The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-06 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION •

COURT CIRCULAJi'.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The QUeen and Prince Al'
Bert rode but this afternoon in a pony phaetov, into ills
Great Patk and Forest, his Royal Highness dr•"ing, ac
elmpanied by the Prince of ideiningen, and atte.eded by
the whole of the Royal Suite, in carriages and on' borsc-

back.
Her Royal H;ghtess the Princes Royal was takew for
her accustomed airing to-day.
His Excellency Baron Bulow took leav:l this morning'
Lady Bath= has alio taken her oparture from the
Castle.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria
Dawson, drove out to-day in a pony carriage.
Viscount Melbourne arrived last night on a visit to her
Majesty, and returns to town to-morrow (this day).

His Excellency Baron Bulow, the Prusian M;nigtere;
returned to town yesterday, from a visit to her :VW"
at Windsor Castle.
A deputition from the Coroners of Engl4nd and WAleh
conti,ting of Mr. Todd, Coroner for Ilants; Mr. Ch
ley, Coroner for Bucks ; Mr. Shebbear..,.-.Coroner for
pants; Mr. Westell, Coroner for Oxfordshire; Mr. L•;vis.
Coroner for Essex ; Mr. Carttar, Coroner for KO"
Mr. Sworder. Coroner for Hertfordshire Mr. Baffle"'
Coroner for Gloue. stershire; Mr. Lanw.rne, Coroner for
I 1 recordshire! and Mes;rs. Wakley, M P.. and
Coroners fur Middlesex, had an interview with Lord Job°
Russell yesterday, at the Celonial-offiee.
Major M‘Namara. M.P., .‘tr. Ward, and Mr. Adair,
hid interviews with the M trquis of Normanby yesterd4t
at the Home-office.
e Commander of tLe Forces had an interview yesteP
day with Lord John Russell, at the Coloniol.office.

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CURIOUS CASE.—About six or seven year`
ago, Brotherton, the Edinburgh and Salton carrier, proceeded
to Salton Hall, where he received from the butter and hoot'',
keeper of the family the sum of SOI. , to pay for various article:
obtained in Edinburgh. On his way home he wrs, accord'se
to his account, set upon by two men, who knocked him clol!",Y;
and cut away the pocket containing the money, sveth
they made c!ear off. Inve:tigation was set un foot in cverie
direct;on at the tim,, but no trace could be obtained of th
robbers, and the case was allowed to drop, riot without sst
suspicion attaching to the carrier himself of having ke;st t.
money, and contrived the story of the robbery to divert soar
cion from himself. Within these few days, however, informs;
tion was received at the County Police-office that a man nail
Mitchell, living in the Grassmarket, and another named
ton, living in Lasswade, were implicated in the robbery, t',l`ll
both having been employed at the time of the robbery with
shoemaker in the village of West Salton.. They were both sr
prehended, and, after investigation, the men have been cot'
mittrd for trial.—Ayr Observer.
At Sartain), in Calabria, a labourer, name
Albanito, died lately at the patriarchal age of 116 years. ,
always led an active life in the midst of country occueat'°-
il
had been married five times, and had children by each marriage'
Tile cuckoo was heard, we believe, for the
time this season in our ne:ghbourhood, on Saturday eveiliPg
last, in the woods of Craigie, where hegenerally first prociais!
his arrival. A number of swallows, the harbingers of matic"
were seen flitting about early last week.—Akr Observer.
ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND
GLOUCESTER RA ILWAT.—The London Mail viaßirmirighauk
which ought to have reached this city at five o'clock this morn
ing, was de'ayed about three hours by an accident which 11. Pr:
pened to the engine, near the Droitwich station, on the P.l,
mingham and Gloucester Railway. The engineer pereei;,,
something was out of order, cast his eyes about him, and
covered that the burr which fastens down the safety-valve
had falhn off. He instantly stopped the engine, and had 1.
presence of mind to put out the fire as fast as he could, end
doing which he was almost smothered with dust, smoke, and
water. One of his eyes was injured, but fortunately he escsr r
without other or more serious hurts. Had not the engine!,
thus promptly exerted. himself to extinguish the fire, the e°,..%
sequences to all persons tending the engine would probity',
have been fatal.— Worcester Paper.
HOW THE NOBILITY ARE TREATED lII_
PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, APtar. 20.—Letter addressed w
Franconian Courier :—Sevcral Journals have giv.eb
very inaccurate accounts of the manner in vible
the affair of the Archbishop of Cologne 'has bee.'
settled by Count Clement of Westphalia. The re,7A
facts are as follow. The Count of Westplotlia 00'1
not come hither with a mission of the Memi:nrio,
the Estates, but of his own accord ; neither is
audience with the King immediately connected vi•
the discussion of the Westphalian D:et. The Diet, there;
fore, could take no notice of the result of it, and the Con,
on bit side has not again showed himself in the Assf,P'
in which he has a vote. The memorial which he pg'.,7
sented to the King dilates on the well-known occureacet;
and after the removal of the Archbishop of Colegnr,
concludes with the petition, " That the Archbishop Citi
menti Augustus and his Chaplain, Michel, may be restore
to the enjoyment of entire liberty, and the former thereby t
enabled to resume his cros'er." Very incorrect accult°J
base bean given in the Journals both of the niehoor4oli.
Count Westphalia and of his Majesty's decision oil )4
I, therefore, sent you his Majesty's Cabinet order ; it is ,
follows :—" When on your arrival here, and your stating
that you bad some important communication to ttalid
to me, I granted you the audience for which you APP,„g
I had only a general knowledge of a Proposarreapectil7
the Archbishop of Cologne, which had been trougbti.,,`"
ward in the Westphalian Diet, and respecting which tr;
pressed on your reception my serious displeasure. P:i.4
that I have acquired a more specific knowledge of I_o
proposal, which you prcser.ted to me yourself, and bab.
likewise been made acquainted with the discussions ,
Diet respecting it, I shall confine myself in announcivge..
you the declaration, that the Westphalian Diet by i'_,.ltfol
pprroespsoedal,disparro,vpr,obd,ataison of I
could i•dnotill,b.ga and die
but expect
expe
tfsrralosPy: ,ate 4
loyal and dutiful sentiments, and ,thereby treated yOU
you just'y deserved. I now enjoin you to return to ,Munster,
whittler your duty as a member of the Diet calls, since Y°L-
ligve no more busincs to do here.—(Signed) FaanOlc„-
WlLLlAsi.—Betlin, April 1, 1841."—A4emeine
April 30. 85
Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey is spoken . 0',,."
likely to be proposed es a candidate for the office. of `-‘,',l
Comptroller, which will at the next Court of Coin-nf
Council be declared vacant. Many of the influential• men ja
the City are said to be anxious that Mr. Harvey should b°:
a situation in which his talents, as a Member of Par',''.
went, might be rendered serviceable to the CorpOrati°"'
The exuberant profits of the Comptrollership will bc
lopped in the Committee of Clerks and Officers, so th'tt,
the competiti.in for the office will not be so great as was
first expected. It has also been said that Mr. Tyrrell, th
present Reinembrancer, will be appointed Comptracri
and that Mr. HarVey will be elected to the situation
Remembraacer, whose duty it is to attend Parliamsel'
so that if the latter appointment should take place, )If,:
P
Harvey may act in a double capacity for the Corpora'ion
the House of Commons.

THE SHERIFF-
OF LONDON AND THE SO'
RIFF OF MIDDLESEX FOR TILE ENSUING YEAR.—The ,°r!
Mayer, pursuant to ancient custom, • nominated to t""
Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, the following gentle'
men to be put in nomination to the Livery of each. C°!:
pany on Midsummer Day next, as fit and proper pers°'
to serve the offices of Sheriff of London and Sheriff d
Middlesex, viz :—Alexandcr Rogers, Esq.. citizen, an
spectacle-maker; Henry Flumptre Gipps, Esq , citlzeei
and spectacle-maker; George Thomas Nicholson, Big!
citizen, and fishmonger; and William Simpson Potted
Esq., citizen, and pattsn-maker. Alderman Magnay
Mr. Roger.; will be elected without contest.
In 1720, two doctors, Mead and Woouval- f
night under the gates of Gresham College; the latter
slipped his foot and fell. " Take your life," exclaimed D.':
Meade; " Anything bet ) our physic," replied the prostrate
Woodward; and the affair ended with the joke. t
EXTENSION OF VACCINATION.—OR:BCcOO°'
of the attention directed to vaccination, by the Act 0f —6
Session, the increase in the applications bath for vacciov
lion and the vaccine virus at the Royal Jennerian,a4Ll
don Vaccine Institution has been threefold. The *Media
Director has vaccinated one thousand five hundred and toe
more children this year, from January Ist to _March„2stb'
than he vaccinated from and to the same dates last yes!' d
ToRY DolNGS.—According to Sir Richer
" Million of Facts," the Tory Goveramenti-t.e.;
tween 1795 and 1826, i.e., in 34 years, raised, by alt„,
means of taxes and loans, 2,476,334,2161., or above if-
millions per annum ; and it expended, in the same period'
2,422,665,2401. Of these enormous sums. the custolol
yielded 309 - millions, the excise 684 millions, °Lei,
assessed and property taxes 3681, the stampis.:l6l4oo"
post-office 39%, lotteries nearly 11, loans and., funding
722. Of the enormous expenses, the interest of the
debt absorbed 891 millions, the . army 598, the .04
4223-, the ordnance 95, direct subsidies for allies 55,(11/„8
sinking fund 3181, losses by Exchequer BillS,
It far exceeded, in less than a generation, the total. 0
all the taxes and p6lie expenses in 1,000 years, or fron:
the reign of Egbert, the first King of England, in 0,0
down to 1826- In the reign of Henry V., the tOi.
were but I,loa per week - in that of Cromwell.•29,ooo;'
at the 'evolution, 39,0001. ; in the reign of George-4i"
150.0001.; and in 1833 nearly 1,000,0001 , or 1,000 ,titl,es
more than in the reigns of Henry V. and VI. ,
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER OFF
MORTLAKE.—On the afternoon of Tuesday last, a melancholy
accident occurred on the River, between Hammersmith ama,
Kew, which proved fatal to one, and nearly so to two others or
the students belonging to the Royal College of Civil EDO"
neers, at Putney. Tuesday was a noliday at the Institution
and, in the court e of the forencon, three of the young gen*"
men, whose names were Short, Scott, and Jones, without the
knowledge of Colonel Hutchinson, the resident Director, hired
a small sailing boat to go to Richmond- On the r return, they
had to contend with a strung southerly wind. Having becowe
tie d of holding on the sheet, they affixed the rope to the sie°
of the boat ; and, about four o'clock, when off Mortlake, they
were met by a sudden squall; and being enable to let go the
sheet, the boat instantly upset, and the whole party became
immersed in the water. Two boats put off to their assistance'
and succeeded in picking up Messrs. Scott and Jones, and they
were conveyed ashore in a state of great exhaus'ion. The
drags '-are then used, and in about eight or ten minutes the
body of Mr. Sharpe was found, and conveyed to the Ship pub-
lic-house at Mortlake, when every means for restorieg aniro;
tion was adopted for two hours by Mr. Brown, a surgeon, is?
withuut effect, The deceased, who was much beloved by his
fellow students, was a fine piling man, about 17 years of age,
an orphan, but highly connected.
INGENIOUS DISCOVERY.—An exhibition of a
new patent has lately been made at the Adelaide Gallery and
other scientific institutions, for the purpose of uniting lea"
without solder ; this being done with a portion of its own
metal, and the novelty of the process has attracted much at-
tention. The principal agent is a.jet of flame, quite manage'
able, similar to a blowpipe, and of the most simple construe"
tion. To vitriol-makers, manufacturing-chemists. and all
works where solder will nut bear the test of the material meow
factored, the invention i 5 of great moment. This discovery',
likewise, not only saves the comparatively heavy expensi
solder, but enables the manufacturer to have his leaden yeas=
and chambers of one entire piece of lead, whatever may
their size.

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The President steamer has now been out fifty'
six days, and nothing whatever is known of her since she ,435
seen by the Orpheus the day'after- she sailed.. The President
cost 140,00111. ; engines, 450 horse power ; 2,100 tons. -Se"
veral persons at Cork held shares. the Commander, Lientel.
nan: Roberts, R.N., is a married man with five children, ivliq
residedi sitninLounisdhoend;byhepuisttaing native of the county of Cork, ail
was
• an end to the s!ave-trade in a 1)(,_
tiun of the At west of ica, where he commanded a brig of s1""-_ 1..