The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-26 00:00:00

CABINET COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.)—The Ministers
re-assembled in Council for the first time since the recess
this afternoon, at one o'clock, at the Foreign-office, when the
following Ministers attended :—Lord John Russell, Premier;
the Marquis of Lansdowne (who has arrived in town from
Ventnor, Isle of Wight), the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Lord Chancellor (who joined his colleagues from his court),
the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, Lord Broughton
de Gyfford, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere (who arrived in
town this morning from his villa at Chislehurst), and the
Right Hon. Fox Maule. The Council were sitting when we
went to press.
NEW RAILWAY.—It is understood that influential
parties have formed a company for completing the narrow-
gauge system in the Midland districts. The intended rail-
way is to commence at Oxford, in connexion with the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton and Oxford, Birming-
ham, and Rugby, and to join the South-Western, near the
Andover-road Station. The length of line to construct
would be 45 miles. The country has been surveyed under
the direction of Mr. Hamilton Fulton, the engineer, who re-
ports that an easy and efficient line can be made for much
less than 500,0004 at the present unprecedentedly low prices
of labour and materials. It is considered that the facilities
which such a communication would afford to the postal and
mercantile interests would be a great boon to Manchester,
Birmingham, Southampton, and the Midland districts.
Meetings have been held, which show that the local interests
are willing to give the undertaking their earnest support.
BATTY'S HIPPODROME, AT KENSINGTON. The
Hippodrome, which is being built on a plot of ground at the
corner of the Victoria-road, for Mr. Batty, is making rapid
progress. It is an oval, called 500 feet by 400 feet (it looks
scarcely so large), and will accommodate 14,000 persons.
The seats, of which there are six or seven ranges all round,
are roofed over; the enclosed area is open to the sky. The
entrance for the horses is at the south end, and over this is
the gallery for music. Blue and white are the colours used
for decoration; externally, the sides as well as the roof of
the building being slated, the appearance is not very pre-
possessing. The public entrance is by a compoed archway
of three openings, formed in the Kensington-road, which has
in the frieze some small Roman figures on horseback, and is
otherwise adorned with flying horses. Mr. G. L. Taylor is
the architect, and Messrs. Haward and Nixon are the con-
tractors employed.—Builder.
THE VACANT ALDERMANIC GOWN.—In accordance
with a practice which prevails in the City, the senior member
of the Court of Aldermen will succeed to Bridge Without,
rendered vacant by the death of Sir Claudius Hunter, the
office being a sinecure. The oldest living alderman is Wm.
Thompson, Esq., M.P., who will consequently resign the
ward of Cheap, which he npw represents. For the vacancy
thus treated several candidates are spoken of'. It was cur-
rently stated yesterday afternoon that a requisition would be
presented to Mr. Ambrose Moor, of Milk-street, offering the
support of the electors to him in the event of his coming
forward for the vacancy. Amongst others spoken of are Mr.
DonaldNicoll, of,Cornhill, the late sheriff, and Mr.J. Pilcher,
who was on a previous occasion an unsuccessful candidate for
one of the civic wards. No public address has, up to the
present time, been issued by either of the candidates, and it
is not probable that any step will be taken until after the
funeral of Sir Claudius Hunter. Alderman Thompson, M.P.,
is now " Father of the Corporation," having been elected in
1821. The three aldermen next in rotation are Sir John Key,
Bart., elected in 1823, Sir Peter Laurie, elected in 1826, and
Alderman Farebrother, elected in 1826.
RESIGNATION OF JOHN SIMEON, Esq., M.P. FOR
THE ISLE OF WIGHT.--Mr, Simeon's vote on the Popish
question gave serious offence to many of his friends in the
island, and it has for some time been rumoured that they
proposed calling on him to resign, to which was added that
he had not only deserted his constituents but the faith of
his fathers, and had become a member of the Roman Catholic
Church. To-day comes an announcement that he has re-
signed, and that his parting address to his constituents will
appear to-morrow, and also that he has seceded from the
Protestant Church.
CAUTlON.—Landlords will do well to be on their
guard against bewhiskered foreigners, who are coming over
in shoals, and some of them have commenced the plunder of
John Bull in a very unceremonious manner. A fellow
calling himself F. Hermaunstein, a Dane, fared sumptuously
at the Great Northern Hotel, Lincoln, for four days, and then
disappeared without paying his bill, leaving behind him a
carpet bag, which he was unable to get away without being
seen by the family. When at Lincoln, Mr. Moyes, the land-
lord of the Great Northern, put himself to much trouble to
show the stranger all that was worth seeing in the city, and
drove him out into the country, so that the fellow's conduct
is the more disgraceful. The same individual afterwards
went to Boston, and victimised an unfortunate innkeeper
there.

On Thursday morning some workmen were en-
gaged painting the fronts of the houses in the Quadrant, and
one of the men ascended the ladder for the purpose of getting
one of his brushes previous to removing the ladder, and had
unfastened the rope which had been attached to the railings,
when, in descending, the ladder slipped on one side, and pre-
cipitated him to the pavement, killing him on the spot, at
the same time knocking down two young ladies, and break-
ing the leg of one of them.

TUE CAMBRIDGE MILITARY ASYLUM.--We have
great pleasure in announcing that his Majesty the King of
Hanover has remitted the swat of 300 guineas as his contri-
bution to the funds of the Cambridge Military Asylum, in
memory of his late royal brother, for widows of non-com-
missioned officers and privates of her Majesty's land forces.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—WORCESTER, THURSDAY.--
A shocking and fatal accident has happened at the Spetchley
statioreof the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, within four
miles of this city. Since the opening of the branch line
from Abbots-wood, near Spetchley, to Worcester, the
Spetchley station has been used chiefly as a goods station,
and on Tuesday night a goods train arrived there in due
course, when some alterations were required to be made in
it—the addition or subtraction of some trucks. The guard
of the goods train was a young man named Edwin Butler,
whese general duties were those of a station porter, and he
was somewhat inexperienced in his new duties. He was in
the act of adjusting some luggage vans in the train when, by
some mischance, he got between the buffers of two carriages,
and the carriages being pushed together, he was crushed be-
tween the buffers in a horrible manner, and killed on the

spot. The deceased was a steady young man, and resided
with his parents, who keep a small public-house on the
Gloucester road, Che:tenham. He was unmarried., At
the inquest held at Spetchley before Mr. W. S. P. Hughes,
coroner, a verdict of" Accidental death" was returned.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, FRIDAY.—The coroner's
investigation concerning the mysterious death of Elizabeth
Anderson, a widow, whc died from the effects of essential oil
of almonds, concluded last evening. A great mass of evi-
dence was taken, and the coroner having summed up, the
jury found as their verdict, " That the deceased came to
her death by receiving into her stomach a larg e quantity of
essential oil of almonds; but whether taken by herself, or
administered by others, there was no evidence to show."
The magistrates immediately liberated Mr. Jenkins and Mrs.
Wilde.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.-.SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY,
APRIL 25.—The United States' mail steam-ship Hermann,
Captain E. Crabtree (vhich arrived at this port from
Bremen on Tuesday las:), sailed this afternoon for New
York with the Americas contract mails. She takes out

between 50 and 60 passengers, and a small freight of
merchandise, principally from Germany and France. The
steam-ship Franklin, from Havre, en route to New York,
is to leave Cowes on the 7th proximo; and the Wash-
ington, Captain G. W. Floyd, is expected at Cowes, on
her way to Bremen, wish the United States' mails, about
the 3d or 4th proximo, being appointed to leave New York
on the 19th instant. The new steam-ship Humboldt, the
second ship of the New York, Southampton, and Havre mail
line, is appointed to leave New York, on her first voyage, on
the 3d of May.

A machine for cleaning shoes has been invented
and patented by a Devonshire person. It sets in motion two
brushes, by one of which the dirt is removed and by the other
the DiAcluPg 14 Applied sad burnished.