The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
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The following is an extract of a letter received at
Lloyd's, from their agent at Genoa, dated September 4,
1840 :
" We beg to subjoin the following cfficial article
The Board of Health of this city, in their sitting of the
31 instant, has decreed that vessels proceeding from
raltar are exempted from quarantine, provided they haie
not loaded 6n-y goods here, and if they had been imported
from the empire of Nlorocco, can justify with regular cer-
tificates of the Sanlinian Consul of such goods having re.
',mined in free circulation at Gibraltar during the space of
twenty-five days."

1
TopsitAm.—The fishermen of this place have
had several good catches of herrings, selling them at from
10d. to Is. per hundred. A great number of pilchards
lalb
have also been caught, and sold here at a reasonable price.
1 n SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday week,
inquest was taken before Thomas Badger, Esq., at
I
. ar°oki near Wortley, on view of the body of William
ye ock, a little boy, aged about three years and a hal.
11...
t appeared from the evidence of John Laycock, the boy's
father, that he bad been brushing a hedge near to his
house, and that he bad put the rubbish in the road, and
afterwards set fire to it. Having a wasp's nest in the
hedge bottom in his garden, he put some of the burning
embers into it, thinking to destroy them, and thereby prc_
immediately
vent them from stineing his children. When he left the
place he thought the fire was out, and be and his children
were going to bed, between eight and nine o'clock, when
the fire gathered and fired the hedge. He and his daugh-
tergot a can of water to throw into the hedge to extinguish
the fire. The deceased, it appeared, ran after him, but
without being observed, and he (the father) was proceed_not cry out; but Mr.
went out of the house, and the daughter
ing up the garden to the spot in question, with his fork,
when he ran against the boy, whom he could not see for
the fire, and knocked him dwn with the fork. He did
to see after the bo
y, 3li n she found that the fork had
struck him on the leftw e e
ye penetrated the brain, at d
killed him on the spot, ' Verdict, Accidental death.—
Derbyshire Chronicle
•
Very serious Complaints have been made against
the disuse into which the Rochester Grammar School has
recently fallen. It was founded by Henry VIII for the
instruction of 20 Kin 's scholars, and endowed by that
Monarch with four Exhibitions, two to each of the Univer-
sities, until the four scholars take their degree of A. M.
The school is at present deserted. It should not be for-
gotten that Rochester is one of the very few English Cor-
porations in which the Tories have contrived to obtain a
majority in the governing body.
1 A communication has been received by our board
of guardians, recommending that medical officers should
be appointed to vaccinate the
poor at the rate of Is. 6d. per
head, to be paid out of
the poor rates.—Brighton Herald.
On Wednesday afternoon, during the height of
the gale, as a little bey six years of age, the son of Dr.
Kingdon. of 21, Marines
uare, was
walking along on
the sea-wall of the Marineq-parade with a nursemaid,
when he arrived at the steps which lead down to the
beach, a gust of wind suddenly caught him and threw
him down over three flights of steps, 51 in number. The
girl called a gentleman's footman, who was near the
spot, and who instantly ran down and caught the child
as he was rolling down, Although insensible at the
time when taken up, yet he shortly recovered, and,
most fortunately escaped with no other injury than a
rather severe cut of his upper lip. At the same time
another little boy was blown down by the force of the
rind on the oenposie s,eps, nerl received a severe wound
en his forehead, —Briyhtgit Herald.

THE REGISTRATIONS.