The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST M 184.

1 COURT CIRCULAR,
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were
taken a drive in a carriage this morning, and her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal took equestrian
exercise on a pony. In the afternoon the Royal
Family were again taken airings in the pleasure
grounds of the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert left the Castle
at twelve o'clock, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson and
Colonel Bouverie, for the Great Western Railway
station at Slough, en route for London, by a special
train.

His Royal Highness and suite returned to the
Castle from town at twenty minutes past fuur o'clock.
The Prince, after his return, walked out in the plea-
sure grounds about the Castle.
Among the nobility and gentry who entered their
names at the Castle to-day, were Lady Malcolm and
the Misses Malcolm, Admiral Sir John and Lady
West, Captain Codrington, Mr. and Mrs. Foster and
Miss Foster, Captain the Hon. Augustus and Mrs.
Liddell, Captain and Mrs. Forbes and Miss Forbes.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Mr. George Elward Anson and Colonel Bouverie,
left Windsor Castle shortly before twelve o'clock
yesterday for the Slough station of the Great Western
Railway, and travelled to town by a special train.
On arriving at the Paddington terminus his Royal
Highness and suite immediately proceeded to the re-
sidence of his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, the
Prussian Minister, and paid a visit to his Royal
Highness Prince William of Prussia.
Prince Albert afterwards went from his Excel-
lency's residence in Carlton-terrace to Buckingham
Palace.
The Prince, during his stay in town, inspected the
new summer temple in the royal gardens.
At twenty minutes past three o'clock his Royal
Highness, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson and Colonel
Bouverie, left Buckingham Palace for the Paddington
terminus, and returned to Windsor Castle by a
special railway train.

His Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia,
attended by Count Konigsmark and Captain Meyneil
(Groom in Waiting to her Majesty), visited the
Duke of Wellington at Apsley House yesterday
morning. The illustrious visitor remained half an
hour with the Noble Duke, and afterwards returned
to the residence of the Prussian Minister, in Carlton-
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terrace. Prince William, accompanied by Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, honoured the establishment
of Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt, in Bond-street, with
a visit at an early hour in the forenoon.
In the afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Wil-
liam of Prus3ia, accompanied by Prince Edward of
Saxe 'Weimar, and attended by Count Konigsmark
and Captain Meynell, left Carlton-terrace in one of
the Queen's carriages, and proceeded to Westminster
Abbey, the gentlemen of his Royal Highness's suite
following in another royal carriage. The Earl of
Westmoreland met the Prince at the Abbey, and ac-
companied his Royal Highness during his inspection
of the sacred edifice.

The illustrious party afterwards visited Westmin-
ster Hall, where the Prince viewed the collection of
frescos and sculptures. His Royal Highness also
was conducted with his suite over the different works
of the new Palace at Westminster.

Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar then took leave of

his Royal Highness, and the Prince and the gentle-
men of his party took a drive through Regent-street,
and round the circle of the Regent's Park, returning
to the residence of the Minister through some of the
principal squares at the West-end.
A. select party had the honour of dining with his
Royal Highness.
Last evening his Royal Highness Prince William of
Prussia, attended by his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen,
the Count Konigsmark, and Capt. Meynell, and other
gentlemen of his suite, honoured the performance of
the Italian Opera with his presence.
His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke
of Mecklenburgh Strelitz arrived in town yesterday
from the Isle of Wight. His Royal Highness paid a
visit to his Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia
at Carlton-terrace. The Hereditary Grand Duke
afterwards went to Kew.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had
a dinner party yesterday at the residence of his Ma-
jesty the King of Hanover at Kew.
Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday for his seat,
Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer had an interview with the Right Hon.
Baronet previous to his departure.
Mr. Hart Davis, Deputy Chairman of the Excise,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Countess of Glengall, in Grosvenor-street, from
Brighton ; the Hon. Lindsey Burrell, at the York Hotel,
Albemarle-street ; Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., in the
Albany, from the Norfolk Hotel, at Brighton ; Captain
Scott, 31st Regiment, and Mrs. Scott, at the York Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from a tour ; H. Villebois, Esq., and
family, in Gloucester-place, from Regency House,
Brighton ; Lord George Bentinck, at Harcourt House,
Cavendish-square.
DEPARTURES.

The Countess of Effingham, for the Park Hotel, at
Norwood ; Lord Edward Chichester, from Norfolk-
street, Park-lane, for the Bedford Hotel, Brighton ;
the Hon. Thomas Browne and Mr. Valentine Browne,
from the York Hotel, Albemarle-street ; the Hon. Vice-
Chancellor Wigram and the Misses Wigram, from Port-
land-place, on a tour ' • Lady E. Hope Vero and Miss
Hope Vere, from Park-lane, for Brighton ; Miss Do
Capel Brooke, for St. Leonard's-on-Sea ; the Earl of
Wemyss and Lady Jane Charteris, from Stratford-
place, for Gosford House, Haddington, North Britain ;
Colonel Campbell, from the York Hotel, Albemarle-
street, on a tour ' • Count llolyski, from ditto, for Paris ;
Lord Clements, from the Earl of Leitrim's, Cumber-
land-place, on a tour in the north ; Bourke, Esq.,
from the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street ; • Sir
C. Burrell, Bart., M.P., from Richmond-terrace, for
Knepp Castle, Sussex ; Captain Rochfort, R.N„ and
family, for Cheltenham ; the Russian Baron Fredericks,
Baron Lamsdorff, and the officers of the Russian frigate
Aurora, from the York Hotel, Albemarle-street ;
Majoribanks, Esq., and Mrs. Majoribanks, for Field
House, Eastbourne ; Lord Northwick, for the Albion
Hotel, Brighton ; Mr. Bailey, M.P., for Glanusk Park,
Brecon ; the Right Hon. Sir Charles Vaughan, for
Brighton ; Mr. J. H. Campbell, M.P., and Mrs. Camp-
bell, from Montagu-square, to Hampshire.
CHANGES.

Lord Henry Bentinck, from the Duke of Portland's,
Welbeck Abbey, Notts, for the moors of Fifeshire ; Sir
A. and Lady Corbet and family, at the Warrior, St. Leo-
nard's-on-Sea, from their seat, in Shropshire ; Lieut.-
General Sir W. Kier Grant, at Brighton, from a tour ;
the lion. Captain and Lady Susan Hotham, at Oakfield
Lodge, from Brighton ; the Earl of Harrowby, from a
visit to Lady Grenville, at I)ropmore Lodge, Bucks, on
a tour ; Lady Blakeney, at Twickenham, from Suffolk-
square, Cheltenham ; Sir W. P. Gallwey, Bart., at
Cowes, in his yacht the Charm, from a cruise off the coast
of Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sudden, at the Victoria
Hotel, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, from a tour ; Lady and
Miss Arbuthnot, from Cheltenham, for Liverpool ; the
Earl and Countess of Winchilsea, at Eastwell Park, near
Ashford, from Brighton ; Hon. W. Browne, from Chel-
tenham, on a tour ; Don and Donna Ysidro Lopez de
Arze, on a visit to the lion. and Rev. Leland Noel, Exton
Vicarage, from the Rev. J. Gill's, Scraptoft.

THE NAVIGATION of the THAMES.
Yesterday the Committee again assembled at
Guildhall for the purpose of hearing the objections to
the suggested regulations for the government of
steam-vessels on the Thames. The Lord Mayor took
the chair. There were present Messrs. Aldermen
Lucas, John Johnson, Kelly, Farncomb, and Mus-
grove, several members of the Navigation Committee,
steam-vessel owners, and the Master and Wardens of
the IVatermen and Lightermen's Company (for which
Company, Mr. Cooper, the honorary secretary, at-
tended).
Mr. SHADBOLT, the solicitor to one of the steam-
vessel companies, objected to several of the bye-laws,
and said that he should call witnesses to grove that, if
carried into effect, they would greatly prejudice public
and private interests. He then argued against the
stringent regulations to check the speed of the steam-
ers, to limit the number of passengers, and in other
respects to interfere essentially with a traffic of such
immense importance.
Alderman Lucas said he wished to make a few
observations with reference to an attack which, ac-
cording to the report in the Times of what had taken
place on Saturday last before the Committee, Mr.
Cruden made upon the Company of Watermen and
Lightermen, whom that gentleman designated as
wholly unfit to carry out the regulations. He consi-
dered that he was reprehensible for not having at-
tended on the day Mr. Cruden took the opportunity
to make so sweeping an accusation, but the state of
his health had interfered with his intention. He felt
much anxiety to set the Court of Aldermen right in
the eyes of the public, if Mr. Cruden's remarks upon
the Watermen and Lightermen's Company had made
any impression to the disadvantage of the Court, re-
flecting as they did upon the capabilities of the body
to decide upon the subject of licenses. He was a
member of the Watermen and Lightermen's Com-
pany, to which some of the first shipowners in
the country belonged, and if the Committee
would look into its rules, they would find
that, in drawing up these code of laws, they had exer-
cised a judicious and discreet power in taking care of
the public. Everything, in fact, had been done to
give security to life and property. It was, in fact,
the only Company in which the freedom was attain-
able by servitude alone, for those who managed it
knew how dangerous it was to confer an authority of
such a nature upon one who had no knowledge ofi
the duties and labours of the calling. Other com-
panies admitted to their freedom by patrimony and
redemption, as well as by service ; but the Watermen
and Lightermen's Company were strictly restricted to
the regulation which made the knowledge of the
river, and a service of seven years, indispensable to
the candidate for the freedom. ow it happened
oddly enough that Mr. Cruden, the gentleman who
had objected that the Watermen's Company were
wholly ignorant, had himself endeavoured to obtain
his freedom in that very Company, and been disap-
pointed.----(A laugh.) The fact was, that Mr.
Cruden, although he had been bound apprentice to
a waterman, did not become qualified by service, and
upon his application to be made free, he was opposed
before the Master and Warden of the Company, and
rejected. Whether that refusal operated upon Mr.
Cruden's feelings towards the Watermen's Com-
pany, he did not know, but certainly the terms in
which Mr. Cruden spoke of them, appeared very
much to resemble the language in which it was usual
to designate a grudge.—(Laughter.) There is
another rather curious circumstance connected with
the accusation. It happened that there was not a
man on board any of the boats, either of the Star or.
Diamond Steam Packet Company, with the exception
of the engineer and the stoker, who was not a freeman
of the Watermen and Lightermen's Company; and he
would ask those around him, whether men ' of
such experience and knowledge as those he had de-
scribed, were not qualified to judge of the competency
of applicants for licenses, and fit to to act under the
authority of the Court Aldermen ? In his opinion,
the practical knowledge and experience of the mem-
bers of the Company placed them in a position which
far surpassed the eligibility of any other body to the
performance of the peculiar duties. After some
further observations in defence of the Watermen and
Lightermen's Company, Alderman Lucas spoke in
favour of the suggested regulations, and declared that
in comparison with the views and opinions of all
practical men the objections were mere moonshine ;
that the masters of the steam-vessels were freemen of
the Company, and two of the beadles of the Company
had been masters of steam-vessels, and that nearly all
the river pilots were freemen of the Company.
Mr. SHADBOLT then called Captain Mophet, who
stated, amongst other matters, that the plan of having
coloured lights on board the steam-vessels was liable
to objection, inasmuch as the usual light was much
more conspicuous, and that one light at the funnel
and another at the bows were better calculated to
prevent collision than the suggested alteration. He
was of opinion that such a restriction of' the speed as
the regulation involved would be attended with evil,
and that danger was likely to result from it.
Mr. JOHN GRAVES, master of Waterman No. 11,
stated that he did not consider the plan of limiting
the number of passengers was advisable. He had
had 800 persons on board his vessel, and he was of
opinion that the closer the passengers were together
the safer they were. There was no necessity for re-
strictions at all as to speed below Cuckold's Point.
He had never had the misfortune to run over a man,
and he never passed a passenger yet, except in case of
necessity, and did everything in his power for the
accommodation of the public.
Captain MORRIS, of the Trident, belonging to the
General Steam-boat Company, stated that sand-
barges and sometimes coal-barges• in the river were
so much loaded that the water actually, washed the
decks. In fact, all barges were overloaded. The
regulation as to the speed of
the steam-vessels ought
to be at the discretion of the captains, who could best
judge when it was necessary to check' the rapidity of
the motion. He disapproved of the system proposed.
James Bell, a pilot, and several other witnesses,
were called by Mr. Shadbelt, to testify to the probable
inefficacy of the regulations.
Lieutenant Rous, of the Royal Navy, stated that
he kept the boys' school at Greenwich, and he brought
to town 750 boys in two of the Greenwich steamers,
and returned to Greenwich with them in one, he be-
lieved, Waterman No. 11. He was sure there was
not the least danger.
Lieutenant STONE, one of the harbour-masters,
was called by the Lord Mayor and asked his opi-
nion of the regulations. He spoke most strongly in
favour of them, and said that about a month ago one
of the Greenwich steamers bore down upon him dan-
gerously while he was in his boat engaged in adjust-
ing the colliers, and when he remonstrated with the
crew, one of them cried out 4, D you, I wanted
to make a vacancy for a harbour master:'—(A laugh.)
The captain of one of the boats of the Waterman's
Steam-packet Company declared, that if any one of
the persons employed by
them made use of such
words, his suspension should take place, and, in all
probability, be followed up by his dismissal.
The LORD MAYOR presented a petition from 900
ticket porters praying that the Committee would
carry into effect regulations for the control of the
steam-vessels.
Mr. Newbon (for the
Waterman's Steam-packet
Company) submitted that it was too hard upon the
captains, who had such serious responsibilities, that
the fines should fall upon them.
Mr. Cooper declared that if the penalties were not
inflicted upon the captains, there would be no protec-
tion at all to the public.
The LORD MAYOR informed those who were in-
terested, that the Committee would immediately take
into consideration the objection which had been made
Committee, ere
the meeting
beand adopt a course which he had no doubt would
made by himin the
favourably received by the public.
Mr. Cruden was not present during the day. The
following observations, which he has expressed a great
on Saturday:—" The rulers cannot claim any
authority to regulate steam- packets under their
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Act (7 and 8 Geo. IV., cap. 75), for the subject was
anxiety to see published, were ale by him in the
cours
designedly excluded from it, as I happen to know,
from being in communication with the law officers of
the Corporation of the City of London when they
framed the Act. Their assigned motive for this
omission being to avoid an opposition which any
attempt to give the rulers such jurisdiction would
have excited at the time. After the deplorable loss of
the Rothsay steamer on the west coast of
.England,
a Committee of the House of Commons, in the year
1831, investigated the circumstances, with a view to
precautionary regulations, and, in the same year,
Alderman Matthew Wood introduced a Bill to regu-
late steam-vessels on the Thames, in which he failed,
as well as in several subsequent sessions, when he
repeated the attempt. In 1835 a meeting of directors
of several steam-packet p com anies was held at the
London Tavern for the purpose of urging the expe-
diency of making provision for regulating those
vessels. On the 17th of December in that year a de-
putation from the meeting obtained
an interview with
Lord John Russell, then at the head of the Home
Department, when they suggested that the subject
should be taken up by Government, the individual
exertions of Alderman Wood having failed ; and it
was remarked that the proceedings of the Aldermen
were to be considered as an indication that there ex-
isted no legal authority for the City to interfere by
municipal regulations. Lord John Russell undertook
to communicate with the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, and signified that Government would in-
troduce a measure for the regulation of steam-vessels.
In the year 1836, at the suggestion of the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade, a Select Committee
of the House of Commons was appointed to inves-
tigate the state of the port of London. The Lord
Mayor and Aldermen Matthew Wood and Thompson
were members of the Committee, and the following
is the concluding paragraph of the report, dated the
12th of August, 1836 :--- It further appears to your
Committee that, as a precaution, any measure, and

with a view to the preservation of life, the rate of
speed of steam vessels navigating between Deptford
and London-bridge should be at a reduced rate, and
that the attention of proprietors of steam-vessels fre-
quenting the river Thames should be called to this
subject, as well as to the number of passengers which
are received on board those boats, until the sanction
of Parliament shall have been obtained to such reme
dial measures as shall hereafter be deemed expedient.'
It was also submitted to the Committee that if regu-
lations, for steam navigation on the Thames were to
be manufactured from time to time at the suggestion
of the rulers of the wherrymen, it would tend to
paralyse the exertions now constantly in progress for
the improvement of steam navigation, as parties
would no longer be found who would apply their
capital to be subject to such harassing control. A
copy of a notice, issued some years since under the
authority of the Lord Mayor, for the regulation of
the speed of steam-vessels, with instructions to
the harbour-masters to see them carried into
effect, was produced, and it was suggested
that this should be brought into operation
until further lawful authority should be obtained.
Mr. Cruden concluded by disclaiming altogether
any design to obstruct the formation of a code of
rules and orders for the regulation of steam naviga-
tion on the Thames."

MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT HIGH
EIGHTON.

A most cruel and horrid murder was perpetrated
at the above place, in the county of Durham, on Sa-
turday last. It appears that a potatoe field, belong-
ing to Mrs. Mitcalfe, of High Eighton, had suffered
severely from depredators of late, and Mr. Fleck,
manager of the farm, had placed a watch to pre-
vent a recurrence of these losses. On Saturday
night last he had sent a young man, named Yarrow,
to watch; and he, in company with two other men,
had proceeded to the brakehouse of one of the pits
of Ravensworth colliery. Yarrow, as far as we
can learn, had stayed in the brakehouse till the
brakesman, Thomas Robson, and J. Jefferson, had
gone to see that all was right. While they were pro-
ceeding along the top of the field, Jefferson observed
somebody in the hedge, but went on without speak-
ing; the brakesman also observed one, and called out
" Iloilo," upon which the villain instantly fired a pistol
at him, and he staggered a few yards and fell dead.
His comrade was so paralysed by the dreadful deed,
as to be completely deprived of his faculties, and he
also fell, and remained in a state of stupor for a con •
siderable time. At length Mr. Fleck came to the
spot, and found them as described. Robson was quite
dead, his heart having been partly blown out of its
place, and his breast-etreadfully shattered.
'On Monday an inquest was held before J. M.
Favell, Esq., County Coroner, and a most re-
spectable jury, at a farm-house on the Team Col-
liery, where the deceased had held the situation of
a brakesman. The testimony of the youth Jefferson,
Mr. Fleck, and Mr. Davis, a surgeon, were taken,
but the result of the examination only left this cold-
blooded murder involved in still deeper mystery.
Mrs. Mitcalfe's potato-field in High Eighton looks
upon the public road, from which easy access is
gained and according to the statement of Jefferson,
he and the deceased Robson were passing through
the field on Saturday night, on their watch, when a
man who was sitting under the hedge, wearing a hat
and round jacket, discharged a weapon at them, and
struck his companion. Robson staggered a
few yards, and then fell dead on the ground.
Mr. Fleck afterwards came up and found Jef-
ferson in a state of great alarm. Seeing some.
thing lying on the ground, he asked Jefferson
what it was. Jefferson replied, it might be a white
cat. Fleck then went up, and saw Robson, as he
fancied, asleep, but he soon found out that he was
dead, and then Jefferson told him that the deceased
had been sh6t. The body was removed, and a me-
dical man called in, but of course the deceased was
beyond all aid. Mr. Davis, the surgeon, and another
medical gentleman, took a post mortem examination
of the deceased. The apex of the heart was shattered,
and no fewer than 187 shots were found in his body,
the greater part of them being in the back part of the
chest, and many of them were flattened by coming
into contact with the ribs. The Coroner said that no
time had yet been allowed to the police to make in-
quiry into the circumstances, and therefore he would
adjourn the inquest till Friday morning, at ten
o'clock, in order that more information might be pro-
cured. The inquest was then adjourned. Many
rumours are afloat, which it would be premature at
present to mention.—Tyne Mercury.