The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-21 00:00:00

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FATAL ACCIDENT TO A FRENCHMAN.—On Sunday
evening last a party of French ladies and gentlemen
were returning to town from High Beech, where they
had spent the day ; they stopped the carriage for the
purpose of gathering some shrubs that grew in the forest,
when Monsieur Curles suddenly fell from the box, struck
his head on the road, and died instantly. He was con-
veyed to the Castle Inn, at Woodford, as soon as possi-
ble. Dr. Bunce immediately attended but could render
no assistance.

PRIVATE LIGHTHOUSES.—Yesterday a return to Par-
liament was printed, showing that on the 14th instant
the amount of debt due to the Trinity Corporation for
buying up private lighthouses was 97,5001.
MERCANTILE MARINE FUND.—Yesterday was printed
an account of the income and expenditure under the
Mercantile Marine Act for the year ending the 31st De-
cember last. The income was 28,2391. 6s. 6d., of which
12,404/. 11s. 6d. were fees on the engagement of crews,
and 10,9691. 9s. 6d. on the discharge of crews. The ex-
penditure was 23,7001. 25., and at the end of the year
the balance, being the excess of income over expenditure,
was 4,0441. 12s. 11d.
TWELVE DAYS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO LONDON.—
Mr. Drury Wake arrived on the 15th inst. at Steven's
Hotel overland from Constantinople. He immediately
proceeded to the Foreign-office with dispatches for Lord
Clarendon, having made the journey in twelve days, in-
cluding quarantine and other necessary delays.
ATHLONE ELECTION.—The nomination at Athlone
took place yesterday, when Keogh and Norton were
proposed. The town tranquil. Keogh's return con-
sidered certain.
SIR WALTER GILBERT.—We regret to learn that
letters from Alexandria give an unsatisfactory account
of the health of that distinguished officer, Sir Walter
Gilbert. Up to the departure of the last mail, he ap-
pears to have derived but little benefit from the climate
of Egypt, which he was recommended to try, when
forced by illness to leave Calcutta, and it is much
feared that he will be unable to resume his duties in
India.
PROPOSED NEW BRIDGE BETWEEN SOUTHWARK AND
BLACKFRIARS.—A report received from the " Bridge-
house committee " of the Common Council in relation

to the proposed erection of a new bridge between Black-
friars and Southwark-bridges, and the rebuilding of
Blackfriars-bridge, has been ordered to be printed. The
report stated that the committee were of opinion that
additional bridge accommodation was desirable, and re-
commended the court to entertain Mr. Deputy Ben-
noch's proposition for a new bridge, " provided the ne-
cessary funds could be obtained for the purpose."
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The reproduction of Mr.
Westland Marston's exquisite play of Anne Blake, on
Tuesday evening, was hailed with the applause of a full
and fashionable audience, and the performers, who each
and all, acquitted themselves to perfection, received an
enthusiastic recall at the termination of the piece. Marco
Spada, with the unequalled brilliancy of its ball-room
scene, and the excellent acting of Mr. Ryder, and of that
admirably assorted pair of comedians, Mr. Walter Lacy
and Miss Carlotta Leclercq, who keep the house in per-
petual hilarity while upon the scene, continues to be
most attractive. On the nights when Macbeth is per-
formed, not a seat in the theatre is left unoccupied.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN LANCASHIRE.—PRESTON, WED-
NESDAY.—On Monday evening, the village of Hamble-
ton, which is only about four miles from Garstang, was
startled by the report of a gun in the house of Richard
Pedder, a boatman, aged 40, and on a search being in-
stituted the dead body of Mrs. Pedder was found
stretched upon the floor of the house. The evidence
given at the inquest held this day, showed that the un-
fortunate woman was in the garden, and that her, brutal
husband seized a duck-gun and pointing it through the
window, shot her dead, and then dragged the body into
the house. After perpetrating the crime the murderer
escaped, but he was apprehended in a subsequent part
of the evening by police constable Cooper, and lodged in
the lock-up, to await the result of the coroner's inquest,
which took place this day, and which ended in his com-
mittal to Lancaster to take his trial at the August
Assizes on the charge of wilful murder.
SHOOTING AT A ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN.—We
understand that the Rev. Mr. Glacken, the parish priest
of Gartan, Donegal, was fired at by an asssassin, on
Wednesday, the 6th inst., within two miles of his re-
sidence, between the hours of three and four o'clock in
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