The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

THE sitLit___LONDON),
JULY lO

Lieutenant-Colonel Pester, Royal Artillery, and Lieut.-
Colonel Gordon, Royal Marines. Major Thurlow and
Captain Paget attended as Aides-de-Camp to the
Master-General. There were numerous carriages 011 the
ground, with distinguished parties in them, and general
and other officers not in uniform.
On his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Prince George
of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, and the brilliant
staff approaching the troops, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert was received by the Master-General and
the Commandant of the Garrison, the troops presenting
arms, and the bands of the various branches of the
service playing the National Anthem. Prince Albert,
with the whole of the officers, then rode down
the line and up the rears, examining particularly the
clean and excellent appearance of the men, the fine
condition of the horses and the excellence of their ap-
pointments. Prince Albert and the staff of officers then
returned to the flag-staff, and the field batteries having
moved forward to the head of the line, the troops
marched past at slow and quick time, and the field
batteries at a trot, and the Royal Horse Artillery at a
trop and afterwards at a full gallop. The field bat-
teries then commenced firing, and going through their
evolutions, which they performed in a highly creditable
manner, affording ample evidence of their efficiency.
The Royal Horse Artillery next went through their
evolutions with great celerity and precision, showing
their capabilities for quick movements; and now that they
have larger guns, with six instead of four horses each,
their more effective firing. The Royal Horse Artillery
and the field batteries, at the conclusion, were formed
into line near the Royal Military Academy, and fired
several rounds from each gun, the royal and distin-
guished visitors proceeding to the right of the line to
witness the practice.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the staff, on
leaving the common, visited the mortar battery, and
witnessed several rounds fired from the howitzers and
mortars at a flag-staff, distant 600 yards, and the prac-
doe was very good.
Prince Albert, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Sey-
mour, entered the royal carriage at the mortar battery,
and returned to Buckingham Palace at a quarter past
one o'clock, proceeding along the Blackheath-road.
The Duke of Wellington proceeded with the officers
to the mess-room, the band of the Royal Artillery
playing " See the Conquering Hero comes," and atter
partaking of an elegant dejeuner, returned to Apsley
H ouse.

THE CHARTIST TRIALS.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
TRIAL OF LOONEY.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday).
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL briefly replied.
Chief Justice WILDE then summed up, and explained
the law to the jury.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of all the counts,
except that charging him with riot.
The verdict was not given until a quarter to five.
There was another indictment against the prisoner,
but the Attorney-General announced that he should
not proceed with it.

Charlog, Poutteri, cashier to Messrs. Hunt and Co„
said on Thursday last the prisoner came into their
warehouse iu Bond-street, and gave an order for a
service of plate, value 9001., which he said was for the
officers of the 28th Bengal Native Infantry, and which
he proposed to pay for by a bill for 12,500 rupees,
drawn in his favour by the mess-officers of the regiment.
The bill in question purported to be signed by the pre-
sident of the mess committee, and witness having had a
letter advising him on the subject a few days back, had
not the least suspicion that fraud was contemplated.
The service of plate was to come to about 9,000 rupees,
and the balance (3,500 rupees) was to be handed over to
the prisoner. In the course of conversation witness
asked the prisoner if he was acquainted with Messrs.
Forbes and Co., in the City. The prisoner endeavoured
to evade the question, and appeared annoyed at the in-
quiry. The prisoner, however, turned the matter off,
and asked to look at some; turquoise shirt studs and
buttons. The prisoner chose a set which came to 101.,
handed witness the bill now produced for 12,500 rupees,
and left the shop, taking the studs and buttons with
him. Witness subsequently made inquiries in the City,
and then ascertained that the bill was a forgery.
Police-comstablo Checkley, C division, took the pri-
soner into custody at his lodgings, in Tavistock-street,
Covent-garden. Witness told the prisoner the nature of
the charge against him, and then searched his lodging.
He found a large portmanteau filled with new clothes,
a large bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, and also on
the prisoner's person several bills for large amounts in
sicca rupees. Witness:also found sixty sovereigns in the
prisoner's possession, and a letter which proved that the
prisoner had received 134/. from a firm in Fenchurch-
street, on one of these spurious bills. Witness also found
a paper on which was written an oath to this effect, that
he (the prisoner) on his Bible swore that he would ab-
stain from squandering away, lending, or borrowing
money, on arty pretence, by whatever means he might get

money.
A smart groom game forward, and stated that he had
been hired by tho prisoner to valet him about a month
ago. The prisoner then lived in Trinity-square, in the
Borough, and from his appearance and representations
witness was induced to believe that he was a gentleman
of large fortune, just arrived from India, and about to set
up an establishment of a first-rate character. The groom
said he had been in the prisoner's service a month, and
had as yet received no money.
Mr. 13.rsicaLast ordered the groom to be paid his wages
out of the money taken from the prisoner.
The prisoner was remanded until next Saturday.
MARYLEBOIVE.
Theodore Piedfort, a foreigner, carrying on the busi-
ness of hairdresser and perfumer, No. 5, Bury-street,
St. James's, was finally examined on a charge of having
violated the person of Rose Harris, one of the servants
in the establishment of the Countess of Dundonald.
Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Lewis for the prisoner.
The evidence taken at the previous examination having
been read over by Mr. Phillips, the clerk, the com-
plainant was cross•examined by Mr. Lewis at great
length, without his being able to shake her testimony in
the slightest degree.
Eliaa Manniug, the countess's housekeeper, deposed
that the prisoner had dressed her ladyship's hair for
upwards of twenty years. On Thursday week he came
to her Ladyship's house in Chesterfied- street, Mayfair, at
twelve o'clock, and was told to call again at nine o'clock
in the evening. Her ladyship thought of returning to
Hampstead on that day, but did not do so until Friday
night. On complainant making her acquainted with the
treatment she had received from the prisoner, witness
communicated it to the uncle and aunt of the young wo-
man, and also to the Countess. Witness had examined
the complainant's back, which she said had been hurt
by the prisoner pushing her against a table in the par •
lour, and found a lump upon her back, which must have
been caused by great violence.
Policeman Crosby, C 151, who apprehended the pri-
soner in Albemarle-street, deposed that when he told
him the charge on which he was taken, he said, "It
must be all a mistake."
Mr. Lewis urged that the charge against his client,
which was a very serious one, rested solely on the evi-
dence of one witness, the complainant herself, and asked
that the prisoner might be admitted to bail.
Mr. LONG, howe,er, refused to accept bail, and the
prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial on the ca.
pital charge.

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETT.E

OF FRIDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
R. Evans, J. F. Skinner, Z. Langten, and T. Foster,
Barge-yard, Bueklersbury, East India merchants, July
28, at eleven—T. Burton, Commercial-road, Lambeth,
builder, July 28, at one—R. Weatherhog and R.
Weatherhog, Stone, Kent, farmers, July 28, at twelve—
J. O'Donnell, Siduey-street, Chelsea, bricklayer, July
28, at eleven.

In the Country.
A. M. Paterson, J. Walker, J. 13oydell, and C. B. T.
Roper, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, iron founders, July
27, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Harland,
Merrick, Yorkshire, banker, July 31, at twelve, at the
Court, Leeds—S. Hawley, Ashton, under-Lyne, grocer,
July 31, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—W. Ed-
mond and T. Edmond, Liverpool, merchants, July 29, at
twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Smith and M. Smith,
Baxenden, calico printers, July 28, at twelve, at the
Court, Manchester—M. Smith, Baxenden, calico printer,
July 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester— R. Smith,
Baxenden, calico printer, July 28, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—R. Webster, Preston, linen draper, July
28, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester.

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. W. Montagu, Pleasant-row, Stepney green, com-
mander in the royal navy, 5d., July 10, and two subse-
quent Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three,
at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane.
W. Bullmore, Clerkenwell close, and Bedford-court,
Covent-garden, gold wire drawer, 6d., July 10, and two
subsequent Mondays, between the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane.

R. Brown, Kingston-upon-Hull, bookseller, second
dividend of 4d., together with a first dividend of 2s. 6d.,
payable on new proofs, any Friday, between the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull.
R. Goulding, Gainsborough, cabinet maker, 3s. Bd.,
any Friday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Carrick, Hull.
J. R. Clark, Royston, Yorkshire, grocer, second and
final dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten
and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.

W. Watts, Doncaster, millwright, second and final
dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and
two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.
G. Henwood, Leeds, carver and gilder, first and final
dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and
two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.
C. S. Jackson, Leeds, cloth merchant, second dividend,
any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and two, at the
office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.

J. Senior, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, fancy cloth manu-
facturer, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, be-
tween the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr.
Stausfeld, Leeds.

W. M'Kay, Manningham, Yorkshire, stuff manufac-
turer, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, between
the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Leeds.

J. S. Welch, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, printseller,
3s. 6d., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers,
City.
'l'. Lett, Apsley Guise, Bedfordshire, builder, 2s. 24.,
any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at
office of Mr. Pennell. Guildhall-chambers, City.

C. T. Wood, Drury-lane, licensed victualler, 45., any
Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
office of ➢ir. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City.

J. Bentley, St. John-street-road, linen and woollen
draper, 3s. 6d., any Thursday, between the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, City.
Horne and Burgher, Cheapside, booksellers, 3s. ld ,
any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City.

W. Hosking, Clink•sireet, Southwark, coal merchant,
205., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Gu►ldhall-chambers,
City.
J. Walters, Union-street, Southwark, bottle merchant,
Is., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City.
J. Turner, Newmarket, Suffolk, saddler and harness
maker, 7s. 6d., any Thursday.. between the hours.: oC
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, City.
J. Goodwin, Birmingham, printer, l Id., any Thurs-
day, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham.
W. J. Joyner, Avely,,Essex, manufacturer of agricul-
tural machines, ss. 2d., any Wednesday, between the
hours of twelve nad three, at the office of Mr. Follett,-
Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
S. Cunningham, Minerva-road, Hackney-road, sawyer,
'id., any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve end
three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Ba-

singhall- street.
F. Clark, George-street, Adelphi, jewel case maker,
10d., any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and
three, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Sambrook-court, Ba-

singhall-street.
P. Gans; Manchester, cotton spinner, twenty-three
thirty-seconds of one penny, on Tuesday, July 11, or
any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of eleven
and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
NOTICES OP CERTIFICATES.

At the Court, Basinghall- street.
A. Carrol, jun., Strand, newspaper proprietor, July
28, at twelve—C. Rowcroft, Hampstead, bookseller,
July 28, at two—T. C. Knight, Fort-street, Spital-
square, undertaker, July 28, at two—T. Borkwood,
Shadwell-street, Dock-street, ship-chandler, July 28, at
one—J. Carter, Swaffham Bulbec, Cambridgeshire,
grocer, July 29, at one—F. G. Klingelhoefer, Old Broad-
street, City, merchant, July 28, at half-past twelve—W.
Kerr, New-inn-yard, Tottenham Court-road, cabinet-
maker, Aug. 2, at twelve—T. Hair, Milei-street, South
Lambeth, July 31, at half-past one.

In the. Country.

J. Worsley, Preston, cotton-spinner, July 28, at eleven,
at the Court, Manchester—A. Marsland, Macclesfield,
silk-manufacturer, July 28, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—W. Junes, Manchester, stationer, July 29,
at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—T. Brown, Limerick
end Manchester, draper, July 28, at eleven, at the Court,
Manchester—J. Child, Wakefield, grocer, Aug. 4, at
ten, at the Court, Leeds—G. Oddy, jun., Bradford, inn-
keeper, Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Court. Leeds—J.
Holmes, Sheffield, cutler, Aug. 5, at ten, at the Council-
hall, Sheffield—S. Meyer, Burslem, earthenware-manu-
faiturer, Aug. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham.
At the Court of Review, July 28.
W. Mills, Foster-lane, City, glove manufacturer—W.
Wright, Holland-road, Brixton, builder—E. Hughes,
Liverpool, grocer and provision dealer—J. Gray, jun.,
Liverpool, metal broker—S. Ashbury, Trentham, Staf-
fordshire, brick manufacturer—T. Martens, Middles-
borough, Yorkshire, merchant and shipbroker—Maria
Sirdefield, Emscote, Warwickshire, brassfounder—W .
Har wood, Bristol, merchant—W. Davis, Abercarne,
Monmouthshire, iron and tin plate manufacturer—T.
K. Greenbank, Manchester, tobacconist and general
commission agent—J. Arnell, Stanhope-street, Hamp-
stead-road, corn and coal merchant—W. T. Horsey,
Manchester, maker up and packer—Hannah Prosser and
Ann Prosser, New Bond-street, milliners and dress-
makers—G. Hawkins, Bristol, victualler—J. Wilson and
W. Brooke, merchants and shipowners—P. S. F.
Martin, Halsted, Essex, iron manufacturer and lime
burner—J. Robinson, Birmingham, cut nail manufac-
turer—J. Laurie, Liverpool, coal merchant—J. Beckett,
Liverpool, ironmonger.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. W. Ames and E. Dennis, Mark-lane—J. Cleaver
and W. Taylor, Nottingham, trimming manufacturers—
R. Rostron and J. L. Rostron, Stockport, drapers—F.
Bellamy and C. Edkins, Somerton, Somersetshire,
surgeons —W. Rendell and E. Pearse, Callington,
Cornwall, surgeons—F. •W. Coates, J. Ingle, and 0.
Wood, Wood-street, Cheapside (so far as regards 0.
Wood)—B. Walker and J. Winstanley, Liverpool, cabinet
makers—T. Rigby and R. Wright, Liverpool, timber
dealers—R. B. Barrow and M. Kelhani, Nottingham, snore
neys—S. F. Hooper and F. H. Parker, Little Tower-street,
City, tea and colonial brokers—C. B. Carruthers and D.
C. Budd, Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street, insurance
brokers—J. F. Fixsen, sen., J. F. Fixsen, jun., and F.
Bellenger, Queen-street, City, wholesale grocers (so far
as regards J. F. Fixsen, jun.)—J. Hepherd, gen., J. Hep-
herd, jun., J. Stretch, and T. Powell, Watrington, Lan-
cashire, maltsters (so far as regards J. Stretch)—E. D.
Wilmot, H. Hutton, F. Clark, W. Roberts, and C.
Daniel, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, factors—J.
Winter and J. Burton, Huddersfield, woollen merchants
—H. Steele and J. Thompson, Liverpool, timber mer-
chants—H. S. Conway and E. Howe, Star. court, Bread-
street, wholesale tea-dealers—H. Hull and T. W. Rust,
Leicester, worsted spinners—T. dams, D. Nash, and
W. Nash, Strand, seedsmen (so far as regards T. Adams)
—J. Chaplin and E. Emson, Sudbury, ironmongers—H.
Bishop and W. Wells, Dursley, Gloucestershire, attor-
neys—A. Riddock and J. Riddock, Liverpool, master
porters and general agents—G. Pollard and G. T. Pol-
lard, Halifax, woollen manufacturers—C. Bartlett and W.
Watkins, Arundel, Sussex, millers and bakers—A.
Gaukrodger and W. Kaye, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, fancy
manufacturers—H. Beasley and J. Wragg, Great Yar-
mouth—E. Wix and G. Wakeling, Greek-street and Old
Compton-street, Soho, leather-sellers—M. J. Keighley,
R. Keighley, and C. C. Brochner, Kingston-upon-Hull,
merchants and commission agents (so far as regards C.
C. Brochner).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

Joseph Loves:, Christow, Devonshire.
William Maunder, Exeter, baker.
Thomas Preston, Salford, clogger and shoemaker.
Henry Smith, Northwich, Cheshire, tailor and draper.
John Smith Lostock Graham, Cheshire, tailor.
George Somers, Newark, stone and marble mason.
William Jenson, Stone, Staffordshire, boot and shoe-

maker.
Thomas Hall, Dover, victualler.
Joseph Goodison, Bradford, Yorkshire.
William Inman, Bradford, Yorkshire, beerseller.
David Hartley, Great Horton, Yorkshire, hawker of
tins.

ALLEGED POISON:TM:4- )POW—
BURIAL FEES.
COLCHESTER, SATURDAY MORNING.—The discovery
of a horrible murder by secret poisoning, and the general
belief that as many as fourteen or fifteen human beings
have fallen victims under a similar diabolical •system,
has during the week created the greatest excitement
throughout the eastern division of this county-(Essex).
For several days past, Mr. Codd, the coroner, has been
pursuing a most searching investigation into the whole
of the facts, and at ten o'clock last night (Friday) the
inquiry terminated in a verdict of " Wilful Murder"
against Mary May, for feloniously administeringsrsenic
to her brother, the deceased, and thereby causing his
death. The subjoined facts, as collected from the coro-
ner's report, briefly detail the whole particulars con-
nected with the dreadful affair. In the parish of
Wickes, a small village on the high road to Harwich,
about six miles from the Manningtree station
of the Eastern Union Railway, lived the deceased,
William Constable, alias Watts. He had not been
married. He maintained himself by hawking trifling
things about the country, and for comfort sake lodged
in the house of his sister, Mary May, a married
woman. He appeared to have prepared his own meals,
with the exception of tea, which he was in the habit of
taking with his sister. On the Bth ult. he returned to
his lodgings in good health and spirits, and had tea with
his sister. Shortly afterwards he was attacked with
violent retching and burning pains in his throat and
stomach. These symptoms continued till the following
Sunday, when he died. The moment he was attacked
the sister ealled in several neighbours to see him. She
assured them that it was almost certain that ke would
die, but, strange to remark, no suspicion was excited
that anything had been administered to him. On the
declaration of the sister that death had resulted from
natural decline, the body was interred in the parish
churchyard, she officiating as chief mourner. In the
coarse of a few days she called on the Rev. G. Wilkins,
the incumbent, for the purpose, as she explained, of ob-
taining a certificate from the reverend gentleman that
the deceased was in good health a fortnight before
his death, and that he was in his thirty-eighth year
(forty-eight was his real age). This he declined doing, and
inquired of her what she wanted it for. She replied that
she had entered him in a burial club at Harwich a
fortnight before his death, and that the society would not
pay the money allowed for the interment of the deceased
unless they had a certificate of his good health at the
time he was entered. He told her that the money did
not belong to her. She said that no one else was en-
titled to it, as she had done it all herself, and nobody else
knew anything about it. These and some other auspi-
cious circumstances, particularly the number of children
she had buried, coupled with the suspicious death of her
former husband, and the hasty and earnest solicitations
she made in this instance to obtain the fees from the
burial society, induced the coroner of the district to
direct the exhumation of the body. This being done,
the stomach and contents were forwarded to Mr. Taylor,
the eminent professor of chemistry at Guy's Hospital,
for analysation. The inquest was opened at the Waggon
public-house at Wickes, and very conclusive evidence was
adduced.
The secretary of the burial society in question, John
Pratt, of Harwich, said it was designated the " New
Mourner's Society," and paid 9/. or 101. on the death of
a member, the sum depending on the number of mem-
bers in the club. On the 13th of last May the female.
Mary May, accompanied by the schoolmistress of Wickes
school, called at the office and inquired if the club was
full. Being told that it had some vacancies, she said she
wished to enter her brother in the club. He was C
healthy man, and she had never known him to have a
day's illness in her life, and that he was only thirty-five
years of age. The secretary then entered the deceased's
name, and she paid the fees, ls. 3d. for entering, and
4d. in advance. On the 6th of June the schoolmistress
brought 2s. for the payments due, and he (the secretary)
heard no more of the party till the 11th of June (Sun-
day), when a man brought a note, signed " Mrs. May,"
stating that Constable hadj ust died from strong inflam-
mation, and that the schoolmistress had seen him a short
time previous. It was shown that the deceased was in
good health up to the moment of partaking of the poi-
soned victuals on the evening of the Bth, and in contra-
diction, of course, to the instructions the sister had
given to the registrar relative to the cause of death, she
having stated it to be " decline;" duration of sickness
" three mouths."
A man named Simpson, who lived in the same house
as the deceased, said that two days before his death
Mrs. May told him that she had entered her brother in
a burial clnb, and counted on getting his burial money
(101.), which would set her up in business. She in-
tended to buy a horse and cart and go about the coun-
try higgling.
Professor Taylor. F.R.S., lecturer on medical juris-
prudence and chemistry at Guy's, in an elaborate and
interesting report on the analysis, stated that arsenic
was present in the contents of the stomach ; that the
quantity was sufficient to destroy two groWn-up per-
sons; that it was taken during life in the form of pow'
der, and that it caused death.
Other circumstantial evidence being adduCed; showing
an attempt on the part of Mrs. May to tamper with the
principal witnesses, and urging them not to disclose all
they knew,
The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder spinal
the sister, Mary May, and she was accordingly corn'
mitted to the county gaol at Chelmsford, for Glint at the
next assizes.

RAILWAIc SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have to report an inactive market,
at prices scarcely so high as those of yesterday. The sale/
are Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 311
Shares, 734 dis.—Ditto (late C. and B.), 271. 10s. 'Shares, 14
—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), Fifth Shares,
dis.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 6 per cent., ,g
Fifths (late West Riding Union), 765. 3d. dis—London 104
North-Western, 125—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% p.—Midland
Stock, 104 c.--Ditto, New Halves, 5% dis. ex int.—North
Union (A), 202—South-Eastern and Dover. No. 2, 10% &J.
—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 27/8 dis. ex int.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% p. ex int.
MANCHESTER, Jumt 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lane**
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7% die.
East Lancashire, Preference, 314 p.—Huddersfield and Man:
chester (unpaid up), 714 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, sea
Lincolnshire (Grimsby), 201. Shares, 8% dis.—Ditto, Quay
ters, dis.—Ditto (Grimsby Dock), 1034 dis.—Norlls
Staffordshire, 2% dis.—Whitehaven and Furness, 10 c. di*
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 2 13-16 dis.
BIRMIN GUAM, JULY 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business was limited to-day,
prices in favourite lines remained firm. There has been far,
the last few days a decided improvement in the tone of 11)'
Share Market. The sales are—Noith Staffordshire. 2% diP,
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 5 dis.—Ditto (B),
dis.- South Staffordshire 3 dis
YORK, Jura- 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day Ice
as follows : Great Northern. 61. 2s. ex int.—North Brits"
Quarters, s%—Ditto Extension, 4s. 6d.—York, Newcastle
and Berwick, 32 —Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 11'
—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Exteil‘
sion), 31%.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULT 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Cat'
lisle, Scrip (red), 4 p.—North British, Thirds, 1/. 18s. di.*
North Staffordshire, 214 dis.
GLASGOW, JULY 7.
STOCK EXCIIANGK.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 19V:
Dundee and Perth, 26—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 89—Edw'
burgh and Perth, 15—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Al
75—Ditto, Halves, No 1, ”ii—Ditto, No. 2, 71. 145.
Glasgow and Greenock, 15—Great Northern, 6—North Wl'
tish, Thirds, 53a.

GUNPOWDER CONVEYED BT RAILWAY..-4t fl'
not be generally known that large quantities of gv;
powder are frequently and safely conveyed by railW 1•
as much as 11 tons in one day, and in the course of
few months above 100 tons of gunpowder have been M:
ried on the London and North-Western line to Liiee
t
pool, Manchester, Leeds, and other places. The Aar,
guns in which the gunpowder is conveyed are made ,
pressly for the purpose. There are eight of these 0";
gons on the London and North Western RailoW
constructed in accordance with the patent of Mr. 11010:,
The body of the waggon is formed with sheet iron ou
outside; the inside is lined with two-inch plank, bet'veg,i-i
which and the iron outside a thickness of felt is careft,"/
placed. These are screwed together from the outside,biag
that there is nothing but wood inside; except on
floor, which is covered with sheet lead. The door tic
close with a double rabbit, so that it is almost airtigbe
and it is therefore impossible for any fire to get to is
powder inside the waggon. The axles are cased 11'd
wood. The comparative absence of the usual noise
vibration in the movement of these powder-waggons
very remarkable.—Hcrapatles Journal.
A Constantinople letter of the 21st ult., states tbi
3,000 houses in the suburbs of Vera had been destroy
by fire. The cholera continued to make progresst_d,

nittrii.s.
On the 4th inst., at Thicket Priory, Yorkshire, Mrs. 17
Jefferson, of a daughter. f 0
On the sth inst., Mrs. John Scriven, Sloane-street. °
daughter.
On the sth inst., at Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, 141*
Bainbridge Daniell, of a son.
ad* On the 6th inst., at the Philanthropic, St. George's--
the lady of the Rev. S. Turner, of a son. tip
On the 6th inst., at Weybread Vicarage. the wife of
Rev. T. K. Thomas, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., in London, the wife of J. Wynne. 94,
late of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, of a son and heir. e i
On the 7th inst., at Hertford-street, Mayfair, the Rile
Mr. H. Wilde, barrister, of a daugter. fief
At the Hyde Parsonage, Bedfordsh hire, the wife of the
E. B. Webster, of a daughter.
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MARRIED. • b 0
On the 6th inst., at Clifton Church, J. Drake PricLedi
'Esq., to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late R. B.
Lieutenant R.N.
On the 6th inst., at West Hackney Church, F. A. Di tJ
second son of the late J. Daviss, Esq., of Upper Hollowitio'fj,
Augusta Mary Frances, eldest daughter of T. Washingt
Esq., of Prospect House, Stoke Newington.
On the 6th inst., at Cbeddon Fitzpaine, hear Tauntoth, to
Rev. W. D. 'West, M.A., of St. John's College, Oxfoq''at•
Isabella, only daughter of D. Roberts, Esq., of the 1,.°
road, London.