercourse with the world, ant determined on :eav:ttg it
for ever by her own act. In the night she contrived to leave her home
undiscovered, and plunging into the canal perished without oasei vat ion.
The jury returned a verdict accordingly,

LAMBETII-STREE T.
THE LATE M%STEIsIOUS MURDER IN THE WATERLOO-ROAD.
—Yesterday Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, who has been em-
ployed by the brother and friends of the late Eliza Grimwood
to watch the proceedings before the Coroner and the Magis-
trates at Union-Hall, and assist in bringing to justice the in-
human murderer of the unfortunate young woman, made an
application to the Hon. G. C. Norton, for his interference to
protect the person of his c;ient, Mr. Thomas Grimwood, under -4
the following circumstances : •
Mr. Pelham stated that, after the murder of the unfortu-
nate young woman, Eliza Grimwood, her eldest brother, Mr.
Thomas Grimwood, under letters of administration (his mo-
ther, who was the next of kin, having renounced in his fa-
vour), took possession of the property of his deceased sister, in
her house in Wellington-terrace, Waterloo-road, as well as
some money in the saving bank, and for this he incurred the
enmity of Hubbard, the paramour of the deceased, and his
friends. About a fortnight ago it had been the misfortune of
Mr. Grimwood to have met with a very severe accident, by
which several of his ribs were broken, and he was removed to
the London Hospital in consequence. The object of his
( Mr. Pelham's) present application was to require the protec-
tion of his Worship for the patient, as the annoyances to which
he was subjected in his present state might be attended with
the most serious consequences.
Mr. Pelham, before leaving the office, handed to Mr. Norton
the two following extraordinary letters, which he had received,
in reference to the mySterious murder. The first was written
in French, but the following is the translation :

" Mr. Lawyer—lndeed you are a fine subi-ct for thelB3 worBms.
Take care of your own precious throat ! The stiletto is yet
further capable, and yotr person pretty well known.
(Sinned) " I'. J. DE SASSEAU.
" To Mr. Pelham, Old Gravel-lane."
" Bowling green Inn, Lea.nington Spa, June 23, 1638.
" Sir—There is no peace for me this side of the grave, aidi
I fear not much on the other, for my crime is sery dark.
I cannot rest at all while I have this feeling and this affair
on my mind. I ant haunted day and night. 0 Lord, this is a
pretty conscience. I wish I could sum up courage enough to
surrender, hut I cannot and dare net. I must come to it
sooner or later. Pm afraid you will rot be able to find me ;
but Mr. —, jun., knows me and all particulars. lIN ish
the earth would swallow me up that I might be forgotten.
" PIIILLIPPE DE SASSEAU.
" Addressed to Mr. Pelham, Old GAvel.lane."
Mr. Pelham observed that at fie.,t he was inclined to attach
some importance to the last letter ; but it wai his opinion now,
and which opinion was actin:aced in by Mr. Hardtsicke, to
n1:4331 he had shown it that mornie,g, that it, as well as the
preceding, .was the mere effusion of a disorded mind.

ALARMING ACCIDENT.—We 'egret to state that
an accident of a very serious nature ac urrcd at Leith on Thursday
night, in cons: quence of the explosion of a large quantity of corn.
bass Riles Arrangements had been made for a brilliant disp'ay of fire-
works on the Links, in the centre of which a large uncovered waggon
was placed, whence several beautiful and very powerful rockets had bvra
discharged, when about half-past 10 o'cl:Tk, in consequence of some
sparks falling into the box, in which the fire.wo.ks were pLced, the
ulso!e. (amounting to about 401. worth) exploded at once. The imme.
diate appearance and cflott was ter rifle to those in the near neighbour_
hood, splendidly la•autiful to those at a distance—the vehicle on which
the people employed in setting oft' the fireworks stood being instantly
eixeloped in flames of different shit es, b'ue, red, and white, Whilst
torretus of I've issued from U.° sp.st in all cUrections. 'men were
se.m I.aping from the waggon, which at the time was closely
Ba:rounded by a dense multitude of 10-oplc, amongst whom were
many women and children, who ripihrd from the place in the
greatest consternation. Many were thri.vn down, rind upon them
showsers of ignited sparks ssescended with f. arful rapidity. The scene
foreib'y remin.led one of the hors o: s of war, or the eft. ct that might be
•xp. ct.d to re,ult from a discharge of Congreve rocks or grenades into
a crowded street or upon the clerk of a slap, It is satisfactory to state,
however, th:.t this unfortunate accident WAS not attended with any
very serious or extensive mischief. By Information derived from a
source on winch we can place Perfect confidence, we.are happy to learn
tb t no lives were lost, and that the unfortunate individuals who hut'_
fl red are all in as favourable a condition as can be exacted. The
number of Fermis seriously hurt did not exceed twelve. The worst
case was that of a woman, who receive.] a compou:.d facture of time
large bone of the leg from a splinter of the wooden box in which tho
fireworks were contained. She was immediately conveyed to the sur-
gical ward of the Leith Casualty hospital, and a favourable report of
her condition has been trade by the medical officers of Li:at useful insti.
tution. —Eclinburzh Paper.