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

WOOL.
Owing to the holidays the demand for all hinds of
Wool is exceedingly inactive, at almost nominal quota-
tions. English washed is quoted at from is to is 4d;
Grease, including blanket, 6d to 9d; and Down, is Id to
Is 3d per lb. The imports last week were good, viz.,
230 bales from Ilamburgh, 245 from Shanghae, 207
from Alogadore, 5 from Leghorn, 90 from Callao, 548
from Taganrog, 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. on
the spot is quoted at 36s 9d to 373, and old 36s 3d to
36s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow 37s to 37s 3d per cwt.
net moll; Rough Fat, 2s ld per B;bs. Last week the de-
liveria
s were only 2,262; the imports, 1,052 casks, chiefly
from our Colonies.

1847.

1848.

1849.

1850.

181.

Steck this day • • .. • •
'rice of Y. C. •• .
Delivery last week • •
Ditto from Juno 1.• • •
Arrivals last week
.. •
Ditto from June 1 .I

17,827
45s Od
1.0453,3 d
2,364
58,700
10,091
68,124
493 Gd

34,741 47,190
423 Od 383 3d
to OsOd to 3.436 d
1,713 ' 1,538
60,223 56,5'6
1,507 I 222
87,436 , 78,293

52,924
37s Od to
Os Od
2,196
55,390
80
83,670

64,261
36s 9il
to37s Od
2,262
62,425
1,0.2
90,552
39s 6d

429 01 j

42s Od

39s 6d

price of Town • .....

NiARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
1 AN UNGRATEFUL FELLOW.—Mr. Spryng, a respect-
able boot and shoemaker, carrying on business at No.
20, Little Pulteney-street, Golden-square, made an ap-
plication to the magistrate for advice, under the follow-
ing circumstances :
Mr. Spryng stated that on Tuesday, the 9th instant, a
man in his employ, by the name of Edward Palmer, was
given in charge for having embezzled the sum of 25., 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 else was further gone into, and,
at the earnest supplication of his (prisoner's) solicitor,
and in consideration of his wife and family, he took
a merciful view of the matter, and, with
the Magistrate's sanction, he (applicant) consented to
his discharge. Since that time the man Palmer, by way
of showing his gratitude, had subjected applicant to
very great annoyance, by spreading 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 institu-
tion of which applicant was a member, and got a vote of
censure 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 arid
malicious reports were not put a stop to, the
man might circulate other falsehoods, and thereby
injure him in his business. 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 had no jurisdiction in the
matter. Had applicant pressed the charge against the
man, he (the magistrate) would most assuredly have
committed him for trial. He now,advised the applicant,
if the man Palmer persisted in his present line of con-
duct, to go to a respectable solicitor and put the matter
into his hands forthwith.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending Dec. 27, 1851 £8,293 16 9
Traffic—Week ending Dec. 28, 1850 8,03 0 5
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 328,357 17 7
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 ... 30 1,962 18 4
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
Dec. 27, 1851 53,345
Passengers ... £6,709 6 3
Goods ... ... 1,584 10 6

Total ... £8,293 16 9
Total miles open, 1851, 173 q ; ditto, 1550, 17114.
London Terminus, Dee. 29, 1851.

ACCIDENTtoa LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.
An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Mr.
Duncan M‘Lachlan, of the firm of Wilson and M`Lach-
lan, ship owners and ship chandlers, whose death was
the result of an accident. On the evening of Christmas-
day, Mr. M`Lacblan had had a number of friends dining
with him, at his residence in Upper Parliament-street, as
we learn was usual with him at this season of the year.
Somewhere near eleven o'clock, his guests, who were
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 had occa-
sion to get up, and go into an adjoining apartment,
when, unfortunately, on passing the landing at the head
of the stairs, he missed his footing, and fell from the top
to the bottom, a distance of several yards. The facts
will be best understood from the evidence which Mrs.
IPLachlan gave at the inquest. She stated that after
they had been in 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 called 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. She went to him and found that ho was insensi-
ble. Dr. Bruce, the medical adviser of the family, was
promptly sent for, and in half an hour after the accident
he arrived. By this time the deceased had recovered
his consciousness, and said he had great pain in his head
and the right arm, and that he had no use in his legs.
On Dr. Bruce examining the deceased he found the
spine -
ccived 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 lire, was universally esteemed.

SUICIDE FROM WATERLOO-BRIDGE.—On 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
deceased 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. Verdict—" Found drowned."
THE CONVICT SARAH ANN HILL.—A petition to
the Throne in favour left commutation of the sentence of
this wretched woman, 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 womanhabits have
of fromvir tue.
her
youth been unfavourable to the pursuit of
She was an illegitimate child, and was, we believe, born in
one of the streets of Wakefield. —Leeds Mercury.
EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A BARRISTER.--On
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, E..(1, a barrister, residing at 4,
Garden-court, Temple. It appeared that there had been
great difficulty in this singular case to know h whit coroner
was to hold the inquest. Mr. Payne had been applied to
also Mr. Bedford, but they refused to interfere, as they co
M n-
sidered the Temple was out of their jurisdiction ;
and ➢ r.
Wakley was referred to, as it might be in the county of Mid-
dlesex. At last Mr. Baker, the beadle, applied to Mr. Higgs,
as it was considered the part was in the duchy, and he ac-
cordingly appointed the inquest. The deceased was a
member of the western circuit, and had for many years been
the revising barrister at Dorset. On Wednesday 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 bone.
There had been great hemorrhage. and he was quite deadff
It seemed by other testimony that he had been pulling o
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 :—" That the de-
ceased, Joseph Douglas, died from loss of blood 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."
THE 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 telegraph, so
that when an alarm should be given at any one of them,
an " instantaneous general turnout might be the result."
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—GRATIS WITH THE DISPATCH.
—On Sunday next, January 4, 1852, the subscribers to the
Weekly Dispatch will be preaented 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 the
Dispatch who are not regular subscribers. The Chart,
which is surmounted with an engraved view of the Great
Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, has been pre-
pared by permission of 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 in town
Fleet ee and
country, or forwarded to Mr. R. J. Wood,
139, t.
MOVEMENTS OF TRANSATLANTIC STEAM
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 27.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria,
Leitch, commander, sailed from the Mersey at noon today
for Halifax and Boston, with the usual mails and a fair com-
plement of passengers. The Royal Mail steam-ship Ame-
rica, Shannon, commander, with advices from New York to
dvices from
17th inst., may be exp
this ected to arrive in the Mersey
the
early on Monday morning. The United States' mail steam-
shitphe Arctic,2othinLautc.,e,mcaoymmander, with
to a New York
be expected arrive at port on
to
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 the command of Colonel Buller, are to embark at
Dover in the Mezuera, screw steamer, on the 2nd of Jan.,
for the Cape of Good Hope. Drafts from the depots 2nd,
6th, 43rd, 45th, 2nd battalion 60th, 73rd, and 74th, and from
the Ist battalions 12th and 91st Infantry, as well as a small
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 service at
the Cape will altogether amount to about 1,200 men of
85th all
ranks. There is no foundation for the report that the
Regiment may proceed to the Cape. 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
distance each passenger may have travelled unless assisted
and informed by the passengers on alighting from the vehicle
and the great obstruction and delay which has conaequently,
taken place.