The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-11 00:00:00

SOLAR SPOTS.

The group of seven large and five smaller spots,
which were observed approaching the sun's western
limb on the Ist instant, appeared yesterday to have in•
creased to about eighteen spots, five of them being still
large, and one of them nearly doubled in diameter
This group, occuping a large and nearly square area on
the upper or northern tropic of the sun's disc, took 18
seconds to pass the vertical hair of the telescope, while
the whole solar disc took 138 seconds to pass it. Now,
the sun's diameter being equal to 882,188 British miles,
the diameter on one side of the said group will be ascer-
tained by the proportion, 138 sec. : 18 sec. : : 882,188
miles : 115,068 miles, or more than fourteen and a hall
diameters of the earth. Whence the whole area of the
said group upon the sun's disc appears to be equal to
13,240,644 524 square miles, or 211} square diameters
of the earth. The interjacent portions of the sun's disc,
or luminous solar clouds, appear to be sensibly de-
pressed, and consequently much dissipated, or rarifled.
Two very large spots, with an interjacent small one,
appear following this group, at the distance of about
one-fourth of the sun's northern tropic, if we may ap•
ply the names of small terrestrial circles to corrospond-
ing small solar circles. These large solar spots are ob
viously produced by the local dissipation of the luminous
solar clouds, which constitute the sun's disc, and con-
stantly send light outwards to illuminate remote bodies
in the heavens, but intercept most of the light projected
inwards towards the great dark central body of the sun.
Therefore, when local dissipations of the solar clouds
occur, arising from the previous discharge of their ac-
cumulated moisture, in the shape of torrents of rain
poured down from them upon the dark central body of
the sun, the local dissipation of the solar clouds then
commences on the outside, and often proceeds down-
wards quite through the disc or stratum of the solar
clouds, and thereby affords to the inhabitants of the
earth a peep into the comparatively dark sky under the
disc, which surrounds the dark solid central body of the
sun, and which, from their appearance, we call solar
spet3, but which the inhabitants of the sun, if any,
would appropriately call clear sky, because such clear
sky must afford to them an opportunity of examining
the remote planetary bodies, which, like the earth, shine
in the heavens chiefly by means of the sun's light re-
flected from them.
4th April.—Three of the spots in the group, on the
sun's western limb, arenow, by the increased dissipation
of the adjacent solar clouds, extended far beyond their
previous extent, and in the remaining rortions of
luminous cloud, within the extent of the group, so much
dissipated as to resemble fleeting portions of cloud in the
terrestrial sky. The great extent of this dissipation
may be conceived, when it is considered that the ordi-
nary thickness of the stratum of luminous clouds form-
ing the sun's disc is equal to a whole diameter of the
earth.
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Mr. Wells, curate of st. Martin's•in-the-Fields, Liverpool,
who has been wavering' for some time, has this week colt-
' formed to the Church of Rome.—Liverpool Minuty.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
SUSPECTED DEATH BY VIOLENCE.
(From the Plymouth Journal.)
On Wednesday, J. Edmonds, Esq., the coroner of this
borough, and a respectable jury, assembled at the Guild-
hall, for the purpose of instituting an inquiry into the
cause of the death of Rebecca Wyatt, the wife of a beer-
house keeper in Lower-lane. The death of the deceased
took place about three months ago, when she was in-
terred in the burial ground in Westwell-street ; and it
was in consequence of a representation made by the
mother and friends of the deceased to the coroner, that
that gentleman, with a promptness in the execution of
his duty which has always characterised his proceedings,
and for which he on this occasion justly received the
approbation and thanks of the jury, immediately caused
the necessary steps to be taken for the investigatiOn.
The body of the deceased was exhumed, and the jury
having chosen Mr. Thomas Holman as their foreman,
proceeded to view it.
The first witness examined was named Elizabeth
Rowe. Sho deposed that she had known the deceased
about three or four years. She remembered Sunday be-
fore Christmas day, she then lived in. Wyatt's house.
About nine o'clock in the morning she heard angry
words between the deceased and her husband, which
lasted for some time, when she saw him strike her with
his fist. She had not then attempted to strike him. She
then saw the deceased heave the ash kettle at him, and
lie hove it again at her. This difference continued for
some time, and Wyatt was getting the better of the de-
ceased, when she ran to the wash-house and took up a
piece of wood which was used for stirring the clothes- in
the furnace when boiling. Witness did not see any
more then ; but in about a minute the deceased came
out of the wash-house, where she and her husband were.
The piece of wood was then in Wyatt's hand, and the de-
ceased was bleeding from the mouth, and three of her
teeth w ere knocked out, and her eye was also very much
bruised. Witness then went to Wyatt, who was gone
into the bar, and said to him, " Mr. Wyatt, I think you
have broken your wife's jaw." He said, "If I have I
will send for Dr. Giles. He did not deny having
struck her, but said she had attempted to strike him
' first. She did not see deceased again until the follow-
ing Monday, when she found her in bed in a most
awful condition, her left eye was still swollen, and she
could scarcely open her mouth. Witness saw her down
stairs on Tuesday morning, the 23d, but she again took
to her bed on Saturday, where she remained until her
death, which took place on the Ist of January. On the
putting
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Sunday after Christmas-day, the husband of the de-
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the deceased.

Other witnesses corroborated the above evidence, and
also gave an account of a quarrel which had taken place
on the Saturday after Christmas-day, about eight o'clock
in the evening, between some soldiers and the deceased,
one of whom struck her on the stomach, which caused
her to fall in a fainting state on the stairs.
An old woman named Maria Bowden, living in the
workhouse, who was frequently in the habit of visiting
the deceased, deposed to some conversation which she
had had with the deceased on New Year's eve, in whioh
the latter, u ho was then in bed, and apparently near her
death, said to her that Wyatt had often told her he
would give her a blow that would send her to her grave;
and now he had done it. The deceased never coin-
' p:ained of having been struck by a soldier.
Charles Giles, surgeon, examined, said, I have been
the family surgeon to the deceased seven years ; J was
called to attend her on Sunday, the 28th of December,
about one o'clock. I found her in bed. She had then a
black eye and a great swelling about the mouth. I
found her very ill, complaining of pain in her head and
stomach. She complained of blows received from her
husband, and of having been struck by a soldier. She
died the Ist of January. I gave the usual certificate of
her death, which was to the effect that she died of effu-
sion on the chest and head. Effusion would arise from
many causes, one of which is violence. Ido not think
the blows of the stick on the mouth would have pro-
duced effusion after a lapse of so long a time.
The foreman here asked the witness whether he did
not think it his duty, as a professional man, in a case of so
serious a nature as this, to make known the circum-
stances of the case in order that an inquiry might be in-
stituted as to the cause of death ?
Mr. Giles—l left it with the family of the deceased,
whose duty I considered it was, if they were not satisfied,
to cause an inquiry to be made.

A juror—Did You suggest anything of the kind?
Mr. Giles—No.

The Foreman—l do confess, Mr. Coroner and gentle-
men,-that I think it an exhibition of great remissness on
the part of the medical man, knowing the circumstances
under which the deceased came by her death, not to
make it known to other parties.
The CORONER—I think it is deserving of censure.
Mr. Giles repeated that he considered, it inquiry we,
necessary, the relatives of the deceased party were the
persons who ought to move in the matter.
A juror—l believe that the medical man, who must
be supposed to know more of the human frame than any
body else, is the best judge of the necessity of inquiry
into the cause of death ; and he is guilty of great im-
propriety if he neglects what I conceive to be his duty.
Another juror—l think, Mr. Coroner, this conversa-
tion hardly belongs to the present stage of this inquiry
—hardly in place at this moment. I should like to ask
one question of the witness, and that is, whether in his
opinion there were any symptoms which he observed
about the deceased which would lead him to suppose
that the deceased died from purely natural causes.
Mr. Giles—There were some symptoms certainly.
A juror—Did it never enter into your mind that it
would be desirable that the matter should be investi-
gated ? Mr. Giles—l cannot say it did.
Some further questions were then asked of the witness,
which result( d in the addition of the following to his
evidence :—lt never occurred to me that any inquiry
was necessary to be instituted as to the cause of the
death of the deceased ; if it had I certainly should have
done so.

The Court was then cleared, and some of the jury
having expressed their dissatisfaction at the evidence of
Mr. Giles, the coroner sent for Mr. Freeman, who was
ordered to make a post mortem examination of the body,
and the inquest was adjourned to receive his evidence.

THE HULL SAILORS' STRIKE.—RIOTOUS PROCEED-
mos.—Wednesday afternoon a disturbance took place, in the
immediate vicinity of the Humber Dock, which originated
through the exising disputes, respecting wages, between the
seamen and the shipowners. It appears that the seamen,
who have been some weeks out of employment, owing to their
having struck for an advance of wages, which to a great ex-
tent, has been resisted by the masters, have regularly assem-
bled in large numbers in the neighbourhood of the docks,
a proceeding which created some alarm in the minds of the
authorities, and, accordingly, a strong body of the police
force have been stationed on duty to prevent any breach
of the peace. As the sailors connected with the
" strike" party did not manifest any apparent disposition to
create a disturbance, the number of policemen on duty in
the locality in question was reduced. This proceeding seems
to have been taken advantage of, and yesterday afternoon
the Bee, of Glasgow, was leaving the dock when a simulta •
neous attack was made upon the crew, in consequence, as
we are informed, of their having entered into an engagement
with the owner or owhers at a less salary than the turnouts
had demanded. Stones and other missiles were hurled
with fearful rapidity, and the police accordingly interfered,
when a regular affray occurred. An eye-witness informs us
that there were several hundreds either taking part in or wit-
nesses to the disturbance, and the police having captured one
man, whom they deemed as the most prominent character
in the riot, they proceeded with their charge to the sta-
tion-house in Blanket-row, amidst the most execrable
shouts and hootings. Inspector Allison took a very active
part in endeavouring to suppress the disorder that prevailed,
when a large stone was thrown, it is supposed with the in-
tent of inflicting injury upon him, but which caught a by-
stander, named James Wood, residing in Paradise-place, on
the head; and knocked him down. The poor fellov!as
severely stunned by the blow, and it was some timebefore
he rallied from its effects. The police on duty having re-
ceived a considerable acquisition to their numbers, therevye'efarei
enabled to quell .the riotous proceedings, and secure
of the principal actors iu the affray-, who were taken to the
station-house, and will undergo examination before the Ma-
gistrates this day. Such conduct as tkat to which we have
here alluded is highly culpable, and is calculated to injure,
rather than benefit, the object of the parties connected with
the strike.—Hull Advertiser.

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a lady
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man
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of Monday
gentlemanly i nan
appearance oli
Bsulevard to the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, was seated
who, after some rather warm compliments, pressed so close
to her, and at last took such liberties, that she was obliged
to reprove him rather severely. He pretended to take the
rebuke in all humility, modestly acknowledged his error, and
then, desiring the conductor to stop the omnibus, alighted
and walked away. Some minutes afterwards, the lady
having occasion to refer to her pocket-book, found that it
was gone, and with it a bank-note for 500 francs and a rail-
road share. She immediately proclaimed her loss, and got
out of the omnibus to pursue her late-fellow passenger, the
real object of whose familiarity was now but too evident. It
is needless to say that he was no longer at her call.—Galig-
nlni's Messenger.
A laughable incident occurred at Romsey Abbey
Church, on Sunday morning last. An out-asked couple, a
" navie" and one of the factory ladies, presented themselves
to be united in the indissoluble bond of matrimony. The
i ceremony performed, the officials naturally looked for their
fees—the clergyman received hie, but the clerk and sexton
heard with rueful countenance that none were forthcoming
for them, the husband stating that the parson was quite
enough to marry him, " without them other two fellows."
As neither threats nor entreaties could prevain on him to
alter his determination, it was resolved to try the effect of a
little confinement, so the happy couple and their attendants
were locked into the vestry; but here, however, coFsolePe.r
under trials was not wanting, for being armed withvestn,ol
pipes and a match, they comfortably enjoyed thens7log
selrf
more than hour, till the arrival of people for Toot
h.
vice compelled them to be dismissed, the
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bacco rather offending the oltlictory nem_ r
' .Wriohton Gazette.
more sensitive part of the con, gregationt. .
A a recent meeting
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.of the Hospital for Con-
ot the Committee of Mans e n
fj";hieneubest, held at the Hospital,
sumption nli•I lliwases o
1 d Bishop of Durham, offered to
Chelsea, the Right
Rev. the ,or .
ine similar subscriptions could be
contribute 50t, Providng
procured, for the especial1
purposefi of aid
tal recently aiding the fund for
erected at B t
tarnishing of the new io. pi. ,
Ilk Lortiship's benevolent intention romp on.
has been followed, by
Philip Hose, Req., Hobert Vyner, Esq., James Alexander,
• Mrs. Flieabeth Vaughan,
Esq., -• • • Sir Robert Fitz Wygram,
Sir John Kirkland, and R. Beazon de Beauvoir, Esq.
TUE FLOOD.—Several hundred acres of land in the
neighbourhood of Gainaborough, and on the Trent side, have
become inundated this week through the almost unpre-
cedented heavy rains. Great fears are entertained that the
wheat crops will suffer considerably. Several parts of Mor-
ton Carr, an area of about 4,000 acres, present the appear-
ance of a vast sea. The large and splendid engine recently
erected there, although running night and day, cannot keep
the water off, owing principally to one or
two proprietors and
occupiers of land not keeping their drains well cleaned out,
so as to let the water have free access to the engine. It is
hoped the Commissioners will sea the necessity of some strin-
gent measures being adopted to compel certain self-willed
characters residing on the Carr to get their dikes in proper
tider...finil Advertieer.

YORK and LANCASTER RAILWAY,

PROPOSED WINDING-UP.

Thursday afternoon a meeting of shareholders in this
-undertaking was held at 53, Charing-cross, to consider
the propriety of calling upon the directors forthwith to
dissolve the Company. Major Jeff Sharp presided, and
detailed the circumstances connected with its past his-
tory. A circular was circulated amongst the proprie-
tors, inquiring-1. Whether the original route of the
line Was not altogether altered, and that without consult-
ing the shareholders ; 2. Whether the Company had ob-
tained the consent of six landowners of the line ; 3.
Whether they were not opposed on standing orders by
the Leeds and Think Company, Lord Harewood, and
various landowners, and whether their attempt to pass
that tribunal was not so hopeless as to create a mere
waste of expense ; 4. Whether they had not already
spent between 30,0001. and 40,0001., and accomplished
nothing ; 5. Whether the directors had not a daily
allowance for their attendance at the board, and there-
fore interested in protracting a dissolution ; 6. Whether
they would undertake to produce their banking account,
and show what funds, if any remained, applicable to the
use of the shareholders. The circular alluded to pro-
•ceeded to call upon the directors to produce their corres-
pondence and negotiations with other companies, and re-
quired to know how many shares each member of the
committee had allotted to himself, and how many had
found it beneficial to take them up.
On the motion of Mr. PococK, seconded by Captain
ROSE, R.N., it was resolved that it would be advan-
tageous to the shareholders if the concerns of the York
and Lancaster Railway were immediately wound up. A
protest against the further continuance of the scheme
was agreed to, as was also a petition to the House of
Commons, praying that the progress of the Bill might
be arrested.
It was stated that the expenses of the Company, up
to the present time, cerald not have exceeded 7s. 6d. per
share.
A vote of thanks to the chairman dont( the pro-
ceedings.

NUMEROUS AND SERIOUS
ACCIDENTS. _ _

On Thursday the following serious accidents occurred
several of which are expected to terminate fatally :
The first case was that of William Whitehead, aged
fourteen years, residing at No. 5, White's-buildings,
Bermondsey-street. He had been on an errand to the
Southwark Bridge-read, and whilst on the way home he
got behind a cab, and, endeavouring► to reach the kerb
facing the Town-hall, High-street, Southwark, he was
knocked down by a heavily-laden waggon, the wheel of
which passed over his left leg, crushing it in a most
frightful manner. He was carried to St. Thomas's
Hospital, where he lies in a hopeless condition.—The
second accident occurred to a child named Sarah Wright,
aged eight years, whose friends reside at No. 3, Stockwell-
street, Old Kent-road. She was left by her mother to pre-
pare something for dinner, and during her mother's ab-
sence she set her clothing on fire. Her screams brought
several neighbours to her assistance, who, with
great difficulty, succeeded in extinguishing the flames,
but not before she was completely burnt and charred
over the whole of her body. She was wrapped in a
blanket, and conveyed to Guy's Hospital; but she can-
not survive the injury many hours.—The third accident
happened to a young man, a boiler-maker, living at
Greenwich, in the employ of Messrs. Penn and Co., the
exaasive engineers. It seems he was engaged in the
boiler manufactory at Deptford, and while lifting a large
pi,ce of plate iron, the ponderous mass fell upon his
right leg, by which it was fractured in two places. He
was extricated with considerable trouble, and carried to
a surgeon near the premises, but the injuries he had
sustained were so serious that it was deemed necessary
to remove him to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he now
-remains in an exhausted state.—The fourth happened at
Norton Folgate, t. two persons. About noon, a post boy,
named William Keal, aged 13 years, was proceeding
along the lligh-street on horseback, towards the
General Post-office, at a rapid pace, at the same moment
a man named John Severs, aged 49 years, was crossing
the carriage-way, and before the lad could stop the horse
the man was knocked to the ground with fearful vio-
lence, and the lad was also pitched over the horse's
head on to the stones. The man was carried into a
surgeon's, and was found to have received a compound
fracture of 'he left thigh, and other serious injuries.
The boy was taken to the same place, having sustained a
severe scalp wound and concussion of the brain. Both
were speedily taken into Guy's Hospital. The lad is
in a dangerous condition, and the man also lies with very
slieht hopes of recovery.—Another accident took place
at Torn:inson's coal-wharf, Bankside. A man named
John Nl`Shea, aged 39 years, was leaping into one of the
barges lying off the wharf, when he lost his foothold,
and fell with great violence to the lower part of the
barge, and severely injured the spine of his back, and
also fractured several ribs on the left side. He was
taken to St. Thomas's Hospital

SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING
Thursday afternoon Mr. G. J. Mills, Deputy-Coroner
for Middlesex, held an inquest at the Adam and Eve
Tavern, High-road, Kensington, on view of the body of
Richard Bird, aged 45 years, whose death occurred
under the following circumstances :
It appeared that the deceased was in the occasional
employ of Mr. Henxman, a wine-merchant, living at No.
6, Terrace, Kensington. On Wednesday, the Ist instant,
deceased was sent about one o'clock with a dozen of
wine, in a basket, to the house of Mr. Rayner, with di-
rections to bring back with him a dozen empty bottles.
Deceased did not arrive at Mr. Rayner's until five
o'clock, and while selecting the empty bottles Mrs.
Rayner desired him not to take a dirty bottle which she
pointed out to him, which she repeated three times; but
deceased persisted in taking it, and did so, for the same
evening he was brought to the Mason's Arms, Titch-
:field-street in a cab, the cabman stating he had picked
him up in the New-road, very ill ; and the deceased
told the landlord that he was very ill, that he
had drunk something out of an empty bottle,
and that the moment he had done so his mouth and
stomach seemed all on fire. Remedies were tried, and
deceased appeared on Saturday to be better ; but on
Sunday he got worse, and died about four o'clock on
Monday morning. Inspector Havell, T division, on
learning the particulars of the case, and that deceased
was dead, sent a policeman to the Mason's Arms for the
empty bottles, when it was found that the dirty bottle
had on it two lables, one of which was written, in large
characters, " Poison for vermin," and on the other was
printed the name of ‘• Mr. Wooldridge, chemist, Bath-
place, New-road." Further inquiries were then made,
both at Mr. Rayner's and Mr. Wooldridge's, the former
of whom said it was used to kill bugs, and the latter,that
be !whored it contained a strong mineral poison, and,
preb,bly, some corrosive sublimate; and, it is presumed,
th it the deceased being very near-sighted, did not notice
the labels.
The jury returned a verdiet, " That the deceased died
from the 4-ff,cts of some irritant poison, taken acciden-
tally, but what description of poison it was there eas
mo evidence to show."

MALL'EABLE -GLAss.—A correspondent remarks : '
44 Some time since your publication contained an account of
the invention of a malleeb'e glass, by some gentleman in
France. In 4 Wanley's Wonders of the Little World,' you
• will tied, as I did when a little boy, that a man submitted
• to the burgomaster of Amsterdam a glass bottle, which he
-" bunt by violently throwing it upon the payment, and then
' 'hammered it into its former state ; but he was found dead
in- the high road on the ensuing morning. Mr. Samuel
Etherege Acton, the father of the late Mr. Samuel Acton,
of EuSton-square, discovered the method of making malle-
able glass; but, with a commendable though mistaken kind
of feeling, he steadily refused to disclose the secret, lest it
should deprive the glass manufacturers of subsistence."— The
Builder.
ROYAL SEA BATHING INFIRMARY.—The quarterly
general court of the governors of this charity, established for
the purpose of affording to poor invalids the means of sea
batting, with medical attendance, was held on Thursday at the
London Coffee-house, Robert Pugh, Esq., in the chair. From
the report read by the secretary, it appears that her Majesty
still continues her patronage of the institutiou, and that the
funds are in a flourishing state. The infirmary at Margate,
which is capable of affording accommodation of from 200 to
300 inmates, will be opened on Monday, the 11th of May,
and continue open until September. B. Curling, Esq., sur-
geon to Vie London Hospital, and Thomas Thornton, Esq.,
haviLigL been elected directors, a vote of thanks was given to
the chairman, and the meeting separated.
From a Parliamentary paper issued on Saturday, it
appears this tin the year 1844 the number of Acts of Parlia-
ment supplied to the public under the promulgation order
was 505,849 in Great Britain, and to public departments
45,313. The highest number in any year since 1835 supplied
to the public was in 1842, when 549,128 were so supplied, and
YO t ablie departments in 1837, when they were 111,731.
The Duke de Nemours and the Prince de Wur-
temberg proceeded on March 31 to the forest of Kalatte, to
bunt the wild boar. Their Royal Highnesses were accom-
panied by the Sub-Prefect of Senlis, and several sportsthen
of the neighbourhood. Two boars were wounbed ; one by
a keeper, and the other by M. Lacour. A third was killed
by M. Champion, jun., lieutenant in the sapuers-pompieri of
Senlis. It was a young boar of three years of age, one of
those know.i bythe name of bête de campagne, because, con-
trary to the habits of the old boars, which always remain
alone in the depths of the woods, the young ones stay in
company with some of their fellows. The Princes appointed
yesterday for another day's hunting, in the forest of Eine-
nonville.— Galignanz.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY JUMPING OPP WESTMIN-
STER-BAIDGE.-011Thursday evening, between six and seven
o'clock, a desperate attempt at suicide was committed by a
young woman, nineteen years of age, named Charlotte Rus-
sell, who threw herself off the top of 'estminster-bridge into
the river. It appears that she and a companion had been
drinking with some cabmen in Westminster, until they, be-
came intoxicated. Returning home over Westminster-bridge,
she suddenly left her companion, and mounted the top of the
bridge, on the Surrey side, and instantly precipitated herself
into the river. An alarm being given, some watermen put
off in their boats, and succeeded in saving her as she was on
the point of sinking. She was removed to the Westminster
Hospital.
We road in the Journal die Havre of Saturday—
" The Prince de Joinville arrived hers yesterday evening,
from Caen, by the Calvados steamer. After witnessing the
launch of the Passe Partout, at Nantes, and paying a hasty
visit to Lorient and Brest, his Royal Highness left the latter
port by a Government steamer for Cherbourg. He at first
intended to come direct to Havre, but the fear of being de-
tained in his voyage by the regulations of our port deter-
mined him to land at Cherbourg. After sleeping at the
Hotel de l'Amiraute, he started this morning for Parisi It
is needless to add that in this place, where the features of
the Prince de Joinville are so imprinted in the memory of the
4444bitants, his incognito was nothing more than une affaire
?-1-.1 OlisiOnrenance."
s EIN 1 4 ..., s - lIMOND ELECTION.—The nomination of candidates
v:,-.lll7lcrirlit. oorotigh of Richmond took place on Wednesday,
-/-L-wlienit ere being no opposition to Mr. Rich, a show was
•r-„ --,S`' ken .d he was declared elected. The Hon. Gentleman
:- -:-1,, V,:,:t -,-- i ~ • ressed tae electors, and the proceedings terminated.
c. ---'(::-..',.1.---4i*- .:--.1; ' ' TINPLATE WORKERS' STRIKE IN 81RM1NG-
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4 i,,,, ii'. I he tin-plae workers employed in Birmingham,
4,0 -c.,,----= . ,-._ ,itbout . • venty in number, have struck against a proposition
'\ - ••;:.,'" " ii*t by their masters to reduce their prices twenty per
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The Post-office clerks and` diaiibtitors at oath have
made an appeal to the public against the continuance of the
Sunday delivery.

LAW IIiTELLIGEN CE.
SECONDARIES' COURT, April 9.
(Before Mr. Secondary PorTER.)

THE GUANO TRADE.-MILL AND ANOTHER V. SUGHRUE.
This was an action to recover damages for the breach
of a contract on a charter party, in which judgment was
suffered by default. The present proceeding was a
writ of inquiry to assess the damages.
Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Lush were for the
plaintiffs ; Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Hoggins for the de-
fendants.
The evidence showed that the plaintiffs are merchants
in Rood-lane, and the defendent a shipowner. In Sep-
tember, 1844, a charter party contract was made between
the parties for a cargo of guano, in the ship Seffings,
from Ichaboe, West Africa, at 4/. 15s. a ton, provided
it was delivered in London by the following April, or at
41. 12s. 6d. a ton if delivered after that period. The
vessel reached Ichaboe in January, 1845. There were
300 ships on the same errand, and 3,000 men at work.
The best guano pits had been exhausted, and the cap-
tain could only procure fifty tons of an inferior quality,
the tonnage of the vessel being 522. He went to Mala-
gars, Saldanah Bay, where he got a cargo, and arrived
at Hull in September last. Before his arrival, however,
the defendant had made an agreement with other par-
ties, and sold the cargo at 5/ a ton. The price in April
was W. a ton, and in September 71. 10s.
The case for the plaintiff was, that they were entitled
to the price of the guano in September, and not the April
price. For the defence it was said the defendant could
not fulfil the contract .

The Learned SECONDARY left the case to the jury to
assess the damages.
The jury retired at a little before two, and came into
Court at six o'clock. They assessed the damages at 5001.