The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-14 00:00:00

In the table of contents of the collection of the
Feuille Hebdomadaire of Berlin, for this year, at the letter
" P." press," the reader is directed to look under the head
" Revolutionary."

BARBARITY.-On Saturday week some persons
assembled in the King's Park, and having tied the legs of a
goose, placed it in a corner of the park next the wall, and
then commenced shooting at it at three-pence per shot. This
disgraceful piece of cruelty was continued from two o'clock till
dusk, when the poor bird was carried away much mutilated._.
Edinburgh Advertiser.
How TO SLEEP IN SNOW.—The manner in
which Captain Ross's crew preserved themselves after the
shipwreck of their vessel, was by digging a trench in the snow
when the night came on ; this trench was covered with can-
vass, and then with snow ; the trench was large enough to
contain seven people; and there were three trenches, with an
officer and six men in each. At evening the shipwrecked
sailors got into bags made of double blanketting, which they
tied around their necks, and thus prevented their feet escaping
into the snow while asleep, they then crept into the trenches
and lay close together.—Mr. Martin's list. Brit. Col. Vol.

On Sunday night, about 10 o'clock the family of
Mr. M'Bean, proprietor of an Italian oil warehouse, in Devon-
shire-street, Marylebone, were thrown into great alarm by the
discovery that a fire had suddenly broken out in a;front bed-
room on the second floor, in which three children were asleep,
the youngest, an infant only nine months old, being in a cot
by itself. Police sergeant Patmore, 67 D, who was on duty
near the spot, hearing the screams of the terrified inmates, and
learning what was the matter, rushed up stairs, and on enter-
ing the apartment in question found it full of smoke ; the
window curtains and other articles of furniture were in flames,
together with the clothes and hangings surrounding the bed
in which the two eldest children lay. The constable, with
great presence of mind, snatched them up and ran down stairs
with them, when he was informed by their affrighted mother
that the infant above alluded to was still in the room. He
again rushed up stairs, and arrived just in time to save the life
of the infant, which he found gasping for breath, its cot being
on fire in several places, and in this state he conveyed it alto-
gether down stairs to its delighted parents, when it was taken
out of the cot unhurt, and the fire extinguished. In a short
time sergeants Hawker, Harrison, and other constables of the
D division arrived, who extinguished the flames, by throwing
buckets of water over them, but not until all the furniture in
the room was consumed or damaged. The fire is supposed to
have originated from the nurse having incautiously left a
lighted candle too near the curtains.
AWFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.-On
Monday an inquest was held at tle Mansion-house, Hull, be-
fore John Barkworth, Esq., on the bodies of Mrs. Harriet
Pybus, and her three children, Thomas, Robert, and Sarah, of
the several ages of six, five, and three years, all of whom were
found dead in bed at about ten o'clock in the forenoon, under
the following circumstances :—Mrs. Pybus, who was the se-
cond wife and widow of the late Mr. John Pybus, of that town,
law stationer, resided with her children in Jarvis's-square,
Bridge-street, and since his death, about twelve months ago,
was known to be addicted to habits of intoxication. Between
five and six o'clock, a smell of burning was perceived by the
watchman of the district, but he could not tell from whence it
proceeded. At the time, and long after the neighbours were
stirring, Mrs. P.'s shutters remained closed, but no particular
notice was taken of this as she was in the habit of lying long in
the morning. At ten o'clock, however, smoke was seen
to issue from the chamber window, and the front-door being
tried was found to be locked; entrance was attempted at the
chamber window, but was found impossible, from the density
of the smoke ; a door was then broken open. The roof of the
lower room was found to be.on fire, but had not burst into a
flame. On proceeding to the first chamher, Mrs. Pybus was
found lying across the bed-foot and the three children in the
bed, all of them suffocated. Mrs. P. had not been undressed ;
a candlestick was on the floor, beneath her head, which can-
dlestick appeared to have contained a burning candle, from
which the bed clothes had taken fire, and, being almost en-
tirely woollen, had never burst into a flame, but had set fire
to a mattress and two feather beds, great part of which was
consumed, and a portion thereof having fallen on the floor set
fire to it. This awful circumstance has created a great sensa
tion throughout the town. The verdict of the Jury was " Ac-
cidental Death."--Doncaster Gazette.

DALKEITH CORN MARKET.—Jan 8.
Wheat. Barley. oats. I cease.
First 4!a Od 20s Od 22s Od 31s
Second 4oa Od '2ss Od 20s 01 28s Od
Third so. Od `2os Od 15s 02 268 02

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.

Pearls.
318 03
488 Od
268 Od

CORN-MARICEZLOUT election this week has had the effect
of preventing any transactions of importance taking place.
Oats are a shade dearer than last week, notwithstanding the
state of the wind being favourable for arrivals. Oatmeal and
Flour, though heavy, support the quotations of last week.
Barley and Malt aro a trifle lower, but the trade in these ar-
ticles is dull. Beans arc more inquired for, without expe-
riencing any advance in price.
COTTON-MARKET.-•-The bustle of the elections has inter-
fered considerably with business this week, which has only
been limited. At the public sale of Surats this day, only a
few were sold, and those at moderate prices. Still we can
quote an advance of id. on American since the close of the
year, and rather more on Pernams and Egyptians. There is
no Sea Island on hand, at least very few, and the prices quoted
are therefore very uncertain. 4,000 Surats are declared for
auction on Friday, the 23d inst. 1,500 bags of American have
been taken on speculation. Sold this week, 16,760 bags ;
imported ditto, 6,048 ditto.
The business done in Cotton in our Market to-day, though
small, amounting to 2,000 bags, has bean effected at steady
prices.
WOOL MARKET.—We have to notice an increased demand
for Scotch Wools in this market, and considerable sales have
been made during the week, though at prices much lower
than our last quotations :—Laid Highland Wool, per 24"b5.,
I Is. 4d. to I ls. Bd. ; White Highland Wool, 14s. 9d. ; Laid
Crossed Wool, 14s. to 14s. 6d. ; Washed Crossed Wool,
16s. 6d. to 17s. 6d. ; Laid Cheviot Wool, 16s. to IBs.
Washed Cheviot Wool, 19s. 6d. to ns. 6d. ; White Cheviot
Wool, 275. to 30s. Imports this week, 107 bags.

PELIIAM.—In order to meet the demand for the
new, cheap, and illustrated edition of this first and most cele-
brated work of Mr. Bulwer' (which had long been out of
print, and is now produced with new attractions, uniformly
with the Waverley Novels,) we understand that Mr. Colburn
has stereotyped it. The first issue is nearly all sold, and a
second is now in preparation.

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CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—The
.grand new street
from thc Mansion- House to London- bridge is proceeding towards
completion with great rapidity, and is already a first-rate tho-
roughfare for foot-passengers. Princes-street has for some
time presented the appearance of a brick and mortar desert in
the heart of London, and a beginning has been made (by pull-
ing down some houses in London wall) in the continuation of
the line to the bottom of the City-road. The note of prepara-
tion is also heard at the end of Cheapside, where the clump of
houses between St. Martin's-le-Grand and St. Paul's church-
yard are to come down, in order to effect the very desirable ob.
ject of affording a more open view of our magnificent cathedral
than can now be anywhere obtained. The enlargement of
Smithfield is another improvement, which is to be set about
immediately, in order to destroy the argument for the neces-
sity of the new market at Islington. The Common Council
have determinep on enlarging the north side—that toward
Smithfield-bars, St. John-street, &c.—in opposition to some
of the members of their body, who strongly advocated the de-
molition of the " rookery between King-street and West-
street, alias Cow-lane and Chick-lane. The new addition
will certainly add nothing to the regularity of the area of
Smithfield, which would evidently be most improved by taking
down the Hosier-lane side, and bringing that into a line with
the present extreme west end of tho market,....4feehanics'
Magazine.

FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE.—AII extensive $y
tern of fraud upon the Excise has recently been discovered
by Mr. Golding Bird, the General Examining
Surveyor of
that department. The system was known to Government
meny years ago, but was checked by the precaution of so exe-
cuting and affixing the stamp to reams and bundles of paper
as to preclude their removal without being broken and ren-
dered useless. It has lately been made known to the public
authorities, from certain circumstances, that illegal practices
were being carried on ; and Mr. Bird, after a persevering inquiry
and research, found that the true stamps, denoting the quality
and weight of paper, and that it had paid duty, had been in.
geniously removed by some strong solution, and afterwards
placed on packages of paper which had not been duly entered
or paid duty, and often on inferior paper, which vac supposed
and believed to be guaranteed by the stam-
--thus defrauding
both the revenue and the fair dealer. Par Bird has traced
one fraud to an extensive paper-- • • subject
is under the considerati'- .seiner, and the whole
of the Excise
Board, prelirnina”- ...4 . and investigation
known parties.
~0111 upon conviction o f
The penal.' j to the prosecution o
f the
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• the offenders are very heavy.. , .
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