The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-11 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

VIGO, OPORTO, LISBON, CADIZ, GIBRALTAR, MEDITERRA-,
NEAN, Earn, INDIA, AND CIILNA.—The next mails for
Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt,
China, &c., via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence
en the morning of the 20th inst.—The next mails for the
Mediterranean, Egypt, India, China, &c., yid Marseilles, will
be dispatched from hence on the evening of the 24th inst.
The Tiber sailed the Bth inst., with all letters for the Penin-
sula, &c., that arrived, or were posted in London, up to the
morning of that day inclusive.
AIADEIRA, BRAZIL, AND BUENOS AYRES.—(From August
to January inclusive, the packet touches at Pernambuco and
Bahia on her outward passage to Rio Janeiro, and the other
six months on her homeward.)
WEST INDIES, &c.—The Clyde, for the West India, &c.,
mails of the morning of the 17th inst.
AMERICA.—The Hibernia, for the mails of the 3d March.

DRAINAGE ACT.
Applications for loans under this Act, which appear in the
London Gazette of Tuesday evening

I
Applicant. Lauds in Parish of County of I Amount.
X s. d.
The Earl of i Not named ...... • . Surrey . 111 602 0 0
Lovelace.. ••• • • I '
The Earl of j
I Cales,Wanby,Dean, i Lancaster ... ,120,000 0 0
Ellesmere.. Leigh, Wigan ....
John Wood .. • • Twineham, Hurst.... Sussex ••• • • • 1,950 0 0
Sir E. S. /
Farway,Southleigh,
deaux,Bart. Pri-
Northleigh, and Devon • • .... •.. 933 1 6
Widworthy • • • ...
Lt.-Gen. Trevor Glynde ..... ... •... Sussex .......224 0 0
r Lillieshall, Stieriff-1
The Duke of J hales, Kinneraley, I Salop and 3
2 00 0 0
E dgmoud, High }
Stafford.. 0.0
Sutherland Ercall, Long4on, I
L and Wellington •• J
Long New ton,Sedge
The Marq. of field, Thorpe, .lid, Durham • ..... 9,131 0 0
Londonderry Veit, Wolviso n,
Redmar.hall .. • .
Hy. Aglionby / Cumwhetton, Ain./
'
Aglionby .. 5 stable, Kirkoswald Cumberland .. 700 0 0

NIGIITLY SHELTER FOR THE HOUSELESS POOR.-
Yesterday the committee of the above association made a
report of the number of unfortunate individuals who have,
since the opening, the 14th December last, availed them-
selves of its advantages as shelter from the inclemency of the
weather. In the central asylum, in Playhouse-yard, St.
Luke's, 4,716 men, women, and children have beenEaadst-
mitted ; in the eastern asylum, in Glasshouse-street,
~g.e.
Smithfield, 3,511 ; and in the western asylum, Upper. " 1
The
street, Marylebone, 3,967 ; making a total of Is2e,nitt 4
number of rations distributed during
inclement
the average is 1,200, and during the p
amounted to 131,138. The number admtrihetest
weather hundreds cannot be admitted.,ca
kr
.—Yesterday
FATAL ACCIDENT IN COLLECTthen,
a costermonger,
t Westminster, was
rye-StrCe ,
living at No. 11, Gee's-c .
the river near Thames Bank,
morning a man namedou,Trots,eph Sa
were both immersed; young
assisted by his eon, when
engaged dragging
g to the broken ice, and was rescued
Satchel], on rising,
clung to
to his assistance, but though
by some labourers who
out of otthey
every effort was usedw the body of his father could not be
recovered.
BOUNTY.—Yesterday, by order of his
ROYAL
Royal Highness Prince Albert, as head ranger of 'Windsor
Forest, a large quantity of venison was distributed to the
eendtejhopye,rioond
poor of the parishes in the vicinity of the Castle. The fallow
deer in the Great Park, amounting tonear2 h
,ori
ghlineeasds,cobne--
sides several herds of large red deer, his Royal
sidered the pasture to be rather overstocked ; and, in obedi
ence to the orders issued in consequence, 76 fat doe..• were
driven up to the deer pct.:4, near Cranbourne-lodge, and there
shot; and having been dressed and cut up into suitable por-
tions, were distributed by the keepers of the various gates
around the Great Park, in portions varying from 21lbs. to
slbs., the poor people entitled to receive it being furnished
by their parish officers with ticke4s for the purpose.
1-1"" FAI I 1)". ",',nw —7, h:. htreetS of Marlbo-

• ' • ••,, full two feet titcp ; it
01, Lith P:iik2e ‘‘,iit~it:te 'or the
last seven years. The Star coach, from Reading to Devizes,
yesterday, was stopped at Marlborough, as it was impossible
to go further on.