The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-02 00:00:00

MISCZMIANNIOUII.

By direction of the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, workmen have began to erect a pillar upon the
summit of the western portion of Grosvenor-gate, Hyde
Park-corner, which is intended for the reception of an
illuminated clock. The clock will have two dials—viz.,
one facing Hyde-park, and the ether fronting Grosvenor-
place. A further improvement is in contemplation, that
of removing the remainder of the brick wall which is
standing between Albert-gate and Kensington, and sub-
stituting iron palisades.
Lord Panmure, father of the Right Hon. Fox Menlo,
M.P., has signified it as his desire to subscribe the muni-
ficent sum of 5001. towards the triumphal arch proposed
to be erected at Dundee, to commemorate the visit of her
Majesty and her illustrious Consort. The loyal inha-
bitants of that prosperous town have agreed upon an
arch, as was the case with the Perth people, when the
Queen visited that ancient city in 1842.
On Saturday, Mr. Samuel Gray was, on application to
the queen's Bench Chamber of Dublin, admitted to bail

—the Crown offering no opposition—on finding bail,
himself in 1,0001., and two sureties of 2001. each.

Upwards of one hundred tons of hay and straw hare
been shipped from Limerick to Liverpool in the course of
last week.

The projected railway from Derry to Coleraine in-
volves the reclamation from the Sf a of waste land, whose
estimated value is 800,0001., which will be double the
estimated expense.

So great is the demand for Irish railway shares, that
tea thousand more than could be given were solicited for
the Belfast and Ballimena line.

Monday, according to annual custom, meetings took
pace in the various parishes in the metropolis for the
purpose of nominating persons to fill the office of over-
seers for the year, passing the churchwardens' accounts,
and on other parochial business. In St. George the
Martyr, Southwark, a long discussion took place.
The Bishop of Winchester held his annual ♦isitation,
at the Cathedral, on Friday morning. A numerous
body of the clergy were present. After the customary
sermon a very lengthened charge to the clergy of the
diocese was delivered by the Hey. Chancellor Desltiey.
The Government contract for Irish provisions hes
been taken principally by Limerick houses ; the price is
NC per cwt. for pork, and 245. for beef.
The report of an extensive Brevet is again circulated,
but we have reason to believe on no good authority.
A new regulation respecting the admission of pupils
to Eton, and which has been long contemplated, has now
been determined upon ; a notice having just been issutd
by the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, the head master, that after
Easter next he will not admit any boy to the school who
shall have completed his fourteenth year.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—FIRE or
LONDON.—We see that the last six nights of this splendid
spectacle are announced. As it will be then taken down
to prepare for the new subject of next season, we recom-
mend all who have not seen it to pay it a visit.
RAILWAYS IN CORNWALL.— Considerable excite-
mment exists in Falmouth, and throughout the county
Of Cornwall, on the subject of the proposed railway or
railways in that district. One party supports the line
by Pl%mouth, to which, it is said, the Great Western
Railway Company Will subscribe 150,0001, while alotber
is in favour of a direct line from Exeter to Falmouth, in
connexion with the proposed extension of the South-
Western Railway. We hope that between the two the
county will not suffer.—Railway Record.
CITY OP LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—
Yesterday the annual general meeting of the supporters
of the above Society, founded for providing permanent
relief for decayed artisans, mechanics, manufacturers,
tradesmen, and the widows of such persons, was held*at
the offices in Coleman-street, City. The chair . was
taken by John Pearson Hayward, Esq. From the re-
port of the Board of Directors, read by Mr. Richardson,
the Secretary, it appeared that since the last anniversary
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had been
added to the list of patronesses. At the date of thepre-
vious repirt the number of pensioners on the fuuds was
59, to which 12 had been added by subsequent elections,
and the present numbdr, deducting deaths, sixty. The
Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop
of London, Trustees of the Cholmondeley Charity, had
presented the Society with 50/. ; Mrs. Thwaites, 50/. ;
the Marquis of Clanricarde, 251., in addition to a previous
donation of 50/. ; the Duke of Buccleuch, 50/., his Grace
having previously given sums amounting altogether to
1501. The directors continued to receive 10/. per annum
from the Queen Dowager, and had obtained munificent
donations from several persons of distinction, including
the Marquis of Bristol, the Earls of Haddington, Cla-
rendon, and Aberdeen, the Lord Viscount Beresford, &c.
The receipts amounted to 1,8201., being 70/. more than
the previous year, and the expenditure left a balance in
favour of the Society of 269/. The officers for the en-
suing year were then elected, and the meeting separated.
THE FOREIGN MAILS.—The following notice was
issued on Monday, at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-
le-Grand, and the branch offices :—" The next mails for
Madeira, the West Indies, Mexico, Honduras, Havannah,
St. Jago de Cuba, Venezuela, &c., will be made up. on
Wednesday morning, the 2d of October (to-morrow),
and be forwarded by the Dee steamer, via Southampton.
For Brazils and Buenos Ayres on the morning of the
2d of October, by Her Majesty's brig Express, via Pal'
mouth. For Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
and for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India,
Hong-Kong, and China, on Thursday morning, the sa
of October, by the Oriental steamer, via Southampton.
By the overland closed mail to India, &c., via Marseilles,
in the evening of the 7th of October. For British North
America, Bermuda, and the United States, in the eve-
ning of the 3d of October, by the Acadia steamer, via
Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston.
BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.-011 Sunday last, a
most extraordinary occurrence took place at the station-
house, in Bow-street. About half-past eight o'clock ill;
the morning, a female, evidently in an advanced state of
pregnancy, was brought to the station-house by two
other females, who stated that, expecting she would be
taken with the pains of labour, they had brought her
there to be safe. She had lived in were-street, Clare-
market, till lately, when she had been turned out of her
lodgings, and had since resided with a friend in New-
castle-court, Strand, but, singular to state under the eiri
cumstances, had been in the streets, houseless, and •
wanderer, the whole of the previous night (Saturday>
It being evident that she was near delivery, Mr. BoswOod,
relieving officer of the Strand Union, was fetched from
the Strand Union-office, opposite, and he immediate)!
dispatched a messenger for Mr. Lovett, of Vera streets
Clare-market, one of the surgeons of the Strand Union'
who promptly came. The end of the matter was that,
soon after his arrival, the poor woman was safely de*
livered of a fine female child in the charge-room of the
station l Every assistance that could possibly be ren-
dered to her was afforded by Mr. Sandrock and his wifi.
At three o'clock in the afternoon she was removed from
the novel situation in the charge room to the Strand
Union, a covered stretcher, provided with every corn-
fort, being procured.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS AT WOOLWICFL—SOMe
time since, it was announced that gardens on the
plan of the Rosherville Gardens at Gravesend, were to
be laid out at Woolwich. The site selected appears e 0
out by nature for such a purpose. It is the hanging
wood, and the deep valley and adjacent grounds directly
south of the landing place at Charlton-pier, and is the
property of Sir Thomas Wilson. It is proposed to raj.°
15,0001. for the speculation, in shares of 5/. each.
DEATH FROM EXCITEMENT AND ATTEMPTSO
SUICIDE.—On Monday, at three o'clock, Mr. Higgs held
an inquest at the Red Lion, Princess-street, Westminster,
on the body of Samuel Cotter, aged forty-four, one of the
brokers and appraisers of the Insolvent Debtors' Court,
It appeared that deceased resided at 50, Prospect-place,
St. lieorge's-road, and for the last three months had bee°
subject to determination of blood to the head, and conse-
quent cerebral excitement, resulting, according to rumour,
from the change in the Insolvent Court effi cted by Lord
Brougham's Bill. On Wednesday morning last the
groom of Mr. Colombel, surgeon, of Canterbury-place'
Lambeth, found deceased at the back of some stables, i°
Alfred-place, Hercules-buildings, with a razor in 171
hand, and bleeding from a wound in the throat. The,
groom took the razor from him, and having called
Mr. Colombel and the police, the wound iso
dressed by the former, and by the latter the de
ceased was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital. Mr'
Priest, the house surgeon, said deceased was admitted )0
a state of insensibility, with a wound in the throat four
inches long, and a quarter of an inch in depth, dividing
the external jugular vein. After some hours he was
tacked by delirium tremens, andcontinued delirious until
Friday morning, He then rallied for a few hours, but
subsequently sank into a cornotose state, and died 00,
Saturday morning. A pest niortcm examination shove°
old and recent inflammation of the membranes of the
brain, and three ounces and a half of serum and blood
effused between the dura mater and the arachnoid men'.
brane, caused by great excitement. The effusion fo''
the immediate cause of death, but the effusion was aces,
lerated by the wound in the throat. Verdict, "Died
from Inflammation of the brain, having, whilst labouiang
under its effects, inflicted a wound in the throat."
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last Sunday night, as II
gentleman was waiting for the up-train on the Easter°
Counties Railway, which arrives at Ponder's-end, be'
tween eight and nine o'clock P.M., he fell from the plat;
form at Ponder's-end the moment the train arrived. and
would have been killed by the train, which was still on
the motion, had he not been caught by two persons, wilt
held him firmly grasped until the engine stopped. Vs,
he made the slightest motion death would have been
inevitable. When released from his perilous situation,
he was so terrified that he could scarcely speak. Ile;
attributed the accident to another gentleman having Put
his umbrella before him, as he was endeavouring
make his way towards the train as it approached. 'ft'
treatment which the public experienced by this train 01
Sunday night was the subject of general complaint. Ad
Waltham-cross it actually went under the bridge, 611
allowed the passengers, at the risk of their lives (thesr,„
:
not being many inches between them, the wall, and t"-
bridge) to get into the carriages the best way the
could, without regard to whether they paid first, seccinel
or third-class fares, many of the first being glad to Pi'
into the last ; and even this they were compelled to
,0°
by climbing over the bolted doors, there being no of
cers to attend them. Along the whole line to Lond°
the difficulty increased, and the first and second carriage,
,"
having been crammed, all were compelled to get into th_.
third-class, so that in ono of them sixty men, woraeru,
and chil
thdren, were jammed together. Upon the 9
rival of e train at Shoreditch, those who paid first els°
fares, and were in the third-class carriages, were el
pelled to remain in the open carriages until they were 00
emptied and their tickets examined. The complaints
all sides were loud and deep.
BRIGHTON, MONDAY.—The Prince of Wales 15_11(1"
the Princess Alice were taken out in an open barou,o.
this morning by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. 1:`,0
Ladyship gave directions to drive to the Pier, where re,
clerk of the Pier Company was in attendance to reef',')u,
their Royal Highnesses. The Prince and his illustri.
sister remained on the pier nearly an hour, runnillb,
about the whole of the time. A great number of
crer
:,,i
sons were on the cliffs, who appeared much inter3l.4l
with the playfulness of the royal children. 'Their 1{,4,
Highnesses are to leave Brighton on Wednesday srb'o,
noon by a special train of the London and Bright
Railway Company for New Cross. We aro haPprio
ee
nt
state that their Royal Highnesses continue in "c
health. Sir Robert Peel has been to the Palace to s
the royal children.
HOPS.—The picking will be. brought toTbneccarrclito
close this evening throposhout this district. _ fa tea
mostly equal to anticipation, in some cases it ?ii!t.a_lflitis
short; it is everywhere a top crop. The size of tv_. the
is small, but the quality good. The weather rc„,
gathering has been, like that of the corn. hstriiin
sted
marknbly propitious. The district duty is e
aa edrose.
17,000/.; the general duty at 130,0001.--Hera took t"-,t
John Richardson, of Gateshead Fell,
from
thirty-one his
garden
large aposttaaltkoeso! potatoesand bein hg
aving
theng auattitcohewrolo'o"
weight of Bilbs.-IYetecast/eJoureal.