The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

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Crox ton Park 4 & 5
Catterick Bridge 6& 7
Epsom Spring 7

Chester

..2 to 5

Newmarket Sec Sp 9,10,&11
Shrewsbury —lO, 11, & 12
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Hungerford 2 & 3
Ascot 6_to 9

Sutton Coldfield ... 12 & 13

Hampton 14 & 15
Manchester ... 14, 15, & 16
Newcastle-on-Tyne 20 t 023

Newmarket 4,5, & 6
Lancaster 5 & 6
Liverpool
Stamford 12 & 13
AUGI
Leominster 2 & 3
Brighton 2,3, & 4
Reading 9 & 10
Wolverhampton... 14 to 16
York 23, 24, & 25
SEPTE.
Warwick 5 & 6
Aberystwith 7 & 8

Pigburn ll i
Lichfield l2 & 13
Doncaster 12 to 15
Leicester 20 & 21
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Newmarket Sec.Oct.9 to 13 I

TRELEIGII CONSOLS MINE.—A quarterly meeting
of this company was held at the office, 57, Old Broad-
street, yesterday, Mr. George B. Carr in the chair. A
report from the mining captain having been laid before
the meeting, from which it appeared that a new lode had
just been opened, which would require the. removal of
the engine at an expense of 3001. or 4001. A statement
of accounts was read, from which it appeared that the
balance in hand on the 31st of December last was
2,0941. 10s. 5d., and the ore since sold to the end of Feb-
ruary, 2,1781. Is. 101, making a total of 4,272/. 12s. 3d.
The expenditure had been 2,073/. 16s. 5d., leaving a ba-
lance of 2,198/. 19s. 10d., to which was to be added the
amount for ore sold to the 30th of March, 7831. 75.,
making together 2,982/. 9s. 10d.' subject to liabilities of
846/. 10s., leaving a balance in favour of the company of
2,035/. 12s. 10d., independent of a revenue fund of 450/.
After some discussion the report was adopted, and a di-
vidend of ss. per share, amounting to 1,250 L, declared
A short discussion took place relative to some shares
claimed by the Coventry Bank (as the assignees of a
Mr. Murray), but it appearing that the scrip was mislaid
and the numbers unknown, it was determined to adjourn

the consideration of the question.
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.—The Perlin
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Achilles, Captain Soy, arrived here last night, at eleven
P.M., atter a most extraordinarily quick passage from
Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, and Vigo. She brought mails
of the following dates, in charge of Lieutenant John
Brown, R.N., Admiralty agent :—Gibraltar, March 25 ;
Cadiz, 26; Lisbon, 29; Vigo, 30. The Achilles expe-
rienced fine weather on the voyage home, and brought
18 passengers, and 729 boxes oranges, 16 packages of
specie, 14 cases hams, 3 cases oysters, and 38 packages
general merchandise. The Achilles exchanged colours
on the 26th with the steam-ship Ilindostan' steering for
Gibraltar. Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus was at
Gibraltar, and her Majesty's ship Howe and the steamers
Scourge, Comet, and Jackal were in the Tagus. By
this steamer we have letters from our correspondent in
Lisbon to the 29th ult. A Ministerial crisis existed, and
the Duke of Saldanha was endeavourinptoreconstruct his
Cabinet. Nothing of interest had occurred in the Cortes
Petition• were
preparing against the Government plat;
for reducing the dividends on the internal debt. Public
tranquillity remained undisturbed.
DARING BURGLARY AT GAWCOTT.—Thursday
morning last, between two and three o'clock, six men,
with their faces blackened, and partly masked (one
armed with a gun or carbine), entered a lone house on
the right-hand side of the road leading from the Tinge-
wick-road to Gawcott, occupied by Mr. T. Caucott,
about a mile and a half from Buckingham. Mr. Cau-
cott was alarmed by hearing a noise in the house, when
he directly got out of bed and armed himself with a
hay-knife (the only weapon of defence he kept in his
room), and on going to the door he was met by a man,
who held up a carbine to his breast, and said, " We want
money, and money we will have. We have no work or
money, and we are navvies." The other men then im-
mediately entered the bedroom in which Mr. Caucott
and his wife slept, and took one 61. note, 265. in silver,
six silver tea-spoons (marked "W, S.") eight other
plated or German silver tea-spoons, and two larger ones,
two silver watches, and two bottles of brandy, the whole
of which they decamped with. They had each a candle
lighted, and in the room they had to pass through, pre-
vious to coming to Mr. Caucott's room, there was a bed,
the curtains of which, with the coverlid, sheets, blankets,
and be d, were nearly all burnt to ashes, and strange to
say, the house, which was thatched, was not burned to
the ground. The thieves, or one of them, seeing this bed
in flames, went back and took Mrs. Caucott in his arms,
carried her down stairs, saying, "You shan't be hurt."
There is no knowing how they effected their entrance,
nor any clue as to the road they took. They left a crow-
bar behind them.—Aylesbury News.
CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY...—
Yesterday a general meeting of this society was held at
the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the election
of two men and two women out of the list of candidates.
The chair was taken by B. B. Cabbell, Esq. The
directors, in their report, regretted they were unable to
propose the election of a larger number of pensioners;
but they trusted that, in duo time, through a steady
continuance of that support which they had received
from the public, not only to increase the number of
pensioners to be elected, but that a further increase in
the payments to the pensioners would be determined on.
The election having been concluded, a vote of thanks was
passed to the chairman for presiding.
GULLING THE NATIVES.—The recent continental
disturbances have set the inhabitants of our isolated
glens on the qui vice for news ; every traveller is im-
portuned for tidings, and any statement, however incon-
gruous, is gratefully swallowed. The other day a tourist
was accosted in a truly parasitical manner for news by
the shepherd at Achnashean, and, being a bit of a wag,
he made the poor man believe that the French had all
landed at Loehearron, on their way to Dingwall, and,
added he sneeringly—" Your sheep will be all laid low.'
The shepherd reported progress immediately—the story
was credited—and, ere Sol gilded the summit of Benhee,
his sheep and himself thanked their stars that they were
safely ensconced in the vales of Torridon.—Ross-shire
Advertiser.
INCREASE AND DIMINUTION OF SALARIES, &C.
(PUBLIC OFFICES.)—By a return published of the in-
crease and diminution which has taken place within
year 1647 in public offices and departments, itappheeaerns
that in the number of persons employ h a
employed there s
in
an increase of 1,282 against a diminution of 3r2e;_
a
total comprising salaries, emoluments, there
diminution
retired
allOwv-
ances, &c., the increase is 133,9261,, !Id
24,075/., makin a balance of 109,849/. for the increase.
The increase has been cnc hiefly in the Poet-office depart-
, went,