The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

WAGES PER DIEM, WITHOUT RATIONS.

59 Blacksmiths, 7s. ; 67 boot and shoemakers, 6s.
Bd. ; 4 brickmakers, 7s. ; 9 bricklayers, 7s. ; 1 brazier.
6s. Bd. ; 7 curriers, 6s. ; 83 carpenters and joiners, Bs. ;
19 cabinet-makers, 7s. 6d, ; 9 coopers, 6s. Bd. ; 7 engi-
neers. 10s. ; 1 French polisher, 6s. Bd. ; 22 mill and
wheelwrights, 6s. Bd. ; 30 masons, 7s. ; 2 miners, ss. ;
1 nailor, 3s. 6d. ; 11 printers, Bs. ; 24 painters and
glaziers, 6s: ; 1 plumber, Gs. ; 4 plasterers, 6s. ; 6
quarry men, ss. ; 3 shipwrights, 10s. ; 13 lawyers, 10s.;
13 saddle and harness-makers, 65. ; 41 tailors, 7s. ; 9
turners, 7s. ; 9 tinsmiths,
.6s. ; 2 upholsterers, 7s. ; 5
watch-makers, Bs. 6d.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ROLLS COURT, Dec. 24.

WOOD V. lIITCHINS. • •
Mr. TURNER stated, that this was a petition to dis-
charge the receivers appointed in this suitoviiieh related
to the will of the late James Wood, of Gloucester, banker,
and for a reference to the Master to tax the costs of the
receiver and all other parties, and• that the costs of the
petitioners and the other executors might be taxed as
between solicitor and client.

Mr. KINDERSLEY for the next of kin applied that
their costs also might be taxed, as between solicitor and
client.

The MASTER of the ROLLS granted the order prayed
for by the petitioner, but said he could not comply with
the prayer of the next of kin.

Mr. RINDERSLEY-TiliS Suit was instituted to prove a
will by which these gentlemen are getting 1,200,0001.
Surely then they should give us costs as between solicitor
and client.

The MASTER of the llous—l must leave you to make
that appeal to them.
The remaining petitions being disposed of, the Court
adjourned till Hilary Term next.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 24.
IN RE HENLEY.
The bankrupt in this case was a broker in Savoy-
street, and the amount of his debts and liabilities have not
as yet been officially announced.
This day being appointed for the choice of assignees,
a number of creditors came forward to prove their debts.
The greater number of those submitted for the consi-
deration of the Learned Ccinmissioner were claims aris-
ing out of promissory notes, against many of which it
was urged that they were accommodation bills, and that
there had been no consideration received for them.

The total amount of the claims proved at this hearing
was 1,0081., which was established by four creditors.
After a long discussion, Mr. George John Adlard
printer, of Bartholomew close, was chosen assignee.

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE
SCOTT, K.C.B.—We have to record the death of the
above gallant Admiral, the intelligence of which reached
the Admiralty on Thursday last. The melancholy event
took place on Tuesday last, at his villa, at Petersham.
The deceased Admiral, who was second son of Mr. John
Scott, of Galor, Selkirkshire, and collaterally related
to the Buccleuch family, was born in 1770, and married,
the 27th of October, 1810, the Hon. Caroline Douglas,
daughter of the late Lord Douglas and Lady Frances
Scott, sister of Henry second Duke of Buccleuch. He
entered the navy at the early Elge of eleven years, and
when Lieutenant of the Bellerophon, was present in
Earl Howe's actions of the 28th and 29th of May, and
the Ist of June, 1794, and actively distinguished himself
in the following year when in the Niger at the destruc-
tion of a French convoy. During the mutiny at the
Nore he was!the means of rendering great service to the
Government, for which he received the thanks of the
Committee of Merchants. When in the command of the
Stately he superintended the landing of the left wing of
the army under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and for his
services on that occasion he was presented With the gold
medal of the Order of the Crescent,. When in the Ho-
ratio, in 1809. he was severely wounded in a gallant
action with the Junon French frigate, of the largest
class, which he captured, and for his conduct on that
occasion has been in the receipt of a good service pen -
sion of 3001. In the succeeding year, 1810, he captured
the French frigate La Necessite, bound to the Isle of
Franco with stores. The gallant Admiral was nominated
a Knight Commander of the Bath Sept. 13, 1831. Ilis
commission was dated as follows :—Lieutenant, Feb. 19,
1791 ; Commander, Sept. 19, 1796 ; Captain, June 15,
1798; Rear-Admiral, May 27, 1825; and Vice-Admiral,
Jan. 10, 1837.

•
A STRANGE CEREMONY.—In front of every
chair were small baskets, heaped one above another,
full of small, brittle balls, filled with red powder, and
alongside them large bowls of thick yellow saffron, and
long gold squirts, with which each of us armed our-
selves. As soon as we were all seated the Rajah took
a large butter-boat kind of article, filled with the said
saffron, and poured it on Sir Henry s bald head ; while,
at the same time, the prime minister rubbed him all
over with gold and silver leaf, mixed with red powder.
We were all holding our sides with laughter at the chief
bowing to all this, wondering the meaning of it, when our
mirth (or rather mine) was changed into grief,at having one
eye nearly put out by a long-bearded gentleman opposite,
who deliberately threw a ball, filled with red powder,
into one eye, while another facetious youth closed up the
other with saffron soup. The origin of this ceremony
I am not sufficiently acquainted with Hindoo mythology
to explain, but the custom of throwing red powder about
is universal anon, that sect throughout India; and our
servants, though prevented by respect from actually com-
mitting the atrocity, still bring round a plate with some
of it at this season, and to expect a present in return.—
Captain Pane's Five Years in India.
FIRE-DAMP EXPLOSION AND Loss OF
THREE LIVES.—An explosion of fire-damp took place at
Horn, near Hales-owen, in the colliery of me. Attwood.
A man named Churchhill, another named Jones, and a
boy, were in the pit, and fell a sacrifice. Their bodies
have not yet been recovered : repeated attempts were
made on Wednesday last to descend the shaft, but the
atmosphere was found to be too impure to sustain life,
and the attempt to recover the bodies was necessarily
abandoned. When the. explosion first commenced the
fire spread with fearful rapidity, consuming all the wood-
work in the pit, together with the ropes, &c., and could
not be extinguished for several da3 s. Five horses were
in the mine at the time, and were, of course, destroyed.—
Worcestershire Chronicle,