The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wer Royal. Highness the Princess Ho al was taken in
the gardens of Buckingham Palace for au ;tiring yesterday:
The Duke of Canibridge, attendod by Major S.'tephens,
4 :rived in town yesterday after►:oon ffont
The Puice and Duchess of Cambridge and the Prin-
.cess Augusta of Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera
with their presence last evening. .

Mr. Sun;mers and Mr. O'Brien had an interview with
the Marquis of Normanbyyesterday at tte
Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, had ach
party last evening at his resiane;, Ashbarnham
Dover-street.

Colonel Gore Langton had an interview yesterday wit'
the Marquis of Normanby at the Home-office.
Despatches from Lord Sydenham, Go center of Canzdz,
and also from the Governors of New Brunswick anal
Nova Scotia, were received yesterday at the Colonial
office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

Major-General Sir John and the Hon. M:s. Harvey and
mily, at Prince's Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, per Britanni
from Halifax.

DEPARTURES.

The Lady Sempill and Edward Candler, Esq., from Mirzrfs
Hotel, Clifford and Cork•streele, for the Continent ; Al s. &oil
Miss Mitford, from ditto, for Petworth ; Andrew 'Wight, Es,-1.
and Mrs. Wight, from Batt% Hotel, Dover-street, for tin#
Continent ; F. W. Fryer, Esq., and family, from ditto, for
ditto ; William Croome, Esq., and family, from ditto, fez-
Cirencester.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS..

Yesterday the Royal S.luth London Floricultural *S(Teiel .-
711 ad their Annual Flower Show at these Gardens. 'Zhe roses,
tpelargoniums, heaths, heartease, calceolarial, pinks, rampiell-
luses, specimen plants, cut flowers, nines, grape,. and
-tables, were unusually fine, and excited great admiration. Tho
-whole was tastefully and elegantly arranged undft- a spacious
marquee of 100 feet in length, and the weather being yery pro-.
:pitious, hundreds of fashionables visited the Gardens (luring thr.
day. An excellent band was in attendance, and enlivened the.
.company by performing several select pieces of =isle. Sinea
the establishment of this Society there has not been such
splendid show of flowers, owing, no doubt, to the beau,
lifts! weather which has now prevailed for so lawn,/
weeks. The prizes distributed were numerous.
following is a list of some of them: —For thre best
pelargoniums, the large silver medal was awarcleo. to 3,r
Edmonds ; for roses, the middle silver medal to Mr. *Selti,7r •
for pinks, the small silver medal to Mr. C. Kniztt ; an.a
-ranunculus, in collections of twelve varieties, the large s:lvi(-21-
medal was given to Mr. Dowler. This last collection ex( stet;
general admiration. Among gentlemen's gardeners the fol.-
lowing received prizes:—Messrs. Ashe, Bourne, Welsh, Bn ice,
rind Hancock ; and Messrs. Andrew, Chapman, and Lee re-
ceived a middle silver medal each for the best pine-ap ?le/
grapes, and other fruits.

MEMBERS PRESENT wile!
OUT by SIR S. CANNIN(
on MR. SCHOLEFIELD'S
of the INDUSTRIOUS CL
Baines, Edward—Leeds

la the HOUSE was COUNT Et
G. at Eight o'clock on Tues
; MOTION on the DISTRI ES,t.
LASSES.
Piyme, George—Cambridge
Philip—Flerkshi re
Scholefield, 3.—Birmingharn
Slaney, it. A.—Shrewsbury •
Stanslield, W. R. C. fiudde: rinerd
TAornely,Tlios.—Wolverha‘
illiers, C. P.—Wolverhani „on
Warburton, H.-..8i idport
Ife
Yates, J. Ashton -Carlos t• kik
Ward, H. (3—Sheffield
Williams, Williain—Cov,
Wodehouse, Edmend—E -

Baring'. F. T. Portsmouth
lirotherton, J.—tialforti

Canning, Right lion. Sir S.—Lynn,
.Dalmeny. Lord—Stirling
Evans, William—North Derby
Ferguson, Colonel —Kirka'dy
ridden, John— Oldham

Hastie. Archibald—Paisley
Handley, Charles-I,shton
Hohnous", T. Benj.—ltochestcr
Hume, Jose:.ll—Kilkenny
Muskett, George A.—St. Alban',

THE WEATHER,
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIT
Barometer
Thermometer... 68 Highest
Wind S.W.—Free!

..---NooN,• J,J7fn 16.
gNCE, ADEr,ATIM-STIZENT.
Z'A).23
63 i f ,owest ..... 43
!zing Point .32 Deg.

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LAW INTELLJ7....ENcE.
CY:JUR T, June 15.
9.4 TIES RAILWAY Co3IPANT.
'This action, which was bro•light to recover compensatory cls-
mages for injury clone to tie plaintiff;
MORSE b. CTITE7ADSATEIRUNECSou' -
a traveller by the En
Counties Railway, MTV! on before Mr. Secondary James a
y stees Eastern
Counties Railway, carn'.j on before Mr. Secoiary James yes-
terday in consequence of the defendants having j
suffered udg-
ment to go by default.
Mr. F. Kelly, Queen's Counsel„ and Mr. Tomlinson. ap-
peared for the claimant ; and 'Mr. Thesiger, with Alr. But:,
for the Railway Company. •
It was alleged that, from want of care on the part of the IN 2...
sons who had charge of one of the Company's carriages, he
received certain injuries which had caused him great be.lily
suffering, and put him to a large expense for me Jicine and the
attendances of a surgeon, Whereupon he laid his damages at
3,000/.
A verdict was entered for the plaintiff by Consent—Damages
210/.

SHIPPING INT EL LIGENCE.
(LLOYII').
VESSELS SPOKEN wiT0.....-Tlae Erin, from Guernsey- to
Havannah, 2dult., lat. 27, lon. 65; Sultan, Savannah to Am-
sterdam, 30th ult., lat. 45, lon. 19, by the Wilton, arrived at
Falmouth ; Royal Jack, off Cape Finisterre, by the liraganza,
arrived at ditto ; Claudine, London to Madras, Ist ult., lat.
12 S., lon. 30 ; Doncaster, of Stockton, for Quebec,
2.tli„
ult., lat. 39, lon. 33; Theban, from Bordeaux, Ist ult., ist.
45 S. lon. 24 ; Charles Brooke and Peter Ellis, Bth, by JIM.
ship Electra, arrived at Portsmouth ; Clutha, of Greenock, IStli
ult., lat. 41, lon. 66; Pearl, Liverpool to Quebec, 24th ult.,
lat. 45, lon. 46, by the Ganges, arrived off Holyhead ,• Nuevo
Union, Gibraltar to Buenos Ayres, Arai' 29, lat. 2 N., kn.
22 W. ; Ocean, 'Valparaiso to 1-lamburgh, 29th, lat. 3 N., Lin.
22 W. ; William Abrams, of Glasgow, for Port Philip, 2r,ih,
lat. 2 N., ion. 22 W. ; Seabird, 21st ult., lat. 37, ion. 40,
by the Olinda, arrived in the Downs. Alderson, of Sunder-
land, sth ult., lat. 44, lon. 40, by the Monarch, arrived at
DalhoUsie.

DESPERATE • ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN
Wo oi.wien.—On Monday evening reports were abroad that
a gunner in the Royal Artillery had shot a bombardier belong-
in a; to the same regiment, which proved too true. A company
be ionging to the 4th battalion of the Royal Artillery, com-
ma Tided by Colonel Chesney, has recently arrived at the garri-
son,. after an absence of nearly ten years' service at Malta and
in the Mediterranean. A gunner belonging to the company
who- had been on guard during the day in the Royal Arsenal,
hav'ing charrae of the convicts of that establishment, named
M't iarrettey, retired, after being dismissed guard, to the Royal
Artillery Canteen, where he drunk so freely as to become in•
toxi ca tee}, and subsequently entered into a quarrel with another
.. _ „...
gof an
athnt
ootuh announced, ceQea dsuo,
ene.n, ands I
Concert
Il ll
e,
et
takesrwt
gunner, by whoir he was severely maltreated, his eye being cut Mn. AND MISS HA WES'S CO NC ER T.--
in a dreadful manner. Several persons in the room, including Th:s annual concert hasfBlib,ehreiennfial
June,nonf
another gunner of superior strength, interfered between the doubt, be one of the
twhiethlovaeorsaomfpElengenlifsehrfaasioarneellnafs
combatants, and prevented any further mischief being done. place on the memorabmlensl
This was about half-past seven. Shortly after this M'Gar. Room, Hanover-square, uar
of the name, fair Besteathrved(laya3k.snowan
, rettey left the canteen and proceeded in a state of intoxiere, foreign music will pelr'oow'vileedd
cinenttheern
tion to the barrack-room in the eastern wing of the great arch. Mr. Hawes has been
a r musicaly
The unfortunate bombadier, whose name is John Grace, world, and his dau I bids fair to maintain tam
was standing at the time leaning over a desk, when 111‘Gar- honour -
"gettery proceeded very deliberately to the place where his have done much for th .maintenance of our national musizal
musket was. and taking it down, fired it at his victim. The character, in the vocali crepartment especially.
tfhheei rprpirooefiepsa. iloni
instructor
frpouortsouri pursuits
i.;
our
shot entered the back on the right side of the spinal column, said to be strictly English Both may be
and passed into the abdomen. Grace immediately fell, and whilst we have the fatherb.s inas
an artilleryman who was passing the room, alarmed by the youthful aspirants to vocal fame, so we have the daughter
report of the musket, entered the room and discovered standing singularly pre-eminent as the, composer and singer of
some of the most beautiful and elegant ballads of the day.
the prisoner, who at once declared that "he had shot the
with such claims it would be no task of difficulty or af
lovneltlhfined.
hanziaerle.::, tois venture on the prediction that their co.-men-roam
man. The wounded man was conveyed to the Ordnance
Hospital, where Sir J. Webb, the principal officer of the de-
IL of the present month will be as crowded and Ci
partment, was in attendance, and every assistance was ren-
dered to the sufferer. Sir John questioned him as to whether
as we know the programme of tae evening's emer-
tainments will realise our expectations.
there had been any previous altercation, or whether he was
aware that there was any cause for the offence. The wounded
mare replied, " lalane whatever." 'I he ball is supposed to have HoitRIBLE CRUELTY.—We never knew
(Boulogne Gazette), such excitement in the town as the ercel.
entered the liver ; but as any attempt to probe the abdomen
treatment of the English boys at La Capelle has produced, not
would be fatal, the exact seat of the wound is not known. The
among the Engli.h only, but' a the
,17,ren;.11 Ire
,f
liiy
opinion of the medical gentlemen is that he cannot long stir_ among
not believe the atrocities mrcola'itged. Ihe _ . ayor, ane it
vive. 111‘Garretty, who has been fifteen years in the real_
Sous-Prefet thought it hoax
went, was immediately placed under arrest. He is a ;sir:
somewhat advanced in years, and bears a notoriously land eta_ and a ;they knew nothing Li the man.
racter in the regiment. Grace is a married man, and highly and our readers are aware that by law Lis name should be
respected in in the company to which he belongs, id to which rolled at the Seus-Prefecture , but we must do them the credit
to say, particularly the Sous-Prefet and the Procureer du BM,.
he acted as orderly.
A RETURNED BALL.--THE NEMESIS,. IRON that no sooner were they convinced the man kept a school at
La Capelle, and that some English ho.ss had been removed
WAR-STEAMER.—We last week drew the through his ill treatment,
_. attention of our vestigate the facts upon the spat. The result was that they (3--
readers to the exploits performed bthan they immediately started tort..
the y this vessel in the at- covered the statements pubhshed in London were but too tree.
tack on the Chinese forts o
that
nn Canton river. We The house was immediately closed, the authorities still yeses-.
stated, at the same time,her g,uns, two thirty-two vine themselves the power to take any ulterior measures against
pounders, had been cast byMessrs. Fawcett and Pres- Mr. Ilree which, upon further inquiry, they may dean proper.
ton, of this town. W - ehave now before us a letter from The French accuse our literature of heniq dull,
Captain Hall and the officers
so addicted to mirth and 1.)
of the Nemesis, addressed Our lively
by them to Mr. Fawcett. The letter of our best •
was accompanied that even the wittiest productions novelists cvM
by a very singular present, namely, a ball which had not satisfy them. They will, devourhowever, with avidity the
been fired from the Nem • •
Nemesis into the Chinese Admiral's new novel announced for appearance in a few days, entitled,
junk in the affair in Anson's
Bay, on the 7th of last Ja- or, Tories " The Tory Baronet; ,Whigs, and Radierd• "
nuary, and afterwards recovered on boarding the. •'d sal " Let those now laugh, who never laugh's( before; and Oa;
who always ',ugh, still laugh the more." In these dull tam:
junk after the action. This curiosity is now in the
of Corn-law discu,sions, political elections, and general. lea:
session of Mr. Fawcett, who, we have no doubt, will srosw- this nose.lappearsqubtetemaoprreopos. If it well. written for.-
it to any person desirous of seeing it. We subjoin a c lion,
co the moment,
allit couldamies, not appropriate- and in its par:ee
of the letter ;—" Nemesis, Bocca Tigris, 14th January, as well as
the heads 0 p .
I, interior agents. will be f . , d
1841.—Captain Hall and the officers ofthe
Nemesis re- to be introduced vi it rare tact and prodigious effe "3
" Ct.
sent their kind compliments to Mr. F. P .
aweett, and have JEDBLJEGIL—Last week we u d •
the pleasure to. present him with one of many f 1 •
o iis
condemnatory term 1 ~,
q of the la e allusion, ii>
.Practice adopted b the
y
thirty-two pounder shot which was fired into the Chinese lace ur
Admiral's war junk from the Nemesis, in Anson's Bay, Tory partyeeo titsp , opening p
üblL-loonste
on the 7th January, 1841, and afterwards recovered from furor the
severti
da\sdistributionduring
of intoxicating liquors.
the end of Ittst week,
the wreck of the junk. Captain Hall and his officers at of the :
....a most revolting description were the same same time beg to express to Mr. Fawcett their scenesd.
niesse
sari
It v. s impossible to contemplate without -Fain
highest opinion of the excellence of his guns, which an-E,,..„ ,tle s corollary of demoralization and dorrac,stk
swered beautifully in every respect.—W. Fawcett,
`i distress, which mast inevitably attend this state of tl-'
.inge,,
—Liverpool Albion.
Many men of weak • •
principle, but of tuniparativele in-
SUPPOSED •SUICIDE OF A FEMALE.--TVIOn- i •
dustrious habits, were s-
educed c':.oni their orcif2arj
day morning, about six o'clock, as the watermen belonging to 1
avocations and precipitated ii,'
.
o the slough of !a-
the stairs of Westminster bridge, near the pier on the Sur, ey , . ' " -
toxieation. The fat-het...Or-J. in one instance the
side, were unmooring their boats, they discovered the shawl
mother), and. the son. the husband, too, of et tin-
circumstance bonnet of a female in one of them. Information of the !
in ' morel's faintly, were seen rolling from the cesspoi.,
circumstance was communicated to the police station-house
i of immorality, fir a state of the most abject physics,'
Tower-street, and police constable Fenn, No. 154 L, having,
after great difficulty, found out the apparel to have belonged to and mental - prostration. One individual was sent,,
a female named Priest, whose parents reside in Lambeth-walk, in t::e 4311 of being wheeled to his home in a barrow by
proceeded thither, when c the distressed father recognised the some kinane friend, while others, less fortunate, Intl in
shawl and bonnet as the property of his daughter, who, from ; a similar state of drunkenness, might have been funnel some unknown cause, left home two or three days ago, and has , stretched like unanimated lumps of clay, in several '• '
not since been seen. The drags were procured, but the body ' ferent alleys, within these few days. However, (
has not yet been found. The deceased was about twenty years
I liai been put upon the recurrence of (.I.'
a el'ii
these loath, .
..,,mr.)
of age.
0 spectacles, through the interference of SINKING OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, 1784. a• • '• .
able inhabitants. It is eratifyin several resc.fct-
,,, gto qate that the . 1
e7.n. i-
--We understand that a man and woman are now living. at the
stantial portion of the working ni • advanced age of 85 years, who escaped out of the third port- , a. en in the burgh t.'tooer• hole on the starboard side of the lower gun deck. The Seers,- al" in detestation of this systematic inroad 'n
tary of the Orphan School, Portsea, has recently received a morality and decency.—Kelso Chronicle• ' :"'
.
communication that the individuals in question intend, during LONGEVITY.—WiIIiam 11.4
.unro, farmer, ten
the summer, to be present at one of Colonel Pasley's explos.ons Urquhart, in Invernea ' ,shire, died on the
Thursday week, ct
on that ill-fated ship,
te.tratudinatY age of 101. •