The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

3, 1844.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY.
The supply of English Wheat was very moderate,
while we have to report a steady demand for it, at prices
fully equal to those obtained on Monday. Free Foreign
Wheat moved off slowly, at late rates. In Barley, a fair
business wai doing, and its value was well supported
Malt was quite as dear, with a small quantity on offer
Oats, and all other grain, as last advised.
ARRIVALS.
1 I
Wheat. Barley.
1,210 qrs. 5,750 qrs
Irish -
Foreign 440

Oats. I Flour
890 qrs. i 1,780 sacks.

Malt, 2,890 qrs.
WHITECIZAPEL.

Our market was, on. the whole, well supplied with
Meat, yet the demand, arising from the favourable
change in the weather, was active, on the following
terms:—Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to
4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per
Blbs.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A large amount of business was done yesterday, in the Li-
verpool Cotton Market, and prices were gradually improving
The sales were 10,000 bales, including 3,000 American on
speculation. The transactions consisted of 500 Bahia, at 6d
to 6id ; 300 Egyptian at 61c1 to 7d ; 2,000 Surat at 31d to 4id,
and the rest American at 43Ad to 7d per lb.—The share market
was firm, with an upward tendency and a good business.
Eastern Counties were 1076 ; Manchester and Birmingham
39/ ; North Midland 90; Paris and Rouen 33%; South
Eastern 36%, and Paris and 1,30ns 3i.
It is certainly to be regretted that the affairs of the Colonial
Bank—as appeared by the proceedings yesterday at the half-
yearly General Court—show such an unsatisfactory result. It
is too true that the Bank, and its branches, have lost largely;
but at the same time it ought to be borne in mind
that, in all new and extensive establishments such
as this—where a new field is opened for monetary transactions,
difficulties and losses to a certain extent must, and always
will, arise. A sound principle of banking, upon the authority
of Mr. Gurney, a man of some weight in such matters,
has been established, but errors will creep in, even
in the best regulated concerns. At the same time
it cannot be denied that the Bank is in a sound
condition. The Auoitor stated at the meeting held yesterday,
that every claimant upon the Corporation could be paid off as
rapidly as the clerks were enabled to make the entries.
In our opinion the Shareholders assembled came to a wise
determination in placing confidence in the Court
of Directors, and it cannot be doubted hat had that confidence
been withheld, the Company would have been broken up,
which would have produced losses to many who could ill afford
to bear them. '
We have, on a previous occasion, referred to the frauds in the
tobacco trade. A Circular now before us on this subject remarks:
—" Deputations of the trade have had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a reduction of the
duty ; but we think it may be inferred, from what transpired,
that it is not in the contemplation of Government to make any
reduction. Certain inquiries are being made by persons con-
nected with the Excise, which lead us to the supposition
that an alteration in the law is in contemplation.' We
hope so, and so do all the fair and honest traders in the leaf
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
There are not any later accounts from the Colonies to-day.
Some additional letters have come to band from Sydney, but
their contents only tend to confirm the previous advices of the
losses and ruin that have resulted from commercial speculations
in that quarter of the world. Many men who were rich ten
years since in the Sydney trade are now reduced to poverty.
The system of long oredits has proved to be a losing concern.
The Commissioners purchased about the usual amount to-
day in the Three per Cents. Reduced, at 98. The price is
now a fraction lower. Bank Stock has advanced to 186,
though now slightly lower. The premium upon Exchequer
Bills is up to 70s. India Bonds are worth 78s. premium.
Not much variation has taken place in the Foreign Market
to.day. The price of Spanish Bends has fluctuated from 30i
to 30/. The fluctuations in the other Foreign Bonds were but
slight.
Most of the Railway Shares have advanced to-day. The
annexed list will give the rise in prices as compared with those
of yesterday :-,-
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List )
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
31 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 123
India Boncis, 1,000

Ditto under 1,000
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills, lid. lid.
10001.
5001.
Ditto Small • 70
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent— -...... 32iiii
Ditto for the Account 32ga
Ditto Deferred Stosk 9;
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. .. .. 116;
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent. ... 30;ai4
Ditto for the Account • 3044 Ai
Dutch 2; per Cent ....... 54i
Ditto for the Account s4i
Dutch 5 per Cent. .
Ditto for the Account 99;
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RA I LWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Cirmingham and Gloucester 100
Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 66; 65; to 67
Eastern Counties
Ditto Scrip
Do. New Registered —
Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 50
areat North of England ........100
Great Western
Ditoo Fifths ... .. 12
Hull and Selby 5O ...... 61A to
Ditto ; Shares
London and Brighton
London and Blackwell
London and Birmingham 100 -
...... to
Ditto A Shares
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ... 41Y1 ... .. 76i to
London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 13k 14i...... to
Manchester and Leeds ...... ...... 70
Ditto % Shares
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Countie5...
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 15 ...... 29
Northern and Eastern
North Midland lOO 9O; to 91
Ditto i Shares
Ditto Third. 211..135. 4d. 29k to 30k
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Booen .. .... . ..... 20
South Eastern and Dover...
Ditto Scrip
Yarmouth and N0rwich............ 13

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of Australia ......
COURSE OF EXCHAN
Amsterdam CF. 12 7
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .2 U. 12 7}
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 5
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3 Us.
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 0
Trieste, ditto lO 1
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao 36

.. 25 .. 27
GE.—(YESTERDAY.)
'Gibraltar
Leghorn
Genoa t26 b
Milan , ..... 31
Venice
Naples
Palermo, per oz 118
1 isbon
(Oporto 52
Rio Janeiro 23
!Bahia
(Buenos Ayres ......
New York, 21days sight 4*
Philadelphia 4B
PRICES OF BULLION, PER. (,Z•
'Foreign Gold, bars.E3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 17 5
New Doubloons .0 0 0

Barcelona
Seville
MiNCHESTEIt STOCK EXCHA NOE, JAN. 2.—We have still a
good demand • for Railways generally at improving prices, with
the exception of Sheffield and Manchester, which are freely of-
fered. Our quotations are :—Eastern Counties, Scrip, 13
1-16:11 ; Edinburgh and Gla'gow, 581 f ; Ditto, Quarters, 14i ;
London and Brighton, 43; Sheffield and Manchester, 54
and 54 cum interest; Trent and Mertey, 500 ex div.

THE MEDICAL TIMES ALMANAC

FOR 1844.

The " Medical Times Almanac" is another of the many
publications of this kind addressed to a particular class of the
community. The medical profession in all its branches will
here find accumulated an immense mass of information not
readily accessible in any other form, or scattered through a
great number of authorities. This is given in addition to the
usual contents of an almanac, and consists of a List of the Royal
College of Physicians, of the College of Surgeons, of the So-
ciety of Apothecaries, of the officers of all the Hospitals and
Medical Schools, as well as of the Provincial Hospitals, and
those of the officers, and days of meeting of the Metropolitan
Medical and Scientific Societies. A great deal of medical
information as to the symptoms and treatment of various
diseases is also brought together in a well-arranged digest, with
a valuable analysis of the composition of many of the most
generally used patent medicines. The work is well gut up, is
very cheap, and desert es the patronage of all the profession.

BOILER EXPLOSION.—SEVERALPERSONS SERIOUSLY
INJURED.—Yesterday morning, at about ten minutes before
nine o'clock, an accident, which occasioned the greatest alarm
in the vicinity of the upper part of the Commercial-road, St.
George's-in-the-East, took place at the extensive manufactory
belonging to Messrs. Johnson and Co., cigar and tobacco
dealers, situate in Gloucester-street, near Cannon-street gate,
by the explosion of a steam-boiler of 25-horse power used in
the factory. The premises are considered to be one of the
largest cigar-manufactories in and around the metropolis. It
was joined by a large building almost of the same height, used
for drying purposes, and adjoining was the engine and boiler
house where the explosion took place. At the time mentioned
it appears that one of the firm was about to enter the drying-
room, when a tremendous report was heard, which shook the
buildings and surrounding property to a surprising extent,
and the next moment it was followed by heavy crashes,
sending forth dense clouds of steam and dust. Unfortu-
nately most of the work-people, amounting to nearly fifty,
were at work on different floors, and, fearing that the fac-
tory had caught fire, a rush was made to effect an escape.
Those on the basement floor escaped easily by the regular
entrance, but those on the uppermost stories, suspecting the
flames were ascending, forced their way through the windows,
and jumped into the street ; while others lowered themselves
down by the side of the spout. Most of these, we regret to
say, were more er less bruised, and five sustained such serious
injuries that their immediate removal to the London Hospital
was deemed necessary. Aa soon as the temporary alarm had
in some way subsided, it was discovered that the boiler, which
worked an engine of twenty horse-power, had exploded, occa-
sioning this most serious destruction. The boiler was blown a
considerable distance from its original situation. The roof and
nearly the whole of the floors of the drying house (which was
overstocked with cigars and tobacco), were hurled to. the
ground, nothing, in fact, remaining of the building but the
outer walls. Considerable damage is also done to the case
house, and also the factory walls. The accident is stated to
have occurred through the negligence of the engineer, in not
seeing that the boiler was properly supplied with water. The
firm informed the authorities of the brigade force, that the
amount of eamage done was at least one thousand pounds.
They are insured in the Sun Fire-office, but the property hav-
ing been lost by en explosion, and not from fire the office is
not liable to make good the loss.

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SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST

CLERGYMAN AND A BUTCHER.
ROCHESTER JAIL I.—This day the Rev. Henry Winfeto
chaplain to the Fortitude convict-ship, together with
George Bassett, army butcher, residing in the High-street os
Chatham, appeared before the Rev. George Davis, clerk,
William Gladdish, Esq., James Smith, Esq., and Jacob George
Bryant, Esq., county magistrates, to answer informations,
charging them with disposing "of a'heifer on the 25th of 14°'
vember last, being unfit for food of man.
David Harden, the first witness, deposed that be Tras„,„ll
butcher, residing at New Brompton, near Chatham. -."
Rev. Mr.f Winter resides on board the convict-ship off Chat'
ham Dock-yard, and also occupies a farm opposite to his house•
also another farm near the Hook and Hatchet, in Chatham
parish. The reverend defendant has had several heifers die of
a disease called the murrain," which he had heard had been
sold. The cattle were kept in a barn on the farm. Aboet
half•past seven o'clock in the morning of the 25th of November
he saw one of the heifers lying dead and stiff in the little lodge
called Mr. Winter's Hospital. There was a small cut at the
neck, but the beast never bled an ounce, and was in a dreadfrd I
state. A man named John Burrell, a butcher, opened the
animal and dressed it, which he saw the man do whilst standin(
at his own door. The entrails were in a most dreadful ants
ulcerated state. The flesh appeared white and sickly. The
heifer remained hanging up in the lodge until about two
o'clock in the afternoon, when it was removed into a cart of
Mr. Winter's, and driven by a servant of his to Mr. Bassett sr
the butcher, at Chatham.
John Flurrell, butcher, Brompton, said, that on the 25tli
November last he went to Mr. Winter's farm to take a hide
off a heifer at eight o'clock in the morning. 'I be bullock wall
stiff, and had been dead about two hours. It had not been
slaughtered. Its death, he should think, was caused by so
inflammation of the lungs. The lungs and heart were so
heavy that he could hardly lift them. The reverend defendant
saw them, and looked at the carcass. Upon the 25th of lios
vember, he dressed a heifer which had died of the disease.
Cannot tell what went of the flesh. Both the beasts were io
an awful state ; their insides particularly. As a butcher, he
should say they were not fit to be sold for any shod. The
meat was not fit for human food. Both carcasses he dressed
to the best advantage.
John Morgan, head servant to the Rev, Mr. Winter, proved
that he cut up the carcass of the heifer into four quarters, and
put them into his master's cart, and drove it to Mr. Bassett's,
the butcher, by his master's desire. On the arrival of the
cart at the house of Mr. Bassett, Mr. Bassett came into the
street and looked at the meat. He said that he thought he
could not do anything with it. Afterwards Mr. Bassett sent
his young man for it, and it was taken into the slaughter-
house. The hide of the beast went with it. His master has
had five bullocks die of the complaint.
The Court being informed by the clerk that some very ina-,
portant witnesses were prevented attending this day, adjourned
the investigation until the next sitting. • From the known
respectability of the defendants, the magistrates bound then ,
over in their own recognisances in the sum of 401. each to
appear on Friday next.

THE POACHERS UNDER SEN-
TENCE OF DEATH.

Although we are not of the number of those who consider
the infliction of the last penalty of the law to be either unjust
or inexpedient in cases of murder, yet we cannot refrain front
expressing a hope that the awful punishment of death will not
he inflicted on all the wretched men convicted of the murder
of Lord Derby's gamekeeper. They are all, it is true, equally
guilty in the eye of the law, and those of them who did not fire
the fatal shot are only a shade less guilty, even viewing the
subject morally, than he who did ; but there is a shade of dif-
ference in their cases, and we trust that whilst none of them are
allowed to escape without severe punishment, the last penalty
of the law will only be inflicted on him who was the murderer
in act as well as in intention.

It is net merely on the ground of humanity, but also on that
of policy, that we consider that it would not be desirable to in-
flict the punishment of (death on the whole of these five men.
The difficulty of inducing juries to convict in such cases is
already very great, and it they should all be punished with
death, their execution will produce a feeling of horror in the
public mind which will give impunity to succeeding gangs of
poachers for a considerable time, whatever crimes they may
commit. We well remember attending the trial of twelve or
fourteen poachers at the York assizes, several years ago, when
hanging was much more in fashion than it is now. They were
all charged with Navin; murdered one of the gamekeepers
of Sir George Armytage, of Kirklees.hall, near 110-
dersfield, and all of whom were by the clearest evi-
dence shown to have been present at the affray in which
ho was killed. After the case had been brought
horse to every one of the prisoners, and after the Judge had
laid down the law declaring that all present at the affray and
resisting the gamekeepers, were equally guilty with the man
who beat out his brains with the butt end of his gun, the Jury
retired, and after remaining out of Court the greater part Of
the night, came back and declared the whole of the prisoners
Not Guilty. This verdict was given in direct defiance of the
evidence, and it was the general opinion in Court that it
would never have been returned if it had not been known that
the Judge was a stern and inflexible man, quite capable of
leaving every one of the prisoners to be hung if they were
convicted. The more humane spirit in which the law has been
administered for the last dozen years has greatly diminished
this unwillingness to convict, but anything like a wholesale
hanging will revive it with a greater force than ever, and
render it, if not impossible, at least most difficult to convict
in future.—Liverpool Times.

ST. PANCRAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND
G LTA RDIA DRAlNAGE.—Yesterday, at
the meeting of the Directors and Guardians of the Poor of St.
Pancras, held at the workhouse in the King's-road; Mr.
Wright in the chair, Mr. Curtis, one of the medical officers of
the north division of the parish, waited upon the Board for the
purpose of laying before them the alarming amount of fever
prevailing in certain portions of his district, on account of in-
sufficient and improper drainage. He said that in Ferdinand-
street, the want of drainage was so great, that the water, &c.,
lay in stagnant pools, from which a most noxious and dangerous
effluvium arose, and the result was, that there were no less than
thirteen houses in that street alone infected with fever. He
had been applied to by some of the inhabitants, and had given
a certificate as to the dangerous state of the locality through
want of proper drainage, which he understood was about to
be laid before the Poor-law Commissioners. Mr. Church-
warden Howarth said that Kentish-town possessed a local Act
and the Commissioners were bound, by Act of Parliament, to
carry out, throughout the district, a proper drainage. Mr.
Douglas thought that the medical officers of the Board having
made such a Report, they were in duty bound to call the atten-
tion of the Kentish-town Commissioners to the state of the
drainage of that district. It was ultimately resolved that the
clerk should forthwith call the attention of the Kentish-town
Commissioners to the state of drainage in that district. The
Board, after some other business, separated.
PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS OF CELEBRATED VO7
cAusTs.—Rubini was a tailor, Tanaburini, a eourier, Naldi,
an advocate. We believe he had the misfortune to a kill a
man in a duel, and was obliged to leave the State in which he
practised. He was a clever amateur in music, which he after-
wards made his profession. The manner of his death is well
known. Viewing a steam cooking apparatus in Garcia's (Ma-
labran's father's) kitchen in Paris, the boiler burst, and he was
kil'ed on the spot. Tramezzani was a surgeon, so was Fer-
rari ; Templeton was a printer, and so was Wilson, the " Scot-
tish Minstrel." Machin was a japanner in Birmingham, Pear-
sall the same ; Pyne, a poulterer ; Weyman (a celebrated bass
at St. Patrick's, Dublin), a shoemaker; ditto, Tinney; ditto,
Shoubridge. The celebrated Barite was the daughter of a boat-
man, and sang in the streets. Champneys, whose name ap-
pears in the old editions of Handel's songs, kept an iron-
monger's shop in Tothill-street, Westminster. He was the
leading singer of his time, and came to the rehearsal for the
I great festival in Westminster Abbey with his white apron on.
He was also lay vicar of the abbey.-- Ten Towns Messenger.
SINGULAR CREDULlTY.—Yesterday the following
singular instance of gross superstition and credulity, took
place at the Brentford Petty Sessions :—A female of respect-
able appearance, residing at Heston, near Hounslow, sum-
moned another female, residing in the same village, before
Messrs. Pownall and Armstrong, the sitting Magistrates, for
an assault and using abusive language. In the course of the
examination it appeared that the cause of the quarrel between
the parties arose under the following circumstances. A few
days since half-a-sovereign, belonging to the defendant, was
stolen from a drawer in her house, without her being able to
obtain the slightest clue to the person by whom it had been
stolen, or to the mode in which the robbery had been com-
mitted, and she in consequence went all the way from Heston
to the Mile-end-road, a distance of sixteen miles, and back
again, for the purpose of consulting a noted " cunning man,"
or fortune-teller, whom having made acquainted with the cir-
cumstances, he proceeded to describe a person as the thief who
much resembled the complainant ; whom on her return, she
began to abuse, which terminated in the assault. The Bench
fined the defendant 10s. and costs, and advised her again to go
to the " cunning man," who had got her into the difficulty,
and persuade him to pay the money for her, at the same time
expressing their astonishment that such superstitious ignorance
should still exist so near to the metropolis.
FALL OF SNOW IN THE COUNTRY.--So deep was
the fall of snow yesterday morning in the country, that
the Dover train, which left Folkestone at seven o'clock,
was fifty-six minutes behind time in reaching Ashford, a dis-
tance of only 15 miles. According to the guard's statement it
appears that the snow was in some places 18 inches deep on
the metal, and completely solid from the severity of the frost.
It was ten minutes to twelve before the train arrived in London.
THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX.—On Sunday morn-
fog, after attending mass at the Roman Catholic chapel, at
Stonehouse, near Plymouth, his Royal Highness the
Duke de Bordeaux, travelling under the title of Count
de Chambord, embarked in the barge of the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir D. Milne, Bart, and went
on board the Sylph tender. His Royal Highness then pro-
ceeded to the breakwater, and, after inspecting that great
national work, returned into the harbour, and went on
board the Albion, 90 guns, her gallant captain, N. Locker,
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to have changed in November, 1842, but to this the Eng-
lish Government would not consent, and they therefore
agreed, though with a very bad grace, that the present rate
of duty should remain unchanged until November, 1844.
They have since, however, discovered, that an ad valorem
duty may be effectually raised by increasing the valuation of
the goods taxed, as by increasing the per tentage raised upon
them, and have therefore greatly increased the valuation of
British goods of several kinds. In some cases the increase is
10 per cent, on the old valuation, in others 20, in others 30,
in some 50, and in one or two 75 per cent. ! This is exactly
the same thing in effect as if the rate of duty had been in-
creased from 20 per cent. ad valorem to 22, 24, 26, 30, and 35
per cent. Whether this is or is not a breach of the treaty we
do not pretend to say, but it is evident that it is precisely
the same thing so far as the commerce of this country is
concerned. Amongst the articles thus subjected to anew and
increased valuation are flannels, barragons, boots and shoes,
several descriptions of cottons and of silks, cassimeres, var-
nished hats, cutlery, steel, Irish linens, gunpowder, and seve-
ral kinds of woollen goods. We shall next week give
list of the articles whose valuation is charged, showing the ex-
tent of the increase on each article.— Lierpool Times.
The health of the venerable Earl Grey continues
much the same within the last few days, his Lordship's disease
partaking of no further dangerous symptoms, neither is he so
favourably held as to give hopes of any permanent improve-
ment... Tyne Mercury.