The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

This Day, D.
,etween 8 and B. E. M. F. C. L S.
0 a.m. I
'—
Nairn ; 30.34 40 37 S.W. 41 2 b. 2
Aberdeen ' 30.36 30 W. 3 3 b. 2
Leith ' 30.38 39 38 W. 1 3 m. 1
Berwick 30.35 37 33 W. 2 8 b. 1
Ardrossan , 3043 45 42 N.N. W. 3 8 0. 3
Portrush
Shields 3o'll 81 W.N.W. a 2 c. 5
Galway 30.58 37 36 Calm 0 8 0. 1
Scarborough 3043 37 35 W.N W. 1 9 0. 2
Liverpool
Valentia. ' 30.52 37 35 E.N.E. 1 8k 0. 2
Queenstown 3048 40 39 N.N.E. 2 9 0. 1
Yarmouth
' 3042 41 40 E.
London 304 38 1. 2
' 1 40 38 N.N.E. m. 0
Dover I 30-37 42 40 E.N.E. 6 9 0. 6
Portsmouth
Portland
Plymouth
l'enzance

EXPLANATION.-13. Barometer, corrected and reduced
032 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky; c., clouds (detached);
f,, fog ; h., hail; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy), ; 0., over-
cast (dull) ; r., rain; s., snow; t., thunder. S. Sea dis-
turbance (1 to 9).

We understand that several of the leading retail
drapery firms in the City, including Messrs. Geo. Hitchcock
and Co., Messrs. Harvey and Son, Messrs. J. Spence and
Co., Messrs. Allan and Co., Messrs. Willey and Son, &C.,
have agreed to keep their establishments entirely closed on
Monday. •
THE TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELD. —The
adjourned inquest on the body of Bridget O'Rourke, who
was killed by the explosion of an infernal machine, thrown
into her bedroom on the 23d ult., was held at the Sheffield
Town Hall. After hearing further evidence, the jury re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner
I Thompson, who was committed to take his trial.

MELANCHOLY DEATH FROM DROWNlNG.—Yes-
terday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. H. Raffles
Walthew, the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, at the
St. Andrew's Head, Limehouse, upon the body of Thomas
Haydon Strickland, aged 24 years, a lighterman, who lost
his life on Thursday last under the following circum-
stances :—lt appeared that a man named Anderson saw the
deceased getting out of a lugger into a barge
Wharf, when b 3 a false step he fell into the river.thAann :or;
son instantly jumped into the water, and in off Watson'sd
minutes succeeded in bringing Strickalpanrdpteeloe:salancaded.
medics
doctor was sent for, and the assistant.
arrived in. a few minutes,
practitioner in the neighbourhood,
Lut he did nothing to restore animation,.
ing at deceased, said, "There it!ar
my
no anrra
doinga n d ,
amnyertheliynglohoekr.o.
e
trouble ?" Ho then
--in fact, who is to pay meHf.
Barnett, who was sent for
went away, and when.
was Dr.found too late to effect anything
afterwards, arrived,
acaThtieajnuittrhryarnetguhrndedraawvneinrdgi,ctan, Tdhaatdddeedcetahseacit
dfoire:ddefrcoemasedauff.
great blame was attribruetstreetaonDimr.atiDoene')sanasdsitshtaant tthfoeyr not
de-
having attempted to
sired to express their condemnation of his conduct upon
this occasion.
SIMPLICITY AND SUPERSTITION.—A case of ex-
truce rural simplicity and superstition came beforo the
county magistrates at Maeclesfield on Wedneskay. A far.,
mer's wife accused a gipsy woman, named Priscilla Heaps,
of stealing from her the sum of £43 10s. The gipsy woman.
seems to have discerned at the first view the character of
her victim, and sho trafficked with her in the usual man-
ner of her tribe. The farmer's wife was siek,oraanand she
t
.was told she was " bewitched," and, as " money
did it," " money would cure it." The silly w
four £lO-notes and 3} sovereigns in the hands of the gipsy,
of course under a promise that it would shortly be returned
to her. It need hardly be said that the " wise woman"
never came to the rendezvous until she was brought to it
by a policeman, She was committed for trial.