The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-21 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

LEEDS CATTLE AND SHEEP MARKET, DEC.
There was a very good sbow of stock to-day, both in
cattle and sheep. Beasts in high condition were readily
bought up at rather improved late.; and for sheep there
was a fair demand at prices fully equal to those that
have been recently obtained.
DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, DEC. 11.—There were 196
bags of oatmeal, 48 of barleymeal, and 2 of pot barley;
sales ready for oatmeal; barleymeal met a dull demand.
Oatmeal 6d to la per bag down; barleymeal 9d per bag
up on the top, but the second quality is 3d per bag down;
there waa no peasemeat or flour in market.
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third
imperial 28s Id 27s Od 25s Od
Barleynseal, per ditto 23s Od 2,s Od 21. 6d
Peasemeal —s Od —s Od —s Od
Flour ... —s Od —s Od —5 Od
Pot barley ... ... ... 26s Od —s Od Od

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BELFAST, DEc. 15.—Notwithstanding the severity C
the togltt and morning, our market is largely Supplied
with grain and oatmeal. Wheat and barley are a slow
sale at about former prices, whilst oats and oatmeal are
cifficult to quit at a reduction of 3d to 4d per cwt.
Icdian corn 2s 6d to 5s lower. Monday, Dec. 18.--
6 rain— The. quantity forward since Friday has been
email, and at this morning's market the decline on oats
(3d to 4d) noted on Friday, was fully recovered, and in
wriest and barley last week's prices were well main-
tained. Oatmeal, on the contrary, was dull at the de-
cline of Friday (3d to 4d). Wheat, 8s 6d to 103 Od;
barley, 5s 61 to 7s; oats, 5. 3d to 6s 3d; and oatmesl,99
8d to 10e 4d per cwt. Indian corn a slow sale at 7l 159
to 81 per ton. Pork sells freely at former prices-37s
to 48s per 1201 b.

CO MARET.—YIS
Buddle's W. HartleALy 14s K6d Belmont EADAY.
171 9d
Carr's Hartley
Davison'sWest Hartley 15s Od East Hetton
Dean's Primrose ...... 14s 6d Lyons l7s 3d
East Adairs Main..... 13a 6d Hetton
Hasting's Hartley l4s 6d Haswell lBs 9d
New Tantield l4. 3d Jonassohns ... 15. 91
Ord's Redheugh
Smith's Pontop .. ..... 13s 3d Russell's Hettoa
South Pontop .. ...... 1311 3d Stewart's
lonfield Moor
ranfield Moor Butes... 14s 3d Heugh Hall
Townley l4s Od Hudson's Hartlepool... 17. Sd
Wylam
V 1 eat Hartley
Wall's End, &c. Adelaide Tees
Brown's Gas
Clarke
Clennell lss Odi West Cornforth
Elm Park
Gosforth .
Hedworth .. .
Hotspur
16s 3d Hartley ...... ..... ... 141 Od
Killingworth l6s 3d Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s 6d
South Killingworth
Washington
Eden Main l7. 6d I Sidney "s Hartley
Lambton Primrose ... 171 3dl Ships at market, HO.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS
BRISTOL, Dsc. 201.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market is slightly on the
decline. Great Western, Quarters, were done at 4% dis.
LIVERPOOL, Dsc. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, % c. p.—Eastern Counties, 12—East Lancashire, 614
Preference, 6%—Great Northern (B Shares), 214 die.-.
Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming-
ham), Fifths, 414 dis. -London and North-Western, 120%
—Ditto, Fifths, 4% p.—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% IL--
Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 61. 18s.
3d. dis. - Ditto, 101. Preference, 101. Bs. 3d.—Midland Stock,
8 t 1/9—Ditto, New Halves, 9% die.— Scottish Midland,
15N—South-Eastern and Dover, 2334—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds,
7 dis. —York, Newcastle, anii lierwick (Extension), No. Ir
ILA dis.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 16e. 3d. dis.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 20.
&rocs F.xcHewas.—The sales are—Cheshire Junction,
9% dis.— Kendal and Windermere, 4—Manchester and Bir-
mingham, Quarters (C), 2 p.—North Staffordshire, 5 11-16
dis.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 14 t 4 dis.—West Riding Union,
514 dis.—Leeds, 32/. Shares, 8-t4 dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, No. 4, 6 15-16—Great Northern, 44—Clitheroer
Preference, 18.

BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —North Staffordshire,
51. 118. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6% dis.
—Ditto (B), 43, dis.—Shropshire Union, 31. Is. 3d. dis.
YORK, Dao. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day WAS
as follows :—Great Northern, 84—North British, rhirds,
4A—York, Newcastle, grid Berwick (Extension), No.l, 14--
Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 7 lA,

ULAgGOT4i, Dec. 19.
STOCK EXCHA NOIC.—The sales are—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, 84—Clydesdale Junction, 57%—Eastern Counties,
New, 6 per cent. guaranteed, 114—Edinburgh and Northern,
11 Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, hi. Is.—Glasgow,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1, 51. 3s.—Ditto, Halves,
No. 2,5/. 55,—Ditto, Preference, 54—Great Northern, Si.
Us.—North British, 16 Diu*, Thirds, 925. 6d.—Scottish
Central, 264—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E.
Purchase), 7%.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 20 —The Ocean Steam Navi-
gation Company's ship Washington, Captain J. Johnson,
sailed to day at 3 P.M., for New York, with the United
States mails from England, France. and Germany, in
charge of Mr. W. W. Ilincken. The Washington had
56 passengers, including six Roman Catholic priests
(missionaries) and six Sisters of Charity, and about 350
tons of measurement goods on freight, the majority of
which are from Havre, on French account. The Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Ripon, Captain R. Moresby, LN., also departed this
afternoon, with the East India and Chins mails, in charge
of Lieutenant Brady, R.N., Admiralty officer. The
Ripon had about 200 tons cargo, 2,000!. in specie for
Malta, and 118 'passengers, amongst whom were Lord
Royston, for Malta ; Major-General Sewell, Madras;
Sir C. W. Oakeley, for Calcutta.
THZ MURDER ♦T TEDBURN ST. MART.—ExE•
TER, Ditc. 20.—Last evening Mr. Frederick Lee, one
of the coroners for the county of Devon, resumed an
inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death
of Grace Holman, a lady, aged 80, who was found dead
in her bed on the morning of the 3d instant, and was
supposed to have met with her death by the hands of
assassins, who afterwards robbed the house of all the
articles which they could conveniently carry away. The
particulars of the case have already appeared. Several
witnesses were examined, but their testimony failed to
throw any light upon the perpetrators of the murder.
The coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict
of " Wilful murder" against some person or persons un-
known. For some time past burglaries, in many cases
attended with great violence upon the inmates, have been
perpetrated in this neighbourhood nearly every night,
but strange to say, the perpetrators have in every case
escaped detection.

SAS METER ',on TEE HOUSES OP PARLIAMENT.
—A view was yesterday afforded to a number of scien-
tific persons, and others interested in the consumption of
gas, at Messrs. Glover's iron-foundry, Drury-lane, of
the immense meter constructed and cast under the super-
intendei ce of Mr. Defries, of 67, St. Martin's-lane, the
inventor and patentee. This machine, which is to be
placed in the New Palace at Westminster, is an almost
stupendous piece of mechanism, being upwards of 10
feet in height and 20 feet in circumference or girth; it
is in form a hexagon, the designs are in the Gothic
manner, and in e xact keeping with the interior of the
new Houses of Parliament, so that it is an ornamental
as well as a useful addition to them, and ought to be
placed so as to he seen by the public. The machine
w, igha four tons, and is of capacity to pass 10,000 feet
ot gee per hour, and of supplying 2,000 lights with, ac-
cording to calculation, the loss of only half a tenth •f
i.ressure; at which pressure it will work with the
greatebt ease. The principle and action of the machine
are eery simple, and yet very accurate. There are two
chambers, the lower containing three partitions, called
diaphragms; as the gas, in its passage through the
valve, acts upon these diaphragms, they move the ma-
chinery in the upper chatuher, and by these means the
quantity of gas consumed is registered. The index con-
sis a of six small dials almost similar to those of watches;
on these the consumption can be calculated with a very
minute accuracy. The iron has been bronzed, and has
a fine surface, the castings being remarkably sharp and
eh an. The name of the patentee and the title ot the
Chartered tans Company and the royal arms are intro-
duced. This meter far exceeds in dimensions any-
thing of the sort ever before attempted.
CHRISTMAS Boxes.—Several meetings of the
master-bakers of the metropolis and other trades have
ben recently held, and all unanimously resolved to put
an end to the system of paying servants and others what
are called " Christmas Boxes." Perhaps the most
degrading form in which this tax (for such it is) is
demanded is that adopted by the Post-office letter-car-
riers. It is a degradation on the part of a great public
establishment to permit its servants to go from house to
house begging for alms. The fact is, when tradespeople
pay the servants of their customers in this way, it is not
unreasonable to suppose that they get the equivalent is
some other manner.

BIRTH&
On the 16th inst., at Long Sutton, the lady of the Rev.
Edward L. Bennett, of a son.

On the 17th inst., at Walthamstow, the wife of Albert
Pelly, Esq., of twin sons.
On the 17th inst., at Camden-road villas, the wife of T. T.
Beckett, Esq., of Golden-square, of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Leggatts, Herts, the lady of Thomas
Bemble, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Clapham-common, Mrs. Frederick
Meyer, of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Chesterfield-street, the wife of T. E
Preston, Esq., of a son.

On the 16th inst., at Streatham-hill, Mrs. J. H. Shears,
of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 16th inst., at Walton-en-the-Hill, Mary Anne,
second daughter of Mr. John Southgate, of 011 Change and
Pebble Coombe, to Mr. W. Alcock, of Watling-street.
On the 16th inst., at St. James's Church, Bayswater, John
Sheehan, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Ellen, relict of the
late Major H. Shubrick.

On the 19th inst., at St. John's Church, Padd ngton, Sir
Ofliwy Wakeman, Bart., of Perdiswell, W. rcester, to Mary
Smith, only daughter of the late T. Adlington, Esq., of
Clapham-c mmou, Surrey.

DIED,
On the 16th inst., at Palgrave, aged 84, the Rev. J. Cox,
D.D., rector of Pa!grave, vicar or Dinham, and formerly
master of Gainsborough School.
On the 17th inst., at North Pickenham Rectory, near
Swaffham, Norfolk, the Rev. Jonathan Townley, vicar of
Steeple Bunipstead, Essex, aged 74.
On the 17th inst., at Bath, Mrs. Garrett, widow of the late
W. Garrett, Esq.
On the 18th inst., at Hackney, Edy, widow of the late I.
Booth, Esq., of the Bank of England, aged 66.
On the 18th inst., at D. Leauvoir-road, West Hackney,
Mr. J. Browne, late of Barling Mills, near Rochford, Essex.

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