The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-15 00:00:00

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RAILWAY SHARE- MARKETS
BRISTOL, DEC. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.There was an evident improvement
in the share market to-day, Great Western, Quarters, being
4% dis.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market to-day has beer.
better. We have had a good business doing, and at higher
quotations. The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, par--•
Great Northern, 11.4 dis.—Ditto (A Shares), Deferred, 4%--'
Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming-
ham), 321. Shares (late kxtensian), 8,,t2 dis.—Preston and
and Wyre, No. 1, 35—London and North-Western, 119—
Ditto, Fifths, 31/2 p. —Ditto, 4W. Shares (Liverpool W'
Manchester), 51A c. p.—Ditto, Quarters, 13s. 9d. c.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1,
8,•4 c. dis.—Ditto, 20/. Shares, 12,4 dis.—Midland Stock, 81) —Ditto, New Halves, 10 dis.—North Staffordshire, 6%
—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 6/. 16s. 3d.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), IL 3e•
9d. dii.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—South-Ea-stern anti
Dover, No. 2, 1214 dis.—Ditto, No. 4, 6-sf, —Leeds, Prefer—
ence, p.—London, Fifths, 3% p.—Grimsby, Quarters,
7 9 16 dis.—North Staffordshire, 6% dis.—Grimsby, 201.
Shares, 12 dis.—Caledonian, Preference, par—London Stock,

119—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 1% p.
BIRM
ThINGHAM, DEC. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—e sales are—London and North-
Western, New Quarters, I/2 p.—London and South- Western,
38—North British, Thirds, 31. 18s. 9d.—Ambergate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, 41/8 dis.—North Staffordshire, 61/i3 dis.
Shrewsbury and Birminghttrit (A), 71. lls. 3d. dis.—Ditto
(13), 4% dis.

YORK, DEC. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The, businesi transacted to-day
as follows :—Great Northern; °H c. —North British (Ex—
tension), 4s.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E.
Purchase), 6%. _

GLASGOW, DEc. 13.
STocE Excii.surenc.—The sales are—Clydesdale Junctiotlp
57—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 46—Ditto, Halves, No.-
1, 98s.—.North British, Thirds, 83s.

SUICIDE IN CONSEQUENCE OF PECUNIARY LOSSES:.
—On Tuesday night an inquest was held before Mr--
Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of J.
Buillivant, aged 39, who committed suicide. When de-.
ceased attained his majority he entered into the posses-
sion of a valuable estate. He was induced to advance es
considerable sum of money to Owen's Labour Exchange
Bazaar in Gray's Inn-lane. In exchange for his money
he received what were styled " one-hour" and two-
hour" notes, entitling him, upon the reciprocity principle,
to the produce of one hour or two hours' labour. When.
he wished to convert his notes into money he found that
they were almost wholly valueless, and he was sompelled
to take a quantity of articles from the bazaar which
were completely useless to him. This speculation swal-
lowed up the bulk of his fortune. With what remained
he opened a chemist's shop, in Camden Town, where he
carried on a respectable business for some time. Subse-
quently, however, he suffered severe losses, and at
length, beggared in fortune and in hopes, he committed
self-destruction, by shooting himself in the back part of
the head. The following document was found in his
possession :—" Oh, wretched man that I am, unfit for
the world and all society, I have been a prey to swindlers ,
all my life. That villian T— has sacrificed me to
triumvirate of swindlers, and I have been more victi.
mised than poor Tom Steele. But who knows it bug
myself, or who cares for it; and, having no address, ,
am unfit for any business, and competent for none. .
cling to life, but nothing but disgrace, which is wore °
than death, stares me in the face. That villain T—
holds an estate which was my father's, and to which: I
believe he is no more entitled than the man in the moor] •
and he has had the audacity to tell me that he wa justified in sacrificing me to the swindlers.”—The jute f
returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
FULLER'S COMPUTING TELEGRAPH. —Tm I
BREATHING SPACE IN THE STEAMER LONDONDERRY: - The account of the catastrophe on board the stesune r
Londonderry, as published in the fifth page of tilt /
Guardian of Saturday last, gives the dimensions of thi 3
space wherein the sufferers were confined. As ou r
readers may like to know the precise amount of span 3
allotted to each of the 150 sufferers, Mr. Fuller has fur '
nished this, which may be obtained in less than one mi
nute by his admirable instrument. He says, " I talc( 9
the dimensions from the statement as given in you: r.
paper, being an average one way of 20 feet 4 inches, ant 1.
the other of 18 feet 2 inches; and a height of 6 feet r
inches. The result is 16i cubic feet for each indivi -
dual; being equal to a cask of 1011 imperial gallons
This space, after deducting the size of the person, must •
as the result has shown, have produced speedy sulkies
tion.”—lllanchester Guardian.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday morni c,
about 15 minutes to one A.m., a young man, name 3
James Liatton, attempted to drown himself by thrown'', g
himself from the west side of Blackfriars-bridge, fros
the second arch, but was fortunately perceived by Cit: f
Police constable Gronet, 325, and a man named Peale who immediately ran down the steps, and seeing thi
body floating towards the coal barges, with admiralal presence of mind ran down William-street, and force a
open the gates of Messrs. Capel and Co., the coal mei "
chants, and, jumping over the coal barges, succeeded i
catching him just as he was going under the barges, th
tide was running very strong, there being about ten let 1
of water at the time. He was carried to the Glazier 3
Arms, Water-lane, and, after three hours' exertions, 110
showed signs of life, and was then removed to the We sr
London Union, and from thence before Alderman Hut
phery, who remanded him till Saturday. He is nit', e'
teen years of age; and his father states he has a cot
fertable home, and wants for nothing.
'ilia WEATHER.— Since our last, we have Is 01
somewhat finer weather, and very little rain. Saturd,
sf
was gloomy and showers fell, but Sunday was a very fi) 00
day. On Monday morning, a little rain fell ; but ti it;
day became bright and fine. Yesterday was also fair at la
warm. The temperature has been high, its maxima 02 on most days reaching to 55 or 56 degrees Fahrenbe it.
The prevailing wind has been S.W. and the telegraph i 0
report of yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, gives 010
following as the state of the weather at the place s
named :—Birniingham, E. fine; Hertford, S.E., cloud ';
East Dereham, S.E. cloudy; Crewe, S. fine; Glouceste
S. fine; Peterborough, S.W. cloudy; Yarmouth, S. 41 1•
fine; Gosport, S.W. fine; Norwich, S.W. fine ; Londe); th
S.W. cloudy; Portsmouth, S.W. fine; Brandon, S.Vi or.
fine; Colchester, S.W. cloudy; Ipswich, S.W. cloud 3 ;
Chelmsford, S.S.W. foggy; Cambridge, S.W. cloudy.
—Manchester Guardian.

At Southend, on the 10th inst., the wife of the Rev. A. C.
Tarbutt, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Falcon-hall, Goldhanger, Essex, the
wife of 11. W. Wilson, of the Inner Temple, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Brighton, the lady of W. Stratton,
Esq., of a daughter, stillborn.
On the 12th inst., at Chitton, Suffolk, Mrs. J. F. S. Gooday,
of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Milbank-street, Mrs. T. I. Miller,
of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Whitehall place, the wife of W. R-
S. Fitz Gerald, Esq., of a son.

D.ARE
On the 9th inst. in the chapßl
el of Hatfield-house, the sette of her uncle, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Right
Hon. Sin'
Henry Lytton Bulwer, K.C.8., her Majesty's Ainbassadta
to the Court of Spain, to the Hon. Georgiana Charlow ;
Mary Wellesley, the only child of the late Baron Cowley k f the Baroness Cowley.
On the 12th inst., at St. Nicholas Church, Bright°. op
Rimy Harrison, second son of the late IL Harrison, Esc of Castle Harrison, county of Cork, to Elizabeth, eldf ist
daughter of the late Captain. Norton, R.N., Guildford.
On the 12th inst , at St. Peter's, Pimlico, Richard Brooke,
Esq., eldest son of Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., of Nor tort
Priory, Cheshire, to Louisa Tollemache, seconddaughte roe
General the Hon.
Castle, Aberdeenshire Sir Alexander Dufl; G.C.H., of Dell ;atf
.

On the 11th inst., the Right Hon. Lord Dunsany, at Cleve-
don, in Somersetshire. Lord Dunsany, the 14th Ba; roll, of
that title, was one of the representative Peers of Sco tla .nd,
and Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the country • of
Meath, and formerly Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldst,r earn Guards, in which be served in Holland and Egypt, a t the
landing in which latter country, he was severely wou n ded•
His Lordship was in his 76th year and is succeeded h-y the
Hon. Randall Edward Plunkett. The late Lord had heen a
constant resident on his property in the county of ui where he gave much employment to the poor.
On the 12th inst., in Berkeley-square, Mary, the Nidf, e of
William Ord, Esq., M.P.
On
Spital -square, Londhe 9th inst.,
on .at Exeter, Mr. J. Wing, of Elder-stz eet,
At Cheltenham, on the 10th inst., Elizabeth Margaret, the
wife of Major Edward Jeffreys, Bengal Army, aged 55.
On the 10th inst., at Montpelier street, Brompton, Mr'
William Moore, aged 48.
On the 11th inst., at Pemmell-terrace, Peckham, Stt rreP
Sophia, relict of the late Captain Timothy Scriven, 'C.)34
R.N., formerly of the island of Jersey.
On the 11th inst., Eleanore, the sixth daughter of t 1 se late
J. Homan, Esq., of llabherley-house near Kiddermn aster.
On the 12th inst., at Dorchester-place, Blandford-s quare,
Sarah, relict of the late Major Pritchard, of the H. E. I . C. S''
St. Helena.
On the 12th inst., at Long Wittenham, Buks, W. flay
ward, Esq., aged 68.

London; Printed and Published by MURDO yoU:g
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The. Nan O 1
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in he ccam•tr9
ffice, No. 1t
Middlesex, Friday, December 15, 1848.

tirc:iigt.t with difficulty 8s ner stone; current, 7s to 73 6di
middling and inferior, 5s 6d to 6s 6d. A considerable
number unsold. The supply of sheep this morning wig
2,246, being 241 less than last week. Sales were verf
dull, and at the close of the market fully one-half went
unsold. Prices had a downward tendency, in some in, •
stances being 2s a-head lower. Top of best mutton(
6d; current, sd; middling and inferior, from 3i-d to 40.
pur lb.
DUNBAR, DEc 12.—Wheat, weighing 63ilbs., brought.
545, and prices to 40s; barley, weighing 57. lbs., brought
83s, and prices to 20s 6d; oats, weighing 4411b5., brought.
21s Od, and prices to 17s; beans and peas, weighing"
lbs., brought OOs Od, and prices to Os.
Conic, DEC. 13.—Flour—First quality, 16s to 17s;‘
second ditto, 15s to 16s Od ; household, lls to 14s ;
third ditto, 9s to lOs per cwt. Oatmeal, 12s to 12s fid per'
cwt. Indian corn, 81 Os to 8/ 10s; Indian meal, 9/ 58 to,
9/ 10s per ton. Bran, 4/ 55 to 51.5 s per ton. Hay'
Farmers', 29s to 43s Od; average, OOs ; retailers', 455 to
48s per ton; old hay, 45s to 60s per ton. Straw—Far-
mers', 15s to 28s; average, 20s; retailers', OOs to 005
per ton. Whisky, at the Distillery, 25 over proof,.
6s 3d per imperial gallon. Bread, 6Ad to 8d per 41bs.
Fresh butter, 10d to lid per lb. Beer, 3d to 6d; mut-
ton, 3id to 5d ; veal, 3kd to 41d; pork, Sid to 7d ;
bacon, bid to 9d; sausages, 5d per lb. Coals—New-
port, 17s; Lydney, 18s. Claim, 16s per ton. Potatoes,
white, lld to 13d; Minions, 18d. Elides—Market ditto,
Its to 17s; salted ditto, 12s to 17s per cwt; market skins,
2d to 24d; calf ditto, 2d to 2/d; veal skins, 3d to 3id
per lb. Tar—Archangel, 18s per bl. Timber—Quebec
red pine, 31 15s; yellow ditto, 3/; deal, 171 to 20/per
hundred ; Banger Queens, 3/ 2s 6d per ton. Sntck
herrings,l93 to 20s per barrel; Norway ditto, OOs. gs
foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 12/ lOs per ton. Tallow,
OOs. Wool, 00s to OOs per stone.