The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-02 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Blenheim steam
guard-ship, Captain Horatio Austen, C. 8., was towed
from tier moorings up the harbour this morning to the
side of the Yictorieuse hulk, into which her officers
and crew were discharged on account of the preva-
lence of malignant sickness on board.
The Phoenix steam-sloop, Commander Wodehouse,
went out of harbour yesterday afternoon, and sailed
from Spithead at half-past four this morning for
Devonport, where she will be paid advance prior to
sailing on the 3d with the mail for the coast of Africa.
Extract of a letter from Bombay, dated June 25 :
" Her Majesty's ship Inflexible sailed from Hong-
Kong at 2 P.M. on the 25th of May, and arrived at
Singapore at half-past 9 A.M. on the Ist of June, and
at Bombay on the 19th of June. Sir Francis Collier
embarks in the Fury for Trincomalee, to look after
the alterations intended for the dockyard there, and
will afterwards visit Bombay. '1 he Cambrian, 40,
Commodore Plutnridge, by the last Madras papers,
was there; she also will go afterwards to Trincoma-
lee. The Inflexible brought about 300,000 dollars on
account of the merchants of Bombay, and will sail for
England on the 2d of July."
WooLwica, AUG. I.—The Atholl troop-ship,
Master-Commander Pearn, embarked the Royal
Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners for the Cape
of Good Hope and the Mauritius this morning, and,
at eleven o'clock A.m., left for her destination.. The
detachment to fill up the company of artillery at the
Cape of Good Hope embarked at four o'clock A.M.,
and Major Browne's company for the Mauritius, and
part of Major Lethebridge's company, under Captain
Romer, were played by the band, at eight A.M. from
the garrison to the dockyard. The 15th company
of Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of
Captain Robertson, marched from these barracks at
eight o'clock A.M. About five waggon loads of bag-
gage were taken back to the garrison after the
departure of the Atholl, her commander having ob-
jected to that extra quantity in proportion to the
number of officers and men being taken on board.
Major-General Pasley, R.E., visited Woolwich dock-
yard to-day to witness the embarkation of his son,
Lieutenant Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, for the
Cape of Good Hope.

ESCAPE OF A CoNi/ICT.—A convict named John
Wood, alias Forbes, 31 years of age, escaped yesterday
from Woolwich Dockyard, and is supposed to have gone
out at the south-west gate while the men were at break-
fast. The whole of his clothing, with the exception of
his stockings, were found concealed on the top of some
timber in one of the sheds, which renders it evident that
he must have had accomplices to aid him in his escape.
He is a native of Derby, and a bootmaker by trade, and
was under sentence of transportation for ten years for
burglary, and previous conviction, his trial having taken
place at the Central Criminal Court.
COLOSSEUM AND CYCLORAMA. —This exhibition has
been crowded during the week. Among the numer-
ous visitors were the following distinguished parties:—
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Shelburne, Earl of
Pembroke and party, Earl of Fortescue, Bishop of
Gloucester and family, Lady Fitz.Wygram and party,
Lady Louisa Parker, Lord do Ros and party, Lord
Sudeley and party, Lady M'Donnell, Lady Guern-
sey, Sir 11. and Lady Pakenham and party, Colonel
Sir H. F. Davie and party, Lady Bereaford, Mr. Cobden,
M.P., &e,

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULY 31.—At cur market this
morning the trade ruled exceedingly dull for all articles, there
being scarcely any transactions to note. The little business
done in wheat may be quoted at about the rates of Saturday•
Barley, oats, and other descriptions of grain at previous terms•
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JULY 31.—There were
in the market to-day 87 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280110
imperial, whereof 64 sold thus:-32 at 1110 s, 12 at 11956 d,
7 at 1/ 9s Od, 12 at 11 8s 6d, and 1 at 11 7s 6d.
Average price of the whole, 119 s 5d 8-12ths. 4 sacks flour,
whereof 2 sold at 335, and 2at 31s. 1 sack peaserneal,
which sold at 20s. 31 sacks pot-barley, whereof 26 sold thus:
lat 11 lOs Od, 3 at 1/ 9s Od, lat 11 Ss 6d, lat 11650'J,
4at 115 s 6d, lat 115 s Od, 4 at 1! 4s 6d, 1 at 113 s Od, 2at
112 s 6d, and 6 at 1/ 2s Od. 3 sacks brosemeal, whereof 1
sold at 275.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JULY 31.---
Supplies of all kinds small. Oat straw, from 6s 6d to
8s Od per kemple of 16 stones trop; wheat ditto, 6s 6d to
7s 6d ; barley ditto, 6s 6d to 7s Od. Old hay from 7d to 9d;
new ditto, Cd to 8d per stone.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JULY 31.—From
burgh and the north of Scotland we have received about 100
head of fat cattle. Generally speaking, the show is very in-
different both in respect of quantity and quality. The supply
of sheep and lambs is again seasonably large, the former is in
good, but the latter is in a very middling condition. The
supply of beef is 386 head. The beef trade is tolerably active ;
former rates are fully supported, and nearly all are disposed
of. The number of sheep and lambs is about 6,500. The
mutton trade has undergone an improvement, and few remain
unsold ; while lamb is exceedingly active, and very little re-
mains unsold. Prices—Beasts, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per stone Of
141bs ; sheep, 4id to is per head above ; lambs, 5d to bid
per lb, sinking offal.
CORK, JULY 30. Flour—Firsts 14s to 15s Od; extra 15s 6d;
seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d; households lOs to 12s; thirds, 8s to 10s
per cwt. Oatmeal 13s to Os; Indian areal 7s 3d to 7.6 d ; wheat..
meal, lOs Od to Ils per cwt. Indian corn 71 Os to 7/5s Od per
ton. Bran 41 to 4/ 58 per ton. Hay—Farmers 15s to 275; average
18s; dealers 27s to 28s; average 00s Od per ton. Straw—Farmers
20s Od to 36s Od; average 325; dealers 40, Od to 453 Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 60;
household loaf sd, to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, .8d to
9d per lb. Eggs —4s 2d to 4s 4d per hundred. Coals
Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best Neath
Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 00s per ewt•
Whisky, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 5d to bid; veal bld to
7d; nork 4d to bid; bacon Id to 8d; sausages 6d per
lb. -Hops 61 10s per cwt. Bangor slates 31 21 6d to 315 s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to 81 10s; Valonia 14/ to 0/ ; French
7/103; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone.
Hemp 341 to 351 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 17s to 18s ; red
ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ lOs to 121 per
ton. Timber—Memel, 851 per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s;
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 10s to 16s;
salted 12s to 18s per cwt ; calf skins lid to 2Ad per lb.
Potatoes, white 10d to 13d ; Minions 00d to COd ; Guano--
Peruvian, 11/ 10s; Ichaboe 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel,
19s per barrel.

COAL MARK ET. -YnTERDAY.
Bate's West Hartley... 15s Od Stewart's
Buddle's W. Hartley.. 15s Od Whitwell
East Adairs Main..... 123 6d Kelloe l6s 6d
Tanfield Moor
ranfield Moor Butes l2s 6d Thornley
Walker's Primrose ... 12s 6d Whitworth l3s 6d
West Wylam
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. IDenison . 15s Od
Gosforth .
Hedley
Lambton Primrose ... 16s 3d West Pease
Belmont l6s 9d DerwentwaterHartley 15s Od
Braddyll
Hetton
vhitworth Coke
Ships at market, 48.

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Lambton

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Whitworth Coke

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RAILWAY suAttk. mARKETS.

BRISTOL, AUGUST 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day wereconfLned to Great
Western, Fifths, which were done at 155,
LIVERPOOL, AUGUUST 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was but a moderate demand to-claY•
The sales are—Caledonian (Clydesdale Junction), 6614—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Fifths, 3% p.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 4% diS•
—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3% p.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 35—Midland, 64%—Ditto, Halves, 13g
dis.—York and North Midland, 35%.
MANCHESTER, AUGUST 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow
:-
Manchester and Leeds, Old, 17% dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 4%
Ditto,. Preference (R.), 12% —Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 11-16—B0ltoll
and Bury, 18 dis.—Manchester and Sheffield (No. 1), 9% dis—Man'
chester and Leeds, Fifths, 3N dis.-- Ditto, 32/. Sitar s, dis.—Man'
chester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 314 p.—Sheffield and Liu
coin, 16 dis.—Sheffield (No. 2), 8 —West Riding Union, 4 5-16 die.
BIRMINGHAM, AUGUST 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow
Shrewsbury and tßirmingham (A), 6/. Is. 9d. dis. —North Stafford"
shire, 5 dis.—London and North-Western, 133.
YORK, JULY 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been as fol-
low:—Great Northern, 9% ex in and ex new—Ditto Preference, 31'
14s,—North British, Quarters, 3%—Ditto, Preference, 2/. I ls.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 20%.
GLASGOW, JULY 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE —The transactions to-day were as follOW:--
Aberdeen, Preference, 6% Glasgow and Greenock, Preference,
7,t —Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 2s. 6d.

THE ARMY.
LODGINGS FOR SOLDIERS.
The following instructions have been received by the
army, which we are glad to observe is another of the mall
efforts of the present Secretary-at-War to ameliorate Iwo
improve the condition of the soldier:—

" War-office, July 25..
" Sir,—With reference to the allowance granted in
the Queen's warrant of Ist of July, 1848, of ld. a dill
each to soldiers permitted as an indulgence to find their
own lodging when their corps is in quarters, which allow"
ante is issuable only to married soldiers, and to ne
greater number than six for each troop or company, as
.
stated in Artiole 353 of the War-office Explanatory
rections, I have the honour to acquaint you that her
Majesty, in gracious consideration for the further NM'
fort of the married soldier, and with a view to facilitate
th separation of the married from the single men in
berrack-rooms, has been pleased to command that a like
allowance of ld. a day shall also be granted in the
cavalry and infantry of the line stationed in barracks,
both at home and abroad, to such married soldiers, not
exceeding three tor every hundred men, including Ire'
commissioned officers and rank and file, as shall receive
from the commanding officer similar permission.
" All claims for this allowance at home, whether the
corps be in quarters or in barracks, are to be prepareo,
and forwarded in the course prescribed in Article 355 0'
the War-office Explanatory Directions.
" In stating the claims, the names of the men, and the
period and amount of the claim for each, are to be spec"
tied, with a certificate from the commanding officer, flitiV
the men, being married, and having their wives or chil-
drea present with the regiment, were permitted by him
to find their own lodgings, for the periods stated, and,
in the case of a corps in barracks, a certificate from the
barrackmaster, that the said men did not receive no'
commodation in barracks for the said periods, is also
to be annexed to the claim."

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ALARMING FlRE.—Last night, between 11 and 19
o'clock, a fire, nearly attended with a fearful loss of life,
broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. G. eater
bell, a grocer and tea-dealer, carrying on business at
No. 8, Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. The flames
when first discovered were raging with great fury in the
centre room, used as a sleeping apartment, on the ground
floor. An immediate alarm was sounded by police•
constable 104 F, and on the residents of the upper part
of the premises becoming aware of their disaster they
made fur the staircase, but the smoke and heat were so
intense that some of the parties were nearly suffocated.
Phillips, the strcetkeeper of St. Clement Danes, ell
seeing the imminent danger the occupants were 19,
rushed through the midst of the fire, and succeeded I°,
rescuing several persons ; one was nearly suffocated, and
had he remained there a few minutes longer he must
have perished. A woman with her child at her breast
was also rescued just in time to save her life. A mall
who lived in the upper floor, was so far overcome by the
heat and smoke that he was obliged to make for the roof,
over which he fortunately succeeded in making a sale
retreat. The London Brigade and parish engines, and
the Royal Society fire escape, from St. Clement's Church-
yard, promptly attended, and there being an abundant
supply of water obtained, the Holborn Brigade set their
engines to work, and succeeded eventually in getting the
fire extinguished, but not until considerable damage was
done. Mr. Campbell and his wife being at the theatre
when the disaster commenced, it was impossible to ascer-
tain whether the loss was covered by insurance or not.
Inspectors Black and Marsh, with a strong body of the
F division of police, rendered essential service to the in-
habitants by keeping the immerse crowd back.
FIGIITFUL DlaCOVEßY.—Considerable excitement
was caused yesterday morning throughout the neigh-
bourhood of the New Cut, Lambeth, and the Waterloo-
road, in consequence of the following discovery:7dt
appears that during the last twelve months a married
couple, of the name of Hoppey, had resided in the second
flour back of the premises belonging to Mr. Maidman,
tea dealer and grocer, No. 35, Lower Marsh. The two
persons were last seen alive on Monday evening, but no
tidings could be gleaned respecting them during Tuesday,
and some of the other lodgers having made known their
suspicions that something wrong had happened to Mr.
Maidman, that party, between eight and nine yesterday
morning, went to Hoppey's room, with a policeman, the
door of which they forced, when, to their astonishment,
they found both husband and wife in bed quite dead. It
is not known what was the cause of their deaths.
What is Communism ?-.Geese, donkeys, and
wolves feeding off the same common.—Punch.

BIRTS.
On the 30th ult., at Lown.E
des-square, the Countess of
March, of a son.

On the 27th ult., at Norwood, the wife of Henry Meyer*
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 28th ult., at Old Cliff, Scarborough, the wife of the
Rev. G. E. Welby, of a daughter.
On the 28th ult., at Melton Woodbridge, the lady of Joha
R. Wood, of a daughter.
On the 30th ult., at Northampton, the wife of John Becke,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 30th ult., at Devonshire-place, the lady of Philip
A. Browne, Esq., of a daughter.

On the 26th ult., at WanstMARRIED
ad Church, Frederick Crossley
Young, Esq , to Clari Mary, youngest daughter of the late
R. I'. Sayer, Esq., of the Temi-a.
On the 31st ult , at Homerton, Mr. Matthias Gardner, of
Coggeshall, Esq., to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. S. G.
Underhill, of Chatham-place, Hackney.