The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ...
Females ...

... 752
... 715

Total ... ... 1,467
*ln this number are included 9 by Scarlatina, 30
by Typhus Fever, and 15 by Diarrhoea.

A LADY'S REASON FOR LIKING THE GREAT
EXHIBITION.—" My dear, it is so very agreeable. You
cannot tell how amusing it is! It is much better far then
going a shopping. The whole place is full of some of the
prettiest things in the world—laces, silks, brocades—and
such lovely jewels—and the beauty is, you may look at
them ever so long, without being expected to buy a single
thing r —Punch.
REPRESENTATION OF ARGYLESHIRE. Mr.
M'Neill has published his farewell address to the electors of
Argyleshire, and Sir Archibald Islay, a Conservative, has
come forward as his successor.

A DESERTED VILLAGE.—Many of the respectable
shopkeepers of Topsham, in Devonshire, have suddenly dis-
appeared to visit the Great Exhibition. They have, how-
ever, taken the precaution to inform their customers of the
same, by causing a notice to be stuck against their respec-
tive doors, of which the following is a copy :—" Gone to the
Boyal Exhibition. to be re-opened when we come back."—
De rwishire Chronicle. _ _

LONGEVITY.—On Saturday, the 10th inst., Mr.
Rawle, of Newquay, completed his 100th year, and in com-
memoration thereof, invi ed a few friends to spend the day
with him. Amongst ether things provided for dinner, he re-
galed them with some very fine new potatoes, planted by
his own hands in Oetober last, cultivated by him during
their growth, and drawn by himself on the morning of the
anniversary. lie is still an active man, seldom uses a walk-
ing stick, and is livelier than many men at fifty, or even
younger.—Cornwall Gazette.
We mentioned on the 28th of April that the Bank
of England had adopted a fixed price for the purchase of
American coined gold, the rate named being 31. 16s. 3d. per
ounce. An alteration, however, has since been made to
31. 16s. 2!.d. per ounce.—Times. _ _

- •
SUGAR.—According to a return obtained by
11‘8,101.:
Moffatt, the importations of sugar for the years t 48.
1 BBriti'sh and
and 1510 were respectively 226,757 cwt.
foreign), and 357,869 cwt. (12,675 Britishooosninr
_n being
75,137 cwt.
195,643 foreign), 301,392 cwt. (55,794 8(3ri1tai51nhd4a3n4d5,219484,5f908..
reign); the quantities retained for honle "0
46,191 cwt. (20,925 British and 55,266 foreign),
British and 101,289 foreign).
The
and 102,465 foreign),
(59,860 British and 15,277 foreign),
have been 102,565 cwt. (
"BritishlB,o6B foreign), and 90,552
198,217 cwt.,(149 British and
foreign).
isfopllroowhi:b—ledromto
The rates of duty
cwt. (166 British and 90,386 and
quantitiesl.l633s cwt.
re-exported( 15,046
British possessions intol6ws.
,and 145. Bd.; from other British
be imported, 17s.
4d"
os. 4d., and 18s. Bd.; and from foreign
possessions, 1/. 2e, ii•
for the three years respectivelyhi
Bd., and 11.25. Bd.
been
sugaras
ports, .
CtinnLAlNs.—Cut an onion in thick
REMEDY FOR Cll fohr foreign en
rub the chilblains thoroughly on
d with these
slices, an .
before a good fire, and they will soon die•
or three nights
appear.
ExHUMATION OF A FEMALE CORPSE AT LEEDS.
1/ Os. Bd, IL 4s.
- SUSPECTED Poisoxiso.—The corpse of a female, named
Elizabeth Rawson, formerly living with her husband in Char-
ley-street, New Road-end, has been disinterred by order of
the coroner of the borough of Leeds. Rumours had been in
circulation that the woman, who died in July, 1850, had been
poisoned, and these rumours pointed to the deceased's hus-
band and a woman he has since married as the parties im-
plicated in the foul crime of murder. Since the disinterment
of the body, a post-mortem examination has taken place, and
certain parts of it, with the contents of the stomach, have
been handed over to Mr. Wm. West, the chemist, for the
purpose of being tested as to whether they contain poison.
The coroner's inquest, after having been formally constituted,
adjourned its sittings until yesterday (Wednesday),after-
noon, when the proceedings were again adjourned, owingta
the absence of Dar. West in London.
To REMOVE A TIGHT STOPPER FROM
Borrut. —Warm the bottle before the fire, and then gently
and cautiously rest the neck on the edge of the top barg 1
„ni with
grate, or the edge of the hot plate of a stove,.beeg'en-
e ry
the cooler part and gradually approachingntenver to twist it
the stopper from time to time, observing
round, but to draw it straight out.
succeed when other methods have failet,
bottle, oil the stopper when it is ou
fixed again.
A BLIND STUDENT.
of the principal prizes for Greek
the University of Edinburg •
and had used in his studies extracts
examined in, printed in raised has been found to
This If it be a smelling-
A GLASS
to prevent it being
a recent examination in
_A blind student gained one
reekliaet was a native of Dunkeld,
extracts from the books be waa
characters, which he traced

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,A PARADISE.---We
thirty paragraPs e t
Irra mg various eriminal act
within a few days in or near San Francisc s occurring
o, of which the
following are the heads :—Duel prevented, attempt at self-
man shot by a woman, attempted squatter fight, a coloured
bail for duelling, lynching of a suicide, two editors held to
for shooting a German in the leg;sporting ,gent, named Field,
gings with a double-barrell d murder
at
Barns's
dig-
Frank Christie to stab him e gun, desperate atternEt of
struction by a man self, another attempt at sen-de-
his wife, murder and who suspected the infidelity of
upon a little girl, two arson by a party of Mexicans, rape
facture of robberies, murderous attempt, mann-
counterfeit dust, robbery of a lady, arrest of
swindlers, another shooting affair and another fight, suicide
of an Italian
~ assassination in a store daring a dispute about
gold dust, shooting of three miners by Indians with arrows
case of stabbing, and Indian massacres.
WISEA lAN-
AT THE ACADEMY.---0/3 his recent elec-
tion, Mr. Sergeant Murphy mildly spoke of Englishmen as
' the brutal and excited populace of England " And, never-
theless, up to the present time, the portrait of Cardinal Wise-
man hangs in the Royal Academy, no English brute of all the
millions having laid finger upon it; not because of its offence
against the Protestant mind, but against art. The Pope per-
petrated a wrong when be sent the Cardinal here ; but how
much deeper the wrong when the painter sent the Cardinal
to the Royal' Academy wrong
After all, the Cardinal-like ano-
ther individual—cannot be so bad as he's painted.—Punch.
BIRD'S NEST EXTRAORDINARY.—A few days ago
a singular bird's-nest was discovered in an apple-tree at
Styrrup, made from three ladies' collars, which had been
missed from an adj oiniog hedge five weeks previous.—Sheffield
rimes.