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

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

Sir B. HALL, M.P., laid upon the table on Satur-
day, the copies of the Bill introduced by Lord John
Russell, respecting the qualification of electors and
the payment of rates and taxes. Also of a Bill in-
troduced by Sir G. Grey for amending the Public
Baths and Washhouses Bill. And likewise the
212th report of the Metropolitan Improvement Com-
missioners.

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.
Mr. SALOMONS stated that as a question had arisen
as to the legality of his standing as candidate for the
borough, in consequence of his having been so lately
the returning officer, the sheriff had resolved to take
the opinions of Messrs. Pearson, Hoggins, and Rogers
upon the subject, who would give their decision in a
few days, to which he would bow, although it should
deprive him of the honour that he was so ambitious
to enjoy.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.
Mr. WILLIAMS, M.P., introduced the motion kr
deferring the purchase of a site for baths and wash-
houses, until they obtained at least a rough sktitch of
their plan and estimate.
Sir Peter Laurie, Messrs. Nicolay, Salomons,
Plowden, and Mr. Peter Laurie, supported the motion.
After a long and an exceedingly angry discussion,
during which offensive personalities were freely
candied about for upwards of two hours, the debate
was adjourned to the 19th, upon the motion of Mr.
Hickman; seconded by Mr. Mechie.
The vestry separated at a late hour.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE—The Queen and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the performances
with their presence on Saturday evening. The royal party
were accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Royal Highness Prince Oscar, of Sweden, and his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen. In the royal suite
were the Duchess of Sutherland, the Viscountess Jocelyn,
Lady Caroline Cocks, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness de
Speth, Hon. Miss M. Paget, Earl Spencer, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Lord Camoys, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord George Lennox,
Colonel Drummond, and the Hon. Captain Gordon. There
were also present his Royal Highness Prince George, the
Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the
Duke of Leeds, the Duchess of Somerset, his Excellency the
Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle
Olgar de Lechner, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailes-
bury, the Marquis of Denegal, the Marquis of Worces-
ter, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Granby, the
Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily De Burgh, the
larquis of Sligo, the Marchioness of Blandford, the Marquis
of Douro, the Earl of Falmouth, the Countess of Blessington
and the Misses Power, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of
Munster, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Dal-
housie, the Countess of Powis and Lady Lucy Herbert, the
Earl of Bective, the Earl of Grenville, his Excellency the
Sardinian Minister, the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires, Viscount
Cantilupe, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Somerton, Vis-
count Clifden, Viscount Ranelagh, Lord Brougham, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lady Brougham, Lady Fitzroy So-
merset and Miss Somerset, Lady Foulis, Lady Abinger,
Lord Gardiner, Lord and Lady rfrimelston, Lord Lvttle-
ton, Lord Forester, Lady Meux, Lady Smyth, Lady
Clay, Lady Wilmot, Sir George and Lady Palmer, Count
D'Orsay, lion. J. Macdonald, Hon. G. S. Byng, Sir H. Wil-
loughby, Sir Arthur Clifton, Sir William Massey Stanley;
Colonel Meyrick, Colonel T. Wood, Major Baring, Mr.
Martin, M.l'., and Mrs. Martin; Mr. Hudson, M.P., and
Mrs. Hudson; Mr. Packe, M.P., M. C. de Koudriaffsky, Mr.
B. Baldwin, M.P., &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. —The Queen Dowager,
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, his Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, and their
Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, honoured the Royal Italian Opera,
Covent.garden, with their presence on Saturday evening.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Earl and Countess
Howe, the Hon. Miss Seymour, the Countess Browulow, Ge-
neral Sir Andrew Barnard, the Hon. Mr. Ashley, Colonel
Cornewall ; her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
by Captain Mildmay ; his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke
Constantine, by Admiral Lutke and Rear-Admiral Count
Heyden ; their Serene Highnesses the Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, by the Countess of Assen •
burg, Baron Beust, and Baron Zigezar. There were also
present the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady
Blanche Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and
Lady Augusta Poulett, the Marquis of Winchester, Marquis
of Douglas, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Earl of
Liverpool, Earl of Strathmore, Earl of Zetland, the Earl of
Euston, Count Potochay, Viscount Dupplin, Viscount and
Lady Maria Alford, Viscount Templetown, Viscount Clifden,
Lord F. and Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, Lord and Lady
Charles Wellesley, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord and Lady
Blantyre, Lord Earnest Bruce, Lord George Manners, Lord
Midleton, Baron Koller, Baron de Freedericksz, Baron
Paravicini, the lion. Sir Edward and Lady Butler, Hon. R.
Carew, M.P., Hon. F. Byron, Hon. Henry Liddell, M.P.,
Hon. Henry Yorke, Hon. ohn Fortescue, Hon. Henry
Fitzroy, Hon. Geoffrey Browne, Hon. Miss Copley, Hon.
N. E. Grant, Hon. Colonel, Mrs. and Miss Fitzgibbon, Lady
Antrobus, Sir Henry Paulet, Sir R. Blosse, Sir Percy
Shelley, Sir Henry Webb, Sir William de Bathe, Sir Wil-
liam Massey Stanley, Lady Jodrell, Lady Macfarlane, Lady
Scott, Sir Peregrine and the Misses Acland, Sir W. and
Lady Molesworth. Sir John and Lady Yarde Buller, Sir
John and Lady Campbell, Sir Philip Broke, Sir Richard
Vyvyan, Sir Robert Brownrigg, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkin-
son, Sir Thomas Winningtos, Mr. George Tomline, M.P.,
Mr. Henry Baring, M.P., Lady Pollock, Mr. R. Yorke,
M.P., Mr. W. Wilshere, M.P., and Mrs. Wilshere, Mr.
John Dennistoun, M.P., and Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. Hodgson,
M.P., &c.
FUNERAL OF DR. CHALMERS.—The funeral of this
distingnished man took place on Friday last, when his re-
mains were committed to the earth in the Cemetery at
Grange, near Edinburgh, in the presence of many thousand
persons, the funeral procession consisting of the civic autho-
rities, the gentry, the magistracy, and numbers of ministers
not only of the Free Church, but of the Established Church
of Scotland, and of various dissenting congregations, who,
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drew towards the grave, and gathered round it in one fist
and dense multitude, in silent awe, whilst dust was piled
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DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Between twelve and one
o'clock last night, a most destructive fire, and which, it is
supposed, has been attended with loss of life, broke out in
the residence of a person named Adams, residing at 61,
Theobald's-road, Red Lion-square. Before the fire was ex-
tinguished the interior of the house was reduced to a com-
plete ruin, while from rumours it would appear that some one
of the inmates had fallen a prey to the devouring element.
The fire was first discovered by police-sergeant Fryer, 16, E
division, who, with some of the constables, was passing the
house, and whose attention was attracted by a strong light in
the shop. This induced them to listen at the door, when
hearing the snapping of wood, they instantly alarmed the
inmates, and in a few minutes several persons, male and
female, appeared at the windows in a state of nudity. As
soon as they were made acquainted with their perilous situa-
tion a rush was made to the door, which in the mean time
had been forced open by the police. The fire, which origin-
ated in the shop (a chandler's), from being fed by the air, in
an instant burst forth with redoubled fury, and but for the
coolness of the police several must have perished. In the
meanwhile the fire proceeded to run through the house with
asto:fishing rapidity, and by the time the engine from the
Holborn station arrived, which was within ten minutes from
the discovery, the flames were to be seen rushing forth from
out of every window, and through the roof. Within twenty
minutes after the first discovery the Chandos-street, Well-
street, Farringdon-street, Watling-street, County, and West
of England engines were on the spot, and, although a plen-
tiful supply of water was obtained, the united exertions of
the firemen could only prevent the flames from extending to
the adjoining houses. To add to the confusion which inva-
riably attends a fire, the whole of the carriage way was
broken up, and this rendered it difficult for the engines to get
near the place. A large body of the police of the C and E
divisions were on the spot, and rendered material aid to the
Fire Brigade and inhabitants.
PUBLIC EXPENSES.—Much as is said by the chair-
men of quarter sessions and others of the cost of trivial pro-
secutions, to show their regard, or apparent regard, for the
public purse, they are never heard to say a word about the
serious train of expenses incurred on account of the game
preserving and the game prosecutions. No, not a word of
complaint on that head ! It is high time those gentlemen
became sensible of the extreme strong feeling which is now
setting in against them because of the game preserving and
the game-law nuisances.
ALARMING ACCIDENT.—A most frightful accident
took place on Saturday morning, attended, we are fearful,
with loss of life, as not the slightest hopes are entertained of
the coachman, who was thrown from the box of a break be-
longing to Mr. Barnes, the job-master of Oxford-street.
While driving the break through Cavendish-square, with a
pair of fresh horses, the horses started off, became quite un-
manageable, ran the break on the pavement just by Mar-
shal Thomson's Hotel; the wheel came in contact with the
lamp-post, threw the driver with violent force, the horses
both starting off with the poll till they disengaged them-
selves by both falling at the end of Henrietta. street; one of
them, starting up at a most furious rate, ran down Maryle-
bone-land, in turning which he knocked down a girl about
fifteen years of age, who was taken into a stableman's close
by, much bruised ; the horse was almost immediately stopped
by the stableman, although so much cut about that it will be
of little value to the owner. The other horse was stopped in
Harley-street by a cabman half crossing the road, and was
secured without much damage. It is most d.ingerous to
public safety to allow young horses to be exercised in so close
a neighbourhood.
ARMY AND MILITIA SERVICES.—The account of
the finally audited receipt and expenditure for army and mi-
litia services for the year ended the 31st of March, 1846, has
been printed in due course. The receipts amounted to
6,401,8561., and the expenditure to 6,201,4881., leaving an un-
appropriated balance of 200,3681.
CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.-- The South-
Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Company's steam-
ship the Lord Warden left Folkestone for Boulogne on
Friday, at 1.50, P.M., with fifty passengers; and the Prin-
cess Helena arrived at Folkestone from Boulogne at 2.35 Y. 31.
We believe we may now state, that the session will
be brought to a close before the second week in July,
the period we indicated last week, and that the dissolu-
tion will immediately follow, should no unforeseen cir-
cumstance arise to render its postponement necessary.—
Observer.

THE LATE FIRE AT MESSRS. MAUDSLAY AND
FIELD'S Fecroitv.--On Saturday morning the following
notice was exhibited at the entrance gate In consequence
of the confused state of the manufactory, the following work-
men are informed that their services will not be required
until nine o'clock on Monday morning :—Carpenters, vice-
men, turners, loam-moulders, brasnfounders, fitters, punching-
shop men, firemen whose forges are uninjured, and the whole
of the yard labourers. Greensand moulders, boilermakers,
and flatteners will not be required on Monday."
ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICII—A battalion of the
workmen in this department is to be formed on the same
principle, as those in her Majesty's dockyards. Sergeant.
,iiajor Moore, of the Royal Artillery, is named for the ad.
jutancy of the battalion, and will have an allowance of 1001.
for his outfit, in accordance with the excellent provision
made by the new warrant on non-comniesioned officers
being apponted to COMIIIMIOTI3.