The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

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Lord Heytesbury arrived in Dublin on Friday. A great
concourse of people turned out on the occasion and received
his Excellency well, though they showed their dislike to the
Recorder, who accompanied him in the same carriage.
Our reports from all parts of the country, says the Dublin
Post, are in the highest degree satisfactory. The harvest
will be about a fortnight earlier than the average of years.
Reaping of wheat, oats, and barley, has already commenced
in some few places, and next month it will be very general.
Mr. Master, M.P. for Cirencester, has accepted the chil-
teri hundreds, and Lord Villiers, son-in-law to Sir Robert
Peel, has declared himself a candidate for the borough.
On Saturday, at the weekly meeting of the Committee
of Aldermen, the members of the Navigation Committee
and the Watermen's Company attended, and presented,
in compliance with a recommendation from the Lord Mayor,
a copy of by-laws and rules for the future regulation
of the numerous steam-boats on the river. The alte-
rations proposed by these rules are, that in future no
steam-boat is to carry • beyond a certain number of pas-
sengers, according to its tonnage, and that proper persons are
to be appointed to see that the regulation is not violated ; and
also that no boat is to be permitted to go beyond a certain
rate of speed, and the places of embarkation are to be upon
a secure and uniform footing.
On Saturday, at the Brentford Petty Sessions, Charles
Druce and Henry Hunt, two respectable-looking young men,
residing In Old Brentford, were charged with having set fire,
on Wednesday night, to a hayrick, containing thirty-six
loads, valued at upwards of 200 L, which was wholly destroyed,
while other property was seriously damaged. The prisoners
were fully committed to take their trial at the next sitting of
the Central Criminal Court.

The lessee of the Haymarket gives the use of his theatre
for a benefit on Thursday, the Bth of August, in aid of the
funds of the British Society of Dancers. Several of the prin-
cipal performers of the company at the Princess's Theatre
have consented to appear on the occasion.
On Sunday, after the performance of divine service in the
morning, the following notice was affixed on the doors of St.
Paul's Cathedral :—" Notice.—There will be no service in
this cathedral during the repairs and cleaning. Due notice
will be given of its recommencement.—St. Paul's Cathedral,
July 28, 1844." It is full time.
The concert for the benefit of the wife and children of Mr.
Hudson, the celebrated comic song writer and singer, is to
take place on Wednesday, the 31st instant, at the Princess's
Theatre. The high patronage under which the performance
is announced will at once satisfy those who know nothing of
the deceased, that he possessed claims of no ordinary kind to
secure for his memory so great a distinction.

Titt4 FLOATING PIER.—The neighbourhood of
Essex-street and Milford-lane, Strand, near the water-side,
has been the scene of great noise and confusion during the
last two days, owing to the erection of a rival floating-pier
alocgside the old one at the bottom of Essex• street, and the
attempt of legang of hired men to destroy the old floating-
Sier belonging to Mr. Francis, which is moored in front of the
hip public-house, his property, and where passengers have
landed and embarked for the last four years. By the side
of the Ship is a passage leading from the steps at the end
of Essex-street to the water-side, and the common sewer
beneath it, and flows along an open culvert, or brick drain.
to low water- mark. Over this culvert a floating pier has
been moored at the expense of the old Greenwich and Wool-
wich steamboat companies, without the sanction of the
City authorities or the Commissioners of Sewers, in whom
the preperty is vested. The owners of this pier, determined
to effect by violence what they could not obtain by other
means, in the first instance broke down a gate at the end of
the passage on the edge of the river, and placed a gangway
board communicating with the inner barge of the pier upon
it. No sooner was the pier opened, a few days ago, than
several blackguards were employed as touters and to insult
and annoy passengers landing and embarking at the old pier,
where the Watermen's steamers and the wooden steamboats
call. Among them are some of the watermen who formerly plied
at the Temple-stairs, for whose benefit it has been given out
the pier has been erected. These fellows, emboldened by the
supineness of the City authorities, declared they would drag
away the old pier, and destroy it altogether. On Friday
morning a gang of fifty ruffians front Execution-dock, Wap-
ping, the atone pier at Greenwich, and other places,assembled
as early as threc o'clock, and began cutting away the sup •
ports of the old pia, and swore with dreadful imprecations
they would murder any one who interrupted them. Two
watermete named Maynard and Hill, in the employ of Mr.
Francis, who endeavoured to protect their master's pro-
perty, were knocker] down and severely ill-used. The police
were sent for, and eight men of the F division came to the
spot, and found a portion of the rioters engaged in the work
of destruction, and the others fighting with Mr. Francis's
servants, Crow-bars, boat-hooks, hammers, and other wea-
pons, ware userl by the ruffians, who swore they would an-
nihilate the police if they attempted to interfere. The noise
and the shouts of the rietere at so early an hour alarmed the
inhabitants, who rose from their beds and went to the spot
to ascertain the cause. In the 166.311 time the crews of
ee Police galleys landed, and the ruffians de-
sesisvteettra.l Tbutbrt before they had caused damage to the amount
of 1001., and tore away the gangway board or brow on the
old pier and thrown it into the river. Maynard was covered
with bruises, and Hill was terribly knocked about. One
of the assailants, a fellow named Ash, of Wapping, received
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brawling was going on, and some of the greatest blackguards
on the river were dragging the people about, shouting in
their ears, and doing all in their power to prevent them
going on the old pier to embark in the Watermen's steamers.
I in the course of the day warrants were applied for at Bow-
-1 street Police-court against several of the rioters, and granted
strong betty of police were again stationed near the rival
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