The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-31 00:00:00

StJN, I,lol*-I.DON, TilUtlSoAli, ijECEMIII-ilt 81, 1855.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stit;-Tlit dr@adfltiOtastropite of, Vriday has
to my mltut a mot of ftiture I tidgt ii 111
be immediately a' Piited; and departed from.
I observe that gieat lesS 8f life ti:fMtitine oc-
curred by the giving way of a spot of ice marked " Dan-
gerous" by the i'qfficers. of the Humane Society, but from
which they eduld tint lieell •Ng infatuated s'.:aiters. Let
this course of marking be immediately abarnic;ii, and; in-
stead of trusting to a caution proved to be unavailing, let
the officers break all suspected ice with long poles, weighted
at the end, hammerfashion. Let this be done most tho-
roughly and effectually, all across the river, for a width of
several feet, so as to render it impossible for any one to
attempt to pass from one sound portion of ice to the other.
To prevent skaiters from falling into the trench, from in-
ability to stop themselves in their career, let posts be
planted on each side of the river, some feet from the trench,
and a rope extended from post to post ; this would " bring
up" the unskilful skaiter.
With these precautions, and that of sufficiently trying
the ice, accidents could not occur. The principle to pro-
ceed upon is, not to trust to moral preventives by appealing
to the reason or fears of men, bid to insuperable physical
obstacles. You may reason for a month, in vain, to per-
suade a rash equestrian not to ride a dangerous and vicious
horse : take the simple course of shooting the horse, and
you may be assuredhe will never break your friend's neck.
I am, Sir, your constant reader and admirer,

Norwich, Dec. 28, 1835. M.
P.S.—I trust energetic measures will forthwith be adopted
to identify the gallant drummer who rendered such impor-
tant services to his fellow-creatures, and to reward his merit
adequately and publicly.
[There is much good sense in these remarks of our cor-
respondent, with which we cordially agree ; as also with his
proposal that the drummer (whose name, we believe, ap-
pears in the Coroner's inquest) should be publicly remune-
rated for his courage and humanity.—En. S

EXPORTATION OF THE PRECIOUS

METALS.

By the official returns of the exportation of the preciou
metals from the port of London for the year ending Dec
26, it appears that the amount of gold coin shipped during
the last 12 months, was 57,764 ounces, which, at the Mint
price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce, is equal to 224,9591. ;
11,211,576 ounces of silver coin, at ss. the ounce,
2,802,894/. ; 26,829 ounces of gold bars, 104,465/. ; and
766,814 ounces of silver bars, 191,703/. ; making a total
value of 3,324,021/. These returns also show a decrease
of 213,497 ounces of gold coin, as compared with the
exportation of the previous year ; ,an increase in the ex-
portation of silver coin of 3,313,693 ounces ; an increase
of 18,954 ounces of gold bars, and a decrease in the ex-
portation of silver bars of 153,726 ounces, as compared
with the same period ; being a total decrease in the value
of gold of 758,2914, and an increase in the value of silver
of 804,991/. The decrease in the exportation of gold coin
to Lisbon is 103,543, and to Calais, where in 1834 about
22,000 ounces were exported, none has been forwarded this
year. There has, however, been an increase in the ex-
portation of silver coin to Calais of 5,649,256, and a de-
crease in the same to Lisbon of 193,162. The following
are the details :

" Gold coin to Lisbon ...
Van Diemen's Land
Ceylon ...
East Indies... ...
Rio Janeiro... ...
Mauritius ...
Cape of Good Hope
Oporto ... ..•
British West Indies
Gibraltar
Canada ...
Hamburgh

36,060
6,312
4,513
3,733
2,250
1,368
1,269
1,169
512
342
215

57,764

Value about ... ...
" Silver coin to Calais ...
Lisbon ...
Canton
Van Diemen's Land
Malta ...
Corfu ...
British West Indies
Cadiz ...
Hamburgh
East Indies... ...
Madeira ...
Gibraltar ...
Sierra Leone ...
Belgium ...
China
St. Petersburgh
Para ...

... 224,959
9,510,447
678,382 -
332,207
186,473
183,000
67,000
43,472
41,600
38,472
31,600
33,105
27,000
20,000
17,574
17,227
15,000
12,000
6,000
6,000
4,246
4,132
2,256
2,165
868
738 •
605

Newfoundland
Zante
Oporto ...
Ceylon ...
Mauritius ...
Pernambuco
Rotterdam ...
Singapore ...
Puerto Cabello

11,211,576

Value about ..
64 Gold bars to Lisbon ~
New York .

. .
... ... 2,802,894
20,329
6,500

26,829

Value about ... ...
" Silver bars to Lisbln 672,632
Calais . 61,405
Van Diemen's Land 32,727

104,465

766,814

Value about

.. 191,703

Total ...

L. 3,324,02

ACCIDENT FROM FIRE ARMS.—Yesterday morn-
ing Mr. Henry Ridout, of Victoria-villa, near Watford;
in company with several gentlemen, was out for the day in
the neighbourhood of Edgcwarc and its vicinity pheatant
shooting. Mr. Ridout in attempting to pass through a
gap in the hedge, had to ascend a high bank, having his
fowling-piece in his hand, which was loaded ; the trigger
caught against a small twig, and at the moment Mr. Ri-
dout's foot slipped in attempting to mount the top of the
bank, when, unhappily, part of the contents of the gun en-
tered his side ; he was conveyed home with all possible dis-
patch, and the greater part of the small shots were ex-
tracted. Considerable hope is, therefore entertained of his
recovery.
ScoTur MEMBERS.—WC have too many in-
capables—too many pledge-breakers—too many waiters
upon Allah and the Prophet. It is, however, satisfactory
to know that they are known, and being known, is as much
as to say they are doomed men, Mr. Andrew Johnstone
sits for his last Parliament. Sir George Sinclair may bid
farewell to the Caithness electors as soon as he may. Co-
lonel Torrens and Mr. Traill will now relieve those Hon.
Gentlemen from their Parliamentary labours, and send
them back to the obscurity of that privacy beyond which,
for their own credit, they ought never to have ventured.—

Caledonian Mercuu.
CHARGE or MURDER.—Au inquest has recently
been taken at Chipping Campden, in this county, before J.
Cooke, Esq., Coroner, which has terminated in the com-
mittal of a party upon the charge of murder. On the I lth
instant, a man, named Thomas Tarver, an inhabitant of
Chipping Campdcn, died after a very brief illness, and ru-
mour of foul play having been circulated, an inquest was
summoned, and the Jury met on the 15th instant, when
nothing of a decided nature was brought forward, but in
order to obtain a more satisfactory analysis of the contents
of the deceased's stomach, who was supposed to have died
of poison, the inquest was adjourned at the special request
of the Jury, till the 21st instant. On the latter occasion,
satisfactory professional evidence was adduced of the pre-
sence of arsenic in the stomach of tne deceased, and as it

was proved, on the testimony of several witnesses, that
Harriet Tarver, wife of the deceased, had recently pur-
chased two separate parcels of that deadly poison, although-
no adequate reason could bo assigned for her entertaining
the diabolical purpose of destroying her husband, yet, as
some suspicious circumstances were adduced, the Jury, after
a long deliberation, returned a verdict of " Wilful Mur-
der" against the wife, who has thereupon been fully com-
mitted for trial.—Gloucester Herald. _ _

WILD GEESE.—During the past week, immense
flocks of wild geese were observed to be passing southward,
several of which alighted, " to rest their wearied pinions,"
on the silvery surface of the Derwent Lake. On the 21st
instant, a. very fine specimen of what is called the Bean
Goose, was shot at a place known by the name of Nichol's
Landing, near the foot of the Derwent Lake, weighing
61bs. These 'birds are reported-to breed in great numbers
in the Isle of Lewis, and no doubt on others of the Hebrides,
and also at Hudson's Bay.—Whilehaven Herald.
GOOD SPORT.—Mr. Fraser, of Lovat, with a

party of guns, last week killed on the. lands of Struy,
six
sixteen roe-deer. This is the greatest number known to
have been killed in one day in this country. Fifteen were
killed many years ago, in the woods about Rothiemurchus,
but it was by a party of twelve guns.—lnverness Paprer•.
Lochfine has been visited by a
.most extraordinary
shoal of herrings. They have made their appearanze, in
some of the bays, in such prodigious quantiti.-es, that the
usual method of herring fishing has been
Two boats have already cleared about two ''..undrffl pellad,.
From twenty to twenty-five maze 69.;) tmaze) have
(c-le.parted from.
occasionally been taken by en.-'' ', at'
~
a superior quality.—
.....mfoLutti
.I'il Jdvertiser
, 1 'lhe herrings are of

BRIGHTON.-WEDNESDAY.

His Majesty and the Duchess c Olettceger took a
carrino.mr„,; to Shoreham this morning.
Their majesties took a carriage-airing to Shoreham in
the aftertiOoli:
The PrittedikLida; itcCoinpatifed tyMit", Wynyard,
also took a carriage-alfltiff:
Prince George, accompanied by hig tiftie6i)icrri the Rev.
R; Wood, _ both rode and walked out this day.
L d The ildifikrion 444 p carriage-airing this morning, ac-
companied by Lay
Lord Amelius Beauclerk arrived at tied this day.
Lord Falkland took his departure for London.
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Daly, the Marquis and Marchio-
ness of Ely, Colonel and Lady G. Cathcart, the Marchio-
ness and Ladies Cornwallis, and Admiral Lord A. Beau-
clerk had the honour of dining with their Majesties this day.
CALLS.—The Duke of Norfolk, the Earl and Countess
of Surrey, Lord Fitzallen, Lord E. Howard, Admiral Lord
Amelius Beauclerk, Marquil3 of Bristol, Lady George
Hervey, Lieutenant-General Sir J. Smith, &c.
The Dean of Hereford took his departure yesterday.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was
expected to remain about a fortnight, on a visit to his
Illustrious relative the Duke of Cambridge.
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort is still at Bad-
minton.
The Duke of Portland leads quite a retired life,
undisturbed by the political contentions of the day.
The Duke of Devonshire is still in town, passing
his time between the Burlington Villa and Devonshire
House. _ _ _ . _ _ _ _

Lord Erskine, speaking of animals, hesitating to
call them brutes, hit upon that happy phrase, " the mute

creation."

The break up of the frost has driven a strong field
of the Meltonians to resume their sports in Leicestershire.
Preparations are making at Ashburnham House for
the return of the Russian Ambassador from Brighton on
Monday next. The statement of the approaching return of
M. Poggenpohl, his Excellency's late private secretary, from
the Continent is incorrect, he not being expected.
Marlborough House, the late town residence of the
King of the Belgians, will be given up in a few days to the
Office of Woods and Forests. The mansion was under
lease from the Crown to the Duke of Marlborough, and
was granted by Parliament, on sthe motion of Viscount
Althorp (then Chancellor of the Exchequer), in 1830, as a
residence for her Majesty for her life, in case she should
survive his Majesty.

LORD MULGRAVE.—A requisition has been ad-
dressed to the High Sheriff for the county of Waterford to
convene a Meeting of the Nobility, Magistrates, Gentry,
and Freeholders of that County, to consider the propriety
of moving an Address to his Excellency the Earl of Mul-
grave, congratulating him on the general tranquillity of
Ireland. The requisition bears the signatures of the Lieu-
tenant, and Vice-Lieutenant of the county, of the Duke of
Devonshire, and Lords Carew and Ebrington, of five Mem-
bers of Parliament, of the Roman Catholic Bishop, of seven
Deputy Lieutenants, of eighteen Justices of the Peace, and
in short, of the whole body of the gentry in the County of
Waterford. Mr. Barron has convened the meeting for
Tuesday next.
MONTS DE PIETE.—The Dublin Register is en-
deavouring to interest the public in the institution of Monts
de Piete, or Charitable Banks, for the accommodation of
the poor who have occasion to raise small sums on deposits
of goods. We find the project of which Mr. Barrington is
the originator, espoused by Mr. O'Connell, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Bishop of Limerick, and a long list of
names belonging to the opposite classes of politicians.
WOBURN ABBEY.—Great gaiety has prevailed
here during the holidays ; but the Duke of Bedford being
in delicate health, has not mingled often in the festive
scene. The mornings have been occupied with the sports
of the field, and the evenings with cards, music, and danc-
ing. Private theatricals, under the superintendence of the
Duchess, are also understood to be in contemplation.
Among the visitants are the Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn, Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, from
their seat, Oakley-house ; and Lady John Russell and the
younc, Lord Ribblesdale, her Ladyship's son. Viscounts
Melbourne and Palmerston, were of the party on Tuesday.
A separation between a sporting Baronet (who has
a very large rent-roll) and his lady is on the lapis. Dif-
ferent tastes and temper make the differences. They have
a very large family. It is to be regretted that these sepa-
rations are becoming so frequent.
The Burlington estate, in Piccadilly, it is said,
has been offered for sale at a price rather under 300,0001.
Miss Johnson, one of Sir Joshua's nieces (after-
-wards Miss Deane), was dining one day at her uncle's with
Dr. Johnson and a large party ; the conversation happen-
ing to turn on music, Johnson spoke very contemptuously
of that art, and added, "that no man of talent, or whose
mind was capable of better things, ever would or could de-
vote his time and attention to so idle and frivolous a pur-
suit." The young lady, who was very fond of music,
whispered her next neighbour—" I wonder what Dr. John-
son thinks of Kin.. David." Johnson overheard her, and
with great good humour and complacency said, " Madam,
I thank you ; I stand rebuked before you, and promise
that, on one subject at least, you shall never hear me talk
nonsense again."—Johnsoniana.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.—The Attor-
ney-General, feeling the great importance of the Quarter-
Session Court in controuling effectually local disturbances,
and the facility afforded thereby in bringing the guilty to
punishment, has appointed a local solicitor for each county
in Ireland, to conduct all prosecutions at Quarter Sessions,
where, in future, every case cognizable thereat will be tried ;
by which means the poor man will be enabled to have his
grievances attended to without expense, and prevent a
failure of justice which has frequently occurred from the
inability of the injured to employ professional aid. This
principle has been fully manifested in this county (West-
meath) to our own knowledge, especially at the last October
Sessions, and we understand that, at the instance and sug-
gestion of Captain Drought, Chief Magistrate, and H. W.
Thomson, Esq., Sub-Inspector of Police, the Attorney-
General, under the authority of the Lord Lieutenant, has
appointed Mr. Patrick Egan, of Moate, to the above
important office.—Athlone Paper.
Earl Grey has for several days been entertaining at
Howick-hall, Prince Adam Czartoryski, Count Zamoyeski,
and Lord Dudley Coats Stuart. These distinguished per-
sons have been everywhere during their recent tour in Scot-
land received with respect. The great festival at Edin-
burgh, where the freedom of the city was conferred on
them, will, we have no doubt, make a deep impression on
the illustrious exiles, and on the Polish nation. On their
excursion through Scotland they visited the following noble-
men and gentlemen, many of them their acquaintances of
former times—viz., his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, at
Hamilton Palace ; Marquis of Breadalbane, at Taymouth
Castle ; Earl of Dunmore, Dunnriore-park ; Earl of Mans-
field, Scone ; Earl of Wcmyss, Gosford ; Robert Ferguson,
Esq., M.P., at Beil, in East Lothian. At a grand battue,
while they were at Beil, upwards of 300 bead of game
were killed. From Beil they visited the Earl of Hadding.
ton, at Tyningbam, and Lord Polwarth at Mertoun-house ;
at all which places the greatest hospitality and attention
were shown them. They are now on their return to

London.
SINGULAR CUR toslTY.—Our townsman, Mr.
Cohn M'Beath, gardener, Sauchie House Orchard, has at
present a nest of young canaries, five in number. Every
egg in the nest was hatched ; and what adds to the singu-
larity is, that this is the sixth nest from the same pair of
birds this season. The room in which the birds are kept
is by no means a warm one ; and, from present appear-
ances, there may soon be another nest, as the old birds
show no signs of moulting,—Stirling Journal.
It maybe remembered, that by the new Insolvent
Act an additional Commissioner was appointed, and three
out of the four Commissioners now make three circuits
every year to the different assize and other towns, where
prisoners require to be discharged. It has just been cal-
culated that each of these circuits comprises a distance of
800 miles, so that each Commissioner has to travel 2,400
miles every year.
A recent letter from Rome says, " There has been
most violent rain in the Campagna of Rome. The rivers
have overflowed. The torrents have carried down
houses, cattle, furniture, &e. &c. Above 120 persons
have perished.
The defalcation of the late Receiver of the poor-
rates of St. Paul, Covent-garden, appears to be more se-
rious than was at first contemplated. 1,5001. has already
been ascertained, and it is feared it will amount to at least
1,600/.
The Courrier Francais publishes an article, dated
Genoa, the 17th instant, which states that the Marie
Terese, a brig and a cutter, had sailed from that port,
destination unknown, but supposed to be for the island of

Sardinia,
WEYMOUTII, DEC. 28.—The late severe weather
drew forth an immense number of the visitors and inhabi-
tants on Christmas Day, to witness the skaiting on Lod-
moor, the whole of which was frozen over, nearly a mile in
length ; but now the frost is completely broken up, and our
esplanade is again frequented by the ladies.
At Ulm a Company has been formed to con3truct a
railroad from that city to Karnstadt, by Esslingen.--Ger-
in in Paper.
Tiege, the oldest of the living German poets, cele-
brated his 84th birthday at Dresden on the 13th. inst.—
German Paper.
THE UNsTAMPED NEWSPAPERS.—(From a Cor-
respondent,)—The recent proceedings adopted by the Go-