The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON,

firmness, and insist upon full quotations ; whilst they
offer but a moderate quantity for sale. The home trade,
however, purchase all descriptions with caution by
private treaty; still good common Congou for cash can-
not be obtained under Sid, and fair clean Pouchong 6d
per lb. At public :ale the quantity offered amounted to
12,400 pkgs, out of which 6,200 were disposed of. For
auction, 4,000 pkgs are declared.
Rim—To-day there was little demand privately for
East India Rice, and at auction 1,564 bags Bengal were
taken in at 18s 6d for fine white, 16s for good middling,
damaged 16s 6d to 17s 6d, but a few lots sold
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at 9s to 12s.
Seco.—This afternoon at public sale 1,050 chests of
Pearl Sago were only in part sold at barely former rates;
good large white pearl went at 23s to 23s 6d, middling
small 18s to 18s 6d.
SPICES.—To-day Nutmegs met with less attention,
and prices deelined Id to 2d per lb; 7 cs 3 bgs at public
sales selling at 3s to 3s 2d for good mid brown, and mid
2s 8d to 2s 9d. Of Mace, 6cs went at 3s ld to 3s 3d for
for mid and good mid, which are barely former rates.
16 casks Amboyna Cloves were taken in at is 6d for
ood bold, and is 4d for rather old dark. 39 casks
Jamaica Ginger only partly sold. 67 bags Pimento
were taken in at 5d for mid quality.
SPIRITS.—Since Tuesday last the business concluded
in Leeward Island Rum has been trifling. Although there
are sellers at 2s 4d to 2s 5d proof strength, the market is
well supplied. For East India there are few buyers to
be met with. To-day there was little desire evinced to
operate in any kind of Rnm, and there were sellers of
East India proof at 2s to 2s 2d; Leeward Island 2s 4d,
and Jamaica of low to fine quality 28 to 38 per cent
over proof at 35 6d to 5s per gallon.
SALTPETRE.—Rough met with more attention, and
1,375 bags of Calcutta at auction were at full rates to
6d advance—good middling grey, 12 per cent refraction
295, good strong white, 31, 30s 6d to 31s, not refracted
29s 6d to 30s, and washed 255. English Refinen is
wanted at 33s 6d to 345. Nitrate of Soda has been sold
to a fair extent at 13s.
TURPENTINE.—Spirits are wanted, and the parcels
sold were at 40s to 41s for English drawn, and at 41s to
42s per cwt for American, indeed there are not generally
millers upon those terms. Rough has been disposed of
to a fair extent at 8s 9d to 9s.
OILS.—Palm has been only in limited request since
our last report, and rather lower rates have been taken.
At public sale 77 casks only in part sold. Cocoa Nut
met with a brisker demand, and brought stiff rates.
Linseed Oil on the spot has been in good request by the
home trade, whilst exporters have been purchasers to a
fair extent. For forward delivery sales to a fair extent
have been made. The market will be better sup-
plied with Oil shortly, and prices are still much above
those of last year. Rapeseed Oil is not much required,
and prices are on the decline. The market has a quiet
appearance for Olive, and holders are not so firm. Al-
though the market has been well supplied with Sperm
Oil, still little variation took place in the value, there
having been a good demand, and at auction 197 tuns
were sold at 831. to 861., and Headmatter at 841. to 87L
Pale Seal is wanted. Other kinds met with a fair de-
mand.
TALLOW.—Although Russian on the spot can be ob-
tained upon further reduced terms, the contracts entered
into by Soap-makers and chandlers have been upon a
small scale only. There are ready sellers of fine new
Petersburgh yellow Candle at 46s 9d to 47s per cwt.
For delivery in the last three months of the year there
are few buyers to be met with, yet there are sellers at
465. Home made has been bought with caution, and 4ss
to 48s 6d are accepted nett cash. There is a fair supply.
For other kinds of Tallow the market has been in a dull
state, and prices have fallen Is per cwt : at auction 217
casks of Odessa were only partly sold.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 23,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, New
(scrip), 3s. 9d. dis.—Fleetwood, Preston' and West Riding,
2 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths (late West Riding
Union), 14 dis. —Leeds and Thirsk, Preference (6 per cent.
guar.), 34 dis.—London and North-Western, 163 ex div.—
Midland Stock, 117 ex div.—Ditto, 401. Shares, 44 LA —Ditto,
IL:Wes, 2LA p. ex div.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire,
Preference (guar. 8 per cent.), 1% p.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (late Newcastle and Berwick), New, 3 p
York and North Midland, Preference (guar. 6 per cent.
till 1850), 7% p.
MANCHESTER, AUGVST 23. _

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 1% dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 4 dis.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Pre-
ference, 13i p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 311/ti
Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 1,4 dis.—Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 11/8 dis.—North Stafford-
shire, 2 5-16 p. -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, Pre-
ference (guar. 8 per cent.), 2 p.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 3,21/2 dis.—Ditto, No. 4, % e. dis. —Wharfdale, 11,4 xi.
dia—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (late Newcastle and
Berwick), New, 3 p.
EDINBURGH, AUGUST 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Dundee and Perth,
35—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 16— Edinburgh,
Leith, and Granton, Quarters, 103. 6d.—Edinburgh and
Northern, 191. 16s. .—Edinburgh and Perth. 23s.—Great
Northern, 625. ex int.—North British, Halves, 1414—Ditto,
Thirds, Registered,46s.—Ditto, Thirds (scrip), 45s.—Stirling
and Midland,7/. Is.

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APPALLING ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.—FARRINGDON, SATURDAY MORNING.—ORE
of the most deplorable accidents that has occurred for
some time, and which has produced considerable sensa-
tion in this town and at Bristol, took place on Thursday
evening last, at the Chaflow Marsh crossing, on the
Great Western Railway, a few miles distant, whereby
Mr. Henry Sinclair, a travelling silversmith and jewel-
ler, met with a terrible death. The deceased, who was
most respectably connected, resided in Pembroke-street,
St. Paul's, Bristol. He had been on business in Berk-
shire, and was proceeding to the town, when he met with
the accident. He reached the Challow crossing about a
quarter before seven o'clock, the moment when the after-
noon down expreLe train from Paddington was coming
up at a rate of between sixty and seventy miles per
hour. Some persons who were standing near called out
to him to stop until the train had passed, but he took no
notice, and attempted to cross the rails. His fate was
awful; in an instant the engine caught him, and his body
was hurled to an enormous distance and falling on the
rails, the whole train passed over him. He was literally
cut to pieces. There was aot a whole bone left in his
body, and the fragments were scattered in all directions.
On the train arriving at the Farringdon-road station the
engine driver made know the accident to Mr. Steven, the
superintendent of the station, who immediately pro-
ceeded to the spot with a pilot engine, and collecting the
remains conveyed them back to the station. The de-
ceased carried a box on his back, which contained up-
wards of 300/. worth of jewellery. The engine and
tender were strewed with watches and trinkets, and a
considerable quantity were found on the line and in the
adjacent fields, His hawker's license, issued at Bristol
on the 2d of August, was among the articles found.
SECESSIONS TO ROME.—We understand that a
highly respectable bookseller in London—one of the most
popular, if not one of the most successful, publishers of
the day—is about to be received, if it has not already
taken place, into the church of Rome, with the whole of
his family. We at present withhold the name, though
we have no doubt of the accuracy of our correspoodent.
A gentleman, also, well known to the patrons of art as
a Royal Academician. is said to be about to follow the
same course.—Oxford Herald, Saturday.
DEATH or A VETERAN.—There died on the Bth
of June last, in his native village of Cumnock, and old
pensioner named John Mitchell, by trade a shoemaker,
aged 78, who was the last survivor of an independent
company of volunteers who were raised in Cumnock by
the Earl of Dumfries, grandfather to the present Mar-
quis of Bute, and who were subsequently draughted
into the 74th Regiment of Fecit, and sent to the war in
India, in 1789. He was present in all the campaigns,
battles, and sieges in which the gallant 74th were en-
gaged—in the first expedition against Tippoo Saib, at
Seringapatam, under Lord Cornwallis ; at the taking of
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Travancore, Trincomalee, and
Pondicherry ; in the second expedition against Tippoo,
and in the storming of Seringapatam under Sir David
Baird ; and last, though not least, at the memorable
battle of Assaye, under Colonel Wellesley, now his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, where the British
troops had to stand, as at Waterloo, for a long time on
the:defensive, in the face of a greatly superior force,
both in numbers and artillery, till the enemy, tired with
mowing down the British lines with their great guns,
charged them es masse, thinking to gain an easy vic-
tory ; when, strange to relate, our shattered troops, true
to their colours and their country, not only repulsed
them at the point of the bayonet, but actually drove
them through their own line of cannon, and completely
defeated them with immense loss. It was there, in the
heat of the action, that John Mitchell lost his left leg
by a cannon-ball, and lay on the field two days before
he was carried off and his leg amputated, so dreadful
had been the slaughter that-there were none to attend to
the dead and dying ; while, afterwards, he was one of
the only four, out of a party of 400 who were taken to
an hospital, that ever recovered of their wounds. - Being
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tution, of an iron will, and great strength, and lived to
enjoy the pension, which he had acquired by servitude,
as well as by his wound, for 42 years, during which
period he was twice married, and has left a widow and
family to mourn his loss.—Ayr Advertiser.
FACTS REGARDING SALMON.—Two years ago, a
number of foul fish were taken in the Tay, by otder of
Lord Glenlyon, now Duke of Atholl, and marked by
having a medal attached by a copper wire to the dead
fin, or fastened to the tail, the medal having the name
of his Grace and the number of the fish engraved. ;One
of the fish was retaken last season in the Tay, about
three months after it had been marked, when its weight
was found to have increased from 3} lbs. to 211bs.—
171 lbs. in three months ! Another of the marked fish
was taken en Saturday last in the same river. Its weight
was 181bs. The reason assigned for this fish not having
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ANCIENT RELICS.—The discovery of human bones
dwvearstisteoro.
by the aorkmen engaged in preparing the ground for
the railway terminus at St. Leonard's, in Perth, has
been followed by other and more extensive remains.
Several stone coffins of Saxon workmanship have been
come to, containing burnt clay urns, with ashes in
several. casts; showing that this had been a public bury-
ing place long ere the Catholic days. A very singular
discovery has also been made of a Roman road, many
feet below the present surface, and immediately below a
deep bed of clay. Perth, or Victoria, is well known to
have been one of the principal Roman stations north of
the Forth; and the remains of the roads communicating
with The cam, At_Abttloch. in the west, and at Delvin on
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day, aru still toile seene:=4l7orfla &MA