The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-07 00:00:00

GROUP 111.

This Committee (the only group sitting to-day) met
this morning at eleven o'clock.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND SOUTH
COAST (LONDON-BRIDGE STATION EN-
LARGEMENT AND ARRANGEMENT).
The evidence of the treasurer and several of the
medical officers of St. Thomas's Hospital was proceeded
with this morning, and occupied the Committee the
greater portion of the day. The evidence went to show
that the alterations proposed by the Bill would greatly
injure St. Thomas's Hospital, and totally prevent that
institution from expending its surplus funds in the ex-
tension of its usefulness. It appeared, from the examina-
tion of the treasurer, that the present income of the
hospital was upwards of 28,0001. a-year, that it was
daily increasing, and that the accommodation that could
be afforded in the hospital was not anything like equal
to the demands upon it.
After hearing some further evidence,
The Committee decided that the preambles of both
Bills were proved.
The clauses of the Bills were then arranged, and, with
some amendments, were agreed to.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 4.—A steady
business is doing here in raw sugars, and prices are not
lower this week. The offices continue to be freely sup-
plied with samples suitable both for grocery and refining
purposes. There is a very good demand for refined
goods at fully late rates.—Bristol Mercury.
ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY'S SIHP FROLIC.—
Her Majesty's ship Frolic, Captain Hamilton, has arrived
i❑ the "ihannel, having on board two millions of dollars,
collected on the south-west coast of America; and also
18,000 dollars, salved from the brig Canning, from Islay,
for London, which caught fire at Port Famine, in the
Magellan Straits, and sank. The Frolic sailed from San
Blas, Feb. 15; Valparaiso, Feb. 11; Port Famine,
March 22; Rio de Janeiro, April 18. The packet
Swift had left for, and the packet Crane had arrived
from, Falmouth. No news from the Brazils by this
arrival.

ATTEMPT TO CLOSE TUE PUBLIC 'SI, &LKS IN ROL-
&ND PARK, KENSINGTON.—For some days past, consi-
derable excitement has been created throughout the
parish of Kensington, in consequence of an application
made by Lord Holland, to the parochial officers, to
divert the footpath which passes at the top of the lawn,
in front of Holland House and down Nightingale-lane,
into the high road, and Addison-road, which has for
many years been a favourite walk of the inhabitants,
and since the creation of the district chapel of St. Bar-
nabus, in the Addison-road, has been used as a church
path by the inhabitants of Notting-hill and Kensington
Gravel-pits. His Lordship purposes to substitute
for it a new foot path, forty feet wide,
eighteen feet of which to be well gravelled ;
commencing from the High Great Western Road,
directly opposite Earl-street, and on the east side of the
grand entrance gates of Holland Park, and passing
under the shade of the noble avenue of trees, skirting
each side of the drive, to terminate and form a continua-
tion of the present public footpath, and ancient right of
way, from Notting-hill which now divides his lordship's
grounds from those of the Dowager Duchess of Bedford.
A large number of the inhabitants view the application
of his lordship as an attempt to deprive the public of the
beautiful walks they have so long enjoyed in that neigh-
bourhood, and a committee of inhabitants has been
appointed in vestry to confer with Lord Holland's
advisers and surveyors, whose report is anxiously looked
forward to by the parishioners.
ABOLITION OF QUARANTINE.—The Lords of the
Council have caused a communication to be made to the
Commissioners of Customs by Mr. Bathurst, stating that
their Lordships, taking into consideration the healthy
state of the Levant (with reference to plague) for several
years past, have come to the determination of abolishing
for the present all quarantine upon vessels arriving from
the Levant (Turkey, Egypt, and Syria included), what-
ever may be the nature of their cargo, provided such
vessels are furnished with clean bills of health, having
been first visited by the quarantine or other proper officer
of customs, and that the crews and all persons on board
have been free from any suspicion of infectious disease
during the voyage, and that he (Mr. Bathurst) was,
taerefore, to desire that the Commissioners of the Cus-
toms would give the necessary instructions for carrying
the regulation into effect. in pursuance of this commu-
nication from Mr. Bathurst (one of the clerks of the
Council in waiting), directions Lave been issued by the
Commissioners of •Customs to their.officers at the several
ports and piaoes throughout the United Kingdom to
take care that this important .order in Council be duly
obeyed from the present time.,
A LEAacED PA MON.—A learned parson, residing
not far from Workington, was engaged in a conversa-
tional debate with one of his hearers respecting the
capacity of the Negro. His reverence would have it—
no matter t.
the phrenologists—that the negro race had
produced mei.
eminent in every department of art and
science. There had, lie said, been eminent negro poets
and painters, phi;osophers, warriors, statesmen, and
legislators ; and ever'v man who had ever dipped into
history knew that. Tgie astounding assertion by a clergy-
man was met by a quiet &emand for the names of a dozen
from the multitude of noted niggers,After a moment's
pause, his reverence said that he wou:d just mention two,
and he thought them enough—the .one was ancient,
the other modern. Fixing kis eye upon his opponent,
as if utterly to confound and silence him, and with a
kind of disdainful condescension, the &glen= Ass gave—
in blissful unconsciousness of his ism's:ll4:A ignorsuxe—
ignorance—the names of Scipio Africantig tad Jim
Crow ! !—Carlisle Journal.