The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-22 00:00:00

The Right Hon. the Home Secretary on Wednesday trans-
mitted to the Lord Primate, and also to the Archbishop of
York, the Queen's Letter in aid of the subscription for the
distressed population in Ireland and the Highlands of Scot-
land. The following is a copy of the document :
"Queen's Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
for a collection in aid of the subscriptions entered into for
the relief of a large portion of the population in Ireland
and in some districts of Scotland.
" Victoria R.,
" Most Reverend Father in God, our right trusty and right
entirely beloved councillor, we greet you well. Whereas a
large portion of the population of Ireland, and in some dis-
tricts of Scotland, is suffering severe distress, owing to the
failure of the ordinary supplies of food; and whereas many
of our subjects have entered into voluntary subscriptions
for their relief, and have at the same time humbly prayed us
to issue our royal letters, directed to the Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury and the Lord Archbishop of York, authorising
them to promote contributions v; ithin their respective pro-
vinces for the same benevolent purpose;
" We, taking the premises into our royal consideration, and
being always ready to give the best encouragement and coun-
tenance to such humane and charitable undertakings, are
graciously pleased to condescend to their request, and we do
hereby direct that these our letters be by you communicated
to the several suffragan bishops within your province, ex-
pressly requiring them to take care that publication be made
hereof on such Sunday in the present or the ensuing month,
and in such places within the respective dioceses as the said
bishops shall appoint; and that upon this occasion the mi-
nisters in each parish do effectually excite their parishioners
to a liberal contribution, which shall be collected the week
following at their respective dwellings, by the chuchwardens
and overseers of the poor in each parish ; and the ministers of
the several parishes are to cause the sums so collected to be
paid immediately into the hands of the Bank of England, to
be accounted for by theWincl applied to the carrying on and
promoting the above-mentioned good designs.
" And so we bid your very heartily farewell.
" Given at our Court at St. James's, the thirteenth day of
January, 1847, in the tenth year of our reign.
" By her Majesty's command,

" G. GREY.
•" To the most Reverend Father in God, our right trusty
and right entirely beloved councillor, William Lord Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metro-
politan."
The letter to the Archbishop of York is an exact transcript
of the above.

The documents were in the hands of the Queen's printer
yesterday, but no issue will be made before Monday next.

CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST A MAJOR'S DAUGHTER.
—Wednesday Miss Matilda Brew, twenty-six years of age,
the daughter of Major Brew, residing on Uxbridge Moor,
was finally examined before Messrs. T. Dagnall and R. H.
Cox, the sitting magistrates at Uxbridge, on the following
charges of obtaining goods under fraudulent pretences.
The first case gone into was for having obtained two cap
fronts from the shop of Mr. G. G. Western, milliner, at Hil-
lingdcn End. It appeared that on the 2d instant the pri-
soner went to the above shop and asked to see some cap-
fronts. saying they were for Mrs. Bedborough, the wife of
a larg? grocer in tTxbridge, and that one of them must be a
pink satin one, as that was for a young lady who was staying
at Mrs. Bedborough's, who had a fair complexion, and had
fixed on one of that colour. She selected two fronts of the
description she wished, and Miss Western lent her a box
to take them in. After she had left with them another cap-
front, made up cf blue satin ribbon, was missed from the
shop, which led to inquiries being made at Mrs. Bed-
borough, and the discovery of the fraud. On the 4th inst.,
13eachey, a policeman of the T division, executed a distress
warrant at the house of Major Brew, and there found in a
cupboard two pieces of the two cap fronts, and the blue
satin one, which had been stolen. The prisoner was not at
that time at home, but the policeman traced her to the house
of Mr. Lovejoy, at Iver, tucks, and from there to the house
of another friend, in Andrew's-buildings, City-road, where
he took her into custody. In the second case the evidence
proved that the prisoner, on the Bth of October last, went to
the shop of Mr. Jesse Jones, draper, of Uxbridge, saying that
she was Miss Heming, of Hillingdon, and upon that re-
presentation obtained a shawl, for which she did not pay,
which shawl was found at her father's house when searched
by policeman Peachy. In the third case it appeared that on
Oct. 30. the prisoner also went to the shop of Mr. G. Lane,
draper, of Uxbridge, and asked to see :tome dresses for her
sister, saying that her name was Western, and that she was the
daughter of the prosecutor in the first case, and upon that
representation obtained three dresses to show which had
never been returned. The prisoner was committed for trial
on each of the three charges, but on the application of Major
Brew, who attended the examination, she was admitted -to
bail, herself in 501. and two sureties in 25/. each, in each
case. Charles Shell, late a shopman to Mr. Jesse Jones, the
prosecutor in the second case, was subsequently charged with
having robbed his employer of property and money to a large
amount. It appeared that the prisoner's depredations were
discovered before he left Mr. Jones's employ, but his friends
making good to Mr. Jones the amount, no proceedings were
taken. It was subsequently ascertained that the amount
was much greater than was supposed, and that he had placed
eighteen sovereigns in the hands of a female, and another
lot of sovereigns was buried in a garden. Inspector Cook,
'l' division, stationed at Uxbridge, apprehended the prisoner
at another situation at Woodford, in Essex. The prisoner
was remanded until Monday next for the production of the
necessary witnesses.
fAINLESS SURGICAL OPERATION.—The operation
of lit hotomy was on Wednesday performed at the Ophthalmic
Hospital by Mr. C. Guthrie, the patient (a male adult)
having previously been thrown into a state of stupor by the
inhalation of ether, administered by Mr. Robinson's appa.
ratus. The experiment was quite successful, the man, upon
his recovery from the effects of the ether, declaring that he
had not been conscious of the least pain. He exclaimed,
" It's all right—thank you, gentlemen," upon being re-
moved _from the operating table. Subsequently a woman
vas operated on for strabismus. The ether, however, in this
case, did not produce the usual effect. It ought, however, to
be stated that to a defect in the apparatus the failure was at-
tributed.

FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT THE CAMDEN TOWN RAIL-
WAT STATION.—On Tuesday night, between nine and ten
o'clock, an accident of a most fearful character occurred at
the Camden Town railway station to a man, named James
Saunders, aged twenty-six, employed by the company. It ap-
pears that the unfortunate man was at the hour above stated
employed in running off the waggons with the down-train
luggage, when he was suddenly caught between the buffers,
and so seriously injured as to render his immediate removal
to the University College Hospital necessary, where he was
placed under the care of Dr. Quain, the house physician, who
prunvunccd him to be in a dangerous state. He remains
now in a very precarious condition.
ItArx,way ACCIDENT.—BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.-
An accident of a serious nature occurred at the entrance of
the Stour Valley line of railway in this town this morning.
A man employed in sinking a shaft became so seriously
affected by the sulphuric exhalations, that he fell off the
bucket in which be was ascending, and fell to the bottom.
Or. being brought to the top, the unfortunate man was so
much injured that it uas deemed necessary to convey him
to the General Hospital, V 6 here in a few hours afterwards he

DEATH OF CHRISTOPHER BLACKETT, ESQ., LATE
M.P. FoR SOUTH :s4:IITHUMBERLAND.—This gentleman
died on the 16th instant, at Wessie, .Nordiumberliaid, aged
fifty-nine. He was formerly iu the army, and for many
years held a commission in the 18th Hussars, no": dis-
banded. During the first Parliament of the reign of Wil-
liam IV. he represented the borough of Beeralston, in Devon,
a constituency which was disfranchised by the Reform. In
1836, on the death of Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart., he was a can-
didate for the representation of Newcastle-upon-Ta ne, but
was unsuccessful. He was elected for his native county in
1837, without opposition, but ceased to be its representative
in 1841. In 1818, Mr. Blackett married Elizabeth, daughter
and co-heiress of Montagu Burgoyne, Esq., which lady died
some year since.
CUSTOM HOUSE NOTlCE.—Wednesday the Commis-
sioners of Customs gave notice that all vessels of 100 tons
and upwards, before they can be cleared from any of the ports
of the United Kingdom the master must put in a certificate,
according to the Otis and 10th of Vic., c. 100, at the time of
signing the ships " contents," or if in ballast, of the " ballast
declarat ien."
On Wednesday, the 20th inst., a General Assembly
of the Academicians was held at the Royal Academy of Arts,
in Trafalgar-square, when John Prescott Knight, E.A., was
elected deputy-secretary to that institution.
We hear that Jenny Lind is expected to sing at
Paris in February, and that she will appear in London, at
her Majesty's Theatre, in the course of the summer. Three
new operas and three new ballets are talked of, the former
being Meyerbeer's Silesian Camp, Rossini's Robert Bruce, and
one by Verdi, the subject of which is Lord Byron's Corsair.
—Brighton Gazette.
FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN.—It has been generally
alleged by geologists that no fossils of the human species
have ever been found among the remains of other animals so
frequently turned up in their researches. But a Dr. Dicke-
son, of Philadelphia, has discovered a bone in the vicinity
of Natches, which the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences pronounced to have been the bone of a man. Nat-
chez is a region which is said to abound with the relics of an
antediluvian era. It was found with other organic remains
in a stratum of tenacious blue clay that underlies the dilu-
vial drift east of Natchez, and in this diluvial drift the bones
of toe Megalonyx were discovered. In the record of the
meeting of the Philadelphia Academy, October 6th ultimo.
the United Slates Gazette find the following :—" Dr.
Dickeson presented another relic of yet greater
interest, viz : the fossil os innominatum of the hu-
man subject, taken from the above-mentioned stra-
tum of blue clay, and about two feet below the skeletons
of the Megaton) x and other extinct genera of quadrupeds.
This ancient relic of our species is that of a young man about
16 years of age, as determined by its size and form, and by
the fact that the eeihyses have separated from the tuberosity
of the ischium, and front the crista of ilium. Nearly all tth4!
os pubis is wanting; the upper posterior part of thuse.ill 11
broken away, and but half the acetabulum wept,'
this bone is strictly in the fossil state is minanelt3:rtyl^r°e7pe'vt
physical characters, in
could not have drifted
of colour, density, &c.
and other 9.,sociAtcd bones.
plateau as found is manifest from
o f the
‘&viriceenwiitthtl
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arlsit-htihcble
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mbent diluvial. 2. That the human
nloecaust
two feet below three associated those causes that produce
bone was
ra‘ines appreciablyi
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found
ansedut
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p ;e n
andd n t
lastly,
skeletons of the Megalubyx, all which, judging from the op-
posidon of proximity of their several pars, had been quietly
d ,
reeraosoi tredo
ert bidsispul,accaitit)tgy,
p ion\
\dee
ry o f an
becaacutsievetchurere
was no admixture of diluvial drift with
the blue clay, which
latter retains its homogeneous clearac et equally in the higher
part, that furnished the extinct quadrupeds, and in its lower
part, that contained the remains
announced his intention of returning, man. Dr.
Dlickes.ondhasof
the present autumn, to resume his explorations atloratentrin period
slopro-
litic and most interesting locality ; and pit is earnestly hoped
that his researches may lead to a further elucidation of this
important question in science."—New York Evening Post.
CHILD MtatDER.--Wednesday Mr. Mills held an
inquest, at the C Leieea workhouse on the body of a newly-
born infant, which had been found on the 12th inst. in a
drain connected with a water closet belonging to the neigh-
bouring cemetery, but to which there was generally public
access. No clue had been discovered as to the parents or
other parties to whom the child had belonged. Mr. Warner,
the surgeon, who had opened the body, said it had been
born alive and without medical aid. He had found a piece
of twisted cloth tied very tightly round the neck, and from
the appearances of the brain he was satisfied that the child
had died from wilful strangulation. The jury, without hesi-
tation, returned this verdict, " That deceased had been found
exposed, (lead, and wilfully murdered by some person or
persons unknown."
THE CITY DISPENSARY.—On Wednesday the half-
yearlv• general meeting of the
.governors and subscribers to
this charity was holden at the Dispensary in Queen-street.
teheapside. The report stated that during the past
year §,600 necessitous patients had been rat( ved, of whom
he greater part had been cured or greatly I elieved. This
financial statement showed the expenditure has exceeded the
receipts during the past year by nearly 2001.