The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-01 00:00:00

COWES,IISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUA OWN CORRISFONDANT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADkON INTELLIGENCE.
At the annual general meeting of the members of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, which is fixed for the 11th of May, at the
Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, there are seven can-
didates to be ballotted for; and it is expected that, at the
least, twelve vessels will be added to the squadron this season.
The Black Eagle was at Cowes on Saturday, and landed
Lord Louvain, Catitain Corry, Mr. Corry, 'the Hon. Sydney
Herbert, and two other gentlemen. They proceeded, to-day,
for Plymouth.
OSBORNE, A ROYAL RESIDENCE.--The arrange-
ments for the taking of Osborne for her Majesty, were finally
closed on Friday, and the agreement signed. It is only taken
for one year, with an option of purchasing, at a certain fixed
price, at the end of that period, if approved; in fact, on the
same terms as we originally stated as agreed on, the details
only requiring settling. It is rumoured that her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent intends takiitg a house in the
neigOsiarhood.

THE ISLE or WIGUT JOINT-STOCK BANK:This
establishment, which was formed on that of Roe and Blash-
ford's of Newport (better known as Sir Richard Bassett's), it
appears has suffered severely by the conduct of their ma-
naging directors, having, in less than two years, lost the
whole of their paid-up capital. The shareholders have (find-
ing themselves such considerable losers, involved in law-
suits and their issues contracted) resolved on closing the.
concern on Saturday next, the 6th April, in favour of the
National and Provincial Bank of England, which will open
on the same premises on that day. The losses in the Island
by the last three banking establishments, have been im-
mense.

PRINCE ALBERT.—The Princess Alice returned to
Dover yesterday morning, bringing back Captain Seymour,
Sir Edward Bowater and Colonel Bouverie only accompany-
ing the Prince to Germany. The Prince was received at
Ostend by the King of the Belgians. His Royal Highness,
after passing the night at Ostend, left yesterday morning at
half-past six A.M., for Brussels, by special train, and it is ex-
pected he will reach Gotha by to-morrow (Sunday), where The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
he will remain a few days with his brother and the other Commons gave his last Parliamentary dinner this season, on
members of his family, and thence proceed to Coburg for the Saturday, at his residence. in Eaton-square. The Earl of
arrangement, it is said, of some important business. The Arundel and Surrey, Lord Howard, Lord James Stuart, Hon.
Prince will return to England on the 11th of April; and the R. Colborne, Colonel Paget, Mr. Jo'an A. Smith, Sir George
Princess Alice is ordered to be at Ostend on the 10th, to bring Btrickland, Bart., Mr. Trelawny, ;qr. Ainsworth, Mr. Wynn
him across. The King of the Belgians is expected to land at Ellis, Mr. Vesey Dawson, Mr. ~;vans, Mr. Protheroe, Mr.
Woolwich on Monday.—Doimr Chronicle of Saturday. Gisborne, Sir C. Napier, Mr. Hiime, Mr. Towneley, Captain
• GOOD OLD AGE.—Since the 16th December, 1843, Pecliell, Mr. Pulsford, Mr. Miantz, Mr. Stanton, and Mr.
to the 25th March, 1844, twelve individuals have been in- Hindley, constituted the party:
terred at Ripon, and one at Kirkby Malzeard, whose united THE LATE ACCIDENT TO LORD CANTALLIPE.—His
ages amount to 1,125 years, viz.—Widow Brown 82, Mary Lordship, who is cimfined in the mansion of the Lord Cham-
Tuting 83, Widow 'Whittaker 84, George Wharton 112, Ben- berlain, Upper Grosvenor-st feet, front the effects of the
amin Dearnley 84, Widow Pickersgili 90, John Rudd 70, recent accident, while hunting at Melton, by which he in-
Isabella Brown 84, Widow Smith 90, Miss Clough 95, Wm. jured one of his eyes, is going ozi favourably, and his medical
Myers 90, Riohard Johnson 85, Lawrence Nelson 76.—Total , attendants consider the sight will lie soon restored, but for
11124. the present tloe Noble Lord is kepi in darkness.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL:
BRUSSELS, MARCH i.s;—The Chamber of Represen-
tatives continued the dismission of the project of law rela-
tive to the examining jury.
M. Lebeaudelared that he would support the plan of
the Government. He observed that it was the Catholic
party that, in 1835, obtained the nomination of the
members of the juries for the Royal preroga-
tive. He then proceeded to show that the Chamber of,
Representative, had always shown a partiality in favour
of the Catholic -University, and against the University.
of Brussels. At the close of his speech, M. Lebeitu
hating made an observation on an opinion of
M. Dumortier, that Honourable Member retorted
with such warmth, that he was called to order by the
President. M. Dumortier, instead of attending to this
call, declared the conduct of the President to be arbi-
trary, which excited a tumult that it would be difficult
to describe, at length on the repeated desire of the whole
assembly, and a declaration of M. Lebeau that he had
the highest esteem for the character of M. Dumortier,
the latter retracted the offensive expressions which had
fallen him. The Chambers soon afterwards adjourned.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 28.—The Ilandebblad to-day
has another long article earnestly recommending to its
readers not to let the day pass without subscribing to
the voluntary loan, and quotes from another journal a
Very impressive address to the same effect.
THE HAGUE, MARCH 26.—1 t is thought that his Im-
perial Highness tbe Grand Duke Alexander of Russia,
who is now at Weimar, may very probably pay a visit
some weeks hence to the Hague.
THg HAGUE, MARCH 29.—Courant con-
tains, Staats
in the Dutch and French language, the boundary
treaty between the Netherlands and Belgium.
ROTTERDAM, MARCH 27.—We learn that in the last
few days very considerable sums have been subscribed in
this city to the voluntary loan.
The different journals contain articles from several
towns respecting the readiness of the inhabitants to sub-
scribe to the loan,. but the official joarned does not state
the total result of the spbscription, which was finally
dosed on the 28th March

BRUSSELS, MARCH 29.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert
did not land at Ostend the day before yesterday till nine
o'clock in the evening. He was received and conducted to
the Palace by General D'Hane. Yesterday morning, at
seven o'clock,.. the Prince left Ostend, and arrived at Maline
at half-past ten. His Majesty King Leopold received him at
the station, and set out with him, intending to accompany
him to the Prussian frontier, or at least to Verviers.

The Chamber of Representatives fixed its sitting to-mor-
row at ten o'clock, because it means to conclude the debate on
the examining jury in that sitting, and then adjourned till
after Easter.

The question of the intervention of the Chambers in the
formation of the jury will be put, and it is believed that it
will be carried in the affirmative by a majority of about ten
votes. The discussion will be ended by a compromise with-
out any Ministerial crisis.
A letter from Maestricht says :—" The Government ap-
pears to have some apprehensions for the tranquillity of the
province of Limburg. It has withdrawn the troops of the
contingent from Ruremonde and Venloo, and placed them in
the fortress of Maestricht. These troops have been succeeded
in thew twa cities by the garrison of Maestricht, composed
entirely of Dutch soldiers.'

The 3foniteur publishes the text of a draft of a project of
law, relative- to the establishment of free entrepots at Ant-
werp and Ostend, of which we spoke two days ago. This '•
dratt has been submitted to the opinion of the Governor of
that province, of the Chamber of Commerce, and. of the Di-
rectors of the Customs.

THE KING OF SwnDEN.—Oscar 11., lately- Crown
Prince and now King of Sweden, was born at Paris, on
the 4th-of July, 1799, and is, therefore, now' in his 45th
year. He accompanied his father to Sweden in 1810, .
where the title of Duke of Sodermanland was conferred
on tini—a title borne by Charles XIII. -previously to ,
his accession to the throne. Count Cederstrom was-ap-
pointed governor to the young Prince, and a private
tutor at the University of Lund, Mr. of Tatinstrom, was
charged with the immediate superintendence of his
studies. The poet- Atterbom was entrusted with the
task of making him familiar with the Swedish language,
which Oscar was soon able to speak like a native. On
his father's accession to the throne' the Chancellorship
of the University of Upsuls, previously held by Charles
John, was conferred on Oscar, who shortly afterwards
was entered there as a student, and has, at various
periods of his life, by munificent donations, and in
many other ways, given .unquestionable. proofs of the
interest he feels in the welfare of that venerable insti-
tdtion. His military education, meanwhile, was not
neglected, and his musical taste has shown itself in the
composition of an opera, besides a great number of
songs, dances, marches, &e; ; we are not, however,
aware whether in these works he has manifested much
more than the average genius of Royal composers. His
military career commenced in 1811, when he was nomi-
nated Lieutenant-Colonel in the Svea Lifeguards. 'He
followed hig father to Germany in 1814, and had there, .
for the first time, an opportunity of seeing something of
active service.

In consequence of the fineness of the weather yes-
terday, the steamers were unusually. crowded, and the iron
steam-boats above bridge, and the watermen-'s steamers
below bridge, carried upwards of, 50,000 persons, •during the
day, to . Chelsea. Greenwich, WoOlwich, and other places.
The people were flocking to the steam-boat piers in great
numbers, until sunset. Greenwich Park was very fall of
visitors ; and Richmond, Gravesend, and other places to
which the Londoners resort on fine Sundays, presented a
very busy appearance. There. were .not less than fifty
steamers engaged in carrying passengers.. At the Adelphi
pier, Strand, which has been lately enlarged and improved,
11,000 persons landed and embarked during the day.
FREAKS OF A HORSE.—A circumstance, of an
unusually strange character occurred at Bromley, Kent, on
'Thursday afternoon, which happily terminated without
serious injury. A horse, while being cleaned in the stables of
Mr. Pawley, of the White Hart Hotel, became restive, and
started into the street, proceeding through the village at a
furious pace. • Being • suddenly checked, he returned, and
rushed into the front entrance of the hotel, and, after
plunging and .kicking for some time, bolted through a long
passage, ascended two flights of stairs, and finally made his
way into the assembly-room, where the door was imme-
diately closed on him. After breaking a few tables, chairs,
&c., he was finally secured, and with great difficulty con-
veyed down stairs to his old quarters.
Mu..O'Co,mELL.—ln consequence of Mr.O`Con-
nell'a-pre-engagements in Ireland, his visit to Nottingham,
which had been fixed for Easter Tuesday, is postponed. to •
future day.

The Marquis of Bute, who has been slightly in-
disposed at Cardiff Castle, is now convalescent.
We hear thOt a marriage' is on the tapis between
the Dowager Countess of Essex, the once charming song-
stress, and Mr. Henry Greville, lately attached to the British
Embassy at Paris.--Court Journal.
Viscount _and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow,
Marquis of,Normanby, Earl of Besborough, Earl of Auck-
land and Hon. Misses Eden, Viscount and Viscountess Pon-
sonby, Lord Elphinstone, Sir Augustus and Lady Albinia
Foster, Mrs. Lamb, and a distinguished circle at dinner, on
Saturday last, on Carlton-house-terrace. Her Ladyship had
an assembly afterwards, when among the visitors were the
French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire, Duke de
Gluc'ksburg, the Turkish Ambassador, Duke of Leeds,
Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Marquis of Head-
fort and Ladies Mary and Olivia Taylour, M.archioness of
Sligo and Ladies Browne, his Excellency Count Pollon,
Baron Hugel, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viseount
Mahon, Viscountess Pollington, Lord Beaumont, besides
many other persons of rank and distinction.
HORRID CASE OF CHILD•MURPER.—On Saturday
an inquest was held at the Marquis of Westminster, Bel-
grave-road, Pimlico, before Mr. ,Higgs, on view of the body
of a fine new-born male infant, which was discovered brutally
murdered in some waste ground in the above neighbourhood.
Thomas Thornsett, a man in the employ of Mr. Cubist, the
builder, proved finding the body of the unfortunate little
innocent, about ten o'clock on Tuesday. It was wrapped up
in a piece of calico and a part of an old shawl. The head
and face were dreadfully disfigured by violence. The spot
where the body was found is about four wards within a high
wall in the Belgrave-road. Mr. David 'Wilson, surgeon, of
Eccleston-square, Pimlico, deposed that he had examined
the body of the child ; it was full grown. There was a violent
blow on the forehead between the eyes, and other bruises
about the head and face. The umbilical cord was not tied,
proving that the mother was not professionally attended at
the birth. Witness has no doubt the infant was born alive,
and bad been destroyed by violence. The jury returned a
verdict of "Wilful Murder against some person or persons
unknown," and recommended that a reward should be offered
by the parish for the discovery of the inhuman murderer.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—..AbOIIt nine o'clock, last
night, an alarm was given by some individuals, on Black-
friars-bridge, that a woman had leaped from the parapet into
the river. Some policemen on duty immediately proceeded
to the place, and after great exertion succeeded in rescuing
the unfortunate woman from her perilous position. She was
conveyed to a public-house in the vicinity of the bridge,'
where efforts were made for her recovery, which proved suc-
cessful. Her circumstances in life, if we may judge from the
clothes she had on, were very distressing, and we have. little
doubt that povertylad been the cause of her infatuation.
Too great praise cannot be assigned to the police, by whose
praiseworthy exertions she was rescued from a watery grave.
SHOCKING. CASE OF BURNlNG.—Yesterday after-
noon, between four and five o'clock, an accident of a most
serious nature occurred to a little girl named Reed, residing
with her parents at 55, Battesland-street, East-road, Hor-
ton. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Reed had been induced
by the fineness of the weather to spend a day at Greenwich,
and for that purpose had entrusted the care of their children
to a neighbour's servant, who most .incautiously left the
child amusing itself by tossing up an orange. In a fair
minutes afterwards she was attracted by the screams of the
child, and, on entering the kitchen, she met the child
screaming most piteously with her clothes all in flames. The
servant, fortunately, had the presence of mind to roll the
hearth-rug round the child, and extinguished the flames, but
not before she was burnt in a most shocking manner. The
general Supposition is, that the orange must have fallen is
the fire, and the poor little girl, in endeavouring to regain it,
must have set her clothes on fire. The little sufferer was
immediately taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she
now lies in a most precarious state, with slight, if any.hopes
of her recovery. The feelings of the parents on hearing of
the accident may be better imagined than described.
THE LATE EXTENSIVE COACH ROMMEL—OXFORD,
FRmAY,--The examination of Richard Elliott, who was re •
mended from • last Saturday on suspicion of being concerned
in the late coach robbery of 1,500 sovereigns, was resumed
private.trates of the county.
.
this morning at the county gaol (where he has been in cus-
tody since yesterday week), before For. Marsham arid Mr.
TShheepepxaardm,ionfaDtioennt,ovnas-hoattilt twost ricmtlaygls
Denton-house, g
The prisoner
was provided with an eminent counsel (Mr. Ballantine, from
London), but he, as well as the prisoner's solicitor (Dir. Ro-
binson, also of London), were refused admittance. In conse-
quence of the strictly private manner in which this business
is conducted, it is very difficult to obtain the information we
could desire to lay before our readers. We are, however, in-
formed that in the examination to-day nothing new has
transpired, and that the prisoner.. is again remanded to
Thursdary.next. The magistrates intimated to him that pre-
vious to his being committed, he might avail himself of the
services of his counsel and solicitor, as at the last etarnina-
tion they would be allowed to be present. Although only a
few witnesses gave their evidence, the examination lasted from
ten o'clock to four in the afternoon. .

- --------- •
DEATH OF MR. JOHN BURN.—We regret to an-
nounce the death of Mr. John Burn, a worthy and excellent
man, who expired, in his 68th year, at Manchester, on Wed-
nesday: Most of our commercial readers are acquainted with
a practical work of the highest value, which he published
periodically, called ` Burn's Glance." It gives, in a tlibttlir
form, a coup d'cril of the annual imports and exports, Of the
country, and has often been quoted in Parlignent as i!,,,t,tuad-
ird autliority.—.-Liverpool Journal. '