The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

On Saturday a good looking young women, named
Ann Gardner, large in the family way, appeared to an-
swer a peace warrant, issued at the instance of a ballast
agent, John Anderson. The case was a very heartless
one, and Mr. Pelham was engaged for the defence by some
of the inhabitants of %Yapping, whose interest was ex-
cited in favour of the young woman, Gardner, who is
only about eighteen years of age, and who has been
ruined by the plaintiff.
Anderson complained that the young woman was con-
stantly annoying him, threatening to tear him to pieces,
and preventing him in his occupations.
For the defence, it was shown that the plaintiff had
effected the young woman's ruin by the most solemn
protestations of meaning to act honourably by her.
According to her statement, she is the daughter of a
solicitor, and though she kept company with the pro-
secutor, to whom she admitted she was much attached,
he had not succeeded in effecting his purpose until hav-
ing repeatedly promised marriage, he had given two
written documents to the same effect. The papers,
which were produced, ran as follows:

"London, 16th, 1845.
" This is to certify that I Jon Anderson am to marry
Ann within the term of to years or sooner if possabli,
Somere perhaps wen I return. Witness my and, the
sixteenth day July, 1845. I am, yours truly and affec-
tionate lover. " JON ANDERSON."
The next ran:—

" London, 14th, 1845.
" I promise to marry Ann Gardiner as soon as pos-
sible, for me to do which, I have not mentioned the
time at present, but as soon as I can. Witness my and.
"J. ANDERSON."
The complainant, in aggravation of the charge, urged
that the young woman annoyed him, even on the
Sabbath.
Mr. BALLANTIXE—Don't talk to me about the Sab-
bath. You have ruined this young woman for life, and
now you turn round on her in your sanctimonious-
ness. Complainant—Why, she has been as large as
that for the last twelve months.

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Mr. Pelham—lf so, it is a curious physiological fact,
and in the teeth of all experience as regards gestation.
Mr. BALLANTINE dismissed the case, and told the
girl that as regarded the letters she had better leave
them in Mr. Pelham's hands, and he would probably
put her in the way of redressing the wrongs which she
had sustained at the hands of complainant.
The young woman then left, to the great satisfaction
of a crowded Court.

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.
At the Brentford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, Mr.
Samuel Parnell, a master baker at Old Brentford, was
fined 40s. and costs, for a most cruel and brutal assault
upon a female named Anna Maria Smith.
It appeared that the female in question had had a
child by the defendant, which she had affiliated to him
before the Kensington magistrates, who had ordered him
to pay 2s. a week for the support of the child. On the
18th inst. defendant sent complainant the amount of
two weeks, instead of three, which was owing, and part
of it was a bad half-crown. She accordingly went to
the shop to see him, and while she was telling his house-
keeper the object of her visit, the defendant seised her
by the shoulders behind, and forced her out of the shop,
and on leaving go of her he kicked her in a brutal
manner.

By the defendant—Had sent her 4s. out of the 6q. he
owed her, amongst which was a bad half crown, and
that was the reason she went to him.
The defendant declared that he had sent her all the
money, and that so far from having sent a bad half-
crown, he had sent it her all in halfpence, and the time
before all in farthings.
The BENCH said that only showed the feeling he had
towards the mother of his child, and such payment was
quite illegal. The defendant had been guilty of a most
unmanly assault, and must pay a fine of 405., or 21 days.
imprisonment.—The fine was paid.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.
EIGHTY LIVES LOST.
The losses announced during the last week have been
truly appalling, several American packet-ships being among
' the number wrecked in crossing the Atlantic, with the loss
of all hands.
The first on the list is that of the Montreal, a fine new
ship,34s tons burthen, a trader between London and Que-
bec, which was lost during a snow storm on the night of
the 14th of last month, on shore near Cape Chat, and not
one belonging to her was left to tell the tale. The wreck,
when discovered, was fast breaking up, her masts were gone,
and her hull had parted in two. On shore the bodies of
the captain, wife, and child were found, the latter being
clasped in its mother's arms. Four other bodies were after.
wards discovered entangled in the wreck. They have all
been buried in one grave. The vessel was laden with flour
and other articles.
The next melancholy affair is that of another packet-ship,
supposed to be the Saxon, bound to London, lost, with all
hands. The ship, which has a large amount of insurance on
her at Lloyd's, was 367 tons buithen, and left Boston, where
she belonged, on the 13th of last month, manned with a
crew of twenty. She was last seen on the 17th, and her de-
stractiou is supposed to have occurred about the 19th, on a
reef of rock called the Ledges, near Red Head, as her wreck
was passed by the Stamboul, from Smyrna, on the 24th, 25
miles N.N.W. of St. George's Shoal.
Another loss took place on a field of ice, the particulars of
which are thus described :—The brig Laurel left Quebec on
the morning of the 29th of December, with a cargo of 400
barrels of flour and 28 of butter. On arriving off Cacona,
on the banks of Newfoundland, she was met by a large field
of ice, and every effort to steer clear of it proved abortive.
The ship becoming fixed in it, she was shortly driven ashore
on Green Island, where she immediately became a wreck.
The crew suffered severely for three days. The barque Uni-
verse, of Boston, was lost under similar circumstances; for-
tunately, the crew were saved.
The ship Cambridge, from Liverpool, on the 23d of De-
cember, saw a vessel in distress, which proved to be the
Lord Lynedoch, of London, in a sinking state. They took
off the crew, thirty-two in number, who were in a dreadful
state. The vessel foundered shortly afterwards. The East
India Company have received information of the total loss of
one of the Company's war sloops, named Coote, commanded
by Lieutenant J. S. Grieve. The disaster happened on the
3d of November last, on a reef of rocks opposite Calicut,
the vessel at the time being on an expedition to the Malabar
coast.
The brig Merlin, of Newcastle, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 3d instant. She was laden with wine and fruit,
and within twelve hours after leaving Oporto Bar she
caught fire. The captain and crew were soon forced to take
to the boat, and abandon the vessel. They were afterwards
picked up by a foreign schooner, which conveyed them to
Gibraltar.
On the books are also reported the total loss of the ship
City of Shims, in the Mindora Sea, with forty persons
drowned ; and also the wreck of the Gustave Edouard, a
French Indiaman, 650 tons burthen ; and another vessel,
name not exactly known—both attended with melancholy
results.

SINGULAR ADULTERATION OF CHAMPAGNE.—A sin-
gular mode of increasing the intoxicating power of cham-
pagne has recently been discovered in Germany. It appears
that a wine-merchant of Rheims has for some years past
enjoyed the almost exclusive privilege of supplying the
kingdom of Wurtemburg with that wine, and that an
extraordinary effect has been noticed to attend the
drinking of a single glass thereof. After several ana-
lyses of the wine had been made, the contents of some
of the bottles were examined by Liebig, who ascer-
tained by analysing its gases, that it contained one
volume of carbonic acid gas, and two of the laughing gas
or protoxide of nitrogen. The last-named gas, the peculiar
effects produced by which on the animal economy, when it
has been respired, are well-known, is prepared by the de-
composition of the nitrate of ammonia. If this salt be at
all impure, and not unfrequently when it is used absolutely
pure, nitrous acidis evolved in the first instance during its
decomposition. Chemists, therefore, when preparing the
the laughing gas, are in the habit of throwing away the first
proportions of gas that come over, and further test the
character of the gas before th y allow it to be inspired, as
the nitrous acid gas would act on the economy as a dan-
gerous poison. Furthermore if the lungs contain air when
this gas is inhaled, nitrous acid gas will be formed,
and danger result. There is another danger occasionally
encountered, when this gas is used for purposes of exhilira-
tion by respiration. In persons of a consumptive habit, it
may cause severe pain at the chest, difficulty of breathing,
and even spitting of blood. In those who have a tendency
to apoplexy or palsy, mischief in the head may be caused
by its incautious use. How far these results may be modi-
fied by the gas being taken into the stomach, it is at present
impossible to say, but the subject admits of, and deserves
further inquiry. At all events, there is the danger of a
portion of nitrous acid gas being used in the wine, together
with the laughing gas, and the adulteration is one of a
most improper, as well as singular, character. It can hardly
be regarded as altogether innocuous.—Medical Times.
IR/STAGE CARRIAGE DUTIES.-011 Saturday a deputa-
tion from the coach proprietors round London, headed by
Colonel Wood, M.P. for Middlesex, waited by appointment
on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the subject of the
stage carriage duties. The trade complain that, all along the
banks of the river Thames from Hampton Court to Wool.
wich, they have to compete with untaxed steam, and on
many roads with the rail also, and soon will on all; the rail
paying 5 per cent. duty on their receipts, except third-class
passengers, on which they pay nothing, whilst the coach pro-
prietor pay duties amounting on many roads to 25 per cent.,
and seldom less than 16 per cent. on their receipts, besides
heavy annual licenses, from which the rail and steam are
totally exempt, and they ask, on principle, to be placed on
an equality with the steam-boats and railroads. All the
proprietors forming the deputation gave it as their decided
opinion that if the Government placed them on an equality
with the railroads as regards the duty, many long coaches
would be placed on the road again this spring, the heavy
duties being the only hindrance, and that
at by a judicious re-
duction, the Government would in this instance, as in most
others where duties had been reduced, be rather gainers than
losers, in consequence of the extra carriages that would be
started. The Chancellor promised to give the case, which
was argued at great length, his serious consideration.
The Sacred Harmonic Society's next performance
takes place on Thursday next, when Handel's Samson will
be given. The cast includes Braham, Phillips, Leffler, Miss
Birch, and Miss Hawes.

EW
MONEY MARKET and CITY
CITT, SATURDAY EVC,314°:.,,,
TIMES.—Money transactions remain in the most tin"'
tain state possible ; the Circular to Bankers says.--
There is no describing money by rates, which
the course of the same day according to the circum!t.str.'„"
of the parties. Very few bills are taken in by the bfy
kers under five per cent.; and the temper of the Bantlo'fi'd
be, known from the fact, that after having
100,000/. on Exchequer-bills for a month, they imloret,„„k
borrower to curtail the time for the loan, and to Lakell;
one-fourth or one-half of the sum which he bad paid for ►•
terest." &di"
In general the discount brokers maintain a pretty e 140
competition with the Bank, but the latter now aprof,rot
by far the greater part of the business, and this is a new e, I,tors'
agreed ifethe
ol'clifficuity at the present moment, for the Bank Directors
havingso large and important a trust to exercise mustdPif they
with greater caution than other establishments, an
see the least danger a-head will suspend the rebel..himerellY
distely. That they will continue to give assistance ilnd
is a much more prevalent belief than the contrary V`",,,,,eet
monied interest have this further reliance—that the P':ijeet
board have a wary eye to profit, and would feel it riths:7o
of great gratification so early in the working of Aiyideei
system to be able to announce an increase in their "the eS;
to the next court of proprietors. The knowledge of rote
tent of the business they are engaged in has, in fact, im,?.,,0r
of late the value of Bank Stock at a time when other n't err
tion of stock were giving way, and these would bengal' 0;00
fore no other rational construction than such an esc rot.
as that just adverted to. The enormous amount of PAing
e
deposits disclosed by this week's return, %re
14,000,0001., further shows the vast available Po° to sst;
sessed by the establishment; yet no man can ventagn thy°
how far it may be prudent for them to go, and,wfbe All IA
may think fit to withhold that support upon which
City depends. pith
thei
Mr. Cobden's letter does not raise his character
tiWE pree,,!
men of business here, where everything is °nine° jlisfe''
tical, and where such a course as he would adoPt i:d byres.,
tensed as headlong legislation, which if atternPt he "re,
Minister, would drive him from power, or throw triwithoP:
country into confusion Our merchants, and tb3,,t ,•, '
any peculiar sympathy with the landholders, eretly',' •
upon calmer reflection, to think the Minister enru"—re.ly"
already, as regards his mode of dealing with the
_ie° 200 =
and a few timid voices are beginning to be hernarlf
the other parts of his measure, but more Perlnc7,ool2"
reduction of duty on cotton and silk foreign Inn,epeu''
articles. To this, which is a common reaction of ttsellf.
mind in all such cases, no great importance need be cute
though it is not to be omitted in adverting to thehdifil
feeling in the City on the present occasion. With
Ott
impressions there arises, by a natural transition, & they—
of much opposition to the Minister on other Points
the corn-laws. Nothing, however, on this side der, Of
tion can be said yet to assume an important 610°1:00. ietei
The Select Committee of the House of CommonSlirsit*P.;
to arrange the mode of proceeding with railway ell v,
settle the extent of them, is certainly sinking in ,seed'A
in the City with the same men whd do not deni;epect;
sity, under the circumstances into which, with la. 11/1
those undertakings, the conntry has been brotigi7os.o"
contend that this ought to have been done in the las:, 00;
instead of so much being done to encourage raii°7ool,l
prise in all directions. Nothing that the Contnli,ttteieifire,
will give satisfaction ; that is perfectly evident, 0.11" t-e
the
subject is obviously doomed to be an annoYance
gislature during the whole course of the session. this m
decision of some rule or principle of proceeding by `ngof,,,e.
mittee may, however, materially assist in dislisi,,--17e,
vexatious question of the payment of the dePos,,",."tbrt
companies who do not find it prudent to go on ante hied
cision, may help in restoring the equilibrium in
..,;eietr,e'
Market, and facilitate the movements of other 00%-tribe':
withdrawing at once, and by proceeding to a re,'-' 13e f 15,1
of the funds they have in hand. To give renew fer.a
to the Money Market is a more important objec"treetv
time being, than any question arising out of the Collsed.
of new railways, at least so far as the City is concern

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THE « GREAT UNPAID,A,.
003 "
TO THE EDITOR OF TEE S'
SlR,—The glaring and unpardonable negliglo opoi,
magistrates in some of the provinces appears t° pspri
the increase, and this piece of insult upon. °lrises,/
must be stayed. Wherever cause for counPloirt
this respect, the public may easily remedy it• trvif
a score only—no matter how humble in station to.
mit a short memorial (showing the grievanne).o„,e,
Lord-Lieutenant, and it will be his bounden dal or
our
into it. The remedy is very plain and easy.---,TO
dient servant, OBSEP
Jan. 30, 1846.

119 DEATH OF SIR JAMES RIVETT CARNAL, 13$
We have to announce the decea,e of the above g4ti
whose dissolution took place on 'Wednesday last, se,
seed Pir
chile, his residence in Lymington, Hants. The dec frb. s,
for some months past suffered from severe illness; of dal(
ceased was some years back chairman of the board Gees,
tors of the East India Company, and was forrnerleXed
of Bombay, in which appointment he was succee'.o etA
late Sir William Macnaughten. The late Baronet '102,1
House of Commons so:ne years ago, for Sandwich,: soa
created a baronet in 1836, and is succeeded by In'
tincl
John R. Carnac, late of the 73d Regiment. 013,4 oi
DEATH OF MR. CARPUE.—We regret to di
that this veteran reformer, and celebrated surgeon'4
Friday evening last, at his residence in Charlotte-std', :te
roy-square, after a protracted illness. The imnle
of his death, we understand, was dropsy. Mr. CaLly,st at
well known some years ago as a veteran reformer,
_TO!
of the abuses in his own profession, but also of tho7e,
affect the common weal. In times of great politics', OP'
ment, during the elections, he was ever to be fon.tteif
post, either on the hustings at Covent-garden, or activA,,
gaged in canvassing in support of his own peculiar °Pelle
In the medical profession he was known as one of %de)
stern and uncompromising of all the opponents of the
of Surgeons, by the governing body of which, to their 'Bl
disgrace, he was constantly refused a seat at Olio tb.
cil, though eminently entitled to it by his rank,.
profession, and surgical and anatomical attain
Carpue was scarcely known as a writer, his princirapolot
we believe, his only work being On the Taliacotian
and On the High Operation of the Stone.
_1 Asa ea
7,t'
on anatomy and surgery, his style of lecturing Irag in.of
but eminently successful. Shortly after the openly.:!d
Brighton Railway,.Mr. Carpue, who had then reef t Ow.;
public and professional life, excepting his appoiattnen,,,,k;
vaccine establishment, was travelling on that rail:al; 5
that fearful accident happened by which so man/ ried can
sacrificed. Two of Mr. Carpue's servants were Kin forj,
occasion, and he himself was most seriously injure"' OIL
while but little hope was entertained of his recoverf; ed, P;
ferings were dreadful ; and even when apparentlYTricol,,4
still complained of great oppression at the chest and 0"
of breathing. How far this accident may have laid tbeoo
dation of the disease which ultimately destroyed him 'bad
unprepared to state; but he himself having, after It be P,
curred, expressed his firm conviction that it would death'
death. He proceeded against the company by civ
and recovered 1001. damages. From that time to
•is
alts
nothing was known of him by the public. He bsdfj,
gether retired, and free from the turmoils which 9.
gaged the greater part of a long life. He was 84 „00
—Observer.
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THE WAGES OF THE DOCKYARD ANTI-vICV b
Meetings of the artisans of the Dockyard have hefe
, cifi
with a view of organising a movement to obtain an ill
of wages. The shipwrights of Woolwich Dockyard t:,e'allol
the proceedings, and wrote to the shipwrights anaLrjan
of Devonport and other dockyards; other classes of r-he
learning this summoned a meeting, in order that '"the
might be made by all hands. The result has beentitiolyj
pointment of a committee, and the adoption of a Pe:epe:2
the Admiralty, setting forth the high price of food as 7,resiv
ground for the increase which they solicit.
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Standard.
b. 01
EXPENSIVE CLOAK.—His Majesty Kanikeelld
still in his possession the mamo, or feather war-ci°sjc,,,aletlim
father, the celebrated Tamehameha. It was not c°4lool
until his reign, having occupied eight preceding yea
its fabrication. It is four feet in length, with elerd,,for'
a half feet spread at the bottom. Its grou,%•ch
is a coarse netting, and to this the feathers,
..,,ray
very small and exceedingly delicate, are sanl'oec,,el"
tached, overlapping each other, and forming a 41'4s Pi
smooth surface. The feathers around the beru",ell,o
inverted, and the whole presents a beautiful bright JP
0
eolour, giving it the appearance of a mantle of Cott,
deed it would be difficult for despotism to manTs-.0-0t0;
richer or more costly garment for its proudest' .0013.4
Two feathers only (such as are used wholly in its. r01;e
facture) are obtained from under the wings o'ht- sh„i'
species of bird inhabiting Hawaii, which is cang",,abe4
with great care and toil. Long poles, with an_.;
substance smeared upon them, and well baited, w:„(1
near their haunts. The bird alights upon it, 7404
able to disengage itself from the adhesive r''',),"e bl
secured, the much prized feathers plucked, and 1"-clooje
set at liberty. A piece of nankeen, valued at oven/ toi,
and a half, was formerly the price of five featherl:oow.„,
kind. By this estimate the value of the cloak pityi
equal that of the purest diamonds, in the severairs OAe"
peen regalia, and including the price of the feathfijellek less than a million of dollars worth of labour was erele upon it, at the present rate of computing wages. fee',lf
spear accompanying the cloak is ten and a hi7id fte.sS
length, of a dark-red wood, flattened to a point, a"." reki
polished. It possesses an additional interest, when so"
that it was the favourite weapon of a savage conclueNer"
deep stained with the blood of many a Hawaiian Yr-
Hawaiian Spectator, vol. 2. be
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND ON POOR RATINIV,I
fishmonger Duke asserted in the House of Lords, °" paele;
evening, that the poor rate pressed so heavy on the -te the-
that " one of his tenants alone paid more in poor yip
the whole of the League put together !" About thr'e,
ago, we know that the Messrs. Marshall of this Place'
upwards of 2,0001. of poor rate in one year for the P„d's t•i
in Holbeck alone. Which of the Duke of Richm°"art
nants, we wonder, pays as much as the twentieth P
this amount in annual poor rate I—Leeds Tim's.

BIRTHS.
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On the 20th of November last, at Madras, the wife Of the
111.)tib
so
K. Hamilton, of a son.
S. ''' On the 27th ult., at Manor House, Bognor, the lady 0f
Esq., of a son. 0 ortl°ll
On the 28th ult., at Blackheath, the lady of Jain or
Esq., of a son.
~,f
On the 28th ult., the lady of Francis Morph)", v —s-.,, "' of den
of j, T, •
place, Russell-square, of a son.
wife
On the 28th ult., at Hornsey-lane, Highgate, the
.S.
Watson, Esq., of a daughter.
the /4e,.,
,
,
On the 28th ult., at the Rectory, Leigh, 00 MO' of
0 laff
Eden, of a son.
On the 29th ult., at Gloucester-villa, Regent's-part' th
It. Phillips, of a son.

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MARRIED.
Horne' sci eg.
On the 19th of November, at Bangalore, George orejg, (lam
King's Hussars, to Agnes Mars, daughter of the late J. yr.
On the 27th uit , at St. Mary Abbott's,
Kensington
"
Cotman, of Manchester, to Elizabeth Winifred, Yowlsge t
Matthew Terry, Esq.

DIED. rill'
i B
ao„na
itilr,
slolnt h.. i u l ta. , at Genoa,
E .rter of
late jail'
On the 20thult., at Hackney, Hannah, relict of the
91'
Ileedham, of Highgate.
.i.r rat "lei' On the 24th ultTremacloc, Carnarvonshire.
..,..,tre.-
A. R. Mapwell, Esq., late of the 2d West India Regi_ineiifg.rf ''
On the 25th ult., at Asherton, Sidmouth, SoPma'
Sir Willi°
Potts, the wife of G. Potts,
Herman Count Patting.—
Esq., aged 27. blre. --
On the 27th ult., at Courteen Hall, Northampton,
lierirl
RhOolest,hEe
g2q7.t,hlatuelto.f,
here }l3fasiregsatyre,st-Wstroeodets,
Wake,aged 78.
Fores_ Foriclt,
On the 27th ult., Edwin Craven, infant son of W. J*'
el, 04
of Church-row, Limehouse.
telo rj
Emilie Scarth, aged 7 years. .re of CAP
On the 27th ult., in London, Frederico, only child M. red
.-f. A,
On the 27th ult., at Paris, Jane, the wife
Elliot, R N. gaga°.
Diary Pre.— widow e
On the 28th ult., at Turnharn-green, Miss Ma __, wid
On the 29th ult.. at Lambeth-terrace, Frances P..
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On the 27th ult., at Stoke Newington, Dir. William fon. of
late Mr. Charles Fox.aCsendistzsquare,
04.,

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