The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your yesterday's paper, under the bead
" Money and Commercial News," it is said, " The Share
Market at Liverpool is, in future, to be closed on Satur-
day." This is a mistake, as there is no intention of
closing the Stock Exchange on Saturdays, and the com-
mittee will feel obliged by your correcting it in your
next paper.

• - - I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
H. SCRIVENER, Secretary.
Liverpool Share Brokers' Association,
Royal Bank-buildings, Jan. 5.

COVENT-GARDEN TBEATRE.—A peep into the
theatre the other afternoon startled us. All the inside
of the house is taken out, and the bare enclosing walls
stand exposed their whole height, to a depth of twenty
or thirty feet below the level of the pit floor. The inte-
rior was filling with scaffolds; menin every corner were
shouting and hauling; while the old chandelier, under
the decorated ceiling, throwing light upon the hubbub
and ruin, served to recal its former appearance, and pro-
duced a most singular effect.— The Builder.
SOUTH SEA COMPANT.—DIVIDEND MEETING.—
The proprietors of South Sea Stock had their half-yearly
meeting yesterday ; C. Franks, Esq., in the chair. The
minutes of the last court were read, showing that the
half-year's interest on the annuities amounted to
89,8141., and on South Sea Stock to 64.0981.; the general
charges for the half year being 3,201/. ; and the Sub-
Governor then moved that a dividend at the rate of 14
per cent. for the half-year be paid, which was agreed to.
A proprietor asked why the South Sea Stock was rated
at the sum given in the account. The Chairman replied,
because it must be paid at par if the company were dis-
solved—that was, the 1001. would hsve to be made

1161. 133. 4d. for the Government. After some further
formal business the meeting broke up.
LONGEVITY or LickNs.—Carter, by training, has
reduced these noble animals almost to a state of domes-

ticity, and would, were it permissible, be followed by one
as he is by his dog. There is no doubt that in such a
state of comparative freedom they would attain a great
age; they generally die of inflammation. The Tower
contains a record of the lives of the animals formerly
confined there. Dido had been thirty years there when
she died; her predecessor forty, and whelped several
times. Nero (her's) died at the age of ten, Nancy at
twenty. The whelps were not suckled by the dam, but
brought up on a milk diet. A great favourite at the
Tower was Fanny, taken by a negro whilst slaking her
thirst at the river Gambia. When caught she was about
the size of a domestic cat. The negro boy became her
keeper in England, and she showed every mark of sin-
cere attachment to him; until it was prohibited, the briy
used to sleep in the same den with her. The Keppel lion
:LA lioness (brought over by the Commodore) were
named Zara and Caesar, the first a very gentle, the
second a fierce beast. Old Nero lived for seventy years
in the Tower, but fifty is said to be the common duration
of leonine existence. It is clear, however, that on this
subject naturalists have no certain data. An eagle re-
rosined in the Tower ninety years, dying in 1760. The
Benedictine monks of St. Bertin (St. Omer's) had a
chained eagle that they averred to have been three cen-
turies in captivity.
REPRSENTATION OF MIDDLESSEX.—A rumour has
found its way into a Liverpool paper, that Lord Robert
Grosvenor is likely to become a candidate for the
representation of Middlesex, on the resignation of Mr.
Byng.
THE ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF A SERVANT BY
HER MISTRESS.—Last night Mr. Bedford resumed at
the Lamb, Vere-street, Clare-market, jile inquest upon
Anna Campbell, which was adjourned for the purpose of
a post mortem examination, and the particulars of whose
case appeared in our paper of yesterday. Last night
Mr. Gill, house-surgeon of King's College, and Mr.
Brooks, of Bedford-street, Covent-garden, surgeon, de-
posed that upon the post mortem examination they dis •
covered that both the heart and lungs of the deceased
were in a state of disease, which would ultimately have
caused death. After much consideration the jury re-
turned a verdict of" Natural death from disease of the
lungs and heart," and added their opinion that Mrs.
Levy had been guilty of great cruelty to the deceased.
A HINT FOR DRUGGISTS.—SUICIDE PREVENTED.
—A few evenings ago a young woman went to the shop
of Mr. Fingland, chemist, Wavertree, and asked for a
pennyworth of arsenic, saying her mistress wanted to
poison rats. Mr. Fingland, though ho knew the young
woman, refused to sell arsenic to her, unless she brought
a witness. About two hours afterwards she returned,
having a witness with her, but the chemist, thinking he
observed something unusual in the girl's countenance,
and marked
and "
heard
a little tartar emetic in three separate papers
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ill, upon which he called upon her, wheng he learned,
in reply to his questions, that she had called at a shop
in Liverpool, accompanied by a witness, and purchased a
pennyworth of arsenic, which she determined to take,
in consequence of having quarrelled with her mistress.
Finding that she had not procured enough
to destroy
her, she called at Mr. 1 d'
ng an s shop, and obtained
what she believed to be another pennyworth. She swal-
lowed the arsenic which she purchased at Liverpool, and
finding that it gave her horrible agony, she mixed that
which she had purchased from Mr. Fingland in water,
and swallowed it also, believing that it would speedily
terminate her sufferings. It did so, but in a very differ'
ent method from what she anticipated. The dose being
very powerful, brought on violent vomiting, and thus
saved her life. She is now doing well.
SININULAR CASE OF ACCIDENTALPOISONING.--LESt
night Mr. Mills, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at the
Pakenham Arms, Lower Calthorpe-street, Gray's Inn-
road, on view of the body of Grace Kirby, aged 43, who
accidentally committed self-destruction with the essen-
tial oil of bitter almonds, at No. 36, Gough-street, where
she was residing. The deceased was the wife of a gen-
tleman holding an official situation, and she lived on her
property, having separated from her husband in conse-
quence of her eccentricities. On Friday night last she
at 9 o'clock returned home, shortly after which she was
seen by her landlady, Mrs. Ilowson, and stated to her
that she had got some essential oil of bitter almonds for
her cough, and she observed that she must take but a
few drops. She drank some in a wine glass in which
was some porter, and shortly after she swallowed it she
became insensible. She was at the time in a state of
inebriety. Mrs. Howson went for medical assistance,
but before a surgeon arrived life was extinct. Verdict,
" That the deceased's death was caused by the oil of
bitter almonds, which she took while under the effects
of some intoxicating liquor."
SKATING IN THE METROPOLIS.—According to the
estimate made by the officers of the Royal Humane
:3ociety, the number of skaters and sliders upon the ice
in the several parks and in Kensington•gardens, from
the commencement of the frost up to the 4th instant, is
240,000, and yet only one fatal accident has occurred.
PRESENT OF A SPRING OF WATER.—The spring
of water just offered to the inhabitants of Leeds by the
Earl of Harewood, as an auxiliary supply to the Leeds
water-works, rises, it appears, in one of his Lordship's
estates in the liberty of Eccup, about a mile to the north-
west of the public reservoir, and flows in a stream in the
whole of its course through his Lordship's property till
it discharges itself into one of the ponds in Harewood-
park. The capacity of the spring has not yet been ac-
curately ascertained, but it is estimated to yield 200,000
gallons a day.—Leeds Mercury.
INFAMOUS TRAFFIC.— Last week eighteen poor
Italian boys were landed at Folkestone, from Boulogne,
per Queen of the French steamer, in the most distressing
and pitiable condition, having scarcely a rag to cover
them at this inclement season, and some of them without
shoes. One poor boy, about twelve years of age, was
observed to have his feet and uncles covered with chil-
blains and sores, being carried from the fore-cabin upon
the back of one of those inhuman traffickers in white
slaves, his master. These poor boys are destined for
exciting the pity of the English, for the aggrandisement
of their inhuman master. The circumstance of their
miserable condition and occupation was the general sub-
ject of conversation by all the passengers.— Sussex
• EaVfert.