The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-26 00:00:00

wages now offered, but they seem inclined to wait for r
advance. The hay crops are very heavy, and there will
be a great demand for mowep shortly, if the weather
keeps fine. Shearers scarce. The labour market gene-
rally is in a buoyant state, except for skilled artizans,
which is dull in the extreme. Women plentiful, but
really first-rate services were scarce. Seamen's wages
much tha same, and the market well supplied.
With Rations.-Married couples, without families,
601. to 651. ; ditto, with familes, 451. to 501 ; gardeners,
501. to 52/. ; grooms, 451. ; stockkeepers, per annum,
451. t() 501. ; shepherds, 301. to 351. ; hutkeepers, per
annum, 261. to 28/. ; ploughmen, 20, to 255. per week;
farm labourers, 203. do. ; shearers, 1713. to 20s. per 100;
sheep-washers, 20s. per week ; mowers, ss. to Os. per
acre ; bullock drivers for roads, 3013. per week ; do., for
farms, 20s. to 255. do. ; horse team-drivers for roads,
255. do. ; baycutters and trussers, 30s. do., or 4s, per
ton ; male cooks, 20s. to 455. do. ; waiters, 20s. to 265.
do. ; blacksmiths, 503. to 60s. per week.
Without Rations.-Blacksmiths, 41. to 41. 10e. per
week ; carpenters, 108. to 12s. per day ; masons, 108. to
12s. per day ; bricklayers, 12s. per day ; plasterers, 12s.
to 14s. per day ; quarrymen, 103. to 12s. per day ; la-
bourers, 7s. to Bs. per day ; stonebreakers, ss. to 6s. per
yard ; compositors, ls. 4d per thousand ; pressmen, 41.
to 51. per week. Female domestics.-Thorough servants,
261. to 301. ; housemaids, 201. to 241. ; laundresses, 261.
to 301. ; cooks, 261. to 301. ; nursemaids, 121. to 201. ;
needlewomen, 201. to 251.

SYDNEY, OCT. 25.
In our import•markets (premising that continued dul-
ness prevails, the consequence of the stoppage of pay-
ment of some large firms, whose liabilities are great) we
may, in our chief markets report the following prices :--
Breadstuffs—ln flour, fine has risen suddenly from 401.
to 451. The price of seconds is merely nominal, as
scarcely any parcels are in the market, and stocks of
fine are reported to be low. For Van Diemen's Land
wheat the price is 18s. ; for Chilian wheat from 17s. 6d.
to 18s. There seems to be a general impression that,
frem advices as to shipments to these colonies, the high
prices ❑ow quoted will not long be sustained.

BALLARAT, OCT. 25.
Flour, best Adelaide, 561. per ton ; ditto, Chili, 551.
per ton ; potatoes, 381. per ton ; bay, 201. per ton ;
Patra rice, 401. per ton ; sugar, best Mauritius, 421. per
t ; do., 1, Cossipore, 561. per ton ; butter, Cork,
Is. 9d. per lb. ; candles, Belmont, No. 1,10.10 d. per
lb. ; oats, colcnial, lls. per bushel ; bran, ditto, 4s. 6d.
per bushel.

- Cartage from Geelong, 151. a-ten ; ditto from Mel'
bourne, 181. per ton.

THE POISONINGS AT MANCRESTE.R.

Mr. Bradlaugh, of London, is still pursuing his hives'
tigation of the charge against Dunn, Monaghan, and
Barry, for poisoning Monaghan's father, and proper
steps have been taken to obtain the exhumation of Mo-
naghan's body, that it may be subjected to a post
mortem examination. The search for the body, how-
ever, has so far proved abortive. He was buried in the
ground attached to St. Wilfred's Catholic Chapel,Hulniet
which, though only a comparatively new place of sepi!l-
tore, is sufficiently crowded to throw many obstacles in
the way of the search. On Thursday it is said that /in-
wards of a dozen bodies bad been removed without
finding the right one, nor had the search been more
successful up a late hour yesterday. In the ex-
amination of Mr. Holland, surgeon, on Wednesday, some
portions of his evidence were rejected by the Court, be-
cause oes of the accused parties (Duna) was not present,
shit ,inents criminating an absent person not being ad-
missible under such circumstances. The evidence so
excluded was to the effect that Dunn had said that the
monthly payments were made in shares, and that it was
agreed, when the money should be obtained from the
Diadem Assurance Company, they (meaning James
Monaghan, George Barry, and Dunn himself) should
"hook it" to Australia. When the prisoner Jami
Monaghan and Dunn went together to Mr. Holland's
house Monaghan was dressed in black, and on the occa-
sion, according to the evidence of Mr. Holland, when
he first heard from James Monaghan of his father/
death, they both said that dysentery had caused his
death. Mr. Holland asked James Monaghan to " prove
it," and he produced a certificate signed by Mr. Hattoers
surgeon, stating the cause of death to be " chronic
dysentery." This, Mr. Holland thought, would be
about September. At this point Mr. Bradlaugh asked,
" What did he Pay had been given to him ?" The wit-
ness replied, " Dunn said he had given a few grains of
acetate of lead to him." This was said in the surgery' ;
and James Monaghan was in the parlour at the time-
Dunn also said afterwards, in the presence of Monaghan,
that a glass of whisky was given to John Monaghan
when he was upstairs ; but the witness did not think
that the prisoner James Monaghan heard this, or that
James Monaghan said anything about it. Question--
On your oath, did James Monaghan say anything to
you about what was done in the bed-room ? Answer--
He said there had been a glass of whisky given to old
Monaghan; and Dunn corroborated it. He said the,'
had given him a glass of whisky, and Monaghan said
they had dosed it ; but I don't think he knew there was
anything in it. The witness's reason for thinking 0°
was that Monaghan never mentioned it. The witnee°,
had a book called the Medical Almanac. It contained
a description of all kinds of poisons. He never showed
it to James Monaghan. He had shown it to Dann
once. James Monaghan was not there then ; and the
witness and Dunn were all who were in the place. Th°
witness thought at the time Dunn had a large dog he
wanted to do something with. He thought so becalis°
Duun's wife had been bitten by a dog, and she herself
had stated that she would poison it. This the witness
thought was towards the latter end of the year. Mr.
Bradlaugh, we may add, is still continuing his investige'
tion of the case.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN
PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday the examining barristers, Messrs. Smith
and May, appointed by the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons to inquire into and decide upon the compliance
with the standing orders, of Parliament, met for the first
time. The hills before the learned gentlemen are less
numerous than in previous sessions, and, what is termed
the opp .sition to them, far less considerable. The stand
in; orders were declared to have been complied with ill
the following cases :

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—To attach further advatv
tages to certain portione of the company's capital, with
pt wer to borrow 83,0002

LOWESTOFT AND BECCLES RAILWAY.—For making
railway from Lowestoft to join the East Suffolk Rail'
way at Betties ; proposed capital 26,5001., and power
to borrow one-half.

WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—To abandos
portion of line between Malvern and Hereford and
branches, to reduce the capital to 248,0001., and to
change the company's name to that of the " Worcester
and Malvern Railway Company,"and to limit the amount
to he borrowed to 82,8001. The only informality was sk
defect in a notice to one of the landowners.

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE (Sandbach to Warrington).--"
To extend the line Sandbach to near Moore, and other
purposes. Partly beard.
The other bills of a general diameter were—Norwich
Union Life Insurance, Cheltenham Gas, Gloucester Gas,
Coventry (City) Gas, Lancaster Gas, Heywood Gas,
North of Europe Steam Navigation (oppose,), Halifax
and Huddersfield Road, Prisoners Discharge Society,
KnareHborough and Pateley Road, Leicester and Wel
ford Road, Barnsdale and Leeds Turnpike Road, and
Cambridge University and rown.