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

_HE SCOTCH IRON TRADE.--GLASGOW, JAN.
The price of Scotch pig iron, delivered free on board Pilo
may be quoted to-day at 725. 6d. per ton net cash f01;ost
usual proportions of Nos. Our market has assumed a..or;ted
aspect this week, and though there have .been but lime
sales at the above quotation, and 745. three months'
the price tends upwards.
NELSON'S SHIP VICTORY.—A plan proposed -be
Captain the Hon. A. Jones, R.N., is said to be under
tee
consideration of the Lords of the Admiralty for placing
Victory in the great quadrangle of Greenwich Hospital.
FIRE ON BOARD Snip, AND Loss or LIFE e 4
two o'clock on Saturday morning last a serious fire, atteoo
with fatal consequences, brake out on board of the gleitsi
Zebra, of London, lying off the quay at Maryport. are
discovered by one of the town police, who, in peeei°o,.oer
vessel, saw a great light, and he found the after cabin 'c'els
pletely on are. Raising an immediate alarm, the erlo;g4
belonging to the town was promptly brought to the spotfo
got to work, but it was nearly two hours before the fire.o
extinguished. After the smoke and fire had subsided, ova
6
of the crew went down to ascertain the extent of deulibe
when they were shocked at finding the remains of one °f bus
apprentices, named Weir, lying on the floor of, the }fed
burnt almost to a cinder. The fire, no doubt, origiimior
from the carelessness of the unfortunate youth, an /roe
dlestick having been found in his berth.
TROTTlNG.—Yesterday the three miles trottldy
match for 20/. a-side, between Mr. Hodges' bay Inare/100 0
cob belonging to Mr. Rix, of the Borough, came off
mile and a half of road at Fig's-marsh, Mitcham•cortio.by
The race was in harness, both horses been ably driveurnorts
their respective owners. The mare took the lead at the Sts
which she kept for two miles, and upon entering the last "
, hiS
of the mile approaching the goal, the cob came alongside 11.,
opponent, and the mare became fretful and broke out to Pbbso
lop twice. The tithe lost in pulling her in gave the ctfedin
opportunity of making ground, and ultimately he tr° f
the winner by four yards, and covered the three miles o
in 11 minutes and 4 seconds.
,rwErilbo ‘e MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A GAMS--
Last night the police received information that, on theinr the
of the 29th ult., at Muckley, near Much Wenleek'
county of Salop, Abel Martin, gamekeeper to Earl ara_A o-
wes so severely beaten by a poacher, that no hopes
tertained of his recovery.
COP
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—FKOM.,I2chater
ItESPONDENT.—Another accident occurred on the inernorniogs
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway on Monde,' _,, Janes
Oir,"
which has been fatal to an engine-driver to custontr
Robinson, a married man. Robinson, an ivf., with It
left the engine shed at Newton, about r e
ground t ahi
eny leap train of empty carriages for Hadfield
for Manchester with passengers at '745 4"-' T• srattell
ceeded steadily, and on their arriving at the Dinting
which
they came in contact with a train of empty coal wagPn,4 (Of had stopped at the station. The signal was turned 0.-t
the passenger train to atop, but it WAD snowing very WO 1"
the time, and the engine driver did not see it until too ,111,2
when he made an attempt to jump off the engine alio 1.4
under it. His head was smashed to atoms; and they itd
obliged to pick the poor fellow's brains' hoirveetthhe
put them in a bason. The two engines were much dello
and the carriages were shivered all to pieces. The
were driven right through the carriages, and had they bu
bo
loaded the sacrifice of life would have been dreadful-
fireman of the passengers' engine escaped by jumping Off
ope
engine. The broken engine, and carriages, and Wsg of
were cleared off as soon as possible, which caused a de
tbout two hours. The train that left Manchester Ts
Sheffield at 8 A.M. did not arrive at Sheffield until 11'54,0.,
in lieu of 10.6. An inquest will be held on the body
morrow.
that
For some weeks past a rumour has prevailed
an augmentation of the army was to take place. We con
sof
assure our readers that no real foundation exists for J
such report. With the exception of the organizatione.
,
:0
local corps for service in New Zealand, no increase of
military strength is intended.— United Service Gazette' the
A rumour was current in town last night totios
effect that intelligence had been received of the resigns
e•
of M. Guizot: We have no direct information upon the on
ject, but we think it highly improbale.—Morning rap
THE PACKET-SHIP HOTTINGUER. Liv-osr,e
MONDAY.—Intelligence was received here from the Ce'sbip
Cork, dated Jan. 30, stating that the New York packet"' ott
Hottinguer, Captain Bursly, which sailed from Liverpoep.
the 16th ult., had been obliged to put back into Cove, Aed
ing lost her sails in stress of weather. She would refit,
bs
then proceed to sea.
iprOOT°
THE CLOSE OF PHEASANT AND PARTRIDGE
ING.—Yesterday, the pheasant and partridge season t..,erhich
nated, after one of the most abundant game seasons "
has been known for many years.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD GIBES eoe
The mortal remains of this much-lamented general-°"' es
was interred in St. Saviour's Cemetery, JerseYgoc-
Friday last. Major-General Sir James Reynett, who der.
ceeded the deceased as Lieutenant-Governor and Comma"
r°
in-Chief, had issued the programme for a grand militarktea,
cession; but, agreeably to the urgent request of MISS GI job
the surviving sister to the gallant officer, who did not
to expose the force to the inclemency of the weatherr
funeral was quite private ; Sir James Reynett and Sirthe
De Veulle officiated as pall-bearers, and Major Creagh,
commandant of the 81st depot, and some of the leading g
tlemen of the island, was also in the train. The church Op
crowded. It may be added that Major-General Campb,%.,
who was succeeded by the deceased,
also died and Was
terred in Jersey.
ROBBERIES.—On Saturday, between the hour= °f
six and seven in the evening, a man twenty-five or twenty'
six years old, carrying a blue bag on his
arm, called et,ils
residence of Mr. Todd, in Nottingham-place, with a
message, and stole from the hall two great coats, one oft 1150/.
Clark green, lined throughout with sable fur, and worth,..a.
On Sunday evening the house of Mr. Tutt, No. 8, Georr be
street, Camden-town, W 41.8 robbed during the absence 01 tld inmates, of a double bottomed gold watch with three ger°,
seals and a key, twelve silk handkerchiefs, and other.,hP ea
perty. The thieves entered by breaking in at the ki"-As, window. On the same evening, the house of Mr. Slreel%nd 11, Exeter-street, South, Camden Town, was entered an
of a gold neck-chain, 41. in gold, 108. in a silk PI"—
and a great coat.

S'
On the 29th ult., at WenvoeßlßT
CastlHe,. Glamorganshirs, the lad! °f
Robert Francis Jenner, Esq., of a daughter.
idy Of ,gyp.
On the 30th ult., at the Grange, Bradford, Wllte, the t -
tain ralairet, of a son.
On the 30th nit., in Milton-street, Dorset-square, Mrs. ni star of
daughter.
On the 31st ult., in Eaton-square, the lady of Gathorne 01111
Esq., of a daughter.

011 Of
MARRIED.
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6 late
On the 28th ult., at Hawkhurst, Kent, William, second °
Hoar, Esq., of Maidstone, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
l" Edward Young, Esq., of Hawkhurst.
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,On the 22d ult., at Stoney Stratford, Mr. John Durhaul, -.-- on. Os
Wyatt, est
On the 27th ult., at Stepney Rectory, Daniel old
of
the Rev. Dl Vawdrey, Rctor of Stepy. , planet On the 28athnie ult., William,e only child of Mr. W. 5c1,---
Gravesend.

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MONTHLY MILITAR r 08/TU,--07
General—Sir William Anson, Bart., K.C.8., Colonel
52d Foot, Jersey
Lieut.-General— Sir Edward Gibbs, Colonel of the -- ,
Major-General —Pitman, East India Company's SerYlce,..,' oduhouse,
Colonels Hector Maclaine, Unattached, Teignmouth ; TY
late of the First Life Guards; Irwin, Sligo Militia.
Guards, Berne.;
Lieut.-Colonels—Hon. P. A. E. Freko, Grenadier
CompanTB
MacGregor, sth Foot, Plymouth; Earle, East ledla
Service.
. qprvice, Cheltenhara ;
Majors—Robertson, East India CompanyLiiiies, ditto.; Egerton,
Burnett, East India Company's Service ; ' unattached, Clifton;
47th Foot
ditto; Ward. ditto; Macaulay, ditto;
Greenville, late of the 2d Foot, London.
Lancers, Dundalk ; Despard.
Captains - Chandler, Paymaster.l7th
Unattached; Arnold, half-pay
Ritle2Oth
macky,
Brigade • Dun, Adjutant to Kir-
Fooi, Dublin.
cudbright Militia ; Read, half-paygo,,,,,e, nagenalstown ; O'Connor,
Lieutenants—Barrett, 14th
9th Foot ; Harrison, 62d
Regiment, M'Carthy'S Island'
Regi-
ment, handy ; Hughea-
sars ; Higgins,
lin ; Carey, half-pan
5r Gambia ; Deane, Ceylon Rifle Foot Calcutta; Muttlebury, 3d West India
soyal Artillery ; Gibbs, half-pay, Bth Hus-
sars ^ 44th Foot; Dover, half-pay, 48th Foot; M.Leass
u en Boss, Island of Mull; Voberth, half-Pais
ha'f-ray, sGth Foot, Legion.
Ist Foot; Roberts, half pay, 7th Foot, Dub-
46th Foot, Guernsey; Brooke, 52d Foot,
3d}:itHussars,s
igns_ IG,
reel. German a nn:
Canada; Blackburn, 99th Foot, killed in New Zealand , Coffin, half" •
Foot • Smith, half-pay, 72d Foot.
Paymasters -Jollifl'e, pay, 15th ' jouiffhalf-pay,Poole,Dorset;
e, 34th Foot,
half-pay,
51st Foot; Roddy, half-pay, 85th Foot, Dublin; Meier,
half-pay, 3d Hussars, German Legion.
Quarter-Master—Lewis, hall-pay, 33d Foot, Notting-hill.
Miscallaneous —Deputy Com • General Williams Brown, halt-pay;
Assistant Com.-General Furmidge, half-pay, Kensington; surgeon-
Major Johnson, half-pay, Grenadier Guards, Penshurst, Kent; Plr
geon Steele, half-pay, 2d Dragoon Guards; Surgeon Flanagan, n.",...
pay, 4th Dragoon Guards, Dublin.

Louden: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 102
Strand, Printer, at The 'Sun °face, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct
of the Savoy, AO Count', of Middlesex, Tom: Fob:
14417 ; 1841.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Benjamin Keniston, a boy of about ten years of age, Iva
charged with stealing the " change bag," containing abou
41. in silver, from the till at Mr. Farrance's, confectioner, 67
Charing-cross.
Amelia Baker, a young woman engaged In Farrance'ol
shop, said that at about eleven o'clock this morning she was
in the shop, and saw the prisoner opening the shop-door to
go out, with the bag in his hand, having entered. and taken
it from the till with such caution se to escape notice com-
pletely. He was going out at the side door (in Spring-gar'
dens), and must have entered by that door, crept round the
counter, and drawn out the till, in order to take out the bag.
Witness, of course, ran after the prisoner,
who went along
Cockspur-street, and who, on finding himself hard pressed.
threw the bag down an area. lie was stopped immediately_
afterwards by a man in the street. She had not lost sight of
him for a moment. The bag was afterwards picked up ; it
contained ten half-crowns, 40 shillings, 25 sixpences, and
some halfpence.
This statement was partly corroborated by the man
oho
stopped stopped the prisoner, and by the policeman, A 63, who tOO
him in custody.
The prisoner made no defence, and was committed for trial.

FLANDERS MAIL.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND F.--Tv ANeg.
—IMPORTATION, DUTY FREE, OF FLOUR, ivou
WHATEVER COUNTRY IT MAY COMEe--.."'''
POLD, KING OF THE BELGIANS, eto. " f
BRUSSELS, JAN. 29.—Seeing the law of the 22d o.e
_ee
vember, 1846, concerning provisions ; considering our (I,
_c‘r „if
of the 30th of the same month, authorising, till She let
June, 1847, the importation, free of dut), of corn of eve;
kind, the produce of countries out of Europe; on the 1500
posal of our Minister of the Interior and of Finance, we
decreed and decree—
Art. I. By extension of the decree of the 3d of November'
1846, flour of every kind, the produce of countries in Etirqe
is likewise declared free of duty on importation. ate
Art. 2. Our Ministers of the Interior and rinalice,
charged each, as far as they are concerned with the execo.";(o
of this decree. Given at Paris, Jan. 27.
(Signed) LEoroo.
The Chamber of Representatives commenced yesi# erdslwet
the general debate on the project of law relative to the buys'
of the War Department.
To-day the Chamber heard a report of the committee_oll
manufacturers, which was rather important. The quo
was to decide the petitions of Flanders asking for the teelPor""
prohibition of the exportation of flax. The Chamber con
fined itself merely to referring these petitions to the Min'
ur
of Foreign Affairs.
Their Majesties the King and Queen, according to Ssogilig,
very recently received, will return from Paris to Brnssexs
Sunday evening.
iseseEL N.
conteinued te,
o-day the.
—geTnehreal Cdheabmatbeeronofthße ebpurdegseenttioftiw,,,":
war department
IS linussaLs, JAN. 29.—The smallpox continues to Os'
several localities in the environs of Brussels, and estrisl
at Molenbeck St. Jean. It is generally remarked
disease this winter chiefly attacks adults, and the Gaud
attributed to the tropical heat of last summer, which ^ll
succeeded by the most sudden transition to intense
Yesterday the wind was so high that several chimneys "Li
blown down. A little child, five years old, going to s
school, was killed by the fall of one in Rue I'Arbre Dena'
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