The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

St. John-s!reet-roed. Defendant is a tradesman in
Thx litl'arned Counsel then called the
witne,;ses:—
Daniel l'ila:marla. a <tatlfll he was assistity to a
ehrmist. Knew plainiiff. to ho in the.servic,s if Messrs.
Il,phert.. and Sm. On the 7th. of D,7ormber lat,,t, witness,
phlintiff; and others had Lem taking .t.a and spending
the evening at the house of pkintiff's aunt, in
New court, Gospel!-street. They had seen two
friends home to the Lowe:-road, and witness, plaintiff,
and two others were walking home, about a quarter
pEist twelve o'clock, two and two, when defendant and a
person nautr:d Elvis met them. Defendant rushed up
against the plaintiff violently, and on plaintiff saying it
was not gentle manly conduct, defendant sprang out into
the road, and said they were a parcel of boys, and he
was able to take any two of them at a rally. He after-
wards kicked one or the young lads, and afterwards got
his thumb in his (defendant's) mouth. The police was
called, and then d.-fondant gave them all in charge for
assault, end an attertv to rob h:m. This was on the
Saterday night, and they were all looked up till Mon-
day-morning, when they wore taken before Mr. Combo,
who immediately discharged,tln m.
The LEARNED COUNSEL having stated in his ppm-
ing address that the magistrates had stated that it

THE WELSH CUURCH.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. COTTON .1111 LL BURNED.
(William Cubitt, E-q , President, in the Chair.) I MANCHESTER, JAN. 15.—Since Friday morning
On Tuesday last the paper read was "On the Coe- lest we have had no lets than six other fires, one of
struction of the Building for the Exhibition of the which, last evening, destroyed a considerable portion
Works of Indu3try of All ,Natiozen in 1851," by Mr. of the cotton factory of Messrs. Robert Marslaed and
M. D. Wyatt, Assoc. Inst. C E. Co., Ancoats.
The piper, which was unavoidably of very consider- Messrs. Robert Marsland and Co. are spinners and
able length, commenced by characterizing the first doublers, and their premises, called the Ancoats-
attempt to concentrate, within the compass of a few bridge Mills, consist of three parallel buildings, on the
acres, specimens cf the productive industry of ail north side of the river Medlock, the middle and prin-
nations as a " great experiment," worthy of being cipal building being 120 feet long and 32 broad, and
tried upon a scale commensurate with the energy of consisting of six stories and an attic. It was in this
the industrial resource sof this country. The success larger building, filled principally with spinning ma-
of this experiment must depend on a just apprehen- chinery, that the fire originated. It was discovered
sion of the results to be produced ; a well-digested about a quarter past six o'clock in the evening—the
scheme fur producing the results aimed at; and power work-people having left their employment at six—by
and dexterity to arrange the whole so as to ensure some persons outside the mill, who immediately cow-
the accordance and wet king of ail its parts in the enunicated the Lct that there was a strong
simplest and best manner. Ti.e suhjeet then natu- light in the top story to the private
rally divided itself into the corsiderelion of the re- watchman. Au alarm was given irnmedi •
quisites demanded—the design, and the actual con- ately in the neighbourhood, and Messrs. Galli-
struction of the building, more and Co., whose print weeks are on the
The features of ali the buildings in which previcus opposite bank of the River Medlock, sent a private
exhibitions had been held, both abroad and at home, fire-engine, which was got into play with considerable
were then carefully reviewed, and the points of dif- effect, though some delay occurred owing to the
terence between the present cosmopolitan exhibition muddy bed of the river rendering it necessary that
and all its predecessors, were distinctly enunciated, the water should he laden into tubs before it could
and shown to have induced the invitation to the world he passed through the engine.. The town fire-engines,
at large, to contribute their suggestions for the build- under the direction of Mr. Thomas Rose, arrived at
mg, the results of which were shown to the public the scene of the fire about twenty minutts to seven
in the Theatre of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in o'clock. At this time the fire, which had commenced
the 240 plans there exhibited. None of these plans at the north end of the mill, had extended nearly the
being found to embrace the necessary requisites, the whole length of the building, and the two upper
Royal Commissioners devised a plan' for the execu stories—the sixth and seventh were a mass of flames..
tion of which tenders were invited in June, 1850. By the energy of the firemen—who succeeded in
The reservation having been made, that bona fide getting at the flames by taking the hose from the
tenders for any construction, offering greater advan- engines to the top of the adjoining buildings, and
tages than that proposed by the Commissioners, would directing the jets of water immediately into the
be considered, Mr. Paxton brought forward his pro- windows of the top stories—the flames were much
position; and it being contended, that certain advan- reduced by ten o'clock, and there was a hope that
tages in celerity of construction, facility of removal, the damage would be confined to the two top
the adaptability of the materials to the required forms, stories of the mill. By an accident which occurred
and the amount of cost, were inherent in the design at about this time similar to that at the fire of
for the proposed structure, to be entirely composed of Messrs. Wallace and Co.'s, last week, the amount of
wood, iron, and glass, the other tenders were rejected, damage was much augmented. The floor and
and that of Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., for Mr. other supports of the top stories appear to
Paxton's design, was accepted. have been so much injured by the fire,
Such was the origin of the present building, which that about ten o'clock they were no longer
being adapted to the site selected for it, in Hyde- capable of sustaining the weight of machinery upon
park, by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, was shown them at the north end, and the floor, extending along
to consist of a nave 72 feet wide and 64 feet high, nearly one.half the building from the north end fall-
with a series of side aisles, two of 48 feet and six of ing in, carried down corresponding portions of
24 feet wide, of the respective heights of 43 feat and the fifth, fourth, third, and second stories to the
23 feet; the whole spreading to a width of 436 feet. bottom of the mill. Had the fire not been so much
A transept, 408 feet long and 72 feet wide, inter- reduced at this time, it is probable that the flames
sected the building at right angles in the centre ; this would have extended to the lower stories of the other
transept was covered with a semi-circular roof, part of the building, in which case the destruction of
springing at a height of 64 feet from the level of the the entire mill would have been almost inevitable.
ground, and making the entire height 100 feet. As it is, the fire has destroyed nearly one-half of the
The details of the construction were very minutely larger mill, and the two top stories of the remainder,
given, from the concrete filling of the holes in the including the entire roof. The whole of the walls
ground, under each support, through the base plate, are standing, except a small portion of the top on the
the columns, eight inches in diameter, the connecting western side. The other buildings upon the premises
pieces, to which were attached the girders for the have not suffered except from water. The buildings
galleries, the second and third sets of columns and are insured in the North of England to the amount of
the roof trusses, the box gutters and the " Paxton" 2,7001.; in the West of England for 2,900/. ; in the
gutters, which latter were intended to provide at the Guardian for 6001.; and in the Atlas for 600/. ; total,
same time for conveying away the rain from the roof, 6,8001. The amount of damage done by the fire is
and the condensed moisture from the inside. The estimated at about 5,000/. About two hundred and
total area of the ground-floor was equal to 772,784 thirty bands will be thrown out of employment by the
square feet, and that of the galleries to 217,100 square calamity. The cause of the fire is not known. It is
feet. said to have originated in some waste rovings at the
Details were also given of the mode of conveying north end of the sixth story of the building, but how
the rain water, &c., into the adjoining sewers, through they were ignited is a mystery.
the interior of the supporting-columns; of the venti-
lation by means of sets of louvres, of galvanized cast
iron, placed between the columns of the side aisles,
and in the upper part of the roof; of the supply of
water for the extinction of fire, and for the supply of
the fountains; and of the experiments for testing the
girders and trusses, by the hydraulic press erected in
the building, and by which the strength of the whole
was proved before they were used.
In examining the power and. dexterity with which
the design had been realized by Messrs. Fox, Hen-
derson, and Co., or, in other words, in the actual
construction of the building, it was necessary to bear
in mind that their tender was only verbally accepted
on the 26th of July, 1850, that possession of the site
was obtained on the 30th of July, that the first co-
lumn was fixed on the 26th of September, and at the
present time (only 144 working days since the com-
mencement) but little of the vast building remained
to be finished. To give an idea of the vast size of
this building, it was noticed, that the width of the
main avenue was within 10 feet double that of the
nave of St. Paul's Cathedral, whilst its length was
more than four times as great. The walls of Sc.
Paul's were 14 feet thick, those of the glass building
in Hyde-park were only 8 inches. St. Paul's occu-
pied 35 years in building, whilst the Hyde-park
building would be finished in less than half that num-
ber of weeks. The celerity of the construction was
very remarkable. As many as 308 girders had b-en
delivered on the ground in one week. Seven of the
great trusses of the nave were raised in one day.
Each man fixed about 200 superficial feet of glass per
day.

•

TO THE EDITOII OF THE SUN:
SIR,—I have caret-a:ly read a palopidet purporting
to be a letter to tho Archbi,hop of Canterbury, in
answer to Sir B-njarnin Hall's observations on the
sate of the Collegiate: Ceerch of 13rec.en, by Conn op
Thirlwall, D.D., Bishop of St. David's, and " which
1 believe I may aqsume to have been written" by the
Right Revereed Prelate whose name it bears.
1 honour the Bishop for thus courageously entering
into the lists, and submitting to have his own cause
as defender, and his opponent's as challenger, tried
before that public tribunal which must in these days
eventually decide every disputed case.
But lem astonished that his Lordship, as it ap-
pears to me, while on the one hand courting the ut-
most publicity, should on the other hand content
himself with comparative privacy.
For example, in l,is fifth page, his Lordship states
that he has felt himself bound publicly to notice the
charge for the sake of that clips of persons "to whom
the facts of the care are entirely unknown, and who
have no opportunity, even it they had leisure or cu-
rioiity though, fur ascertaining them ;" while in his
27th and last page he seems so totally to have for-
gotten this his primary object, that he felt no hesita-
tion in writing the following words :
"1 am aware that I cannot expect this exposure of
the Honourable Baronet's misrepresentations to reach
one in a thousand of those who have read his letter to
your Grace." The truth is, Mr. Editor, that the
Bishop's trivial pamphlet might have appeared and
would have appeared, had he chosen it, in ..very pub-
lication, daily or weekly, in which Sir Benjamin's
letter was inserted. But his Lordship wanted a griev-
ance, and tried to establish one, I am happy to
say in vain. But before I conclude my criticism on
the manner of his Lordship's letter, I must protest
In the strongest terms against the indecorous lan-
guage in which a spiritual Lord in our Church bas
chosen to malign the conduct of a layman, who, as I
believe, has never had any other object in view than
the reform of Church abuses in Wales, and fair play
against Saxon encroachments for our native Church
and our native clergy.
I must now touch slightly upon the material state
of the question, of which the chief points may be
thus summarily noticed:—
Long before the Reformation, a Bishop of St David's
had wished to create a theological and literary college
for the benefit of the diocese, and had, with the
sanction of the Legislature, amply endowed it Al-
though inefficient, it was one which Henry VIII.
not only spared, but actually enriched with addi-
tional endowments. But administrative neglect was
stronger than legislative enactment,* and the colle-
giate institution did not assume an active or bene-
ficial form for the purposes of its creation, or the good
of the Principality.
It was consigned, by the Ecclesiastical Bill of
1840, to the" tomb of all the Capulets," with its Dean,
its Prebendaries, and all its property ; and its future
revenues were dedicated, by the " Act," to the in-
crease of inadequate livings, and the cause of high
education in Wales, which was then supposed to be
intimately connected with Lampeter College.
Many a slip occurs between the cup and the lip;
the " Act" had passed Lords and Commons, when
Bishop Jenkinson died, and Dr. Thirlwall was ap-
pointed as his successor.
Now, mark my words, the " Act" was as sure to
receive the Royal sanction as two and two make
four, but Bishop Thirlwall forestalled this certain
sanction, and by getting himself consecrated on the
7th of August, while the Royal assent was not given
until the 11th, entered upon his bishopric with all its
ancient rights untouched, and thus became actual
Dean of the suppressed college, in the teeth of every
principle of equity. Had a Tory and a non-reformer
done this there would have been no vituperation,
no obloquy, which would not have been poured upon
the unhappy delinquent's head ; but I suppose a pet
Whig must be defended against all charges (however
true they may be) of malversation.
I will not enter, Mr. Editor, further into the ques-
tion in the present state of the discussion, but delibe-
rately affirm that all the difficulties, all the delays, al]

was a case of great cruelty, and expressed a hope that
some person would take up the matter, put a quebtion in
reference.

The L,,arned UNDER-SHERIFF said it could not be re
ceived in evidence from the witness.

Arr. livinm.EsToNE said, as 110 person appeared en
behalf- ot the dett Ldaht, he should leave the case in the
hands of the jury on the evidence of this witness.
The jury, aft:.r a short consultation, gave a verdict
for '5l.

WES TMINSTER.-(TI-IIS DAY.)
El,'en Roland was charged with stealing several articles
of wearing apparel, the property of her master, Mr.
Sloman.

James- Abrahams, 296 S, state-I that he took the
prisoner in custody last night, when she told him that
she had given some of the property to a potman in the
neighbourhood. On going there an embroidered
waistcoat and two handkerchiefs wero found. The
potman stated that the prisoner had given him the
things for a present.
The prisoner, in defence, said that the potman had
asked her, on several occasions, to get him things.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK
BANK.—(THIS DAY.)
The annual general meeting of the proprietors of
the London Joint- Stock Bank was held this morning,
at their Banking-house in Princes-street, City; Mr.
George Meek, chairman of the board of directors, in
the chair.
The advertisement convening the meeting having
been read, the minutes of the previous meeting were
confirmed, and the following report, together with the
accounts, submitted to the proprietors :
" The directors have pleasure in presenting to the
shareholders the annexed abstract of the liabilities and
assets-of the bank, on the 31st December last, with a
statement of profit and loss for the half-year.
" It will be seen from the latter account, that, includ-
ing 8,939/. 18s. 11d. brought forward from June last, the
net profit.to be appropriated amounts to 28;874/. 16s.
6d., which enables the directors to declare a dividend at
the rate of 61. per cent. per annum and a bonus of 3s. 6d.
per share, leaving a balance of 3741. 16s. 6d. to be placed
at the credit of the guarantee fund, which, with this ad-
dition, amounts to 137,1091. its. 3d.
" The seats in the direction which become vacant on
this occasion, are those of William Curling, Esq. • George
Holgate Foster, Esq.; George Meek, Esq.; and George
Tay ler, E-q.; and these gentlemen offer themselves as
candidates for re-election.
" The dividend and bonus, free from income-tax, will
be pa: able on and after Friday, the 24th instant.
THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK.
LIABILITIES AND ASSETS, ON TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 1850,
Dr. X s. d,
To caphil paid up, viz., 60,000 shares,
at 101. each ..,
To amount due by the bank ...
To atnount of " the
gu,rantee fund,"
30th June, 1850 £134,714 0 7
To six months' in-
terest en ditto, at
31. per cent per
annum ...

CURRENCY REFORM.

We have frequently felt it our duty to call the
serious attention of our readers to the urgent neces-
sity which has long existed for revising and altering,
if not altogether abandoning, the absurd and ruinous
monetary system established by Sir Robert Peel's
Currency Bills of 1819 and 1844. We are glad,
therefore, to find, by an advertisement in another
column, that a public meeting will be held in York
next week, in order to promote that important object,
at which the Rev. John Twells,who has eminently dis-
tinguished himself on many occasions, by his able ad-
vocacy of Currency Reform, will be present.
No valid reason can be assigned why gold alone
6hould be allowed to regulate the exchangeable value
of the aggregate property and capital of the country.
The natural tendency of such a system is to prevent
the free circulation of gold, by fixing a price upon it
in this country, and insisting upon its retention here
at all costs and hazards. And being our principal
circulating medium, a sudden drain is necessarily an
abstraction of the very life-blood of our internal trade,
the export of which has to be suddenly arrested.
Whereas, were gold a mere commodity, its export
would be attended with the same results only as the
export of so much iron, cloth, or calico.

... 600,000 0 0
. . 2,949,869 9 3

2.020 14 2

136,734 14 9

To undivided profit for the last half-
-3 ear ••• ... ... ...

the doubts connected with the revenues of Brecon
College have, as far as his Lordship is concerned, had
for their sole source the unjustifiable conduct of Dr.
Thirlwall in clothing himself with a vested right,
contrary, if not to every principle of rational law, at
least to equity.
However, thanks to Sir Benjamin Hall, the case
has at length a chance of being placed before the
public in a tangible shape, and the helpless, do • nothing
system, which has prevailed for the last eleven years,
may now be brought to some satisfactory ter-
mination.

8,939 18 11

Ti amount tarried to profit and loss
account ...

45,848 4 7

£3,741,392 7 6
Cr. s. d.
By Exchequer-bills, India Bonds, &c. 479.080 18 1
By bills discounted, loans, and cash ... 3,234,936 9 5
By building, furni-
ture, &c., in Prin-
ces-street ... £17,750 0 0
By ditto ditto in
Pall-wall ... 9,625 0 0

In the meantime let us hope for better days, for
the education of both the laity and the clergy in
South %Vales, of which even his Lordship seems to
hold out certain hopes.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
PHIL-ARTEGALL.

1'7,375 0 0

This subject is of considerable importance to
farmers, as well as to the trading and commercial
interests. Whenever there is a scarcity of the circu-
lating medium, it is out of the power of the people
to pay a high price for agricultural produce, and
hence they are driven to consume inferior food, to
the great loss of the cultivators of the soil. This
has been experienced over and over again, and it
will continue to occur so long Rs our circulating
medium shell not represent the actual wealth and
property of the country. The extension of the cur-
rency system is especially due to the farmer as an
act of justice. It is well known that the landlords
gave their consent to Sir Robert Peers Act of 1819,
with the distinct understanding that they were to
have the corn-laws; and now that the compact has
been broken, mainly, we believe, by the distresses of
1847, which were i❑ a great degree to be attributed
to the operation of the restricted currency, they have
a right to demand that the currency shall be no longer
fettered, to add to the enormous losses which they
have already experienced. We trust, therefore, that
there will be a numerous attendance of farmers on
Thursday, to meet the members of the York Farmers'
Club, and that they will unite with others in demand-
ing a revision of our monetary code, and the adoption
of such salutary laws as will afford to the nation the •
advantages of a currency adequate to the wants and
exigencies of the population.—York Herald.

The following letter, which uppettred in the Times
newspnper cf 3.1 January, may be interesting to our
readers, and deserves attention :

In order to perform this work it was necessary to
devise and employ various contrivances for economis-
ing labour; such as the sash-bar machine, the gutter
machine, the morticing machine, the painting ma-
chine, the glazing machine, besides many others of
an equally ingenious nature—all of which were de-
scribed ; and, when listening, to the details, it was
universally felt that England possessed mechanical
and physical energic s far exceeding those which gave
form and being to the most celebrated monuments of
antiquity.
In the course of the paper, Mr. Digby Wyatt (the
author), to whom, from the commencement, had
been entrusted the active superintendence of the con-
struction of the building, paid a well-merited tribute
of praise to Mr. C. H. Wild and Mr. Owen Jones,
who had been associated with hiM ; to Mr. Barry and
Mr. Brunel, who, as members of the Building Com-
mittee, had made very valuable suggestions; as well
as to Messrs. Fox and Henderson, and to Mr. Broun-
ger, Mr. J. Cochrane, and others, for their exer-
tions in the execution of the construction; and he
concluded by reminding the members that the weight
of responsibility, the arduous duty of supervision, the
honour of acting as the master mind, to weigh the
requisites, to determine the design, and to govern
the construction of this great apparatus, bad been re-
served for Mr. Cubitt, the President of the Institution
of Civil Engineers.
It was announced that the discussion of the paper
would take place at the meeting of next Tuesday,
January 21st.

TO THE I.DITOR, OF THE TIMES.

SUNDAY TRADING IN BERMONDSEY.
A general meeting of the master butchers of this
populous district of the metropolis, took place last
evening, at the Horns Tavern, Bermondsey-square.
for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro-
visions of a Bill about to be introduced into Parlia-
ment, by Mr. Williams, M.P. for Lambeth, the ob-
ject of which is to suppress Sunday trading as far as
possible. Mr. J. Hayman presided, and stated, that
from communications which he had had with about
300 butchers, he was convinced that they were almost
to a man in favour of a measure which should enforce
entire closing on the Sabbath. They well knew that
if such a measure were passed it would have a most
beneficial effect in preventing the working classes from
wasting their money on a Saturday night. The fault of
all Sabbath legislation hitherto was, that it was im-
practicable—a character which would be removed by
Mr. Williams's Bill. He then. went through the
clauses. The Bill had the merit of being very short
and definite in its provisions. There are but twelve
clauses. The first contains a general prohibition
against selling, hawking, crying, or publicly offering
or exposing for sale in any shop, warehouse, market,
thoroughfare, or other place within the metropolitan
police district or the city or liberties of London, any
goods, chattels, effects, matter, or thing whatever
(the excepted articles are afterwards stated).
The second clause continue s the existing statutes as
to taverns, steam-packets, club-houses, &c. The
third takes away the responsibility of servants. The
exempted articles are declared by the fourth clause to
be : medicines or drugs for medicinal purposes; milk,
before nine in the morning and after one in the after-
noon ; tea, coffee, ready-dressed food, or other re-
freshments, in any coffee-shop, &c., before iten in the
morning and after one in the afternoon, or at any
period of the day to lodgers or residents ; meat
or fish, before nine, between May and Oc-
tober; fruit, pastry, &c., before nine and
after one; newspapers before ten and after
one ; and cigars and tobacco after one. The
fifth clause prescribes the penalties on conviction-ss.
for the first offence; froin ss. to 20s. for the second ;
and from 20s. to 40s. for the third; only one
penalty to be incurred in a day until the third offence.
The 6th clause authorises the goods of hawkers to be
seized, redemable on payment of ls. By the 7th
clause, no articles, except meat, fish, poultry, fruit,
pastry or ice, can be delivered after 10 o'clock: The
remaining clauses relate to the enforcing of the Act,
and the recovery of the penalties. It is to come into
operation on the Ist June. The several clauses were
discussed seriatim, and appeared to meet with general
approval ; and a resolution was come to, affirming the
necessity of some legislative enactment for securing
one day's rest in seven.

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE
CHRISTIANS WHO SUFFERED IN THE
EVENTS OF THE 16TH AND 17TH OCTO-
BER, 1850.

Aleppo, Dec. 7, 1850.

TO JOSEPH FLUME, EEQ., ➢r.P., LONDON.
The newspapers will, no doubt, have acquainted you
ith the terrible occurrences of which our city has
been the theatre, and we will not, therefore, enter into
details of the horrible scenes which have taken place.
It will be sufficient to mention that 500 Christian
homes, mostly opulent, were sacked and pillaged, wo-
men and girls brutally assaulted, men assassinated,
and numbers wounded ; five churches were pillaged
and three of them burned, priests killed, and the z,y-
rian patriarch seriously wounded. In a word, that all
the barbarities imagination can paint were practised
upon the Christians at Aleppo.
.Ir. is easy to imagine that in consequence of such a
catastrophe, the numbers of people formerly in a state
of affluence are now in complete destitution, and that
the working classes are plunged into the deepest
misery, which calls loudly for aid on all charitable
persons. But the efforts and sacrifices of this small
European colony and of the natives who escaped this
horde of barbarians, are insufficient to relieve so
many sufferers, and a committee composed of the six
persons, whose names are undersigned, has been
formed in order to appeal to the generosity of all
philanthropists, whose alms could not be directed into
a more deserving channel.

Convinced that you will kindly assist in relieving
our Christian population, we make this appeal to your
generosity, in the hope that you will also induce your
numerous friends to co-operate in this good work.
We trust, Sir, that you will extend your assistance to
us, and need not assure you of our sincere gratitude
and the sentiments of high esteem which we entertain
for you.
(Signed) ALEX. CALDER. LOUIS MOLENARI.
WM. RIDDELL. VINCENZO MARCOrOLL
TILLEAGE. E. PORTALIS.
I hereby certify that the above are the true signa-
turesof the persons whose names are written above.
Aleppo, Dec. 11, 1850.
(Signed) W. W. WERRY, Consul.

We learn that the Roman Catholics of Glasg►ow
and neighbourhood propose to start in that city a weekly
journal, to be called the Thistle, for the defence and advocacy
of their principles. -- Glasgow Heraid.

TUE LATE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT WORTHING.-
The subscriptions for the relief of the widows and children
of the eleven men who unfortunately lost their lives in the
Worthing roads, in a fruitless attempt to render assistance to
the crew of the Lalla ltoolch, have amounted to the aggre-
gate sum of 5,000/. The committees appointed at Worthing
and Brighton to make the collections and appropriation of
the money have disagreed in their notions as to the proper
mode of making the distribution, and consequently nothing
has yet been done with the money, beyond the administra-
tion of temporary relief to the distressed families. One of
the plans proposes to regard the subscription as a kind of
national reward for a brave action, and to make the distri-
bution of all alike. regardless of age or circumstance, ex-
cept that the orphans, and in three cases, dependent parents,
having each one uhare, the widows should have two; while
another, regarding the money as being raised for the relief '
of distress occasioned by the calamity, proposes that all cir-
cumstances, whether pecuniary or relating to age or other
matters, should be considered. Our readers will remember
cwiasaimed
that the first fatal and unsuccessful attempt to board the
Lalla Rookh was followed by a second, which
success-
ful. The boatmen, 23 in number, have since
sal-
vage, and on Monday last they met, and shared between
them 5361. 68. Sd., which had been awarded to them on that
account, on the application of Messrs. Irenstonger, of Little-
hanipton, receives' of the drvite of the Admiralty,

PORT WINE FOR ENGLAND —The Oporto Ship•
piny List flir 1850 states the total quantity of port wine
e 'leap u o
expo; Led to Great Britain in the year to have been 25,100
pipes; total quantity exported to ports out of Groat Britain,
1.2,067 pipes ; total export, 37,187 pipes. The chief elip:irti?.
were, 'Messrs. Sandeman and Co., 4,360 ; Messrs. Quarles,
Harris, and Sous, :;,0I6;
Directors of th Company, 9,335 ,
l\tloeosis,rs;l%,elartien, n(
e::,,Gi and Co., 2,068; Messrs. Hunt,
i ;
Messrs. Cockburn, Smithes,
and Co., 1,728; Messrs. Croft. and Co., 1,335; Messrs Bruno,
Siiva, and Co., 1,327; Messrs. (Miley, Forrester, Weober,
and Co., 1,177; Messrs. G. and J Graham and Co., 1,017.
The rest of the shipp rs are under 1.000 pipes. These ten
estab.ishments shipped 20;258 pipes, being' mere that half
the total export.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] —"CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS,
&c.—Just published, price act., by Dr. CItOiIN, M.D., a Report of
some or the most formidable terms of Disease of the 7 hroat, Lungs,
Heart, and Stomach.—.• The success of Dr. Cronin's treatment in
the cure of those affections which have hitherto generally baffled
every attempt at cure, although the ilrst talent had been applied to,
and the most consummate skill had been exerted for that purpose, is
most satisfactorily shown in this repert."—Prcface.—Wertheim and
Co., raternoster-row ; Hughes, St. Martin-le-Grand; and at the
autlivee residence, 14, Leicester-plate, Leicester-pillftte.

THE SUN, LON DON, TH URS D V EVENING, JANUARY l6, 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 15.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot.
ing thin morning, accompanied by Sir George Grey.
Lord Waterpark, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps,
and Lieut.-Colonel F. 11. Seymour, were in attend-
ance upon his Royal Highness.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Sixth, the Earl
of Abz.rdeen, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Rev. Frederick
and Mrs. Anson.

_The Queen's private band will attend in the Castle
after dinner.
The Duchess of Norfolk has relieved the Mar-
chioness of Douro in her duty as Lady in Waiting to
her 111,jesty.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend-
ance yesterday (Tuesday) evening, and played the
folloy..ing selections :
Overture, " Le Val d'Andorre" Ilalevy.
Waltz, "The Garland"
Grand Selection, " Elijah" Mendelssohn.
Quadrille, " The British Navy" Jullien.
Quick March, " Camp of Silesia" Meyerbeer.
Her .Majesty's private band afterwards attended in
the Castle and performed the following pieces :
Introduzione Andante Maestoso,
Allegro Moderato, Scherzo
Presto; Sintonia Taeglichsbeck.
Selection, " Huguenots" Meyerbeer.

Lord John Russell gave a Cabinet dinner last
evening, ut his residence in Chesham-place. The
Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the, Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of lan-
ricarde' and the Right Hon. Fox Maule.
Mr. T. B. Crompton and Mr. Borthwick had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing street.
Mr. W. Becktord and Mr. Morten had an inter-
view with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

Lord Monteagle had an interview yesterday with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office, from the Governors of New Zealand and
the Falkland Islands.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TIIESDAY.
The investments upon the Chester Cup to-day took a
wider range than heretofore, and gave more im?ortance
to the proceedings than anything which has previously
occurred since the entry and appearance of the weights.
Rhesus was in very strong demand, and was backed for
a couple of hundred pounds at 15 to 1. Baby was also
in good favour at 40 to 1, and Knight of Avenel at the
same figure, (he latter being supported for near 501.
900 to 20 was taken about Haricot, 1,000 to 20 about
Trouncer, and 1,000 to 20 twice about Flying Gout (late
Dahcotab Chief). The Metropolitan Stakes, Liverpool
Steeplechase, and Derby were only slightly touched
upon. Latest prices :