The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-29 00:00:00

REGIMENTAL ORDER

Lieutenant Yates will perform the duties of acting ad
iutant to the 3d battalion until further orders.

SCREW STEAMERS AT LIVERPOOL. The rapi-
dity
with which screw steamers trading with foreign parts
increase at Liverpool is truly astonishireng.
w s n Saturda n
less than three large and powerful sc O
sailed fromyha
t
Mersey, namely, the Pelican. for Rotterdam, the
Arabian,
for for Constantinople, and the Osmanli, for Messina.
arrived, via., the Orontes, from Alexandria, and the ao
Astro-
loger, from Constantinople. Mostly all the screw steamers
sailing from Liverpool for foreign parts are well freighted,
and must be bringing a fair return for the capital which the
owners have embarked therein.
THE DUCHRiS OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S PARTY.
On Saturday evening their Graces the Duke and Duchess of
Northumberland entertained a distinguished circle of the
aristocracy at dinner at their mansion, Northumberland-
house. Upon this occasion the guests included the Duke and
Duchess of Ath the Paohess of Somerset, the Duke of
aol', arquis and March[ one Marchioness of Ely, the Earl
Newcstle, the M
and Countess of Sandwich, the Earl and Countess Tyrcenpel,
the Earl Nelson, Lady Agnes Buller, Lord and Lady Rad-
stock, Sir J. Herschel and Lady Herschel, Sir Wm. and Lady
Hinton Jolliffe, Sir C. Adam and Lady Adam, Sir H. Hart
and Lady Hart, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Sir Francis
Beaufort, Sir Alexander Gordon, Admiral Arthur Fanshawe,
Captain Milne, and Miss Burdett Coutts. Covers
her were laid
for thirty. Later in the evening the I 'uchess gave fourth
and, until after Easter, last assembly, which was honoured
with the presence of a select circle of the oreign ministers
and beau monde. His Grace the Duke off
Wellington was
among the early visitors.
THE Qui" 11. THE MESSRS. ALLEYNE.—It is
understood bill of that these gentlemen
and have put in bail on a are returned to England,
exceptions, signed by the
Lord Chief Justice Campbell, before whom the cause was
tried, and in a writ of error. They persist in affirming
in a futuretheir
innocence, and that trial they have evidence to
prove it, and to vindicate their characters;
DESPERATE ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF
CONVICTS.--
A gang of convicts who were being removed by tr • on the
Castle atom Wake-
York and North Midland line, from York
field Gaol, on Friday., made a most determined attempt
e to
escape, and considering the peril some of them
to, it is surprising that they were not cut to wpreecesx. posed
Noble, the governor of the Castle, started with 14 in all,
14r.
eluding Ellis, Jones, Jackson, Green, and Marshal, who went.-
convicted at the last assizes for uttering forged notes of thee
Yorkshire Banking Company. yre ironed, and con.
ducted themselves peaceably enough until the train had
arrived about a mile from Wakefield, when Ellis managed to
snap the chain which attached him to the other four trans-
ports. Ile then opened the carriage-door and made an
effort to jump out; Mr. Noble seized him, when he was
attacked by Marshal. Mr. Noble was at length compelled to
release his grasp, and Ellis leaped on to the permanent way,
and made across some fields towaris Normanten. At this
moment Jones bolted out at an opposite door ; he, however,
slipped his footing and fell, and at the time it was thought
he was killed ; however, he escaper', although seriously hurt.
At length the train was stopped, and the convicts were more
firmly secured. Ellis wasp seedily captured Uy some naviga-
tors on the line.
WitECS of THE SHIP AMY. FIFTEEN LIVEs
LoST.--A melancholy shipwreck was made known on
Thursday in the City, namely, the „total loss of the ship
Amy of London while on a passage from Belize, Bay of
Honduras, for Cork, on the coast at Kinsale, and that all
the crew, three men excepted. met with a watery grave.
On Tuesday mo fling, when off the Barry Cove, sl
ed her
e was
overtaken with a heavy gale of wind,
which for
ashore, within a shor distance of the coast-guard station,
and within the short space of twenty minutes
swept went entirely
to pieces, and her fragments and cargo were along t
shore for miles. The crew amountedree were to eighteen
saved. men, in-
cluding master and officers; only th The
ship was a fine vessel, 400 tears burden.
PEDESTRIANISM.—On Monday laAt at one o'clock
,
in the afternoon, Henry Wilton, a dealer in oranges, started
to walk from Newbury to Reading and back three times,
which amounts to 102 miles, in 24 hours. He performed
the task in gallantl
st2le, style, having a quarter of an hour to
spare. Oa the same day, at three o'clock in
enerall the afternoon,tbe
a man of the name of Hayward who gy follows
Craven hounds on foot, started off to accomplish the same
feat, and he came in a gallant winner, with five minutes to
spare. He afterwards adjourned to Mr. Smith's brewery
tap, in the London-road, and enjoyed himself with the
company and a jug of ale until about six o'cl cok in the even-
ing, when he was paraded through then town, and a number
of boys cheering him as he proceeded. This walking mania
has got to such a rage in this town that actually a lad
about eleven years of age, son of a respectable butcher of
Speenhamlani, started off with Hayward early on Tuesday
morning, the last time for him to go to Leading, and went
the distance, and came in just before him. The boy walked
a distance of thirty-four miles in about eight hours.-13erk•
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