The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

ERAL OF TH LATE REV.
DR. BALMER.
The last duties to the remains of Dr. Balmer were
performed on Tuesday. Before one o'clock the body
was removed from his house into the chapel, Golden-
square, and, at that hour, the members of the congre-
gation and others, assembled for the purpose of joining
in devotional exercises, and improving the melancholy
event which had brought them together. Every part
of the chapel was crowded, and many were unable to
obtain admission. The services were commenced by
the Rev. "Mr. Brown, of Dalkeith, who dispensed the
Communion to the congregation on the preceding
Sabbath. After the first four verses of Psalm 61st
had been sung, Mr. Brown read the 90th Psalm, and
Ist Thess. ch. iv. from the thirteenth verse to the end.
He then offered up a most impressive prayer, amid the
tears of many in the chapel, and gave out the first two
verses of the 53d Paraphrase, which were also sung.
The Rev. Dr. Henderson, of Galashiels, one of Dr.
Balmer's earliest college companions with whom he
maintained the warmest friendship through life, then
delivered a most solemn address to the congregation, in
which he feelingly and Skillfully sketched the character
of his departed brother, and impressed on the audience
the duty of being followers "of him as he also was " a
follower of Christ." Verse 4-6 of the fifth third
Paraphrase were next sung, when the Rev. Mr. Lee, of
Horndean also offered tip a very impressive prayer,
and, shortly after two o'clock, the services were con-
cluded by singing the last two verses of the Para--
phrase and • pronouncing the apostolical benediction.
It had been arranged that the funeral procession
should move in the fbllowing order :—The pall-
bearers, consisting of the clergymen cf the
town ; the relatives of the deceased ; the elders of
the congregation ; the members of the Cold-
stream Presbytery and other clerical friends who
were present ; the trustees and managers of the con-
gregation ; the male members; toe" female members ;
and last, those belonging to other Christian bodies—
all walking four a-breast. This arrangement, how-
ever, was known to those only who had been in the
chapel, and, so large was the multitude without
who had come to attend the funeral, that to
observe it was impossible. The whole line
along which the procession moved presented
a dense mass of human beings, all anxious to
testify their respect to him who, in life, was universally
esteemed, and whose loss they deplored. A funeral, so
numerously attended, has certainly not taken placehere
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The
windows: of the houses along the line of the procession
were crowded with spectators, not a few of whom were
in mourning and shedding tears of sorrow ; and, though
death has removed him from those by whom he was
loved and esteemed, and they can see his face cr hear
his voice no more—his memory will be hallowed in
their recollection. The Rev. Mr. Peden of Church-
street Chapel, and the Rev. Dr. Brown of Broughton-
place, Edinburgh, are to officiate on Sabbath in the
pulpit which he so long occupied.—BerwickAdvertiser.

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BUTTER AND CHEESE.—A Bill to repeal the follow-
ing Acts for regulating the trade in butter and cheese
has been brought into the House of Commons:—An
Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of King
William the Third and Queen Mary, intituled, "An
Act to prevent Abuses committed by the Traders in
Butter and Cheese :" An Act passed in the thirty-sixth
year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled,
"An Act to prevent Abuses and Frauds in the
Packing, Weight, and Sale of Butter, and to re-
peal certain Acts relating thereto :" n Act passed
in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King
George the Third, intituled, "An Act for amending and
rendering more effectual an Act made in the Thirty-
sixth year of the Reign of his present Majesty', intituled
'An Act to prevent Abuses and. Frauds in the Packing
and Sale of Butter, -and to repeal certain Acts relating
thereto.' "

CONFESSION OF AN INCENDIARY..—Thomas Rust,
who has undergone several examinations at Halstead,
charged with setting fire to Mr. Nott's premises at Peb-
marsh on the 6th of April, and Mr. Ball's premises, in the
same parish, on the 6th of June, by which property to a
considerable amount was destroyed, was on Tuesday
finally examined. A number of witnesses were examined,
but the tes imony of J. Estall, a vagrant, who had been in
the station-house with theprisoner Rust, was the mostim-
portant. They had occupied cells adjoining each other,
and were enabled to hold a conversation. Estall had
asked him for what he was in custody ? He replied,
" On suspicion of setting fire to a house or barn."
He next asked him whether he did it ? He re-
plied, "I don't know that I did it." After a fur-
ther conversation, in the course of which Rust ad-
mitted that he had been transported once already, but
had got off after a short imprisonment, and said he sup-
posed he should be transported now, and sent to Wool-
wich or Chatham, Estall again asked him whether he
had done it or not, to which his answer was, " That he
did not rightly know whether he had or not." At tho
close of the examination the prisoner, in answer to the
charges, said that he was guilty, and he was fully com-
mitted for trial at the ensuing assizes on both eases of
arson, as well as on three charges of larceny.
HANOVER-SQUARE Rooms.—A concert was given
here, last night, by Messrs. Sivori, Sainton, Hill, and bus-
Belot, with a view to perform a series of chamber instru-
mental pieces—two of the posthumous quartets of Beetftoven
being the special features of the undertaking. The quartets
alluded to were faithfully played by the four artists, and the
scherzo in the one numbered " 13"—a movement full of
quaint goblin vagaries—was enthusiastically encored. These
posthumous compositions are altogether most singulor in
character ; they are essentially Beethovenish—wild, freakish,
wailing, grand—scraps of delicious melody ever and anon
appearing amid the mysterious and grotesque elements
around. They are, from first to last, extremely difficult;
requiring the greatest precision on the part of the performers,
united with a perfect comprehension of the fantastical spirit
which prevails, as well as intense executive feeling. Messrs.
Sivori and Sainton assumed the office of first violin in turns.
Sivori was brilliant and resolute—Sainton quiet and unobtru-
sive. Besides the two posthumous quartets, a quartet of
Haydn, and a trio by Osborne (an English composer, long
resident in France), were given.
LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—Mr. Wm. E. Ryan,
brother of Alderman E. F. Ryan, of this city, fell over the
taffrail of the steamer at Lough Dergh, near Killaloe on
Wednesday evening, and was drowned. The deceased, when
a mere lad, was blown up in his bed, at the awful gunpowder
explosion at George's-street, in this city, on the night of the
3d of January, 1837, and most providentially escaped, though
in the very focus of death and desolation. He was second
son of the late Michael Ryan, Esq., of the old and respectable
firm of Edmund Ryan and Sons, provision merchants.—
Limerick Chronicle.
GALE OF WIND,
._ THUNDER-STORM, AND HAIL-
STORM.—LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.—During nearly
the whole of Saturday last the rain fell in torrents, flooding
the lower part of the town. In the evening it became fair,
but the barometer fell to nearly 29, and at eleven the wind
began to blow, furiously increasing in intensity till between
two and three o'clock, when it blew, as sailors say, " great
guns." Great apprehensions were entertained for the safety ,
of the shipping, several vessels having gone to sea the day
before. A fine large packet-ship, the Russell, Glover, laden
with a costly cargo, was driven back into Bootle-bay, where
it was expected she would have gone on shore, but two steam
tug-boats having been sent to her assistance, she was brought
into the river on Sunday, at noon, without having received
any damage. The tide in the river rose several feet higher
than it otherwise would have done, and the dead body of a
man was washed ashore by the violence of the waves. On
Sunday morningthe barometer gradually rose, and the gale
decreased till towaiels evening, when it became quite calm
and sunshine. This morning, a little after eight o'clock,
there was a thunder-storm, preceded and followed by pelting
downfalls of rain, and in some districts hailstones fell thick
and large. The storm lasted only about half an hour, and
now the atmosphere is bright and clear, although the wea-
ther does not appear at all settled.
FOREIGN POTATOES.—There has been a very large
importation of new potatoes this season from Holland, one
salesman alone in Spitalfields Market having received as
many as 2,103 baskets during the present month. Yesterday
three boxes of sweet potatoes from the Bahamas were sold
with a collection of pines in the City, and realised mode-
rate prices of 1/. per box. They are the shape and size of
a beet-root, indigenous to those islands, and very produc-
tive, and should the edible qualities be approved of here, will,
in all probability, form a new item of West Indian produce
for exportation.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Yesterday
morning, about three o'clock, the attention of the police
constable on duty near Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, was
attracted by aloud shriek, which was immediately followed
by the fall of something weighty upon the ground. where
he perceived a female lying upon the pavement bleeding
profusely. from the head, and apparently dying. No time
was lost in conveying her to Charing-cross:Hospital, where
she was attended by Mr. Charles Golding, one of the
house surgeons, who discovered that his patient was
labouring under the fracture of both legs, an injury of
the spine and head, as also the fracture of several ribs.
The unhappy woman, who is a widow, named Mary
Ryan, forty years of age, has, it appears, been an itine-
rant vendor of fruit, and it is stated that distress had
caused her to attempt self-destruction by precipitating
herself from the attic window of the house, No. 10,
Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, where she resided.
THE EXHIBITION OF FRESCOS, &C., IN WESTMIN-
STER HALL.—Yesterday, this exhibition was opened
gratuitously to the public, and will continue open to
them, with the exception of Saturday, when one shilling
will be charged for admission, for six weeks. The num-
ber of persons who visited it was not very great during
the day, and between twelve and one o'clock there were
not more than from 100 to 200 persons present. Be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 persons visited the exhibition
during the day.
WEST INDIA PlNES.—Yesterday a novel sale of
nearly 3,000 of this fruit took place at the sale-rooms of
Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, 2, Monument-yard. They
were all in excellent condition, and landed and arrived
in London within a month of their shipment from
Eleuthera and Nassau, in the Bahama Islands.
They were of those, esteemed varieties, the Bird's
Eye and Providence, ,and were but little inferior
in taste to the best quality of English produc-
tion. In these islands they form a very large staple
culture ; and judging from the results of the sale yes-
terday, their importation is likely to be of some benefit
to tho islands, and supply our tables at a reasonable
rate with this esteemed fruit. The price at which they
sold were from 2s. to ss. each ; and there eas a brisk
competition from fruit salesmen from all parts of the
metropolis. Arrangements have been made for a peri-
odical, annual_ supply from these islands, and three or
four shipments are expected during the present season.
They are carefully preserved by the leaves ; and; by the
new tariff, there is but an import duty of five per cent.
FIVE GENERATIONS.—On Sunday last there were
present at the baptism of an infant child, at Woodchester
Church, his mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and
great-great-grandmother, that is, his grandmother's grand-
mother, which last had walked no small distance twice to
church on that day, hale and strong, and had attended the
Lord's tale,. Gloucester Chronicle.