The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-29 00:00:00

MONDAY

THE STREET ORD'Er? LIES.
'(0 THE EDITOR OE TILE SUN. _

Stn.—A:cur kindness in notit..ing in your valuablo
columns the operations of the poor men employed by
the National Philanthropic Association, as street
orderlies," in cleansing the streets and improving the
health of the different localities in which they are
employed, call forth my best thanks. lam happy to
say this improved system has met with the cordial
approval of the inhabitants of the surrounding
parishes. In proot of which, requisitions have been
signed by 325 of the rate-payers of the parish of
St. Paul, Covent•garden ; 700 in the parish
of St. James's; 700 in the parish of St. Martin-
in. the-Fields ; and upwards of 200 in Regent-
street, Whitehall, &c., those streets being under
the control of the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests. The licensed victuallers of the metropolis
have, for some time past, co-operated with the asso-
ciation, in order to extend the system to parishes,
and that a priority of right to such employment be
given to those parishioners who, through misfortune,
have become chargeable to the parish thereby
affording an opportunity for them to come forth and
earn their bread by their own industry, instead of
being pent up in unions, a burden to the
parish and themselves also. The committee of
licensed victuallers have commenced a series of
meetings in different districts, with a view of gene-
rally adopting the system, those already held in the
Haymarket and Soho having proved decidedly suc-
cessful. The licensed victuallers have taken the
matter in hand, much to their credit as a benevolent
body, and, within a short time, a liberal sum has
been obtained through the medium of penny sub-
scription boxes being placed in their parlours. A
meeting has been announced for each evening
this week, and from the ready manner in which the
press have advocated the cause of the poor the
energies of the committee are the more strengthened,
and the charitable object they have in view must in
a great measure depend on the liberality of those
gentlemen who would kindly publish an account of
their labours in behalf of the poor. Should you, Sir,
be pleased to insert this letter in your valuable paper,
you will confer a favour on

Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN SMART, Acting Secretary.
Central Committee Room, 127, Fetter-lane,
Jan. 29, 1849.

TO THE EDITOI OF THE SUN.
Six,—Observing a paragraph in your paper of the
25th instant, stating that the works at the Plymouth
Great Western Docks had been stopped, in conse-
quence of the want of funds on the part of the com-
pany, I hasten to inform you that such statement is
without foundation, and that the whole of the contract
work has been paid for.
I shall feel obliged by your insertion of this letter,
and remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
E. FILDER, Secretary.
Plymouth Great Western Dock-office, No. 1,
Buckingham-place, Stonehouse, Jan. 27.
[The paragraph in question was copied from a
morning paper.—En. Sun.]

THE FORTIKOMING SESSION.
The Queen will hold a Court at Buckingham Palace
on Wednesday next, when her Majesty's Speech on the
opening of Parliament will be settled.
The dinner given by Lord John Russell to the mover
and seconder of the Address in the House of Commons,
and the Members of the Lower House connected with the
Government, previous to the opening of the session,
will take place in Downing-street, at his Lordship's
official residence, on Wednesday next, at seven o'clock,
when her Majesty's Speech will be read to the assembled
guests. The following Members are expected to be pre-
sent :—The Right Hon. the Speaker, Hon. Colonel
Anson,m
t. Talbot Baines,heAttorney-G Eenez., l,
lion.S
irFcap
Francis
Berkeley,sT. Baring,
Bart.,
R.N., R. M. Bellew, Esq, Hon. Colonel Boyle, E, H,
Bunbury, Esq. (seconder of the Address), W. Gibson
Craig, Esq., Hon. W. Cowper, Admiral undas, Lord
Ebrington,
Hon. J. E. Elliot, Right Hon. Sir George
Grey, Bart., R. W. Grey. Esq., W. G. Hayter, Esq,
B. Hawes, Esq., Lord John Hay, Lord Marcus Hill,
Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Bart., Lord E. J. F. Howard, Right
Hon. H. Labouchere, lion. W. Lascelles, G. Cornwell
Lewis, Esq., Hon. Fox !Amite, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord
Clarence Paget, Viscount Palmerston, J. Parker, Esq.,
Right Hon. L. Sheil, H. Rich, Esq., Sir W. Somerville,
Bart., the Solicitor-General, the Solicitor-General
(Scotland), Henry Tufnell, Esq., Lord Harry Vane
(mover of the Address), H. G. Ward, Esq., James Wil•
son, Esq., Sir C. Wood, Bart.
Tie Marquis of Lansdowne will entertain a party of
Members of the Upper House on the same evening, at
Lansdowne House, when her Majesty's Speech at the
opening of the session will be read.
Lord Stanley, as the leader of the Opposition, has
issued cards for a party of Protectionist Peers at his
Lordship's residence in St. James's-square.

A WOMAN MUEDARED.—BIRMINGHAM, SATYR-
DAY.—An extraordinary case of murder has been en-
gaging the attention of the Coroner for some days,
respecting the death of a young woman named Eliaa
Gilbert, a servant to a highly respectable family, living
near the Royal Oak, Fazeley-street. On Friday s'en-
night she went out on an prrand for her mistress, and
called upon a female acquaintance, who accompanied her
part of the way she was going. Whilst together she
met a young man who was paying his addresses to her,
who was in company with three other men. They re-
mained talking for a few minutes, when the deceased
left them, and proceeded towards her mistress's residence,
but never returned home. Search was made for her in
every direction, but without avail, until the next day,
when her body was found in the canal horribly muti-
lated. The medical evidence proved that the injuries
had caused her death, and not drowning, when sus-
picion fell upon the four young men she had been talking
to, but it was subsequently ascertained, beyond the pos-
sibility of a doubt, that none of them saw her after she
left, and after several adjournments, the jury eventually
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some per-
son or persons unknown."
THE "ARABIAN NIGHTS."—We have much plea-
sure in stating that a grant of 2001. has been lately made
to Mr. Edward William Lane, the well-known author
of the " Modern Egyptians," and of a very accurate
translation of the "Arabian Nights." Mr. Lane is dis-
tinguished amongst Oriental scholars for his thorough
knowledge of the colloquial as well as of the written
languages derived from the Arabic root; and he is now
turning his talents to good account by the compilation of a
lexicon of the Arabic language, avoiding the errors and
supplying the deficiencies of his predecessors. This grant
has been afforded to him from the fund for "special ser-
vice," which is at the disposal of the Premier, and is not
an annual pf.nsion, as was incorrectly stated in the
Literary Gazette —Observer.
The present Baron Auckland (the Earldom being
extinct) will be the first Bishop of Sodor and Man who
has ever sat in the House of Peers.

SUICIDE OF MR. VARLET, ENGRAVER AND
JEWELLER, FLEET- STREET.—Late on Friday evening,
Mr. Mills, deputy-coroner for Middle-ex, held an in-
quest at the Holland Arms Tavern, High-street, Ken-
sington, on the body 01 Mr. Benjamin Moxon Varley,
aged 56 years, the well-known engraver and jeweller,
SO, Fleet-street, and 37, Edwardes-square, Kensington,
who shot himself on Tuesday last. It appeared from
the evid, nee gone into that the deceased, who succeeded
his late father some years since, was a bachelor, and was
tumid by his housekeeper, about one o'clock on the after-
noon of Tuesday last,
lying on the floor of his bed-room,
quite dead, rind some blood oozing out of his mouth.
An alarm was instantly raised and a surgeon sent for,
who promptly attended, and pronounced life to be quite
extinct. No suspicion was at first entertained that he
had laid violent hands on himself, but on the body being
moved a small pistol, which had been recently dis-
charged, was discovered under part of his clothes, and
under the body was the fellow pistol, loaded with ball.
On the deceased's mouth being carefully examined, it
was ascertained that he must have placed the muzzle ot
the pistol in his mouth and fired into the roof ot it, as
the ball could be perceptibly felt under the scalp at the
top of the head. No report was heard, nor had the
pistols, which were new ones, ever been seen before by
the servants or any of the friends. All the witnesses
concurred that the deceased had never exhibited the
-lightest sign of lunacy, or ever threatened to destroy
himself; and in the absence of clearer testimony the jury
returned a verdict " That the deceased had shot himself,
but there was no evidence as to the state of his mind at
the time."

A SPLENDID JUMP.—Last Wednesday, in the
course of a run with Baron Rothschild's hounds, Bell
the huntsman, on his horse King Pippin, jumped a brook
and posts and rails. On measuring the leap afterwards
it was found to be, from taking to landing, thirty-two
feet.—Bedford Times.
VAGRANCT.—A deputation waited by appointment
upon the President of the Poor-law Board, at Somerset-
house, on Saturday last, to make some suggestions on
the subject of vagrancy, arising out of the resolutions
passed at an important meeting of chairmen and clerks
of unions which recently took place at Stoke-upon-
Trent. The gentlemen who attended were Mr. Griffin,
jun., of Stoke, Mr. Hay, of Penkridge, Mr. Dyott, jun.,
of Lichfield, and Mr. Latham, of Congleton. The Pre-
sident paid great attention, to the statements addressed
by the deputation, showing that some decided steps
should be taken to suppress the growing evil of mendi-
cancy in this country by creating an efficient police sur-
veillance distinct from the poor-law, and promised his
immediate and careful attention to them. Several other
matters of importance connected with the administration
of the poor-laws were discussed, and the deputation re-
tired, after a lengthened interview.
SCENE.—JUNIOR UNITED SERVICE CLUB.—Cap-
tain Ragg, loquitur.—l say, Famish, my boy, here's
another of those lucky dogs, the Elliots, provided for.
Which of our cavalry regiments do they put you in mind
of ? D'ye give it up, eh? —NV by the Scotch Greys, to
sure.—Kelso Chrohicle
M. JULES BENLDICT.—The Messiah will be per-
formed in February, at Exeter Half, for the benefit of
this accomplished musician. The soprano part will be
sung by Jenny Lind, Rho has most graciously and gra-
tuitously e.ffrrcd r valuable cooperation.
SOUTH DEVON—TLIGNMOUTEL—On Sunday morning,
smoeonnseafstte(rintehoer ibmiloscsikngo;A the down mail train, an
rockim-
mense fell from the high Head
Cliff, bounding over without injuring the atmospheric
pipes, but, pitebirm, across the outer rails, delayed the
progress of the trains for upwards of un hour. Men,
however, were set to work, end the huge mass, upwards
of seven tons, was broken to pieces, and the line again
cleared. A policeman is constantly stationed near this
spot, as fragments of rock are continually falling.—
Exeter Gazette.

PRICES OF SHARES

N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM.

PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List,

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY e 6.
TOINT—STOCE, BANKS.

Dividend
per

Annum.

51. per cent.
71. per cent.
-6/. per cent.
51. per cent.
151 per cent.
61. per cent.
61. pier cuff
61. per cen
81. per cent.
Si. per cent.
51. per cent.
6/. per cent.
5/. per cent.
5/. per cent.
61. per cent.

61. per cent.

BRIDG:

Dividend
per

Annum.

355. per cent.

11. ss. 4d.
U. 2s. 2d.
11. 17s.