The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-25 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ••• ••• .•• -------
••• ... 592
Females ... ••• ••• ••• ... 601

Total .„. ... 1,193
*ln this number are included 15 by Scarlatina, 31
by Typhus Fever, 51 by Diarrlicea, and 5 by Cholera.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—The Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ripon, Captain
Moresby, has arrived here with the heavy portion of the
Indian mail. She brings seventy-four passengers, amongst
wham is the Hon. Mr. Davis, the United States Commissioner
to China, also specie value 5,000 L, and a large cargo of silks
and general merchandise. Sir W. Parker's fleet was crui,ing
in the neighbourhood of Malta. The Peninsular mail
steamer Jupiter sailed from Gibraltar for Southampton, to
touch at Lisbon, on the 16th inst.
PETITION OF Da. WEDSTER.--TO his Excellency
the Governor, and to the Honourable Executive Council of
the Commonwealth of Illasimchusetts.—John White Webster,
a convict, under sentence of death in Boston gaol, in behalf
honourable body
of himself and of his wife and his children, respectfully
petitions that the sentence awarded against him by the
law may be commuted to such other less horrible
and ignominious punishment as your
may mercifully decree. Your petitioner fully admits
that he was tried before a fair and impartial tri-
bunal, and, under the law as it exists, his jury, com-
posed of honourable and hightninded men, could
have returned no verdict other than they (lid. But he re-
spectfully reminds your honourable body that the two great
moral ingredients of the crime of murder, malice and pre-
meditation, have never been found against him by a jury,
but have been necessarily inferred by the arbitrary rules of
the law, from
not deny, but the extenuating details of which no man in
certain general facts which your petitioner will
your petitioner's situation can ever poss3ss legal evidence to
prove. These details your petitioner has confided to the
friend who presents his Petition' with authority to state them
to your honourable by.ft, in the hope that you will find
therein reason to extend to your petitioner and his family
that mercy of which the law has made you the dispensers.
And your petitioner will ever pray.--4. W. WEBSTER...-.
Boston, June, ISSO.

KINGSLA.ND AND DALSTON L ITERARY INSTITUTION.
—A call of 10t. per share is to be made on the shareholders
in this society, to pay off its liabilities.

LIST OP SCOTT/SIN COMPASTIMS' PRICES
Dividend Arm=
Name of Company. per of Paid, Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. s. d
Bank of Scotland
l'iritish Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 194
7.aledonian Bank
City of Glasgow tank
Clyde,,la.le Bank •••• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 011 10 0 0 131,4
Commercial Bank .• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 1100 0 0 16634
Eastern Bank .•• • • • 6/. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 934
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 5%
Exehangeßnk of Scot 47. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 914
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
Nat!onal Bank 634 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
North of Scotland Bank 47. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3
North British Bank "•• ,
Royalßank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 131
Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 88
Western Bank:. ••• • • • 7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
Alliance Fire and Life 8341. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20U
B. Accord. Life and Fire 20 0 0 OIQ 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 47. per tent. 10 0 0 1. 0 0 14i 6d
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Colonial Life 50 0 0 1 0 0 111. 3s.
City of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 27. 108
Edinburgh Life Incur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20
East of Scotland Life lO 0 0 015 0 -
Eng. /k Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 234
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
incur. Co. of Scetlnd.• Sl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 185
Mercantile Life
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 225.6 d
North British Incur.
North & West of Scot 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar 2O 0 0 011 0 -
Bcot. Mes. and Gen.Llfe 0 0 015 0 j -
3c,")ttish Union Insrnce. 6741. pr cent. 20 '0 0 1 0 0 1238.6 d
standard Life ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 I 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 115 s 9d
ZIZISCELLAZIMOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. 11
Annum. Share.
X• s. d. Z. s. d.
Suction Mart •••• • • •• 2/. ss. 50 00 I - 25
Australian Aericulturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15
knglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shares.. 2 10 0
Canada • • .... •• •. 61. per cent. 100 0 0i32 10 0 32
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per.cent. - 89
rlity Navigation .... 91
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.fc bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 106
Gee.SteamNavigation 11. Be. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - ,26 s 0 -
Peril/lair& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 80
Reversionary Int. Soc. 1341. pr cent. 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 95
Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18. 4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 583
South Australian ....• 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 19
Van Dieman's Land., - 100 0 0 29 0 0 134

TWO CHILDREN SUPPPOSED TO lIAVE BEEN POI•
SONEI) BY THEIS PAREN-rs.—On Saturday, at Northamp-
ton, two persons, named William Pell, a labourer, and
Sarah, his wife, were brought up for examination on a
charge of having poisoned their two children. aged two and
four years, with arsenic. It appears that about a fortnight
ago the youngest child died, and was buried on Saturday, the
13th. The other child was taken ill, and, although two me-
dical gentlemen attended it; it died the following day. The
symptoms having attracted the suspicions of the medical
men, the body was exhumed, and the result was the dis-
covery of a quantity of arsenic in the stomach. The other
child was then exhumed by the direction of the Coroner,
and on examination the body was found to contain arsenic
also. Other circumstances of suspicion against the prisoners
afterwards transpired, and they were both apprehended.
After the proceedings, which were conducted in private, had
terminated, the prisoners were remanded.

The Atmopyre is the name of a curious arrange-
ment for warming, cooking, &c., by means of gas, invented
by Mr. D. 0. Edwards, a surgeon. The gas is burnt on the
outside of small " hoods," made of the material of the
common tobacco-pipe, perforated with holes the 50th part of
an inch in diameter, in imitation of Sir Humphrey Davy's
safety lamp reversed. Gas is introduced into it, and there
mixes spontaneously with atmospheric air, forming a kind of
artificial fire-damp. This mixture, being i4nited on the out-
side of the vessel, discharges itself in numerous diminutive
explosions; the earthenware is enveloped in a coat of pale
blue flame, becomes soon red-hot, and presents the appear-
ance of a solid red flame. The " hood" is the exact converse
of Sir Humphrey's lentern. The explosive gas is inside,
instead of outside : the flame on the exterior is prevented
flom penetrating and kindling the contents of the chamber
by the narrowness of the aperture. The explosive mixture,
being minutely divided, is burnt piecemeal at the outer
orifice of each hole, producing a slight murmuring noise, and
great heat is evolved.—Builclen