The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-23 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Journal d' Odessa has an article on the harvest
in Southern Russia, which gives a mournful account
of the state of the corn crops. In a letter from
Sympheropol, dated the 29th of July, it is stated,
" The view of our fields is most painful, as they
appear perfectly burnt up. The corn is for the
most part destroyed by locusts and insects (my-
lotris). They devour the stalk as well as the ear
itself. The bay harvest has been very unsatisfactory,
and the price of corn has rapidly risen. The harvest
in the Government of Cheeson has not been so
bad. Since May there has been almost a continued
drought."

ARRIVAL OF HER, MAJESTY AT

OSTEND.

We are happy to announce that her Majesty and
Prince Albert and suite arrived in safety yesterday
at Oatend, whore they landed at noon. Their recep-
tion was most enthusiastic. His Mjesty the King
of the Belgians went on board the royal yacht to
welcome her Majesty to his dominions previous to the
disembarkation. The particulars will appear in our
next Edition.

INCREASE OF POPULATION IN THE UNITED KING•
DOM. - The population of Great Pritain and Ireland in 1785
was estimated at 12,3:36,932, and in 1849, at 29,105,822,
being an increase of about 12.5 per cent. The calculation
made in 1785 gives the following result :—Population of
England and Wales, 8,01E<,000; Ireland, 2, 05.932; Scot-
land, 1,475,000. the population of the United Kingdom at
present is thus apportioned : England and Wales, 17,759,4 ,2 ;
Ireland, 80, 5,-12.' Scorland, 2,8 0,598. No enumeration of
the population in :England and Wales took place prior to
1801, but the above calculation is made upon the estimate of
Mr. Rickman. In estimating the population for 1849, it is
assumed that it has increased since 1841 (when the last
census was taken) at the same rate as did the females be-
tween 18:31 and 1811. The military are excluded, as also
are the islands in the British seas. The population of the
latter was not enumerated until 181, when the numbers
were z"9,L03 ; in 18<l, 1003,7.0, and in 1819, 12,492. The
estimate of the population of Ireland in la4l is derived from
the rate of increase prevailing between 1831 and 1841,
but the late visitations of famine and cholera must have
carried off at least 1,000,C0u. The numbers who have emi-
grated during the last ten years exceed a million.
The present season promises to be a very fruitful
one for honey.
SIR ROBERT PEEL.—Last night a meeting of the
working classes was held at the Windsor Castle Tavern,
Pimlico, fur the purpose of co-operating with the central com-
mittee. to raise a memorial to the memory of the late la-
mented statesman. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. C.
Lushington, M.P., who was in Westmoreland, the chair was
taken by Mr. Dexter. Resolutions explanatory of the object
in view were submitted to the meeting by Mr. Beal, Mr. J.
G. Harris, Hon. Secretary, Mr. Driver, and others, and after
a lengthened discussion, in consequence of an attempt having
been made by some persona unfavourable to the testimonial
to condemn the policy of Sir R. Peel, were unanimously
carried. A collection was afterwards made, and the meeting,
which was both numerously and respectably attended, then
broke up.
EXHIBITION or 1851.—The Curriers' Company
have voted the sum of 100/. in aid of the Exhibition. We
have reason to believe that the sympathy of this corporation
towards the Exhibition will not be limit-1 to a donation, but
that they are about to take measures for securing an ade-
quate representation of all the various preparations and uses
of loathe: f,r which Bermondsey, in respect of the tanning,
&c., and the metropolis generally in respect of the general
application of leather to manufactures, are deservedly mu cele-
brated. This appears to be an example which the other cor-
porate companies of London might follow with advantage.
REPRESENTATION OF CLARE.—According to the
Limerick Examiner, Mr. John D. Fitzgerald, Qaeen's Conn -
sel, is canvassing the electors of the county of Clare, in an
ticipation of the resignation of Major Macnamara.
SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, in eon-
fvrmity with the terms of this company's separation with the
Brighton Company, their trains ceased running from the
Bricklayers' Arms Station.

THE PRE➢IIER EN ROUTE TO THE HIGHLANDS.—
At one o'clock P.m., on Tuesday, Llrd John Russell, accom-
panied by Lady Russell and children, arrived at the Star
Hotel, George-square, Glasgow, direct from Carlisle, via the
Caledonian Railway. Tne arrival of the distinguished
party was entirely unexpected, and they proceeded through
the streets without being recognised. During the afternoon
the Premier, accompanied by his lady, privately visited the
Exchange, Cathedral, and College, in the first of which his
Lordship was immediately recognised, and very warmly re-
ceived. We understand that the Noble Lord is em route for

the Highlands, by way of Lochlomond, and that his stay
here will not probably extend over the day. He is looking
we.l, and does not appear to have suffered much from the
labours of the past session. From his Lordship being pro-
vided with the various appurtenances proper to the sports-
man, it may be presumed th,t he intends to devote some
time to grouse shooting at his Highland quarters.

Signor Gacdoni has, we understand, been engaged
for the winter season to appear in one of his favourite
artu, o at the opening of the new Opera house, L'Oriente,
at Madrid. Tte ad►nirers of this celebrated tenor will be
glad to hear that he is engaged for the next season at Her
Majesty's Theatre.

FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.--Yesterday afternoon
a f ital accident took place at the etti of Cross-street, Ken-
nington High-street. James Stringer, a tine little fellow,
between nine and ten years of age, the sun of a master
baker, residing in New-street, Kennington-road, in return-
ing to school after dinner, in company with his brother, who
is a little more than his own age,gut behind a brewer's dray,
proceeding towards the Elepltatit a•id Caqle, and just opposite
Cross-street the little follow started from behind the dray.
At this moment a King's Cross omnibus passing in an oppo-
site directi..n, knocked him down, and both the near wheels
passed over him. Notwithstanding his severe and fatal in-
jury, he got up from the ground and ran to the foot pave-
ment, where he fell, and was instantly carried into the shop
of Mr. Hicks, a surgeon, opposite. Mr. Hicks, on examining
the sufferer, said the injury done to his neck and loins, over
which the wheels had passed, were of a fatal character, and
that, in fact, he was dying at the time, and, as predicted by
that gentleman, a few minutes terminated his suffering..
By this time the father, who had been sent for, arrived, and
the driver of the omnibus was taken to the statiiin-house in
Kennington, but several persons having declared that not
the slightest guilt was attributable to him, and that, in fact,
the unfortunate occurrence was perfectly accidental. Mr.
Stringer, the father, refused to charge him, and he was libe-
rated. About a week ago a precisely similar accident took
place opposite the Horns Tavern, at Kennington, another at
Highgate, and both equally fatal.

TIGHT-ROPE DANCING OVER A RIVER —;Madame
Damassin. a tight-rope dancer, who, on Sunday, in order to
attract visitors to the fete of Chatou, near St. Germain, it
was announced would go acro,s the Seine on a rope drawn
from one bank to the other, had a narrow escape front a
watery grave in making the attempt. She bad crossed
safdy, but on returning lost her balance and fell into the
water. Boats immediately put off to her assistance, and
after a short time she was rescued from her dangerous posi-
tion.

CURSING AND SWEARING —A petition is being
signed at Marseilles, praying the National Assembly to pass
a law against cursing and swearing; it has already received
upwards of 300 signatures. " You have protected animals
from ill-treatment," says the petition, " and can you permit
the name of the Lord to be outraged with impunity in
France?" It may be remembered that such a law is in force
in England.

The Duke of Richmond, to whom the Chichester
Museum is much indebted, has recently enriched the orni-
thological department, by presenting a valuable colection of
stuffed birds, among which are fine specimens of the king
duck (anas spectehilis), male and female, from the Orkneys;
the b!ack skimmer (rhyn chops nigra), from America; with
many others equally rare and curious.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.—I know enough of politi-
cal economy to have perceived in the father of the British
school (Adam Smith), that the wealth of nations is every-
thing in that school, and the morality and happiness of
nations nothing; and in the other writers which have fallen
in my way, I have found their knowledge so little, and their
presu:nption so great, as to excite in me a greater degree of
contempt than I usually feel fur anything in the shape cf a
book.--Southey.

LOCK HOSPITAL.—A meeting of the committee
and subscribers to this hospital was held yesterday, in the
board-room of the hospital, at W.esbourne-green, Pad-
dington. From the report presented it appeared that during
the year, 791 patients received the beneficial treatment or the
hospital, upwards of 400 of that number having been in-
patients. The financial condition of the institution, it is
stated, has assumed an encouraging aspect during the twelve
months. The report of the asylum in connexion with the
hospital states that the "Royal Cambridge Wing," lately
erected for the moral and industrial training of 80 additional
females, was completed at a cost of 5,4501. After Alluding to
the gratifying results arising from the reformatory asylum,
the report concludes with a warm expression of gratitude for
the services of the ladies superintending the asylum, and a
record of the great benefits derived from the chapel of the in-
stitution, both in a moral and a pecuniary point of view.
Some routine business having closed the proceedings, the
meeting separated.

ADVANTAGES OF EARLT TRAINING.—The follow-
ing dialogue is reported to have taken place at the Queen's
County Assize, between a medical witness and a barrister:
—Mr. Hayes (the barrister)—" If a person, lying on wet
straw, were deprived of all the comforts or necessaries of
life, would it not hasten death?" Dr. Edge—" That would
greatly depend upon whether he bad been accustomed to
them?" Mr. Hayes—" Do you mean to tell us that if a
person lived in a horse-pond it would not be injurious to
him ?" Dr. Edge—" I think not if he had lived sixty or
seventy years in it."

BROMPTON HOSPITAL. Yesterday evening a
meeting of the managing committee was held in the board-
room of the institution ; Mr. Robert Dickson, M.D , in the
chair. The usual r,utir.e business having been transacted,
it was stated that although the " building extension fund"
had been most warmly responded to, yet that much remained
to he effected be:ore the erection of the eastern wing could
be accomplished. This was the more to be regretted, as
there were so many patients of both st-xes awaiting their
several turns of admission. The acting committee had,
however, already commenced their efforts in aid of the
bazaar, to be held in the ensuing year, as already advertised.
The present number of patients in the wards of the hospital
exceeds eighty.

ALLEGED MURDER IN THE COMMERCIAL DOCK..—
Yesterday forenoon Mr. William Carter, the coroner, went
into an inquiry at the Plough Inn, Lower Deptford-road,
Rotherhithe, respecting the death of Hugh Featherstone,
aged twenty-one years, a deal porter, lately residing at No.
24, Derwin-street, East Greenwich, who, it was alleged, had
lost his life by being thrown into the Commercial Docks,
Rotherhithe, by a man named David Coleman. Several
witnesses were examined, and a verdict returned of "Acci-
dental death."

CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.—The Cork and
Bandon Railway- is carried across the Vale of Chetwynd by a
very handsome viaduct of four large and lofty arches ninety
feet high. There ate three viaducts on the line, and one
tunnel 900 yards in length, and the cost, whey all ie cola-
plete(l, will In 252,0004