The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-12 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S PLATE COMMITTEE.

A meeting of this Committee took place yesterday at
the House of Mr. Alderman Wood, Great George-street,
Westminster, for the purpose of coming to a definitive
arrangement as to the appropriation of the Subscription
Money, which has remained in the hands of Messrs.
Coutts and Co. upwards of eleven years. Some gentlemen
of the London University attended, it having been pre-
viously proposed that the money should be applied in aid
of the building aed endowing of an Hospital, to be called
" The New North London Hospital," and should form a
wing of the London University ; and to consist of three
wards, calculated to accommodate sixty patients in a suit-
able manner, and to be called " Caroline Wards." The
public are aware that this money was raised by subscrip-
tion, for the purpose of presenting the late Queen Caro-
line with a splendid service of plate, but her M,jesty
having died before the subscription list was completed,
the Committee determined upon applying the amount to
the erection of a monument to her memory. It appears
that, from the death of her Majesty up to the present mo-
ment, a piece of ground in an eligible spot could not he
purchased for the purpose, and the Committee, not being
able to apply the subscription to the original object, after
many meetings, have resolved to put it to the above pur-
pose.
Previous to the death of Queen Caroline, the Commit-
tee gave an order to Messrs. Green, Ward, and Green, of
Ludgate-hill, silversmiths, to furnish the service of plate,
but in consequence of her Majesty's demise, it was coun-
termanded, and to obtain the consent of Messrs. Ward,
Green, and Co., the Committee were obliged to pay them
3001. as a compensation for foregoing the same, the order
being in part executed. After deducting the 3001. above-
mentioned, there remain about 1,5501. in Exchequer Bills,
in the hands of Messrs. Coutts and Co. The Committee,
which was numerous eleven years ago, is now dwindled
away, 1;y the hand of death, to the number of about five
members, consisting of Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Hume,
M.P., Mr. West, and two other gentlemen.

We are requested to state that the new and
cheaper edition, in 2 vols. post Svo., price 215., of the
" Wild Sports of the West," by the author of " Stories of
Waterloo," will be published on Thursday next, by Mr,
BENTLEY, New Burlington-street, successor to HENRY
COLBURN, and may be had of all re-pectable booksellers
throughout the United Kingdom. Agents for Scotland,
Messrs. BELL and BRADEUTE, Edinburgh; for Ireland,
Mr. JOHN CUMMING, Dublin.

DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday an in-
quest was held at the King's Arms, Orchard-street, West-
minster, on the body of WILLIAM WICKS, aged 33, a
journeyman cabinet-maker, living in Wells-street, Oxford-
street. About a week ago, the deceased applied to Mr.
BINGE, a cbymist, in York-street, for some prussic acid,
to kill a vicious dog. Mr. BINGE would not give him
any till he brought some one to vouch for the truth of his
story; and a woman named AncusTlN, having done se,
Mr. BINGE supplied him with the poison. On Monday
he called again, and said the poison had not killed the
doe, although it had made him very ill. He then de-
scribed the effects it had on the doir, and Mr. BINGE was
induced to supply him with a further quantity. The same
evening he went to his father's house, and having taken
the phial out of his pocket, said " Now, I will do it effec-
tually." He then swallowed the poison, and in less than
five minutes was a corpse. His wife died three weeks
ago, which is supposed to have preyed on his mind. The
jury returned a verdict of insanity ; and severely c:3-
stared the conduct of the wftnata AUGUiTIN.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BUNHILL-ROW.--
Yesterday, about three o'clock, an alarming and destruc-
tive fire broke out in the back premises of Mr. REDDALL,
an extensive builder, 57, Bunhill-row. In a short space
of time the flames communicated to the extensive distillery
of Mr. JAMES Hoop, situated in the rear of Mr. RED-
DALL'S premises. The conflagration now assumed a most
awful appearance ; the whole of these premises becoming
one mass of flames, which baffled every attempt to extin-
guish them, owing to the quantity of spirits and other
combustible matter which had become ignited. The fire
next spread to the houses in Banbill-row, and Nos. 56
and 58 were soon in a bl,ze, anti a scene of the most in..
describable confusion ensued among the terrified inmates,
who endeavoured to save their property by throwing it
out of the windows, and much valuable furniture was
thus broken to fragments. A female narrowly escaped
being killed by a bedstead thrown from one of the attics.
At this period of the fire several engines arrived, but their
attempts to extinguish the flames were rendered abortive,
from the inadequate supply of water. The raging element
now communicated from the distillery to the houses adja-
cent in Featherstone-street, five of which were nearly
consumed before the fire could be got under. No lives
have been lost, but the property destroyed is of great
value. The whole of Mr. REDDALL'S premises, as well as
the distillery above mentioned, are totally consumed.
Some of the houses are insured in the Sun Fire Office.

SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.,-..A species
of swindiimt, of a very novel and ingenious description,
was last week put in practice at Waltham, Broomfield,
and some of the neighbouring villages. Two fellows,
respectably dressed, who said they were sent down from
London, with a special authority to inspect the baker's
weights, and search for ingredients for adulterating bread,
proceeded to fulfil their pretended mission in the parishes
ahove named. Being duly provided with the Act of Par-
liament, some blank warrants, and all the paraphernalia
of inspectors, they easily contrived to pass for men sof
authority amongst the v►llagers ; indeed, by their specious
pretences, they so far imposeA upon J. J. Tufnell, E•q.,
as to obtain a warrant from him to search the bakers'
premises, and upon executing it they discovered a quantity
of alum, and other ingredients for adulterating bread, as
well as several loaves which were deficient in weight.
Formal informations were immediately hid before Mr.
Tufnell, and that magistrate, not for a moment suspecting
the real character of the informers, convicted the bakers
in penalties amounting to a considerable sum. The per-
sons convicted, not having the money at the time, were
directed to pay it to the magistrate's clerk at Chelmsford.
The fellows being thus disappointed in obtaining half the
penalties—their intended booty—and well knowing their
" brief authority" would not bear a rigid inspection, suc-
ceeded in compromising the affair with the bakers for part
of the money—from one, it is said, they got as much as
161.—and immediately decamped.—Fasex Herald.