The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

NEW ENGLISH PATENTS.

Richard Lam'ng, of Melly la Garonne, near Pa. s,
France, chemist, for improvements in 01.4 modes (f or
raining or manuftcturiog sulphur gad solpi,uric acid.
July 13; six months. N.B. pat:_nt being s, d
by caveat lodged at the Great Soal Pater:t of w s not
sealed till the 13th .)!tr.trary, 149, bet hears date the 4th
September, :84S, the day it would havo -b--ef! reeled and
dated had no oppositicn been entered (t:), order of
Lord Chancellor).
William Betts, of Smithfield-bars, London, diMiller,
for a new manufacture of capsules, and of a material to
be employed therein, and for other purposes. January
13; six months.
George Williams, of Tipton, Stafford, forge manager,
for a certain improvement or improvements in preparing
puddling furnaces used in the manufacture of iron. July
13; six months.

Conrad Haverkam Greenhow, of London, civil en-
gineer, for certain improvements in atmosileric rail-
ways. January 13; 1-ix months.
Richard Dug&le, of Brompton, engineer,
'or improvements in harsh articles composed- of
iron. January 13; six lo'nths.
Anthony Barberis, of Licester-square, engineer, for
improvements in spitining silk, Rrid in the construction
of swifts, and in the arrangement of apparatus for wir.d•
ing silk and other fibrous Eubstances. January 16;
months.

Jean Baptiste Francuis P.lr zcline Cae, of Havre
France, engineer, for improvements in steam engines,
and in the machinery or propelling vessel,,. January 16;
six months. _ _

William Martain, of St. Pierre lea Calais, France,
machinist, for certain improvements in machinery for
figuring textile fabrics, parts of which improvements are
applicable to playing certain musical instruments, and
ako to printing, and other like purposes. January 16;
six months.

Peter Augustine Godefroy, of London, chemical
colour manufacturer, for certain improvements in dress-
ing and finishing woven fabrics. January 16; six months.
Edward Buehler, of London, merchant, for improve-
ments in the manufacture of boots and shoes; also ap-
plicable to other fabrics. January 16; six months.
Carey M'Ciellan, of Larch Mount, in the liberties of
the city of Londonderry, for an improved corn mill.
January 16; six months.
James Hamilton, of London, civil engineer, for im•
provoments in cutting wood. January 18; six months.
John Francis Bottom, of Nottingham-pal lc, Notting-
ham, lace dresser, and John Dearman Dunnicliff, of
flyson-green, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, for im-
provements in dressing or getting up fabrics of cotton
or silk, and of cotton and silk combined. January 18;
six months.
Francis Alton Calvert, of Manchester, machinist, for
certain improvements in machinery for cleaning and
preparing cotton wool, and other fibrous substances.
January 18; six months.
Thomas Newcomb, of Bermondsey, machinist, for
improvements in furnaces. January IS; six months.—
Mechanics' Magazine.

FATAL FLOOD.—During the night of Saturday
last, some very heavy rain fell in various parts of West
Yorkshire, by which the rivers were much swollen.
Owing to the force of the current between Brotherton
and Castleford, a little below the confluence of the rivers
Aire and Calder, a vessel, laden with wool and a general
cargo of drysalteries and groceries, named the York-
shirema.n, of Bradford, and belonging to Mr. Wood, of
Bradford, broke from her moorings during the absence
of the master on shore. She was carried some distance
down the river with great impetuosity, and was eventu-
ally sunk, the captain's wife, who was far advanced in
pregnancy, and two children who were also on board,
being drowned.—Hull Advertiser.
ILLEGAL DISPOSAL OF THE PROCEEDS OF A
" DENBY SWEEP."—A burglary, attended with the loss
of about 1201, was perpetrated at a public-house in
Dale-end, Birmingham, occupied by Mr. John Mathews,
early yesterday morning. It appears that a money
sweep, or crown-piece lottery, is held at the above house,
Lnd when one thousand crowns are deposited the whole
are balloted for. Up to Saturday about 450 crowns
were paid into the hands of the landlord, who was the
.reasurer of the fund. The house was closed at twelve
o'clock on Saturday night, and Mr. Mathews, baying
locked up the premises, proceeded to his lodgings at the
Lozells, leaving the money in the bar. At an early
hour on Sunday morning, some thieves, evidently well
acquainted with the house, and aware of the valuable
deposit in the bar, scaled the walls at the rear of the
premises, and having effected an entrance into the house,
carried off the whole of the booty.—Aris's Birmingham
Gazette.

The gamekeeper of Bryan Burrell, Esq., of Broome
Park, lately shot, on the river Ain, at a distance of 75
yards, a wild swan, which measured six feet seven inches
row tip to tip.-IVewcastle Journal. _

WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE MARBLE ARCH ?
The danger is imminent; the palace advances to comple-
tion, soon the hoard will be removed, and the arch, the
costly monument of George IV., is doomed to demolition.
Perhaps this structure is not very remarkable for beauty
of design, or for any elaborate finish; it stands, how-
ever, a solitary instance of regal magnificence, being the
only evidence in marble of an archit( aural portal
in London, and with its bronze gates, which are good
specimens of their kind, is not an unworthy memento
uf a monarch whose refinement of taste conduced not a

little to the embelli,hteent of the metropolis and the
encouragement of ai t. Is this Arc de Triomphe to he
abated, and to be lost to the nation whose liberality
furnished 70,0001. to its e lification ? Fur the sake of
the capital, which boasts but two arches, we hope not.—
Builder.

A CONSIDERATE LANDLORD. The Earl of
Northesk has intimated to all the tenants on his estates of
Ellie and Lunan that, in consequence of the present
depressed state of the corn markets, he intends post-
poning the collection of his Candlemas re nts till the
month of April xt, hoping that, ere that time, they
may have disposed of their grain to better advantage
than they possibly could do at present.
MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 7 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.321; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25 321, it follows that gold is the
sane pike in Paris and London. By advices from
Hamburg') the price of gold is 436 pf r mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10cled. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.101-; and the
exchange trt Ilarnburgh on London at short being 13.14
it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer iu Ham-
burgh than in London. The course of exchange at New
York on London is 1084 per cent., and the par of ex-
change between England and America being 109 23 40
per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.83 per cent.
against England; but the quoted exchange at New York
tieing for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be
deducted from the above difference.
IMPORTATION OF CORN.—The col lectors and
comptrollers and other principal officers of the Customs'
department, at the several ports and places throughout
the kingdom, have received an intimation to the effect,
chat as the present scale of duties on corn, meal, and
flour, whicn is governed by the average prices, will cease
and fixed rates become chargeable, on and after the Ist
of February proximo, it is directed by the commissioners
that the weekly corn returns, hitherto transmitted to the
inspector-gerecal of imports and exports, be from that
date made out in weekly periods, comprising the re-
ceipts, deliveries, &c., from the morning of Thursday to
the afternoon of the following Wednesday inclusively,
observing that in the weekly return for the period next
following the receipt of the certificate dated the 25th of
Januar), that portion only of the week is to be included
which shall have elapsed before the Ist of February.
Letters from Leipsic announce the close of the fair.
Busim ss in cloths had been brisk at a rise of I to loir
dollars. The Greek merchants were the principal pur-
chasers. No failure is stated to have occurred, and none
of any consequence was expected.
ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—A young
woman, aged 29, the wife of a man named Silvester
Sykes, formerly a plumber at Sevenoaks, but for the last
two or three years a dealer in gold fhh, has not been
heard of for some time, and her relatives, who live at
Hadlow, entertain the most serious apprehensions that
she has come to an untimely end. She was last seen in
August last, when she came to her mother's, the widow
Parker, at Hadlow, to take refuge from the ill-usage of
her husband, who followed her, and, after beating her,
took her away. Tykes then went into Yorkshire, and at
length wrote from \Vantage, Berks, saying he knew
nothing of his wife, who, he supposed, had returned to
her mother. This, however, is not the case; her mother,
ho is in the greatest distress respecting her, has seen
nothing of her.—Maidstone Journal.
The commercial letters received by the Europa
from the United States do not possess much interest. In
the eastern towits business with the interior was entirely
at a stand, but the most sanguine expectations were en-
tertained that an active business would take place imme-
diately after the opening of the internal navigation.
Brother Jonathan is looking forward with great confi-
dence to a steadily increasing consumption of American
agricultural products in this country, and the mercantile
class at the same time calculate that it will lead to an
increased demand for our manufactures. No idea seems
to be entertained that any attempt will be made in Con-
gress to alter the present tariff, and they have instructed
their correspondents on this side of the water that they
may rest perfectly satisfied on this point, at all events
for the present year. We understand that one of the
necessary consequences of this assurance is that a consi-
derable number of orders in the iron trade that were held
c.mditieually will now be forthwith executed.

vV
GUN ACCIDENT.—A serious and melancholy acci-
dent occurred at Stone Easton, Somerset, a few days
since. Two brothers of that place, of the name of Hill,
hitesiniths and bellhangers, took their gun, in the ab•
sence of their father, and went out to shoot some birds,
in search of which one of the brothers went through tba
hedge. and the other handed the gun through to him,
which he took by the muzzle; and in drawing it through
the hedge a bramble caught the trigger, and the con-
tents of the piece went through the young man's. neck,
et.tering just below the ear, and nearly severing his
head from his body. His brother, en going through to
him, found him a corpse, and the sight so overpowered
him that he fell at his feet senseless, in which state he
lay for some time. On recovering his senses, he made
the he6t of his v. ay home, and communicated the fatal
intelligence to his mother, whose feelings may be better
imagined than described, and who is at this time, with
the brother, lying in a very dangerous state, no hopes
eurrrteitu:d of the recovery of either of them.—
Bristol Mirror.
.1.-AMBEE AND MEUSE RAH:NAT.—The opening of
this hue has given rise to a trade in fuel, which is already
spread over the whole ~f the line. This is not only a
valuable resource to the inhi.bitants of the locality, but
a new proof of the benefits conferred by opening new
means of communication.
Tne railway calls for the present month, so far as
yet Announced, amount to 3,926,3424