The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may rewl."

By a recent Order in Council, all the stills in New South
Wales have•been suppressed, in consequence of the demora-
lising effects produeed by ardent spirits on the population of
that colony. Government have in all instances awarded
compensation.

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`the...Royal Santiago Mining Company held their half-
yearly general meeting on Wednesday, at the offices in Old
Broad-street, Mr. J. Robertson in he chair. The Report
announced that the quantity of copper ore received from the
mines during the past half-year had been 5,700 tons, pro-
ducing 49,656/. The total expenditure during the same
period had been 37,8291., leaving an available profit in hand
of 12,2231.

From the general election in July; 1841, to the month of
February,-1844; there have been 69 changes in the repre-
sentation
.g.t. more than one-tenth of the number of members
of the 1i4i4045f =Of these, -23 have been unseated
onyetition,'lshave died, and 26 have retired. •

In consequence of a great number of convicts having been
shipped off from her Majesty's Dock-yards, Woolwich, Chat-
ham, Portsmouth, &c., within these few days, the Lords of
the Admiralty have issued orders for a large number of la-
bourers to be entered to do the work required ; but none are
adniitted who cannot pass the test as to their strength.
Lancashire has become the most populous county in The
kingdom, and Middlesex, which a short time since stood at
the head in point of numbers, is now only rated third.
The earnings of the several rail Ways in Great Britain, for
the last year, are calculated at 4,627,056/. The receipts for
the London and Birmingham line were the hlghest, amount-
ing to not less than 826,5094 jlis Great Western stands
next, the receipts being 701,3631. '

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LLOYD'S SIIIPPING.—(T HIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB I.—Wind N.W.
DEAL,: JAN 31.—Wind W.N.W., strong and
squally. P.N. W.N.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Robert
Small, Slight, Calcutta ; Antigua packet, M‘Knight,
Ceylon ; Isabella Anna, Faircleugh, Sierra Leone ;
MargareliPridham, Demerara; Clara and Emma, Hud-
W.N.W. to:N.W.; A. 1,1., this
with heavy snow squalls;
*son, West Midies ; Mogadore. During last
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PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Wind, N.W., squally.—
Arrd. Harbinger, Grangemouth for New York. Off,
Nayaden, Charleston, for Hamburgh.
SWANSEA, JAN:3o.—Arrd. Encarnacion, Audicochea ;
Alderman Thompson, Darling, and Chieftain, Cuba.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 31.—1 t has blown a violent gale
from N.W. during the night and continues ; the shipping
ride well.
BUDE, JAN. 31.—Some long deck-planks, painted
white under, and with composition or copper nails, sup-
posed from a steamer or a 'packet, apparently very fresh,
have been washed ashore here.
RYE,
JAN. 31.—The Lamburn, of Hastings, in running
for this harbour, struck on a sunk bank, capsized, and it
is expected will become a wreck.
OFF BROADSTAIRS, JAN. 30. Elizabeth, of South
Shields, America for London.
WHITEHAVEN, JAN. 29.—. Arid. Sirius, Ravenglass
for Cardiff, with loss of bulwarks, &c., ,having been in
contact with the Lark, of Milford, 24th inst., off Wick-
low-head.
a gale.--Arrd
KaLtei,TESictoPt°t°,l"PatNib.a3l(2.-9tWh ind, N;
.CWrearnore, Shapley,
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Adria, Davis, New Orleans ; Rob Roy,
Arnold, Mobile ; S ha kspeare, Henderson, Charleston ;
Jefferson, Mason, Virginia.
KINGSTOUN, JAN. 30.—Arrd. Demerara,Demerara.
CORK, JAN. 29.—Arrd. John Dugdale, Singapore.
HARTLEPOOL, JAN. 31.—The Two Brothers, Trotter,
of Newcastle, ran on the rocks off the Heugh, yester-
day, but was got off, and in here, in a sinking state.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 31.—The Margaret, of Sunderland,
was abandoned yesterday, offßlythe, crew saved.—Mem.
The Margaret has since been towed into Harwich, with
loss of bowsprit, &c., and only one man on board, having
been fallen in with off the Humber.

SAVINGS BANKS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sirt—l quite agree with " A Manager" respecting the
cause of the increase in the deposits hi the Savings' Banks;
He says " That the increase in the amount of deposits is no
criterion, the description of the depositors can only be fairly
looked at." I shall be sorry if the interest be lowered, as it
is said that it is likely to be, when the Parliament meets, to
" make Acts to amend Acts," &c. &c. lam convinced that
many persons have money in the Savings" Banks, who ought
not to have. Much of the amounts now in the Banks are not
Savings, but Legacies, and as the 'writer justly states, " the
money is vested in trustees for So-and-so." or one I hope
that the interest will not be lowered, but that a more strict
investigation shoUld be made by the- Managers of Savings,
and not, as they are now, Legacy Banks.--I remain, respect-
fully. 'NOT A MANAGER.

uddersfield, 1844,

STATISTICS OF RAILWAYS.-rZir. Earle. Langston,
broker, of Manchester, in an annual statement of calls and
traffic on the
principal railways in Great Britain, makes it to
appear that the total of calls in 184.3 was 1,456,567/. against
2,722,5951. in 1842, 4,036,741/. in 1841, and 7,491,390/. in
1840; the total of traffic in
1843, 4,627,056/. against
4,320,442/. in 1842, 3,714,515/. in 1841, and 2,481,303/. in
1840; the calls made in the course of the four years amount-
ing, collectively, to 15,707,3904 and the traffic to 15,143,316/.
The earnings of the several lines of which returns are fur-
nished, for the last year, and which comprise the above
amount of 4,627,0564 are thus specified :
Birmingham & Derb. £66,221 London and Croydon £15,572
Birmingham & Glou. 93,454 London and Greenw. 40,969
Birkenhead and Ches. 23,440 London and South W. 315,542
Eastern Counties.,.,., 115,713 Man., Bolton, & Bury 34,352
Edinburgh and las. 111,038 Manchester and Bir. 144,557
Grand Junction ..... 392,872 Manchester & Leeds 241,794
Glasg., Paisley, & Ayr 62,607 Midland Counties 133,777
Glasgow andGreenock 44,871 Newcastle & Carlisle 72,311
Great We5tern...,,,,.. 701,363 North Midland
Great North of Engl. 71,257 North Union
Hull and Selby
Liverpool and Manch 2l9,733JPreston and Wyre ... 13,631.
Londonand Birrningh B26,so9lSheffield and Manch. 23,125
London and Brighton 189,130,50uth Eastern 143,204
London and Blackw. 42,2691Y0rk and Northllidl 86,096
A serious accident happened on Sunday morning
at the Paris station of the Orleans Railroad. The train with'
merchandise, having attached to it a waggon for passengers,
which left Orleans on Saturday night, on arriving at about
nine o'clock at the terminus, got off the rails as it was en-
tering the station. The waggon, which contained seven
passengers, was overturned, and. wo of them were almost
instantaneously killed by the shock.
DEATH OF AN OLD BOW-STREET OFFICER.---Yes-
terday morning (Wednesday) Mr. Francis Goodson, office.
keeper at the Folic. court, Bow-street, expired at his resi-
dence attached to the court. His rapid decline was occa-
sioned by asthma, which closed his career, after a month's
confinement to his bed. He had been 21 years in the ser-
vice of Government, attached to Bow-street, and 15 years
court-keeper. He was the companion of Ruthven, Ballard,
John James Smith, and the rest of the old Bow-street officers,
who now enjoy their pensions, after hard service; and who,
mere shadows of their former selves, often visit the spot of
their former active associations.
BOULOGNE AND CALAIS.—The number of persons
who passed too and from France via Boulogne, in the week
ending January 25, was 624,
and via Calais 234. The num-
hers in the.corresponding week of last year were—Boulogne
4091 Calais 180.

FOREIGN.
Tha French mail had not arrived when the, paper went to
press.

LAW .62173 POLICE.
In. the Court of Common Pleas the rule nisi, in the case of
Lord William Paget v. the Earl of Cardigan, for entering up
• judgment as in the case of a nonsuit, was discharged, On
the terms of a peremptory undertaking to proceed to trial.
The-witness Winter still keeps out of the way.
Patrick Leigh Strachan, convicted at the Old Bailey during
the session before last, was sentenced by the Court of
Queen's Bench, to be inprisoned in Clerkenwell gaol for
eighteen months, and kept to hard labour.
Eli Froud, a bricklayer, living in St. James-street, Cam-
berwell-new-road, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, at
Union-hall, charged with conunitting a desperate assault on
his wife Mary, who is confined in Guy's Hospital, owing to
the serious injuries inflicted on her with a poker. A police-
man pioduced a poker broken in two, with which the in-
juries were inflicted, and said that he found it lying on the
floor of the room in which the outrage was committed; he
also produced a medical certificate from the hospital, to the
effect that the woman who was assaulted was considered in
a very precarious condition, and that, being enciente, a pre-
mature labour was momentarily expected to take place. The
prisoner, who said nothing in answer to the charge, was re-
manded.
William Matthews and David Orridge, the conductor and
driver of Kerrison's. Clapton omnibus, No. 4,930, were
charged before Mr. Broughton with insulting conduct to Dr.
Eliot, a surgeon, residing on Finsbury Pavement.- Mr.
Broughton sentenced Matthews, as the least culpable of the
two, to pay 9s. fine and costs ; and Orrßge to pay a fine of
20s. and-the costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment' in' the
House of Correction.
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At the Thames Police Court, Captain Thomas Dunnett, the
master of the brig Sarah Charlotte, appeared before Mr.
Broderip, on a chargof abandoning three seamen, named
Edmund Wilkinson, Hiram Gibbs, and James Cline, in a fo-
reign port, without the sanction of the British Consul. The
Magistrate said there was a prima
.facie case made out on the
part of the Crown, and the defendant had been guilty of a
technical violation of the law ; but there was nothing affect-
ing his moral character, nor had he acted with any inhu-
manity-. He ordered him to find bail, himself in GOL, and one
surety in 60L, to meet the charge at the sessions.
c0cE1.77-i.PAsuioar.a.nx.E.

The Duke of Cambridge, while shooting in Colonel Wynd-
ham's breserves, on Saturday, stumbled against the stump
of a tree, and had rather a severe fall. His Royal Highness
returned to Petworth House immediately, but was able to
dine with the company, the only inconvenience resulting
from the accident being a stiffness of the shoulder.
The Earl of Aberdeen entertained the Count de St. Au-
laire, Baron E. Langsdorff, Sir Robert Peel, Prince Castelci-
cala, Sir James Graham, Count Kielmansegge, General
Sancho, M. Van de Weyer, Count de Tarnac, Baron de
Cetto, Viscount Canning, the Marquis de Lisboa, and a dis-
tinguished party, at dinner, on Tuesday evening, at Argyll
House.

The Speaker of the House of Commons is expected to com-
mence his-u Parliamentary dinners the third Saturday in this
indnth. The Right Ron. Gentleman came to town f,rom his
seat in Hants on Tuesday.
ThelDult6---of Montrose and Lord Ernest Bruce came to
town on Wednesday for the meeting of Parliament.
The Marquis of Salisbury, who has been visiting Mr. and
Lady Eleanor Balfour at Whittinghame House, near Dunbar,
has arrived in Arlington-Street from the north.
Lord and Lady Stanley have issued cards for a grand
dinner party on Saturday next, to which most of the Foreign
Ministers are invited.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley have ar-
rived for the season from Addington Palace, the archiepis-
copal residence, near Croydon. •
MISCELLANEOUS.
The following is a list of the game killed during the last
week by a small party on a visit to the Hon. H. Wilson, at
Didlington Park :—On the two first :days, pheasants, 279 ;
partridges, 13 ; hares, 225 ; rabbits, 216 ; woodcocks, 12 ;
snipes, teal, and other water-fowl, 29—total, 774. Three last
days, pheasants, 180; partridges, 21; hares, 17/ ; rabbits,
178 ; woodcocks, 7 ; teal and other water-fowl, 52—total, 615.
Grand total, 1,389. The hunting Ameers of Sinde could not
beat this.