The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-06 00:00:00

W OP THE BCOTTiSIi
GRAIN MARKETS.
the past week supplies were averages..- Tb de
11.1,ern. was less animated than before. Sales
)nsecit6lnce dull, and sellers were obliged tip
a reduction 911 all kinds. 'Wheat fell on, the
.'om 4s to 55 a eft2arter. ,
WHEAT.—At Perth there was a better.sapply, anil with.;:.;
holders more disposed to sell, prices declined :ea ,to 6gz ams
The return gives (60 to 681b)545 to 595. At 'lgia2thers:-----,
Was a dull market, and a reduction of 4s .to 5s a quarters )
At Kirkaldy there was a good supply; which sold slowlyvsm
-at a reduction of 4s a quarter. At stitiElg tbere'We.re
35 bolls; =which ,were -in ordinary d4aand at a real failz
on the average of is 61d:-• At Falkirk there ,were-. irtosii,
bolls, which met with a dull sale and reduced prices
`.the returnbeinr(69ito 61i1b)7303 6d to pet; bolL—..
At fjaddington: tlitire was a smaller supply, viz., 258
4uarters, which:met-with& dull sale--152 qtiartirs betL;s.
; disposed of at an average reduction of 4s. 6d. ..At Dar-
keith the suppry Was less, and- sales duli7-the. average ^r
I.fall being 4s 4d.
13.arir.Er.—,At-. Perth-prices fell -4* to .6s—the--.1
4eing.(:io t0.541b.) 315.t0 365. At Elgin there .Waitl3o fax
alteration. At KilkitldY there were 4 parce:l3T: bit*lgh
forward, part' -of which calf. sold. At Burling ,therti,
were' 53 bolls, which had-a dull sal and
.wero .only Cie
and it ;ta °l--
2s sd 04 the average. At Falkirk t
bolls, one parcel of which Sold at 2es per boll,
501.1 h. per bushel.. At Haddington qbere were 41T Ars:,
19 of which sold at an average-rise of is scl: At DA'
keith there-was little variation. _
turOnAbVesi;;A(t4o2etroth42iblbe.7 3woa:
taofa3lltso.f 2s to
Etin—ih.t6hrere;
was no alteration. At' Itirkalcry there were 2 parcels,
both of which Were held, at 35S a quarter (40. and 411 b.) r
and reinainednrisold. 'At Stirling there were 145 bolls,
which had a real -fall- of-2s • 4-24 on the averik7i. At- .7.
Falkirk there were_ nor oats sbown, At Eaddingkin •
there were 159 qrs., 120 of which sold hero -aierage
dedline Bd. At Dalkeith there
, was a.falk7of.B4, a
'quarter. - " -

.r • NAVAL INTELIAGENCZ:r.'"'"'
•
PORii10171i1; AUG. 5:-=rhe -Thrkeritioct i, •to talc's:
Mr. Baltamy,-recond-master--atteritiaat, frk,fti this yit!4,
:with twenty-four•riggers, and a variety of 6t,,,res, and
_call at DevonpUrt for more riggers, and then tfr,sto the
Great Britain in Duniirturzßay, tend rt nder:uch,
ance•ft they m.iy 11.- stole to rive iu
her " i3lrkeilheiirli by wr, lit exertnolin
&c , may pus-ibly beahle to get tiway on Satitrdsy..
Ilis Imrpriiit. Highness the :Grand OitieonStlntine
and suite were atten.ied down to Osborne. yes:erd.l
eveninp: by Adihiritt Sir Charles h's 11.gnness
on passing-through Spithrad, having expressed a w'ish •
to see how the Amphior, screw steamer. was fitted, Sire.
•Charles Ogle took him on . board for thefurpore. - The,
Grand Duke has been afloat-this day. ilts,lmpt-rial.
Ilighntss h-aves Osborne on Saturday.
I he Black Bagle steamryact has arrived from WOO; -
wich to j the- squadron which accompanies-hex Ma-
jesty tn
,_sentland. • •

.
The Bothing cteftrn.r, Commit:l4lo' A. C.. Key, 'is to
be attached to the Meatt,rralioan

FATAL MVP:CM Or DRINEING-4CoLD WiNTEH
WHILE--11EATlio.—Yesterday afterneon_en inquest s.nts
held before Mr. Baker, at the Green Man public-hotnre„ '
.Cambridge-road, Th-thtial•green, on view ot. the body of
Mary ()cans, aged. 42 years, who died, from ,the effects
of drinking a large quantity of water while !leaflet under ,
the following very -melancholy eireumstanaes. It ape
peered from the evidence that on Saturday evening last,
the deceased, who resided with her 'husband; at "No. 16,
Parliament-street, Cambridge-road,-had been sweeping
the street'door, when several. boys threw a quantity' of
water over the stones in front of the house. She remone
stratedeVith thezzi,•-and desired, them _to desist. They
refused to do so, and she became very much excited. -She -
then went into the house, and complained Of her bead
being very hot.. Shesaid she was ,verY thirst, and took
&large coffee cup. into the yard and filled it a:fi,h cold
water from 'the waterbatt. She drank off the. gen.kiite,
and repeated it fivetimes. .She hadsparcely emptied ti;c
last cupful', when she fell to the ground in a state of
insensibility. She -was removed to her bedrooms where
she remained in the,same condition -until the following
morning, when she expired. Mr. CoePer4.6.-surge"t
said the_deceasedhad died from the, rupture _of a blood- ,
vessel in the brain from, over-excitement, and that her
death had been accelerated by an excessive draught of
cold water, while in a. state of heat. The jury returned
verdict in accordanCe with the medical testielonyf
THE ANTIQUE.—There is in the shoit
Sharpe, watchmaker, High-street, of this town, stivrioui
old clock, which, tradition says, belonged.to the An ,„7iane' '
dale-family,--and-long-divided time in the ancient bi1.,115 -
of Lockwood. The curious in mechanical contrivande
and the antiquity of inventions will
.find this relic well
worthy of inspection. Jt is simply a piece of clock-
work, suppoited lay four brass pillars; which are 7m:trot
mounted by azlome of bell-metal, upon which the-hours 7
are struck ,by'S hammer, somewhat after the manner Or ,
the modern clock. The twelve hour's ere marked-upon
a circular index of brass, and affixed' to a plate of the
same metal, upon" whiela -the maker's-name, Leadenhall,
and the date Lan; -are--legibly inscribed.- The motive
power is weights, cords, and pulleysohe movement oon-
trolled hya pendulumand escapement, and the hours
o
nly are indicated by a single 'pointer. What is most
worthy of remark -in regard to this manifestly-antique
piece of mechanism is, that assuming the date 507 upon
the dial to be that of its actual mannfacttiNit
nishes very strange testimony to-the antiquity of pen.
dulnm clocks, the invention of which has always been
accorded to the seventeenth century, and the honour
of the discovery ascribed to Galileo ; and it is asserted
by Beckman, in his history of inventions, that the oldest
public clock in Eugland is that of Hampton Court, date
fifteen hundred and something, driven originally by
weights, but not regulated by a pendulum. Leaving
this to antiquarian arrangement, it were interesting to
speculate-upon the preservation Which maintained this
relic in 'a family so often subjected to foray and feud,
and against the destroying fury of the incendiary fire,,
kindled with such savage glee by Maxwell of IsTithsdale_
on the towers of Lockwood, when, in the absence of
her lord, he swore to give " Lady Ann light to dress
her sarsenet hood," and for which such signal ven-
geance was taken upon Dryfe Sands. At .preesent the
clock is much out of order ; but, resuscitated wider the
hands of Sharpe, an ingenious workmen, it might form
an interesting object in some hall of eeriositiq3 07 MU-
scum. .uch as that of the Dumfries Observatory.—Dum-
fries Courier. . .

HAY-MAKING ON SUNDAYS.--At the petty sessions,
held at Oldham on Monday, forty-four inhabitants of
Crompton and Royton were summoned, at the instance
of the county constabulary, on charges of having done
"certain worldly labour in their ordinary calling, to wit,
hay-making, on the Sabbath day."—Policeman Turner,
and constable Milne, of Crompton, gave evidence on the
part of the complainant.--Mr. Hunt, solicitor, of Roch-,
dale, appeared for a number of the defendants, and Mr
Ascroft, solicitor,. of Oldham, was retained for the ie.;
mainder.—Mr. Hunt contended that the defendants bad:
only been doing work which was inevitably necessary,
as at the time they were doing it, there was a prospee
unfavourable weather.—Mr. Ascreft stated that'Sofetra
of the defendants had only been taking advantl
agien' order.
fine weather, at the time the charge was made,
ma..
to get in their hay as soon as -possible.—arMe Mills,
eeasn'togtuhiletiyr
gfuistutrraetee,enc aduuteito,naesdsut defendants atnhtis
ttot
hbee)e,es had 1
and the remainder of the defendants sva
of improper .practices.—Three of thecain...,
dismissed,rwc.e;tetiredto pay
costs.—Manchester Guardian.
on the- repreSentation of a ,
It will be fresh in the meetrZyymocafonOljauimn%rsn,ekdayeddee,rsts(t)ilirlatt,,:,
Peel, on the 29th of June, 1846, recommended
Queen to bestow a pension of 50/. per annum on each of
the two surviving sisters of the late Sir John M`Caskill.s
Asa further proof of the benevolence of our behoved
Sovereign, her Majesty has commanded Lord John Ras/
sell to offer the amiable ladies in question an. xiciditiphit
pension of 501. a year; so that the Misses 31'easkil"v1
forthwith enjoy an annual pension of eacb. f
subsrantial and well-merited token of her Majestftsrz'
ness cannot fail to be gratifying to the Publ.t3Ls too
when it is considered that the MissesM•Ctoivo,ewi:irid
worthy brothers in the service of their__
country, before they were deprived of
lag brother, the late gallantiii.dn batge of Mood"
M•Caskill, K.C.8., m ov.GenersVlSuirevi.-Jvl.
question :-
-addresfsteh:biryorinl6yo -4'44
;, Dovnning-
in
idAresda e • I have ieceived the
kßeues s e Ti
to
oe e
afollowing h,Boowteasi was-
Street, 17th July, I
offer Yea an a'
647' ni
iditional.pnnsion
Queen's commands te!ionition of. the eminent military
of 501. a year, in coonar
John
M•Caskill.. It gives me
services of the
to be
._
Si
the organ' of communicating to you
great pleasure_ t
ofelis intentions.—l have the honour to
her Ifitiest,„j„gau,, •
be; Bcc-, in a contest in a borough in
appeared there would probably be a
Esssz- VOTERS.i
with his vessel, and it was uncertain whether Essex,
eloe runw,haerseeaman, a 10/ weer, was found to be absent
he was at
Havre or Antwerp. A young girl, one of his daughtits.
of her own accord, and quite unknown to the Liberal
candidate, or his committee, dtterinined' to fetch him.
All she asked was to be driven cwt r to the railway.:ita-
tion, to meet the third-cla,s train. On reaching.P3aaon
she went to the station of the Dover Railway ; there a
clerk, with great civility, advi,ed her to'go by South-
ampton. So' she wer,t on to Nine-f-bes. ' On reaching
Southampton she found a packf t just sailing. At Havre,
having hired a guiiie, who uneerstood Eu4ith, be
searched the quay till she found her tuther and his ship,
and brought him home:
OPENING OF A PORTION OF THE BLAME/MO(9
DARWEN, AND BOLTON RAILWAY.—The portiont
railway now finished, beweeu Blackburn anciveS_
about a mile beyond Over Darwen, and abs.tig
ofi.D_ZeD
length, was opened for the ectomhmeloe _
fengin from
public on Tuesday morning. The
hose
BlzsicTkAbTuErn
of
Bolton will be about thuitifteneoretilteosn.
Months.—The drawer,
better state than in the gillwcro°ndition, though in a
branch remains in 11,T—ersyTrbdinet
branchkeeps in a pretty goods
pantaloon, and shirtter
branches of the trade.--The silk
compared with
glove trade istoaoshbade better, but not. so as to give full
the ands.--The knotted trade has in a
empltoyinacsnutre removed to Mansfield, where the bagmen
hosiers long credit. Many of .these hands work
tgnfveteawiehmedeistnet frames, that is, a wide frame, when they
make knotted hose, and• a narrow one when they make
Stockings or gloyes.—The fancy bobbin.net trade
sa very aull.—The black silk lace trade is extending; but
the manufacture presents great difficulties, and the pro-
gress of many machiues is but slow.—The Muslin lace,
though contending with the difficulties of the times, is
in some demand; and the new patent embossed muslins
only require to be better known in the fashionable world
to ensure a good_dernand.—The cotton warp-lace trade
is„certainly a little Revved, and making articleS for the
American tuarketa,—Nottingham Review.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager 'received a dis-
tinguished circle at let,choon yesterday, at the•royal
reside.ace-iu Bushy .Park, . •-1