The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-01 00:00:00

HOSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.

itr.cir Lordships sat to-day in the House of Lords to hear appeals,
4nt, Lords present, were the Lord Chancellcr, the Earl of Beauchamp,
41?alhe Earl of Hardwicke.

ThiS GARNER . HUGHES,
was an 'V
appeal from the judgment of Mr, Enron Alderson, in the
Court of Exchequer, granting an injunction restraining the appellant
fro nt setting up an outstanding term of
400 years, on an action of
electsnent, brought by the respondent to recover possesion of a piece
of land at Gloddaith, in Carnarvon.
the Case on behalf of the appellant was proceeding when our
reporter left.

VICE-CLIANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

oNoua was 0 'WALKER V. HARDMAN. •
case wc hi ecupied the whole morning with the part heard
Report, crane before the Court upon exceptions to the Master's

E
dr,
--‘'EQUER COURT (THIS DAY.)

ATLEE V. PAC !OUSE. 4,lheis was an action against an Excise officer, for an illegal seizure.
"n trial the plaintiff was nonsuited.
kr. ERLC last term obtained a rule nisi to set aside the nonsuit and
(Ora new
trial,
The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General Mr, Tancred, and
theirilThts toning showed cause against the rule, and had not fi,,,shed
nu-lents when our Reporter left.

'ROLL'S COURP.-(TIIIS DAY.)
The
~13 Morning. m _ _
AsTER of the ItorAs took consent petitions, and short causes,

-1-4-LriiITION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

the . HULL.
the
vote
met at eleven o'clock, and evidence was resumed on
'Q of John Hunter.

th it
is with the deepest regret we have to announce
--e death
the cot of Mr. Alexander Murray, Police Magistrate, Commissioner of
pekio 'tt of Requests, Chairman of the Sessions, and Coroner, at that
to f t"
and opulent district, New Norfolk, which important duties he
tli:vtkd‘aYs before had undertaken in succession to Mr. Charles Arthur,
earl
i",c yes
of his family from Hobart Town had not been entirely
assorP,,[eci• The circumstances of this calamity are peculiarly awful,
tain `"yo'C a lesson to us all, poor frail tenants of humanita;, how uncer-
heaits?
aunrooec..
aPation. On Friday, at three o'clock, tie ws in excellent
4, n spiritsin forty-eight hours he \v 'so
no mores—Rust!ralian
New for Nrovernber•
ArgyliSh;.r.e i Proachirig a' sto be contested on account of the ap-
on
t;,e.,:arr.
ei;taetrioesat)owflislilacyartroythe Peerage. Monzie (or whoever stands
it.—Glasgow Argus.
t, s;wlhCiepince of sovereigns at New York is from 4. 95
Paper of Is•Sri a 'neat' of 4. 971, and establishes a par of exchange. in
tondon bei •92 per cent.; and the course of exchange at New I ork on
c..... . of; 104 i per cent., it follows that the exchange is 7.49 per
‘3lr• aganit England.
Senn
on Sunday, °IIB Were preached in Bradford Parish Church
for ,e and collections made to defray the Churchwardens' expenses
a po'n.. Past year. The sum required was 190/., but we imagine that
l'hertsumn Of
this must have been arrears of former years' expenses.
trpressra collected was 751., thus leaving a deficit of 1151.—Halifax
Lordytha -of our readers will learn with much pleasure
lituati,,- Gleneig has appointed Mr. Herbert Castle Southey to the
icat,tai'n of /Tarbour Master at Demerara, which was held by his father,
-/-1 n utheY, at the time of his death.—Kentish Observer.
-uoRT (It, CHESTER.—With llntice th .,IIESTER.—With great pleasure we
/4„„d_ : increasing manifestations of a revival of trade in this port.
sides n,l
ixteen large vessels, from London, Wales, Ireland, &c., be.
and rnerous small craft, were lying at our wharfs. This looks well,
Dee g,‘°,,e, Much in favour of the improvements in the depth of the
apkara *e hope the time is not distant when Chester will present the
°' Posta ee it once did, and the flags of all nations will be unfurled in
t.--. Chester Pa;
Paper,
zna is in contemplation to establish a Kent Zoological
zO,OOOl teal Gardens Company, near Gravesend,. with a capital of
111 ' Among the patrons of this undertaking are Sir
T. Hodges.
r. I, L
The . Hodges, nr., Sir John Beresford, and Mr. T. avre.grousid already taken is picturesque, and consists of about twelve
• It is intended to open the gardens this summer.
buTlie swell raised by the London steam-ship from
, nave in .
nog vot;tai coming up the river yesterda.s, afternoon, nearly swamped a
a waterman, named Charles Fox. The water rolled
vr°voetiriahi,.s..boanti,nga large sized oise, and filled it up to the. thwarts, and she
h ". doubt have sunk'with the owner but for the timely aid afforded
-1' a T
„, , a oames police P-alley, the officers in which baled the water out,
""o towed the boat into King' James's stairs.
la in Constquence of the sudden and severe illness of
1-8. ,l.
' ' arier,
The the, production of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's new tragedy,
tat:lrlienian Captive, is delayed. We fear the lady's illness is of a
...re that will render a postponement of several weeks necessary-
14'leaa ner place can be supplied.
ib O'Connell, Mr. Morgan O'Connell, and Sir
Firancis Burdett travelled in the same. railway traits from this town to
Birmingham on Wednesday last.—Liverpool Chronicle.
An explosion of a steam-boiler, attended with most
disastrous consequences, occurred about half-past four o'clock yesterday
(Friday) afternoon, at the cotton factory of Messrs. Lane and Son, near
the Maher Hillgate. The manager of the factory says—At about
20 minutes past four o'clock I was in the engine house, along with the
e.ogineer, Robert Houlker. We had stopped for tea, and I said,
dießobert, you had better gait the engine." He had not started, but was
act of opening the valves when the boiler blew up with a
e the
reports.. I did not at first know what it was, so great was
Zk, alarm. The explosion shook the whole place. I cried out,
I,,4,_°l'ert, what is the matter;" He sid, ~e boiler is up."
.1., boiler house had two boilers in a
it ; one in use, andblown the other
1o
. course of repair, four men being employed at the time inside
theitt; We went immediately down to the boiler house, and found that
beeh!oiler was rent entirely to pieces, and torn up from its position. The
ilerunder repair was also torn up, having the appearance of having
n lifted to some height. It was broken to pieces, and lay on the ruinshe
48 a flattened mass. There was no roof to the boiler house, and t
steam
17nhad entirely evaporated when we entered. The steam pipe had
blown offthe boiler in use over part of the factory, three stories in
si'ithttsoand had fallen near the counting-house door on the opposite
inches by
with an iron weight of nearly 601 b,; a stone slab, 13
tooni bY. 17, and 21 inches thick, had been blown through the carding-
boiler 'sl"evf on the second floor. The brick-work in which the
fn bad been imbedded was lying about the boiler room. The suf..
stte:as the accident lay in different parts if the room. These con.
I,,eay's of the four boiler-makers, two firemen, two girls, a bioTh,eati:sel:
vet' whoaho bad gone to the boiler house to smoke his pipe..
boorertheenan!hi,smiseso,ngbottorn, was unfortunately buried in the ruins
aboutlllWt‘sha:irdtilscovezed, and more than ten minutes elapsed before his
a shocking mangled corpse. Ile was a single man
Tt':ars of age. The others were all severely scalded. The
veal!, ".• Vac hands employed at the mill, on hearing the explosion, wast
t1„.04/3'eat, especially of the girls, many of them attempting to ge
and sever the windows. under an impression that the mill was falling ;
of
th,elnveral !nen on the second floor leaped out of the window, and some
It art not expected to survive.—Manchester Times.
r VElk IN THE METROPOLIS AND ITS VICINITY.
--... 0,,,,,.
London
aural months past fever has prevailed to an unusual extent in
?ever I,,(1 its vicinity. From the Annual Report of the London
reeeired'.'sPital, just published, it appears that the number of patients
the ss iti the course of the last year is the greatest ever admitted since
erowcrettiindation of the hospital. The wards have been constantly
for
_cins and during several of the months many persons daily applied
40,1.101 ‘
aissiinonaiiwho could not be received for want of room. The em.
of this country the same
. o Itaioed for a much longer period than is usual in the fever
eruption of the skin peculiar
low typhoid type, accompanied by a
indicative of form (whence the name of spotted fever), an appearance
the first gre
nsst.epressed,
a of the disease in which the powers of life are from
ativ i
dangerousand in which structural changes of a highly
talitY hastake place in the most important organs. The mo--
or the disease gestureunusually great, and, nsarkiog the uncommon malignity
Yowl!. persons, it has been fatal to a large proportion of children and
Ntw
li ail ,‘, CONIPANy,—A Company called the Austra-
ohajeCts"iati°n' Wzo, farmed in India in the month of June last. Thed
rev.tiat of the Society are the establishmetit of a safe, commodious,
and
elects„ co the
between Australia and Van Diemen's Land.
t„..g was held in Calcutta on the 25th of June, William Cracroft,,s
teZlytenothe chair, for the purpose of forming the Society, when it vv as
- ' " that the Society be formed this day, and consist of suo_
,eso,_
..sinof one or two shares of Company's rupees 500." A
number
' tedf
were passed, and the following gentlemen were
.appom
INN7-'sznii:luotnittnees \'''
men :—Colonel Stuart, Mr. Cracroft, Mr. Prinsep, ;tar..
tend
r. and Mr. Mackilligin. The mambers of the Society .in
,Itichf r the present to restrain themselves to chartering ships,
offe,. are
"egularly dispatched with whatever freight or passengcrs,ndsaoy
lions to
severalsev persons having signified their intention of maksinoocioty-
showla
be
Society, it was resolved that all donations to the
poor
l'etsons e kAePt as a fund for providing free passages to respectable
I,,C:\r; 481raiictsi Review.
test:, t--.''Nt.--T_ he preponderance of the landed inte-
temw:o all
„ aPPearance on the eve of being again beautifully manis
allspe,,,, ''oe foreign demand for our manuftictures is again about to Le
‘'ere -"s'ed' l'he Manchester mills are already working short time, acnoel.
tonau ` not for a temporary sale of the finer fabrics required for the
Irhi,hun, the Glasgow trade would be even nosy in the same condition
A; rodueed the stagnation of last year.— Gla gow Argus.
toi arc g a variety of teas advertised for sale at Buis-
liin,t,bo following hitherto unknown species :—Powchong, Ankoi,
,1;04. and Hung Muey.
ably. Taff Vale Railway is progressing vary. favour-
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tha4 is
„ avowed by those most competent to give an ofmtnansine,uthakaterisn,
l'ardfr" eigkteen months the Railway will be opened as
the
Glamorgan.
'hire r,"' Cardiff so that all the coal now brought down
de of transit
and anl far shipment will then by conveyed by
the enZber circumstance of import to the coalownetrhtl,stlmseoy will be saved
'he boats on its way
t° Cannes quantity perpetually purloined from
tinae.,...cain6The Bute Ship Canal will also be completed about the:same
A. d ri".
lady 5 ,:endful accident occurred on Thursday to a
ber cara,:m sTerikinson residing in Sloane street, who was,
o, proceedingtietr wayin
to
- attr,„l_,ge, with lice two ncices, to view the equipages 1
leanis'"u her Majesty's drawing.reom. The unfortunate lady was
.84 I,:gason the door of the carriage, when it suddenly burst open, and
Her face and
he, w Precipitated headforemost on the curb-stone.
II were
awfully maimed, and three teeth dashed out. et l\l • , ,
losoo hi -.llJeSty s packet, the Widgeon, is shortly, to
ltr&rti ' IL'ort, though we do not know her future destination.
name
°I the%Wuich formerly ran between this and Calais, under the. i
for
that ,),` ire Pis/ is to take its place, and is painting and repairing
day. t qfpos-
SIM-
,, ‘,. at the Commercial Quay. She takes her first trip
%via, '-le is considerable smaller, and much slower than the If7ala/.geon,
D,,,,,,:larsoconicniseidered by Government as too large for this station,-
Saturday,
On
about a quarter to twelve o'clock, a
boyi nanied turke, about ten ears of age, whose parents live its Char.les-
e,„er",tl3"orY-lane, was crushedY in a most dreadful manner by au iron
agair,[sllill
, 8 upon him. It had been placed in an insecure s
hind log
Wood work, which gave way as the boy was standingit'. be_
dreadful
s
ale was conveyed to the University College Hospital in a
,ful. state and without hope of surviving.
his afternoon one of the Duke of Wellington's
gWaatgg"MadEn with coals, was returning from this town to Strathfietlhde-
,;les tinder the care of the carter, who had placed his mother in rsagon to ride back. On descending the hill beyond the Whitley turn-
'iceCate the horses became unmanageable and ran away; the conse-
pq"ence ss,
is, as, that the waggon was thrown over with violence, and the
th°4..-: Woman, who was sixty years of age, received such severe. tn.jurly
arid
' site expired in a ver =Port time after Wards. Mr. Charles 1- oy e
.. gr. 'Workman were passing at the time, and caused her immediate
a ~,,..._
—uval to 4eLong Barn the
the
atercur
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