The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-21 00:00:00

KINSALE.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
Some other evidence of a similar nature to that given
by the above witnesses occupied the attention of the
Committee during the rest of the day.

OPENING OF THE CALEDONIAN

RAILWAY.

This line, the most extensive, and, in other respects,
the most arduous and remarkable of Scotch railway
undertakings, was, on Tuesday, opened for traffic
throughout. No public celebration of the event took
place, further than that on Monday the directors, with
a few others, went over the line from Edinburgh and
Glasgow to Beattock (from the southward of which the
line has been opened for some months), lunched there,
and returned. The entertainment at Beattock, which
was presided over by Mr. Tite, the architect of the
London Ro.yal Exchange and London-bridge, and
architect for the North-Western and Cale-
donian Companies, lasted only, sufficiently long
to enable the company to refresh, and to
drink a toast to the success of the undertaking.
Among those present were Sir Graham Mont-
gomery, Colonel M'Donald of Powderhall, Mr. Hope
Johnstone, Mr. Monteith, yr. of Carstairs, Mr.
Hodgson llinde, Mr. Locke, &c. An event of so
much importance might seem to demand a celebra-
tion on a greater scale ; but, under all the circum-
stances, and especially considering the present de-
pressed condition of railway affairs, the directors have
acted, as we think, with equal good taste and good
judgment. A banquet such as some people think the
occasion demanded, must have cost a couple of thou-
sands of pounds, and, after all, a number of people
who would have thought themselves entitled to an
invitation, would necessarily have been omitted, and
of course offended. The caution and economy of the
directors in thus avoiding expense for mere purposes
of display, afford all the stronger presumption in
favour of their wisdom, when contrasted with the
boldness of their expenditure for necessary and busi-
ness purposes, nod the extraordinary courage and
energy with which, in times when other directors
faint and fail, they have pushed to completion an un-
dertaking having more than a common share of diffi-
culties, both natural and pecuniary.—,Scoffsrnan.

A PIG FED ON APPLES.—About ten years ago,
Mr. Thomas Neste, of Dudbridge,near Stroud, fatted a

pig on apples and barley meal. The quantity of meal
was much smaller than would have been required if
potatoes had been used, and the speculation proved a
very profitable one. All the facts of the case were
printed in Anti-Bacchus, but, as the result has been
questioned, Mr. Neste resolved this year to make an-
other experiment. On the 12th of October, 1847, a pig
worth 21. was selected, and fed for fourteen weeks; when
it was killed, it weighed twelve score, and, during the
time of fattening, consumed apples which cost 11. 145.,
and a bag of meal which cost 11. los. Tho apples were
of an inferior description, chiefly blights and windfalls.
The leaf weighed 151bs. or about 3lbs. above the average.
There is no doubt that a better description of apple
would have been more nutritious, and less would have
been required. Many of the Americans have found that
it is snore profitable to make pork than cider out of their
fruit. The meat in this case was excellent, some almost
imagined that the apple sauce was in the pork.—Glou-
cester Journal.
DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS NEAR
WHITBY.—A gang of poachers have for some time fre-
quented Mulgrave woods during the night time, for the
purpose of shooting pheasants. The gamekeepers and
watchers kept a vigilant look out, and one night closed
upon four of them, at a place called Truckey Roek Hole,
not far from the spot of the fatal recontre with Lowthor,
where the keeper Moffat was shot four years ago, and
within 36 hours of the same time of year. Two of the
poachers fired their guns, evidently with a view of
shooting their captors, but the contents of one gun was
lodged in the body of a poacher, named Joseph Rhodes,
who is from the neighbourhood of Leeds. One of the
keepers was severely wounded, in consequence of which
the rest of the gang got away. The keepers were not
at this time aware that Rhodes was shot, and did not
discover him until after their return from taking the
wounded keeper home, a lapse of two hours, when he
had got out of the wood into one of the fields, using his
gun as a crutch, his companions having left him for
dead. Rhodes was immediately conveyed to Whitby,
and surgical aid procured. A mortification has since
taken place, and there is now no hope of his recovery
Rhodes gave the names of his companions, and one of
them named Cautrill. the only one that could be found,
was apprehended and brought before the magistrates at
Whitby on Fri 'ay (week), and remanded to Northaller-
ton gaol for a fortnight, until the others could, if possible,
be apprehended, and further evidence procured.—. Hull
Packet.

JUDGING OTHERS.—A singular scene was once
witnessed by the writer, at White Roothing Church,
Essex, where a poor idiotic man, who constantly at-
tended the tervice, after having himself slept through
the greater part of an excellent sermon from the rector,
upon suddenly waking, observed another parishioner
who sat near him fast asleep also; upon which he con-
sidered it his duty to arouse his sleeping neighbour with
so sonourous a slap on the face as resounded through
the whole congregation. I could not but think that the
circumstance, however ridiculous in itself, was not with-
out its moral—namely, the criminality and absurdity of
setting up for censors of others when our own ignorance
is so abundsrit, and when our proneness to the very same
evils renders us the last persons to assume the office of
judgment or punishment.— Poynders's Literary Extracts
(New Series).
TUE BIBLE IN ENGLAND.—A return cf the num-
ber of Bibles, Testaments, Prayer-books, and Psalms,
printed, published, and sold, by the Queen's Printer,
In England, and the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge,i gives the following results :—Bibles published
and sold by the Queen's Printer from 1837 to 1847,
2,284,540 ; Testaments, during the same period,
1,971,877 ; Prayer-books,
during the same period,
1,464,690; Psalms, 1,179,216•
amount of drawback of
paper duty received in the sail;e
period, 23,9521.
165.8 d.
Bibles printed at the University Press, ss
Jan. 1, 1838, to Dec. 31, 1847, 2,612;75' Oxford,
0; Testaments,
ernotms
2,062,250; Prayer books, 2,548,650; Psalms, 1,685 250:
Psalters, 76,000 ; Apocryphas, 63,500; drawback,,
32,4721. for ten pars. Number of Bibles and Testaments
sold by the University Press, Oxford, to the British and
Foreign Bible Society, from Jan. 1, 1838, to Dec. 31,
1847: Bibles, 1,167,711; Testamtints, 1,373,130. Number
of Bibles printed at the Cambridge University Press,
from Michaelmas, 1836, to Michaelmas, 1847 ;
895,500 ; Testaments, 1,111,600 ; Common Prayers,
591,600 ; Psalms, 403,700; Apocryphas, 29,550. Num-
ber of Bibles bought by the British and Foreign Bible
Society from the Queen's Printers, from Jan. 1, 1847, to
Dec. 31, 1847: Bibles, 1,314,031; Testaments, 1,352,604;
Psalms, 92,622. Number of books bought by the same
society from the Oxford University during the same
period : Bibles, 1,151,276 ; Testaments, 1,355,926 ;
Psalm,,, 30,900. Number of books bought by the same
society from the Cambridge University during the same
p,riod : Bibles, 527,846 ; Testaments, 737,496; Psalms,
10,200.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. 18. Scarcely
any business has been done in our market this week, and
the tendency of prices is downward. Rum iu steady
demand at the reduction lately established.--Bristol
Mercury,

g..IST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ a. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 198
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank
Clydesdale Bank-- 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12
Commercial Bank • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 164
Eastern Bank 61. per cent. 25 u • 1; 10%
Edlnb.ScGlasgow Bank G. per cent. 5 0 0 6 0 0 61 Os
Exehange Bnk of Scot 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 47%
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 8%
National Bank 6l. per cent. 50 I 0 10 0 0 13%
Northof Scotland Bank 71. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 6
North British Bank • • 50 0 0 10 0 0 5%
Royalßank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 100 I 0 143
union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 84
Vestern Bank Bl. por cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 69
Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 812.6 d.
B. Accord. Llfe and Fire 20 0 0 0 11 0 9e.
British GuarAntee Ins. 10 0 0 1 • 0 lee.
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. 50 0 I 2 0 • 2
City of Glasgow Life 5l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 21. 9s
Edinburgh Life Incur 5l. per cent. 100 • I 12 10 0 17%
East of Se •tland Life lO 0 0 olb 0 125.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 I • 217 6 2%
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Insur. Co. of Seetlnd • • Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 • 7
Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 • 1 0 I 11 5_
Mercantile Life
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 I 245.
North British Maur 5% I.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 I 0 23
North & West of Soot lO 0 • 1 0 0 11, Ii
Scottish Life and ,luar 2O 0 0 0 11 0
Scot. Ma,. and Gen. Life 5/. per cent. 1 0 0 015 0 ,10s. 0,1
Scottish Union Inarncs. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 IL Is
Stan lard Life . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 t
Called Dep. Assurance '1 per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 12s.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount I
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price,
Annum. Share.
X. a. d. X. a. d.
Australian Agriculturl 100 0 0 30 0 0 -
Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 16
Ditto, Half Shares.. - 210 0 -
Canada ............. 61. per cent. 100 0 0j32 JO 0 31
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - -
City Bonds.. .... 3%1. pr cent. - I - 89
Comp. Cppr Mars Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.Se bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 43r. pr cent. 100 0 0 95 0 0
Gem. SteamNavigatlon 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 24N
London Institution ... - - 11
Penlnslr & Orient.Stm. 21. per cent. 50 0 I 50 0 0 59%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 j 100 0 0 95
Royal Mail Steam.- • 3%1. pr cent. 1110 0 0; 60 I 0 -
'South Australian ..... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 --
Van Dieman's Land.. 100 0 0 23 0 0 -
Universal Salvage • 25 0 0 I 5 0 0 -
QUAINT INSCRIPTION.-Allusion, says Professor

QUAINT INSCRIPTION.—AIIusion, says Professor
Donaldson, has recently been made in the Builder to in-
scriptions on buildings: there is one over the door of the
cloister of the Convent of the Carmelites in Caen. Per-
haps I may be excused in alluding to it, although not
immediately an architectural subject. The lines are
these in honour of Simon Stock, one of the saints of the
order:—

D Di Si scap ao ab as
iura atm mon ulare cepit tr s
T SO) DO3 11l in in an
To which I may perhaps bo permitted to join the follow-
inv)arallel free version:—
ho Si first beg
hen ly mon an his
T wi De howled to sc
—Builder.

pr
•aching.

THE WEATIIER.—Since our last publication we
have had what we long ago heard called "a weather
gaw." On Monday evening, we observed a brilliant
" brough about the moon." which, according to an old
saw, prognosticated that " there would be rain soon,"
and it was in this case not untruthful, for it rained
heavily all Tuesday, and at night snow came on, which
continued till after mid day yesterday, when it measured
fully an inch in depth, where not melted by the heat
of the city. Last night the weather settled down to a
mild frost, with clear moonlight.—Caledonian Mercury.
PREPARATION FOR THE GRAVE.—A few weeks ago
we mentioned the circumstance of Thomas Francis, Esq.,
of Bebingtou, having ordered Mr. Walter, plumber, of
Birkenhead, to construct two leaden coffins for himself
and his wife. The coffins were duly made, and the wife
of Mr. Francis actually assisted to polish them up. On
Sunday last she died at the age of eighty-four years; and
on Thursday she was interred in the coffin she herself
had worked at recently.--Stockport Mercury.