The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-04 00:00:00

ARMY PRIZE-MONEY.

Tiae Account of Unciaimed Army Prize-Money (formerly
made by the Deputy-Treasurer of the Royal Hospital at
Chelsea), from January 18, 1809, to December,3l, 1845,
directe t to be annualty lai,a before the Houses of Perlin
meat by the Act 2 ill. IV.. c. 53.

Dr.
To Cash arising from Forfeited and to
claimed wares of Prize-Money,
Grants, &c ....C1,081,346 11 6
To (Hilo ari,ing from the Dividends, or In-
terest of Moneys invested in the Pub- •
lie Funds or other Government
Securities . . 223,972 10 4

£1,305,319 1 10

By Cash refunded to Claimants £671,326 2 5}
By Expense in executing Acts from Jan
18, 1809, to December 31, 1845 57,689 1 Oi
By Sums paid for the Royal Hospital, in
diminution of the Annual Vote 572,331 14 sif
Balance (vide Memorandum below)... 3,972 3 10i

£1,305.319 1 10

Mem ORAND um.—Although the balance upon this Account
appears to be as above stated, yet there is in the Three per
Cent. Consols, 100,000/. Stock, invested on account of Army
Prize. Money, the interest whereof is included annually in
the Parlistnentary estimates. and is applicable to the pay-
mint of prize claims; and when the amount thereof, in ad-
dition to other sums received on the same account during the
year, exceeds the claims paid, the balance is taken by the
Paymaster-General as an appropriation in his accounts. The
difference between the above balance, viz., 3,972/. 3.. 101 d.
and the 100,0001. Stock in the Three per Cent. Consols,
arises from the investments in that stock having been made
when the funds were very low, and from the sales thereout,
as occasion required, having been from time to time effected
when the prices were considerably higher.
RICHARD HEAVE, Secretary.
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, June 25, 1846.

AN ENGLISHMAN'S DEATH TN A

STRANGE LAND.
The following account of the death of Charles W.
Thompson is given in a letter from the American mis-
sionary, Mr. Ives, stationed in the Sandwich Islands.
It is cit( d Eionululu, March 14, and appears in a recent
number of the ew Yerk Commercial Advertiser:—
, "We followed to the grave yesterday, Charles W.
Thompson, aged 29 years, foremast hand of the Panama,
Captain Crowell. Ile was the eldest son of Lieutenant
Colonel Thompson, who now resides in Nottingham,
England, and who served under Wellington in the
Peninsular war, and also at the battle of Waterloo.

"He received the name of Charles William Byron,
his mother being a second cousin of the poet, Lord
Byron; but he preferred to drop the name of Byron.
"After graduating at Christ's College, Cambridge, he
was ordained over a parish of the Church of England.
Not being pleased with his situation there, and having
conscientious scruples about the connexion of Church
and State, his relation with his parish was dissolved.
His father had then acquired land in the United States,
and Charles, with his wife, was proceeding thither on
business connected therewith, when the vessel, being
driven by a strong current, and surrounded for many
days with a thick fog, instead of reaching New York,
was wrecked on the shore of Halifax.

his wife, in consequence of exposure, was thrown
upon a bed of sickness, and about a month after expired.
In consequence of loss from this wreck he was obliged,
in order to prosecute his business, to return to England,
and on his reaching America the second time was
wrecked on Long Island. After forming acquaintances
in the family of Mr. Vanfleet, of Hyde-park, in Duchess
County. New York, he was again married. His second
wife died in ch:ldbed, leaving him a little son, whom he
left at Hyde-park, wish his grand -parents ; thence pro-
ceeding south, on business, the vessel was run aground
on the Jersey shore, which wag the third time that this
unfortunate man had been wrecked, where he lost his
remaining all. Becoming now discouraged, he found
his way to Sag Harbour, where his name was enrolled as
a foremast hand fur a whaling voyage in the Pacific.
" Before sailing he became acquainted with some of
the principal families in the place, who endeavoured to
persuade him from his anticipated voyage, with the
omise, on the part of the Rev. Mr. Capis, of finding
him employment as tutor in their academy. Failing in
this, the ladies of the place presented a request to Cap-
Lairs Crowell that he would be particularly careful of
Thompson.

" Though he says he had not lifted a 50 pound weight
before in his life, he was now ready at every call, and
by his prompt obedience' ingratiated himself iato the
favour of his master and officers, and by his meek and
obliging conduct into the good-will of all his companions.
Whenever a dispute arose among the hands, they inva-
riably looked on him to settle it. Yet he was not back-
ward in reproving sin among them, when he saw an oc-
casion. I found on getting acquainted with him, that by
his extensive travels in Europe and America, his reten-
tive memory, his excellent address, and a command of
language, he was a man qualified to please and interest
in the most intelligent circles.
" It may be interesting to his friends abroad, should
they meet with this, to know that a week before he died,
be accompanied me to an outward district, and addressed
the natives twice, while I interpreted. In the evening
he spoke of the enticements which sailors set before
them, and earnestly warned them to use every means to
resist them. In the morning he addressed them again
from these words—' Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lo

ird,' and spoke as one who had recently reflected much
on that blessedness.

" Jan. 28, at three o'clock, P.M., he entered into our
house apparently much fatigued, and requested the
privilege of reclining. I showed him a bed, where he
soon sunk into a fit of apoplexy. Upon discovering his
situarion, 1)r. White, of the Majestic, was called, who
attended upon him assiduously ; but notwithstanding
what could be done, his spirit departed that evening
about eleven o'clock.

" Watch, therefore; for ye know not what hour your
Lord cloth come.' "

PRICE OF BREAD.—Wednesday the 41b. loaf was re-
duced from Bd. to id, by the best bakers, and from 61/id. tc
by the cheap bakers, in various districts of the me-
tropolis.
The Earl of Eglinton has purchased the spacious
mansion of the Earl of Lovelace, in St. James's-square. The
sum stated to have been given for the property is 14,0007.
LAMENTABLE DEATH OP A MEDICAL STUDENT.—
Thursday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., and la highly-respectable
jury, assembled at the Cock Tavern, Phoenix-street, Claren-
don-square, Somers-town, to prosecute an investigation into
the lamentable circumstances attending the death of Mi
George Francis Webb, lately residing in the above street.
The deceased gentleman, who was in his 26th year, was a
medical student. Mr. G. Olive, of Soho-square, said that he
was distantly related to the deceased, and last saw him alive
on Monday, the -29th ult. Witness knew that he had lived
en very unhappy terms with his wife, and had formerly ex•
ibited a very unsound state of mind. On that day he ex-
pressed to witness a wish to go abroad, in a somewhat de
sponding manner, and intimated that he cared very little
what became of him. Witness was aware that he had been
and
dthaelshoacboitnsoifdetisekid ihuemwass•helnseb:eurriodgeporensdseerd
sionmsepisrpites..
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ties of insanity. Mr. John Wrentmore, surgeon,
on being called to attend deceased he' found
cii stated that
the bed; there was a bottle by his side which hatTc lying
oat
morphia. The usual antidotes were administered,° contained
n
never rallied, and, sinking gradually, he expired at aboute
half-past one on the following morning. The jury,after
short consultation, returned the subjoined verdict "Thaat
the deceased died from the effect of morphia, but in what
state of mind he was at the time he took it there was not
sufficient evidence before the jury to enable them to decide.
Lord Alvanley is improving in health at Bath.
ANECDOTE OF LOUIS PHILLIPPE.—On Friday, while
the King was stopping to change horses at Essonne, on his
way back from Fontainebleau, an elderly woman, rushing
through the escort at the risk of being trodden to death by
the horses, reached the door of the royal carriage, and, being
seen by his Majesty, presented to him a small piece of paper,
which he received. The carriage immediately afterwards
drove on, but a very short time had elapsed before an orderly
officer returned, and delivered to M. Cullion, sub-prefect of
Corbeil, who had been in waiting for the King, the pool
woman's petition, in which were several pieces of gold, which
were immediately delivered over to her. The petition stated
that she was a travelling pedlar, who had fallen sick at a
public. house, and incurred a debt of Bf., which she could
not pay, and as a guarantee for which the publican bad de-
tained her dog, who was her only companion and friend.
The fact was, she owed the publican 18f., but she had 10fr.
in her purse, and she could not, she said, deceive the King
by asking for more than she actually wanted to pay het
debt. It is gratifying to add that the sub-prefect of Corbeil
ascertained that the woman bore an excellent character.—
G alignani.
THE OBSTINATE BARBER.—We mentioned to out
readers, some weeks ago, that the whole of the pile of old
buildings at the upper end of John-street and Prince's-street
was to be immediately pulled down, and that a beautiful
edifice, to be devoted to business purposes, was to be reared
on the site. The tenants of tile re pective houses were
settled with, and they quitted the premises forthwith, all
save one, an unflinching barber, who occupies a little shot
at the ccrner of John-street. The demolition of the pre-
mises has gone on from day to day, but the barber remain:,
fizied as his poles, for he has two of them elevated as em
blems of that rigidity of determination on which CHsar prided
himself when he spoke of the north star as emblematic of
his resolution. The houses have been tumbled to heaps of
rubbish, and four stories have been taken from above his
head, but the barber has stood unmoved amidst the fall
of rafters, the wreck of gables, and the crash of bricks.
Thought his cabin has smoked like an Esquimaux hut
from the stoppage of his chimney, though clouds of pul-
verised mortar have swept past his doorway, and his shop.
now reduced to a hut, is scarcely, save in front, to
be distinguished from the masses of ruin to which it apper-
tains, still the barber has not been induced to strick his
poles. Thus, like the banners of Macbeth, which flouted the
sky to the last, they project forth, as if in defiance of the ut-
most havoc that bricklayers' labourers can effect. All this
valiant resistance is worthy of a better cause. The barber
when he heard that the tenements were sold, and that the
site would be wanted, set the purchaser at defiance, held his
shop as a fief to which he was entitled without doing homage.
and now is determined not to quit without compensation.
An. off N‘
er, • •
e are it.formed has been made to him, which he
refuses to acchich are ept, and, in return, he has named his terms,
plied with. deemed so exorbitant that they cannot be com-
plied
upon suluethbarber has held out till not one brick re-
mains What will be the n
e save those which compose his own walls.
that early this
sxt move we known not, but we under-
standand change his quartesrvse.ek
_lie will be constrained to yield
ASYLUM FUR ALE i. er 1
news.—Gri Thursday at poor. ORPHANS, WESTMINSTER•
of the above excellent noon Court of the Guar-
diansroom of the institution, to
was held in the Board-
quarter ; Mr. Williams in the chair. t4Tereport for the past
presented, which showed that a bequest
orploorolashlandgilreeenn
given to the asylum by a lady of the name
of anes and
5001. had been invested in the Three per Cents., a motion
was submitted that a guardian giving a donation of 25()
guineas should be entitled to the presentation of a child to
the institution during the life of the donor, exclusive of any
other benefit. The Rev. Mr. Curling observed that he wished
to know whether ha would be entitled to any vote? The
Chairman said that he would not. Mr. Forrester proposed
an amendment that that the donor he allowed 10 votes.
The Chairman put the question, when the amendment was
lost by a large majority, and the report was received and
gored: Thanks were then voted to the Chairmanond the
Court bra" llit, A