The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-19 00:00:00

LAUNCHES AT BLACKWALL.

The vicinity of Bla,kwall yesterday afternoon, presented a
lively appearance by the floating or launching of two of her
Majesty's ships, the Blenheim and Terpsichore, from the
yard of the Messrs. Wigram, and a steamboat for the Star
Gravesend Steam Company, from that of Miller and Raven-
hills. The Blenheim was one of the old seventy-six line-of-
battle ships, and was last engaged in the China war. She
has undergone considerable alteration, and is intended to be
one of the block-guard-ships in the Channel. In some por-
tions she has been reduced, but her length has been extended
eight feet abaft. She will carry fifty guns of large calibre.
She will be worked by a screw propeller, her engines, by Sea-
ward, being nearly fitted. ing fisted out of the dry-
lsite pierced
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dock into the river, her apaearance created considerable at,
tention. The Terpsichore, launched from the same yard, is
a
corvette,
sbaeitdveteon possess
and
perpendiculars
architecture. No particular ceremony was observed on her
being liberated front the slip on which she was formed, be-
yond the cheering of the w.tkpeople. and the waving of
the national flags. She was taken ni tow by a steam-tug,
proceeded on to Chatham, where she will be mas ed and got
ready fir commission with ail dispatch.
The third vessel, an iron steamer, we had an oppor-
tway of inspecting, and full particulars of her were
obligingly furnished. She was launched from the building
yard of Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., at Black-
wall, yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a large
number of persons interested in the vessel and others,
who were attracted by her handsome appearance.
Miss Sophia Cruden, the daughter of the chairman
of the Star Packet Company, named her "The New Star"
as she went off the stocks. She was designed by Mr.
Pasco, of the above-mentioned firm, and is to have oscil-
lating engines of GS-horse power, constructed uy them,
She is of extraordinary length. over all-190 feet; between
the perpendiculars 175 feet, breadth between the paddle-
boxes 17 feet 6 inches, depth et hold 9 feet 6 inches, bur-
den in tons 2CB old measurement. As she was taken
into the East India Docks to be fitt«l fbr service by the
month of May, she was very generally and justly admired.
With the clean smooth appearance which the iron always
presents' her beautiful form was shown off most advan-
tageously, and every one who saw her at once attributed
great praise architect, and predicted for her a
6flecessful and splendid career. The Star Company may,
with much gratification and pri(le, congratulate themselves
on po-sessing the finest, handsomest, and swiftest boat on the
Thames.

Tun MunDra it SIiOFLRDITCII—SUAB4Ertm Ex-
nintrimi or TILE 8unr.—.17,, to ii tate hour and early this
morning crowds of persons wcre assembled round the en-
trance to Bare-court, Sliore,iirch, in which the tragic scene
of Wednesday ni„,,rlit took pluce, and, what can scarcely be
credited, the people of the house in which the body lay were
actually engage.' in exhibiting the corpse of the murdered
man at a penny a head, for the purpose, as it was alleged, of
defraying the expenses of the funeral and interment of the
body ; and it would seem that a somewhat plentiful harvest
was reape.l, as numbers whose curinsity had led them to the
lot .lity for the purpose of viewing the corpse, were obliged,
last evening, to depart without hwing their desires gratified.
A Vienna lettcr of the 10` h, in the Cologne Ga-
zette, says—" The news we have received of disturbancta in
Gallicia, show that they have arisen from a collision between
the peasantry and the Jews. A great many of the latter have
been killed, and without the immed►ate intervention of the
armed force, much more bland would have been spilt. There
is, however, reason to apprehend that these sanguinary
scenes will be renewed."

Sir Robert and Lady Pvel entertained the Earl. of
Aberdeen, Sir James Gralam, the Right Hon. H. Goulburn,
the Right Hon. Sidney and Airs. Herbert, Sir George Clerk,
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. Card-
well, Mr. Young, Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, Mr. F. Peel,
and a select party, at dinner, on Wednesday, at their resi-
dence in Whitehall-gardens.
he late Samuel Mills, Fig., of Russell-square,
and of Radwell, Newialiam, Norton Northaw, and Hatfield,
Hertforo, has left 500,000/. in personalty alone, which is
quite independent of his extensive fr,eholds. His real and
copyhold estates, manors, advowsons, lands, and tenements,
in't he counties of Bedford, Cambridge, Norfolk, Hertford, and
Middlesex, he leaves to his eldest son Thomas and his issue;
and to his younger son, John Remington Mills, he leaves all
his estates in London and Rent, and also his leaseholds in
London and Middlesex, except his house, with the furniture,
in Russell •square. which he leaves to his daughter, together
with a legacy of 30,0001 The plate and books to his two
suns, wbo are his residuary legatees and executors. He lias
left legacies to each of his bailiffs.

The late John English Tabor, Esq., of Penn
Bo,gring.`Essex, who died on the 13th of January, at the age
of 76, was possessed of considerable freehold, leasehold. and
lauded estates in Finchiugfield, Gosfield, Sible-Iledingharn,,
&anstield, and Poalingford, and other parts of the counties
of Essex and Suffolk, and has left personal property estimated
at 90,000/. A large portim of the freeholds he has entailed
upon the issue of his son Samuel, and has left pot tions of
his estates and liberal pecuniary bequests to the rest of his
numerous family. The residue, real and personal, to his son
Samuel, who is an executor, with Charles Tabor, another son
of the deceased.

GRASS PARKS.—At the let on Tuesday of the
grass parks, the property of the Earl of Lauderdale, in the
immediate vicinity of Dunbar, a strong competition took
place, and the result has been a rise of fully 33/. per cent.
from the prices of last year. They averaged 81. 13a. the im-
perial acre. All the farms recently let in that neighbour-
hood have been taken at a considerable rise in rent.—.Edza-
burgh Witness.
His Excellency Baron Titoff, Russian Ambassador
to the Porte, arrived here yesterday trout Antwerp, by the
steamer Princess Victoria, Captain Jackson, and landed at
the St. Katharine's-wharf, Tower. The passage occupied 19
hours only.
1 THE GREAT DRAUGHT MATCH.—This interesting
trial of skill between Mes,rs. Anderson and Wyllie, the
Herd Laddie," wac brought to a close on Friday, in Edin-
burgh, by the winnii g ot the ninth game by Mr. Anderson.
The match has lasted 17 klays, during which time 47 games
have been played, the final score standing thus :—Anderson,
9; Wyllie, 6; drawn, 32. Mr. Anderson has been the fa-
vourite throughout, having gained two games ahead of his
opponent during the first two days encounter, his play being
also more characteri,ed by the readiness and dexterity of a
master of the game.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Monday last, during
a run with Mr. R. Cockburn's hounds near Winchester, Mr.
Wallop leaped over a high and steep fence, on the opposite
side of which was a deep chalk pit. Fortunately the horse
cleared the fence, and Mr. Wallop having sufficient nerve to
retain a firm seat and keep his horse's head well up, the horse
lauded safe on his legs, merely falling over stunned by the
concus'ion, but was in a few minutes recovered, and neither
rider nor horse Sustained the least injury. The drop
about 21 feet. Captain Lnyd, of thseaGxuearwdse,i
escape, as he was about to follow Mr. Wallop, but had just
time to pull up. Prince Edward of
N.—Died on the 2d
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in this town, at the advanced age of 95 years, ooffwttalhilel
Weimar,
and a n 1,: was
was an out-pensioner of Chelsea, Charles :Elroy. He
was present at the battle of Bunker's
-hill, at the commence-
ment of the American revolutionary war, was afterwards
engaged in the English expedition in aid of the French Roy-
ahliiss tessati nple7i9n2t,o
Italy. hichhe was made prisoner, but effected
was forwarded to After England by buyn undergoing oNi nega
pgro
lei
tsatnGovernment.
The privations, he
The last scenes of his military career were laid in Ireland.
during the troublesome times of 1798. He posscssed great
intellectual as well as physical vigour almost to the closing
scene. Deceased was a native of the county of Fermanagh.
--Carlow Sentinel.
A ROUGH METHOD OF VENTILATION.—" Dr.
Grepry. of Edinburgh, in visiting the poor, used often to
begin his prescription by breaking a pane or two of the
window with his walking-stick, which he made good again
at the end of the illness.' Evidence of Dr. R. Willis before
the Health of Towns' Commission.
MORTALITY OF TOWN AND COUNTRY CONTRASTED.
Country Districts. Town Districts.
Population to a square mile 199 5.108
• Annual cleat hs in 1,000,000 living 19,300 27,073
Rate 'of Mortality
Annual excess of deaths iu town districts 7,773

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