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

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. Leontre, responsible editor of the Reforme, at
Paris, sentenced to four months' imprisonment
awl a fine of 3,000 f. fur 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 lion. Sir Robert Gordon, G.C.8., late
her Majesty's Ambassador at Vienna, died.
0. The Queen Dowager embarked on board her Ma-
jesty's ship Howe at Portsmouth for Madeira.
10. The l)uke de Guise, infant son of the Duko
d'Aumale, and grandson of Louis Philippe, died
at the Palace of St. Cloud.
11. Tremendous hurricane at Tobago, destroying 510
hgreatly
iandniu injured.
killing 17 persons, many others being
14. The ex Baja 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. Ilodgson 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 Firrers, in
Staffordshire, reduced to ruins by fire.
21. The Union Joint-stock Bank, at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, suspended payment.
P. Damage to the extent of several thousand pounds
occasioned to the farm buildings and stack of Mr.
Loscombe, at Andover, by the descent of a fire
balloon.
23. The Rev. James Prince Lee, KA., Head Master of
King Edward's School, Birmingham, gazetted
first Bishop of Manchester.
24. Magnificent display of the aurora borealis, visible
about 9 P. DI. throughout most parts of the king-
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.
2S. 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-
-29. The banks of Messrs. Brodie, at Salisbury and
Shaftesbury, suspended payment.
NOVEMBER.

1. The Queen Dowager and royal suite landed at
Madeira.
2. London visited, from five to nine, p.sr., with one of
the densest fogs that has occurred in the metro-
polis for several years.
Major Mahon, of :Strokestown, shot dead by 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.
12. The Hungarian Diet opened at Preaburg 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. •
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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 he had officiated.
29. The Polish Refugees at Paris and in London cele-
brated the seventeenth anniversary of their rev°.
lution.
30. The Provisional Government of Lucerne passed
a decree, excluding the Jesuits for ever from the
canton.

DECEMBER.
1. Shandon House, near Glasgow, the seat of Walter
Buchanan, Esq., destroyed by fire.
3. Six Polish conspirators sentenced to death as traitors
at Berlin.
5. Six Liverpool pilots drowned in the River Mersey,
by the upsetting of a boat.
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 Right lion. CI arles Burton, ore 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 months' 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 rifey SesiCre, of the
wilful murder of his grAndfather by poison.
16. A royal decree isped by. the King of Bavaria,
abolishing ,in his dominions the censorship of
the press.
17. The Archdlichess Maria Louisa, widow of the

_ Emperor Napoleon, died at Parma, aged fifty-
six years.
25. Count Dubois, Prefect at Paris during the ga3pire,
died at Paris, in his ninetieth year,