The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-13 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, Dire. 9.

STOCK EICIIANGIS.-The sales are-Aberdeen, V.-Aber-
deen. Banff; and Elgin. 2L-Airdrie and 112thgate, 2/. 17s.
Gil.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151.-
Armagh and Portrush, 11 155.-Ayr and Dumfries, 2/. 15s.
-Ayr and Galloway, 2/ U.-Banffshire, 2/. 55.-Belfast
and County Down, 31.-British and Irish Union, 3/. 125.-
Caledonian, ex new, 121.-Caledonian Extension, 3/. Os. 6d.
-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31.-Caledonian and Northern
Direct, 3/. Os. 6d.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 4/. 55.-Carn-
warth and West Linton, 1/. 165.-Chelmsford and Bury, 11.
12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 191.-Cornwall and Devon,
2/. Bs.-Deeside Railway, 51. 10s.-Direct Northern, 21.-
Dublin and Enniskillen, 4/. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath,
35!. IN.-Ditto, New, 171.-Dundee and Forfar Junction,
3/. 17s. 6d.-Dundee and Perth, ex new, 6/. 10s.-East of
Fife, 2L-East Coast of Scotland, 21. 135.-East Lothian
Central, 2/. 25.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, W.-Edinburgh
and Glasgow, ex news, 681.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15L 10s.
-Ditto, Quarters, 15/. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New, 121. 10s.-
Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 18s.-Edinburgh and
Leith Atmospheric, 21. 55.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmos-
pheric Direct, 11. 155.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton,
21/. 10s.-Ditto, Preference, 181.105.-Edinburgh and North-
ern, 3!. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 11. 55.-Ditto, Lochgelly,
1/. 10s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Peebles, ex new, 21. Is. 6d.-
Edinburgh and Perth, 51.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Mus-
selburgh, 1/. 145.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 2/. 53.-Glas-
gow and Ayrshire, 70/.-Ditto, New Stock, 231.-Ditto, Quar-
ter Shares, 21/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 2/. 4s.
-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 21. 55.-Glasgow and
Dundee Junction, 2/. Bs.-Glasgow and Gamkirk, 45/.-
Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New, 10/. 155.-Ditto,
Preference, 2/. 55.-Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 2/.
10s.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 2/. 195.-Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ardrossan, 3/. 7s. 6d.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and
Lesmahagow, 31. .-Granton Junction, 2/. 10s.-Great
County Down, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 2s.
6d.-Great North and South Wales, 12s. 6d.-Inverness and
Elgin, 1/. 155.-Lanark and Galloway, 2/. 75.-Lanark and
Lothians, 3'.-Larne and Ballymena, 2/. 25.-London and
Hounslow. 21.-London and Manchester (Rem.), 31. U.-Lon-
don and Manchester (Rastrick), 5/. 10s.-London and Wind-
sor, 11.-London and York, 4/. U.-Midland and Eastern
Counties, 21. 7s. 6d.-Morayshire, 11.-Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 11L-Newry and Londonderry, .2/. 10s.-North Bri-
tish, ex div., 22/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 51. 10s.-Ditto,
Extension to Carlisles, 2/. 78.-Ditto, Extension to Dal-
keith, 61. 55.-North Wales Mineral, New, 4/. 75.-Perth and
Criefi' Direct, 2/. ls.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 17s. 6d.-
Scottish Central. 131. 10s.-Scottish Central and Caledo-
nian Junction, V.-Scottish Midland, 31.-Scottish North
Western, 11.17x.-Scottish South Midland, 2/. 35.-Scottish
Southern, 2/. 55.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 178. 6d. -
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 61.-South Midland,
6i. 7s. 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline. V. 10s. 6d.-Stirling
and Midland, 2/. 175.-Strathern Junction, 3/. Is.-Surrev
Grand Junction, 1L 2s. 6d.-Tean and Dove Valley, 1/. 15s.
-Tyne Valley, 11. 18s -Wishaw and Coltness, 52/. 10s.
GLASGOW, DEC. 10.

STocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bath-
e-ate, 58s.—Bridge of Weir, 40s.—British and Irish Union,
70s.—Caledonian Extension, 64a—Caledonian and Ayrshire
Junction, 41s.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction,
50s.—Dundee and Forfar Junction, 775. 6d.—East Indian
Railway, 25s.—Eaiuburgb, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 195.-
I'orth and Clyde Junction, 45s.—Glasgow General Terminus,
B!43—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 67—Ditto, Quarter
Shares (5 per cent. guar.), 1634—Glasgow and Greenock, 191.
—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 71a.—Glasgow Har-
bour Mineral, 45a.—Lanark and thians, 62s.—Lesma-
hagow, 675. 'U.—Perth and Inverness, 425. 6d.--Scottish
South Midland Junction, 41s.—Stirling and Dunfermline,
495. 6d.—Strathern Junction, 555.

SERIOUS ACCIDINT TO THE MAMMOTH HORSE.—
Thursday afternoon, at four o'clock, en accident happened to
the mammoth horse, exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, which
was near proving fatal to him. The room was crowded with
ladies and gentlemen, and as the groom was leading the
horse round the room the doming gave way, and the horse's
hind legs went into the apartment underneath. The animal
plunged and struggled for some time to extricate himself, but
all in vain. Mr. Carter ran to his assistance, and by his
herculean strength succeeded in extricating one of his legs,
and the horse was finally got out with few injuries; his off
hind leg was much bruised and strained. The porter of the
Egyptian' Hall occupies the apartment beneath the room
where the mammoth horse is exhibited, and his wife was
sitting at a table directly under the spot where the horse fell
through. She screamed and jumped out of the window,
while a clock near her was smashed to atoms by the horse's
hoof. Mr. Carter has had a strong double „floor made since
the accident. •
TROTTING AND GALLOPING TEN MILES IN
_HALF
W
HOun.—On Thursday a match was performed on imble-
, don-common which created much interest among
so. by Mr. Nel
s,taniong the local
sporting gentry. The match v
son, who undertook to ride a horse made
miles within half an
hour, six miles to be gallopped and four miles trotted. The
start was made at a trotting pace, and one mile was per-
forated in 3 min. and 10 sec.; the two consecutive miles
were covered in 6 min. and 50 sec., and the fourth mile in
3 min. and 16 see.
The horse was pulled upandh
ism
efre,,hed, and was then quickly on the road, commencingti h
refre,,hed, the
six miles gallop, and turned the first mile under three min.,
and kept at a rattling pace, and three miles was gone over in
8 min. 19 sec. ; the fourth and fifth miles mere performed in
6 min., less 4 sec., and the last mile was entered upon at a
flying pace, and covered in 2 min.and 15 sec., finally winning
: the match by 14 sec. The four miles were trotted in 13
min. and 16 sec., and the six miles galloped in 16 min. and
no see. The horse is a small one, and seemed but little dis-
tressed at the conclusion of the match.
THE SECRETARYSHIP OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.
• —At a meeting of the Directors of the Highland and Agri-
. cultural Society of Scotland, held on Friday, at which his
Grace the Duke of Montrose, President of the Society, pre-
sided, John Hall Maxwell, Esq., junior, of Dargavel, WAS
appointed Secretary to the Society.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Vil
hers have left town for Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire,
on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Grafton. The Noble
Earl had previously arrived them.

r--'

IRELAND.
THE POTATO DISEASE.
DUBLIN, DEC. 9.—There is no feature of novel*
the accounts from the country received this day.
The Clare Journal, a Conservative paper, contains the
following :—" Very absurd statements are put forth by
those who assume that the losses of the people by the
disease of the potato crop have been greatly exaggerated.
True, some few persons have been fortunate in their
crop escaping altogether the prevailing rot, but what are
they among so many ? And all those who have escaped
are those whose crop has been nearly, if not altogether
confined to red potatoes. These may here and there be
found ; but when it is remembered that the great bulk
of potatoes belonging to nineteen out of every twenty
persons are white, and that in no case have those
escaped, it may be fairly presumed that the losses have
been enormous. We repeat it, and we care not who it
displeases, that there are not now half as many sound
potatoes in the-country as there were last December."
The Dean of Achonry has addressed the following to
the Freeman's Journal:—

" Deanery House, Bally-a:tote, Dec. 6, 1845.
" Sir,—You will much oblige me by giving insertion to
the inclosed copy of a letter which I forward by this post
to Lord Cloncurry.
" I am anxious to amend my former incomplete report
by the additional information which I have since ob-
tained in pursuing my anxious inquiry on this impor-
tant subject.—l remain your obedient servant,
" ED. N. HOARE "
" Deanery House, Ballymote, Dec. 6, 1845.
" My Lord,--Having replied, at some length, on the
19th ult., to the circular issued by the Mansion-house
Committee, respceting the potato crop, and having an-
swered the first query rather vaguely, I beg to state
that, from further inquiries, I feel myself enabled now to
speak more decidedly as to the extent of the failure of
the crop in this neighbourhood.
" I regret to state that the report which I have to give
is not very favourable. In the heavy lands many of the
farmers have lost more than half—in some cases as
much as two-thirds. I believe that a moderate average
on such lands is one-half lost ; and taking into account
the higher soils, in which the crop has not suffered so
much, I think one-third, at least, is the average of the
crop which is more or less unsound.
" It is to be borne in mind that there is still great un-
certainty as to the preservation of that portion of the
crop which has been pitted. I have known cases in
which apparently sound potatoes have been placed care-
fully in a dry loft, and alter a week or ten days have
turned cut bad.

" Again I would remark that the only effectual means
of relief for the people, who bear the visitation most pa-
tiently, is to be found in providing them with employ-
ment. It is melancholy to see those idle who are able
and wifling to labour, while so many useful works
might be laid out in which they might be employed.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's
obedient humble servant,
" ED. N. lIOARE, Dean of Aehonry.
" Right Hon. Lord Cloncurry, &c., &c."
CONTINUED DECLINE IN THE CORN MARKET.--At the
Ccrn Exchange this day, there was a further decline in
wheat of from Is. to Is. 6d. per barrel of 20 stone; and
of 6d. to Is. per barrel in oats and barley.
THE LATE FAILURE.—At College-street police-office,
this day, Mr. O'Hea tendered informations against
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, on charges of (em-
bezzlement, and of reeeiving moner under false pre-
tences, for that they had received 5001. from Mr. Yeates,
to be by them, in their capacity of stock-brokers, in-
vested in Government Stock, and which they did not so
invest as ordered, but applied to their own purposes, or
to purposes foreign to the intentions of Mr. Yeates. The
magistrates postponed receiving the informations pending
the Commission of Bankruptcy, now sitting on Messrs.
Labertouche and Stafford, but ordered that a copy of the
informations should be lodged with the bench fur further
consideration.

ASSISTANT-BARRISTERSHIP OF WICKLOW.—Mr. Wm.
Armstrong, Q.C., has been appointed Assistant-Barrister
of Londonderry, in room of Mr. Lendrick, who has, at
his own request, been transferred to the chairmanship of
Wicklow, vacant by the retirement of Mr. Tomb. .
A letter from Clonmel, received this morning, says:—
" Alderman Hearn was this day found drowned in a
water-vat in his brewery in this town."
NATIONAL GLASS COMPANY OF IRELAND.—We are
most happy to announce that this truly Irish company
has already so far progressed that it will be in a position
to supply glass of native manufacture very early in the
spring.—Evoting Post.
The Museum of Belfast is about to become the de-
pository of an interesting relic of the eighteenth dynasty.
Sir James Emerson Tennant has brought from Thebes
the hand of the colossal statue of Amunulph 11. (born
B.C. 1580), which travellers used to remark at the
south west propylon of the Grand Temple of Kann*.
The four fingers are two feet five inches across, which
would correspcnd with a full-length figure of fifty-six
feet. The Pacha has permitted its exportation, and it is
intended as a present to the town of Belfast by their late
represen tative.—Be(fust Chronicle.

RISE IN POTATOES.—Potatoes, which were here-
tofore selling in Liverpool at the rate of Bd. a peck; have
risen to 10d., and on Saturday, to a shilling. Manchester
Guardian.

THE STEAMER MASSACIIUSET'TS. - LIVERPOOL,
THURSDAY.—It will probably be recollected that this vessel
sailed from Liverpool under canvass and the screw, for New
York, on the 22d of October last. This morning her con-
signees, Messrs. Hamden and Co., received a letter Irons
Lublin, sating that she had arrived out at New York on the
' 18th ult., after a pas.,:a:re of twenty-seven days. This infor-
! illation has been given by a passenger who had landed in
Ireland. but we cannot trace it to any authentic source. The
probability, however, is that any :New York ship inward
bound landing a passenger on the Irish coast would forward
papers to Liverpool ; as this has not been d,:ne the accuracy
of the report is rather doubted.

POLICEMEN, SERVANTS, ANT) FAMILIES. The
eyes of Franee were opened by M. Michelet, in his eloquent
and starling work, entitled " Priests, Women, and }ami-
ties," to the machinations of the Jesuits, and to the mischief
occasioned by their influence in private life. A Michelet is
very much wanted in this country, to awaken Englishmen
to the tricks and manoeuvres of another fraternity, not less
destructive of domestic happiness than those of Jesuitism.
We allude to the metropolitan constabulary ; and, ob-
jectionable as may be the order of Ignatius Loyola,
perhaps it is not more than that of Robertus Peel. This
society was ostensibly instituted for the preservation of
the peace ; by quelling disturbances, putting down apple.
women, apprehending piApockets, removing obstructions,
and taking beggars and disorderly persons to the station-
house. Its real object has at last become apparent, being no
other than universal domination. Its members, disguised
in plain clothes, are now known to mix in all societies, to
whose manners and peculiarities they are instructed to
adapt themselves. They mingle, as exquisities, in the sa-
lons of fashion; they creep, as cads, into the "crib " of the
costermonger. They frequent every species of tavern, from
the first-rate hotel to the jerry-shop; and Leither the free-
dom of the tap nor the sanctity of the parlour is safe
from their intrusion. They thus insidiously worm
themselves into all sorts of secrets, and ascertain who is
who, what is what, and what is going on ; to the utter sub-
version of all privileges of Britons. But the evil does not
stop here. In his uniform, the policeman is notorious for
scraping acquaintance with servants at area railings. What
if the joint that went down only half finished re-appears
three-quarters gone, and the fowl removed with one wing
conies up minus the remaining one? What if his tea and
sugar go with railroad rapidity, his butter melts in the
coldest weather, and his beer wastes without a leak in the
barrel? How much longer are free-born Englishmen to sub-
mit to the Pspionnage, and to be victimised by the voracity of
an X 10, a Y 15, or a Z 20?—Punch.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOCUST.—In the
summer evenings it is common to see upon the trunks of
trees, reeds, or any upright object, a heavy-looking lump-
backed, brown beetle, an inch and a half long, with a scaly
coat, clawed lobster-like legs, and a somewhat dirty aspect;
which latter is easily accounted for by the little hole visible
in the turf at the foot of the tree, whence be has lately crept.
I have sometimes carried them home and watched with
great interest the poor locust "shuffle off his mortal," or
rather earthly, "coil," and emerge into a new -world. The
first symptom is the opening of a small slit which appears in
the back of his coat, between the shoulders, through which,
as it slowly gapes wider, a pale, sickly-looking texture is
seen, throbbing and heaving backwards and forwards. Pre-
sently a fine square head with two light. red eyes, has dis-
engaged itself, and in process of time (for the transformation
goes on almost imperceptibly) this is followed by the libera-
tion of a portly body and a conclusion; after which the
brown leggings are pulled off like bouts, and a pale, cream-
coloured, weak, soft creature very tenderly walks away from
its former self, which remains standiag entire, like the coat
of mail of a warrior of old—the Shelly plates of! the eyes that
are gone looking after their lost contents with a sad lack of
"speculation" in them. On the back of the new• born crea-
ture lie two small bits of membrane, doubled and crumpled
up in a thousand puckers, like a Limerick glove in a walnut-
shell; these now begin to unfold themselves, and gradually
spread smoothly out in two large beautiful opal-coloured
wings, which by the following morning have beeo-ie clearly
transparent, while the body has acquired its proper hard
consistency and dark colour; and when placed on a tree the
happy thing soon begins its whirring, creaking, chirruping
song, which continues with little intermission as long as its
harmless happy life.—Meredith's New South Wales.
The Guardians of the .Slartley Union, in con-
sideration of the disease in the potatoes, have, at the sug-
gestion of the chaioman, P. V. Onslow, Esq, unanimously
agreed to give the inmates bread and cheese in lieu of po-
tie() meals. In consequence of this considerate alteration,
the poor in the house will have three servings of bread, &c.,
daily.—Worcestershire Chronicle.
PERSHORE.—BURGLARY.— Our readers willperhaps
remember that in the month of September, 1844, some per-
msonns
wu,rillklinamownßobuuirtgelra,riloanusdlymloorednngtoeofr e dthtehe dPI
owl; eg
hl i o uns et oisf
sapundn stolen a
Athltehreoouugt,h
strenuouse tbeexr
etrbtiinora,
were
ren ummabdeer
by
stthiolwevepnre'nee at the time of the occurrence, no trace or tidings of
the thieves could be obtained from any source, and con-
sequently' every hope of gettieg back the spoons vanished
from the breast of Mr. Boulter. Judge, then, of .his sur-
prise on Superintendent Harris entering his dormitory
the other evening and displaying the missing articles to
the astonished host It seems that in the latter part of last
mouth a police-conatable named Harwood, whilst searching
. the house of a labourer in Birmingham, named Knight, found
a number of spoons concealed in the clothes' box of a woman
named Attwood, who lived in Knight's house, and as she
could not satisfactorily account for the possession of them,
he brought them away, and on showing them a few days
since to Superintendent Harris, the latter recognised them as
belonging to Boulter. The superintendent then pre needed to
Birmingham, apprehended Knight and Attwood, and brought
them to Pert:bore. In the box of the latter be found thirty
or forty articles which are supposed to be stolen. The pri-
soners stand remanded till Friday next.— Worcestershire
Chronicle.
TURF DEFAULTERS.----A subscription has been en-
tered into by several rarties connected with sporting matters,
with a N iew of establishing and circulating a monthly perio-
dical, to be. cal!' I and entitled " The Black List," and which
will contain the names of all known turf defaulters and
others who refuse to pay lflosloberntsmcnon, nnecatmededwitohiisiparaort, met
sporting,.
withA afesiwnglivleaerks ago
accident, which has occasioned the loss of
his arm. It appears that a dogfish became entangled in his
net, and in removing it his finger was pricked by the back-
gbeotnepaoifnftthileafinsdlesweAl f;e wandda
oyns asfatet
ur wr(tr3d. slahstishlelat beogbalingetdo
to undergo amputation of the arm, which was performed by
Mr. Gayin Pocvek.--Jirifhtott Game%