The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

THE RIVER PLATE..

Intelligence from Buenos Ayrea- to December 20
has been received at Boston, United States, indicating
that mattere were fast approaching a °fish,. Urquisa
had crossed the Parana, and with a well-appointed
army, '20,000 strong, was on his march to Buenos
Ayres. His force was expected to be vastly increased
as he passed through the 'proviriCes. The army of
Ross was encamped in and about Buenos Ayres, and
he,was'hu,sily engaged in drilling them—there was
great:diistitisfaction amongst them. Rosas bad laid
waste the country through which Urquisa would pass.
Oue town: of 10,000 inhabitants was levelled by his
orders ; the women and children were obliged to take
refuge in J3genes Ayres, while the men were all im-
preseed'into the army.

Tfl.E NLw CROWN OFFICERS: IN SCOTLAND.—It 15
now, ice believe, pretty certain that Air. Adam Anderson, the
present Dean of Faculty, has accepted the Lord-Advocate-
ship under 'the Protectionist Ministry. To enable Mr.
Anderson to get into Parliament, it is reported that Sir John
Hope will resign his seat for Midlothian. - Mr. Anderson,
we may mention, was Solicitor-General under Sir R. Peel's
Government in 1846, and retained office after Lord Derby
seceded from Sir Robert Peel. The Solicitor-Generalship
will, it is said; be offered to Mr. Inglis ; but in the event of
his non-atceptanco, it is likely that the office will be given to
Mr. Charles 13aillie. ,We were in error, it seems, in stating in
our last that Mr. Sandford, who was at that time talked of
aS Solicitor-Genaral, was in Landon.cotsman.

The Jersey Times states that al'renehmao is about
to be appointed French Vice-Consul for the Channel Islands,
and is to reside in Jersey.

STEAMERS ON THE SEINE.—It is in contemplation
to establish a line of steamers to run on the Seine, between
Mercy and Grenelle, on the plan of those which ply on the
Thimes. There will be intermediate stations, at which they
will call to land and embark passengers. This service will,
it is said, commence in the spring.

Sir William Henry Elwea died on the Bth
instant, in indigent circumstances, at North Shields, where
he had resided tor many years. He was 68 years of age,
and the only surviving son of the late Colonel Henry
Elwes. It is understood that the deceased was a de-
scendant cf the notorious miser, John Elwes.—Carlisle
Patriot.

THE ATTORNEYB' TAX.—There is hope now; at
all events, an obstacle is removed. Sir Charles Wood, in-
firm on all other points, was obstinate in refusing relief to
the attorneys. , A whisper of opposition made him yield
almost anything that was asked by any other class or in-
terest; but even three adverse votes of the House of Com-
mons could not overcome his hostility to the lawyers: Let
us hope that Mr. Disraeli will be more reasonable or more
pliant. He has a surplus to deal with'; he will have a
turther revenue from import duties, which will enable him
to lighten the burdens of internal taxation. He has ad-
vocated this in opposition—he cannot refuse it in °rice.—
Law Times.
The accounts of the state of trade in the provinces
. during the past week present nbthing of particular interest.
At Manchester there has been a satistactory business at firm
may be obtained prices, with an increased demand fcr some descriptions of
blast furnacesn
ed animation
lbattractinf
goods which had been for along time neglected. The trade
(i)ifins:nottrtaindgebham continues in a healthy state In the woollen
o extend also uns taricts there has been much dulness. At Birmingham the
lion at Belfas'ttat
neilw I orders for the spring season are beginning to create re-
newed
in- profitable quantities from the soot of
• . The'recent discovery that potash salts
eeu well maintained, and there is a disposi-
nthsiedecroattbonle amttaennutifoanc.turTeshoefltrhisaht
place.

Mn. MU LINOS, Al.P:—We learn
I:,
tor Cirencester, and in
Derby, on Monday lasit, that the Earl of
theae for. Mr. Mullings, the Member
tirely unsolicited, offered him an
most handsome terms, and en-
. an independent
Government; but that the Hon, i
(Li
co
er t
whatever,a n t office
fetter new
zalememanberresopecthtfoulHlyoudsee-
dined to accept any Government
SMI IT DART.—
himself in any way as
of Commons.— Woz.oxtster Journal.
DiZATII OF OM JOHN WILDLOVE
,
We have to record the demise of this' merabrer-'
of
renetcy, who expired on the 29th ultimo, in the
8d
3 thyee al3ran-f
his age. The deceased gentleman married, in 1797iitalre -se-:
cond daughter and co-heir of the Rev. James
D.C.L., of Horsmonden, Kent, by which lady, who diericritri
1847, he has had withnther issue a son, John James, born
1800, snd who succeeds to the family property, which is
situate in the county of Dorset. The first Baronet was nigh
Sheriff of Dorset, in 1772. The family is in a certain degree
descended from the celebrated General Drlonk, Duke of
Albemarle. . •
ItuSti RAILWAYS.—The Bill for the construction
of r
railwaysesen t m
in Ireland, proposes that grand juries may make
p
aid of railwiys authorised by Act of Par-
presentments s n
'stunt, ther iat es presented for collection not to exceed a
• d certain pan age.

TUESDAY

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII COMPANY.
The half-; early m,cting of the proprietors was held
on Saturday, at the central station, in Lothbury—the
Chairman, Mr. J Ricardo, M.P., presiding.
The following report of the directors was reed:--4
" The accounts show an available balance of 14 7pll,
12a. 3d. Of this such the directors recommend thd di-
vision of 9,3691. 95., which ',till produce a dividend at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum upon both elassei of
shares, leaving a balance of 5,332/ 3.. 3J. to the erj'dit
of the next half .year, The directors point out to the
proprietors, that this dividend is upon an increased
amount of capital to the extent of 47,7501, no part of
which has yet become productive. It must also be hdrne
in mind that the increased efficiency of the arrange-
ments, end the numerous mechanical improvements/ in
every branch of the system of the company, have ena-
bled them to effect a reduc'ion in the tariff to the ex-
tent of upwards of 50 per cent., involving, as a 'lT'S-
stay consequence, an additional current expenditure,
while the increase in the number of messages receilved
and transmitted, vihic4 the -result has shown that your
justified in anticipating, is not yet fatly
directors
developed. erw
'len the last report it wa. announced that
contracts had been entered into to the extent of 970
miles, including the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire, Great Northern, and Great Western
line-, for which the call of 2/, 10e, sees made
on the shares Class a These works are in a
very forward slate—the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire is completed; the line to Bristol on the
Great Western will be open this week; the Great North-
probably be open in the course of the
ern is complete as far as Peterborough, and the remain-
ing length will
ensuing month. These works, so far as the directors
have been enabled to judge, Will be completed under the
estimates. Since the last half-yearly meeting, fresh
contracts have been entered into, extending over a dis-
tance of 500 miles, which will involve an expenditure of
35.012/. '7s. 6d., according to the elaborate estimates
submitted by the engineer in chief. These estimates
include the extension of the company's system, which
will be required in conformity with the determination
.of your directors, expressed in their last report. that
they would not rest satisfied till all parts of the
kingdom should be provided with telegrarhic ae-
commodation, and • until they had so combined
and economised the system as to bring it into the
most extended use, for which it is naturally adapted.
The directors consider that the resolution of
the special meeting celled in December last,
authorising the issue of debentures, will render
any further call at present on the shares Class B,
unnecessary. The directors congratulate themselves
on the great extension of the lines within the last
twelve months, and look forward, et no distant period, to
the completion of a system already of great national im-
portance, and ultimately to embrace every commercial
town
onftthhee country.
continental inaccuracies, and ex-
pense
of the great advantage to the Public of the i lihteele delays, inaccuracies,
an exemplifica-
tion's,
adminis-
tration of such a system being under a single manage-
ment. This circumstance alone admits the
estab-
lishment of a low and uniform tariff, as with the postage,
and aho tho accommodation of districts, which other-
wise could not of themselves maintain a telegraph."
The capital account, to the end of December last,
12s. 3d.; total,
showed a receipt upon the shares of 330,000/.; sundry
liabilities, as per ledger, 34,981/. 19s. 9d.; reserved fund,
46488,
,5234181.1.1865.5.9d9.1
On
;batlhanecoe,thle4r,7sOidle/.,
the cost of tele-
graphs completed and in progress, inclusive of the cost
of patents, was 361,7314 185.8 d.; other items (including
26,370/. 19s. 7d. cash and securities in hand), 76,4864
10s. Id.; total, 448,2181. 85. 9d.
The revenue account for the half-year ending Dec. 31,
showed receipts for raesseges, subscriptions, and con-
tracts, amounting to 24,336/. Bs. 10d.; and expenses
amounting to 15,9791. 163. 7d.;
leaving a balance of
8,681/. 12s. 3d. The general balance exhibited the re-
sult stated in the report.
The report having been received and adopted, formal
resolutions carrying out its several recommendations,
and making a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent., were
also agreed to; Mr. George Wilson and Colonel Wylde
were reelected directors; and Mr. Albert Ricardo was
re-appointed an auditor.
The CHAIRMAN then briefly addressed the meeting
as to the prospects of the company. Ho took the thin-
ness of the attendance as a proof of the confidence which
the shareholders at large reposed in the directors; and
it would be impossible to explain to those who had re-
cently become proprietors, the various details of the
company's operations, which had, in fact, become almost
innumerable. He would therefore merely observe that
the directors, in making the various renewals and ex-
tensions of the company's system of communication, had
been guided more by a desire to strengthen their posi-
tion than by any expectation of immediate profit.
The meeting was then made special for the purpose
of increasing the number of directors from eight to the
number allowed by the Act, namely, twelve; the chair-
man remarking that the board had no immediate inten-
tion of acting upon the resolution; but they thought
that it might become desirable to appoint directors re-
sident in some of the larger towns, such as Manchester,
Liverpool, Bristol, Sec. It was not proposed, however,
to increase the remuneration at present allowed to the
board, namely, 500/. a year.
A resolution, authorisin*, the increase, having been
agreed to, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the
meeting broke up.

'HE EXPRESS EDITION OF
" TUE SUN."—We
at half past 12
received by mail train last night, or rather
_,
this morning, copies of the latest editions of
the Standard
Globe, Express, and Sun newspapers. The Sun was the
only one of the four which contained Lord Derby's speech
of by
The Sun, a
complete on the opening of the Parliamentary proceedings
under the new Ministry ; we were thus put in possession,
the enterprise and activity of the executive of
large amount of valuable intelligence for a few
pence, which
we should not have been able to obtain by any other means
without an outlay of several pounds.—Portsmouth Times and
Naval Gazette.
ACCIDENT TO THE OUTWARD INDIAN MAIL ~
Intelligence, via Malta, from Alexandria, to the 14th of
February, announces that the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steam-ship Haddington, which left Suez oa the
M Bqidem, at fonr P.., with the passengers and outward
Cal-
cutta and China mails dispatched from London on the 20th
of January, had been towed back by the East India Com-
pany's steam-packet Akbar, in consequence of her engines
having been rendered useless by the fracture of her inter-
mediate shaft, which will detain her at Suez until a new one
can be sent from either England or Calcutta. It was ex-
pected that the mails and passengers she
had
on board for
Bombay would proceed about the 20th of February by the
Akbar, but all the others, for Calcutta, &c., will have to
FIRE AT . Sr. MARGARET'S CHURCH.-'-On await the Hindostan, not due from Calcutta before the be-
ginning of March.
it was mentioned by Mr. Crow, the beadle at St. Margaret's
church, adjoining Westminster Abbey that on Ash-Wed-
nesday a fire broke out in that edifice e, which might have
been attended with the most fearful results, had it been
known at the time, thenhurch being full, and the sermon,
by the Rev. Mr. Prest, just commenced. The first alarm
was given by a man corning from the Houses of Parliament,
who observed a flame issuing from the roof of the building
ressed, and that officer engaged 10 or 12 men,
on Abbey side, close to the cornice. With great fore-
thought he quietly n Sunday
informed Mr. Crow of what he had wit
fire ladders which are kept in the church, and ordered
the 'parish engines to be got m readiness. lie by this
means got on the roof, and it became necessary to remove
about 20 feet of the coping stone before the place whence the
flume issued could be got at. la
..,, was then discovered that
who got out
an old flue leading from the fireplace in the vestry-room,
which had been almost forgotten, had become red hot, and
set fire to one of the beams in the roof of the church. For-
tunately, there is a pump close -- by, and the men speedily got
um 50 pails of water, which enabled Mr. Crow to extin-
guisha
crowd had collected in St. Margaret's-street, not one of the
the fire. While all this wag
congregation knew of it, so cautiously were the means to
extinguish it carried out, and there is no doubt bad an alarm
been given in the church the 'rush to the doors would have
been fearful. It is fortunate, too, that the fire did not break
out in the night time, as this going on at the roof, and
TRAVELLING IN TUE OLDEN TIME.—The first
,i'ds 1
side, and
6h9a .P w
coach that went from London to Oxford in one day was in
part of the church is close to
Chapel,
contained six passengers, had
What a magic change, indeed I a
as thirteen hours on the road.
ai thel ebn
nor
lovotnt htoieni
oSefeavAcehpn
rtihsl
The same distance can now
be accomplished within the hour.
A RUNAWAY BRIDEGROO. nn
here
---I
wedding near the banks of the lirr on Fri was a merry
day last, which
had, if not a melancholy, at least a singular close. The
parties were duly united in the bandB of
wedlock, having
been made one according to the customary rites. After the
usual festivities, ono the
guidman,' instead of retiring
with his bride, intimated his intention of aoing
back to his
and to all solicitat '
loyer's house, ions to the contrary his
emp „Nas i It come back th
reply was, aa, • for
work e morn, but I maim
gang away to be ready my i' the morning Off he
set with his party, leaving his " better-half" ha," " maiden
meditation, fancy free," but rather chagrined, no doubt, at
his unlooked-for departure. We are glad to have it to re-
port, that the fugitive from
'Hymen kept
his word, and
blithely returned to his lady s. bower, after the labour of
Dumfries Standard.
Saturday was finished.— ad.
The Lord Chancellor has conferred the appoint-
ment of Principal Secretary on Mr. Simons, the reporter of
the long series of cases heard before the late Vice-Chancel-
lor of England.
THE LAW BILLS.—The new Lord Chancellor
has lost no time in intimating that it is his intention to sup-
port the recommendation of the Commissioners for the Re-
form of the Court of Chancery. The Common Law pro.
cedure Bill will also be adopted by the Government. It
may be assumed, from the recent pamphlet of Sir E.
Sugden, thatmno,
no further progress will a
be made with the
registration scheme, It is, however, scarcely probable that
any of these measures will become law this year.--Law
Times.

stithweriPilea
thehEt.
treenr :
r_ts.o from borough.
coalpit be-
!ghly re
Mlil'ltCbg:es:rult.ely clasping his-
Ci
negU ra Rs
last
NC
Mr.E SpencerNE it NEAR
I th
e.hs. minensn
spectable cotton-spinner and manufacturer, residing
SatAurwdaFytriamor°ll
Oldham, committed suicide by leaping down a at
momentg
longing
tuba
,tr
hkaeenr
Ind,
and,
aoncrde-
, in tb..
inMantiSsnUit.hpe.nrSd is
is Stlsuidpptoosehdavteo beenhav ea geroematmitted
1. rhlreu-
under the influence of that suffering. He went the ct
mena bou about b
were:n- peaasrt
thell op'
arms round one of the two ropes, then at rest fora
or two in consequence of one cage being at the 10P and the
other at the bottom, leaped forward and descended with
awful rapidity. The depth of the pite 1
is .45 yards. He
alighted in an upright position, bu o or his legs coming in
contact with the top of the cage will cut r
01., and the other
broken. His left side was also a goo deal bruised. There
were four men at the bottom, and one h cl a near escape.
They wcsnt to the unfortunate gentleman 3 h a
-ou3', but found
that life was extinct. Mr. Suthers_weeans !fl, a large way of
businev, and is believed to have h .in prosperous and
affluent circumstances. He leaves
_a. widow, son, and two
daughters bereaved under these shocking circumstances. lie
was about 58 or 60 years of age.
C0.:A1.-WHIPPERS' FUND.--The receipts of this fund
from tbe 31st December, 1850, to the Bth August, 1851,
amounted to 48, ,
885/. 10s. 3d., and the PaYruents to 47003/.
9&r.,
.-- 114., leaving a balance of 1,8821. Os. 4d..
r, 4. "ri(ESBURY• Messrs. Humphrey Brown and
—'lvitra• C. W. Cox have addressed the electorsof '
borough. this
The formeria I converted Freeltrader.