The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-01 00:00:00

DECEMBER_

2. Sir Isaac Wilson Knight, F.R.S., aged 87, at Bog-
nor, Sussex. Was senior physician in the medical list
of theißoyal Navy, being the senior by one year of the
late Sir William Beatty ; was physician to the Royal
Ntiral Hospital at Plymouth, for some years, and also
one of the domestic medical attendants of their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

4.
The Dowager Lady Floyd, at Paris, aged 68 ; was
relict of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Floyd, and step-mother of
Lady Peel, lady of the Premier.
5. Professor Knight, at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
Professor of Natural History.
7. The Right Hon. the Earl of Limerick, aged 87, at
South-hill Park, Backwell, Berkshire. An Irish repre-
sentative Peer, succeeded in the title and estate by his
grandson, the Hon. W. L. Pery, in Australia at the time
of the Noble Lord's decease, his father, Lord Glent-
worth, having died the February previous.
8. Mr. Corbould, the eminent artist, of apoplexy. He
was riding on horseback from St. Leonard's to Hawk-
burst, in Kent, and when near Robertsbridge was at-
tacked with apoplexy from the extreme cold, and died
immediately.
9. Lady Elizabeth Parsons, at Adelaide-crescent,
Brighton, five days after her confinement. She was
eldest daughter of the late Lord Norbury, and lady of
the Hon. L. Parsons, son of the Earl of Bosse.

14. Rear-Admiral Edmund Boger, near Plymouth,
aged 69. He had been in the naval service of Ilia
country for upwards of 50 years.
15. Sir George Farrant, aged 76, in Upper Brook-
street, Grosvenor-square.
16. Lady Anne Culling Smith, at Hampton Court
Palace, daughter of the late Earl of iMornington, sister
of the late Marquis of Wellesley, the present Earl of
Mornington, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Cowley, and
the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley.
17. Lady Maria Arabella Wallop, at her residence at
Exmouth, eldest daughter of the second and sister of the
present Earl of Pertstuouth.
18. Lady Henderson, lady of Sir P. H. Durham, of
Fordel, G.C.8., at Fordel House, Dalgety, aged 64,
daughter and heiress of the late Sir J. Henderson, Bart.

The Hon. H. Legge, second son of the late and
brother of the present Earl of Dartmouth. He was a
senior gentleman usher to her Majesty, and one of the
Commissioners of the Board of Customs.

The Hon. and Rev. Richard Dance Stopford,
brother of Sir Robert Stopford, the Governor of Green-
wich Hospital. Was a canon of Windsor.

Lady Bowyer, lady of Sir George Bowyer, of Rad-
ley-hall, and daughter of Sir A. S. Douglas, Bart.
Lady Campbell, relict of Major-General Sir Niel
Campbell.

Miss Clara Webster, of Drury-lane Theatre, aged
21.'" She fell a victim to the fire, which caught her light
dancing garments while performing in the ballet of the
Revolt of the Harem, and caused her death within three
days afterwards.
28. Philip Weynell Mayow, Esq., solicitor to the Ex-
cise. Died suddenly from a disease of the heart.

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.

(From the London Grzette of last night.)

Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall,
31st December, 1844.
Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by
the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy
Council for Trade, of the 24th August, 1844, for the
transaction of railway business, having had under con-
sideration the following schemes for extending railway
communication. in the district comprising the counties of
Cornwall and Devon,
The Cornwall and Devon. Central RailCivay,
The Cornwall Railway (Plymouth to Falmouth),
The Greet Western and Cornwall Junction Railway,
The West Cornwall Railway,

The Saint Ives Junction Railway,
The North Devon (Crediton and Barnstaple) Railway,
The Exeter and Crediton Railway,
The Torquay and Newton Abbott Railway.
Have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of
The Cornwall Railway (Plymouth to Falmouth),
The West Cornwall Railway (up to the junction with
the Cornwall Railway),
The Saint Ives Junction Railway ;
Against
The Cornwall and Devon Central Railway,

The Great Western and Cornwall JunctiUri Railway ;
And recommending the postponement until a future
period of
The North Devon (Crediton and Barnstaple) Railway,
The Exeter and Crediton Railway,
The Torquay and Newton Abbott Railway.
And the Board having further had under considera-

tion the following schemes fur extending railway com-
munication in the districts of Berkshire, llampshire,
Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, and Devon, lying
intermediate between the Great Western, Bristol and
Exeter, and London and South Western Railways, viz.,
The Reading, Basingstoke, and Hungerford Railway
(Great Western),
The Wilts and Sotnert.et Railway,
The Bristol and Exeter--Durston and Yeovil Branch,
The Southampton and Dorchos,er Railway,
The Basingstoke and Didcot Junction Railway (London
and South-Western),
The London and South-Westr rn—Salisbury to Yeovil,
The London and South-Wett.rn—hook Pit Deviation,
The Salisbury, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway,
Have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of
The Reading, Basingstoke, and Hungerfurd Railway
(Great Western),
The Wilts and Somerset Railway—subject to the con-
dition of appl3 ing to Parliament in a future session for
an improved line of communication towards Bath and
Bristol,
The Bristol and Exeter—Durston and Yeovil Branch,
The Southampton and Dorchester Railway ;

And against
The Basingstoke and Didcot Junction Railway (London
and South-Western),
The London and South-Western—Salisbury to Yeovil,
The London and South-Western—Hook Pit Deviation,
The Salisbury, DorcDAhesLHter, and Weymouth Railway.
OUSIE.
G. R. PORTER.
J. CODDINGTON.

S. LATNG.
D. O'BRIEN.

METROPOLITAN DRAPERS'
ASSOCIATION.

_ .... •
A public meeting of the Regent-street district
branch of this Association was held on Monday:even-
ing, December 30, at Lloyd's Rooms, Regent-quadrant,
when interesting information, relative to the progress
of the " early closing" movement was detailed, and the
evils resulting from the present protracted hours of
business in shops were forcibly depicted by the
several speakers, who clearly proved that the present
system was the great barrier to the assistant-draper
rising in the social, moral, and intellectual scale.
Public feeling was stated to be getting unanimous in
favour of the change sought for, and the efforts of the
Association were beginning to be felt, in convincing
all that evening shoppers were now the sole cause
and support of the "late hour system," as the em-
ployeri, as a body, were most desirous to grant
reasonable hours to their young men.

HARWICH, DEC. 24.—The Admiralty have ordered
a life-boat for Harwich, to be built forthwith, the neces-
sity for it being powerfully suggested by the late me-
lancholy wreck of the Hero, off that part of the coast.—
.Esser Het ald.

THE DEATH OF A VETERAN.—An old soldier,
named Gattines, who entered the French army in 1796,
and was taken prisoner in the Russian campaign, and
sent to Siberia, which he left only in 1822, died a few
days ago, of a cold, in agarret.. On bisreturn to France
he came to Paris, and got a pla,ce_.as porter in a ware-
house, at No. 17, Rue Alauconscil, where be remained
till his death. When in Siberia he always slept on a
board at his full length, with his arms straight down by
his sides, like a corpse in a coffin, and in this position hi
was found dead.—Gulignarti's Messenger.

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