The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-08 00:00:00

The Jasper steam-vessel, Master-Cornsander Grey,
arrived at ‘I-oolwich on Sunday, and will be paid off in
a few days.
The U.sdet, hired convict-sbip, Mr. Bowman, sur-
greon-superinteLdent, has taken a number of female con-
victs on bo.srd, cod will proceed for Hobart Town in a
few days.

.HE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT IN YORKSIIIRE.
On Monday night a very large meeting was held in the
Court House, Leeds, under the presidency of the Mayor,
F. Carbutt, Esq., to receive from a deputation of the
Colonisation Society a portion of the information that
association is now in the course of imparting through-
out the manufactu-ing and agricultural districts on the
question of emigration. The deputation consisted of the
Hen. F. Scott, M.P., Mark and Lennox Boyd, Esqs , and
C. D. Logan, Esq. The speaheis were the Mayor,
Mr. Scott, Mr. Logan, Mr. Alark Boyd, Mr. Lennox
Boyd, &c. &e.
DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon, a
considerable degree el excitement prevailea in the neigh-
bout hood of Leicester-square, in cerise qa..eee of st re-
port that a gentlermn had bhut, bins It pt Green's
S')uotirg Gallery. 1.710 t the, reporer ir.quisirg at the
hst• named place he foe' d that the rum, u was too true.
Fr, in the, information tle.t the reporter gained, it ap-
pears that the name f the deceased is Macdonough,
brother to the celebrated jtwltej of that saute. About
four o'cl, ck yesterday site ri oun the dace used entered the
above shooting gallery, anti asked for two piste is to be
loath el for him, as he wished to have a couple of shots.
fhe person in atten _lance loaded the pistols, and
handed them to the de ceftst d, but he had hardly turned
his back when he le hid the report of a pistol,
net hearing the ball strike the target lie looked round,
end was h irrified at seeing the deceased lying on the
floor wt ltering in his bloo I. The attendant immediately
ran to the deceased, and on lifting him up found that he
had shot himself through the head with one of the pis-
cols. The other was not discharged. Information of
F the occurrence was sent to the police station in Vine-
street, and the inspector on duty proceeded to the spot,
and on searching the pockets of deceased, discovered
that he lodged at Lambeth-terrace. A messenger was
dispatched to the latter place to acquaint the deceased's
relatives of the melancholy occurrence. Pecuniary em-
barrassment is stated to be the cause of deceased's com-
mitting the rash act.
PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—Last night a
general meeting of the committee and subscribers to this
society, which was established in 1827, for the bene-
volent purpose of relieving aged and infirm printers
and their widows, by granting pensions of twelve
guineas per annum to the men, and eight guineas to
the women, was held at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street. Mr. Henry Fley, of Bangor House, in the
chair. The report for the past year was el a very satis-
factory character; although at the close of the last elec.
tion there were fifty-five pensioners on the funds, five
beyond the original number contemplated, the annual
subscriptions bad been more than sufficient to meet the
expenditure. his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on
being requested to become patron of the society, readily
consented, accompanying his consent with a donation of
251., and the subscription of Mr. Luke James Hansard,
since the institution of the society, amounted to 180 L
A further addition of 430/. 6s. 10d. had, in the
last year, been made to the funded property of the
society, leaking the total amount of the funded property
5,0141. 4s. 6d. The number of pensioners on the funds,
including the Whittingham pensioner, is 52, and since
the formation of the society upwards of 150 aged and
infirm members of the trade have been rescued from in-
digence by being placed on the permanent list of pen-
sioners. The total amount of the receipts for the last
year, from all sources, was 1,3781. ss. 9d.; and the
expenditure less that amount 117/. 12s. 9d. balance in
hand.
EXTENSION OF TIME FOR MAKING RAILWAYS.--
The Gazette of last night contains the formal certificate
of the Railway Commissioners, in favour of the Corn-
wall Railway, and of the Delabole and Rock Railway,
for an extension of time in carrying out their works.
By an Act passed last session, entitled, " An Act to
give further time for making certain railways," this
important power is conferred on the Commissioners, and
the specific object of the Act is to relieve the pressure
on the money market, occasioned by calls on the railway
shares, and likewise to put the railway companies in
possession of a more expeditious and less expensive
mode of proceeding than is involved in a direct applica-
tion to Parliament. A large number of railway com-
panies have availed themselves of this relief. 125 ap-
plications have been received and con.idered. Of these
121 have been entertained, and in moat cases the appli-
cations for the extension of time asked for has been
granted for the full additional term of two years allowed
by the Act. Four applications were refused, on the
ground that there were special provisions in the Act
making the completion of the railway compulsory.
PROTECTION OF TRADE.—A"llleEting of the Lon-
don Association for the Protection of Trade, was held
last evening in Exeter-Hall, Mr. G. Cotton in the chair,
to protest against the recent conduct of the managing
committee of that body, in taking steps to effect the
amalgamation of the Association with the City of Lon-
don Trade Protection Society. The London Associa-
tion consists of 2,000 subscribers, and was established,
as stated by the chairman, for the protection of trade
by the detection of impostors endeavouring to obtain
goods on false pretences, fur the collection of bad
debts, and for securing the advice of a paid solicitor
on matters of business. It appears that the manag-
ing committee hare lately voted its amalgamation
with the City of London Society, without ob-
taining the concurrerce of a genet al meeting of the
subscribers, and without having given any notice of
their intention to their constituents, and that they have
further discharged the officers of the association and
closed its premises. The conduct of the commivee was
condensnt d in strong terms by Messrs. Owen Sedgwick,
Green, Hill, and other speakers, as surreptitious, and a
vio!ation of public duty, and resolutions to that effect
were adopted.
Three days ego Visccunt Oliver d'Archiac, son-in-
law of Marshal Ggrard, lost his life by the following
accident:—Being out shooting near Beaune, he was
giving his dogs some bread, when, in their struggles for
the morsels, one of them touched the tiigger of his
fowling- piece and let it off, lodging the charge iu his head.
ALLEGED RAPE AND MURDER.--Yesterday an
inquest was held in St. George's-in-the-East on the body
of Catherine Linsdale, aged ten years, who died, it is
supposed, from the effects of a potion, given her by
sailor, or in consequence of the violation of her person,
which had followed the administration of the drug. -The
inquest was adjourned in order that the precise cause of
death might be ascertained by a post mortem examina-
tion. The monster who thus ill-treated the poor girl is
at present unknown.

SALE OF THE QUADRANT COLONADE.—Yesterday
the finishing stroke to the work of Nash was given by
the disposal of the columns forming the colonade of the
Regent-street Quadrant by public auction. The sale
took place at the Caf6 de Paris, Vine-street, and excited
considerable interest, the room being crowded by archi•
tects, surveyors, builders, and a large number of the in•
habitants of Regent-street. Messrs. Eversfield and
Horne were the auctioneers. Tho auctioneer having
read the conditions of sale, said that, with reference to
the fourth, requesting the buyer to clear the lots within
twelve days after the sale, it might occur that the columns
would not be in a condition to be removed so soon.
When that happened parties would receive notice, and
in three days alter such notice they would be compelled
to clear the lots. The columns were divided into lots
(of four, six, and two each) for the convenience of pur-
chasers, and on the first lot being put up, consisting of
six columns, the auctioneer stated that each column

weighed 35 cwt., and cost the sum of 351. in putting up.
The first offer for each column was U. los. Eventually
the six columns in this lot sold for 7k 10i. each, exclu-

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sive of the granite plinths, which were sold separately.
The other columns, forming the twenty-nine lots, fetched
sums averaging from 61.55. to 71. 103. each. The entire
number of columns sold yesterday were 144, out of the
270 forming the colonade, and the sum they realized
in
li
upwards of 1,0001. The granite
p columns stand were next sold.
fiththes aggregateupon iwchasthe
They were lotted in a similar manner to the columns,
and fetched from 11. 2s. to 1/. 4s. each. The names of
the purchasers could not be ascertained, but it was un-
derstood that the principal portion was purchased for
the Eastern Counties Railway Company.
FIGHT BETWEEN GILL, OF COVENTRY, AND Tom
MALEY, OF LONDON, FOR 100/.—This long-talked of
affair was brought to a termination yesterday, near An-
dover, when Gill, at the end of seventy-lour rounds,
which occupied two hours and thirty-nine minutes, wai
declared the winner.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY FEYERSHAM,-.•
In our obituary of yesterday we briefly recorded the de-
mise of this lady, who expired on Sunday last, alter an
illness of three months' duration. Her Ladyship was
the second daughter of the first Earl of Dartmouth, and
was born in 1774. She was the mother of the present
Lord Feversham, the Honourable Captain Duncombe,
M.P., the Honourable Octavias Duncombe, M.P., and
eight other children.

ABOLITION OP CIIRISTMAS Boxas.--Last night, a
meeting of deputations of tradesmen of all trades from
St. Luke's, Islington, Mile-end, St. Pancras, Clare-
market, Southwark, &c., representing several associa-
tions in those neighbourhoods, was held at the London
Coffee-house, Snow-hill, " for the purpose of affording
tradesmen, in all parts of the metropolis, time and op-
portunity for uniting firmly in suppressing the custom at
the ensuing Christmas, and to adopt measures to carry
that object into effect." A long conversation took place u
to the best plan to be pursued, when a resolution was
agreed to unanimously, " that the custom of giving
Christmas box€s is unjust in principle, injurious in prac-
tice, and entails such a heavy tax upon tradesmen that it
ought to be abolished."

SHEEP STEALING IN SULAM—We are sorry to
hear that the crime of sheep stealing is greatly inereas-
lag in this county. Within the last few da',s fifteen
sheep have been stolen frora dif4rent flocks in the pa-
rishes of Leatherhead, Cobham, Walton, &c. So daring
are the thieves, that the skins have been found quite
warm within a short distance of the proprietors' dwel-
ling. The police have such information given them as
is likely to lead to the detection of the guilty party.
SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Friday an inquest was
held on the body of Thomas Hutchinson, who died at
the Leeds Infirmary on Wednesday last. The deceased,
who was only twenty three years of age, followed the
occupation of a shepherd, and on the 23d of September,
in dressing the feet of a sheep, he had occasion to use a

knife, and during the operation the animal made a start,
and came in such violent contact with the instrument

that the blade was plunged into his left thigh, pene-
trating the femoral artery. On the 14th of October the
deceased was removed to the Infirmary, where he re-

Verdict accoidingly.— Leeds

mained till his death.
Mercury.
FALL Or AN AVALANCHE..--News from Lucerne
announces the destruction of the diligt•neo of Mont St.
Gothard by an avalanche. One of the pasongers lost
his life.