The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

11‘,ONEY MARKET &nd CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Letters received from Bristol, of this morn-
ing's date, announce that the eminent firms in that city
of Acramans, Morgan, and Co., and of D. E. and A.
Acraman, have determined on calling their creditors
together, An excessive outlay of capital, beyond the
means of the parties, more particvlarly in machinery
and ship-building, is said to have been the immediate
cause of the stoppage. At their own request an exami-
nation into the state of their affairs has been going on
for some days past, which is said to report very favour-
ably of the fival issue.
SUN.—The absence of any particular reason for in-
fluencing the funds, and the approach of that period when
a partial secession of business occurs, have caused the
transactions in the Stock Markets to be extremely small
to-day. The quantity of capital unemployed, and the
want of means in which to invest, other than our own
securities, occasioned prices to be firmly maintained.
Consols for Money closed at 89k +, and at 89+ + for
the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 27 29 prem.
The price oBflßieltgo 81ia127 103 to
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to 104w;o-Banradz-ial-iallna,
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71 ;
Cents., 52 to 4, and the Five per Cents., 103 to The
quotation of Spanish was 24+ to a ; Mexican, 41+ to ;
and Colombian, 26 to I.
Birmingham Railway Shares were quoted 85 to 87
prem. ; Great Western, 26 to 27 prem. ; South Western,
59 to 60 ; North Midland, 69 to 71 per share ; Black-
wall, 11 to I ex-div., and Eastern Counties, 131 to 124
discount.

The holidays in the Colonial Market commenced to-
day, and will not terminate until the 30th inst., business
will, of course, be suspended during the interval.

VAN AMBURGH.
We have had an opportunity of inspecting the esta-
blishment of the above spirited individual at his stable?,
near the Horn's Tavern, Kennington, and, we confess,
' we had formed but an inadequate opinion of it.
It is but partially known that Van Amburgh started
a travelling collection of animals (including his own
justly celebrated menagerie) in May last, and his suc-
cess has exceeded his most sanguine expectations, in
consequence of which, he contemplates remodelling it on
an extended scale. New carriages, of the most novel
construction, additional animals, ten beautiful cream-
coloured horses (daily expected from America), in addi-
tion to his former sp'.t:ndid stud of greys, are among the
nave:ties contemplated.
The manner of exhibiting wild animals in this
country has scarce undergone any change or improve-
ment in our recollection ; the same heavy, ponderous
carriages, with their tasteless, uncouth decorations ; the
sameinetlicient arrangements; and the same noisy, vulgar
fellows, as showmen, have been the distingushing charac-
teristics (with but few exceptions) from time immemo-
rial. It remained for Van Amburgh to open a new
era, to strike out a new system from the dull beaten
one of his predecessors, and to raise for himself a
pre-eminence by the taste and costliness of his appoint-
ments, the manner and appearance of his attendants,
and the novelty and originally of his daring performances.
Another improvement, and a must striking tine, is the
method pursued with regard to his exhibiting. At the
day advertised there is the collection, and the same
punctuality observed in its departure ; thus enabling
him to keep faith through the line of his route.
To the strict observance of all these particulars we
attribute his success, and which will, we have no doubt,
in site of the sonum hat diminished attraction of tra-
veiling manageries, ow rig to the establishment of Zoolo-
gical Gardens in various places), long continue to at-
tend him.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT BY CLEANING WINDOWS.—
This morning, between eight and nine o'clock, Thomas
Madden, between forty and fifty years of age, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Broome, of Marylebone-lane, Oxfurd.street,
linen-draper, while standing outside cleaning one of the
first-floor windows, slipped, and fell on to the footway
pavement in the street. Hs was severely injured, having
received a concussion of the brain, and was directly
taken to Middlesex Hospital, where he remains in a pre-
carious state.
SHOCKING RESULT OF A PETTY PROSECUTION.—
It will be recollected that in our police intelligence a few
weeks ago we mentioned the case of a woman, who, with
an infant in her arms, was committed to prison for cut-
ting a small quantity of birch at Bosbury, the damage
which she did being valued at one halfpenny. We un-
derstand that the child died in prison on Sunday last,
and that the mother stated at the inquest that it was her
belief the child died in consequence of a cold which it
caught in the Lcdbury Lock-up House. The wonder is
that many inquests have not been the consequence of
confining prisoners in such a damp and filthy den.— Wor-
cestershire Chronicle.
GOOD FRIDAY.—This being the anniversary of our.
Saviour's crucifixion is the most solemn fast of the
Christian church. The cross-bun, Jiowever. has
ceased in England to be the morsel ts.fi, which the Severity
of the last days of Lent was mitigated. In the old time
Lent was not " inure honoured in the breach than the
observance." 'We find from the hoUsehold book of the
Duke of Northumberland, which was kept in 1912, that
throughout Lent, " beginning at Shrovetide and ending
at Easter," the breakfast (a great meal in an ancient
family) consisted, fur my Lord and illy Lady," ef " two"!
pieces of salt fish, lour herrings, or a dish of sprats," in-
stead of the customarly allowance at, other seasons of
" half a chine of mutton ur a chine of beef ;" and the
food of a Lenten supper was equally meagre. The
transgressors of Lent were subject to eecleciastical dis-
cipline. Strype, in his " Memorials," records that a
man did penance at St. Paul's Cross in 1555 for attempt-
ing to sell two pigs ready dressed during the fast.
HAMPTON-COURT PALACB.---We are authorized to
state that two new picture-rooms in Hampton-court
Palace, in addition to those already shown to the public,
will be opened on Easter Monday, next. We understand
that these rooms contain some interesting and valuable
pictures, and also that some very fine ones have been
added to the already extensive collection in the palace.
A new arrangement of the pictures has also taken place,
and some ancient tapestries have now been brought
forward, which cannot fail of interesting every lover of
the fine arts.
On the 6th instant, says the Toulonnais, as a
painter, who had emigrated to Algiers was travelling in
search of employment, he got enveloped in a dense fog,
near Ben Ackoun, on his way to Dely Ibrahim. His
attention was suddenly roused by a loud roar, which at
first he took fur the lowing of an ox in one of the in-
closures ; but, on its being repeated, he found hiinself
face to face with a monstrous lion. The poor painter,
though more dead than alive with terror, retained suffi-
cient presence of mind to brave the' animal with his
shouts, and, thus acting on the known nature of the
beast, put him to flight- Having communicated his ad-
venture to M. Dumartin, the land-surveyor at Dely Ibra-
him, that gentleman, with permission of the colonel in
command of the garrison, went out with about thirty
officers and soldiers in chace of the lion, but did not fall
in with it. A day or two afterwards the same animal
was seen at Elbier, near Algiers, and a general battue
was contemplated to relieve the country from this un-
welcome intruder, and of several others who have come
down to the plain of Mitidjah, since it was deserted by
the Arabs.
DEATH FROM 'TASTILY EATING FISH.—SINGULAR
CA sE.—An inquest was held on Wednesday night at the Uni-
corn, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, before Mr. Higgs, on
tha body of Charles Slater, aged forty-two. Hobert hledli-
cott said that be resided at the Queen's Head, Duke's-court,
Bow-street, and the deceased occupied a room in the same
house. Deceased had been a cornet in the 7th Hussars,
and afterwards a clerk in the Excise-office ; but for some
time past witness did not know how he had been em-
ployed. He was, during witness's acquaintance with him,
in very distressed circumstances, and in want of the common
necessaries of life. He was often without food and money to
purchase any, and was upon those occasion supplied by his
tellow-lodgers. On Monday morning last witness gave him
a small quantity of bread and cheese, and that, with a potato,
was all he bad to eat during the day. At seven o'clock in
the evening witness, while drinking in the taproom of the
Queen's Head, saw the deceased run to the bar, and make
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symptoms, that it was deemed advisable to take him to a
surgeon's. Deceased was then taken to the shop of Mr.
Nicholson, a chemist, in Bow-street, where he was attended by
Mr. Beale, a surgeon; but he died in a few minutes after they
had attempted with instruments to relieve him of the substance
in his throat. Witness heard that deceased had been eating
by stealth some fish which belonged to another lodger, and
that a bone of it, by sticking in his throat, was the cause of his
choking. Had deceased lived another day, he would have re-
ceived a sum of 2501. from one of his friends or relations.
Alexander Pryde, a lodger in the same house, said that on
Monday evening last he bought some small flounders, and gave
them to the servant to cook for him. He had not sat down to
eat them many minutes, when deceased ran up stairs, saying
that he was choked. . r. Lionel Beale, surgeon, said that he
found the deceased on Monday evening last in a dying condi-
tion from suffocation, the effects of swallowing too hastily. By
means of probing some fish was taken from his throat. He
died in a few minutes), witness had no doubt from Suffocation,
by eating fish voraciously.---Verdict, " Died from suffocation
by eating food too hastily."
GOOD FRIDAY.—A Correspondent calls attention
to the ancient saying—
When our Lady falls in our Lord's lap,
Then let England beware a mishap.
Now, this year, Ladyday and Good Friday both fall on
the same day ! The old ladies, therefore, are tremblin
with fear.— lircrcestershite Chronicle.

Yesterday morning a dreadful accident occurred to
Edward Rogers, a young man, seventeen years of age, in
the employ of Mr. Barber, snuff-grinder, Church-street,
Bethnal-green. The unfortunate young man was doing
something to a steam-engine, when one of the sleeves of
his shirt suddenly was drawn into the machinery, and
before he could extricate it his hand and arm were dread-
fully fractured up to the elbow.
DEATH OF THE HON. MRS. FRANCIS ERARINE.-•
This venerable lady, who was relict of the late lion.
Major Erskine, brother to the late John F. Erskine,
Earl of Mar, died at Edinburgh on Thursday se'nnight.
A JUDICIAL BULL.—Judge Ball, at Nenagh, con-
gratulated the Grand Jury " on the growing decrease of
crime which had taken place in that division of Tippe-
rary?,

THE CROWN JEWELS.—Orders were yesterday-
issued by the Lord Chamberlain for the immediate re-
moval of the Crown Jewels and Regalia from Messrs.
Rundell and Bridges, on Ludgate-hill, to whose custody
they have been intnisted since the great fire at tho
Tower, to the new jewel-house in the Tower, which will
be opened for public inspection on Monday next.
We learn from Zurich that the storm of the 10th
inst. was severely felt in that part of Switzerland. The lake
was agitated in a way hitherto unprecedented, and the grave-
stones of the burial ground were thrown down by the force o f
the wind.
An intendant of the Marquis de Monlezin has been
sentenced by the Court of Assizes for the Haute Pyrenees to
imprisonment to live years, for having made use of forged do.
cuments; and a rich banker, the son-in-,,aw of a General, has
been condemned to the like punishment, for giving false testi.
mony in the same affair.