The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-23 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending:February
19, 1850, is 255. 11.:14d. per cwt.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT ELECTION.—The vacancy in the
representation of this county was supplied on the 20th
instant by the election of Mr. John Mackie, of Bargaly.
Mr. Mackie was proposed by Mr. Maxwell, of Nlunsties,
and seconded by Mr. M'Adam, Guillyhill. No other
candidate having been proposad Mr. Mackin was declared
duly elected. Mr. Mackie returned thanks in a short
speech, in which he expressed himself as favourable, to
the principles of free trade and the progress of reform.
ROBBERY AT PENRITH RAILWAY STATION.—OH
Tuesday afternoon last 1171. was stolen from the goods'
department office at Penrich station, on the Lancaster
and Carlisle Railway. The money consisted of gold and
silver, which was in a leathern bag, which was hanging
iu the office. It appears that two bags containing money
usually hang against the bb all behind where the clerks
sit; and that it is the duty of one of the junior clerks,
at certain times, to gibe these bags to the guard of the
express: train, who takes them to the head office at
Lancaster. On Tuesday afternoon, about three o'clock,
on the arrival of the train, he went to take the bags to
the guard, and there being only one, he gave it to him.
Nothing more was said or done till after the arrival of
the down train in the evening from Lancaster, by which
there was a message to the managing clerk that only one
of the money bags had arrived at Lancaster. On this
the junior clerk was questioned as to the bags, when he
said he only gave one bog to the guard of the express
train. Both bags were seen in their usual places about
twenty minutes before the arrival of the express train;
and when, how, or by whom the bag was stolen still re-
mains a profound secret. Officers were immediately
dispatched to Lancaster andlother places, and every exer-
tion set on foot whereby to discover the theft; but
hitherto without effect.

NOVEL APPLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPIIT.—Mr.
Richard Beard, jun., one of the most accomplished pro-
ficients in this highly-interesting application of the
sciences of chemistry and optics to the fine arts, has re-
cently beon called upon to exercise the skill for which
he has attained a merited pre-eminenco upon the dead
body. A case has recently come within our knowledge
in which the features of a child that met with its death
in consequence of an accident by fire were truly and
beautifully rendered by Mr. Beard, jun. It has occurred
be brought into requisition
towi
with
4s tveryhat photography
manifest
benefit,
where accuracy and prompti-
tude are of paramount importance, as, for instance, in
cases that form the subject of judicial inquiry, where
the object or appearance to be copied is of a perishable
nature. Photography may also be made vastly useful
to the medical inquirer in securing exact representations
of morbid coaditions in the human body.—Lady's News-
paper.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—At the Wakefield station
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, a man was
killed on Wednesday lust by being crushed between the
buffers of two waggons, while he was employed in
getting some pigs off by a goods train to Halifax,
where he resided, and was in the service of Mr. Baxter'
the high constable. The cause of the accident was the
backing of the engine without a warring signal. The
coroner's jury on Thursday brought in a verdict of
1" Accidental death."