The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-11 00:00:00

(Mackenzie), 504 f.; ditto (Espelcta), 510 f.; ditto definitive, 535 f.
Charleroi, 4901.

IMSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYs AT THE

LONDON STOCK EMI:II ANGE, May 8.
Boulogne and Amiens,l2M —Central of Spa'i, 1 M —Dutch Rhenish,
6% —East Indian, —Great Indian Peninsular, )4—ltalian and
Austrian, 1 M —Jamaica South Midland Junction, 13,i--Naniar and
Liege, 41,4 —Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7%.

Mn. 'WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN.—The following is
the resolution which the Limerick 'reformed" Corpora ion
unanimously adopted at, their meeting on Tuesday :—" That
this Corporation, ever tilled with the highest admiration for
the public career of Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P. for this
coutyy ; his undeviating sustainment of those principles to
the accomplishment of which this county looks with un-
abated determinati:•n ; and, considering the course now
adopted by a portion of the Legislature towards him,
whereby 1:e has been deprived of his liberty, and been corn-
mttted to prison for his strictly persevering in that cause
best calculated to test the soundness of those opinions to
which he had long previously pledged himself; and that,
under the circumstances, we feel it to be our duty to address
Mr. O'Brien in entire approval of his conduct, and our fixed
resolution to sustain him in the opinion he advocates; and
that it be referred to a committee of this Couucil to prepare
the address."

DRURY-LANE TIIEATRE.—TO-morrow night Malame
Anna Thillon and Les Danseuses Vienno:ses appear together
for the last time; and our delightful ringer, unable to get
her leave of absence extended, takes her departure from us
after Saturday next, the evening appointed for her benefit
and final appearance this season. Mr. Bunn has left London
for Paris, to make arrangements for the del& of Carlotta
G I i.

SACRED ILt R3IONIC SOCIETY. Thydn's Oratorio,
The Creation, is to be repeated on Friday next. Mrs.
Sunderland, Hobbs, and Phillips will, as on the former occa-
sion, sustain the principal vocal parts.
EASTERN UNION RAILWAT.—We understand that Mr.
Martin, who was for some time Depaty-Superintendent of the
Bristol Station of the Great Western Railway, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Eastern Union Railway, now
on the eve of opening. We believe few appointments of the
kind have been more judicious—Railway Record.
Yesterday morning a sermon, on behalf of the Ml-
pitel for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, was preached
at the parish Church of St. Luke's, Chelsea, by the Rev.
Robert Montgomery, A.M. The text selected by the
Reverend Advocate was from Proverbs xxii., v. 2, " The
rich and the poor meet together, but the Lord is the maker
sf them all." In the course of a very eloquent address, it
was stated, among other statistical facts, that the annual
deaths from consumption in the United Kingdom alone
amounted to 36,000. The last hills of mortaility for London
showed a frightful increase of pulmonary consumption.
The Rev. Gentleman having concluded a very eloquent appeal
to the feelings of the benevolent, the collection was made,
which amounted to the handsome sum of 80'. 95., exclusive
of the accession of several valuable sukc ibers.
NEW METHOD ( F TREATING CONSUMPTION.—A Cor-
respondent informs us that several of the most eminent
members of the profession have adopted, with complete suc-
cess in their practice, " Anaspasie," the new mode of treating
Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, &c. introduced already so
successfully at the Stranl Dispensary, for the cure of diseases
of the Heart and Lungs, by Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-place,
Leicester-square.—" We are gratified in being able to an-
nounce this important and extraordinary innovation in the
treatment of this plague spot of our variable clime,' having
been out selves one of the first to call the attention of the
public, and of the medical profession, to Dr. Cronin's new
mode of practice, having felt convinced that 'Anaspasia'
would he found a most valuable auxiliary to the more speedy
cure of pulmonary affections."—Globe.
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.—The forty-seventh an-
niversary meeting of the members of this Society took place
on Friday at Exeter-hall ; Sir E. N. Buxton, Barn, in de
chair. The Secretary reed a report of the Society's operations
during the past year. It stated that a great and encouraging
event had recently transpiied in China, viz., the promulga-
tion of a royal decree authorising the freedom of religious
worgiip. It wes impossible to foresee the happy results
which would fellow this circumstance. The shops, streets,
junks, and temples, were now accessible to time Christian mis-
sionaries. The committee had caused to be distributed at
Hong Kong, 22,000 tracts, and had made grants to the
amount of 3931. In India there were twenty auxiliary
societies engaged in distributing religious works. During
the year nearly 1,200,000 tracts had been printed by those
societies, to which the London Society had made grants to
the amount of 1,587/. In the Society Isles, 215,000 tracts had
been distributed ; is Seuth Africa, 451,000 ; in the West
Indiee, 105,380 ; in Quebec, 10,000 ; in addition to many
thou' ands in Montreal, Nova Scotia, and Now Brunswick,
making; a total in British North America of 183,000, in addi •
bon to libraries formed in some of the large towns. The cir-
culation of religious tracts was pre:clueing important results
in France. A Protestant tract society has been formed at
Paris, the receipts of which during the year amounted to
229,000 francs, and which had issued 650,000 tracts. Whole
" communes" were now forsaking the Roman Catholic
Church and embracing Protestantism. In Switzerland 8,000
tracts had been sent for the use of the Italian papulati, n, and
a grant made to the Geneva Evangelical Society. The Bel-
gian Evangelical Society had distributed during the year
42,000 tracts, and had received from the London Society a
grant of 2004 Amongst the other Continental cities where
the greatest number had been circulated were Amsterdam,
60,000 ; Stockholm, 50,000; St. Petereburgh, 167,000. The
Society's tracts had also been issued in Persia and other
parts of the East. The numberdistributed in the British Isles
.as altogether 2,260,000, at a cost of 2,761/. ; and the total
grants to foreign and colonial societies amounted to 450, at
a cost of 2,003/. The issues during the year amounted to
17,571,413, making, with these distributed by the societies
abroad, a total of 42,000,000, in ninety-eight languages and
dialects. The receipts of the Society amounted to 56,1101.
The report having been adopted, and several resolutions
passed, the meeting broke up.
GREAT Nolan OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY.—Th7s
measure is now in committee—witnesses, counsel, estimates,
and traffic tables being in great demand. We subjoin from
The Sun (in which paper particular attention is given to
railway prosecdiuga) a report of the evidence hitherto ad-
duced. The Perth and Inverness agents are preparing for a
similar struggle, and the witnesses have again been sum-
moned to London.—lnrerness Courier.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, MAY B.—We have to
report, a large supply of wheat, and fair of' other grain. To-
day there was a very thin attendance of millers, and the de-
mand for wheat was limited to their immediate wants.
Prices of all
.deseriptions of wheat muet be noted ls. to 2s.
per quarter lower. Considering the advanced state of the
az ason, fine barley met with a good inquiry at previous rates.
Beans sold easily on fully as good terms. Oats and shelling
each in slow request at barely former rates. Malt firm.
The exportation of donkeys has commenced. As in
former years they are intended for a Dutch settlement in
the West Indies. The Emerald Isle, for Rotterdam, on Wed-
nesday, took out five specimens of the English breed.
CoLossAL STATUE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—
Preparations have commenced at Hyde Park Corner (oppo-
site Apsley house), tor the erection of Mr. Wyatt's eques-
trian statue of the Duke of Wellington. The metal weighs
50 tons. The Duke is ill appear in a field marshal's uniform,
and a small military cloak.
Prince Albert has fixed this day for laying the
first stone of the Seamen's Church in Dock-street, and on
the occasion the Lords Commissioner= of the Admiralty. the
Lord Mayer, Aldermen, and ether public authorities, will be
in attendance to receive the Prince. The service will be per-
formed by the Bishop of London, and a very considerable
number of the subscribers and friends to this important un-
dertaking will be present. A large marquee has been erected
to cover the area, which is calculated to contain 800 parsons.
A CONFIRMED DESERTER.— Matthew Byrne, dressed
in the unfoim of the Royal Artillery, was taken on Thursday,
at Chatham, under an escort of the 65th, and placed le fore
the county magistrates at Rochester as deserter from the
44-h Regiment. The prisoner deserted from the 44th Regi-
ment at Dublin on the 20th of September, 1845, and enlisted
into the 65th, and on the march with a batch of recruits, to
join the head-quarters at Chatham, the prisoner deserted and
enlisted again, in March last, in the 7th battalion of the Royal
Artillery, at Woolwich, from which corps he deserted again
on the 6th of April, and went to Chatham about El roe weeks
ago, and delivered himsrlfup, as being a deserter, to Sergeant
'Monies Hawkins, of the 65th. The prisoner has been t
fined ever since; and the reason for his not being brought
before the magistrates ere this was on account of a corres-
pondence entered into by the 65th to the Horse Guards and
the Board of Ordnance respecting him. The prisoner wr.
committed to Maidstone Gaol to await an order from the
Horse Guards for his removal to his regiment (the 44th),
which is stationed at Newry.
A SCENE IN COURT.--On Saturday last, a poor
woman applied to the borough Magistrates under the follow-
ing circumstances. She stated that her name was Elizabeth
Stainsby, and she resided in Pottery Field. It appeared that
for some time past she had been receiving relief from the
parish to the amount of 6s. per week ; en going to rest ive
her money, however, on the last pay day, she found that
some one had drawn it in her name. Mr. Wriggles-
worth, the relNVltig officer, said the mistake was owing
to the woman not being In titne to answer to her name when
it was called over. It was prov'ed, however, that Wriggle:-
worth was himself in fault, as he ought not to have paid the
money, unless tl.e party applying for it had produced a
ticket, which each pauper is expected to exhibit on rnaleng
application for their allowance. The Mayor, therefore, inti-
mated to him that he ought, in justice, to ply the pct
woman's demand cut of his own pocket. Wrigglesworth
hesitated for a moment, and then said he weald melee eve ry
effort to ascertain who had got the money. The Mayo.—
Yes; bat that won't do; you ought to make up the poor
Woman's loss, though you lived for a week woe bread and
water yourself. Do you intend to pay it ? Wriggleworth—
No, sir. The MayonaeThen, sir, I will pay it myself, for the
poor woman shall not suffer from your negligence. Wrie-
glesworth then left the Court amidst a storm at hisses, which,
however, were quickly suppressed, and the Mayne ordered
him to be called in again. When he re-appeared, his Wtorsh'p
observed—Your conduct in the case of ties poor woman, A.r
WrleAkswcrth Is most disgraceful; and, as the Mayer of
this borough,l think it my duty to lay a statement of it
before the Poor-law CommissiOnera. I consider you totally
unfit for the situation you hold, and I will do all in my l off.2.r
to get ion turned out of it. Wrigglesworth, without reply,
egin Aft the Cotirt.—Leeds Mercury.
TIIE BATTERSEA-BRIDGE TRAGEDY._On Thursday
Maiming the miming body of one of the children drowned by
their mother at Battersea- bridge, was found imbedded in sand
at the bottom of a sluice in Battersea-fielde.
A PANIC.— On Frid ty afternoon, whilst the gallery of
the Committee-rooms of the new Houses of Parliament was

etoolltd. by perscms waiting to obtalnentrance-into the Kent
!ways Committee-room, to hear the decision, the work-
ttuM on tiii; tower above let a large block of stone fall, which
made sue!: n crash that it sounded as if the temporary floor-

ingwere giving Way, and the whole mass were coming
Mete was an instant clearance of the spot by the
counsel and itgetito and "the public" there congregated. who
rushed away in all dir,letione In the greatest alarm. When
Cie danger was passed, there it*!ui a general laugh at the
dp -hit' and its eau:-e.
S-tinEN Dr:aTit of A THEATRICA.J. BOX-KEEPEn.—
On Friday forenoon, Mr. William Carter heici inquest, at
the Spread Eagle T4vern, Kennington-lane, Lame,. ``-h, on
the body of Mr, oeorg.- Peter Bate, aged forty-nine years,
lately residing at So. 19, White Hart street, Kennington.
toad. Deceased had been for many years box-keeper at
Covent garden Theatre, and usually enjoyed good health.
Oa Tuesday morning last the deceased was dressing himeelf,
when he suddenly fell to the ground in a fit. Ho was sub-
sequently found in a state of insensibility, and before medical
aid could bo procured he expired, from long-standing disease
of the lungs. The jury returiled a verdict of" Natural death,
from tionsumption."
On Tuesday, a police officer, who had been stationed
at the Blisworth Junction, on the London and Birmingham
Railway, was sentenced to be imprisoned for two mouths
and kept to hard labour, by the magistrates of Towcester,
for having, on the previous day, neglected turning a tram
on the down line, by which a goods train was thrown off the
railway, the engine and tender of which ran down a bank
and turned over. The engine-driver and stoker escaped by
jumping off,
Fool RACE.—On Friday the running match between
Mills and Poverty was run at Turnham-green, and won by
the latter, Tho di2tatice yPAO liYO hundred yards, the
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