The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, from Apsley
House, for Woodford House, near Kettering, Northamp-
tonshire; Major Everard, for Brighton ; Thomas Glad-
stone, Esq., for Sussex-square, Brighton; Lieut.-General
SirW. Peacock, for St. Leonard's-on-Sea; the Hon. Lady
Capel, from Grosvenor street, for Brighton; T. Erskine,
Esq., and Mrs. Stirling, from the St. George's Hotel,
Albemarle-street, for Pal is; Captain and Mrs. Stevenson,
from ditto, for their seat in Kent ; Major and Mrs.
Graham, from Cumberland, for Brighton; Lieut.-Colonel
Snell, for Eastbourne, Sussex; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs.
Wallis Grieve, for Lord Northwick's, Thirlestone
House, near Cheltenhuna; the Dowager Lady Kilnaaine
and Miss Louisa Disbrowe, from Chester-street, Bel-
grave-square, for Hartlebury Castle.
CHANGES.

The Hon. L. A. Grant, Royal Horse Guards Blue, at
the Earl of &afield's, Castle Grant, N. 8., from the
south; Sir 11. D. Goring, Bart., at Highden, Sussex,
from Brighton; Lieut.-General Sir R. Arbuthnot, from
Morrison's Hotel, Dublin, on a tour; Earl Spencer, from
a visit to the Earl of Leicester, at Holkham hall; Sir
Augustus and Lady Foster and Mr. Vere Foster, at St.
Leonard's-on-Sea, from a tour; Mr. and Lady Jane
Lawrence Peel and family, at Paris, from Dieppe; Sir
J. Kimpton and Lady James, from Cheltenham, for
Dublin; Lord Northwich, at Thurlestane House, from
Northwick Park.

FATAL ExmosioN.—A frightful accident has just
occurred at the powder manufactory of Tivoli, near the
Faubourg of Bourges, a place in which cartridges and
other articles for the use of the army are made. On
Friday last, about three o'clock, while the workmen were
engaged at work, a terrible explosion threw the neigh-
bourhood into consternation. The labourers were en-
gaged in prosecuting their work, but the powder being
in a very dry state, and exposed to the heat of the sun,
became ignited, and a dreadful explosion followed. A
child of 12 years old, belonging to a man named Ducot,
a quartermaster, was thrown to a great height, and was
literally in flames. The mutilated head was afterwards
found separated from its body ; the remainder of the
corpse was a complete wreck, and scattered here and
there. A gunner also received a severe wound. The
chief artificer was injured slightly in the leg, and one
of the children of M. Affre, quartermaster, had its arm
fractured, besides sustaining other injuries of a less seri-
ous nature.

FIRST IMPORTATION OF DUTCH SHEEP.—Yester-
day forenoon the steam-packet Batavier arrived at the
St. Katharine's Steam-packet Wharf, from Rotterdam,
after having experienced very tempestuous weather,
having on board a considerable number of cabin passen-
gers, and an extensive cargo, chiefly consisting of live
agricultural stock. She shipped several heavy seas,
which, with the heaving of the vessel, occasioned the
death of no fewer than twelve oxen out of sixty-two, the
number shipped at Rotterdam. The Batavier also
brought sixty prime sheep, being the first importation
of the Dutch fleecy flock. She also brought a large
quantity of live poultry, geese, &c. The passengers
reaped the advantages of the new Custom-house regula-
tion, relative to the examination of their luggage. Addi-
tional landing waiters and weighers having been in
attendance on the arrival of the Batavier, the passengers'
luggage was all examined, &c., in little more than one-
third of the time usually taken.
PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—Yesterday a match for 51.
came off in the Park-road, Clapham, which drew together
a good sprinkle of spectators. The feat was to pick 100
stones from the ground, each being placed a yard apart ;
the match was undertaken by Collis, who went at his
task, commencing at the far end (the stipulations were,
not to fetch more than one stone at a time, and to deposit
it in a basket at one end, the whole to be completed in
fifty minutes.) He worked hard for forty • four minutes,
when he accomplished the match, and winning by six
minutes. The distance actually run over was five miles,
five furlongs, and 200 yards.
BREWERS, VICTUALLERS, AND BERRSIIOP-KEEP-
F.RS.—It appears from a Parliamentary document, that
on the 10th of October last there were 2,644 brewers in.
the United Kingdom, of which number 2,318 were in
England, 188 in Scotland, and 138 in Ireland. There
were at the same period 86,073 victuallers in the United
Kingdom, of whom 57,698 resided in England, 15,499
in Scotland, and 12,926 in Ireland. In England there
were 31,227 persons licensed to sell beer to be drunk on
the premises, and 4,252 persons licensed to sell beer not
to be consumed on the premises ; there were 27,009
victuallers who brewed their own beer, and nearly 14,000
beershop-keepers who also brewed their beer.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN WiteAT.—For the time
of year—arising chiefly from the comparative sluggish-
ness in the demand for wheat here, and the low prices at
which that article has been disposed of—the imports
of
foreign wheat have not proved large, though they
how-
the
yhave
quite equalled our necessities. Of Canadian
ever—front the premium offered to its importation
by the
new Flour Bill—the receipts have been large beyond all
precedent, and no doubt will continue so, while the pre-
sent legislative enactment continues in force. Our ad-
vices from Quebec and Montreal inform us that not less
370,000 bsrrels of flour has been exported this season,
ag,ainst about 180,000 at the same time last year.--
Farmers' Magazine.