The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

THE CHINESE EXHIBITION.

This intorestin; exhibition of the manners and cus-
toms of a people, not farther removed from us in geo-
graphical distance than they are in the mode and degree
of civilisation, afforded an agreeable novelty to the usual
holiday amusements. The room was respectably at
tended, and the various objects of interest attracted ad-
miring groups of spectators, from the models of the war
junks to the sprciwens of houses completely furnished,
with all the means and appliances of Chinese luxury. In
the evening the exhibition was well crowded.

In addition to the foregoing we may enumerate the
following public exhibitions, which have the advantage
of being accessible gratuitously :
The British Museum.
The National Gallery.
The Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields.
The East India Houle Museum.
The Soane Museum, Lincoln's Inn fields.
The Society of Arts, Adelphi.—Any day except Wed-
nesday.
London Misotonary Museum, Bloomfield-street, Moor-
fiel&.—Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
United Service Museum, Middle Scotland-yard.
Entomological Siciety's Museum, Old Bond-street.—
Tuesday.

Museum of Economic Geology, Craig's-court, Char-
ing cross.

St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and the
Tosser, must not be forgotten among the sights
London, though they cannot be placed among the
gratuitous exhibitions.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
EDINBURGH, DitcminErt 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are--Aberdeen, 2.5/.55._-
Airdrie and Batbgate, 4/. Bs.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-
Ditto, Halves, 15/. 55.-Armagli and Portrush, 6s. 61-
Ayr and Galloway, 14 6s. 6d.-Caledonian, 281. 155.-Ditto,
New, 2/. 10s.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 2'. 53.-
Clydesdale Junction, 344-Cornwall and Devon Central, 11.
15e.-Dceside 31.-Direct Northern. 2/. 7s.- Dun-
Wane, Doune, and Callander, 1/. 155.-Dundee and Arbroath.
45/. ex new-Ditto, New. No. 1. 314-Ditto. New, No. 2,
294-Dundee and Perth, 29/. 105.-Ditto, New, 19/. 155.-
East of Fife, 2/. 12s. 6d.-East Lothian Central, 2/. 65.-
Edinburgh and Bathgate, 2/. 155.-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
751. 15e.-Ditto, Halvres, 211.-Ditto, Quarters, 194-Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Granton, 211.-Ditto, Preference, 211
lOs -Edinburgh and Northern, 15/. ss. ex new-Ditto, New,
41. 155.-Ditto, Newport, 64 7s. 6d. ex new-Ditto, ditto,
New, Si. 14s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. 15s. 6d.-Glas-
gow and Ayrshire, 691.-Ditto, New Stock, 38/. 155.-Ditto,
Quarters 171. 7s 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 94-Glasgow, Dumfries,
and Carlisle, 61. 7s. 6d.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction. li.
165.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.-Ditto, Quarters, 104-
Glasgow General Terminus, 12L-Glasgow and Greenock,
171.-Ditto, Half Shares, 8. 10s.-Ditto, Preference, Si. ss.
-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 4/. 17s. Gd.-
Great North of Ecgland, 2371.-Great North of Scotland,
2/. 135.-Great Western, 1271.-London, Bristol, and Louth
Wales, 1/. 3s. 63.-London and York, 21. 7s. 6d.-Ditto,
Halves, li. 17s. 6d.--Manchester and Lceds, 1051.-Ditto,
Sixteenths, FL -Ditto, Extensions, 31. 75.-Newcastle and
Berwick, 351.-North British, 361.-Ditto. Halves, Hi. 103

-Ditto. Thirds, 31. 14a 61-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. Bs.-Ditto,
ditto, New, scrip. 1/. lls.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 10s.-North
Wales Mineral, 201.-Ditto, New, 101. ss. -Scottish Cen-
tral, 21/. 17s. 6d.-Scottish Grand Junction, 155.-Scottish
Midland, 141. 17s. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 155.-
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6/. 16s. 3d. -Ditto, New,
11.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 3/.75. 6d.-Stirlinc.r. and Mid..
land, 9/. 105.-Strathern Junction, 3/. 18s.-Wishaw and
Coltness. 491.-York and Newcastle, 38/. ex new-Ditto,
New, 15/. 55.-Ditto, Preference, 71. 2s. 6d.-Direct Bom-
bay and Madras, ss. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 115.-Great
North of India, 53.-Great Southern of Madras, ss. 3d.-
Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 3s. 3d.
GLASGOW, DECEMBER 25.
STOCIt EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 254-Ayr
and Galloway, 1305.-Caledonian, 30/.-Ditto, New, 515.-
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 415.--East of Fife, 585.-
East Indian Railw;3B-,_Gs
lOsiagw
.30d.-,
Dumfries,EastLothiaannaCecnatrriaisble4,
-Edinburgh and Northern, New, 78s.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
61.
Bs.-AGylra'sgioilavl,vleillmarnock, and Ardrossan, 5/. 65.-Glasgow.
Airdrie. and blonkland Junction, 625.-Great North of
Scotland, 523.-Great Indian Peninsular, 6s. 6d.-Great
Southern of Madras, 4s. 9d.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct,
485.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 35.-Manchester and
Southampton, 31s. 6d.-Mid land, Halves, 6744-North British,
Thirds, 755.-Ditto, NOV Quarters (scrip), 315.-Scottish
Central, 213/-Strathern Junction, 80s.-York and New-
castle, Preference, 711/2.

SLAVE AUCTION SCENE IN
AMERICA.

In the winters of 1840 and
this-11e0.and peculiar
having B-11,
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business in
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Western
Virginia,
form (be it remembered I wasflourishes
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at this time opposed to anti-slavery principles), Dec.
28th, I found myself at Martinsburg. the county seat of
Berkley. About ten o'clock of the aforesaid day, I ob-
served a crowd congrPgated in the public square, in front
of a superior-looking building, which had very much the
appearance of a gaol, as it proved to be. On inquiring
of my landlord the cause of the meeting, he said it was
"a hiring"— in other words, a negro sale, as I after-
wards found that a number were hired for life. I
walked down to the
i market, and to obtain a better view,
I mounted a large waggonln the street, directly opposite
to the stand of the auctioneer, wha had commenced hi.;
work. He was a large. man, dressed in aristocratic
style, with a profusion of ruffles, gold finger-
rings, watch-seals, and last, and not least, a large whip,
called by drivers a "load, d whip." The hiring I un-
derstood to be of a number of slaves of a certain
estate, who were hired out from year to year to the
highest bidder, for the benefit of the heirs. These sales
take place between Christmas and new year—the holi-
days—quite a recreation for the slaves who are to change
masters. After a number had been disposed of in this
way, the crier announced that he would offer for sale
six slaves. He then put up two, father and son. The
old man was near sixty years of age, a cripple ; the
son was about twenty-three, a perfect specimen of man.
There were present two Georgia soul-drivers, who bid
eight hundred dollars for both. When the crier re-
marked it was a small bid for both, the Georgian re-
plied, he would give eight hundred without the old
man, as he was of no account. The young man gave
the bidder a look that would have shamed the devil ;
the old man wept bitterly. The son sold on the
bid ; and the father was sold for sixty dollars to an
old farmer, who had never kept a slave in his
Thus father and son were separated. The next
was that of a girl fifteen years of age. (These slaves had
been hired out to different individuals the past year.)
She wastbrought crying upon the stand. With an oath,
he bid her stop her " blubbering," and then proceeded
with the sale She was sold for one hundred
and fifty. The next case was that of a young white
woman, sixteen years old, with a young child. I say
white woman, because the auctioneer said she was only
one-eighth black, and I have seen many of the fail girls
of Ohio who could not boast of as fair complexion, or as
good figure or, features. She came upon the stand
with her infant in her arms, in the deepest
misery. A gentleman who had taken his seat
beside me, observing that I was much inte-
rested, remarked, he thought I was a stranger in
that country. I answered that I was. " These things
look odd to you." " They do." Said he, " you see that
man in the crowd," pointing to one within a few paces of
the stand ; " that is Dr. G. Ile hired that girl last year
and.that child is his 1" The Georgian bid three hun-
dred dollars ; some one b:d four ; the Georgian bid four
hundred and fifty. The girl cast a piercing, glance at
the crowd—her eyes rested on Dr. G., who instantly
averted his face ; she gazed one moment, then burst into
a torrent of tears She was knocked off to the Georgian.
Thus the fiend saw his child and its mother sold into
southern bondage. My God 1 thought I ; is it possible?
I was cured of my pro•slavery principle.--Cincinnati
Herald.

DEATH or JOHN ECAN, ESQ., J. P.—lt is with
feeelings of deep r:gret we have to announce the decease
of the highly esteemed and respected gentleman whose
name stands at the head of this obituary, and whose de-
mise took place at nis residence in Tuam en the 12th
ult., at the patriarchal age of 90. For half a century he
held the commission of the peace for the county of Gal-
way. We are given to understand that his large estat, s,
situated in the counties of Galway and Roscommon, to
getber with funded propsrty to a considerable amount,
have been bequeathed to his grand-nephew, G. Egan,
Esq., of Dublin —Frcentqn's Jclanal.

The Venerable Archdeacon Shirley's consecration
as Bishop of Sock'. and Alan is fixed to take place on
January 10, 1847, at Whitehall Chapel.