The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

A deputation respecting molasses, consisting of Mr.
Haukt-y, Mr. Barkly, M.P., Mr. Colvile, and Mr.
M'Gregor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down•
ing- street.
Mr. Kingscote had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday at the Home-office.
Mr. Williams, M.P., had an interview with the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson 3 esterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were
received yesterday at the Colonial office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office to the Governor• General of the Canadas, and
also for the Governors of the other North American
provinces.
Colonel Anson had an interview yesterday with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The Lords present were the Master of the
Rolls, Lord Brougham, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. Wigram, Queen's Counsel, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr.
Charles Buller, were heard on an appeal from the Court
of Sudder Dewanny Adawlat, at Bengal, " Mummi Ram
Awasty v. Sheo Chunn Awasty. The Master of the
Rolls gave judgment on the part of their Lordships dis-
missing the appeal.
An appeal from Bengal " Rewun Persad v. Massumat
Radha Beeby," was opened by Mr. Charles Buller. The
case was adjourned.
Sir James and Lady Ann Mackenzie left Farrance's
Hotel yesterday for Milton Peterborough.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of bus
ness.

Mr. BENNOCH gave notice of a motion for an address
to her Majesty to urge upon Parliament the necessity of
establishing a system of education universally in Greal
Britain and Ireland.
QUALIFICATIONS OF FREEMEN, &C. . .

Mr. JOHN Wool) moved that a " Bill for declaring the
Qualification of Freemen of London to be elected mem-
bers of the Common Council," be read a second time.
The Court was occupied during the whole of the day
in discussing the clauses of the Bill, with closed doors.
The interest is merely local.
There is a vast deal of business to be transacted, if
we are to form any opinion from the contents of the
business paper, and if the progress resemble the com-
mencement of the Mayoralty, as to the doings of the
Court of Common Council, the arrears will, in a few
weeks, be enormous. The public may judge of the
condition of the Court in this respect, upon being told
that one of the members complained that some of the
notices of motions had been actually staring the mem-
bers in the face, on the business paper, nearly twelve
months.

SPORTING INTELL IGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—MonsDAY.
We subjoin a statement of business done, from which
it will be seen that the betting took a very limited range,
and that the market prices remain as they were last
quoted :--

CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 20 agst Mr. W. Scott's Erin-go-bragh—taken
DERBY.
15 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken to
25/., and afterwards offered.
800 to 50 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote—taken
2500 to 100 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet—taken
2000 to 60 agst Mr. W orley's Old Port—taken
1000 to 25 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart—taken,
and afterwards offered

1000 to 15 agst Col. Peel's King of Naples—taken
2,000 to 100 agst Gabbier, Projectile, West India Planter,
and King of Alorven —taken.
The backers of Old Port was anxious to go on.
Offers to take 1,000 to 30 about Lunedale, and 1,000 to 20
about Wanota.

In the betting on Monday we omitted 2,000 to 10 agst
Lord E. Russell's Clarendon.

Mr. Phillimore, a gentleman of high standing on the
turf, died at Brighton on Monday last, after an illness of
two years. The nominations of Saddle and several other
horses become void.

The Leamington Steeple Chases, as we stated yester-
day, are postponed till Tuesday, the 15th. Bets, we
presume, are off; and it is a question if the races them-
selves are not void, unless the engagements be renewed.
The power of postponement from day to day is admitted,
but it is doubttul if it extends beyond the week, for
which the races were originally made.
The Bentinck Benevolent and Provident Fund, in-•
eluding the sum of 2,1001. Consols, being stock purchased
with money subscribed tor a testimonial to Lord George
Bentinck, now amounts to 2,4001. Consols. The fund is
established for the " benefit of trainers and jockeys,
their widows and children," under the provisional ma-
nagement of the Bentinck Testimonial Committee, viz. :
the Dukes of Beaufort, Bedford, and Rutland,
Lords Chesterfield and Eglinton, and the Honourable
G. S. Byng ; each of whom has subscribed 251. to
the fund, in addition to an annual subscription of 101.
The subscription of a trainer or rider is limited to two
guineas annually, and those who have contributed to the
fund, and their widows and children, will have a prefer-
able claim to relief, the committee, however, having the
power of rejecting the donations and subscriptions of
those who, in their opinion, are not worthy to become
members of the society, and also of striking off the list
any trainer or rider who may misconduct himself after
becoming a subscriber. No grant will be made until
after the Newmarket First Spring Meeting, 1847. Forty-
seven trainers and jockies have already subscribed, the
majority for two guineas each. The fines imposed at
York and Newmarket Races, amounting to 511., have
been added to the capital.

ANOTHER CONVERT TO ROME.—MY. Henry Pow-
nall, son of 11. Pownall, Esq., magistrate for the county
of Middlesex, and who formerly opposed Mr. Byng at
the election for that county, has just joined the Roman
Catholic Church.—Morning Post.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—We are
informed that the determination to open this line
throughout on the 21st of December next has been post-
poned—it is presumed, in consequence of General Pasley"
having resigned his situation as Inspector of Railways
at the Board of Trade. The earliest opportunity will,
however, be taken for opening the line, as we believe it
is now in a complete state for public traffic.—Carlisle
Patriot.

A clerk in the employment of M. Forthomme, a
manufacturer at Belbec, was two days back proceeding
in a gig, about five in the morning, to pay a number of
workmen residing there, when, on arriving at Beuzville,
a man stopped the horse, whilst another proceeded to
break in the hind part of the vehicle, to get at the money
which was in the well. The clerk, on recovering from
his surprise, rapidly drew out a pistol, and was directing
it towards the robber holding the horse, when the pistil
went off accidentally, and wounded the animal slightly
in the ear. The horse, being frightened, at once took
the bit between his teeth, and started off, knocking
down the robber v. ho was holding him, and never
stopped until it reacieed Breaute. The clerk there in-
formed the gendarmerio, but the men have not been since
discovered.—Galignani.
THE SCOTT MONUMENT.—We understand that the
corners of mouldings and pieces of corbel heads in seve-
ral of the galleries of this splendid work of art have
been chipped off, while let, rs have been rudely carved
into the stone in different eerts of the building. We
can scarcely find words seilieieeitly strong to denounce
the conduct of the individuals who have been guilty of
such Vandalism.—Caledonian Mercury.
PUBLIC WORKS.—Upwards of two hundred and
fifty pay-clerks have been appointed by the Board of
Works, and are now officially engaged throughout the
country. If the accounts which have of late, frequently
reached us from the provinces may be credited (and in
no one in:lance can we advance reasonable grounds for
doubting their authenticity), it has become too much the
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THE SUNDAY TRAINS.—We understand that a
connected with the Royal
,
matter in hand, we
spirit of those who have taken the
have no doubt, though it will be connected with con
vexed question at rest. From the well-known public
siderable expense, that thefull
whole
of the shareholders,
be submitted to a ful
Biconclusive.irr It seems, from the
question will shortly
the number of
of this morning, that
Edinburgh papers
stopping the trains is but four !
directors in favour of
English
understand, are these:—The seven
The facts, we
when the result will be
leave the matter to the
of the trains, but consented to in favour favour of the continuance
directors were unanimous
When the matter came
accordingly stood entirely slow. .
t was found that they
before the eight Scotch directors,
eight Scotch, as better knowing the public wishes, and
were equally divided as to the propriety of stopping the
trains ; but as four of them were very eager to try the
experiment, the others (not very wisely or
regulate we think) gave way. So the fact is that justifiably,
, as
numbertifiably of
gentlemen who have undertaken forcibly to the
Sunday movements of the inhabitants of Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and all places adjacent and interjacent, is but
four !—Glasgow Saturday Post,
MERCHANT SEAMEN.—The Commissioners of the
Customs department have received a communication
from Mr. Parker, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury, stating that, with reference
to their reports relative to the Merchant Seamen's Act,
he has been commanded by their Lordships to acquaint
them that their Lordships approve of the suggestions
therein contained, "for not proceeding against parties
who have omitted to require the names of the seamen to
be signed at full length, and for giving full publicity to
the same;" and that pending the re-adjustment of the
law, their Lordships desire that Mr. Field, the Collector
of the Customs at the Cape of Good Hope (as well as
the other collectors in the colonies), may be apprised
that the law does not imp )se upon the Collectors of
Customs the duty of proceeding by information before
her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and that it forms
no part of his duty to sue in the character of an informer
for the penalties impose d by the Merchant Seaman's
Act (7 and 5 Victoria, cap 112.)
DREsDFUL DEATH.—YeNterday forenoon, a man
named Joseph Reynolds, aged twenty one years, ex-
pired in the accident ward of Guy's Hospital, under the
following dreadful circumstances : The unfortunate
man was employed at a lime yard at Peckham, and
whilst engaged in his usual occupations, he was seized
with an epileptic fit and fell into a deep lime pit. He
remained in that state for nearly a quarter of an hour,
when he was found by one of the other workmen lying
at the bottom of the pit covered with lime, and fright-
fully burnt over the back and lower extremities by the
action of the lime, which happened to be in a heated
coditi9n, Who body awaits au inquest,