The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

according to the earliness or lateness o f
the season, in April or May, I would
advise him to make immediate application at the
Crown land or Company's office (I prefer the former),
for fifty acres of wilderness land, and to commence
clearing in earnest. His wages, if not spent in!drinle,
will provision him for some months ; while he, with
the help of his neighbour, builds his log hut, clears
at least half an acre of ground, and gets it ready for
cropping the nest spring. In the autumn, if be is
not prepared for the winter, he must take another
turn at lumbering, unless he is lucky enough to get
employment under some gentleman-settler, to chop
firewood, split fencing poles, &c., for which he will
get from 3s. to 3s. 6d. currency per day. Next
spring let him return to his farm as early as possible,
and harrow in his oats : he need never leave it again.
If, after the first trial, the lumberer's life should be
found to possess irresistible charms, I would advise
the emigrant to give up all ideas of farming on his
own account. The two occupations cannot be carried
on with any chance of success in the latter.— A Lum-
berer, in Sidney's Emigrants' Journal.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 23.
T. H. WAKLEY V. HEALEY.
In a brief report of this case in Tte Sun of Monday,
in which it was stated that a verdict wa3 returned fur
the plaintiff with 403. damages, we omitted to state that
Sir Frederick Thesiger, in opening the case fur the
plaintiff, did not ask for damages, but solicited only the
" retro verdict of the jury" in vindication cf the plain-
tiff's character.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.—WOOLWICH, DEC. 26.—Cap-
tain Wynne's company arrived at head quarters on Sun-
day afternoon from Devonport. Captain Harrison's
company, 11th Battalion, has received orders to proceed
to Languard Fort and Harwich on Tuesday next, to
relieve the soldiers of Captain Turner's company at those
stations. Captain Harrison's company, on their arrival,
are to send out four recruiting parties to Suffolk and
Norfolk. There is now no doubt that a considerable
augmentation of this branch of the service will take
place, as it is intended the troops of the Royal Horse
Artillery, the field batteries, and the officers, non-com-
missioned officers, and men of the battalions are to take
the routine of duty in the East Indies, or in any part of
the world where their services may be required.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—A
Christmas tree is annually prepared, by her Majesty's com-
mand, for the royal children. The tree employed for this
festive purpose is a young fir, about 8 feet high, and has
six tiers of branches. On each tier or branch are ar-
ranged a dozen wax tapers. Pendant from the branches
are elegant trays, baskets, bonbonniers, and other recep-
tacles for sweetmeats, of the most varied kind, and of all
forms, colours, and degrees of beauty. Fancy cakes, gilt
gingerbread, and eggs filled with sweetmeats, are also
suspended by variously coloured ribands from the
branches. The tree, which stands upon a table covered
with white damask, is supported at the root by piles of
sweets of a larger kind, and by toys and dolls of all de-
scriptions, suited to the youthful fancy, and to the seve-
ral ages, of the scions of royalty, for whose gratification
they are displayed. The name of each recipient is
affixes to the doll, bonbon, or other present intended for
it, so that no difference of opinion in the choice of
dainties may arise to disturb the equanimity of the illus-
trious juveniles. On the summit of the tree stands the
small figure of an angel, with outstretched wings, holding
in each hand a wreath. Similar trees are arranged in
various apartments of the Castle for the Duchess of
Kent and the royal household. These trees are objects
of much interest to all visitors at the Castle, from Christ-
mas-eve, when they are first set up, until Twelfth night,
when they are finally removed. They are not accessible
to the curiosity of the public, but her Majesty's visitors
accompany the Queen from room to room to inspect
them when they are illuminated. Her Majesty's tree is
furnished by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, whilst
that of the Prince is furnished according to the taste of
her Majesty. The other trees are jointly provided by
her Majesty and the Prince, who plan and arrange the
gifts of the table.-111u.strated News.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY. —As was tO be ex-
pected, there has not been so brisk a market this day as
for some time past. The holiday season has in part
contributed to this, but the late advance in the raw ma-
terial has been so great that such buyers as are anxious
to operate have been prevented doing so to any great
extent. It is evident, however, that the demand for
goods, both at home and abroad, is still increasing, and
that the late improvement has arisen from the most legi-
timate source. For the last twelve months our pro-
ducers have kept their stocks as low as possible, the
result of which has been that the first increase of de-
mand produced considerable competition amongst the
buyers. That competition has continued to increase up
to the present time; and, except the price of the raw
material is raised to a factitious standard, there is no
doubt that state of things will continue for some
time to come. The prospects at the termination of the
year are certainly brighter than for some years past.
JEALOUSY AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday evening, be-
tween five and six o'clock, a young woman committed
suicide by precipitating herself into the Thames, Bank-
side, Surrey. It appears that she had been drinking at
a public house in Blackfriars-road with a young man,
when another female entered, to whom he paid greater
attention, and the unfortunate woman, smarting under
the slight, left in tears, and though followed by her male
friend, who failed in reconciling her, she must have im-
mediately proceeded to put her design in execution, as
he had not parted from her more than ten minutes when
the alarm of her self-destruction reached him, on his
return home.
THE CONSTITUENCY OF ENGLAND.—On Monday
next (January the Ist) the new Act passed in the last
session (11th and 12th Victoria, chap. 90), to regulate
the time of payment of rates and taxes by Parliament-
ary electors, will take effect. It is provided that after
the Ist day of January, 1849, no person shall be re-
quired, in order to entitle him to have his name inserted
in any list of voters for any city, town, or borough in
England, to have paid any poor-rates or assessed taxes,
except such as shall have become payable from him pre-
viously to the sth day of January in the same year, and
that no person shall be entitled to be on such list of
voters unless the poor-rates and assessed taxes payable
from him previously to the sth day of January shall be
paid on or before the 20th day of July following.
THE CITY OF LONDON SEWERs ACT.—On Mon-
day next the new Act for the sanitary improvement of
the city of London, and for the better cleansing, paving,
and lighting the same, will come into operation. It
contains 266 clauses, and eight schedules of forms,
repealing for two years several other Acts of Par-
liament, and conferring on the commissioners of
sewers additional powers for sanitary purposes.
New regulations already framed will be shortly en-
forced. The sole power of cleansing, lighting, and
paving the city of London, is vested in the commis-
sioners. There are various provisions with respect to the
preservation of health and the removal of nuisances of a
similar description to clauses in the Health of Towns
Act and the Removal of Nuisances Act passed in the
last session of Parliament. It is provided that no inter-
ment in any grave shall take place which shall not
leave five feet clear of soil above the coffin,
and by the eighty-ninth section it is declared that the
poor have great difficulty at all times in obtaining and
frequently are utterly unable to procure a fit and pro-
per place in which to deposit their dead before in-
terment, and for remedy whereof, it is enacted that
the commissioners of sewers, if they shall think
fit, provide a place in which the poor, under pre-
per rules and regulations, may be permitted to
deposit the bodies of their dead previously to
interment, and to cause the bodies so deposited therein
to be decently taken care of so long as the commis-
sioners shall allow the same to remain. New houses
are not to be built without drains, and notice of build-
ings is to be given to the commissioners. Full powers
are to be given to the commissioners with respect to
all sewers within the City and liberties thereof: Penal-
ties are to be enforced against persons neglt cling or re-
fusing to comply with the provisions of the statute, and on
non-payment of fines, the offenders to be committed
to Giltspur-street prison for any period not exceeding
three months, unless the penalty or forfeiture be sooner
paid and satisfied. The Act is declared to be a public
Act, and to be judicially taken notice of as such, it is to
be called "The City of London Sewers Act, 1848," and
to remain in force for two years from the Ist January,
1849, and thence to the end of the then next session of
Parliament.
AnndAlingethtonLienTgE, .—whDuringurares
dtorambouotf eightrain
hail,}'A OF
thunder, a
o'clock on Friday, the Ist of December, a servant girl, in
NiNa,alsiesncaarnedd
brokenby painter, plumber, and
the washhouse of Mr. Atkins
glazier, Fishhearvtoinng, a loudo crashh as oefiltia
heavy body
in the yard adjoining. Owing to thendatrkenelasveoT the
night she could not ascertain by what the crash had been
produced; but early on the following morning she found,
scattered about the yard, fragments as if of an iron
I stone, the external surfaces rounded and polished, and
the internal radiating from many centres. Some of the
rounded prominences of the stone have a blistered ap-
pearance, not unlike some specimens of chalcedony.
Note of these fragments (of which Mr. Atkins picked
up about one pound twelve ounces) had the slightest
influence on a magnetic needle. Numerous other frag-
ments, reduced to powder, were not collected, but un-
fortunately swept away.—Salisbury Herald.
A young man, Collette, was condemned, in a recent
sitting of the Court of Assizes of Calvados, France, to
hard labour at the hulks for life, for assassinating •
fellow-workman named Le Soudain. On the 25th May,
after spending the day together, the prisoner and the
deceased were walking by the side of the river Orne,
near Heronville Saint Clair, when the former struck the
latter several blows on the head with a heavy club, and
threw him into the river. He waited calmly looking at
his victim struggling in the water, and when he iluo-
ceedcd in reaching the bank rushed on him, beat him
again on the head, and pushed him into the river. lie
then remained until quite sure that he was dead. The
motive of this clime appeared to be only to steal a port-
manteau, containing money and effects, belonging to the
* eceased. The jury having, in giving their verdict,
declared that there were extenuating circumstances, the
persons present in court gave expression to their feelings
by hissing.
LATTER-DAY SAINTS.—The Perth Advertiser says :
—" On the Sabbath night a number of the disciples of
Joe Smith were observed wending', their way through
the town, as if bent on some special purpose; the little
company, by the adhesion of the wonder-seekers as they
went along, was soon augmented into a crowd that con-
tinued to enlarge till it reached the side of the river on
die North Inch, where it halted; when two men and a
woman, after being surrounded by their respective friends
began to strip in the moonlight, arid were forthwith led
into the Tay in succession, and severally baptised in the
new faith by immersion.