The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-28 00:00:00

APPOLSMILENTS.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 27. Lieutenant Abraham Parks
(1815), recently commanding the Dasher steam-vessel, 100-
horse power, fur the protection of the fisheries on the coast
of Scotland, to the Boscawen, 70, guard-ship of ordinary,
Chatham.

Naval Instructor William H. Mackintosh (1848), formerly
of the Cyclops steam-frigate, to the Daedalus, 20, on the Pa-
cific station. _ _

The Fearless steam-vessel, placed under the charge of
Captain Bullock for the surveying service, will leave Wool-
wich on Monday next to resume his survey of the Medway
as far up as Chatham. The gallant officer will afterwards
proceed to Lowestofte to complete his survey in that quarter,
and then resume his survey in the vicinity of Beechy-head
during the approaching surveying season.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., visited Wool-
wich Dockyard on Tuesday afternoon, and went on board the
Leopard steam-frigate, fitted with engines of 560-horse
power, and sister vessel to the Sidon steam-frigate, being
constructed on nearly similar lines to that vessel.
PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA' FEB. 16.—Her Majesty's ship
Plumper has just arrived here, after an absence of nine
months, and is refitting with all expedition, preparatory to
her departure for the Brazils. She was to sail for her desti-
nation on the 21st. _ _

The Plumper has been cruising for the last three months
on the coast of Cuba.

The cholera had disappeared from Port Royal.
Her Majesty's ship Helena was at Antigua on the 2d of
March.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of
Desert, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Alfred
Paget, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Princess's
Theatre with their presence on Wednesday evening. Her
Majesty and the Prince, attended by the Ladies and Gentle-
men in Waiting, afterwards visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. Their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
also visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Wednesday (the
birth-day of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge),
and met the Queen and Prince Albert.
Mr. Hughes, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, was pre-
sented to the Queen by Sir George Grey at the levee on
Wednesday.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning
in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Lord John Russell had au audience of the Queen yesterday
at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback
yesterday morning, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
The Royal Family took their usual pony and walking
exercise yesterday, in the gardens of the Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, visited the building in Hyde-park for the Exhi-
bition of the Industry of all Nations, yesterday afternoon.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Francis Seymour, had the honour of dining
with her Majesty yesterday evening, at Buckingham Palace.
A deputation from Portsmouth, consisting of Mr. Benjamin
Bramble (Mayor), Mr. James Hoskins, Mr. Thomas Ellis
Owen, and Mr. Howard (Town Clerk), had an interview on
Wednesday, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Lord Ashley had an interview with Sir George Grey on
Wednesday, at the Home-office. Colonel Freestun, M.P.,
had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet.
The Oxford University Commission met on Wednesday,
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street—present the Bishop of Norwich, the
Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. G.
Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell,
the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley,
secretary.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Reve-
nue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on Wednesday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Pressly had also an interview with the Right Hon.
Baronet.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of South Australia, the Mauritius, and
Labuan. Dispatches were also received from the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and the Governors of
Malta and Gibraltar.

[ADVERTISEMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE 8U!

SIRS It is with great satisfaction that I observe in your
paper of the 18th instant a paragraph commenting upon the
impure metal used by some dentists for the construction of
mouth-plates, to which artificial teeth are affixed. It is an
evil of which I have' long been aware, and greatly desirous
of seeing remedied, inasmuch as I am constantly consulted
by persons suffering from that very cause, and have in my
possession many specimens which have been left with me by
those to whom I have supplied pure gold, the only metal that
should ever be used for dental purposes.
With regard to the proposed remedy, I some years since
communicated with the Goldsmiths' Company upon the sub-
ject, but do not find they possess any puwer to enforce the
adoption of a standard quality unless assisted by a legisla-
lative enactment. In the meantime the public, by the
exercise of its own reason and discretion, may ao far to pre-
tect itself, for it cannot reasonably expect to obtain the pre-
cious metal at the merely nominal prices advertised by the
low-priced dentists.
Your observations, however, show your care for the public
health, and your desire, as watchful guardians of their inte-
rests, to expose imposition, in whatever shape it may present
itself; and, as such, deserves not only the thanks of that
public, but of every respectable member of the profession.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
W. 11. MOGGRIDGE, Surgeon-Dentist.
13, Old Burlington-street, Bond-street,
March 21, 1851.

STATUE OF THE LATE GEORGE STEPHENSON.-It
is perhaps not generally known that some years since a large
sum was appropriated by the directors of the Liverpool and
Manchester and Grand Junction Railways for the purpose
of erecting a statue of the late George Stephenson. The
commission was given to John Gibson, who has now com-
pleted the statue, which has either arrived or is on its way
to this country. The directors of the London and North
Western Railway, into which the two former railways have
merged, are desirous that the statue should be placed in St.
George's-hall, Liverpool. On Friday Messrs. H. Booth and
C. Lawrence, on the part of the railway directors, met the
St. George's Hall committee, for the purpose of determining
the site where the statue should be placed. After looking
through the building two positions appeared especially eli-
gible— either the northern entrance or the south vestibule
entering from 'he southern portico. It was finally determined
that, as Mr. Gibson will be here in the course of the sum-
mer, his opinion should be taken before coming to any con-
clusion. The statue will be exhibited at the forthcoming
exhibition of the Royal Academy. It is in a sitting posture,
of the heroic size, and is very highly spoken of as a work of
art.—Liverpool Paper.
He who loves money more than himself will in-
fallibly rate it above honesty, and will stretch a point, and
unloose conscience, when opportunity opens any prospect of
gain.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
POISONING NEAR WISBECH.—On Saturday last,
Ann Overment was brought before the Isle of Ely magis-
trates at Wisbech, charged with the wilful murder of her
mistress, Mrs. John Dearlove, of Leverington, by mixing
arsenic in a pudding, of which her mistress ate and died on
the 13th inst. The charge was brought by Captain Foster,
superintendent of the Isle police force. It appeared that
after Mrs. Dearlove had made the pudding, she, with ano-
ther servant, went up stairs, and left the.pudding in charge
of the accused, who tied it up, placed it in the pot. and re-
mained in the kitchen all the morning. She was the only
person there, except a man who came in for beer, before Mrs.
Dearlove went up stairs. When the servants' dinner was
served she, contrary to her invariable custom, did not eat
any po • tatoes These had been boiled in the same pot with
the pudding. The men, however, ate some, and were made
very ill. The food and poison vomited by Mrs. Dearlove'
and removed by the girl, had been concealed; and when a
neighbour, Mrs. Bond, came into the death-room, just after
Mrs. Dearlove had died, accused said, " She is quite dead!
But it's not the first sudden death that has happened ; but
suppose I shall get all the blame." The day before
murder, after the cold water had been thrown over _the
h
would not change her clothes, but remained wet, andeslksedhe
about all day; and to one of the men she
made use of a
coarse expression, accompanied with an oath
that she would physic her mistress for it. The to the effect
remanded. prisoner was

THE REV. MR. BENNETT AND HIS PARISHIONERS.
—Two protests against the request of the Bishop of London,
that the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett should resign the incum-
bency of St. Paul's, Kni
Barnabas, Pimlico, were unanimous]
sly adopted at a meeting
of the members of the Congregation of those churches, held
ghtsbrid e, and the chapel of St.
at the school-room attached to St. Barnabas Church, on
Monday last, and were presented to Air. Hodson, the Bishop
London's notary, on Tuesday,
his resignation.
when Mr. Bennett signed