The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

r MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
This being a holiday, no business was transacted' t
Mark-lane.

SINIXTUrZELD.
This being Christmas-clay, the supply of Bemis on
sale was very limited, and of middling quality. On the
whole the Bref trade was firm, and Monday's quotations
were resdily supported in every instance. The numbers
of Sht ep were unusually small, while the Mutton trade
was steady, at full prices. There were only three
Calves on offer, and which were taken at late rates. In
Pigs scarcely a transaction took place. From abroad
we received 70 Oxen and Cows, the whole :of which
found buyers. Milch Cows were heavy, at from 161 to
181 each, including their small Calf.

Per albs. to sink the offal.

s. d. S. d
Inferior Beast*, -... 3 4 3
Second quality ditto. 3 8 3 10
Prime large Oxen.. 4 0 4 2
Prime Scots ...... 4 2 4 4
Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 2
Prime small ditto .. 4 4 4 8
Suckling Calves ..20 0 29 0
Inferior Sheep .. . 3 10 4 0

I. d, to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4
Coarse-woolledditto 4 6 4 s
Southdown Wethe. 410 5 2
Ditto out of the wool
Large Hogs •• •• •. 3 8 4 4
Small Porkers •.. 4 6 4 8
Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0
Lambe •• •• •• •• •• 0 • 0 0

Beasts.
356 ,

SUPPLY AT
I Sheep.
_ _ 320

MARKET.
Calves. I Pigs.
3 1_ SO

ATERird.A.T33 AND LEADEN HALL.
A steady business was doing Isere, at full prices.
At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. S. d. to 1. d.
Beef, inferior.... •• 3 C 3 2 Mutton, inferior .. 3 6 3 8
- middling .... 3 2 3 4 -- middling.. 310 4 2
. _

mime

re .. 3 4

prime ..-.. 4 4 4 8
Prime small 3 6 3 8 ; Pork, 1arge........ 3 6 4 2
Veal— ••••••• • • • • • 3 8 4 8 small •... 4 4 4
Lamb. Os Od to Os Od.
BOROUGH HOlO M.A.B.IMET.
During the present week a moderate business has
been transacted in the finest colory parcels of Hops,
both in pockets and bags, at full prices. In all other
kinds so little is doing that prices are almost nominal.
Sussex pockets, Si 14s to 418 s ; Weald of Kent, ditto,
4/ to 41 8s ; Mid and East Kent, ditto, 416 s to 6165.

HINTS on the DAGUERREOTYPE.
As a great deal of the effect -of these portraits, as
pictures, results from the manner in which people go
dressed for a sitting, we wish to give our readers a ruts
or two, which they would do well to bear in mind.--
Avoid pure white as much as possible. Some ladies
dress themselves out in snowy berthas and spotless
wristbands; but many a good picture is spoiled by the
spottiness occasioned by the powerful action of this
colour upon the plate. Violets have also the same effect
upon it. A lady takes her sitting in a purple dress, and
is astonished to find herself in a white book muslin in
her portrait; this particular colour acting more intensely
than the pure light upon the prepared silver. The very
best kind of dress to wear on such occasions is a satin
or a shot silk, or any material, in fact, upon which there
is a play of light and shade. Plaids always look well;
and an old tartan shawl thrown across the shoulders, and
well composed as to folds, would form an admirable
drapery: but this is an artistic liberty which ladies are
very loth to submit to. At most of the Daguerreotype
establishments, articles of apparel, suitable as regards
form and colour, were at first provided ; but nobody
used them. "We wish to be taken as we are," was the
invariable remark ; and so they were stereotyped to
their heart's content in a heap of finery put on merely
for effect. We wish ladies would be a little less prim on
such occasions. It is quite melancholy to see the care
they take to brush the hair, and apply that abomination,
fixiture, to make it "look nice ;" whereas, if a good
breeze had broken it up into a hundred waves, the effect
in the Daguerreotype would have been infinitely more
beautiful. And let them by all means abjure the system
of making up a face for the occasion. The effect is
painfully transparent. The mouth, so expressive in all
faces, in these portraits is nearly always alike ; and for
the simple reason, that we put its muscles into attitudes
which are not at all natural to it—we substitute a volun-
tary for an involuntary action ; and, of course, stiffness
is the result. If the ladies, however, must study for a
bit of effect, we will give them a recipe for a pretty ex-
pression of mouth—let them place it as if they were
going to say prunes.—People's Journal.

The Poor-law Commissioners have appointed
Anewrin Owen, Esq., of Egryn, Denbighshire, one of
the Assistant Tithe Commissioners, to be an Assistant
Poor-law Commissioner, in the place of the late Colonel
Wade.

CHRISTMAS CARGOES.—Thursday the Eastern
Counties Railway presented an unusual scene in conse-
quence of the arrival of extensive trains, carrying pas-
sengers, lugeage, and baskets, hampers, &c., containing
a most extraordinary supply of poultry for the London
market. By the morning mail train upwards of 2,000
packages were brought to the horeditch station. An
afternoon train, which consisted of nearly thirty car-
riages, carrying between 300 and 400 passengers, arrived
considerably after its appointed time. As it was
expected that a large supply of packages with poultry,
&c., would arrive during the Christmas week, the di-
rectors caused the area immediately in front of the
house at the terminus. Shoreditch, to be covered in with
a tarpaulins for the warehousing of the goods, and some
of their clerks were stationed there to give to the owners
their several packages.
CHELTENHAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY.--The com-
pletion of this undertaking promises many indirect bene-
fits, beyond the direct and substantial one of furnishing
the shortest line to Oxford and London. The building
now occupied as the General Hospital and Dispensary
will be required for the purposes of the works, and the
town—by an advantageous arrangement with the eem-
pany—will secure what has long been considered a desi-
deratum—an extended building on an improved site.
The officials of the company attended the quarterly
beard at the hospital on Monday last, and proposed to
purchase the hospital at cost price—to pay in advance
expense of plans and specifications for a new erection,
and also the full purchase-money one month after the
passing of their Bill, the hospital to be carried on in the
present building, for one year after that period. The
proposal was unanimously accepted by the governors of
the charity, and ,the time is not far distant when a new
hospital and dispensary—ornamental to the town, and in
every way adapted for the benevolent purpose for which
it was established—may be expected to rise on the
Sandford-field, a site most eligible, and the land for
which was secured some 'years since. We find, also, by
reference to the deposited plans, that the Grammar
School will be required, and _that, consequently, an-
other school-house will have to be erected at the expense
of the company. This will afford au excellent oppor-
tunity of increasing the extent of the building, and also
of extending the usefulness of the school.--Cheltenham
Chronicle.

USEFUL TO CORN DEALERS.—The following com-
munication as to the means of'converting the continental
prices of corn into English computation is from Mr.
Tate, a well-known authority in matters of commercial
calculation:—" The anxious attention which is now
directed to the prices of corn on the Continent giving
rise to frequent quotations of trade prices in France, I
beg to inform those of your readers who may rot be ac-
quainted with the manner of converting such prices into
those of this country, that, assuming the par of ex•
change to be 2.5 i francs per pound sterling, if 228
shillings be multiplied by the number of francs in the
price per hectolitre, and the !product be divided by 100,
or the two lower figures be cut off, the result will be the
cumber of shillings per imperial quarter. Thus a recent
quotation for the price of wheat being 25 francs per
hectolitre, 2285. multiplied by 25 equals 5,700, giving
575. for the equivalent price per imperial quarter. It
may be serviceable further to mention that a variation of
one franc per hectolitre is about equal to that of 2s. 3d.
per imperial quarter.
REVOLTING CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER.-HARIVICE4
' TUESDAY.—An inquiry into one of the most disgusting
cases of neglect on the part of a husband probably ever
heard of in this part of the country, was, after many ad-
jeurnments brought to a close yesterday. It was held
before Mr. Henshall, the coroner, at the Moorgate
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being viewed, the jury discover, d that the left cheek of
the poor w man had been gnawed away by rats or cats.
The bed in which it laid was in a horribly filthy condi-
tion. The lower parts of the body were frightfully
mutilated, an i the flesh had evidently' been eaten away.
There were holes in the thighs and back to the bone,
ar d in breadth the siz, of the hand. The jury
were informed that the husband had slept in bed with
the corpse ior one or two nights, and that he had fre-
quently heard the attacks of the vermin on the body.
Fr. ,m the evidence of numerous witnesses examined, it
appeared that the unfortunate woman having had a para-
lytic stroke, she was confined to her bed in a helpless
coildbion for two yi ars and a half. The husband was
st,..ted to be in gotd circumstances, possessing property
to tine extent of upwards of 3,000/. Ile was described
as berhg so p. liw,tais as to refuse to provide a person to
wait upon her, or even to obtain what was absolutely
nec,ssary for her comfort. Se“..ral witnesses deposed
to the most inhuman neglect on the part of the husband.
The medical testimony proved that her death was caused
by the gross neglect of those who had charge of her, and
the jury found a verdict of manslaughter against the
husband, Heaton, who was committed for trial at the
ensuing assizes, on the coroner's warrant.
A RIGHTEOUS DECISION.—Some time ago, a poor
fugitive escaped from Maryland, and, hotly followed by
the pursuer, on his way to safety beneath the broad flag
of Old England, in Canada, was overtaken and seized in
Vermont. The abolitionists instantly got out a habeas
corpus, and carried all parties before court, to see what
warrant they had to arrest any man in Vermont who
had committed no crime. Three judges were on the
bench, two of them young and energetic, one aged and
feeble, who came to his seat by the habit of years, but
seldom spoke, his eyes being dim and his strength
abated. The counsel spoke—the defence wished to
know why the man was held in custody. The lawyer
for the slaveholder rose to reply, and said he should
move the offender was guilty of a breach of the laws of
Maryland state ; he was a slave, and had stolen himself.
The other lawyer then said he should require proof that
he was a slave. The slaveowner then stood up, and held
forth a document ; " This," he said, " is a bill of sale,
made in my favour, for this man, signed by his original
owner." Then the old judge rose to his feet, and with a
voice of thunder, strangely loud for one so old, de-
manded, " Who signed it, sir ?" " John Williams,"
replied the astonished owner. " Take it away I take it
away. !" said the old man, raising his hands to heaven,
" It is not valid, sir ; it is falsely signed, sir ; it is a
blasphemous forgery ; none can sign that bill of sale
but God Almighty." The court was electrified ; the
slaveholder slunk out, and Vermont, awakened like a
sleecer, gave twenty thousand abolition votes at the
next election.—Eatract of a letter from Troy, State of
Acu, York, Oct., 1546.
STRANGE ITEMS.--It is estimated that the annual
amount expended in New York city for cigars, is not
less than 730,000 dollars. The annual cost of feeding
I the dogs in the United States is said to be seven mil-
-1 lions of dollars! It is said that 17,000 sacks of saw-
dust are annually consumed in London for, stuffing dolls
alone.