The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-07 00:00:00

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

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PubU Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
1„..0110 of the Paris papers erroneously stated that the
L'lng on Tuesday had set out for the Chateau d'Eu. On
that day his Majesty, accompanied by General Friant,
Colonel Dumas, the Count de Strada, M. Fontaine, and
Cailleux, went to Versailles, where he was received
by the civil and military authorities, and remained till
bear six o'clock, when he returned to Neuilly. In the
evening their Majesties received the Baden Minister, the
d'elgion Charge d'Affaires, the Ministers of the Interior
and the Marine, M. A. Passy, Under Secretary of State
fur the Interior, the Count de Pascalis, and the Prefect of
the Eure.
, M. Thiers left Paris on Wednesday for L'lle, where
40 will remain for some w eeks.
, Among the various accounts of the battle of Isly, a
letter from Oran says :—" There were foun 1 with the
baggage taken from the enemy a number of chains, des-
tined for us, no doubt. The Moroccomen were so sure
of victory, that some of the inhabitants of Fez having
xpressed fears of a contrary event, five of them were
',frogged to the field in chains to be witnesses of our de-
-leat• When their keopers saw the French coming upon
them,
they wished to set them at liberty, but had not
time. Two of the five were killed in the melee, but we
coved the other three."
A letter from Copenhagen states that the Russian
'feet took its departure from Elsinore on the 26th ult.,
passed Copenhagen in the afternoon, and entered the
A merchant from Lorgues, M. Chicusse, who failed a
short time ago for a sum of 200,000 f., and fled from his
creditors, was found last week drowned in the Rhone,
bear Avignon.
Barcelona papers of the 31st ult. mention the arrival
II that city of General Berthois, the w ell-know aide-de-
camp to Louis Philippe, the object of whose mission is
hot explained.
Gallician Jew, of the name of Mohr, has published a
life of Baron Rothschild in Hebrew, which he has
entitled " Glory to Israel, Biography of Baron Roths-
child." M. Mohr declares, in the course of his narra-
tive, that up to the present time there are only three
rot men among the chosen people of God—Moses,
vid, and Rothschild.
small farmer, named Pierre Guyonnet, aged 49, was
'Ted, three days ago, by the Court of Assize of the
Iltrente Inferiure, for the murder of his father, aged
„ The evidence did not permit a reasonable doubt of
"0 guilt of the prisoner, and he was therefore found
and condemned to death.
A fire burst out on Monday night, at St. Priest, near
miatres, and several houses were consumed. It is sup-
-13(15ed to be the act of an incendiary. The same village
thought,
been several times on fire of late, and always, it is
"ought, from the act of malevolent persons.
The oldest ship in the French navy is the Ocean, of
120
guns. She was launched in November, 1790. She
Malerwent a thorough repair at Brest in 1836.
woman, named Chambellan, a green grocer, in the
tae du Faubourg St. Antoine, was yesterday sentenced
13. Y the Correctional Police to six weeks' imprisonment and
tc'ats, for using false scales. The president, in passing
stated that the court was unusually severe,
'causse the prisoner's conduct chiefly affected the poorer
e.1485e.

LAW AND POLICE.
A running down case was tried at the Palace Court,
Which Mr. Chancellor, the job-master, recovered 81.
Le'ta Lady Mary King, for damage caused to one of his
tTiages, which was let out to Lady Somerset, by de-
40011tlant's coachman " cutting in," contrary to rule, at the
r of the mansion of the Hon. Mrs. Philip, in Hill-
Commissioner Fane, at the Bankruptcy Court,
ivilJourned for three weeks the further examination of
121. Whitmarsh, who lately kept the Green Man, at
T.,!ekheath, and the hotel at the British and Foreign
,2 At the Mansion-house, a man named Hill, who is em-
T(eti at the Old Shades Pier, the property of Mr.
!rnton, was summoned before the Lord Mayor for
;ring committed an assault upon Mr. Charles Graham,
igentleman iu the commission of the peace for the county
Ith Middlesex. The defendant had attempted to prevent
4.P,rosecutor from going on board the Eclipse steamer,
It4ien belonged to a rival company. He attempted to
e !Y his conduct, but was bound over to appear at the
torsions, and the Lord Mayor directed the water bailiff
PaY Particular attention to the conduct of the pier-men
generall
Mary Y.
to Ann Clarke, the young woman who attempted
tril'uturnit suicide at Blackfriars-bridge, was yesterday
I. °light up at the Guildhall, and delivered over to her
1,...4t Queen-square yesterday John Merry, the gardener,
ydre-examined, charged don suspicion of stealing two
ver spoons, a gold pencil. case, and other articles of
ue, from the residence of Viscount Dillon, and fully
tOrntnitted.
.Police-constable Nathaniel M‘Donnough, B 66, was
rftaitted to hard labour for a month, for having appre-
ended Mr, James Lamb, and dragged him through the
tt.reeta in broad daylight, without the slightest excuse
'or Such conduct.
Thomas Shipley and John Chadd, conductors of Brent-
-lord omnibuses, charged with having been found fight-
iing together at the White Horse-cellar, Piccadilly, were
Leld to bail by Mr. Hardwick, at Marlborough-street.
William Fish, a warehouseman, in the employ of
sitOisrs. Nathan, Wardour-mews, was fully committed on
severd? distinct charges of robbery.
Thomas Pethard, a youth in the employ of Mr. Pegg,
biker, residing at Coburg-place, Bayswater, charged
Rt Marylebone with embezzlement, was remanded.
~johanna Fannigan, who, to celebrate the triumph of
Li' Connell, had subscribed a basket towards a large boo-
!! 111 Horace-street, and had put the said basket on the
just as the police were endeavouring to extinguish
was held to bail.
At Union-hall, Henry Haward was charged with com-
mitti;lq several very daring burglaries and robberies in
the neiglibourhood of Camberwell and the Kent-road.
e was 00/2usitted on three distinct charges.
„ip
b,"sterd middle-aged lady, of fashionable appear-
d esc y
ed as Mrs. Susannah Folkard, residing at 10,
Pelham-rod, BromptOn, appeared before Mr. T. Paynter,
the
the
sitting magistrate at 1.-Tammersnaith, to a summons, at
`ll instance of Colonel rrancis Home, which charged
Ifr'uat he goes in danger of
life, or some bodily harm,
°tulll:.:'
, ouyou ..aN
t 37 —1, -in, on the 23€1 day of August last,
Qe parish of St. Margaret, WestuZinster, unlawfully
Zr;Utened to knock him, the said Francis Home, down ;
nd that if it were not for the law, you would do him a
kh.lB4ief ; and use other threatening and menacing lan-
j:gge towards him." It appeared that a connexion of a
pAIY intimate nature bad formerly subsisted between the
C.nel and the defendant, and it was eventuallysettled
tt:" she should be discharged on entering into her own
-cogaizances.

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Record the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to
each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandise:—
Week
ended

Name of Railway.

Total.
X. s. d.

Aug. 31 Arbroath and Forfar lB5 19 7
30 Birmingham and Gloucester 3,027 11 3
31 Brandling Junction
31 Bristol and Gloucester .
30 Chester and Birkenhead 652 15 9
29 Dublin and Drogheda.— ......
Sept. 3 Dublin and Kingstown 1,424 18 2
1 Dundee and Arbroath 512 15 1
Aug. 31 Durham and Sunderland 732 18 8
31 Edinburgh and Glasgow 2,840 14 5
Sept. 1 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,708 1 6
Aug. 31 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,702 18 0
31 Glasgow and Greenock 1,140 13 0
31 Grand Junction 9,166 3 10
31 Great North of England 2,228 9 11
Sept. 1 Great Western
Liverpool and Manchester
Aug. 31 London and Birmingham
Sept. 1 London and Blackwall 1,537 11 9
Aug. 31 London and Brighton
Sept.! 3 London and Croydon
5 London and Greenwich B9B 4 8
2 London and South Western .......
29 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 909 2 6
31 Manchester and Birmingham 3,358 4 3
31 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 8,696 1 1
31 Midland Counties
31 Newcastle and Darlington 1,049 16 2
Sept. 1 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,906 17 10

Aug.

1 Newcastle and North Shields 502 0 0
Aug. 30 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,894 16 9
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans
Sept. 2 Paris and Rouen 6,796 0 0
Aug. 31 Preston and Wyre 652 12 4
31 Sheffield and Manchester 782 15 11
Sept. 5 South Eastern
Aug. 31 Taff Vale
Sept.! 1 Ulster 525 2 7

1 Yarmouth and Norwich .......
Aug. 31 York and North Midland

391 9 1
3,259 17 5:

THE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FROM A RAILWAY MES-
SENGER.—This morning information was received at the
various Metropolitan Police-stations, that the bags which
had contained the gold and silver, being a portion of the
1,3001. which had been stolen in an ingenious manner
from a messenger belonging to the Great Western Rail-
way Company, on Thursday afternoon last, while on his
journey from Paddington to the Bank, on the roof of
one of the railway omnibuses, were found about four
o'clock, under the second arch on the Surrey side of
Vauxhall-bridge. There is no doubt that they were
placed there to throw the police off their guard. Up to
this time, neither the thieves or the money have
been traced.

COVRT-TASHIONAZI.S.
le;r2le Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Augusta Somer.
Wave left town for Badminton; where they will pro-
LY ternuin about a month, at the expiration of which
I""kt the family are expected to return to Beaufort
1441':e for a short interval. The Marquis of Worcester
e
vidon for Hyde yesterday, to join his noble father,
u staying with the Earl and Countess of Wilton, at
14Stead.
1-
kv.,ord Stanley has left town for Latham House, Lan-
hire, the seat of Lord Skelmeisdale, where Lady
1, 11eY and family are at present staying.
114 he local papers state that the Bishop of Gloucester
fop Illade arrangements for being absent from his diocese
term of three years.
te.,o Duke and Duchess of Somerset give a grand en-
brjonient to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
u,ess of Cambridge, and the Grand Duke and Grand
eneas of Meckleuburgh Strelitz, on Monday next, at
htabledon Park. The Noble Duke and Duchess also
ave a dinner party on Monday.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch will remain in
4-separativetr retirement at Drumlanrig Castle until
Nieticlose of the autumn, during which period his Grace
fl.ioy the sport of shooting over the Queensberry
ors.
ilile Duke of Wellington and Lady Charles Wellesley
„_eapected to leave Apsley House on Monday next,
141; walmer Castle, Kent, where the Noble Duke pa-
tes to reside until the close of November.
4Larl and Countess De Grey are expected to prolong
4,,tr,,Bojourn at Buxton Wells until the middle of the
to-gill, and then proceed to Newby Hall, near 80-44
44 h-bridge, where his Lordship's Yorkshire regi-
-4:4 or Hussar Yeomanry is espected to assemble for
h4l on the 2d of next month. The Noble Earl's health
„proved.
wlscount and Viscountess Sydney have left Cleveland-
lare for Frognal, in Kent.
40 he Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn visited the
reer,• and Rev. Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Grey at the
14 '4317, Ampetle, on their way to Scotland from Castle
twerd, the Earl of Carlisle's seat in Yorkshire.
is Howe Howe and Lady Georgiana. Curzon have arrived
pi tows from Gopsal Hall, Leicestershire, on their
at
4k' Bushy Lodge, on a visit to the Queen Dowager.
1$ Grace the Archbishop of York and Mr. E. and
Ice G. Harcourt arrived in town on Tuesday last from
aeham Park, near Oxford.
e Bishop of Winchester and family have arrived at
ate ham from the palace, Farnham, Surrey.

311:113CEILL11.1120178.
itearLdinal Wol3ey's Hall, at Hampton Court Palace,
*lv. "ling been closed for nearly two months, during
he lch period several alterations and embellishments have
111 i'reeted, will be open to the public on Monday. next.
,new opera, by M. Netzer, Mara , has obtained a
dal,,, success at Berlin. Another opera, by the same
ihtloser, the words by Robert Griepenkerl, will be put
A rehearsal in Jannary, 1845.
Itra „ce,°.rding to Captain Pidding's Chinese Olio, the
26t°11-",,‘ of tea cleared at the Custom-house, from the
the °I August to the 3d of September, was 484,0191bs ;
aro altount of duty paid on the same being 63,023/. The
"toTint imported into the United Kingdom in 1844, to
The
5, was 23,000,8241b5.
the „eloilovving removals of troops are to take place at
(ch, "Paermentioned periods, namely, the 46th Foot
4itut) from Newbridge to Dublin on the 7th inst. ; the
am Foot, from Dublin to Kilkenny, on the 9th inst. ;
lititt:he 56th Foot, from Kilkenny to Dublin, on the
inst.
The
hie, following general order, referring to the review
qu took place in Hyde Park, was read aloud to the
tereardis °a parade in the several barracks :—" The offi-
'Perk 4 command of the regiments reviewed in Hyde
taa ,dthis morning are desired by his Grace the Com-
-40,...,",,,-in-Chief to inform the several brigades that his
thit4'-',,,lligliness Prince William of Prussia expressed
111:4414U highly gratified ;Land the manner in which the ma-
11.%
wvg••performed his Grace was also pleased

to add that the appearance and steadiness of the troops I LORD STANLEY.
had given him entire satisfaction.—Sept. 5." I If a vacancy in the representation of Lancashire
A new church is in course of erection on Mount Albion, . had been occasioned by the death of a Member it is
~,„,_,, ~,, ~,,,,,,1, vi: ;.,. .7,.;;, 1r.,:l t•J Lhi, 11,,1y rrin:i:,,,. meil kauvo, 11,:q. the ::.1:- '1;E:-F, wr;t far a new elec.
Tne gr.,uad ha., been pec,ieliten 'oy Mss d'Este, who „ ". immediately,
—''
' the death
Lion could Issue even though
has also contributed 100 guineas in aid of the building.
The church is intended to contain eight hundred sittings, should have occurred during a Parliamentary re-
of which one-half are to be appropriated to the poor of cess ; but the case is different where the vacancy hap-
the district. pens to be created by an elevation to the Upper
Many of the colliers who turned out for an advan3e of House; and this fact may possibly account for the
wages in the neighbourhood of Wakefield are still unem- acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds at the last
ployed, and the places of many of them have been sup- moment by Lord Stanley. It is a course which he
plied by men from Ireland and elsewhere. would probably not have adopted if he had been
The amount received at the tolls of the Thames Tun- summoned to the Upper House during a Parlia-
nel during the week ending August 31, was 1134 16s. Id., mentary session. The mere summons to the Lords
and the number of passengers 2,653. does not create a peerage unless a sitting takes place
The Limerick Chronicle, referring to the delay of the .
troops for India at Cove, states that the demurrage for under that writ; and as it would be impossible for
each of the transports is 10/ per day, butt at the owners Lord Stanley to take his seat in the Upper House
of the Lord Hardwicke, designed for the head-quarters during a recess, the Speaker could receive no official
of the 61st, threatened to sail yesterday without their knowledge of a vacancy till the meeting of Parliament
military freight. next year, and thus the northern division of Lance-
It is stated that several of the Yorkshire foundries are shire would have remained nearly six months without
busily employed in casting and boring heavy guns for its full number of representatives. The practice of
Government; and that at Low Moor Iron Works, 22 summoning the eldest son of a Peer to the House of
men have been constantly at work, fur some time past, Lords during his father's lifetime does not, as is
in moulding cannon balls alone. well known, create any new peerage, if one of the se-
_
• condary titles of the young Peer's father be used on
the occasion ; the eldest son so summoned takes
rank according to the date, not of the summons, but
of the original creation of that title which he thus
temporarily shares with his father, without really de-
nuding the latter of any of the family honours. The
practice has been frequently adopted in the cases of
members of the Derby family ; and in one instance,
the erroneous summons of an eldest son of an Earl of
Derby in a title which his father did not really pos-
sess, had the unexpected effect of creating a new
peerage. This occurred in the year 1627, when the
eldest son of the sixth Earl was summoned to the House
of Peers, during his father's lifetime, as Baron
Strange. It will be remembered that Lord Stanley's
father, the present Earl of Derby, was also called to
the Upper H iuse before he had succeeded to the an.
cestral honours of the family. In that case a new
peerage was designedly created, because the earldom
was the only title then in the family, for the subor-
dinate peerages had passed away through the female
line to the ducal house of Atholl ; his Lordship was
therefore created, in 1832, Baron Stanley of Bicker-
staffe, in which title it is not improbable that the
noble Secretary for the Colonies will be summoned to
the House of Peers, and thus he will be popularly
known by the same-designation as that which he bore
by courtesy in the House of Commons.—Times.

DEATH OF DR. JAMES MITCHELL
We regret to announce the death of Dr. James Mit-
chell, F.G.S., and formerly actuary to the British An-
nuity Company, London, which took place at No. 3,
Bedtbrd-circus, Exeter, on the 3d inst. Ile was in the
58th year of his age.
Dr. Mitchell was a man of no ordinary character ; had
travelled much, and observed well. Ile was author of
many works of travels, philosophy, and the arts. He
took an active part in establishing or supporting the va-
rious literary societies that have sprung up in the metro-
polis during the last twenty years, and frequently lectured
gratuitously for them.
his manuscript works, descriptive of the geology of
London and its neighbourhood, extend to many folio
volumes ; and whilst in the Geological Society, many
were more brilliant in inventing and illustrating their
beautiful, but perhaps sometimes fanciful, theories, no
one was clearer and more minute in detailed description
of what he had seen. His opinion seemed to be, that
although geology was fast advancing to a perfect science,
stall there was need of very close observation before
theories were laid down, which subsequent discoveries
might tend to overthrow.
His volumes of Illustrations of Antiquities, ancient
and modern, Maps, Prints, and Portraits of illustrious
Scotchmen, cannot perhaps be excelled. They could only
have been collected at considerable expense by a long
residence in London, and by one intimately acquainted
with the history and literature of his native country, and
other subjects he illustrated. These volumes, generally
accompanied with manuscript descriptions, are be-
queathed to the King's College and University of Aber-
deen, where he was educated, and received the degree of
LL.D.

Nisw Hops.—Two pockets of new hops, from the
neighbourhood of Birling, Kent, were yesterday sold by
Messrs. Horton and Hart, in the Borough, at the rate of
101.25. per cwt. A large supply is expected in a few days.
MELANCHOLY Loss OF LIFE.—EXPLOSION OF FIRE..
D AMP.—The, inhabitants of Wrexham and its neighbour-
hood were thrown into a state of great alarm on Monday
last, upon intelligence reaching that town of one of the
most melancholy accidents which has ever occurred in
that neighbourhood. It appears that on the morning
above mentioned, four men were being lowered into the
pit of the Cheshire Vron colliery, Brymbo, near Wrex-
ham, the property of Mr. Moulson, when an explosion of
fire• damp took place. The shock was so great that the
poor men wcre blown into the air. The body of one of
them was picked up in four pieces ; the other three were
taken up quite dead. We understand that at the time
twenty eight men were employed in one part of the pit,
several of whom were dreadfully burnt, and are not
likely to recover.—Liverpool Mercury.
DEATH AT THE LONDON TERMINUS OF THE CROY-
DON RAILWAY FROM EXCITEMENT.—Last evening Mr.
Payne held an inquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of
Samuel fowling, aged forty-six, a labourer on the
Croydon Railway. It appeared in evidence, that on
Thursday morning deceased was working on the line at
the London terminus, when another labourer on cross-
ing a plank, caused it to tilt up, and in its fall it struck
deceased on the foot. He thought the affair was wilful,
and flung the plank at the other man, and also struck
him with his fist in the face. The other man did not re-
turn the blow, and went away. Immediately after de-
ceased, in carrying some water in pails, slipped and
spilled some, upon which some of his companions jeered.
He got up hurriedly and went to the pump to replenish
the pails ; and whilst doing so, he sank insensible on the
ground. He was taken up and conveyed to that hos-
pital, in which he expired the same evening, Mr. Samuel
Stocker, the house surgeon, said from excitement, caused
by the occurrence of the morning. Verdict—" Apoplexy."
BEES.—The long set of wet weather in July and
part of August had made the keepers of bees almost de-
spair. So late as the 26th of August, it was considered
in the upper districts of the county that there would be
scarcely any produce for these industrious insects this
year, but it has proved otherwise. Every day from the
above date the bees have stored on an average from three
to five pounds' weight of honey.—Glasgow Chronicle.
IMPORTATION OF WALNUTS.—The steamer Antwerp,
which arrived at the St. Katharine's steam-wharf on
Thursday afternoon from Antwerp, had, in addition to a
full complement of passengers, and a variety of fruits of
different sorts, a large quantity of walnuts on board,
which were landed immediately, and cleared for the Lon-
don market. This is, we believe, the first importation of
walnuts from the continent this season. Fruit of all
kinds is very plentiful at present, in consequence of the
extensive importations from abroad, and the superior
kinds of fruit are remarkably cheap, peaches, nectarines,
&c., being offered, of very excellent quality, in the mar-
kets at the low price of one penny each.
STRANGE INCIDENT.—On Thursday, an inquest
was held before Mr. Carttar, coroner for the West Di-
vision of the county of Kent, on the body of an infant,
which was found under the following circumstances :
It appeared that on Tuesday night a paper parcel, with-
out any direction, was left on board the Ruby, Diamond
packet, on the return from London to Gravesend. The
steward of the Ruby having taken it in charge, supposing
it to be forgotten ou board, deposited it in the Diamond
office, where, it being apprehended that what it con-
tained might spoil, it was opened on Wednesday morn-
ing, and found to contain the body of a new born infant.
Notice of this strange incident having been given to the
olice, the body was taken by them in charge, and on
ll:ilesday, Mr. Jones, surgeon, by the direction of the
,12ving made a post mortem examination, stated
coroner,that
the
child was horn alive, and in his opinion had
lived for some hours—that death might have been
caused by want of medical aid at the birth ; but he had
no doubt but that the child was born alive. There
being no clue to the party who had brought the parcel
on board, or who had left it there, the inquest was ad-
journed until Monday next, directions being given to
the police to post handbills in the mean time offering a
reward to any person or persons-who will give informa-
tion which may lead to a discovery of the party or
parties implicated in this criminal transaction.
The Conservative Government has ceded another
conciliatory point, to which it is our painful duty to
direct public attention, Although England has never
had an Ambassador, nor a Charge d'Affaires, or even a
avowed accredited agent at the Court of Rome, yet her n
interests have always been guarded, and cominnniaa-
tions to St. James's, made through the instrumentality cf
Hanover, or the Grand Duke of Tuscany, that duty
being committed to an attache belonging to one or other
of those embassies, who, it is scarcely necessary to add,
was a member of the Protestant Church. Of late years
the business was done through Lord Burghersh, our
Ambassador at Florence, and Mr. Aubin was the gentle-
man selected for that purpose. The present Cabinet,
however, has viewed the affair in another and a new
aspect ; and although a solemn declaration was made
that no diplomatic appointment or promotion was to take
place, except in regular official routine and according to
seniority, yet Lord Aberdeen has gone out of the usual
course, and selected Mr. Petre, a Roman Catholic, to
watch over the interests of Protestant England at the
Court of the Sovereign Pontiff. This is the last—and
our friends will agree with us, that it is not the least—
concession made to Popery in modern times, and .by a
Conservative Government —Dublin Evening Mail.
FESTIVITIES AT STOWE.—The preparations for the
celebration of the majority of the Marquis of Chandos,
on Tuesday next, are progressing with unusual activity.
All the principal residents in the country have been in-
vited to partake in the festivities, and a very numerous
assemblage is anticipated. On Tuesday upwards of 5,000
poor men, women, and children, will be regaled with a
good dinner, under booths erected in the park. Rustic
games will succeed the dinner, and in the evening their
will be a grand display of fireworks from the lawn in
front of the mansion. On Wednesday addresses will be
presented to the Duke and Duchess, and also to the
Marquis of Chandos, by the Mayor, burgesses, and inha-
bitants of Buckingham, and the same evening there will
be a bal costume, at which all the visitors in the house,
as well as about 500 members of the principal families
in the county, will be present. On Thursday the Noble
Duke's tenants will dine with his Grace. On Friday the
Corporation of Buckinshaw, will be entertained at
Stowe, and Saturday will he devoted to the enjoyment
of the servants upon the establishment. At Bucking-
ham an ox will be roasted whole in the stre't, and the
principal inhabitants will dine together in the Cobham
Arms. The poor, to the number of MOO, are to have
a pound of bread, a pound of meat, and a pint of beer
each, and the whole arrangements for the week are on a
scale of the most extended hospitality.
WELLS.—Several serious, and a few fatal, cases of
typhus fever have lately happened, and are now in
Mint, in this town.—Sherbourne Journal.

He acted under three Parliamentary Commissions. Ist
—As Actuary in forming the Statistics for the Factory
Inquiry ; then as Sub-Commissioner on the Hand Loom
Weavers' Commission ; and, lastly—on the Inquiry
into the Condition of Women and Children in the Mines
and Collieries of this Kingdom.
In the debate on the Bill for relieving the worse than
West India slavery of women, and we may say of infants,
in our mines, his opinion was frequently referred to in
both Houses of Parliament, especially by Lord Ashley,
the benevolent promoter of the Bill. To the duties of
this last Commission, uniting both his favourite pursuits
of Geology and Statistics, he devoted more labour and
attention than his constitution could stand. His bodily
strength was great, but he overworked his brain. In June,
1843, hehad a stroke of paralysis, and a heavy fall, and on
Sunday last,a sudden fit of apoplexy rendered him for ever
afterwards unconscious. This short biography will show
what a man engaged in the business of his profession,
can nevertheless effect by a devotion to literature and
science.— Western Times.