The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of Cambridge arrived iu town on Saturday
from Riehinond Park, the r,:sidence of her Royal High-
ness the Duche,s of Gloucesicr. His Royal Highness
attend.- d divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor
Ci,apel, South Audley-street.
His Excellency Edward Everett, late Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
at this-Court,' with Mrs. Everett and family, leave town
this day, and embark at Liverpool in the Boston and
Halifax steamer on the 4th of September.
• Mr. Kirk, :M.P., had an interview with the Chan-
celior of the Exchequer on Saturday. :at his official
resiit,nce In Downing-street.
'Dispalches from the Governor of Van Dieman's
Land were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Marquis of Anglesey and the Earl and Countess
of Listowel attended divine service yesterday, in the
Chafe! Royal, St. James's. Prayers were read by the
Rev. J. the lessons by the Rev. W Hall, and
•
the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sheath. The
anthem NV as; " 0 God, thou art my God," (Purcell).

It is said that Sir R. Peel has settled, out of his
own private purse. 4001. a year on Mr. Bonham. late of the Ordnance
AIR. W. FARREN, JUN.—This gentleman, the son
of the eminent comedian, has proceeded to Florence, for the purpose
of completing his musical education, preliminary to a debut on the
English stage, which, we understand, there is every reason to believe
will be a decidedly successful one. The judgment pronounced as to
his vocal powers, by some of the very highest authorities on the sub-
ject,
hail wide great pleasure any worthy accession to the operatic
departmenteet is,
it
:a of t p.
eoaurs:drama, at present so lamentably deficient, more
espcciallY as to vocalists of the male sex, and we shall hail the acces-
sion with all the greater pleasure in the person of a son of Mr. W.
Farren. If the debutant in futuro gives leis hearers anything like
the gratification which it derives from his father, the Messrs. Farren,
comedian and singer, will have to be regarded as public benefactors.
A POWERFUL ENGINE.—An engine of truly
gigantic dimensions has just been constructed at the Broomsgrove
station, on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, under the direction
of Mr. M'Connell, the locomotive superintendent of that line, and,
like her great contemporary on the ocean, has been appropriately
named the " Great Britain." This iron giant has proved its power
to be equal to the conveyance of upwards of 1,000 tons on the level
rails, and has .ascended the Lickey incline on the above railway, with
a load of 150 tons, thus surmounting a gradient of 1 in 37, a feat of
locomotive power hitherto without a parallel. The dimensions of
this mammoth engine are as follow :—viz., diameter of cylinder, 18
inches ; length of stroke, 26 inches ; six wheels coupled, 46 inches ;
leaving a tank over the boiler for a supply of water, and a foot plate
sufficiently large to hold boxes containing the coke necessary for a
trip up and down the incline. This is by far the largest locomotive
.engine that has yet been made—it is now in daily use, and is worked
with the greatest facility.

SINGULAR CASE OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION.-
On Friday Mr. Carter went into an inquiry at the Windmill, Wynd-
ham-road, Camberwell, as to the death of Mrs. Mary Wells, aged 33,
of Thomas-street, Wyndham-road. On Tuesday, about midday, he
deceased was standing by the side of a corn binn, giving directions
about the preparation for the dinner, when she sudden y fell on her
back on the floor. Her brother went to her assistance, and disco-
vered she was turning black in the face. Medical assistance was
sent for, and on the arrival of the surgeon an attempt was made to
-bleed her,- -but only a few•drops could be obtained, and she was pro-
nounced dead. Mr. Chabot, of High-street, Camberwell, surgeon,
stated he had often attended the deceased, who was frequently at-
tacked with suspended animation, aria ng from disease of the heart,
and that was, no doubt, the cause of her death. Verdict, "Natural
death."
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A HUNGRY RAT.—Oa Friday morning, a poor
woman of the name of Walters, residing in a kitchen or cellar in
Dudley-street (late Dlonmouth• street), went out at an early hour to
purchase water tresses tbr the purpose of vending, leaving her hus-
band and infant asleep in bed on the floor. The father of the child
was awoke by the screams of the infant ; on looking to see what was
the cause, in turning down the sheet, a large rat ran from under it,
and escaped into a hole, the child having been dreadfully bitten in
the left breast and side of the neck. The parts bitten have since been
cauterised.

HE FIRE IN ALDERMANBURII.—Bradbury, Great-
orex, and Co., were on Friday fortunate enough to recover all their
books and valuable domments from their sale.

DEATH OF AN AGED FEMALE FROM CHOKING.—
On Friday morning a singular and fatal accident occurred to an aged
female named Jan:, Deacon, litely residing in Alm-street Lambeth.
She was sitting at breakfast, and whilst eating some new bread, she
was suddenly seized with symptoms, of suffocation. A surgeon was
e.it for, who used all means to save her lit.. but she died in conse-
quence of a large piee of br. ad having lodged in her throat.
REVIVAL OF Bow Fain.—This ancient fair, and
once popular place of resort is, after a discontinuance of above twenty
e ire, again to be
renewed. Fins day the fair will be again
held in a large and spacious field, adjoining the old field where the
fair was in olden times wont to be held. It will be continued the
three (blowing drys.
ILLEGALITY OF INN TAPS.—The Excise have c,m-
menced laying informations against the occupiers of the taps attached
to inns, hotels, taverns, or other public-houses, for selling exciseable
liquors without license. A series of informations of this description
were heard in Hull before the Mayor and Mr. Palmer, on Thursday
last, when the facts being proved of the sale of the liquors, and of
the occupiers of the taps not being the identical p,:rties to whom the
respective licenses for the inns were issued, the magistrate had no
alternative than to convict, which they did in :the lowest mitigated
penalties of'l2/. 10s. each.— Yorkshire Gazette.
rIIa _LATE ACCIDENT ON THE NORTIIERN AND
EASTERN RAILWAY.—On Friday morning Major-Gm-tent Pasley, the
Government Inspector of Railways, proceeded down the /s
and Eastern Railway by the express train, to institute his official in-
quiry Into the cause of the recent accidents on that line, and to make
a further and more minute inspection of the made ay with a view of
ascertaining its solidity.
At the Bristol Assizes on Thursday an action was
tried, In which 'Mr. Bromhead sought to recover from Mr. Hall, an
attorney, the sum of 1981., which the plaintiff had to pay as costs of
an action, which the defendant Hall had defended without any autho-
rity from the plaintiff. The jury gave A verdict for the plaintiff for
the amount claimed. •
At 14i,•erpo:)1 Assizes, on Thursday, an action was
brought by a workman in a factory at Wigan, to recover one month's
wages In consequence of his being discharged without notice. The
case was of some importune, as it would regulate the decision to be
given in many other cases of the kind. The plaintiff and others in
the same factory had " struck," though not for wages. The plaintiff
failed to make it avear that the custom was to give a month's
wages or a month's notice, and he was accordingly nonsuited.
IMPORTANT TO NE% SVENDERs.—CONTRADICTORY
newspapers.
Law.—On Friday, in the Court of Requests, Kingsgate-street, a case
tame before the Commissioners for adjudication, in which a news+
vender summoned a person for a small sum for "reading" the various
in the habit of seeing the papers daily, for which one penny per
as -
The plaintiff, in stating the case, said the defendant had
day w - charged, and the present proceedings were taken to recover
a balance due
upon that account. Mr. Commissioner Dubois—Then
you cannot recover, as you have been guilty of a gross fraud upon the
Stamp office in letting the newspapers out for hire. The plaintiff—
But he was in the habit of coming to my shop and seeing them.
Mr. Commissioner Dubois—That does not matter; it is a fraud upon
the Stamp-office,
and you render yourself liable to an indictment
being laid against you far it. The defendant did not deny that he
owed something, but from the dictum of the Commissioner in the
first instance, "that the plaintiff could not recover," thought it would
be his province to dismiss the case. This, however, was not done ;
and in opposition to his previous opinion that the defendant was not
bound to pay a debt contracted under illegal cir,cumstances, the Com-
missioner ordered the defendant to pay the full amount claimed.
THE CHARGES AGAINST THE MASTER OF THE AN-
DOvEit Mimic —Every necessaryarrangement has been made by
the Board of Guardians of the Andover Union for hilly and satis-
factorily examining the whole case connected with the conduct of
Mr. Dougal, the master. So greatly has the matter excited the
public attention, that it is expected t ,e large room at the Union will
be too small for the ratepayers, in which case provision has been made
for an adjournment to a public room.