The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

QUARREL BETWEEN THE BARBERS
AND WIG-MAKERS OF BERLIN.
A Berlin correspondent tells the following ludicrous
story, showing the absurd extent to which monopoly,
or Government division of labour, is carried in
Prussia: " The new trade laws, and the restric•
lions they have introduced as to guilds and
occupations, have caused a violent quarrel between
the barbers and the wig-makers ! The latter
claim an exclusive right, according to the statute, to cut
the hair of the public; the barbers insist that their
profession is not limited to shaving. The arguments on
both sides had to be formally heard by the magistracy,
whose judicial gravity was severely tried on the oe-
cosion. It was solemnly urged on behalf of the barbers
that, in the abstract, there is no distinction between
the hair of the chin and the hair of the head; the
form of the instrument used to remove it did not affect
the question; whether the operation was performed by
the razor or scissors was a matter indifference. The
office of the barber was to remove superfluous hair
wherever it grew: ergo, they had as good a right to
clip as to mow. The wig-makers, evading the abstract
question of right, represented that the barbers do not
confine themselves to clipping, but comb, brush, trim,
curl, oil, wash, anoint, and othrwise dress and adorn the
heads of their customers, and that these higher branches
of the art belonged of right to the wig-makers, who
alone can legally create a cherelure. The barbers re-
joined by an objection, as fatal as that in the celebrated
case of Shylock v. Antonio (in Shakspeare's reports).
They contended that the business of the wig-makers
only began where that of the barbers ended, when
there was no hair left to cut; with perfect baldness the
head became the property of the artist in perruques,
and at this point the barbers were ready to abandon it,
retaining only a right of property in the chin. The ma-
gistrates considered the force of the objection, and the
barbers have triumphed. The above is only a repro-
duction of the arguments really used before the Court
which decides such dieputes, acid they occur daily.
It may be said that all the trades of Berlin now sue each
other to establish what occupations belong to one guild
and what to another. If all the claims were listened to,
we should shortly arrive at an Oriental division of em-
Dloyments, and to get one article complete it would be
necessary to go to half-a-dozen shops for the component
parts of it. Fortunately this splitting up is no longer
possible."

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, June 24.)
STMAR.—To-day the West India Sugar market pre-
sented a firm appearance; there was a large home trade de-
mand at rates fully f gnat to those of Friday, and in some
cases a small advance was obt •ined. The purchases
amounted to 1.009 hhds, &e.,including at auction 176 hhds
7 trcs Barbadues which went at full terms, good to fine
yellow realized 393 to 41s, ord to mid 36s to 38s 61, 87
hhds Demerara crystalized sold at stiffer rates, good and
fine yellow at 42s 6d to 45s 6d, good and mid brown
ditto at 37s 6d to 39s per cwt. The supply at market of
West India is less than last week
REFINED.—To-day a further increase occurred in the
•
home trade demand for Refined Sugar, and good brown
lumps cannot be obtained under 47spercw
orderst.For
crushed Sugar the nxiesket is firm and export
are on the increase.
MA lIRITIIIS.—To-day the parcels of
ov6eMauritiusthose
f
per
of
sold privately were at rates 6d
Friday. At auction 682 bags sldewa.tta3Bs 6rdotoo 35540 s 6tod
l for mid to fine yellow, and a few ots good brown
3.5 s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was
cwt.asi
fine in
brisk demand, and realized an advance of d per
whiteße-
At auction 2,224 bags were all sold,
o tares realized 42s to 423 6d, middling to g
41s 6d, ordinary 39s to 39s 6d. damp 3od 40s to
7sr
soft6dto
425, fine grainy yellow 44s to 44s 6d,. ordinary
brown 21§4, ordinary and middling greyish yellowi like
Mauritius 363 6d to 37s 6d. For Madras the demand
ai
anctls
At mach better, and rates are 6d per owl higher.
tion 5,657 bags were sold, very ordinary and mtddli.sng,
soft brown at 27s 6d to 28s 6d, good to fine 29s to 31
and ordinary to good yellow 31s to 33s 6d par cwt.
public
sale there was only one small
sale of Foreign Sugar, but privately some parcelswere
sold at full former rates, the particulars however are c not
floatingallowed to transpire, but exporters are still the
chief
St
buyers offloatingcargoes. At auction 75 hhds S .
Croix sold at stiffe'r rates; good and fine bright yellow at 423 to 44s per cwt.
Menasses.—There is only a limited demand, yet
holders are not disposed to press sales, stock not being
larger than last session. Prices for low to fine West
India rule at 133 6d to 16s, Bengal and Mauritius 12s
to 15s 6d; Cuba and Porto Rica 14s to 153 6d per cwt.
thaCni".—West India stock is 3,000 baga larger
in the preceding season; bat consumption is better
than of late.
Trini-
dad and rates are
47s
snited parcels being
There are several buyers or
on offer; red has realifiz7l,4o°3nLY)
grey 36s to 403. Grenada, howevert,brcOlnowtintuoesfinteo, and
tract little notice, and of 436 bags 27 brls at auction a
small part only sold at 353 to 375 fur ordinary and
middling, at 38s to 423 for good to fine red. Foreign
has been operated in wi reluctance, and there are
sellers of Para and Bahian 263 to 28s, Guayaquill 30s.
per cwt.
COPPEE.—To-day the market for both foreign and
colonial Coffee presented a firmer appearance,
and the
private operations were upon a more extended scale by
shippers and home dealers at full former rates. Only
54 casks and 21 bags Plantation Ceylon were offered at
auction and sold with fair spirit; low mid and mid at 49s
to 52', fine to fine ord 43s 6d to 483 and low to good !
ord 38s to 41s 6d. Native Ceylon is not to be obtained/
Under 37s for sound.
firm For low and good common Congou prices are
now at aid to qd; there is also a good home trade
demand; several shipping orders have been completed,
and a less qeantity is on offer. In medium to rather strong
blackish sorts operations are upon a more extended scale
at 10d to llirl, and merchants are less di used to realize,
but geed to fine qualities are freely offerisnp at Is to is '6l"
and dealers op,,rete with much cautio g Prices have
uradergoee no further decline for You4.llpson, and a
good demand has been experienced for both Canton
and Shanghai kinds; the latter is considered the cheapest
Green Tea in the market, and in consequence
in reque,at. Of other sorts of Green these is yeta p
lenoti-
mt
ful supply, and the limited transactions are
yet at rates
in favour of buyers; but little variation from pre•ent
terms is looked for with respect to ord and
medium
sorts. In Scented or Pekoe Teas little has been
done, although parcels are
offering at low quotations.
The value of Ooloisg is Is to ad, and few buyers are
to be met with. Of Ponchongls the quantity here
.is
trifling, yet rates are lisdle better then nominal, con-
sumption being small. To-day common and good
ord Congou met with increased attention, and prices
closed firmly at 9id to 10d per lb. Other sorts of Tea
are rather more in request at the previous value.
Rics.—To•day holders of 448 t India Rice were firm,

BORRIBLE TRAGEDY 1N AMERICA.
(From the Boston Courier, June 9.)
One of the most distressing events that has occurred
in this neighbourhood for many years, took place at
Roxbury, on Saturday evening. A man named Ephraim
L. Daggett, of Hope, Me., had been noticed, as if labour-
ing under some religious hallucination, wandering about
the city during Friday, and called at several houses.
He represented that he was subject to epileptic fits, and
pleaded great poverty, and begged food. Among other
places, he called at the house of Dr. Train, but the
doctor not being at home, Daggett inquired for the re-
sidence of the Rev. Mr. Trafton, and being told where
he was, he left and proceeded in that direction, though it
does not appear that he called upon the clergyman.
On Saturday morning, about eleven o'clock, he called
at the house of Dr. A. J. Cummings, who resides in
Church-place, Ruggles-street, near the Freewill Baptist
Church; he said he was hungry, and that he was willing to
chop wood, or do any other jobs about the house for his
dinner. He was supplied with food, and after dinner
loitered about the house until six o'clock, when ho was
furiiished with tea. The doctor went out about seven
o'dock on a professional errand, leaving Daggett, who
soon after complained of' pain in his heart. He asked
leave to sit at the kitchen fire for the purpose of warm-
ing his feet, and permission was granted. He sub-j
sequently entered the dining-room, still complaining
of pain, took a seat, untied his neck haadkerchief,
opened his shirt bosom, and said ho wanted to see Dr.
Cummings. His strange manner alarmed
Mrs. Cum-
mings,and she asked a Miss Crosby, who was present,
to go and call in some of the neighbours. Miss Crosby,
who was holding in her lap Dr. Cumming's daughter, a
child about four years old, set the little girl down for the
purpose of complying with the request.
The moment she did so Daggett rose, and after mut-
tering in a low tone fora moment, exclaimed, " It is no
nie—she must go." Be seized the child by the hair of
her head, pulled her across his knee, and cut her head
almost off with a razor which he drew from his
pocket. The appalled mother attempted to rescue her
sweet innocent from the grasp of the slaughterer, but she
was attacked, and sustained a wound in the hand. She
finally succeeded in rescuing the lifeless body of her
child, and with it ran into the street, the infant's head
dangling over her shoulder, Daggett still in pursuit, at-
tempting to strike her neck with the raised razor.
Tne appearance of the affrighted mother,, as she ran
frantic through the streets for help—holding in her arms
her almost headless child, bleeding from every severed
vein—was a sight too awful to be described. The neigh-
bours soon heard her outcries, and upon their approach
Daggett, who bad followed Mrs. Cummings some distance,
receded to the piazza of the doctor's house, and there cut
his throat in such a manner as to produce death in less
than ten minutes. The scene of blood was terrible to
behoid—the sitting room and hall of the house, the
Piazza outside, and the street adjacent, were stained with
it—but those blemishes can be wiped away. The neigh-
bours, who were appalled with what they suw, will
forget the sight; but the recollections of this awful
tragedy will never pass away from the memory of the
mother.
Dr. Cummings returned in the midst of the confusion.
He found Daggett in his parlour, with his throat cut from
ear to ear, and still breathing. He attempted to dress
the wound, but death rendered the task unsuccessful. All
this time the doctor was unconscious that it was the body
of his only child whom he had caressed half an hour be-
fore, that lay bleeding upon the table.
Daggett is supposed to have been insane. His strange
manner the day previous to the murder and suicide
would seem to warrant that supposition. He carried in
his pocket a 'small Bible, and several times during the
afternoon, and just before the slaughter, he took it out
and pretended to read from it. The razor with which
he committed the deed he took from a shelf
in Dr.
Cummings' kitchen, unnoticed.
Dr. Cummings allowed Daggett to remain about the
house during the afternoon, in the hope that in the
mean time he would be able to see some of the city au-
thorities, and obtain for him a permit to the poor aoouse.
He did not regard him as a dangerous person, and
though he seemed demented, there was nothing in his
manner to excite fear.

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I THE LONDON GAZETTE, June 24.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 21, 1851.
The Qaeen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Evan Jenkins to the vicarage of Kinivilgaio, alias Con-
wilgaio, alias Cynwyl Gab with Llansawell, in the
county of Carmarthen, and diocese of Sc. David's, void
by the cession of tho Reverend George Howells, the last
incumbent.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 23.
The Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one
of the Lords of Session in Scotland to John Cowan,
Esq., her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Scotland, in
the room of Thomas Maitland, Eq., deceased.
The Queen has also been pleased to nominate and ap-
point the said John Cowan to be one of the Lords of
Justiciary in Scotland, in the room of the said Thomas ,
Maitland, deceased.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire.
John Boultbee, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant,
June 20.

BANKRUPTS.
Anthony Patten, horse-dealer, Chapple, Essex, to sur-
render July 12, at one, and July 29, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy, Graham, official assignee; Hil-
leary, Fenchurch-street.
Joseph Sowerby, silk mercer, Oxford-street, July 10
and August 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Wootton, To-
kenhouse-y ard.
William Hanson, statuary, Warwiek-road, Kensing.
ton, July 3, at ten, and Aug. .5, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch•
lane; Ladgrove, Mark-lane.
John Benton, corn merchant, White Horse-street,
Stepney, July 4, at half-past one, and Aug. 15, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street; Hißeery',
Fenchurch street.
William Davies, coal merchant, Walbrook, July 3 and
Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Gresham, Castle-
street, HollT)rn.
Augustus Bozzi Granville, boarding and lodging-house
keeper, W embly, Middlesex, June 28, at two, and Aug.
23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
official assigneed
P,
lows Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street;
Lawrence an Old Jewry-chambers.
Thomas George Tidey, bookseller, Rugby, Warwick-
shire, July 3 and 31, at twelve, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham;
Wratislaw, Rugby.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
William Heath Bonds, builder, Creek-road, Deptford.
Francis Pailmer Parker, clerk in the Mental Life As-
surance Office, Windsor-terrace, Vauxball-road,
John Trix Bragg, wine merchant, Belgrave-street,
King's-cross.
Jonathan Jarvis, milkman, Great Wild-street, Lincoln's
Inn-fields.
Frederick Sparrow, tea merchant, Skinner-street, Snow.
hill.
William Fairchild, veterinary surgeon, Church-place,
Paddington-green.
James Fisher, confectioner, Sloane-street, Chelsea.
Abraham E. Davis, shoemaker, Mitre-street, Aldgate.
Nathaniel Jones Woolley, High-street, Camden-town,
Ann Reynolds lodging-house keepeer, Grease-street,
Rathbone-place.
Alexander Reid, commission agent, Tachbrook-street,
Pimlico.
Edward Cowell, agent for the sale of books, &c., Cam
bridge.
Frederick Gilbert, grocer, Phenix-place, Spitalfields.
Anthony Carroll, furniture dealer, East-street, Finsbury
market.
Thomas Rattray, ironmonger, Bedford-place, Stepney.
Colin M`Cullum, ship broker, Sidney-square, Mile-end.
E. Kiggius, hawker, Wellington-street, 131ackfriars-road,
J. Hall, surgeon, Terrace, Trinity-square, Tower-hill.
William Wells, jun., Shouldham-street, Edgeware- road.
H. Harley, coal dealer, Riding House-lane, Marylebone.
F. Houstoun Bloxam, clerk, Mitcham-eoramon, Surrey.
James Bennett, licensed victualler, Salford Lancashire.
Henry Crock well, commission agent, Salford.
Francis Barrington Church, surgeon, Gravesend.
George Garner, baker, Manchester.
1 Thos. Harrison, butcher, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire.
John Oabaldeston Hayes, beer-house-keeper, Salford.
John Jackson, beerseller, Manchester.
James Mills, farm bailiff, Westerton, Sussex.
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John
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Richard o,bourne, tailor, .
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Cannon,
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Yorkshire.
Joseph Richardson, journeyman printer, Middlesborough
James Richard Taylor, cut nail
Henry Thomas, mason, Paignton, Devonshire.
manufacturer,
King's
Norton, Worcestershire.
Richard Wade, linendraper, Chatham.
Thomast m Huddersfield,
Sunderland, cy fan-cloth manufacturer, Lindley,

DIVIDENDS.

and would not sell, but at full rates; *sippers and home
dealers, however, were less disposecF"to operate. Of
3,769 bgs, 512 pckts Bengal at auction not above half
sold; good white at 10s; good mid Os 6d to 101, mid Os
to 9s 6d; fair broken 8s 6d to 9s, and damaged 5s 6d to
8s 6d per cwt.
SPICES.—To-day at public sale 50 bgs Bourbon Cloves
were taken in at bid; there were buyers at 61d. Of
Pimento 156 bgs found buyers at 4id to 4d for mid and
good, but chiefly at 4id, being the full value.
SALTPETRE.—To-day Calcutta Saltpetre was held for
previous rates, but few buyers were to be met with, and
of 1,639 bags at auction a small part only sold at 26s to
27s 6d for mid to fine quality 12 to 4 per cent. refrac-
tion, and washed 22s 6d to 26s 6d; whilst fine strong was
taken in at 29s to 29s 6d for lf to .5i per cent.
INDIGO.—East India is to be obtained 2d to 3d below
last sale's rates, yet there is little desire shown to operate.
The quantity declared for the Bth July is now 13,090
chests; the stock is 7,000 chests larger than last season,
but home and export deliveries 5,000 chests smaller.
COCHINEAL.—Prices are lower; at auction 240 bags
mostly sold, Mexican silvers 2s 9d to 2s I Id, black 3s
4d to 3s 6d; Honduras silvers 23 10d to as 6d, black 4s
to 4s 10d.
SPIRITS.—There has been more disposition to operate
in Leeward Island Rum, and rates are firmer; some par-
cels having been disposed of at Is 5d to Is 6d per gallon
proof. In East India a good deal has been done at an
advance, and is 3id to is 4d is the present value.
Demerara has been operated in with more readiness,
and prices have assumed an upward tendency; several
transactions having taken place at 2s to 2s 3d for 32 to
40 over proof, at which some parties will not realize. The
home trade and shipping demand is good for Jamaica,
and on the part of holders there is more confidence.'
The terms of plain and mid quality 30 to 33 per cent
over proof have been 2s 4d to 2s Bd, good 32 to 36 over
2s 9d to 3s 3d; fine and superior 3s 4d to 4s 4d for 34 to
38 over proof. Prices for Cognac best Brands of the
vintage of 1850 rule at 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 do 4s 6d to
4s Bd, 1848 ditto 4s 1 Id to 5s 2d, 1847 ditto 5s 5d to 5s 7d,
older sorts 5s 10d to 7s; low and mid 26s 6d to 3s 10d ;
Bordeaux 2s 2d to 2s 3d per gallon. For British made
Spirit trade is quiet at 9s 4d to 9s 6d; Gin at 8s 2d to
8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. Only small orders
have been executed for Geneva at is 7d to is Bd, and
fine at is 9d to 2s per gall ,n.
OlLS.—Although Pale Seal is to be obtained at the
moderate rates of 301 to 301 s 10 per tun; yet operations
have been upon a limited scale. Other sorts met with
little attention, and 281 to 291 10s is the value. In Cod
transactions have been of little moment, prices are also
on the decline, and rule at 361 lOs to 371 10s; there are
not buyers for arrival at these terms. Southern is held
for 301 to 321 103 for low to fine; but arrivals having
taken place caused dealers to operate with reluctance.
In Sperm little has been done—fine British is offered at
841 to 854 and American at 831 to 831 101; lower rates
are looked for. Head-matter is dull of sale, and can
be obtained at 881 to 921. Linseed Oil has been in good
request by home dealers at 32s 3d to 32s 6d per cwt;
there are, however, few export buyers. Several contracts
have been entered into for delivery at 32s to 39s 6d.
Several transactions have taken place in Rape Oil, and
the market has a firm appearance—brows at 31s 6d to 32a,
pale 33s to 33a 6d; Foreign Refined 345. The moderate
rates prevailing for Olive occasions a good demand to
exist; Gallipoli at 381 to 394 and other sorts 361 to 371
lOs per ton. Of Palm several parcels have been
sold; and fine realized 27s 9tl to 28s per cwt ;
there is also no increase of supply. There has been
more demand for Cocoa Nut; Sydney at 27s to 28s 6d;
Ceylon and Cochin 28s 6d to 31s; the supply is on the
decrease, and deliveries are better, both for home-trade
purposes and shipment.
TaLLow.—Russian on the spot is held with more
firmness, and 37s 6d to 37s 9d per cwt are the rates
asked for fine new yellow Candle; dealers, however, are
not disposed to extend their operations. For last three
months of the year the prices demanded are 39s to 398 6d;
only moderate contracts, however, are entered into.
Home melted is not much required, and still offered at
35s to 36s net cash, with a plentiful supply. Of Austra-
lian 500 casks at auction were all disposed of • beef at
34s to 35s 9d; sheep 35s 6d to 375; but 300 pkgs Syd-
ney only partly found buyers at 33s to 36s 9d for low
to fine. For auction 800 casks, &c., are declared.