The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-27 00:00:00

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Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the King and Queen
of the Belgians, left this forenoon for Claremont, and are
expected to return to Buckingham Palace for dinner.
Lady Stanley will hold an assembly this evening at the
family mansion in St. James's-square. Her Ladyship has
invitations out for another assembly on the 11th of next
month.
Lady Brougham has caused cards to be issued for assem-
blies on the Ist, 15th, and 29th of the ensuing month.
The Bishop of Chichester proceeds to Brighton on Tuesday
next, to.hold a confirmation at St. Peter's Church.
The Earl and Countess of Tankeryille have taken a man-
sion in Lower Grosvenor-street (adjoining Earl Amherst's),
for the season.
DZIEICELLANEOI3B. _

The annual meeting ofthe Society for th e Propagation of
the Gospel among the Jews was held on Friday evening, at
the Freemasons"favern, John Dean Paul, Esq., Treasurer of

the Society, in the chair, who stated that the subscriptions
during the past year amounted to 927/. 11s. 11d., and the dis-
bursements to 634/. ss. 5d., thus leaving in his hands a
balance of 293/. 6s. 6d. The meeting was addressed by the
Revs. J. Bennett, J. J. Freeman, Dr. Wilson, J. Morrison,
E. Honk, Owen Clarke, J. Crowther, G. Paul, Esq., the Rev.
R. llerschell (one of the converted Jewish ministers), and
Thomas Farmer. Several resolutions were passed, and the
officers for the ensuing year appointed.
On the same evening, the London Society for Teaching the
Blind celebrated its first festival at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P., presided
on the occasion, and was supported on either hand by Lords
Arundel and Dudley Stuart. The company, though not a
very numerous one, was highly respectable, and the purpose
for wlAlch it was assembled was carried out by a most liberal
subscription, amounting to between 700/. and 800/.
The now line of road from Long-acre to Leicester-square,
which is to be continued to Piccadilly, has been thrown open
for the traffic of carts and carriages.
A new floating pier, similar in appearance to the one at
Lambeth Palace, was opened on Friday at Wandsworth ; it
is called the Waterman's I'ier, and has been erected by some
Wandsworth lightermen and waterrnen, with the hopes of
inducing other boats to run between Putney and London, be-
sides those already engaged in the trade.

SUICIDE OF A CHELSEA PENSlONER.—Yesterday
Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Compasses, Upper Ebury-
street, Pimlico, on the body of Edward Horrell, aged sixty-
five, a pensioner belonging to Chelsea Hospital. Charles
Thompson said that the deceased with his wife lodged at
No. 51, Upper Ebury-street. At five o'clock yesterday
(Friday) morning, witness was called from his bed by one
of the lodgers, and told that deceased had made an attempt
upon his life. Witness immediately arose, and upon going
into the kitchen saw him lying upon the floor, and bleeding
from a large wound in the throat. Deceased was first
missed by his wife, who went to the kitchen in search of
him, and found the door shut. Upon pushing against it
the deceased fell, and it appeared as if he had endeavoured
to hang himself by a cord at the top when his wife inter-
rupted him. Being frustrated in his attempt to hang him-
self, he got his razor and inflicted a large gash upon his
throat. Witness had never observed anything in him which
indicated insanity. Ilis pension of one shilling and three-
pence per day, and a trifle his wife earned by washing, was
all they had to live upon, and deceased being about to reside
in Chelsea Hospital, he went to St. George's workhouse to
ask them to make provision for his wife. They refused un-
less he also would enter the workhouse. Mr. Hankley,
surgeon, said that he attended the deceased, and found him
dead from the effects of the incision in the throat—Verdict,
"Temporary insanity."
A LEARNED FRENCH JOURNALIST.--A writer in
the Constitutionne/, one of the leading journals in Paris, states
that the Childe Harold of Lord Byron was an ancient Saxon
king ! Another paper states that Gloucester is a large manu-
facturing city in Scotland! A third avows that no English-
man, Irishman, or Scotchman, can open a shop, or sell con-
fectionery or lucifer matches, without the authority of the
Parliament or the Queen!
THE CONVICT LOWTHER.—We stated in part of
our impression last week, that the extreme sentence of the
law was to be executed on Lowther on Saturday last, for
shooting the Marquis of Normanbv's gamekeeper. We are
glad to state, however, that shortly before the time appointed
for the execution, a second respite was received. The crimi-
nal will, therefore, in all probability, now be transported for
life.—Leeds Mercury.
Messrs. Pickford and Co.'s postage for the year
ending March, 1839, was on or about 30,000 letters ; in
the year ending March, 1843, it was on or about 240,000
letters.
The impurity of the water, arising from the
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neglect of filtration, is said to be one of the main causes of
the unhealthiness of the towns, compared with the
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country.
The great match at draughts for 651.
anda side
Tuesdaybe.
tween Mr James Wylie, " the Herd Laddie," _ hir
in. A-
derson, of Braidwood, commences on the second
June.
—The Marquis of
THE SHAKSPEARE SOCIETY.
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occasion,. There
of the Shaksneare Society, which was
Conyagham presided yesterday at the tillieilrdd ainnntuhaeoome of
the Royalannual
rooms
membersrtinons
was an unusually
ietyfuollfaitiletnedraatnucree'o fSt.
and the proceedings went off with more than wonted enthu.'
siam, owing to the satisfactory report presented of the past,
and the great promise held forth of satisfactory and useful
labours in future. The Secretary stated that six octavo
works had been printed and distributed during the past year,
and that three wore printed for the present, beside numerous
volumes just ready, in various stages of preparation. The
expenditure during 1843 was 6641., for printing and binding
the Society's publications, &e. ; and the receipts were 8934
3a,dearditsioonf t2o2salr.:rebaresyodnude
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frmoemmbmeresmobferstheofthtrheee
thus leaving a balance in the Treasurer's hands of 229/., in
present
year. Thanks having been voted to the Director, Council,
the Noble Chairman, and officers of the Society, and various
routine business concluded, the meeting separated.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. COMMISSIONER MIMI-.
VALE.—This Learned Gentleman, who has filled the office of
one of the Commissioners in Bankruptcy for so many years
past, expired very suddenly at eight o'clock on Thursday
evening, at his residence, No. 18, Bedford-square. After
eating a hearty dinner he fell into an apparent slumber, from
which he never again awoke, and he reniained for some time
in his chair before his daughter discovered the awful change.
Mr. Commissioner Merivale was in his 67th year, and has left
ten children to mostrn their sad bereavement.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, APRIL 26.
—The following garrison order has this day been promulgated
by order of Colonel Sir Thomas Wiltshire, Bart., K.Clie di-
recting the officer commanding the 58th Regiment to select
2 captains, 3 subalterns, 1 surgeon, 5 corporals, 5 sergeants.
and 140 rank and file of that corps to hold them_eelses in
readiness for immediate embarkation by the Pest onjeo
Bomanjee transport for New South Wales. Colonel Thomas
also received orders to
Weare, K.H., of the Provisional,
in the colony of Australia for embarkation in the
now serving
' hold in readiness all the available mhasen beloiiein to the corppsa
I above ship, which is about 1,000 tons burden. The regiments
at present serving are the 51st, 80th, 96th, and 99th. The
SUNKEN BARGE-LOAD OF STONES.--.
' troops are expected to leave here next week.
RAISING A •
About twelve months ago a barge, belonging to Mr. Free-
' mall, at Millbank, laden with about forty tons of stone, was
sunk off Greenwich Point. Some persons undertook.to_get
the stone and barge up, but failed in their. attempt. The
City authorities, being acquainted with the nuisance, era-
' ployed four experienced under-watermen to remove it, and
' they have succeeded in getting up 53 blocks of stone, and
• likewise cleared the remainder of the barge away.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended. by
Col. Bouverie, honoured the exhibition of the Society of
Painters in Water Colours with a visit yesterday, at their
Gallery, Pall.mall East, previously to its being opened
. to the public. The Prince was received by the Preai-
dent, Mr. Coploy Fielding, and the Members of the
Committee.

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