The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. (From th e L ondon Gazette of Last Night.) RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF i BADE Whitehall, Jan. 14, 1845. Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of the 24th of August, 1844, for the transaction of railway business, having had under con aideration the following schemes for extending railway eN4tunication to Portsmouth, viz.:— The Brighton and Chichester—Portsmouth Extension, The Direct London and Portsmouth, The Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fareham Bran c h, T he London and Portsmouth, with Branches to Shore ham -bridge, Fareham, and Reigate, Have decided on reporting to Parliament in f , vour of the Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Farcham trancla ; And against the gaton and Chichester —Portsmouth Extension, Direct London and Portsmouth, London and Portsmouth, with Branches to Shoreham bridge, Fareham, and Reigate; And the Board having further had under consideration the following schemes for extending railway commu nication in the Metropolitan district, viz., P , The „ Epsom and Do r ki ng , the Grosve nor R ailway, TheLoThe Great W estern, Uxbridge, and Staines Junction, ndon a n d B r i ghton—Wands ,. orth Branch, T he hLondon and Croydon Dorking Branch, e London and Brighton Dorking Branch. The London and South-Western Epsom Branch. T he Metropolitan Central Jun c ti on . The Metropolitan Extension of the London and South- Western, Thy Richmond and West-End Junction, The South London and Windsor, The South Eastern Branch to Reigate and Dorking, The Staines and Richmond, it...110e decided on reporting to Parliament in 11 your of the Ltl'oPolitan Extension of the London and South -81 atern, anu West-End Juncti o n, ' 4 '43 and Richmond ; Against the t*rearenor Railway. teat Western, Uxbridge, and Staines Junction, London and B r i g h ton—Wandsworth Branch, ,! M ~endon and South W estern — Epsom B ranc h , etropolitan Central Junction, South London and Windsor. Aud recomm en di ng t h e postponemen t un til a future Period of the Epsom. and Dorking, l idon and Croydon—Dorking Branch, B°u th - London and B r i ghton —Dorking Branch, Eastern Branch—Reigate to Dorking. DALHOUSIE. C, PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. b. O'BRIEN, S. L A ING. Shit is stated upon authority . that the Cheshire and Junction Railway 0, ruPshire Junction Railway is eithdrawn, and that the Shropshire Oswestry, and Chester sitton. Wij , l go into Parliament without oppo RAILWAY. —The WATERFORD AND LIMERICK l ted. In Carrick tlection of Directors has been e°ll.Suir district the votes were co a m s P fo e llows for a single 'aive Gl en Lodge, 1,224 ; Mr. E. e , tor :—Mr. Galwey, tt4",°Wer, Mount- Richard, 530. The following . is the res . ult . of eesretarns from the various districts :—Waterford— ars. Meagher, Strangman, Milward, Simon Newport, ri tuld Joh n Power. Clonrael--Messrs. D av i s and Riall. abete--illr. Bian c o n i. Cal rick- on -S u i r—Mr. Galwey. 44astrick—Messrs. Gearey, Monsell, and P. G a bb ett. WICST LONDON RAILWAY.—On Monday a special rieral meeting of the proprietors of this Company was aeld at the offices, in Abchureh-l ane, Mr. 11. Grounds presiding, to consider the terms of a proposed agreement With the London and Birmingham Railway C o mp an y, for l eas i ng the West London line. The Directors' Port entered entered at length into the embarrassed condition ; t_f the Company. Th e d e b ts and liabilities amounted Lei 60 000/ ,an execut i on was upon the line, and the property seized was advertised for sale. Four pdgments had been entered against the Company, the ankers' account was overdrawn, and the line being trorkted at a loss of 501. per week. Under these eircum- Meeaces the railway was closed, and an offer subsequentl) Maio to the Londo n and Birmingham Company, who, on the payment by them of 60,000/. in liqui dation of the liabilitie s of the West London, are to take a lease of the railway. The Directors now' retotnrnend the ratification of this agreement, ttnd suggestedu that the adjustment of the various in terest the shareholders should be left to the ai bitra tion of Mr. Glyn, the Chairman of the Birtninghem Com- Pany, Mr. Hudson, Chairman of the Midland lieiiwaY ,e,,ompany, and Mr. Robert Stel4terion, the engineer. ~he Company was established ten years ago, with the 'IeW of furnishing a west-end terminus for the Lordou '•'• tilt' lairmingham and Great We,tern Companies. The plotlittaking failed to meet with support from those %,,411)ttnies, and the works continued in abeyance until 4 4 and allalf ago, when they were constructed by • lit tkiht art Stephenson, and the line thrown open to the St' A protracted discussion, in which . Mr. Whit •floy " t ' Ar• White, Mr. limiting, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. kiite c i cki k * part conclude esued. Ultimately, the report was '4 4 ' a nd the Directors were empowered to keßotiations. a -.4, s wE s —Sir James Dowling, Chief i esti, °tent AL • En land to re eee f 41 : 1 1ir s ' I Nevv South Wales, dis returning to g . has been granted leave o er e i t or two years, an Yea,p,. h eath . is of Mr. Jus removal .418 H . • labours were unremitting for 16 see / 1 „' and in consequence and his kir, t irton to Madras, the before of thea c rr h i i v e a f l te l l y „e eXtra duties thrown on the succes beeh'eteaining coadjutor, Judge btephens, J ( u )f st h ic i e s Judge, was ex tetteetlec". Mr. Dickenson, the new he completely , • . r - l ilt in October ; and Mr. A'Becket, the Solicitor ileetle4l, has been appointed to act as third judge until ; nr n of Sir James. b O A? 4 - kyv. ,--' CART ACCIDENT.—On Monday, M th e I,7eaeld an inquost at St. Bartholomew's Hospital llei n - lY of Phebe Osborne, aged 48, wife of a shoemaker r'W on . iTu„,g 14 nall's-place, St. Luke's. It appeared that on tItZrY erening last deceased's husband took her home t tee i t "' i e sted, and placed her in bed. In his absence a 4 %e/ tit " afterwards she arose, and was proceeding vek e eroni nonger-row , i n quest of more liqtior, h ` Pick. folee'eidentally knocked down by one of Messrs. N W s tilted carts, heavily laden, and the near wheel I , "d over her head and a portion of her body. . She as preenkiptly conveyed to the hospital, in which she died, lure oft.etribeeis,house-s r eon said, from the effects of frac • TH skull. V u er g dict, ' " Accidental Death." lit SUICIDE AT WATERLOO-BRlDGE.—Monday%v teri W. Carter resumed, at the Hero of Waterloo, t a li of r NW, the adjourned inquiry respecting the d e'ese,inta.! Meyers, alias Emily Ashburnham, aged 21 4 - Pr the testimony of numerous witnesses it hjeared that the deceased, who was in great distress, in 18idedr for two or three days at a house of ill-fame,. it ottekls-buildin Lambeth. On the morning of es. oed ay ;;...... last a companion of hers, named Page, left her a 0 :gear-street, Leicester-square, in the company . l ot s dieelleg,rean, named Parker, and several females ?t loose We e icLer• About eight o'clock the same morning s , tole feria' lyin g upon the sands at the bottom of NN a 4 °a brid ge. Although she was dead her body was ve l i rn e • There was a large wound on the right side, %w e " kr. Layers, a surgeon, who had opened the body, forvi„/%18 caused by some bones being fractured, and hatlied7g themselves through the muscles and skin, no ha t the result of deceased falling a great height. The cause of death was fractured ribs, which had seti .o l4 'ed the right lung, thereby creating a. large extrava diet tlinf blood into the right cavity of the chest. Ver dri,,ll ' TeMporary insanity, the result of ex essive , . 4 1 and poverty." „ ou b - e , •rn..- "'•"t AT THE RESIDENCE of SIR HENRY -e-c lt4 Thu 4104—0 n Monday, an inquest, adjourned from T. ip o hy last, was resume d, aid c‘ included, before Ntr. ben I ggs, on the body of Benjamin Payne, aged 40, late t 4 wii l to Sir Henry Pottinger, some particulars relative l'etti b eh _ a PPeared in this journal on Friday. Sir Henry le y stg.er deposed—The deceased has not been long in stepe i r ! ee, but I have noticed him to be peculiarly A ' h I" t r nihdi-tr ordrn, anti a very absent man. ins 0 „ . re mimeo ettemson, had tiequeittl. cp , iien Lu dp::::1:11his :tbsence of . m t- in ' cl, which he thought arose from hi t , w before I left London, a short time since, I gave th at cat:fling, telling him that he did not suit tee. From end fre 'e he had been constantly shut up in his room, th e raZ,cluently complaieed of a violent head uclee On hPreei ou r Ping he committed the act, only ten minutes amo, 8 1, he came into my study, and see' he wished d C:" an apology. His eyes were then red, as if he euit rile, en drinking largely. I told him that he did not 1,,,,,,, but that I should pay him his wages and board t4-117:,3 UP to the 6th of next milith. He asked me fur bri e , e`' ° ' get up his plate, which I granted. On the morn ia, ',!_e cot:omitted the act, he told me he had been drink.isi. TY wine and brandy, but he would make it good 04:2°114 helpt sudden discharge caused him to commit Co 2°ll I khe drank to great excess. Lieutenant et,i!aet Malcolm said he had frequent opportunities of rie, ug the deceased, and he appeared to he a man COM eelelY out of his senses through drink. Verdict— MEDICAL Insanity. kb,.EATPI FROM " FARCY."--IMPORTANT TO THE ‘ ,...-...1n A , 1 , , , .4%d P"°FLastoN.—A policeman died in the Itieh teerib,teloss.pital, a few days since, from the effects of this rtk_ ..; nisease, after five days' illness. It is supposed I;tiT ease was communicated to him by drinking water itril__ a bucket which a carman had been . supplying t . ,o f s a t e• After some hours, the disease began to :; ant . Ei ~..ariel the unfortunate man wa on% eyed to Rich imll4 u"spital Turin a state of gr. at s pan. ': he Mt eleal hi e s ll did not. etn time, understand the nature of tidedlamPisint, but as th Vibeon • , e syinptoms becam e more de • patierigid inquiry they Caine t o th e i_, nt had "nonce farce " and ' conclusion that weir opinions a horse was inoculated' in Q order to prove di ed " taken from a •d "h some of t _ There was ' Pustule, an in . a short time he 474 4 , 1 b... _ . a post marten* examination held on the Pr e h e f an eminent surgeon of this city, who was so ap tsith"ell'e of disease that he f'd I- • tit gloves on •Frightful•per urine- Le operation mphHfOrt • as the external appearance of toy;a, tinate mans body was, the internal eas still flocking ; the stomach, Martand I'v , bin ti er ,. 44 with ulcers, and all in ,a h ' st a ate of ' i e t 1. 11 ' a tvilieb T his is amongst the very few . ' • ) "Via autoentleated acts • ...re__ Prove that the disease • " n u?l' . ItSe 18 colllllll2lllcabit to luau.- 1 ,lourna., '~a~r«~ . , ~.. SUMMARY OF NEWS A .N Optitten. " Who runs maxi read.' . On Friday his Majesty the King of the French re ceived Vice-Admiral Villaumez, General Fabvier, Baron Davilliers, peer of France, and Captain Bonet. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Aq'Ella left Paris on Friday for Marseilles, from whence they will embark for Naples. M. L'Abt4 Laurence has been nominated to the bishopric of Tarbes, by Royal ordinance, dated Dec. 31. It appears from 1)r. Laurent's bulletin of S-iturday that the health of M. Villemain still continues to im prove. On that morning he took a drive out in a car riage. The Commerce states that it is the intention of the French Government to establish harbours of refuge on the coast between Cherbourg and Brest. The Constitutionnel states that the chess match that was to have taken place between M. St. Amand and Mr. Staunton is indefinitely postponed. Accounts have been received from Madrid to the 6th inst., but they bring no news of the slii.;htest interest. That day being the Feast of the Epiphany was ob served as a holiday, and the 13,iirm. , A as closed. On the -4(1 inst. the Portuguese C',om.s were opened by Commission, and the Speech from the Crown was read by one of the high functionaries. The country re mained pwrfectly tranquil. Amendments to the Address will be proposed in both the French Chambers relative to the right of search. The .Journal des Debats refers briefly to the draft of the Address presented to the Chamber of Peers, which we published yesterdu, and praises it for elevation of thought and patriotism. The Opposition journals de scribe it as obsequious and servile. It is said that the Austrian Government has called upon that of France to " concur in measures for convinc ing the malcontents of Switzerland that the Great Powers would not permit any proceeding calculated or intended to produce any change in the existing Constitution of that Republic." Accounts have bees received from Athens of the 26th ult., from which it appears that the verifications of the elections had at last been brought to a close, but might., not right, had prevailed. .9..6.111r tin ZS POZACCS. In the Court of Queen's iienchTiule nisi for a cri minal information for libel was obtained. The case of " White r. Spettigue" was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe and a common jury, in the Court of Exchequer. The plaintiff', who was a solicitor, had some books stolen from his chambers, and some time afterwards the books were discovered exposed for sale in the shop window of the defendant, a bookseller, who, it appeared, had bought them of a young gentleman who had betn in the plaintiff's employ. The action was brought to recover the value of the books. The Learned Baron ultimately left it to the jury to find for plaintiff, if they thought defendant should have been on his guard under the circumstances, and had not acted with due caution ; otherwise, fur plaintiff. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages in the cost price of the books. A black sailor, named David L.mis, was committed to hard labour in Bridewell for twenty-one days, by the Lord Mayor, for absconding from a vessel in which be had engaged to serve for the voyage to Terceira and back. This was the first conviction under the new Act. At Clerkenwell, John Maloney, a young man, who de scribed himself as a lieutenant in the navy, residing in Richmond -terrace, Islington, was charged by Emma, his wife, with having threatened to stab her. The prisoner was ordered to find two bail in 50/. each to appear at the Sessions Three labourers, named Woolf, Leary, and Odell, were placid at the bar, at the Marylebone Court, charged with having violently assaulted several of the police. The case was clearly proved, and the assault was entirely un provoked. Mr. Rawlinson considered it necessary to make a strong example of the prisoners, all of whom have been long known to the police, and without inflict ing upon them any fine, committed them to the House of Correction for a month. On Monday Robert Pratt, who has been in custody for several days, on a charge of cruelly treating and grossly neglecting his child, a boy of five years of age, was fully committed to take his trial from the Lambeth Court. At Greenwich Marian Carver, a woman who has lately been appointed nurse in one of the wards of Greenwich Hospital, surrendered in discharge of her bail, being charged on suspicion of stealing a silver watch. The case broke down, but another accusation of stealing some flannel was gone into, and on that charge the prisoner was commi . ted for trial. The Duke of Manchester has left liiinb.ilton Castle for Tandaraggy Castle, the family seat in Ireland. The Duke and Duchess de Sotianap,r returned to town on Saturday from Windsor, awl in the evening en• tertained a select party to dinner at Mivart's Hotel. On Sunday his Excellency was occupied by paying visits. The Duke of Rutland is staying at present on a visit to Lord and Lady Southampton, in Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, with the Ladies Caroline and Con,tance Levcson Gower, have arrived at Stafford House from Trentham. The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland has returned to Newton House, Yorkshire, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, at Raby Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of IVestminster, as is their custom at this festive season of the year, are enter taining a number of distinguished vi itors at Eaton Hall. The Marchioness of Hastings has left town for Don nington Park, Leicestershire. the Earl and Countess ::raven have arrived at Combe Abbey, near Coventry, from visiting the Earl and Coun tess of Verulam, at Gorhambury, Herts. The Countess of Beauchamp has left Portman square for Worcestershire. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are still at Eglin ton Castle, surrounded by a large circle of friends Viscount Duncan has arrived at Bath from Scotland. Lord Alvanley has left town, on a visit to Lord and Lady Southampton, in Northamptonshire. Lady William Powlett is expected in town, from the seat of Lord and Lady Anglesey, on her way to Paris. Lord and Lady Leigh will shortly receive a large ac cession to the number of their present vi-itors at Stone leigh Abbey, to celebrate the coming of age of their eldest son, the Hon. William Henry Leigh, who will at tain his majority on the 17th inst. The lion. Horatio Pitt has left town, for Yorksliire. The ion. Colonel and Mrs. Fulke Greville Howard have arrived in Grosvenor-square, from their scat ; Castle Rising, Norfolk. His Excellency the Russian Minister gave a sumptu ous entertainment on Monday, at Ashburnham House to the various attaches of the Embassy, in celebration of the Russian New Year's day. Mr, T. Duncombe, M.P., has passed through town, from Lord and Lady W. Powlett's, on his way to Yorkshire. Mrs. G. Lamb has left town, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at Bolton Abbey. Mrs. Robarts has left Hill-street, for Paris. traLtiC32111.16.A.2110130 a a. The Islington Philanthropic Society, which meets at the Kenilworth Castle, King-street, Lower-road, Isling ton, on Monday, according to annual custom, distributed tickets for bread and coals, to the number of 1,250, thus proving in some measure the usefulness of the charity. The Society has been established nine years, since which period upwards of 5,000 persons have been partakers of its bounty. The Members for the borough of Finsbury are joint patrons. The following order was posted at the General Post office, and the several metropolitan branch offices belong ing to that establishment :—" On and after Tuesday, the 21st inst., the let. er-boxes at the chief office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, for the receipt of foreign letters on Tuesday and Friday nights, will be closed at 10 P.M. Paid leiters will, however, be received at the window until 10 15 P.M., upon payment of a fee of one penny each ; and until 10 30 P.M., upon payment of a fee of 6d. each, at which latter hour the office will be finally closed," A VVoolwich Correspondeil informs us that " the Tt'rrible steam-irigste ,id te , t I,e launched on the 24th inst., as stated it. sCio. of pipers, her contractors not dceming her iAliatiet.ti yet for that decisive move." her armaul , ~ 1 i h ar I , llows:—Four 10- inch guns ; sixteen 56-po.thuers, of Monk's pattern ; in all twenty. Also, one bras*. 6-pounder, two 18-pounder carronades, and two 12-pounder ditto, for boat service. The four 10-inch guns are for the weather deck, two of them ou piots; the sixteen 46-pounders are for betwten The Leeds Mercury states that Mr. Pritchard, of Ota heite celebrity, is to sail next week for the important station to which he had been appointed by the Govern ment prior to his forcihle removal from that island, namely, the extensive and populous group of the Sumoas or Navigators' Islands. This group, which comprises the island of Upolu, Savaii, Tutuila, Manono, &c., is situated considerably to the west of the Otahei , an and Society Islands, and east of the Fiji Islands. It is one of the must populous and important groups of the Poly nesian archipelago. The population is about 60,000, whilst that of Otaheite and the Society Islands is only 20,000, of the Marquesas 15,000, and of the Hervey Islands 18,000. On Monday the annual ball in aid of the funds of the Master Bakers' Orphan School, Pentonville, took place at the Freemasons"favern, Great Queen-street. The bull was respectably and well attended dancing was kept up till an early hour in the morning. RUMOURED LAW CHANGES—We have taken some pains to ascertain the truth of the announcement of legal chang,s, copied in our yesterday's paper from the Globe. We find that there is not the slightest foundation for it. The Lord Chancellor is in excellent health and spirits ; neither he nor Lord Chief Justice Tindal has expressed any immediate intention of resigning ; and it is a re markable fact, that Sir William Follett's return in re novated vigour is simultaneously announced. The occa sion, however, has been eagerly seized by a Contempo rary to renew an unjust and illiberal attack on Sir Fre derick Thesiger, who would not have been placed where he now is had he not been deemed a good lawyer, as well as an accomplished advocate and a high-minded man.—Post of yesterday. THE SOLICITOR OF EXCISE.—It is rumoured that Dr. Bateman, chief clerk to the late Mr. Mayow, the assistant-solicitor to that department, will be the suc cessor to that office. The salary will in future be only 1,0001. per annum. Mr. Carr, son of the late Mr. Morton Corr, who formerly held the appointment of solicitor to that revenue, at which time it was worth 4,0004 per annum, has very recently been appointed to that situation, in the room of P. W.l ' yhaney,Esq., deceased. COURT CIRCULAR WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took equestrian exercise in the riding school !ast evening for some tine, attended by the Equerries in Wait;ng. Neither the military nor the private band per formed at the Castle last evening. The Marchioness of Douro has relieved the Countess of Charlemont in the duties of the Lady in Waiting on the Queen. The Viscount Sydney has succeeded the Earl of Warwick as the Lord in Waiting on her Majesty; and Captain the Hon. Nelson Hood has succeeded Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncombe as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert this afternoon. The Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina Villiers, and Sir Henry Wheatley, took their departure from the Castle to-day. The Earl of Jersey remains to attend her Majesty to the seat of the Duke of Buck ingham and Chandos to-morrow. The Queen and Prince Albert promenaded this afternoon in the pleasure-grounds for some time. THE HEREDITARY GRAND DUCHESS OF MECKLEN BURG H STRELITZ. The French Ambassador, the Austrian Ambas sador and the Countess Dietrichstein, the Danish Minister and the Countess Reventlow, and the Hano verian Minister, called on Monday evening at Cam bridge House, to make inquiry after the health of her Royal Highness. Yesterday the following account was issued : " Cambridge House, January 14, 1845. Half-past Eleven o'clock, A.M. " Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz has passed an ex cellent night, and is going on perfectly well. (Signed) " CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D." The Queen sent yesterday morning to learn the state of her Royal Highness, and the Duchess of Kent sent from Frogmore House to inquire after her illustrious relative. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and the members of the Royal Family also sent in the forenoon. The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the American Minister, Mrs. and Miss Everett, the Bavarian Minister and B ironess de Cetto, Count Pollon, the Brazilian Minister and Madame de Lisboa, the Mexican Minister and Madame Murphy, the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, Count de Jarnac, Baron Koller, Count Louis de Noailles, M. de Koudriaffsky, Count de Revel, Baron Gersdorff, and Count and Countess d'Harcourt, called yesterday to learn the state of the Grand Duchess. In the afternoon her Majesty again sent to inquire after her Royal Highness. The Duchess of Glou cester also inquired after the health of her royal niece ; and the Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to the Royal Duchess at Gloucester House. Inquiry was also made on the part of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Among the very numerous list of the nobility and gentry who called and left their cards yesterday at Cambridge House, were the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Earl and Countess of Haddington, the Marchioness of Westmeath, Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, Lord Euston, Colonel and the Misses Fitzgibbon, Rev. Dr. Dakins, Rev. Dr. Horsley Dakins, Marchioness of Douro, Viscount and Vis countess Hawarden, Viscount Templetown, Mrs. L. Fox, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Hon. W. and Mrs. Ashley, Marquis of Bristol, Colonel Scott, Earl of Warwick, Lady Mornington, Countess Dowager of Dunmore, Earl of Clare and Lady Isabella Fitz gibbon, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Alicia Gordon, Dowager Lady Rivers, Mr. Cox, Viscount and Viscountess Pon sonby, Mr. C. and the Ladies Gore, Mr. and Mrs John Talbot, the Lord Chief Baron, Lady and Mil s Pollock, Prince Castelcicala, Sir W. Curtis, Bart., Lady and the Misses Curtis, the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, Mr. and Mrs. George Hope Sir James and Lady Graham, Rev. Dr. Jelf, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, Colonel and Mrs. Hugh Baillie, Miss Baillie, Lady Stuart de Rothsay, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Lord de L'lsle, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Earl and Countess of Erroll, Earl of Pembroke, Captain Henry Murray, R.N., Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Lord Chan cellor and Lady Lyndhurst, Miss Copley, Mrs. de Rothschild, Dowager Countess of Listowel, General Sir George Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Boyce, Colonel Cavendish, Dr. Francis Hawkins, Mr. Culling Smith, Lord Foley, Lady and Miss Foley, and also many others, comprising nearly all the nobility and gentry in town. The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz was going on favourably yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester sent to inquire after the state of her Royal Highness. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Succleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, tlic Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Lord Granville Somerset. The Lord Chancellor joined his colleagues at four o'clock. Sir R. Peel arrived in town in the forenoon, from Windsor Castle. The Council sat three hours. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office in White hall-place. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Earl of Chichester, and the Dean of Westminster. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. 12.—The Government has received from Mr. Aehille Battaille, a report containing detailed information respecting the commercial condition of the republic of Venezuela, and of the articles of importation and exportation. The report is accompanied by a tariff of the customs of the republic. The Chamber of Repre sentatives is to meet on Tuesday next, the 14th. The budget of the Marine Department is the first subject of the order of the day. The Princess Clementine, sister of the Queen of the Belgians, and the husband of the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, arrived by a special train, at eight in the evening, from Germany. Their Royal Highnesses were con veyed from the station in a royal carriage to the palace of Lacken. The Organe des Flandres announces, on the authority of a letter from Riga, that the ice which detained the ships in that port had been broken through, and that on the 29th of December more than eighty vessels had put to sea. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 24.—We still continue to re ceive accounts of disasters that have lately occurred in the Black Sea. _ . Accounts brought by the Perwas steamer, belonging to the Danish Steam Navigation Company, which left for Galaez on the 19th, but was obliged to return with out reaching that place, nearly 300 merchantmen were hindered by the freezing of the Danube from proceeding on their zoyage. Abdallah Pasha, of Trebison, who had been ordered by the Porte to make a return visit to the English Vice- Consul, who, on receiving a written invitation, was to visit him with his interpreter, was preparing, when the last steam-boat left, to return Mr. Stevens's visit. Sir Stratford Canning is fully satisfied with this satisfaction for the unpolite behaviour of Abdallah Pasha to the Vice- Consul and his interpreter. He considers this affair of the ill-treated Greek as a distinct matter, in which not only England, but the three Protective Powers were concerned. VIENNA, JAN. 6. rhe Vienna Gazette published yesterday the report of the receipts of the Northern Railway Company during the year 1844. The total amount was 1,603,686 florins, deducting the expenses. The Company received nearly 5 per cent. for its capital. This is a favourable result. WINE AND SPIRIT DUTIES.—The Committee of the Wine and Spirit Association on Monday received the following communication. It is an important concession in the mode of charging duty on spirits to the trade, and which has been solicited by the Committee for the last two years :—" Treasury Chambers, Jan. 13, 1845.- 1 am directed to inform you that my Lords have autho rised the Commissioners of Customs to issue general in structions to their officers to adopt the practice and rules of computation which have been observed in the Excise, both as regards fractions of under-proof and over-proof foreign spirits, viz. :—ln cases of over-proof to charge 84-100 parts as a gallon, and to reject all fractions below that amount ; and in cases of under-proof to observe the same rule, and in like manner to disregard all fractions below 84-100 parts. This regulation, upon being carried into effect, will, my Lords conceive, afford to the im porters of foreign spirits all the relief which it would appear to be their object to obtain." WIDOWS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—Monday the annual general meeting of the Widows' Friend Society, founded in 1807, was held at the London Coffeehouse, Ludgate hill, for the purpose of receiving the annual report, and transacting the usual business of the society.. The Rev. R. Munro, M.A., Vice- President, in the chair. The re port stated that during the past year 256 individuals had been relieved with various sums, many of whom were, in consequence, enabled to set up in some occupation cal culated to yield a subsistence to themselves and families. The financial statement showed that the receipts of the year amounted to 438/. including a legacy from the late Miss E. Gibson, of 2251. ; and the distribution to the purposes of the charity, to 295/., leaving a balance in the treasurer's hands of 351. 16s. _ OMNIBUS ROBBERY.—On Saturday information was given to the police, that a lady, residing in Glouces ter-terrace, Regent's Park, after having received her divi dend at the Bank of England, entered a Paddington omni bus near the Auction Mart, having placed her reticule, containing two 401. and two 101. notes, besides gold and silver, in her muff, and held it as she considered safe. A gentleman in a cloak entered the omnibus and sat near to her. lie got down near the Green Man, oppo site Albany-street, in the New-road. When she de scended, to her utter astonishment, the reticule had dis appeared, with its contents. Persons, especially ladies, cannot be too cautious of their money_in omnibuses. T ItE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle, Jan. 11.) Advices to the 6th of December from Barbadoes state that Lieutenant-Colonel Torrens, 23d, had returned to St. Lucia, after a week's absence, the court-martial on which he proceeded to Barbados having been aban doned on condition that Captain Campbell, 23d, would send in his papers, and sell out of the army. Captain Marinden, of The Royal, arrived at Barbadoes from Grenada. A company of the 23d Regiment has left Barbadoes for Grenada ; a company of the 71st from Grenada for Dominica, and a company of the 46th from Daßinica for Barbadoes. The detachments of the 15th Regiment at Newcastle, 141thkealz, Killaloe, and Tipperary, will be called into helig:quarters the ensuing month, and relieved by the 3dtta . Regiment, after which the former corps will move into the Cork district. - Captain W. Calder, staff officer of the Limerick dis trict, this evening concluded his payment of the quar terly pension bills of the veterans in Limerick, Bruff, Kilmallock, Charleville, Rathkeale, Newcastle, Ad are. Cappamore, Newport, and Killaloe, mustering upwards of 700 men. Lieut. Fleury, 36th, has taken the command of the company at Charlemont4 Brevet Major De Lacy having retired from the regiment upon full pay of major. Captain Alan Chambre, barrack-master of Gort and Clare Castle, has received one month's leave of absence to proceed to London. Captain Meynell, commanding a troop of the 2d Dragoons at G ort Barracks, will offi ciate during his absence. The 66th Regiment, Royal Barracks, Dublin, will march for Athlone. A general Court-martial has assembled at Belfast, for the trial of a private of the sth Fusileers, named Cotton, for hating in his barrack-room loaded two muskets with ball cartridge, for the purpose of shooting some person or persons not specified. A pauper admitted to the Tipperary workhouse, this week, formerly held the commission of Lieutenant in militia of that county. The following officers of Royal Artillery in Ireland are on leave :—Licut.-Colonels Walcott and Scott, Cap tains D'Aerley, Lake, Williams, Wilmot, Hamilton, and Rowan ; Ist Lieutenants Morritt, Adye, Adair, Young husband, Longden, and Price ; 2d Lieut. Chandler. The company 34th, ordered to march from Athlone head-quarters for Sligo, is countermanded. The company 38th at Sligo, under Captain Smith, or dered to march to join head-quarters at Boyle, will re main, being countermanded. Effective strength 73d Regiment, Dublin, under Major Eyre-40 sergeants, 16 drummers, and 750/ rank and file. Recruiting-5 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 11 pri vates. Effective strength 67th Regiment, Richmond barracks, Dublin, under Colonel Bunbury, K.H.-45 sergeants, 17 drummers, and 780 rank and file. A recruiting party of the 69th, from Templemore, has arrived at Omagh. The company 35th, at Portumna, under Lieutenant Parker, is under orders to move to Dunkerrin, there to be stationed. Officers entered for study this month at the senior department of the Royal Military College :—Lieut. Campbell, Queen's Bays ; Captains Douglas, 60th ; Biscoe, 66th ; Barlow, 68th ; and Lieut. Nicholson, 96th. The Governor's staff at St. Helena is broken up. Depot Adjutants appointed:—Ensign Tisdall, 35th ; Lieut. Gaisford, 79th ; Lieut. Sorell, 81st ; Lieut. Par ratt, 85th. Lieut. J. B. Hamilton has succeeded Lieut. T. Bur ridge as Adjutant to the Bristol recruiting district. Major-Generals Alex. Thomson and W. A. Gordon are appointed to the staff of officers in receipt ofcompensation at 255. a day for distinguished service. Officers appointed to the Recruiting Service.—Lieut. Garrett, 78th, to Kendal, vice Lieut. Rawson, 28th ; Lieut. Wallace ' 16th, to Shrewsbury, vice Lieut. Bayly, 94th ; Lieut. Lister, 9th, to Gloucester, vice Lieut. Denys. 77th. Depot Adjutants recently appointed.—Lieut. Topper, 7th; Ensign Cuming, 35th ; Lieut. Fordyce, 74th ; Lieut. Raikes, 81st ; Lieut. Halliday, 82d ; Lieut. Paterson, 85th ; Lieut. Stewart, 89th. Lieut. Hillier, 14th Light Dragoons, is added to th e staff of Lieut.-General Sir H. Hardinge, Governor- General of India. ____ Colonel Sir Thomas Wiltshire, commandant of Chat ham, received orders to hold in readiness for embarka tion, on Wednesday last, by the freight ship Anne, for New South Wales, the following detachments :-51st Regiment, 22 men. 58th—Lieut..-Colonel Wynyard, Captain Leigh, Lieut. Petly, Ensign Wynyard, Assistant Surgeon Philson, and 196 men. 8 6th—Assistant Surgeon M'Andrew and 18 men. 99th-45 men. Total-6 officers and 281 men. The death of the lamented Major Gallwey is a source of deep affliction to his many relatives and friends in and about Killarney. Several leases terminable with his life fall in, and no inconsiderable share of property in that neighbourhood will be seriously affected by the event. Captain J. Cramer Roberts, provincial inspector, is reported to succeed the late Major Gallwey, as deputy inspector-general of constabulary. Major Priestley, K. 11., of Nenagh, is also reported for the office. Chris topher Gernon, Esq., sub-inspector of constabulary, has been promoted from Loughrea to Sligo. IRELAND. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS COMMISSION. DUBLIN, JAN. 12.—The second meeting of Charitable Bequests' Commissioners, held at their office in Lower Gardiner-street, on Thursday last, was attended by the following members :—The Archbishop of Dublin ; the Mott Rev. Dr. Crollv, -Roman Catholic Primate ; Most Rev. Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dub lin ; Right Hon. F. Blackburne, Master of the Rolls; the Lord Chief Baron ; the Earl of Donoughmore ; Dr. Keatinge, Judge of the Prerogative Court; Right Hon. A. R. Blake ; Dr. Pa,ckenham, Dean of St. Patrick's; the Rev. Shouldham Henry. There were only three of the Commissioners absent, namely, the Primate, Lord John G. Beresford ; Right Rev Dr. Denvir, Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor ; and Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart. The Master o f th e Rolls presided at the meeting. The principal business transacted related to the clauses of the Act for the regulation of bequests to the various religious denominations, and rules were adopted for the future guidance of the Board on this important sub ject. It was arranged, with the unanimous con currence of the members present, that all questions respecting Roman Catholic bequests should be referred to the Roman Catholic Commissioners, whose certificate is to be conclusive as to the clergyman of any parish en titled to any trust or donation. The same rule has been adopted in regard to bequests to clergy of the Esta blished Church ; and in reference to bequests to the Presbyterian clergy, the certificate of the Rev. Dr. Henry is to be acted on in the like manner. A very important regulation has been adopted in re ference to Roman Catholic bequests, with a view to pos sible objections affecting the discipline and usages of that Church. It is to this effect:—ln all cases where refer ence may be made to the Roman Catholic Commissioners, in order to ascertain who is the person entitled to the benefit of any donation or bequest which may be made, to or in trust for the Roman Catholic clergyman of any parish or congregation, it is to be understood that their duty is to be merely ministerial, and that it will be in cumbent on them to act on the certificate of the Roman Catholic archbishop, bishop, or vicar acting for the time being, instead of the Roman Catholic archbishop or bishop of the place, as to the person entitled thereto, and to certify accordingly. The object of this regulation is to obviate any objec tion as to interference with the control and authority of each bishop in his own diocese. ARCHBISHOP CROLLY'S LETTER. The Roman Catholic Church of Westland-row, one of the mensal parishes of Archbishhop Murray, was crowded today. The Reverend Gregory Lynch (who has published several letters in favour of the Charitable Bequests' Act) read the letter of Archhishop Crolly and the accompanying letter from the Propaganda. The Rev. Gentleman went on' to remark that the Holy See in that document had strictly admonished all clergymen from interfering in political questions, and that his Holiness, as the successor of St. Peter, to whom were given the key. of heaven, was the paramount authority ii the guidance of the clergy. Dean Mayler, and several others of the clergy, were in the church during the discourse of the Reverend Mr. Lynch. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. There is a manifest improvement in the state of Tip perary and the other districts which have been so much disturbed. There are comparatively few reports of crime in the provincial jonrnals, although there are some ac counts of the seizure of fire-arms by marauding parties. The town-lands meetings, organised by the Roman Ca tholic clergy in North Tipperary, amongst the farmers and labouring peasantry, have already produced a visible change for the better. The Limerick Chronicle of yesterday contains the fol lowing :—" Thursday evening last, twenty men of the constabulary reserve force arrived here by the canal, under Head-constable Lavelle, from the Phoenix Park, to reinforce different stations in the R a thk ea l e di str i ct ; this augmentation having heengrantegditnracteos at nse Rath kealequenc ofa Quarter memoria S memorial freosmsiotnhse.'m'eeting of Magistrates THE CROWN JEwnL6.—The Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls (Lord Langdale), and Lord Chief Justice Tindal, the Commissioners appointed to inves tigate the claim of the King of Hanover to a portion of the Crown jewels, met on Monday morning, at eleven o'clock, in the Lord Chancellor's private room, adjoin ing the Court of Chancery, Westminster-hall. The pro ceedings were conducted with closed doors ; no one be sides counsel and an attorney on each side (except a short-hand writer) was allowed to be present. Sir Charles Wetherell addressed their Lordships in support of the claim of the King of Hanover. The argu ments of the Learned Counsel will be answered by the Solicitor-General and Sir Thomas Wilde, counsel for the Crown. We understand the result of the inquiry will not be made public until after the opinions of the Com missioners have been submitted to her Majesty. WINDSOR GRAND MILITARY AND ANNUAL STEEPLE CHACES.—This annual sporting event, which has been announced to come off on Easter Tuesday, has been postponed by the stewards (Captain Mountjoy Martin and Lieutenant Tollemache, of the 2d Life Guards, and Major Lawrenson, of the 17th Lancers), until Wednesday, the 2d of April, in order that it should not interfere with the Northampton three days' meeting for flat racing and steeple chasing, which commences on the Tuesday in Easter week. There are eight entries T fo h r e the second race militar is forayehace' which closed on the I s t i n st. sweepstakes o f fi ve sovere i gns each, third,with 3hoic w each, with ten sovereigns added, will be for horses that never won a steeple chase , and to carry eleven stone. a n dd w ed ill ; the winner to b e so ld f or 150/. be a hack race , o f two sovere i gns The The winner to be sold for 601. The entries for the two last-named races to close on the 31st of March, and un less four horses start the pnblio =en— try will not be given. A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY OF HIS PROVINCE, BY WILLIAM, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CAN TERBURY. For a considerable time past my attention has been anxiously turned to the divisions in the Church, occa sioned by differences of opinion with respect to the in tention of certain rubrical directions in the Liturgy, and diversities of practice in the performance of Divine Ser vice. These questions, relating to matters in themselves indifferent, but deriving importance from their connexion Kith the maintenance of uniformity and order in the solemn ministrations of the Church, are rendered difficult by the ambiguity of the rubrics in some instances, and in all, by the doubts which may arise as to the weight which should be allowed to general usage when it varies from the written law. It is partly on these accounts, and partly from uncertainty with respect to the extent of the powers committed to the Archbishop of the Province, in the preface to the Book of Common Prayer, for the reso lution of doubt in regard to the contested points, that I have not felt myself justified in expressing an authoritative opinion upon questions occasionally sub mitted to me on these su bj ec t s . I was , i n d ee d, willing to hope that these controversies, like many of much greater importance which have for a season disquieted the Chutch, would be suffered to die away of themselvcs, when the arguments on each side had been thoroughly sifted, from the good sense of the parties engaged in them, and the general conviction of their unprofitableness. But having been disappointed in this expectation, and considering the tendency of continued agitation to weaken the sacred bonds of affection which ought to unite the clergy and laity as members of one body in Christ, I hold it a duty to come forward, in the hope of allaying animosities, and putting a stop to dissensions, which are shown by experience to be not only unedifying, but mis chievous. With this view I would call your attention to a few considerations, which, with persons who are de sirous of peace, will, I trust have their due weight. It has long been observed that, in the performance of Divine service in the genrality of our parochial churches, there has been a deviation, in certain particulars, from the express directions of the rubric, and that, in some cases, a difference in respect to the sense of the rubric has led to a diversity in practice. In regard to such points, in themselves non-essential, the most conscien tious cleygymen have felt themselves justified in treading in the steps of their predecessors ; and hence the irregularity (for all departure from rule is irregular), which seems, in some instances at least, to have existed from the beginning, became inveterate. There have, I apprehend, at all times been clergymen who have been distressed by this inconsistency ; and of late years it has been regarded by many excellent men as irreconcil able with the obligations which they took upon them selves on their admission into Holy Orders. Under the influence of these scruples, they thought it right to adhere as closely as possible to the letter of the rubric in their ministration ; whilst others of their brethren, not Jess conscientious, have been deter• mined by considerations, in their estimation of great weight, to follow the usage which they found established in their respective churches. Under these circumstances a diversity of practice has arisen, which is not only inconsistent with the principle of uniformity maintained by the Church, but is sometimes associated in the minds of the people with peculiarities of doctrine, and gives birth to suspicions and jealousies destructive of the confidence which should always subsist between the flock and their pastor. To prevent the increase of an evil which might terminate in actual schisms was confessedly most desirable ; and the most effectual mode of accom plishing the object, it has been thought, would be found in general conformity to the rubric. Universal concur rence in this easy and obvious regulation would have combined the several advantages of securing comet)liance with the law of the Church and the land, of putting a stop to unauthorised innovations, and of excluding party distinctions, in their character decidedly un christian, from the public worship of God ; and I can not but regret that measures which, with a view to these good purposes, have been recommended by high autho rities, should not have been received with unanimous acquiescence, as the means of restoring order and peace, without any departure from the principles of the Church, or offence to the most scrupulous conscience. At the same time, I am sensible that those who object have much to allege in their justification. If the written law is against them, they plead an opposite usage, in parochical churches at least, reaching back, perhaps, to the time when the intention of the lawgiver was best understood, superseding its literal sense, and determining its real meaning ; they appeal to the general consent of bishops, clergy, and laity, implied in the absence of any effectual interference during so long a period, they object to the sudden revival of rules, which in their opinion are obsolete, and still more, to their rigid enforcement after so long a term of abeyance, In fairness to them we must allow, that this dislike of alterations in the manner of worship to which they have been accustomed from their infancy, proceeding, as it does, from attachment to the ordinances of the Church, ought not to be visited with unkindly censure ; and we can hardly be surpri se d a t any c h ange being regarded with suspicion when so many attempts have - been made to introduce innovations which are really objection able, and tend, as far as they go, to alter the cha racter of our Church. It must also be granted that the intention of the Church is not always clearly discoverable from the language of the rubric, nor determinable with absolute certainty from the records of early practice. In such cases it may with some show of reason be said, that, as the eminent men to whom the several revisions of the Liturgy were successively entrusted, did net see the necessity of giving directions so precise as to insure a rigid conformity in every particular, we may be con tented to acquiesce in slight deviations from rule, sug gested by convenience, and sanctioned by long usage. Now, whatever may be the force of the arguments on either side, a difference of opinion will probably always exist in regard to the contested points. But all parties will concur in regarding these points as of far less importance than the maintenance - of that mutual confidence which, next to support from above, forms the main strength of the Church, pro ducing tht harmonious co-operation of its several members, and disposing the people to look up with reverence to their pastor as their spiritual instructor and guide. In whatever degree, or by whatever means, the tie of affection is loosened, a proportionate diminution will follow of that moral influence on which the efficiency of the clergyman's teaching will always depend. The case, then, if fairly considered with reference to the existing dissensions, and the results to be expected from their continuance, will show the necessity of mutual forbearance to the peace and the honour, I may even say, to the safety, of the Church. The laity, it may be hoped, will see the propriety of respecting the consciences of such of the clergy as have held themselves bound to strict compliance with the express direction of the rubric, without regard to former disuse ; and the clergy will perceive the expediency of Aot pressing too harshly, or abruptly, the observance of laws which, having by themselves and their predecessors been long suffered to sleep, have now the appearance of novelty. I am fully alive to the importance of uniformity in the celebration of Divine Service ; but I think it would be purchased too dearly at the expense of lasting divi sions—a consequence which, I trust, will be averted by a suspension of the existing disputes. My hope of such an adjustment is grounded on the wisdom, temper, and piety which are engaged on both sides of the question. A settlement which would have the sanction of law is at the present moment impossible ; and, were it possible, could hardly be attempted with hope of success till the subsisting excitement has been allayed by time and re flection. But till that time shall arrive, our regard to the spiritual interests of our brethren ought surely to put a stop to contentions, which, besides the 'offence against charity, engage much time and ability which might be infinitely better applied, and which can afford pleasure to those only who bear to our Church. The matters in controversy, considered in them selves, are not of vital importance : the service in our churches has in general been conducted in conformity to the Apostle's direction, with order and decency ; and, whether performed with exact regard to the letter of the rubric, or with the variations established by general usage, will still be decent and orderly. I therefore entreat you to consider, whether the peace of the Church should be hazarded by prolonging an unprofitable controversy, at a time, more especially, when her energies are di rected, with such hope of success, to the promotion of religion and morals, and when the clergy and laity are zealously engaged in united exertions for the erection and endowment of churches and schools, and for other pious and beneficial objects in almost every part of the country. What I would most earnestly recommend for the pre sent, is the discontinuance of any proceedings, in either direction, on the controverted questions. In churches where alterations have been introduced with general acqui escence, let things remain as they are ; in those which re tain the less accurate usage,let no risk ofdivision be incurred by any attempt at change, till some final arrangement can be made with the sanction of the proper authorities. In the case of churches where agitation prevails, and nothing has been definitively settled, it is not possible to lay down any general rule which may be applicable to all circumstances. But is it too much to hope that those who are zealous for the honour of "God and the good of his Church, will show, by the temporary surrender of their private opinions, that they are equally zealous in the cause of peace and charity ? DEATH of GEN. SIR HENRY ,GREG' This Gallant Officer, who has been in the .militaz y service of the country since November, 1779, Wh en 4 e obtained his first commission, an Ensigncy in the 26t1 Foot, lied at his house in Hertford-street, May-fair:- " Saturday, having i early reached his 80th year, 65 of which he had held the royal commission. He had held the Colonelcy of the 13th Light Dragoons since 1811, and the date of his commission as a General was May, 1825. He was the ninth General in seniority in the service. He was removed- from the Line to a Cornetcy in the 19th Dragoons, and served as Aide-de-camp to his father, the late General Earl Grey, at Plymouth, until 1783 ; be was also for some time, while in the 17th Dragoons, Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Rutland, during his Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland. He served at the following places :—At the siege of Nieuport ; as Deputy-Quarter-Master-General in the West Indies ; at the reduction of Martinique in 1794, and on the staff at home as Assistant-Quarter-Master- General until September, 1795, when he again went out to the West Indies, in command of his regi meat (the 18th Dragoons), with the expedition I under Sir Ralph Abercromby, and served at St. Domingo, until April, 1787, when he came home with the 17th Dragoons as its Lieut.-Colonel. He was nominated Aide-de-camp to George 111. in 1798, and in ' 1805 Major-General. From this date he served on the staff in England until July, 1806, when he was appointed Commander of the Forces at the Cape. He returned home in 1811, and from that time to 1814 commanded a district. In December, 1811, he got the Colonelcy of the 13th Light Dragoons, which is of course at present at the disposal of the Horse Guards. General Grey was also a member of the Consolidated Board of General Officers. THE BOY JONES IN GREECE—HIS VISIT TO TYE PALACE OF KING OTHO.—The following is an extract of a letter from an officer on board her Majesty's ship \Varspite, Smyrna, Dec. 23, 1844, to his friends in England :—" The boy Jones, who belongs to this ship, disappeared one night at Athens, and every one said he was gone to call on King Otho. I believe that was his intention, as he was found near the palace, and brought back very much disappointed, to think that he could not pay his intended visit. He is a strange-looking fellow, appears half asl'ep, and seldom speaks to any one. It is the custom to punish when a man deserts, but Jones is put on the black list, and his grog stopped as long as he remains in the ship."—Shipping Gazette. THE FRENCH AT OTAHEITE.—The communication of the King of the French was read at the meeting of the Directors of the London Missionary Society last night ; but the contents have not been allowed to tran spire, and we are informed that it will not be determined whether the document shall be published until the next fortnightly meeting. The inference drawn from the de termination not to publish is, that the reply of the King of the French is unfavourable. SIIOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.—Yesterday week, a shooting match of a very surprising character took place at Bardsey, near Wetherby. Mr. Waite, of Burley, matched himself to shoot 100 pigeons in 100 minutes for a wager of 100 guineas ; to have two traps and four double-barrelled guns, and fifteen yards rise. Instead of occupying 100 minutes, the match closed in favour of Mr. Waite in the short space of 48 minutes, being 52 minutes under the time. 125 birds rose from the traps ; of these 103 fell within 60 yards, the distance stipulate, 13 fell out of that distance, and 9 got away, missed, or slightly hurt. We understand that soon after the match commenced, Mr. Waite offered to kill 100 birds within 60 minutes. It is said that he cleared by the match about 300 L He suffered some what severely from the great physical exertion required in accomplishing this task and the recoil of th• Leeds Mercury. CHURCH INTOLERANCIL—The chapelwardens of Uxbridge, William Harmand and Thomas Moor, having few days ago to distribute bread, left to the poor of the parish by way of charity, actually refused the benefit of such charity to several poor persons, who were in great distress through sickness, merely because these pour persons lately voted against the granting a church-rate. What would such bigoted and narrow-minded men do further in the way of persecution, if they dared, or had the power ? A few liberally-minded Churchmen and Dissenters, on hearing of the persecution, immediately subscribed for and presented the poor people with bread and coals.— Windsor Express. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT NEWCASTL2.—A fire broke out on Saturday morning last, shortly after one o'clock, in an extensive steam flour mill, situate in Gallowgate, near the barracks, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the property of Mr. Laws, and in the occupation of Mr. Anderson. The premises are nearly new, and had been fitted up at great expense, with all the recent improvements, the model being supplied by one recently erected in the United States. The fire originated in the upper part of the building, it is supposed from the heating of the flues, whence it had communicated with some of the beams in the vicinity. The mill had been at work till after nine o'clock, and it is probable the fire bad been smouldering some time before it was discovered. A smart breeze prevailed at the time, which caused it to spread rapidly. The engines were soon upon the spot, and the men laboured with great assiduity for a long while with little apparent effect. The fire having been observed from the barracks, the garrison engine was dispatched, with a strong party of the 26th Cameronians, under Lieutenant- Colonel Campbell, who rendered most efficient aid, but it was nearly five o'clock before the fire was subdued. It was fortunately confined to the upper stories of the building, but much damage was done to the flour in the lower department by the immense quantity of water thrown in, as well as from the hasty manner in which the sacks of flour were removed. The police, under Superintendent Stephens, were present, and kept the im mense crowd assembled at a distance. The damage done is estimated at 2,0001., the stock only being insured to the extent of 700/. in the Norwich-office. LARGE IMPORTATION OF VENEZUELAN SUGAR.— The recent decision as to the admission of Venezuelan sugar into this country, upon the most favoured terms, is now well known the mercantile interest. Hitherto, however, there has been no large importations of it ; hut on Friday a cargo of about 300 tons arrived in the brig, Warman from La Guara.—Manchester Guardian. ELECTRIC TELESRAPIL—The construction of the electric telegraph between London and Gosport, at a cost of 24,0001, to be borne in equal proportions by the South- Wester❑ Company and the Admiralty, is now nearly completed. A trial telegraph has for some time past been working between Coventry an Rugby on the Birming ham Railway IVErmouTu.—A meeting of the town council was held a few days since, on the subject of the Wilts, So merset, and Weymouth Railways, and also of the rail. ways from hence to Southampton, as the two Companies intend to connect the same rails from Dorchester, and make their terminus in Victoria Park, close to which vessels can come, ►•hen it was unanimously agreed to afford every assistance towards carrying the object into effect. As the two projects have received the full ap probation of the Board of Trade, we hope, in the course of a few months. to see both of them commenced. On the particular questions which disquiet the public mind, I think it unadvisable to pronounce an opinion. Upon careful examination, I have found reason to think that some of these questions are more difficult of solution than is commonly imagined, and that the meaning which occurs at first sight is not always the most correct. And the general question in respect to what should be conceded to usage in controlling or modifying the written law, seems to me to be open to much doubt. But, if I were ever so fully persuaded in my own mind, I should he unwilling, for reasons already assigned, to pronounce a judgment which, not having legal authority, might be accepted by some and disregarded by others, and might thus increase the confusion which it was designed to remedy. For similar reasons I have not thought it expedient to call the Bishops of my province together at this time, though it will be my desire, as well as my duty, to seek their advice and assistance when a fit op portunity presents itself. I am, however, fully assured of their general concurrence in depre cating the continuance of discussions, which will undoubtedly multiply strife and contention, but which, in the present posture of things, can lead to no beneficial result. In order to guard against misapprehension, I think it proper to state, that all I have here said is strictly con fined to the rubrical questions which have occasioned the present agitation. All change in the performance of the service, affecting the doctrine of the Church, by alteration, addition, or omission, I regard with unquali fied disapprobation. I may further remark that the danger to the Church would be great, if clergymen, not having due respect either_to episcopal authority or estab- RE*ECCA AGAIN.—Late on Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning last, a most outrageous attack was made on the Vicarage-house of Fishguard, the resi dence of the Rev. Henry Nathan, the curate, during his absence from home. Providentially, Mrs. Nathan left the house between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, otherwise death inevitably would have been the result, the attack being so severe with stones of huge dimen sions. About seventy panes of glass were destroyed, besides other damage. Strong suspicions fell on three notorious characters, who were committed in the autumn of 1843 for destroying the turnpike houses of the parish of FiShguard. This enmity against the Rev. Henry Nathan arises from the circumstance of his communica tions with the Secretary of State on the subject of the Rebecca riots, the result of which has been tne discon tinuance of any destruction of property, save in the pre sent instance.—Carmarthen Journal. RARE Fisn.—Last week, a fine specimen of Delphi.tus delphis was caught in the Hayle river._ It came in over the bar, and could not get out agail4d and was easily secured. It is seven feet eight inches in length, o a t n h d e r ra s t p h e e e r i rusleignhs.t_lyDfoervmoneilo,rctoTmepkared with the figures of r e l c ri t the on, o nh reporttedescription of thegovernorof persons rost'gLnrasePwLem inconfinement in louseof C n r- 20haarese in tated th to es b e e la ft i o n fre t n h c a e t s purnidsoern,thoeutGoafmlet mivsa.l7A, change _hßavreigtthen H e rald.effi.etof ma terially reducing the county rwaot e u s l d . ito DEVIZES.-- At a vestry meeting held at Potter ne on Friday week, and attended by most of the respectable parishioners, it was unanimously resol ve d, OR the mo tion of Colonel Olivier, that the surplus labourers of the parish (of whom there are a great number) shall be dis tributed among, and employed by av• occupiers of land in proportion to the acreage.— 'Wiltshire Independent. LEICESTER STATE OF TRADE.—There has been more business doing in wools this week, and prices are a trifle higher. Th e yarn market is firm, although stocks are rather heavy. The general business has been dull. Shipping orders aro closing for the spring. The spring home demand is expected to be fair, but at pre sent little is doing.—Leicestershire Mercury. MINE ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, a man named Jolly was dreadfully injured by the explosion of a hole, which he thought had missed fire, at Callington mines, and there is but little hope of his recovery. He is a stranger to that neighbourhood, and it was only his second time of working in those mines.— West Briton. -------- . ---_____ lished usage, should interpret the rubric for the' ni or selves, TUESD AY NIGHT'S GA:7.I.I4TTE. should introduce or curtail cerem ure, onies at plea o ,____ K, make Divine Service in -kny way the means of e,. press- NIIITEHALL, JAN. 13, 184 t r inn their own theological amnions or party viev Corn- ' A communication was t hi s d ay rece i ver il from Cam respect to the ritual, the pi-e - tace to the Book of s. In i bridge House, stating that her Royal Ti 'ighness the ersely_ce Ilereditary . Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg) i Strelitz, at mon Prayer directs all p ers ons h a ving doubts, or dii of theChurch i St . 1 ,1 ( - )1 half-past six o'clock this morning, was de livered of a taking any thing in the performance to resort to the Bishop of the diocese .For the rest) uti o , f . ities. Had & tie Prince, who died a few minutes after the bin th. DOWNING-STREET, Jexi. 14., such doubts, and the appeasing of div,:st:sis salutary ira, , e,t,. attention been paid, from the first, to ti ' '' The Queen 11?.s been pleased to appoint Lieutenant -1 Church might perhaps hare been gavel 1 from mil " . Colonel George Macdonald to be Lieuten anl-G overnor divided tu the dissension which at various times has r of the I4land of Dominica. members, and grieved and perplexed her rulers, ' lllll whici l ' WHITEHALL, JAN. 13. if not speedily checked, may again cause ase -r,, , ous dis - The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. turbance of her peace. Considering the course I hmo. ye sttS ~ 1 G. Hutchison, M as t er o f A rts, to t h e c h urc h an d par i s h Bested as offering the only immediate means Gf a\ -Crtin , 1: 1 of Monzie, in the presidency of Anehterarder and such a calamity, and at the same time preparing- th i I county of Perth, vacan t b y t h e res i gnat i on o f t h e H ey. way for a final arrangement at a convenient season,. -t . IR. Waugh, lat e Mi n i ster t h ereo f earnestly recommend its adoption, in the hope thol.'., I Commissions by th e L or d Li eutenant of Buck i ng h amshire. through the blessing of God, it may lay the founds...don Royal Bucks or King's Own Regiment of Militia—Sir of lasting peace ; " and to this end"— (I borrow - the . If. Verney, Bart., to be Major, vice Sir W. L. Young, words of a learned and pious ritualist —" to this end !nay 1 lart., deceased ; R. E. Smith, Gent., to he Lieutenant, the God of Peace give us all meek hearts, quiet spirits, A ov. 25. and devout affections, and free us from all prejudice, :that .2d Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry—lL S. we may have full churches, frequent prayers, and fere( nt T. iwer, Gent, to be Cornet, Nov. 19. charity ; that, uniting in our prayers here, we may ; ill c o. omission by the Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. join in His praises hereafter, for the sake of Jesus Chri st R o u - Crewshire Regiment of Militia—Captain R. Morris our Lord." Amen. W. CANTUAR.. to be Maior, vice Walker, deceased, Jan. 9. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Lambeth Palace, Jan. 11, 1845. Joseph norvey, builder, St. Mary Axe, City. ~ BANKRUPTS. John Curwen cheesemonger, Bridge-place, Vauxhall, to surrender Jan. 4 and Feb. 27, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankru ltcy. Alsager, official assignee, 13irchin-lane ; Dean and .Dixon, St. Swithin's-lane, City.. Louis Jean Baptiste AP - Andean and Louis Oneasime Benjamin Vaudeau, dealers in .artificial flowers, Wood street, Cheap s id e , J an. 24, at hal!--nast twelve, and Feb. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bantamptcy. Whitmore, o fficial assignee, Basinghall-street ; fictlgson and Burton, s, lisbury-street, Strand. • William Tydeman, coal merchant, Chelmsford, Essex, j am 21, at two, and Feb. 25, at twelve, at the Court of Ban k, - uptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms yard, L ondon ; Hooker, Bartlett' s -b u ildi ngs , H o lb orn. Chark s Frederick Warman, china dealer, Hounds ditch, Jan. 24, at two, and Feb. 25, at one, at the Court. of Bankrupcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-- street ; Heath, Gracechurch-street. William Moyes and Thomas ]Boring. carmen, Camo mile-street, City, Jan. 21, at twelve, and March 1, at one„ at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee,. Aldermanbury ; Hilleary and Co., Fenchurch-street. Charles Lewis, licensed victualler, Bath, Jan. 24 and Feb. 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, 'official assignee, Bristol ; Cruttwell, Bath. John Steadman, engineer, Hayfield-place, Mile-end ro, el, Jan. 24 and Feb. 25, at eleven, at the Court of Baiikruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's- Pla ^e Old Jewry ; Morris, Stone, and Townson, Moor gate -street Chambers, Moorgate-street. Cronach and Marx Hirschmaan, merchants, Size-lano. Jan. 21, at two, and Feb. 19, at one, at the Court of :Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Linklater, Leadenhall-street. John Blake, hardwareman, Sunderland, Jan. 22, at two, and Feb. 26, at half-past two, at the Newcastle upon:Tyne District Court. Wakiey, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Price, Deakin, and Dent, Wol verhampton ; Moore, Bishopwearmouth ; Bower and Son, Chancory-lane, London. Richard Beatton, sen., cabinet maker, Shrewsbury, Jan. 28 and Fa*. 15, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Mot teram and Knowleg, Birmingham; Parkes, Smith, and Co., Bedford-row, London. Conrad Haverkam Greenhow, ship broker, North Shields Jan. 22, at eleven, and March 5, at two, at the Newcastle. upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Dale, North Shields; IMw and Dixon, St. Swithin's-lane, London. Thomas Joplin, woollen-draper, Sunderland, Jan. 23, at eleven, and March 5, at one, at the Newcastle-upoa- Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Hartley, Southampton-street., Bloomsbury, London ; Brignal, Durham. James Yell Yallop, carpenter, Durham-street, Hackney road, Jan. 21, at eleven, and March 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sam brook-court, Basirtghall-street ; Norton and Son, New street, Bishopsgate. Arthur Brideson, cheesemonger, Clare-street, Clare market, Jan. 21, at two, and Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole man-street ; Perring and Co., Lawrence Pountney-plact. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. G. and W. Noel, shoemakers, Jermyn-street, St.. James's—first div. of 3s. fid. in the pound, on any Wed nesday, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-yard., Coleman-street. R. Palliser, saddler, Moorgate-street, City—first div_ of sd. in the pound on Saturday, Jan. 18, and the two. following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Ah church-lane. W. Broome, linendraper, Oxford-street—second and final div. of 31d. in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 18, and. the two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane. J. Buckton, grocer, Darlington, Durham—first div. on. new proofs of 3s. 4d. in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 18, or any succeeding Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. D. Storm, builder, Cardiff—first div. of Is. in the pound, on Monday, Jan. 20, or any subsequent Monday, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol. W. Walker, general dealer, Wetness, Lancashire— first div. of 10d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, and every following Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. W. Butterworth, draper, Hulme, Lancahire—first div. of ls. 10}d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, and every following Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. lit the Court of Bankruptcy, 13asinghall-street. W. C. Clough, apothecary, Eye, Suffolk, Feb. 6, at half-past eleven— W. L. Dore, innkeeper, Egham, Surrey, Feb. 5, at one—J. Coles, jeweller, New Bond-street, Feb. 6, at half-past eleven—J. F. Cork and J. L. De Carle, coach builders, New Bond-street, Feb. 14, et eleven—W. A. Mearns, ale brewer, Acre-lane, Clapham, Feb. 4, at twelve—J. G. Webb, mineral water manufac turer, Rosamond-buildings, Islington, Feb. 4, at one. In the Country. R. J. Webb, wine merchant, Bath, Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—M. Martin, upholsterer, Bristol, Feb. 7, at one, at the Bristol District Court— R. li. Palmer, watch maker, Bath, Feb. 7, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—R. Williams, butter dealer, Bristol, Feb. 4, at one, at the Bristol District Court — W. and P. Charters, tea dealers, Merthyr Tydvil, Gla morganshire, Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—J. lloldroyd, farmer, North-moor, Northumber land, Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—J. Bannister and D. Simpson, ship wrights, Liverpool, Feb. 6, at half-past twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—W. Newell, jun., and A. Har rison, grocers,lllanchester, Feb. 14, at one, at the Man chester District Court—J. Tristram, beer-house keeper, Ilasford, Nottinghamshire, Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—R. Russell, provision merchant, Bradford, Yorkshire, Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—A. and J. Shepherd, merchants, Hud dersfield, Yorkshire, Feb. 11. at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Jardine, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—H. Denziloe, grocer, Bridport, Dorsetshire, Feb. 7, at one, at the Exeter District Court—J. and W. Wolland, turners, Exeter, Feb. 7, at one, at the Exeter District Court— W. H. Bates, factor, Birmingham, Feb. 11, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. J. Tomlin, ship broker, St. Alichael's-alley, Cornhill, Feb. 6—R. E. Lee, steam-machine printers, Craven yard, Drury-lane, Feb. 6—W. K. Roberts, grocer, Abingdon, Berkshire, Feb. 5—C. S. T. Walker, artificial florist, Oxford -street, Feb. 4—W. Sawyer, oilman, Wil liam-street, St. George's East, Feb. 5—W. L. Dore, innkeeper, Egham, Surrey, Feb. 5—J. Wates, victualler, Old Kent-road, Feb. 5—A. Lequentre, miller, Ching ford-mills, Essex, Feb. 4—J. C. Ross, merchant, Savage gardens, City, Feb. 4—M. Waller, patent electro plater, Percy-street, Tottenham-court-road, Feb. 4-11. Martin, upholsterer, Bristol, Feb. 11—J. Leybourn, provision shopkeeper, Bradford, Yorkshire, Feb. 6—E. Glover, jun., ironmonger, Leicester, Feb. 7—E. P. Worth, victualler, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, Feb. 7 C. Homer, sen., wine merchant, West Bromwich, Staf fordshire, Feb. 12—C. Carter, miller, Saddington, Lei cestershire, Feb. 10—J. Banks, tallow chandler, Liver pool, Feb. 4—W. H. Fitzhugh, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 10—J. Storey, ship chandler, Liverpool, Feb. 6—. T. Gibb, ship chandler, Liverpool, Feb. 6—G. Alexander, innkeeper, Beaminster, Dorsetshire, Feb. 6—C. Rayner, grocer, Blackburn, Feb. 6—J. Sharpies, cotton manufac turer, Blackburn, Feb. 4—R. Smith, yarn agent, Man.. chester, Feb. 4—J. and R. Davies, linendrapers, Chis wall. street, Feb. 4—J. Nicholl , worsted spinner, Halifax, Yorkshire, Feb. 4—A. Thompson, grocer, Southampt on , Feb. 4—T. Cook, silver cut er, Kirby-street, Hatton garden, Feb. 4—E. Peters, brewer. Godstone, Feb. 4. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Kirkham and P. Taylor, veterinary surgeons, Birkenhead, Cheshire—T. Parkinson and P. Halliday, shoe-binding manufacturers, Liverpool —D. W. Sales and J. Vause, painters, Hull—J. and R. Mole, sword manufacturers, Birmingham—E. Rawson and R. E. Henderson, warehousemen, Wood -street, Cheapside— W. and C. Andrews, wholesale wine merchants, Cardiff, Glamorganshire—Js. and Jh. Barber, hatters, Royal Exchange, Cornhill—J . S m i th, R. Tetley, J.Glover, and J. Farish, worsted spinners, Bradford, Yorkshire (so far a s regar d s J. Smith)—A. Hunter and G. M'Kerrov v , linendrapers, Gravesend—W. B. Rhodes and G. Hickey, machine makers, Huddersfield, Yorkshire— J. Smith and F. A. Hatton, grocers, Chesterfield— C. Bird and J. Thoburn, rope makers, Blyth, Northum berland—T. and F. Style, schoolmasters, Thames Ditton —J. Ashwell and C. Cooper, earthenware manufac turers, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire—T. Brine, F. A. Lapham, and G. Lapham, linendrapers, Trowbridge, Wiltshire—E. Barker and S. Smith, glove manufacturers, Norwich—F. Tomes and J. Bennett, farmers, Wolstone, Warwickshire—J. Barnett and E. Ryder, bakers, Ply mouth— Wm. and W. Thompson, general smiths, Hull —G. Huddleston, T. Petty, C. S. Kennedy, R. Smith, 11. Kennedy, and J. Park, miners, Ulverstone, Lanca shire (so far as regards G. Huddleston)—W. Smith, J. Smith, L. Smith, W. Smith, jun., P. Smith, and G. Smith, machine makers, Keighley, Yorkshire (so far as regards L. Smith). SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Dugald M‘Dougall, coal merchant, Greenock, Jan. 2i and Feb. 11, at twelve, at the office of Dunlop and Neil' Greenock. Considerable excitement has been occasioned Sunderland, within the last few days, by a rumour the , a gang of resurrectionists (if not of I3urkers) aro at pre• sent exercising their calling in that town. 2 11 I yl6 0 00,P1°' to r , 0 0i to, to,. to, to, 0 11 1 O PI / f l t I ~,_ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MOB, NT NG, JANUARY lb 1845.