The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-25 00:00:00

SCOTCH.

Beasts. I Sheep.
210 280 I
NEWGATE AND LEADENRALL.
These markets were tolerably firm to-day, and prices,
owing to the short supplies of Meat en offer, were well
supported in every instance.

Calves.

At per stone by the Carcaso.
s. d. to s. d. 1 5. d, to s. d.
. 2 2 2 4 ; Mutton, inferior .. 3 0 3 2
2 6 2 8 middling.. 3 2 3 6
210 3 0 prime .... 3 8 310
3 0 2 2 Pork, large.... •• •• 3 2 3 6
3 2 4 2 smell .... •• •• 3 8 4 2
Lamb. 13 10d to 5s 10d.

Iseef ,inferior......
- middling ....
- prinielarge ..
- prime small ..

veal :.......

3302.0UG31 BOP MARKET.
Very favourable accounts having come to hand from
the plantations in Kent and Sussex (the bine having
grown rapidly this week), the demand for all kinds of
Hops is lieviy, and prices are almost nominal. Sussex
pockets, 214 s to 2/ 18s; Weald of Kent itto, 21 lOs to
318 s; Mid and Fist Kent ditto, 315 s to 61 16s.

DARING ROBBERIES.—During the last few days
several robberies of rather a novel character have been
committed at the houses of different licensed victuallers
throughout the metropolis, by a man who has the appear-
ance of a smith. His custom is to enter public houses
at those particular hours of the day when tap• rooms are
unfrequented, generally in the moraiugs, whilst the ser-
vants are busy. He calls for half a pint of beer, and goes
into the tap-room, and unscrews the gas-fittings, with
which he makes his exit. The fellow who has perpe-
trated these impudent robberies, stands about 5 feet 3 in-
ches in height, has grey hair, and a thin visage. He has
already tried his hand at fourteen or fifteen public houses;
but it is hoped that stop will soon be put to his career,
10 the pQlice have got a glue to the person suspected.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW.,
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at _Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, including 1,500 for export. Corn .
pared with Friday's rates, prices of all kinds were with-
out alteration. The market closed steaeily.—Railway
Shares continued dull with very little business doing.
The produce markets in London have been compari-
tivelv steady this week, though rather quiet, the fine
weather, and the Epsom attractions having restricted
business. Sugar has been firm, bat coffee, tea, and
rice rather flatter. Metals are very dull. Cotton main-
tains about the previous rates, and wool sells freely at
the public sales.
The continental advices bring nothing re-assuring
upon political affairs. The Danish war, it is now
asserted in letters from Copenhagen, appear to
be as far as ever from a termination,
so much as all parties desire an arrangement,
so complicated are the questions at issue. The naviga-
tion at St. Petersburgh was not open up to the 11 th
instant, nor was it considered probable that ships would
reach Cronstadt before eight days from that date.
The Money Market, at Hsinburgh, on Tuesday, con•
tinued very easy. The exchange on London was firm,
at 13-10. Funds were supported and shares a trifle
lower. At Frankfort, or, the 22d inst., Seleits were
more animated, and the Five per Cent. Austrian Bones
touched 73i. At Vienna, on the 19th, the Metallics
were 89i.
The Amsterdam Bourse was better on Wednesday,
the Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Dutch Bonds touching
48-1. Spanish were firmer. The Paris market having
advanced had a decided influence.
We have news from Labuan to March 31. A detach-
ment of the 21st Native Infantry had arrived at Singa-
pore, not having lost a single man during their stay at
Labuan, and having only had a little fever of a very
mild type when on guard on the plain. The jungle was
being cut down on the proposed site of the town. The
pirates near Sarawak seemed to be aware that the
Meander had been withdrawn from the station, as they
were beginning to display a boldness and audacity nut
inferior to that manifested on any former occasion.
Nothing but the most severe means will prove effectual
in eradicating their propensity for piracy. Wi, hin two
months the piratical dyaks of Serebus and Sakarran had
captured numerous boats, burnt several villages and killed
at the very least 400 persons, men, women, and children.
A few weeks previous to our accounts they dashed
upon Sadong, butchered 92 persons, cut down all the
standing crops of paddy, and committed other wanton
acts of mischief. In some cases the headless bodies
of the unfortunate murdered inhabitants were found.
As the pirates are calculated to have three hundred
prahns afloat, each armed with thirty-five men, it
is obvious that very strong measures must be adopted to
put them down, and that a large force will be needed
fur the purpose. Sir James Brooke intended to make an
effort, but our force on the Borneo station is obviously
inadequate.
From Java the accounts are to the 29'h March. A
portion of the expedition against Bally had lett Batavia
to join the rest at Sourabaya, whence the whole were to
sail for Bally on the 25th March. There would be
about 8,000 troops and 12 guns, &c., employed. A
chamber of Commerce was being formed at Batavia. In
some of the regencies considerable damage had been
done to the crops by the floods.
The Singapore advices are to April 7. Although
business was less active than in February, there had
been fair transactions, and the sales and shipments to
neighbouring markets bad already taken off a consider-
able part of the recent heavy supplies of goods from
Great Britain. No advance in prices was expected.
The produce market continued active, and in some in-
stances a rise had occurred. Rice had materially im-
proved, and, from the small stock, was likely to become
dearer. Exchanges on England 4s. 2bd. for private
bills at six months' sight.
In the English Stock Market business has been
exceedingly dull, and the fluctuation proportion-
ably uninteresting. The prices of the retites
coming a shade higher from Paris has had
some effect here, but the excitement that
prevails in France is still a strong antagonist
to the plethora of cash, which otherwise would inevitably
have its effects upon the Funds: Nothing but the political
uncertainty would keep Cons Ala at their present range, high
ass some may consider it. They are now 91 to after
having been 908 to 91. The New Three•and a Quarter
per Cents. have realised 904 to 4. India Stock is quiet
at 245. Exchequer-bills are 445. to 475. premium.
The Foreign Securities are equally dull with our own
Funds. Mexican for account 301 with the coupons.
Spanish Five per Cents., 16; Dutch Two-and-a Hall
per Cents., 47i to 48,1.
Shares are rather heavy, and in favour of buyers,
though with very little doing.

ONE CLOSING
.1“, rt 3 ~E. ~Ittl'ieat FUNDS. o'cLOCK. PRICI, 8
3 ,:er Cent. Reduced Inns ...... 89%3, 8")3/
pe: Cent. Consols Annuities 90,1 91 91 % 91%
New 3% per Cent. Anns.... .
',wig Finns. to expire Jan. 1860 -16 8 9-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 13-16 8 13-16
India Stock
iudia 80nd,3, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,000/. . .......
Consols for Account
•-.xchequer Bills. 11Ad. tic 2d.
1,0001. June 47 44 p
Ditto Advertised ... . ... 43 46 p
ritICES OF FOREIGN FUNini. oNE
O'CLOCK.

68 p
911 A

44 p
46 p

CLOSING
rRICES.

Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Account,
&lex ican, 5 per Cent. 1840, with Coupons 301 30 LA
Ditto, Account .... SO% 3034
Ditto, Ex Coupons .... . 27:7/g 2814
Ditto, Account 27 jg 28 28
Russian Bonds ..• • ••• - 101
-ipanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account . i 6 15',,,i;
Ditto, 3 per Cent ... —
thvitiends on the aooy. payable in London.
Dutch 24 per Cent., 12 Guild 471, 4814
Ditto, -I Der Cent. Certificates 74 75

4814
75

13,17511tE, Rs DONE CLOSING
IItICES OF
Al WS O'CLOCK. PRICES
KAILWAy 611 ARES.
50

Boston, Stamfd &,Birin. 5
Bristol and Exeter 9O ...... CO
Ditto, Thirds
.alcicf onian
2hester and Holyhead... 50 ...... 15
Ditto, Preference
:itst. Anglia, 251., L. bit

171/2
2478
15

E. and-L.-and D...... 25
Do., 181., E. &11.... 18 ...... ......
Do., 3/. 101 3% ..... 134 I%
',utern Counties........ 20 ...—., 8%14 BVa
Est Lincolnshire ...... 25
i.,..dinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. ........
Urea Northern
Do., 1/2 B 6 per Cent
Do. Extension 2 kii — ........ ...... 1%
Great Western 100
Ditto, 1% Shares
Ditto, Fifths ..... 20
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ...
ll.ill and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... • . —
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 48%
Leeds and Bradford
London &81ackwa11...... 121/2 4%
;..ondon, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O ..... 361/2 ... . ......
Ditto, New 51., guar
6 per cent. .
London and N. We•tern 100 .126 .
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
Ditto,Fittll4...... .. .. 2 ....,. 71/4 7l/4
Lon,l. &S. Western SU ...... 34
Blanchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Midland ......... ...... ...100 ..... 67 ... --
Do., do., 501. Shares... '25 ... .. 131 A%
North British ........ ... 25 .... , ... ..... .
Ditto, Halves ..
Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 81% .. .. 3%,.....
North Staffordshire l7 IA l2 ,/.2 ..
)I.,uth Devon
South Eastern
Do., N 0.2.
Do., No. 3 ...... ...... 30
Do.. Registered No. 4 10
S:uth V‘ ales
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole 8
Sheffield, Rotherham, &
Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent.
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
- Guaranteed ... .. 5O
Do. do. do. ... 25
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick.
York and North Itlidland 50 ... .
Ditto, Preference lO
bo.East and W est Lid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 2O
~. 6 ex. coup .. 6% x.c
East Indian 3l/4 3
Great Indian Peninsular 5 ......
Do. Do. ... ......... 10a. ......
Ditto ..— lO
Northern of France....„ 13
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Par; Id R

36,4

107
67 y 2
135/i
5 lift
apt,
12;(2

20X,
.. . I2E4
19
614
17y2

an, .ouen ..... 20 18N %
Paris and Strasbourg 10
Tours and Nantes ll

291/4

1514

-
%

MINES.
Australian
Brazilian Imperial
Do. St.Johu Del Rey 15 ...... 11%',4

13/4
9
23/4
4%
3;42

11M

EPSOM RACES.

(THIS DAY.)-BY EXPRESS.

THE OAKS.

Lord Chesterfield's Sister to Arkwright...(F. Butler) 1
Mr. B. Green's Lady Superior (Robinson) 2
Mr. Wreford's Woodlark (A. Day) 3
The following also started but were nut placed:--
Mr. Payne's Glauca (Flattnan) 0
Mr. F. Clarke's Lady Tryphena (S. Munn) 0
Mr. Cuthbert, jun.'s Emma Donna ......(J. Holmes) 0
Lord Strathmore's Eva (J. larson) 0
Lord Stanley's Escalade
Mr. Greville's Clarissa (S. li,‘,gers) 0
Mr. Gully's Lady Jersey (Marlow) 0
Lord Exeter's Grace
Richmond's Highland Fling (Kitchener) 0
Duke of (Bartholomew) 0
Mr. Bell's Imperstrix (Butnby) 0
Mr. E. Jones's Docility (Whitehouse) 0
Mr. B. Way's Dolly Varden (Pettit) so
Won by a length. 15 ran.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
I ONDON, MAY 25.—Wind at noon, S.S.W., pleasant
breezo and fine clear weather.
HARTLEPOOL, MAY 23.—Sid. Edward Thorne,
Coquimbo; Elizabeth, Coquimbo.
SKINBURNESS, MAY 23.—The Martha Jane, Liverpool
tri Sr. Andrews, New Brunswick, struck on the Silloth
Bank yesterday, but got off leaky, and went down this
morning about one mile N.W. off this place; cargo not
expected to be saved, as she is settling down fast in the
::and ; crew saved.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 24.—The Isabella and Jane, of
and tor Jersey, which struck on the bar on the 19th inst.,
in leaving the harbour, has been got off and brought rn
herr.
YARMOUTH, MAY 24.—The Why Not of Dartmouth,
got athwart hawse the ship Ceylon in the Wold yeeter"
day, and received damage, but has proceeded northward.
BAMSGATE, MAY 24.—Arrd. Lucy Wright, Messing,'
having been warned off the Elbe.
DEAL, MAY 24.—Wind N. to N.E.—Arrd. from the
river, Wallace, Meyer, Coquimbo. Arrd. from the
river and sld. Britannia, Irvin, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 24.—Wind .W.—Arrd. 23d. Lacy,
Gouid, New Orleans; Challenge, Long, Wilmington;
Ei:za, Jones Callao; Trewartha, Harris, Trinidad;
Independance, New Orleans ; Mercury, Roberta, St•
John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Guirachan, Calcutta'
Mary Lurie, Calcutta; Blakely, San Francisco; Corie"
titian, Rio Janeiro ; William Russell, Pernambuco;
Phcettix, Antiva; Luna, St. Thomas; Thames, NI
Orleans; Canada, Charleston; Tilasser, Baltimore; de
P. Whitney, Philadelphia; El Dorado, Staten Island;
Naomi, New York; Ashburton, New York ; Hyperion,
New York; Charles Saunders, New York; Eli Wbitaoi,
Boston; Martha, Boston; Oliver, St. John's, New Brune
wick; ; Mary Jane, Quebec. Off port—Matilda, Mau"'
tins; Empress, New York.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 24.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Dent'
Cape of Good Hope and Cork.
DONEUAL, MAY 21.—The Emily Mary, smack, of
Skerries, Liverpool to this port, struck 19th inst., on the
Bullt,ck Rock, between Killybegs harbour and St: John
Point, and immediately after sank in deep water; o'll
saved.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—The Pathfinder, from Buen°6
Ayres, in removing trona the Salisbury to the Albert
dock, ran into the pier head of the latter, carried a"1
her figure head, cutwater, stanchions, &c., and started
butts.
PENZANCE, MAY 23.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Queb(c'
New York.
BRISTOL, MAY 24.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Energl'
Watson, Rio Grande • Luis, Crocker, St. John's, Nc^
Brunswick. Sld. Melody, Cadiz and Buenos Ayres.
CORK, MAY 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Sea, 0°,2":
frey, Trinidad; Competitor, Goudy, St. John's, Nom-
Sht Orion, New York.

SUNDERLAND, MAY 24.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Plants.
genet, Singapore; Mount Erna, Quebec.

T II UNDER STORMS.

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INTERESTING TO LADIES WEARING STEEL Busga'l,
During a thunder storm which pasted over Chesterfield
on Thursday, the lightning struck the house of Mr. Ott;
tersley, joiner, Brampton. The lightning struck t"; 1
chimney, whence it descended, after concussing an°
dislodging some of the bricks, to the bell wire in °:a
of the rooms. Along this it ran until it approach
a clock standing in the staircase, which it abettor;
driving with great force a metal pin to which the ate
c
was attached through the wall into one of the roontsci
Almost under the clock was the door opening,
open, to the kitchen, in which doorway Miss lien'
Ilattersloy was standing. The fluid seemed to have
;
been attracted from the clock, in its descent, by
nail in the lintel of this kitchen door, and carrying
O T:
the nail along with it grazed Miss Hattersley's L:
singeing her hair, ran to the steel busk in front of her Co
set, marking her breast at the top of the steel, and tee,,
running down her kg, which it grazed, found its Wai
into the ground. Some idea of the force, which the cur.
rent in this zig zsg course exerted may be gathered tr.%
the fact, that some of the plaster about the lintel, wincia
had, being a non-conductor, opposed its passage, w.e
throa n out with great violence and injured, an 0111:las
wall about five yards distant. Now the interesting Par
of the it.quiry is, did this steel busk act in any way °a,
attractor to the lightning from above, or was it rather, „Pr-id
videniially a conductor so situated as to divert the nistt:r
from a course which might have cost the young lady'
life? We incline to the latter opinion. The electric/fel
came down and grazed the side of her head. Had nothing
attracted it from this vertical course, it wouldin all prebli
bility, have touched some of the vital organs. Attreete.
by this steel rod, it changed its course; and it is observ-
able able that it only marked her body at the upper estui,
the busk, having thenceforward been kept from tle
body by its greater affinity for the metal. Its Ives,
downward action being thus rendered external.
flatteisley appears, through the position of ibisA
steel rod, to have escaped with her life.
it was, the Effect on her frame was very alarming'
she lay long as if dead, and if Dr. Walker had. 11
succeeded very speedily after his arrival in producing;
shock on the system, which restored action to the hog',
the result might have been very different. The yputjaff
lady remained in a state of insensibility for about an
We are very glad to hear that she is now
no memo-
favourably, and trust that the shock will leavet
rial of its visit hut the recollection of the alarm it. ere') •
la
On the previous Monday afternoon, the lighnin.g ct.t
in contact with a fine grown oak tree, standing 101
field belonging to Mr. Morley, adjoining his tan Yra!,,t:
on the Mappleton-road, and split the progressing
trunk; willvp
measured between eight and nine feet round the 101
through the centre of the heart, for the distance
23 feet. The bark was totally stripped off for 1:
feet, aed
,propelled in several directions a distanc
of 50 yards, some of it falling around the e-
work in the yard. The simultaneous glare of "'I;"
the peal of the thunder, the crash of the- tree, and
shower of bark, produced an instantaneous and llic-cal
scribal& sensation on these near the spot, which ree",Ae.„o
them almost insensible for some time ; but hapPilia
one sustained further injury. A boy, from Dam,
was passing on the road, was struck on the leg of
the lightning, which for a few minutes deprived nun
the use of it.—Derbyshi, e Courier.