The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-12 00:00:00

VERDICT :

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, OCT. 10.—The average price of wheat, last
week, was 19f. 21c., and that of rye 10f. 47c. The
prices are nearly the same as for several weeks past, aid
there is consequently no change in the import and ex-
port duties.

- Several merchants of Brussels have just addressed to
the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Finance,
a letter, remonstrating against the projected augmenta-
tion of the duties on printed calicoes imported from
England.

The Princess Mary steamer left Ostend on Tuesday,
with 110 passengers, among whom were several inhabi-
tants of our provincial cities, who avail themselves of the
fine weather, as well as the cheapness and convenience
of this mode of travelling, to visit London. The Polish
Countess Vrisiliff and suite were among the passengers.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausasts, Ocr. 9,
Actua
.1?.nbt,..9% per Cent.,

Rothschild'sLan Five per Cent 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9B).
... Three per Cent. -
—.Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ... 76%
—...--.
-- (1840) 103%
----......-... 1.844.•.....•-..............-.• lOl
Loan of City, 1643, Four per Cent lO3
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 60%

—Brussels Papers. Oct. 10.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 4.
Five per Cents. Metalhques
Four per Cents. lOO
Three per Cents. 76
Bank Shares 00000 00000000000000 .•••••••• We. 1598
411gemeine Zeitung, Oct. rt.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the AssisTA.NT JUDGE, and a Bench of
Magistrates.)
Mr. Peter M‘Donald, master-shipwright, a well-
dressed man, surrendered to take his trial for assaulting
Richard Morley, the foreman of a gang of ship-caulkers,
on the 9th of May last.
Mr. Woolridge appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Clarkson for the defence.
It appeared, on behalf of the complainant, that he
was engaged with other men, by the defendant, to caulk
the Blessing brig, lying in the dock adjoining Duke's-
yard, Limehouse. Some disagreement ensued between
the parties, as to the progress of the work, and the
defendant struck him a violent blow on the mouth, and
otherwise so severely assaulted him that he was laid up
for eight days.
Mr. CLARKSON, for the defendant, characterised the
prosecution as a trumpery one, that ought never to have
been brought into Court.
The jury found the defendant Guilty, and he was
fined 3/.

UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
John Newman, a young man in the employ of an oil
and colourman in Harper-street, Newington, was charged
with presenting a pistol at John Homer, a policeman of
the M division.

The policeman stated that on the preceding night,
while on duty in Harper•street, his attention was called
to the prisoner, under the influence of liquor,
flourishing a pistol about. The policeman went up, and,
addressing the prisoner, advised him to go home, upon
which he immediately presented a pistol at him, at the
same time muttering a threat. The policeman wrested the
weapon from him, and found it was loaded nearly to the
muzzle.

The prisoner said, that a bottle of turpentine upset in
his master's shop, and that, in saving a portion of it, it
made him very unwell; that his master gave him a glass
of brandy to turn the sickness, and that it made him
tipsy, and, while in that state, he took the pistol out of
his master's room, and had no recollection of what took
place afterwards.
The prisoner's master being present, Mr. COTTINGHA m
gave him a severe lecture on the impropriety of havi❑g
such deadly weapons within the reach of the young man,
who might have shot the policeman on the occasion, and
that his (the master's) conduct was more culpable than
that of his servant.
The MAGISTRATE, having cautioned the prisoner as to
his future behaviour, discharged him.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
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DUMFRIES RACES—TUESDAY.
The Dumfries Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Two
miles. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs, Bst 131b...Walked over
Match, 30 sovs., Bst 71b each, once round and a dis-
tance.—Mr. Proudfoot's Diana, 5 yrs (Robertson) beat
Mr. Barry's Cobbler, 5 yrs.
The Maiden Plate of 501. Heats, once round and a dis.
Mr. Harrison's Ferona, 3 yrs (Joy) 0 0 1 1
Mr. Wardrop's Wellington, aged 0 1 0 2
Mr. Wauchope's Erato, 5 yrs
Mr. Curror's Hygeia, aged 0 2 0 dr
Mr. Dawson's br c by Liverpool, out of
Moleskin's dam, 3 yrs

WEDNESDAY.
The Hunter's Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft. Heats, once
round.
Mr. Willington's Christopher, 5 yrs (owner) 1 1
Mr. Johnstone's Flagon, 6 yrs 2 2
The Caledonian Cup, of 105/. Three miles.
Mr. Merry's Brevity, 4 yrs (Noble) 1
Hon. J. Sandiland's Lady Skipsey, 4 yrs
Mr. Robertson's Little Fairy, 3 yrs, and General
Sharpe's Messalina, 4 yrs, also ran.
Plate of 501., for three yrs old, 7st 101 b ; four yrs, Bst 91b;
five yrs, 9st llb ; six yrs and aged, 9st 61b ; winners,
extra, &c. Heats, once round and a dis.
Mr. Harrison's Ferona, 3 yrs (Joy) 1 1
Mr. Willington's Christopher, 5 yrs
Mr. Davidson's Waverley, aged
Match, over hurdles, 351.—Mr. Mechan's Maggie beat
Mr. Kirk's Jenny Jones.
THURSDAY.—Tho Challenge Whip and 50 sovs., added
to a sweepstake of 15 sovs. each, two miles, were won by
Mr. Ramsay's Whistle Binkie, 5 yrs (Noble). Mr.
Meiklam's Best of Three, 3 yrs, was brought to the post
but would not start.
The County Members' Plate of 501., added to a sweep-
stake of 5 sovs. each. Two miles.
Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs ...(Templeman) 1
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's William le Gros, 5 yrs 2
Mr. Cook's Shadow, aged, and Sir C. Monk's Flags-
man, 5 yrs, also ran. Won in a canter.
All-aged Plate of 501. Heats, once round and a dis.
Mr, Willington's Christopher, 5 yrs (Lye) 0 1 1
Mr. Davidson's Waverley, aged
Mr. Johnston's Flagon, 6 yrs 0 0 2
Mr. F. Walker's Ravensworth, 4 yrs 2 0 0
Mr. Currons's Hygeia, aged
The Whip Stakes were won in two heats, by Mr.
Proudfoot's Diana, beating Eliza, Lightfoot, and another.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Earl of Harewood's hounds, Monday, Cross Wood,
Clifford Moor ; Wednesday, Towton ; Friday, Thorp
Arch, 10i—Sinnington hounds, Tuesday, Hutton Bank
Top ; Friday, Hovington—Cleveland hounds, Monday,
Cattersty ; Thursday, Kildale, 10f—B. V. ll' , Monday,
Melcornhe Well, 1 1 i—Mr. Trelawney's hounds, Tues-
day, Slade Hall ; Friday, Newnham Hall, 10k—Devon
hounds, Monday, Peamore ; Thursday, Haeconibe, 10i—
F. B. hounds, Monday, Ladock Wood ; Friday, Pelean
Cross, 10—Mr. Archer's hounds, Monday, Landue
Bridge ; Thursday, Bradige Wood—Lord Elcho's
hounds, Monday, Whittinghani ; Tuesday, Leamington
Branch ; Wednesday, Roddam ; Friday, Effingham ;
Saturday, Heathpool—Brushford hariers, Tuesday,
Liscombe ; Friday, Waterhouse, 101—Mr. Roe's hounds,
Wednesday, Worsell ; Saturday, Creycombe Village—
Brighton hariers, Monday, Patch= ; Wednesday, Race
Course ; Friday, Dyke, 101—Brookside hariers, Mon-
day, Newmarket Hill ; Thursday, Telscombe Tye.

PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY. -- At the present
rate of dividend, the shares would, to be on a par with
the average price of the English lines, range about 551.
or 56L The price of this stock is the subject of general
remark. The meeting takes place on the 31st of this
month. This is the answer to a correspondent of last
week,—Railway Record.

" That the said Thomas Dryden, George Dryden,
Robert Dryden, and James Dryden, and Edward Ni-
cltolson, together with ninety persons, being employed
in working in the Haswell Colliery, were therein and
then accidentally burnt, scorched, and killed, by an ex-
plosion of fire-damp, and we further say that no blame
is attributable to any one connected with the pit, and
we also further say that the said Thomas Dryden,
George Dryden, Robert Dryden, and James Dryden,
and Edward Nicholson, came to their death by accident,
and so say we all."
The verdict was then recorded by the Coroner, after
which the jury were immediately discharged.
Thus terminated the long and painful inquiry con-
nected with this melancholy occurrence—an occurrence,
which, considering the awful amount of life that has
been sacrificed, has seldom been equalled.
A subscription has been set on foot for the benefit of
the relatives of the sufferers, which already approaches
to near 2,0001. The owners of the Haswell Colliery have
contributed the munificent sum of 745/.