The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-15 00:00:00

Mr: P. Posey (el airman), Hon. Certain A. ?Ala ,
Mr. W. Miles.. M.P., Mr. Locke, M.P., and Me.
-Brrandrith GibbS. Mr. Dilke tut Indcd on the part of
the executive committee. The building committee hada
meeting yesterday.
REDUCTION OF BENT.—The Rev. William Morgan,
Vicar of Kerry pariah, Montgomeryshire, made a re-
duction of 51. per cent. in the rent chttge due the Ist of
January, 1850, at his audit on the Ist iest.—Estdowees
Jrurnal. • - •
COURT OF ISLARD REVENUE.—Yesterday Joseph
Gibson was fined in the penalty of 1,2001.. with Beim*,
of stills, &c., for ctrrying on the trade of illicit distills..
tiori, with intent t 4 defraud her Msjesty'e revenue. SIP.
mud Gillutt Was fined
Echsiard Singleton,
4
and Ssrah Whit, .200/., with cordemnation, for a
Similar offence, as well as
00/. upon another charge.
uE•etrizeaebaecthh
fiAerendo 12d0,LBfreirdgeeeltuCocng kepretietris,
.Tne L )rd Bishop
iyithoet a licence.
of Exeter left Bishopstowe, on
Saturday, for town; we are happy to lean that the
Vicarage
nufet tßemrpelgeurdiresdpetaokine
:sittitiustenoMt;;;t7lroirthea3mr,
Right Rev. Pet late is in good health. In aeswer to
seversl correspondent-, we can only say that we believe
mode will be taken to Met this ohjeen—
tthkoneet theni sVhiri°h4. faart‘
treste!n Luniinarn. .
MANCHESTER TRADE 'REPORT, MARCH 14. The
market to-day has exhibited the f Out ei which chatee-
tumid it on Tuesday, in a more confirmed rottener. It
ft to day very dull, pith a dedded tendency downwards.
This applies, with scarcely as exception, to all articles.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS.—The hundred
and twelfth anniverrery festival of this time-honoured
and excellent Char:Otte institution will be held in the
Feeemasone Hall this evening. His R Iligheess
the -Duke of Cambridge presides on the oseasism, and.
of eminent artists, veal and instrameraei, h.re
velaritscr..d their ssrvices. hate lunch pleasure in
Ldvi,e.aing th.; c:airns of this cherhy to the support of
the public.
IMPORTATIONS OF FOREIGN WHEA.T AND FLOUR.
—The toted qtatot.ty tit Greign wheat aid wheat flour;
ir.aporied in 184.6 oar 2 642.999 qtariers ; in 1847,
wl.
4,233,590; in 'lBlB. 3,055;078; au= in the first six
moeths tit 1849, 2,412,351. The siverage price of wheat
thaliog the respective re: fods was 54W. 81, 69g. 9d.., .50 .
61 , htld 45; ld.
FOREIGN HAY.—Another novel importation of
foreign production has now taken place in the shape of
a parcel of 103 bundles of hay, by the steamer Esrl of
rhuckhnd from Retterdsm, the growth and produce of
- Some persons have been convicted for rite of the
re:mat incsncliary c•ffence; in the county of Down, and
ssno nce d to ten years' transportation.
:SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SCCIEIr.—It appears from
tlw refort of this society fur the sear 1849. which ha.;
recce tly been publishes', that during that year no less
than 4.338 patients have been relieved on board the so.
e ey's ships, the Dreadnought and Iphigenia Of these,
2 239 x ere in-p= felts, ex.! u iive of 181 on board at the
beginning of the y. 11,,, rind 2,099 a ece out patients. Of
the in-patient., i 475 were discharged cured, 230 were
cirivreesteet, 54 hal been relieved, 9 not cured, ex-
psfied 8, died 241, under treatment 210. A considerable
unnabsr had been discharged to ships convalescs nt. Of
the out-patients, 8 t were completely clothed 'ter their
cure, and 25 eta plied with shses and stockings. The
income for vie 3(a- from a!1 sources amounted t 8,264 t.
4 . 6 1., and the expenditure, inelu 'kg the purchase of
2,30111. stock, cq=ual,d the reeeip's The report it.-
nona:es that the long-pending question bete eeu the sc-
eiety sod the Csrooration of Liverpool as to the right of
the society to the penalties levied by the borough magis-
trates under the Merchant Seamen's Registration Act has
been svtisfactotily Acid, d. On the 6th of June last the
Jodges c f the Court of Exchequer pave their unan.-
010114 decision in favour of the society, and the Liverpool
Corporation ehortly afterv:Prds paid over to the Inc.-
sarer te sum of G 55/. 6s. 41., the amount received by
them up to the time of the commencement of proceed-
ings. The Corporation, however, were Lot satisfied
with this decision, and had refused to tan the penalties
subxquently received by is en. The committee la-
xnenti d the loss of le- Majesty the late Queen Do lenge-,
Sir C. Forte, Bart., and Lord Colville, all of whom
were warm triends to the hestitution. Thertheeked
the Lords Commissioners f the Admiralty far having
put the Dreadnought into repair, at ye,y considerable
end announced th=at the Iphigenia was still retained
as on hospital-ship, and during the prevalence of the
cholera had received 250 cholera cases. Since the foun-
dation of the hospital, 93,310 seamen had received
the enc.& of medic 1 attendance, and, in some cases,
chithing and employment.
SOCIETY OF ANTIQOARIES.—COIOneI Mure, M.P.
far Renfrew, was elected a fellow la t evening, under
the presidency of Mr. Hallam Notice was given that
at the next meets ig an historical paper by Mr. Hallam
would be resd, upon Leda., King of Britain. After Pa-
rlous minor communications, and the announcement of
presents, the secretary proceeded with the conclusion of
tie very learned anB at the sane time amusing paper by
Mr. Octavius blorgste, M.P., on the history of clocks
nisi watches in Europe, where they were undoubtedly
first constructed. Ile entered into t'hu question with
great minuteness, and gave the palm of priority of in-
vention to Germany, and particularly to Nurembarg.
One of the moat interesting points telated to what is
called the fiance, employed to regulste and control the
meinsprine, which wes itself an improvement of the end
of tt.e fifteenth century; the fusee was, of course, of
later dat , out the aecieet clock belonging tt the society,
and Wed 1525, has it as originally employed far the
purpose. Watchmaking was must successfully carried
on at. Ulm and Augsburg, as well as at Nuremburg, and
about 1600 the trwle was established at Geneva.
SCHOOL FOR TIM INDIGENT BLlND.—Yesterday
afternoon the 51st annual meeting of the governors of
this institution nes held at the London Coffee-house;
the Right Honourable Lord Radstock in the chair.
The minutes of the former meetings having been
real and confirmed, the secretary read the report fur
the year 1849. It corgretulated the governors upon
the highly satisfactory state of the institution. 170 pu-
pils of both sexes were now in the asylum, and were
bearded, lodged, and clothed gratuitously. They re-
mined in the institution six years and a half, by which
time they were sufficiently instructed in various trades
to prevent their being dependent on their friends—the
consciousness of such dependence being stated to distress
the band more than the actual privston of sight. The
erection of a new school and class-room had conduced to
render the education of the inmates greatly more
efficient thee thrmerly. Exclusive of the usual in..
etraction in reading, writing, &c., the pupils now received
oral lessons in history, etymology, and geography,
the latter being taught by tensed maps. The health of
the inmates during the year had been remarkably
good, only one death having occurred. While the dic-
ier» was raging with its greatest virulence on all aides
of the asylum, the health of those within its walls had
by the Idessing of God been better than usual, only ono
of the pupils was attacked, boy. wh speedily reco-
vered. 19 pupils had :e% the a F chool during the last 12
inornhs—v,z., 11 boys, 4 of whom were expellsd for
misconduct; and girls, 1 of whom was also dis-
missed. 393 person-, exclusive of those who had been
placed in the permanent establishment, or disd in the
school, had returned to their friends, mostly able to
maintahe themselves. Tho financial report s'atcd that
the total income of the year, including 1 2001. for the
sale of articles manufactured by the pupils, was
9 OS7/. 9t. 23 ; whilst the expenditare was 7,6501., leav-
ing a considerable balance m favour of the institution.
Tnis report was receited and adopted, and affer the
usual election of (Slicers the meeting thanked the chair-
man and separated.
MINE ACCIDENTS AT DUDLEY.—In the afternoon
of Friday last ioquests were held before the coroner ef the
district, illr. W. Rubinson, and jury, at the house of Mr.
Joseph Hein the Two Furnaces Inn, Woodside, in this
par, ish on the todies of two young men, Thomas Pearson
and John Tranter,
a f of eight or nine tons of coal,
the previous evenirg by
who Lai been instantaneously d n
while engaged in filling the band down a pit connected with
Messrs. Cochrane and Co.'s colliery in that neighbour-
hood. The jury returned verdicts of "Accidental
death." Pearson, who was in his 19th year, was a son
of one of the butties. John Tranter has left a wife and
one child. It is stated that no less than seven persons
have been killed at this colliery within the last tour or
live months by similar accidents. On the following day
(S:rturday) inquests wet e held bcf ire the same coroner,
at the Angel Inn (Mr. B. Cole's.), Castle-street, on the
bodies of two other colliers, Jarrat Davies, aged 27, sad
Cornelius Fellows, aged 21, who were so dreadfully ir.-
jurei by a similar occurrence to the above on the pre-
vious day at the Baptist Hand colliery, worked by Mr.
Crewe, that they survived but a few hours only. The
deceased men were at the time of the sad occurrence
(which was stated to be quite accident l) also working.
in the band. The jury returned verdicts accordingly.—
lirorcestershire Chronicle.
Big 'MAJESTY'S SHIP GANGES, 84, STRUCK BY
LIGIITNING.—By accounts from the Mediterranean it
Athens. appears that her lejesty'e ship
lighting in January last, near Ganges was struck by
s. The electric
discharge fell in forked etrearas on the foremast, pro-
ducing luminous corruscations, or spouts as hobe sailors
down the masthN d mage,
conductors fixed in the spars
if the great bulk of the discharge without the
carried e
• nvenience; not a rope-yarn was damaged—
Tho
least taco
how their, nearly
eyon
t value of lightning conductors judiciously applied.
rest value
most icnportant practical illustration ot the
in 1838 the Rodney, of 90 guns, a similar ship, but not
so protectei, was struck by lightning off Malta. The ship
was ou fire aloft fur halt an hour. .Two men were killed;
two mere severely injured. The very hearts of the spars
a ere ruined, and the ship detained under an expen-
sive repair at Malta for a month or five wetkr, thereby
causiog a serious inconvenience to the service, and a
very ruinous expenditure.
MOORISH WATENIYORKS..—The Moors left traces
of the care they took to secure a supply of water to their
towns, and they introduced into Spain the system ef
replacing bridge aqueducts by souterazzi, adopted by the
Greeks of the l ewer empire. At the Puerto Real de
Cadix; at Talavera la Repeat at Castellon de la Playa,
small works of this kind are still in use. We shall have
occasion to describe the principle upon which they
operate more fully when we consider the water supply of
Constantinople ; we will, therefore, .merely enumerate
the works of this kind to be f,,und in Sp
entering without
entering into details. The other hydraulic works
executed by that singular people are not worth dwelling
upon for any length. They consist mostly of cisterns,
baths, and fountains. Occasionally, as near Grenada.,
they erected aqueduct bridges, but they were small in
comparison with the Roman edifices, so plentifully scat-
tered throughout Spain- That alluded to, near Grenada,
is one of the loftiest, but its extreme 1 eight is only
abouteelse spans f the arches are little
mes to 9 feet. In fact, although
r than7o feet,a etan6d
in
the Moors were uuquestionsbly a nation of great taste,
we can hardly regard them as other than mere tyros in
the higher branches of the art of construction. It is the
the present day to admira them-snore than
in whatever manner we may consider them
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