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

RAILWAY RETURNS.

RAILWAY TaAPrin.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:

Week Last at, 4
C ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. k
A
Mar. 26 Arbroath and Forfar •••• • • •
- Bristol and Birmingham .••••.• . • • • • • -
27 Chester and Birkenhead .•••••. • • • • • • - 548
26 Dublin and Drogheda.. •. • ... •.•• • • • • 603 G 22
31 Dublin and Kingstown •.. • .... •.• • • • 853 954
29 Dundee and Arbroath • • 297 264
28 Durham and Sunderland • • 711 1,88
28 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ...... • . 2,822 2,190
29 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 7,066 4,091
28 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •••• • . 1,859 1,498
28 Glasgow and Greenock.. •••• • • • •• • • 808 726
- Grand Junction •
- -
28 Gravesend and Rochester. • • -
- Great North of England ••••.• • • • • • • - -
29 Great Western .•••••• • • • • • • 16,518 14,315
30 Hartlepool .. ••• • • • ..... •••••• • • • • • • 920 -
28 London and Birmingham, &c. .• • • 34,350 29,897
29 London and Blackwall.• •••••• • • • . • . 760 996
28 London and Brighton .••••••• • • • • • • • 3,519 3,601
31 London and Croydon .•.••••• • • • • • • • 1,271 1,072
- London and Greenwich .•••.•• • • • • • . -
28 London and South Western .••.• .• • • 5,617 5,654
29 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 1,024 930
27 Manchester and Birmingham ........ 4,210 3,734
28 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 5,702 6,264
28 Midland Counties . • ................. 14,822 13,481
April 2 Newcastle and Darlington .......... 2,496 2,217
Mar. 28 Newcastle and Carlisle .............. 1,808 1,546
29 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 425 436
29 Norfolk .. ••• • • •• • •••••• • • • • • . 1,240 258
- North Union and Bolton and Preston - 1,475
30 Paris, Corbell, and Orleans 5,817 5,754
30 Paris and Rouen .•••• • • • • • •••• . • .. 5,594 4,672
28 Preston and Wyre.................. 548 368
28 Sheffield and Manchester •• • ......• 1,591 794
28 South Eastern.... •• • .
24 Talf Vale .. • • • • ..... ••••••• • • • • • .. 1,157 849
29 Ulster • • 646 604
- Yarmouth and Norwich
28 York and North Midland -

THE BRITISH AND FORE
INSTITUTE.

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The sixth soiree of the season was held last evening at the
rooms of the British and Foreign Institute, and WtoS as fully
attended, by a large number of ladies and gentlemen, as on
any previous occasion. The musical performances of the
evening were of the usual varied and agreeable character,
and were well sustained throughout. Among the novelties
on the table was an interesting and valuable invention of
Mr. Losebv, for correcting, by an instrument in which mer-
cury was used as the chief agent, the inequalities in the rates
of chronometers; occasioned by those variations of tempera-
ture in different climates, by which the most accurate chro-
nometers are greatly affected. The opinion of the Astro-
nomer Royal in favour of this invention, has been conveyed
in the highest terms of praise to the Board of Longitude, and
was read at the meeting. Some beautiful specimens of a new
process for producing the effect of electro-gilding without the
use of gold were exhibited by Messrs. Sedge ick and Taylor,
of riccadilly, which were greatly admired. By this method
the surface of brass can be wrought up to a degree of finish
so exactly resembling gold, that the most experienced eve
ith
poefruogscoue
sladsl
could not detect the difference—and in one of the candelabrashown, the lower half was plated with real
gold
ormode,
gild
gilding,
theyet
no upper
one halfo could
ld determine finished withoutwhere a
theonet
particle
ended or the other began. In additian to the richness of the
effect, this invention has the further advantege. of
much greater freedom from tarnish than ordinary gilding,
and
can
m Among
ge
the
foreign
visitorsata present was a Chinese,
saving of 700 per
cent. A
gentleman, NVoe-tan-jin, from the
Empire, who had travelled with Mr. Me.rt of the Celestial
ne, the learned and
accomplished missionary'
himself
a native of China, though
of British parents, through
the ate
" flowery land," and had since gr
accompaniedest himrti ouonoaf
tourthe
through England and Scotland. He is
about to return to his
native country in a few weeks, with Mr. Milne, and from
the impressions he seems to have received during his stay in
England, he will no doubt convey to his countrymen very
favourable ideas of the people, as well as of the arts and ma-
nufactures of the " outer barb irians," as we have been
hitherto called in China. There was also present a North
American Indian, Kah-ke-wa-guan-o-by,. or " the feather
that flies," chief of a Canadian tribe, living near Toronto,
in Canada, and speaking as good English as the Chinese
visitor. It was an interesting sight to witness the personal
introduction to each other of these strangers from the oppo-
site extremities of i the globe ; each n his native costume,
and each communicating his thoughts and feelings in what
to both must have been a difficult as well as a foreign tongue.
Among the literary proceedings of the evening, an oral
review was given of the recent work of Mirza Alohun Lal,
the Cashmerian traveller, who is one of the frequent visitors
of the Institute; and some account was also offered of the
progress made by the Bulgarian Prince, Alexander Stoilo-
vitch, in his mission of education to England. The 'eN ening
was altogether one of much interest and varie y, and ap-
peared to give great satisfaction to the numerousand bril-
liant assemblage present.

THE FOREIGN MAILS.—POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
The following notice relative to he departure of the foreign
mails was yesterday exhibited at the chief office, St. 111ar-
tin's-le-Grand :

ISLAND or ASCINSION.—NoTics.—A mail will be made
up fer the Island of Ascension, to he forwarded by her Ma-
jesty's ship Ferret. All letters intended to be so forwarded
must be addressed, "By her Majesty's, ship Ferret," and
will be liable to the packet rate of ls. not exceeding half an
ounce, &c. Newspapers free. The Ferret is expected to sail
from Plymouth on Sunday, the sth inat.
Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Mediterranean,
India. and China.

The next mails for Gibraltar. Greece, lonian Isles, Malta,
Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China via Southampton, will be
dispatched on the morning of the 20th inst.
The next mails fur India, via Marseilles, will be dispatched
in the evening of the 7th inst., and will be conveyed by the
Madrid, sailing from Sonthampton.
Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, on the evening of
the 7th instant, will be conveyed by the Express from Fal-
mouth.

IVEsT Ilsnms.—The British colonies (except Honduras
and Bermuda)—The Foreign colonies (except Havannah),
Venezuela and Madeir.. The next mails be dispatched on
the 17th instant, and will be conveyed by the Clyde from
Southampton.
America on the 3d May.
Sydney on the 30th instant.

The Earl of Roden has left town, tor Paris.

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GEAM AN PAPtftS,
BERNE.mAn.cIi 11.—Ttm Council of tha Con.tltution toni•
pleted the order of the proceedings on the 18th of March. A
special committee of seven of its members will draw up the
scheme of the new constitution, the Council in the mean
while su-peniling its sit, hugs.
WeIsTERN RaussiA, 31Ancli 17.—Several of the Roman
Catholics in this quarter having, either of their individual
'notion, or as active particip fors in the late corispirac:t,
been guilty of ottitoding ag;iin-t the 1aw..., although their
ducks resisted their attempts to reduce them, the Bishops
of their dioceses have intimated their indignation at
this their unjustifiable conduct, and have earnestly
admonished the clergy of their diocese to observe
inviolably their duties as faithful subjects, and to call upon
their flocks to adhere with fidelity to their allegiance. The
Pope has also addressed the Bishop Kulon, expressing his
grief at the disloyalty of the priests in question, and direct-
ing the Bishop to admonish his clergy severely to abstain
from prostituting their office to so disgraceful a purpose.
BADEN, Mancir 26.—The Grand Duke has directed that
a sam of 30,000 greddens, or about 1,4001., should be laid ou t
in the purchase of seed potatoes, either within the Gran d
Duchy or in foreign parts, in order that they may be sold a t
a moderate price to the growers in that district where there
is a eearth of them. The Agricultural Association has been
charged with carrying this order into effect.
ST. PETERSBURGLI, MARCH 17.—1 t appears from a report
of the Field Marshal the Prince of Warsaw, that the only
Russian troops remaining in quarters at Cracow, are two
battalions of light infantry, and 150 Cossacks of the line. A
long return is made of the time consumed by the several de-
tachments (ordered to Cracow, on news being received of the
outbreak of the late insurrection) in moving from their
respective states to the scene of the revolt,
The artillery accomplished 146 miles in seven days, the
distance from Warsaw to Cracow, 190 miles, in six days.
LEMBURO, Mancir 13.—At seven o'clock this morning
Weseznivoki and E. Dembosski, the leaders of the late
insurrection, were brought into this town in chains.
The former is said to have headed the attack
on the troops at Narioff on the night of the
21st of February, when two cadets were killled and two
wounded. The Government had set a price of a thousand
florins on each of these leaders heads. The reward in the
case of Weseznivoki falls to the lot of two country-
men, who discovered him lying upon a haystack,
and delivered him on suspicion to the district au-
thorities. He was disguised in a priest's garment,
had cut off his whiskers and mustachios, and
shaved his head behind. He said his name was Lepzc asski,
and that he had fled out of Poland for the purpose of escaping'
persecution on account of his religion. It is expected that the
capture of these chiefs will lead to important revelations with
regard to whole conspiracy.
AUGSBURGH, MARCH 24.—The parties who light the
city of Stuttgart with gas have contracted to light this
city also. It will he the first town.
BADEN, MARCH 21.—As the Roman Catholic party, who
form a mejoritv of the population, decline to support the
ministerial candidates at the present elections, and equally
decline to coalece with the Radicai party, it is almost certain
that the Ministry will be baffled in the object which they had
in view, when they advised the Grand Duke to dissolve
the Chambers, and consequently a triumph for the
Liberal and Radical party begins to be antici-
pated. In this case the Ministerial opposition is likely
to be as all powerful in the new Legislature as in that which
has been lately dissolved.

PESTI!, ALCRcit 18.—The Polish insurrection having been
so completely put dowi., not only has the march of troops
from this country ceased, but those dispatched into Galicia
are returning to their quarters. We can confidently state
that neither Prince Sapeclia nor any of his family
were in the remotest degree connected with the suppressed
revolutionary movement. The short-lived Dictator is de•
scribed to have been destitute of energy as well as capacity.
He took the degree of Doctor of Laws at Limberg, and after•
wards was manager of an estate; chance only threw the
ephemeral dictatorship into his hands. He harangued the
populace once during his short sway, but was very
active in wielding his pen and writing fur the public
journals. The populace took no notice of him when he rode
abroad. His right hand man was Dewbasski, his secretary►
an individual of considerable oratorical talents.

INDIAN CORN.
DISTRESS OF THE PEOPLE.
The Poor Relief Committee having purchased a certain
quantity of Indian corn, and having appointed certain depot..
for its sale, it was announced that the sale would commence
on Saturday last.
Many people supposed that it would not be bought up, and
all were interested in the result of the experiment. The
price fixed on it was one penny per pound. The result of
the day's sale is sufficient to dissipate all further doubt, and
to demand the most serious attention of the,citizens of Cork.
No sooner were the doors opened than the rush to procure the
corn meal was tremendous. We understand that the utmost
excitement, almost frantic, prevailed during the day; and it
was only by the ceaseless efforts of a number of police that
order or regularity could be preserved. The avidity of the
people to procure a novel description of food is the most con'
elusive evidence of the misery to which bad food and famine
prices have reduced them. The Irish, of all people in the
world, are the least addicted to change, especially in 90
article of diet; and when such a spectacle as that of Seta'
day last is presented, be sure that there is dire necessity as
the inducing cause of the ready and anxious change.
We understand that 4,480 lbs. of the corn meal were sold
on Saturday at id. per lb.
The Committee waited this morning on Mr. Hewitson, W.
grant them a further supply, they of course offering to pal
the full price for it ; but -Mr. Hewitson was compelled t°
refuse the request, he having no orders from the Govern'
went to that effect.

The people, supposing that the supply would be continued;
assembled in hundreds round the depots ; but were informed
of the fact of there being no more for sale. Considerable
excitement was occasioned by the announcement, and the
Mayor, fearing that disturbance might arise in consequence,
published a public notice stating that when the order, which
was daily expected, would arrive, further supplies would b°
distributed.—Cork Examiner.

SALE OF MR. PRATT'S COLLECTION OF ANCIENT
Anmoint, &c.—Yesterday, the sale by auction of the entire cone:
tion of ancient armour and weapons of Mr. S. Pratt, of New Bone'
street, took place at Mr. Deacon's auction-room, in Bernere-strel
Oxford-street. There were near 250 lots, consisting of armour 111):
weapons of all ages and climes, among which the following are deser;
Ing of notice. Lot 74, a rare English gun, of the time of Henry VIII''
the stock inlaid with ivory, the barrel embossed steel, ornameist°-
with silver, in subjects, sold for it guineas. Lot 76, an EllO.
bethan rifle, sold for 51 10s. Lot 81, a Bavarian cap-a-pie suit:,
knight's fluted armour, sold for 31 guineas. Lot 106, a suit of Asia.
horse armour composed of steal plates and rings, only two stall
suits known, 25 guineas. The next lot, a suit of black armour, fluted
and finely formed, of the same period, sold for 27 guineas. Lot 135, .
suit of German fluted armour of the time or Henry VIIL, with fa.
curious helmet, sold for 311. Lot 150, a gigantic suit of armour
Italian workmanship, covered with engravings, and enamelled, r.
russet and gold. The catalogue sated this suit to have come fr.
Padua, and with a similar one in the Tower of London, formerly u;t;
longed to Count Oddi. The auctioneer stated that Mr. Pratt ga t
150 guineas for it; it was sold yesterday for 51 guineas. The otlw
lots, consisting of pieces of armour, halberds, portguns, svrerdk
ancient guns and pistols, daggers, &c., fetched good prices.
SUPP,.SED SUICIDE.--Yesterday evening an ingil°,S,
was held at the Edinburgh Castle Tavern, Limehouse, before t;
Baker, on the body of James Rich, a sawyer, aged 23
years, W
committed suicide by drowning Maisel: in the Regent's Canal, Haut
the above house. Two persons, named John Warren and Carol'', -
Beale, who were betrothed to each other, drowned themselves
the same spot last week, a d a great many other suicides have be,
committed in this part of the canal. It appeared from the eyidenr,
of John Rich, the brother of the deceased, that his relative svr
bitten by a dog eight years ago, and he had ever since been 001 s,
i
jutted to fits. The unfortunate young man had applied to several
eminent members of the faculty, but they had been unabled to 0%
come the malady. His sufferings occasionally were vety great, a;
he had repeatedly threatenened to commit selt-construction.
Thursday night the deceased was with his brother and a friend, !).;',
left them about 10 o'clock. He was never seen alive afterward
About an hour after the deceased parted with his brother.
clothes were found by a policeman, hanging across the rails adjoins
the canal. The policeman immediately procured the drags, and Alba
the assistance of War ,ell, the night-locker, hauled the body of in
deceased out of the water. He was quite dead--Verdict,“ Few'
drowned."

LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE LOUVRE GALLERY
;;
The following sculptures from Greece have been placed in the al)°
collection :—A vot've basso-relievo, representing " Theseus as P,,
tectiag hero of Attica; a fragment of a frieic, on which is relo,;0
tented a scene of the war of tae Amazons ; a votive basso-relle_d
from the island of ereta ; Jupiter with Europa, and Cadmus at
sides ; a sepulchral stele, representing a young girl bidding farewell:
her parents. Of great historical interest are twelve marble trt
ments, with inscriptions from .lylasa, in Carla. They contain sot:
decrees issused by Mausolus, King of eerie, and belong therefor
to the fourth century before the Christian era.—The Builder.
SALE OF THE VALUABLE AUTOGRAPHS, &e., of .41$
LATE Ma. T. THANE.— Yesterday the sale by auction took place,
the auction-rooms of 3lessrs. Sotheby and Co., Wellington-str'oo.
Strand, of the valuable collection of books, &c., of the late Mr. Til!
Thane, consisting of the " History of the Knights of the Gartetgi
the "Cromwellians," a variety of manuscripts, &c. There were
lots. "Thane's British Autogr..phy," being a collection of facsit:/.70
of the handwritings of royal and illustrious personages, with Pi
authentic portraits, three vols. 4t0., sold for 110/. ss.
SUDDEN DEATH IN A CHAPEL.—A thrl ting sensa6oo
was u
ri producedng the
EpiscopalprayerChfaorpelt„hße Bata, on
loaninSeunnt,da
irmojrnloseipri
ino Gregory, one of the occupants of a pew near the organ, was to
by those near him to give two deep sighs, and was then fee°oo
During offering at
Lauraof the
lean back insensible. An alarm being given by Mrs Gregory,
rer
pew-opener, aided by Mr. Cottell, of the Market-place Bank, la' vol
diately went to his assistance, and the sufferer, amidst the irate top
sympathy of the congregatitn, was removed to the lobby at the
.„.„
of the gallery stairs ; uttering on the way thither one deep 1‘035.
Both Dr. Cardew and Mr. Chilton, the surgeon, happened told
present, and they rendered the most prompt medical aid; the 'to
applied the lancet to either arm of the prostrate body, but 7;:op
Scarcely any success. In the course of his sermon the Rev. E.
tenham alluded in appropriate terms to the etent, and annoll!n,
that the object of the congr. gation's solicitude was then eta
tent of of anottur world. —Devizes Gazette.
.
RosestrasiHon'Els
aStllNNl,L,LodlsNtG.crifros
EceneDthoutEplacOeFat
week. Elliott, the principal gamekeeper for the Duke of
MthAe RLPelattY
borough, charged a young man of the name of Steel, a servant to•'01
Bowles, with an offence against the game
laws, and surnni*,l3,l
Dr. Bowles to give evidence against him. At the time of the all's
committal of the ffence Steel was out with his master, who ..813
novTeln s
shooting over his own land. Steel was charged with killing A
pheasant out of season. Mr. C. Tomes, solicitor, of Oxford, attensp
for the prosecution, as he said, for the Duke of Marlborough'
H. North, solicitor,
Way
citor, of Woodstock, defended, and said the case left
in fact, the Duke of Marlborough against Dr. Bowles. steel
the service of his late master, and it was not proved that the %Of
mons had " either been served on him or left at his usual Pit oil
residence ;" hence the case WaS dismissed. Dr. Bowles said
shilling had been given him with the summons. This sbillinfral
would give as a donation to the poor old people of Woodstock
Ye
the Duke of Marlborough, and it would be the first shilling the vioi—od
of Marlborough aver gave them." This announcement caused
laughter in the Court, which was crowded, the affair having ("'
a stir in Woodstock.
•

BIRTHS
nohld
On the 2d of February, at A hamadabad, the lady of John
Morgan, Esq., Bombay Civil service, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., at Upper Brook-street, the Hon. Mrs. Plogri
of a son.
pj
On the lit inst., at Norwich, the lady of Archdeacon Ornaer''
a son.

DIED.
On the 30th ult., in Beaumont-square, Cecelia Rebecca 3113.,0
00 .:
On the 30th ult., In Bryanston-square, Maria, wife a
Bigge, Esq., aged 73.
On the 31st ult., James Richmond, Esq., of Millbank-roW,
rninster.
On the 31st ult., at Winchester, W. N. Wickham, Esq.

QUARTERLY NA V OBITUARY:
Rear-Admirals
FLAG OFFICERS. - Vice-Admiral—James Katon. 10
lialm'apjtoanhesis -Jyoelin Clavell, Hon. William Keith, Thomas Smith °lt
RoclatmTaunciki
eerrs,_Wi
110e°
• C. Anne.lef,
•ung, Francis -
M`Douall, Edmund Rayner, lienjamiu Leigh, Robert Mayne. firolt
Lieutenants—Richard Corsbie, VN Whim Bowers, William 01e'
Charles Turrell, William Macfarlane, John Norval Smart, ' lour
Godby, Hugh L. Williams, George Hamilton Smith, Joseph A";roiliff
bridge, James M'Cornish, Lionel Halliday, Seymour Y.
,:des •''
Charles D. O'Brien, Charles Clavell, Henry W. Baugh, C'
Brickditle. Rear-Admirals—Edward
uiCrelay, Samuel Campbell Rowley,
Fair°.
Masters—Henry J. London, Henry Thompson (a). Ed '•
Second Master —William Weatherley. di "LP'
MEDICAL OFFICERS —lnspector of Ilospitals—D. Rowland"
._,..,
Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals - Isaac Royal.
Surgeons - $
lorf
bald :,kirving, James Cook (a).
Samuel inclair, M.D., Richard L. Birtwhistla. Are'''.
Assistant-Surgeons—James W. Moffatt, Samuel
Sproule,
David Thomson (c), M.D., Hugh Gamble, M.D. .101°
_..d.
Paymasters and Pit, • era —John Richards, John Salter,,r. iall_u+3,
Wrigley, Thomas G. M`Murray, Thomas Willey, henry Q. ~• •

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