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

NEWCASTLE-TUESDAY.

At onr market to-day there 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 la per sack decline. The
average price of British grain for the 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 1g•
Ditto, via Marseilles April 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet April 6
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 5.
Ditto, via Marseilles Aril 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 Marseilles April 7.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton slar. 31.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 7.
Mauritius, via Southampton April 13
Ditto, via Marseilles
Newfoundland
Portugal 6.
Ditto, by private ship to Li5b0n........
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. 30.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and

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Honduras) Mar. 31.
Cuba and Mexico
..•
Bahamas, via New York. April 5.
Bermuda, ditto
West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe .... April 12.

JAMES WATT AND HIS MODEL.—It 80 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 in
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 Newcomers
engine to repair. The model had, indeed, been sent to
London for this purpose, and if it had remained
there in all probability it would have been returned
without dropping that fruitful seed into the mind of the
workman employed upon it that it did into the mind
of the Glasgow optician and mathematical instru-
ment maker; and, possibly the invention would have been
delayed another century. Imagine, gentle reader, the
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 this
little model from its long journey southward to the remote
seaport on the banks of the Clyde. This famous mode],
now venerable for its age, suggested the parent-thought
that has transformed the world.—Once a Week.

A BROKER'S Max.—A strange fact—stranger
than anything in. fiction—came to my knowledge
lately, with regard to a poor family who were visited 1/
the broker's man. When the broker's man came in, the
tenant of the house, driven to desperation by his mis
For
tunes, rushed upon him with a knife to kill him.
God's sake, don't kill me," cried the broker's man. "I lull
a poor unfortunate wretch like yourself. While I come to
take possession of your things, there is a man in posseesi°llo
of mine." "Then you ought to have some feeling for me,
said the other. "God knows I have," said the broker's man'
"but I have had nothing to do for a long time, and I
was starving when I was offered this job.
I never did such cursed work before,
I will starve to death before Ido it again." The visit °
the amateur broker's man was an angel's visit to that poor.
family. He had received five shillings in advance for whiltf
he called his " cursed work," and he made a blessed use °
it, by giving the starving family a meal. When a bent:
volent clergyman entered the house to render some as's6
-
ante to the distressed family, he found the children clinF
ing to the broker's man's neck, kissing him, and calling WI
"uncle."—Diekens's "All the Year Round."

Births.
COLE —On the 26th inst., at Wimbledon, Mrs. A. L. Cole,
of a son.
IlioniNsoN-- On the 27th inst., at Lodge Park, coun,' ;
dare, the lady of Sir J. M. Higginson, K.C.8., of a s°
Ppaou—.9n the 28th inst., at 14, Suffolk-street, r3ll-313

the wife of the Rev. Francis Pigou, of a sou.
•
Marriages. no
ELLERBY—HARMAN—On the 27th inst , at St. Mal-Pe-°t
Church, Thomas Ellerby, of Manor *House, Whitwe/1,,°!...
Sarah, daughter of Edward Harrah, Esq., of 146, lOW
bone-road.
RUSSELL—WILLIAMS—On the 27th insL, at St. Savi°111"::
Church, Hampstead, M. W. Russell, of Adelaide-r r. og.
St. John's-wood, to Emma, daughter of the late g
C. Williams, of Ledbury, lerefordshire.

Deaths.
CARPENTER—On thew27th inst., at Eastbourne, ?Ir. Jaules
H. S. Car aged 36.
CLIFTON— On thepenter, 28th inst , at 6, Old Cavendish-street?.
Cavendish-square, Major.Cliandos F. Clifton (late 12.i.tiL
Lancers), of Llyswen, Breconshire, youngest son of he
late C. C. Clifton, Esq., late of Tymawr.
GORING—On the 26th inst., Mr. Thomas Goring, of 942
New Kent-road, aged 56.
PEELE—On the 21th inst., at Long Sutton, Thos.
Peele,
Esq., aged 78.
USAYER—On the 24th inst., at 109, Gower-street, Bedford"
square, Henry Do Usayer, Esq.

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