The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-29 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE-TUESDAY.

At our market to-day thero was a good supply of wheat
from the growers and the coast, and a fair foreign arrival.
Old fine and dry new maintained the rates of this day week,
but the trade otherwise was dull, and secondary soft de-
scriptions were neglected. Barley for malting moved off
at previous terms ' • grinding sorts were from 6d to is
lower. Beans and peas were unchanged. Oats found
buyers at 6d advance. Flour 6d to is per sack decline. The
average price of British grain for tho week has been
wheat, 47s Od ; barley, 37s 2d; oats, 28s 3d per qr.

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via SouthamptOn April 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet April 6
Ditto, by French packet April 21
Cape of Goad Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 3
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 5.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 13.
Falkland Islands '

Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... April 5.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 31.
Ditto, via slarseiiles • April 7.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 31.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 7.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles
Newfoundland •.4 , April 11.
.
Portugal - ....April 6.

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet April 5.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton . .

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar• SO•
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) Mar. 31.

Cuba and Mexico . Mar. 31.
Bahamas, via New York. April 5.
Bermuda, ditto April 1 i
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe .... April 12,

JAMES WATT AND HIS MODEL.—It BO happened
that, just at the very time in which the mine-owners
of Cornwall were on the point of being drowned out in con-
sequence of the inadequacy of their engines to "fork" the
water from the depths of their pits, the mind of an intelli-
gent mathematical instrument maker, then residing within
the shadow of the College of Glasgow, appeared to be
directed to the new motive power by the merest accident.
He was well-known to some of the professors, and being
of a philosophical turn of mind, appears to have been ill
some sense connected with the University ; at all events,
the Professor of the Natural Philosophy class, know'
ing that he had paid some attention to the subject*
of steam, entrusted to him a model of a Newcomer
engine to repair. Tho model had, indeed, been sent t,°,
London for this purpose, and if it had remained
there in all probability it would have been returnee
without dropping that fruitful seed into the mind of 01
workman employed upon it that it did into the will'
of the Glasgow optician and mathematical instru-
ment maker; and, possibly the invention would have been
delayed another century. Imagine, gentle reader, i4°
world without the steam-engine in the year 1866!—imagine
all the material concerns of life as they stood a hundred
years ago, and then pioture to yourself the effect of this
lucky accident, if we may so term it, of the recall of tb is
little model from its long journey southward to the remote
seaport on the banks of the Clyde. This famous mode i
now venerable for its age, suggested the parent-thong'
that has transformed the world.—Once a Week.
A BROKER'S MAN.—A strange fact—stranger
than anything in fiction—came to my knowledge
lately, with regard to a poor family who were visited!
the broker's man. When the broker's man came in, ""
tenant of the house, driven to desperation by his ni,isint:
tunes, rushed upon him with a knife to kill him.
God's sake, don't kill me," cried the broker's man. «I k,
a poor unfortunate wretch like yourself. While I come
();
take possession of your things, there is a man in possession
of mine." Then you ought to have some feeling for in 2 ;
said the other. "God knows I have," said the broker's in7l
"but I have had nothing to do for a long time, 311.01),
was starving when I was offered this
I never did such cursed work before, of
I will starve to death before Ido it again." The visn'
the amateur broker's man was an angel's visit to that 1).7.t
family. He had received five shillings in advance for Nviel'of
he called his " cursed work," and he made a blessed nsee_
it, by giving the starving family a meal. When a 11,sist-
volent clergyman entered the house to render some
ance to the distressed family, he found the children clllii
ing to the broker's man's neck, kissing him, and calling
"uncle."—Dickens's "All the Year Round."

Births.
COLE—On the 26th inst., at Wimbledon, Mrs. A. C°lB'
of a son. riles
so
n'
dare; On the 27th inst., at Lodge Park, coons
dare; the lady of Sir J. M. Higginson, of
Ai 14
PIGOU—On the 28th inst., at 14, Suffolk-street, Pall-
the wife of the Rev. Francis Pigou, of a son.
Marriages. 11)013°
ELLERBY—HARRAN—On the 27th inst., at St. Mall to
Church, Thomas Ellerby, of Manor House Whitwe
~'f 1467 Afer)
Sarah, daughter of Edward Harran, Esq
bone-road.
RUSSELL—WILLIAMS—On the 27th inst., at St. P3'l Oita,
Church, Hampstead, Mr. W. Russell, of Adelaido l
g.
St. John's-wood, to Emma, daughter of the late P-'•
C. Williams, of Ledbury, Herefordshire.
Deaths.
CARPENTER—On the 27th inst., at Eastbourne,
H. S. Carpenter, aged 36. 1. street'
CLIFTON—On the 28th inst., at 6, Old Cavendi,ex.: 12th
Cavendish-square, Major Chandos F. Clifton (..e'c'of
the
Lancers), of Llyswen, Breconshire, youngest son
late C. C. Clifton, Esq., late of Tymawr. of 94'
GORING—On the 26th inst., Mr. Thomas Go,,Dgt
New Kent-road, aged 56. peel°,
PEELE —On the 24th inst., at Long Sutton, Thos.
Esq., aged 78. lqedferd'
UsAvEn—On the 24th inst.,,at 109, Gower-street,
square, Henry De :Usayer, Esq.
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Strand, in the Preeinot of the Savoy .in the CO.-
Middlesex.—Thursday, Attach 29, 1866.