The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL ESTABLISHMENT
AT OSBORNE HOUSE.
(Imola OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
OCT. 14.—This long talked-of event is a thing to
be doubted no longer. On Saturday some of the servants
arrived, on Sunday night a steamer, the Pearl, was hired
down from Southampton with some more, and the plate
chests, &c., &c. This morning came a royal carriage,
two horses, and three ponies, and the stable establishment.
Dinner is ordered for her Majesty and suite this even-
ing. The probability is, that if the King of the French
leaves Windsor to-day he will come down to Cowes
with the Queen of England. As it blows a gale dead
ahead it would be madness to attempt to cross the
channel on such a night as this, in such a gale, amidst
thunder, lightning, and rain.
A servant, came down express by the Gem steamer
this morning, to order the horses to be ready in the car-
riages at Cowes at half-past one o'clock, to convey the
Royal Family to Osborne House, but at half-past four
o'clock the royal steamer is not in sight.

COAL PIT EXPLOSIONS.-With the exception of
the Wallsend explosion in 1835, that at Haswell has
been more fatal than any on record. The following is a
list of all the accidents which have occurred, during the
present century, in Northumberland and Durham, in
which fifty lives and upwards have been lost :-
1812—May 25. Felling, 92 lives lost by explosion.
lives
explosion.
1815—May 3. Heaton, 75 lives lost by Inundation.
1815—June 2. Success Pit, Newbottle, 57 lives lost by
explosion.
ssby
1821—Oct. 23. Wallsend, 52 lives lost by explosion.
una
1823—Nov.une 31.
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lost 9 by lost
explosion.:BB339s_j 28. St. Hilda, South Shields, 51 lives lost— J
Iby explosion.
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1844—Sept. 28. Haswell, 95 lives lost by explosion.--
Tyne gercury.

RAILWAY SHARES.
(From the Share List of John Railton and Son, Man-
chester, Oct. 14.)
Improvement per Cent, in the market value of the
lines of Railway, between the end of September,
1843, and September, 1844, upon the same amount of
paid up capital, and producing an average of 56 6-10th
per Cent. per Share, being more by 6k per Cent. than
at the end of August last.

Per Cent.
Preston and Wyre : . l7l
Sheffield and Manchester
Chester and Birkenhead
Birmingham and Gloucester 961
Manchester and Bolton .
Great North of England
Manchester and Birmingham
Hull and Selby -
Birmingham and Derby 55
Manchester and Leeds
Great Western
Northern and Eastern 46
South Eastern 451
Newcastle and Carlisle
Eastern Counties
.. 37N
Midland Counties
I North Midland
.... ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Bristol and Exeter . 27
Brighton
Lancaster and Preston
—4 22+
South Western
.. 151
Grand Junction
York and North Midland no change,
London and Birmingham

Liverpool and Manaiester less 1 9-10
The greatest rise took place in those lines where the
eapicity of the works was not enough developed to be re-
lied on at the former period.
There are at the present time plans matured or pre-
paring to carry before the Board of Trade upwards of
ninety new schemes for railway extension, requiring a
subscribed capital of upwards of 60,000,0001.—t0 which
may be added 20,000,0001. for the authorised one-third
that can be borrowed. The present abundance and low
value of money (there being no foreign attraction more
luring) is highly favourable to the extension of public
works at home. No matter to what extent the rifeness
of speculation may lead individual adventure, a great
national benefit will be secured, available to all, without
infringing on the circulation of the country, so long as we
continue blessed with the succession of good harvests as
the main-spring of prosperity ; but should a failure en-
sue, and we become impoverished 137 foreign purchase
for the repair, we shall be deprived, in a corresponding
degree, of the advantages we now enjoy. Manufactures
and foreign trade we can expand or curtail at will, but
no art of man can put seasons out of course, or alter
their result. The Board of Trade has an irksome duty
to perform to suit all interests, and keep clear of the
confusion to which we are exposed.
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OUNTAINS OF - ARIS—THE FRENCH VISIT.—Out
wide-awake neighbours seem disposed to make the royal
visit to our Queen useful to them in more ways than
one. A French engineer arrived on Wednesday at the
Queen's Hotel, and proceeded to Messrs. Ireland and Co.'s
foundry to examine the filters now being made by them
under Stuckey's patent. He obtained a beautiful model
made s ithin two days, and in the meantime visited Mr.
Cross's bleach-works at Bolton, where he saw one of the
filters, only about five feet in length, producing 200 gal-
lons per minute, or the enormous quantity of 288,000
gallons per 24 hours. Having obtained a copy of the
report of Dr. Ure, as to a cheap and effectual mode of
getting rid of the glutinous and adhesive matter occa-
sionally arising from the much used waters of the Lever
and the Medlock, and which sometimes obstructed the
self-cleansing machinery of the filters, he returned to
Paris via London yesterday. It transpired that General
the Marquis de Rumigny, who is now with Louis
Philippe at the British Court, is one of the chief proprie-
tors of the French Filtration Company, and as it is
known that all the public fountains of Paris are con-
tracted to be filtered under Stuckey's patent, the con•
nexion of pleasure and business, the visit to Windsor
Castle, and to our Laacashire manufactories is tolerably
self-evident.--Manchester Courier.

DEATH OF A PROPHETESS.—On Saturday Mr. W.
Baker, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at the Coach
and Horses, Homerton, on the body of Rebecca Paine,
aged 60. The deceased lived in Cross-street, and in ad-
dition to her labours as a charwoman, she had for some
years lived upoa the credulity of the superstitious
females of Hackney, by the exercise of her assumed
power of divination. Although not a duly initiated
member of the " nut-brown" fraternity, her character
as a prophetess brought her many dupes ; and there are
numbers of the fair sex now living in the vicinity of
Hackney, whose practical experience of the mutations of
connubial life have led them to revile, in no measured
terms, the fortune-teller of Cross-street, by whose en-
chantments they were led to surrender the charms of
maidenhood. Last Thursday morning a little girl living
in the house with the deceased, lit her fire, and on pro-
ceeding to awake her, found that she was dead. Medi-
cal aid was obtaiaed after a lapse of two hours. The
Jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." Runham,
the summoning officer, stated that owing to the vagaries
of the deceased, her husband had for many years parted
from her. He had written to him, but had received no
answer ; he (Runham) had therefore disposed of her
property for the purpose of defraying the expenses of
the funeral.

LOSS OF LIFE IN THE REGENT'S-PARK.—On Sun-
day afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, the following
melancholy occurrence took place in the Regent's-park.
Mr. Norbury, a linendraper, of Crawford-street, Bryan
stone-square, was proceeding towards home in his chaise
along the outer circle of the Regent's-park, accompanied
by his wife and daughter, aged four years, when the
horse suddenly took fright, as is supposed, at the noise
made in Mrs. Norbury opening her umbrella, and started
off at full speed until arriving at Macclesfield-bridge,
where the vehicle came in violent contact with a lamp-
post, and by the concussion Mr. Norbury, with his wife
and child, were thrown out. On being picked up, Mr.
Norbury was found to be in a state of insensibility, with
blood flowing copiously from his mouth, ears, and nos-
trils. They were, without loss of time, removed to a
surgeon at hand, where it was found that Mr. Norbury
had sustained a fracture of the skull, and severe internal
injuries, while Mrs. Norbury and her daughter had also
received serious hurts. The females were, after stimu-
lants had been administered to them, taken home in a
hackney coach, and Mr. Norbury was conveyed to the
Middlesex Hospital, almost immediately on entering
which institution he expired.
THE CLOWNS' SAILING MaTcu.—The third of
these, what at one period was considered to be an under-
taking of very great novelty, that of a person being
pulled or drawn down the river by means of four geese
being attached to a washing-tub, came off on the river,
between the Red House, Battersea, and Vauxhall-bridge,
yesterday afternoon. As this was the third within a
fortnight, undertaken by persons connected with Astley's
Theatre, something of the novelty had declined, when,
for the purpose of exciting-the taste of the public, it was
announced that upon this occasion A. Nelson and Twist,
the pantaloon and clown, would each make a voyage in
different washing-tubs, drawn by their respective teams ;
this announcement, accordingly, drew together a large
assemblage of persons at the Red-house, when, after a
lapse of half an hour, the two aquatics, in full dress,
namely, their theatrical costume, took their seats, and
having picked up the reins, they each fired a pistol, when
the medley procession started. They were accompanied
by about 20 boats, which formed a kind of circle round
the geese and tubs, and having gained the middle of the
stream, they floated down to Vauxhall-bridge, which was
reached by half-past five o'clock. After getting about
200 yards through the bridge, the two washing-tubs
were brought up to a barge, when Nelson and Twist got
out of their craft, and each putting on a great coat, were
conveyed to Lyon's yard, Stangate, where they were
landed. On the passage down the water was very rough,
and as the tubs were passed by the above-bridge steamers
the surf from them caused the tubs to perform certain
motions which appeared not to be quite agreeable to the
heros of the ring of the Amphitheatre. The original
intention was to land at Westminster-bridge, but which
was very wisely prohibited by the police, as on the first
of these novel undertakings, the mob in the Palace-walk
was so great, coupled with the disturbances and robbe-
ries, that it was deemed advisable to prevent repetition.
Whatever effect it produces for Nelson and Twist (last
night being their joint benefit) it was attended with be-
neficial results for the proprietors of Vauxhall-bridge, as
at the time the party passed beneath it, there could not
have been less than 2,000 persons on the bridge, strain-
ing their eyes to catch a glimpse of the washing-tubs,
geese, and buffoons.

LONG LIFE IN THE LAKE DISTRICT.—Many and
many are the accounts that appear in the newspapers,
from time to time, rQlating to longevity, but most of
them are only related after the heroes of them are dead.
Ours shall be a tale of living wonders. There are at pre-
sent residing in the neighbourhood of Ilawkshead four
women, whose ages average 90 years each, two of whom
are never failing attendants at Ilawkshead Church every
Sunday. They are all well and hearty, and are as likely
for hying as they have been for the last twenty years.—
Westmoreland Gazette.

NERVOUS DEAFNESS.—By this term I wish to be
understood as indicating some peculiar condition of the
nervous portion of the auditory apparatus, by which its
functions become uninterrupted, suspended, or otherwise
so impaired, that it is incapable of affecting the seuso-
rium, so as to produce those effects necessary to the
sensation of hearing. In many eases of this sort there is
no apparent alteration in the condition of the parts, even
if examined by a lens, and the only evidence of disease
is the defect or incapability of distinguishing sountls.
In some instances the patient feels merely a confusedsn
buzzing noise, no matter what the nature of the sound.
If addressed, ho feels as if among a number of
time on
indivi-
duals, all of whom were conversing at the same
different subjects, but the matter in any one inndstainncethiet
was impossible to recognise. When quiet, a
t
absence of all noise, the patiehnetesensation of
any kind—at least so far as
Dr. Cronin on Arnica Montana in Me Cure of Nervous
f Den Hess.
cars feels
are il°
21111 LATE
sed in the neighbourhood of this
STonst.—We have heard of consider-
able damage being
rains. One o
f the bridges on the Mallow road has been
city by the floods wchaiuch have succeeded the late heavy
carried away, and vehicles have now to take a consider-
able roucd in consequence. A respectable correspon-
dent writing from Castletownroche says—" Three
bridges and four houses were swept away, and seven
acres of land inundated. On the grounds of Ballyduff,
near Castletownroche, the flood came down from the
mountain with overwhelming force, and caused the
greatest apprehension in the neighbourhood ; the con-
sequences to the poor people have been very disastrous."
—Cork Southern Reporter of Saturday.
Last evening Lord Teynham, late the Right Hon.
R. Curzon, preached at the new Baptist Chapel, corner
of Myrtle-street and Hope•street, of which the Rev.
Mr. Lister is the minister. His Lordship is a distin-
guished preacher among the Baptists.—Liverpool
_Albion,

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
MERSEY.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The accompanyint, extract
from the 4-18 ion of this morning shows that the former
scat: Inents respecting this melancholy occurrence are
erroneous in some of the particulars ; and also that one
circumstance which we at first supposed to be connected
with this event is but an attendant upon another fearful
accident and loss of life :
LOSS OF THIRTEEN LIVES.
" Since the above statement was in type, we have as-
certained that it is erroneous in some particulars, and we
have also found that one melancholy circumstance which
was supposed to have a connexion with the collision
with the Iron Duke is but an °went attendant upon ano-
ther fearful disaster, resulting in the loss of seven ad-
ditional lives.
"We find that six men left the Hesperus—the chief
mate, boatswain, steward, one seaman named Leonard,
and the two boatmen—and not five only,:ns above stated.
We learn also that about the same time that the above
accident occurred, a boat, having on board seven sea-
men, left the ship Glasgow, a North American vessel,
which was then anchored off SeaconAe ; that they have
not since been heard of, but that the-boat in which they
were is the one described in the fbregeing narrative AS
having been cast up near the Magazines. The boat
which was swamped ny the Iron Duke was found in the
Rock-gut. The unfortunate being who hailed the Red.
wing was, undoubtedly, therefore, one of the crew of
the Glasgow's boat, and we hold the Opinion the afore
confidently because any remnant of the boat of the Hes-
perus could not possibly have reached the anchorage
ground of the Redwing, off Monk's-ferry, in the then
state of the wind and tide.

I "We have inspected the shattered remains of the un-
fortunate boat which was lost in the fearful collision with
the Dublin steamer. The bow is broken, and, towards
the stern, the bulwarks on either side, together with the
seats and the upper stern-board, are swept away. The
most probable exposition of the manner of the occur-
rence is, that the gig ran bow on to the larboard bow of
the Iron Duke, accounting for the shattering of her bow ;
and that, brought round parallel to the side of the
steamer by the collision, she was carried stern foremost
under the paddle-floats, accounting for the extensive
damage near the stern. The remnants of the boat may
be seen at the south-end of the Prince's-dock outside
the walls." ,

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—His Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, who arrived on Mon-
day last at Witley-court from town, left on Wednesday
for Windsor Castle, having received an invitation from
the Queen to meet the King of the French. His Serene
Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipsthal, after a
hasty visit to his illustrious relative the Dowager Queen,
at the invitation of her Majesty, repaired to Windsor
Castle, in order to join the circle assembled to meet
Louis Philippe. The Prince has since returned to
Witley-court. Earl Howe and Lady Georgians Curzon
arrived on Thursday from Gopsall-liall, Leicestershire.
Viscountess Barrington has succeeded the Dowager
Lady Clinton as Lady in Waiting on the Queen Dow-
ager, and accompanied by the Noble Viscount, arrived
on Tuesday last from Beckett-house, Berks. Sir A.
Barnard is prolonging his attendance. On Friday last
the Queen Dowager and party staying at Witley-court
went to Malvern in three carriages. It was about eleven
o'clock when the royal party departed, relays of horses
being provided at Renwick. Her Majesty left Malvern
shortly before four o'clock. It is uncertain when her
Majesty goes to Belton-hall, the Earl of Brownlow's.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Ye4erday, at St.
George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Mr. Dickenson,
Anna Horatio Caroline, only daughter of the Rev. J.
and Mrs. Sanford, to the Hon. Frederick Paul Methuen,
eldest son of Lord Methuen. The ceremony was at-
tended by the following distinguished parties :—Lady
and the lion. Miss Methuen, Sir Percy Shelley, Bart.,
and Mrs. Shelley, Hon. St. John Methuen, Lord William
Leanox, Hon. Leicester Stanhope, Sir Watkin William
Wynn, Mr. and the Misses Craven, Mr. and Miss Mor-
gan, Messrs. Gage, Bailey, &c. The bridesmaids were
the Hon. Miss Methuen, Misses Apthorp, Seton, and
Morgan. After the ceremony the party adjourned to
Mrs. Sanford's residence in Connaught-place, where they
partook of an elegant dejeuner. The bride was grace-
fully attired in a dress of guipure over a rich white silk ;
a veil of Brussels lace, wreath of orange flowers and
geranium, and ornaments of pearl. At eleven o'clock
the happy couple left Connaught-place for Corshane
Court, Wiltshire, to pass the honeymoon. Lord Methuen
was unavoidably prevented attending by indisposition.
ANECDOTE OF LOWS PHILIPPE.— Some thirty years
ago his Majesty the King of the French, then Duke of
Orleans, was, with the other members of the Royal
Family of France, a resident of Cheltenham—occupying
the present Cambray Pavilion. At that time his Royal
Highness entered familiarly into the society of the
place, visiting and being visited by many of our then
residents, who were uniformly received by him with
marked courtesy, when, as the invited guests of Louis
the Eighteenth, they appeared at the weekly breakfasts
given by the exiled Monarch to those whom he honoured
with his friendship or acquaintance. The Duke of
Orleans also patronised most of the public amuse-
ments of the day, and was, with his uncle, the
Count d'Artois, a frequent attendant at the Bazaar
sales, when these took place at the old Assembly
Rooms—the premises now occupied as Messrs. Hum-
phris's ironmongery stores in the High-street. but thirty
years ago one of the fashionable lounges of Cheltenham.
We well remember being there one day when their
Royal Highnesses were present, and attracted consider-
able notice : the peculiarity of their costume--the little
cocked-hat and long queue generally arresting the im-
mediate attention of strangers. On this occasion a pair
of plated telescope candlesticks were put up for sale—
the fluent auctioneer expatiating, according to custom,
upon their excellent quality and manufacture. There
were several bidders—the Count d'Artois was one ; and
the Duke outbidding his opponents, the lot was knock?d
down to him for 10s. ! Handing over payment for them
in the silver tokens of those days, his Royal Highness
received his purchase from the porter, and putting a can-
dlestick in each pocket, walked leisurely away, appa-
rently well pleased with his bargain.—Cheltenham
Looker-on.
DARING ESCAPE OF A SOLDIER.—A: private of the
Royal Sappers and Miners, named Thomas Field, has
just been tried by a general court-martial at Bermuda,
and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years for
the following offence :—He was in the prison of St.
George, Bermuda, under the sentence of a court-martial
for being drunk and riotous. In the company of two
privates of the 20th Regiment of Foot, he broke out of
gaol, and seizing a boat, the confederates made their
way to sea with the intention, no doubt, of escaping to
the coast of America. The loss of their rudder, how-
ever, compelled them to put into St. David's Island,
where they were recaptured, and having been again tried
by a court-martial, are now awaiting their punishment
without a chance of a second escape.
REMARKABLY QUICK VOYAGE.—That splendid and
fast-sailing barque, Lord Mulgrave, Captain Lickiss,
sailed from this port on the 25th of July, for Miramichi,
with a general cargo, and arrived back in the Humber
on Sunday last, with a cargo of timber and deals,
thus accomplishing the long voyage in and out in the
almost incredible space of two months and twelve days.
We believe that this is the quickest sailing voyage of
the same distance ever made from this port.—Hall
Packet.

The following letter has appeared 'in the York
Courant:—" Letter from Mr. Handley to the Secretary
to the London and York Railway Coinpany.—Culver-
thorpe, Oct. 5, 184.4.--Sir,—l have observed that, in
some recent advertisements, you have re-printed the list
of the original Provisional Committee for promoting
Mr. Walker's line of railway from London to York, in
which my name appears. From the year 1836 to the
present, I have most anxiously desired to see Mr.
Walker's line through Lincolnshire carried out. It Was
therefore with great regret I heard that, through the in-
delicate interference of a member of the committee,
that gentleman was compelled to resign his appointment
as your engineer ; but being still more anxious for the
completion of one of the proposed lines through Lin-
colnshire, I acquiesced with my neighbours in confiding
the selection to Mr. Locke. That gentleman made his
final report, doubtless with his acknowledged ability ;
most certainly with impartiality, for he was singularly
successful in giving equal dissatisfaction to the three
principal towns Stamford, Newark, and, Lincoln.
However, his reputation filled your share-lists,
and raised your shares to a premium in the market.
From some unexplained cause, Mr. Locke,- like Mr.
Walker, found it impracticable to act with your com-
mittee ; and at the eleventh hour Sou again abandon
your engineer, your line, and (I must add) your good
faith to the County of Lincoln, by removing your rail-
way westward, to Newark and Tuxford. Ceasing to re-
cognise in your line of to-day (what it may be next week,
no man can foretel) a railway through Lincolnshire, and
feeling a conviction that, under such mismanagement as
that to which I have referred, no project can succeed, I
am compelled to look once again to the union of Cam-
bridge and Lincoln as the most practicable, economiebael,
and least competing line, and the one to which I
lieve Parliament and the public will ultimately
support. I therefore request you to
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self in every action of his life a thoroughly disinterested
and devoted philanthropist.—Ipswich Express of this day.
A " MONSTER" CABBAGE.—This week another
cabbage, of extraordinary dimensions, has been exhibited
at the shop of Mr. Ridgway, hair-dresser, of Lowgate,
the superintendent of the liessle-road allotments, assigned
to operatives by Henry Broadley, Esq., M.P. This re-
getable curiosity, the Daniel Lambert of the vegetable
world, was produced on the allotment of James Wineup,
the grower of the one recently alluded to in our columns;
it weighs four stones ; its circumference is two yards and
eleven inches ; and one of the leaves measures two yards
and nine inches round. It was grown from seed procured
by Mr. Ridgway, from Stockholm, and had been indulged
with guano mixed with refuse of hops.—Hull Packet.