The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-05 00:00:00

The prisoner was remanded until Thursday next.

FIRE IN THE ADELPHl.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock, the family of Mr. Appleyard,
of Duke-street, Adelphi, newspaper agent, were greatly
alarmed by the discovery of a fire in one of the sleeping -
rooms. Messengers were instantly sent to Chandos-street
brigade station and other places, when in a few minutes two
engines and several firemen arrived. The fire burnt very ra-
pidly, and every precaution was taken to prevent its spread-
ing to the other parts of the house. The firemen soon ob-
tained water, and with their usual ability they resorted to
the most effectual measures. For some short time their ex-
ertions were placed in a very doubtful position ; but ulti-
mately they succeeded, not, however, until a considerable
quantity of the household furniture had been consumed, and
great damage done to the building.
Loss OF THE CITY' OF SHIRAZ.—A dispatch has
been forwarded to Lloyd's from the India Board, by order of
the Commissioners for the Affairs of India, enclosing a copy
of a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at the Philippine
Islands, reporting the loss cf the Bombay ship City of Shiraz,
off the island of Negros. Tin ee, out of a crew of forty persons,
saved.

FATAL FALL TO A GENTLEMAN AGED EIGMTY-
FOUR YEARs.—On Saturday evening Mr. Payne held an in-
quest at the Fountain Tavern, St. George's-road, Southwark,
on the body of Mr. William Douglas, aged eighty-four, who
lately resided at No. 3, West-place, St. George's. He was in
affluent circumstances. On Sunday evening -week he left
the parlour in good health, for the purpose of retiring to rest.
On going up stairs he found the landing window open and
attempted to shut it, when it is supposed he missed his foot-
ing, and fell backwards down the stairs, by which he sus-
tained a severe concussion of the brain, and fracture of the
left wrist. Mr. Hooper, a surgeon, attended him till the fol-
lowing Tuesday; when he died from the injuries. Verdict—
" Accidental death."

SUICIDE OF A PAY-SERGEANT IN THE GRENADIER
GrAnns.—WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday evening an in-
quest was held before Wm. Martin, Esq., the Coroner for the
borough, at the Infantry Barracks, Sheet street, on the body
of John Richardson, a. pay-sergeant in the 2d battalion Of
Grenadier Guards. The first witness examined was George
Sawyer, colour sergeant, who stated that when be saw the
deceased, on the previous evening, h appeared very dull, in
consequence of a report in the barracks relating to himself,
and two daughters of one of the other sergeants, which, he
said, was false. Sergeant Henry Rands deposed that the de-
ceased always appeared to be a man of sound mind, but was
considerably excited about the report alluded to by the former
witness.:Colonel Sir Johnßurgoyne stated, that shortly before
nine o'clock that morning, Captain Bradford, the Adjutant,
reported that Sergeant Richardson had hung himself, and
gave witness a sealed letter. Witness knew nothing about
the reports alluded to, nor anything particular concerning
the deceased, having only lately himself joined the battalion.
The surgeon having proved that the usual means to restore
animation were resorted to without effect, the Coroner briefly
summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary
insanity." The deceased, who bore a generally excellent
character, had been in the battalion for upwards of fifteen
years.
DEPARTURE OF THE EAST AND WEST INDIA MAILS.
—SOUTHAMMON, JAN. 3.—The Achilles, Captain Wilson, a
very fine new steam-ship, built for the Oriental Company,
took her departure from the docks this day, at three P.m., for
Constantinople, taking the East India and China mails to
Malta, from which place they will be forwarded to Alexandria
by the Iberia steamer. The Achilles has forty passengers,
and a very full cargo of bale goods. The Royal West India
man-packet the Thames, Captain Haste, left this port yester-
day,cativigoE, aLlAsoive6oonotoTttlsesnolfr qv‘urnicigkcsixhs•
for the West Indies, with the mails for the islands and
South America. She had thirty passengers, a good average
—On the morning of the 26th instant
lad e r.AaN!)DarciLLowsass
the West Bay of Dungeness, worrecikjeld"in.
was subsequently driven on 'sboreen with
coals; and a boat
Eliza-
beth, of Newcastle," on the stern.' ThreetdesarlTed*
" also been found on the coast,. and will be interred° aitesb
Lydd.have
One of the seamen had initials ~ iv.
N." on his right rm
and a register ticket found, signed "John Neale," and
issued from Newcastle, proves that this man was one -of
the unfortunate crew who were all, without doubt,
drowned. The vessel was bound to
.Rouen,.—A large
' from Dutch ship, said to be the "La Vie Coliseum," ,
Ba-
tavia to Amsterdam, was wrecked near I evensey Bad,
and the cargo, consisting of coffee, sugar, indigo, block
tin, and other articles, have washed ashore as far as Dun-
geness West Bay, and lie strewed along the beach at Mast
ings, and some of the timber has floated round the point.
The crew were saved, with the exception of one soldier (an
invalid), who died from his long exposure in the rigging.
Tonnage of the vessel, 620 tons.—A light collier was driven
on shore near Camber Sand Hills, without damage to the
vessel or crew, and it is expected she will be floated off.—A
large ship rode out the gale most of the time in the West
Bay. Fears were entertained for her safety; but she now
lies at anchor in the East Bay, giving another proof of the
value of these roadsteads, in the absence of good Channel
Refuge Ports.—Dover Chronicle.
DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE MILL NEAR KENDAL
—Saturday night last the neighbourhood of Kendal was
visited with a severe gale of wind and rain, which effected
the almost entire destruction of a very large and extensive
mill at Scar Fort, near Kendal, the property of Messrs. G.
and J. Braithwaite, manufacturers, which was in the course
of building. It appears that the roof of the building, which
was composed of massive balks of wood supported by iron
pillars, was not entirely completed, and the hurricane tore
away. some of the yet unfinished, and probably not effectually
fixed, beams, and they fell with a dreadful crash, leaving the
bare walls standing, Which were much damaged. The force
of the shock may in some measure be estimated by the fact
that many of the ponderous beams of wood were smashed in
several places, and the iron pillars were likewise broken to
atoms. What renders the circumstance more extraordinary,
is that the building is almost surrounded by a mountainous
rocky precipice, and that no other property has been de-
stroyed
in the neighbourhood. From the extensive character
of the building, and the romantic spot in which it is situated,
it has been the resort of great numbers of people from the
neighbourhood; and when they paid it a visit on Sunday
last, they were astonished at seeing only a heap of ruins.—
Derby Reporter.
PRISONERS' PROPERTY.---It is to be regretted that
the very objectionable practice of taking everything from
a
pris • oner which is found in his possession at the time of his
apprehension, and, if convicted, given all to the Crown,
whether any part be proved to have been stolen or not, is
still continued. This is twice punishing a man for one offence,
besides doing injustice and injury to his wife and family,
where he have them. It was hoped that this system would
have been discontinued before now. We trust it may be
mooted in Parliament. The Government is not so poor as to
need doing this to prisoners.—From a Correspondent.
NEW CATECHISM.—The following is a specimen of
the Christrian charity which children are taught by Puseyite
clergy in a parish church of Northumberland :—Question :
After attending church in the morning, and you were to go
to a Dissenting meeting-house in the evening, what sin
would that be? Answer: A grievous sin, a heinous sin.,—
Question : What would that sin be called ? Answer : Ihe
sin of schism.—Question : What would you ask the person
who was preaching there? Answer: I would ask him if he
was ordained by a Bishop. It is needless to add, these
answers are drilled into the poor children beforehand, and
that such is the language of those who rank among their
clergy. A late Bishop of Clogher, a Vere, and a Wetherel,
what did ordination by a Bishop profit them?

'AGA ZINES.—(CONTINUED.)
I. • I I 6;1/ LN.E.
To sustain the national character of number,

the Dublin University Magazine commences and
terminates with an article of strictly Irish interests,
and animated with a strictly Irish spirit; the first,
entitled " Prizes in the Lottery of Repeal," sifts and
scrutinizes that oft-sifted and oft-scrutinized question
of the Legislative union between the sister islands.
Though the writer evidences a tolerable share of
acumen, and a very large proportion of earnestness
in his mode of combatting the opinions of Mr.
O'Connell and his partisans, we must remonstrate
against such an over-lavish cataract of acrimony as
that with which he saturates the unfortunate gentle-
man who presumed to pen three prize essays, at the
instigation of the Repeal Association. Nor does it
savour much of elegance in composition or suavity in
temperament, to say of one unhappy wight that " he
turns from it with that feeling of relief, which a
demonstrator experiences in quitting a putrid subject of
morbid anatomy, the corruption of which has disgusted
his audience, the effluvium from which has sickened his
class." Besides the somewhat unpalateable flavour of
this article in its composition, we rather deprecate
the selection of a subject which has been worn, not
only threadbare, but to very rags and tatters, by
the kaleidoscopic speeches of " the Liberator" alone ;
e say kaleidoscopic advisedly, since the same
materials, nothing more, and nothing less, are ever
present—" Repeal," " Saxons," " College-green,"
" Irish Parliament," &c., being the bits of coloured
glass, and the whole merely requiring another shake
to form a fresh oration. We therefore recommend the
writer of this article to select in future some less

hackneyed theme. The concluding paper is a digest
of what is called the present " Social Disorganisation
in Ireland." In a memoir of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, the illustrious musician, which is here headed
" The Prodigy of Salzburg," we are charmed with a
certain esprit de corp, which displays much enthusi-
asm for the divine art in the abstract, and for the
young prodigy in particular; still we must be per-
mitted to dissent in some measure from the ultra-
laudation of this fine original. Though, without
doubt, Mozart was the first " who rescued the world
from the dull depths of counterpoint," and infused
what had previously been something little short of
mechanical ingenuity, the throbbings of the human
heart and the stirring of the human intellect, we are
not on that account to place him above all his suc-
cessors, however marvellous his compositions may be
in themselves. That was a grand triumph of genius, as-
suredly in "Idomeneo," where he pourtrays the heroine's
jealousy by the beatings of her heart in octaves ; but
admirable as are such examples of his capacity to in-
novate, he undoubtedly has his superiors in most of
the different classes of music : Haydn as a composer
of masses, Rossina for the more intense, and Weber
for the more fantastic and wierd kinds of Operas,
and Beethoven the Giant Emperor of his
art, Beethoven—the quintesscence of divine discords—
he of whom we once heard an eminent living musician
declare that he began where Mozart and Haydn left
off—Beethoven in all. An exquisite dissertation on
" Old Letters," by Elizabeth Youatt, follows, and is
fruitful of sweet thoughts and pensive memories. No.
11. of " Irish Rivers" carries us very swimmingly
down "The Bride, a tributary of the Blackwater,"
painting the scenery on either side with much bril-
liancy and naturalness of colour. Of the clippings
into " Ottoman Poetry" we can speak with extreme
delight. " The Kasseed in praise of the Prophet
Ahmed," even as a translation, has in it the rush and
foam, and boil and eddies of a torrent amidst the
woods. The "Adventures of Joseph Pitts," a
kind of Alexander Selkirk in his way, is most
interesting narrative of adventure; followed by
a continuation of a very clever analysis of " Ariosto's
Poetry." Immediately after this Mr. Newman is
scored with the dagger of invective, and the raw
wounds eaten into by the caustic of satire, in a re-
view of the ex-Protestant's last work in defence of
himself and his conversion. In many of the senti-
ments expressed by the author of the paper, entitled
" Present State of our National Defences," a kind
synopsis of a work recently published by Lord Ra-
nelagh, we most cordially coincide; and the follow-
ing paragraph in particular we recommend to the
perusal of every one who is desirous of knowing
" the rights of the case:"-
4, England should no longer consider herself simply as
an insular pom er, protected by the ocean, and safe
from attack as long as her naval superiority continues.
She can no longer rely upon wind and tide for baffling
the approach of an enemy. The sea has now become a
great highway, to be traversed with a certainty and
c( lerity which greatly increases our exposure to inva-
sion, as well as multiplies the chances of success which
may attend the attempt of an enterprising enemy.
Had Napoleon, when he congregated his great army
of invasion at Boulogne, had the same certainty
which might now be calculated upon of effecting a
sudden descent upon our coast, of which the first
notice might be the landing of one hundred thousand
men upon some point where we were unprepared t
meet them, we may depend upon it that his vast army
would not have resembled ' the old cat in the adage,'
and that an attempt would be made to bring the war
into our own country, from which very disastrous
consequences might be apprehended."
Altogether, this month's number of the Dublin
University possesses much that is entertaining and
much that is instructive.