The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-03 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX.

Up to Tuesday evening the lists from the different
districts had not been received, consequently no opinion
could be formed as to the amount of new claims. The
number of objections are about equal on each side, viz.,
750 Liberals and 750 Conservatives ; considerably be-
low those taken by the Liberals alone last year. The
particulars will be made public in the course ot'a few days.

SEWING SILK.—On a recent importation into one of
the principal outports of a parcel of sewing silk, from Hong-
Kong (China), the party paid the duty leviable on manu-
factures of silk not particularly enumerated, &c., 15 percent.
on the value of the same, upon which it was delivered for
home use by the officers of the revenue. The importer being
subsequently informed that he had entered it under a wrong
denomination, and that he should have described it as being
organzine thrown silk, and which is free of duty, made appli-
cation for the duty to be returned. The matter involving a
question of some importance, it was referred to the heads of
the department in London. It appears that some years since
an importation of the same description of article took place,
and was entered by the proprietor at a low rate of duty, but
was detained by the officers of the revenue as being liable to
a higher rate of duty, as organzine thrown silk, and was sub-
sequently directed to be charged with the then higher rate of
duty leviable on that article. The article sewing silk not
having been inserted in previous tariffs, it necessarily could
not be specifically declared free under that particular head;
but by the recent Act the article organzine thrown silk has
been declared to be free of duty, and as it has been ruled that
sewing silk, dyed, was organzine thrown silk, and subject to
that rate of duty when it was higher than the other descrip-
tion of silk manufacture mentioned, it is deemed that it is
now entitled to the privilege conferred by the new Act, and
it has been decided to be admissible free of duty. The
sewing silk alluded to is imported from China, but is not
considered equal to the sewing silks manufactured in this
country.
THE PARLIAMENTARY PBINTERs.—After the labours
of a protracted session the printers in the employ of Mr.
Hansard, about 250 in number, went down to Brighton on
Monday morning, and dined at the King and Queen, where
an excellent dinner was provided for them. 31r. Hansard,
who was himself staying in Brighton, did them the honour
to take the chair. After the removal of the cloth, the usual
loyal and patriotic toasts were proposed, after which the
health of Mr. Hansard was given by the senior compositor,
and, it is perhaps needless to add, responded to with the
utmost enthusiasm. We understand that Mr. Hansard be-
haved most liberally to his men.
Inspector Partridge, a most intelligent and active
officer of the A division of Metropolitan Police, has lately
(from the efficient services he has rendered the country by
bringing Hocker, Beaumont Smith, Oxford, and other noto-
rious criminals to justice, and from his being an excellent
linguist and translator) been appointed to a lucrative situa-
tion as commissioner of police for the Isle of France.
ROBBERY OF EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS IN GOLD AND
SILVER AT THE NORWICH RAILWAY TERMINUS.—NOR-
TUESDAY.—ConsiderabIe interest was excited in
this city yesterday, by a robbery of the most extensive
character, which took place at the terminus of the Norfolk
Railway. According to the information furnished the writer
by the railway authorities and the police, it appears that
immediately after the arrival of the first down-train, it was
discovered that the cash box of the company, and which
was kept in the office attached to the station, had been
emptied, and its contents, amounting to upwards of 8001. in
gold and silver, carried off. The key was still remaining in
the lock, but the cash, what had become of it, nobody
knew. The necessary alarm was given to the officials of the
company, and infotmation of the depredation was promptly
forwarded to Mr. Garrington, the chief constable of the
city, when a most active search was instituted. A
large number of his force were posted in all parts
with a view of tracing the plunder, but up to a late hour
not the slightest clue could be obtained. A general opinion
seems to prevail that the robbery must have been committed
by some party connected with the office. There are suspi-
cions in a certain quarter, but, lest they should not be cor-
rect, the omission of names is advisable. Mr. 11. Bolling-
broke, one of the city magistrates, and who is the resident
director, was engaged the whole day in examining the ser-
vants of the company, and the premises in the locale of the
robbery, but without arriving at anything satisfactory as to
the whereabouts of the property. The spoil weighed near
half a hundred weight, and consequently its removal must
have been a work of much difficulty. We understand that
on a Monday morning there is generally more cash in the
office than on any other day, there being the receipts of
Saturday night after the bank closes, of Sunday, and of
Monday morning. It seems that it should have been paid
into the bank before the hour the robbery was committed.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—EarIy
this morning, as one of the vans, laden with baggage and

furniture bilOnging to some of the non-commissioned 'Officers
of the Grenadier Guards, was on its way to London, an ac-
cident occurred by which one life was lost and several persons
seriously injured. On the front ladder of the van some bed-
ding had been fastened with cords, and on the bedding several
soldiers' wives and children were seated. Among them was
the wife of Sergeant Robinson, with an infant not more than
a week old asleep on her lap, when just as the van was pass-
ing the gates of Frogmore Lodge, the cords with which the
bedding had been tied, suddenly broke, and the beds, the
women and the children, were all tumbled pell-mell into the
road. The sergeant's wife had her shoulder dislocated, and
her baby falling on its head, died almost instantly. Several
of the other women and children were much injured, and the
driver narrowly escaped having the wheels pass over him.
The injured parties were instantly removed to the Rope
Tavern, in the immediate vicinity, and surgical assistance
was in attendance within ten minutes after the accident, and
the poor woman was humanely attended to, but her infant
was past all human aid. An inquest was held on the body
this afternoon, and averdict of " Accidental Death" returned,
the coroner observing the law of deodand had expired, other-
wise some punishment might have been inflicted on the
driver, owner, or packer of the van, for having used cords
not fit for the purpose.
GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY. Traffic
returns fi r week ending August 29, 1846 :—Passengers,
15,656; amount received, 374/. Os. Bd.
PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—VAUXHALL GAR-
DENS.—A benefit, in aid of the funds of this excellent insti-
tution, was given on Tuesday night at Vauxhall Gardens.
The "bill of fare" was most liberal. The fireworks by
Darby, and the illuminations, were most brilliant. To-
day a grand naval fete, in honour of the " wooden
walls of Old England," when all the nautical airs of Dibdin
will be sung, and the gardens will present one blaze of light,
decorated with the flags of all nations and other appropriate
insignia. On the 10th, Mr. T. Holt, the treasurer of the
gardens, has announced his benefit. He will be aided by a
host of talented professionals. There will also be a fire bal-
loon and a double display of fireworks.

TANDEM ACCIDENT.—On Friday last, as the Hon.
Arthur Ward and Mr. Byng were driving towards Falkirk
in a tandem, after viewing Stirling Castle, the leader sud-
denly became restive and unmanageable, and turned round
upon the wheeler so sharply as to snap the shaft, and im-
mediately both gentlemen were thrown out with great vio
lence, and remained upon the ground for several minutes
quite insensible. At length they were taken to the house of
Mr. Mackenzie, surgeon, of Falkirk, and received every at-
tention that was possible to administer. Mr. Byng, who was
driving at the time, escaped with a slight wound near the
left thigh ; but his riend, who was a most expert driver,
and who had but relinquished the reins two or three minutes
previous, is in great danger, suffering from concussion and
contusion of the brain. The unfortunate gentleman had
driven the same horses for above two months in Scotland,
and is in his 22d year.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—STRANRA.ER, AUG. 27.—
Last night, a little before twelve, four seamen put off from
the quay in a small boat, intending to retire for the night on
board their respective vessels, and having rowed alongside
the Scotia steamer, William Houston, mate of the Scotia, and
another of the party, sprung on board, when the small boat
immediately capsised, throwing Matthew Houston, brother
of the mate, and the other man into the water. William,
the mate, seeing the accident, and knowing his brother
could not swim, jumped overboard with the intention of
saving him, but unfortunately never saw him again. The
remaining man of the party lowered a boat from the
steamer, and succeeded in picking up William Houston, and
the other, whose name is Lamb, both greatly exhausted.
Strict search was made for the body of Matthew, but unfor-
tunately it was not found until -this morning.-Caledonian
• Mercury.

•
IMMIGRATION.
The various members of the West India interest aro
indefatigable at present in their efforts to obtain justice
for the West India colonies at the hands of the Govern-
ment. The natural indolence of men in office, and the
prepossessions of politicians and politico-economists so
sectarian as the Whigs, will require their utmost efforts,
and they will also require support from the colonies.
This will require to be given promptly, yet with fore-
thought and guarded caution in language. Much harm
has first and last been done by intermit..
ting activity and unguarded language on the
part of parties connected with these colonies-
in the mother-country, and colonists themselves.
Every discrepant opinion is laid hold of by Government
as an excuse for stopping to deliberate—that is, for
doing nothing. Every opinion that flatters their pre-
conceived opinion coming from resident colonists is laid
hold of as a pretext for abiding by their prejudices.
There are many respectable and, from their great pro-
party, influential members of the West India interest at
' home who have taken little pains to analyse the sources
of West India distress, and can only be got to move with
the body on rare and stirring occasions. All kinds of
quacks from the coloniesget round these parties with their
nostrums, and cause them to introduce disunion into the
body. Again, a few sanguine residents are run away
Kith by the El Dorado promises of a Smith, and their-
lucubrations are regularly forwarded to the Colonial
office as the public opinion of their respective colonies.
The intelligent colonists ought to la 3 their heads toge-
ther, determine what points they want to carry first,
then appeal for the support of their fellow-colonists. In
the life of Franklin—his early life in Philadelphia—
they will find a model of shrewd, sagacious, cautions,
resolute formation of a sound practical public opinion
in a not very manageable community. Similar
means must now be used to similar ends in the
West Indies. It is the crisis of these colonies'
fare. There are discordant elements in them.
which can only thus be brought to work in harmony.
The flee black peasantry, and the panderers to their
prejudices, lay or clerical, must be thus won over or
silenced. The first task is to reconcile them to immigra-
tion. Immigration is the foundation upon which the su-
perstructure of colonial prosperity must be reared. It is
true that capital is wanting, but capital will never flow to
the islands until there is plenty of available labour. It is
true that agricußural and manufacturing processes admit
ofimprovement (not to the extent that pedants and knaves
represent at home, but still to some extent), bat for
this we may trust to the awakened intellects and
energies of the residents. But labour must be had—
a full continuous stream—l: ow the nearest point, from
Western Africa. It is for the interest of all classes in
the West Indies that it should tie had. This is what
the missionaries of common sense must teach the indus-
trious and IN ell-meaning among .the peasantry—the
honest and intelligent among their pastors. This may
be done by the means we indicate; old this ripened
intelligence must be brought to bear en )nosse upon the
HomeGovernment.-IVest India Mail.

The Earl and Countess of Seafield are a.iortly ex-
pected to arrive in town from Cullen house, North'. Britain,
on their way to the Continent. On Wednesday Nat, the
Noble Earl had a " gathering" at Cullen House, when there
was an exhibition of the sports peculiar to the Highlands.
Lord lleidhaven, Lord George Lennox, Lord Robert Clinton,
lion. L. A. Grant, Captain Hood, Hon. Mr. Byrne, and a•
large party, visitors at Cullen House, were present at the
games, the successful cotnpetitorshaving prizes awarded them.
The Earl of Leicester and a select circle are visiting
Mr. J. and Lady Elizaheth Spencer Stanhope at Cannon Hall,
BArnslev, Yorkshire.
The Earl of Ellesmere has left Worsley Hall, Lanca-
shire, for his shooting-lodge in Suther/ondshire, where the
Noble Earl purposes to enjoy the sports of he Highlands up
to the close of the present month.
Lady Bloomfield has left town for Kings,cote, Glouces-
ters'uire.

Lady Pakenham, wife of Major-Genera) Sir Hercules
Pakenham, K.C.8., in command of the troops of the south-
western district, is to present a set of new colours to the 2d
Regiment, shortly after the arrival of that gallant rogimeut
at llaslar barracks from Winchester.

THE LATE FRACAS ON A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE.--
On Tuesday, Temple, the engine-driver, and Poole, the stoker
of. the mixed train from Bristol, who fought on the engine,
between Steventon and Didcot stations, thereby perillingfihe
lives of the passengers, were brought before Mr. Gooch, th'e
superintendent of locomotives, when, it having been ascer-
tained that Poole was the aggressor, he was immediately
discharged, and Temple fined a sovereign—a very inade-
quate punishment, considering the danger incurred, as it was
his place, holding such a responsible situation, to have
stopped the train on the outbreak, and have given Poole into
the guard's custody, as they are all constables.
Two days 1„o, the inhabitants of the Rue d'Enfer
were amused by the scene of an Auvergnat undergoing pun-
ishment, for suffering himself to be beaten by his wife. After
a formal trial by a party of water-carriers, his countrymen,
he was sentenced to be paraded through the quarter
mounted on an ass, with his face towards the animal's
tail. The funds for the hire of the ass and of a bagpiper,
amounting in all to some Bf. or 10f., being . raised among
the fraternity, the hen-pecked husband was, after some
resistance, mounted on the animal in the humiliating posi-
tion named in the verdict, and, preceded by the bag-
pipes, was made to go through several streets amidst the
hootings, laughs, and jeers, of an innumerable rabble.—
Paris paper.
ThellGazeite of Tuesday night contains the orders in
Council ratifying the treaty of international copyright ens
tered into with Prussia for the protection of " authors, in-
ventors, designers, engravers, and makers of any of the fol-
lowing works (that is to say), books, prints, articles of scuip •
ture, dramatic works, musical compositions, and any other
works of literature and the fine arts in which the laws of
Great Britain give to British subjects the protection of copy-
right ;" also, regulating the duty to be henceforth charged
on books and prints brought into this country from the
Prussian dominions.

SECESSION I ROM THE CHURCH.—Letters were OD
Tuesday received by two eminent Roman Catholic divines, re-
siding at the West-end, from the Rev. A. Renaud, Apostolic
Missionary, Candy, Sidney, conveying the intelligence that
the Rev. T. G. \Verdian), M. A., Protestant chaplain to the,
garrison quartered in that district, had, on the last festival
of St. Peter and St. Paul, resigned his profitable cure and
sought admission into the Catholic Church. The rev. con-
vert is described as a man of highly cultivated mind and
many prepossessing qualities.
A SHIP STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—A notice has been
received at Lloyd's, reporting a serious accident to the French
ship Cecilia, which had put into the Mauritius on the Bth of
June last almost a wreck from the effect of lightning, and
with a loss of four men. The vessel eight days previous had
encountered a fearful tempest of lightning and thunder, in
the height of which she was struck by the electric fluid,
occasioning serious damage in every part of the ship to such
an extent that it was expected she would immediately
founder. The four seamen who lost their lives were stand-
ing forward close to the chains. They were burnt dread-
fully, and when found their clothes were on fire. The ship's
repairs would occupy nearly a month before she would be
tit again for sea. _ _

PARTRIDGES IN THE LONDON MARKETS.—On Tuesday
being the first day of the partridge season, Newgate and
Leadenhall markets, as well as the principal poulterers' shops
in the metropolis, presented a better show of birds than is
generally seen at the commencement of the season. Par-
tridges are in prime condition, and sold at ss. and 6s. abrace,
the smaller birds were sold at 3s. 6d. and 4s. a brace, and
there were several hampers offered at 2s. and 2s. 6d. per
brace; but which, from their appearance, must have been
slaughtered previous to the Ist of September. Hares are
tine, and fetched from 3s. to 4s. 6d. each.
111 r. Robert buncombe Shafto, of Whitworth, is named
as a candidate for North Durham, at the next general elec-
tion, on the free-trade interest.
liovat, SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF Las
FROM FIRE.—The corporation of the City of London having
made a grant to the Society of two hundred pounds, for the
purchase of six machines, with their appurtenances, that
number has been completed, and placed in various districts
of the City. The society has now twenty-one stations, ex-
tending over one-third of the metropolis, and as the funds
increase, they will be enabled to extend their sphere of use-
fulness. During the last two years the society, by the aid
of their machines, have saved nineteen persons, who other-
wise must inevitably have perished by the most terrible of
all deaths—that by fire. Two more machines are building,
and will shortly be placed in West Strand and Brompton.
WRECK OF AN AMERICAN EAST INDIA TRADER.—
Letters have arrived communicating intelligence of the total
wreck of the American East India trader the Gentoo, com-
mander Hollis master, belonging to Boston, with a cargo of
indigo, saltpetre, &c. Her loss occurred on the night of the
29th of last April, on a reef of rocks in Stray's Bay, on the
same spot where the Duke of Northumberland Indiaman was
wrc eked a few years since. The weather at the time was
boisterous, the wind blowing almost a gale from the N.E.,
and raining heavily. She struck at about ten o'clock, un-
fortunately with such violence as to carry away a large por-
tion of the keel, and the water rushing into the hold she fell
over on her broadside, when she quickly became a complete
wreck. With the exception of a lady passenger, her two
children, and servant maid (names not mentioned), all on
board were saved, amounting in number to forty individuals,
a third of whom were passengers. The unfortunate lady and
her children were lost by one of the boats swamping after
they had been lowered into it. The seamen strove to save
them, but a heavy sea swept them beyond human reach.
The vessel was nearly 500 tons burden. She was bound to
Boston from Calcutta. Her loss is reported to be upwards of
25,0001.
* DISCOVERY OF SKELETONS AT SOUTH LALKIIETH.-....
A vast number of houses have to be pulled down, to make
way for the extension of the South-Western Railway to
Waterloo-bridge, and the excavations are carried to a depth
of from sixteen to eighteen feet, and consequently by far
deeper than were the foundations of the houses recently de-
molished. On Saturday last, whilst the men were digging
below the foundations of some houses recently standing on
the Lambeth side of the Wandsworth-road, and opposite to
Philip's fruit tree nursery, they found two skeletons of hu-
man beings. They were neither of them perfect, the skulls
and some of the large bones alone remain. The bones were
quite black, and upon being handled crumbled to dust.
They appeared to have been in the place they were found a
century and a half, and were probably those malefactors or
felo-de-sec buried at cross roads,_ or some of the :unhappy
victims of the great plague. Mr. Carter, the coroner, thought
it unnecessary to hold an inquest.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.--On Tuesday morning, shortly
after six o'clock, a man named Bailey, in the employ of Mr.
Cubitt, of Thames-bank, in going to his work, discovered
the body of a gentleman lying on the shore of the river,
left oppositeb the to Sr
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tion, but without effect. In the course of the morning the
boas, was claimed by a gentleman named Baker, who stated
that the deceased was a gentleman of independent property,
and very respectably connected; his name was William John-
son, and he had resided for sometime past at N 0.14, Belvoir-
terrace,Vauxhall-bridge-road. He had left home after dinner
on the previous evening with the intention of taking a walk,
which was the last time he was seen by his friends alive. It
appears that he had been in a depressed state of mind for
seine days past, but his family could form no opinion what-
ever how he came in the river.
THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The following
an
notice, by command of the Commissioners of
d inter-
Forests, is now posted at the principal entrance
Palace of Westminster :—" Great inconv -emence an
been occasioned
ruption to the progress of the works having
of all further orders
by the admission of strangers, the iss
of admission is henceforth prohibited."
WELL.—This ancient
ST. JOHN's-GATE, L,LEEKEN to the new
structure, famous for its association with the Knigts of St,
d one of the oldest erections
in the metropolis,
John of Jerusalem, and consideredh
after years of neglect, is at tngt in pro-
cess of restoration, strict attention being paid to Its 'origins