The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-08 00:00:00

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The gLlcen and Prince Albert, atten•sed by the
Duchess of Sutherland and the Countess of Desart, ar-
rived tv, Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes past five
o'clock yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four,
escorted by a party of Lanc,-rs, trim the I'-t:r!o,am ata
tion of the Eastern C unties Railway. Et r 1 F-rteseu,,
the M'rquis »f Ab, reurn, the Earl of XL-won, Mr Gio.
Edward Anson. LiFut.-C,,L.nei the P Pn4:l),,
Major-General Bowies, Colonel Buckley, Lieu -Coknei
Sesmour, and Dr. Meyer foiiowed in two eurri:4ges
and four.

Her Majesty and her royal consort were received at
the Palace by the Hon. Misses Murray and Macd, nald
sod Sir Edward Bowater.

His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Saxe Weimar, attended by Count de Must, arrived in
town yesterday morning from Cambridge. His Royal
Highness proceeded to BuAy House, Bushy Park, the
residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager

His Exe,llehey er•unt c,e Danish
Minister, and Mr. Francke, C>n;seiller d'E.st de Copen-
hague, had an intersiew witn miirier
Gibson yesterday at the office of the Board of Traci p,
The Bishop of Cape Town had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial office. Dr. Nicolsou
had also an interview with hi- Lordship yesterday.
Lieutenant-Gem ral Sir Howard Douglas had an in-
terview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt yesterday-,
at the office of tue Commi.-sinner, of RAilways in Great
George-street.
Sir George Grey returned to town on Tuesday from
Cambridge. The Marquis of Lansdowne returned to
town yesterday from Cambridge.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office. from the Governors of Van Diemen's Land and
the Mauritius. . .

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of Hong-Kong and
Ceylon.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET.—TUESSAY EVENING.
INTRIES FOR WEDN)SDAY.
Town Plate. Last mile and a distance of 13. C.
Kimblesworth—br f by the Nob, out of Corrunna—
Ziska Eothen Circassian Maid Nottingham The
Admiral.
Fifty Pounds, for three yrs olds, &c.
Lord Orford's Footstool walked over.
Sweepstakes, for two yrs olds. Last half of B.M. Winner
to be sold for 200 sous., &c.
Elusion—Brilliant—ch c by Redshank, out of Bride-
groom's dam—Glutton—b f by Erymus, out of Peerless, and
Tippet.
Sweepstakes, for three yrs olds.. New T.Y.C.
Bit Nibble—Millwood—ch f by Hetman Platoff, out of
Macremma—ch f by Sir Hercules, out of Passion—Sorrel.
No betting on future events.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TVESDAY.
THE LIVERPOOL CUP.-8 to 1 agst The Cossack (taken
freely)-9 to 1 agst The Conjuror (taken, and afterwards
offered)-10 to I agst Lightning (taken, and afterwards
offered)-12 t• 1 agst Pic Nic-12 to 1 agst Inheritress-
-100 to 7 agst Plaudit (taken)-100 to 7 agst Gwalior (taken)
—lOO to 7 agst Lady Wildair (taken)-100 to 6 agst Pil-
grim (take 20 to 1)-20 to 1 agst Quadruped (taken)-20 to
1 agst Pantasa (taken, and afterwards offered).
LIVERPoOL ST. LEGER. 6 to 4 on Lord Eglintoun's
two.

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GoODWOOD STAN:Kt-13 to 1 agst Stultz— 10 to 1 agst
Vampyre— 10 to 1 agst The Questionable-15 to 1 ag,t
Miss Elis-15 to 1 agst Milliner-15 to 1 agst Hydrangea.
GOODWOOD Cur.-8 to 1 agst Fitz-Emilius-12 to 1 agst
Halo.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.—Nothing done.
WORCESTER RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Severn Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. One mile
and a quarter. (9 Subs.)
Mr. J. Day's Kismet, 4 yrs, Bst 41h (Wakefield)
Mr. Griffiths's Lady Lift, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b ....... .....
Mr. W. Smith's Master Downes, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b 3
Won by a neck, after a fine race.
The Two yrs old Stakes of 10 sovs. each. and 25 added ;
for colts, Bst 51b, and fillies Bst 21b. Half a mile. (4
Subs.)
Mr. Minor's Shropshire Witch.... (H. Darling) 1
Mr. Goodwin's Sister to Dexterous ..
Lord Caledon's b c by Simoon, out of Pergama
Mr. Grifliths's Dinedor
Won by a head—a fine race.
The Worcestershire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and only
5 ft if declared, with 50 added; the winner to save his
stake. Two miles.
Mr. Bristow's Marietta, 4 yrs, 7st 31h ..
Mr. Flint,ff 's Princess R,,y.11, 5 yrs, 7st 13!b
Mr. Waller's Culumbus, 5 3 rs. ist 1011. 3
Mr. B. Collett's Pal, 4 yrs, 7st 91b 4
A good race, won by a head.
The County Members' Plate of 50 sovs. Heats. Two miles.
Mr. Griffith's Jack, aged (Archer) 1 1
Mr. Herbert's Powicti. 5 yrs 3 2
Mr. E. Herbert's Little latry, 5 yr 5...... ............... 2 3
Won easy.

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BARTHOLOMEW'S AND GUY'S CLUBS BOAT•

RACE.

This event, which has of late excited great interest in
the aquatic circles, came off last evening; but owing to
an unt-reseen occurrence, disappointed a great portion
of the aquatic amateurs who had assembled to witness it.
The distance was from Putney-bridge to Chiswick
Eyot, and the Thames, Herne, Guy's, Bartholomew's,
Thetis, Clothiers', and other boats were in attendance.
Bartholomew's— Messrs. Girdleston (stroke) ; 3.
Watson ; 2. Williams ; 1. Warwick ; Waship
(steerer) 1
Guy's—Mr. Hewitt (stroke); 3. Cooper; 2. Mathorpe;
1. Brinekly ; P. Thompson.
Mr. Chapman, of the Thames, officiated as umpire.
A reasonably good start was succeeded by both parties
veering from the course in which they should have
rowed, the Guys too closely hugging the Middlesex
shore, their station, and th, Bartholomew's, on their
tovvßrac thn hioht. nn
I")!la,teiff n '
a few strokes they were almost level, the
Bartholomews having the lead for about a foot; then
the Guys began to draw in advance, and off nose Bank
had their length clear. It was a capital race all the way
up to Hammersmith-bridge, the Bartholomews putting
on some strong spurts, but the Guysi gaining at every
stroke. At about 200 yards above Hammersmith-
bridge, at which time the Guys were leading by above
three lengths, Mr. Mathorpe broke his thaul, and, of
course, could row no longer ; the oth,r three pulled
away as well as they could, but the Bartholomews gra-
dually came up to their opponents, and jumped their
boat in half a length ahead.

PUGILISM.—SAMUEL SIMMONDS AND THOMAS LANE,
FOR 200 Sovs.—The encounter of these knights of the
knuckle,whtch, from sundry misunderstandings as to
the‘‘ venue," seemed more likely to end in a postpone.
ment, or magisterial interference, was on Tuesday brought
to issue on the borders of the counties of Northampton
and Buckingham. The men met in fistic fray at tour
minutes after three, and at ten minutes to four o'clock,
Simmonels's second, Johnny Hannan, threw up the
sponge in token of defeat, at the close of the 26. h round.
The battle was by nc means remarkable for the scientific
manoeuvres of either men. It was characterised by
fast, wild, rushing exchanges, and the punishment was
pretty equally balanced. Simmonds returned to town
last night, and Lane, accompanied by his brother Ham-
mer Lane, departed for Birmingham, bearing the tidings
of his victory.
A COMEDY IN REAL LIFE.—The residents of the
Sixth Avenue, near Thirty-second-street, were, on Wed-
nesday, treated to a very effective comedy by a couple of
amateur performers, who went through their parts so
well that it is generally believed they have had consider-
able practice in the same line. The main incidents of the
piece are as follows :—A gentleman went home to his
dinner, and, having suffered a trifling loss from a fall in
the stocks, was disposed to make up for it by venting
his disappiintment upon the unuffsnding members of his
family. This is a very old prsctice among married
gentlemen, and wives ought by this time to be used with
it, as lobsters are to be boiled alive. But the wife of this
gentleman didn't exactly nude' stand the mission ; and,
when he remarked that there was too much pepper in
the hot pie, and that the dinner generally was of fit for
a hog, she replied that, if she bad known it was to be
eaten by a hog, she would have made it fit for him.
This, of course, led to a spirited reply; and the lady. at
last forgetting the humility so becoming in a wile,
jumped up in a passion, and dashed her plate on the
floor. "0, ho," exclaimed the husband, "if you are
going to play that game, I will be up with you.p, So
he seized a :ureen and smashed it against a crimson
sofa. The lady, not to be outdone, upsets the table,
and so smashes all the crockery at one blow, and toen
dares her husband to go on To show that he wus as
full of spirit as his wife, the gentleman flings a water,
goblet at the French clock on the mantelpiece, over-
turns his wife upon the floor, and darts the chair on
which he was sitting through the window into the
street, and then tosses the mirror which hung in the room
after it. Having finished the work of destruction in-
side, he rushed into the street, and began to demolish
the chair and the remains of the mirror. While en-
gaged in this work, a body of Al. P's., who had been sent
for, made their appearance, and took the spirited gt ri-
tleman into custody. lie asserted his right to destroy
his property, and remonstrated with the on their
imuertinent interference. The officers of the law ad-
mitted his right to destroy his property, but denied the
lawfulness of his doing it in the street ; and for that
offence they took him off to the station house, where we
lost sight of him, and remain in profound ignorance of
the winding-up of the comedy. From the turbulent and
unhappy conduct of this piece W. see' the wisdom of the
old dramatists in ending their comedies with a marriage,
instead of beginning their dratustic personages in that
blessed c4Pndition.—Netv York Mirror.
A NEW TRICK.--Some thieves in Paris dress as
servants, and visit the diflerent tradesmen. requesting
certain accounts ; they then dress as tradesmen, take
the accounts to the parties, receive the money, and bolt.
TRAINING THE YOUNG IDEA.—The following ad-
vertisement appears in a recent New York paper :—" A
young lady, perfectly competent, wishes to form a class
of young mothers and nurses, and to instruct them in
the art of talking to infants in such manner
hr
ehmaerinsetrlf that aswillhin-
terest and please them. She flatters
peculiar tact and great experience
willerien enableee her to
lnthe-mostglinsvet.oernttaireet
branch of household duties
satisfaction."

A New York journal states that a boy having got
his father's snuffbox, indulged so immoderately in the
tittilating dust that he sneezed himself to pieces. His
remains having been gathered up, a cort.ner's inquest
was held over them, when the enlightened jury returned
a verdict of Snuffed out,"
_ _ _

AN ANECDOTE.—" Martha does thee love me ?"
asked a Quaker youth of one at whose shrine his heart's
fondest feelings had been offered up. " Why, Seth,"
answered she, " we are commanded to love one another,
are we not?'' " Ay, Martha; but does not thee regard
mo with that feeling that the world calls love?" " I
hardly know what to tell thee, Seth. I have tried to
bestow my love on all; but I may have sometimes
thought perhaps dud thee was getting rather more than
thy share
"I can't find bread for my family," said a lazy
fellow in company. " Nor I," relined an industrious
al liter," I sin obliged to work for it," 1

ANb PAPER-MA-
NUFACTURERS PROVIDENT 'SOCIETY.
The eighth annual dinner of this society took place at
the London Tavern, on Tuesday last. Mr. H. Teape,
the wholesale stationer, presided oli Ihe occasion, sup-
ported by his r.irtners, and by Mr. Dickinson, Mr Bo!
lingwer h, Mt. Gausien, Mr. Joyns n, Mr. Evans, Mr.
Hoot, Mr. Bo) le. and indeed by nearly all the princip:.l
inanufleteri.rs Sri l statii,ners, araiutitiiig to 90 in
wanner.
After the usual loyal and constitutional toasts, Mr. I.
E. Cooper, th.• honorary secretary, read a report of the
proceedings of the society, from which it appeared that
since the last anniversary the funds of the society, after
fik!uetang all expences, had increased by the sum of
6511. 2, ;id., thus making the total funds of the society
amount to 6.8254 7s. Id., of which 6,7541. 13s. 9d. was
invested with the Commissioners for the reduction of the
Natienal Di bt.
The toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the Stationers
and Paps Mu r,ufacturer, Provident. Society" folloised t he
rep err, and in pr,posing it tie Chairman d welt in fort46lc
terms on the great bemelits desired from this institution,
arid ttf,er having read a letter from Mr. Spalding,
recommending the plan adopted by his own firm of
rewarding the faithful services of their assistants by
making them members of the society, an example which
if generally followed, would have the most beneficial
ffeets, he urged upon the meeting the necessity of
making a vigorous effort to carry out the suggestion of
Mr. flollingworth, the chairman of the last anniversary,
for the completion of the permanent fund, and he set the
example by contributing twenty guineas himself, and by
handing in a list of further donations from his friends,
amounting altogether to 721. 55.; this was soon followed
by a numerous list of donations from the several stewards,
making a total of 6201.; and no little enthusiasm was
created when Mr. Joynson, one of the vice-presitients,
who had contributed fifty guineas for himself, and
twenty-five guineas for his son, in order to increase
the funds to 8,0001., offered to the meeting to double his
contributions, provided the other contributors would
follow his example, and the challenge was accepted by
the majority present, though ultimately it was thought
more prudent to defer the further donations until the
next anniversary, at which Mr. Joynson was requested,
and agreed to take the chair, and most of those present
pledged themselves to support him or the occasion; and
there seemed to be entertained but little doubt that on
that occasion the permanent fund of 10,000 L would be
conilieted.
Various other toasts connected with the institution
and the trade followed in rapid succession, and the cora.
pang departed about eleven o'clock, after having had one
of the most successful meetings of the society. Mr.
Harker officiated as toast-master with his usual ability,
and the vocalists, under the direction of Mr. Ransford,
added much to the pleasure of the evening, whilst the
dinner was such as to keep up the reputation of the
London Tavern.

ALARMING SII:-E-AD OF FEVER
AMONG THE LABOURERS ON THE CALE-

I)ONIAN RAILWAY.
The amount of fever raging among the " navvies "
engaged in forming the Caledonian line, is very great.
It is of a very dangerous and fatal description—mostly
black spotted typhus. A great number of deaths have
occurred recently. A few weeks ago there were silt
corpses, at one time, lying at Eccletechan. The num"
ber of burials in Crawford church-yard was becoming 5°
great, that, fearing the place would be shortly filled,.6
piece of ground has been procured at Elvanfoot, 111
which a number of interments have taken place.
It is a melancholy spectacle this spot, on tb•
bank of the river, close by the bridge, along which
the coach road goes. There they are placed in rega"
lar rows, much the same way as are the victims of
cholera in the supplementary burying grounds. Fune-
rals there are taking place daily, and now upwards of
twenty bodies are laid in it. The fever has assumed
the most alarming aspect about the highest summit
level ; and the contagion has spread to a considerable
extent among the regular inhabitants of the district.
Tnere are very few who have not known the loss of on•
or more of their relations. One man, who keeps
small shop, had his wife, son, and daughter dead in one
week ; and next week his sister, her husband, their
son and daughter also died—all from fever caught by
infection. The medical men attribute the extensive
spread a th., disease to the a!most entire want of vege-
tables—the general food being of a dry, hard nature.
The appearances of the huts in which many of tba
navvies" lodge would strike a stranger as being con.'
duc,ve to disease—many of them are built of wet turf,
on a damp mossy soil, and taken possession of imme-
diately on being roofed in. The amount of disease
otherwise, caused by irregular habits, is stated to be veil
considerable.—North B7lu sh Mail.

OVERWORK AMONG THE FARMERS.—Near Gains'
borough, Lincoln, and Louth, the labourers walk even
longer distances than near Reading. I am informed of
instances where they walk as far as six miles, that
twelve miles daily, or seventy-two miles weekly, to and
from their places of work. Let us consider the bare
economy, the mere waste of labour, and what a state
~f agricultural management is indicated by the fact
that such a waste can have taken place. Fifteen miles.
a day is the regular march of infantry soldiers, with
two rest days—one on Monday and one on Thursday.
twenty-four miles is a forced march. The man who
expends eight miles per diem, or forty-eight miles per
oo threovnaeluheunofdraetd
least
natsht twoe yea days'
uselesslyh ar
that might be expended
.use'ully and remuneratively.
labourw eek
expends
per week,t
in production. How different is it in manufac-
tories, and in some of the mines, or at least in the best
ITIATISIVPA 511,r1 •-nt,itt c"nooeci t) lof thorn ! Insome wines
as much as 2,000 L and 3,000 L is paid for new machinery
to benefit the labourers, and save them the labour of
ascending and descending by ladders. In many menu-
fac•tories they have hoists to raise them and their loads
from lower to upper rooms, to save them the labour Of
toiling up stairs, to economise their strength for piece-
work to mutual advantage. The Rev. Frederick reel,
of Gainsborough, informs me, "I have farms under in,'
knowledge where the labourers, going to and fro, do not
walk less than a hundred mi:es a week." The whole of
this mileage, paid partly by the farmer and partly by
the labourer, and in part, eventually by the owner him-
self. may he set down to the law of parochial settlement-
-Mr. Chadwick's Speech at a Meeting of the Farmer''
Club.

TRADE IN GODS !—Strange and even profane as
this title may sound, it is literally a fact. La Derno-
cratie Pacifique states that there is a warehouse in Paris
with the title, "Depot for African Gods I " The firm
of Regis carries on an extensive business with
Senegal, where there are about as many kings
as mediaeval Italy had princes. These African kings
make war by way of a little pleasant excitement.
When one of them has lost a battle he dismisses his
" gods," and enters new French ones from Regis and
Co., who employ artists to make them of deal, with
serpents' heads, lions' manes, and tigers' claws. When
a Senegalian potentate obtains a consignment of new
" gods," he goes to war in order to test their efficacy;
Hitherto Regis and Co. have been lucky in their "gods.
THE HAY HARVEST.—The fine weather has
caused so general a fall of hay that mowers are ex-
tremely difficult to be procured. The crops, gene-
rally speaking, are good, but the coldness of the
weather and the wetness which prevailed
kdug vege-
tation,during the
specimens P lg
rendered
have,
f esintlltaliany the
Es . crops,
- a
some
r ega
localities,
r t rye-grass,
i whichrgdr e
fag wasth a t grown
by John
mea-
sured five feet six inches in height, and Dr. Owen Gwen
Roberts has just had mowed, at nendreseen, Bangor.
about four awe.; ef Italian rye-grass, cow-grass, and
tr,foil. which appears to be as heavy a crop as ever
was produced in th, se districts. When green about
a week before mowed, it averaged, when accurately
tested, six pounds to the square yard.—Carnareon
Herald.
SIIARSPERE'S HOUSE. Lecestus Posthumus"
has taveuted us with the tollowing'suggestion regarding
the purchase of the Stratford property, not without en
ulterior object also t—,‘ My first proposition is to
recommend shilling subscriptions, that the many may
have the privilege of giving some proof of their
estimation of his unrivalled genius; and I am persuaded
that no difficulty would be found in raising the required
sum, even among the members and councillors of the
various literary and mechanics' institutes, with which
this country happils abounds. should this expectation
be realised, I would further suggest, that a college or
asylum he erected and endovt, d for the orphans of the
necessitous children of literary individual, an inst4ution
we may readily conceive to be a great desideratum."--
Douglas Jerrolars Weekly Newspaper.
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.-011 Monday Mr. J.
Payne, th, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at the Vestry
Hall, Tooley -street, Borough, on the body of William
Hull Bennett, aged 27, whose death occurred under the
following deplorable circumstances. It apeeared from
the evidet.ce that the deceased belonged to a Deptford,
boat, called the Mercury, and on Friday evening he pro-
ceeded to Billingsgate with some of the crew, and early
the following morning (Saturday) he wits at Battle-
bridge stairs, Tooley-str, et, and in getting into a water-
man's heat he missed his footing and slipped into the
water. Being unable to swim he was carried with the
tide, and was never seen more above the surface until
the body was honked out by means of the drags, some
distance from the spot where he fell. Verdict, "Acci-
dentally- drowned."
FEARFUL ACCIDENT.—EASTERN COUNTIIa LINE.
—Yesterday evening, as Mr. itichardson, master of the
carriage department on the Eastern Counties line, was
proceeding to Tottenham in a special engine, he per-
ceived, when near the Edmonton station, a child huddled
up, anti tipi.arentl) lifeless, lying on the side of the line
and close to the rails. Ihe ensine being stopped, and
the body lifted upon it, Mr. Richardson perceived iS to
be a fine boy, between the age of ten and twelve :fears.
quite insensible and covered with blood yet flowgeg from
ex;i naive lacerations on the head. Two of tile consta•
bulsry were instantly forwarded with the st.fferer to the
Shoreditch terminus by the train then duse from whence
Mr. Griinshaw, the station master, by medical advice,
had him conveyed to the London Hospital. For a
considerable time no clue could be obtained to the boy',
parents, and it was equally impossible to account for the
aceidetr, the injuries not being of such a nature as to
warrant the conclusion of their having been inflicted by
the passing. trains. At length it was ascertained that
the hapless child, whose name is Henry Edwards, had
wandered from his home in Green-street, Bethnal-green,
to Edmonton, where climbing a high wall for the purpose
of viewing the railroad, he overbalanced himself and fell
over. Not any hopes are entertained of his recovery.
REPRESENTATION OF BOLTON.—RETIREMENT OF
MR, AiNsworerm—The Liberals of Sou:h Lancashire
will rejoice to learn that Mr. Peter Ainsworth, after
having misrepresented Bolton for the last twelve years,
has at last deemed it prudent to withdraw, rather than
coetest the borough with Mr. Brooks and Dr. Bow-
ling at the approaching general election.—Manchester
,Examiner.