The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-10 00:00:00

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those in The Itouse who out of the House pressed forward
ultra rneasures, thereby deteating many useful and practi-
cal retorts.
The Oev.se divided, when there appeared—

For the resolutions 29
Against them
Majority against the resolution-S
The House then resolved itself into Committee.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the
CHEQUER,
118,1521. was voted for tbe Supply of tile year 1858.
5,726,0001, for the Supply of the year 18V9.
On the sum of 12,1t26050!. for Exchequer: Bills, in
reply to a question from Mr. HUME,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated
the Exchequer Bill account to have been
In 1836 ....£30,028,655
1831 ................... 26,700,000
1838 •• • • 2'6,273,000
1839 . . • 26,265,000
He would also take that opportunity of stating that, with
regard the deficiency represented to have taken place in
the Revenue, although there was a deficiency during the
last two years, yet during the four years he had held office
on the whole there had been a surplus. The income dur-
ing those four years amounted to 188,711.6,0001., and the
expenditure 187,376,0001,, so that during the whole four
years there had been a surplus of 1,380,0001.
After a short conversation the vote was agreed to.
The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be
received on Monday next.
On the motion of Mr. EW A Rl', returns were made of
the number of executions which took place in England and
Wales in the five years ending Dec. 31, 1833; and in the
five years ending Dec. 31, 1838, together with the num-
ber of coMmitments in each of those periods respectively for
offences which were capital at the commencement of the
former period, vit., on the Ist of January, 1829. Also of
the names and titles of all Bills, private as well as public,
which, having passed the House of Commons in the pre.
sent Session, have not been returned from the other
House of Parliament ; also, of all Bills during the same
period, which, having been returned from the other House
of Parliament with alterations, have been afterwards dis-
sented from and dropped in the House of Commons.

The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Half- palt Twelve.

TIIE STORM OF WEDNESIDAY
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES ny Tile LioirrstNo._At a late hour
on Wednesday night the metropolis was visited by a most
severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by
hail and rain, which raged for some time, and occasioned
very great devastation. The shower of bail was of almost
unexampled density, and covered the ground in many
places with solid ice. Shortly after the commencement of
the storm a flre, supposed to have been caused by the
electric fluid, broke out in a lucifer-match manufactory, in
Bull-alley, Golden-lane, St. Luke's. Notwithstanding
the torrents of hail and rain that were descending at the
time, the conflagration raged with violence. The fire con-
tinued burning upwards of an hour, and the roof and upper
part of the premises were wholly destroyed. About the
same time another fire, supposed to be occasioned by the
lightning, burst forth from some stables, situated near the
Regent's Canal, near Lee, which were entirely burnt down
before the engines arrived. On approaching the river
after the storm, which lasted upwards of an hour, it ap-
peared very much swollen, and the current was exceedingly
strong.

OPENING OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND
DEII8? JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On Monday last the Direc-
tors of this Company, attended by a deputation from the
London and Birmingham Railway, and a numerous body
of visitors, left the terminus at Birmingham at twenty
minutes past nine, in a special train, to view the works
preparatory to the line being opened to the public for the
conveyance of passengers and traffic. The junction of the
two railways is effected a few yards below the Hampton
station, and about 64 miles from Coventry. The
buildings on the station, consisting of engine-house,
carriage-sheds, &c., are now nearly completed. The line
39 miles in length, is principally laid on sleepers, and
the engineering difficulties, with the exception of the Tam-
worth viaduct, most beautifully constructed, the bridges
over the Thames and Trent, and the cutting immediately
adjacent to Burton, may be said to be trivial. On the
arrival of the company, and at the request of the Directors,
they adjourned to the King's Head Inn, Derby, where
they were regaled with an excellent collation ; after which
the Chairman, Mr. Smith, proposed the following toasts
in succession :—" The Queen," " Prosperity to the Bir-
mingham and Derby Railway," " The Healths of the
Engineers to the line," all of which having been drunk
and appropriately responded to, the company returned to
Birmingham, apparently much gratified with the works
and the proceedings of the day.
THE NEW HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT.—The
new Hackney Carriage Act, it appears, directs that there
shall be a plate on each side of the carriage, and a ques-
tion has arisen whether the aide of the boot or driving box
of a cab is to be considered the side of the carriage.
Decisions pro and con have been given by different justices,
the Queen-square Magistrates determining in the negative.
Within the last fortnight, nearly a hundred cases have
been brought forward at that office by Carter, a common
informer, and the fine has usually been ss. As threats
have been held out of bringing actions against the Magi-
strates in the event of their signing a distress warrant, Mr.
Gregorie yesterday inflicted the highest penalty (100, in
order, as he said, to induce the parties convicted to bring
the matter before a higher Court.
EXTRAORDINA.RYSUICIDE.—A few clays since

at Marlborough, Henry Martin, a remarkably fine young
man, a private in the Rifle Brigade, swallowed two ounces
of arsenic. The deceased, it appeared, had mixed this
large quantity of poison in a cup half filled with beer, and
deliberately swallowed it. He afterwards rinsed the cup
out with some more beer, and swallowed that also; and
then continued to smoke his pipe and pass his joke as if
nothing particular had occurred—remaining in the tap-
room until his usual hour of bed-time. He died about three
on the following morning. An unrequited passion was the
cause of this calamity.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GEN-
TLEMAN.—Between ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday
night, the family of Henry Olevine, Esq., a gentleman re-
aiding at No. 'III, Mary-street, Mornington-place, Hamp-
stead-road, was thrown into a state of the deepest affliction
by the discovery that Mr. Henry Olevine, jun , the eldest
son, had terminated his existence by hanging himself. It
appears that the deceased, who was in the twenty-first year
of his age, was missing for several hours on Tuesday evening,
but no particular notice was taken of it. About half-past
ten o'clock one of the domestics entered his sleeping apart-
ment, when he discovered the young gentleman hanging
from the foot of his bedstead by a silk handkerchief
twisted round his neck in a curious manner, and tied in
several knots, to prevent it slipping. A surgeon was
promptly in attendance, but found that life had been ex-
tinct for between three or four hours ; no alteration in the
conduct or appearance of the deceased had been noticed.
The cause which has induced the dreadful act is at present
inexplicable.
OBSTRUCTION AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

—George Moreland Crawford, Esq., barrister of the
Temple, was on Wednesday held to bail by the Magistrates
of Queen-square on a charge of having caused an obstruc-
tion at the entrance to the House of Peers on the previous
evening. The complainant was Mr. Owen, high constable
of Westminster, and the evidence was of the most conflict-
ing. character, The high coastalsle and two or three other
persons swore that the defendant was one of a considerable
number of persons who had collected round the entrance,
causing great obstruction and annoyance to the Peers
enterinc• The house, and that when requested to move on he
had refused. On the other hand, the defendant and several
most respectable gentlemen complained very strongly of
the insulting and overbearing conduct of the high constable,
and denied that there was the slightest obstruction. Bail
was immediately put in and ulterior proceedings were
spoken of.
ARTIFICIAL IVORY.-Certain parties in this

town have just obtained a patent for the making of a sub-
stance so nearly resembling ivory, and so applicable to all
the purposes of that valuable material, that it is almost
impossible to detect the difference. We have not our-
selves seen the mock ivory, but we are told that in one
instance a working cutler had a quantity of scales given
out to him, consisting partly of the fictitious compound,
and partly of ivory, and tht he used them in hafting his
knives, and returned his work without discovering the dif-
ference. We understand that an imitation tortoise-shell is
prepared and in use, which, for some purposes, is little
inferior to some varieties of the real article. It may be
expected, therefore, that the quadruped and the reptile
for which our artists have hitherto been indebted for the
precious substances above named, will henceforth be "left
alone in their glory," the former of his tusks, and the
latter of his cuirass l—Sheffield Paper.
PAUL WHITEHEAD AND HIS HEART.--
Among the most celebrated residents of Teddington
were the Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Elizabeth ;
Penn, the Quaker ; and Paul Whitehead, the poet. The
last is buried in Teddington church, with the exception
of his heart, which was removed to High Wycombe, and
deposited in a mausoleum belonging to his patron, the
Lord le Despencer. Paul bequeathed 501. for the urn
which was to contain it. The ceremony of depositing it
in the mausoleum was very curious. It was attended
from the house by a military precession and a choir of
vocalists. Dr. Arne composed a piece of music tor the
occasion to the following poetry—we beg pardon, words—
which were sung as the urn was deposited
<. Prom From earth to heaven Paul Whitehead's soul is fled !
Refulgent glories beam about his head I
His muse concording with resounding strings,
Give angels' words to praise the King of Kings."
The ceremony itself was sufficiently absurd ; but these
lines were the topping absurdity of all.—Rambles among
lie city of Cabulis inclosed on three
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Berus,Li
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sides by a semicircle of low hills, along the top of which
runs a weak wall. Thera is no opening towards the east,
which is enclosed by a rampart, and here the principal
road enters through a gate, after passing a bridge over
the river. The Balla Hisaur, which stands on the part of
the hill north of this entrance, is a kind of citadel, and
contains the King's palace, in which arc several halls dis-
tinguished with the royal ornament of a guilded cupola.
There is an upper citadel used as a state prison for Princes
of the blood. . . . Though not an extensive city, it
is compact and handsome. The abundance and arrange•
ment of its bazars have been already a theme of praise to
an European traveller. It is divided by the stream which
bears its name, and is surrounded, particularly on the
north
arid west, by numerous gardens and groves of fruit
which trees. The most plhich is s
easing spot about it is the tomb of the
Emperor Bauber,
over the city, surrounded by beds of anernonies and other
flowers, and commanding
a noble
eted prosopnecthte top of
ThetcAa,nhiitl-1
it-
self, and the neighbom ingmeadows, fields
watered by streams, interspersed
en-
compassed by mountains, all c,,i with villages, and
tr., and orchard's,
The
eibchute to the grandeur
and variety of the landscape.
' and scenery of Cabul have been celembsraotefatheh
by manyclimate
IPersian and Indian Writers. The beauty and abundance
of its ,1 :veers are proverbial, and its fruits are transported
to the remotest parts of India.—Mount Stewart phin.
sttitu's Account qf Cebu!.