The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-14 00:00:00

SA ILING S.

Saturday—The schooner Circassian, Major Phillips, for
Swansea, and the Mediterranean.

Sunday—The schooner Camilla, Thomas Hallifax, to the
eastward.

Wednesday—The cutter Flower of Yarrow, the Marquis of
Conyngham, for Guernsey and Ireland.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Cutters—The Ann, Reindeer, Whim, Osprey, Intrepid, Me-
dina, Will-o'-the-Wisp, Norah, Ganymede, Charm, Owen
Glendwr. Schooners—Gun, Camilla. Yawl—Breeze.
In the Harbour—The Ariel schooner, Almon Hill, Esq. ;
Kestrel yawl, the Earl of Yarborough ; Hawk schooner,
Captain King; Therese cutter, the Earl of Desart ; Ariadne
cutter, Captain W. B. Ponsonby.
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
We have now to report that this town was never before so
dull at this season of the year. Whether it is that the cry
of the Queen's coming frightened the folk from visiting us,
or from the great foreign attractions in London, certain it is
that the Royal Yacht Squadron House, and the town gene-
rally, are deserted. _ _

All we know of the Royal residence is, that there hays
been three maid servants of the Royal household at Osborne
House, since the Ist of May.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 11.—On Sunday, during the
celebration of high mass, the steeple of the church of Ingel-
minster was struck by lightning. The electric fluid entered
the church and wounded twelve persons; everybody rushed
to the door, which occasioned some further acczeent, but no-
body was killed or very seriously hurt.
CeMMISSION or LUNACY.—This morning a Com-
mission of Lunacy was opened before Mr. Commissioner Barlow
and a jury of l 9 freeholders, to inquire into the state of mind of
Mr. George Rule, late a nurseryman' of Hockley, Essex, and
now an inmate of Miles's Lunatic Asylum, Hoxton. The
Commission was sued out by the mother of the alleged luna-
tic, and Mr. Teed,. Q.C., appeared in support of it. From the
evidence adduced, it appeared that the first symptons of aber-
ration exhibited themselves in 1839. In that year he came
to London, put up at an inn, and ordered a most expensive
entertainment. He went to the Tower, where he fanch d him-
self Prince Albert or the Duke of Wellington, and com-
menced cutting down the trees; he was taken into custody,
and by direction of the Magistrate handed over to his friends.
He sometimes refused to take his food, and on one occasion
got a rope and attempted to hang himself. He had threat-
ened to kill his mother, and called himself a King and a Lord,
and that he belonged to the Lord Chancellor. Dr. Haslon
and Dr. Reed gave evidence as to the state of mind of Mr.
Rule. He occasionally stripped himself naked, and plucked
out his toe-nails. He considered the race of mankind made
from sugar. The medical gentlemen were of opinion it was
an utterly hopeless case. Mr. Rule was called in and ex-
amined by the Learned Commissioner, and continued talking
in a very rapid and incoherent manner. The jury returned a
verdict that Mr. George Rule was of unsound mind and in-
capable of managing his affairs, and had been so since the
Bth of November, 1839.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-It was St. Leon's
benefit, according to the bills, last night, and he played, be-
tween the acts of Don Giovanni, a fantasia, composed by
himself on motives from Guillaume Tell, and exhibiting his
well-known power of execution. The house was crowded,
and the audience encored the duet, " La ci darem " (by For-
nasari and Persiani) and "Il mio tesoro" (by Mario). On
Thursday next, it is said, Costa's opera of Don Carlos will be
produced.
Politics run so high amongst men elected to public
offices in Southampton, that they would rather see the whole
town burnt down than obtain water which was not from a
Tory spring, to put it out. They have had another awful
visitation, but these warnings are without any effect on
such men. _ _

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INcimptiatisst.—lt will be remembered that Mr.
Milner Gibson (who was formerly M.P. for Ipswich) a few
evenings back, asked Sir James Grahatn, whether the atten-
tion of Government had been directed to the recent fear-
fully prevalent system of incendiarism in the counties of
Suftblk, Norfolk, and Essex. The Hon. Member has now
placed a notice on the books of the House of Commons, inti-
mating that it was his intention, " on the first supply night,"
to submit a " motion relative to the incendiarism now pre-
valent in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and parts of
Essex." This is indefinite enough as regards the form in
which the matter is to be brought under the attention of the
House; but still it is gratifying to see that the Hon. Mem-
ber has taken the subject in hand. Nothing could be more
unsatisfactory than allowing such a state of things to con-
tinue month after month, sub silentio, while the fires are in-
creasing constantly in number and atrocity There must be
some cause for the evil. Ought not that cause be inquired
into and investigated, and, if possible, remedied P—Advertiser.
CHURCH-RATE.—Yesterday, a public vestry was
held in the parish church of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, for the
purpose of making a church and other rates; Mr. Thomas
Sprinford, the renter-warden, in the chair. For some 3 ears
the Rector and Church party in this extensive parish have
sought to obtain a large rate, but the inhabitants have in-
variably swamped them, and have merely allowed a penny
rate, which is scarcely sufficient to pay certain annuities and
other purposes, non-ecclesiastical, which the law requires, so I
that the servants of the parish are obliged to go upon short
commons ; and some of them, the organist, for instance, have
not been paid anything for the last year or two. The anti-
church-rate party mustered in a strong body, and under the
guidance of Mr. Denton, a desperate opponent, to all parish
abuses, and a determined opponent to church-rates, outvoted
their opponents (who required a threepenny rate) by a ma-
jority
of at least three to one, and merely a penny rate was
granted. This was deemed a great triumph to the anti-
church-rate party, their opponents having for some months
boasted of having a considerable majority of the vestry in
favour of the higher rate.
TUE LUKE.—Owing to the long draught, the Lune,
above tide way, is now shallower than it has been or the last
forty years,--Juncaster,Paper.