The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

IRISH POOR-LAW COMMISSION.

The following appears in the Carlow Sentinel of yes-
terday :—" We learn, from the best authority, that in
consequence of the serious charges made in Mr. Pene-
thorne's report against the Poor-law Commissioners, and
the conflicting statements of Mr. Penethorne and the
Commissioners' architect, the Government have issued
a commission of inquiry, which will not only embrace a
searching scrutiny into the expenditure on the poor-
houses, but a thoroughinspection of the buildings in
every union in Ireland. We have also to announce, on
equally good authority, that Mr. Owen, of the Board of
Works, is appointed a member of the commission. The
names of the other gentlemen who are to act with him
have not yet transpired,
.but we believe they will com-
mence operations immediately."
The Marquis of Donegal sailed from Belfast for
London on Friday.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE ClTY.—Yesterday
numerous workmen were engaged erecting seats around
St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Clement Danes Church, St.
Mary's Church, Strand, King's College, and various
other public places in the line of the road from Bucking-
ham Palace to the Royal Exchange. The applications
at tradesmen's houses have already been very numer-
ous, and prices of from half a sovereign to three
guines have been paid, for seats having a good view of
the grand and imposing processien.
THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY AND THE COL-
LIERS.—" The Marquis of Londonderry," says the
Durham Advertiser of Saturday, " has written to the
secretary to the fund for the survivors of the sufferers by
the late accident at Haswell Colliery, in reply to an ap-
plication for a subscription. The Noble Lord disap-
proves of all such subscriptions, and contends that it is
the duty of all proprietors of collieries to maintain those
who are bereft of their protectors by fatal accident in
the mines. He estimates the amount of money he has
paid in this way, as coal proprietor, since 1819, at
6,1621. 17s. sd. He concludes his letter, however, by
saying that, as the Lambton Colliery and the Earl of
Durham have each given 1001. to the fund, he will give
the same sum."

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—WiIIiam Collings, a boy
ten years of ago, in the habit of going to sea with his
father and brother in a small fishing-vessel, accompanied
them as usual last Tuesday. The father returned in the
evening, leaving his two sons to moor the boat ; the
elder desired William to go home, and seeing him cross
several boats, supposed he had landed safely. On enter-
ing his mother's room ho inquired for his brother, and
finding he was still absent, told them the child had parted
from him to return about half an hour before. Search
was immediately made in all directions for the child ;
but hearing no account of him, the next morning, as
soon as the tide was out (one o'clock, A.m.), Mr. Collings
and six men went to the Barbican. The father in
searching placed his hand on the body of the child, but
being too much affected to render any assistance, the boy
was taken up by the other men. His nose and mouth
were filled with mud, which, it is supposed, prevented
his rising again. An inquest was held tin, same evening
before Mr. J. Edmonds, borough coroner. Verdict—
" Accidental death.—Plymouth Times.
SPEEDY JUSTICE.—On Saturday evening, the 12th
inst., a man, by the name of John Anderson, was taken
by Mr. T. E. Collinson, superintendent of police, from
Ripon to Aldborough, a distance of about seven miles,
upon a charge of felony. The case was heard before
Mr. W. J. Coltman, a resident magistrate, and the pri-
soner was committed for trial to Northallerton. On the
ensuing Monday (the 14th instant), he was taken to
Northallerton Gaol, and on Wednesday last he was
tried, convicted, and sentenced to transportation for
seven years.
Gipsy Lee, mentioned in our last as having caused
a female respectably connected to elope with him from
Margate, has since been charged with robbing a relative
of his " beloved," at whose house he lodged, and com-
mitted to prison for trial. He sobbed bitterly during
the examination, and while in the cage thrice attempted
suicide.—Canterbury Journal.
BURGLARY.—About one o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing last, six fellows with their faces blackened entered
the dwelling-house of Mr. T. Worthington, of Mansetter,
near Atherstone, Warwickshire, and whilst some of them
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were engaged in ransacking the premises of the most
portable and valuable of their contents, the others were
engaged in preventing the inmates from making an
alarm, during which considerable resistance was made
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htiiemsAwhGeilrlOOD CROP.—Mr. Alexander Waddingham, of
Driffield, has this year produced from a field containing
about four acres, on the north side of the road leading to
Burlington, no less than seven; and a half quarters per
acre. In fact, this field has for several years been re-
markable for the abundance of its crops. In 1841, the
yield was six and a half quarters per acre, and in 1838,
seven and a half quarters per acre,—Yorkshire Gazette.
GRAND EXPLOSION OF MINES AT CHATHAM,
OCT. 21.—For the last two months the Royal Engineer
establishment, under the entire direction of Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, K.H., have been engaged
in preparing a system of countermines in front of the
ravelin on the left of Chatham lines, not only with the
view to practise in mining, but also with the object of
carrying on the course of drill in subterraneous warfare.
The corps of the Royal Engineers will be divided off for
this occasion into distinct parties, one representing the
besiegers, and the other the defenders of the fortress,
the operations to consist chiefly in mining against each
other, on which occasion considerable charges of gun-
powder will be exploded. They will be highly interest-
ing to the scientific military officer, as there is no in-
stance of a similar course having been at any time car-
ried on in this country on the same enlarged scale. It i
understood that the attacking party will, in proportion as
they may be enabled to advance subterraneously, carry on
the upper ground in the ordinary work of a siege. The
operations, it is stated, will probably extend over a period
of eight or ten days. Lieutenant Ponrice, of the Royal En-
gineers, will take the command of the defence; and Captain
Wynn command the attacking party. Neither of the
two officers know anything of each other's plans, the
attack and defence being entirely distinct in their re-
spective duties, and the parties of Sappers and Miners
are positively forbidden to hold any communication
whatever with each other ; all that can be ascertained
is, that each party can hear each other at work with
their picks and shovels. The whole of the operations
will have the same importance as if done in actual ser-
vice. The extent of the ground occupied by the troops
form an extent of about ten acres. Captain Wynn, from
the third parallel, is pushing forward several galleries in
the expectation that out of some of these points of attack
he will succeed. Lieutenant Penrice's is a system of
countermines founded on a new plan for defending the
glacis of a fortress. At present it would be unfair to
give a detailed account of the two operations, as each
officer enters the contest with no more knowledge of
each other's operations than if they were in an actual
siege with an enemy. The subterraneous warfare com-
mences on Tuesday, the 22d instant, at eleven o'clock in
the forenoon. It is expected that several distinguished
officers from London will be present.
The Bishop of Salisbury has offered to contribute
liberally himself, and to obtain liberal assistance from
other quarters, in aid of the rebuilding, on a large scale,
the parish church of Fisherton Anger, near Salisbury.