The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-29 00:00:00

DESTRUCTION OF ST. ANN'S
CHURCIT, LIMEHOUSE, BY FIRE THIS DAY.
Shortly after eight o'clock this morning the inhabitants
of Limehouso were thrown into the utmost excitement,
in consequence of a report that the parish church of
s'. Ann's had been discovered on fire, and in a short time
the engines and firemen reached the scene of destruction,
by which time the whole of the lower part of the sacred
edi3ce was one burning mass. Water was procured,
and eleven or twelve engines were soon in full operation,
worked by a body of at least 300 auxiliaries, but not the
slightest impression could be produced on the flames,
which spread without interruption, and by ten o'clock
the church was gutted.
The engines were kept working up to the hour of 11,
when the flames were got under.
It is believed that the church was insured, and Oat
the cause of the calamity originated from a defect in
one of the flues of the church chimneys.
The loss is estimated at about 20,0001., and it is be-
lieved that the only property that could be saved was
the communion service plate, which had been arranged
for the peculiar service of the day (Good Friday).

COLJESE OF
knsteriftm .......• •• 12 2U
Ditto, three months .. 12 3
ttottcrdam • • 12 4
Antwerp .............. 25 85
Brussels •• •• ..... 25 85
Eiamburgh • • M.B. 13 14
Altona • • .. • • • •
Paris, 3 days'sight • • 25 65
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 85
larseilles •.•••• .• .. • • 25 85.
80urdeaux......... •
!frankfort on Maine.... 123 •
it erlin
Vienna, effec. flo ••• • •• 11 56
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 56
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 37%
itadrid •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 49%
Calls •• •• •• •• •• •• •• .• 49%
Barcelona • • • • •• • • .• • • --
Seville • • • • •• • • • • • • • • VS

EXCHANGE.

Gibraltar.. •• .• .• .• .• ••
Leghorn ••••••• • •• •• • • 30 75
Genoa .• •• •• •• •• •• • • 16 10
Hilan .. • • • • • • • • • • • • .•
Venice• • • • . • • • • • • • • • ••
Naples .............• 40%
ralerrno,peroz.......• 1211 j
Messina ••• •• •• •• •• 122 k,
Lisbon.. • • • • •• • • • • • • • • 45314
Oporto" •• •• •• .• •• •• •• 153%
ttio Janeiro ..........
Buenos Ayres —
New York, 21 dayeaight
Philadelphia .

moms OF BULLION, PIZ 08.
'Foreign Gold inloars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .... • • 0 4 10%
Silver ha bars .......• 0 0 0

DEATH OF RICHARD MACKENZIE, ESQ., OF DOLPH-
INGTON.—The legal profession lately lost two of its brightest
ornaments in the death of Lord Jeffrey and that of Sir James
Gibson Craig, and now it is our painful duty to announce
the death of a third, not less prominent in his sphere. Mr.
Mackenzie, Joint Deputy-Keeper of her Majesty's Signet
for Scotland, died at his house in Aercromby-place, on Fri-
day last, in the 70th year of his age, and 47th of his profes-
sion as a writer to the signet.—Daily Mail.

On Friday, two workmen in the Clyde Bottle
Works, Glasgow, having quarrelled, one of them seized a
red-hot iron rod and ran his assailant through.
Pleasure unattained is the hare which we hold in
chase, cheered on by the ardour of ccmpetitiou. the exhila-
rating cry of the dogs, the shouts of the hunters, the echo
of the horn, the ambition of being in at the death. Plea-
sure attained, is the same hare hanging up in the sportsman's
larder, worthless, disregarded, deipised, dead.—Elias Cook's
JoUrnal.

EASTER HOLIDAYS.—The various railway com-
panies have put forth their holiday bills of fare this year
with an evident desire to lessen_ the attractions 'which, in
bygone days, Hampstead and Greenwich, and other suburban
places, possessed for the million. The liberal terms on which
passengers have heretofore bees conveyed in holiday seasons
to Boulogne, Brighton, Dover, Canterbury,- Folkestone, and
other fashionable resorts, have been this year still further
reduced ; and during the Easter recess parties may visit any
of these places for a mere fractional part of the ordinary
fares, with the option of returning in two, or three, or four
days. The South-Eastern, North Kent, and Brighton Rail-
ways, being essentially pleasure lines, offer peculiar advan-
tages to holiday makers, and will no doubt meet with a pro-
portionate degree of public patronage.

FOREIGN REPRINTS.—The Lords of the Treasury
having received applications from two commanders in the
Royal Navy, requesting the admission of some foreign re-
prints of English works, a communication was made to the
authorities by the Treasury secretary, stating that he was
directed by their Lordships to acquaint them that, with a
view of arriving at some fixed practice in dealing with the
importations of pirated works in these cases, their Lordships
were of opinion that it would be advisable that the Copyright
Act should be put in force in all cases of such importations
except when the books have been imported and the duty
paid thereon before the passing of the Act, and they have
been again taken out of this country by officers of her Ma-
jesty's navy in her Majesty's ships previously to the passing
of the Act. In such cases their Lordships considered that
an indulgence should be granted, as the original importation
was legal, and the parties when they again took the books
out of this country, could not have foreseen that their re-
importation would he prohibited, and on this principle their
Lordships desired that the authorities would permit the
books to be delivered to the parties as requested, en the
truth of their statements being duly attested in a satisfactory
manner.

BURFORD'S PANORAMA.—The following distin-
guished visitors have recently honoured Mr. Burford's
Panorama of the Arctic Regions with their company:—
Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops of Llandaff and London,
Earl and Countess of Dillon, Lord and Lady Wharneliffe,
Sir C. Egerton, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Holland,• Lady
Hussey, Duchess of Sutherland and party, Lord and Lady
Kildare, Lady Farquharson. Sir G. and Lady Talbot, Lord
C. Paget, Sir C. Napier, Alderman Firebrother and family,
Hon. Captain Gough, Sir J. end Lady Copley, the Persian
Ambassador and suite, Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam,
Raikes Currie, Esq., Lady Moncrieffe, Lord Clare, Lord and
Lady Clanricarde, Duke of Northumberland, Lord and Lady
Keene, Lady Raffles, Sir E. Macnaughten, Mrs. Dent, Mar-
quis f Bath, Major Bulkeley, Earl Stamford, Lord and
Lady Shannon, Lord Boyle, Sir H. and Lady
Dalrymple, Lord and Lady Tenterclen' Marquis of Bristol,
Lady Frankliia, Lady Cotton, Earl and Countess of
Roseberry, Hon. Miss C. Pepy Hon. Mrs. Musgrove,
the Misses Erskine, Earl of Carlisle, Lady Arthur Harvey,
Lady Clarke and the Hon. Misses Clarke, Viscount and
Viscountess Sidney, Lord Marcus Hill, Earl of Ellesmere,
Mrs. Alderman Thompson, Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir R.
Westmacott, J. Burnett, Esq., Mrs. Bosanquet, Lord and
Lady Morley A. Smith, Esq , M.P., Sir E. and Lady Har-
rison, Earl and Countess of Beverley, Bishop of Chester, Lady
Portman, Earl Minto, Lady Ann Baker, Lord Waterpark,
Sir J. Heptwik, Sir G. and Lady Back, Sir J. C. Hobboase,
Lord Ashley, Lord Langdale, Marchioness of Douro, Sir J.
and Lady Williams, Archbishop of Armagh, Lieut.-Colonel
the Hon. Charles Grey and Viscountess Canning, Sir T. and
Lady Freemantle, Lord E. Howard, Hon. A. H. Crofton, Lord
and Lady Sudeley, Hon. Caroline Boyle, Bishop of Ely,
Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir J. and Lady Malcolm, Sir J. M'Gregor,
Lord Alfred Paget, Marchioness of Ormonde. Dowager Lady
Morley, Lord Elphinstone, Duke of Devonshire, H. W. Kep-
pel, Lord and Lady Mason, Sir C. and Lady Sullivan, Lady
Essex, Sir R. and Lady Inglis, Sir F. Baring, Sir E. Beau-
fort, Captain Bird, &c.

THE DISGUISED ABBE.—(DEC. 1772.)—An ad.
venture has just occurred which proves that no man can
answer for himself. M. Petit de Monteinpus, a priest
canon at Notre Dame, and moreover a great Jansenist, is now
sixty, and has taught philosophy all his life at the College
of Plessis. He is remarkable for his erudition and wisdom,
had never been known to lose his
.gravity, and had never
been to a play. At last, however, he was seized with a
longing to go to the theatre; but, thinking that he would
be disgraced if recognised in his own dress, he determined to
go in disguise. He let no one into ,`.is secret; and, having
found in an old chest some of his grandmother's clothes—her
petticoat, kirtle, scarf, and cap (this latter very high,
whereas they arc now worn ♦ery low)—he dressed himself
up, without reflecting on the absurdity of a costume so dif-
ferent from the present fashions. He got unseen into a coach,
and installed himself in the third tier of boxes. His neigh-
bours stared at the strange figure ; and, having given notice
to the people in the pit, these latter began to look at the poor
man, and to make an uproar according t• their laudable
custom when anything displeased them. An agent of the
police, having learned that the cause was a man in disguise,
went up to the abbe, made him quit the theatre, and having
put him into a coach, took him to M. Herault, the lieutenant
of police, who was not at home. It was the first secretary
who received the abbe, and who told me the story. Never
was a man more angry, more confused at his own folly, or
cutting a more ridiculous figure. He was sent home w,th a
promise that his name should not be mentioned; nevertheless
all Paris knows the story—and the Jesuits are delighted at
such an adventure happening to a Jansenist. The abbe
has since been sent to a provincial convent by letfre de
cachet.—Anecdotical Journal (Babier's) of the Reign of
Louis XV.

HORRIBLE MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.—An inquest
was held on Wednesday last, pursuant to adjournment from
a previous day, on view of the body of Elizabeth Forbes,
whose death took place under circumstances of great bar-
barity. The deceased and her husband, Patrick Forbes, lived
together in Clogger's-lane, and had three children, two girls
of the respective ages of 16 and 7 years, and a son about 14.
They lived a dissolute life, drinking together, and frequently
quarrelling; and on Friday last they had been enjoying one
of these drinking bouts together. The deceased returned
home first, and when her husband came he found her lying
at the foot of the stairs leading to their apartments. insen-
sibly drunk. He got the assistance of two neighbours, and
they carried her into her own room, and laid her on the bed,
Patrick Forbes, her husband, remaining with her. Between
one and two o'clock the following morning, the policeman
on duty heard cries of " Murder," which proceeded from
the daughter of the deceased, and on going in he found
the deceased on the bed dead, Patrick Forbes sitting by
the fire, wringing his hands, and crying "Oh ! my
Betty." An examination of the apartment satisfied the
policeman that violence had been used, and a surgeon was
sent for, who found the body of the deceased had been pene-
trated at the vagina by some sharp instrument, the internal
injuries arising from which were fully disclosed on a post
mortem examination. The evidence of the witnesses, who
were the daughter and son of the deceased, who gave their
evidence with reluctance, and that of the neighbours, who
were all Irish of the lowest class, was in many respect contra-
dictory; but it was clearly established that no one had been
near the deceased but her husband, that the injuries were of
such a nature that she could not have inflicted them herself,
and that a large qiiantity of blood was found on the bed, the
lower part of the body and clothes of the deceased, on the
hands and clothes of her husband, and on the floor. Her
husband, according to the evidence, bad himself given the
first alarm to his son, who slept in an inner room. The jury
found a verdict of" Wilful Murder" against Patrick Forbes,
the husband of the deceased, and he was accordingly com-
mitted for trial at the assizes.

TEE EQUINOCTIAL GALES.—During the past week
we have been visited with tremendous gales of wind from
the north to north-west, accompanied by a heavy fall of
snow; indeed, the weather, after a succession of genial,
sunny days, unusual at this period of the year, has assumed
all the rigour of winter, and strong frosts have been of
nightly recurrence. We did not feel the effects of the gale
so much in the town, nor did it cause that heavy swell in the
river near Hull created towards the sea. Persons who ar-
rived on Monday in coasting and other vessels, experienced
the storm in all its violence, and in some instances the
steamers suffered delay. The Humber pilots, who are accus-
tomed to hard weather, and whose tight, substantial, and
handy cutters are well adapted and equipped for stormy
seas, state that on Sunday the gale, accompanied at it was
by driving snow, tried both men and their craft, the sea
running unusually high. Owing to the quarter from
which the wind blew, fortunately few casualties have
occurred on our coast. The bark Leshmahagow, how-
ever, bound from Grimsby to Shields, to embark emigrants,
put back after buffetting with the storm, and rode out the
gale in safes, with both anchors down, in the lower part of
the river. n Sunday the sloop Sarah, from Lynn for Lin-
coln, with barley, which had been riding in the bight of the
Hale, in 4/1 fathoms water, for a considerable time, in a very
exposed position, hoisted a signal for assistance, the crew
being exhausted with the fatigues they had endured. The
pilot-cutter Nettle (No. 1) immediately bore down to render
the necessary aid, and after some difficulty succeeded in get-
ting a pilot on board, and towed her up into Sunk Island
Roads. Her bowsprit is sprung, but otherwise she is not
damaged. A sckooner is reported on shore on Sandhall,
crew saved, having gone on at high water ; she missed stays,
and went on shore in the act of wearing. From Parlous parts