The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-10 00:00:00

AISING OF THE BLOCKADE OF THE
RIGHT OF BENIN.

GOVERN MEN r NOTICE.

Adverting to a notice issued from this office, by order
of the Governor, on the Bth of December, 1851, publish-
ing for general intormation the notice of blockade estab-
lished in the Bight of Benin by Commodore Bruce, cotn-
mander-in-chie t of the British squadron on the west coast
of Africa, the Colonial Secretary has the commands of
the Governor to publish, for the inf,rmation of all whom
it may concern, the following notice, officially trans-
mitted to his Excellency by Commodore Bruce, contain-
ing the names of those ports and places which are
now exempt from the operations of the blockade es-
tablished by the Commodore on the 6th December last.
By command of his Excellency the Governor-in-
Chief,

J. F. SMYTH, Colonial Secretary,
Secretary's Office, Freetown, Sierra Leone,
March 3, 1852.

Copy, signed W. Hickman, Secretary.
Her Britannic Majesty's steam-ship Penelope,
Whydah, Feb. 11, 1852.
Notice is hereby given, that the kings and chiefs of
the places noted in the margin [Blockouse, Elmina
Chico, Adaffie, Flotow, Porto Seguro, Gomuluta, Little
Popoe, Aghwey, Great Popoe, Porto Novo, Lagot,] hav-
ing entered into engagements with her Britannic Ma.
jesty's Government for the complete abolition of the
traffic in slaves, their sea coast and ports are to be ex-
empt from the operations of the blockade established
by me on the 6th December lest, and to be consi-
dered free, as heretofore, for the purposes of legitimate
trade.
(Signed)—H. W. BRUCE, Commodore, and Com-
mander-in-Chief of her Britannic
Majesty's Naval Forces on the West
Coast of Africa.

COURSE OF EXCi
Aimee% •• •• •• •• .• 12 036
Ditto, three months .. 12 1%
Rotterdam .......... 12 2
Antwerp •• ••.. •• 25 573
Bruise's •••••• • . • ... 25 57;4
Ramburgh 13 11
38
Altona• • .. •• • • • • • •
Paris, 3 daysisight 25' 45
Ditto. 8 months .... 25.60
Marseilles •••• •• ...... 25 6j
80ardeaux.......••- .
FrankfortonMaine 122'
Berlin.
Vienna, effec. flo.• •• •• 13 0
Trieste, ditto 13 0
Pe tershorgh, Slit. Eble 37%
Madrid 49%
Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• 50%
Barcelona • • •• •• • • • • • •

ANGE.-TRURSDAY.

GlW•altar•• • • •• .• • .•
Leghorn ••••••• • •• •• •• 30 823.
Genoa, •• •• •• •• •• •• • 25 62%
Milan —•••••• •• • e • •
Venice.... • . • • • • • • • • ••
_Naples ••.• • • • 4113,4
P‘larmotperoz........ 122
Messina 122
Lisbon... . ........ 63%
Oporto•• —•••••• •• • • •• 63%
;4.10 ..Tane!ro •• • • •• •• • •
3nenos :Byres .• • • ••
New York,6odays'aight
Philadelphia .. •• ..

PILIOECI OP BULLION, PER OZ,
Foreign Geld tubers.. f... 3 17 9
t'ortugal Gol.l Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanigh Doubloons .. U 0 0

1 New Dollars •• .... 0 0 0
Silver In bars ...... •• 0 0 0

fieville— .7. IS• •• -1.-• • • •• • .

THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL ART.—
The superintendents of the Government Department of
Practical Art, Messrs. Cole and Redgrave, have addressed a
letter to the new President of the Board of Trade (Mr.
Henley, M.P.) on the duties•of the " Department of Practi.
cal Art," lately established; and the Board of Trade have
directed that the ssme should be communicated to the
managing committees of the local branch schools of design
for their information. The art superintendents, in this
initiative letter, submit that a leading principle of its future
management should be the endeavour to make the depart-
ment, as far as practicable, self-supporting in all its branches
•
...Builder.

POLISHED WRITING.—Lord John RussPll put him-
self out of office. Like an obnoxious, cowardly, sneaking,
malicious cur, he saw preparations makingi for ejecting him
through the window, and scampered off down the stairs into
the street, with his tail between his legs ; but no sooner
found himself there than he commenced snarling and snap-
ping at the heels of everyone who entered the premises which
he had vacated.-4Vorth Wales Chronicle.
A Corsican bandit, named Pedovani, recently com-
mitted two murders not far from Bastia, A warrant was
granted for his arrest, and a detachment of gendarmerie was
sent to execute it. When the gendarmes approached, he twice
discharged his musket ; NV hereupon a sergeant took aim at
him, and shot him dead.
The Leicestershire justices have changed the pay-
ment of the clerk of the peace for the county from fees to a
fixed annual salary of 1,0001.
RECORDER OF WARWICK.--Sir J. E. Eardley
Wilmot, Bart., has been appointed Recorder of Warwick, in
the room of Mr. Mellor, Q.C., who has retired for the purpose
of offering himself as a candidate for the representation in
Parliament of that borough.
DEATH OF LORD RENDLESHAM.—This nobleman
died on the 6th inst. at Rendlesham Hall, county of Suffolk,
in the 55th year of his age. The deceased Peer, Frederick
Thelluson Baron Rendlesham, in the peerage of Ireland, was
born on the 7th of January, 1798. He succeeded to the title
in 1849, having married, in June, 1838, Elizabeth Charlotte,
eldest daughter of the late Sir George Beeston Prescott,
Bart., and widow of James Duff, Esq. By that lady, who
died in 1840, the deceased had issue a daughter, born in
1839, and a son and heir, Frederick William Brook, born in
1840. The deceased peer was a strong Conservative and a
Protectionist in politics. In 1845 he was elected M.P. for
East Suffolk, and continued to sit for that constituency up
to the present session. His Lordship formerly served in the
army. The peerage was created in 1806. The first Peer
was son of Peter Thelluson, Esq., who acquired a large for-
tune as a merchant in London.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
April 8, 1852 :—Erlin Clarke Worcester; Joseph King,
Newbury;. Joseph Lewis, Cardiff; Thomas James Valiance;
Robert Knaggs, Clapham ; Frederick Moon.; Frank Lane
Bindley, Burton-on-Trent ; Charles Palmer, Horton-in-
Lindsey ; George Walker, Harworth-on-Tees, Durham ;
John Northend Nicholls Hamerton, Elland, Yorkshire ;
John Fountain, Cowley, Uxbridge; George Smith Brent;
John Roberts Hughes, Flintshire ; Charles White, Doncas •
ter ; Robert Bryant Pearse, Bath ; Ebenezer Davies, Swan-
sea; James Ekin.
THE THAMES TUNNEL.—Yesterday the interior
of the Thames Tunnel was visited by vast crowds of persons.
The directors of the company intend having various enter-
tainmentsaster week,
forthe amusement of the holiday folk during the
and great preparations are going forward
in decorating and illuminating the shaft from Wapping to
Rotherhithe.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT BLACKHEATH.—Yester-
day afternoon an accident :of a very serious character took
Place on Blackheatb-common, whereby a young gentleman,
named William Maceton, received such injuries, that his
life is at present despaired of. It appears that the unfortu-
nate sufferer, and a few friends residing in the City, pro-
ceeded on horseback to Blackheath, where there were several
thousand persons assembled to witness various games, and
the usual fun in donkey-racing; and, while Maeeton was
riding slowly across the common, towards Sbooter's-bill,
another youth, with a very spirited horse, came suddenly
and violently against him, by which means the latter indi-
vidual, together with his horse, was thrown heavily to the
ground. Several persons immediately ran to Maceton's as-
aistance, and extricated him from beneath the horse, which
WaS plunging and kicking violently, when they found that
he had broken his left leg. He was carried to a surgeon's
near the Green Man Tavern, where some temporary aid was
afforded ; and subsequently, he was placed in a cab, and con-
veyed to Guy's Hospital, where Mr. Ramskill, the house-
surgeon, ascertained that both bones of the leg were fractured.
Last evening he was going on favourably.
SINGULAR ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.—Yester-
day (Good Friday) morning, shortly before one o'clock, the
various persons passing over the metropolitan bridges, as
well as many thousands on the south side of the river, were
considerably alarmed at beholding a most singular appear-
ance in the heavens, which at once led them to conclude
that a most terrible conflagration had broken out in the
neighbourhood of the Old Kent-road, near New-cross, or
Deptford. Messenger after messenger arrived at the
Brigade and West of England fire engine stations, request-
ing the aid of the firemen to subdue what was supposed to
be a terrible fire. The parties in charge of the engines,
zvporn looking out of the windows of their fire stations,
ee
equally deceived, and forthwith the engines of the
Brigade belonging La that aide of the water, with Mr.
Henderson, the foreman and
started in search of what was expected
Mr. Haw bt
to
e bt oe
a, tdreadfulhe
o
flagration, followed
England engine and ge Mr. Connorton with the West of
presented itself was one firemen. Upon starting, the scene that
presented at the aouth-eteeaertful brilliancy. The heavens
various
he ern quarter an appearance of
sheets of flame of
then changing to deep lemon tint,
which t y changed to
orange:aterert thhei lighhet
a deep vermillion. The englenfes_weere driven with all pos-
ra
en Supposed c
et with fire,dthi seabpguprt
ee aftergreatest
.
Bible speed in the direction
proceeding some miles the
signs of a fi •
splendour, and the previous • shone
The engines were therefore ordered back to their several
stations.

_... ..
ALAWIR
--.---
at Wigton a few ay
,5 OPINION OP
Ms PaomsioN*--At a
dinner given ........
ago, a lawyer named.
Ed. s
pi, to a toast, in honour of e t •
Tiffin, ia blushed to own he belonged toga prootession,
said that ti he
to the country.' —(Terri Penn which was a disgrace
candid admission so took theariteeatlinse
This
and laughter.)
some time before it recovered it elf..
by surprise that it
was
The " professionals " present were transfixed with horror at
d a brother. Mr. Tiffin, as Boon
the apostacy of so respected
es as the the noise had subsided,
sugg ted that he might have
professional brethren.--( Laugh-
ter.) Mr. Lawson gasped out
cited the ire of some of his
that it must be only a ,nix_mr.
take.—(Renewed laughter.)
admitted the language might bera Tiffin explained. "He
too strong to say the
c
profession he belonged to was a
disgrace to the
censurey
. saying he meant he was ashamed to reflect that he belongedHsystemd
to a community which was engaged in
ear, an
'
of law which was a disgrace to the c0u1i,..7•,,_
' • laughter.) Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Pleasure owes its greatest zest
to anticipation.
happy
The promise of a shilling fiddle will keep a schoolboy
ion will not
for a year. The fun connected with its possess .
3 equally
last an hour. Now, what is true of schoolboys 1 . , , „_.,
true of men ; all they differ in is in the price of their name' --Elsa Cook's Journal.
ScEttu IN INQUEST Thursday Mr_
AN ROOM.—On .
l the
*Bedford held an • at Charin Hospita on
inquest cross
body of
months,
Catherine
Sauce, aged five years and eight
whose death had resulted :from burns received on Tuesday
evening.
ed oDn
uring the course of the inquiry the coroner ani-
madvert
of
mmon the the practice ofn parties whose duty it was to
su witnesses g one he
rents to identify the body.bring i
In this casethe unfortunate
he had seen the
mother seated on the stairs in great grief, after having been
obliged to view the body of, her
repeated that it was onl child. He had frequently
y necesry to some one wo
had known the child, and it certsaainlyproduce was most unfeeling h
to
harrow the feelings of the parents or near relatives. The
beadle said it was no fault of his; he could not know the
feelings of the mother ; it was impossible in all cases to avoid
summoning the parents. It was no ousiness of his. The
Coroner (indignantly)—What, no business of yours to con-
sult the feelings of your fellow-beings? Beadle (angrily)
- --I have as much feeling as you or any gentleman of the
jury, but .I cannot always produce persons who are able to
identify. lie was proceeding in an excited strain, when the
coroner said he could not have offensive expressions used
whilst performing his duty, and if the beadle persisted in
insulting him, he Should order him to be put out of the room.
The beadle repeated the offensive expressions, *hen the
coroner directed a policeman, who was in the inquest room,
to put him out of the room, which was dons. The jury re-
turned a verdict of Accidental Death.
ItIVFB, STRAM-EloATs.--It is doubtless profitable
to the proilieturs, bat not V,?i\- p)-7,,,,ni, to LL Pa-,,,(Dger,%,
to have th(s- boats ermvdel t,-, t 1 e ext,n. y re day, Several of the up-river boats were observed swaying
fearfully from side to side. a after one of them gets
swamped, some fine day, we Perh
_,,may sepes, the restrictions agsiobt
Oyonowdbig carved into AFttiya effint.