The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

TALLOW.

On the whole the market may be called inactive, yet we
can report no material alteration in prices. The recent quo-
tation for P.Y.C. on the spot is 50s per cwt. For forward
delivery very few contracts have been entered into. Town

Tallow, the supply of which is by no means large, is 50s
net cash.

WOOL.
The imports of Wool since Monday last have amounted to
about 3do bales, chiefly from Belgium and the Cape. There
is a fair demand for English combing Wools, at full prices.
In all other kinds exceedingly little is doing.

GABIE.--It is generally believed by the farmers in
the Isle of Wight, that one twentieth of the produce of their
farms is destroyed by the game! while their labourers cannot
obtain half food enough for their families! The cottagers
are in want of fold and firing, having only from 9s. to 10e.
per week to subsist on, everything is so dear that their
miserable pittance will not hold out, there is little hope of
their being able to crop their little gardens, seeds are beyond
their reach, garden beans are double the price they were two
months since, and to mend the matter, the Rector has put a
tithe this year on their little gardens.
Mr. Standish, M.P. for Wigan, lies dangerously
indisposed, and but slight hopes are' entertained of his re-
covery.

REMOVAL OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE RIGHT
lox. T. GRINVILLE TO THE BRITISH MUSKTM.—Saturdy
the concluding portion of the library of the Right lion. •.
Grenville, according to his bequest was deposited in the
British Museum. The time occupied in the removal was five
days, the number of books being 20,300 volumes. In value,
on account of their excellent condition, magnificent binding,
and extreme rarity, they are estimated at 100,0001. To give
only a slight idea of the value of this acquisition to the Bri-
tish Museum, for which s special room has been provided, a
ticr ice of one of the books will suffice. The first is the " Biblie
Sacra Latini," upon vellum, the first edition of the Holy
Scriptures, and the first book printed with moveable metal
types by the inventors of printing. This book was printed
at Mentz, by Guttenburg and Faust, between the years
1450-5, and is executed in double columns, in imitation of
the choir books of the period. The cost of getting up this
work was so great that Schiieffer, the son•in-law of Faust,
states in " Trithemus's Chronicles" that 4,000 florins were
expended before twelve sheets were finished. This Bible is
known as the Mazarine Bible, on account of a copy having
been discovered in the library of Cardinal Mazarine. It is
so scarce that but four copies upon vellum and fourteen upon
paper exist, nearly all of which are in public libraries. With
regard to the value of the book, it may be stated that one
upon paper, fetched, at the sale of the library of the Duke of
Susses, 1901.

We regret to announce the death of Captain
Dillon, whose voyages and adventures among the natives of
the islands in the Pacific are familiar to every reader, and
who, it will be recollected, discovered and brought to France
the remnants of the Astrolabe, the sole relics of the unfortunate
La Peyrouse and his companions. Captain Dillon died on
Tuesday almost suddenly.— G alignani.
BATTERSEA PARK.—On Saturday the surveyors
were busily engaged taking the levels for the bridge to cross
the Thames to the new.park-obout to be formed in Battersea-
fields, from near the Chelsea Waterworks, having direct ap-
proaches on the Middlesex side from Sloane-street and the
Commercial-road. The park will extend from the Southwark
Waterworlo to the Battersea Bridge-road, inclosing all the
ground between the Thames and the Wandsworth-road, and
il-pfbatevacre and carriage drive to be formed on both sides of
the river,--to extend on the Middlesex shore from Vauxhall-
bridge to Cheyne-vialk, Chelsea.
CORN TO CAVALRY::HORSES.--In consequence of
the present extraordinary high price of oats, occasioned by
the general scarcity of all descriptions of grain, an order has
just been issued from the Horse Guards to the colonels of all
the cavalry regiments in her Majesty's service, for a consi-
derable reduction to be made in the scpply of corn to the
troop horses. Heretofore the regulation was for each horse
to have 101 b. of oats per day, generally averaging, from the
excellent quality of the corn contracted to be supplied for
cavalry horses, abOut two gallons. According to the new
regulation ordered to be carried into effect by the Commander•
in-Chief, the quantity is to be reduced from 101 b. to 71b. per
day, making a diminution in the consumption of nearly one-
third. In a cavalry regiment of 800 horses, under the new
arrangement, the enormous saving of upwards of 50 bushel.
of oats will be the daily average, and nearly 18,000 bushels
in the twelvemonth.
Lord John Russell and Count Alexander Mensdorg
visited Count St. Aulaire last week. Sir Robert Peel called
on his Excellency at the Embassy, Manchester House, 011
Saturday last.
COLONIAL APPOINTMENT. —We understand that
Christopher Rawlinson, Esq., [of the Western Circuit, and
Recorder of Portsmouth, and who was one of the intended
Judges under the Small Debts Act, has just been appointed
by Sir George Grey to the Recordership of Penang. The
appointment is worth 4,0001. per annum.
SALARIES ON THE GREATWESTERN.—MT. Saunders,
the secretary, gets 2,500. a-year; Mr. Gooch, locomotive
superintendent, I,oooi. ; Mr. Clark, superintendent, 7501.1
and Mr. Pyke, head accountant, 5501.; Clark, the Bristol
superintendent, gets 5501.; Ashbee, of Exeter, 3251.; and
Graham, of Gloucester, 1801.—Herapath's Raikvay Magasinc•
EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.—On Saturday the police
received information of an extensive robbery having been
committed between twelve o'clock on Friday night and neen
o'clock that morning, at the house of Mrs. Wallis, No. 18,7'
Sloane• street, Knightsbridge. It appears that Mrs. Well
was sitting up during the night attending a sick child, Wine"
slept in the kitchen. While doing so she heard no noise to
the house, but, on going up stairs after seven o'clock on Sa'
turday morning, she found the rooms in disorder, and on eel"
mination found that eight silver table-spoons, a dozen sill
tea-spoons, a pair of silver sugar-tongs, a gold watch with
gold chain attached, a silver watch, a pair of gold ear-rings'
a mourning ring, two 201. Bank of England notes, two 101.
ditto, and two 51. ditto, with 1201. in gold, had been carried off
by the thieves, who left behind them a bunch of picklock
keys, an old pair of stockings, and a screw-driver.
The Duchess of Inverness had a dinner party on
Sunday at Kensington Palace. The Earl of Aticklando'll
Vis-
count Melbourne, and Viscount and Viscountess Palmer'
were among the guests.
gret to
DEATH OF PROFESSOR NAFIER. We. re- r
have to record the death of Macvoy Napier, Esq., Pmfess°
of Conveyancing in the university of this city, which Wig
place at his house about five o'clock yesterday morning.
For some time past, we understand, Mr. Napier had not fully
enjoyed his accustomed health, but his indisposition was not
so severe as to prevent him from attending his official duties.
He delivered a lecture on Monday, as usual, to his class, and
though he had since that day taken unwell, yet his friends
did not anticipate that his dissolution was so near. Besides
the distinguished place which he occupied in our university.
Mr. Napier was well known in literary circles on account of
his connexion with the Edinburgh Review, of which he WAS
editor for nearly twenty years, and also with that great
literary undertaking the Encyclopedia Britannica, the whole
of the seventh edition of that noble work having been issued
under his superintendence, as well as a supplement to the
previous one. Mr. Napier was also one of the principal
clerks of the Court of Session. We have not heard his pre-
cise age, but we believe he had attained his seventieth or
seventy-first year. The death of the talented Professor has
caused a blank in the literary world which will be eaten'
sively felt.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
NOVEL SPECIES OF BALLOON.—A balloon oft
structed on a principle by 'which the longest aeriel voyages
can be performed, and by which all danger is avoided by the
expansion of gas, and all waste of gas prevented, may now
be seen in the Montpellier-gardens, at Camberwell, by 5r
sons connected with scientific inventions and pursuits. 'l°
invention is that of a Mr. Gale, a gentleman of some repo"
tation in science, and well known on the continent as an
aeronaut, and as a pupil of the celebrated Arnaud Robert.
The improvements on the old lumbering machines, welch
have hitherto done little beyond collecting an idle, gaping
mob at tea-gardens, and by the ascent of which science has
received no information whatever, consist in elastic tubes,
pipes, or what is called hose, by which all the gas which
escapes from the lower part of the machine is received SW"
conveyed into large bags or receivers attached to the
middle of the balloon, so that let the expansion of the
gas be what it will from heat, or other causes, the gas can
be let off and ptserved, and no danger of bursting incurred.
The car is also differently constructed fi om the old method
and the aeronaut can without trouble lower beneath the ear
another car, to any distance he may please, in which scientific
experiments can be carried on, or fire made use of, witholl,i
danger to the balloon. The cars are very light, being male
of prepared cork and Indian rubber. This balloon is nearly
as large as the great Nassau balloon, and is made of silk ma'
nufactured by Messrs. Merciers and Vanner, of Spitalfields•
The designs for the external painting are very good; the/
are by Mr. D. Roberts. The whole apparatus, grepnells, &ever?
improvements on the heavy and clumsy things hitherto used
for aerial voyages.
THUNDER STORM AT LINDAL.—On Tuesday
night last this neighbourhood was visited by a tremendous
storm of thunder and lightning, which continued without
intermission the greater part of the night. About nine o'clock
the storm broke over this neighbourhood with extreme
violence, vivid flashes of lightning succeeding each other in
quick succession, and illuminating the sky in all directions,
were succeeded by heavy peals of thunder. A slight fall of
snow accompanied this extraordinary and unseasonable temp
pest. The roaring of the wind during the storm was ainwtS
equal to the thunder itself, which aroused the peaceable
denizens of Linda! from theirquiet slumbers, in no small tre-
pidation. Westmorland Gazette.
DEATH IN AN OMNIBUS.—.-On Saturday Mr. T.
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Nag's Head, New
Compton-street, Soho, on the body of Mr. William King,
aged seventy-one. The evidence proved that the deceased,
who was a native of Oxford, had for some time past resided in
London, and carried on the business of a printer. He bad
formerly been a compositor, and was, for some weeks pro'
vious to his demise, sojourning at the Cross Keys Tavern.
Endell-street, Holborn. Oti Thursday last be went out
about ten in the morning, and got into a Paddington om-
nibus, when he- was suddenly taken in a fit, and the rest of
the passengers becoming alarmed, the vehicle was stopped,
but before the deceased could be conveyed to a surgeon's life
was totally extinct. A post •mortent examination proved
death to have been the result of apoplexy. Verdict, "Natural
death.'

[ADVERTISEMENT.]— WONDERFUL EFFICACY oF
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Nine months since
Mr. Winburn, a respectable and well-known gentleman in
Glaslough, county Monaghan, had an opening made from
the hip to the knee, and a great deal of diseased flesh re-
moved. For three years he suffered night and day, although
he consulted all the most skilful surgeons and physicians De
could hear of; using baths, liniments, &c., without effect.
He expected to be a cripple for life; yet by the use of Hol-
loway's Ointment and Pills he is now cured, and enabled to
attend to business for the last six months as though nothing
had happened.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor }LW
loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.
On the 10th inst., in Portland-place, the wife of the Rev. 01010
L. Royds, of a son.
On the 11th inst., at Emmanuel Parsonage, Camberwell, the Wife
of the Rev. Robert rayrer, of a daughter.
On the llth inst., in Torrington-square, the lady of W. H. /I
Esq., of a son.
ter-
On the 12th inst., the lady of Edward Morris, Esq., Glouces
road, Hyde-park-gardens, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 11th inst., at Kirtllngton, Edmund Antrobus, Esq.,
SO
for East Surrey, to Marianne Georgiana, eldest daughter 0-
I
George Dashwood, Bart., of Kirtlington-park, Oxfordshire.

DIED.
On the 10th inst., at Belle Vue House, Chelsea, Charles Hatch
Esq., aged 82.
On the 10th inst., at Liverpool, Jane, the wife of Captain GillesPid
Dunslevie.
On the 10th inst., Thomas Hayes, Esq., of Darby House, Sunburt°
Middlesex. • •
On the 10th inst„, at Aldwiek, William Titchener, Esq., aged 67.,,f
- On the 11th inst., at Oakfield, Hornsey, George Buckton, Esq,
Doctor's-commons, aged 63.
--On the Inst., Jacosho, wife of Thomas Natt, Esq., of meeklea-
burgh-squate,.,
• On the 11th inst., at Kentish-town, Elizabeth, relict
of the ate
Mr. Charles Ernest Christian Hering.
On the 11th inst., at Manchester-street, Michael HenshaW, tali°
s -n of 11. S. Russell, Esq.
On the 11th Inst., at Denmark-hill, Surrey, Vice-Admiral W
Young, aged 86.
On the 11th inst., at Wokingham, Berke, Thomas QuenterY
aged 71'
On the 11th inst., at Islington, Joseph Chippindale, Esq.,

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