The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-04 00:00:00

THE CORPORATION ADDRESSES TO

HER MAJESTY.

The Sheriffs of the city of London, accompanied
by the City Remembrancer, had the honour of wait-
ing upon her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, at half-
past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, by appoint
ment, for the purpose of receiving her Majesty's
commands relative to the presentation of the address
agreed upon by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common Council of the City, on the subject of the
recent Papal aggression. Her Majesty received the
City functionaries most graciously, and was pleased
to fix Tuesday next for the reception of the address.
A deputation from the Commissioners of the Court
of Lieutenancy had also the honour of waiting upon
her Majesty relative to the address agreed upon by
that body on the same subject, and her Majesty fixed
the same day for its presentation. The deputation
consisted of Mr. Alderman Salmons, Mr. Anderton,
Mr. Ambrose Moore, Mr. Alliston, and Mr. Henry
Smith, the treasurer.

REVENUE RETURNS.—The Commissioners of Cus-
toms having approved of an amended list of periodical re •
turns to be transmitted from the several ontports to the
Commissioners and their officers in London, copies of the
amended list have, by their direction, been transmitted to
the officers of the department at the several ports through-
out the United Kingdom for their information and future
government. This list contains the several returns which
will require to be made daily, monthly, bi-monthly, quar-
terly, half-yearly, and annually, and includes all returns
respecting the general affairs of the department at the re-
spective ports ; as also an arrangement for the complete and
regular transmission of accounts of imports and exports of
every description of merchandise to and from the United
Kingdom ; and also the general coasting trade and between
England and Ireland, and returns of British and foreign
shipping engaged therein, comprising altogether a complete
list of the periodical returns to be made of the trade of this
country.

ESCAPE OP THREE CONVICTS. WOOLWICH,
DEc. 3.—Between six and seven o'clock this morning, shortly
after they had taken their breakfast, three convicts ma-
naged to let themselves down over the side of the Warrior
convict-ship, at Woolwich dockyard, and proceeding along
the mud on the banks of the river, without being perceived
by the sentry or any of the guards on board the Warrior,
succeeded in seizing a boat at some distance from the ship,
belonging to a waterman named Spurling, and, crossing the
river in it, effected their escape through the North Wool-
wich marshes. The names of the convicts are John Rain,
aged 26 years, convicted at the Central Criminal Court en
the 9th of April, 1849, for housebreaking and larceny ; and
having been previously convicted, sentenced to 10 years'
transportation. Rain was a type-caster. Charles Fletcher,
aged 23 years, convicted of larceny to the value of 51., and
having been previously convicted, sentenced to 10 years'
transportation, on September 2C, 1847. William Smith, aged
23 years, convicted of felony at Salford, on February 26,
1848, and sentenced to ten years' transportation.
ST. IVES.—HEROIC AND HUMANE CONDUCT.—OH
Monday, the 18th inst., a smack belonging to Jersey came to
an anchor in St. Ives road. The day following, some of the
pilots boarded her and informed the captain that there was
every probability of a heavy gale of wind coming on,
and offered to take them into St. Ives for 45.,
or into Irayle for ss, The captain refused the offer.
The smack rode out the Tuesday night. On the
Wednesday morning, the wind veering more to the
north, it was thought by many respectable inhabitants of St.
Ives that the captain was net aware of his danger. Several
shipowners and others employed a boat and bent three long
hawsers together, leaving one end ashore, and after much
difficulty and danger they succeeded in pulling the other to-
wards the smack. Just as they had made fast the rope and
signalled to those on shore, the smack's cable parted, but she
was brought into the pier in safety. Some of the respectable
inhabitants of St. Ives, whose hearts and purses are always
ready to relieve the really distressed, subscribed 201., and
presented to the boat's crew for their gallant and. heroic
conduct. In a few minutes more the vessel would have be-
come a complete wreck, and in all probability the crew would
have met with a watery grave.—Cornwall Gazette.

FIGHT AT DRAYTON, NORFOLK.—On Monday
fight took place between two wo; king men at Drayton, and
on the same day one of them died in consequence of the in-
juries he received. The names of the parties were Robert
'Baker and Benjamin Ellis, both fine young men, resident in
St. Martin's at Oak. As usual in such cases, the fight origi-
nated in a drunken quarrel, and the stake was only I/. a side.
Each man had his seconds, and a crowd of people witnessed
the brutal conflict, which lasted some time. Ellis had the
an
'iverst•of it, and after being severelypunished,
on Tuesdayh.3 was 'cono-
veyed home, where he died the same nigh inquest was concluded, the jury having returned a verdict
manslaughter against Baker and the fOur seconds. They
have not yet been apprehended.

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