The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.—ENCEIMINRED ES-
TATES COUNT.—Baron Richards announced at the
sitting cf the court on Saturday that Mr. \Voulfe
Flanagan bad been appointed a " Master," in order
further to facilitate the dispatch of business. The
routine of his duties was stated by the Learned
Baron, and were analogous to those performed by the
Masters in Chancery.
According to the Limerick Chronicle, the Right
Rev, Dr. Ryan, Bishop of that diocese, has received
a letter from Mr. I\llHam Monsell, M.P., notifying
he pleasure he felt in communicating to the Bishop
the happy event of the writer having been received
into the faith of the Catholic Church, and anticipat-
ing the satisfaction it would afford to his revered
diecesan.
STATE Or TRADE.—The Customs' duties for the
bat week are. 21,1001., of which 9,7001. is on tea,
5,1001. on tobacco, 3,4001. on tugar, and 2.6001. on
Wine. Trade gent rally is rather dull considering the

season.
AGRICULTURE IN THE WEST.—The Ballinasloe
Agricultural Society, of which .the Earl of Clencerty
is president, have just issued their tenth annual re-
port, which, notwithstanding the many causes of de-
pression, presents upon the whole a favourable pros-
pect of ;he future. Spade husbandry has been en
couraged to an immense extent, by which means a v, et
deal of employment hits been given to the peasantrj
rr.parations are being made for a more extended
culiva.ion of the flax crop, and the opening of the
railway from Galway to Dublin in the course of the
next twelve months cannot fail to be of great advan-
tage to the farmer, and must encourage the invest-
bleat of capital in the improvement of the adjacent
lands.

THE FoG.—During the whole of yesterday
Metropolis was enveloped in a thick fog, which,:as evening
approached, became so dense as to render passage through
the streets a service of danger. At an early hour of the
evening the omnibuses in many parts of the City and its suburbs
ceased running, and even in the more open streets, such
as Regent-street, fur example, it was impossible to see
from lamp to lamp. The ground also was in a most
s'lPPery condition from the prevalence of a white frost;
and the fog itself occasioned a most penetrating cold,
which no amount of great-coat, cloak, or wrapper could keep
out. On several of the lines of railway communication was
for a time interrupted, and some collisions took place,
although none were, we believe, attended with loss of life.
FOREIGN CATTLE.—Die Lords of the Treasury
have granted to Mr. Hartley, the proprietor of the Dublin,
Plymouth, and Cork Steam Wharf, the privilege of lauding
cattle and live stock at his wharf on importation from the
continent, on the distinct understanding, that if any addi-
tional expense be thereby incurred to the Crown, it be de-
frayed by the owner of the wharf, and that the internal ar-
rangements on the wharf be made such as will afford all the
laciaties required in the landing, and inspection of the cattle
and live stock on all occasions, if any alteration in the pre-
sent arrangement of the place should be found requisite.
Foreign cattle will now be allowed to be landed at the said
wharf under the superintendence of the officers of the Water-
guard Department of the Customs, who will render an offi-
cial return of the number landed on each occasion to the
Proper officer, the expenses of the attendance of the revenue
officers before and alter the legal hours of bus ness being
borne by the proprietor of the wharf, and also the expenses
for the official visits of the veterinary surgeon to inspect the
cattle on importation, when that officer does not attend at
any other place for that purpose on behalf of the Crown on
the same day.
PENSIONS ON THE CIVIL LlST.—Ptnsions on the
Civil List of 'OO/. a year each have been granted to Mr.
George Petrie, LLD., and to Mr. J. Kitto, M.D. Mr.
Petrie is a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy of
Arts, and Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy of
Sciences. He is author of the well-known treaties on the
" Round Towers of Ireland," and of many other antiquarian
works. Dr. Kitto has been deaf and dumb from an accident
'when a boy, in spite of which difficulties he travelled through
many lands in connexion with the Missionary Society.
With his physical failings he has done much for the cause cf
biblical literature, and is the author of many works, such as
the " Pictorial Bible," " llietory of Palestine," " Cyclopmlia
of Biblical Literature," &c.
EMBEZZLEMENT OF S 0001.—This serious offence
has jest been brought to light through the agency of the
Court of Bankruptcy. The steward of Lord Henley up to
last month was William Heygate. He was a farmer at
Watford and an extensive brickmaker at Chadstock, in
Dorsetshire. In both these counties he collected the rents,
and superintended the various farms belonging to his Lord-
ship. The greatest confidence was reposed in him, and it
You'd be seen by the subsequent examination of his books,
that he had for some time abused his trust. Several omis-
sions of " encro ichinent rent " and other cash payments, on
account of his Lordship, are altogether omitted. Heygate
received from the farmers at Long Buckley, and other
places
in Northamptonshire, 1,2041. 17s. Bd. on the 6th of
ovember last; and at Chadstock he collected rents to the
amount of 6871. Os. 9id. That is the extent of his delin-
quencies as sworn to by his Lordship, but his defalcations
are reported to be of much larger extent.
TEE FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT MORTA,
SOUTH WALES.— rile inquest upon the body of James
Squire, one of the suilerers by this explosion, has been held
before Alexander Robertson, Esq., coroner, and a very re-
spectable jury, at the Globe lnn, near Aberavon. The evi-
dence tending to show culpable neglect on the part of the
superintendent of the colliery, the jury returned the fol-
lowing special verdict :—" We find that there is not suffi-
cient evidence to warrant us in bringing in a verdict of man-
slaughter, but upon the bare testimony of Foster himself he
is highly censurable, and not worthy to hold the important
situation he is entrusted with, and that this unanimous
opinion of the jury be conveyed to the Messrs. Vivian and
Sons, his employers, trusting that they will deal with him
as the case deserves. And we are further of opinion that if
oia Elutnphry Davy's lamps were exclusively used, the unfor-
tunate accident which has occurred would have been avoided.
We find, therefore, that the death of James Squire was acci-
dental."
THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—On Saturday
last the election to the scholarships of this institution was de-
cided by the examiners, Mr. Potter, Sir H. Bishop, Mr.
?r,911", Mr. Elliott, Mr. Lucas, Mr. H. T. Bennett, and Mr.
N. Blagrove. The successful candidates were Miss E. Sae-
ler and Mr. W. 11. Aylward, an academy. student. Mr. R.
Thomas and Mr. Schroeder were also especially distinguished.
The meeting of the commissioners of the class for musical
instruments for the Exhibition of the Industry of all nations
for IESI was held the same day, Sir H. Bishop presiding,
When the necessary arrangements were made for the can-
didates.
SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING.—On Thursday
last Mrs. Hannah Pollard, a widow, 72 years of age, came to
her death under somewhat singular circumstances :—Her
niece, for some purposes of confectionary, had purchased two
Pennyworth of the essential oil of almonds, and having tasted
it from motives of curiosity, and found it left an unpleasant
taste in her mouth, mentioned the circumstance to her
aunt who expressed a desire to taste the drug herself. The
small bottle containing the oil was handed to her, and she
swallowed about two-thirds of the contents (fifteen or sixteen
drops), and almost immediately dropped down dead, no
doubt from the effects of the deadly poison she had so un-
wittingly drunk.
SUSPECTED MURDER IN SAST•LOTIITAPI.--About
nine or ten months since a woman was found drowned in a
quarry in the vicinity of Dunbar, under very suspicious cir-
cumstances. On examining the ground around the place, it
was found that that there had been some struggling, and the
body bore evidence of having sustained violence, which was
held to account for its being put into the water. A respect-
table merchant in Dunbar, who was supposed to have been
seen in that locality the previous evening, was apprehended
on suspicion, and the most rigid investigation into the case
with the view of establishing his guilt in the matter, having
failed, he was discharged by the order of the C: own agent.
His town's folk were not so ready .to exonerate him ; the
penalty they it dieted was the ceasing to do business with
him, and he has. now become a ruined man in consequence
of these suspicions; but it will be satisfactory for the com-
munity to know, and no small consolation to him, that the
really guilty persons are in the course of being traced out by
the authorities. The relatives of the woman, who are rather
notorious characters, having differed at sonic of their late
carousals, had commenced to accuse one another of the deed,
or otherwise let slip something concerning. it—information of
which reached the bearing of the authorities, and the parties
have been apprehended.— Caledonian Mercury.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—A person having pur-
chased some fresh herrings on Friday, found in one of them
a very neat figure of a child with bock on knee, reading.
The figure is rather less than a square inch, carved in a flinty
substance. Such a morsel may have been nibbled in the
Gulf of Venice 'or at the mouth of the Tiber:—Edinburgh
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