The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-23 00:00:00

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DEPARTURE OF THE AFRICA —On Saturday, at
two o'clock, P.M., the British and 2Corzh American Royal
Mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Ryrie, left the Mersey for
pped from England
pas!,engers, and
New York direct, with the mails, about 8u
one of the most valuable cargoes ever shi
to the United States. The wind and weather were bath
favourable, and she proceeded to sea amidst the,cheers of a
numerous concourse of spectators, after a passing salute of
four g ens to her tender the Satellite.

GREENWICH ELECTION.—On Saturday Joshua
Morris, Esq., the returning officer for the borough of Green-
wich, pursuant to precept from the High Sheriff for the
county of Kent, gave notice that the nomination of a fit and
proper person to represent the borough of Greenwich in Par_
liament, in the room of the late Mr. Barnard, would take
place at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, the 26th inst., an
the hustings, in front of St. Mary's Church, Greenwich. A
numerous meeting of the supporters of Alderman Wire took
place on Saturday evening, at the Greyhound Tavern; the
friends of Alderman Salomon* assembled at the Stags. The
great and nearly complete agreement in the political princi-
ples of the two aldermen almost reduces the electors to seek
the grounds of their preference in the more personal
qualifications of the candidates. A very large number who
would have supported Alderman Salomons a year ago, in
the present posture of 'affairs object to a candidate who
would feel himself precluded from supporting the Govern-
ment in its endeavours to repress the attempts of the Romish
ecclesiastics to establish an arrogant despotism in the name
of liberty. Others well disposed towards Alderman Salo-
mons, and giving him full credit for the intention he has
expressed of claiming and taking his seat in the House of
Commons if elected, look at the actual state of the law,
and fear that his return would Practically prove the loss of
a representative to Greenwich. Mr. Wire has the advan-
tage of living in the borough. His votes upon all generfd
questions, it is urged, would be such as his rival would give,
while he would be free to support Lord John Russell's anti-
Papal measure.
A RUNAWAY TOWN CLERIC.—The greatest ex-
citement prevails in Tunbridge 'Wells in consequence of
Benjamin Sears, the town clerk, having absconded. It ap-
pears that he has obtained money to the amount of above
2,000/. by discounting very recently, and that many respect-
able inhabitants of the town who placed confidence in him
will be brought to the verge of ruin. He was collector of
assessed taxes, town clerk, collector of the gas and water
companies, and held other appointments. It is reported he
is a defaulter in almost every instance, and a warrant has•
been issued for his apprehension, and placed in the hands 'eft
Mr. Superintendent Moreton. A search warrant, it is said,
has also been granted to enable the officer to examine the
premises of a relative in London. Sears is .uspected of being
in the metropolis, and Superintendent Moreton speaks con-
fidently of finally bringing him to justice. His income ex-
ceeded COI. a year.

A JI iD I' POISONED BY MISTAKE.—DOVER,
SATURDAY.—A feeling of much concern has prevailed in this
town bylaw following painful occutreuce :—For several weeks
past Airs. Eliza Prickett, the lady of George Prickett, Esq.,
of Castle street, in this town, had been suffering from some
malady which required the application of liniment, the usual
caution being given by the medical man who supplied it.
On Wednesday the lady was additionally indisposed, and
Mr. Sankey, surgeon, prescribed an anodyne mixture. He
left directions that, on requiring the mixture. she should
ring a bell which mmunicated with Mr. Pricket t's apart-
ment, and that he would then come and administer it. In-
stead of doing so, however, she rose during the night and
took in mistake a large portion of the liniment. The stomach
pump was applied, and various restoratives, but she ditala
under the effects of the dose. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict " That the deceased was poisoned by inadvertently
taking a liniment containing morphine."
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY DINNER.—
The contract for supplying this dinner, which will be pro-
vided fur '2,000 persons, and take Place about the 15th of
July, in a pavilion now being erected in the Home Park,
has been given to DL Soyer, whose-.tender, in reply to the ad-
vertisement of the society, has been accepted by the com.
mittee. This decision has occasioned no small disappoint-
ment to the good people of Windsor, some of whom had
made offers to the committee, and who, on the grcuud of
their liberal contribution in aid of the expenses incurred by
the preparations for the cattle-show, conceived themselves
entitled to reap all the incidental benefits of the display.
They will, however, have small room for complaint, since
they cannot fail to profit largely by the crowds of visitors
who will be attracted to Windsor and its vicinity on the dc-
easion.—SundayPapert
AN AMERICAN CLOCK.—Some rascal has stolen a
Connecticut. clock from the Xou: York Mirror office. Where-
upon the editor reniarki: -" All we have to say ir, that the
clock never went lnybre, and hut for the principle involved in
the case we should say nothing about it."

LACE.—We cannot report any iinprovvment in any
department of the multitudinous articles made under thus
head, except, perhaps, a little more dtmand fur silk laces,
for which we anticipate au improved business during the
season, as they have become a necessary article of ornament
to the dress of all ladies who desire to be in the fashion. All
descriptions of lace made of cotton are in very moderate re.
quest—a circumstance not at all unusual during the height
of summer. —...Voltiughant Journal.

MR. PAXTON, ARCHITECT OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

—Some thirty years ago, a young man, a gardener, who
worked for 12s. a week at a garden near the Duke of
Devonshire's villa at Chiswick, five miles west of Hyde-
park, said or did something which offended the master-
gardener, and was turned oft He was standing unem-
ployed one day near the Duke's garden gate. His Grace,
in passing, spoke to him, entered into familiar conversation,
ascertained that he was a journeyman gardener out of
work, and walking into the garden, the young man with
him, was pleased with his intelligence and manners; not
the manners of a sycophant sneaking up to the side of a
nobleman with sycophantish words, but the manners of an
intelligent man who knew his profession, and could speak
about it unembarrassed to another, no matter whom. The
Duke asked him to call at Devonshire House the next day,
and the young man did, and the call resulted in his being
sent down to Chatsworth, in Derbyshire. Ther• he soon
made way, and reached, as a practical and scientific gar.
slener, the very head of his profession, which position he
had Ling maintained before he was know❑ to the world as
Mr. Paxton, thie,atfzts.,:tlotnhenoCwrypstraelvaPialaarce.
at Scuhcishwwiceks:
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Examiner.
CHURCH BUILDING AMENDMENT ACT.—On Satur-
day Lord Carlisle's Bill on the Church Building Ac which
has passed the Lords, ‘vai printed by order of the douse of
Commons. By this mea.ure the churchwardens of parishoa
will be empowered to apportion pews fur the accommodation
of the deserving poor.
We regret to learn that in consequence of the
illness of Lord Dueie, it has been found necessary to defer
the visit of the members of the Gloucestershire Agricultural
Society to Tortworth Perk (which We IllentiOnCli lust week
had been fixed fur July 3), Instil the autumn. ucester
Chronicle.
CupTosis DUTIES.—at Saturday t% return to the
House of Commons was issued
of (Titulary lax t showing,
,Ja e f
that... the monnt o .
customs duty received in the year ending
on goods imported, was 10,96.0,535 f.
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Ireland
citta
• I ,05 in countiesappearsl
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surday a return to
132,589 were in counties, 20 2"
and 8,046 in boroughs,
NEWHAVEN.---A e6oof ,
Cities
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sh
coast-
guard, while on duty, ag
oc-
curred a week or two • •
its course apparently rather laughable incident
observed a fishing-boa out at sea, and
its in this nee: hbourbotod. The he
d.i being utterly undirected, they made
for the spot, and found a crew of three men lying in the,
bottom, all suffering severely from the effects of sea-sick-
nueesigi.hbolutrhd of A
appearsoo thatifristayounung agricultural labourer in the
has lately been lett a sum of
money—it is said 2,000/.—by a near relative deceased. De-
termined to follow the plough no
companions,
h set forth to
he gave uphis
situation, and choosing some lively
have an excursion to Lewes, Brighton, and, indeed, every
town or hamlet where frolic and fun could be found for
money. In the course of a few months the legacy had been
reduced to almost units, and then with two well-tried friends
our modern Timon resolved on the purchase of a boat. our
hero, being the capitalist, was to be the captain of the craft,
and they were to become good, true, and honest fishermen.
Next morning, accordingly, they set out on their first expo.
dition ; but the "skipper" never having been
011 the sea
before, got as sick as a dog before he had been on the briny
deep much more than halt an hour. The mate and second
mate soon found that they were in the same helpless state' -
and when the coast men fortunately saw the boat she was
turning round for all the world like the vane of a weather-
cock, the whole crew lying in her bottom in the position
described. Our heroes, however, nothing daunted, are still
pursuing their career, and we heartily wish their perse-
verance may eventually be crowned withsuccess.— Sussex
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Recn TO CHINA; ..... By
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arrival at that port of the celebrated
from Anjtehr,
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letters have been receivede
soe
Oriental
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sailedo th
Reindeer and Oriental. The Reindeer, which left the Men-
gl itrtihn
g January,the
vaunted d
arrived at the same port in from the
arrived at Abler in 99 days. The
American clipper an advantage of but six days only over her
tiny antagonist, a fact which sufficiently proves that our
successtully competing inTeh3amdae;s7titiull
English builders can produce vessels in every way capable of
with the highly-extolied clippers of
our trans-Atiantic brethren, the Reindeer being only about
501 tons burden, whilst the tonnage of the American ship is
upwards of 1.00, thus giving her an advantage over her
rival which speaks much in favour of the Reindeer's sailing
qualities.
"1
ue GREAT EXHIBITION.—To the long list of
large firms who have generously treated the persons in their
employment to a v ew of the Great Exhibition. we have to
aid the names of Messrs. temith and Son, ceal merchants
Waterloo-wharf, Strand, who intend sending their men to
the Exhibition to-morrow, in a number of new waggons, ao.
companied by their wives; and on theirreturn a good dinner
will be provided for them, all expenses, as well as their day!a
wo:k, being paid by their liberal employers.
At the meeting ut the clergy of the Tiverton
Deanery, we understand that ten out of twenty-nix .1:t
whom that deanery consists. took no part in the election of
repressutativee fur the diece6sa sped, either persouelly of
by proxy.