The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-05 00:00:00

ROLLS' COUUT.-(THIS DAY.)

LORD NELSON V. LORD BRIDPORT.
The arguments in this part-heard case occupied his Lordship the
Master of the Rolls the whole day.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY

No case of any importance came to-day before either of the
Vice-Chancellors. The Vice-Chancellor of England took causes,
the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce causes, petitions, and motions,
and the Vice-Chancellor Wigram short causes, unopposed petitions,
and causes.

CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.—A
party of American gentlemen assembled at the Lyceum Tavern, in
the Strand, on the 4th of July, to celebrate the anniversary of
American Independence. At about six o'clock they sat down to a
sumptuous dinner. After the cloth was removed, Mr. Edwin For-
rest, the well-known tragedian, was called to the chair, and Mr.
Thomas Doughty, the American artist, was unanimously chosen
vice-president. The chairman having addressed the meeting in a
strain of fervid eloquence, proceeded to read the Declaration of In-
dependence, after which Mr. C. H. Peabody, late editor of the
Boston Bulletin, delivered an oration, which animated all hearts
with the warmest sentiments of patriotism. The thanks of the
company were proposed to that gentleman by Mr. Forrest, for his
eloquent and brilliant production. Several national toasts were
then given—" The memory of Washington, the father of his
country," and of "Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declara-
tion of Independence," die. During the evening Mr. T. Doughty,
jun , favoured the party with several patriotic and other songs.
The dinner reflected the highest credit upon Mr. Spilhean, who,
in the course of the evening, was invited to join the company. He
was addressed by the chairman, and complimented for the very
handsome manner in which he had catered for the occasion. Mr.
Spillman, in a few neat remarks, proposed the health of the Presi-
dent of the United States; and Henry Nikoff, Esq., in a very happy
introduction, proposed the health of her Majesty the Queen, and
the members of the Royal Family, which toast was heartily re-
sponded to by all present, when the party separated. Two American
flags were floating from the Lyceum Tavern during the day, and
attracted general attention.

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MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—To-day a cricket match
which has excited considerable interest, commenced on the Man-
chester Cricket-ground—the Manchester Club against the whole of
Yorkshire, eleven players on each side. The wickets were pitched
at ten o'clock. The Manchester Clnb scored 107 first innings;
Yorkshire then commenced playing, and at eight o'clock had scored
192, with six wickets to go down. The sports will be resumed
to-morrow morning at ten o'clock. Betting this morning was 6
to 4 on Yorkshire; at the close of this day's playing 10 to 4 was
offered and taken,
WINDSOR, FRIDAY .EVENING.--It hai been COD-
sidered very probable, for some time past, in consequence of the
extensive alterations and renovations which were proceeding
throughout the Castle, that the Court would not pay a visit to
Windsor before September next ; indeed, not tilt after the return
of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert from the
Continent. This question has just been set at rest by the arrival
of a messenger from Buckingham Palace, with instructions for the
works originally
contemplated (and which had been delayed com-
mencing until the royal determination was finally known) to be
proceeded with forthwith, and to be completed early in the month
of September next, as the private apartments will not be required
for the use of her Majesty until that period. An increased number
of workmen,
seq consequently been eng aged.
consisting of carvers, gliders, painters, &c., have
con
THE WILL OF COLONEL WILLARD.—The will Of
John Henry
Brighton, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Sussex Militia, and
Willard, Esq , of Eastbourne, Sussex, and of
magistrate of the county for many years, has been administered to
by his widow, Mrs. Charlotte Willard, the sole executrix. The
testator bequeathed to her the whole of his real and personal
estate absolutely, the latter sworn under 3,0001. The deceased
died at the advanced age of seventy-four; on the 27th of May last.
FAIRLOP FAlR.—Yesterday being the first Friday
in July, the annual fair, held on the spot where once stood the
famed "Fairlop Oak," in Hainault or Epping Forest, took place
according to annual custom, and owing to the fineness of the day
many thousands from the metropolis and the populous villages on
the borders of the forest attended it. The fair, which used for-
merly to extend to three days, the last being Sunday, is now
strictly confined to one, it being found that the charter under which
it is held does not allow more. It is not generally known that the
once famed Fairlop oak has been converted into the pulpit and
reading-desk in New St. Pancras Church.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAlLWAY.—Yester-
day a meeting of this company was held at Tokenhouse-yard,
Lothbury, to consider the state of their affairs. Much dissatisfac-
tion appeared to exist amongst the shareholders, and harsh re-
marks were made on the conduct of the Directors. It was de.
tided by a formal resolution that reporters should be excluded,
the Directors seeming to desire that the public should not have
any notice of their quarrel.

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Week Last g ~.„ "D • ~.
ending NAME OF RAILWAY week. 3 7,
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X X
June 28 Arbroath and Forfar ••••.-• . • • • • • • 21.9 203
. Bristol and Birmingham - 2,926
'2B Chester and Birkenhead . 700 541
26 Dublin and Drogheda. •••••••• • • • • • • • 1,129 642
July 1 Dublin and Kingstown 2,016 1,608
June 29 Dundee and Arbroath .••• • ••
28 Durham and Sunderland .•••••• • • • . • • 542 364
28 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 2,632 2,124
29 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 5,138 4,530
28 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •.• • • • 1,968 1,411
28 Glasgow and Greenock• •••••• • • • • - 1,155 1,104
28 Grand Junction 10,196 8,751
28 Gravesend and Rochester.• ••••• • • • • • 216 -
28 Great North of England •• • ... ..... . 2,066 1,730
29 Great Western . . • 18,516 13,318
- Hull and Selby ••••••••••• • • • • ' • ' • • ' - -
27 Liverpool and Manchester • 5,792 5,159
28 London and Birmingham .••••• • • • - • 21,172 18,140
29 London and Blackwall• • 1,397 1,413
28 London and Brighton .••••••• • • • • • • • 5,416 4,001
July 1 London and Croydon .• • 1,677 556
June 28 London and Greenwich .•••••• • • • • • • 1,179 883
28 London and South Western .•••• • • • • 8,738 7,277
29 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ••• • • • 955 836
27 Manchester and Birmingham •••• • • • • 4,079 3,245
28 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc•• 6,966 5,433
28 Midland Counties ..... .... •• • • ...... 13,445 9,932
23 Newcastle and Darlington ••••• • • • - 1,60 ! 905
28 Newcastle and Carlisle ••• • • ...... •• • 1,838 1,902
22 Newcastle and North Shields• •••• • • • 669 462
27 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,670 1,502
30 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans ••••• • • • • • 5,847 5,586
30 Paris and Rotten .••••.. • • •• ..... • " 6,133 6,229
28 Preston and Wyre ••••••••• • • • • • • ' • • 666 474
28 Sheffield and Manchester • • 765 625
26 South Eastern.... - .... - ..... 6,260 5,000
28 'fair Vale .... ........• •.....• • • • • • 1,100 853
- Ulster. - 490
29 Yarmouth and Norwich •••••• • • • • • • 394 416
28 York and North Midland .••••• • • • • • 3, 53 2,054

On Friday afternoon, at four o'clock, Mr. Fitzroy
Kelly received his appointment as Solicitor-General.— Times.
BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HASTINGS RAILWAy,—
Yesterday a meeting of this company was held at the offices, King
William.street, for the purpose of authorising the company to con-
struct a line from Wolverhithe, in Sussex, to Ashford, in Kent,
The draft of the Bill was read by Mr. Faithful. It stated that
the Bill would authorise the directors to issue new shares to the
extent of 500,0001., and to borrow 166,0001. The works would
be completed in seven years, or their powers would cease. A
resolution was passed authorising the directors to proceed with
the line.
The banns of marriage between Mr. Stephens, an
opulent Englishman, and Mdlle. Yoladde Louise Duverney, for-
merly a dancer at the Opera, where she made her first appearance
in 1831, are posted up at the Mairie of the Second Arrondisse-
ment.—Paris paper.

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EXTRAORDINARY TAKE OF SALMON.—The cha-
racter of the fishing season, which, up to the end of last week, had
been uniformly unsuccessful, underwent a sudden and extraordin-
ary change on Monday. That morning both salmon and grilse
came un the river in great numbers, and in the course of that day
nearly one thousand were caught at the different stations below the
bridge. On Tuesday 197 boxes were dispatched to Dundee, to be
shipped by steam for London. Here prices have fallen this week
to 10d. for salmon, and Scl. for grilse per pound.—Perthshire
Courier.

DESTRUCTION OF A SWARM OF BEES.—At Cam
bridge Town-hall on Tuesday, Sarah Summers appeared to answer
the charge of Mary Ann Gifford, for having destroyed a swarm of
bees belonging to plaintiff's husband. The bees had swarmed in
defendant's garden, and when plaintiff went with a key and warm
ing- pan to entice the creatures bask again, the defendant refused to
allow her to do so, and a fight ensuing, defendant threw a pail of
water over the bees and destroyed them all. The court was filled
with the partisans of both litigants, and their frequent interpola-.
tions caused some confusion, and the case appeared to have caused
much excitement in the locality where the parties resided. Ore
witness described the flight of the bees from the plaintiff's garden
till they lighted on a 'gooseberry bush in the defendant's garden.
Plaintiff's mother brought the akep and a chair, on which she
placed it, and began to beat the pan ; but the defendant, disregard.
ing both the music of the warming-pan and the laws relating to
bees, deluged the unlucky truants with a pailful of water as afore-
said. A witness on the part of the defendant denied that the bees
were actually drowned; but that, with soused wings, they flew
away by scores. The defendant was mulcted in the fine of Ins.
for the damage done to the bees, but without costs.—Cambridge
Advertiser.
On 'Wednesday last, as two youths were on the
banks of Floutern Tarn, a short distance from Ennerdale Lake,
they saw a large fish swimming about In the water ; thoy imme-
diately baited a hook with a small trout which they had caught,
and presently succeeded in capturing the huge tenant of the Tarn,
which proved to be a pike of about twelve pounds weight. The
most remarkable feature connected with this extraordinary feat is,
that no one ever suspected that the Tarn contained any pike, none
having ever been seen in it before, nor even in the lake.—Cumber,
land Pacquet.
RAILWAY SCRIP ROBBERY.—Yesterday cruesda
morning, as John M'Donald, of the B division of police, was on
duty at the Hunt's Bank station, his attention was attracted by a
person in female's attire, but who appeared to have a most unfe-
minine gait. It was soon ascertained that the individual in ques.
tion was a young man answering the deseription of Robert Preston
Dawson, late clerk In the service of Mr. Blackburn, one of the so-
licitors to the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway Company, and
for whose apprehension a reward bad been offered in the Hue and
Cry, on a charge of stealing from the office of his employer 16 scrip
certificates of 20 shares each. He had come by the:Leeds Railway
to Manchester, and was about to start for Liverpool when detected.
He was brought up at the Borough Court in the course of the fore.
noon, when he admitted that his name was Dawson, and that he
had been a clerk with Mr. Blackburn, but he denied the robbery.
He was remanded, in order that Mr. Edward Reed, chief constable
of Leeds, might be informed of his apprehension.—Manchester
Guardian.

PUGILISM.—FIGHT BETWEEN AESTRAVICK AND
HARRISON.—This match, which was for 251, aside, was decided on
Thursday last, in a field near the village of Moore, Staffordshire,
in the presence of a great number of spectators, many of them be-
longing to the London, Manchester, and Birmingham ring. Um-
pires and a referee having been chosen, both men entered the ring,
the odds being 6 to 4 on M'Stravick, and both men fought well and
extremely hard, the odds increasing to 3 to 1 on M'Stravick, in
the fiftieth round ; 'and after fighting for two hours and a half,
during which time ninety rounds were fought, M'Stravick was de.
clared the winner.

The state of the hosiery and lace trades, at Not-
tingham, is auytbing but satisibctory.