The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN,

P the battle of Waterloo, he had the satisfaction of meet
ing that invincible man, the great Duke of Wellington,
returning from the Chapel Royal with his Prayer-book
under his arm : thus shovving that ho had done his duty
on that Sunday evening as well us amid the thunders o'
war on the field of Waterloo. The Noble Duke was a
great example in every way—as a patriot, a warrior,
and as a British subject.—Dorset Herald.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas have
arrived at Hamilton Palace from Brodrick Castle. The
Duke of Hamilton is entertaining a distinguished party
at the palace, including the Prince of Parma, the
Countess of Dunmore, &c.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Downahire are
entertaining a family circle at Hillsborough Castle.
Lord and Lady Edwin Hill have arrived from War-
wickshire.
Lord and Lady Ashley are expectel in town this
week from Scotland,
FAMILIES OF LITERAUT MEN.—With the excep-
tion of the noble Surrey, we cannot point out a repr:-
sentative in the male lino of any English poet. The
blood of beings of that order can he seldom traced far ,
down, even ,in the female line. There is no English
poet prior to the middle of the 18th century—and, we
believe, no great author, except Clarendon and Shaftes-
bury—of whose blood we have 'any inheritance am,mg
us. Chaucer's only son died childless ; Shakspere's line
expired in his daughter's only daughter. None of the
other dramatists of that age left any progeny ; neither
did Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Cowley, nor Butler. The
granddaughter of Milton was the last of his blood.
Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, Hume, Gib-
bon, Cowper, Gray, Walpole, Cavendish (and we might
easily extend the list), never married. Neither Boling-
broke nor Addison, nor Warburton, nor Johnson, nor
Burke transmitted their blood.
EDINDURGIL—RuMOURED JUDICIAL CHANGES.—II

was rumoured yesterday in Edinburgh that the Lord
President Boyle is about to retire from the bench, and
that the Solicitor-General is to be made a Lord of Ses
sion. By this arrangement the Solicitor- General will
have to resign his seat for Kirkcudbrightshire; and we
have heard that Mr. T, B. Macaulay, late one of the
Nlembers for Edinburgh, will solicit the suffrages of that
constitueney.—North British Mail.
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY (CANTBRDURY BRANCH).
—The interruption to the traffic on this branch, occa-
sioned by the excessive floods on Thursday night last,
which broke down a culvert intended for the purpose of
carrying off surplus water, has now ceased, as a footwa)
has been carried across. Some goods-waggons were
passing over the culvert at the moment of the accident;
the engine and tender and one truck had crossed be-
fore the culvert gave way. The works for replacing the
culvert are proceeding, and will be shortly completed.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HAYMARKET TREATRE.
—An inquest was held on Saturday by Mr. Payne, at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of William Win•
field, aged 39, a scene-shifter at the Theatre Royal,
Haymarket. John Sutherland stated that on Sunday he
was at work with the deceased in the Haymarket
Theatre. At four o'clock in the afternoon the deceased
told him that he was very ill; that he had slipped whilst
at work in the files,
.reefing the lines of the stage-cur-
tain. He was not so seriously injured as to be com-
pelled to leave his work that day, but the followir', day
he was obliged to go home. Mr. Jackson, the house-
surgeon, said that the deceased came into the hospital
with erysipelas of the left side. He died on Friday from
inflammation of the lungs, brought on by the injery.
Verdict, " Accidental Death."
DAVIS' STRAITS WHALE AND COD FISHERIES.--
The Sunflower, Captain Smith, of this port, arrived here
on Saturday last, from the Davis' Straits cod fishery,
with the very fair cargo of 12,000 cod, three tons of
halibut, and about four tons of cod-liver oil. She brings
the following report from Captain Alexander Stewart, of
the Joseph Green, of eeterlicad, who was spoken with
on the 18th July :—Joseph Green, 4 fish, 67 tons; Lord
Gambier, 2 ; Truelove, 4, 60 ; Abram, 1 ; Prince of
Wales, 3 ; Lady Jane, 4, 50 ; Jane, 2,3 i ; Horn, 4, 50;
Princess Charlotte, 4, 50 ; Alexander, 3 ; Chieftan, 9 ;
Regalia, 2 ; Pacific, 2 ; and the American ship, 3.
Captain William Jackson, of the American ship M‘Lel-
lan, of New London, who was also spoken on the 13th
July, by Captain Smith, gives a somewhat better re-
port, as follows :—Abram, 1 fish, 10 tons* ; Lord
Gambier, 3, 30* ; Prince of Wales, of Hull, 3, 30* ;
Truelove, 4, 65 ; Lady Jane of Newcastle, 4, 60 ;
Chieftan of Kirkaldy, 2, 26* ; Regalia, 3, 345 ;
2Sun;deAe, 4
dvi
60 c,e,3*, 40* ; Alexander,
; Princess 3J,an4eoo;f Biaionrenss, 2
of,
D
Char-
lotte, 3, 54; Pacific, of Aberdeen, 2, 30; Joseph Green,
of Peterhead, 3, 46; M`Lellan, of New London, 3, 40.
" Most of the whales," observes Captain Jackson, " were
caught at the S.W. early in May. We got two in April,
before the other ships made the ice. We had rough
weather. The Discovery ships passed Lively on the 2d
July, all well, and left their letters there with the Danish
Governor to be sent home with one of their vessels.
We saw two of their brigs going to the northward, and
another was at author in the harbour. Some of the
British whalers had been at Opernswick five to six
weeks, and were stopped by the ice. Seven of the British
came south along with us, the other seven remained there
with a bad prospect of getting northward until late.
Those marked * are to the north, 18th July, off Holstein
Berg. We have had very fine weather since we came
north. The ice had not broken up to the north. Please
report us to America, all well. We hope to reach the
west side of Davis' Straits, and all of us take more
whales."—Hull Advertiser.

MURDER or A. Husnr►ND RI" POISON.—For some
days past an extraordinary degree of excitement has
prevailed in Old Weston, a village situate a few miles
from Huntingdon, arising from rumours, which have
been industriously circulated, relative to the death of
Mr. James Smith, a wealthy farmer resident in the
neighbourhood. Mr. Smith, it appears, died in the
month of June, 1847, after an illness of only a few hours'
duration, having, up to the time of his illness, been a
man of robust health, and of strictly temperate habits.
His illness was as violent as it rotas sudden. He was
seized with violent retching and purging, and from the
beginning of the attack suffered the most frightful agony.
Twelve months passed over, and Mrs. Smith formed a
matrimonial connexion with a gentleman named Parsons.
Shortly after she discharged her servant, who was in her
employment at the time of Mr. Smith's death,
and who had been for many years before connected
with the family. From this servant the serious charges
against Mrs. Smith (or Parsons) have arisen. She states
that Mr. Smith was taken suddenly ill, having previously
exhibited no symptoms of indisposition, and that his
wife administered to him a mixture which produced the
consequences already described, and which speedily re-
sulted in death. Mr. Beedhani, the Coroner, on having
the statement brought under his consideration, imme-
diately ordered the exhumation of the body, and com-
initted it to Messrs. Peck and Fernie, surgeons, of Kim-

bolton, and Mr. Foster, of Huntingdon, for the purpose

of a post mortem examination. The result of their in-
vestigation was a determination on:che part of the Coro-
ner to send the contents of the stomach to Professor
Alfred Swayne Taylor, M.D., of Guy's Hospital, Lon-
don, for a complete analysation, and the inquest on the

body is to be held this day (Monday). -
TIE WELtuscx. OAIL.—An anecdote is told of the
late Duke of Portland, lather of the present Duke, and
grandfather of the late lamented Lord George Bentinek,
which we do not recollect to have seen in print. His
Grace, who was a celebrated man in his day, had a large
party at dinner, and after the cloth was removed, the
wine having circulated with the usual freedom, the com-
pany were somewhit elevated, when an immense oak,
celebrated throughout the whole country, and the ruins
of which are still to be seen at Welbeek, became the
subject of conversation. The Duke offered to bet five

hundred guineas that he could drive a carriage and six
through the heart of this magnificent representative of
England's forest glories. A gentleman took him at
his word, and the subject was dropped for the evening.
Next morning his Grace recollected, with not the most
pleasant feelings,the transactions of the preceding even-
ing. The oak which he had virtually doomed to destruc-
tion was one of the finest ornaments of his estate, and
rather than devote it to ruin, he resolved to sacrifice the
500 guineas. Accordingly he intimated his design of
immediately delivering a cheque to the gentleman who
had taken the bet, when he learned that numerous bets,
on the samo subject, amounting to a very large aum,had
been made by other parties, in justice to whom he con-
sidered that he was bound to attempt the feat. Ac-
cordingly an archway, sufficient to admit a carriago, was
chalked out upon the ample trunk of the tree; a tunnel
was excavated through the solid mass, and his Grace, on
the appointed day, in the presence of a large company
of ladies and gentlemen, was actually driven in state in a
carriage drawn by six beautiful horses right through
the oak. The remains of this giant of the forest, snag
nificent even in ruin, are still standing; and, but for this
foolish frolic, the tree might have flourished for rimy
ages to come on the ducal domain of Welbeck .—Cam-
bridge Advertiser.
A RUTLAND GRAND Junr.—At the sessions on
Thursday, the grand jury returned a bill into ccurt as
follows:—"Know bill on the first count: a true bill on
the last count."

CRIEr JUSTICE MANSFIELD.--This great lawyer,
probably with a view to prolong his own days, was al-
ways anxious, when old ►witnesses were in court, to know
their customary habits of life. It so happened that two
very old men by the name of Elm were one day the ob-
jects of his inquiry. " You are a very old man," said his
Lordship to the elder brother; "I suppose you have
lived a very temperate life?" "Never drank anything
but water, my Lord," said Elm. " Nor you neither, I
suppose?" said the Judge, addressing himself to the
younger brother. " When I could get nothing else, my
Lord," was the reply. "I always took my glass with
my friend." " Well, then," replied his Lordship, "all
that we can say is, a❑ elm will flourish wet or dry."
THE EDINBURGH CHARTIST TRIALS.—These trials
have been appointed to take place before the High Court
of Justiciary next month.
A PRIZE TO SIR R. PEEL.—At the Blackburn
agricultural meeting last week, a silver medal was
awarded to Sir H. Peel for his estates in Oswaldtvvistle,
as the owner not being the occupier who has laid dow❑
the greatest number of rods of stone or tile drains in the
best manner.

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APOTHECARIES-lIALL.--The following are the
names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and reaeived certificates
to practise, on Thursday, October 19 :—John
llull ; Robert Webster Gillespie, Newcastle-on-Tyne ;
Hobert William Ellis, Bristol.
PAIMEED TEA.—Professor Reid, a practical
chemist of New York, and a person to be relied upon,
states that, having seen in the shop windows of that city
a sample of green tea of a very bright colour, he sus-
pected it was of that class of painted and poisonous teas
lately examined by London chemists. lie examined the
article, and says he has discovered it to be painted tea;
that is, old stale and exhausted tea covered with some
colouring matter, no doubt injurious to health; and
proposed a simple test, which is, to take a spoonful of
tea and put in half a tumbler of water, and allow it to
stand for five minutes, and then stir it up, when the

LONDON,

paint will be detached and form a turbid rnixtUre'siith
the water. The public, however, cannot always be upon
its guard against these frauds, and the only mode is,
that when painted tea is actually sold and detected es
such, publish the name of the person who sells it, in
order to guard the public against future imposition.—
The Patriot.
ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—As Captain
Pearce, was a few evenings since, passing close to Beth-
lehem Hospital, he was accosted by a woman, of whom
he endeavoured to get rid; but as she persevered in her
importunities, and caught his arm, he flung her off. He
had scarcely done so before he was felled to the ground
by a ruffian, who fractured his skull with a life-
preserver, and while his victim lay on the ground insen-
sible, and weltering in his blood, he rifled his pockets.
The police soon afterwards found the unfortunate
gentleman stretched insensible on the ground, whence
they removed him to his residence. Captain Pearce is
now going on favourably, and all danger of his life is
removed.
It is understood that Mrs. Moilliet and James
Nloilliet, Esq., are about to erect a new church at Ab-
berley, Worcestershire.—Birmingham Gazette.
SALE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL TlMES.—Yesterday
Mr. Hodgson, the auctioneer, again put up to public
competition, by order of the mortgagees in posse,sion,
the copyright and printed stock of this weekly journal.
Bidders were very shy, and after considerable delay it
was knocked down to Messrs. Palmer and Clayton, the
.printers, for 1301.
BIRMINOLIAM, CORN-EXCHANGE.—The first anni-
verary of the Corn-Exchange will bo celebrated by a
dinner in that establishment on Thursday next. C. N.
Newdegate, Esq., M.l'., Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
(the Members for the borough), and the high-bailiff
have severally accepted invitations, and promised to
attend.— Birelingharn Gazette.
His Excellency the Turkish Minister and the
Princess Callimaki have arrived in town from a tour of
visits in Wales, having on their route to the metropolis,
visited the University of Oxford to view the different
collegiate establishments.
LONG smr.—ln the churchyard of Firbeck, Notts,
is a head-stone, with the following inscription:—" Isabel!
Robinson, of Stone, buried November, ye 22d day, 1694,
aged 114 years. Also James Robinson, so❑ to ye above
Isabell, was buried July 24th, 1730, aged 109 years."
How DID THEY COME ? —11.1.1% James Ellis, of
Goose Gate, Nottingham, box maker, has a pear tree in
his garden, on Windmill-hill, Sneinton, which blossomed
in spring, and bore plentifully in July. There is at
this time another supply of fruit on its branches, and,
what is the most surprising circumstance attending this
second bearing, it has not been preceded by the slightest
appearance of blossom.—Nottingham Journal of Friday.
SHIPS WITH DOUBLE KEELS.—At a meeting of
the Royal Dee Yacht Club, on Tuesday, Mr. Scott
Walker exhibited a number of very interesting mo-
dels of vessels, constructed on a new principle, with
a double keel. The chief objects aimed at aro a
very shallow draught of water, combined with
great safety and speed, and a peculiar adaptation
for the use of the screw as a propelling power—or we
should say screws, as the model, built to represent a
steam-vessel, carries a screw at each keel, which, re-
volving in opposite directions, though worked by the
same engine, produces a steadiness and equality
to the motion of the vessel hitherto unattained. One
of these models represented a vessel of two hundred
tons, and Mr. Walker assured the party assembled, that,
on the nicest calculation, and allowing for incidental
circumstances, a vessel built on the lines of this model
would not, with its burthen, draw more than three feet
of water.—Chester Courant.
SHOCKING SUlClDE.—Yesterday, a young man in
the employ of a butcher carrying on business in the
neighbourhood of Hatton-garden, was taken to task by
his master respecting the price of some mutton chops
alleged to have been sold, but which were not accounted
for. An altercation ensued and the master threatened
to send for a policeman, when the man, in a paroxysm
of passion or fear, seized a knife and cut his throat as
he stood in so fearful a manner that he expired in a few
minutes afterwards, before surgical aid could be ob
tained.

M'MANus.—ln Liverpool and Manchester, last
week, 5001. was collected for.the defence of Mr. M'Manus
at Clonmel, by his friends, aad which sum the prisoner
received.—Limerick Chronicle.

ESCAPE or MR. DILLON.—The Pilot states on
authority that Mr. John B. Dillon has lauded safely at
New York.

The fine Highland properties of Strathnashalg,
Monkeastle, and Gruinyard, in Ross-shire, have been
purchased by Mr. Banked, of Letterewe, at the price of
22,0001.

WORCESTER.—The Earl Beauchamp, Lord Ward,
and the Hon. Robert H. Clive, M.P., have respectively
given the handsome donation of NU towards the erec-
tion of a new Corn Exchange in this city.
PRECIOUS STONES.—The recent disturbances in the
French capital in particular, and other portions of the
continent of Europe, had the effect of causing so large
an influx into this country of diamonds, that they are
now " a drug in the market," and ❑early unsaleable.
ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

—Yesterday evening, on the arrival of the half-past six
o'clock train at the Shoreditch terminus of this railway,
Richard Ellis, a man employed in the telegraphic de-
partment of the line, incautiously attempted to step
from one of the carriages on to the platform while the
train was in motion, in doing which his foot slipped and
he fell under the wheels. He was instantly killed.
REAL DEL MONTE MINING COMPANY.—A special
meeting of this company was held at the offices, Duke-
street, Adelphi, yesterday, to consider the propriety of
confirming a resolution passed on the 25th of September
last for dissolving the company—Sir B. Prince in the
chair. The chairman said that the meeting had been
called on as late a day as possible, in hopes that the
Mexican mail would have been in many of the share-
holder's hands, thinking it desirable to have seine infor-
mation as to what had been going on in Mexico before
finally resolving on the dissolution of the company. The
directors were also of opinion that it would be desirable
to have such information ; and, as the Mexican mail,
which was due on Saturday last, would probably arrive
in a day or two, he would suggest that the meeting
should be adjourned till Monday next, which would al-
low them one day to send the result of the meeting to
Mexico. The shareholders generally agreeing in the
suggestion of the chairman, the meeting wa,, on the mo-
tion of Messrs. Horace Twiss and Wilson, accordingly
adjourned.
WHAT NEXT ?—The Cork Examiner of Friday
contains the following;—" Jenny Lind is a relation of
the Archbishop of Dublin."
CURLING.—On Thursday morning curling was
enjoyed on Mr. Gairdner's artificial pond. The ice was
keen, and several games were skilfully contested by a
party of eight, who, from a little past six in the morn-
ing till nine o'clock, plied the bracing exercise. Such is
the sheltered situation of this rink, that curling was
quite practicable during the whole day. Kilmarnoc
Journal.
SPLENDID MARINE VIEW IN THE FIRTH OF
FORTH.—On Friday afternoon, about two o'clock, a view,
which has rarely if ever been excelled was afforded to
the inhabitants of Leith and its vicinity. As far as the
eye, with the aid of a glass, could reach, the whole line
of the Firth was studded with vessels, in all amounting
at least to one hundred and eighty sail. From the Island
of May upwards they appeared to the naked eye in a
direct chain, and attracted very general observation.
Such a numerous flock of vessels, in such a fine per-
spective, has been rarely witnessed in the Firth. Many
of them were outward bound ; but arrivals, especially
from the Baltic, we understand, may be mentioned as

numerous.—Edinburgh Post.
A CIIZE ?OR THE TOOTHACHE.--A POPULAR
LIADER.—The following precious morceau will give
some idea of the advancement of erudition among the
commonalty of Wales. It is an infallible cure for the
toothache. To be written on paper—thrice sealed—and
worn next the heart. Here is the text as used in the
parish of Hope. But I am told there is a different read-
ing in the parish of Mold. "As Jesus walked thrawgh
the gist of Jerusalem he saw peter weeping and said
into him why weepest thou peter said because i have got
the toothake then Jesus welled his tooth and said have

feath and thy tooth shall ake no more glory be to the

fa►her And to the Son and to the holy Bost amen
W"orn P'""1" The name is that of the patient—which
it appears necessary to write in this form, and also ac-
cording to the use of Mold. The Charm, which I send
you, was written in 1843, and had been worn ever since,
up to last week, whe❑ it accidentally came into my
hands, on its transit from the original patient to an-
other, a friend of his, grievously afflicted with the said
malady, and who (being a woman) opened it, and
showed it me. With respect to the learned author I
should add that he is well known to me, and is a man of
great skill in the Scriptures, and can tell you what are
the reforms wanted in the State, and what the Church
regimen ought to be.—Chester Courant.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A YOUNG WOMAN.—On
Saturday a man, named John Dunn, was brought before
the magistrates at Newcastle, charged with having cut
the throat of a young woman named Ann Moffett, with
whom he had been keeping company. From the evi-
dence it appeared that the prisoner had been lodging in
a house which overlooked that in which the female re-
sided ; the consequence was that an intimacy sprang up
between them, and the prisoner frequently visited the
female at her father's house. On Sunday night last he
called upon her and accused her of having been out with
another man. This she denied, when he flew into a vio-
lent passion ; his sweetheart, on perceiving the state he
was in, went out, and returned home about halt-past
nine. The prisoner, who had concealed himself on the
stairs, on hearing her approach, emerged from his hiding
place with a razor in his hand. He attempted to cut
her throat, but she laid hold of the blade of the weapon,
and in drawing it through her hand nearly severed one
of her fingers. He afterwards through her down, knelt
on her stomach, and, having held her head back, he in-
flicted a frightful gash in her throat ; he then made his
ohicape, leaving the poor girl weltering in her blood.
Medical aid was soon obtained, but the poor creature is
not expected to live many hours. The prisoner, who
was not apprehended till Thursday last, was remanded
for a week, to see whether the girl will recover or not.
STRAGGG MODE OF ARRIVING AT A VGRDICT.—
I was in a case some little time ago in which one of the
parties, from an humble anxiety to save his client the
costs of a special jury, acquiesced in a :common jury ;
who, to his consternation, gave a verdict for 4001. to the
plaintiff, who, the late Lord Chief Justice had told them,
(t:ii,joaaenrst
dn;toohrtde
t3eentitled
defendant,
four
ra
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slips
lteip
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had
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afteruep gean. p
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traooel fdathhtooheuajury after-
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respectively the four sums of id 501., 4001., and 1,0001.
It was agreed that the foreman
should draw out one of
them, and the verdict be accordingly ; and he drew the
slip which bore the sum of 4001. Warren's Moral,
Social, and Philosophical Duties of Attorneys and So-
licitors.