The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 17.

STOCK EXCHANGE. - The market has been lower to-
day. London and North Western, 99} Shrewsbury
and Hereford, 83--Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed
Stock, 70 }—South Staffords, 9 i—Birmingham and Stour
Valleys, 81—Ditto Derbys, 55i.

THE MURDER IN SIIROPSHIRE—INQUEST.—The in-
quest on the body of the woman Morgan, who was killed
near Wenlock, in Shropshire, by a man loathed William
Davies, with whom she lived, was held at Much Wenlock
on Wednesday, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" was
returned against Davies, who the same day was coin•
witted by the magistrates on that charge. The facts
of the caio appeared in Tuesday's Sun.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A tradesman and his wife in
the rue Vieille du Temple went on Sunday to see their
child, who is out at nurse at a farmer's, named Lefort,
at Bonneuil, and at about ten at night, Lefort and his
wife set out with them, in their cart, to convey them to
Maisons Alfort, to take the railway to Paris. On arriving
at an isolated spot, Madame Lefort whispered to her
husband that an ill looking fellow had been following
them for some time, and had just thrown a stone at her,
without, however, hitting her. Lefort, a strong and re-
solute man, immediately jumped from his cart, and
the man who had thrown the stone struck him several
blows on the bead with a stick and attempted to throw
him down, at the same time whistling in peculiar way.
Lefort, seized the highwayman by the throat, and began
to treat him rather roughly, when two other men rushed
on him, and beat him in a savage maneer. On thin,
the tradesman, who had provided himself with a sort of
club, went to Lefort's assistance, and the two then at:
tacked, one with his club, the other with the handle of
his whip, the highwaymen with the greatest vigour. At
length, the highwaymen having the worst of the fray,
deemed it prudent to decamp. Lefort then drove
rapidly to Maisons Alfort, and stated to the gendarmerie
what had taken place; they immediately went in pur-
suit, and at ()retell they overtook three men whose
heads and faces bore cuts and bruises, and whose gar-
tnents were torn. They arrested them, and Lefort and
the tradesman fully ident:fied them. Wednesday, the
three highwaymen were brought up to Paris and lodged
at the Prefecture of Police to await their trial.
EGYPTIAN EMBALkING.—AII that has been written by
modern authors upon this interesting sntject seems to
have been gathered from the account first given to us by
Herodotus. Those writers—Diodorus Siculus, Pliny,
Dioscorides, Galen, &c.—who followed soon after, appear
to have stated nothing that was not originally advanced
by Herodotus. He tolls us that there were three different
ways of embalming. The most magnificent was bestowed
only upon persons of distinguished rank, and the Expense
amounted to a talent of silver,: about 1371. 10s. (Cahnet
says, about 3901.) sterling ; but 20 mince, cr 60 pounds,
was considered moderate; and the lowest price was very
small: When a person of distinction died, the body was
put into a coffin, the upper exterior of which represented
the deceased, with suitable embellishment. The coffin
itself was usually made of sycamore wood, which accord-
ing to Dumont, is almost incorruptible. Sometimes
deal was used, in which case it was brought from abroad.
The embalming of the body occupied from forty to twenty
days. It consisted mainly of the introduction of astrin-
gent drugs and spices into the body, anointing it with
oils of cedar, myrrh, and cinnamon, and saturating it
with nitre. It was then washed, and wrapped in linen
bands dipped in myrrh and gum—these bands in some
instances being one thousand yards long—commencing
at the head, an I terminating at the feet, avoiding the
face. The body was then restored by the embalmers to
the relations, who placed it in the coffin. A less expen-
sive proof as of embalming was simply to inject into the
bowels a. liquid extract of cedar, and wrapping up the
body in salt or nitre ; others were soaked, or, as some
ttink, boiled in a kind of bitumen made of mixed re-
sioous substances. They were then placed without any
other covering than the bandages saturated with this
substance, in sepulchres, and there deposited in rows by
thousands.—Ouriosities of History. • . .

BI,R:T H S.

OF A SON.

On the 16th inst., at Penally House, near Tenby, the
wife of Nicholas John Dunn, Esq.
On the 16th inst,-, at the Pareonne, Croasens, the wife
of the Rev. W. Cornwell.