The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
JANUARY I.—Arrived the ship Crescent, John Domaille,
from Rio Janeiro to Cowes, for orders ; with coffee.
The barque Rhode Island, C. Burgess, from Virginia to
Cowes, for orders ; cargo tobacco.
The Bremen barque, New York, John Wachton, from
New York ; cargo tobacco, oil and rum, for Bremen.
Two other Bremen barques coining up.

The frost, which has been very severe in the hle of
Wight, since the night of the 14th of December, broke
up on the evening of the 30th, and has been followed by
a fine thaw without rain, which continues, (Jan. 1), the
barometer being at 29.80, wind, West.

REPAIRS OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH.—For

some months past extensive repairs have
.been in progress,

be h in the circular nave and the choir of this remarkable

structure. The admirers of ancient architecture will hear
with satisfaction, that not only the substantial reparation,
but the decorative portion of the edifice is to be restored
with true antiquarian feeling. To give au idea of the
proposed restorations, it may be sufficient to observe that
the arches of communication between the round church
and the choir have been opened, the effect of which is very
striking. In the former portion of the building, a circu-
lar window over the western door-way has been uncovci ed,

,shlch is found to be occupied b;, wheel-formed tracery, in
design greatly resembling that at Parfreston, Kent, and
helping to fix the date of that curious structure. The
marble columns of the church are to be polished, after
the removal of the successive washes which have for many

ears so greatly injured their appearance. The ancient
,vel of the floor is to be restored, and the choir entirejy

fitted up, to correspond with the architecture and age Of
the edifice. The organ will be placed hi a separate cham-
ber built outside the main building, and communicating
with the interior by one of the windows of the church,
front which the glass has been removed.—Gentleman's

Magazine.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCK.
—On Thursday night, about ten o'clock, the watchman
dockman stationed about the picrhead and entrance of
the London Dock at Lower Shadwell heard the splash of

a man in the water just above the lock-gates, and the cry
of " A man overboard" being raised, many persons got
upon the top of the gates and others on the quay, when
they saw a man struggling in the water, who called out,
" For God's sake make haste, far I can't swim." A man
preselt immediately put down a long boathook towards
the person who was in the lock, but in his trepidation be
dropped it, and directly afterwards the poor fellow disap-
peared, and nearly half an hour elapsed before the body
was dragged out of the water, when he was identified as
the steward of the ship Caroline, bound to Calcutta, lying
in the corner of the entrance basin, not mote than fifty
yards from the spot where he fell in. It is believed that
the unfortunate deceased was endeavouring to get out of

the dock by stinging his body round the sicding-partition
overhanging the water, and was perhaps not aware he
could have gone out of the dock through the wicket-
uato on the opposite side of the lock. The body was
taken to the deadhouse in Shadwell Churchyard.
ADULTERATION OF BUTTER.—Mr. Patrick
Black brought under the notice of the Board the
extent to which adulterated butter was sold in Glas-

gow. Portions of it had been analysed by Pro-
fo.sor Thomson, who found one-half to consist of the ge-
nuine article, and the other of oatmeal. But this was not
all, said Mr. R., for yellow turnips, baker's soda, and
even weaver's dressing, were mixed up with the article
for the purpose of imposing on the public. Mr. Black
produced a quantity, which he had analysed himself, and
only one-half of which appeared to deserve the name of
butter; the rest was oatmeal. In the discussion which
followed it was stated that many persons were in the
habit of selling this butter without being aware of its adul-
teration. All, or most of it, was Irish butter; and Mr.
Burnet stated that there was a regular establishment at
Londonderry for the adulteration of it. He would recom-
mend the Magistrates of Glasgow to correspond with the
Mayor of that city on the subject. It was finally resolved
to leave the matter in the hands of the Magistrates, with
a request that they would apply a remedy to an imposition
alike mean and dishonest.—Scots Times.

MORE SACRILEGE —A distinguished corres.
pondent sends us the following important communication
to which we wish to draw the especial attention of our
readers t --'• We regret to say that. during the last week,
two new attempts at sacrilegious robbery have been made
in the central district. One was at Coughton, which was
successful, the robbers having broken open the chapel, and
carried off several articles of plate. The other was at the
Convent of Atherstone, the same place the sacrilege in
which gave rise to the blasphemous lampoon published in
our last. The villains entered through the same narrow win-
dow in the porch, breaking down the wail, and removing the
stanchions, then broke through the door. Fortunately every-
thing of value had been removed, and the robbers were
still searching, when one of the nuns went into the
chapel, to prepare for matins. The wretches fled ; but
one of them left his hat behind hint, which, we trust, may
lead to their detection. We cannot but suggest the pro-
le iety cf sub!ctiptions being entered into, for the purpose
of offering adequate rewards for the detection of the per-
petrators of these outrages, as the only means of preventing
their repetition. By means of such subscriptions proper
police agents might be sent down from London to investi-
gate into the circumstances of these crimes, now very in-
efficiently looked after by country constables."—Tablet.
BoutmoNE.—Arnongst the passengers who
stilled on board the City of Boulogne, on Thursday
morning, was Prince George of Cambridge and suite.
The vessel, which left in the morning at one o'clock, ar-
rived safely at London-bridge wharf, in the ettornan, a
few minutes after three, after a stormy passage. There
arc four packets sail from London to this city every week
and they carry altogether on an average eigh4 bursts fot
the supply of the French army, which when they arrive
are under the direction of the proprietor of the Hotel du
Nord. Many of these are Irish horses, and they are sent
off, in drafts of about 100, from Boulogne into the inte-
' rior. Boulogne is now very thin of English residents,
j and trade is represented as very dull.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS REBLIKED.—The
House of Lords sat till near six upon the business of my
Lord Chief Justice and Judge Eyre, who kept to their
point not to inform the House, any more than they did
the Committee, of the reasons for their judgment in the
Earl of Binbury's case, but stood upon it that they were
at liberty not to answer in a matter that he charged upon
them, nobody being bound to accuse himself, or furnish an
accusation to his prejudice. If the judgments they gave
showed a weakness in them, it might be a reason to the
King for displacing them ; or i f they were guilty of cor-
ruption there was another way of providing against them ;
and if their judgments were disliked, they might be re-
versed by writ of error. But they could not submit to be
schooled and catechised fur all that they delivered upon the
bench, where they were entrusted with the execution of
the laws and thu dispensing of justice, and acted upon their
oaths,—James's Court and Times of William