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

GERMANY.

The Kolner Zeitung has a telegraphic dispatch,
dated Berlin, July 23, which states that as all the
States of the Bund have not ratified the treaty of
peace with Denmark, the exchange of ratifications
will not take place. Prussia proposes that the power
of ratification should be invested in the Central Corn-
mission.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
Further accounts from Schleswig, of the 21st inst.,
state that no change had taken place in the position
of the h,)stile forces. General \Villisden had ad-
dressed an order of the day to his troops, in which he
declares that the decisive day had arrived, and that
the only resource left was an appeal to arms.
Considerable sensation had been created in Ham-
burg on the 22d by the intelligence that Lieutenant
Lane, commanding the Schleswig-Holstein steam
gun-boat Von der Taun, had blown up his ship rather
than sufferber to fall into the hands of the Danes. It
appears that he was trying to make his way from
Trusernilude to Neustadt, when the vessel ran on
shore. Fearing lest she might be made a prize by
the enemy's cruiz-rs, the crew took to the boats and
sot fire to the Von der Tann, which soon afterwards
blew up.

HEALTH of LONDON DURING the WEEK.
(From the Registrar-Genersi's Report.)
The mortality of London exhibits a s,lnall increase.
The deaths registered in the two previous weeks
were 794, 781 ; those in the week ending last Satur-
day Here 863. To compare the corresponding weeks
of 1840.8, the lowest number occurred in that
of 1842, and was 744, the highest in that of 1848,
when it was 1,096; but in the year following the
deaths of the corresponding week rose to 1,741, when
cholera had extended its ravages. The average of the
ten weeks of 1840-9, is 974, and raised in the ratio of
increase of population 1,063 ; compared with which
latter standard, the return of the last week shows a
decrease of 200. In the last three weeks, the morta-
lity from zymotic or epidemic diseases has manifested
a slight tendency to increase ; the deaths in this
class have been successively 159, 168, and 176. But
five of the diseases which are most important in the
category of epidemics remain nearly at their former
amount, or have perceptibly declined ; for the last
week only three children died of small-pox, 15
persons of scarlatina, 16 of measles, 22 of hooping
cough, and M of typhus, all these complaints
being less fatal than usual, especially the first two.
The increase, however, is apparent in the diarrheel
among children, which is pecular to this period of
tha year. Its progress, not very formidable, is
shown in the numbers of the two previous weeks,
which were 40, 37, and that of the last week, which
was 51. In the twenty-ninth or corresponding week
of 1846, there were 124 from the same cause ;
in 1848, there were 94 ; and last year 131. Of the
51 of last week, 35 occurred under one year of
age ; eight at one and under ten ; and the rest at
more advanced ages. Five deaths were ascribed last
week to cholera ; 20 were registered in the same
week of 1846, 21 in that of 1848, and 678 in
that of 1849. Tae following are the particulars of
last week's cases :—At 60, Porchester-terrace, St.
John, Paddington, on the 18th July, a gentleman,
aged 63, died of " malignant cholera (18 hours).'
Mr. Holloway, the registrar, makes the following
statement :—" It appears from the information of the
person who was present at the death that the stench
from the drains was very great, and that the de-
ceased had often complained of it. The houses in the
terrace are near Kensington. gardens, and appear to be
very healthy, being large, unattached, and provided
with gardens." At 3, Litchfield-terrace, Queen's-
road, Holloway, on the 18th of July, the daughter of
a domestic servant, aged 8 months, died of " diarrhoaa
and sickness (4 days), cholera Anglica." Mr. Butter-
field adds, that "cholera was most virulent in the
immediate neighbourhood at the last visitation." At
31, Margaret-street, Haggerstone East, the daughter
of a labourer, aged 5 years, died of " cholera
(13 hours)." Dr. Ditchmao, the registrar, states that
he " inspected the premises immediately, and found
that they consisted of four small rooms, of which the
two lower were inhabitated by a man, his wife, and
five children, while the two upper were occupied by
a man with his wife and three children. The three
children, of whom the deceased was one, had hardly
recovered from a severe form of scarlatina. Near the
spot is the open sewer, which was so often com-
plained of last year, as the source of cholera and all
kinds of disease, and at present it is in a most filthy
state." Also at 10, Albert-street, in the same sub-
district, on the 14th July, the son of a shoemaker,
aged 1 year, died of "cholera (4 days)." " This
house is well drained, and remarkably clean." At 8,
St. Peter's-place, \Valworth-common, on 15th July,
the daughter of a cab proprietor, aged 7 months, died
of "dentition, cholera Arglica (5 days)."

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
whom is the lion. Mr. Davis, the United States Commissioner
to China, also specie value 5,000/., and a large cargo of silks
and general nierchandiie. 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 DR. WEBSTER.—To his Excellency
the Governor, and to the Honourable Executive Council of
the Commonwealth of Masiachusett2.—John White Webster,
a convict, under sentence of death in Boston gaol, in behalf
of himplf 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 honourable body
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 highminded men, could
have returned no verdict other than they did. 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 certain general facts which your petitioner will
not deny, but the extenuating details of which no man in
your petitioner's situation can ever possess 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 body, 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.—J. W. WEnsTER.—
Boston, June, 1850.

KINGSLAND AND DALSTON LITERARY INSTITUTION.
—A call of 10t. per sharels to be made on the shareholders
in this society, to pay off its liabilities.

MONEY MA.RKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 9 per mille,, which, at the „English Mint price of
34 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.37; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.40, it follows that gold is 9.11 per
cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 433 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17g. 10id. per ounce for
standara gold, gives an exahaoge of 13.9; and the ex-
change at Hamburgh ou London at short being 13.91,
it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in Lon-
don than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at
New York on London for:bills at 60 days' sight is 110}
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 par cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.92 per cent. in favour of Eng-
land, and after making allowance for difference of
interest and charges of transport, the present rate
leaves a profit on the importation of gold from the
United States.

PAINTINGS.—EXETER CATHEDRAL.—AR interest-
ing discovery of wall paintings has just been made in scraping
the walls of the Chapter House of Exeter Cathedral. Be-
neath the windows this edifice dates about 1230, and the wall
is recessed into deep early English coupled niches, with hold
detail, in clustered shafts, caps, and arch mouldings. The
hack of each of there recesses is found to have had a figure
about six feet high, standingunder a trefoil-headed crocketted
canopy, on alternately a red and black ground. The spandrel
spaces of the arches are filled with foliage, shaded with
black. All the probable saints are so defaced that not a
feature can be traced, and the same treatment has been
bestowed on two tall compositions adjacent to the east
window, each having two niches in the height, relieved with
a black ground, elegantly diapered with orange stars ; with
stars on a red border, forming the parallelogram outline,
coved into a corbel form below. The painting is apparently
iu oil, and of the third pointed period, somewhat in corre-
spondence wish the gorgeously painted and gilt roof added
by Bishop Lacy in the fifteenth century to the perpendicular
superstructure erected by him. The name of David has shown
itself on the base of a series of unoccupied niches (now re-
stored), which probably once contained other prophets,
priests, and kings of Holy Writ.—Builder.
Silence may be the sullen mood of an evil temper,
or the the lofty endurance of a martyr. —Eliza Cook's
Journal.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW OF THE EXCHANGE, LONDON.
and third
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Professor
Cockerel!, in Moor-lane, Fore-street, presents a new and
agreeable architectural feature, and obviates a perspective
defect, evident in most of the City churches in this style, on
iennteringcetn h
upon an arch, are thrown into one, forming a choir gallery
in front of the organ; the sacrifice of actual space is there-
terechisurchfroin omitted; the
the
there-
fore small, but the scenic advantage is considerable, for, on
westernsecon d dnodo r.
pen, front
entering the western door of the church, the whole interior
the
to the erst end is discovered through this triumphal arch,
forming in itself a frame to the picture, and thus obviating
architect),
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ta)r,vtehde opaukreilnosael altar-piece,
which
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el pulpit,
that perspective error which commonly obstructs this view,
and mars the artichectural effect, by the continuation of the
beam of the western gallery. The Tuscan, in all its severity,
has been happily applied to the structure, relieved, however,
to have
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communicate lighted
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warm Catherine-wheel
window, consisting of a triune, surrounded by rays of painted
giulastsim'Ofihettginigfts: fbtyhea
glow -t
th the
surrounding architecture, than -
as offering any pretensions as
a painted window.—Builder.
MALLING —The hops are coming into burr. The
bine is still growing and healthy looking, with the ex-
ception of a slight appearance ,of mould in one or to o
grounds. , , ,

ch./ST.A.X.D.
Names of ,4 .;
Dividend Names of I; Dividend
Companies. 2 I per Price. Companies. ti i per
Price.
;/: Annun. Annum.
so 1
-,---- - -
X I X
Ishtnt Oldh 97' ' 71. 1113 Macclesfield • 100, 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.• • • 160 121. 180 Neatk ••• • • • 100 I 16/ 340
Crknk&Abrg 1501 5/. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 1061 201. 185
lirniingliam 401 41. I BS% Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70
Coventry.... 100 251. 2(8 Regent's •• • • 33 11. Os. 18
Derby .•. •• 100 61. 63 Rochdale.. • • as , 41. 50N,
Ellstnre&Chs) 133 31s. 41 Somrset Coal 160 7/.los. 130
1
;rand.l tinetn 100 41. 7934 Do.Lk Fd St 12 i 6/, p. c. -
Grand Surrey,loo 21. Os. 32 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 410
,rand Unionl 100 11. 10s. 24 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Grantham -i - - - Stourbridge.. 145 201 290
Kennt & .4.vni 39 7s. Gd. 53xi Seve' and 1
26 21. Os. 24
Lancaster .!100 41. 321/4 Wye Rail. I
Leeds& Livrp!loo 241. 300 Warwick& 1
Leicester .... 100 5/. 66 Birming, I 10C 41. 64%
Letcstr &Nth 83 4/. 48% Warwick&} ioo 31. 42
Louzhborogh 142 701. 510 Napton..
Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &"1
Mntg4mrysk,loo - - ]firming.j 78 31. 43
Mel tnM wbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 141. 7%
LIST Or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
....._- -....--. -
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 194
laledonian Bank
City of Glasgow tank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 u 0 11%
Nydesdale Bank ••• • • • 635 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 1314
....7ommercial Bank .• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 16634
Eastern Bank --• • •• 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 91,8
EdinbAt Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 51,6
Ex /hang° link of Scot 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 9ii
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 6% percent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1434
,lortli of Scotlandßank 4/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3
North British Bank • • - - - -
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 131
Union Bank of Scotland , 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 as
Western Ilaialt• •••• • • • I 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
Alliance Fire and Life 8%1.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 203348. Accord. Life and Fire 1 - 20 0 0 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 47. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 14j Gd
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Colonial Life ... ..., - 50 0 0 1 0 0 11. 3s.
City of Glasgow Life GI. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 108
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 0 15 0 -
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 234
Gereules Insurance Cs. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Scstlnd- 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland Gl. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 185
Mercantile Life -- . . 3% per ct. 10 0 0 010 0 ss. 9d.
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 228.6 d
North British Insur 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 253%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 I 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. Mae. anel Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 -
Scottish Union Insrnce. 6%1. Pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 231.6 d
Standard Life -.. . . • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 15s 9d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-----
X. s. d. , Z. s. d.
kuetion Mart.• ••• • • • 2/. ss. 50 0 0 - 25
Australian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15
knglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -
Canada ... • • .• • • •
GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 32
• ••
11Ippr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - 89
City Navigation .... - - - 91
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& hs, 2/ 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 -
Equitable Reversioary 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Iv,
Gen.StearnNs.vigation 11.80. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
Itnssell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 80
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 95
Royal Mail Steam• •.• 61 18. 4. p. c, 100 0 0 60 0 0 58%
South Australian... -11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 19
Van Dieman's Land. - 100 0029 0 0 134

Two CHILDREN SUPPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POI-
SONED liT Timm PARENT:3.—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. El wards, 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 hi 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 ignited 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 liumplirey's I intern. The explosive gas is inside,
instead of outside: the flame on the exterior is prevented
from penetrating and kindling the contents of the chamber
by the narrowness of the aperture. The explosive mixture,
bring minutely divided, is burnt piecemeal at the outer
orifice of each hole, producing a slight murmuring noise, and
I great heat is evolved.—Builder,