The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TIM TRADE.

Although, as we have already observed, the attend-
ance of butchers from all quarters was numerous,.the over-
whelming nature of the Bullock supply, together with the
unfaveui able state of the weather for slaughtering, and
the immense, quantities of meat in Newgate and Leaden-
hall, produced a state of trade without a parallel. From
the opening of the market till nearly eight o'clock
scarcely any sales took place, and throughout the day
the demand for &I- breeds of Beasts ruled excessively
heavy, at unusually low prices. This must be obvious
when we state that even the finest animals in the collec-
tion did not realise more, on the averae, than 3s 10d
per 81ha. A few of the Aberdeen Scots 7 might have
produced 4s per Sibs, but this must he considered as a
very extreme point. At the close of the market there
could not have been less than two thousand Beasts unsold.
For the time of year the number of Sheep was good.
Compared with that for Beasts, the demand was steady;
nevertheless, it must he called very inactive, at last
week's prices. The top prices for the best old Downs
were 4s to 4s 2d per 8 lbs.
There were about 60 Dorset Lambs in the market, in
fair condition.
We vvere very scantily supplied with both En ashli
and foreign Calves, in which very little was doing, the
late decline.
The Pork trade ruled exceedingly heavy, and prices
were with difficulty supported.
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Per Slb to sink the Offal.
s. d. to s. d. S. d.• to 0. d.
:-fervor Beasts.. ... 3 3 2 f.if,rior Sheep .• ~2 10 3 2
,lecond quality ••.. 3 0 2 ;i 4 S.,,me. qual. Sheep 3 4 3 6
,time lar;;;e Oivan •• 3 6 3 8 C3arse-woolledditto3 8 310
?rime Scots ...... 3 8 310 .nothdownWether 4 o 4 2
r.arge coarse Calves 2 6 3 0 Ditte out of the wool 0 0 0 0
ll ditto .• 3 2 3 6 Large Hogs ...... 2 6 3 6
Primt sma
ineklibg Calves ..18 0 24 0 Small Porkers ..... 8 4 0
0 0 Quartar old Pigs —lB 0 20 0
r_Amt,,,,, ...• ...... 0 0
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Sheer. I Calves. I
Pigs
26,030 i 180 241)
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
I Sheep. Calves. Pigs.
2,560 117

Bcasts•
6,311

Flc astS.
450

YnEtVGATZ AND ZEADENHALL.
These markets continue to no heavily supplied with
both town and country-killed Meat, in excellent condi-
tion. A large portion of the supply on offer to-day was
left over from last week. For all kinds the demand is
excessively heavy, and prices are somewhat lower than
on Mondaylast. About 1,000 carcases of Foreign Moat
have appeared on sale since our last report.
At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. S. d. to 1, (1
3se,inforior.• ••.. 2 0 2 2 liutton, inferior •• 2 4 2 g
-- cuddling ••.. 2 4 2 6 --- middling ••2 10 3
primelarge 2 8 210 -- prime •••• 3 6 3 8
--- prime small 3 0 3 4 Fork, large •• • •-•• •• 2 4 3 6
Veal •• •••• •• 2 6 361 -- small •.
BOROUGH AND SPITAIirIELDS.
Full average time of year supplies of potatoes ha ye
reached us, coastwise and by hind carriage, during the
week. The imposts from abroad have been age in
limited, viz., 10 casks 146 bags from Rotterdam; 6 ba 42
from Amsterdam; 30 ditto from Dunkirk; and 130 tons
from Rouen. The supply being in excess of the dem an d,
prices are in some instances a shade lower than last wee k.
Per Ton. Per Tort. _
Yorksh. Regents. Ws to 95s Essex Shaws 65s to 75s
Scotch Regents.. 70s to 85s Kent Regents.... 70s to 'BO5
Wisbeach & Cam- Essex Regents... 70s to eos
bridge
Foreign ..... 65s to 75s Kentish Red Kid. 705 to .£O5
Lincoln. Shaws —s to - s Cambridge ditto 60s to 75s
Kent Shaws 6ss to 75: Chats
WOOL.
Last week's imports of W 00l into London wen .1 28
bales from Havre; 64 from Rouen; 105 from Born, ')ay;
393 from Constantinople; 49 from Smyrna; 22 f tom
Rotterdam; 179 from Ilamburgh; 121 from Mogad ore;
and 26 from Antwerp. The private market is in a rery
inactive state, yet holders genure,lly are firm, and pi icest
rule steady. The steel,: of Colonial Wool is now
about 7,000 bales.

TALLOW.
Since our last report the dtmand fnr Tallow on s.fhe
spot has tilled stetAly at full prices, P.Y.C. being cp.: ot ed
to-day at 37s to 37i 6d vr cwt. For torward ry
very liLle is doing. Town Tallow, 36s 9d to 37s .3,
per cwt. net cw,h. Rough Fat, 2i Id per Blbs.

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1846. 1847. 1348. I 1849. 1 350.
Stock this day •• .—I 25,493 11,35,1 36,176 48,795 4;,1
52
151 s Gd 46s 9d 44s Od 386 64 to 37 s
f id
Price of Y. C. •• • • !
[,to Os Od to 47s ed to 43364 39s Od 7s; 63
Delivery last week • • 2,,+29 2,776 1,591 '2,504 2;154
Ditto from June 1.• •. 51,5'61 54,?82 . 50,655 52,701 - .3,738
Arrivals last week . 2241 2,472 5,268 2,584 1,755
Ditto from June 1 ... 66,454 57,541 85,298 76,023 1 12;246
Price of Town ...... 533 Od 496 Gd ; 45s 04 424 00 IS '64

APPOINTMENT TO OWEN'S COLLEGE,
CIIESTEIL—TIie three principal profe.,,,sors of this new insti-
tution have now received their appointments. They are—
A. J. Scott, Lsq.' principal and professor of logic and 1. dental
philosophy ; J. G. Greenwood, Esq., professor of th a lan.
gauges and literature of Greece_ and Rome and of hi story;
Alex. Sanderson, Esq., professor of mathematics and n atural
philosophy. The two for Mer gentlemen are of the Unis .ersity
College, London, and Mr. • Sanderson is of Queen's Cr alege,
Cambridge.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
L )rd Cumilicli and a ;special Ju! y were uceopi.A
during the morning in trying the case of " Northcrof%
v. Shepherd," which is an action brought by the
plaintiff, as secretary of the Pilot Steam Towing and
Shp Re.eue Company (ncw defunct) against the de-
fendant, who was one of the directors, to recover certain
arrears of salary. The case was only intGresting to the
parties immediately concerned.

CRIMINAL COURT-cTHIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

The December sessions, being the second of the pre-
sent mayoralty, were opened this morning in the Old
Court, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Re-
corder, the Common-Sergeant, Aldermen Gibbs and
Challis, Mr. Sheriff Carden, and Mr. Sheriff Hodgkinson,
attended by their respective deputies and other civic
authorities.

The firat edition of the calendar contains the names
of 131 prisoners, of 'whom 20 are fir London, 78 for
Middlesex, 7 for K.nt, and 26 for Surrey.
The grand jury having been sworn and empanelled,
The Lrarned RECORDER proceeded to deliver his
charge to them as follows:—Ile said he was happy to
inform them that their duties were likely to be exceed-
ingly light, since the offences embraced in the calendar
were neither numerically heavy nor of that atrocious na-
ture which bad too often characterised some of the
cases that had been the subject of painful investigations
in this court. He was rejoiced to observe upon looking
over the summary of the present calendar a total ab-
sence of a charge of either murder or manslaughter, or
in fact of any charge which related to the destruction of
human life. Nor were there many of those serious
cases which came under the denomination of cutting and
ounding; indeed, he believed there was only one. To
some extent therefore they might congratulate them-
selves upcn the circumstance of the calendar indicating
an improvement in the habits and conditions of the peo-
ple, and if it should fortunately happen that future ca-
lendars shall present a similar diminution in the extent
of crime prevailing in :he metropolis, they might then
hope that education end religious instruction were pro-
ducing their natural effects, of softening and humanising
those violent passions which were generally found raging
amongst the lower orders of society. The majority of
the cases entered in the calendar were composed
of charges of simple larceny, but he regretted again to
perceive that not a few of them were charges also of
stealing from masters. A large proportion of the thefts
which came before this Court were of that serious class,
a somewhat strange fact, because the parties imme-
diately aggrieved by such cases had a remedy in their
own hands, if they would only take care to have a
character with all parties whom they tsok into
their service. Most of those robberies were com-
mitted by servants who had been engaged
without any recommendations or characters,
and where wages were so extremely low that they could
not resist the temptations which came in their way; and
he hoped, after this information, employers would see
the expediency of paying their servants a fair remune-
ration, and of employing none who could not produce a
good character from their previous masters. Ono case
in the calendar called for a more particular notice than
the others, it was a charge against five or six persons of
breaking into a shop in the Strand, and stealing a large
quantity of jewellery end plate. Now, the proof of the
charge mainly depended upon the evidence of an accom-
plice, and it was right that he should tell them that, al-
though the law looked upon the evidence of an accom-
plice as equivalent to that of any other man, yet the
practice of this and other criminal courts, which was
confirmed by a long series of 'cases, required that
the evidence of the accomplice should be corroborated
in some material particulars before the accused parties
could be legally convicted. It was not necessary that he
should be confirmed in all the details of his evidence, but

if he were corroborated in any material fact which con-
nected the prisoners with the robbery, the jury would be
justified in sending the case for trial. These were all
the remarks that he felt called upo❑ to make now; and
again congratulating them upon the lightness of the
valendtor, it only remained for him to dismiss them to
their duties.

The grand jury then retired, and shortly afterwards
sEveral true bills were returned into court, when a petty
jury was empanelled and the trials proceeded with.

IVIARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—CharIes Riley was placed
befire Mr. Bingham, charged with stealing two table-
cloths and several articles of plate, the property of Mr.
Richard Kershaw, 69, Pall-mall. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner was formerly in the employ
of the prosecutor, whose service he left about a fortnight
ago. On Wednesday last, on looking over his plate, the
complainant missed several silver table-spoons, tea-
spoons, dessert-spoons and folks, and four dinner-forks.
From the linen chest was missed two large damask table-
cloths. Inquiries were instituted amongst the other ser-
vants, who denied all knowledge of the missing property,
and the prosecutor having his suspicions that the prisoner
was the thief, gave information to the police.
Sergeant Mount, of the C division, said he apprehended
the prisoner on Saturday night, and on searching him at
the station found upon him the four duplicates produced,
relating to silver spoons and forks, which the prosecutor
had seen and identified as his property. There was
other property missing by the prosecutor, who applied
to have the prisoner remanded.
The prisoner, ho admitted his guilt, and pleaded
pecuniary distress in extenuation thereof, was remanded
for a week.

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIVES
(THIS DAY.)
Shortly after eleven o'clock this (Monday) morning
the neighbourhood of Great Scotland•yard was thrown
into a painful state of excitement, in consequence of the
following deplorable secldenti—lt appears that for some
time a new sewer has been constructing, which
opens in Middle Scotland-yard, and extends some
distacce into the river Thames, near Northumberland
wharf. At the usual hour this morning the various
men went to their work, and continued at their
several departments without meeting with any
formidable impediment until the above-named
time, when all of a sudden the water from the river
washed away the mainstay at the end of the sewer, and
almost instantaneously the subterranean passage became
filled with water. One poor fellow was driven by the
folce of the water to the mouth of the shaft leading into
the sewer. He was taken out almost exhausted and con-
veyed to the hospital, but no fatal injury is apprehended.
Three or four other persons, it is stated, on hearing the
mighty rush of water into the sewer, and who were
standing near a ladder, succeeded in making a retreat.
The whole of the men working further outland
have, how( vtr, we regret to say, been drowned.
In consequence of its being Monday, it le stated
that two or three of the bands had not gone to work,
the loss of life is, therefore, not so great as it other-
wise might have bren. Two poor fellows, the clerk of
the works informed our reporter, were known to have
perished, be 3 and the possibility of a doubt. The steam-
engine, and every available machine were at lull work
in pumping the water out of the sewer, but it is feared
that the same will not be cleared out until late this
eight, and until such is done the exact number of persons
lost cannot be ascertained. The police have been placed
on duty at the spot to keep the crowd out of danger.

ENLARGEMENT OF THE " MORNING ADVERTISER."
—We are ghid to perceive that our excellent contemporary
the Morniny Advertiser, is about to take that position
amongst the metropolitan journals, which its justly-deserved
popularity entitles it to assume. On and after the first day
of the next session of Parliament, it will appear as a double
sheet, the size of the Times. We understand that no ex-
pense will be spared by the spirited proprietors of the
Morning Advertiser to render it complete in its various de-
partments; that its foreign intelligence will be as ample, is
accurate, and as early as that of any other morning paper;
and that its general arrangements will enable it to vie in all
respects with its daily contemporaries. The Morning Adver-
tiser has long been known as the strenuous and consistekt
advocate of the people's rights, and as the earnest promoter
of popular progress, 'while its general policy has been dic-
tated, not by those petty motives which influence parties,
but by those exalted views which harmonise with the
well-being of the great body of the people, whose political
and social improvement it so ardently desires.— Sunday
Times.

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ST. BARNABAS CHURCH, PIMLICO.—There was no
service performed in this church yesterday; and a notice,
signed by the churchwardens, and posted outside the door,
announced to the large number of persons who had assem-
bled at the hour when the doors are usually opened, that in
consequence of the difficulties of performing Divine service,
the church would remain closed until further notice.
MARRIAGE OF MRS. JERSIY..—At Dover, on
Tuesday, Mrs. Sophia
with his father, was assassinated at
Stanfield Hall, by llusb, was married to Mr. Thomas Beevor,
eldest son of Sir T. 13. Beevor, Bart., of Haigham Hall,
Norfolk.
We are happy to hear that Mr. B. B. Williams, of
Buscot Park, Barks, who was thrown from his horse while
fox-hunting last week, and received a blow on the right
ankle from the hind hoof of his horse, and had his thumb
also injured, is in a fair way of recovery from the effects of
the accident.--Brighton Paper.
Last week an anchor, weighing 3 tons 3 cwt., and
a chain cable 100 fathoms long, and weighing 10 tons, were
landed from the Stonehoun, one of the South Devon Ship-
ping Company's vessels, at this dockyard. They were manu-
factured by Messrs. Brown, Lennox, and Co. They form
part ( f the stores of a 74-gun ship.—Devonport Independent.
Tun FLAX MOVEMENT.—AII association has, we
understand, been recently formed at Bromyard, for the pur-
pose of promoting the growth of flax in that district. Up-
wards of one hundred of the agricultural members of the
association have expressed their determination to prepare a
portion cf their land for flax for the next year.
LOED BRACBLEY.—A letter from this Noble Lord to
the ,Staffordshire Advertiser discloses the fact of his ap-
_ proaching; convalescence. Although not able to resume his
Parliamentary duties at the commencement. he hopes to be
able to do so before the tern filiation of the approaching
session.

DRATII Cr LADY SCAP.S:DA LE.—We have to record
the demise of the above venerable lady, who died on Thursday
at Burn Hall, near Derby. She was second wife cf the late
Lord Scarsdale, whom she married iu 1800, and by whom she
had issue two sons and two dat %liters. The deceased lady
had reached the great age of 83 ; /ears.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGILAPII.-7The electric tele-
graph wires are brought clown .to the Brighton terminus, and
the electric telegraph will, it is expected, be in full operation
in about ten days from the pr wont date.
THE CQUItT.—The Lot Chamberlain bas issued
invitations, by her Majesty's command, to a distinguished
circle, to partake of the regal hospitalities at. Windsor Castle,
on Thursday next, when her A' ajesty will have the second
dramatic performance at the C:a stle before Christmas.
LORD CAMPBELL.—Thte, Lord Chief Justice of
England on Saturday entertaLo ed at dinner a select party of
the bar, including Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Sergeant Murphy,
. Peacocl t
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Al caulay, Q.C., Mr. Butt, Q.C.,
111 r. James, Q.C., 111 r
Q C., Mr. Greaves, Q.C., Mr.
Adolphus, Mr. Willes, Mr, DI: ?queen, and Mr. Mellor.