The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-08 00:00:00

LINES TO TIIE MEIIIOItY OF HOOD.

From "A Little Earnest Book upon a Groat Old Subject."
Poor Tom Hood, thy memory dear
Let each Englishman revere ;
For thy wit, and ceaseless fun,
For thy jokes, and pun on pun,
For thy songs, so fresh and new,
For thy epigrams, not few 1—
For thy whims, so quaint and terse,
For thy newly-metred verse;
For thy pathos, so divine,
For thy sentiment, so fine;
For thy all-descriptive mind,
For thy love of all mankind ;
For thy resignation meek,
For thy struggle for the weak ;
For thy Christian charity,
For thy mental rarity;
For thy aid to hapless man;
For thy good in thy brief span ;
For these we love it, and for more—
For thy rich mind's exhaustless store.

THE FRENCH ROYAL FAMILY.—The Duchess of
Orleans has taken Kitley, one of the seats of Mr. E. R. Bas-
tard, at Yealmpton, about eight miles from Plymouth. This
delightful residence has been taken for 12 months, but it is
probable that it will be occupied by her Royal Highness for a
longer period. Some of the Royal Family have already

arrived..
PROMOTION.—Captain Node, 13th Light Infantry,
is appointed Civil Commissioner of the Seychelles Islands.
Capel llanbury Williams, Esq., is appointed a stipendiary
magistrate at Port Natal.—Obseroer.
FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—On
Saturday, at a fully attended meeting of the representative
vestry of St Marylebone. Mr. Mitchell, of Oxford-street
moved :—That in the opinion of this board it would be
showing a proper mark of respect to the memory of the
late Duke of Wellington that the bells of the different
churches be tolled at minute intervals on the day of his
funeral, and the vestry further recommend to their fellow
parishioners the total suspension of business on that day."
—IIr. Clement George seconded the resolution, which was
carried with but one dissentient voice.

ROTAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—An exhib
tion has just commenced at this institution of a very novel
character—it being an optical and musical illustration o
Shakspeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. The scenic illus.
trations have been executed by Mr. Clare with great skill
and effect; nearly the whole of them represent scenes of
forest glades, having living figures gambolling and dancing
beneath the greenwood tree, giving magical effect to the
picture, producing an effect hitherto unknown by the phan-
tasmagoria. The musical department was conducted with
great taste and skill, and embraced airs, duets, and glees from
Bishop, Horn, Cooke, &c., the whole being admirably given
by the vocalists.
CAUTION TO ADVERTISERS.—Persons advertising
in the London papers should be careful how they trust their
correspondents. Mr. R. Vincent, of Lewick, ilussex, ad-
vertised a valuable mare, and Mr. Thomas Orton, of Wap-
ping, two Shetland ponies, for sale, in the London daily
papers, and both these gentlemen received offers from a
person giving his address near Manchester. They were
sent down accordingly, and delivered into hie care, the
price bargained for being 35/. for the mare, and 33/. lbs. 6d.
for the ponies. The money was not forthcoming, and the
parties made application to Mr. Richard Beswick, chief
superintendent of police, Manchester, who informed them
that the man was a notorious and successful swindler.
THE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. WHITTAKER'S.---The
following has been circulated as the exact amount of pro-
perty stolen from the premises of Messrs. Whittaker and Co.,
the publishers, in Ave Maria-lane, City, which were dis-
covered on Monday morning last to have been entered and
plundered in the course of the preceding night, viz :-471.
in gold, 35/. in 5/. and 10/. Bank notes, and also a rough
deal box, eight or nine inches square; and 26 silver table
spoons, 18 dessert ditto, 30 large and 12 smaller silver
forks, 24 silver dessert knives, and a broken silver butter
knife, all of them of shell pattern, and marked with crest,
" a griffin's bead erect and a wyvern's head regardant."
A reward of 50/. has been offered for such information as
will lead to conviction
XRIGHTFUL DEATH IN BISHOPSGATE•STREET.—
On Saturday a fearful occurrence took place in a yard near
Bishopegate Church, which terminated the life of James
Watson, who resided in the Hackney-road, in a most singular
war. It seems that he was standing in this yard when a
cart suddenly drove up, and before he had time to get out of
the way, the wheel forced him some length along the wall,
in which way he was dragged to the end of it. He then fell
dawn in an insensible state, and after having the assistance
of a surgeon, was carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
where he was sees by the principal surgeons, but he soon
died from the effect of great internal injuries.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE WESTMINSTER IMPROVE-
MENTS.—On Saturday a fine young man, named Thomas
Simmons, a slater, who resided at Queen's-row, Pimlico, ex-
pired in the Westminster Hospital from injuries he had re-
ceived by falling from one of the new houses building in
Westminster,
A SUICIDE.—During the passage to Liverpool of
the Princess Royal steam-ship, when off the Crosby lightship,
a respeetahly attired man, wee during the voyage had been
very despondent, threw himself overboard, and though the
boats were quickly lowered and his body was recovered, life
was extinct.
ACCIDENT AT THE HUNGERFORD STATION.—An
accident occurred at this station on Monday last. While the
fireman was engaged trying the engine previous to the depar-
ture of the train, the pressure being greater than he antici-
pated, he ran the engine beyond the distance intended, the
slippery state of the metals at the time overcame the power
of the brake, consequently the engine ran off. Fortunately no
one was seriously injured by it, the principal damage done
was in the breakage of the engine.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Sparks, jun., of Liver-
pool, the gentleman whose legs were shattered by a railway
carriage at the Ithydon station of the London and North-
Western Railway recently, died on Friday night.
POCKET •FICKING AT A BIBLE MEETING.—Last
week a lady, whilst attending the meeting of the Leeds Aux-
iliaryof the Bible Society in the Music Hall, had her purse,
oatu rsehoorctloyorbreofaor t before twelve
containing upwards of 11/., abstracted from her pocket.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF A SAlLOR.—Friday morn-
ieg,ne'elocakn: b
an accident
3ideontyaroefas
of age,horrible
ay o young man,
named George Hudson, living at 3, Tranter's buildings,
Roan-street,
Greenwich. The deceased had arrived from
Quebec on Monday last, in the Prince George, and was paid
off -
he has been freely
indulging in drink, and on Friday morning he was in the
Grey Coat Boy public-house, in the above street, in company
with several females, when he suddenly ran out, and by some
means yet unexplained, fell beneath a brewer's
draw, said to
r
belong to Mr. Hugf„i ns, brewer, the wheel of which passed
over his head, smashing the forehead in in a most frightful
Imanner.
DETERMINED SUICIDE IN THE MIDDLE TEMPLE HAUL
—Mr. Bayliss, ironmonger and inventor of the fire-
escape, residing at 273, Strand, had for years contracted
with the Middle Temple for keeping in repair and light-
ing the gas-lamps of the dining- hall. That duty was
latterly performed by his son Josiah, aged 25. The hall
not having been lighted up at five o'clock, the usual
hour, on Friday evening, the steward ordered inquiries
to be made after Mr. Bayliss, who was seen a short time
previously engaged in the hall preparing the lamps.
The servants accordingly examined the hall, and its sur-
rounding apartments, when, upon entering the lumber-
room over the hall, they discovered Mr. Josiah Bayliss
suspended by rope from a nail in the wall, and quite dead.
Mr. Baker, the summoning officer, had the body removed
to his parents' residence in the Strand, to await a coro-
ner's inquest.
IMPORTANT INVENTION FOR RA.ILITATS.—A Mr.
T. Forder, of Leamington, has brought before the public an
invention for the prevention of railway accidents. It is
called a " fender," and is of sufficient capability to absorb
the force of collisions on railways, so as to preserve the pas-
sengers and carriages entirely harmless. On Saturday last
a working model was exhibited at Leamington, before the
local raagigracy and a select number of goutlemon.