The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-06 00:00:00

OPPOSED LIST.

OPPOSED LIST.
CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL RAILWAY.
This adjourned case was then resumed. The inquiry occu.
pied the Examiner the rest of the day. A few similar alle
gations to those which have already been noticed were sus.
tamed.
The case was further adjourned.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The Committee of Standing Orders met yesterday at the
usual hour, for the dispatch of public business.
The following decisions; were given :
BRISTOL AND EXETER (LAUNCESTON AND
CREDITON BRANCH).
Standing orders not to he dispensed with.
GLASGOW, KILMARNOCK, AND ARDROSSAN.
Standing orders not to be dispensed with.
SALISBURY AND YEOVIL.
Allowed to proceed.
The above decisions haring been announced, the Com•
mittee adjourned at Half-past Four o'clock.

BELLOWS CUTTING AT A DISCOUNT.---We under-
stand that since last Stafford sessions, when a well-known
character was transported for seven years for stealing iron,
cutting bellows, &c., not a single pair of bellows has been
mutilated in this neighbourhood, and the consequence is that
the chain makers and nailers (not belonging to the union)
have discontinued to carry their bellows up stairs with them
when they retire to rest. We are also informed that many
workmen who formerly subscribed to the union have recently
declined doing so.— lVorcestershire Chronicle.
MURDER.—SINGULAR CONFESSION.—The attention
of the magistrates was arrested on Saturday by the appear-
ance of an aged man, bending under infirmities, who tottered
into the court, and volunteered a confession, instancing the
powerful efltets of an accusing conscience. Th 3 culprit said
he was induced to tender the present disclosure from agony of
mind. Their worships at first treated him as a lunatic, but
were soon convinced of the truth of his narrative from its
consistence and clearness. It appeared that the criminal's
name was Thomas Parton, his age 64, and he was sentenced
to seven years' transportation in 1818 to Van Diemen's
Land, where he became free and resided some years, though
latterly he had been living in the bush in this country. In
his confession he stated that about 30 years ago he deserted
from the Ilerkhire Militia, commanded by Colonel maven-
shaw, and met with a woman, named Elizabeth Howell, at
Dorchester, Oxon, who was cognisant of the fact of his de-
sertion ; susrecting that she intended to betray him, he, in
order to frustrate her purpose, at once felled her with a stick,
and afterwards stabbed her; she died, and he immediately
started for London ; there was no witness of the deed. Ile
also confessed that he had afterwards murdered a man, named
John Ilaster, at Norwood.—Port Philip Patriot of July, 1846.
The amount of gold taken out by the Cambria on
Thursday was just tinder 300,0001.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE —Early on Thursday morning,
the Lying-in Hospital at Manchester, situated in St. Mary's-
parade, was discovered to be on fire, and in two hours after-
wards all the rooms, with the exception of the board-room,
were reduced to ashes. The servant-girl was awakened at
five o'clock by a sense of suffocation, and saw at once that
the house was likely to be destroyed by fire. She alarmed
the house-surgeon, Mr. Runcorn, who slept in the upper
story, and he started from bed, and found that from the
progress of the flames egress by the street-door was impos-
sible. He immediately tied together two of the sheets of
his bed, and lowered himself down to one of the short lad-
ders which had been placed under his window by Mr. Hurl-
butt, plumber, and by this means escaped without injury.
Mrs. Horncastle, the matron, with four other women in the
house, behaved with remarkable presence of mind under the
trying circumstances. The smoke in her room was dense,
almost beyond endurance, and throwing up the lower sash of
her bedroom-window, she instructed her companions to hold
their heads out in the open air to breathe. She then tied
together the sheets of her bed, fastened one end to the lower
part of the bottom sash, and thus urged her alarmed friends
to descend in the way that the hosse-surgeon had done.
Seeing that death was inevitable if they remained in the
house they summoned up courage for the task, and descended
in safety, the matron being the last to make the experiment,
having waited to see all the other women reach the ground
in safety. The flames were not subdued till about eight
o'clock in the morning. The fire, it is thought, originated
in the surgery. The damage sustained will amount to about
2,000/.
CONVEYANCE OF CATTLE ON RAILWAYS.---MF.
Deputy Hicks and a deputation from Smithfield-market had
another interview on Thursday with the directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway, when arrangements were finally made
which it is anticipated will give general satisfaction, and by
which the conveyance of live cattle from Norfolk will be
greatly improved, the condition of the cattle much bene-
fited, and their sufferings and consequent injuries film long
confinement in the trucks (frequently from twenty to thirty
hours) greatly alleviated, particularly by an improvement
in the trucks to prevent their slipping down and falling
under each other, with the great advantage of having a
day's rest in warm sheds, with plenty of water and fodder;
and by the above arrangements, it is hoped that an end will
be put to the great disorder and inconvenience arising from
the late deliveries on the Monday which has been so fre-
quently the case.

TILE
MURDER. AT DERBY.—DERBY, TIIUR6DA.Y.—
The inquiry into the circumstances attending the murder of
Ann Cross by her husband, Thomas Cross, was concluded
last evening, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder " returned
against the prisoner.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany, by a decree of:the
16th ult., has permitted the free importation into his domi •
nione, either by sea or land, of grain and vegetables of every
description, down to the 30th June, 1847.
Colonel Gore Langton, M.P. for West Somerset,
arrived at his house in Grosvenor-square, on the 3d inst., to
attend to his Parliamentary duties. The Gallant Colonel
entered his 88th year in December last.
We regret to learn that the Baroness Brunnow is
very little better. The Duchess of Gloucester and several
of the nobility have sent to make inquiries after her Excel-
lency.
It is understood that three Mexican privateers hare
been fitted out and dispatched. They sailed under Spanish
names. The object is said to be to stop outward-bound
American shipping which may have specie on board.
The report, or the fact, is already creating a difficulty in
icsurances.
We understand that the Lord-Advocate has inti-
mated to the Scotch Members of the Legislature his inten•
Lion to bring in a Bill for the consolidation of the Acts re-
lating to lunatics in Scotland, and for the erection of asylums
for pauper lunatics. Four or five such edifices, he believes,
will be sufficient, and he proposes, under the Act, to divide
Scotland into districts for this purpose.—Glasgow Courier.
MARRIAGE IA HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of the
Lady Eleanor Caroline Paget, eldest daughter of the Earl of
Uxbridge, with Mr. Sandford Graham, eldest son of Sir
Sandford Graham, of Kirkstall Abbey, in the county of
-York, was celebrated yesterday, at St. George's Church,
Hanover-square, in the presence of a very brilliant circle of
the aristocracy.
DEATII FlRE.—Thursday Mr. Baker hell an
inquest at the Coach and Horses, Homerton, on the body of
Martha Kettridge, aged 65 years, the wife of a carpenter
residing in Cross-street, Homerton. On Saturday last, the
deceased placed a lighted candle on the floor, and opened
the window. Her clothes caught the candle, and she was
immediately enveloped in fire. The flames were speedily
extinguished, but not before she was most frightfelly burnt all
over the body. She lingered in great agony until the fol-
lowing Tuesday, when she expired. Verdict—" Accidental
death."

STAFF APPOINTMENTS.---The lion. C. Gore, who
resigned the appointment of Deputy-Quartermaster-General
at Montreal, on being promoted from the rank of colonel to
that of general, will succeed Sir J. J. Hope, who returns
home as general officer in Canada. Lieutenant-General Sir
Benjamin D'urban will shortly leave to take the appoint-
incur of commander of the forces in those parts of North
America, in the room of the Earl of Cathcart, who was mili-
tary as well as civil governor. Sir Colin Campbell, late
governor and commander-in-chief, is expected to retain his
appointment until Lord Torrington arrives in the colony.
Lieutenant Leopold Saxe Coburg, of the Ceylon Rifles, died
on the Ist of December, aged 27. He filled the office of aide-
de-camp to his Excellency. He was son to the late Major
Fraser, governor of Fort George.
FRENCH PLUMS.—The Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury have ordered that such packages as are
strictly necessary for the importation of this fruit, and bowl
„fide the usual sort of packages in which such fruit is ordinarily
imported, shall be delivered duty free,

MIDLAND RAILW.biYSHEFFIELD, BARNSLEY,
DONCASTER, A-..N D GOOLE LINE).
In this case it was decided that the standing orders had
not been complied with in one or two important instances.
CALEDONIAN, WIS lIA W, AND COLTNESS
RAILWAY.
The remainder of the day was occupied with the opposi-
tion to this petition, but no allegations worthy of note were
sustained.
The case was adjourned.
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.
In the following unopposed cases the customary formal
proofs were taken, and the standing orders complied with :
Exeter and Exmouth Railway Act Amendment.
London and North-Western Railway (Prescot and Wolver-
hampton Branch, tec.)
London and North-Western Railway (Ormskirk and Rain-
ford Branch, &c.)