The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

011ANGI3 MEETING IN uLsrEg.

The Ulster Times announces that the Tories and
Orangemen of the Northern Provinces are to meet on the
Ist, to make a demonstration in support of Lord Stan.
ley's Disfranchisement 13111. Lords Londonderry, Hert-
ford, Ely, O'Neill, Enniskillen, Ferrard, the LoftArics,
and the byresfords, join in this movement. We rejoice at
it. This, then, is the time for the true friends of peace
and honest government to rally, and the meeting of the
15th affords the opportunity.

On Saturday night last a fine young woman ,
aamed Mary mouell, residing with her parents near the
Market-gate, Woolwich, went to bed in good health, and
arose and went down stairs to light the kitchen fire
on Sunday morning. When her parents came down
stairs, some time afterwards, they found her lying
on ,the floor quite dead. From the appearance of
the body, it is supposed that she had died of fright
at the time of the terrible thunder-storm which pre-
vailed at seven o'clock on Sunday morning. What ren-
ders the case more distressing is, that she was about to be
married on the following day to a recently discharged
sapper and miner, at present employed as a stonemason
at Deptford.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6.
—Our market has exhibited considerable firmness and
buoyancy to-day, and we have had a good demand for
most of the leading Railway Shares, and prices generally
have an upward tendency. The following are the closing
prices:—Manchester and Leeds, 801, New ditto, 31 :
Manchester and Birmingham, 26 to 27 ; North Midland,
81 to 82, halves, 40 to 41 ; Midland Counties, 81, quar-
ters, 15 to 16 ; London and South Western, 60; Great Wes-
terns, 93 to 94, halves 621 to 63, fifths, 11 to 11,-I ; London
and Birmingham, 173, quarters, 28 to 281-, thirds,s9; Lon-
don and Brighton, 431 to 44 ; South Eastern and Dover,
13 ; Eastern Counties, 9 to 91, ditto debentures, 5,1 to 6.
JUVENILE FLAGELLATION.—THESHERIFFS
IN A DIFFICULTY.—TKO boys, of the names of Regan
and Donovan, were tried on Tuesday, and ordered to be
whipped yesterday morning, and then delivered up to
their friends. The work of flagellation is part of the du'y
of Calcraft, the executioner, than wham no official can bo
more punctual in the performance of his duty ; and he is
equally punctual in his attendance to perform it. It hap-
pened yesterday morning that the " functionary" did not
attend at the usual hour (eight in the morning), hence the
Sheriffs were at a loss as to how they could carry the sen-
tence into effect before the Court opened at nine o'clock,
the whipping post being under the floor, and the cries of
the culprits arc distinctly heard in it. It was at length
announced that there was a person who acts as a messen-
ger about the Court, who formerly held a situation in the
House of Correction, and was there a practical hand, and
could " wield the cat•o'-nine-tails with dexterity." Fur-
ther time elapsed before this amateur could be found,
but, on his arrival, he readily agreed "to perform." It
appears he gave such satisfaction to all (tha culprits ex-
cepted), that the Sheriffs appointed him " instanter" to
perform that duty permanently—s duty which was alwa)s
repugnant to the feelings of the man whom he has super-
seded. Formerly it was the custom to flog adult prisoners
publicly, and a few years ago 19 men were tied up in the
court-yard on one day; but since the amelioration of the
criminal law that degrading punishment has been inflicted
only upon prisoners of tender age, and a birch rod has
been substituted for the " cat."

CORN-LAW MURDER.—On Saturday last an
inquisition was taken at the George the Fourth, East-road,
More Mr. Cooper, coroner of this borough, on view of the
body of William Jolly, aged two years. The deceased
child was the son of an agricultural labourer, aged twenty-
six years, residing in Popjoy's-rents, Gas-lane. He works
at Chesterton, and his wages amount to only 9s. a week,
out of which he has to pay Is. 6d. a week for rent. He
had been out of work lately, and his wife and child were a
few weeks since for several days literally in want of bread.
They had but two blankets ; one was pawned in the sum-
mer, and the other the poor woman was obliged to pawn
on Tuesday, the 22d ult., at a time when the deceased
ch;_ld was suffering from illness. That night it became
worse, and died in the course of a few hours ; no medical
man was called in, the poor woman being unable to pay
for any assistance of that kind. The family, it appears,
sleep on a mattress placed on a brick floor, without sheets
or blankets, and with no other covering than an old sack,
the tnan's great coat, and the woman's cloak. A post
mortem examination was made, from which, and from the
other evidence, the Jury came to the conclusion that dis-
ease, which had terminated fatally, had bean brought on by
the inclemency of the weather and the want of sufficient
bed-clothing, and returned a verdict accordingly.—Gum-
bridge Advertiser.
Instances are recorded by Morgagni and de
llaen io the German Ephemerides, and by Mr. Thackrah,
of the blood which streamed down the extremity in vene-
section feeling cold to the patient and the practitioner.
One woman compared it to ice ; and the sensation given
to Mr. Thackrah was the same as that of water at 68 deg.
In the Ephemerides the same is recorded of blood from the
nose. The stomach of a cod was found by Dr. Moseley
to be not only colder than the water from which it was
taken, and the rest of the fish, but painfully to benumb the
hand. Similar observations were made at Newfound-
land, and are quoted by Professor nudlphi.—Llliolson's
Human Physiology.
The editor of the Sydney Gazelle, Mr. George
Witliam Robertson, has been sentenced to pay a fine of
2001. to the Queen, and to be imprisoned for twelve
months, for a libel on Captain Nips, of her Majesty's ship

Dr. Sandham entered the service in 1805, was at
Buenos Ayres with the Carbinecrs, at th 3 taking of the
Cape of Good Hope, through the war of the Deccan, and
the taking of the dilnrent fortresses, and at Bhurtpere.—
The Doctor has been thirty years at least upon foreign
service.