The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-03 00:00:00

EXCIIANGES,

Christiana, Dec. 15,3 months •• • • 4 74
Bremen, Dec. 27, two months .... 61 8
London, Dec. 28 ..... , .... 13 93i

Ditto, three months••••••....•• 13 83

DEATH PROM WANT AND EXPOSURE TO THE COLD.
—Tuesday afternoon an inquest was taken before Mr.
Wakley, the deputy coroner, in the board-room of
Holborn workhouse, respecting the death of a male
person, apparently about furty years of age, at present
unknown, who died from want and exposure to the cold,
under the following very shocking circumstances:—The
body of the deceased presented a most frightful appear-
ance, and was entirely covered with filth and dirt. It
appeared from the evidence of several witnesses that,
shortly after nine o'clock on Friday morning last., Mrs.
Martha Gibbs, a married woman, residing at No. 11,
Tyndall-buildings, Gray's Inn-lane, was suddenly
alarmed by hearing some person moaning in the cellar
at the basement •of the house. She instantly went to
the spot, and found the deceased lying in one corner
of the cellar, huddled up, in a qnantity of filth and
dirt. The decased appeared perfectly insensible, and
Mrs. Gibbs immediately obtained the assistance of
several police-constables, who had the deceased removed
to Holborn-workhouse. He was literally black from the
dirt is w hich he had been lying, and his body was ex-
tremely emaciated. He was instantly stripped and
placed in hot blankets, and the usual remedies were
applied, which consisted of ammonia and brandy; but
the deceased never rallied, and died shortly afterwards.
Two penny pieces were found placed upon two ulcers on
the deceased's legs, and a few pieces of stale bread were
abo discovered in his pockets. The deceased obtained
admission to the cellar by means of the window which
looked into the street. The coroner remarked that the
cellar appeared to be in the same bad condition as before
the cholera broke out. The parochial authorities ought
to have the place thoroughly cleaned every week. The
jury returned a verdict of death from exhaustion, caused
by exposure to the cold, and the want of the common
necessaries of life.

BOUNDARY LINE OF CALIFORNIA AND MEXICO.—
Upon tha occasion of fixing upon the starting point of
the southern boundary of California by the joint com-
mission of the United States and Mexico, the American
Commissioners (including Colon,-1 Weller) rode down
from San Diego to the " Punta" to meet the Mexican
Commissioners, for the purpose of settling upon a boun-
dary line. Having met, they rode to the southermost
point on the bay of San Diego, and then to the other
end of the Marine Loague. After a few minutes' con-
sultation the point was decided upon, and they returned
to Mr. Gray's camp at the Punts. Having partaken of a
cold collation, they started for San Diego, 18 miles distant,
and arrived there the same night. The starting point of
the boundary line thus determined on is on the extremity
of the table land, as you approach the bay, and is the
first land you make in a steamer approaching San Diego
from the south. It may be marked by a lighthouse
some future day. On the 10th of October the Commis-
sioners again met and jointly signed a paper, written in
Spanish and English, to the effect that this was the point
determined upon by the joint Commissioners of the
American and Mexican Governments, under the treaty
of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, as the starting point on the
Pacific for the boundary between the two republics.
This paper was inclosed in a glass bottle, and placed in
the bottom of a hole in the earth, three feet in depth.
Some shovels full of earth were the❑ thrown upon the
bottle by Colonel Weller on behalf of the American,
and General Conde on behalf of the Mexican Govern-
ment. An upright post was then planted in the hole, to
mark the spot. During these ceremonies the counte-
nances of the Mexican Commissioners exhibited a re-
markable degree of gravity ; they did not forget that
they were affixing the last seal to the treaty for the dis-
memberment of their republic.—New York Paper.
FOREIGN PAPER.—An importation having taken
place of a quantity of paper, for letter-writing, having a
name and address in the top left-hand corner, it was at
first considered to be an illegal importation, as having
the names, marks, or brands purporting to be those of
manufacturers in this kingdom, but it being subse-
quently found to have been imported merely for the
parties' private use, and that the name and address in
the margin were his own, which ho affirmed to be the
case, directions were given for the paper to be delivered
on payment of the proper duties leviable thereon.
TRINITY-HOUSE.—We have to record the demise
at his residence at Woodford, of Captain Abel Chapman,
the senior of the elder brethren of the Corporation of the
Trinity-house. The deceased was in his 98th year, and
had been a member of that corporation upwards of half a
century, having been elected one of the elder brethern in
1791 He was most deservedly respected by a very
numerous circle of friends.

THE INVENTOR OF THE BLOCK MACHINERY.—
A correspondent of the Builder says—" Some of your
contemporaries, in their notice of the late Sir M. I.
Brunel, have claimed too much for him. The original
inventor of the block machinery was Walter Taylor, an
Englishman. lie took out a patent for it, and for years
supplied the navy with blocks. When his patent ex-
pired he tried to get an extension of it, and, on failing,
Government employed Brunel to set it up at Portsmouth.
lie' improved and added to it, but he has not the least
right to the credit of the original invention. If this be
uestioned, you shall have a full statement from the best
authority."
The following is a comparative list of the produc-
tions of the French press in 1848 and 1849:-
1849. 1848.
Works in all languages, dead and living 7,378 7,234
Engravings and lithographic prints ... 672 1,055
Musical compositions ..• 236 257

8,276 8,546
b-ing a balance in favour of ls 4 of 270. In the above
account are not included the daily and other journals.