The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

BEARKE TS. 7 This day.

MARK LANE.
There was very little English wheat received fresh up
to our market to-day. The trade, howeever, was far from
active, yet late rates were supported.
In all descriptions of foreign wheat the transactions were
on a limited scale. Fine Russian qualities were disposed
of at full prices, and the value of other sorts was unaltered.
Floating cargoes of grain were quiet, but prices ruled tirm.
Very little business was passing in barley. Fine malt-
ing parcels were held at full quotations ; Whilst grinding
and distilling sorts commanded late currencies.
Malt was dull, but not cheaper.
In oats, sales progressed slowly, on former terms.
Beaus dull, and iu peas next to nothing doing.
Flour firm iu price, with a moderate demand.
SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 180 90 1,150 30 560
Irish
Foreign 15,460 25,940 —21,09 U sacks
7,92
COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND riticEs OP GRAINO brls.
For the weeklB66. ending Dec. , For the corresponding week
29,
last year.
Q rs. Aver.
Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 57,445-60s Od Wheat ....... 72,309-46 s 11d
Barley 53,467--44 s Od Barley ......... 80,285-32 s 6d
Oats 7,170-2U 3d Oats

BOOUGH HOP.
There has been a fairß average business passing in hops,
and late quotations are well supported.

WHITECHAPL.
The supplies of meat aro mode ate. The trade is firm,
at full prices.

Beef Per 81b. by the carcase.
......... 38 tssOd 1 Veal
Mutton ... 3s 4Od d too 5s Od 1 Pork

THE JOINT-,STOCK COAL CO3IPANY (LIMITED).—
Chief Office-49, Fleet-street, E.C. West End Office
157, Great Portland-street, W. 13ecember 31, 1866. The
Second Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Joint-
Stock Coal Company (Limited) was held at Radley's
Hotel, Blackfriars, on Monday, December 31, 1866—J. W.
Oram, Esq., in the chair. The following resolution was
moved, seconded, and carried :—" That a dividend of 1 per
cent. per annum and a bonus of 4 per cent. per annum be
paid to the Shareholders on the amount paid called up on
their shares, and that a bonus of 4 per cent. per annum be
distributed amongst the coal-consuming shareholders in
proportion to the amount of their purchases; and that such
dividend and bonus be payable on and after the 31st of
January, 1867." A vote of thanks to the chairman, direc-
tors, and manager terminated the proceedings. The divi-
dend will be payable on and after
„the 31st of January,
1867, at the Chief Office of the Company, 49, Fleet-
street, E.C.

REVOLTING SCENE AT AN EXECUTION. --'Tie
St. Vincent Witness reports the recent execution of a woman
named Mary Jones, for murder. When the chaplain who
attended the wretched woman to the scaffold had bidden her
farewell, he drew back. She also quickly drew back, but the
movement could scarcely have been perceived, for the order
was given, the drop fell, and the culprit was seen standing
unharmed on the platform—her eyes from the beginning
were very imperfectly bandaged. Looking down, she drew
back further from the trap, and her arms being free she re-
moved the piece of muslin with which her eyes were covered.
From this time she appeared to dread the trap, having seen
the danger, and she could not be induced to go forward•
The provost marshal then summoned the turnkeys, who,
with the hangman, were constrained to use force to get
her on to the trap door. The instinct of self-preservation
seemed to nerve her with strength, and a scuffle ensued on
the platform of the gallows for ten minutes, when she was
ultimately tripped up, and she fell heavily on one of the
large side beams of the gallows, and rolled on the scaffold,
where she lay motionless. She was then pushed over on the
trap-door, which was pulled, and she fell through head
foremost. She never made a struggle or movement after
she was thrown down, and many persons supposed 4At,
life was extinct before she fell through the drop.