The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-03 00:00:00

1848,
S jA NUAR Y 3,

REMARKABLE EVENTS IN 1847,
ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

JANUARY.

2. Queen Anne's Bounty Office, in Dean's yard, West-
minster, destroyed by fire.
4. Four young ladies in a boarding-school, at Berlin,
lost their lives from suffocation, by means 4.4 a
lighted stove in their dormitory.
6. Dense fog in London, making gas-light necessary
throughout the day, and suspending the naviga-
tion of the River Thames.
7. First sod of the North-Western Branch Railway, at
Clestop, in Yorkshire, turned, with public cere-
monial, by Viscount Morpeth.
The Archduke Joseph Anthony John of Austria,
Palatine of Hungary, died at Ofen, aged 69.
10. The French steam-frigate Caraibe, commanded by
Rear-Admiral Montaignes de la Roque, totally
wrecked to the north of St. Louis, in Senegal,
with the loss of twenty seamen.
- George Byng, Esq., Father of the House of Com-
mons, haring represented Middlesex for a period
of fifty-six years, throughout sixteen consecutive
Parliaments, aged 82 years.
11. The French Chambers opened by King Louis Phi-
lippe.
12. Worth Park House, the mansion of Joseph Mon-
tefioro, Esq., nearly Crawley, Sussex, entirely
destroyed by fire.
13. Pope Pius IX. preached a sermon in the church of
St. Andrea della Valle, at Rome, being the first
time during the last three hundred years that a
Sovereign Pontiff had addressed a congregation
from the pulpit.
16. The steam-ship Sirius, of 700 tuns burthen, and
320-horse power, the first steamer that ever made
a voyage across the Atlantic, totally wrecked on
her passage from Dublin to Cork, in Ballycottou
Bay, arid nineteen of her passengers drowned.
17. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Sphynx, of 1,056 tons
burthen and 500-horse power, went ashore during
a dense fog, between Freshwater Bay and St.
Catherine's Point, in the Isle of Wight.
Tremendous fire at Glasgow, destroying premises
and merchandise in Queen-street, to the extent of
from 30,0001. to 100,0004 in value.
19. Parliament opened with a speech from the throne
by her Majesty in person.
24. Lieut.-General Sir Edward Gibbs, K.C.B , Lieut.-
Governor of Jersey, died at Grandville, in that
island.
30. Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M.P. for Galway, died
at Menlo Castle, in that county, aged 65.
31. Easton Lodge, in Essex, the family seat of Viscount
Maynard, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, en-
tirely destroyed by fire.
FEBRUARY.

2. The spacious theatre at Pesth, in Hungary, burnt
down.
3. A constitutional government granted by loyal ordi-
nance to his people, by Frederick William IV.,
King of Prussia.
Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Bart„ Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of Van Dieman's Land, died in that co-
lony, aged 64.
4. The Lying-in Hospital in Manchester burnt down.
6. The opium receiving vessels, Omega and Caroline,
in Chimmo Bay, near Amoy, boarded by pirates,
their captains, officers, and several of their crews
murdered, and plunder committed to the extent
of 36;0004
8. Tremendous snow-storm of nearly twelve hours'
duration, causing a stoppage of the traffic on
several railways, especially between London and
Brighton.
Lieutet.ant-Colonel Sir Walter Scott, only surviving
child of the author of " Waverley," died on his
passage home from India.
.10. Grand dinner given to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.,
at Rome, in honour of Free Trade.
11. The Duke of Northumberland, K.G., Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge, died at Alnwick
Castle, aged 62.
12. Seventy-three persons lost their lives by the wreck
of the royal mail steam-packet Tweed, on the reef
of Alacranes, on the pasago from Havannah to
Vera Cruz.
13. The library of the late Right Hon. Thos. Grenville,
valued at 100,0001., deposited, according to testa-
mentary bequest, in the British Museum.
15. The renowned patriot, Don Josh Palafox, Duke of
Saragoza, died suddenly at Madrid, at an ad-
♦anced age.
16. Ten persons drowned by the overturning of an om-
nibus in the river from the quay at Bideford,
Devon.
The Italian Opera House opened for the season.
17. The Queen's Head Inn, ai Newtown, Montgomery-
shire, destroyed by fire, the landlord, ostler, and a
traveller, perishing in the flames.
20. The Brechin Castle, homeward-bound, from Port
Adelaide, with the Australian mails, totally
wrecked on the Welsh coast, near Swansea, with
all her crew and passengers, amounting to 23
persons, and the whole of her cargo, valued, with
the vessel, at 20,0001.
25. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended the per-
formances at the Italian Opera•house, for the
benefit of the distressed Irish.
27. His Royal Highness Prince Albert elected Chancel
for of the University of Cambridge, afier a severe
contest with the Earl of Powis, the numbers
being—for the Prince, 953; Earl Powis, 837
majority, 116.
28. Seventy persons burnt to death in the destruction
by fire, of the theatre at Carlsrulie, in the Grand
Duchy of Baden.
Mencrt.

1. The thermometer (Fahrenheit) in Paris, at six A.M.
stood 13 degrees below freezing point.
An extensive slip of chalk. containing about 48,000
tons, 353 feet in breadth, occured at the Shaks-
pere Cliff, Dover.
Dr. Adam Black burned to death at his residence in
Piccadilly, London.
5. Terrific explosion at the Ardley Main Colliery,
near Barnsley, Yorkshire, destroying seventy-five

persons.
6. New Oxford-street, London, opened to the public.
11. The Sovereign steamer wrecked off Amity Puint, in
Australia, on her passage from Brisbane, when
thirty-six passengers, and seventeen of the crew,
were drowned
14. Colonel Gore Langton, M.P., for the eastern division
of Somerset, died, aged 87, having sat in the
House of Commons during successive Parliaments
upwards of fifty-four years.
16. Mrs. Sarah Brads:ock died in the Cheltenhani Union
Workhouse, at the advanced age of 105 years,
the last forty-seven of which she had passed in

that establishment.
17. Several houses and farm buildings at STham, in
Cambridgeshire, burned down by an incendiary,
the damage occasioned amounting to more than
2,0001.
20. Fifteen cottages destroyed by an accidental fire at
Hunningham, in Warwickshire.
22. Twenty-six persons killed by an explosion of fire-
damp, in a coal mine near Mons, in France.
23. Twenty-one arches of the Liverpool viaduct on the
Liverpool and Bury Railway fell in with a tre-
mendous crash, occasioning damage to the extent
of nearly 6,0001.
Twenty-four persons killed by an explosion of fire-
damp, at one of the coal-pits of La Graine, in
Alsace.
Baron Alexander de Cetto, who had represented the
Bavarian Government during his life at all the
Courts of Europe, died at Mußich, aged 71.
24. General Count Drouot, highly distinguished in the
military service of the Empire, and formerly
Aide-de-Camp to Napoleon, whom he accom•
panied to Elba, died at Nancy, in France.
General Fast.

25. Destructire fire at New Orleans, occasioning da-
mage fo the extent of 300,000 dollars.
26. The funeral of Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated
actress, took place in the Church of the Made-
leine, at Paris, in the presence of ten thousand

spectators.
26. Prince Jules de Polignac, Prime Minister of Charles
X. nt the period of that monarch's deposition,
died at St. Germain-en-Laye, aged 67.
29. The city of Vera Cruz and the castle of San Juan
de lidos, capitulated to the American forces.
30. The Felicidade, armed vessel, employed in the
slave trade, captured with 315 slaves on board,
by her Majesty's ship Penelope, on the coast of
Africa.

APRIL.
1. John Platts executed for murder, at Derby.
2. (Good Friday). The Bogue forts, and several
others in the river Pe-Kiang, taken from the
Chinese by a British force.
5. The new docks and park at Birkenhead publicly
opened with great ceremony and festivities, in
the presence of Viscount Morpetb, Chief Com-
missioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests.
Nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy persons

visited the I3ritish Museum.
6. The New Royal Italian Opera at Corent-Garden
opened.
9. The foundation stone of the Edinburgh station of
the Caledonian Railway laid with ,Maiunie

honours.
11. (Low Sunday). The annual French steeple chase
took place on the road between Paris and (Jr.
leans, in the presence of 30,000 persons.
12. Destructive tire at the New Small Debts Court, in
the Edgware-road, London.
14. The House of Commons rejected thy proposed
Roman Catholic Relief Bill, by a majority of 158
to 119, the Prime Minister and several members
of the Cabinet being in the minority.
15. The Peers of the United Kingdom assembled for
the first time in the new House of Lords.
17. Catherine Foster executed at Bury St. Edmunds, for
the murder of her husband by poison.
18. Two severe shocks of an earthquake felt at Trinidad.
20. Fifty-eight houses, including several valuable
public buildings, the Episcopal Seminary, school,
tribunals, &T., destroyed by tire, at Rominick, in
Moldavia.
21. Dr. Shirley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, died, in
his fiftieth year, three mouhs only after his con
eecration.

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- The anniversary of the foundation of the city cele-
brated with great solemnity at Rome, a grand
banquet taking place in the baths of Titus, near
the Coliseum, attended by 800 guests, and up-
wards of 20,000 spectators.
22. Brandeston Hall, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, recently
purchased by Mr. Austin, Q.C., entirely destroyed
by fire.
23. The extensive power-loom factory of Messrs. Fer-
guson
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occasioned
20,0001., and 300 persons wore thrown out of
employment.
24. Alarming food riots at Stettin, in Prussia, during
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burned
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down,
which the mob were fired upon by the military,
when two persons were killed and several wounded.
25. A five-shilling piece of Charles 11. sold by suction
in London, at Colonel Durant's sale, for 155/.
- The Duke of Argyll died at Inverary Castle, Scot-
land, in his seventieth year.
26. Fire occasioned by a cinder from the engine on a
railway train, destroying, at the village of Stoke
Canon, near Exeter, thirty-two out of sixty
houses, including the New Inn, school-room,
vicarage, and a ladies' seminary,
27. Lord Cowley, brother of the Duke of Wellington,
formerly British Ambassador at Vienna, and
afterwards at Paris, died, aged 74.
28. The emigrant ship Exmouth, bound from London-
derry for Quebec, wrecked on the coast of Islay,
when the captain, crew, and passengers, amount-
ing to 251 persons, were all lost, excepting only
three sailors.
29. Grand banquet given to Richard Cobden, Esq.,
NI.P., at Florence, in honour of Free Trade.
30. The Archduke Charles of Austria, uncle to the Em-
peror, died at Vienna, in his 76th year.
- Samuel Crummer executed at Lifford, Ireland, for
the murder of his father.
MAT,
1. Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden nominated, by letters
patent under the Great Seal, to the vacant bishop-
ric of Sodor and Man.
3. Drury-lane Theatre closed for the season.
4. Commander Boyle and Mr. Milne (master), sen-
tenced by court-martial at Portsmouth to be dis-
missed the service for the loss of her Majesty's
ship Thunderbolt, on the 3d of February.
6. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at Bo-
logna, by the members of the Society of Econo-
mic and Moral Sciences.
9. Alarming flood at Manchester, occasioned by the
overflow of the Medlock, and serious losses sus-
tained by the working classes in the district
known as Little Ireland.
12. Mr. James Wraith, with his wife and female servant,
barbarously murdered at midday, in his house at
Mirfield, Yorkshire.
13. The anniversary of the birthday of Pope Pius LX.
celebrated with great enthusiasm at Rome.
15. The Carlist Guerilla Chief Tristany captured and
executed by General Pavia at Solsona.
- Daniel O'Connell died at Genoa.
16. The Earl of Besborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, died at the Vice-regal Lodge in Dublin.
17. seven persons killed by an explosion of fire damp,
at Beeston Colliery, near Leeds.
18. Captain Drake, 92d Highlanders, drowned by the
upsetting of a boat, at Ballyshannon, Ireland.
20. The Earl of Clarendon appointed by her Majesty in
Council Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- A hundred and seventy emigrants from Sligo pe-
rished in the wreck of th Carrick brig, in the
River St. Lawrence.
21. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at
Venice.
22. The Earl of Dundonald restored to the Order of the
Bath, after a deprivation of the honour during
thirty years.
24. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at Turin.
25. Five persons killed, and several others seriously in-
jured, by the full of a railway bridge at Chester.
26. Three hundred houses consumed by fire at St. De-
metri, one of the suburbs of Pera, in Turkey.
28. The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Herbert, Dean of Manchester,
died, aged 69.
29. The cotton factory of Mr. Bushall, at Preston, de-
stroyed by fire, damage being sustained to the
extent of nearly 5,000/.
30. Thomas Hickman, and five of his children, died from
the effects of taking arsenic accidentally mixed
with flour, at Kensal New Town, nea radon.
31. The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, the distinguislie cottish
Divine, died at Morningside, near , burgh,
aged 67.