The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-29 00:00:00

fordshire, farmer, May 20, at eleven, at the Court, Bir-
miughem— W. Turpin, Methlev, Yorkshire, builder,
May 29, at the Court, Leeds.
At the Court of Review, May 19.
J. C. Dreaper, Liverpool, Lancii.hire, corn merchant
--W. Stink, Purston Jacklin, Yorkshire, batcher—T.
Matthews, Shrewsbury, millwright and provision dealer
—A. Hill, Ipswich, last and sheeniaker—E. Thornton,
Coleman street, City, plumber—j. Burnside, Richmond,
Yorkshire, timber and iron merchant—J. Law, Birken-
head, bookseller—T. Clarkson, Liverpool, painler--1'
B. Henderson, Liverpool, ironmonger.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Besant and F. Sanderson, Kennington, lieensed
victuallers—T. Wilson and C. Bradshaw, Leeds, grocers
—Pauline Weherre and Emma Carr, South Melton-
street, Bond-street, corset makers—j. SugdOn
Watson, Kingston-upon-Hull, mastmakers—J. Cowper,
F. Cowper, and H. Nash, St. Paul's Churchyard and Old
Change, warehousemen—Sarah Elliott and MarY Ann
Gould, Topsham, Devonshire, grocers—W. A. Ward,
and J. S. Angell, Bishopsgate-street and Leadenhall7
street, leather tactors—E. Leighton and - Gibbons,
Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, grocers—J. Chapman and W•
Chapman 1
, West Lavington, mealinen—F. Mlcqueei!
and F. B. Ingall, Houndsditch, rectifiers—J. Marleign34.
W. Etherington, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, millers--b.
Grant and J. Strutr, Catherine-street, Strand, no"'
paper proprietors—G. Paqualin and J. B. Foley,
lane, City, ship brokers—R. Day, G. Binns, and ,
Waller, St. Mary.axe, City, provision merchants--0.
Wilson, C. Seaman, and J. A. Kenap, Milk-street, City,
silk manufacturers—C. R. Henxell and J., S. Gr„en'
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, surgeons—W. Pike and S. °tr.:
ker, Reading, tobacco' manufacturers—J. Delves and xba
Jul'. Tunbridge-wells, Kent, grocers—J. M'Nsiasee' al
J. Fisher, Manchester, chemists—.W. Dallow rugl'
Dallow, Hagley and Cradle'', Worcestershire and
verhampton, covers—d. Taylor, W., Potter, an'a
Taylor. Liverpool, merchants—J. Downey and J.
nil, Commercial-road, Lambeth, lighterman,' bsrfe
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owners, and,pile drivers—S. Scott,"R. Whittaker, and
ra
Kershaw, Rochdale, flannel manufacturers (so far si
gards R. Whitaker)—W. Welpdale, C. Adams, .nna,
arid furniture dealers—J. Miller and H. Foy,
Armour, Tottenham-court-road, drapers, upholstereror
field, coach makers: •
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. • • •
Richard. Evans, Llangefni, Anglesey, raili
mans
turer.
William Maplsdoram, Sidmouth, Devonshire, inpkequr•
Henry•
Wills, Honiton, Devonshire.. baker.
J. ra
, es Connctt, ifoniton, Devonshire, cooper.
William Crabtree, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, beerselieP•
Thomas Lloyd Jones, Malan, Denbighshire, grneer''
William Doubleday, Ulverston, Lancashire, shoPwl&
George Stokes, Yeovil, Soniersetshire, inkeeper.
Alexander Sorley, Edgehill, Lancashire. Iladders-
John Attaway, Faversham. Kent, victualler.

William Pomeroy, Stockland. Devonshire.
Peter Dlorriss Mills, King's Lynn, Norfolk, brasier. :j.
John. Wilson, Luddington, Lincolnshire, miller.
William Stephens, He'stop, Cornwall, schoolraitster,.
Anne Ellis, Litt!Aegis, Denbighshire.
Joshua Hughes, Bristol, plasterer. -;i; 1; roft.l
Witham Allen, Rugby, -Warwickshire, tailor.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. 4 apcl
T. Waddell, Glasgow, merchant, to meet bigy
25, at one, within the Star Hotel, Glasgow. BAO
T. Lockett, Glasgow, merchant, to meet 21102'
31, at twelve, within the George Inn, Glasgow. „d
T. Bowstead, Glasgow, grocer, to meet may 3 a"
at twelve, within the Albert Tavern, Glasgovf.'

PRICE OF SCGAR. natect
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugars Cfst:.s
95,
from the returns made in the week ending AP
18.18. is 21s. 3d. per cwt.

RAILWAY SHARE NIARK—
LIVER!' 00L, Arian 28. . firin t°'
STOCK EXCHANGI3.--The share market has bell
day; the business done, however has been rather lls"
The following are the closing privies :—Great Northlrest
18s. 9d. dis.—Lancasbire and Yorkshire, Fifths (llviri;ster?'
Riding Union). 4/. 3s. 9d. ilis.—London and Nart,yuY 6,4
127 c.—Ditto, Fifths, 5% p. New -o:7S•ester
dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 .14 dis.—Shrewsbury so"outh' '
(late Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester), 7% der $O7
Eastern and Dovei,;No: 4,-Thirds, c.
castle, and Berwick (f. N. E. Purchase), par. -
MANCHESTER, Arm, 28. , LaScs'
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkanheswo,untiefr
shire, and Cheshire Junction '7 1-16 dis.—Eastern,ashirst
13%—Great. Northern, 10 dis.—Lancashire and 1.,761
Fifths, 1% dis. Ditto (West Riding Union), tfter yDd
—London and North-Western, 128—Ditto (Bisn,ccu"'„cybeitsl;
Birmingham), Quarters (A and B),
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ( Grimsby), 501. Shares' saw
—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 81,4 .e.
Staffordshire, 3% —South Staffordshire, 3 1..16 .431s'
BIRMINGHAM, Aram 28.
don; $ll4
STOCK EiCHANGE.—Offers were made for. Lon
North-Westerns at 127 ; Midland, 96%; and 13"Litisio
fiord,
and Oxford Junctimi_at, 21 ; but the only sale 1""
Staffordshire, at 3% dia. ,
• BRISTOL, Aram 28. ions,
STOCK EXCHANOK. —There has been more lAOII7 oaei
to-day, but withon _ t any improvement in prices. -Pl:Wes•
have been—Bristol and E Neter, New, 10 dis.—Gret;disod
% tern, Quarters, 2 dis.—Ditte, New, 2% dis.,--Dnjale,
stock, 97% dis.—North Staffordshire,. 31/a ca5......T0
New, 3 dis. -

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SUICIDE OF 'A L-aaar.—Great regret has been °I
cited in'the neighbourhodd of the'Minster-
,
by the discovery-of .the•body of Mrs. Coodt4on (an•oln'i
able lady, widow of the late Dr. Cookso,a), in a wont'
the top of the garden: belonging' to the Konsti in wh.
she resided. The itnfortin ate lady 'retired to 'rest ibotit
nine o'clock on Monday, -being • before be,r
On the following morning the servant was muchalarmed'
at finding her mistress's bedroom door pirtly open; and
on looking into the bed, perceived she Net quitted it. On
proceeding to the garden she found that the bucket be''
hinging to the well had been removed. Knowing they
the deceased was subject to fits of abe.rration, sho'aCoool
suspected that she had destroyed ;herself. A,peraellt;
gut into the • bucket, descended, and soon found the-I
body. The coroner's inquest was held in the ail
noon, and a verdict of "Temporary insanity" return 4.,
From the evidence. on the inquest, it appeared that te
deceased- had complained. of her head very much
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a
Monday, and wept very bitterly. She had also setlifile
the servant, "you hate me, Eliza ;" and on her rePYd
" that she did not—why should she ?" the deceased
rejoined, " because all the world does." • Tba
NAVAL M
AND FLITAIIF BIBLE ,Socrolc*".__ol.-
;hug,
annual general meeting of the friends and contra-i ••pg•
of this society, 'established in 1780, "for sUPPIligi
sailors and soldiers with the Holy Scriptures," was vie
yesterday forenoon.at the Hanover-square Rooms. of
Marquis of Chnlmondeley„ president, in the chair.
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.„I„riettl
report stated that the number of copies -of the I,w-7. ober
issued to men-of-war ships was 1,880. The nuasocl I
received by soldiers was considerably above a th°11',.,130
11,902 Bibles and Testaments had been distribut7o.
seamen in the merchant service, and several thk'llsoi•
among the boatmen and watermen on the Thaw's• off
committee reported that though the funds of the whist
had felt more or less. the- depressing influence of
year's distress; still they were much better situate° jog
many of the 'metropolitan essoeiations. The rec
,ents,
for the last year were 2,5211. 12s. ld., and the,ps; --a • a
2,5391. Bs. 2d. This left untouched a_ hehiec."-The:
1231. 10s. Bd. from .the previous year's acciontitireir •51
report' was adopted and ordered to be printai Enu'; bEll Aft
lated. • His Grace the Archbishop of Cauterhtfleas of
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signified his acceptance of the office of vice •Pr°77 •
the society.
1111.
REVIEW OF THE MONEY MARKET DUg Ceh
MONTH OF APRIL, 1848.--The fluctuations watch hies
taken place in the value of all the clauses Of 21.—0 bare
which are the objects of ordinary sale rind purcheswoseat
been comparatively insignificant during the
month; when compared with its immediate MI soter
There certainly has been no dearth of topic's e'„-f
coes'a
thing more than common interest; but the law, s'„,
upon r,
parison applies nowhere with greater force tut, dailf.;. •
the Stock Exchange, and although there have helm
stew
budgets of extraordinary, intelligence from Italy ;001 .
France, and the shores, of the Baltic, they have -vale;
scarcely any notice compared with the events of Fe ';
and March. Consols have fluctuated within a marl iutd.i
--
about 3 per cent.„touching 80 as their lewt the
somewhere about 83 as their highest point. ,)
time we write they are again in a declining gete,roce,
stand about 82. .Exchequer-bills continue to is3P,ss of
They% are now selling for 445. premium, 'on the of
March (1848) they were worth 13s. The high pr.l oce ,
tr
these bills is one of the most evident proofs of the -0
mulation of capital beyond the current requirefhel,
trade.—Bankers' Magazine. '
DEATH OF GENERAL GOLDIE.—We have to..
,who
the demise of General Alexander John- Goldie, .00
died at his residence at Cheltenham on Tuesday 185;00
the age of 74 years. The gallant deceased bed, '
sixty years in the army,' and belonged to the 6t1_..01,,
goon Guards up to his attaining the rank of 1170..
General, in 1811. He served in Ireland during tu log
hellion in' 1798, and in 1812 proceeded to' take ski ;
appointment in the Peninsular army, under the m-cer
Wellington. General Goldie entered the arm)! as oat
net in January, 1788,.obtamed the rank of Lieu 01
11th May, 1791 ; Captain, 30th April, 1794 ;
Ist January, 1797 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Ist Jah°,o
1798 ; Colonel, 25th April, 1808 ; Major-General, and
June, 1811 ; Lieutenant-General, 19th July, 1821;
General, 28th June, 1838. ~)

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At Stratton Rectory, theISLA
wife& Fof the Rev. G. F. gas'.fr '
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of a son.
vrootir
On the 22d inst., at Thurlow-cottage, Lower IC" et 4
Surrey, Mrs. William Nichols, of a daughter.
On the 23d inst., at Devonport, the 1.30 of Frederick
Evans, Esq., R.N., of a daughter. ":
On the 25th inst., •at Bromley, Kent, the wife of the V"
James T. B Landon, M.A. of a son. • •of the
On the 25th inst., at St. 'Leonard's- cm-Sea, the wife
Rev. Ciarles A. Oak, of a son. ark"
On the 'l7tll lust, at Westbourne-terrace, nYue-perk'
gardens, the wife of Charles Lvall
, Esq., - a daughter.

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On the 29th inst., at Trinityh
Church, Marvlebone, 7, oor
Bishop of Lichfield, the Rev. William Bryans, 13' :.&er •
Trinity College, Cambridge, to Sophia Anna 1.4°11.5
y,ungest daughter of the Bishop of Lichfield. Pha
On the 25th inst., at St. Nicholas Church, Guildfor d ~,,..dor
R. Hawkins, Esq.; of the Bombay Artillery, to Mary "s
Hitchings, of Guildford.

On the 27th of March last, at Ashwick,
DIED- Mist
Fliz• . .stotli 'larding, aged 75 net of
Oa the 22d in ' **
t_ inst., in the Close, Salisbury, Joanna, re .
he l'e klex•
• ander l'well, Joseph ,01
Okt the 2'tl • . Sussex-place, e.
. 1 inst., in Hammersmith, ' '
H le, •
Hear lc, L.q., aged 54. the • 0
On the let' 't n inst., at St. Germ ' 1 Paris'
am-en- Aye, near
Chevalier George T e huts 0
3. •
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