The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

CHESTER CUP.

15 to 2 to 3001., and 8 to 1 in hundreds taken about
Peep o'-day-Boy. No other change.
THE FARMERS' PLATE AT NORTHAMPTON. This
case was re-opened after the races this afternoon, when
the stewards, after hearing the parties interested, de-
cided that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant any
alteration in the decision given by the stewards at
Northampton.
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
The following are the acceptances for the Suffolk
Stoker,—

Yrs. st. lb. Yrs. it. lb.
Backbiter
Herbert
Sauter la Coupe, Chicot ......... 4 ••• 6 11
(81b. extra) 4 ... 7 11 Bordeaux
Quasimodo ... 4 ... 7 6 Thistledown
Quinine
... 5 ,
The highest weight left in being 7st 10Ib, it was raised
to Bst 71b, and the whers in proportion.
WEDNESDAY'S RACES.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for four years old.
It. M. (4 Subi.)

Mr. Ramsbottom's Bez.bee Bunnoo, ist 121 b (S. Mann) 1
Lord Glasgow's c by Inheritor or Jerryhorse, out of
Deerslayer's dam
Lord W. Powlett's Rearguard, Bst 71b ... Rogers) 3
Betting-6 to 4 each agst Bieber) Bunnoo, and Inheri-
tor colt, and 2 to 1 agst Rearguard.
Beebee Bunnoo made all the running, and won
cleverly by a length. Run in 1 min. 55 sec.
Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, It ft ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies,
Bst 31b ; those got by stallions or out of mares that
never bred a winner allowed 31b. D.M. (9 Subs.)
Lord H. Lennox's Beehtinter, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1
Mr. Howard's Chieftain, Bst 41b (A.. Day) 2
Lord Exeter's Nuthatch, Bst 41b (Norman) 3
Betting-8 to lon Beehunter, who made all the run-
ning, and won in a canter by three lengths. Run in 1
min. 48 sec.

Plate of ock 0011., for three years old, let 71b ; four,

8 t 121); five find ilwardi, 94 alb; mare. i 11(.1 geld-
ings allowed Sib. Ti,e winner to be sold for 200
soys., if demande I, and allowar ces if to be ,sold for
less. D. M.

Whitstone, 5 yrs,B it 1I lb (W. B Dyce) 1
Col. Peel's Vasa, 4 yrs, 7s; lllb . • (1;14v town) 2
Sir J. Gerard's Jest, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (G. Br own) 3
Lord Batetnan's Goodwood, 4 yrg, 7st 5113 (Chs .pple) 4
Lord Exeter's Visite, 3 yrs, sst I 11b...(W. Ho clock) 5
Mr. Roger's f by the Earl of Richmond, d. vri by
Gls-nous, 3 yrs, 6st I Ilb (Dockm ray) 6
Betting-2 to I agst Vasa, sto 2 agst Jest, and 4 to
1 agst Goodwood. Won by two lengths, Vasa beating
Jest by a length, the latter finishing nt arly two lengths
before Goodwood. Run in I min. 47 sec. _ _

Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft: for three ;yrs old;
colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; those get by ste ll'ons, or
out of mares tit:A never bred a winner, all rwed 31b.
D.M. (14 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux, Bst 71b (F. B utler) 1
Mr. Combo's Necklace, Bst (R )tton) 2
Lord Exeter's Nutcracker, Bst 41b .. (Fla :man) 3
Betting-2 to 1 on Bordeaux. A very hollow race
from first to last, the favourite waiting into Ihe cords,
and winning in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 min.
50 sc cs.

Sweepstakes of 50 BOVE. each, for four yrs oid r,nd up-
wards. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Payne's Crucible, 4 yrs, 7st Sib (Flatiron) I
Lord Clifden's Rathmines, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Pearl) 2
Ld Glasgow's fby Lanercost, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Pttit) 3
Betting-2 to 1 on Crucible, who led fron► end to
end, and won easily by half a length. Run in 1 min.
16 secs.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sow. each, and only 5 if
dtclared, &c., for three yrs old and upwards. A.F.
(6 Subs.. three of whom pay 5 sovs ft.)
Mr. Barnes's Sotterley, 5 vrs. Sat 121 b (Flatman) 1
Mr. C. Marson na Pius IX., 5 yr?, ist 91b ...(Pettit) 2
Lord W. Powlett's Give and Take, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b... 3
Betting-5 to 4 agst Give and Take, 6 to 4 agst Sot•
terley, and 7 to 2 agst Pius IX. Won cleverly by three
parts of a length, Pius IX. beating Give and Take by
half a length. Run in 2 min. 22 secs.

Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst
71b; fillies, Bst 21b, not engaged in the 2,000 Guineas
or 1,000 Guineas Stakes; 41bs allowed, &c. A.F.
(5 Subs.)
Duke of Rutland's Ondine, 7st 121 b... (Boyce) 1
Mr. Combe's The Trump, Bst 31b (R. Cotton) 2
Mr. Ford's Satire, 7st 121 b
Betting-5 to 4 each agst Ondine and Satire, and sto
4 agst The Trump.
Satire cut out the work at a moderate pace to the
bushes, where it was taken up by Ondioe, who maintained
it to the end, and won very cleverly by a length. Run
in 2 min. 25 sec.

Handicap Plate of 501.; for four yrs old and upwards.
Cesarewitch Course.

Duke of Rutland's Fire•eater, 4 yrs, Tat Sib (Cbapple) 1
Capt. Low ther's Watchdog, 6 yrs, ist llb (Dockeray) 2
Betting-7 to 2 on Fire-ester. The favourite made
all the running from the ditch, and won cleverly by a
length; the horses having only trotted for the first mile,
it would be absurd to give the time in which the race
was run.

BETTING ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
ONE TIIOUSAND•GUINEAS STAKES.
6to 5 agst Exotic filly Isto 1 agst California
2 to 1 agst Tiff

OAKS.
oto 1 agst Exotic filly 115 to 1 agst.Probity
0 to 1 agst Tiff

DERBY.
Offers to take 15 to 1 about Ghillie Callum.
NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY.
ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY.
Queen's Plate. R.C.
Sir Peter Laurie, C yrs—Sotterley, 5 yrs—Dover, 5
yrs—Fernhill, 5 yrs—Fire-eater, 4 yrs—Retail, 4 yrs.
Sweepstake for two years old. T.Y.C.
Beaufort—ch f by Slane, out of Receipt—Lady Stuart
—Nineveh.
Sweepstakes for three years old. T.Y.C. Winner to

be sold for 130 sovs.
Falcon—br c by the Nob out of llarmony—c by Gla-
diator, out if Revival—Rose Pompon—Nuthatch.
Sweepstakes fir three years old. First half of Ab. M.
Winner to be sold for 80 sovs.

Falcon—b fby Nutwith, out of Agnes—Visite—Paul
Brae—Diligence.

LATEST BETTING.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
ONE THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES.
sto 4 agst Exotic filly I Bto 1 agst California
2 to 1 agst Tiff

CIIESTE
Bto 1 asst Peep-o'- day Boy
0 to 1 agat Essedarius
2 to 1 agst Miss Ann
4 to I agtt Glauca
4 to 1 agit Fugleman

CIIP.
16 to 1 apt Ellerdale
16 to I agst Chantrey
00 to 1 ag•t John Cosser
60 to 1 aget Col!Inwood

6 to 1 apt Bolingbroke

DER

.3 to 1 last Ghillie Callum
OA:

0 to 1 sgst Tiff
8 to 1 agst Exotic filly

14 to 1 agst The Nigger
17 to 1 agst Mildew (t)
15 to 1 apt Probity.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—A paragraph appears in your journal of last
evening, signed "11. Dempster," professing to give the
results of the author's inquiries on the subject of who and
what are the Fishmongers' Company. I have r either
time or inclination to enter into a controversy with one
who has made such vague and superficial inquiries on
the subject. But I think Mr. Dempster will find on in-
quiry that the Fishmongers' Company appoint two free-
men, who act as the company's meters to prevent the
Isuding and sale of unwholesome fish within the juris-
diction of Loudon and its suburbs, the salaries of whom
aro paid by the company. Tte other statements of this
astute a:.d painstaking inquirer are equally void of
truth, and are gross perversions of the actual facts of the
case, and 1 would recommend him before he again trou-
bles the public press on such a subject to consult "Her-
bert's Ilistory of the Twelve Livery Companies," where
he will get all the information he requires, and thus save
both his time and credit,—Yours, obediently,
April 25, ISSO. ATER AX.

SPOONER AND ROGERS' SEVEN MILE MATCH FOR
Tntirrr SOVEIIEIGNS.—This interestiug 'affair came off yes-
terday at the Flora Gardens, Bayswater. Young Spooner,
whose name has recently been so much before the public
from his defeat of Ferguson, and his twenty mile match in
three hours for 1004, was pitted against Rogers, a well-tried
fast one of the old school, giving him half a minute start. In
this half minute Rogers managed to get over about 140 yards.
The style of his going seeming to be, as Lady Macbeth says,
" stand not on the order of your going—but, go I" And so
he did, and as he was not turned by the referee, we chari-
tably suppose he was walking. The consequence of this, and
Spooner feeling even too much confidence was, that Rogers
at three miles and a half actually cleared 240 yards, or a
clear lcss of the ground, and came alongside Spooner. The
betting now changed, and slight odds could be had that
Rogers won. At four miles Spooner let go in fearful earnest.
He walked clean away from the " ould un" at a terrific bat,
and in a mile had made up eighty or ninety yards; at five
miles he was about the same gistance in front; in the sixth he
made it safe by coming within thirty or forty yards of Rogers,
having made up the turn deficient previously. In the seventh
mile he walked by his man ad lib., and won by a sovereign a
yard of the distance between them.

MR. LEIGH MURRAT.—This popular and talented
light comedian, who so ably fills the situation and discharges
the duties of stage-manager of the Strand Theatre, has an-
nounced his benefit for Friday night. Few actors of the day
have so rapidly acquired the favourable ear of the play-
going part of the public as this gentleman, whose versatile
histrionic ability may be equalled, but certainly is not sur-
passed hy any actor,in the same line of business. The bill of
fare he has provided for the occasion is highly calculated to
please the palates of his numerous;admirers, and will
of itself be sufficient to secure him a bumper. The
comedy of London Assurance, strongly cast, stands first, then
comes a recitation by the venerable though never fading Mrs.
Glover. This will be followed by the Elon Boy, and the en-
tertainment will close with an introduction to that droll
fellow, Compton, as Friend Waggles. There is only one
reason to apprehend disappointment. It is quite clear the
little house in the Strand will turn out to be too small to ac-
commodate all who will be anxious to be present
EAST INDIA HOUSE.—ELECTION OF A DIRECTOR.
—Yesterday a general Court of the East India Company was
held at their house in Leadenhall.street for the election of a
director, in the room of Major-General Sir A. Galloway,
K.C.U., deceased. The only candidates were Major J. A.
Moore and Mr. U. T. Primp. The poll commenced at 9
o'clock and closed at 6. The result was made known
shortly after 10 o'clock, when the scrutineers, accompanied
by several of the directors and the candidates, entered, the
Courtroom. The chair was then taken by Captain East-
wick, and the numbers were announced as follows :—For
thereupon er PeruipnosnePdeclared 126
;
Major J. A. Moore, 1,096 ; for Mr.
wlais•
majority 70. Major J. A. t h
duly elected a director, and the Lour t adjourned.
CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC.—The South-Eastern and
Continental. Go`
mpsni's steam-ship the Prince Ernest sailed
from Folkestone harbour for Boulogne at noon yesterday,
with 47 passengers and the Princess Mary arrived from
Boulogne, bringing 80 passengers, amongst whom were Lady
Chesterfield, the Earls of Aylesbury, Wilton, and Sandwich,
the Count Avigdor, Mr. Lambton, &e., with 'several car-
riages and horses.
Tits ARCTIC EXPEDlTlON.—lntelligence has just
been received of the arrival of Mr. Roe and Commander
Pullen, of the Plover, at the Mackenzie; thus establishing
the fact that Sir John Franklin's party had not reached any
part of the coast between Behring's Strait and the Copper
Mine, whilst the check which Mr. Roe appears to have re-
ceived in his 'comae to the north of the Copper Mine tendato
give increased importance to the quarter eastward of that
position.

GRAY'S INN, MAY I.—At a Pension of the Hon-
ourable Society of Gray's Inn, holden this day, Henry Wil-
liam Vincent, Esq., her Majesty's Remembrancer in the
Court of Exchequer, was called to the degree of Barrister at
Law.

INCOME-TAX IN IRELAND.—In a return which
has just appeared the amount of property assessed under
schedule D, arising from securities and possessions in Ireland
in the year ending April, 1849, is stated to have been
734,3521. The amount of dividends'under schedule Cin the
public funds was 106,3091., and the amount of salaries m-
ussed under schedule E vo as 82,7321.
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.
Yesterday afternoon the annual meeting of the members of
this institution was held in the Theatre, Albemarle•street, his
Grace the Duke of Northumberland in the chair. It ap-
peared front the report, which was read by Dr. Granville
that the society had been more then ordinarily prosperous
during the past year. Several valuable donations of books
were acknowledged, and it was stated that lectures bad been
delivered during the past year by the Master of Trinity
College, Cambridge (Dr. Whewell), Professors Baden,
Powell, Faraday, Owen,_ and Brande, Dr. G. A. Mantel],
Dr. Pettigrew, Sir C. Lyell, the Rev. E. Sidney, Messrs.
Grove, Barlow, Brodie, Cowper. Hunt, Mansfield, and Cern_
mael. The report was adopted, a vote of thanks was `
ac-
corded to the chairman, and-the meeting separated.
The report circulated by a weeklypaper, rather
notoribns for its "manufactUre of conversions, that the Rev.
W. Palmer, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, has seceded
to the Greek Church, is, wehave reason to believe, entirely
Without fOundation.—The Guardian,

NAVAL COURTS-MARTI
(From the Portsmouth Times and Naval G
If we were asked, what, in our opinion, is
inscrutable, unintelligible, perplexing thing up,
we should be inclined to answer, a naval court-
for its doings bailie all calculation, and are past
out. We defy the man who is best versed in the law of
courts-martial, and the recognised rules cf the service, to
predict the effect which evidence will produce upon the
judges of such courts upon any particular occaiion, or
even to make a tolerable guess as to what decision they
will come. In several recent eases these courts have, upon
precisely a similar state of facts, pronounced diametrically
opposite decisions : one officer has been acquitted, while
another, to all men's eyes but the court's, far less blame-
able, has been condemned, and this, with a reckless dis-
regard of both private sufferings and public opinion, as
if the Honourable Court was solely bent upon furnish•
ing a naval illustration of the old adage, " One may
steal a horse, while another is hanged for only looking
over the hedge."
The case of Commander Michell, just dismissed from
the command of her 'Majesty's sloop Sappho, by sentence
of a court-martial held last month, on board of her Ma-
jesty's slip Imaurn, Commodore Bennett (President of the
Court), the chief proceedings of which will be found re-
ported in another column of our paper, justifies us, in
our. estimation, for the reflections we have cast upon
judgment afloat. _ _

The salient points of Commandeer Michell's case
aro buccinetli as follow :—Sappho, through the ob-
stinacy of a second-master, lent her by lmaum, her
own master bEing laid up dangerously ill in hospital,
and the negligence or conceit of a young lieutenant,
who, in spite of the express command of his
captain, written in his night order, would not keep
the lead going, ran upon one of the innumerable reefs
in the bay of Honduras, on the 6th of December last,
the weather having been thick and rainy for several
previous days. We need not do more than remind
our nautical readers of the rapidity as well as incal-
culable variability of the currents in the Gulf of
Mexico and its adjacent bays, its fogs and atmospheric
perturbations—rain, hail, snow, and vapours—in dreary
December, and they will properly appreciate the difficul-
ties with which Commander Mitchell was surrounded.
He appears to have been unremitting in his personal care
to provide against casualties, he took the best obser-
vations he could in the weather which prevailed, and again
and again told the master lent him from the flag-ship,
that be thought he was wrong in his reckoning as to the
ship's position. The master persisted in his own opi-
nion, and the commander, as the rules of the service
require, yielded up his own judgment. After taking
the utmost care that his anchors, cables, beats,
&c, were fit for instant service on the occurrence of
any emergency, ;and leaving strict written orders
that the lead should be kept constantly going,
Commander Michell went below to snatch some
short repose. Sappho ran aground during his brief ab-
scence from the deck, upon the Seal Cays upon
which her Majesty's ship Spitfire was wrecked a few
years ago, where she left her bones, and everything be-
longing to her, except her crew, who barely saved their
lives. The same was the case with twelve other
merchant vessels lost upon the same reef about the
same time with Sappho's disaster. Spitfire's com-
mander and crew were brought to trial for her loss, and
honourably acquitted. But Sappho, with all her sticks,
guns, anchors, and stores, was rescued from the yawning
and hungry deep by the admirable skill and indefatiga-
ble perseverance of her commander and gallant crew,
who declared at his trial, with emphatic and affecting
simplicity, that his conduct had uniformly been " good.
nothing but good." But let us note, en passant, that by
recent rules, as the complaints of a ship's company do not
damage an oppressive officer—" Discipline must be en-
forced, sir"—so the favourable testimony of his crew
does not avail their commander on his day of trial—" He
is too indulgent, sir; under such officers the service would
go to the devil!" _

After a torturing suspense of three months' duration,
Commander 3litchell was brought to a trial, which
was protracted through thrte tedious days. He
was then sentenced to be dismissed his ship,
the Court, at the same time, pronouncing their
opinion that the testimony of all the witnesses
against the prisoner, except that of the surgeon, whose
evidence was on a collateral point unconnected with the
loss of Sappho, was " frivolous and malicious."
We will not attempt to describe the puzzled astonish-
ment which, we are informed directly from Port Royal,
was produced by this amazing verdict, but will pause to
ask in what a position do the officers commanding her
Majesty's ships now stand? If a captain diffwrs in
opinion from his master as to a ship's proper course,
and explains his reasons for differing (Commander
Michell's case), and that master does not formally re-
linquish charge, the rules of the service require the
captain to defer to the master's judgment. He may, to
be sure, call upon the master to give up charge, and
place him under arrest it he refuses, but if a mishap
afterwards occurs, what is the captain's fate? Certain
dismissal from his ship, and probable dismissal from the
service altogether!

Again, supposing the captain, after patiently unfold-
ing his own views, yields to the master, and the ship is
lust, what then? Commander Michell's case shows that
he is still dismissed his ship. The Court pronounced
Commander Michell guilty of " great negligence in
steering and conducting" his ship, for the proper super-
intendence of which he had a master sent him from the
flag-ship, to whose judgment the rules of the service
constrain him to deter: the Court with the same breath
stigmatizing► the said master's evidence as " frivolouc and
malicious," yet concluding thus: " therefore, this Court
adjudges Commander Michell to be dismissed his ship."
Oh, fie! on such a " therefore." Is nut its logical se-
quence from such premises tantamount to the reasoning
of some solemn vvi,eacre who should syllogiae thus: the
angles of an cquik:eral triangle are equal to two right
angles, thertfure mustard is a good accompaniment to
pork chops.
We are almost sorry for haying entertained a ludi-
crous idea while discussing a case so provocative cf in-
dignation. so truly alarming to every naval officer who
cannot, if in trouble, err lie the mo,t sweet ♦oices of
Greenwich electors to his rescue, but the absurdity of
this court-martial is irresistibly comic as well as cruel.
We have by no means ,aid our say upon it, but we can
only to-day notice a fact or two without comment for
the present. Three of the six officers composing the
c.nirt belonged to tl-le Admiral's flag-ship, and the day
alter Commander Michell's dismissal Flag-Lieutenant
the Honourable Arthur Ccchrane, the Admiral's son, was
appointed to her. We make no unkind comments upon
this paternal act, ss e impute no unworthy motives, but
will others be equally forbearing?

CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.—The first
half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held on Tuesday
afternoon at the London Tavern; Mr. Thomas Dakin in the,
chair. The secretary read the report of the directors as to
the state of the company up to the present time. After de-
tailing matters which have already been before the public,
the report stated that the directors had entered into con.
tracts to supply the inhabitants along the line from Bow-
common to the City with gas as soon as the mains were laid
down ; and they had also agreed to supply the inhabitants
of Blile-end Old Town, andother places near it, within twelve
months after they had commenced supplying the city of
London. The receipts, up to the 30th of April, 1850, were
32,0091. 19s. ld., and the directors wished that the third
call should be paid up, as they were anxious to have the
amount of 75,0001. at command before commencing laying
down their pipes. The works at Bow-common were pro-
ceeding rapidly, and the wharf at Limebouse bad been com-
pleted. The retort-house and station-meter-house were
rapidly proceeding, and the excavations for the purifying-
house and for the tanks for the too large gasometers were
finished and ready for the construction of the brickwork. In
the event of the trustees of the Essex-roads continuing to
refuse the company permission to lay down their mains, the
cost of diverging from them would not exceed 5001., a cost
which it might be judged better to incur than the delay
The cost of the mains to Mile-
until the passing of the Bill-
end Old Town and Whitechapel would not exceed 10,0001.,
as no great lengths of pipe_were ;required. This report was
received and adopted, and the meeting (which was a very
full one) separated, after a vote of thanks to the chairman.
IMPROVEMENT 01' THE NATlONALgivingup GthAeiru:r,x,RtnY
In the event of the y
Royal Academy.
a to
the National Gallery, would it not both be desirable and
practicable to make one uniform and connected building of it,
by doing away with the present entrance to the barracks, and
bleastteiningentiti,eaturtioofrpsompatshserLnedecromane
oaur
tehintotooyTartartahigearle.vocielumof the
an inclined plane? The farthest entrance near St Maithes'
Church might be done away with altogether, conilderingthe
little use it is of to the public.—Builder.
.A.TALEXPLOSIONAT MENAI-BRIDGE.-OCI Thurs.
day evening last Mr. John Thomas, one of the firm of Messrs.
H. and J. Thomas, druggists, met with his death in the fol.
lowing sudden and awful manner : —lt seems he was very
fond of reading chemical works, and of trying chemical ex-
periments. On the above evening be was making some de•
tonating powder (probably for the first time), and having'
had the invedients properly dried proceeded to mix'them
together in a Wedgwood mortar, when the friction of the
pestle caused the powder to explode. The explosion, whioh
was attended with a very loud and strange report, shivered
the mortar, bottles, jars, window, &c., to atoms. Mr. Thomas ,
immediately ran through the back door to the house of
neighbour opposite, where he immediately fell, and weltering
in his own blood almost instantly expired. Mr: Charlet,
surgeon, of Bangor, who had just left the bridge, was imme-
diately sent for, and having been found at GorPhwYsiS, was
on the spot in a few minutes, but too late to be of any help to
the young man. It turned out that a portion of the mortar,
or some other broken fragment, had entered the groin, and
penetrated the main artery, the great and rapid loss of blood
from which caused almost instant death. The thumb of the
left hand was almost completely severed at the joint which
attaches it to the wrist, a narrow piece of skin on the outside
alone keeping up the connexion. Numerous small pieces of
glass had also penetrated the about the face and head.
The apprentice was the only person in the shop at the time.
He was looking out at the window, having his back turned
towards Mr. Thomas at the moment of the explosion. Two
pieces, of the entire thickness of the mortar, about an inch
square, lodged in his arm. Mr. Charier dressed the wounds.
and we understand he is likely to do well. An inquest was
held on Friday morning on the body of Mr. Thomas. when
a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. 'The de-
ceased was a very amiable and steady young man.— cheater
Courant.

FATAL EXPLOSION.--PLYMOUTH, APRIL 30.—The
lestwithiel powder-works, at fierod's Foot, five milci west o
Liskeard, exploded at nine o'clock on Friday night, the 26th
inst. There were in store tUrce or four tons of gunpowder,
which went off in three different explosions. The premises
were blown to pieces, and the bodies' of the two watchers,
Pengelly and Truscott, shockingly mutilated. Cottages, a
quarter of a mile distant, Arc said to have been unroofed and
the walls damaged.

The Honourable Artillery Company gave a splen-
did ball-at their Artillery ground on Tuesday evening last,
the 30th ultimo, which was attended by upwards of 300 per
The company began to arrive at nine o'clock, and
shortly after dancing commenced to Adams's fashionable
bind, which performed a new selection of quadrilles, polkaa,
waltzes, schottisches, &c., which were greatly admired. At
one o'clock an elegant supper was provided; 'after which
dancing was resumed with reanimated spirit, and continued
until dawn, when,the company separated, highly delighted ,
with the night's entertainment. Amongst the company we
noticed the 1.40 rd rod Lady Mayoren, fiberiff Nicoll, kc.

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