The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

WOOL MARKET.

The public sales of colonial wool have commenced
steadily, and, compared with the previous series, pi ices show
a further improvement of from id to ld per lb. The
annexed quotations have been realised :—Sydney—Clean
sheeps, is 7id to 2s 3d ; scoured, 2s 2d to 2s 4}d; hand-
washed, is 8d ; lambs', is Ild ; locks, is 2d to Is 3d. Poet
Philip—Clean sheeps, Is 10Id to 2s; scoured, is 10Id to
2s Old ; lambs' 2s to 2s ld ; grease, ls 21,1 ; pieces, is 6ld to
is 103 d, South Australia--Scoured, le 104 to 2s 414

17,507
7286 d to
—a Od
4,513
64,692
3,526
34,484
748 6d

1850.

1857.

Total at the close of the navigation

Wind S.

THIS DAYS SHIPPING.

Wind N.N,W. ; light.

AT PARIS.

1859.
13,910 35,797 26.975 46.816
57s 3d to 50a Od to 51s Od to 58. 9d to
—8 Od —s 0d —8 Od 59. Od
2,936 2,421 3,35.5 1,574
62,419 48,950 49,507 35,080
5,019 14,126 4,152 3,182
58,648 71,635 54.915 69,815
588 9d 513.3 d 548 3d 628 Gd

1858.

STATEMENT OP TALLOW SHIPPING AT ET. PETERSBURG.
Tallow dcspathed from Cronstadt 1859. 1858. 1857.
to Oct. 19, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks
ponds to the cask) 80,026 92,880 89,512
In ships loading and lighters 6,591 15,210 12,560

Total loaded off from St. Petersburg,
Oct. 21, 0. S.
Do. after this date

112,012 103,70:

London
Liverpool 313 4,510 2,245
Bristol
Other English ports
Ireland 1,227 590 1,132
Scotland
Germany 4,282 8,558 13,319
Prance l4 2,493 9,705

LONDON, Nov. 14.—Weather this day at noon—Dense
fog.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Win3 E.—Sailed—Lemuel
Dyer, for New Orleans H.M.S. Urgent, the westward;
H.M.S. Meander, for Ascension.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind S.B.—Sailed—Bittern,
for Hav anna.

PENZANCE, Nov. 13.—The Sultan, Swansea to Dieppe,
has put in very leaky, and must be surveyed.
PLY3IO uT n, Nov. 13.—Wind E .—Arri ved —Homer, from
Lagos. Sailed—The Royal George, for the Cape of Good
Hope.

DBAL, Nov. 14.—Wind N.N. W.—Sailed—Leonidas, for
Moreton Bay ; Juliet Erskine, for Mauritius ; Adelaide, for
Demerara • Denehtland, for New Orleans ; Albert Gallo-
ter, for Charleston.

CLIMB, Nov. ll—Arrived—Caselda from Trinidad
Harrlei, from Porto Rico ; Sailed—Matarban, for Born
bay.

GOTHENBURG, Noy. 12—The Arctic (s.s.), Hull to Riga,
has arrived in tow of the Niord (ca.), with loss of screw,
having been ashore at Jutlind.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA.PII.) •
LivEnrooL, Monday Morning.

Arrived, Nov. 13—Mary Powell, from Coquimbo ; Appro-
priate, from Sulina ; Prince Albert, from Ibrail ; Astrea,
from Odessa; Stanbey, from Denia ; Salanite, from
Nantes ; Mary Houghton, from Faro ; Jemima and Den,
from Hamburg; President, from Antwerp.
Arrived, Nov. 14—Ann Hall, from Smyrna ; Sisters,
from Nantes.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morninir.
Wind S.E., light; tide, last hour's ebb; weather, light
and hazy.
Arrived, 13th—William France, from Chisine.
Arrived, 14th—Neptune, steamer, from Hamburr.
Sailed, 13th—Baron' Osy, for Antwerp ; 'Sleepner, for
Christiana.

DEAL, Monday Morning.

Arrived and plased:—Juliet Erskin, for the Mauritius ;
secret, for Malta; Albert, for Charlestown; Deutschland,
for New Orleans ; Hilda, for Carnarvon ; Leonidas, for
Moreton Bay; Adelaide, for Demerara; Andrea, for Car-
diff—all frem London.

COURT.-NUGENT V. FOWLER.

TILE SWIMMING-SCHOOL FOR W OMEN

As many parents are wishing to know how
girls can be taught the use of their limbs in the
water, it may be interesting to them to hear how
the art is taught at Paris. The water is that of
the Seine. This is the least agreeable circumstance
in the case, as the water of the Seine is quite as
unfragrant in the summer months as that of the
Thames. Whether it is purified on entering the
baths, I do not know. Let us hope it is. The
bath is moored in the river, and the space occupied
by water is 120 feet in length ; a course long enough
to afford room for all the exercises connected with
swimming. A wooden platform, three or four feat
under water, reaches to about the middle c,f the
width of the bath ; and this is for the use of child-
ren, and mere bathers who do not swim. The other
half is of a considerable depth in the middle, ad-
mitting of practice in genuine diving. The dress
is excellent for the purpose. It is made of a light
woollen fabric, which does not absorb much water.
The trousers are loose, and fastened at the ancles.
The upper dress, also loose, extends to the knee,
and is belted round the waist, and closed at the
neck. It is just as decent a dress as English ladies
used to wear when Bath was called " The Bath,"
and when wigged gentlemen and powdered ladies
used to wade about in full trim, and chat in the
water. The first step in the process of teaching is
to make the pupil understand how to keep on the
surface, and how to sink to the bottom. Most peo-
ple know that to spread out the limbs is to float,
and to double one's self up is to sink; but it is not
everybody who knows that the quickest way of
going to the bottom is to raise the arms above the
head. This is precisely what women do when they
fall out of a boat, or find themselves overboanl in
a shipwreck. Up go their arms in their terror;
and down they go to the bottom like a shot. This
is the action used by divers, who want to reach
that point by the shortest way. From the
ceiling of the Paris bath hangs a rope, which travels
along on a sort of crane. Where this rope touches
the water a broad belt is attached to it. The belt
is fastened easily about the pupil's waist, support-
ing her in the water, and leaving her at liberty to
learn the action of the limbs in swimming. She is
made perfect in these, and must then try her
powers without support. To render her safe and
preclude fear, the instructor (who is a master and
not a mistress), walks along the edge, just before
her, holding a pole within her reach, which she
can grasp in an instant, if fatigued er alarmed. It
does not follow that we must have swimming-mas-
ters in England. The art is taught all along the
rivers of Germany, and invariably by women in the
women's baths. In that case the dress is less elabo-
rate, and there is more freedom and simplicity in
the practice. It is a remarkable sight when the
master is followed by 10 or 20 pupils, his pole re-
minding one of the magnet which brings swans or
fishes to the bread in a basin of water, in the old-
fashioned toy which astonishes children. The
second pupil has a hand on the shoulder of the first,
and swims with the other three limbs ; the third
on the shoulder of the second; and so on, lookiug
like a shoal of mermaids. When so thoroughly at
ease to amuse themselves for a long time in the
water, the ladies sometimes grow hungry ; and then
is seen another remarkable sight, not quite so
pretty. They rush from the bath to a confectioner's
shop which opens upon it, and may be seen pre-
sently swimming with one hand, and with the other
eating their lunch, completely at ease. After learning
the art in fresh water, it is mighty easy to swim in
the sea, from the density of the water, and scarcely
possible to sink. A women who knows how to float
is safe for many hours in the sea, as far as keeping
on the surface is concerned. Among breakers or
sharks, or in extreme cold, the peril is not of drown-
ing simply. The simple peril of drowning might
be reduced to something very small if everybody
could swim.—Once a Week.

OPERATING ON BIG BEN.—On Saturday a num-
ber of scientific gentlemen ascended the Clock Tower at
the new Palace at Westminster, for the purpose of testing
the result of some experiments that had been made on Big
Ben ; and at noon, to the great surprise of tho numerous
attendants at the courts of law at Westminster-hall and the
üblic generally, that sound which it had been believed was
for over silenced was once more heard, and Big Ben again
made his sonorous voice resound over the metropolis,
whether sufficiently melodious to preserve him from the
fate with which he has been threatened is at present un-
certain.
EXTRAORDINARY CAUSE OF FLRE.—About a
quarter-past lour on Wednesday morning, police-sergeant
Wild, while on duty in Temple-street, Stafford, observed
smoke to issue from a window of Mr. James Taylor's house.
He immediately aroused the inmates, and it was discovered
that a hot brick, which had been applied to the feet of a
young woman suffering under illness, had ignited her bed
clothes. The fire was fortunately at once extinguished.
THE LATE ROBBERY ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
—On Saturday, the 12th inst., John Manchester and Robert
Shelton were brought before the, county bench of magi-
strates at the Shire-hall, Nottingham, charged with stealing
a variety of property belonging to tradesmen, which
had been scut from Lincoln to Derby, Birmingham, and
other towns. The property stolen consisted of tea, sugar,
tobacco, guns and locks, brocade, &c., and was identified by
the various owners. The Midland Company had to in-
demnify the owners to the value of the articles stolen. Tho
prisoners did not deny the charge, and were fully committed
to take their trial.

PLUNDERING SHIPWRECKED SAILORS.—We are
sorry to say that plundering has been carried on to a con-
siderable extent since the late storm. Crowds of people
flocked daily to Sully and Lavernock for this vain purpose.
At Sully, the Mary of Carmarthen, with a'valuble cargo,
became a total wreck. Ironmongery and grocery of every
description was strewn on the beach, and had it not been for
the interference of the coast guard and police, not a single
article would have remained. Even oz Sunday, crowds of
people went to the place for the same purpose.—Carmer-
thrn iournal,

4 ~.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

LA IV INTELLIGENC.E.-( MIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lor t Chancellor and Lords Justices.)
APPEAL-PEARCE T. LINDSAY.

Mr. Scott resumed his argument, and is now being heard
for the appellants.
Their Lordships recommended a compromise in this case.
Sir Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Q.C., proposed a settlement
upon a waver of £2,000.
Mr. James, Q.C., declined.
The case is proceeding.

ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
LANGLEY V. PONSPORD.

His Honour said that the two agreements produced must
be considered as one contract and construed together. The
same rule applies in equity as in law, that a written contract
cannot be disproved by parole evidence, and it appeared
that on the completion of the engine they were to grant
their acceptance on its going into the ship. The case was
tried before Mr. Justice Hill in June last, and it was so held,
and no motion for a new trial had been made. Ho could
not put a different construction upon it. His Honour ob-
served the agreements were not stamped.
Counsel said Mr. Justice Hill did not think it necessary.
His Honour said he would look overthe shorthand writer's
notes of Mr. Justice Hill's summing up to the jury, and
mention the case again to-morrow morning. Costs would
follow the result of the suit.

Counsel said he would look into the Stamp Act, and see
whether the agreements required to be stamped.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
`V. DILLNUTT.—RAILWAY COMPANIES AND MERCHANTS.
Total 80,028 92,880 89,512 —IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.

His Honour gave judgment this morning in this case.
The action was brought to recover £l4 6s. Bd. for carriage,
demurrage, and rent of certain manure sent to a station on
the plaintiffs' line for third parties.

His Honour was of opinion that the plaintiffs were en-
titled to recover the two first items, carriage and demur-
rage to the 9th June. There was a letter sent by defendant
on the 2cl June instructing the plaintiffs to warehouse. • It
would be reasonably received on the 3d. A time must be
allowed to warehouse, and therefore his Honour should
allow demurrage of the truck till the 9th. As
to the warehousing, the plaintiffs could not recover.
It was admitted that the goods had not been properly
warehoused, and it was the duty of the plaintiffs to
notify to the defendant, upon receipt of his letter, that they
had not proper convenience. -Warehousing meant proper
warehousing, and through plaintiffs' neglect the manure
had rotted in the bags, and plaintiffs could not recover.
There might be an action for damage against the company
as the goods were deterioratedito a value of one-fourth of the
original, but such damage was no answer to a claim for
freight. Therefore plaintiffs would have a verdict for £8
19s. 2d., being carriage and demurrage.
Mr. Turner (Burcham and Co., Parliament- street) for
the plaintiff, asked for costs.

His Honour said the appropriate costs would be given,
and as it was P case involving a point of law, solicitor and
counsel would be allowed:

Mr. Charnock, of King William-street, said he thought
the damage could be set against the carriage and do-
murrage, but his Honour had no doubt upon the law.

ALLEGED CRIM. CON.-A CASE FOR THE DIVORCE

This was an action for rent of a furnished apartment oc-
cupied by Mr. Fowler, as alleged in the evidence.
Mrs. Nugent said that defendant was in the habit of
coming to see a woman every Saturday night and leaving
on Sunday. He took the room for her, and she passed as
Mrs. Fowler. The female told witness that her husband
(defendant) was obliged to be absent all the week. This
statement defendant on tke first occasion denied, and the
female in question admitted that she was a married woman,
and had left her husband.

This morning a witness named Collins, living next door
to the plaintiff, said he had seen Mr. Fowler walking in
the garden on Sunday morning on two occasions.
Mrs. Nugent—l tried to subpoena defendant's wife, but
could net find out her Christian name.
His Honour—Was there more than one bed in the
room ?

Mrs. Nugent—No. He slept with the female, who has
run up a chandler's-shop score in his name.
His Honour—Defendant must pay it then.

Defendant—Nobody saw me in bed with tho female.
His Honour—No, but you stay all night, and there is
only ono bed, and the presumption is strong enough. It is
very disgraceful for a married man to be keeping women.
You must pay forthwith, and costs.
Defendant—l can't.

His Honour—We shall see. Ycu should spend your
money properly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(TIUS DJ I 7)

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT ON AN OLD WOMAN.—Ri:hard
Gamble, a rough •looking fellow, was charged with the fol-
lowing assault on an old woman named Mary Bradley, living
in Princes-row, Newport-market.
The complainant said she was in bed the previous night a
little after ten, when her door was violently forced in by
the prisoner, who, as soon as he entered, knocked the chairs
about in a most violent manner, then dragged her out of
bed, and struck her on the chest such a violent blow that
she could scarcely get her breath, and also gave her a severe
kick on the knee. She ran down stairs, having on at the
time nothing but her chemise, and the prisoner ran down
stairs and fastened the .leor, so that she was kept out in the
cold in the state she wits then in for fully 20 minutes, till
the constable forced him to open the don• and let her in.
The prisoner denied a _portion of the complainant's state-
ment, but Mr. Long said he did not believe him, and ordered
him to pay £3 for the assault or six weeks' imprisonment.

" ONI; ON lIIS TlBBY."—Richard Woods and Charles
Richard Kinman, the latter the son-in-law of the former,
were charged with the following outrage :
Mr. James Cole, carver and gilder, of Rupert-street, said
that at half-past one on Sunday morning he heard what ho
might call a "thundering" noise at his street door, which
was forced in, and presently the prisoners rushed up stairs
and forced open his bedroom door, breaking two or three of
the panels and bursting off the lock. He armed himself
with the tongs, when ho heard Kinman say, "This is the
room the sleeps in." lie called loudly for the police,
and Kinman said, "We'll be one on his tibby presently."
The other said, " We'll have his -- As soon as
they saw the tongs, thinking perhaps it was a sword, they
retreated or probably he should have been one on their
"tibby." (Loud. laughter.) The damage amounted to
£2 10s.

The defence was that the accused had gone in search of
Woods' wife, who was in court, and said her husband never
contributed to her support.
The prisoners were ordered to pay the damage, or be
imprisoned for 14 days each.