The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-17 00:00:00

Lord and Lady Dinorben had the honour of an introduc-
tion to his Highness, and had an interview of some duration.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Saldanha' and Made-
moiselle Saldanha, were introduced to the Pacha by Colonel
Bonfurt, who apprised his Highness that the Marquis was
well acquainted with the Pacha's son, now studying at
Paris, while at Vienna. The Pacha gave the noble diploma-
tist a cordial greeting.
Shortly before six o'clock Edib Effendi, the Turkish Chargé
d'Affaires, accompanied by M. Zohrab, arrived at Mivart's,
and immediately after his arrival dinner was announced.
The Pacha received a select circle of fifteen guests to dinner,
inclusive of the several members of his suite. Captain Percy
Grace, Mr. S. Briggs, M. Hippolyte Lapeyre, Edib Effendi,
M. Zohrab, &c., were among the guests.
At half-past seven o'clock four carriages were ordered to
convey the Pacha and party to the South-Western Railway
station, at /Cine-elms, Vauxhall. A vast crowd of persons
had collected in front of the' hotel expressly to obtain a sight
oT the illustrioW Pacha, and the animation of the scene was
flcreased by the presence of a band of instrumental per •
formers opposite the hotel. On an intimation of the ap-
proach of his Highness, the band struck up the national
anthem, at:d amidst the loud cheering of the populace the
Pacha entered his carriage, accompanied by N. Nubar, Sami
Pacha, and Major Dickson.
Colonel Ronfort, Edib Effendi, M. Zohrab, and the circle
who dined with the Pacha, followed in the other carriages.
Just before the Pacha took his final departure, he sent for
Mr. Mivart, and through M. Nubar said how pleased he had
been at all the arrangements that had been made for his per-
sonal comfort, and the satisfaction he had experienced while
residing at the hotel. His Highness further stated that he
had left a handsome sum for the domestics connected with
the hotel as a substantial proof of his approbatain.
We have also to add that his Highness has considerately
left a liberal gratuity for the police force, which has daily
atrended at Mivari's during his sojourn there.
On arriving at the Vauxhall terminus of the South-West-
ern Railway, the Pacha and suite were received with.every,
distinction becomkg his elevated station: His Highrie# *Of
welcomed by the chairman and deputy-chairman, and several
of the direc!ors of the company, besides the pripcipal officials
of that railway. The platform was covered with crimson
carpeting, and all parties were unremitting in their attention
to the illustrious Paella.

Attera trifling delay the Pacl►a took farewell of Edib Ef-
fendi, his Excellency Sami Pacha, Mr. Briggs. and -M.
Zohrab, and then-eitti-red'the carriage allotted for his High-
ness in the special train. The signal was given, and the
train instantly started for Gosport, where his Highness was
expected to arrive by half-past ten last night.
We understand that circumstances may delay the Paella's
embarka! ion till to-day from Portsmouth. As his High-
ness contemplates visiting Cadiz and Gibraltar, and most
probably Lisbon, it is uncertain how long it will be before he
reaches Alexandria; but he is desirous of being there by the
15th of the ensuing month.
His Excellency Sami Pacha, after the departure of his
Highness, returned to Alivart's.

CREMORNE GARDENS.—Wednesday there was a grand
fie and entertainment given by the spirited proprietor of
this popular place of: amusement, with the object of placing
before the lieges of the present day a picture of the celebrated
Ranelagh Gardens, the head-quarters of London life and
amusement a hundred years ago. As the announcement of
the gala intimated, there were the same c,,stumes worn, and
the same songs, music, dances, games, and general entertain-
ments that in those days used to draw the elite of fashion,
and lovers of fun and frolic, from every quarter of the great
metropolis. In the large pavilion in the grounds there was
laid out a substantial breakfast, for those who chose to avail

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engaged with sedan chairs in carrying ladies and gentlemen,
dressed in' the picturesque costume of the early part of the
18th century, to various parts of the garden. .Sror were the
invisible poet—a son of the muse, whose responses, like these
of the ancient oracle of Delphos, were heard but not seen—
or the gipsy fortune-teller in the centre of the maize, ne-
glected. In short., nothing was left undone to afford every
enjoyment to the large and respectable company assembled
on the occasion. The entertainment wound up by a splendid
display of fire-works and a grand ball. At one period of
the evening there could not have been less than 'five thousand
persons present, and we are bound to observe they all ap-
peared to conduct themselves with exemplary decorum.
RETURNED CONVICTS. The Scotia, hired convict
ship, which lately left England for Bermuda, with convicts,
has returned to Woolwich from the latter place, and at pre-
sent remains at moorings, off the Royal Arsenal. She has
brought home 120 convicts, whose term of transportation has
nearly expired; and with the exception of two retained on
board in confinement, for having broken open the store
rooms on their passage home, the convicts have been re
moved to the Warrior convict hulk, where they will remain
until liberated by an order from the secretary of State for

the Home Depaitment.
Railways have materially affected the value of fish.
The number of fishmongers in Birmingham has, since the
various railways which now centre in that town (since 1829)
increased from ten to forty; and the quantity of fish con-
sumed, from 400 to 3,910 Cons annually. At. Blanchester the
poorer classes are supplied dai.v at an average of 2d. per lb.
SALISBURY, JULY 14,—:::3-me rf the Protection tar-
Mers wI iv t-G. .-
.atisfled with the present effect of the passing of the Corn-
law Bill. They previously imagined, as soon as a large
quantity of bonded corn was brought out, that the prices
':aye .ave been depressed immediately. and at leas; 6s. or
Bs. per quarter. The prices, however, ivere firth this' day,
from 48s. to 545. per quarter. The barley trade, of course, is
but trifling at this time of the year, but that with other
grain was also firm, and this at a period when the crops are
looking exceedingly well, and a promise of a most luxuriant
harvest,which is already commenced in this neighbourhood.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—This very xtraordi-
nary and useful invention is now at work from Yarmouth
and Norwich to London—the first message sent by it was on
Thursday last from Norwich to London. It is not at work
at present between Yarmouth and any station from Brandon
to London; this, however, occasions practically but little de-
lay, as a message can be sent from here to Brandon, and
there the clerk telegraphs to any intermediate station. We
believe it is not intended to have the apparatus fixed at any
station between Brandon and London in connexion with
Yarmouth and Norwich.— Yarmouth Chronicle.
HEAVY WORK.—We are assured by At highly respect-
able farmer, the other day, that he had a labourer who, for
a day's work, had cut five acres of oats and drank thirty-two
quarts of strong beer, and finished in the evening by be-
taking himself to the village ale-house to enjoy his pint and
his pipe. —Maidstone Journal.
MALICIOUS ATTEMPT.—On Tuesday morning last, as
the down mail train and the luggage train, which followed it
almost immediately, were proceeding from Bristol to Exeter,
on passing the bridge at Parson's-gate, near Bedminster-
down, a sudden shock was felt by the engineers, who, ima-
gining that one of the springs of the tender was broken,
instantly shut off the steam and made a careful examination
of the tender, but finding everything right they pro-
ceeded on their journey, and reported the circumstance
to the next policeman, who, upon examination, ascer-
tained that a large five-barred gate had been placed
access the raiK Inquiries were immediately set on foot by
Mr. Burton, the superintendent of the railway police, who
succeeded in apprehending three men for the offence. Yes-
terday the prisoners, whose names are Isaac Green, Thomas
Gray, and Henry Hazel!, were taken before the Rev. Mr.
Mirehouse and Mr T. Kingson, two magistrates for the
county of Somerset, at Charlton-house, Wraxall, and charged
with the offence. A witness. named Emma Shepherd, de-
posed that she was standing at the hatch of her father's
garden at about one o'clockan the morning; the moon was
shining, and she saw the three prisoners, who are well known
to her, with another man, whom she did not know, go and
unhang a large five-barred oak gate, belonging to Mr. Cham-
berlain. They carried it across the turnpike-road, and threw
it over the parapet of• the bridge—Parson's-bridge—down
on the rail. The prisoners were committed for trial at the
ensuing assizes. It should be remarked that various articles
have frequently been placed across the railway near this
spot, and that on the same morning as the luggage-train was
passing a large stone was thrown from this bridge, which
struck the engine and beat in the casing of the boiler, and
which if it had struck either the engineer or stoker must
have killed them.
DEATH FROM DROWNING.— COURAGEOUS Cornoccr
OF A COAL PosTan.—On Tuesday evening, Mr. Carttar,
the coroner for East Surrey, held an inquest at the Crane
üblic-house, Wandsworth, on the body of William Henry
Everest, aged 13, who was drowned whilst bathing in the
creek. The deceased and two other lads went to bathe on
Sunday, and the deceased not being aware of the depth of
water, jumped in, and not being able to swim, sunk imme-
diately. An alarm was raised, and James Ockham, a coal
porter, in the employ of Mr, Lyon, immediately stripped
and dived 'after the unfOrtimate youth. Not till be had
dived fur times did he succeed in finding the body and
bringing it on shore. The usual remedies were resorted to,
but all of no avail ; life bad ceased to exist. The coroner
and jury warmly eulogised the conduct of Ockliam, and gave
him a small sum of money. It was stated that Ockham had
previously saved two persons from drowning.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.—This summer the banks
of the Cam exhibit au unusual multitude of those siegular
phenomena—cases of spontaneous ignition awl co nbustion
in growing willows. About a week ago we observed in one
instance, at a point of the river not far from Grancliester,_ the
process rapidly going on. It was really astonishing to look
upon a fine willow, in the full vigour of robust vegetable
health, pouring forth clouds of smoke from its half-burned
stem, and doomed speedily to expire—itself its own funeral
pile. How explain this ? Ilow ace.tunt f, r the fact that this
tree, vet hale and green, covered with a rich mass of foliage
and flourishing like a green bay tree" on the river bank—
should suddenly burst forth into ignition, burn like tinder to
its very core, and to-morrow be prostrate! There is no pu-
trescence—we think there can be no fermentation in this pro-
cess. If instances of spontaneous vegetable combustion
thus frequently happen, why dispute the analogous case of
spontaneous animal combustion? The tree which we ob-
served last week, as stated above, is now prostrate—its very
foliage charred—is vegetable ruin—as if stripped, shattered,
blasted, and half-consumed by the electric fluid.— Catnbridge
Advertiser. •
FICTITIOUS CHARACTERS.—Joseph Moore VW
charged, at Westminster Police-court, with obtaining a situa-
tion by means of a false character. Mr .G. W. B. Lee, of 43,
Wimpole-street, stated that about the middle of May last be
requested a Mr. Parrott to get him a servant, and, in conse-
quence of a communication made by that gentleman to him,
he wrote to a Mr. William Turner Smith, Eaglesfield Lodge,
near Bishop S!ortford, applying for the prisoner's character.
In three days he received an answer, posted at Southampton,
signed W. T. Smith, and, in consequence of that letter, he
took the prisoner into his service. Complainant subiequently
ascertained from the postmaster at Bishop Stortford that,
there was no Mr. Smith living there or known in the neigh-
bourhood. He added, that be had been written to to forward
any letter addressed to that person to the post-office, Mount-
street, Lambeth, which had. accordingly, been done. Mr.
T. F. Parrott, residing at 5, Wilton-street, deposed to having
suffered a similar imposition. The prisoner pleaded guilty to
the charge. Mr. Bond fined him 104 and, in &ink, coni-
initteg 11124 10; gine war,