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

HULL, DEcEmßErt 31.

STOCK EXCHANOE.—dur business still continues limited
in amount, although more is doing to-day than yesterday.
Our quotations remain almost unaltered. The sales are—
North British, Quarters, 725. 6d.—Ditto, Extension ( scrip),
18s. 6d. p.—Amberga te, Nottingham, and Boston, 2/. 16s. 6d,
—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 14s dis.—'.;rent Grimsby and
Sheffield Extensions, 1.14 dis.—North-Wester_ ,n 13s. p.—
North Staffordshire, 4/. 4s.—Northern Counties Union, 2 Is.—
West Riding Union, 4/. 3s.
EDINBURGH, DECEMBER 30.

STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Caledonian, 3014—
Ditto, New, 593.—Direct Northern, 525. 6d.—Dundee and
Perth, New, 141,4 —Bast of Fife, 565. —East Lothian Cen-
tral, 635. d.—Edinburgh and Bathgate, 60s.—Edinburgh
and Northern, New, .5/.—Ditto, Newport, 13X ex new—
Edinburgh and Perth, 59s.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 014—Great North of Scotland, 60s.—Midland, Halves,
71/B—North British, 36144—Ditto, Thirds, 78s. 6d.—Ditto,
Quarters, 71s. 6d.—Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 31s. 6d.—
Scottish Grand Junction, 20s.—Great Southern of Madras, 6s.

GLASGOW, DECEMnttn 30.
Stocs EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 2534 Ayr
and Galloway, Ms.—Caledonian, 301.—Ditto, New, 545.
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 445. 6d.—Direct Bombay
and Madras, ss.—Dundee and Arbroath, New, No. 1, 331.
—Ditto, No. '2, 141.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 7bs.
—East of Fife, 58s.—East Indian Railway, I Is. 9d.—East
EdinburghLothia and Perth, 605.--GlasgownCentral,6ls—
.Ed
615.--Edinburgh
gha GndNenoerrtahl Terminus,ern,lsi—
-I.234—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves; 9
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 5/. ls.—Glasgow, Airdrie,
and :Monkland Junction, 72s.—Great Southern of Madras,
6s.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 52s.—Manchester and
Southampton, 395. 6d.—lllidland, Halves, 71. 65.—New-
castle and Berwick, 351.—Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet, 60s.
—Scottish Central, 21X—Scottish Grand Junction, 20s.—
South. Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, 635. 6d.—Stirling and
Dunfermline, 76s.—Stirlingshire and Midland Junction, 535.
—Strathern Junction,
.85s.—Wishaw and Coltness, 50/.
York and Newcastle, Preference, 734,

FISHING AT THE CAM—By no means the least 1
singular circumstanee• in connexion with Cape Town is NOVEL MODE OF SMUGGLING SPIRITS INTO A
the apparently inexhaustible supply of fish which its har- WORKHOUSE.—On Tuesday, at the meeting of the di-
hour furnishes. There are a great variety of species, all rectors and guardians of the poor at St. Pancras, a
different tSorn turdpetitil but though several of these are charge was preferred by Mr. Cooper, the workhouse sur-
wholesome and fine flavoured, they are not worthy to be peon, _ against a nurse of one of the sick wards, named
ranked with Inglish Sorts. The two most abundant Lloyd, that she was in the habit of getting intoxicated,
kinds seem to be Cape salmon, a heavy fish, in size and that on Wednesday last she was so much so, as to be
and in external tweet somewhat resembling ; a incapable of performing her duties. Lloyd admitted the
British namesake; and the snook, a mose ferocious "salt impeachment," but expressed her entire ignorance,
marine pike. Boats, after an excursion of a few hours, of how she obtained the " three half- quarterns' within
often return laden with these fish, which though the walls of the workhouse. Mr. Chadborn, the super
d
rarely below five or six pounds weight, generally sell intendent, was called, and, in answer to que'sutirmsehiowi ,
for less than a penny a piece, and despite the great he knew the inmates of the workhouse got g'
cheapness of. butchers' meat, constitute the principal but how they got it was a perfect Dv:. 3 unless it was
who :nt''in and out on
market to which this commodity is exported. The mar brougl:xt in by those pauperssueh as the undertakers. In
gin of the bay is strewn in all directions with the heads, errands for the workhos
Mr. Chadborn admitted that
tails, and refuse of fish. In lack of other amusements, answer to further questions,
belief when the undertakers went out to
a fishing excursion will be found no bad way of passing be had Astreng
body for interment by the parish, that they
away the time here. snook are the most ravenous. fetch a
ht managed to smuggle large quantities of spirits in the
The porters were ordered by the Board for the
and rarely fail to give good sport. They may be caught
either wi,ile the boat is in :notion, by trailing a laden coffin..
hcok astern, with some wh:te streamers of rag on it, future to search
in to
on their arrival, and to send all
or when at anchor, by altermltely casting the bait to a females coming to the matron for a similar purpose.
distance, and drawing it quickly- back through the water. CiinAr RE-PUBLICATION OF IMPORTANT WORKS.
They will almost spring into thy'boat in pursuit of the —Mr. Colburn has this day published Part 1. of the
ctFe of a _
.cheapre-issue The Nelson Letters and Dispatches,"
beautiful
hook, and in the clear water ,
their bsek fins to be completed in fourteen monthly parts, price only
purple hue, and may be seen Witt.
erected rushing to destruction, like fut.,es. Their teeth ss. each. The " Nelson Letters," (observes the Globe)
are very formidable and they know how
to use them, will hereafter be the manual of the sailor, as the sister
•
wh:eh renders the awkward process of knooL ing them on savviee has found a guide in the Dispatches of the Duke
,on board, of Wellington. The first part of the re issue of
the head with batons, before introducing them
an indispensable step. Much splashing attends ttn:'. feat, Burhe's " History of the Landed Gentry," to be corn-
which appzars highly exhilirating to the fishermen it 6.. pletcd in ten monthly parts, price 55., is also now ready.
the fish. Penguins, Cape hens, and albatrosses' with This is a work in which every gentleman will find a
some kinds of seagull, surround the boat on those urea-
• •mestic interest, as it contains the fullest account of
sinus so closely shoot them, and ne
on .1y every known famil , in the United Kingdom.
an unjustifiable,that it is barbarous to
bleach of confidence. Gannets and cur- ` •nE
the first sod eta`
this line early AY.—The Duke
in the ensuing
of Rutland
morante also fly ar'eund in great numbers.—Methuen's•
Wanderings in South gam. • will OM Bothesfield, near Nottingham.
week. at
,