The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-12 00:00:00

GRAVESEND.

The immense• number of people frequenting Gravesend
during the low fates, may be judged from the following
statement :

RETURN OF PASSENGERS LANDED AND EMBARKED AT Tiro
TERRACE AND TOWN PIERS, GRAVESEND, IN THE MONTH
OF JUNE, 1844. -

TERRACE TOWN
PIER. PIER.
Star Company, with 5 boata
Diamond Company, with 6 boats
Blackwall Company, with 3 boats
Sons of Thames Company, with 2 boats
Eagle Company, with 2 boats
Commercial Company, with 2 boats ...
The Corporation Tug.

77,299

95,444

31,356
....... 11,647
8,374 6,606
___ 95

186,589 145,150

Terrace Pier, with 9 boats...
Town Pier, with 11 boats and the Corporation Tug 145,150

Balance in favour of the Terrace Pier, during
the month of June 41,439

. • ,
Gross Number of Passengers.... ' 331,739
• Of which
--,-----
To and from Blackwall • .
209y5,
To and from Hungerford Market
•••1
Waterloo-bridge ............
Old Swan
London-bridge
• and other places through the P 001..... j
. .
. 331,739

GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE-PARK.—A grand review
of all the household troops at present quartered in and near
London is intended to take place to-morrow (Saturday) Q°
the ground generally appropriated to such purposes 1°
Hyde-park, a communication having been issued yesterday
from the Horse Guards to the several regiments to that effect.
The troops will comprise the Ist Regiment of Life Guards
(Colonel Viscount Combermere), the 2d Regiment of Lit.?
Guards (Colonel the Marquis of Londonderry), the 2d and
3d battalions of the Grenadier Guards (Colonel his Grace the.
Duke of Wellington), Ist and 2d battalions, making the full
force of the regiment, of Coldstream Guards (Colonel his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge); and it is stated
that there will be added a detachment of the Royal Artil-
lery. The troops will arrive on the ground shortly after tel
o'clock. The infantry will be commanded by General Lord
Saltoun, and the cavalry by Major-General Nugent. The
ground will be'kept by the 17th Lancers, of which regimen'
his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is Colonel,
and which are now stationed at Hounslow.
QUICK TRAVELLING.—(Extract of a letter dated
Cologne, Monday evening, July B.)—The rapidity of travel-
ling between this place and London is now wonderful in the
extreme. I left the Tower yesterday at eleven o'clock, and
here I actually am on the second evening at Cologne on the
Rhine; there has besides been nothing like "hot haste in
the matter ; on the contrary, everything has been donequietly and comfortably. You are aware that I embarked
on board the steamer Antwerpen, having been assured at the
office in London that we should arrive at Antwerp on Mon-
day morning in ample time for the railway train for Cologne-
This promise was repeated to me on board by the comman-
der, Captain Jackson, and I certainly was not. misled. We
landed before eight o'clock, and all of our passengers wil°
wished to do so, and they were certainly almost the whole
(including many persons of high rank), got away by tie
train, and reached Cologne with me, after about thirty hours
travelling. Who wouldhave believed this even ten years ago?
LINCOLN'S INN, JULY 11.—At twelve o'clock this
day the Cotrts of Chancery were honoured with a visit by
the Nabob of Surat, attended by his suite. The Nabob Pro-
ceeded, firstly, to the Vice-Chaucellor of England's
Court,
and then to the Court of the Lord Chancellor, attended by
large body of individuals who had speedily assembled to make
a full personal inspection of " a very good-looking fellow," as
some of the young barristers termed his Asiatic Highness--
certainly he is a princely-looking personage, and his features
are of a very fine cast. Upon the Nabob approaching
the
bench, the Lord Chancellor rose and exchanged salutations
with him, and he continued with his suite seated on the
bench a considerable time. At the time the Prince entered
the Lord Chancellor's Court, Mr. Dyce Sombre's " business"
was under discussion, and however interesting "strange
facts" in that case were to a rather crowded court, the visit
of the Indian Prince was more so, judicial equanimity was
disturbed, the whole bar shnultaneonaly "moved," even seats
were mounted by short personages, the ushers "hushed" in
vain, and the Nabob, in fact, continued in possession of the
Court till. his departure, when business again proceeded in AS
usual dull and monotonous course.
EXTRAORDINARY STEAM-BOAT EXPEDITION,—Fire
weeks ago Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, the iron steam-boat
builders at Blackwall, at whose manufactory eight of these
fast iron'steamers, called Waterman, were made, receive
an order to build another steamer for the Watermen's Steam
Packet Company without delay, and entered into an engage-
' merit to complete her ready for the conveyance of p-assengers
in five weeks. The plans and drawings were at once made
by Ditchburn and Mare's draOghtsmen, the keel laid down,
founders, shipwrights, joiners, carpenters, and others set to
work, and on Saturday evening last, at half-past five o'clock
—four weeks and four days only after the order was given
and the keel prepared, the new steamer which is called
Waterman No. 12, was launched, and conveyed to Deptford
to have her engines and machinery fitted in her. Messrs.
Penn and Son, of Greenwich, having, in the same space of
time, made and finished two oscillating engines, of sixteen
horse power each, with boilers and machinery. At tea
minutes before five o'clock on Monday evening, and twenty-
tour hours before the expiration of the five weeks, the steam
was up for the first time, and away started the vessel down
the river at a tremendous spe'ed, to the surprise of every one.
She is capable of carrying 350 passengers in safety, and is
a very handsome vessel of her class. fhe engines are very
neat and turned out in perfect style, and in a way that re-
flects great credit on Messrs. Penn and Son, who have fitted
up no less than 100 of nur river steamers. Waterman No. 12
commences running between Woolwich, Greenwich, and the
Adelphi Pier to-morrow. The fare to Greenwich has been
reduced to 4d., in consequence of the low price charged by
the Gravesend steamers.

THE EXHIBITION IN WESTMINSTER HALT,.—Tbe
success which has attended the exhibition of the works of
sculpture and specimens of fresco paintings recently opened
in Westminster Hall. has far exceeded the most sanguine
expectations of the Commissioners, to whom the public are
indebted for it, and affords satisfactory. proof of a growing
taste for the fine arts among the people generally. During
the first week of the exhibition being thrown open the
weather was extremely unfavourable, notwithstanding which
the hall was never so poorly filled as during the same period
of the cartoon exhibition last year. The attendance since
Monday last has been still more numerous, and the result
altogether •is extremely satisfactory. On Wednesday his
Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, for the last lime this
season, at a meeting of the Commissioners at Gwydyr House,
on which occasion some important arrangements in con-
nexion with the subject of fine arts were unanimously agreed to.
Without professing to be minutely accurate with regard to
these arrangements, which in all probability will come be-
fore the public in an official form before many days, it may
be stated that the Commissioners had judged it right, after a
careful examination of the specimens of fresco painting sent
in for exhibition by the various artists, to select six indi-
viduals from among the whole number, and commission there
to commence works on given subjects immediately. The
Comthissioners, however, unwilling to confine the practice of
the art to a few hands, have unanimously agreed to invite
the competition of other artists not included among the six
selected individuals, under conditions which are not yet finally
determined on. The names of the six artists have not yet
transpired, but they will no doubt be made known in the
course of a few days. The exhibition will be thrown open to
the public gratuitously on Monday next.
THE WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.--
The annual general meeting of the governors and friends of
the above charity took place yesterday in the board-room of
the hospital at Charing-cfoss. His Grace the Duke of Rich-
mond was announced to preside ; but in the unavoidable ab-
sence of his Grace, Mr. Hollond, one of the Vice-Presidents,
was called to the chair. The secretary read the report,
which stated the gross receipts for the past year to be
672/. 13s. 10d., and the expenditure 687/. 16s. 9d., leaving
the Institution in debt to the amount of 14/. 14s. id. The
medical report showed that during the year 1843 the in-door
patients had been 151, and the out-door patients 3,738,
making a total of 3,889 ; of these, one operation was for ex-
tirpation of the eye, 81 for cataract, and seven for an arti
ficial pupil. Of the 81 operation for cataract 76 were com-
pletely successful, two partially so, and three failed from
inflammation. The seven operations for artificial pupil were'
successful. Since the foundation of the hospital 52,224
patients had participated in its benefits, of which number
1,310 cases of cataract had been successfully treated. The
report having been adopted a list of subscriptions were read,
and thanks being passed to the chairman, the meeting
separated. _ _

On Monday the bakers of Greenock reduced the
price of bread one penny. The 41b. quarten fine loaf now sells
at 7d., and household at 6d.

BIRTHS.
On the 7th inst., in Burton-street, the lady of T. H•
Golden, Esq., of a son.
On the 7th inst., Mrs. G. Ashley, of Brixton-hill, of
daughter, which lived only until the 10th inst.
On the 7th inst., at Newton St, Loe, near Bath, the lady
of Charles Gunning, Esq., of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Mount Pleasant, the lady of Argyll
Plunkett, Esq., of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Houghton Hall, near Carlisle, the lady
of James R. Grant, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 9th inst,, in Devonport-street, the lady of Joshua
Williams, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at Vauxhall, the lady of John B. F.
Burnett, Esq., of a son.