The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-28 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.

About half-past five o'clock in the afternoon of
Tuesday last, two men and a woman alighted from
one of the Glasgow coaches at the east end of Mait-
land-street, and went almost immediately into the
house of Alexander gtewart, who keeps a spirit-shop
and tavern there. They conversed familiarly t,-
gether like persons well acquainted, and their ap-
pearance being decent and respectable, the landlord
showed them into a box in a sort of tap-room. One
of the parties, however, objected to going into the
box, and requested a private room, into which they
were accordingly conducted. Here they asked for
a gill of rum toddy, which was brought them ; and
when it was discussed one of the two men tendered
to the landlord a pound note, and received the
change minus the price of the liquor. In the mean•
while, the other man, upon some trifling pretext,
went out, and was absent for about a quarter of an
hour. On his return, he called for a gill of rum, a
bottle of porteroome raw sugar, and a couple of
tumblers, appaolistly with the intention of mulling
the porter ; but no hot water was asked for, nor any
vessel in which the porter might be heated ; after
the lapse of a few minutes, however, he again went
out, and as nearly as the landlord can remember, was
absent about twenty minutes. At this moment a
neighbour of the landlord's happening to call, the
latter retired with him to partake of a - dram, and
talk over the news, with which they were occupied
for a considerable time ; but when their sederunt
terminated, Mr. Stewart found that the party above-
mentioned had had a third gill of rum ; and on re-
marking to his female servant that they had grown
extraordinary quiet, considering that they had so
soon begun to sing, she informed him that one of the
men and the woman had abruptly quitted the house
a few minutes before. The landlord's auspicious
were roused, and conceiving them to be thieves, he
made a pretext for entering the room into which they
had been conducted, and there he found the individual
to whom he had given change of the pound note, lean-
ing against the mantle-piece, in a state of insensibility,
having vomited freely among the ashes of the fire-
place. Mr. Stewart's first impression being that
the man was drunk, he endeavoured to awake hint
by shaking his person, and calling to him that his
companions were gone ; but the only response made
was a faint and hollow moan, and all efforts to rouse
him 'proved fruitless. The landlord was now seri-
ously alarmed, and lost no time in calling in the aid
of medical men, who promptly attended, but all
exertions were of no avail. The unfortunate man
languished, apparently in great agony, till mid-
night, when he expired, without having been able
to articulate a single word. On searching his per-
son, his purse was found to have been emptied of
its contents, including the change which he had re-
ceived from Mr. Stewart, and the only article in his
possession was a " Ready Reckoner," on which his
name was written ; a circumstance which -enabled
the landlord to trace out his connexions and place
of residence. When this had been done, it was as-
certained that he had left Bathgate on Tuesday
morning, with 181. in his pocket ; and the guard of
the Glasgow coach which brought the party to
Edinburgh, states that the man and woman - who
have acted so extraordinary a part in this distressing
occurrence, and who have not yet been heard of,
were picked up on the road a little beyond Corstor-
phine ; but he adds, that they commenced all at
once talking so familiarly.
.with the person who has
so mysteriously met his death, that he supposed
them to have been all previously acquainted. We
think there can be little doubt that this unfortunate
person was poisoned to facilitate the commission of
the robbery; and we are also of opinion that lau-
danum was mixed with the porter, which it so
nearly resembles in colour, and given to the destined
victim by the wretch who, on one pretext or other.
contrived twice to leave the apartment.—Caledonian
Mercury.

THE MARKETS.

COAL MAlt:
Beaumont 31.. 6d.
Heaton 35 0
Hebbutn Main 34 0
32 6
Killingworth 34 9
Liddell's 31 3
Pontop Windior--... 31 0
Pelaw .:33 0
Shipeote 32 0
Willington 35 0
Walls E ndllew ck e& Co. 36"9,
Ditto Brown's 34-6
Ditto Clarke and C 0.... 32 6 _
Ditto Carr and Co. 32 6
Ditto Cramlington* 31 6
Ditto Hotspur--.. 34 3
Ditto Northumberland .34 0
Ditto Perkins and Co. 35 6
Ditto 36 • 0
Ships at market, 55N--,SI

,ET.—Feb.
Walls End Newroarch... 355. lJ•
Beamlsh South !door 29 6
Fawcett Alain 31 6
Walls End Reboil-- 38 0
Walls End Will:AWL—. 38 0
Walls End Lyons— 36, 0
Ditto Stewart's 38 0
Ditto Wear ' 39 0
Cannel (per 44) 0
COwpau _ 31 0
Eldon Main 33 9
Fordel Main 3l 0
_Hartley
Llangennath Coal— 41 0
Walls End Old Etherley 33 0
Ellison Trader
Walls End Jesmond da-
maged 33 0.

sold, MU--Uosoltl, 18.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. s. to s. S. to a. s. to s. 9. a.
54 66 35 42 35 42 62
Andover --- 53 29 23
Birmingham.-- 48 62 30 34 24 40 62
Bridport 52 56 32 39 26 28 56
Cirencester 48 56 2'7 30 24 26 64
Faringdon. . 48 51 36 as 24 31 46
Guildford . • 44 64 :36 45 26 37 58
Henley 5O 66 32 43 26 34 60
Hereford 64 66 46 50 .42 • '72
Maidenhead 60 68 39 42 28 38 60
Newbury.—» • 40 64 26 30 '35 60
Oakingham
Reading 50 69 26 34 20 35
Salisbury 5O 60 29 32 21 26 64
Southampton . 52 56 37 40 so 32 S 4
Stroud --............. 56 60 36 40 32 42 62
Tewkesbury 54 60 40 42 33 38 el)
Uxbridge 66 74 30 3-1 24 32 •52
Wantage.---.... 65 '7O 35 45 30 40 62
Warminster ......,• 46 60 28 33 23 26 50
Wind50r................ 48 64 30 34 22 30 66
Worcester....--....... 52 64 34 •—• 22 32 ~
CHELTENHAM MA liKET.—Feb. 26.
Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. • Per lb. d. to i•
Wheat 6 0 7 0 Beef 6 6
Barley
•

CHELTENHAM
Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.
Wheat 6 0 7 0 Beef
Barley
Oats 2 9 3 3 Veal ;....
Beans 5 6 7 0 Lamb....
Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork
Hay 4l. 15s. to 5/,

—Feb.: 96.
lb. d. to a.
6
6 CI
6 d
U 0
6 d

I••
ss. pet ton.

LEW-ES MARKET.—Feb. 126.
White Wheat (per quarter) £2 18 0 to £3 1 0
Red ditto 4 2 $ 0 • 2 14 0
Barley
Oats, New 1 1 0 1 1 6
Pease 2 0 0 . . -2 4 0
Oil Cake, New