The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

Owing to th,, hoFtl3ys the &ward for all kinds cf
Wool if; enci-edingly inactive, at almost nomiortl ca )ta-
tirs. E washtel is quoted at from is to is 4d;
Grease, iuJuding blanket, Gd to 9d; and Down, ls z
Id to
Is 3d per lb. The imports last week were good, vi.,
230 bal,?s from llemburgh, 245 from Shanghan, 207
from Aiogadore, 5 from Leghorn, 90 from Calla), 548
from Talzaurog, 1,202 from Sydney, 39 from the Cape,
and 558 from Adelaide.
TALLOW.
On the whole, our market has become firmer. In some
instances, fine parcels of P. Y. C. on the spot, are selling
at an advance of 3d per cwt. To-day, new P. Y. C. o
to
the spot is quoted at 36s 91 to 375, and old 36s
34
36s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow 37s to 37s 34 per cwt.
net cash; Rough Fat, 2s ld per B.bs. Last week the do-
liveri,s were only 2,262; the imports, 1,052 casks, chiefly
from our Colonies

1848. 1849. I 1850.

1847.

teck tb's day •• •• ••
'rice of Y. C. •...

17,827
45s Od
to 455 3d
2,3,;1
58,70)
10,091
492 Gd.

34,741 47,190 52,924 64,261
42s 03 383 3d 378 03 to 36s 93
to Os 01 to 3,1 s 6,1 Ostd to37s
03
1,719 , 1,538 9,196 2,262
60,228 5';,5 6 5,,390 62,g 25
1,507 ; 22: 80 1,032
87,139 78,293 93,870 90,552

Delivery last week • •
Ditto from Tune 1. • • •
Xrrivals last week • •
Ditto from June 1 ...

4'2.; 01 4180 d

39s 6d 393 Cd

'rice of TOWIL • • • • • •

ARLI3 ft(Y-STREE r ( T HIS DAY.)
AN UNGRATEFUL FELLOW.—Mr. Spryng, a respect-
able bout and shoemaker, ct;rrying on business ay. No.
20, Little Pulteney-street, Golden-:quare, ma.ie an i.p-
plicaiiyu to the magistrate :or advice, under iho follow-
ing eircunic,tanus :
Mr. Spryng gated that on Tuesday. the 9th instant, a
man in his employ, by the name of Edward Palmr, was
given iu charge fur having embezzled the sum of 23., be-
longing to him. At the examination on that day at
this court sufficient evidence was gone into as to induce
Mr. Hardwick to remand the prisoner till the following
Friday. On that day the 131 Se was further gone into, and,
at' the earnest supplication of his (prisoner's) solicitor,
and in censideration of his wife and fsmily, he took
a merciful view of . the matter, v,nd, with
the Miigistrate's sanction, he (applicant) consented
his discharge. Since that time the roan Palmer, by aay
of showing his gratitude, had subjected applicant to
very great annoyanu, by spreajing abroad reports that
he (Palmer) had been discharged with flying colours,
and that applicant had trumped up the charge out- of
spite. In another instance, Palmer went to an inAltu-
tiou of which applicant was a member, awl got a vote of
cormure passed upon him for daring to prosecute the
man who had robbed him. These statements tended
to injure him in the eyes of his brother
tradesmen, and he thought if such false and
malicious reports were not put a stop to, the
man might circulate other falsehoods, and thereby
injure him in his basin, es. Applicant now respectfully
wished to know how he could proceed to restrain
Palmer from making such statements,
The MAGISTRATE said, since applicant had consented
to Palmer's discharge, he bad no jurisdiction in the
matter. Had applicant pressed the charge against the
man, he (the magistrate) wenid mist assuredly have
committed him for trial. He now,advised the applicant,
if the man PAhner persisted in his present line of con-
duct, to go to a respectable solicitor and put the matter
into his hands forthwith.

LONDON, BRIGHT
AION, AND SOUTH-COAST
RLWAY.
Traffic—Week ending Dee. 27, 1851 ... £8,293 16 9
Traffic—Week ending Dec. 28, 1850 ... 8,01.1 0
17 5
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 328,357 7
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850
Week ... 30 ,1)62 18 4
Total number o Passengers— ending
Dec. 27f , 1851 ... 53,345
P£6,709 6 3
Gassengers •
oo ...
ds ... •.. 1,584 10 6

Total ... £8,293 16 9
Total miles open, 1851, 173 q; ditto, 1850, 17114.
1551.
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ACCIDENTto a LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.
Inc qu
inest was held on Saturday on the body of Mr.
Duncan M‘Lachlan, of the firm of Wilson and M'Lach-
lan, Ihip owners and ship chandlers, whose death was
the result of an accident. On the evening of Christmas-
day, Mr. M•Lachlan had bed a number ot friends dining
with him, at his residance in Upper Parliament. street, as
we learn was usual sv ith him at this season of the year.
Somewhere near eleven o'clock, his guest who e
s, wer
chiefly relatives, took their departure, and in about an
hour afterwards the family retired to rest. The deceased
had not been in bed more than hour before he hscl occa-
sion to get up, avid go into an adjoining apartment,
when, unfortunately, en passing the landing at the he.“l
of the Etl.irs, he missed his footing, and fell iron the top
to the bottom, a distance of several yards. The facts
will be best and- rstooci from the evidence which Mrs.
Wlreehlau gave at the inquest. She stated that after
they had been iu bed about an hour the deceased got up
again, for the purpose, as she imagined, of going to the
water-closet. Directly afterwards she heard a noise like
a fall. She got up and celled the domestics, and on
going down stairs she found the deceased lying at the
bottom with his head towards the stairs and his feet out-
wards. r She went to him and found that he was insensi-
ble. Dr. Bruce, the medical adviser of the family, was
promptly sent for, and in half an hour after the accident
lie arrived. By this time the deceased bad recovered
his consciousness, tnd said he had great pain in his legs.
and the right arm, and that he had no use in his legs.
On Dr. Bruce examining the deceased he found the
spine severely fractured, and that deceased had also re-
ceived internal injuries. After lingering in great agony
until eleven o'clock on Friday morning, the deceased
breathed his last. Mr. M'Lachlan, who was in the prime
of life, was universally esteemed.

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SUICIDE FROM ‘VATERLOO. BRIDGE.-0 0 Saturday
an inquest was taken by Mr. Baker, at the Gun Tavern.
Wapping, on view of the body of James Russell, aged 38, a
farrier, who resided in Bond-street, Waterloo-road, who com-
mitted suicide from Waterloo-bridge. It appeared that the
deceascd was of an excitable temper when in altercation with
his companions. Last Wednesday three weeks he had some
words at a public house near Bond-street, when he exclaimed,
"I'll do it now." He ran out of the house, and was never
after seen alive. Verdi—"ct Found drowned:'
THE CONVICT SARAH ANN HILL.--A. petition to
the Throne in favour of a commutation of the sentence of
this wretched woman, left for execution at York, for the
murder of her male infant child at Wakefield, is in course of
signature. It has been prepared by the town-clerk of Wake-
field, at the instance of the watch committee, and will be
signed by the Mayor and several other magistrates. We un-
derstand the circumstances of the woman have from her
youth been unfavourable to the pursuit of habits of virtue.
She was an illegitimate child, and was, we believe, born in
one of the streets of Wakefield.— Leeds Mercury.
EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A BARRISTER.-00
Saturday an inquiry was gone into by Mr. Higgs, the
coroner, at the Essex Head, Essex-street, Strand, as to the
death of Joseph Douglas, Esq , a barrister, residing at 4,
Garden-court, Temple. It appeared that there had been
great difficulty in this singular case to know which coroner
was to hold the inquest. Mr. Payne had been applied to and
also Mr. Bedford, but they refused to interfere, as they con-
sidered the Temple was out of their jurisdictioia ; and Mr.
Wade
was referred to, as it might be in then ounty of Mid-
dlesex. At last Mr. Baker, the beadle, applito gr. Higgs,
as it was considered the part was in the duchy, and he ac•
cordingly appointed the inquest. The dscease,d was a
member of the western circuit, and had for many years been
the revising barrister at corset. On IVednesday evening he
was seen to enter his chambers, and the next morning was
found by his clerk lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He
was then warm, and Mr. Hutchinson, of 36, Chancery-lane,
was sent for, who found a long incised wound in the left
temple, four inches long, and denuding the skull to the one.
There bad been great licemorrhage, and he was quite dead.
It seemed by other testimony that he had been pulling off
his boots, when he upset the table, and he was thrown
against a key in the book-case, which
had caused the injury.
He had been heard tumbling about all night, for the purpose,
no doubt, of finding the door and getting assistance. The
jury returned the following special verdict "b That the de-
ceased, Joseph Douglas, died from loss of lood from a
wound on the upper part of the left temporal artery, pro-
duced by having accidentally fallen against a key then in the
lower part of a bookcase."
'TIE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.The electric tele-
graph has already been applied to many and useful pur-
poses. There remains yet another,.which purpose, should it
be applied, would frequently be the means of preventing loss
of life and property—we mean the connecting of all the me •
tropolitan fire-engine establishments by electric tel
of tph, so
that when an alarm should be given at any one hem,
an " instantaneous general turnout might be the result."
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—GRATIS WITH THE DIIPATCII.
—Un Sunday next, January 4, 1852, the subscribers to the
Weekly Dispatch will be presented with a highly-finished
coloured Chart, showing by diagrams, and at one view, the
number of persons who daily, during a period of five months,
visited the Crystal Palace; the amount of money received at
the doors, and derived from various sources ; and other sta-
tistics of an interesting character. And on the following
Sunday the Chart will be given to all purchasers of the
Dispatch who are not regular subscribers. The Chart,
which is surmounted with an engraved view of the Great
Exhibition of the
oftlndutry of All Nations, has been pre-
pared by permission the Royal Commissioners from de-
signs by Corporals A. Gardener and J. Mack, of the Sappers
and Miners, and revised by a gentleman whose intimate ac-
quaintance with the management must ensure its correct-
ness.—Orders may be given to all newsvenders
Fleet in town atreetnd
country, or forwarded to Mr. R. J. Wood,
139, .
MOVEMENTS OF TRANSATLANTIC STEAM SHIPS.—
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 27.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria,
Leitch, commander, sailed from the Mersey at noon to-day
for Ralifax and Boston, with the usual
Mail st
rica, Shannon, commander, with advices fasts' New York to
the 17th inst., may be expected to arrive in the Mersey
early on Monday morning. The United States' mail steam-
ship Arctic, Luce, commander, with advices from New York
to the 20th inst., may be expected to arrive at this port on
Tuesday evening next. The screw steam-ship City of Man-
chester, Leitch, commander, will sail from the Mersey, for
Philadelphia, on Wednesday next.
THE TROOPS UNDER ORDERS FOR THE CAPE.--
The service companies of the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade,
under under the command of Colonel Buller, are to eat
Dover in the Mczuera, screw steamer, on the 2nd of J2ann,.,
for the Cape of Good Hope. Drafts from the depots d
6th, 43rd, 45th, 2nd battalion 60th, 73rd, and 74th,
as and from
the Ist battalions 12th and 91st Infantry, as well
detachment from the depot of the 12th Lancers, are to em-
-
bark for that colony about the same date, on board the Bir
kenhead, war steamer. These reinforcements for sea of all
ervice at
the Cape will altogether amount to about 1,200 men
ranks. There is no foundation for the report that the 85th
Regiment may proceed to the Caoe. In fact, this corps is
now under orders to proceed next year to Malta.
OMNIBUS FARES.—A. notice has been posted inside
the numerous omnibuses on the Oxford-street and Holborn
line, belonging to the London Conveyance and Paddington
Association Companies, requesting the public "to notice the
table of fares, and pay accordingly." This has been rendered
necessary in consequence of the various fares for intermediate
distances on that line of road, causing it to be almost im-
practicable for the conductors to judge correctly the exact
ha-:, ~.:;
aanneili itnhfeorgxnreeadtboi;;thzeticit)ai9suseanugderdseolnayallivgiihicthingbatsiocLtheequyeenhtielyle,
taken place.