The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-10 00:00:00

Under the head of Tow-street police will be found some
particulars of the arrest and exammation of this gentleman
before Mr. Jardine. The following version of the matter has
been forwarded for publication, by Count Ostrowski himself :
As Count Ostrowski was quietly sitting in his apartments
in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, he was surprised by the
sudden entrance of five or six individuals, who, without any
attempt to explain the object of their visit, seized upon him
with the utmost violence. Count Ostrowski naturally op-
posed some resistance to this proceeding, when the intruders
declared themselves to be policemen (though they wore no
uniform), and on being requested by the Count to produce the
warrant under which they. acted, they drew their staves, and.
threatened to " dash his brains out, unless he surrendered
instantly.
Count Ostrowski was detained by some of the policemen in
his sleeping apartment, whilst the others were engaged in
rummaging his writing-desk and securing his papers. He
was then conveyed to a station-house at Westminster, and
afterwards brought up before Mr. Jardine at Bow-street,
where he, for the first time, learnt the nature of the charge
on which he had been arrested. It appears that on Monday
last Count Ostrowski called at his tailor's, Mr. Inkson's, 111
Ryder-street, St. James's, and observing a pair of trousers of
rather striking appearance lying on the counter, he happened
to inquire for whom they were intended. He was informed
they had been ordered by the Emperor Nicholas ; at which
Count Ostrowski expressed some surprise, and added, in ts
jocular manner, that he should like to have the trying, or
them on. Mr. Inkson, or .his shopman, converted this re-
mark into a threat against the life of their Imperial cus-
tomer ; and it was on this absurd and trumpery accusation
that Count Ostrowski was dragged with so much parade and
so little courtesy before the tnbunals of this country. He
was required by Mr. Jardine to find bail for his peaceable
behaviour, himself in the sum of 5001., with two sureties to
the amount of 2501. each, or in default he was ordered to
be committed for two months to Tothill-fields prison. The
bail was, of course, obtained without difficulty, as soon as
Count Ostrowski was permitted to communicate with his
friends, which, however, he was not allowed to do until
several hours after the time of his arrest. Count Ostrowski's
papers are still detained ; all his endeavours to recover them
from the hands of the police having proved unsuccessful.

DESTUCTIVE FIRE AT HUDDERSFIELD.—Property
to the extent of 30,000/. to 40,000/. in value was destroyed
by fire on Monday morning last, at Folly-hall, near Hudders-
field. Between one and two o'clock in the morning flames
were discovered bursting out from the third floor of the large
factory at Folly-wharf, the property of Mr. Joseph Kaye.
Messengers were quickly dispatched for fire-engines to Ar-
mitage-bridge and Milnes-bridge; and the fire-engine be-
longing to the factory and that of the Leeds and Yorkshire
Insurance Company at Huddersfield were immediately set to
work, as were also the engines which speedily arrived from
the former places ; but, notwithstanding there was a plen-
tiful supply of water, the whole of the buildings in which
the fire originated fell a rapid prey to the element. As
it was soon evident that the fire had a large hold, owing,
in a great measure, to the inflammable nature of the
contents of the mill, the efforts of those who worked
the engines were soon directed to the preservation of
another large mill, a little to the south of the one now
consumed, and also the property of Mr. Kaye. Hap-
pily, though the heat from the adjoining conflagration
melted a great portion of the lead forming the roof of the
second mill, and did great damage to the doors and windows,
the efforts of the firemen were successful in saving the second
mill from destruction. The mill or factory which was de-
stroyed was about 63 yards long, 18 wide, and 24 in height
to the caves, above which were attics, and without these
there were five stories. It was divided into a number of
rooms, with steam power to each, and occupied by separate
persons or firms. By the conflagration an immense quantity
of property, amounting at least in value, as we have said
before, to thirty or forty thousand pounds, was destroyed..
Five hundred persons have been thrown out of employment,
and several of the occupiers of steam power ruined. Most
of the latter class of persons had not their property insured,
and Mr. Kaye's property was only partially insured. His
loss, we understand, will not be less than 20,000/. The only
accident that occurred in connection with the fire was to a
youth about seventeen years of age, who had his arm frac-
tured by a coping-stone falling upon it. The origin of the
fire has not been positively ascertained, but relm?ur ascribes
it to the spontaneous combustion of a quantity 01 phoddy, or
devil's dust.
LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.—A general Meet"-
ing of the provisional committee for the construction of this
new line of railway was held on Friday morning at the Hall of
Commerce, Threadneedle-street. The Right Hon. the Earl
of Winchilsea occupied the chair. Mr. J. H. Astell, the
chairman of the acting committee stated, that that commit-
tee having been appointed for the purpose of adopting mea-
sures for amalgamating the two companies then before the
public, viz. the Great Northern Company, and the London
and York via Lincoln Company, each having_ in view the
connecting the metropolis with the city of York, sax] lain-
mately with Edinburgh, by means of a railroad, bad so Sr
succeeded in their object, that henceforward the two.
companies would act together in an harmonious spirit
The committee had also appointed Mr. Locke, the en-
gineer to decide upon the merits of the respective
lines. Mr. Pitman, the secretary, then read the report of
the acting Committee, the contents of which, however, may
be gathered from Mr. Astell's speech. The Noble Chairman
said he fully concurred in all that the report contained, and
added that he should be happy to give his most cordial sup-
port to either line that the engineer might prefer; even
though, regarding it in a personal point of view, the other
might be snore advantageous to himself. Upon the motion
of Viscount Howick, M.P., seconded by Sir G. Strickland,
m.v., the report was then agreed to ; as was a motion ap-
pointing a Committee of twenty-four gentlemen, with full.
power to take all necessary measures to carry out the under-
taking. The Committee was subsequently nominated; and,
upon the motion of Mr. E. B. Denison, M.P., seconded by the
Hen. Octaviui•Duncombe, M.P., a vote of thanks was passed
to the Noble Chairman, when the meeting separated.
THE BRADFORD MunDsn.—We inserted in The
Sun an account of a murder committed on an inoffensive
musician named Benjamin Gott, who had attended a proces-
sion of some Orange clubs, by a mob of Irishmen at Bradford,
in Yorkshire. After a long investigation before Mr. Pollard
and Mr. Kaye, two of the Magistrates of the West Riding,
four Irishmen of the names of Thomas Rogan, John O'Brien,
Daniel Donovan, and William Quin, have been committed to
York Castle, for trial at the ensuing assizes, on the charge
of ." Wilful murder of the said Benjamin Gott;" and a man
named Daniel Power has been admitted to bail, himself in
100/, and two sureties in 50/. each, to answer a similar charge
when called upon.
Costa's opera, Don Carlos, is:in active rehearsal at
her Majesty's Theatre. This is likely to be the only opera-
tic novelty this season. Ricci's Corrado d'Altamara is post-
poned, and Persiani's opera, Il Fantasma, meets with an
obstacle in the cast of the part, M. Persiani objecting to the
one allotted to Mdlle. Favanti.
WoOLwICII DOCKYARD.—Under the superinten-
dence of Capt. Denison, Civil Engineer, of her Majesty's
Dockyard, Woolwich, a considerable enlargement of that
establishment is about to take place. For some time past
much inconvenience has been felt in consequence of want of
room by the boiler makers belonging to the yard.
RAILWAY BlLLS.—Before the gallery of the House
of Lords was opened on Friday, the following Railway Bills
were read a second time :—viz., South-Eastern Railway Bill,
Whitehaven and Maryport Railway Bill, Salisbury Branch
Railway Bill, and South Devon Railway Bill.
BRAINTREE.—k meeting of the Directors of the
Braintree Corn Exchange was held on Tuesday last., at the
Horn Inn, Braintree, when a dividend of 4i. per cent. was
declared on the shares. William Walford, pin., Esq., and
Mr. John Taylor, of Hedingham, were unanimously elected
treasurer and chairman, in the room of George Nottidge, jun.,
Esq., resigned.—Essex Standard.
Extensive preparations are on foot by Mr. Cubbitt,
at the Belgrave Works, Thames-bank, to receive the Empe-
ror of Russia and the King of Saxony, who have expressed a
desire to witness the power of steam in that extensive factory.
THE WAKEFIELD Cou,mas.—These men yet re-
main out, with the exception of the pits named by us before,
and we see no likelihood of the dispute being amicably settled,
as both masters and men do not appear willing to make any
compromise; this we regret, as we think some amicable ar-
rangement might, perhaps, have been made. The shop-
keepers have begun to feel the effects of the strike in a dims •
nilhed exchequer, and great complaints are made of the
scarcity of money,—Wakefield Journal.

RALLWAY FARES.—The following remarks upon
the high fares maintained by the Railway Companies of this
country, from the reports of the Parliamentary Select Com-
mittee on Railways, are well deserving of publicity and at-
tention :—" Great as have been the benefits of railways to
the public, that circumstance does not afford any good rea-
son against seeking, by any just and reasonable means, to
enlarge these advantages. Now, it is material to observe,
that in this country what is called the high-fare system,
ordinarily prevails • that the average charge of railway
communication, a Charge falling, in no inconsiderable degree,
on trade and commerce, is very much higher than in other
countries where railways have been established; and that
there is no clear or early prospect of a general reduction of
the rate of charge under the present system of independent
Companies, even although it might be possible that that great
experiment might be tried, if it were tried fully and univer-
sally-, with no unfavourable results, even upon immediate re-
turns. It is a question which the Committee are far from
thinking themselves able at present to determine, whether it
would or would not be advisable that the Government should,
at a future period, endeavour to effect a material reduction
of this charge ; and, although on the one hand, it would be
premature and most unwise in any, degree to prejudge this
question, yet, in the opinion of the Committee, it is desirable
to reserve to public authority the means of forming a judg-
ment upon it, when a proper time shall have arrived, at least
in all those cases with regard to which the Legislature does
not stand committed, by proceedings already taken, to a
different course." It may be mentioned, to show the diffe-
rence, between fares in America and England, that from Boa.
ton to New York costs only 95. 6d., although it is about 200
miles ; and from New York to Albany, 160 miles, 6s. Might
this not be copied with advantage?
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case broug'h't
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ofßikevNery
before the Magistrates at the Guildhall, which was rendered
one of the :most absurd burlesques perhaps ever enacted
within the walls of a court of justice. The subject for ingi!irl
arose from an aged and respectable gentleman, a retired
bookseller, having been playfully attacked by a large and
powerful Alpine spaniel (of the species originally bred by tbc
monks of St. Bernard), whose owner was charged with allow-
ing the said animal to range about unmuzzled, to the dan-
gerous annoyance of her Majesty's lieges. The dog being a
particular favourite, from the fact of his having descended
from pure stock, and been bred on the rich soil of Bramharn
Park, it was net to be endured that a malignant aspersion
should be cast upon his fame, without a vigorous effort being
made by a special pleader in his defence. The bench was,
therefore, crowded by members of the learned and legal pro-
fessions—gentry, bankers, and merchants—who, together
with a numerous host from the body of the court, readily,
came forward to prove the excellent temper and docility of
the animal ; in further proof whereof, he was ordered into
court, and actually- took his stand erect on the bench, at the
right of the worshipful Magistrates, where he certainly did
appear most sagaciously consequential of his notoriety, and
much delighted by the Judicial decision in his favour, that he
was neither savage nor ferocious, to the evident chagrin of
his accuser, but much to the diversion of a large assemblage
of spectators.--York Courant.
EVILS OF A LARGE FORTUNE.—"I don't know
whether you will be happier with a large fortune?" said
Lord Eskdale. " It's a troublesome thing ; nobody ie
satisfied with what you do with it ; very often not your-
self. To maintain an equable expenditure—not to spend
too much on one thing, too little on another—is an art.
There must be a harmony, a keeping in disbursement,
which very few men have. Great wealth wearies. The
thing to have is about ten thousand a year, and the
world to think you have only five. There's some enjoy.
meat then; one is let alone. But the instant you have a
large fortune, duties commence. And then impudent
fellows borrow your money, and if you ask them for it
again; they go about town saying, you are 6 screw."-'
Uningsky, or the New .Generativn.