The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

BOUR S SATURDAY, AUG. 29.

First - Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price • Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 20 ... 113 70 ~, 112 25 ... 113 70
4 per Cents lO3 ... G 3 ... 113 103
3 per Cents SO ... 80 ... 80 20
3,r4. ct trance 3150 ...3160 ...3150 ...3160
~ffitte Bank [,ooof. Ski— 1062 50 —1062 50 ...1062 50 ...1062 50
a,(100f. Sh
panish Active
... 25X ... 25% ... 25%
,iear olitan
4oman lOO% 100% ... 100 ... 190
RAILWAY SHARES,
Gerrnai,
Versailles, R. B 455 ... 455 ... 452 50 452 50
LB. ........... 30' ... 300 ... 282 50 299 IS
Orleans .
nontpellier to Cette
mulhausen to Thann 450 ... 450- ... 430 450;
S:tasnurg to Bale . 3-10 ... 315 ...:#U ... 34a •
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bsams, AUG. 25.
Bills.
St. Schuld, Sch., 4 per cent. lO4
Prussian En fish Loan, 1830,4 per cent 103
lb:xcliange on London, three months 6 17%
—Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 26.

Money,
103%

PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO THE ClTY.—Surprise,
and something more, is expressed in the City and else-
where at the abrupt departure of his Royal Highness
from the Mansion-house on Friday, when it was ex-
pected he would have honoured the Lord Mayor with
his company to dinner. The Duke of Cambridge at-
tempted an apology, but it has turned out any thing
but an apology ; for the Prince, instead of proceeding to
Windsor to enjoy the company of the Queen, as the
Royal Duke insinuated, remained at Buckingham Palace
to dinner, and from that Royal residence he sent an apo-
logy to the Lord Mayor (inserted in another part of
the Paper), which only increases the mystery of the
proceedings. We have no idea of what is meant by
" motives F,of delicacy." Possibly the Lord Mayor
can divine the meaning. Some months ago, it will be
remembered, some of her Majesty's Ministers were
treated very rudely at the hospitable board in the
Egyptian Hall by not a few of the guests of his Lord-
ship, some of them Aldermen too ; and, it is said, the
Queen felt this as an insult to herself. If this is the
reason, we admire her spirit. A Lord Mayor should
be able to prevent his guests from insulting each other,
and if he cannot, the safest way is not to run the risk.
THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS and the public
generally arc requested to notice that from a great
number of the gratings over the common sewers, as the
autumnal evenings come on, a most disagreeableeffluvium
arises. There is no doubt that this is as injurious to
health as it is offensive to the nostrils. At a recent in-
quest, Mr. Wakley mentioned th. 4 the late Sir William
Blizzard, some years ago, noticed that the surgical pa-
tients in the London Hospital recovered very slowly,
and after taking much pains to ascertain the cause, he
traced it to the common-sewer which ran near
the spot. He had it bricked over, and the sur.
gical patients then recovered, as in other healthy
situations. Now the unhealthy consequences of a
whole sewer being uncovered arise partially from
the several openings into the sewers by means of grat-
ings. As the openings are indispensible, it may be sup-
posed that this evil cannot be avoided, but we believe it
can ; what the bricklayers call stink-traps, are, we be-
lieve, fr( quently constructed under these gratings, and
may be constructed under them all. They do not pre-
vent the passage of water down into the sewer, but they
prevent the escape of the noxious gas up out of it. As
the public pay a heavy sewers rate, and as this escape
of noxious gas has a pestilential effect, they bare a right,
we think, to call on the Commissioners to construct
stink-traps under every grating, and we solicit the at-
tention of the Commissioners and the public to the
subject.

SHUTTING UP TEMPLE•BAR ON SUNDAYS.—We
hear great complaints are made by the inhabitants of
Chancery-lane and the neighbourhood of the annoyance
to which they are subjected on Sunday by the Com-
missioners of Police. In that comparatively quiet dis-
trict the noise is incessant, and they naturally ask what
right the New Police have to stop up a thoroughfvee,
and turn the whole current of vehicles upon then-.,. The
parson says " Then you ought to go to Ch,Yrch." But
can the sick and the dying go to Church 9 And are they
to be tormented for four hours on Sunday, in a narrow
lane, because the hypocrites will not ivy out a penny to
pave the street with wood. It is altogether an act of gross
tyranny. We believe the Commissioners have not the
power kr such an object to shut up a street, and it
passengers were to rcsol t to the sledge-hammer and
the crow-bar, as once recommended by the Times, no
Court could touch them. There would be some sense
in stopping all carriages during Church service, but none
in making this odious exception in favour of a particular
Church to the annoyance of the neighbourood, and
of all those who arc obliged to pass that way.

ANOTHER CONTEST for CHURCH-
RATES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
SlR—There has been another contest for Church-rates
here, and a foolish one, too. The burial-ground of the
parish church at Mirfield, in the West Riding of the
county of York, has for some back been inadequate to
accommodate the Increasing population of this flourish-
ing village, and the Churchwardens called a meeting of
the parishioners this week for the double purpose of
enlarging the churchyard and laying a rate. Wheu the
rate-payers were in vestry assembled, many of them
proposed to withdraw their opposition to the rate, on
receiving the pledge of the Churchwardens that all the
money raised by the rate should be devoted to the en.
larging of the burial-ground alone. To show that this
offer was liberal, it need only be mentioned that the
estimate for enlarging the church-yard was 1454, and all
the other expenses for the necessary maintenance of the
services of the church were estimated at 20/. only. Well.
you wouid have thought bigotry itselfwoultilhaveembraccd this boon. Ah ! you are quite mistaken. Nothing short
of the whole would satisfy the partisans of the church.
rate men. Being defeated in the vestry they demanded
a poll, and the viear directed it to be taken at the poor.
house yesterday and to-day, to be closed at five o'clock
each day. This evening the numbers were declared
to be--.

Ag
it .....ainst the
F or rate„ 279
219
gijority against the rate —6o The contest was carried on without that bitterness and
animosity so lately displayed in the neighbouring parish
of Rochdale ; and perhaps this may be principally
ascribed to the excellent character borne amongst all
grades of society by our young vicar, Mr. Maude. If
we had been so unfortunate as to have had a Moles-
worth, the ill-will engendered would scarcely ever have
been healed.

J, S.

Mirfield, Aug. 29, 1840.

FRIGIII FUL ACCIDENT ON THE
LEA RIVER.

ean account reached us this morning of a frightful
accident that occurred on the above river, yesterday
afternoon.
It appears that two parties had taken two boats
from Mr. Wicks, at Lea-bridge, for an excursion on the
river, and that after leaving the shore and proceeding
about one hundred yards they unfortunately came in
collision with each other, and the whole of both parties,
twelve or fiftecnipersons, were immersed in the water.
the whole of whom were unfortunately drowned, ,;;iti:
the exception of one or two. At eight o'cloe!4 eight
persons had been taken out, and partici! were still
dragging for the remainder.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Sunday evening about six o'clo",:k the inhabitants of
of much consternation,
Clapton were placed in a stat,,
that eleven persons tver
in consequence of a repor►
that
near Lea-bridge. The
drowned in the River
fact, we -are sorr to say, upon reaching the
melancholy
'too true. yThe circumstances
spot was found
disc- The as narrated to our informant by a
of the
frightful di
sot °lie of the unfortunate deceased persons,
brother
are '_'s follow :--A boat in which were six persons,
'whose names are William Hewett, aged 23 years,
Thomas Hewett, aged 18, Charles Smith, aged 17,
Henry Gifford, aged 15 ; Elizabeth Raffe, aged 25 ;
and a young man named Sherwin, son of the landlord
of the Duke of York, York-street, Bethnal-green, and
who all reside in the same neiphbourbood, hired a boat
to take an excursion on the river Lea about half-past
four o'clock. They were on the water till near six,
when, on reaching Lea-bridge at Clapton, they acciden-
tally ran foul of another boat, in which were four or five
young men, who reside at Clapton. By the collision
the boat in which were the six persons turned over, when
the whole of the party was immersed. Some clung to
the boat, and some sunk. Theyoung men went to their
assistance when their boat capsised, and they all shared
the same fate ; and a third boat, which went to their
assistance, met with a similar calamity. There were at
one time 14 altogether in the water struggling for their
lives ; one succeeded in swimming to the shore. The
krig-htful situation of the whole of them caused the ut-
most a.arrn as one by one they sunk to rise no
more. The drags were got, and some persnns
plunged in and succeeded in bringing a few ashore whit
were removi d to the Angler's beer-,bop, when
were uied to restore their lives, but iu only two oases
pith a favourable issue. E e“:ti were drowned, iticludiog
To .y all now lie lucre by the
the above six persons.
side of each other, a most heart-rutting spectable.