The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

lIKESCUZZAICZIO CI ib .

Captain G. Smith has submitted to the Admiralty the
plan of a boat adapted to screw-propelled steamers, and
the Board has directed Mr. Cowell, of Woolwich-yard,
to build one forthwith. The midship section is similar
to a paddle-box boat, but the boat is fitted to general
purposes, and her bow and stern are alike, se that
in embarking troops, or her crew, from a beach, she
may at once shove off without winding, and thus more
quickly get out of a musket fire. Captain Smith has
also greatly simplified the mode by which his paddle-
box boats are put into and taken out of the water, the
double-jointed davit being got rid of.
Thaluerg, accompanied by Miss Dolby, Miss E. Birch,
Mr. Calkin, jun., and Mr. John Parry, will commence
an extensive tour, on the 20th of January, at Edinburgh.
After visiting GlaTow, Newcastle, Liverpool, &c., the
party will proceed to Belfast and Dublin; then return to
England, and give concerts at Manchester, Birmingham,
Leamington,Worcester, Cheltenham, Bath, Clifton, Ox-
ford, Brighton, &c.
The latest news from Ichaboe is to the effect that
more vessels were lying IA anchor there than could pos-
sibly pick up a freight, even if a former liberal calculation
of the gross amount of the penguin and seal relics were
found correct; but it appears that a rock has been disco-
vered under the remaining part of the zoological deposit
which will materially reduce the estimate of the quantity.
Here then'we have positive news of the beginning of the end.
A grand performance of sacred music will take place
next week at Manchester, under the direction of Sir
George Smart. The principal singers engaged are Miss
Rainforth and Miss M. B. Hawes, Mr. J. Bennett, and
Mr. Machin, supported by a very numerous band and
chorus.

On Tuesday morning last the Rev. Dr. Cranmer was
instituted, inducted, and installed as Dean of Carlisle,
with all the ceremonial usual on such occasions. Mr.
Prebendary Harcourt was the officiating canon.
At the Christmas general meeting of the Royal So-
ciety of Musicians, the sum of 551. was voted to be dis-
tributed among distressed persons connected with the
musical profession having no claim on the funds of the
society.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. HODSON, OF THE
BOWER SALOON.—Yesterday Mr. Carter held an inquest
at the Bower Saloon, Lambeth, on the body of Mrs.
Catherine Mary Hodson, landlady of the above house,
whose death was awfully sudden. Miss Eleanor Hodson,
a daughter of deceased, said that, on Christmas day
last, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, she
went into the deceased's bedroom and found her mother
apparently asleep. A short time previously witness had
assisted to get the deceased into bed, in consequence of
her being too ill to get in herself. She then complained
of being very nervous, and shook as if she was cold.
Mr. Berrell, a surgeon, had seen her that morning, and
had sent her some medicine. A little after three o'clock,
on witness going again to see how deceased was, she
found her dead. She went out with her husband the
previous evening, to Mr. Farebrother's printing-office, in
Bow-street, to arrange about the play-bilis for the fol-
lowiug week, and on her return home she complained of
sickness and feeling unwell. After hearing medical evi-
dence, the jury returned a verdict of " Natural death,
arising from a rupture of the brain."
BATAVIA, AUG. 23.—0 n the 31st of July, in the
afternoon, a fire broke out in the house of a native in the
chief town of the Regency of Ngrowa, which in a short
time reduced 98 bamboo houses to ashes. The Euro-
pean houses, the residence of the Regent, and the Go-
vernment ma'azines, which were in the immediate
Aeighbourhooe, were saved.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 27.—We have received the
Java papers from the 17th to the 28th of August. In
those of the 27th there is a very detailed account of the
funeral of the late Governor-General, Mercus, which
took place on the 15th of August, at Soerabaya.
STOCKHOLM, DEC. 17.—0 n Friday there was a
eonference of the Members of the Estates, for the discus-
sion of financial questions. The number of Members
present was very great, and the discussion animated. The
senator Wurn communicated the English Act of Parlia-
ment relative to the division of the business of the Bank
DI England.
TIE GAME-LAWS.—Yesterday, at the Uxbridge
ketty Sessions, Charles Boddy, a young labouring man,
at Ruislip, appeared before Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart.,
and Messrs. T. Dagnall, W. 11. Cox, and T. T. Clarke,
the sitting; Magistrates, on summons under the game-
laws, for using on the 24th instant, at Ruislip, a snare
for the purpose of taking game, he not having a game
certificate. It appearing that the defendant had been
twice before convicted of poaching. the Bench said, that
being his third appearance before them, they felt it to be
their duty to fine him in the full penalty of 51., and in
default to commit hits to hard labour in the House of
Correction for two months. The defendant was com-
mitted.

The Marquis of Londonderry is about to under-
take, at great expense, the enlargement of his port at
Scalia: It-harbour, by the construction of a new dock of
twelve acres, in extension of the present south dock, the
increased traffic in the coal trade at Seaham-harbour re-
addWonal accommodation. The formation of
beaham-harbour is one of the noblest private enterprises
that was ever undertaken by a single individual in this
country, and we trust Lord Londonderry and his descen-
dants will for generations derive all the advantages that
can be expected to result from this noble and magnifi-
cent undertaking.
• POSTAL TREATY WITH EGTrr.—We understand
that the much-desired postal treaty between England
It'd Egypt, with reference to the correspondence to and
"tn our eastern possessions, was on the point of con-
--"an the last advices left Alexandria.
elusion %N.- `^h_ took place on Tuesday last be-
A trotting mat— -------horse and Mr. J. Beam's
tween Mr. Speakman's be) . "-* on the Braintree
celebrated chesnut cob, three mug.. ''^• cob took
14°64, for two sovereigns a side. At starting
the lead, but was unable to maintain the pace, which w,>
;very fast, and the horse WOR the match by about fifteen
"'Whs.—Essex Herald.