The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-20 00:00:00

CROWN OFFICE, Mencu 18.

The Peers of Scotland elected and chosen to ait and
vote in the House of Peers in the preseht Parliament of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Tiz.:—The Right Honourable the Earl of Airlie and
the Lord Blantyre, in the room of David Earl of Airlie
and Joh❑ Lord Colville of Culross, deceased.

Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
The Hon. Pcregrino Francis Cust to bo Deputy-
Lieutenant.

Commission by the Lord• Lieutenant of Dorsetshire.
Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Mor-
ton Grove Manse), Gent, to be Cornet, vice Pitt, re-
signed, Feb. 15.

WHITEHALL, MARCH 8.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed George White, of
Epsom, in the county of Surrey, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS. _ _

James Harbidge, miller, Islip, Oxfordshire, to sur-
render, March 23, at half-past one, and April 27, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee,
Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street; Berry, South-
ampton-buildings; Druce, Ox ford.
John Spicer, blacksmith, Barking, Essex, March 25,
at two, and April 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Rawlings, Romford,
and John-street, Bedford-row.
Charles Cove, builder, Hornchurch, Essex, March 25,
at half-past two, and April 29, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-
street; Rawlings, Romford.
John Barton Balcombe, share broker, Cannon-street,
City, April 11, at two, and April 26, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Goddard and Eyre, Wood-street, Cheapside.
John Bedford, music-seller, Bath, March 30 and
April 30, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official-assignee, Bristol; Hellings, Bath.
William Gore, wheelwright, Liverpool, April 3 ',and
23, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze,
nove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bradley Liverpool.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Buddle, Paddington, timber merchant and saw
mill proprietor, April 11, at twelve.
In the Country.
C. Pope, St. Philip and Jacob, near Bristol, copper,
zinc, brass wire, and iron hoop manufacturer, April 11,
at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—S. Colville, Liverpool,
commission and forwarding agent, April 9, at eleven, at
the Court, Liverpool—J. Hodge, Colyton, Devonshire,
currier, April 18, at one, at the Court, Exeter—T.
Daniell, formerly of Trelissick, Cornwall, and now at
Boulogne, France, copper smelter, April 18, at one, at
the Court, Exeter.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

J. Porter, Is. 4d., on Thursday, March 14, or any suc-
ceeding Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
J. Yeomans, Sheffield, Yorkshire, merchant and table-
knife manufacturer, 55., on Saturday, .March 16, or any
subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the
office cf Mr. Freeman, Sheffield.
J. Birley, Doncaster, Yorkshire, grocer, 7e., on Satur-
day, March 16, or any subsequent Saturday, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield.
W. Clayton, W. Clayton, and W. Wilson, Preston,
bankers, a third dividend of 3s. 9d., on Tuesday, March
19, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one,
at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester.
M. M•Gtverin, Manchester, smallware manufacturer,
205., on Tuesday, March 19, and every f.llowing Tues-
day, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson,
Manchester.
J. Johnson, Manchester, smallware manufacturer,
2e. 6d., on Tuesday, March 19, and every following
Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hob-
son, Manchester.

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FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM. - Her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to become the Patron of the
Female Orphan Asylum, Lambeth, of which his Royal
Highness the Duke of Counbridge is President.

are in contemplation for the appointment of Lieutenant-
General Sir William Gomm, K.C.8., to the situation cf
Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, vice Sir Willoughby
Cotton, G.C.8., who is expeoted to give up his command
in the course of the ensuing autumn.

[ADVEETISEMENT.j—CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—
Messrs. Morisoa and the Society of Hygeists and Me-

dical Reformers hereby caution the public, that they
have no sort of connection with the ointments, pills, and

farinaceous powders sold in chemists' and druggists'
shops.—British College of Health, New-road, London,

Fetirtuary 1, 1850.
A woman named Lay Neville, with at least
a dozen aliases, was yesterday remanded from Lambeth,
charged with having stolen a gold watch, the property
of M. Theodore Rousseau, from the house of Mrs.
Hunter, 20, York-road, Lambeth. The prisoner engaged
apartments at Mrs. Hunter's, and had not been there an
hour before she entered the bedroom of M. Rousseau,
who also lodged at Messrs. Hunter's and stole his gold
watch. The prisoner belongs to a family the members
of which have furyears past lived by victimising lodging-
house keepers and tradesmen. One of ber brothers is
at present in Maidstone gaol.
The Middlesex Sessions commenced yesterday.
There are 63 prisoners for trial. No case of importance
came on during the day.
Three young urchins, named Kimball, Wright,
and Bolton, were yesterday commi.tAl from the Mary-
lebone Mica-court, charged with having robbed the
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poor's-box of St. Stephen's Church, St. John's-wood.
A brutal fellow, named John Blackburne, a car-
man, in the employ of Messrs. Smith and Pearse, the
contractors for making the tunnel of the Great Northern
Railway line through Copenhagen-fields, was charged
with having cut out the tongue of one of his master's
horses. The fellow has escaped, but there is every pro-
bability of his speedy apprehension.
Mr. George Watson, a jeweller, in Norton Yol-
gate, was yesterday ordered by Mr. Ilammill, the
Worship-street magistrate, to pay to a lady named
Mitchell, residing at Grimsby, 4/., the value of a gold
chain she had left at his shop to be repaired, and 21.
compensation tor her detention in London to prosecute.
Mr. Watson declared that the lady was mistaken, as she
had never left ary such chain at his shop; but Mr.
Hammill, although exonerating Mr. Watson from all
personal blame, considered it conclusively proved that
the chain had been lett their for repair as stated.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. Admiralty, March 18,
1850. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the in-
formation of the Committee for Mana4ing the Affairs at
Lloyd's, that her Majesty's steam-vessel Trident, or
Shearwater, and her Majesty's ship Superb, have been
ordered to proceed to the Chops of the Channel for the
relief of the homeward-bound trade.—(Signed) W. A.
B. HAMILTON. Captain G. A. HALSTED, R.N., Seem-

,ary of Lloyd's.
NAVAL CADETS.—From an official statement just

issued in return to an order cf the louse cf Commons,
it appears that the number of cadets admitted into the
royal navy, during the year ending Ist January 1850,
was M..,
FlRE.—Yesterday a fire took place at a cabinet
manufactory, Old-street-road, Shoreditch, opposite Pit-
field-street. There was a ready supply of water, and
fortunately the fi:emen succeeded in confining the da-
mage, which was extensive, to the workshop.
MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—The market for
manufactures is in the same inactive state as it has re-
mained for several weeks past. Prices were nominally
lower, but concessions were readily obtained where bu-
siness could be at all effected.

Rums IN CALIFORNIA.-It is reported that near
San Diego, at the head of the Gulf of California, an
immense extent of the ruins of ancient buildings have

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been discovered, including temples, stone pyramids. &c.,
with hieroglyphics, the records of a great and civilised
race of inhabitants who have vanished from the face of
the earth.
A number of books and instruments for UniversiV

College, which have arrived in this country by steamer,
from France, have been admitted free, by permission of
the Lords of the Treasury.
The Rev. H. Mures, the new master of the Ro-
chester Grammar School, appointed by the Dean and
Chapter, is to be examined at the Town Hall to-day on
a charge of beating one of the scholars to an extraor-
dinary extent. The affair excites a great deal of in-
terest in the town. _

HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.—On Saturday, the 16th 1
inst., between four and five in the afternoon, as Mr.
Osborne, traveller to Herries and Co., of Manchester,
was driving in his gig from Bala to Llanfillin, North
Wales, at a lonely part of the road, near the top of
Berwyn Mountain, four miles from any dwelling-house,
he was attacked by three men, who stopped his horse,
and dragged him out. Mr. Osborne att-meted to strug-
gle with his assailants, but be was beat about the head
till he became insensible, and whilst in that state they
took from the gig box 2751. in gold and silver. The
ruffians got clear away. On Saturday a gentleman was
stepped outside Manchester, and robbed of 3751.
LOAN TO THE DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION.—
We have heard from good authority that there is:ahnost
the certainty (.1 the Government advancing the Dublin
and Belfast Junction Company 160,000/. or 200,0001. on.
loan; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his finan-
cial statement on Friday night, made no allusion what-
everof
to the subject. He proposes to advance o sum
direc-
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OP DUTY.—Mr. Hodges, M.P., has ad-
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stone Gazette :—" Sir,—Aware of the intense anxiety
that must prevail in the hop-planting district of the
counties of Kent and Sussex, after the financial state-
ment ef the Chancellor of the Exchequer last Friday, in
which no allusion to the hop-tax was made, I felt it to
be my first duty to request a meeting of the chairmen of
the planters of both counties, accompanied by gentlemen
who have taken active part in the exertion: hitherto
made to obtain a reduction of that duty; and their
beat c
unanimous opinion is. that I shall lose no time in ob-
taining a meeting in London of the Members of Parlia-
ment connected with the hop growings
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lent,lo secure that relief we have
bids is so unjustly withheld. I
I shall act without delay upon
their suggestion, and shall communicate to them the
result of that meeting.—l have the honour to be, sir,
Lgee.. THOMAS LAW HODGES.—Elemsted, March 18."
EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY OF ALL ...cATIONS.--
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—This day, at noon, a highly in-
fluential meeting of bankers, merchants, manufacturers,
and other inhabitants of Leeds was held at the Court-
house, presided over by the mayor (Mr. Joseph Bate-
son), "fur the purpose of adopting measures to pro-
mote the success of the great Exhibition of all Nations
to be held in London in 1851, and also to insure to the
skill and indm try of the district an appropriate and
honourable representation." The meeting addressed
by Mr. John Gott, the Royal Commissioner for the dis-
trict, Mr. W. W. Brown, banker ; Mr. G. Goodman.
merchant; Mr. Atkinson, flax-spinner; Mr. J. Hold-
forth,s stilt-spinner; Mr. J. Kitson, machinist; Mr.
Wur.4urg, merchant; Mr. E. Baines; Mr. J. H. Shaw,
late. yayor; the Rev. W. Sinclair; the Rev. C. Wick-
steed, end other gentlemen. Resolutions Were unani-
mously peeve', cordially approving of the objects cf the
exhibition, expressing gratitude to her Mejeste sad
Prince Albert for their patronage and support of it, and
resolving forthwith to (Ten a subscription for the pur-
pose of 0(1-lying the necessary expenses. The amount
of subscript ens announced at the meeting z as nearly
1,100/.
INCENDIARY FIRE. BURNHAM, Bucxa._On
Saturday eight. about nine o'clock, considerable con-
sternation was c.,,cated in this till recently quiet village
by the discovery hat an alarming fire had broken out
on the farm premises in the occupation of Mr. W. Till,
which ended in the total destruction of nearly the whole
of the buildings, tin dwelling-house included. The
flames were first see i- issuing from the barn, in which
were about twelve qterters of thrashed wheat, and a
flarge quantity of stray; the whole of which was con-
sumed. It then comnrimeated with the stables and
dwelling-house, which -eere quickly a head of ruins,
giving the inmates barely time to save a portion of their
furniture, &c. The buildings being situated close to
the street the village engine vas quickly on the spot, but
the devouring element spread -Kith such awful rapidity
that scarcely any portion of t. s buildings was saved.
Amongst the property destroyed ; ere a winnowing ma-
chine and a large quantity of potatc The buildings
are insured in the Royal Exchange, an the corn, which
belonged to a person named Williams, ant eilich bad
been taken there to be thrashed out, is insure in the
Sun-office. There is no doubt that the fire was act
of an incendiary; making the third fire of that detc:ip-
lion that has occurred in the village in the short spite.,
of one month. This fire had hardly subsided whey
another extensive conflagration was observed to be
raging in the neighbourhood. This second lire was
found to be of a more destructive character than the one
above stated. It happened on the farm premises of Mr.
John Nash, situated at Langley, about four miles from
Burnham. An engine was soon on the spot, and the
fire was eventually subdued, but not till a great destruc-
tion of property had taken place; three barns, the
stables, the outbuildings, three straw ricks, the stables
belonging to the Harrow Inn adjoining, with a thrash.
ing machine, a drill, and other implements being totally
consumed. This fire also is supposed to be the act of an
incendiary. The property, we hear, is insured.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.— Her Royal Higbnees
the Duchess of Kent honoured the performance: at Coe
vent-garden Theatre with her presence last evening.
Her Royal Highness occupied the Queen's box, and was
accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of
Saxe Weimar. In the Royal suite were the Baroness
de Speth, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Mary Howard,
and Sir George Couper. Among the leading fashion-
, shies in the boxes and stalls were the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, the
Marchioness of Westmeath and Miss Foulis, the Countess
of Malmesbury, the Countess Grey and Lady Alice
Lambton, the Countess of Gingen, the Earl Bruce, the
Countess of Minto and the Ladies Harriett and Charlotte
Elliott. the Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone, Vis-
count Maynard and the Hon. Miss Maynard, Viscount
Mandeville, Viscount Cranbourne, Lord and Lady Foley
and the Hon. Adelaide Foley, Lord Arthur Hay, Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Hon Edmund Phipps, Hon. Fitz-
gerald Foley, Hon. George Mulles, Hon. Charles Grey,
Hon. Harry Grey, Hon. Mrs. George Anson, Hon. Fre-
derick Leveson Gower, Hon. W. Dawson, Hon William
Pepys, lion. George Barrington, Hon. Charles Fitzwil-
liam, Lady Antrobus and Miss Antrobus, Hon. Charles
Neville, Hon. Mr. and Aire. Frederick Elliott, Sir Wil-
liam de Bathe, Sir Charles Marshall, &c.
JEWS' INFANT SCHOOL.—A ball in aid of the
funds of this charity took place last night, at Willis's
Rooms, under the patronage of some of the most distin-
guished members of the Jewish persuasion interested in
the success of the charity. The assemblage was very
numerous, and the dresses and ornaments of the ladies
were of the most chaste and elegant description. Danc-
ing commenced shortly after tm o'clock, to the music of
Jullien's able band, and was continued until an early
hour iu the morning. The refreshments were, as usual
at assemblies of this character, of the choicest kind, and
were profusely served during the whole of the evening.
The entertainment appeared to give the utmost satisfac-
tion to all present, and the arrangements reflected much
credit on the good taste of the honorary secretary, Mr.
Walter Josephs, and of the gentlemen by whom the ball
was conducted so successfully. The subscriptions re-
ceived amounted to about 3001.

The mercantile advices horn New York by the
America, are favourable as regards the money and stock
markets, but in other reereets they contain earthing of
importance. The rise in stocks had been ehieflj caused
by the centieaance of the European demand. Money
was abundant, and in New York, as in most of the other
eities et the world et this time, large amounts appear to
be seeking investment. The importations of foreign
goods ha•l been large, and there was every sign that an
active business would be maintained, but the steady de-
cline in ct tton on this side during the last few weeks will
probably render it henceforth less buoyant than had br ea
anticipated. By the accounts from Mexico, vie Mobile,
it appears that the United States Jlinister, Mr. liobert
P. Locher, had urrived in that capital en the 2d of
February, and that at that period political affairs were
peifectly quiet. According te a letter said to have been
received from Messrs. Manning. Marker, and Co., of
Vera Cruz, dated the 6th of February, the house of
Manning and Mackiutosh,of Mexico, hod been run upon
in consequence of a malicious combination, but they
had not only promptly met every demand, but had she
discounted a large amount of their acceptances in antici-
pation of maturity.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS.—In addition to
the liberal donations awarded to this useful and charita-
ble institution at the late nnnual festival, we are informed
that his Royal Highness Prince Albert has since for•
warded a very handsome sum to the treasurer, to be
applied to the purposes of the charity.
MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 15 per mine, whicb, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.52; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.471, it follows that gold is 0.18 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advice' from
Hamburgli the price of gold is 4361 per mark, which.
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for
standara gold, gives an exchange of 13.101; and the ex-
change at llamburgh on London at short being 13.111,
it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in London
than in flamburgh. The course of exchange at New
York on London for bills ut 60 days' sight is 1081
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.83 per cent. against Eng
land. But, after making allowance for difference o!
interest and charges of transport, the present rate does
not admit of gold being exported to the United States.
DEATH OF A MISER WORTH 50,0004—During the
last few dap.. considerable interest has been excited in
the neighbourhood of Sadler's Wells, in consequence of
the dr ath of Mr. Wm. Crew, hairdresser, No. 32,
Arlington-street, who, though always living in the most
penurions manner, is said to have died worth 50,0001.
The following facts have been stated en good authority.
Deceased came up a charity boy, in 1790, to try his for-
tune in London, and was taken as errand boy by Mr.
Frederick Hartland, hairdresser, at Sadler's Wells, on
whose death he succeeded to the business. He was re-
markable for his penurious habits, and, after some years,
married a person as penurious as himself. About a
week before his death he disclosed to Mr. Turpin that be
was worth nearly 50,0001. in scrip in railway companies,
houses, &c., which he promised to leave to him, and,
after his death, the draft el a will to that effect was
found. His bed consisted of a few rags. His property
which he made by loans and speculations in the stocks
and public companies, is claimed by a cousin of the de-
ceased, and the case is likely to cause litigation.
THE EXPLOSION AT HOUNSLOW.—iirom inquiries
made on Saturday as to the state of the wounded men,
Henry Clifford, John Compton, and William Pearce,
it was ascertained that Clfford, who was injured very
much, is still fully expected to survive; but John Comp-
ton is still lying in a most precarious state. William
Pearce is going on most favourably.
EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.—THIRTEEN LIVES
LosT.—A correspondent, writing from Wigan, says that
between six and seven o'clock on Saturday morning an
explosion of fire-damp took place at Messrs. Evans and
Turner's colliery in Haydock, situated shout a mile and a
half from Newton race-ground. The explosion occurred
in what is called the " Rock-pit," and 13 persons were
either burned or smothered to death, some of them being
literally burucd to a cinder. It appears that eleven of
the parties were working in a drift 1.000 yards from the
pit-eye, without any conductor, when the explosion took
place; all of whom were learned to death. Two others
were working about 120 yards nearer the pit-eye, and
they, on hearing the explosion, rushed into the face
of the fire, instead of making to the pit-eye. The
names of the sufferers are as 1 ollows: John Durdom and
his son (the elder) Ralph, leaving a wile and five chil-
dren; William Battersby, wife and four children;
William Knowles, one child, and wife (pregnant) ;
Ralph Unsworth and Jobe, his son (the elder),
leaving a wife arid four children ; John Glare,
leaving a wife and five children; John Holloway,
drag er to Glare, killed at the same time ; John
Simm, James Bailey. Christopher Heeketh, Thomas
Glover, and Joseph Batton—ali young men. The men
were allowed safety lamps, if they thought proper to use
them ; but these does not appear to have been any re-
striction against working with naked candles, although
the men had to run away from the fire the day before
the fatal occurrence took place.
ARCTIC VorscEns.—Tbe Hull Advertiser says
:
"An affecting scene occurred on Tuesdayllast at this port,
when 22 seamen, accustomed to the northern regions,
and who had been engaged by Captain Austin, Rs,.
C. 8., to accompany him in search of Sir John Franklin,
took leave of their wives and children upon the pier of
the Humber dock, and immediately afterwards departed
in the steam-ship Vivid,for London, there to join
their conrnsnrler and his crena ,hu are to astl 974
Ist of May."