The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-31 00:00:00

COURlLl—r.aszuoNazzr.

Prince Albert, has become Vice-Patron of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society, vacant by the death of the Duke a Sus-
sex. His Royal Highness honoured Mr. Murchison, the
President, with a visit on Wednesday in Bel,grave-square, to in-
spect the vase and plateau presented to him by the Emperor
of Russia.

The Duke of Wellington returned to Apsley House on
Wednesday, from Stratifieldsaye. The Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Hon. and
Rey. Dr. Wellesley, Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, and the other
visitors who have been staying with the Duke during the
holidays, also returned to town in the course of the afternoon.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have arrived
at Mivart's Hotel, from their seat in Ireland.

The Countess of Cawdor and Lady Mary CaMpbell are ex-
pected in South Andley-street in a few days, from Desart.
Castle, where they have been on a. visit to the Earl and
Countess of Desart.

The Earl and Countess of Leicester are passing the season
at Holkam Hall, and are not expected to return to town until
next year.

IifIrSCEZZATTEOI7S3.
A woman named Charlotte Hall, the wife of a plasterer,
was found dead in bed in her house, in Church-street, Wim-
bledon, on Wednesday, and from the appearances pre-
sented by the body there is reason to fear that she had been
strangled. The husband could not be found, and the follow-
ing notice, in consequence, has been issued by the Commis-
sioners of Police :—" Absconded, at half-past five o'clock this
morning, from Church-street, Wimbledon, leaving his wife in
bed dead, from strangulation, a plasterer, between five feet ten
inches and six feet in height, fair complexion, brown hair, no
whiskers, a down look with forbidding aspect, and his mouth
awry. He carries his head on one side. He is 40 years of
age, and was dressed in a coarse blue pilot coat, with pockets
in front, a_fustian pipe- cloyed round jacket underneath, slate-
coloured trousers, and Blucher boots. He is remarkable for
always carrying his pocket-handkerchief in the left breast of
his coat or jacket." Some of the neighbours heard her
scream " Murder" about 11 o'clock the previous night.
A numerous meeting of members of the Established Church,
Presbyterians, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists,
and other orthodox Dissenters, took place in Exeter-hall, for
the purpose of adopting such measures as might be consi-
dered- necessary to prevent the enactment of the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill recently introduced into Parliament by the
Lord Chancellor, and now awaiting its second reading
in the House of Commons. Resolutions in accordance with the
object of the meeting were unanimously adopted. It is a
curious fact that Lord Lyndhurst has passed a Bill through
the House of Lords which pleases nobody.
The eighth concert of Ancient Music took place on Wed-
nesday, under the direction of his Royal Highness the Prince
Albert, for the Earl of 'Westmoreland. The performances re-
quire no specification. -
The boat• race on Monday, from Ostend to Bruges, between
Robert Newell, of Battle-bridge-stairs, and four Flemish
watermen, with a coxswain, terminated,. contrary to general
expectation, in favour of the latter. He lost only, however,
by two minutes. It is but justice to the Flemish men to
state, that they behaved with great kindness to the two.
Londoners, and made them a present on their departure.

ALTERATION in the DEPARTURE

of the MAILS.

Very great inconvenience having been sustained, not only
by the commercial interests, but by the public generally, in
consequence of the mails for India, &c.,' being dispatched
fron this country previous to the arrival of the Overland
Mail, by reason of which those persons who bad correspon-
dents in India could not reply to their advices for at least a
month—to remedy this evil the following arrangement has
been made by command of the Postmaster-General, notice of
which was put up on Wednesday morning at the General
Post-office and the several branch offices :

" General Post-office, May, 1844.
" The next mails for Malta, Egypt, and the East Indies,
vici Southampton, will be dispatched on the morning of the
3d of June instead .of the morning of the Ist, as heretofore,
and those via Marseilles will be dispatched on the evening of
the 7th instead of the 4th.

"The same arrangements will be adapted with these mails
for the future, the mails rid Southampton being dispatched
on the morning of the 3d,- and the mails vid Marseilles on
the evening of the 7th.

" When the 3d of the month falls on a Sunday, the mai
tip Southampton will be closed and dispatched on the pre•
vious evening."
" The Great Liverpool, for India, &c.—Mails of the morn.
ing of the 3d of June.

V‘ The Trent, for the West Indies.—Mails of the morning
of the 3d of June.

"The Acadia, for America.—Mails of the 3d of June.
" The Garland Grove, for New South `Vales.--Mails of the
31st inst."

SOCIETY OF DANCEEM—We understand that Mr.
Bunn has given his permission for a performance to take
place at 'Drury-lane Theatre on Monday night, when there
will be a benefit night, the proceeds arising from which are
to be contributed towards the funds of the Society of
Dancers, for the relief of aged and decayed members of that
profession.

- APPREHENSION OF A BURGLAR.—Ever since the
discovery of the fire and robbery at Mr. Driver's, the sur-
veyor to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 8, Par-
liament-street, for which the butler and a young woman had
been apprehended at Pennenden-heath, near Maidstone, and
remanded at Bow-street, the police of the A division have
been in constant search of a third man, who had been stated
by the male prisoner to be at large, and upon whose appre-
hension ho had made his confession contingent. It appears
that when the butler was left in charge of the house on the
' Sunday of the fire and robbery, he was seen in company with
a man taller than himself, habited in a light greatcoat, and
thin in the face; that this man had been into the house on
the night of the occurrence, and further, that he had been
seen in company with the two prisoners on the day after-
wards, proceeding in the direction of Maidstone. Inspector
Pearce and Sergeant Thornton of the A division have been
engaged most earnestly in searching for the third party, and
have at last succeeded in capturing him, at an hotel at Guild-
ford, where he was secreting himself. Amongst the property
which was taken from Mr. Driver's, were .nine golden
guineas, and some of these were found on the person of the
third prisoner, who could give no account of them. his
name is Thomas Chandler, and he will be brought up before
the magistrate when the other prisoners are brought up on
their remaaci. Evidence will be produced to show that he
admitted having received the guineas from the male prisoner,
and, that he was in his company on the day previous to the
robbery and arson. The butler's pantry at the house in Par-
liament-street, which was completely gutted, has been re-
built, and is very nearly completed in its repairs,