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

COAL MARK ET. -YESTERDAY.

Adair's Main ...... ... 17s 6d Harraton Main lis Oil
Bate'3 W. Hartley... 19s Od Belmont 22s Od
Huddle's W. Hartley.. 19s Od Braddyll's Hatton 223 9,1
Carr's Hartley
Dipton Tanfield ...... ... 14s ed Haswell 23s 3d
Hedley's llartley
Hasting's Hartley lBs 3d Jonassohns
North Percy Hartley.. 19s Od. Lambton
New Tanfield l6s 6d,Leasingthorne
Newcastle llartley .. 17s OdAsrton 4.. ..... 22s 9d
Original Tanfield
Pontop Windsor .. las OdStawart's
Ravenaworth'a Pelaw. 165 OeWhitw ell

South Pontop
South Peareth
Tanfield Moor
Tanfield Moor Butes l6. Odi
Wylam
West Wylam
Walker's Primrose ..
&e Wall's End, s
Brown's Gas . 1 5s 6(1
Goaforth . 21s 6d
Heaton
Medley
Killingworth 2ls idi
Ramsay l4s 6dl !
Willington - l9s 6d
Eden Main 22s Odl
Arrival

I,Cassop 22s 6d
Caradoe ..... .. ..
!Hartlepool
'Hudson's Hartlepool 2ls 6d
Higl3. Thornley
Heugh Hall
'Trimdon ... 21s 6d
Adelaide Tees
Denison
South Durham 2ls 6d
;Tees
Unwick lBs 8d
IWhitworth l7s 6d
;Sidney's
23s 6d
Sidney's Hartley
!Snapethorpe
.Is, 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 is 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
slabs 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
and re-used: the sculptured face of the slab, for example,
was turned to the wall, and the back re-worked. -
.13.14ilder.

A YOUNG Goosr,—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
.all me young?" " Yes." " Well, lam but nineteen,
and I have heard mother say often that the goose was
si weeks youpg er than me."—Boston Chronotype.
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