The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

GLASGOW, DIARCII 18.

STOCK EXCIIANOK.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 208.
--Edinburgh and Bathgate, 80s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Halves, 94—Edinburgh,,Leith, and Grafton, Quarters, Is.
—Edinburgh and Northern 161.—Ditto, New, lhs.—Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 6%—Glasgovr and Garnkirk,
37N—North &plash, Thirds, 2,5.

SURVEY OF STEAM-VESSELS.
The following letter has been forwarded by her Ma.
jesty's Committee of Privy Council for Trade to the
different persons connected with steam-vessels, viz.
" Office of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade, Whitehall, March, 1, 1848. -
" am directed by the Lords of the Com-
mittee of the Privy Council fur Trade to call
your attention to the enactments of the Steam
Navigation Act (9th and 10th Victoria, chapter 100),
which obliges the owners of steam-vessels to trans-
mit to the Lords of this Committee, half-yearly declara-
tions (bearing date in April and October respectively)
of the sufficiency and good condition of the hulls and
machinery of such steam vessels, signed by shipwrights,
surveyors, and engineers, approved by the Lords of this
Committee ; and also to the other enactments of the said
Act, relating to boats, fire-hose, and in the case of the
new iron steamers to water-tight partitions. -
" My Lords have deemed it right thus to remind you
of the above mentioned provisions, because they have
reason to believe that the owners of steam-vessels are
not fully aware of the serious difficulties, both direct
and indirect, and both legal and practical, which may
result from their permitting their vessels to proceed to
sea without having complied with the requirements al-
luded to, and to commence voyages which the law has
prohibited.
" I am further to observe that, as respects steam•
vessels which clear out at the Custom-house, the Act
requires the officers of Customs, in the cases therein men-
tioned, to refuse such clearance, unless the above-men-
tioned provisions of the Act have been observed.
" I am, sir, your obedient servant,
"JOHN LEFEVRE."

[ADV ERTISEMENT.] —Teas and Coffees delivered, car-
riage free, at the wholesale pricesoby which means, fami-
lies residing in the coantry. whose consumptien is large,
arc enabled to purchase on the first market terms, thereby
saving all the intermediate profits of retail establish-
ments. Samples and a list of prices forwarded free, on
application t post. References or cash is expected with
first order. Mansell and Co., wholesale tea-dealers, 2,

Bucklersbury, Cheapside.
[ADvERTISBMENT.]—THE GREAT POPULARITY OF
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS IN THE WEST IN-
DIES IN THE CURE OF ALL SKIN DISEASES.—A young
gentleman, residing in St. Kitt's, was afflicted with a
most distressing skin disease, termed " the Shingles."
He had the best medical advice that could be obtained in
the island, but finding that he derived no benefit from
their L'eatment, he determined on having recourse to
Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which had a most grati-
fying effect, for in a very limited period these invaluable
remedies completely cured him. Mr. T. C. Cable, of St.
Kitt's, vouches for the accuracy of this statement.—Sold
by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establish-
ment, 244, Strand, London.
DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A YOUTIL—On Satur-
day afternoon, Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the
Grapes Tavern, Old Compton-street, Soho, on the body
of Henry Marks, aged twenty. It appeared from the
testimony of witnesses, that the deceased was of very
weak mind, and had lately been lodging at a coffee-shop
adjoining the above tavern. On Tuesday morning Mr.
Wade, of Dean-street, surgeon, was sent for to attend
him, as ho was attacked with violent vomitings of blood.
He said he had taken poison, which he had purchased
at a chemist's, and it was subsequently ascertained to
be corrosive sublimate, from the effects of which he died
on Thursday. The only reason that seemed to be
assigned for the perpetration of the act was that his
master had threatened to complain to his father of his
bad conduct. The jury returned a verdict of " Tempo-
rary insanity."
CHARGES AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES OF THE
STRAND UNION WORKHOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. Wak-
ley, M.P., held an inquest in the board-room of the
Strand Union Workhouse, Cleveland-street, upon Ralph
Sanderson, aged three years. Mrs. Gibbs, nurse, No. 2
sick ward, stated that deceased suffered from inflamma-
tion of chest and lungs. and was brought into her ward
on the 9th instant. Mr. Jones, the house surgeon, or-
dered him a leech, blister, a little medicine, barley water,
and tea. About midnight he appeared in a fit, and in
twenty minutes afterwards she tound hira dead, but did
not inform either the mother, matron, or master of the
infant's death until after seven o'clock that morning.
By the Coroner—There were in the sick ward seven-
teen inmates, including six children. Within a fort-
night thirteen died in it. Mary Sanderson, mother of
deceased, deposed, that in consequence of her hus-
band, a letter-press printer, having been out of
work twenty-four weeks, they and their five
children were compelled to become inmates of the
workhouse last February. The children were then ill,
and since their admission three were vaccinated. On
Tuesday week deceased became very ill. The next day
she brought him to the sick ward, but Mr. Jones did not
see him until Thursday. There were only 16 beds in the
nursery for 72 persons, so that five and six were corn-
pelled to sleep together in one bed. The nursery was
lately whitewashed and painted, and during the work the
windows were left open, and at night the door was also
open in consequence of the offensive smell of the paint.
Since then eight children were seized with illness in the
morning, and three women were carried from it to the
hospital. At the coroner's request the jury here visited
the nursery, and upon their return expressed their
horror at so many being compelled to sleep together in
such narrow beds, and declared that they could not hiss
believed it possible for them to live in such a state.
The Coroner subsequently adjourned the inquest to enable
the workhouse authorities to vindicate themselves from
the serious charges iu which the inquiry involved them.
DEATH or THE MARQUIS OF 13Tirs.—The Mar-
quis of Bute died suddenly at Cardiff Castle on Saturday
evening. So unexpected was the demise of the Noble
Marquis, that he had entertained the magistrates, coun-
cil, and corporation of the town on Saturday, and died in
an hour or two after retiring from the table. The late
Noble Marquis had spent an immense sum on the har-
bour and docks at Cardiff, and his loss will be most
severely felt, and most sincerely regretted.