The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-21 00:00:00

lIIISCELL,ILIrEOTTS.

According to the annual report of Dr. Southwood Smith,
of the state of the London Fever Hospital, the admissions
during the last year Were 1,462, being an excess of 418 above
that of any preceding year. Fever raged most violently in
the central, northern, and southern districts, which was attri-
butable to the undrained, close, and filthy condition of these
localities. The gross mortality was 14 per cent. An un-
precedented number of nurses and other servants of the hos-
pital were attacked with fever, namely, 29, of whom six died.
There is a report in circulation that a large body of " the
Evangelical Clergy" are about to secede from the Established
Church, and to set up a distinct communion on the principles
of Episcopacy. In the Record of Monday last appears the
following :—" It being in contemplation to form an Episcopal
church, separate from the State, with a revised Liturgy, all
who are favourable to this object are earnestly requested to
communicate by letter," &c.
The Military steeple-chases at Windsor, Which will come
off over an excellent line of country, selected by the stewards
in the immediate vicinity of the town, have been fixed for
Easter Tuesday, the 9th of April, and the following day. The
stewards are Viscount Sealsam (lit Life Guards), Lord
Glamis (Grenadier Guards), and Albert Ricardo ,Esq. of Tot-
ness Park..

On Tuesday the Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company
made a preparatory trial of their new and extensive premises
at Wapping. The City of Aberdeen brought a large numbs
Of cattle, the whole of which walked ashore amidst the cheers
of the surrounding spectators.
A meeting of the Essex Agricultural Protection Society
consisting of tenant farmers) was held, by deputation, at
the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, yesterday, to
which the attendance of deputations from the other Agricul-
tural Protection Societies of Tenant Farmers throughout the
kingdom was invited, for the purpose of conferring on the
subject of making the necessary preliminary arrangements
for forming a central Society for the Protection of Agricul-
ture. The meeting, being purely preliminary, was a private
one. About 250 persons were present. Mr. Robert Baker,
the Chairman of the Essex Agricultural Protection Society,
presided.
At a Court of Aldermen, Mr. Alderman Wilson presented
a petition from Castle Baynard Ward, praying that the
neighbourhood of St. Paul's Churchyard might be relieved
of the nuisance of disorderly females who congregate there.
Mr. Keating (one of the petitioners) stated that on applying
to Mr. Harvey, the Police Commissioner, that gentleman said
it was of no use to take up the women of the town while the
Magistratea discharged them without punishment. Mr. Al-
derman Copeland said that lie had never heard a more gra-
tuitous piece of impertinence than the observation of the
Commissioner. The Recorder read the section of the City
Police Act, to show that it was not exactly according to the
Statute to take into custody and imprison unfortunate women
Who walked the streets without committing any offence. The
petition was then rejected. ,*

HEROIC CONDUCT OF LITTLE CHILDREN. —An
inquest was held on Thursday last, at the Bell Inn, East
Moulsey, on the bales of Maria Watford and William Bur-
rell, aged respectively 12 years, who were drowned on thee
previous day. Henry Burrell, aged 10 years, stated that as
he, Maria Watford, and William Burrell, were running on
some ice over a pond at East Moulsey, the ice gave way, and
Maria Watferd fell into the deepest part of the pond (about
six feet). William Burrell, who had a stick in his hand, saw
her danger, and with a courage seldom witnessed in one so
young, got as close as he could to the edge of the broken ice,
which the child was tearing away in the vain hope to get on
the surface, and had just placed the stick in her hand when
the ice gave way under him, and they were both immersed in
the water. Mary Watford ran across the pond to get aid
from some labourers on the farm, and in doing so the iee
broke away from her feet, and she, too, was „in imminent
danger of losing her life. Henry Burrell, who 4,as going in
another direction for the same purpose, instantly went to the
place, and, at the risk of his own life, succeeded uNgetting
her out of the water; and, by the kind attention afforded at
the farm-house, and the medical aid which had been sent I^,lre
her life was saved. Some of the men of the farm went into'
the water, and in about half an hour the bodies of Williams,
Burrell and Maria Watford were got out. They were quite
dead. The Coroner, in a most feeling manner, adverted to
the brave conduct of the deceased William Bartell, who,
though so young, had risked and lost his own life to save a
playmate.— Verdict, '"Accidentally drowned."
THE LADY SHOPLIFTERS.—Last evening the pro-
perty, which had been removed from the residence of these
ladies, who were remanded by Mr. Alderman Challis from
Guildhall yesterday for a week, was taken to the central eta-
tioa-house, Smithfield.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 20.—Gentleman Cadet Black,
whose absence from the Royal Military Academy at Wool-
wich, has been publicly noticed, and to which it has been
added, " has not since been heard of," is !with his parents,
and is expected to join the Academy again in a few days,
when the whole of the circumstances of his case will be tho-
roughly investigated. The young gentleman was one of
those who joined the Royal Alilitary Academy for the first
time at the commencement of the present mouth.—The
Rattler steam-vessel, with Mr. Smith's screw propeller,
formed of three distinct pieces, went down the river yester-
-1 day on an experimental trip, but the alteration has not been
approved of, as she did not equal her former speed. The
propeller with three pieces has been detached, and workmen
are at present employed in adding two pieces o.f iron to theer
Kng it
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tried again on Friday,
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found best for
pieces,
adapted
speed.
FRANSIVRT, FEB. 6.—Our booksellers have been
forbidden by the police to sell the pamphlet of which we
have frequently spoken, which contains the secret protocols!
of the Sienna Conference of 1831.- A fine of fifteen dollars
will be incurred fur every copy.—HontroroPapi*si Feb.