The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-03 00:00:00

S JANUARY 3, 1848,

REMARKABLE EVENTS IN 1847,
ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

JANUARY.
2. Queen Anne's Bounty Office, in Dean's yard. West-
minster, destroyed by fire.
4. Four young ladies in a boarding-school, at Berlin,
lost their lives from suffocation, by means of a
lighted stove in their 'dormitory.
6. Dense fog in London, making gas-light necessary
throughout the day, and suspending the naviga-
tion of the River Thames.
7. First sod of the North-Western Branch Railway, at
Clestop, in Yorkshire, turned, with public cere-
monial, by Viscount Morpeth.
- The Archduke Joseph Anthony John of Austria,
Palatine of Hungary, died at Ofen, aged 69.
10. The French steam-frigate Caraibe, commanded by
Rear-Admiral Montaignes de la Roque, totally
wrecked to the north of St. Louis, in Senegal,
with the loss of twenty seamen.
- George Byng, Esq., Father of the House of Com-
mons, having represented Middlesex for a period
of fifty-six years, throughout sixteen consecutive
Parliaments, aged 82 years.
11. Tho French Chambers opened by King Louis Phi-
lippe.
12. Worth Park House, the mansion of Joseph Mon-
tefiore, Esq., nearly Crawley, Sassex, entirely
destroyed by fire.
13. Pope Pius DC preached a sermon in the church of
St. Andrea della Valle, at Rome, being the first
time during the last three hundred years that a
Sovereign Pontiff had addressed a congregation
from the pulpit.
16. The steam-ship Sirius, of 700 tuns burthen, and
320-horse power, the first steamer that ever made
a voyage across the Atlantic, totally wrecked on
her passage froth. Dublin to Cork, in Btillyeotton
Bay, and nineteen of her passengers drowned.
17. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Sphynx, of 1,056 tons
burthen and 500-horse power, went ashore during
a dense fog, between Freshwater Bay and St.
Catherine's Point, in the Isle of Wight.
- Tremendous fire at Glasgow, destroying premises
and merchandise in Queen-street, to the extent of
from 80,0001. to 100,0001. in value.
19. Parliament opened with a speech from the throne
by her Majesty in person.
24. Lieut.-General Sir Edward Gibbs, K.C.8., Lieut.-
Governor of Jersey, died at Grandville, in that
island.
30. Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M.P. for Galway, died
at Menlo Castle, in that county, aged 65.
31. Easton Lodge, in Essex, the family seat of Viscount
Maynard, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, en-
tirely destroyed by fire.
FEBRUARY.
2. The spacious theatre at Pesth, in Hungary, burnt
down.
3. A constitutional government granted by royal ordi.
nance to his people, by Frederick William IV.,
King of Prussia.
- Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Bart„ Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of Van Dieman's Land, died in that co-
lony, aged 64.
4. The Lying-in Hospital in Manchester burnt down.
6. The opium receiving vessels, Omega and Caroline,
in Chimmo Bay, near Amoy, boarded by pirates,
their captains, officers, and several of their crews
murdered, and plunder committed to the extent
of 36.0001.
8. Tremendous snow-storm of nearly twelve hours'
duration, causing a stoppage of the traffic on
several railways, especially between London and
Brighton.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Scott, only surviving
child of the author of " Waverley," died on his
passage home from India.
10. Grand dinner given to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.,
at Rome, in honour of Free Trade.
11. The Duke of Northumberland, K.G., Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge, died at Alnwick
Castle, aged 62.
12. Seventy-three persons lost their lives by the wreck
of the royal mail steam-packet Tweed, on the reef
of Alacranes, on the pasage from Savannah to
Vera Cruz.
[3. The library of the late Right Hon. Thos. Grenville,
valued at 100,000/., deposited, according to testa-
mentary bequest, in the British Museum.
[5. The renowned patriot, Don Jos‘ Palafox, Duke of
Saragoza, died suddenly at Madrid, at an ad-
vanced age.
16. Ten persons drowned by the overturning of an om-
nibus in the river from the quay at Bideford,
Devon.
- The Italian Opera House opened for the season.
17. The Queen's Head Inn, ai Newtown, Montgomery-
shire, destroyed by fire, the landlord, ostler, and a
traveller, perishing in the flames.
20. The Brechin Castle, homeward-bound, from Port
Adelaide, with the Australian mails, totally
wrecked on the Welsh coast, near Swansea, with
all her crew and passengers, amounting to 25
turfast,twithOtjuje.of her careo. valued_ with
25. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended the per-
formances at the Italian Opera-house, for the
benefit of the distressed Irish.
27. His Royal Highness Prince Albert elected Chancel,
for of the University of Cambridge, after a severe
contest with the Earl of Powis, the numbers
being-for the Prince, 953; Earl Powis, 817-
majority, 116.
28. Seventy persons burnt to death in the destruction
by fire, of the theatre at Carlsruhe, in the Grand
Duchy of Baden.
MARCH.

1. The thermometer (Fahrenheit) in Paris, at six A.M.
stood 13 degrees below freezing point.
An extensive slip of chalk, containing about 48,000
tons, 353 feet in breadth, occured at the Shaks-
pere Cliff, Dover.
Dr. Adam Black burned to death at his residence in
Piccadilly, London.
6. Terrific explosion at the Ardley Main Colliery,
near Barnsley, Yorkshire, destroying seventy-five
persons.
6. New Oxford-street, London, opened to the public.
1. The Sovereign steamer wrecked off Amity Point, in
Australia, on her passage from Brisbane, when
thirty-six passengers, and seventeen of the crew,
were drowned
14. Colonel Gore Langton, M.P., for the eastern division
of Somerset, died, aged 87, having sat in the
house of Commons during successive Parliaments
upwards of fifty-four years.
16. Mrs. Sarah Bradstock died in the Cheltenham Union
Workhouse, at the advanced age of 105 years,
the last forty-seven of which she had passed in
that establishment.
17. Several houses and farm buildings at Soham, in
Cambridgeshire, burned down by an incendiary,
the damage occasioned amounting to more than
2,0001.
20. Fifteen cottages destroyed by an accidental fire at
Ilunningham, in Warwickshire.
22. Twenty-six persons killed by an explosion of fire-
damp, in a coal mine near Mons, in France.
23. Twenty-one arches of the Liverpool viaduct on the
Liverpool and Bury Railway fell in with a tre-
mendous crash, occasioning damage to the extent
of nearly 6,0001.
Twenty-four persons killed by an explosion of fire-
damp, at one of the coal-pits of La Graine, in
Alsace.
Baron Alexander de Cetto, who had represented the
Bavarian Government during his life at all the
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Courts of Europe, died at Ma.nich, aged 71.
24. General Count Drouot, highly distinguished in the
military service of the Empire, and formerly
Aide-de-Camp to Napoleon, whom he accom-
panied to Elba, died at Nancy, in France.
General Fast.
25. Destructive fire at New Orleans, occasioning da-
mage to the extent of 300,000 dollars.
26. The funeral of Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated
actress, took place in the Church of the Made-
leine, at Paris, in the presence of ten thousand
spectators.
28. Prince Jules de Polignac, Prime Minister of Charles
X. at the period of that monarch's deposition,
died at St. Germain-cn-Laye, aged 67.
29. The city of Vera Cruz and the castle of San Juan
de Ulloa, capitulated to the American forces.
30. The Felicidade, armed vessel, employed in the
slave trade, captured with 315 slaves on board,
by her Majesty's ship Penelope, on the coast of
Africa. -

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- The anniversary of the foundation of the city cele-
brated with great solemnity at Rome, a grand
banquet taking place in the baths of Titus, near
the Coliseum, attended by 800 guests, and up-
wards of 20,000 spectators.
22. Brandeston Hall, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, recently
purchased by Mr. Austin, Q.C., entirely destroyed
by fire.
23. The extensive power-loom factory of Messrs. Fer-
guson and Co., of Mile-end, Glasgow, burned
down, by which calamity a loss was occasioned of
20,0001., and 300 persons were thrown out of
employment.
24. Alarming food riots at Stettin, in Prussia, during
which the mob were fired upon by the military,
when two persons were killed and several wounded.
25. A five-shilling piece of Charles 11. sold by auction
in London, at Coloeel Durant's sale, for 155/.
- The Duke of Argyll died at Inverary Castle, Scot-
land, in his seventieth year.
26. Fire occasioned by a cinder from the engine on a
railway train, destroying, at the village of Stoke
Canon, near Exeter, thirty-two out of sixty
houses, including the New Inn, school-room,
vicarage, and a ladies' seminary.
27. Lord Cowley, brother of the Duke of Wellington,
formerly British Ambassador at Vienna, and
afterwards at Paris, died, aged 74.
28. The emigrant ship Exmouth, bound from London-
derry for Quebec, wrecked on the coast of Islay,
when the captain, crew, and passengers, amount-
ing to 251 persons, were all lost, excepting only
three sailors.
29. Grand banquet given to Richard Cobden, Esq.,
M.P., at Florence, in honour of Free Trade.
30. The Archduke Charles of Austria, uncle to the Em-
peror, died at Vienna, in his 76th year.
- Samuel Crummer executed at Lifford, Ireland, for
the murder of his father.
MAT.
1. Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden nominated, by letters
patent under the Great Seal, to the vacant bishop-
ric of Sodor and Man.
3. Drury-lane Theatre closed for the season.
4. Commander Boyle and Mr. Milne (master), sen-
tenced by court-martial at Portsmouth to be dis-
missed the service for the loss of her Majesty's
ship Thunderbolt, on the 3d of February.
6. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at Bo-
logna, by the members of the Society of Econo-
mic and Moral Sciences.
9. Alarming flood at Manchester, occasioned by the
overflow of the Medlock, and serious losses sus-
tained by the working classes in the district
known as Little Ireland.
12. Mr. James Wraith, with his wife and female servant,
barbarously murdered at midday, in his house at
Mirfield, Yorkshire.
13. The anniversary of the birthday of Pope Pius IX.
celebrated with great enthusiasm at Rome.
15. The Carlist Guerilla Chief Tristany captured and
executed by General Pavia at Solsona.
- Daniel O'Connell died at Genoa.
16. The Earl of Besborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, died at the Vice-regal Lodge in Dublin.
17. Seven persons killed by an explosion of fire. damp,
at Beeston Colliery, near Leeds.
18. Captain Drake, 92d Highlanders, drowned by the
upsetting of a boat, at Ballyshannon, Ireland.
20. The Earl of Clarendon appointed by her Majesty in
C. uncil Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- A hundred and seventy emigrants from Sligo pe-
rished in the wreck of the Carrick brig, in the
River St. Lawrence.
21. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at
Venice.
22. The Earl of Dundonald restored to the Order of the
Bath, after a deprivation of the honour during
thirty years.
24. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at Turin.
25. Five persons killed, and several others seriously in-
jured, by the fall of a railway bridge at Chester.
' 26. Three hundred houses consumed by fire at St. De-
metri, one of the suburbs of Pera, in Turkey.
28. The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Herbert, Dean of Manchester,
died, aged 69.
' 29. The cotton factory of Mr. Bushall, at Preston, de-
stroyed by fire, damage being sustained to the
extent of nearly 5,0001.
30. Thomas Hickman, and five of his children, died from
the effects of taking arsenic accidentally mixed
with flour, at Kensal New Town, near London.
31. The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, the distinguished Scottish
Divine, died at Morningside, near Edinburgh,
aged 67.

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drowned.
0. The French men-of-war, La Gloire and La Victo-
rieuse, wrecked off the Island Ko koon-to, in lat.
35. 47, lon. 126. 21 ; crews saved.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert embarked on board
the royal yacht at Cowes for Scotland.
12. The Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic
Bishop of the London district, died, aged 56.
13. The Austrian troops took military possession of
Ferrara, the Cardinal Legate protesting against
the violation of the Treaty of Vienna.
17. The Duchesse de Choiseul Praslin murdered at the
Hotel Sebastiana in Paris.
19. The Circassians defeated by the Russian troops,
under the command of Lieutenant-General Kot-
zebue, at Au! Salty, in the Caucasus.
21. Her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian Opera,
Covent-garden, closed for the seasin.
32. Sixty-seven vessels, laden principally with grain, en-
tered the river Mersey, for Liverpool.
23. The organ manufactory of Mr. Walker, in Francis-
street, Tottenham-court-road, burnt down, pro-
perty being consumed to the extent of nearly
20,001. in value.
24. The Due de Choiseul Praslin committed suicide in
the prison of the Luxembourg, at Paris, whilst
under confinement on the charge of murdering his
wife.

27. Five persons killed and several others severely in-
jured by the explosion of the Cricket steam-boat
at Hungerford Pier.
29. The church of Welton, near Lincoln, struck by
lightning during Divine service, and one of the
congregation killed on the spot.
SEPTEMBER.
1. Terrific fire at Exeter, destroying property in
Waterbear and High-street, to the amount of
10,0001.
2. Revolutionary movement at Messina, ending in the
defeat and dispersion of the insurgents.
3. Espartero, Duke of Victory, recalled by a royal de-
cree to Madrid.
6. The Right Hon. Edward Pennefather, late Chief
Justice of the Queen's Bench, in Ireland, died.
9. Dreadful fire in the village of Cottenham, Cam-
bridgeshire, destroying property to the amount of
more than 15,000/.
11. M. de Rochow, Minister and President of the Prus-
sian Council of State, died at Aix-la-Chapelle.
12. M. Colletti, Prime Minister of Greece, died at
Athens.
15. The city of Mexico stormed and taken by the
American forces.
16. The house in which Shakspere was born, at Strat-
ford-on-Avon, sold by auction, in London, and
purchased by a committee for 3,0001.
18. Forty- six shops and sixteen houses, including a large
palace, destroyed by fire, at Constantinople.
19. The Archbishop of Gran, Prince Primate of Hun-
gary, died at Gran, aged 76.
23. Between three and four hundred officers and seamen
of the Mediterranean squadron confirmed in the
Church of St. Paul, at Malta, by the Bishop of
Gibraltar.
25. The Right Hon. Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, late
Judge in the Common Pleas, died, aged 74.
56. General thanksgiving in all the churches at the
Hague, for the abundant harvest.
27. The foundation stone of the Portsmouth, Portses,
and Gosport Hospital, laid by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert.
29. The mortal remains of Louis Bonaparte, ox-Ding of
Holland, interred with great pomp and ceremony
at St. Leu, in France.
OCTOBER.
3. Twenty-one Spanish soldiers drowned by the upset-
ting of a boat while crossing the river Ebro, near
Gandesa, for the purpose of attacking a detach-
ment of Carlists.
4. Narvaez, Duke of Valentia, appointed President of
the new Administration at Madrid.
6. M. Leontril, responsible editer of the Reforme, at
Paris, sentenced to four months' imprisonment
and a fine of 3,000 f. for having published an in-
flammatory libel.
7. Great damage sustained by an extraordinary over-
flow of the river Tay in the country round Perth
in Scotland.
8. The Right Hon. 'Sir Robert Gordon, G.C.8., late
her Majesty's Ambassador at Vienna, died.
9. The Queen Dowager embarked on board her Ma-
jesty's ship Howe at Portsmouth for Madeira.
10. The Duke de Guise, infant son of the Duke
d'Aumale, and grandson of Louis Philippe, died
at the Palace of St. Cloud.
LI. Tremendous hurricane at Tobago, destroying .5111
houses, and killing 17 persons, many others being
greatly injured.
14. The ex Raja of Sattara died at Benares.
15. The statue of Sir Robert Sale, G.C.8., the hero of
Caubul, deposited in St. Paul's Cathedral.
16. The Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Master of St. Peter's Col-
lege, Cambridge, died, aged 46.
17. General Thanksgiving for the abundant harvest.
18. The Royal Bank at Liverpool suspended payment.
19. Chartley Hall, the family seat of Earl Ferrers, in
Staffordshire, reduced to ruins by fire.
21. The Union Joint-stock Bank, at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, suspended payment.
22. Damage to the extent of several thousand pounds
occasioned to the farm buildings and stock of Mr.
Loscombe, at Andover, by the descent of a fire
balloon.
23. The Rev. James Prince Lee, M.A., Head Master of
King Edward's School, Birmingham, gaaetted
first Bishop of Manchester.
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dom.
25. The North and South Wales Bank, at Liverpool,
with twenty-one branches in the principality,
suspended payment.
27. The new Corn Exchange opened at Birmingham,
and a public dinner given in celebration of the
event.
28. Mr. William Davison, solicitor, of Bloomsbury-
square, London, committed suicide by throwing
himself from the whispering gallery in St. Paul's
Cathedral, whilst labouring under temporary in-
sanity.
29. The banks of Messrs. Brodie, at Salisbury and
Shaftesbury, suspended payment.
NOVEMBER.

1. The Queen Dowager and royal suite land-‘,l at
Madeira.
2. London visited, from five to nine, P.M., with one of
the densest fogs that has occurred in the metro-
polis for several yearn.
Major Maho.n, of Strokestown, shot dead hI an
assassin, on his return home from a meeting of
the board of poor-law guardians of Roscommon.
4. The Queen of Portugal safely delivered of a Prince.
5. The Most Rev. Dr. Harcourt, Archbishop of York,
died at Bishopsthorpe Palace, in his ninety-first
year.
7. A solemn service celebrated in the church of Notre
Dame de Victoires, at Paris, to invoke divine
protection on the cause of the Sonderbund, in
Switzerland.
8. The Earl of Minto received an audience of Pope
Pius IX. at Rome.
9. The session of the Belgian Chambers opened by the
King in person.
10. The packet-ship Stephen Whitney, from New York
to Liverpool, totally wrecked near Cape Clear, on
the S.W. coast of Ireland, nineteen persons only
being saved out of a hundred and ten in number
on board.
,2. The Hungarian Diet opened at Presburg by the
Emperor of Austria, and the Archduke Stephen
elected Palatine.
14. Twelve hundred and ninety pounds collected in the
Roman Catholic parochial chapels at Dublin for
a monument in memory of the late Daniel
O'Connell.
t 5. The session of the Spanish Cortes opened at Madrid
by the Queen in person.
G. The unprecedented number of forty-four bankrupts
published in the London Gazette.
t 7. The Right Rev. Dr. Musgrave, 13shop of Hereford,
translated to the archiepiscopal see of York.
18. The New Parliament assembled at Westminster,
and the Right Hon. C. S. Lefevre unanimously
re-relected Speaker.
19. Convocations of the clergy held at St. Paul's Ca-
thedral, London, and at York.
20. His Royal Highness William 11., Elector of Hesse,
died at Frankfort, in his 71st year.
21. Smart shock of an earthquake felt at Comrie, in
Scotland.
23. The Swedish Diet opened by the King in person at
Stockholm.
24. Netley Place, in Sussex, the property of J. Fraser,
Esq., totally destroyed by fire.
28. The Rev. John Lloyd, of Smith Hill, near Elphin,
Ireland, shot dead by assassins, on returning
from the parish church at which ho had officiated.
29. The olisefugees at Paris and in London cele-
brPated the seventeenth anniversary of their ma.
lution.
30. Tha e Government of Lucerne passed
decree, excluding the Jesuits for over from the
canton.

DECEMBER.
the seat of Waiter
1. Shandon House, near Glasgow',
Buchanan, Esq., destroyed by fire.
3. Six Polish conspirators sentenced to death as traitors
at Berlin.
5. Six Liverpool pilots
of a boatdrowned in the River Mersey,
by the upsetting
6. Twenty fishing beats foundered during a heavy gale,
at Newhaven, N.B.
7. Mr. Liston, the eminent surgeon, died, aged 52.
8. Four children murdered at Birmingham by their
mother, a widow, named Jane Ridout, who after-
wards destroyed herself.
10. The Bight lion. Charles Burton, one of the Judges
of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, died,
aged 89.
11. The Rev. Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of
Divinity at Oxford, nominated to the vacant see
of Hereford.
13. The editor of the National, at Paris, sentenced to
eight monthi' imprisonment, and a fine of 6,0001.,
for a libel on the Government.
15. William Newton Allnutt, aged only twelve years,
found guilty, at the Old Bailey Senior*, a the
wilful murder of his grandfather by poison.
16. A royal decree issued by the King of Basraris,
abolishing in his dominions the censorship of
the press.
17. The Archduchess Maria Louisa, widow of the
Emperor Napoleon, died •at Parma, aged fifty
six years.
25. Count Dubois, Prefect at Praris during the Empire,
died at Paris, in his nit) etieth year.