The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

JUDGES OF PIGS.

Mr. Carmichael, Sowerby York•
shire. Mr. llarris, Fletchainpstead, near Coventry.
Mr. Ball, Bretforton, m ar Evesham, Worcestershire.
The exhibition tomorrow and the three succeeding
days will doubtless be visited by thousands.
Strangers are arriving "in droves," by trains from al 1
parts of the Midland Counties.

AN UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday morning
an occurrence which of late has become like angels'
visits, " few and far between"—a duel, took place close
to Wormwood-scrubs. It appears 'hitt about, seven
o'clock, just as day was breaking, a postchaise, belonging
to Mr. R. Newman, the well-known postmaster of
Regent-street, which contained two gentleman, was
observed to turn from the Uxbridge-road at Shepherd's-
bush, up Wood-lane, leading to Wormwood-scrubs, and
was in two or three minutes followed by a gentleman's
carriage, in which were also two gentlemen, and behind
the latter was a gentleman r n horseback, who is suppose d
to have been a surgeon. The parties by whom they
were seen followed up the lane, and cn reaching nearly
to the top found that they had not gone on to the
Scrubs, but, had got out in the lane, and got over the
fence into a meadow belonging to Mr. John Pain, the
proprietor of Old Oak farm. Information of the affair
was dispatched to the police as soon as the pat tes
were observed, but their movements were so prompt that
almost as soon as the persons who followed them could
get to the part where the carriage and postchaise were
standing, the road being very rough, two shots were
fired, and in less than five minutes the five gentlemen
returned over the fence together, the one supposed to
be the surgeon irstantly jumping on his horse and gal-
loping off, whilst the other four gentlemen, who aippeared
to be on friendly terms, got into the carriage, which im-
mediately drove off, followed by the empty postchaise.
After the vehicles bad got some little distance down the
lane, they were met by a sergeant and constable of
police, but, observing their approach, the carriage was
driven swiftly on, and the police did not interrupt theit
progress; and on reaching the end of Wood-lane, they
returned towards town. All that could be gleaned from
the drivers of the vehicles, by the party who followed
them, was that one of the principals was a gentleman well
known on the turf, and the other a member of a club in
St. James's-street. It is said that all the parties can be
identified by those who saw them.
THE LATE ME. ITENDRT.—INTE are enabled to
state, upon the very best authority, that the deceased
Mr. Hendry, whose remains were exhumed in London,
was, up to the period °lbis death, constantly attended by
three of the most eminent medical gentlemen of Glasgow.
We ate in possession of the names of the gentlemen
alluded to; one of whom, we understand, was no con-
stem, in his attendance upon the deceased, that he slept
in the same room with his patient up to the hour of the
death of the latter. This is so far satishwtory, that it
entirely puts aside any idea of foul play.—Worth British
Mail.

GLASGOW, DEC. 8. Cotton—Our market for
cotton wool during. th© week has been depressed, and
prices have fun about 4d. per lb. At this reduction
prices nre firm, but it is not expected that -an extensive
business will be done till the turn of the year. The
cotton goods market has been somewhat depressed, but
prices still keep to the old mark. Pig Iron—The prices
(pf pig iron may be quoted to-day at 465. 6d. cash, and
47 s. three months over delivery. The market is quiet,
but at these quotations a fair business has been done.

A funeral mass will take place in the Church of
the Invalides on the 15th instant, in memory of the
ninth antiiversary of the arrival of the ashes of the
Emp• ror at Paris, at which the President of the Re-
public will b. present. The Archbishop of Paris will
officiate, assisted by several bishops and high diguits-
;iea of the Church.