The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-07 00:00:00

ii nSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) 11 4 tht Lo Rouse sat to-day to he ar a pp ea l s. The Peers present were /4 1.4 C hancellor, Lori Brougham , a n d the Bishop of Ely. i‘,.: 4"4 OF NEWCASTLE - U PON-TYNE V. THE ATTORNE Y - GENERAL. .a further arguments in this part-heard appeal from the deci "a of the Master of the Rolls occupied their Lordships the whole kornine. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His T., %lim n bIP the Master of th e R o ll s was occu pi e d the whole ridpom . g with the part-heard cause of " Lord Nelson v. Lord Ceart oth ng of any i nterest occurred in any of the Vice.Chaacer y (S9, ; LiE EN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) "neat Nisi Prius, in Guildhall, before Lord DRNNIAN and a Special Jury.) %Amity of hops This was JONRS V. DAVIS. an action brought by the plaintiff for the was t value of a sold and delivered to defendant. The Court h ss, s _„ . he greater portion of the day in hearing this case, v, hie 17:einterest only to the p ar ti es th emse l ves . lutY found for the plaintiff, damages 978/. 18s. 7d. In th is HOLLWAY V. HOWARD. him case, which was tried and closed on Saturday and which M th e ;, 'on for the recov er y o f 17/. o dd f or the living of a horse, th e 4 9 after having been a long time in given afore o •` jud.. In stead of th e sheriff. 7, and that it was a proper case to have been tried before a MM (Sitv PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) "lel at al —lsi Prius, in Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice t Elms and a Special Jury.) HEARN V. TURNER. defend s for the plaintiff, Mr. Cockburn and Mr. James ; for the ofZnt, r. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bytes. e i C a :se of action in this case wa s ' for the recovery of two bills ge,ept o ne for 500/., an d ano th er f or 6001. The case was th e ` 44 nisieli at twelve o'clock on Saturday, and was adjourned at lest tu ne , • e Court to this day, when it was resumed at half clock, and is likely t o occu py th e entire day, there being feral Witnesses still to be examined. CRI MINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) )4:::July Sessions commenced this morning, before the Lord and Aldermen Challis and Hunter. i ll : Coalition Juries having been empanelled, Rac e hrs . Rolla proceeded to deliver his charge to the grand , r i o He said, the calendar before him contained a small number ftc: c . t cla lMared with those usually contained in the calendar,. In.„.,' e asien to session; which was to be attributed to the short in le between the last and present session. Nevertheless, to d cont a n,„., 'it. several cases of importance, calculated betty l and .at their hands grave and full considerat i on; mor e al were, at the same time generally speaking, cases relating s tet : _to Matters of fact than o ' f law. There were five charges et ile u4 Persons with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and six then to against persons for uttering forged instruments, knowing t aPe f°r ged. There was one charge against a person for t idier nd a ch arge of manslaughter against a party whe was the char ge, , 1. the dece ased person. With regard to the latter Went it was their duty to inquire whether the evidence party k ty to establish that death was caused by the act th ey oz __e , sed. If they should arrive at that c h on t el e u d s e i a o t o, v et oo utile .next inquire under what circumstances . t a ca b eetc_niencationed. Without going at all into the circumstan th e po 'o in the d t - ePesitions he thought it right to inform them that Ss, - • 11 whi have more to deal whet her de c h ht th :du wa he s in would se consequence of the party immediately charged, be- Whi c h e circumst ances detailed in the depositions amount to that t aoUld c"stita ted the c r i me of manslaug h ter. Th e ev id ence which r itnily be aildu eed in thi s case wou l d b e t h at o f mem b ers o f th e sam e ! a gate ' T r ! accu sed and th e d ecease d b e i ng f a th er an d son. With 4 t he charge PPeared of rape, he would merely state that 4- ros s to him that if the facts contained in the Die Were established they should find a true len t .rnat the ,„ . 4 .9' charged. ' The charges of uttering forged N ar m a 'n --- en - o ts l ', l°°l Ved mere matters of Get, not of l . aw. But if, Woul d ' Y oe t. his e xpectations any difficulty should arise, the Cour 44 Werv s „ uttt l berci the best ' assistance in its power. The same Ther e aPplied to of cutting and wounding, but I p e h t c oon e: l l , 4 ar t f , e to c ase wh tv ie h h ich the cases little out of the ordinary course. h w e as re a ferred was one against three 4 4 , 4 aCeek t n . . ° at principals in the act, and the other as `nese before the fact. The offence imputed to t s l'4 2* a i et n tt y p e i l , s Y e ngaged in the commission of the crime "a th e person of the prosecutrix, by exposing they e ntioreci rs . t removed that which confined the gas, and consequently ch arged I:klangerous by the approach of a candle. The person Ilet i n the 1 ,! being an accessory to the commission of the act was ' e tere i; "nose at the time, but was seen for an hour and a half ente r t ", - , lbe evening preceding ' the act, but he did not -- b e r h 94 "; the char g e was made against him 44 12 s f e L -esti° na which he had g uttered at various times, gti sod Other circumstances. He had resided for a th._, e in the house 'of the prosecutrix, a publican, 11latteiouaY before the offence was committed, an application was it issit,_,4 Magistrate in consequence of the conduct of this person. to w . 1 be for them to say whe ther there was su ffi cient evidence Its s : ra nt them in puttinghimon his trial—wbether the offence tietalitlro;tted at his instigation. The Learned Gentleman then that d ad law on the subject, and held that if it were proved Offeeee, instigated the other parties to the commission of the 1 3' th:, was equally guilty, though absent at its commission. ta nte ; lot of Victoria, whoever unlawfully or wilfully Pers on t ° be delivered, ' or to be received by any ter n LanY corrosive fluid, or destructive matter, with intent to barn::" l ni, or disfigure any person, or to do some grievous bodily 14 t l e hotod be guilty of felony, and, being convicted, shall be tableor oe transported bey ond the seas for his or her natural life, or tor any ta rot not less than fifteen years, or to be imprisoned . elite st i r'd not exceeding three years. It was a most painful Fir ?tenttioce that, session after session, persons charged with the crime 4arra g and Wounding, with intent to do some grievous bodily the lower c hit. 14 41:41 ,„, t he use, in sudden frays and quarrels, Oefete. o f instruments dangerous to life, were cons tantly by brought against th ,,, c , , tn • Out of 60 cases of larcency, 27 were 4 b e number of cases in the calendar was the 113 i at ,";"" % hlY au mented by 20, or more, before . ' cl w . os h e ie o h f etS —l4l . should , g therefore, remit them to their duties. M ARLBOROUGH-STREET. 8 4 , (THIS DAY.) meal y W hiter, aged 17, and Harriet, h er s i s t er, age d 16, ver y the f ollowin g Clad, but remark a bl y goo d - l oo ki ng girls, were charged with following daring act of shoplifting :- llletween four and five o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, the M 413. °h ers were observed t o pass and re-pass several times the shop Peter Robinson, of No. 107, Oxford-street, linen draper, 4 , 44,1 , at length, they entered just within the shop-door, and not per -8 any person in the shop, they snatched out of the window a klislin dress, of the price of 65., with which they both set off Il ahning. They had, however, been observed by Mr. Robinson's Aopb o y, who, giving the alarm, they were pursued and overtaken 14 Castle.street, Oxford-market, having thrown from them as they NI the dress in question. 14 r. MALTBY asked the witness which of the prisoners took the 7'ess out of the window ?—The witness said he thought it was the "Inger one, and that she handed it to the other. 4,...._The Prisoner Sarah (eagerly)—No, it was not my sister took the I did It. it the prisoner Henrietta—How can you say so ; you know I took d )tol d I VIIY do you wish to screen me ? (bursting Into tears, and air. her hands before her face.) kr. Matray ordered the case to stand over for the present. GOT- RACE ON WATERLOO-BRIDGE.—This morn log uitohie race betw een H arry Webb and .M4Leash (alias The tlat e i i ° e w n), came o ff on W aterloo-bridge. The men were sid ered d , to run 200 yar d s for 101. a side. Both men were con kid • elippers." The former defeated Smith last week, in e T he di toUsequence became the favourite in betting at 6 to 5. t leg ty :,!tice was measured, and the men appeared at the start- ob tai ,„ re, and, after several false starts, they got away- Webb 1 0 , ti, "ed half a yard in the start, and they rattled off at loco ,vhste./,'Pe, ed. Webb maintained a slielit lead for 100 yards. ttlasr-ITeknown came up, and they ran abreast of each *xerted title ithin about ten ‘ards of the goal. .8 . 0 . h men teicei, ev ery possible effert for success, and, arriving at t e brat * g mark, Th e U nknown extended his arm, and was the t oot 10 touch the hankerchief, his body being about a tr easte l4 , the rear of Webb, who almost simultaneously rrhowu the h andkerchief. The umpires then differed as to tri an ~ t a , s. the winner, and Temperance, the celebrated pedes toedatieeing referee, was appealed to, and decided that in ac trst b r : with the strict rules of pedestrian feats, Webb, having ri m _ aght himself to the mark, was the winner. The race k,_wa closel y - contested one, and the friends of The Un se4.sv bein g wi 'g th t money very sanguine on his success, ventured large upon him, which the opposite party pocketed at thr!at alacrity. The spectators assembled on the bridge ler eb , Lute ef the race must have amounted to 700 or . 800. t o ruunll Matched against John Smith (the London champion), 2 ° yards for 201,, Webb to receive five yards start, to treem ls:tr e_ o: e iThieu t r e sd re a s y t next, upon Waterloo-bridge. The match 1 , 11. E ELECTION.----The Cambridge Chronicle h as a ° l ln our experience of election matters here, there never no expected contest which excited so little interest. There is .""ifett"eartiness on one side or the other, and the electors, generally, t oe tk a very unusual indifference about the gent!eman wh . o is to Oft , " "e honour of representing them." Mr. Shafto Adair had Pd himself' as a candidate on the Liberal interest. Mr. Kelly 14 " not come forward, and it was therefore inferred that he would koyided or elsewhere. pr the E EATnEß.—Judging from the appearances Vaisl,y, and the continuous flashes of lightning which pre -41..: a great part of last night in the south-east, there Ittleat bare been a severe thunder -storm somewhere in Kent t Surrey. The lightning also occasionally extended i'vFards the north-east, followed by distant thunder. A 1 1 4 4 '1 fall of rain took place about four in the morning, but b e weather still continues sultry, though there is a fine d escrib e from the west. The accounts in the provincial papers cers,cribe the weather as very fine, and the appearance of the Most cheering. at HOLBORN BATHS—SWIMMING MATCH FOR Stole r f „ -tre•—On to-morrow (Tuesday) evening a very beauti. ' - uasied silver cup, value ten guineiv, swig be presented by the ;°Prietots of those splendid baths to the est swimmer of 600 ard a ; that is, he who shall prove himself the swiftest To ss,i tzma Ur, and down the baths three times each way. th contended for by gentlemen only who are members of sr ,' Swimming Club. Six names are entered, and the contest will 7,h411, Me nce at ei g h t o ' cloc k , w h en a great number of highly respect. T espec h t e . ~ te Per sons have i n ti ma t e d their intention of b b ecome the lona fide property of the winner, ngse p and will b e i ,, , r il e ak n o t e esl a_soti to c h l i o m ses in . due form at the Club dinner , when the swim the Dutch steam-ship Batavia, which was due at -t• Katharine's wharf on Wednesday morning, but which did th e ' in e to the extreme tempestuous weaTe a r nd ex h p e e a r v i h,ch P 2"age in consequence of the high wind experienced on Prevailed ' at sea as well as on shore, arri ve x until nearly ve o'clock at night, end had thirty-six oxen, and thirty-fi e v s e ' t h " , W r : ma board, besides nearly eight hundred packages of cherri , rfleileten basktts of yeast, thirteen of vegetables, and a quantity of a' 14e. an They ca other description of Dutch produc and imalfnoud et, halt of which were in the hold, e and la clet si were l anded after examination by the veterinary surgeon, and oti er ed by the revenue officers immediately, with the ex. ap d of one, which had, owing to the rough weather xher7eat of the hold, died during the voyage, and . was, '4°T subse unfit for human consumption. Application o X equelitly made to the authorities for the dead tet, `o be landed, and delivered for the purpose of being a a t to the knackers The fruit was delivered imme roictelY the arrival of the revenue officers on the following I, it ' n int ;rand the Antwerpen shortly alter arriving from Antwerp, station a number of passengers, &c., extra officers were placed on the to examine and deliver the baggage and effects of the two order to examine matters, in consequence of w hich c o on .; t„..Te. arrangement, the passengers and their baggage, as we are jults Were dispatched in a very short space of time. Accounts ,d all ~° L ight of very boisterous weather indeed in the Channel, an Th e 0 g the English and foreign coasts, during the last few days. l ori ‘ death of the beast on board was attributed to the unusually Wi t t ti mes in consequence of the rough weather, it was confined kal _mhers in the hold, the intense heat and effluvia of . whic d tolui r .o it t o be suffocated. The rest were all sound and in goo and were delivered accordingly. On Thurs 04y j AN SHOT AT A I'IGEON MATCH.— was in then_anies Holloway, a young man, 22 years of age, s o . tee bound s of the p•geon ground at the Red-house, thyverely wounded by being shot by a person who was shooting ' "itraYtt birds, Is . 43 0 n. )0 I s N Is 3" 3$ 390 • 3 0 0 330 400 421 DO 2$ 44d , 3 3: ;:5; 4a to 31 0 813 A 95 ... .4 85 0. to .• 4 8 4 6 4 0 10 5 O 3 6 4 0 0 O 2 v 0 n 6 • eipof 9 1 ,1 "" se g i • en isous bl , f tered deols l ;4 dvan c b - y :cted f ign De' 1. to 0 4 0 4 10 6 4 6 3 4 Ned ie of t ill mT he pre3sB still ob. hea ltlit ill 01/1' >la W istrat iitt so s leof c s,d golde, s " se of the d folio r, >rivsitev I for n til : s hear t )A /( ; ) fine cl— . o ce , ons' r and o D; co ° 6, tebec,"„ ic s, ion OA' ore' t. e Ade port Ilop e oil • iable a ' 310, Lul ister , it p, std.a tetra yor , w eer, •Yal* Jilobfiret_ ; 0.- Otr P„ Quec;C~a qs; e dY llow ie ocew o ; To, ; _ ha boe t ; l e 5 • 'l".°olllllld ,en7ersra.. - 31 ,0 • Ir t:; Fria- Que bec; ,ss, 31°'11. Ca df, 1 CoptA6 Fig• 2O RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. THE CORNWALL RAILWAY. --- The Committee appointed to consider this Bill sat, for the first time, at eleven o'clock, Lord Ellenborough in the chair. A great number of petitions for and against the Bill were read. Mr. AUSTIN said that he understood that the Bill was opposed by certain parties connected with a rival scheme, entitled "The Central. Cornwall Railway Company," but it was well.known that the original shareholders in that Company had resolved to effect an arrangement with this one, and certain persons were appointed to arrange preliminaries. It was ultimately arranged that, in consi deration of 1,700 shares in this Company, the Central one was to withdraw all opposition, and to dissolve itself as a Company. The opposition, therefore, was not and could not be from the late Com pany. Mr. AUSTIN objected to the reception of the petition from what was called the Cornwall Central Railway, and to the Committee at all entertaining their objections. They had no locus standi—there had been no such project before Parliament—nor was there then any such project—therefore, there could be no existing interest. Such a project might have been once in contemplation, but it never went before a Committee of the I - louse of Commons. It was contended by Counsel on the other side that the petition should be entertained. Such a project still existed; and though it had not been sanctioned by Parliament, it had been before the Board of Trade. There it had been rejected ; and the Committee would recollect, that before Parliament met, and which was when that rejection took place, It was generally believed that the decision of the Committee of the Board of Trade was final and conclusive, and this was the reason why the project had not been pushed forward with vigour. The projected line extends from Plymouth to Falmouth, passing through Liskeard, Lostwithiol, St. Austell, and near Truro, on to the terminus at Falmouth. The line is sixty-five miles long. Many of the gradients are in the abstract very bad, but, considering the hilly nature of the country, are as good as could be selected. A long discussion ensued, as to whether or no the petition should be received. Mr. Smith, a solicitor residing at Truro, was examined. He handed in The Morning Sun newspaper of the 19th February of the present year, in which there was an advertisement, convening a meeting of the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway for the 25th of the same month. The witness went on to to say, that the pro. moters of the present Bill suggested a proposal for an arrangement with the Central Cornwall and Devon Railway, by which all opposition to the Bill before the Committee would be abandoned by the Central Cornwall and Devon, in case the former took 1,700 or 1,800 shares in the latter. This arrangement witness under stood had been agreed upon. (LEFT BITTING.) BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. The Select Committee, appointed by the House of Lords to in. quire into the merits of the projected branches of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company assembled, for the first time, this morn ing, Lord Glenelg in the chair, and immediately proceeded with the investigation. Mr. TALBOT stated that the object of the Bill the Committee had to consider was, to give the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com pany power to effect a junction of their own line at Bristol with that of the Great Western Company, and also to make three branches from their main line to Cleavden, Yeovil, and Tiverton— places of some commercial importance, and trading to a large ex tent with the towns of Exeter and Bristol. The line to Yeovil was the only one opposed. Mr. Charles Brown, a director of the Bristol and Exeter Rail. way, Mr. Christopher Shapland, a merchant at Bristol, Mr. Thai. Pairett, a farmer and grazier, at Middlezoy, and Mr. Joseph Board, of Bridgewater, gave some general evidence in favour of the Yeovil line. (Linn BITTING.) CLYDESDALE ZITNCTION RAILWAY. The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock, Lord Radnor in the chair. Mr. HILDYARD, on the part of the Garnkirk Railway Company, made a proposition about referring the matter in dispute between them to the Board of Trade, to which Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAaI objected, and preferred leaving the matter in the hands of the Committee. The examination of witnesses was then resumed. Mr. Pare gave evidence with regard to the traffic that might be calculated on, taking the existing trade of the district as a foundation. The first tables he drew up and submitted to the Committee of the House of Commons contained local traffic alone. He did not then assume anything for the Caledonian line, as it had not received the sanction of either House. In those tables the local traffic was set forth in gross at 31,2561. 19s. 3d.; deducting 44 per cent for working the line, the amount left was 17,5041. 6s. 3d., or about 5i per cent. on the capital of 330,0001. The Caledonian Railway having now passed the Committees of both Houses he had drawn up supplemental tables. The through traffic from the Caledonian Railway to Glasgow that would pass along this line be estimated at 10,9971. ss. 6d. In addition to this he put down 3,7151. 12s. 6d. that would come on to the line from the Ayrshire, Barrhead, and Glasgow Railway, which had passed the House of Commons. Deducting the expence of working there would remain a nett additional revenue of 8,2391. 12s. 3d. ; that, added to the revenue calculated in the previous tables, gave a return of S per cent. on the capital. The witness then put in bath sets of tables. Mr. John Williams, mineral engineer, was examined as to the data of Mr. Pare's tables, on which the estimate of mineral traffic was based. He entered into a calculation of the tons of coal, ironstone, and lime that would pass along the line, the particulars of which have already appeared. Mr. Errington, civil engineer, deposed as to the engineering peculiarities, giving some explanations of the gradients, cuttings, and embankments ; also respecting the proposed connexion wirh the Barrhead and Glasgow direct, the Greenock and the Ayrshire districts. The particulars were the same as those given in the Re port of the Commons Committee already printed, He was of opinion that 290,000/. would be quite sufficient for all the purposes of the line. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. HILDY/ARD as to the superior merits of the Garnkirk Railway as a means of entrance to Glasgow, but no new point of importance was elicited ( LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP A. ASHFORD AND HASTINGS (SOUTH EASTERN) LINE. The case on the part of the promoters of the above line was I opened by Mr. Merrcwether on Friday last, and the evidence given was published in an Evening Edition of The Sun of that day. The CHAIRMAN, on taking his seat this morning at the usual hour, said that he had received a communication from the Admi ralty, referring to the bridge on the river Bother proposed by the Sonth-Eastern Company, and forming a necessary part of the Ash ford and Hastings line. The letter was dated 4th June, and con tained a statement to the effect that the Admiralty would not allow any such bridge to be made. Mr. ALEX ANDER said that he had a letter from the Admiralty, dated sth June, and containing the assent of that Board to the making of the bridge on certain conditions. Mr. Alexander then put the letter in in evidence. Mr. Mark Dorman, a carrier at Ashford, spoke to the advan tages to trade derivable from the proposed line, and especially to the great improvement in the wool trade of Ashford which would ensue from the formation of such a line. Mr. Barlow, engineer, spoke to the superiority of this line over the proposed Brighton, Ashford, and Hastings line, in an engineer ing point of •iew. The line was 26 miles 24 chains in length, It had but one tunnel, the length of which was 2,129 yards. This was the only important difficulty on the line. The steepest gradient on the line was lin 100, which was continued for I miles in one place. The total length of the inclines of 1 in 100, would be five miles eighteen yards. There would be a swing-bridge over the Bother, and the height of that bridge from high water-mark would be twelve feet. The proposed Brighton line would have a bridge across the Bother only four feet above the high water-mark. The proposed swing.bridge might have a span of forty feet. There were several great difficulties on the proposed Brighton line, and there were grad,ents of 1 in 50. He had estimated the expense of the pro posed line, which would be 420,0001. This included the expense of masonry, &c., for a double line, but of rails only for a single line. The reason he had formed the estimates in this manner was, that it might be necessary at a future time to make a double line of rails, but it was intended to make at present only a single line. The expense of the proposed Brighton line would be 500,0001., being 80,000/. more than the Ashford and Hastings line. This estimate had been formed on the same principle as that of the Ashford and Hastings line, allowing a sufficient sum for masonry, &c., for a double line, but allowing for rails only for a single line. The witness was then cross-examined by Mr. Mellor on the part of the proposed Brighton line, and by Mr. Belasis on the part of the Commissioners of the Rye Harbour. Mr. ALEXANDER then observed, that he had intended to call other witnesses, but there was an arrangement between the South. Eastern and Brighton Companies whirls he thought would not , only save the time of the Committee, but would be productive of great public good. For this reason he wished to postpone the remainder of his evidence for the present, and would suggest that the Committee should go on with the Brighton line in the mean time. The CHAIRMAN assented, and the Committe e was about to pro ceed' with the Brighton line, when Mr. MELLOR said that he was not prepared to go on, but would , be ready in a few minutes. Mr. AUSTIN proposed that the GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER LINE should be taken next, as it would not occupy more than a few minutes. The ClikllthlAN agreed, and ➢fr. Austin called Mr. Langridge, the engineer of the proposed line, who spoke to the nature of the scheme. The line was already in existence but was a single line, and it was proposed to make another set of rails, as a double line was found to be necessary. The Lnalenaeni Oen:tied thy ptentoble of the 13111 to be ploved, and the clauses of the Bill were then read and agreed to. GROUP W. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT GOOLE AND DONCASTER RAILWAY. It will be remembered that the Committee on this Bill, which was presented for their consideration about three weeks since, de clared that they considered the line it proposed to construct was, to a certain extent, a competing line with part of the London and York line. They, therefore, declared that it would be necessary to hear the decision of the London and York Committee before enter ing into the details of this line, and adjourned until to-day. At the meeting of the Committee this morning the room was cleared. After the lapse of three-quarters of an hour, The doors were re-opened, when the CHAIRMAN declared that it was the opinion of the Committee that as the decision on the Lon don and York line had not been given, and would not be given until so late in the session that there would be no time to enter upon this line, it would be better tor all parties that the Bill should be brought forward next session. After some discussion anmg the parties interested in the Bill, they expressed their satisfaction at the course adopted, and the ommittee separated. THE LATE DUEL AT GOSPORT - ah G n d O GOSPORT.—GOSPORT, T, have JtIF-Yi7e6n. —The friends of Lieutenants Hawke . notice to the Clerk of the Arraigns tha y t ( t Lt e e surviving t principal alleged participation will (Lieutenant Hawkey) and his second surrender and take their trial for their i a , t articipation the death of Mr. Seton at the next assizes Winchester, c which will commence on Thursday next. Messrs and Cockburn, we believe, are retained for their defenc r e " l The prosecution is ex officio, under the charge of Alt% J. Ho . ward e Town-clerk and Cierk of the Peace for the borough of Ports mouth, wt o has retained as counsel . the Recorder of Ports mouth (Mr. C. Rawliason). The witnesses are all summon e d to appear. DEATH OF SIR A. R. DILLON.—On the 3d inst., at Eccles-street, in the 74th year of his age, Sir Arthur Richard Dillon, Bart., of Lismullen, county of Meath —a General in her Majesty's service. and a baron of the Roman Empire. He is suc ceeded in his title and estates by his next brother, now Sir William Dillon, Bart. SERIOUS INJURY FROM THE BITE O F A DOG.— On Saturday afternoon, as Miss Amelia Low, residing at Pento n. ville..hill, was fondling a spaniel, the an imal suddenly inflicted a severe bite upon her left hand. Though the wound w as rather painful, the young lady tcok no notice of it, except by coveting it with a piece of court plaister. Yesterday afternoon, however, her arm began to swell in a most alarming manner, and was extremely painful. A medical gentleman attended and cut out the bitten part, afterwards cauterising the wound- The dog has been de stroyed. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAI EVENING, JULY 7, 1845. THE REVENUE FOR. THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY .5, 184.5. —An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1844, arid sth of July, 1845, showing the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof. QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR i Year ended July 5, Quarter ended July 5, .._.------% ended i ,----- A --, ended _A__ r------‘ --t r______ .. ..A- --, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, July 5, 1 Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, July 5, 1843 1844 1844 1 844 1844 ' 1844 1845 1845 1845 184 Increase. Decrease. Increase. I Decrease. ' ---- -- - . £XXXXXXX£ £ . X. ! X £ X Customs .•••.•• • .. .. .. 5,529,508 4,766,968 4,604,447 4,869,235 19,770,158 6,002,855 4,902,135 4,402,506 4,499,548 19,807,044 Customs .. . 36,886 1•• • • .... 369,687 Excise .••• Stamps ...••••• • .. .• - 1,650,366 1,523,653 1,639,011 1,705,033 6,518,063 1,665,688 1,601,658 1,742,461 1,837,076 6,846,883 • ' Stamps . .......... 328,820 . •• .. 132,043 - Taxes .. ....... ....... 194,100 1,868,857 144,685 1,989,874 4,197,516 201,439 1,880,490 145,945 2,000,567 4,223,441 Taxes ........... .. 30,925 10,693 - 220,961 Property Tax .. .• • • .... 2,047,904 454,415 1,992,859 752,485 5,247,663 1,958,711 487,541 1,905,711 909,991 5,261,954 Property Tax .. .. .. 14,291 .. .. • • • • 157,506 Post-office ... ••• • • ..... .160,000 143,000 174,000 155,000 632,000 200,000 146,000 178,000 155,000 679,000 , Post-office . . ...... . 47,00 0 . ••• • • •• • • - 30,000187 493,140 145000 10,000 50,000 35,600 30,000 125,000 Crown Lauds •• • ... .. .. 20,000 •. • . - ' IN C I r i o s ' e s e m l lai Lands leoits • .• : : : : : : •. : 9,190 415,016 13,652 658,819 Miscellaneous .... .. 165,679 •• • • 408,535 2 17 0 :7 0 4 0 4 0 30,000 11917 6 4 5 1 - .... Total Ordinary Revenue 13,586,172 11,829,581 10,513,983 13,039,406 48,969,142 114,220,544 12,307,954 10,742,124 12,411,518 49,682,140 , °° 29 0 2 422, Total .. .. 1 . Imprest Moneys, &c. .. 34,305 50,136 54,244 49,018 187,703 . 1 28 , 11 7 146,759 206,007 29,262 410,145 , Imprest Moneys, &c. 222,442 19,756 .... .... Repayments of Advances 230,932 332,060 226,284 274,557 1,063,833 123,692 250,980 418,545 l 182,354 975,571 Repannits of A dvncs. .. .. 88,262 9 2 , 203 .... Total lncome ... 13,851,409 12,211,777 10,794,511 13,362,981 150,220,678 14,372,353 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 51,067,056 Total -- - 1 - , , Amount applied to C0n ,635,972 8,994,078 35,013,579 )1,264,625 9,830,758 7,273,077 i 8,255,562 36,826,022 r Deduct Deduct / 300,242 108,262 t Decrease. Increase. .1 140,000 291,501 240,000 177,276 848,777 184,225 262,001 380,000 ; 101,501 927.727 , Ditto, i , d a a s te A d d F v t a nt ri d ees ...: : .... 10,523,636 7,859,893 7 1 i Ditto, as Ways & Means Increase Decrease of the Year.. •••• .. .. 3,187,773 4,060,383 2,918,539 4,191,627 14,358,322 . 2,923,303 2,612,934 3,713,599 4,266,071 13,516,107 1 847,178/ on .rork . on the rau,,47 -- - -------1 the Year. Quarter. Total ..... 13,851,409 112,211,777 110,794,511 13,362,981 150,220,678 (114,372,353 12,705,693 111,366,679 12,623,134 1 51,067, 8 5 6 1, Total No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1844, and the sth July, 1845. Quarters ended July 5, 1844 I 1845 4,869,235 3,130,494 1,705,033 1,989,874 752,485 155,000 30,000 238,187 H 4,000 49,018 274,557 13,377,883 13,377,883 4,499,548 2,90,683 1,837,076 2,000,567 909,991 155,000 30,000 13,652 29,262 182,354 12,638,133 250,000 12,888,133 CHARGE. Permanent Debt .. Interest on Exchequer-hills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund ...... Sinking Fund The Civil List .... Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund ........ •••••••" • " • • • • • " .... ••• • • • . Total Charge The Surplus .• • • • • • • • • • • • • The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended April 5, 1845, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund tin• the Quarter ended July 5, 1845, after deducting 600,000/., paid off out of the Sinking Fund •• •• • • •• •••• •• •• •• •• •• •• • The Amount issued in the Quarter ended July 5, 1845, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services•• •• •• ****** " •• '• •• •• • ***** • Ihe Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1845 * ...... ....... The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1845 .• •••••••• • • • • • • • " " ••• •• " * For the Chesterfield Stakes, on Thursday, Free Lance, Fraudulent, if he runs, and Sempstress, will manage the stake among them. The acceptances for the Goodwood Stakes, fifty-eight in number, have already appeared in print. They promise a very interesting race, and, most decidedly, a great betting one ; the following seven, being very nicely " in," will, no doubt, furnish the winner, viz.:—Best Bower, Roderick, Venus, Lightning, Joe Lovell, Libel, and Queen Mab. For the Liverpool Cup, Milton, Rowena, and Portobello, look well. The entries for the Ebor Handicap amount to 114, of which I expect 57 will accept ; of these, in my opinion, Pagan, Milton, Roderick, Rowcna, Alamodc , :Vol - au - vent, Poor Sol dier, Dr. Husband, Coheiress, Portobello, and the Castaway filly, will be found the best. The St. Leger betting is strange, very strange, but it will be stranger still before the 17th of September; at present, I see nothing that is likely to beat Pantasa and the Baron over such a course as that at Doncaster. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. CRICKET—KENT AND SUSSEX. The game was resumed on Saturday morning, and the betting was " a horse to a hen" upon Kent, but re markable enough, the remaining four wickets of Kent got only 14 runs, and Sussex was put in upon 208. The first wicket cf Sussex (Deans) fell for 4 runs, the second wicket for 14 runs, the third for 43, the fourth for 56 ; and when five wickets were down, Sussex had succeeded in wiping off upwards of 100 runs. Box and E. Napper, Esq., playing admirably, and excited the ap plause of the spectators. The match terminated at half past six, Sussex winning by three wickets : KENT-2d Inn. sussax-2d Inn. Adams, c Bushby, b Pick- 'E. Napper, not out ...... ... 83 nell Martin, c Napper, b Wis- 1 Pilch 2O den Pilch, b Picknell 54 Box, c and b Hillyer Martingale, c Dean, b Wis- W. Napper, b Hillyer den 0 Dean, b Hillyer Felix, leg before wicke t, !King, c Carter, b Martin b Wisden .. 271 gale W. Mynn, b Dean........ 1 Picknell , not out 2O Hillyer, b Picknell Whittaker, b Dean Dorringtori, b Picknell Hollingsworth, not out 2 Carter, b Picknell .. 3l 1 Byes, &c. 22 209 4,266,071 4,349,167 83,096 2,254,433 him. The author, in referring to this singular cha racter, says — In the year 1649 Cromwell visited Ireland in per son ; and so impetuous, sanguinary, and successful were his military enterprises there, that the traditionary cha racter which he bears among the native Irish, even at the present day, partakes less of the splendid fame of the able chieftain, than of the ghastly renown of a de stroying spirit ; and he is remembered, not as an armed missionary of a civilised cause, but as a being possessing a preternatural love and power of destruction. He cer tainly sproad much misery and desolation throughout the kingdom, from which the frightful traces of the late rebellion had not been yet effaced ; and after performing many acts of exemplary vengeance, he left the Irish people more repressed than subdued, and more tranquil than contented. He afterwards summoned a Parliament at Westminster ; upon which occasion, to show his great contempt for the independence of Ireland, he summoned thirty Members from that kingdom as the legislative vassals, who were to perform on the part of their coun try, the last ceremonies of its humiliation. The college was exempted from any communion in this melancholy service, as Cromwell did not call upon it to return any representatives." The picture of its condition at the Revolution is, we fear, too true. It was, in fact, the Revolution of 1688 which did so much good in England, that ren dered the feuds between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland almost irreconcileable, as the present state of the country attests. We quote the following extract as a proof:— "The university being again restored to that tranquil lity so congenial with its legitimate objects, continued to pursue its proper duties, and grow calmly upon the pub lic favour until the period of the Revolution. It was then once more unhappily forced into collision with the political world. That event, which in England renovated a kingdom without the sacrifice of a citizen, and changed a dynasty by acclamation, was not as immediately auspi cious to the fortunes of Ireland. It plunged that nation into the calamities of civil war, maintained by parties equally fierce, and perhaps mutually vindictive ; it re tarded the regular course of improvement by the revival of ancient feuds, or the creation of such as have outlived the causes that produced them ; and it gave to the fierce and vulgar love of party, an alarming ascendant over the exercise of reason and the peaceful spirit of religion, which has ever since tended to keep the Irish people divided and unhappy, and amongst these lamentable consequences, the total ruin of this peaceful seat of learning had well nigh been completed, as we shall pre sently make manifest." We could quote many other interesting particulars relative to Trinity College, but they would hardly do justice to the views taken by the author, and we, therefore, refer the reader to the work itself. It may be interesting to our readers to know that the Rev. Charles Wolfe, author of the immortal ode on the death of Sir John Moore, was educated at this uni versity—that he was an intimate friend of the author, and of his lamented brother, the late John Sydney Taylor. 1721 CRICKET MATCHES FOR THE WEEK. TUESDAY. —At Dulwich—The Dulwich (Victoria) v. the Peckham Rye Club. At Leicester—Leicestershire v. South well. At Birmingham—Birmingham v. Stourbridge. At Bridgenorth—Bridgenorth v. Wolverhampton. THURSDAY.-At Liverpool—Liverpool, with N. Felix, Esq., and Hillyer, v. Manchester, with Gurling, Womach, and Dean. At Petworth—The Petworth Club and ground v. the South Hants Club and ground, with three players of England. At Copenhagen ground—The Islington (Albion) v. the Montpelier Club. There are also a variety of minor matches to be played during the week. Leicestershire v. Nottinghamshire—The match between these two cricketing counties has been played during the past week on Barker's ground, at Leicester. Leicester won, in one innings, by 41 runs. MAGAZINES.-CONTINUED. HOOD'S MAGAZINE. Mr. Rowcroft, the editor, continues his " Tales of the Colonies," and in the " Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land" gives us a ludicrous account of a fight between a settler and a kangaroo, in which the settler got the worst of it. The best paper in the Number is " Lady Barbara's White Rose ; a tale of the Court of King James the First." The tale is well told, and the interest is kept up to the last. We are sorry to see this Maga zine dabbling in politics—" Corn-laws and Free-trade" is a tee/muffle of the thousand-times-refuted arguments of the monopolists—arguments which even the advocates of the corn-laws in the House of Commons have them selves given up as untenable. Can it be that Mr. Row croft has engaged the Duke of Newcastle to write for Hood's Magazine? COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGA ZINE. This Number opens with an account of" Nelson's second visit to Naples," and both for the fair fame of Nelson himself, and for the honour of our common country, we would that all record of the second visit (during which, to please an imbecile King and an abandoned woman, the hero of the Nile consented to the murder of Caraccioli) could be for ever blotted out of the page of history. We gladly turn to the next article, " Narrative of a sea trip to China in the autumn of 1844, by Heathcote Gooch, of the ship Duke of Bedford," a lively, well written narra tive, from which we extract the following account of an adventure on the homeward voyage with the pirates of Sumatra " We came through the Straits of Banca, Sunda, &c., but not without interruption from the pirates, who infest those parts, one of whom made an abortive attempt to board us in the night, by a trick that is now considered rather stale, though many crews have been murdered through such. Large portions of earth, covered with long wild grass, and sometimes with the addition of stumps of trees, are often seen in the above straits, floating down with the currents. These the pirates imitate, by constructing a raft, or something of that description, capable of holding a number of cut-throats, armed to the teeth, and over whom a covering, well calcu lated to deceive strangers, is placed, resembling the floating masses before named. So prepared, the pirates float down upon vessels in the night, and having succeeded in boarding them, proceed to murder the slumbering crew and plunder the cargo. While off the west coast of Sumatra, about nine o'clock one evening, one of those dens of infamy was quietly dropping down on our starboard-bow, when our look-out, suspecting its true character, ran and reported it to the officer of the watch. We had two six-pounders ready for them, besides abundance of small arms, and just as he was quietly dropping unto our bow, and within nice reach, we fired a gun to let him know we were not dozing. He still took no notice, but kept dropping on, thinking he should still deceive us with the fancy he was only a floating mass of earth. We now, however, took effectual means to put him on the right scent, by letting fly the contents of one of our six-pounders clean through him. We could plainly hear, by the howling inside, that our present was certainly not a welcome one. He instantly sheered off, by means of some contrivance we could not make out, and we saw no more of him." _ _ _ Captain Hippisley's account of the siege of Oporto in 1832 and 1833 is continued, as is Marshal Marment's work on Military Institutions. Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkie's paper on the Defensive Force of Great Britain contains some valuable hints for forming the yeomanry cavalry into a really efficient corps. We would com mend Capt. O'Connor's paper, entitled " Twelvemonths Service in Western Africa," to the attentive consideration of our legislators. It would appear from this, that the colony of Sierra Leone is of all jobs the grossest. Not only is it the white man's grave—not only are large sums of money uselessly squandered annually in main taining a staff of officials who have nothing to do, but instead of being a sanctuary for emancipated negroes, they are actually kidnapped for the free town itself, and sold into slavery. " On one occasion, a soldier of the Royal African Corps, while on sentry at the east battery, was persuaded to drink some palm wine, which had been previously drugged ; and, on awaking from his stupor, he found himself, arms, accou trements, and all, a prisoner at the mercy of some Mandinge slave-dealers. He made such a row, threatened so much, and fear of the consequences which might follow, operating at the same time in the robbers' mind, he was put on shore at a point near a British factory, and from which place he made his way back again to Sierra Leone." It is of little use destroying barracoons at Gullinas, while we maintain at our proper cost a magazine like Freetown, to which Alandingo slave dealers can resort whenever they want to replenish their stock. Unless Captain O'Connor's account be an actual fabrication, no time should be lost in abandoning the colony altogether —at all events, we hope the Legislature will, during the course of the ensuing session, institute a searching in quiry into its state and prospects. There are also seve ral valuable papers on strictly professional subjects in the present number of this magazine. THE RAILWAY REGISTER FOR JULY. The eighth Number of this useful record of engineering and public enterprise for railways, canals, harbours, steam navigation, &c., improves upon its predecessors, and contains a great deal of information respecting se veral important public works both in this country and abroad. Well-executed maps are published with several of the articles, for the purpose of rendering the details of projected railways more intelligible, among which we , may mention " Railways in India," "Belgian Railways,: " Great Eastern and Western Railway," and the " Lei cester and Bedford Railway." We extract the follow- INCO3IE. Excise • • • • ..... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Property Tax • • • • Post-office • . Crown Lands• • .• ..... • . • • • • • • Miscellaneous • • Produce of Sycee Silver received front China.. • . • • .... ...... Imprest and other Moneys .. • Repayments of Advances .. • • • To Cash brought to this Account to be applied to pay off Deficiency Bills• • THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—The return of the quarter's revenue does not present the same prosperous appearance as many that have preceded it. Thus, although there is an increase in the Customs for the year ending on the sth inst. of 36,8861., there is a decrease on the comparison with the quarter terminating at the same period of 1844, of more than ten times that amount, or 369,6871. In the Excise, in like manner, the fulling off in the quarter more than counterbalances the increase for the year—a retrograde movement for which it is not easy to find an explanation from causes which lie under public observation, and will, therefore, be re garded with some degree of disquietude by the country generally. The working of the mad speculations which have prevailed for the last twelve or eighteen months, is shown in the great increase under the head of Stamps, which have added to the income 328,820/. on the year, and 132,0431. on the quarter; and if the common opinion is a just one, that these speculations have injured commerce by pro ducing an unnatural rise in some prices, and in diverting the at tention of mercantile men from the sober course of trade, it would follow that to this is, in part, to be ascribed the decline in the Customs—an evil by no means to be compensated for by a gain arising out of what may be teimed illegitimate sources. The same results appear, though not to the same extent, in the general re turn, the increase on the year being 847,1481., while the falling off on the quarter is 739,8471. The Post-office has increased 47,0001. on the year, while the quarter's return is identical with that of 1844, exhibiting neither increase nor decrease. In the account for the Contolidated Fund there appears the satifactory item of an application of 1,585,6091. to the Sinking Fund, against 523,8571. in the corresponding quarter of 1844; and the probableamount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on that fund for the quarter just ended is only 2,254,4331. The re-action in the Cus toms and Excise, however, more than outweighs all the favourable features of the present return. HERALD.—The Revenue returns for the year ending on Saturday, present another testimony to that course of rapidly ad. vancing prosperity, which has distinguished the last three or four years from any equal period in the history of this or of any other country. The net increase of revenue upon the last year, as compared with the eminently productive year ending twelve months ago, amounts to no less than eight hundred and forty seven thousand pounds. And this, notwithstanding all the large reductions in the sugar duties, the cotton duties, the glass duties, the auction duties, and other sources of revenue. These reduc tions have nearly all fallen within the last quarter, which, there fore, exhibits a decrease, but not much more than half the de crease that it would exhibit had the reductions been all loss. At present we are not in possession of the means of showing the several articles upon which respectively increase and decrease have arisen ; but we are able to congratulate our fellow-subjects, upon indisputable evidence, of a course of general prosperity without example. CHRONICLE.—The revenue accounts for the quarter, which appear in another part of our journal, are extremely satisfactory. They present one of the most convincing proofs which has yet been adduced of the prodigious advantages of cheap food and low duties in augmenting the revenue of the State. At the beginning of this session Sir Robert Peel lowered the duty on sugar, abolished the duties on cotton and staves, and on a great variety of small arti cles, which he calculated would reduce the Customs revenue on the year by the sum of 2,418,000/., or on the quarter 603,000/. The accounts show that the diminution is only 369,387/. ; the Customs revenue for the quarter, therefore, is in reality nearly 240,0001. better than in the corresponding quarter of last year. Similar remarks apply to the Excise. The reduction in this branch of the revenue for the quarter, as shown by the tables, is 149,906/. ; but Sir Robert Peel calculated in February that the Excise revenue would lose on the year, by the abolition of the duties on auctions and glass, 892,0001, or on the quarter 223,0001., whereas the loss is only 149,908/. The duties which remain, therefore, of the Customs and Excise branches of the revenue have yielded considerably more than in the corresponding quarter of last year, in conjunction with comparative cheapness and the abolition of duties. The other branches of the standing revenue show a corresponding increase on the quarter. The Stamps have increased 132,0001.; the Assessed Taxes 10,000/.; and the Property.tax 157,000/. In these results there is great encourage. inent to allow the utmost possible extension of trade, by the re moval of all duties which are not indispensable for the public service, and all restrictions but those which are necessary to levy the duties. ADVERTISER. —We publish in another column on an abstract of the public revenue for the year and q uarter ending Saturday last. It will be seen that o n the q uarter, as compared with the corres p on ding quarter of last year, there is a deficiency in the Customs of 369,6871., and in the Excise, of 149,908/. Under the head Miscellaneous there is a deficiency on the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter last year, of 408,5351. The defal cations in the two first departments can be satisfactorily explained. The decrease in the customs is mainly to be ascribed to the cir curnstance of a large sum having bee n refunded on sugars in bond, when the new Sugar Dutie s Bill came into opera tion. In conjunction with this cause of diminution, there is another, namely, the entire abolition of duties on many articles of minor importance. The defalca tion under the head of Excise, is to be attributed to the total repeal of the glass and auction duties. The only subject for surprise is that the falling off in this department has been so inconsiderable. For the deficiencies in the Miscellaneous department, we are not able to account, though we feel assured, from the flourishing state of trade and commerce, and the healthy state of our financial affairs generally, the defalcation under that head is susceptible of a satis factory explanation. It is fully expected that the consumption of sugar this year consequent on the reduction of the sugar duties, will exceed the estimate of the Premier, when making his finan cial statement, by at least 20,000 tone. What more triumphant proof could be desired of the effect which a reduction of duty has on the consumption of a necessary of life, than is afforded in this fact ? If an approach to free trade is productive of such results, what must be the advantages of entire freedom of trade ? SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL CUP. The official list in London up to half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday night, showed the following declarations of forfeit : st lb st lb St. Lawrence, aged 9 0 Elixir, 5 yrs 6 0 Attila, 6 yrs Zanoni, 5 yrs Discord, aged Ratan, 4 yrs 8 5 Cockamaroe, 4 yrs ...... 6 0 The Cure, 4 yrs ... 8 5 Lady Wildair, 3 yr 5...... 6 0 John O'Gaunt, aged ... 8 3 Crosby, 4 yrs ......... ... 6 0 Napier, 5 yrs Red Deer, 4 yrs .... ..... 712 Coal-black Rose, 3 yrs 512 'Valerian, 4 yrs 7 8 Best Bower , 4 yr s 5 Sorella, 4 yrs Baldersdale, 5 yrs Morpeth, 4 yrs . Semiseria, 5 yrs Capt. Flathooker, 5 yrs 7 5 Pacha , 3 y rs Barricade, 4 yrs Vol au Vent, 4 yrs Naworth, aged .. 7 3 Plenitude, 3 yrs Young Lochinvar, 5 yrs 7 2lMystery, 3 yrs 4 8 All-round-my-Hat, 4yrs 7 OPevil's Dust, 3 yrs 4 7 bl fby Alfred, 4 yrs ... 7 0 :Velox , 3 yrs 6 Croton Oil, 4 yrs ...... ... 612 Rose of Cashmere, 3 yrs p d Portrait, aged Advice, 4 yrs . .... ...... 6 41Modesty colt, 4 yrs pd Marius, aged Emun is Knuck, 4 yrs 6 2 Scalteen, 6 yrs , .......... (dead) Saddlebow, 4 yrs. On tilt, that the following were scratched at Livarpoo but we cannot vouch for its being correct : st lb The Era, 5 yrs 8 9 Telemachus, 4 yrs .. Aristotle, 6 yrs Intrepid, 4 yrs 7 11 Obscurity, 4 yrs What, 5 yrs Godfrey, 4 yrs 7 2 (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) CARLISLE RACES—FRIDAY. at 11) 6 5 4 The Queen's Plate of 100 gs. Thrice round and a distance. Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, 5 yrs, 9st 91b... ..... walked over. The Whip Stakes were won by Mr. Martin's Jemmy Jumps . ; the Hurdle Stakes by Mr. Hunt's Palxmon ; and the Corinthian Stakes by Mr. Benson's Eleanor. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1845. Acceptances for the Tradesmen's Plate. Corrauna, 6 yrs, Bst Gib • Winesour, 5 yrs, Bst 61b ; Lo thario, 5 yrs, Bst 51) ; Trueb ' oy, 5 yrs, Bst 21b ; Mickey Free, 4 yrs, ist 121 b ; William le Gros, 6 yrs, ist 121 b ; The Best of Three, 4 vrs, ist 101 b ; Lightning, 4 yrs, ist slb ; Godfrey, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ; Rowena, 4 yrs, ist 21b ; lronmaster, :3 yrs, ist ; Milton, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b; Johnny, aged, est 101 b; Everton, 5 yrs, 6st blb ; Brunel, 4 yrs, 6st 81b ; The Dog Billy, 4 yrs, 7st 611) ; Warp, 4 yrs, est ; Little Hampton, 4 yrs, sst 81b ; Cock Robin, 4 yrs, 4st 71b ; April Noddy, 4 yrs, sst 71b ; Ambition, 4 yrs, sst 71b ; The Duke of Kent, 3 vrs, sst; Extravaganza, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b ' • Nereus, 3 vrs, 4st 12th ; fby Albemarle's dam by Emilius, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—.The July Meeting at Newmarket is generally very select, but few of the great mass forming the " sporting world" attending it, and 1 think this year, in that particular, will resemble its predecessors. There are only two races which call for my notice, the July Stakes on Tuesday. and the Chesterfield on Thursday ; for the former seven will be brought to the post, including Smuggler Bill, who has a to• lerable chance, and Tit-bit, it being extremely doubtful whether Stockbridge or Buttress start, which, if the latter did, I should have no hesitation of declaring him the winner. I shall look to Tit-bit, Smuggler Bill, and Pawnbroker to pro duce the winner, with a slight preference for" a Tit-bit." The match on Wednesday between Blanche and Science is all but a certainty for the former. LITERATURE. HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. By W. B. Sarsfield Taylor, A.M., One Vol., Bro. A vast deal of writing, good, indifferent, and bad, has been published during some centuries, about the soil, climate, and physical productions of Ireland ; on the customs, habits, and manners of its inhabitants —their religious and political differences—the state of their trade, manufactures, and commerce, in various historical and statistical forms—but we are not aware of any work to convey a clear and full account of the state of intellectual cultivation in that country, previous t o th e vo l ume now un d e r consider ation. Now, therefore, for the first time, has been produced before th e B r i t i s h peop l e a d es cription of that national establishment, wherein the intellectual it s various of the Irish p eop l e can b e d eve l o ped in various degrees, called into active existence, and prepared for the various learned professions or to adorn the noble and senatorial ranks of life. To educated persons only can a work of this kind possess any hi g h i nterest, f or t h e mass o f ordinary readers require higher-flavoured dishes in the book way than the hist ory o f any U n i vers ity ca n possibly possess. As very profitable speculations, therefore, such works are rarely brought forward, but when such works afford su ffi c i ent proo f s t h at th e y contain all the genuine f ac t s w hi c h are requ i re d f o r public information, which can poss ibl y b e o btained, and when such informati on has been arranged in due chronological order, placed clearly, without any con fusion of terms or id eas, b e f ore i ts rea d ers , then the work is looked upon with favour by the well-informed classes, as one more use f u l t h an ornamen t a l, an d from their being placed in the utility class, such works often become standards of reference for future gene rations, long after their gayer contemporaries have sunk into forgetfulness. In the instance befere us, it is quite evident tha the author has not spared either time, labour, body ex pense, in collecting and arranging the great of facts which he must ha ve b een some y ea rs in ac quiring. The work is dedicated " to the educated classes of Great Britain and Ireland," and is—as the author a s tates—intended to embrace ll ofthetopicsinterest con nected with the only university of lreland. For besides an account of the foundation, and a narrative of the earlier circumstances of its history—it contains copious biographical sketches of the prelates, states men, and other persons, eminent for piety and learn ing, or as poets, historians, and orators—who have been educated within its walls, tog ether with a re gular succession of its p rovos t s (governors) and all the fellows seriatim to the present year—with notices of the benefactions bestowed upon this institution to this time. The volume is also illustrated with coloured en gravings of the academic costumes —and vignette views from drawings made on the spot, in which the architecture and scenery of the colleg e are accurately represented—from these it would appear, that this university is of great extent, and possesses fair claims to architectural elegance. The last, or biographical division of the work af fords good evidence, that much cultivated talent has emanated from this seminary of classical and scientific learning—and has done the Church and State good service in every department, -whether diplomatic, ecclesiastical, civil, or military. The author does not pay his court to any party, but rather points out their errors in a plain, intelligible manner; he is evidently most anxious to assist in bringing about a community of interests and good feeling between the British and Irish people which, he shows, would only require a sincere determination and honest policy on the part of our Government to accomplish, and he clearly states that the disunion, discontents, and turbulence of the lower orders in Ireland are caused b y the bad s y stem of government with which English politicians began to rule that country, and which our Ministries have adopted in succession to the prese nt da y , with scar cely any altera tion in the principle, although somewhat modified in the practice. The work altogether gives the best history we have yet seen of Trinity College, and at the present time it will be read with deep interest, for it points out the existing regulations of that celebrated university, and the benefits which it has conferred on a certain portion of the community, as if to guide the Government to a more comprehensive system of education, which shall not only teach the people well, but hold out academical honours which may distinguish the successful candidates for life. A few extracts will show the vicissitudes to which this seat of learning has been subjected. Cromwell, it appears, treated it with silent contempt. The beauties of literature and the divine inspirations of the Greek and Boman poets had no charms for Quarters ended July 8,214,169 660,023 5,370 523,857 97,597 541,045 177,276 10,219,337 3,158,546 13,377,883 5,670,128 643,844 1,559 1,585,609 97,835 101,501 438,490 8,539,966 4,349,167 12,588,133 2,337,529 ing remarks on the " Battle of the Gauges," and are glad to find that the writer pays a just compliment to Mr. F. Shaw for the excellent speech he made in the House of Commons on the subject : The ' Battle of the Gauges,' as the contest between the London and Birmingham, and the Great Western interests, is called, terminated on Friday, the 20th of June, in the way every man of reason and common sense must have antici pated, namely, in favour of the latter. Not to put the case offensively to either party, it must be remarked that the question whether the Great Western, in conjunction with the Grand Junction, should be allowed to open up a line of traffic to the north, independent altogether of the London and Bir mingham old trunk line, was a question which directly affected the pecuniary interests of the two parties, whilst it still more essentially involved the paramount interests of the public. This new line introduces a principle of wholesome competition, which, if it had been rejected, would have been hopelessly and for ever lost to the public ; for it cannot be doubted that whichever of these great interests had first possessed themselves of the vast tract of country through which this, as we may term it, interloping line passes, would have retained it fur ever. In a word, if the Birmingham and Midland interests had once obtained possession of the Oxford and Birmingham district, they would eventually have obtained a direct bold upon the southern- and western parts of the country, which would have, to. a great extent, para lysed the energies of the Great Western Railway ; and thus, whilst the existing traffic of the latter would have been con siderably affected, the power of the Birmingham Company would have amounted almost to a monopoly. "It was upon considerations such as these, more than upon the abstract question of the superiority of a broad or narrow gauge, that the decision of the Committee was come to. Indeed, this abstract question of breadth of gauge is one which the best engineers are as vet as far from being agreed upon, as in the very infancy of railway enterprise. The practical and scientific evidence which was adduced upon the subject before the Committee, we have given a careful analysis of in another part of our present number. In this paper we speak simply of the general merits of the question, as they appear to have affected the decision of the Com ' mitte." HUN GERF ORD SUSPENSION BRIDGE. (From the Railway Register.) The Hungerford Bridge is ilow the ninth structure connecting the two parts of the metropolis on either bank of the Thames—the Vauxhall-bridge being the extreme western, and the Thames Tunnel the extreme eastern of this noble range of public works, unparalleled for their magnificence throughout the world. The fol lowing account is extracted from a paper read by Mr. Cowper before the Royal Institution:— " This bridge is for foot passengers only: it consists of four broad chains, viz., two chains, one above the other, on each side of the platform; each chain consists of ten and eleven links alternately, and near the piers of eleven and twelve. This increased strength is to meet the in creased strain which takes place near the piers. The chain of the Menai bridge is only five links wide, and the chain of the Hammersmith only six links wide ; but the great breadth of the Hungerford chain (viz. eleven links, or about two feet) gives them great power to re sist the effects of the wind, and thus prevent vibration. Two brick towers, or campaniles, in the Italian style, are built in the river, over which the chains are carried, firming thus a central and two side spans. The two piers are in height ... The central span between the piers (being 110 feet wider than the Menai Bridge). The length between the abutments Deflection of the chain 80 feet. 6761 feet. 1,3521 feet. 50 feet. Length of each link (7in. wide, lin. thick) 24 feet. Weight of each link ... cwt. (The connecting pins are 411 inches diameter.) The whole number of links ... 2,600 Their weight ... ... ... ... The number of links in the centre span... Their weight ... ... Width of the platform ... Height above high water at the centre of centre span .. ... ... -- near the piers ... (Giving a rise of four feet in the centre. This gives additional height for the river traffic, and produces a graceful curve, and prevents any appearance of swagging.) The section of the chains at the ceatre of centre span is ... ... .--L- near the piers 715 tons. 352 352 tons, 14 feet. 32 feet. 28i feet. 296 .q. in, 312 sq. in. " A square inch of iron breaks with 27 or 29 tons, but 17f tons is taken as the impairing weight, i. e. the weight at which it begins to stretch; we have therefore, for the weight the bridge will actually sear -296 multiplied by 17i tons, equal to 5,180 tons, while 296 multipled by 5 tons, equal to 1,480 tons, is the greatest load that can be put upon it. This is taking a crowd standing close together to be 100 lbs. per square foot. The entire weight of the chain, the plat form, and a full load upon it, would make a load of about 1,000 tons on each pier, being about 8f tons on each square foot of brickwork, or not quite If cwt. on each square inch. _ _ " The chains are attached to large wrought-iron vertical plates at the summits of the piers; these plats are firmly bolted together, and also to a strong hori zontal plate—the whole forming what is called a saddle. The saddle is not fixed to the pier, but rests on fifty friction rollers, these resting on a thick iron plate, which is supported by a solid mass of iron and timber girders. The pier itself, being pierced with arches, may be con sidered to consist of four columns of brickwork : the - girders, therefore, are so arranged, that no weight is thrown on the arches, the whole weight resting on the columns. The saddle is capable of moving eighteen inches each way, equal to three feet entire motion ; so that if either span were crowded, the chains would ad just themselves, and the strain be still perpendicular upon the piers, and have no tendency to pull the pier over. The method of putting up the chains was thus:— Two sets of wire ropes, each consisting of three ropes, were hung from abutment to abutment over the piers, in the exact situation the chains were to occupy,—these scaffold ropes, as they may be called, being distant from each other equal to the length of the connecting pin. A few feet above the scaffold ropes, two other ropes were hung in like manner; on these traversed two light boxes, very much resembling a carpenter's bench turned topsy-turvy. These cradles, as they are called, were connected together, and contained two windlasses, like those over a common well; these cradles held the work men. A barge containing the links was moored under the cradles: four men in the cradles hauled up a link ; and when they had raised it above the scaffold ropes, the connecting pin was put through, and the pin being al lowed to rest en the scaffold ropes, of course supported the link. The cradles were then moved forward, and two links joined to the single link, then one joined to the two; the chain consisting thus, in the first instance, of alternately two and one links. When this two-and one-link was completed,' the scaffold ropes were not re quired, the two-and-one-link chain forming, as it were, a scaffold for the rest of the links; and thus was this bridge erected without any scaffolding but these few rope?, and without the slightest impediment to the navi gation, and without a single accident. The cost was— Mr. Chadwick's contract for brickwork, stone work, and coffer dam £63,000 Sandys, Came, and Vivian for ironwork 17,000 £BO,OOO The money was raised by -3,200 Shares of 251. By Loan £106,000 " The engineer in chief was Mr. Brunel. The resi dent engineer, Mr. P. Pritchard Baly." THE WEATHER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—You will oblige a lover of meteorological re search by publishing a few remarks on the weather during the present summer. The principle upon which my conclusions are founded is simply one of comparison, connected with certain an gular distances formed by the planets and our earth, during seasons of peculiar tendency, and upon the in ference that like causes will produce similar results, the following deductions were drawn for the month of une, and published in the Cheltenham papers in May last: — June, to the 10th of the month, will be generally cold for the season, from thence to the 21st the heat would increase considerably, from the 21st to the end of the month considerably colder, and the results are so far cor responding with this judgment. July, from the 2d to the 10th, as the Sun will be in aspect to Mars, the heat will again increase, though not so powerfully as experienced during the interim from the 10th to the 21st of June, from the 10th and during the month seasonable July weather will prevail. August, to the 7th day, will be rather cool for the season, but from the 7th to the 21st will be the greatest degree of sununer heat, when the heat will be of that peculiar burning power so trying to the constitu tion of mankind ; the cause to which I would attribute this intense heat will be the retrograde posture of the planet Mars, forming an angle of 180 degrees with the Sun, when in his nearest position to the earth. Comets are said to increase the heat on their approach to our system, and to produce cold on their recession, but having experienced similar heat to the present season, when comets have not appeared (but not so without the concurring testimony of the planetary orbs), renders conclusions from the former doubtful. September, also, promises fine harvest weather; the months of August and September, as stated in May last in the Cheltenham papers, would be splendid for the harvest, tending to dry and fine weather. On this com parative system it is correct to state the drought of four months continuance was predicted in April, 1844, to last till the August following, and in June, 1844, the frost for winter 1845 was predicted to be such an one certainly not experienced since the year 1814—the re sult proved these judgments to be correct. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, G. T. F. SMITH. THE SALT-HILL MURDER.—CONFESSION OF JO' TAWELL.—At a very full meeting of the Bucks county magis trates (upwards of 30 being present), held in the magistrates•cham ber, at Aylesbury, on Thursday last, for the transaction of county business, Dr. Lee, one of the justices, inquired of the Chairman, Sir T. D. Aubrey, Bart., if the confession signed by John Tawell, a few hours before his execution, and placed in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Cox, had been given up by the chaplain of the county prison to the magistrates, especially after the general feeling which prevailed on the subject at the late quarter sessions held for the county? The Chairman having replied that that document was still retained by Mr. Cox, it was then resolved, on the motion of Dr. Lee, that a letter be addressed to the Rev. Mr. Cox, request ing that he would deliver up the written confession of John Tawell to the magistrates at the next quarter sessions for the county of Bucks. CHILD MURDER —On Friday evening the body of an infant, with a brick tied to its neck, was found in the canal' opposite Pickford's.wharfs, Regent's.canal, Camden.town. The Royal mail steam-ship Britannia Ca p tain Hewitt, sailed from the Mersey on F r id ay afternoon w it h upw a rds of ninety passengers ; and on S aturday the Great Wes t ern, Cap. taro Mathews, departed for New York, also carrying a large number of passengers, BRITISH • HEROISM' & • RN.ED,. -'' -4. , ----,,, AND NEGLEC li D. -::.4: TO THE EDITOR 0F'..,-.iiiv: : A d * Sia,—The ready assent of the M 4,11: ''. t 4 ~ 4 '..'.. proposition of a national pecuniar e a 11%, , 1, -,, . .. ;pb the services of Sir Henry Potting e E 4 ,i'i, 'a • tti,.' 4 , . ..,..:.' l 7. which it was received by the Hou • , ..1, - ... ii ... :•• . 0.,. out this favourable disposition of Hon. 411 . V. v4 most befitting possible occasion for making reteke.. the extraordinary, almost incredible neglect of a man, whose heroic conduct challenges comparison with the most meritorious acts to be found in the military annals of any country—presenting an almost unexampled in stance of self-devotion to his country, and her fair fame (which, but for him, had been most foully stained), un der the most trying conceivable circumstances, and what a gallant soldier ought to be ; therefore, by consequence, affording a glorious model for emulation on future simi lar trials—provided alvhys, that it be justly, generously, and nationally appreciated. 1 remember some years since to have read an account of this affair in the " United Service Journal," subse quently I met the hero at the house of a mutual friend, _ and now, after the lapse of some twelve or fourteen years, I learn that he still exists (and barely so), but that no substantial mark of approbation has been vouch safed for his surpassing merit. I have been at some pains to ascertain the truth of the following condensed statement, which may be relied on as substantially correct, and therefore I hope worthy of insertion in your columns, as a case in which the true interes:s of our country, and the morals of its army, are alike intimately involved : On the Continent never have I detailed the case, and its most saddening issue, that it has not evoked a burst of admiration, of surprise, of sympathy, and, lam com pelled to add, of contemptuous execration of our boasted feudal institutions, mixed with wonder at the success of our arms " Mon dies, est it possible ? Quel infante .! C'est dans cette facon done qu'on recompense vos braves! Est-ce pour cela que Messrs. les Anglais se bat tent si hien ? Je rends grace i Dieu que je ne suis pas votre compatriote !" Such were the ordinary ejacula tions. Our Gallic neighbours tell of "la decoration de la Legion d'Honneur; that would have been conferred " sur l'instant," as well as promotion, pension, favour. " sous l'Ernpire," and also now under Louis Philippe. At Berlin, this story has confirmed many in their pre ference of the regime of a single despot to aristocratic domination. " This is the man," say they, " whom our good King would delight to honour.' At Vienna, " our Metternich is just, and never unmindful of merit!" was the Austrian exclamation—" he would have felt proud to direct the Emperor's notice to this man !" Thus, all men think and feel abroad, and how he seems to be the victim of neglect in free and affluent Britain, excites surprise in generous and lofty minds. The following is the case so strangely overlooked for nearly thirty years:-- The transport, Arch-Duke Charles,laden with troops (in all 200 souls, including women, and children, and the crew), sailed from Quebec for Nova Scotia, and at mid night of the let of June, 1816, struck on a sunken rock when eff that coast, in weather most impetuous, and fog intense. All hope of getting oft soon vanished ; a wreck the ship was sure to be. The swimmers—they who oft had boasted their amphibious powers, were sum moned now, in vain, to lend their aid—the beating of a distant surge giving some hope that land was not far off. One volunteer alone, from all those paralyzed and af frighted fighting men, offered to explore what could not be discerned, and that one was Captain, then Lieut.. Stewart. With a line around his body, and breakers for his goal—so oft the seaman's terror, now his hope, he plunged into the mountain flood, with, which, long buffetting, he, at length, was dashed upon a rock, to which he clung with that firm grasp the dying only know ; again another wave recalled. him to its briny bosom, whom the succeeding one hurled' back again. For four successive times he thus was made the sport of the engulphing element ; at length a wave more friendly and gigantic than the rest (and far more pitying than his country since), washed him beyond the fetch of its antagonist tallow waves, stunned, shattered, bruised, exhaused—in part insensib le, yet with a vague consciousness of the fearful horrors of that dreadful night, he lay as dead, and like a thing inanimate, under the re-action of his lusty efforts to escape from death. How long entranced in this mute dream of death he could not tell ! but rising as from a sleep refreshed, though .sorely bruised, he fixed the rope to a projecting broken rock. and aiming in the dark to coil it round, down was he pre cipitated once more to the foaming flood beneath. Again the same great struggle was to be renewed, for at such juncture no brave man has time to parley with despair, so desperate is the conflict for existence. llow lie came once more to be on shore found no place in his memory then, nor since ; yet who can doubt that it is chronicled on high, his errand being hallowed by its aim to be the saviour of his country's sons ? To sum up all, by help of that same rape (at break of dawn this gallant soldier signalling that it was fast), the living cargo of that hap less ship again trod ter, a firma ; and she soon after sank before their eyes. Yet, thus to be upon a barren rock, exposed away from land—a rock submerged with every wind, save that which just then blew, gave but a respite from a dreaded death—and at the return of tide nothing else was looked for. A council then was called ; the valiant Colonel's proposition was (there being one small boat), that he and all the officers should first seek land, and then send succour to the men abandoned. To this but one dissenting junior voice was heard, which was youegStewarl:s; and when despair and shame, contempt and anger, fired the men at a suggestion so unworthy, lie quelled the tumult, and enforced obedience. The first boat's freight comprised the chief, his wife, and some few more participant in his fears. The third and last time came the minim bark for the Adjutant and Lieutenant Stewart ; the former went, n o t so the latter. "It never shall be said," exclaimed this hero, " that two hundred British soldiers perished de serted, without one officer to share their fate. Go, tell your Colonel that though death be all but certain, yet here will I perish with my fellow soldiers." The friendly wind, by Heaven's decree, continued still to blow for two days longer, when a merchant vessel sailing by Wu% hailed ; the simultaneous shout was heard, and all hAP.-,14 saved. Now, for this exploit of saving British lives-, he was entitled to a stated salvage, which surely in a cause so holy, and withal so bravely earned, no length of time can cancel or diminish ; but, in the dauntless message to his chief, and constancy to the forsaken men when death seemed certain, there was a thousand times more merit, for which no medal, thanks, reward, promotion, pension, could be given without court-martial on the recreant chief. A reward, indeed an ample one, has been be stowed, but it was by proxy ; for, strange to say, by au inversion scarcely credible, the Colonel was promoted-- was named a Governor and substitute of our most vir tuous Queen. Such are the prominent features of this case. There is not a man amongst us who is not herein affected and afflicted ; but most of all concerned is that most gallant band, the British Bayards—" ces preux chevaliers, sana. peur et sans reproche"—on whose profession a foul stigma rests, and must remain until their brother soldier, not grudgingly, but as becomes a nation, is requited. I have full confidence there are noble-minded men in. Parliament will see to this, and will demand a strict in quiry of this case ; and if the issue prove what is here advanced (as surely it will be, if evidence be not • sup pressed), then let the hero's name along with Pottitiger's be honoured, and meet like favour for his worthy deeds. U. D. THE IRISH SOCIETY.—This Society, which wai, established in the month of July last year, for the purpose of rro. viding a neutral ground whereon Irish noblemen and gentlemen of opposite political and religious sentiments could meet and hold harmonious intercourse, held its first annual general meeting on Saturday last at the Society's rooms, No. 26, Suffolk -street, Pall.. mall, Lord Viscount Ranelagh in the chair. From the report, which was read by M. A. Conan, Esq., it appeared that there were nearly 400 members already enrolled. The Hinds were ample. All the current expenses had been duly met, and a large balance remained in the hands of the treasurer. The nucleus of a library had been formed by gifts from several of the members. The re.. port was received and adopted with acclamation; thanks were unanimously voted to the committee of management and the secretary, and they were requested to continue in office without addition or alteration. Thanks were also voted to J. Hartley and W. Bevan, Esqrs., for their generosity in having become security in the infancy of the society for its liabilities, and they were 're lieved from further responsibility by' the appointment of Lord Rossmore, J. Rudall Todd, Esq., and Henry Bruce, Esq., as trustees, in accordance with a fundamental rule, which provided. the appointment of trustees as soon as the number of members should have exceeded 300. Lord Ranelagh having left the chair, Sir John Campbell was called thereto, and the usual thankr having been voted to his Lordship, the meeting separated. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—A fete was given here on Saturday afternoon—that is, a military band was in attendance, which was sufficient to bring together a large assemblage of prome naders. Nothing was exhibited beyond the ordinary attractions e 1 the gardens ; indeed, the fineness of the weather and the beauty tit the pleasure-grounds would have rendered any extraneous. trete . tainments superfluous. MORE STEAM-VESSELS UPON THE RlVBB.•—Thit teen steam-vessels are now in course of building by Mer.,srs. Ditch. burn and Mare) who built the Fairy for her Ms:raty, and the engines and machinery are being prepared for t►,em by Messrs. Penn and Son, of Greenwich. They are intendfed to run between London-bridge and Kew, and are to be called Citizens. The first three, Citizens A, B, and C, have been reorntly launched, and one of them is to run upon an experimental 'trip this afternoon. The cost of the new boats is 30,000/. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT IN THE W A TEILO____O- . ROAD. —Friday forenoon an inquest was held be l fz , M on . Carter, at the Royal George, Carlisle- the lane, r o e m e t ; body of Walter Knight, Upper Marsh, Lambeth. I'Loll Royal -street, returning oyal of Waterloo-brill when they had reached the side Sur e rey corner of the Lower Marsh. with two friends on Tuesday morning last from party, and alste h d e 31 years , deceasediainwaetae's " Th th .leceaseii started and kept they nea r allt t he e agreed Victoria t o r run h i e a a s t far re . up with them until they were the wheel posite of a gardener's cart, Waterloo Church, when, he suddenly caught hol d of h which was going at a very rapid speed down the hillwher:r.nbeil arm b ecame entangled in the spokes of the wheel, which turned him -completely overonto him, his head tueadrnwed back,andfoun d hi m lying vi o e ncrs. H i • roadhavingmissed bleeding from a severe w oun d on hi s f ore h ea d . I T 7mg hineyPaicnnaite companions having the deceased to the surgery of Mr. Handy, and su bsequently to hit re s id ence, where he expired at two o'clock the same day. The surgeon stated that the deceased bad di,a from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain. The jur;, re turned a verdict of " Accidental death." BRIG M TON, SATURDAY .—The Duke of Moncliester and Lord Loftus left yesterday in the Menai steArtnr.r for Dieppe; and Prince Kenneta, Lord Butler, Lady Kr..vanah, and Captain Kelly, R.N., arrived in the Fame steamer ; this day from Dieppe. The town is filling fast with fashionables„ PROPOSED TUNNELS UNDER. LONDON.—A project has been formed for uniting the Great Western Railway with the Eas:ern Counties line, by a tunnel from Paddington to Shoreditcts,, under the New-road to Finsbury-square, and then turning eft By means of branch tunnels Tottenham-court.road, Somer's.towo, King's-cross, Islington, and other districts are to be benefited. Mr. Robert Stephenson Is the engineer. A prospectus of this remark able project will come before the public in a day or two. The Admiralty have placed the Black Eagle yacht at Portsmouth, at the disposal of Baron Brunnow, the Russia/a Ambassador, who is at Ryde.— United Service Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan Knowles arrived at South-, ampton on Saturday, from Oporto, in the Oriental C ompany . * steamer Montrose, Figs 20 0' 300 10 0 200 ---- 1,16 0 1,25 0 120 I