The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS -( THIS DA •

CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY.
The arrivals of English Wheat fur our market, this
week, have not exceeded• 370 quarters, almost wholly
from Essex. To-day, the show of samples of both red
and white was small. Still, however, owing to the thin
attendance of buyers, the demand was in a sluggish state,
at prices about equal to those paid on Friday last.
Most of the parcels were disposed of prior to the close of
business. Since our last report we have received 5,470
quarters of Wheat from abroad. With that article we
were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied.
Really fine qualities were in moderate request, at full
rates of currency. In the middling and oat-of-condition
sorts next to nothing was doing, yet we cannot call them
cheaper. Scarcely any English Barley was on offer,
but the show of foreign was very extensive—upwards
of 17,000 quarters having come in. All descriptions
were dull in the extreme, and quite Is. pvr. guy rter cheaper.
The quantity of Malt ready for dedvery was trill-n.l ;
nevertheless, the tr,de was heavy, and the qtretations
had a downward tendency. The best Oats xv, re mostly
held at lull prices. All other kinds ruled very dull.
Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, Meal and Flour, were a heavy
inquiry.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour
370 qrs. I 30 qrs. i 20 qrs. 530,L
8,560

English • • • • • •
Irish. • • • • • • • •
Foreign • • • • • •

17,480

Malt. -- qrs.
BOROUGH HOP IYIARRET.

The best samples of New Hops Were in moderate
request, at fully last week's quotations. In all other
kinda scarcely any business was transacted, at barely
late figures. The supply is by no means large. New
Hops:—Sussex pockets, 215 s to 2/18s; Weald of Kent
ditto, 21 8s to 31 5s ; Mid and East ditto, 2l 12s to
5/ 17s per cwt.

WELITZCIIAPEZ.

Prime Beef, Mutton, and Veal, commanded a steady
sale at fully last week's quotations. Otherwise the de-
mand was in a sluggish state. Beef, frcm 2s 4d to 3s
bid; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and
Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per 81bs by the carcase.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
FIGGINS AND OTHERS V. READ.
This was an action to recover 51. 18s., on a guarantee
which had been given for goods sold to a person named
Payne. The defendant suffered judgment to go by de-
fault. -The only question in the case was as to interest,
which the plaintiffs' attorney contended he was entitled
to from the date of the guarantee.
The Learned SECONDARY said that the guarantee
stated so, but there was little doubt the intention was to
pay interest from the date of default, but as the defendant
had not pleaded, the verdict might go for the amount.
REEVES V. REECE.
The plaintiff is the well-known artists' colourman, and
defendant is a tradesman at Swansea. The amount
claimed was 11/. 19s. 11d. Defendant did not plead, and
a verdict was given for the amount.

MA RLBRO'-STREET— (THIS DAY.)
Richard Hid, a waiter at the London Hotel, in Alhe-
marle-street, was charged with wilfully annoying Mr.
Edwin Van der Gutch, the proprietor of Groves Hotel, in
the same street, by ringing his door-bell.
Complainant stated that the defendant was a waiter
at the London Hotel, but was formerly in his service in
a similar capacity. For several months past witness had
been much annoyed by having his hall door-bell rung at
all hours of the night ; and although he suspected the
defendant to be the cuprit, he did not discover the fact
until the previous night, when he disguised himself and
went into the street. He had not been watching many
minutes when he saw the defendant go up to the door
and pull the bell twice and run away. He went again a
third time, and having rung the bell, witness darted from
his biding place and collared him. A struggle ensued,
and they both fell down ; in the struggle the defendant
got a black aye.
Defendant admitted ringing the bell last night, but
stt utly denied ever doing so before.
Fined 75., or, in default, to be committed for a week.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY.
CHESTER Cup.-500 to 8 agst Peep o'Da Boy (t)--
500 to 7 agst Melody (t)—offers to take 50 to 1 eacl
about the Tartar and Eagle's Plume.
DERBY.-1,000 to 10 agst Andalusian (t).

THE MARSEILLAISE.
At a time when this extraordinary and exciting air
has been resounding through the whole world—
played in every company, sung with enthusiasm at
every concert and theatre, and at the corner of every
street in London, and sung by assembled multitudes
in the Champs Elysees at Parir, in a forest of bayo-
nets, and amidst the roar of the Republican artillery
--a few words on its origin and its history may pro-
bably prove acceptable to our readers.
• In the early part of the French revolution of 1793,
when the armies of France were threatening to over-
run the whole of Europe, the army of the Sambre and
Meuse, the cradle and the birth-place of the " Marseil-
laise," was assembled ready to rush forward and carry
all before it in the neighbouring states, and shake to
their very foundations the thrones of more than half
the monarchs of Europe. The general officer com-
manding this army, which was composed of raw re-
.cruits and conscripts, all full of enthusiasm and
panting for glory, knew perfectly well the materials
of which his army was composed, but,
at a loss how to raise their enthusiasm
to a pitch that would suit his purpose,
and transform the raw recruit into the wild
enthusiastic Republican—knowing well the influence
of music on the French character, he caused inqui-
ries to be made if there were in the army a man
of poetical talents and a musician, when some of the
officers of his staff said they believed there was an
officer of engineers who was considered by his com-
rades as a poet and possessed of considerable musical
talents, and he accordingly had the officer in question
immediately summoned to his head-quarters, when
• the General explained to him the nature of his wishes,
and, stating that as the army was to march the follow-
ing morning at an early hour, asked him if he could
in that short space of time compose a song or tune
that would excite the soldiery. This officer, gentle
reader, was no other than Rouget de Lisle, and who
boldly replied that he thought he could do both, and
would wait early the next morning on the General
with the result of his night's operations, and he did
so. Retiring to his humble-barrack-room, he indus-
triously set to work, and the morning's sun saw a
band of wild enthusiastic Republicans march to vic-
tory singing the " Marseillaise " and rending the air
with its soul-inspiring notes, and then sweeping hostile
armies before them with the fury of a tempest which
nothing could withstand.
The name of " Marseillaise" was given to.,this air from
the circumstance of a body of troops from the city of
Marseilles having been ordered up to Paris, and which
they entered, the bands of the several regiments
playing this air, which was then not generally known
in the part of France in which Marseilles is situated,
and which had not had a name given to it.
Louis Philippe, who in a great measure owed his
elevation to the throne of Citizen King, in 1830, to
the enthusiasm created by the above air, as soon as
he was fairly installed, set on foot inquiries to ascer-
tain if the author, Rouget de Lisle, was still in exis-
tence. He was found in a garret in Paris, in wretched
and miserable circumstances—and Louis Philippe
ordered an annuity of about six or seven thousand
francs a year to be settled on the poor officer,
and who probably did not live long to en-
joy it. No certain account remains as to the
time he died; but it probably was about three
or four years after Louis Philippe's accession to the
throne, as about that time the books and manuscripts
of Captain de Lisle were seen at an auctioneer's office
in Paris for sale, and we believe there is an English
officer of rank now in London who saw the original
manuscript of the " Marseillaise," which is described as
being written in a beautiful bold hand, and without a
single erasure. The officer in question was most
desirous of 'purchasing this valuable piece of writing ;
but was informed by the auctioneer that it had been
ordered by Louis Philippe to be purchased in at any
price, and no doubt it has shared the fate of many
other valuable documents and papers in the universal
destruction of those belonging to that ill• fated
monarch, in his flight from the Palace of the Tui-
leries, in February of this eventful year, 1848.

NEV/ APPLICATION OF GUN COTTON AND AS
nEsTos.—Mr. Robinson; the dentist, in a communica•
tion to the Medical Gazette, says:—l have frequently
applied collodion, in severe cases of toothache, arising
from exposure of the nerve, with perfect success, when
no persuasion could induce the patient to submit to ex
traction, either with or without the use of chloroform or
ether. The method I adopt is to let the patient first
wash the mouth with warm water, in which a few grains
of bicarbonate of soda have been dissolv6d. I then re-
move from the cavity any foreign substance likely to
cause irritation. After drying the cavity, I drop, from
a point, the collodion, to which have been add' d a few
grains of- morphia; after which I fill the cavity with
asbestos, and saturate with collodion. Lastly, over this
I place a pledget of bibulous paper. In a few seconds
the whole becomes solidified, and forms au excellent non-
conductor_ of heat and cold to the exposed nerve. By
occasionally renewing this, I have been enabled to effect
a more durable stopping with gold.
An inquest was held on Tuesday last before R.
Palmer, E.q., at Shevington, on the body of William
Bentham, aged six years. It appeared from the evidence
that the boy, on taking some dinner to a coal pit in
THE TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.—Last evening the
Standish, was attempting to put the din-aer in an empty
first of a series of evening parties on the teetotal system,
basket which was being lowered into the pit. On reach-
intended to be given by the London Temperance League,
lug his hand towards the basket he lost his balance, and
took place at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-
was precipitated to the bottom. When taken up be was street, the large room at which was tastefully decorated
quite dead. Verdict " Accidental death."—Preston
with flowers and evergreens, the tables being covered
Chronicle. with fruit, tea, coffee, cakes, &c.. .Mr. George Craik-
MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—The late Mr. Allan or,
shank presided, and was supported by Mr. S. C. Hall,
Midbeltie, besides making various bequests to his vela- Mr. R. Warner, Mr, G. Attwood, the Rev. A. P. Black,
rives, has devised a great part of his fortune, neatly
and numerous other clergymen and gentlemen. The
20,0001., to form a fund for granting annuities to widows evening was passed in the delivery of addresses in praise
of respectable character in Aberdeen and Old Machar,
of temperance.
The annuities to be allowed are not to be less than 51.,
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT BRIDGNORTH.—Ca•
nor more than 151. to each widow; and the selection of
therine Mercy Newton, who is suspect d of murdering
the parties to whom they are to be granted is left very
her mother, Ann Newton, has been fully committed to
much to the discretion of the trustees, named by the
take her trial at the ensuing Salop assizes, for the wilful
deceased, several of whom are official gentlemen con•
murder of her mother.
nected with the city of Aberdeen.—Aberdeen Journal.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited her Roy al Highness the Duchess of Glouces-
ter yesterday, at Gloucester House.
The Earl and Countess Grey return( d to town on
Monday evening, from Sprotborough, Yorkshire, and
yesterday proceeded to Windsor Castle.