The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

BRISTOL, FEB. 2.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— Bristol and Exeter, New, I I%
-Midland, New, 28%—South Devon, 36;-8.

EXETER, FEB. -2

STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol, New, 1114 —South
Wales, 6 —Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 4

A correspondent describes to us a very singular case
of spontaneous combustfon, for which, perhaps, some of our
scientific friends can account. A fine beast upon the farm of
C. T. Tower, Esq., at South Weald, was choked by eating
mangold wurzel, and was sent to the premises of Mr. Bell,
butcher, of Brentwood, to be killed; on cutting the throat of
the animal a body of blue flame rushed out four or five feet
high, singing the whiskers of the butchers employed, and
sending them scampering back with alarm. The hypothesis
of the learned in such matters in the neighbourhood is, that
gas had been generated in the stomach of the animal, which
from its peculiar nature exploded in coming in contact with
the air.—Essex Herald.

ROBBERlES.—Yesterday information was received by
the police of the following robberies having been committed :
—Stolen, between the hours of half-past 11, A.m., and 8, r.m.,
on Sunday, from the house of Mr. Morris, grocer, Boling-
broke-row, Walworth, about 401. in gold and silver, and a 51.
Bank of England note, with the name of Hudson written on
it, by means of skeleton-keys, during the absence of the
family. From the counting-house at the powder-mills of
Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, Hayworth-road, Hounslow Heath,
a japanned tin cash-box, containing about 2/. in gold and
silver. Also, that on the night of Thursday last, the Rec-
tory house of Newton St. Leo, in the county of Somerset.
was burglariously broken open, and a large quantity of silver
plate, and other articles of great value, carried off. The
plate consisted of two dozen and eleven silver table forks,
three dozen table spoor.s and two dozen dessert spoons, fifteen
dessert forks, seventeen tea spoons, four gravy spoons, two
salt spoons, two drawing-room candlesticks, a snuffer and
tray, a pair of sugar tongs, and a butter knife, all having a
crest of a tiger, with a kind of griffin's head. A reward of
50/. has been offered for the discovery and apprehension of
the burglars. On the same night the House of Mr. Green-
wood, at Springfield, near Chelmsford, Essex, was broken
open, and a 10'. note, 11/. 4s. 6d. in gold and silver, a silver
teapot, four table spoons, six dessert spoons, six tea spoons,
and other articles of property, were carried off.

THE MURDER AT JERSEY.—THE PRISONER NOON.—
No day has yet been fixed for the trial of this ill-fated man
before the petty jury. Two months have nearly elapsed
since he is said to have committed this fatal deed with which
he stands charged. During this long period he has borne
the torments of his position with the most extraordinary
fortitude. He has been eight times dragged through the
streets of St. Helier, from his prison-house, to the Court-
house, a distance of half-a-mile, with tremendous crowds of
men, women, and children, hooting him on his way. We
understand hat frenzy has at length come to the relief of
the unhappy prisoner, and it is but a Christian hope that God
will soon put a period to his sufferings. lie has already gone
through one stage of his trial, and two more await him—the
petty jury, and the appeal to the grand jury. And what
then ? He may be hanged ! This is the Inquisition re-
newed.—Jersey Times, Jan. 30.
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CORNUBIAN MINING COMPANY.—Yesterday a special
general meeting of this Company was held at the office of
Mr. Stainsby, in Finsbury-square, for the purpose of consi-
dering on the propriety of winding up the affairs. of the Com-
pany. The chair was takenlv byl eltfr. er
Lea, seconded
Mr.when
it was resolved. on the motion of
Scott, that the Company be dissolved, and that the directors
be authorised to dispose of the mine and sites belonging to
this Company, and that if no purchaser be found within four
weeks from the confirmation of this resolution, the said mines
and sites to be surrendered to the respective landlords; that
they also be authorised to dispose of the machinery and all
the other property and effects belonging to the Company,
and out of the purchase money to discharge all expenses
against the Company. Several other resolutions were also
passed unanimously. It appears that this Company has ex-
isted about four years, during which period about 20,000/.
worth of lead was realised from the mines, but the expenses
were so great as to admit of no dividend to the shareholders.
The ore having been getting worse in quality, and the costs
extremely heavy, it was thought more advisable to dissolve
the Company than to continue operations.
THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL—The following is a ge-
neral statement of foreign shipping of all nations (British
excepted), arrived. at the port of Liverpool during the year
1845

Number of
Ships. Tonnage.
• 590 362,051
••• 136 35,544
••• 119 20,268
••• 112 14,824
••• 35 5,562
• 31 9,848
•• 29 3,962
• 29 4,438
• 28 7,528
••• 26 2,647
• 22 4,326
••• 7 2,188
• 16 2,799
12 2,692
••• 11 1,868
393
540
442
850
... 2 450
▪.. 2 300
1 180
1 207
• 2 834
1 240

American ••• ••• ••••
Prussian ... •• •••
Belgian ••• •• •.• •••
Netherlands ••• ••• •••
Spanish ••• •••
Austrian ... • • ••• •••
Swedish and Norwegian ...
Danish ••• ••• ••• •••
Russian .. •••
French •••
Neapolitan and Sicilian ...
Portuguese ••• ••• •••
Mecklenburg ..• ••• •••
Hamburgh ••• ••• •••
Wismar ••• ••• .•• •••
Hanoverian ••• ••• •••
Bremen ••• ••• ••• •••
Lubeck ••• ••• •••
Sardiaian •••
Grecian ...
Peruvians, say Chili
Hayti ..•
Texas
Venezuela
Uruguay, Monte Videan ..•

1,223 03,99:

Total .••
'.Liverpool Albion.

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WEST RIDING ELECTION.
LEEDS, FEB. 2.--Owing to ill health, Mr. G. Lane Fox, at
the advice of his physician and friends, has declined the
honour of representing the constituency.
Mr. Fox has addressed a letter to the electors announcing
his resignation. He gives his reasons for so doing in the fol-
lowing words :

" TO TILE ELECTORS OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSIIIRE.
" Gentlemen,—Since my interview with Mr. Busfeild Fer-
rand, on the 28th of last month, I have consulted with my
friends and medical adviser, and it is their decided opinion,
that in my present state of health it would not be advisable
for me to take my seat in Parliament if elected. Under
these circumstances, I beg leave to thank those friends who
have interested themselves on my behalf, and hope they will
put themselves to no further trouble on my account.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" Bramliam, Feb. 2, 1816. " G. L. FOX."
Mr. ',errand has addressed the following letter to the
friends of native industry

"At a moment when our success was approaching to a cer-
tainty, we are doomed to the bitter disappointment of being
deprived of our leader, Mr. Fox, by the decided opinion of
his friends and medical adviser, that in his present state of
health it would not be safe for Trim to take his seat in Par-
liament when elected.

" He has just laid this decision before me, and I consider
myself in duty bound to inform the inhabitants of the West
Riding that, under these circumstances, I do not consider I
should be justified in taking any further part in the present
contest, fer I could not introduce (now that the election is
so near at hand) any other candidate to their notice, with a
suflicieLt prospect of success, to justify me in going to a poll.
"This being the case, I shall withdraw from further oppo-
sition to Lord Morpeth, consoled with the conviction that I
at least have done my duty in endeavouring to rescue the
Riding from becoming A 1 in the listof nomination boroughs
at the disposal of the Manchester cotton lords.
"I cannot conclude this address without expressing my
warmest and most grateful thanks to the working-men of
the West Riding, who have so nobly, so gallantly, so de-
votedly rallied round me during the last week, although
' the black book' was suspended over their heads.
"Their conduct at Leeds I have already proclaimed to the
world ; at Bradford they boldly and successfully defended the
platform on which I stood against the repeated attempts to
invade it that were made at the expressed orders of the mill-
owners and their supporters; at Huddersfield they rose as
one man and rescued me from the hands of the millowners
themselves, after they had attempted to push me off the plat-
form, and had commenced a cowardly and brutal assault
upon me ; but net content with this expression of old English
feeling, they formed themselves into a body-guard, and es-
corted me to my hotel.
"I need not inform them that through good report and
through evil report I will stand by their order, and continue
to expose the tyranny and oppression under which they
groan.

"Lord Morpeth will now go to Parliament, not as the re-
presentative of the West Riding, but as the tool of a body of
men whose cruelties to, and oppression of, their factoryslaves,
he, on the 27th of June, 1832, thus denounced in the House
of Commons There have been revealed to us (before
Sadler's Ten Hour Bill Committee) facts not of single occur-
rence, but of established practice, of which I cannot speak
in any t. rms short of horror.'—l have the honour to be, fel-
low-countrymen, yours very faithfully,
"W. B. FERRAND.
"Central Committee-reom, Royal Hotel,
"Leeds, Feb. 2, 1846."