The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

WORKS OF DOUGLAS JERROLD.

The present number of the republication of Jer-
rokl's works contains the conclusion of " St. Giles
and St. James," and the commencement of " Job
Pippins."

WORTHY OF JONATHAN.—In the briefest corre-
spondence known, only two figures were used ; the first con-
tained a note of interrogation (?), implying "Is there any
news?" The answer was a cypher (0), " None." This was
clever; but neighbour Shuttleworth, in Nottingham market-
place, beats it. He has on his chimney two large T's, one
painted black, the other green, to intimate that he sells black
and green teas.—Nottingham Review.
FATAL AFFRAY WITH THE POLICE IN SHOE-LANE.
—During the whole of yesterday (Sunday) the upper part
of Shoe-lane was the scene of a frightful uproar, which has
unfortunately ended in the death of a man named John
Hogan, who expired this morning. The following are the
particulars of the ease, as far as they can be ascertained :
The place where the riot broke out is Plumptre-court, which
is opposite the churchyard of St. Andrew's, Holborn, in *
Shoe-lane. It is wholly inhabited by the lower orders of
Irish; and about midnight, on Saturday, a general quarrel
seems to have broken out amongst them. The row was so
great at three o'clock on Sunday morning, that a body of
police were sent for. The belligerents made a determined re-
sistance to the police, and several of them were severely
kicked and injured. It became necessary, it is said, for them
to use their staffs, and it is alleged that Hogan, who is now
dead, was struck by oue of them on the skull. Mr. Payne,
the coroner, has had notice of the death of Hogan.
TUR NEW SUGAR DUTIES.—The new and reduced
rates of duty on all descriptions of colonial and foreign
sugars, which come into operation to-day (the 7th inst.), are
expected to cause the deliveries of sugars from bond to be
large, and it is expected that the quantities of foreign refined
and other sugars for home use will be so great that ar-
rangements have been made for such deliveries to take place
to a later hour than usual, in order to meet the requirements
of the trade. As this fresh reduction of the duties brings the
rates to the lowest standard provided for in the scheme of the
late lamented Premier with respect to the duties on sugar so
far as concerns the supplies from the British plantations, the
effect of the measure will now be evinced to a propor-
tionate extent, although the complete effect will necessarily
not be shown until the still further reductions on foreign and
other high-class sugars assimilate the duties leviable on
them to the sugars imported from the British colonies. The
retail price of first-rate refined or lump sugar is now less than
half the price it was before the revision of the sugar duties
took place, and the public will doubtless benefit to a bull
further extent on this fresh reduction of the duties on all
classes of foreign sugar.
REPRESENTATION OF KNARESBOROUGH. -- The
death of the Right Honourable W. S. Lascelles has
caused a vacancy in the representation of the borough
of Knaresborough. A Conservative candidate has been
found in the person of a young barrister, Mr.
Thomas Collins, jun., the son of the Rev. 'Thomas
Collins, an esteemed minister of the Established Church
at Knaresborough. The Liberals, it is said, intend
to bring forward Mr. Watson, Q.C. The constituency of the
borough is somewhere about 250. At the election in 1847
the numbers at the close of the poll stood thus :—The Hon-
W. S. Lascelles, Liberal, 158 ; Mr. J. P. Westhead, Liberal,
128 ; Mr. A. Lawson, Conservative, 111. Thus two Libel!
were returned, and out of 228 electors 220 voted. Mr' ted
Lawson and Mr. W. B. Ferrand, both Tories, reproof]
Knaresborough from 1841 to 1847.
--The
PORT PLYMOUTH, SATURDA-„„ •
Mr. and
merchant ship Stebonheath, Captain John Sergeant, from
morning,
Port Philip, February 21, was off this port td/le],ol
ierk'ssid Mrs. Twist,
and landed passengers. Her entire list inalu
djkfeir. and Mrs. Nor-
m Betts, Mr.
Mrs. Goodman, and three children, Mr. B
E. M. C. and Mr. Kerr; intermediate,
s"es,eral of these have
Mrs. Atkinson, and five children,
wood, and two steerage passengers. Pori -Philip, and do t
realized handsome competences
eorwye sower
unusual, Pacific, she crwossooeld.
250 no
tons
d 3,038 bales of
intend returning. The Stebonheianoth
of copper ore, 500 casks of tallow, am a cargo of
In making her passage along
the Antaitic Circle, and, wh
atshe encountered went
as
far
as 68 south, in which latitued3e
r numbers of • strong north-
easterly winds,
and saw. grounding icebergs and large
quantities of ice. Aftaezrilian gunbrig
Cape Horn, in latitude
24 south, she saw beendisinasted,and corvette, the lat-
ter of which had s,sh followed
having rolled away her
which a gale of wind ; they
spars in a heavj3y
;nos Ayres.
were bound to
red Rio Ja • Being short of provisions, the
Stebonheath ente
Afte Janeiro on the Ist of May, and left
the ath. r her departure she was compelled
again on eicard to 27 de
to go Lout et grees, in order to clear Cape Frio.
in this resPPernambuco or Bahia are considered prefera-
ble P°l.r the .
The Stebonheath sighted Trinidad, St. Paul's
flora' °line,and the Western Islands.
itiGBY 8 .I.3OCIeET STOVE.—A select party of gen-
tlemen assembled at Peele's Coffee-house, Fleet-street, on
Saturday, to witness a series of experiments with an inge-
nious little stove, invented by Mr. Rigby. The stove, which
resembles in form an exaggerated chess " castle," is only
about 6 inches in height by 4;e. inches in diameter, and does
not weigh more than Ins. Its principal peculiarity is a con-
trivance by which spirits are consumed, the amount of heat
thus generated being placed under the perfect control of the
operator by means of a small screw. Whether economy or
speed be taken as the test of its capabilities, it certainly
appeared to be the most successful portable stove which has
yet appeared before the public.
COLLIERY ExrLosioN.—Another of these sad oc-
currences, unhappily not uufrequent in mining districts,
took place on the morning of Tuesday last, at the colliery of
Mr. George Dudley, at the Five Ways, Cradles-, Worcestefia;
shire, while, as we hear, the safety lamp was being urseesdulted
the purpose of testing the presence of gas. It has
in the death of nine persons. The bodies of fourof them
have
were brought out of the pit quite dead. The. otherse
since died from the effects of the injuries sustaelln_fr _
The applications to the Lord Chann I for the
ed on the part of the
honour of Queen's Counsel amount
equity bar, to above twenty. We have named some of the
successful candidates, but we understand that his Lordship
of
is much pressed by influence on the part others,
and that the list IT ill in all probability " aYo two if not three
additions.