The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-18 00:00:00

LONDON YACHT CLUB.

The match amongst the yachts of this club fora silver cup,
which was undecided about three weeks ago, was yesterday
re-sailed. The following started:—
Yachts. Tons. Owners.
Don ..... 7 ...... Messrs. J. Gardner.
Nautilus 6 . ..... J. P. Helme.
Hazard
The distance sailed was from East Greenwich to Gravesend
and back. The start took place at twenty minutes to twelve,
when the Don went out in advance, showed the way down to
the flag buoy, which she rounded at twenty-five minutes to
two; Hazard was second, at twenty-one minutes to two;
and the Nautilus close on her stern. The Don held her lead,
winning by forty minutes; the Hazard being second, the
Nautilus having carried away something on her way up.

From a Parliamentary Paper issued this morning,
giving an account of the net Public Income of the United
kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the year ended the
sth day of July, 1846 (after abating the expenditure there
out defrayed by the several revenue departments), and of the
actual issues or payments within the same period, exclusive
of the sums applied to the redemption of funded or paying off
unfunded debt, and of the advances and re-payments for local
works, &c., it appears that the excess of income overexpendi-
ture is 2,820,472/. 13s. 6d.—Also, from an account of the Ba •
lances of the Public Money remaining in the Exchequer on
the sth day of July, 1845 ; the amount of money raised by
the additions to the funded or unfunded debt in the year
ended the sth day of July, 1846; the money applied towards
the redemption of the funded or paying off unfunded debt;
the total amount of advances and repayments on account of
local works, &c.. with the difference accruing thereon, it ap-
pears that the balances in the Exchequer on the sth day of
July, i 846, are 7,351,788/. 15s. 9id. _

WEST INDIA PINES.—TIie importation of pine-
apples is not confined to the port of London or the places in
transit thereto from the place of their growth. A vessel
called the Rival has arrived at the port of Liverpool, from
Nassau,New Providence, having on board, besides 74 live
turtle and the usual description of cargo, 600 dozen of this
fruit, the production of the place. So large an importation
into the port of Liverpool will have the effect of making them
as plentiful there as they are in the metropolis.
TOBACCO.—The regie. or Government tobacco
monopoly in France, sold in 1844 seventeen millions and a
half kilogrammes of tobacco, which prpduced 107 millions of
francs ; the expenses were thirty millions of francs. A cu-
rious picture 13 presented by the table of the average-con-
sumption in each department. Thus in Lozere, Arriege, and
hers, southern departments, the least tobacco is used ; while
in the Pas de Calais, Nord, and Seine, northern departments,
the greatest average is reached. Paris consumes thegreatest
quantity of snuff.
NUMBER OF ELECTORS IN FRANCE.—The following,
copied from official documents, gives the amount of the re-
gistered electors pf France, at six different periods .
Elections of Electors.
July, 18.31 166,185
~ 1834 171,015
Nov., 1837
March, 1839
Sept., 1842
And in 1845, according to the Alma-} 238,251
nack Royale, there are
The Directors of the London Joint-Stock Bank have
declared a dividend at the rate of six per cent., and the
surplus profit carried to the guarantee fund makes that fund
110,873/. A question was raised at the meeting relative
to a division of the amount over and above 100,0001.,
some of the shareholders seeming to think that the
maximum of a reserve should not exceed that sum ; but
the directors, it appears, imagine that 120,0001. or 150.0001.
should be the limit, and they have promised to consider the
question and report by the next meeting.
ST. BRIDE, FLEET-STREET.--A vestry meeting of this
parish was held last night, to receive the report of the com-
mittee appointed to consider of the best means of disposing of
a premium of 1,0001., arising from St. Bride's Annuity Estate,
and on other business. The chair having been taken by one
of the churchwardens, Mr. Smith, the vestry clerk, read the
report of the committee above referred to, and which was to
the effect that the said sum of 1,000/. should be invested in
the public funds until some more eligible and profitable in-
vestment should be found, the interest arising from such in-
vestment in the meantime to be applied in the same manner
as the other mt neys arising from the estate.
SUGAR DUTIES.—The Act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 29 (of
the present session of Parliament), entitled "An Act for
granting unto her Majesty, until the sth day of August,
1846, certain duties on sugar imported into the United King-
dom," has been printed and furnished to the revenue depart-
ments throughout the kingdom, for the information and
guidance of the officers of the Customs in the matter. As it
was intimated on Monday night, and again on Thursday
evening, in the House of Commons by the new Premier, that
he should probably on that evening move the continuance
of the present sugar duties for a further limited period of
time, in order to afford opportunity for discussion with re-
spect to the new measure in relation to the subject, it
may be useful to give a copy of the. new Act - now the
object of notice, which is very succinct, and is to the fol-
lowing effect :2Most Gracious Sovereign, we, your Majesty's
most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parlia-
ment assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies
to defray your Majesty's public expenses, have freely and
voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty
the duties hereinafter mentioned, and therefore do most
humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted; and
be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and tem-
poral, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, that the duties imposed
on sugar and molasses, and the bounties allowed thereon, by
an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the Bth
and 9th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled
an " Act for granting to her Majesty, until the sth day of
July, 1846, certain duties on sugar imported into the United
Kingdom," shall be turther continued until the sth day of
August proximo, 1846. 2. And be it enacted that all the
clauses, powers. provisions, matters, and things contained in
the said Act, shall be extended to this Act, and to the duties
and bounties hereby continued, in as full and ample a man-
ner as if the same had been repealed and re-enacted in this
Act and made part hereof. 3. And be it enacted, that this
Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in
the present session of Parliament.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—We have this week to re-
cord an act of savage atrocity (says the Gloucester Journal)
seldom paralleled, at least in this neighbourhood, where, we
are happy to state, crimes of every flagrant nature are by no
means frequent. Alongside a meadow near the goods rail-
way station, runs a brook, called Poplar, which has for years
been a favourite bathing place with boys. This brook skirts
a meadow occupied by a man named Ward, a milkman, of
morose and excitable temperament, whose grass, no question,
has been often damaged by the trespass of the juvenile
b ithers, a circumstance which has given rise to frequent feuds
between Ward and the boys. On Saturday evening last some
lads were bathing at one end of the brook whilst Ward was
cutting with a scythe rough grass from the side of a footpath
some distance off. Near him were three little boys, two
named Abell and one named Fink, all about ten or eleven
years of age. These were not bathing, but sitting on the
bank. However, Ward ordered them to go about their
business, and for the purpose of going to their homes they
had to pass the spot where Ward was standing, with the
scythe in his hands. The two Abells passed him first, and
began running away, upon which Vard, as is stated'
ex-
claimed that he " would have a leg or a wing," and making
a sweep cut with his scythe, struck the point of the murder-
ous weapon into the lower part of the back of the unhappy
little fellow Fink, who ran a few yards and then fell to the
ground. A man named Garble came to his assistance, and
carried him home, where lie was stripped, and it was fund
that his bowels were protruding through a gaping and fright-
ful wound in his groin. Mr. Heane, surgeon, who was itn-
mediately sent tor, stanched the bleeding, re-inserted the
protruding bowels, and sewed up the wound; but the injury
was of such a frightful nature, that he pronounced very little
hope of the poor child's recovery.—Cheltenham Chronicle
DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN PAVEMENT NEARTHE BANK.
—Yesterday, in making excavations for the formation of a
sewer in Founders-court, near Tokenhouse-yard, between
there and the Bank of England, the men diseovered at a
depth of about thirteen feet from the surface, several feet of
a Roman pavement. Its appearance showed that it had been
much worn. It had formed the ground floor of some apart-
ment, as the walls still remained, and were constructed of
Kentish rags, strongly cemented together.
THE SCARCITY OF FRUIT —Ma has been the worst
fruit season that has been known for several years past. All
the growers in Kent have bad their crops blighted. The
general.