The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-22 00:00:00

DERBY.

3,500 to 70 agst Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker—taken
3,000 to 45 agst Mr. W. Jones's Magician —taken
1,000 to 15 agst Colonel Peel's Indus—taken

BURFORD'S NRW PANORAMA or TUB RUINS 07
Foul-Km—The new Panorama of the Ruins of Pompeii,
painted by Mr. Robert Burford (assisted by Mr. H. C. Selous),
will be opened to the public to-morrow, at the Panorama,
Leicester-square. We were this morning favoured with a
private view of this exquisite work of art, which
is surpassingly beautiful. Mr. Burford has here had
the advantage of the Italian sky which throws such a deli-
cious hue over every objeet, and he has reproduced the
delightful atmospheric effects with a truthfulness which
leaves nothing to desire. The ruined city appears in the
fore ground backed up in the distance by the Appenines,
while Mount Vesuvius seems louring over the de-
voted city in all the sublime majesty of irresistible power.
The localities of Pompeii are here all traced out, and so com-
plete is the illusion that it requires no great stretch of fancy
to imagine that one is really walking in the "City disin-
terred." All the admirers of Bulwer's " Last Days of Pom-
peii" should make a pilgrimage to Leicester-square. As a
work of art this is, perhaps, the finest, certainly the most
classical, painting that Mr. Burford has yet produced.
The long promised consolidation of the Boards of
Excise and Stamps and Taxes into one Board of Internal
Revenue has just been completed; though an Act of Par-
liament will be required to carry out the new arrangement.
The Commissioners will be reduced from twelve to seven,

though for the present, and till a vacancy occurs, there will
be eight. It is unnecessary to observe that money will be
saved by the change. As soon as the arrangements can be
effected there will be a very considerable diminution in the
staff of officers throughout the country.—Times.
GENERAL Tom THUMB.—The American papers
state the illustrious mannikin to be in excellent health, and
that his size and weight have not increased. He appears
nightly at the Broadway Theatre
SOUTIIWOLD, DEC. 20.—The south-west Beacon Buoy, off
the Barnard Sand, came on shore at Covehithe this morning.
" SHUTTING Or THE GaTEs."—Yesterday being
the anniversary of the " Shutting of the Gates of Derry."
the Orange wiseacre's attempted the usual glorification.
Lundy's effigy was hung upon the Testimonial at an
early hour ; but the hind swayed the poor figure about
in so wild a manner that sundry of its appurtenances,
together with the papers chronicling the misdeeds of the
original, were blown away and lost. Orange flags and
joy bells also had their part in the demonstration ; and
Roaring Meg shook her crazy sides with a few dis-
charges—the " boys" being now wont to handle her
very gingerly, in consequence of a mishap which oc-
curred to some shoeless and Unskilled gunners six or
seven years ago. " Altogether," a correspondent informs
us, " the affair was as sorry a spectacle as could be de-
sired to give the most rampant Orangeman a fit of the
blues."—Dublin Pilot.

DARING BURGLARY IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
Early on the morning of the 17th inst., five fellows, with
their faces painted, broke into the lone farm-house of
Mr. Thomas Lovell, of Catshanger, Wood-end, North-
amptonshire, and in the most daring manner stripped it
of all the portable articles of value they could put their
hands on. Three of the burglars bad guns, and the other
two had bludgeons. The barking of a dog in the house
awoke Mr. Lovell, who, having fears that thieves were in
the house, alarmed his wife, a little girl, and a young
man, who composed his establishment, and called on all
to dress themselves directly. This they proceed to do,
but ere they had finished, the villains came up stairs, and
demanded the money that was in the place. They made
' the mistress unlock her boxes. The owner had but
4s. 6d. in the house. At this they were disappointed. He
had that day sold a load of wheat and taken the money,
but had paid it away again, After getting together the
silver articles, linen, wearing apparel, a gun, a watch,
wine, brandy, hams,
to carry away, they regaled
themselves in the kitchen, and remained there nearly
three hours. During this time the inmates were made,
by 'threats passive spectators. The robbers, out of bra-
vado, fired their guns through the ceiling of the room,
and, on leaving with their plunder, left the worthy man's
ale tap running, so as to let his beer run away into the
cellar. They did not leave a change of linen for the
occupiers of the house. During Mr. Lovell's absence
from home last year a similar sweeping robbery was
committed.
ANTI-WATER MONOPOLY LRAGUE.—Last evening
a meeting was held at the Literaryinstitution, Leicester-
square, convened by the Anti-Water Monopoly League,
to take into consideration the means of obtaining a
purer, cheaper, and more abundant supply of water in
the metropolis. Mr. Horry, barrister, was voted to the
chair, and stated that there was on the chalk stratum
beneath the metropolis sufficient water to supply twenty
millions of people, pure and wholesome, and as it was an
all important question the supply of water, to promote
the health and comfort of the people, he considered that
all classes should co-operate to obtain it as cheap and
plentiful as they could. A resolution
.was passed con-
demning the present supply as dear, scarce, and inter-
mittent, and the cause of uncleanness and disease
amongst the population. It was also resolved that the
Government be empowered to purchase the rights of the
existing water companies, with a view to a better supply
of the metropolis.
GENERAL ORDINATION.—The Lord Bishop of
Hereford held a general ordination at All Saint's Church,
Hereford, on Sunday last, the 17th instant, when the
following gentlemen were admitted into holy orders,
viz.:—Deacons: George James Curtis, 8.A., Worcester
College, Oxford; William Harley, B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge; Arthur Sorcery Male, 8.A., St.
Peter's College, Cambridge; William Molineux, 8.A.,
Christ's Church, Oxford; Beanfoy James Saint Patrick,
examined student of St. Mary Hall, Oxford; James
Beadon Rogers, 8.A., St. Mary Magdalen Hall, Oxford;
Benjamin Swift, student in civil law, Queen's College,
Cambridge; William Davies, a literate person, by letters
dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Liandaff. Priesto.—
Rev. Philip Valpy Morant Filleul, B.A. Wadham Col-
lege, Oxford; Rev. Edward Lovell, Jesus Col-
lege, Cambridge; Rev. David Lloyd, a literate person,
by letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Llandaff.
AURORA. BOREALIS.—Last night (Sunday) these
aerial phenomena again appeared. They were first visi-
ble about eight o'clock in the north-east as a mass of
silver light, and then
„shooting upwards in streamers.
Between ten and eleven o'clock masses of, light, appeared
also in the south-west, and a band proceeded to cross
the heavens, joining the streamers in the opposite. quar-
ters. A little before eleven the western sky became
illuminated with a lurid red, which, after a little, broke
up into wavy streamers, shooting upwards to the zenith.
The sky was cloudy, which obscured the aurora in some
other parts of the heavens, for, through the breaks in
the masses of cloud, a clear light, as from the moon at
full, was visible. The lights were not so brilliant as on
some recent occasions, nor so generally diffused, and by
hslf:past jlev!)R they had all passed aWiip--GlaBYow
kciper.