The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

The weather continues to be cold, with occasional
strong winds; and between Saturday night and yester-
day morning a sprinkling of snow fell all over the city.
In the evening we had several hours of battering rain,
accompanied by heavy gusts of wind. The latter con-
tinued during the night.—Caledonian Mercury.
TUB WEATHER.—We have had a week of vari-
able weather. At the commencement of the week
the air was unusually mild, but on Thursday the
temperature fell considerably, and the weather
has since been damp, raw, and gloomy. Satu-
day was a day of frequent squalls, with hail and rain.
During the night and the ear:y hours of yesterday
morning the weather was exceedingly boisterous, the
wind coming in sudden and violent gusts, bringing tor-
rents of hail and rain. We have not heard of any
disasters among the shipping on any of the coasts i❑ our
immediate neighbourhood, but several vessels which
sailed hence on Friday were compelled, by the threaten-
ing indications of the atmosphere, to put back.—Liver-
pool Albion.
THE CHOLERA.—The returns of new cases here
have for the last week been very variable. On Thurs-
day the number was 17—Friday, 12—Saturday, 6
yesterday, 13. The deaths during the four days, 28—
recoveries, 6—remaining, 134. From Leith two cases
were reported on Saturday; the patients whose recoveries
had not been reported were all visited in the course of the
week, when it was found that the number remaining was
only six, to which is to be added the two above stated.
It is therefore likely that almost all of those cases re-
ported as remaining in Edinburgh are recovered. From
the county there are, we are hippy to say, few cases re-
ported. At Gilmerton; on Thursday, three new cases;
at Loanhead on the same day, one case; at Dalkeith on
Friday, one case, the individal having since recovered.—
Caledonian Mercury. _ _ _

THE BRECON kURDES.—On Monday last a man
answering the description given:of the murderer, Thomas
Williams, and who on being interrogated as to the mode
of his arrival in this town and his previous occupation,
prevaricated considerably, was taken into custody and
detained until communication could be had with the
authorities in Brecon. He evidently preterds to be an
Irishman, and gives the name of Jerry Maloney; but the
account he readers of himself is so extremely unsatisfac-
tory as fully to justify his detention, even supposing him
not to be the party for whose apprehension a large re-
ward has been offered. Yesterday evening, however, a
reply was received from Brecon, and Maloney was dis-
charged from custody, he not having a scar on the left
cheek, which the alleged murderer is marked with.—
Welehman.

LITERARY REMUNERATION.—The late Mr. Tegg,
the publisher in Cheapside, gave the following list of re-
munerative payments to distinguished authors in his
time :—Fragments of History, by Charles Fox, sold by
Lord Holland for 5,000 guineas. Fragments of History,
by Sir James Mackintosh, at 5001. Lingard's History
of England, 4,6831. Sir Walter Scott's Bonaparte was
sold, with printed books, for 28,000/.; the net receipts
of the first two editions only must have been 100,000/.
The Life of Wilberforce, by his sons, 4,000 guineas.
Life of Byron, by Moore, 4,0001. Life of Hannah More,
2,000/. Life of Cowper, by Southey, 1,000/. Life and
Times of George IV., by Lady C. Bury, 1,0001. Byron's
works, 20,0001. Lord of the Isles, half share, 1,500/.
Lalla Rookh, by Moore, 3,3001. Rejected Addresses, by
Smyth, 1,000/. Crabbe's works, republication of, by Mr.
Murray, 3,000/. Wordsworth's works, republication, by
Mr. Moxon, 1,050/. Bulwer's Rienzi, 1,6001. Maryatt's
novels, 5001. to 1,000/. each. Trollepe's Factory Boy,
1,8001. Hannah More derived 30,0001. per annum for
her copyrights during the latter years of her life. Run-
dell's Domestic Cookery 2,0001. Nicholas Nickleby,
3,0001. Eustace's Classical 2,0001. Sir Robert Inglis
obtained for the widow of Bishop Heber, by the sale of
the Journal 5,0001.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—At Dingle, on Wed-
nesday, a canoe was upset, when the crew, consisting of
four, met a watery grave ; there being a tremendous
surf on the beach, there could be no possibility of
saving themselves. The names of the sufferers are
John Keener, single ; Daniel Bourke, married ; John
Callaghan, married ; Michael Kennedy, married. The
wife of the latter being about June, 1841, left a widow,
her former husband and oldest son being drowned a
short distance from the Coast Guard watch• house, she
has been deprived of her second husband by drowning
also, and what makes the affliction greater, her father
suffered a similar fate some years since. They hoisted
a small lug sail, when a squall took them unawares, and
left them immersed in an angry element outside the
mouth of the harbour.—Kerry Examiner,

EXPENSIVE OTSTERS,—One day last week, when
the jury empanelled to value certain premises for the
Wide-street Commissioners retired to their room to con-
sider their verdict they found a lunch of oysters spread
for their use. Previous to leaving the jury-box they
agreed to give a certain claimant a particular amount.
They were just sitting down to their oysters, when a
point was raised by counsel which resulted in the Re-
corder recalling the jury. No sooner had they returned ,
into court than the claimant slipped into the jury-room,
and on the jury returning they found him swallowing
their oysters, for which they punished him by docking
from the amount of their verdict ss. for each oyster he
had swallowed. On reckoning, they found seventeen
shells emptied, and accordingly deducted 41.55. from their
intended award.— Cork Constitution.