The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-28 00:00:00

HULL, AUGUST 2G,

STOCK EXCNANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tens!on, 214—North British, Half Shares, 1614—York and North
Midland (East and West Riding), 13—Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding, 7s. 6d.—Leicester and Tarnworth, 345. 6d.—North Western,
4s. p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 2/. 18s. Gd.— Shropshire Union,
10s. dis.—West Riding Union, s—Grand Union, 15s.—Leicester and
Bedford, 12s. 6d.—:South Midland, 14s. p.
SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 2G.

STOCK EXCMA?GE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Sheffield Exten-
sion, 17s. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9s. dis.—Ditto, Railway and
Dock, 13/t dis.—Derby and Gainsborough, % dis.—East Lincolnshire,
% dis.—Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, I7s. dis.—Shef-
field and Lincolnshire, Ss. dis.—Ditto, Extension, h dis.
YORK, AUGUST 26.

STocfc Exczwinx.-The sales are-Grand Union (Nottingham
and Lynn), 13s. 6d.-Leicester, Tamworth, &c., 11. 125.-Loudon
and York, 2-Newcastle and Berwick, 271. 16s. 3d.-Newcastle and
Darlington, New, 111 A -North British, 33% -Ditto, Carlisle Exten-
sion, 41. Is. scrip-North Western, U. 75.-West Riding Union, 5%.
EDINBURGH, AUGUST 2b.
STocs EXCHANGE.--IThe sales are-Aberdeen, Si. 155.-Aberdeen,
Banff, and Elgin, 11.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 155.-Arbroath
and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. 10s.-Armagh and Port-
rush, 14s. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, li. 7s. 6d.-Banffshire, 18s.-Bel-
fast and County Down, 12s. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 21. 2s.
W.-Caledonian, 151. 7s. 63.-Ditto, New, 11. 9s. &1.-Caledonian
Extension, 1/. 135.--Caledonian and Dunibarton, 1/. 25.--Caledonian
and Northern Direct, 21. N.-Clydesdale Junction, 231. 105.- Corn-
wall and Devon Central, 1/. 11 s.-Deeside Railway, 21. 7s. 6d.-
Direct Northern, 11. 145.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 31. IN.-Dundee
and Arbroath, 371.-Ditto, New, 211. N.-Dundee and Perth, 241.
7s. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 165.-East of Fife, 17s. 6d.-Edin-
burgh and Bathgate, 2/. 153.-Edinburgh aril Glasgow, 701.-Ditto,
MB Shares, 171. 15s.- Ditto, Quarters, 171. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New,
181.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Uranton, 181.-Ditto, Preference, 211.
155.-Edinburgh and Northern, Si. 195.--Ditty, Newport, 19s. 6d.-
Edinburgh and Perth, 31. IN.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 1/. 16s.
-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 751.-Ditto, New Stock, 371. 10s.-Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 181. 10s.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 21. Bs.-Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 155.-Glasgow and Dundee Junc-
tion, 11. 135.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 401.-Glasgow General Ter-
minus, Si. 10s-Glasgow and Greenock, 161. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock,
81. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 155.-Glasgolv, Kilmarnock, and
Ardrossan, 11. 10s.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, '2l.
1 fJs.-Granton Junction, 10s.-Great North of Scotland, lAs.-Inver-
ness and Elgin, 17s. 6d.-Lanark and Lothians, 21. 55.-Lame, Bel-
fast, and Ballymena, 95.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, 11.
3s. Gd. -London and York, 21. 3s. 6d.-Ditto„ Half Shares, IL 15s.
-Midland and Eastern Counties, 155.-Newcastle and Berwick, 291.
-North British, 381. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ditto, Extension to
Carlisle, 41. Is. 6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 15s.- North Staffordshire, 51.
9s. Gd.-North Wales Mineral, 161. 155.-Ditto, New, 101.-Perth
and Inverness, 1/. Ils. 6d.-Scottish Central, 191. 10s.-Ditto, New,
9/. 10s.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 1/. 108.-Scot-
tish Grand Junction, 12s.- Scottish Midland, 71. 10s.-Scottish
Southern, 1/. 175.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 65.-Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Chester, 51. 108.-South Midland, 21. 15s. 6d.-Stir-
ling and Dunfermline, 11. Bs.-Stirling and Midland, 21. 165.-
Strathern Junction, 21.-Wishaw and Coltness, 471. 10s.

Mr. George Robins sold at Lincoln, a few years since,
the valuable estates of Lord Monson, which realised
good prices ; he has now announced the only -one that
he did not sell, the Ingleby Wood, a very valuable
property, only seven miles from the famed city of Lin-
coln. It comprises, as we see by the announcement,
sixty-fiva acres of splendid oak timber, besides a large
quantity of oak poles of twenty years growth, and what
materially adds to its value and its importance is, the
easy shipment of the timber, the estate being less than
a mile from the navigable river Foss, which connects the
Trent and Witham streams, and opens a market for the
timber in the dockyards of the lumber and the Thames.
It is expected at Lincoln that this sale will cause a lively
competition. About the period of Lord Monson's sales
Mr. Robins sold the famed Riseholme estate, within a
mile of the ancient city of Lincoln, for sixty thousand
guineas, to the late Lord Bishop of the diocese. The
neighbourhood is accounted a favourable situation for
investing securely.
VAUXHALL GARDENS.—The celebration of the birth-
day of his Royal Highness Prince Albert took pl_ace in the
appropriate grounds of the " royal property" on Wednesday,
The fete was brilliantly got up; the illuminations were very
splendid, the music was appropriate to the occasion, the fire-
works were more than usually good, and the great host of
visitors (upwards of 8,000 all tended to make the appear-
ance of the gardens gay and animated. Mr. Lewis acted as
master of the ceremonies, and president of the commissariat
as well as thecompany. In the rotunda the equestrian group
of M. Tourniaire exhibited their evolutions, and certainly
performed some very extraordinary as weil as very elegant
feats of horsemanship. The dancing was commenced after
the conclusion of the fireworks, and kept up with spirit for
several hours, whilst in the boxes and at the tables in the
salon hundreds of persons were partaking of roast chickens,
rack punch, champagne, and other fluids furnished by the pro-
prietors. The whole went off well, and was satisfactory to
all present.
MORTALITY or THE METEOPOLIS.---The total number of
deaths registered in the Metropolitan district, in the week
ending Saturday, August 22, 1846, was 902. Of these, 874
were deaths from other causes than violence, showing a
decrease in the number of deaths from disease, as compared
with the week preceding, of 51. During the past week, the
deaths from cholera were 15 ; from dysentery, 9 ' • from diar-
rhoea, 145. There were 1,278 births registered during the
week.

LIFE AssunarrcE.—A question of much importance
to life assurance companies has lately been decided by the
Judges in the Exchequer Chamber on a bill of exceptions in
an action brought by the representatives of Schwabe against
the Argus Life Assurance Company. The Judges have de-
termined that a party assured holding his policy in his own
hands who may commit suicide, forfeits his policy, and that
the office is not bound to pay the amount. This decision
settles the law on a point upon which doubts had heretofore
existed. The Argus Company, who, before trial, had of-
fered to return all premiums paid with interest, on the opi-
nion of the Judges in their favour being declared, immedi-
ately renewed their offer, and have now repaid to Schwabe's
representatives the whole a the premiums received, with in-
terest at 4 per cent., amounting to 969/. Bs. 7d. The com-
pany have at the same time resolved in future to return to
the representatives of any party assured in their office who
may commit suicide the gross amount of premiums paid on
the assurance.
AN OLD HAT.—John Smith, of Heywood New-road,
Heap, near Bnry, is wearing a hat which he purchased
for half-crown, in Rochdale, in 1799, and has had it in regu-
lar wear ever since a period of 47 years.—Cambridge Acker-

titer.
THE ALLEGED POISONINGS IN ESSEX—ADJOURNED
Tiot-QuET.—CLAVERING, NN7EDNTEspaa- Maim. —This fore-
noon, at ten o'clock, Mr. C. C. Lewis, and the jury impan-
a4:irortaansnl.'darndoroner
Defied to inquire into the cause of death of Joseph and
James Cheesham, re-assembled at the Fox and Hounds
Tavern, Clavering• Mr. Henry Brooke examined—l am
a surgeon, and on Monday, the 17th of August, I
opened the bodies of deceased. They were in an advanced
stage of decomposition. I extracted the stomachs
with the assistance of Mr. Brown, another surgeon. A.;
of the intestineselledto were taken by me to
to the stomach
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evidence, and we must have his Dr. Graham being visit Scotland, transferred
the stomach to Dr. Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, who has
transmitted to me a report of the analisation. That, how-
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and I may inform you, without prejudging the case,
that a considerable quantity of poison has been found in
them. From the report, it appears, that with respect to the
stomach of James Cheeshatn, the professor states that he
found a large quantity of yellow arsenic, amounting in the
whole to between twenty and thirty grains, which was suffi-
cient to destroy six adult persons. The poison, judging
from the coats °of the stomach, being g strongly impregnated
NI ith it, and particles adhering to it, must have been taken
during life. With respectell to the stomach of Joseph, a quan-
tity of opiinent, or y arsenic, was found, amounting to
between eight and ten grains, more than suflicie4it to (lest! ov
the life of an adult. This had been taken during life, and
either as yellow or white arsenic. Mr. Brooke here produced
some of the arsenic which had been extracted from the
stomach, and sent to bins by Dr. Taylor for the inspection of
the coroner and jury. The inquiry was adjourned for the at-
tendance of Drs. Taylor arid Graham.