The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-21 00:00:00

1H P; C, UNT!,IY MARKETS.

LEEDS CATTLE AND SHEEP =',-IARKET, DEC. 20
Then, wa. a very good show of stock to r!ay, both M
cattl, and sheep. litqtsts in high comti;.ion wire readily
bought up at rather improved tate.; and for sheep there
w4s a fair demand at prices fully equal to those that
have been ntcently
DAT.NErtu MEAL MARKET, DEC. IL—There were 196
bags of oattne,l, 4S of barlsymeal, anti 2 of rot barhy;
sliks ready for oatmeal; barloymeal met a dull demand.
6,1 to is per bag :town; barliym.:al 9d Per beg
up or t,,e top, but the second quality is 3d per bag down;
there wa3 no pe.asemeal or flour in mai ket.
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third
imperial .. ... '2Bs Od 27s Od 25s Od
Barleymeal, per ditto 23s Od 2s 01 21s 6d
Peoemeal ..• —s Od —s 0,1 Od

Flour

Pot bare y

-s 01 I —8 Od

... I 26s Od —s Od I --s Od

BELFAST, DEC. 15.—Notwithstanding the severity of
the night and morning, our market is largely supplied
with grain and oatmeal. Wheat and barley are a sow
sale at about former prices, whilst oats and oatmeal are
eifficult to girt at a reduction of 3d to
.4d per civt•
I dtsn corn 2s 6d to 5s liwer. Monday, Dec. 18.---
Grain— The. Tiiintity forward since Friday has been
small, and at this morning's market the decline on oats
(3d to 4il) noted on Friday, was fully recovered, and in
wi,eat and barley last week's prices .sere well main'
tained. Oatmeal, on the contrary, was dull at the de-
cline of Friday (3d to 4d). Wheat, 8s 6d to 105 Od;
barley, 5s 6 1 to 7iii; oats, 5s 3,1 to 6s 3d; and oatmeal,9s
81 to 105 4d per cwt. Indian corn a slow sale at 71 155
to 81 per ton. Pork sells freely at former prices-375
to 48s per 1201 b.

COAL MARKET. —YESTEIMAY.
Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14s 6d Belmont l7s 9d
Carr's Hartley
Davison'sWest Hartley 15s Od East Hetton
Dean's Primrose
East Adairs Main..... 13s 6d Hetton
flasting's Hartley lls 6d Haswell lBe 9d
New 'Canfield l4s 3d Jonas-sohns ....... ..... 15s 9d
Urd's Redheugh
Smith's Pontop ........ 13s 3d Russell's Hetton
South Pontop .. ...... 133 3d Stewart's
' anfield Moor .... lss 6d Whitwell
Fanfield Moor Butes... 14s 3d Haugh Hall
lowniey l4s Od Hudson's Hartlepool 175 311

_ pool
‘Vylam ........ ...... ... 14s odKelloe l7s 6d
est Hartley
W all's End, &c. (Adelaide Tees
Brown's Gas
Clarke
Clennell
Elm Park
Gosforth .... ... ...... 16s 6d Cowpen Hartley
Hedworth ....
Hotspur ... • l6s 3cllliartley
Killingworth I 6s 3d Howard's W. li. Neth. 14s 6d
South Killingworth
Washington
Eden Main • iis 6,1 Sidne.'s Hartley
Lambton Primrose ... 17s 3dl Ships at market, 160.

RAILWAY SfiAtite, YIAtthETS
BRISTOL, DEC. 20.
:srocx EXCHANGE..—The share market is slightly on the
decline. Great Western, Quarters, were done at 44 dis.
LI V Eta ot/L. DEC. 20.
KxcHANG tt. - The sales ore—Caledonian, Prefer.
t•nce, c. p.--Eastern Counties, 12—East Lancashire, 614
Preference, PA—Great Northern (B Shares), 24
Lancashire and Yorkshire (late ,Nlanchester and Birminp
ham 1, Fifths, dis. - London and North- Western. 1204
- Ditto, Fifths, 4A, p.—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% p.--
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 61. 1144
3d. dis. - Ditto, 101. Preference, 6s. 3d.— Midland Stock,
l Ne w Halves, 954 die.-- Scottish Midland,
I.sA—South-Eastern and Dover, 2334—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds,
7 dis. —York, Newcastle, and verwick (Extension), No. Ir
Pi dis.—Ditto (G. N. P.. Purchase), 16s. 3d. dis.
XANCIIES I th, .DEc. 20
STocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Cheshire Junctioth
9 dis.— Kendal and Windermere, 4—Manchester and dir-
mingham. Quarters (C), 2 p.—North Staffordshire, 5 11-16
dis.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 141 A dis. —West Riding Union,
dis.—Leeds, 32/. Shares, B,A dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, No. 4, 6 15-16—Great Northern, 44—Clitheroer
Preference, 18.

BIRMINGHAM, DLc. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE. The sales are - North Staffordshir4
5/. 11s. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6% dip'
—Ditto (B), 438 dis.—Shropshire Union, al. li. 3d. dis.
YORK, DEC. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-dal lag
as follows : —Great Northern, 84—North British, thirds,
4%,—York, Newcastle, AA Berwick (Extension), No.l, 14...
Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase) 714

IirLAGOTY, DEC. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonirin, Pre.
ference, 84—Clydesdale Junction, 571,x—Eastern Counties,
New, 6 per cent. guaranteed, 1114—Edinburgh and Northern,
111,x Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51. Is.—Glasgow,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1, 51. 3s.—Ditto, Halves,
No. 2,5/. ss. Ditto, Preference, 5',4 —Great Northern, 81.
Ds.—North British, 16 - Ditto, Thirds, 925. 6d.—Scottish
Central, 261 A—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E.
Purchase), 7%.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 20 —The Ocean Steam Navi-
gation Company's ship Washington, Captain J. Johnson,
sailed to day at 3 for New York, with the United
States mails from England, France, and Germany, in
charge of Ntr. W. W. Hincken. The Washington had
56 passengers, including six Roman Catholic priests
(missionaries) and six Sisters of Charity, and about 350
ions of measurement goods on freight, the majority of
which are from Havre, on French account. The Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Ripon, Captain R. Moresby, LN., also departed this
afternoon, with the East India and China mails, in charge
of Lieutenant Brady, R.N., Admiralty officer. The
Ripon had abotit 200 tons cargo, 2,0001. in specie for
Malta, and 118 passengers, amongst whom were Lord
Royston, for Malta ; Major-General Sewell, Madras
Sir C. W. Oakeley, for Calcutta.
THE MURDER AT TEDBURN ST. MART.—EXE•
TER, DEc. 20.—Last evening Mr. Frederick Lee, one
of the coroners for the county of Devon, resumed an
inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death
of Grace Holman, a lady, aged 80, who was found dead
in her bed on the morning of the 3d instant, and Was
supposed to have met with her death by the hands of
assassins, who afterwards robbed the house of all the
articles which they could conveniently carry away. The
particulars of the case have already appeared. Several
witnesses were examined, but their testimony failed to
throw any light upon the perpetrators of the murder.
f tie coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict
of " Wilful murder" against some person or persons un-
known. For some time past burglaries, in many cases
attended with great violence upon the inmates, have been
perpetrated in this neighbourhood nearly every night,
fait stran4,,e to say, the perpetrators have in every case
esca; ed detection.
GAS METER FOR THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
—A view was yes erday aff prded to a number of scien-
tific persons, mai wirers interested in the consumption of
gas, at Messrs. Glover's iron foundry, Drury-lane, of
the immense meter constructed and cast under the super-
intentie ce of Mr. Defries, of 67, St. Martin's-lane, the
inventor and patentee. This machine, which is to be
pLced in the New Palace et Westminster, is an almost
stupendous piece of mechanism, hertz upwards of 10
feet in height and 20 feet in circumfeience or girth; It
is in form a hexagon, the ch-s,ges are in the Gothic
manner, and in t tact keeping with the interior of the
new Houses of Parliament, so that it is an ornamental
as well as a useful addition to them, and ought to be
placed so as to t.e seen by the public. The machine
w ighs four tons, and is of capacity to pass 10,000 feet
or g a per hour, and of supplying 2,000 lights with, w-
eit ding to calculation, the loss of only half a tenth •f
resmre; at which pressure it will work with the
greatest ease. The principle and action of the machine
are sery simple, and yet very accurate. There are iwo
chambers, tl e lower containing three partitions, called
diaphragms; as the gas, in its passage through the
valve, acs upon these diaphragms, they move the ma-
wainery in the upper chamber, and by these means the
quantity of gas consumed is registered. The intl. x eon-
Ills a of six small dials almost similar to those of watches;
on these the consumption can be calculated with a very
minute accuracy. The iron has been bronzed, and has
a fine surface, the castings being remarkably sharp arid
clr an. The name of the patentee and the title of the
Chartered has Company and the royal arms are intro-
than]. This meter far exceeds in dimensions any-
thing of the sort ever before attempted.
CHRISTMAS BOXES.—Several meetings of the
tr aster-bakers of the metropolis and other trades have
b en recently held, and all unanimously revolved to put
an end to the system of paying servants and others what
are called " Christmas Boxes." Perhaps the most
degrading form in which this tax (for such it is) is
demanded is that adopted by the Post-office letter-car-
riers. It Is a degradation on the part of a great public
establishrot at to parmit its servants to go from house to
house begging for alms. The fact is, wnen tradespeople
pay the servants of their customers in this way, it is not
unreasonable to suppose that they get the equivalent in
some other manner.

On the 16th inst., at Long Sutton, the lady of the Rev.
Edward L. Bennett, of a ann.

On the 17th inst., at Walthamstow, the wife of ♦lbert
Pelly, Esq , of twin sons.
On the 17th inst., at Camden-road villas, the wife of T. T.
i Beckett, Esq., of Gulden-square, of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Leggatts, flerts, the lady of Thomas
Kenable, Esq., of a daughter.

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On the 18th inst., at Clapham-common, Mrs. Frederick
Meyer, of a daughter
On the 18th inst., at Chesterfield-street, the wife of T. E
Preston, Esq., of a son.

On the 16th inst., at Streatham-hill, Mrs. J. H. Shears,
of a son.

if A iKIED.
On tl-..2 :6th inst., at Walton.on-the-Hill, Mary Anne,
sec,nd daughter of Mr. .1-h Southgate, of 011 Change and
Pebl.;le t on tube, to Mr. W Alcock, of Watli. g,treet.
On the 16• h inst., at St. Jam,.s's Church, Bayswater, John
Sheehan, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Ellen, relict of the
late Major 11. Shubrick.

On the 19th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddington, Sir
Wiley Wakeman, Bart., of Perdiswell, W reenter, to Mary
Stnah, only daughter of the late T Adliogton, El,q. of
CLii+ll,2lll• C. intmot, :•iurrey.

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On the ICtli inst., at Palgravr, age 1 84, the 1114 V. J. Cox,
D.P., rector of Palgrave, vicar of Dinharn, and f.nmerly
master of Gainsborough Scln.ol.
Ott the 171, inst., at N,•rth Pielvnham Retr,ry, near
Sy:atrium). N.,rfok, :he J natintii y . vicar of
S!eenie Ersex aged 74.
On the .7th inst., at Bath, Mrs. (jia :ett, ,•••idt.'v of the late-
IV. Garrett, Esq.
Ih the 'Bth inst., at Hackney, Edy, wi•iow of the live I.
Esq of tne Bank of England, aged Gd.
Ott the I Sth inst., at D • .eauv,,ir-road, We t Hackney.
Air. J. Browne, late of Barlii.g &Gib:, near Hochford, Essex.

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Stran in the Precinct it L Savoy in tne covnty o f
Middlesex, Thursday, December 21,1448.