The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-05 00:00:00

IiVIIITECILELPEL.

41%
124
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53%
53%

Beef, from 2s 8d to 33 6d ; Mutton, 2e 10d to 3s 10d; Lamb,
3s 10d to 4e 10d; Veal, 2s 8d to 3s 6d; and Perk, 2s 6d to
3a fid per Sibs.
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BILLINGSGATE.

Turbots, 4s Od to 9s Od; Brill, is 6d to 2s 6d ; Haddocks,
Os 6d to is Od each; Cod Fish, 2s 9d to 6s Od;
to 2s Od; and Crabs, 4d to 2s Od each; Lobsters, act
Soles, 6d to is 8d
per pair; Flounders, 9d to is 4d; Dried Haddocks,
Os Od to Os Od; Smelts, is Od to 2s Od per dozen ,• Whiting
5s Od to 7s Od per 15; Eels, Os 4d to Os 10d • Salmon,
10d to is 2d per lb; Herrings, 05 04 to Os Od per 1
erel,
00;
Common Oysters, 4s Od to 5s Od per bushel ; and
2el to 6d each. Alack

BREAD. • The,prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from
6d to 6%d; of Household ditto, 41/2d to 6d per 41b loaf.
Market Hides, 561 b to 64th, lid to lid;
BIDE Inaiumr.
ditto, 641 b to 721 b
to *2d; ditto, 721 b to 8011;, 2d to 2kd; ditto, 801 b to
2id to 3d ; ditto, 881 b to 961b,3d to Bid ; ditto, 961 b to
.1041 b, aid to Od; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b; 4d to Od. Calf
Skins, light, Is Od to 3s Od; ditto, full, Od to Cs Od;
Horn Hides, 65 Od to Os ; Polled Sheep, Os Od to Os Od ;
,Half-breeds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, Os Od to Os Od; Lamb
,Skins 2s Od to 2s 8d; Shearlings, 9d to 10d.

31 108 to 41 8s Od; Clover
. -
HAT MA.SUCEITS.
;ditto, 3/ lus to 4/ lOs • and Straw, 1125 toll IN per load.-
* surraFTELD.—Bleadow Hay,
I/ .2s to, 1/ lga per load.,
ISIIPPIS moderate, and ;rade firm. ,
ditto, , .
_ UMBErtidatu.— Meadow Hay, 31 108 to 4/ 10s; Clover
A limited suppand a steady demand.
ditto,, .
31 1, „ to 4/ IO's; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 11 10s per load.
WH TECHAra =;.- hie Wif y 31 85 to 41 10s; Clover
311 WS to 411.: 88; :do Straw,
Trade steady, at lull 'prites.

Tflz isToßwicti MURDER.—As a matter which
may hereafter perhaps prove of interest in connexion with
this case, Mr. John Wright, who resides opposite the Dol-
phin public-house, Upper Ileighdin, has reported at the
station-house, that about half-past doyen o'clock on the
night of Monday, the 2d of June, he heard a female scream
violently five or six times. The screams appeared to be
those of a person in great danger or agony, tnd to come in a
direction from Heigh am. cause way.—Norwidt Mercury.
POST•OFFICENOTICE.—Prirate steam -vessels having
been established between Southamptbn and Morlaix, ship-
letter mails will in fut ,re be made up at Southampton for
transmission by such vessels. No letters or newspapers, how-
ever, will be forwarded to or through France in those
mails, unless specially addressed "by priv .te ship, viei
Morlaix." The rates of postage chargeable upcn letters and
news:)apers sent by the route of Southampton and Morlaix
will be the same that are charged upon letters, ece., con-
mad iu the op* mailib

BANKRUPTS.
Robert Gray, pianoforte maker, Edward-street,
ilampstead-road, to surrender, July 11, at twelve, and
August 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Moson,
Rowland. street, Fitzroy-square.
John Solomon Ellis, tailor, Aldgate, July 12, at half-
past eleven, and Aug. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansteld, official assignee; Overton and Hughes,
Old Jewry.
Charles Collins and George Talbot Rose, carpet ma.
nutacturers, Aldermanbury, July 15 and Aug. 12, at
twelve. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Boycot
and Tudor, Kidderminster.
Timothy Ross, furniture dealer, Strangeways, Man-
chester, July 18, and Aug. 8, at twelve, at the Manehes•
ter District Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester;
Waller, Finsbury-circus; Keating, Manchester.
PRICE O.E.' SUGAR.
rhe average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn'
puted from returns made in the week ending July I,
1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain
from the British possessions in America 255. I Id. per cwt
From the Mauritius 275. 9id. „
From the East
••• .. 21s. lid. „
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, Jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 245. ;id. ~
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKN ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, July 4.

A GOOD EXAMPLE.
STORNOWAY, JUNE 26.—Emigration has now for
this season ceased, the last ship with her living cargo
having left Loch-Roag on Saturday evening. In all,
upwards of one thousand persons, old and young,
have shipped from here to America, and under
circumstances which must reflect the highest credit and
honour on Sir James Matheson. Not only has he foregone
all arrears—taken all their effects at valuation and paid theta
ready cash—but has transferred them solely at his own ex-
pense across the waters of the Atlantic. His generosity,
however, does not stop here, he does not allow them to
wander as outcasts on a foreign shore, but has engaged to
place them, free of expense on their part, in any locality in
Upper or Lower Canada which they may choose to mention.
Most of them have friends and relations before them, in
happy and comfortable circumstances, and they will
thus be left by Sir James amid their more
favoured friends and former companions, who will
be amply able to minister to their wants, and ere many
summers' suns have passed over, the once poor crofter oa
the bogs of the Lewis will have become the happy land-
holder on the banks of the St. Lawrence. The people them-
selves seemed in no way dispirited at the prospect before
them, and yielded submissively to the will of Sir JameS,
convinced that all was done for their ultimate benefit and
advantage—there were no squabblings, and all embarked
without a murmur. it is also worthy of remark, tha the
shopkeepers and merchants of Stornoway did in no way in-
terfere with Sir James in carrying through his philanthropic
views. By the departure of these emigrants they have sa-
crificed large sums of money for meal and shop goods,
which they had advanced from time to time to the poor
people during the late disastrous years, but rather than be
the means of detaining them in a poverty-s,ricken land, and
thus prolong their miseries, they have handsomely folgivea
them all.— Inverness Courier.

At the Essex sessions on Thursday, Walter Smith,
a child between nine and ten years of age, was indicted for
wilfully placing stones upon the Malden branch line of the
Eastern Counties Railway, thereby greatly endangering the
lives of the passengers. The prisoner was convicted and
sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment.
DEPT TH FROM ILL-USAGE AND STARVATION.--AII
inquest was held yesterday by Mr. Rutter, coroner for
Salford, on view of the body of Esther Swinnerton, aged 16,
who died in the Salford workhouse. The unfortunate deceased
was disc•overed last week in a disgusting state, and was taken
to the workhouse by direction of the magistrates. It was
not expected that she would so soon die, but she sunk
rapidly after her removal, and died on Thursday morning.
The inquest was proceeding when our parcel left, a surgeon
having given evidence that death was caused by consump-
tion, diarrhoea, and inflammation, accelerated by neglect,
ill-treatment, and confinement in a damp room. We learn
by electric telegraph that the jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against Elizabeth Swinnerton, the deceased's
mother.

SHEIRIFFSHIP OF ARGYLL.—Robert Bruce, Esq.,
the Sheriff of Argyll, died on Monday last. We understand
that the office of sheriff, thus left vacant, will be conferred
upon Mr. E. F. Maitland, advocate, the brother of the late
Lord Dundrennan.— Edinburgh Witness.
BOAT FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.—Noulton
and Wyld, of Lambeth, have just completed a handsome
boat, to be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales by the b,,dy of Thames watermen. It is built in the
old style of wherry; of mahogany planking, with maple
timbers and b:rd's• eye maple thwarts, highly polished and
copper-fitstened. The rail is mahogany, with the Prince of
Wales' crest carved in the et-fire. The Prince of Wales's
crest is painted under each row!. ck and on each aide abaft
the rail. The City arms is painted on the bridge under the
sailing thwart, and the watermet,'s arms on the fashion
board in the stern. The at:lions and upholstery work
were done by Mr. Blincko, also of Lambeth.—Builder.
METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.—The Select
Committee, to which the Government Bill on this subject is
referred, sat again yesterday, Sir J. Graham in the chair,
and the evidence in support of the preamble was continued.
Mr. Creasey, of the Birmingham Water-works, who had
given his evidence on the day previous, was cross-examined,
and Mr. H. G. Martin, of the Wolverhampton Water-works,
described the mode in which the constant and unintermittent
supply of that town was managed. Mr. Simon, the medical
officer of the city of London, and Mr. Brande, the eminent
chemist, were also examined, after which the Committee ad-
journed.

LEICESTER TRADE.—Trade, so far as actual busi-
ness is concerned, remains essentially the same. Still there is
a decidedly improved tone of feeling developing itself, and a
confidence that things have reached the worst, and that ere
long renewed activity will manifest itself.
ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GAS,—For some days
past the neighbourhood about New Tothill-street seems to
have been in a state of great jeopardy from an immense
escape of gas, and it was on Thursday found that one of the
pipes had been broken, in making the new sewer for the
five o
Westminster improvements. On the previous evening, at'clock, the potboy at the Old Bell, in New Tothill-
, street, went into the cellar for the purpose of cleanin the
measures, and when be had lighted a lucifer be was knocked
back by the explosion of some gas, and the cellar in the
adjoining house in Dean-street, being apparently
filled with
the fluid, that Ignited, and with a loud noise blew up a por-
tion of the pavement in the street. Another and serious in-
jury has been done. The cellars at this spot have been over-
flowed with water. hlr. Bishop, of the Northumberland
Arms, in Charles-street, has bad it three or four feet deep;
so has Mr. Heavens, of the Red Lion, Princess-street; and
Mr. Lyons, baker, who resides next door, has had la. worth
of flour destroyed.
Loox OCT, GIRLS.—Eliza Emery warns all the
girls in the south and west—hoziers, buckeys, and all—to
look out for her gay, deceiving, runaway husband, David.
that he has cruelly left her, and told the folks when
that he was going south w. st to preach universal and marry a hoer. Eliza thinks he may easily
and to prove it says, "David has a scar 011
I:ll;aeloehsve known,
started,
saysetarwhteed,'
lass
where I scratched it !"—lVew York Era.
LARGE NUMBER OF PRISONERS IN THE HOUSE OF
CoanEcrfoL—Notwithstanding the apparent decrease in the
number of prisoners for trial at the recent sessions of the
Central Criminal Court and at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell,
yet at the present time the House of Correction, Coldbath-
fields, contains a larger number than has been collected
within its walls for the last seventeen years viz., 1,320.
This increased number is supposed to have been caused by
the great number of summary convictions by magistrates for
minor offences, and committals of prisoners suspected of the
intention to commit felonies.

BIRTHS. ,
OF A SON.
On the 2,"th tilt., at Barlow-hall, Lancashire, the wife of
W. C. Brookes, Esq.
On the 28th alt., at Brighton, Mrs. B. Seabrook.
OF A DAUGHTER.
At Devonport, on the Ist inst., the lady of Captain Lowe
R.N., of her Majesty's ship Impregnable.
On the 2d inst., at .Northwich, the wife of the Rev. J.
M. Wilde.

_MARRIED.
. ,
On the 2d inst., at the parish church, Debtnham, Suffolk,
James Murray Dale, Esq., aecond son, of the Rev. Canon
Dale, to Anne Eliza, eldest daughter 'of 4aines".tiorris, Esq.,
of Dkber ham.

DIED.
At Morpeth, on the 30th ult., aged 20, the second.daugh-
ter of the late Lieut. John Brunton, R.N., Goverrtor ot the
County Prison.
On the 24th ult., at Naples, the Hon. Richard Keppel
Craven.
On the 2d inst., at Spencer-place, Brixton, Mr. William
Berry, 01 Kennington , author 01 several valuable works upon
heraldry, genealogy, aged ;7.
On the 2d inst., at Ewell, Maria, eldest daughter of the
late C. Ellis, Esq., of Dalston, Middlesex.
On the Ist inst., in the Precincts, Canterbury, the Rev.
Frederick V. Lockwo. d, canon of Canterbury and vicar of
Minster, aged 48.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
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Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ix the eountir of
kfiddleaez,Sati4sh hly 5,1851.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, July 4,
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 4, 1831.
The Queen has been graciou4 pleased to appoint
Charles Livio, Leh to be her Majesty's Consul at
Wiborg.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Gerolamo Tessi as Consul at Malta for his Imperial Ms'
jesty the Emperor of Brazil.
DOWNING-STREET, JULY 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alexander
M'Crae, Esq., to be Chief Postmaster for the colony of
Victoria.

Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Radnorshire.
Loftus Charles Otway, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant,
June 28.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire.
The Earl of Chestees Regiment of Yeomanry Cayalrl•
—Cornet Joseph Leigh to be Captain, vice Leycester,
deceased, Juno 20.

WHITFHALL. JUNE 12.
The Right Honourable Sir John Jervis. Knt., Lord
Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
of WestmiLster, has appointed Edward John Pattesca,
of Poulton in the Fylde, in the county of Lancaster,
Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners
tor taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed
by married women, under the Act passed for the aboli•
tion of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution 0'
more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county
of LailefiSter.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 28.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Lloyd
Clundler, of Tewkesbnry, in the county of Gloucester,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court
of Chancery.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed William
Waters Homing, of Banbury, in the county of Oxford,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Cour&
of Chancery.