The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-30 00:00:00

2,000 GUINEA STAKES.

Mr. Field not having arrived, the settling took place this
morning as usual, bets being paid under protest.
LATEST BETTING ON THE 1,000 GUINEA STAKES.
5 to 4 agst J. Day's lot
3 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's, jun., Wilderness
5 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant.
Chamois is scratched.

The match between Toni Tullock and the Emilia filly is off
by consent.
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
THE SUFFOLK STAKES.

The following horses are scratched :—Bishop of Romford's
Cob, Discord, Miss Elis, Wood Pigeon, Ould Ireland, Con-
naught Ranger, iEgis, Clumsy, As you Like it, Cocoa Nut,
My Mary, Dean Swift, Wild Roe, Bold Archer, and Col-
lingwood.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY, norm

2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.

Tibthorpe was examined this evening by Mr. Field, and
pronounced to be of the proper age.

ENTRIES FOX THURSDAY.

Handicap, T.Y.C., 5 Subs., two of.whom declared :—Beau-
mont, 5 yrs, Bst I ilb—Paulton, 4 yrs, Bst 91b—Lyons, 4 yrs,
7st 91b.

Sweepstakes, T.Y.C., winner to be sold for 1501.—Fugi-
tive, Alexa, Forget-me-not, Nell Cook, Killi Krankie, fby
the Saddler out of Fanchen, Malvoisie.

Queen's Plate, R.C.—Woolfdog, 4 yrs—Maynooth, 4 yrs—
Keppel, 4 yrs—Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs.
Sweepstakes, T.Y.C.—Brown Bess, b fby the Doctor out
of Sister to Dromedary, The Precious Youth, c by Redstreak
out of Balance.
THE 1,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
All are scratched but Wilderness, Mendicant, Ennui, Tau-
rina, Mowerina, Ukraine, Giselle, and two or three others
that are safe not to run.
LATEST BETTING.
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
6 to 5 agst John Day's lot 5 to 2 agst Wilderness.
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Best Bower 23 to 1 agst Inheritress
10 to 1 agat Sweetmeat 25 to 1 agst Magnet
13 to 1 agst The Baron 30 to 1 agst Hope
15 to 1 agat Pedometer 35 to 1 agst Petit Morceau
18 to 1 agst Miss Burns 40 to 1 agst Vol au Vent—t.
20 to 1 agst Kent's lot, bar Best Bower.
Mr. Gully has declared that it is uncertain whether Wea-
therbit will start.

7 to 2 agst Sting—t
7 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes
18 to 1 agst Toni Tullock
20 to 1 agst Humdrum
25 to 1 agst Brocardo—t
13 to 1 agst Osprey

BY.
25 to 1 agst Spithead
30 to 1 agst lago—t
30 to 1 agst Fancy Boy
40 to 1 agst Poynton—t
50 to 1 agst Peri colt—t.
OAKS.

15 to I agst Mendicant—t.

GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.
—Yesterday the Lord Mayer and the Lady Mayoress gave a splendid
entertainment to the' judges and many of the principal members of
the bar and their ladies. Amongst the company at dinner, which
was laid out in the Egyptian-hall, and supplied with the most
luxurious prodigality by Messrs. Ring and Brymer, were the Vice:

•
Chancellor and Lady Shadwell, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Chief
Baron Pollock and Lady Pollock, Judges Park, Wightman, Alderson,
Rolfe, Erle, Platt, Dodson, and Haggerman, and their ladies ; the
Attorney and the Solicitor-General and their ladies; Lieut.-Colonel
Frederick and Mrs. Smith, Colonel and Mrs. Harris, Captains Paley
and Steele and their ladies ; Sir F. and Lady Simpkinson ; Sergeants
Talfourd, Channel, Thompson, Allen, Wilkins, Bain, and their ladies ;
the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Bethel, Mr. Wakelin, Mr. Clarkson,
Mr. Bodkin. Mr. Laurie, Mr. Locke, Mr. Merewether, and several
other barristers, and their ladies ; the Chamberlain, the Common-
Sergeant, Mr. Pritchard, the High Bailiff of Southwark, and other
City officers, and their ladies ; Mr. C. B. Baldwin, M.P., and Mrs.
Baldwin, Miss Vidler (sister to the Lady Mayoress), Miss Bamber,

Mr.' and Mrs. W. Johitson. Mr. and Mrs. 81vewright, the Rev.

Charles Farebrother and his lady, Mr. Deputy Broven and Mrs.
Brown, Mr. France, Mr. Palmer, Mr. C. Palmer, Mr. John Wood,
Chairman of the General Purposes Committee ; Aldermen Thompson,
Sir Peter Laurie, Farebrother, Gibbs, Sir George Carroll, Hooper,
Musgrove, Farncomb, Hughes Hughes, Sidney, and Moon, and their
ladies ; Sheriff Laurie and Mrs. Laurie ; Under-Sheriffs Wire and
Bircham and their ladies, &c. The usual toasts were proposed, at.

knowledged, and drunk with much cordiality, and the entertainment
passed off with more than ordinary éclat.
THE GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.-
The third anniversary in support of the funds of this institution came
off yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishepsgate-street. Lord Ash-
ley took the chair shortly after six o'clock. There were also present
Lord Lilford, General Briggs, the Rev. H. Dupuis. Mr. R. V. ,
Richards, Mr. W. Jerdan, Dr. Williams, Dr. Forbes, the Rev. Mr.
Brown, the Rev. Mr. Lusignan, Mr. Hopkinson, Mr. Strahan, Mr.
Fowles, Mr. Carter Hall, Mr. Brewster, the Rev. Dr. Laing,
kc. At the end of the room there was an assemblage of
ladies, whose presence added considerably to the attrac-
tions of the evening. The musical arrangements were undor
the direction of. Mr% Hobbs, assisted by Messrs. Francis,
Chapman, and Hatton. The usual loyal and patriotio toasts
having been given out by Mr. Toole, the toastmaster, and drunk
with the honours, the, Noble Lord in the chair proposed the toast of
the evening, " Success to the Institution." His Lordship, in pro-
posing this toast, expatiated at some length on the merits of the In-
stitution, and observed on the niggardly manner in which governesses
were remunerated for their services. He regretted the necessity for
the existence of a society of that sort, because individual benevo-
lence ought not to suffer the class which the company were met to
aid to require the assistance of public charity. His Lordship having
concluded, several other toasts were drunk with the honours, and
amongst them the " Health of the Chairman," which was proposed
by Lord Lilford, and for which Lord Ashley returned thanks. The
amount of subscriptions was large, reaching to nearly 1,5001. The
health of the ladies having been drunk, the oompany broke up shortly
after eleven o'clock.

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BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BLUES. Yesterday the
usual half-yearly meeting of the members of this society was held at
the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report of the
Directors, and to cleat by ballot three additional pensioners on the
funds of the charity. Perkins, Esq., in tke chair. The report
stated that the society was founded in 1824, and its members consist
chiefly of persons who have received their education upon the royal
and ancient foundation of Christ's Hospital, end has for its objects
the relief of their less fortunate schoolfellows, by granting annual
pensions or weekly allowances, to the aged and infirm, and affording
temporary relief to distressed widows and orphans of Blues. There
are now thirteen pensioners on the funds, which yesterday's election
will increase to sixteen. The males receive 121. each per annum ;
and the female pensioners 101. each per annum. The financial state-
ment showed that the donations during the past year amounted to
631. ; annual subscriptions, 1331. 7s. ; dividends on stock, 881. 16s. bd.;
the pensions granted, to 87/. ; temporary relief, 1011. 10s. ; loans,
801., leaving a balance in treasurer's hands of 1071. 4s. 10d. The
flinded property consists of 6,1001. Three per Cent. Consolidated Au-
' nuities. A petition to both Houses of Parliament against the Cha-
ritable Trusts Bill was unanimously adopted. The business of the
day being concluded, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the
meeting broke up.

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SALE OF ANCIENT ARMOUR, &C.—Yesterday a sale
by auction of a rare and genuine collection of ancient armour and
weapons of various nations, collected by the late E. J. Andrews, Esq.,
during his travels in the East, took place at Messrs. Oxenham's
rooms, in Oxford-street. Many of the lots were extremely curious,
but the prices they fetched remarkably low. Some of them were pur-
chased for the Tower. ♦ suit of knight's cap-a-pie armour complete,
the breast-plate of line form; time, about the middle of
the 15th century, when this description of defensive armour had at-
tained its greatest perfection, sold for 26 guineas. Amagnificent salt of
Saracenic chain-armour, the links of the chain embossed with verses
from the Koran, only realised 5/.los. Another suit of similar armour of

the time of the Crusaders, fetched but 41. Whilst a Saracenic hel-
met of the same period sold for 2/. 10s. The state flag of the Joni-
saries, composed of the finest silk, white ground, with deep crimson
border, worked in gold in verses from the Koran. This flag was
purchased by Mr. Andrews; on the destruction of the Janizaries in
1825, at Constantinople, for 601., and on being brought into this
country that gentleman paid an ad valorem duty of 501. upon it.
It was knocked down yesterday for 201. The next let, a case con-
taining the mummies of several small crocodiles, brought from the
caves of Manfalente, near Thebes, sold for 61. 15s. The other lots,
consisting of swords, battle• axes, ancient musical instruments,
Turkish and Arabian costumes, fetched equally low priees.
COMMISSION OF LllNACY.—Yesterday a commission
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de lunatic° inquirendo was opened at the glieriffs'-oftice, Red Lion-
square, before Mr. Commissioner Winslow and seventeen special
jurors, to inquire as to the state of mind of Henry Pollard, Esq.,
aged sixty-six, a retired Manchester warehouseman, formerly of
Walworth, hut TiOW an inmate of Dr. Warburton's lunatic

asylum. The commission, which was unopposed, was taken out at
the instance of Mr. Peter Pollard, of the Commissioners of Sewers
office, brother of the unfortunate gentleman. From the
of the Learned Counsel, the evidence of Mr. Lambert,lLMlier s
surgeons tas
turn surgeon
at St. Luke's Hospital, Messrs. Phillips and
itappeared
Dr. Warburton's establishment, and other witnesses,ce
sit taken to
that tlio unfortunate gentleman was of necessity
St. Luke's on the 7th of June, 1544, and subsequently to Dr.
Warburton's. Ile had the delusions that he was immensely rich,
that he was the Prince of Poland, one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
and visited by his wife (recently dead), who, he said, had chat med
away ids legs at Woolwich, and afterwards charmed them back again
to pay his debts. lie also imagined that presents of fruits, &e., were
occasionally sent to him by the Lady Mayoress. Mr. Pollard, when
introduced, seemed somewhat calm, and could not be induced to
enter upon his delusion. He complained that he was not allowed to
go home and manage his own property, and said that he had been
grossly imposed upon when the income-tax was first levied upon
him. His general remarks were, however, so unconnected and inco-
herent as to satisfy the jury, who returned a verdict, dating the un-
soundness of mind from the 7th of June, 1544.
THE NEW TARIFF. The Commissioners of the
Customs Department have issued instructions to collectors and con-
trollers of the revenue at the several ports and places throughout the
United Kingdom to prepare and transmit to the Inspector-General of
Imports and Exports, with the least possible delay, the undermen-
tioned amounts, so far as the same relate to their respective ports,
viz. :—A,return of the quantity of each description of goods entered
for consumption, free of duty or upon payment of a decreased rate of
duty, in pursuance of the resolutions of the House of Commons, and
in accordance with their orders, to those officers in March last, to
carry such resolutions into immediate effect, distinguishing those
cases in which bonds have been required from the importers to pay
the duties heretofore chargeable, in the event of the repeal or re-
duction of duty not receiving the sanction of Parliament. It will
be recollected that the first resolution of the House, and the Trea:
sury order consequent upon the same, had reference to the admission
01 maize or Indian corn meal, buck-wheat, and rice at new and re-
duced rates of duty, on a form of bond, adapted and framed for the
purpose, binding parties to pay the former rate of duty, or difference
of duty on the articles so delivered, in the event Of the resolution
not passing into a law, and which appeared in full in our columns at
the time ; and the second comprised the general revision and altera-
tions of the tariff, admitting numerous articles of foreign produce
and manufacture, free of duty, and a large number of others at re-
duced rates of duty, upon the terms or conditions of the parties
availing themselves thereof, abiding the ultimate decision of Parlia-
ment in the matter. The return is to be made up to the Bth instant
inclusive. Whether this return be required for Parliamentary pur-
poses, or for the especial information of the Government, does not
appear, as no mention is made in the requisition of the purpose for
which the same is required.
A correspondent, who thinks that the " unclaimed
dividend" books of the Bank of England should be open to the whole
public, is not aware of the dangerous consequences that might result
from complying with his wish. At present, books containing the
names of stockholders, and the date on which the first dividend was
payable, are to be obtained ; and though the price of these may be
beyond the reach of the humblest classes, we do not believe that this
would preclude all chance of their recovering their property, if they
could give a tenable reason for supposing they had a claim.
Iftoo
much information wore afforded, a great facility would be
the famous
given to
fraud and forgery, and we might have a repetition o
" Barber" case constantly occurring. The officers ofth. facco giving accountant's
department., 's
department, therefore, reserve to themselves the power
tailed statements to persons who show a right to receive them, and
receive
or
very properly refuse to gratify what may be idle curiosity, some-
thing werse.—Tines.
It is stated in the City, with toile ciliegiw resey of
h have
ceonfl.
n dreeenaceto,
that the directors of the London and York
open a negotiation with the Eastern Cou 2u, u a
view to a
wan
dis-
solution of the first of these compenies.—Xlmff

THE DANISH CLAIMS.
(From the Daily News.)
The question bf the Danish claims, after four distinct ad-
judications by Parliament in favour of the claimants, is pro-
posed to be again brought before the House of Commons to by Mr. Hawes. These claims originated so far back
as 1807, out of the seizure and sequestration of certain Bri-
tish ships and cargoes by the Danish Government, in reprisal
for that extraordinary aggression by which the British Go-
vernment obtained forcible possession of the Danish fleet. The
attack upon Copenhagen, and the capture of the fleet, were,
as is well known, acts preceded by no declaration of war; the
Danish reprisals followed as a matter of course on the in-
stant, as no formal declaration of war could be necessary
after such aggression. In the case of Buenos Ayres, now
waiting a solution, it is clear that if the Argentine Go-
vernment had made seizure and confiscation of British
property upon the capture of its squadron by.the com-
bined British and French fleets, as in fact it might have
stood rightfully justified in doing, the owners would
be entitled to claim compensation from their own Govern-
ment, which could not refuse the demand, however it might
seek and obtain, or not, indemnity from Buenos Ayres. The
Foreign-office insists that there is no war with Buenos Ayres,
although British men-of-war have been bombarding and
storming Argentine forts and batteries; so that if war were
actually declared to-morrow, it could have no retro-active
effect in barring claims created under another state of affairs.
The British Government of that day also declared that there
was no war with Denmark, the capture of the Danish fleet
notwithstanding; although subsequently, and now, in order
to defeat rights incontestably established, and more than ad-
mitted formerly by ministerial action and implication, it is pre-
tended to construe an ordinance issued by the Danish
Government after the seizure and sequestration of British
ships and cargoes referred to, into a declaration
of war, and the actual declaration, when it did come,
as, by retro-active effect, converting the provisional
seizure into a case of lawful prize of war. Perhaps the strong-
est point against the Government, however, is the admission
of Mr. Percival, the Minister of that day, that a fund was in
hand and set specially apart, for the satisfaction of these
moJiTahl
"The sum
the claimants ao,not so
0:
since and now contested claims, and thus stated in the me-
which was derived from the con-
fiscation of the Danish ships and cargoes,
was actually_ paid
over to the public service, instead of remaining
hrooitscloafiinithe
Crown, • because there were certain merchants who
compensation out of it for the losses they had sustained,
arising from the manner in which the war had brokout.'
Mr. PercivarsSpeech,3oth May, 1810."
The following extracts from the memorial Strikingly exem-
plify the hardships of the case, and the injustice of which the
claimants have been the victims, in some instances to their
rain.

"It will be remembered that these claimants were invited
to present their claims—that, by the express directions of the
Government, they incurred the labour and great expense of
procuring the necessary evidence from Denmark, Norway,
and the several seaports of England and Scotland to sub-
stantiate their respective losses--that the claims, after a rigid
scrutiny of each case, have been regularly adjudicated on by
Government Commissioners—and that, although Parliament
has four times decided in their favour, yet a new pretext has
been brought forward, on every occasion, for denying them
justice. The grounds now assumed by the Government for
opposing the claims is, that the seizure so made was in effect
hostile capture during war—that there is, consequently, no
obligation on the part of the State to indemnify against such
loss—and that it would be a dangerous precedent to depart
from this rule, in consideration of any peculiar circum-
stances of hardship. The claimants assert, and are pre-
pared again to demonstrate, that the seizure was not
made during an acknowledged state of war, or by way of
hostile capture. It is alleged that an ordinance published at
Gluckstadt on the 16th of August, 1807, was a declaration of
war by the Danish Government. The claimants assert, and
are ready to prove, that it was not such in fact, and was not
so regarded either by the Danes themselves or by the British,
until it suited the policy of the British Government so to
designate it. Again, with some inconsistency, it is alleged
that the declaration of war, after the seizure of these vessels
and cargoes, did, by a retro-active efficacy, make what was
originally a provisional seizure by way of embargo, for en-
forcing satisfaction, or by way of reprisals for taking sum-
mary redress, a capture by enemies, and consequently lawful
prize of war. The claimants deny that this legal refinement
of constructive 'relation, even if maintainable at all, can
change the character of reprisals, or release the state from
its obligation to indemnify. • • • • •
" There can be no risk of establishing a dangerous precedent
by granting these claims, though there may be, and will be,
in refusing them. Is itljust that the merchants who were
navigating the Baltic in the full security of existing ami-
cable relations, should, by the consequences of an act of
their own Government—sudden, aggressive, unwarranted by
any precedent—of which they neither did nor could have
surmised anything beforehand—be stripped of their property,
without one shilling of compensation? More especially, it
is respectfully asked, is the refusal of compensation justifiable
when, by a like, but far less warrantable, seizure of Danish
property by the British authorities, a fund was realised suffi-
cient for 'the indemnity required--a fund, too, avowedly set
apart for that purpose."

REPORTED VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO LIVER-
FooL.—A paragraph has appeared, stating that Prince Albert has as _ .

cepted an invitation to Lii;erpool, for the-purpose of laying the foun•

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dation-stone of ithe Sailors''Hone. The announcement is, at any
rate, premature; we are not aware that anything is yet definitively
known upon the suhject. We shall be happy to find that arrange-
ments can be made for bringing about so desirable an event.—Liver-

pool Courier.
The name of Prince Albert appears the first in a
recently-published list of the benchers of Lincoln's Inn. _ _ _

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The Earl of Aberdeen entertained the Cabinet Minis-
ters at dinner last evening at Argyll House. There were present—
the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Haddington,
the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
the Earl of Elleuborough, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somer-

set, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl St. Germans, and the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert.
An institution has lately been established at West
Bromwich by G. S. Kenrick, Esq., the objects of which are to furnish
the working classes with a place of resort in their leisure hours, and
means for innocent recreation; to diffuse general and useful know-
ledge among the people; and to aid their desire to improve their
tastes and habits. It consists of a library, reading, news, and class-
rooms, and the subscription is but one penny per week. Lectures on

important subjects will be occasionally delivered; and the reading-
room is furnished with two daily and several London newspapers, the
best periodicals and the local papers.—Birmingham Gazette.

. .
PEDESTRIANISM.—George Clarke -has undertaken to
walk, at the West End Retreat Gardens, Heigham, Norwich, 1,500
miles in 1,000 successive hours, walking a mile and a half at the be-
ginning of each hour. He commenced this wonderful task at seven
o'clock in the evening of Saturday, the 11th instant, and up to seven
o'clock in the evening of Thursday completed 432 miles. Ho does
not appear to be the least fatigued; if we may Judge from his pre-
sent appearance, there is no doubt but that lie will accomplish this
unheard-of undertaking.—Yarmouth Chronicle.

THE Bor JONES.—The boy Jones, of palace-entering
notoriety, who, it will be remembered, was some years ago shipped
on board the Warspite as a boy of the second class, did not come
kome in her, but was transferred to the Inconstant shortly before the
Warspite's leaving. He had then attained the rating of an ordinary
seaman. At climbing he had no superior In the Warspite ; on one
occasion lie climbed to the main truck, and seating himself there,
threw off his hat, jacket, and shirt, and flung them on deck. He is
represented as well conducted, and a very good seaman, considering
the time he has been at sea.

CHILD MURDER.—At the Jedburgh Circuit Court,
on the 21st instant, before Lords Moncrieff and Cockburn, Ann Car-
ruthers, of Gretna, was charged with the murder of her child, by
putting into its ni‘ntth small pieces of coal. She was found guilty,
and sentenced to be transported for life.

THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST. Within the last
fortnight, a farm at Collingbourne, Wilts, consisting of about 500
acres, the property of the Marquis of Ailesbury, became vacant.
During that brief period the Noble Marquis has received (we are in-
formed) no less than eighteen applications for it from unexceptionable
tenants. So much for the anticipated effects of the repeal of the
corn-laws.

SCOTTISH HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday a Special General
Court of the Governors of this ancient corporation was held, at their
Hall, in Crane-court, Fleet-street, for the purpose of electing sixty-
three poor persons as pensioners on the funds of the institution ;
Robert Low, Esq., presided. The result of the day's election was,
the admission of 33 individuals of the age of seventy and upwards,
to be recipients of a pension of 101. each per annum ; and a second
class of persons, 30 in number, from the age of sixty-live, to pensions
of Si. per annum each. There are (including yesterday's election)
now on the funds of the institution, 130 pensioners; being 100 at 101.
a year, and 30 at 801. a year.
Mr. Henry G. Watson, who has just gained one of
the Scholarships recently founded by the Council of King's College,
was for five years a pupil of the AU Souls and St. Marylebone Dis-
trict Grammar-School, in union with King's College. :qr. Watson
carried off last year the highest prizes both in classics and mathe-
matics.

HAVE YOU GOT A ToßY?—The shower of missives
from railway directors, all referring ti the stock case of " Woolmer
v. Toby," which has been falling incessantly on unhappy ailotteci,
for the last week or two, has given rise to the constant inquiry,
" Have you got a Toby ?" Once upon a time, when people met to-
gether at a street corner, the remark was, " It's a fine day," or " It's
very wet." as Use case might be ; but now, one hears nothing but,
" Have you got a Toby ?"—Boston Herald.

DEATH- OF A FATHER AND SON BY SUFFOCATION.—
A very afflicting accident, but one unfortunately of frequent occur-
rence, took place last week in the works of Messrs. Bagnall, Toll
End, by which a father and son lost their lives. It appears that on
Saturday morning, Thomas Onions, one of the men engaged in the
works, went into a pit through which the pipes that supply the
works with gas empty themselves, for the purpose of pulling out .he
plugs and letting out the water. In doing so a great quantity of gas
rushed out, and the unfortunate man fell down nearly suffocated.
Not returning out of the pit, which was only three or lbur feet deep,
the son hastened to his father's assistance, when he too was over-
come with the gas, and fell down senseless. The young man was
drawn out a few minutes afterwards, but he was quits dead. The
father, who was lying in the pit a considerable time longer W. not
dead when taken out, and hopes were entertained of his recovery,
but he survived only till the following' day (Sunday), when he ex-
pired. Inquests were held on the bodies before George Ilincblifle,
Esq., coroner, when, it appearing that no blame could he attached to i
any one, the father having the care of tile pipes for many years,
verdicts of "Accidental death" were returned.— Wo.nerlianapton
Chronicle
GRAVESEND, APRIL 29.—THE SHIP
m BRAHDIbIiNlle.—t
accommodationsin
nnthee
detachment of the 10ih Hussars, which was to have been embarked
pect to continuesher Ou
on board the Brahmin for Calcutta. still
vessela
l t this 1 iisn rdesay, and the result is stated to
eseAltrtoionpsspettioknpolaf theeae
again for these
be —an order to lighten the ship, and to len arge the accommcgiatious
for the troops. These alterations are a full
duct of the officers. justification of the con-
BRITISH MUSEUM—To
Museum will be opened until seven o' cl in
-morrow (Friday) the British
be continued to the end of August. to k the evening, and will
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.—A
meeting of the council was held on Wednesday at the Society's house,
in Hanover-square; the President, Lord Po
There were also present his Grace the Duke
Hof the
chair.
Richmond Earl
Spencer, Viscount Hill, Lord Braybrooke, Hon.
H.
H
Clive, M.P.,
Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., Mr. T. W. Bra
Mr. A. E. Fuller, M.P., Mr. J. H. Langstene, M.P., tone, M.F.,
M.P., Mr. W. R. C. Stonsfield, m.p., Colonel M`Don 11 Mr.
3 W.
Miles'
Cure, Mr. A. Ogilvie, Professor Sewell, Mr. F. p a y, Ir. Capel
ne, Mr. Fisher
Hobbs, Mr. D. Barclay, &c. Twelve new member);
were
and the names of thirty-eight candidates proposed for
e otadmitted,
ion. Mr.
P. Pusey, M.P., chairman 01 the journal committee, transmitted to
the council the reports of the judges in the classes of essays on grass
lands and manure work. The 101 l
:—To M owing adjudications were con-
firmedr. John Broxenden, surveyor, of Cirencester, the So-
ciety's prize of 501., for the best essay ou the advantages or dis-
advantages of breaking up grass land ; to Mr. Hugh Rayn-
bird, of Kingraves, near Bury St. Edmunds, a prize of 201., for the
best essay on measure work in its application to agricultural labour.
The President took the opportunity of communicating to the council
the results of some experiments made on the growth of potatoes
from diseased tubers, of which, on a former occasion, he had reported
progress. The most striking facts were these :—Where eyes were
planted, which had been scooped cut, but allowed to become stale.
the greater part had failed ; but where fresh eyes were planted, all
of (them were growing. Of the autumn planted potatoes, all are
' doing well in dry ground, but only half promise well in ground less
friable, the other half proving rotten. All the produce
(tom diseased
' potatoes sown has proved to be sound and good. From tubers
' planted in a hothouse, in October last, in dry heat, fine sprouts have
been taken five times successively from such tubers, and planted
along with the originalt tubers, In the open ground, for a crop ; and
luxuriantly.
' all the plants of this multiplied crop are now growing _
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, APRIL 29.
of Chatham Garrison, Colonel Sir T. Willshire,
The Commandant Regiment,
l K.C.8., has directed the officer in command of the 65th Ibis
' Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Gold, to select a detachment of bold
corps,_
them in readiness
' consisting of 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, and 44 privates, and to
neat
on
to embark at Woolwich, on the 3d ofMay n .
' board the John Calvin convict ship, as a convict guard, to proceed in
I charge of eon B _arrym:h
convicts for Norfolk Island. Captain St. T,eger
Lieutenant George Meyler, are the officers selected to take command
' of the guard. Six women and eight children
has
been pleased to
undergo medical in-
spection this day. The Commander-in. Chief le
cen,
commencing
grant leave of absence to the undermentioned i
iment, to Jane 30 ;
this month:—Captain T. M. Wilson, 96th jt:
3f.... 10; Ensign S.
Ensign P. B. Lucas, ' of the 10th Regiment, to .....
Boyle, until the Period
for ambarka-
Christian, to August 31 ; Ensign Boy
t Regiment, to lane 13, 1846. The
tion ; and Ensign Lees,
tfth(ea96 ild'aw with their detachments when
above officers will proceed
laiße iment, now In Dublin, is
ordered for embarkation. The 67th. 8
t at this garrison; when the
ex-
Ipected to succeed the 65th Regiment
regiment will be drsughted o
MIL out in convict guards AM Van Dasmen's

COMMITTEE ROOMS of the NEW

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

We have before briefly noticed that some of the railway
committees have commenced the occupation of the new Houses
of Parliament. This taking possession of a part of the yet
unfinished building confirms the expectation that the whole
may be entered upon in the next session, and the event is
worthy a more extended notice than we were enabled to
spare room for.
The Committee. rooms are at present approached by the
entrance to the old Committee-rooms, close to the porch of
Westminster Hall. The access is circuitous, and the grand
corridor, into which all the rooms open, is reached by an
ascent of various staircases, numbering altogether seventy-
eight steps. If we assume each step to be half a foot deep,
the elevation of the Committee-rooms is nearly forty feet
about Old Palace-yard. The grand corridor extends the
whole length of the river front of the building, and from
it each Committee-room is entered directly by two
doors, one entrance being for the public, and the
other for the Members. The rooms, with the exception of
two larger ones in the centre of the building, are of equal
size, being about thirty-two feet long by thirty wide, and
twenty feet high. Each of them is lighted by two windows
looking towards the river, of which they command a
magnificent view. The windows reach from near the
bottom to the top. and even with the present imperfect
glazing by small panes of glass in wooden frames, there
is an abundance of light. The ceilings not having yet
been underlined, the brick flooring by which the different
stories are divided, for the better protection against fire,
are exposed. to view and their mode of construction. It
is evident that it would be impracticable to construct a
level surface of bricks to form the roofs without supports •,
and to have given the rooms vaulted roofs would have caused
a great waste of apace ; the architect has consequently had
recourse to the construction of a series of small arches resting
on iron girders, that reach the length of the room. By this
means the space lost between the floorings by these arches
springing from iron girders, will not be above one foot ;
but there must necessarily be an immense weight resting on
the iron supports, which have to bear nearly the whole of the
pressure.
At present this magnificent suite "of apartments presents
of the
rooms consisting of the baize-covered
an extremely naked appearance, the only fittings
tables, a few chairs, a
~
deal press to contain the papers of the Commatees, a
green-
baize -
of the
baize skirting, and cocoa-nut matting. In consequence
the
reeooilminsgsarennont fabveoinugrabfilneishfoer the
d'n"rtr h
this defect will most probably be removed when they are
the walls plastered,ofsaun,
but
finished and furnished. There is, however, one material
want already apparent, that of retiring rooms for the mem-
bers of Committees. It occurred on the first day that one of
the Committees, desiring to discuss a disputed point, it was
requisite to clear the room, and all the counsel, the witnesses,
and other persons were compelled to wait in the corridor
until the deliberation was ended. This is a defect which
can only be remedied by appropriating smaller rooms for
consultation, on the opposite side of the corridor, which must,
however, be in most instances, at a considerable distance from
the room of the Committee.
At
isin a
presente
toantleyehfarleaf
doifneee,the rangeand ssome e)f of roomsthose
areon notthe eerivraef
frontr
pleted ; the others are, however, preparing,, and will pro-
bably be ready nest week. The two larger rooms near the
centre of the building, one of which is occupied by the North
Kent Railway group, are one-third larger than the others,
being lighted by three windows each, instead of by two, but
their height is the same as that of the other rooms.

DUTCti MAIL.
THE HAGUE, Aram 24.—The project of law for amending
the law relative to the commencement of the Fishery con-
tains the following article
" By a temporary modification of the 26th Article of the
Law of the 12th of March, 1818, on the exercise of the great
fishery, the commencement of the great Seth herring-fishery
for the years 1846, and 1847, is fixed by way of trial, four-
teen days earlier than usual, and permisslon given for the
nets to be cast out into the open sea on the e'vening of the
16th of June, instead of the evening of the 24th if the same
month. It is observed further in the explanaOrY me-
morial—" It is well known that for some years past the
fishermen belonging to the States, where there are no leg'l
ordinances, or such as differfrom those in this eountry re-
eDesostChelsmheenrr
lative to the herring fishery, have with more or less suc-
c:edii tahreefiasteerywedat
by
yn
Article
ar
2p6erieofd
theth law e
than the
March, 1818.

"This legislation is founded on long experience, that, in
general, it is not till the time there prescribed that the her-
ring, which is a migratory fish, is perfectly good in condi-
tion, and has reached the places most adapted for thefishery.
And if such herrings were now and then met with sooner
than usual, this did little injury to the Dutch fisheries, BO
long as other nations paid less attention to that fishery. The
case is now different, some foreign fishermen commencing
their operations sooner, make larger captures, and supply
Germany and other countries long before the Dutch tiler-
rings arrive in our parts. Last year, according to the testi-
mony of all the pilots of the herring vessels, the herrings
in good condition, were on . the coast of Scotland four-
teen days before the fixed time, and our fishermen
restricted by law, were compelled to see foreign fishermen
make their captures, which they could have made, without
detracting from the ancient reputation of the Dutch her-
ring. The consequence is that the Dutch capture smaller
quantities, and sell at lower prices for the herrings first
brought, because the sale in foreign countries was net se-
cured by the earlier supply. There motives have led the
parties interested to apply to the Government, which has
accordingly introduced the present project of law by way of
trial. In case this experiment should succeed, final regula-
tions will be made before the opening of thefishery for 1848,
to be substituted for the said 26th Art. of the Law of the
12th March, 1818 ; otherwise this temporary regulation will
fall to the ground, and the said 26th Article will continue in
force."

AMSTERDAM, APRIL 27.—At this moment, four o'clock in
the afternoon, the Royal Family arrived at the Palace, and
appearing on the balcony, were received with marks of the
most cordial affection and respect by the crowd of spectators
assembled to welcome them.

THE HAGUE, APRIL 27.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, a letter was received
from his Excellency the Minister of the Interior, accom-
panying proposals relative to education and the manage-
ment of the poor. The central section made its report on the
project of law, respecting the granting of advantages to the
French commerce, the debate on which was fixed for Wed-
nesday next.

We learn that in the projects of law, respecting the first
book of the penal code, now pending before the Second
Chambers of the States-General, various modifications are
proposed, among which is the abolition of the punishment of
the pillory.

LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF
THE FRIENDS OF POLAND.
This Association has just issued an "Address to the Peo-
Ple of Great Britain and Ireland," signed by the Vice-
resident, Lord Dudley C. Stuart, for the purpose of pro-
ducing a correct impression on the public mind of this king-
dom as to the claims of the Polish cause on universal
sympathy—the sufferings, heroism, and present condition of
the Polish nation. The document not only derives im-
portance from the recent and continuing events in Galicia,
but it derives a peculiar interest from the fact, that it is the
only address to the people of this empire which
the Association has thought it necessary to put forth
since that memorable appeal to the British people, " traced
by an immortal hand, that of Thomas Campbell," fourteen
'years ago, upon the first institution of the Society. In the
present appeal the case of Poland is ably and eloquently,
although briefly stated, and it is to be trusted that it NgAI
meet with the extended circulation and attention to which
it is eminently entitled at this critical junctare in the
affairs, at least, of Eastern Europe. In fact, the paper is
necessary to enable any one (except very few) in these
realms to understand the actual position of the Poles, and
their true relation to their oppressors. The following is a
complete but deplorable elucidation of the late atrocious
mysteries in Galicia :
"Galicia has been in the hands of the Austrians for sow
seventy-four years. It has always been the system of this
Government to rule its foreign subjects by fomenting discord
between different classes—such is its policy in Lombard,
such was it for years in Hungary. such has it always been in
Galicia. Aware of the national feelings pervading all classes,
but chiefly the better educated, it has adopted a system. art-
fully contrived for exasperating the feelings of the peasants
against their landlords, and preventing any concert between
them. The landlord is invested with great power over his
peasants, and he is not only allowed, but required to exer-
cise it. It is the landlord who is called on to collect the
taxes, to furnish recruits for the army, to try offences, and
even to inflict on offenders cirporal punishment. It is im-
passible that, under such a system, abuses should not occur,
and even if they -did not, that the peasants should owe any'
good will to those uniting in their persons the attributes of
the tax-gatherer, press-gang, and executioner. In every
district there is an officer styled mandatarius, w.hoiseendliett34
is to hear appeals 'ruin the peasants against theiler d
pnd r
et e
tod.
f the duties belonging to the
ah;t,dudee,c,eidrie,intheteiitr. difietrneicr,es,.,,le
the
.1 n
discharge many o I rdexecutive, and
eteonataptpiev:eironfecarnsv-aermilvin
lenn the Government. i s lookediighrthi
ofs
o al:" a snn ((-°l.
functionary
"P
fn-rreaf oppressor,
mtnandppeeprleei pro-
tector. The landlords have representedrepeatettdieoln•a footing,
ee**reed
andon the t
planthel alast
t
Government the necessity of improving the condition of the
peasants, and placing Oulu on a be
Diet of Galicia, after much deliberation,
for the purpose, which was laid before the Emperor; but it
was not sanctioned, and remained a dead letter."

_172.,
()An Monday, Samuel n T ANDRmOueBI yBERY AT PAINCIE
SUR
Ke wood, John Wentran, and John
Gordon, three " navies, were eminei before a magistrate at
Croydon, on a charge of breaking into
of Pahlge Common, Surrey,
to the dwelling
therefrom one ten and four -how* of Mr.
and stealing
John Phillips, a farmer, on the border
five pound Bank notes, and
also several articles of plate. F
between twelve and two o'clock Front the evidence it appeared that
on Thursday night last Mr. Phillips,
Who is a very eccentric character
and lives alone in his house, was
awoke b footsteps hearing the noise of on the stairs, and oiled out
lustily, " Who is there?" He had scarcely pronounced- the words
when three Men with their faces
He asked them blackened entered his bedroom.
what they wanted, they rushed towards his bed,
threatened they would kill him if he made the slightest noire, threw
the bed-clothes over him, and one of them held him down in the
bed while he heard the others " forraging " about the room. The
man held him down so tight in the bed that he was nearly suffocated,
and in this:state he (the prosecutor) called out to him for God's
sake to let him have a little air. The man, however, did not relax
in his pressure upon him until he had heard one of the of
They hers, who
had been forraging about, say he had found something. soon
after went away, having, however, renewed their threats of killing
him if he made any noise, or attempted to follow them. Some time
after the old man ventured to get up, and on examining his bedroom,
he found that a tin box, in wiali he kept his cash and plate, had
been broken open, and its cone its taken away. Information of the
robbery was given to the police, and Sergeant iMorten, an active
officer of the P division, was employed to trace out the thieves. In
the course of his inquiries that officer found that at a late heur of
the night of the robbery the prisoners were seen loitering about the
house of the prosecutor, and he, in consequence, apprehended them
on Saturday night and Sunday morning. On comparing one of the
shoes of the prisoner Keyward with sonic mark on the tin box front
which the property had been taken, it answered so exactly that there
could be no doubt whatever that the marks on the latter hada.benen°
caused by the former. It also appeared that lier_vfilt ',:',.0.
stranger to Phillips's house, a„s his wife had been In the
ihed tic
cihai ;gag.,
some odd jobs for the old man. The prisoners, who den
were remanded until Saturday next. THE. FREE
THE LEATHER-SELLEits' COMPANY AND
exist in
GRAMMAR SCHOOLAr LESISRAM.—Great excitement s
parishes in consequence of the re-
fusal Greenwich and the neiglibicuringt _
D.D., the head Master of the
of the Rev. Dr. Pren_dehrgas •
to receive upon the foundation of
Lewisham Free Grammar sc o µ.ill of the late I'
that institution, founded by the
-c for the past two years been
he ously tthioldren tat ha,. ed. Previ-
he elehction at Easter last, the vestry-clerkselect of each parish
t
were addressed by the Rev • Dr.
Prendergast, the Head Master, stat-
ing, that as he did not consider the sum of 301, paid to him by the
Leather-sellers' Company an adequate remuneration, the which he
had communicated to the company, and also that until
him such an increase in salary in a proportiou they
awarded
ate'
creased value of the estates, he should decline ratio to the in-
creased
of such school every scholar that receiving
on
the
f°".
Letters have passed, and yesterday might be sent to hint.
a me
ject, and remonstrances have been meeting 'was held on the sub-
made to the Leather-sellers' Com-
pany, from whom a more liberal allowance is required.
POWER OF THE SECONDARY TO COMMIT FOR CON -
TEMPT.—In the
Secondary's Court on Wednesday, before Mr. sew n•
Potter,
in a case otherwise of no interest, a witness refused 20
answer questions, and the Secondary was applied to to commit.
The
Secondary said, he did not consider lie had power to do so, but
the Court above would exercise that power, and he would take the
necessary steps to support any application—the effect would be in a
criminal cause to commit to prison, and in a civil KNOWN the
14417 r/Uld b liable to Al the coati of the Wt.