The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-28 00:00:00

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Ripon (2)
Newton Abbot (2) 1
Brighton (2) 3
Airdrie (2) 4
Edgware (2)
Brighton Club (1) 5
Wolverhampton (3) 8
Yarmouth (2)
Reading (2) lO
North Staffordshire (2) 10
York (3) 17

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DEPARTURE OF THE BALTIC. —Yesterday afternoon,
shortly before two o'clock, the United States mail steam-
ship, Baltic, Captain Comstock, sailed from Liverpool
for New York, with the usual mails for the United
States and British North America, 165 passengers, and
a very heavy cargo of valuable merchandise on freight.
Amonst the passengers we noticed M. Jullien, the cele-
brated musician, accompanied by his agent, Dr. Joy.
Great dissatisfaction has been expressed by the shippers
per Baltic at an alteration made upon this occasion by
the agents, owing to the large quantity coming forward
for shipment ; instead of being, as previously, shipped
in priority of arrival, the agents determined to settle the
priority by lottery, to which the shippers had to yield
copies of the day's Morning Advertiser were placed on
board by Messrs. Williner and Smith, news agents, of
under protest. Shortly before the sailing of the Baltic,
the screw steam-ship City of Glasgow, Captain Wylie,
sailed for Philadelphia, with 130 cabin passengers, and a
large cargo on freight.
A NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.—On Tuesday
his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman consecrated and
opened, with all the pomp and solemnity, a now Roman
Catholic church, in Brook-green, Hammersmith. His
Eminence preached the consecration sermon, and the
Rev. Dr. Morris, Bishop of Troy, preached in the after-
noon at vespers. On both occasions the church, which
is of Gothic architecture, and capable of containing a
numerous congregation, was crowded to excess by a
highly respectable auditory.
DUTIES ON HACKNEY CARRlAGES.—Yesterday the
Government bill to reduce the duties payable in respect
of hackney carriages used in the metropolis, and to
amend the laws relating to the granting of licences and
payment of duties in respect of metropolitan stage and
hackney carriages, was printed. The duties of 51. a year
and 10s. a week are to be repealed ; and there are to be
charged, in lieu thereof, for and upon every licence to be
taken out yearly to keep, use, and let to hire any such
hackney carriage, 11. ; and for and in respect of every
such hackney carriage as aforesaid weekly, and every
week where the license for such carriage shall authorise
the using and letting to hire of the same on every day of
the week, the sum of 7s. as weekly duty, and where such
license shall authorise the using and letting to hire of
such carriage on every day of the week, except Sunday,
the sum of 6s. The duties are to be under the manage-
ment of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue. The
new act is to include the metropolitan police district and
the city of London. On the very day the Government
bill was issued to reduce these duties the cab proprietors
withdrew their cabs from the stands.
DISCOVERY OF HUMAN SKELETONS IN ST. CLEMENT'S-
LANE.--Last evening, while some workmen were engaged
pulling down the house 30, Clement s-lane, purchased
from Mr. P. S. Corvan, by the governors of King's
College Hospital, for the purpose of extending their
projected improvements, the men were horrified at dis-
covering, under the kitchen flooring, close to the par-
tition wall of the adjoining house, three full-length
skeletons, stretched along side each other, the one of a
female, and the other two being males, within a short
distance of the surface, and havingbut a very slight
covering of accumulated dust, with which it was pretty
clear that, at least for some time past, chance more
than design concealed them from the public eye. From
the position there is little doubt of those skeletons being
the records of some dark deed, the more especially as'
not far from the spot where the skeletons were found
there is now in existence a house, that had been in the
days of Jack Sheppard and his fraternity a rendezvous
of all the cut-throats and lawless characters of the date.
Mr. Corvan, the late, and Mr. Ennis the former pro-
prietor of the house, let it out in lodgings to weekly
tenants, rather poor, but very respectable. As soon as
the workmen found the skeletons, they unfortunately
broke them up, so that all chance of a satisfactory surgi-
cal examination is destroyed. The skulls were handed to
a medical gentleman, and the remaining portions of the
skeletons were stowed away in baskets, where they will
remain until an official order for their final disposal
arrives.