The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

COAL MARKET. -YESTERDAY.

Adair's Main
Bate's W. Hartley... 198 Od Belmont 228 Od
huddle's W. Hartley.. 198 Od Braddyll's Hatton 22s 9d
Carr's Hartley
Dipton Tanfield l4s 61 Haswell 23s 3d
Hedley's Hartley
Hasting's Hartley lBs 3d Jonassohns
North Percy Hartley.. 19s Od Lasabton
New Tanfield l6s 6d Leasingthorne
Newcastle Hartley .. 178 Od Merton x,...... 22s 9d
Original Tanfield ...... 151 Od Shotten
Pontop Windsor ... . 16s Od Stewart's
Ravensworth's Pelaw. 16s Od Whitwell
South Pontop
South Peareth
Tanfield Moor
Tanfield Moor Butes... 16s Od,Hudson's Hartlepool 2lB 6cl
Wylam
West Wylam
Walker's Primrose ... Ibs 6d Trimdon
Wall's End, &e. Adelaide Tees
Brown's Gas . lsa 6d Denison
Gosforth 2ls 6d South Durham 2ls Gd
Heaton
Medley
Killingworth 2ls 3dlWhitworth l7s Gd
Ramsay l4s 6d Blaengwaur
Willington l9s 6d Sidney's Hartley
Eden Main 228 Od Snapethorpe
Arrivals, 351.

MR. LATARD AND HIS RESEARCHES AT NINEVEH
OR NIMROOD.-At the ordinary meeting of the Royal
,Institute of Architects, on the 10th inst., Mr. Tite intro-
duced Mr. Layard, who, in some remarks on his recent
researches, stated that the date of the ruins discovered
was still a mystery, but there could be no doubt of their
extreme antiquity. He would afford them one proof of
it: the earliest buildings in Nineveh were buried, and
the earth which had accumulated over them, had been
used as a burial-place by a nation who lived 700 years
before Christ. Probably the buildings dated from 1,200
years before Christ. The rooms were lined with slabs
of marble, covered with bas-reliefs, such as those now in
the British Museum, which were joined together by
double dovetails of iron. The doorways were flanked
by winged figures of greater height than the slabs: on
all these figures was the mark of blood, as if thrown
against them, and allowed to trickle down. The walls
were of sun-dried bricks, and where these showed above
the; sculptured slabs, up to the ceiling, they were
covered with plaster and painted. The beams, where
they remained, were found to be of mulberry. That the
:.labs should have been preserved so long puzzled many.
In truth, however, the bricks, being simply dried in the
sun, in falling had returned to earth, and had thus
buried the tablets and protected them. The buildings,
he said, were provided with a complete system of sewer-
age, Each room had a drain connected with a main
sewer. Mr. Layard then proceeded to say, that in the
midst of the ruins he had discovered a small chamber,
formed of bricks regularly arched. The bas-reliefs sent
over by him were, in many cases, found in positions
showing that they had been taken from other buildings
awndsi- e-used: the sculptured face of the slab, for example,
a
turned to the wall, and the back re-worked.—
Builder.

A YOUNG GOOSH,—A market girl sold a gentle..
man a fine fat goose, warranting it to be young. It
turned out, when roasted, to be unmanageably tough.
The next day the gentleman said to the market girl,
" That goose which you sold me for a young one was
very old." " Certainly not," said the girl; " don't you
„di me young? ' " Yes." " lam but minett en,
and I have heard mother say often that the goose was
six weeks younger than Chronaypc.