The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-08 00:00:00

railway in an oaken box from the branch office of the
Sheffield Banking Company, at Rotherham, to the prin-
cipal establishment in George-street, Sheffield. On
Tuesday last, in opposition to the practice, thirty-seven
bills of exchange for various sums were deposited in
the 'box along with the books, and having been pro-
perly fastened, it was carried in the evening by a
junior clerk to the railway station, to be forwarded as
usual by train Ito Sheffield. The clerk, it would seem,
was ignorant of the fact that the box contained aught of
greater value than the books; for, on entering the station,
and finding that the manager, Mr. Bishop, was ab-
sent, he placed the box on the counter in the corner of
the room where tickets are issued, and left it there, re-
lying on Mr. Bishop finding the box there on his re-
turn, and forwarding it as usual. It did not so turn out,
however. The circumstance of the non-arrival of the
box at the Sheffield office was not of a nature to excite
apprehension, :and probably it was never thought of
again till the following Thursday morning, when tidings
a ere conveyed to the manager of the Rotherham branch
that the identical box had shortly before been found in
the river, by some men who had occasion to drag the
stream some distance below the Rotherham station. It
aas tied up with a cord, the same as when dispatched
from the bank. On being opened, the books were found
in their place, hut the bills bad all been abstracted. Oa
inquiries being made at the Rotherham station, it tran-
spired that the box had not been seen there at all on
the Tuesday. It was clear, therefore, that it bad been
stolen and carried away in the interval between the clerk
leaving it at the station and the return thither of the
station manager. The bank is in possession of every
particular respecting the bills.
IIEARTLEss ROBBERY.—A young woman, named
Martha White, on Tuesday last left the service of Mrs.
Bacon, of Bedford-place, and proceeded to lodge with a
friend. On Wednesday she went into Oxford-street with
the intention of purchasing a few articles to make a
present to her father and mother, who are poor people
in the country, and was just entering the shop of Messrs.
Walley and Hardwick, when she discovered that her
purse, coatsining 3/. 10s., had been abstracted from her
pocket. The despair of the poor girl, on finding herself
deprived of every shilling she bad in the world, may be
easier imagined than described; and were it not for the
kindness of Mrs. Wall, of 74, Castle-street East, who
has taken compassion on her situation, she would be at
this moment literally without a roof to cover her, or
bread to eat. This is one of those truly distressing cases
worthy the notice of the benevolent.
MACKEREL FISIIERT AT FALMOUTH.—The first
mackerel boat which has arrived here for the present
season is the Mary and Ann of Hastings, Captain W.
White, and she made her first attempt on Friday. The
nets were so full that they grounded with the weight of
fish in them, and it is supposed that if the dog-fish had
not devoured a great quantity of mackerel in the meshes
the nets would have parted altogether. As it was (count-
ing 120 fish to the 100), 7,750 mackerel were secured in
a perfect state, and a great number in a broken state.
Besides these there was a large quantity of pilchards,
and, it is calculated, about 5,000 dog-fish, which were
thrown away. The 7,760 mackerel were sold for 751. 10s.,
and the major part forthwith dispatched for Billingsgate
market.— Western Times.

The Commission of Inquiry into the State of the
Law respecting the letting and general management of
Ecclesiastical Property should not be confounded with
the Ecclesiastical Commission, from which it is wholly
distinct, and its duties altogether different. The Com-
mission, which is an unpaid one, will consist of the Earl
of Harrowby (chairman), the Dean of Canterbury, the
Rev. R. Jones, W. Page Wood, Esq., M.P. for Cam-
brige, R. B. Armstrong, EN., M.P. fur Lancaster, and
J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., Chief Clerk House of Lords.
The state of the law respecting Church and corporation
property has long been complained of, and has called
loudly for revision. The magnitude of the property and
interests at stake, however, precludes the expediency of
hurried legislation, and suggests the nomination of such
a commission as the present, so constituted as to com-
mand the confidence of the public, and of all parties in-
terested in the inquiry.
A MATCH-SELLER BURNED.—In Lombard-street,
Deansgate, Manchester, James Blakeley, a match-seller,
was suddenly enveloped in flames from the matches he
carried in his pocket exploding. The unfortunate man
was severely and dangerously wounded.
THE SEAMAN JEROME.—A few days back a docu-
ment was published in many of the newspapers throwing
doubt on the merit to receive rewards of the seaman Je-
rome, who earned the admiration and applause of the
distinguished party on board the frigate Atfonso by his
humane gallantry on the melancholy occasion' of the
burning of the Ocean Monarch. The consequence of
this unfounded report has been the withdrawal of many
gifts destined for him by persons wishing to show their
approval of his conduct. On the authority of a distin-
guished officer who witnessed the conduct of Jerome, and
who is fully competent to judge of the merits of the case
we are re quested to give an unqualified contradiction to
this statement, and further that the gifts so• liberally
bestowed upon him are amply deserved.
ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGIONS. The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the sth
instant : —Messrs. Robert Blagden, Albemarle-street ;
Charles Walter Poulton, Cricklade, Wiltshire ; Henry
Rowland Hoskins, Hoxton ; John Wilmshurst, Col-
chester; Frederick Dicker Fletcher, Canterbury; Richard
Scott Boley, Bristol; John Baker, Boley, Bristol; and
Charles Mills Wills, London.
SMALL THINGS OF GREAT MEN.—During my three
days' sojourn with Lord Brougham we quarrelled about
the pronunciation of words! He ;said Lannon, I said
London. I reproached him, also, with pronouncing
haunted &stewed, and asked him why it should not
rhyme with enchanted? The matter is a trifle; but I
have a full conviction of being in the right. [And so he
was.]—Life and Letters of T. Campbell.
REFRBSENTATION OF TRURO.—TRURO, JAN. 4.
The writ for this borough is expected to arrive to-day,
in which case the nomination will take plrce on Tues-
day, and the election on Wednesday. The candidates
are Mr. Montague Smith, of the Western Circuit, in the
Conservative interest; and Mr. Humphrey Willyams, a
hanker, of the town, on the Liberal side. Both parties
profess to be confident of success, and the contest is ex-
pected to be a close one.
THE NEW METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION.
—On Saturday, a precept was received from the Lord
Chancellor by Lewis C. Herslet, Esq., Clerk to the late
Metropolitan Sewers Commission, notifying that the
following gentlemen had been chosen as commissioners
for the purposes of the new Act. The commission is
dated " Jan. 1, 1849," and subjoined are the names of
the persons selected, viz.:—The Earl of Carlisle, Lord
Ashley, M.P., Viscount Ebrington, M.P., Hon. Frede-
rick Byng, Sir James Clark, Bart., Sir Edward North
Buxton, Bart., Sir John ,Burgoyne, R.E., Sir Henry
Dc la Beche, Very Reverend Dr. Buckland, Neill Ar-
nott, Esq., M.D., T. Southwood Smith, Esq., MD.,
Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., Robert A. Slangy, Esq.,
M.P., John Walter, Esq., M.P., George Biddell Airey
Esq., Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C. 8., John Leslie, Esq.,
William John Broderip, Esq., Robert Hatton, Esq.,
Richard Lambert Jones, Esq., John Buller, Esq., John
Bidwell, Esq., Joseph Hodgson, Esq., Captain James
Welch, R.E., Captain Robert K. Dawson, R.E., William
R. Groves, Esq., F.R.S., Thomas Bonfield, Esq„ Ed-
ward Lewes, Esq., !Alexander Bain, Esq., Thomas
Hawes, Esq., Cuthbert William Johnson, Esq., Rev.
William Stone, M.A., Rev. Morgan Cowie, M.A., Rev.
E. Murray, M.A. Tho commission will be opened on
Wednesday next.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY
IN SURREY.—WARPLESDON, SATURDAY MORNING.—
Considerable excitement has prevailed throughout this
usually quiet district during the past day or two, in con-
sequence of a brutal attempt having been made to mur-
der Mr. J. Loveland, a farmer highly respected in the
village. The circumstances connected with the case will
be understood by the following summary of the evi-
dence, sworn to before George Gibson, Esq., the ma-
gistrate for the district:—lt appears that on Tuesday
last Mr. Loveland was at the New Inn, where he re-
mained until about half-past seven o'clock, in company
with a person named Charles Hepburn, whom he
knew perfectly well by sight, and as a visitor of the
inn. After the prosecutor had left the inn, and
was proceeding along the road to his own house,
he was pursued and overtaken by Hepburn,
who, without sa)ing a word to him, gave him a blow
at the back of the head, which knocked him down.
He then knelt on his breast, and, after trying
to strangle him, struck him seven or eight times over the
head. Ile cried out " Murder," and by the light of the
moon he distinctly saw that the party was Hepburn.
He called him by name, and begged of him to spare his
life, and he might have all he had. The villain then
rifled his pockets of all they contained (3s. 6d.), and gave
him three more blows on the head, saying at the time,
" There, you —, you won't tell any tales now." Mr.
Loveland pretending to be dead, the fellow made off, and
returning again to the New Inn, called for some more
drink. Mr. Loveland, as well as ho was able, crawled
home, and gave information to the police, and Hepburn
was apprehend. d, and on Thursday night was fully com-
mitted to take his trial for attempting the murder, and
for having robbed Mr. Loveland. Witnesses were
examined, who proved having seen the prosecutor leave
the room, and the prisoner following a few minutes
afterwards, and returning again in three quarters of an
hour, with his trowsers covered with mud, evidently
showing that he had been struggling on the ground with
some one.
CRITICISM or ART.—A small crowd gathered be-
fore a window recently, to admire the figure of a cat
that was there, as if for public inspection. Nearly
every one was delighted with its likeness to life. " But
still," said Augustus, " there are faults in it : it is far
from perfect; observe the defect in the fore shortening
of that paw, now ; and the ;expression of that eye, too,
is bad; besides, the mouth is too far down under the
chin, while the whiskers look as if they were coming
out of her ears. It is too short, too." But, as if to
obviate this defect, the figure stretched itself and
rolled over in the sun "It is a cat, I vow," said a
bystander. " It's alive !" shouted an urchin, clapping
his hands. " Why, it's only a cat, arter all," ex-
claimed Mrs. Partington, as she surveyed it through
her specs; but Augustus moved on, disappointed that
nature had fallen so short of his ideas of perfection in tho
manufacture of cats. But Augustus was quite as com-
petent a critic as many others whose judgment of paint-
ings leads the town.—New York Observer.
Dren.—Dee. 31, at Regent's Park, Heavitree,
aged sixty-three, Mr. John Trimble, late pawnbrokeron
haosf
this city. In him the Exeter Reform Associa he
T last
lost one of its earliest and liberal supporters.
time he was in Exeter he plumped forM:r.r;.
ls'.inurrington,
for the ward of St. Paul.—Exeter jVest
ea
concert was
JENNY LIND.—OII Saturday last
given at Liverpool, at which Jenny Lind performed gra-
tuitously for the purpose of raising a fund to add an ad-
diaunal wing to the Southern Hospital, in Toxteili-park.
There was a most
numerous and brilliant attendance,
and the proceeds, it is said, will reach 1,8014