The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-03 00:00:00

COAL DIARSMT.

Prices per ton at the close of the market :—AdairViiiin,
15s 6d; Buddle's West Hartley, 16s; Carr's.aartlebifis.;
Chester Main, 15s 6d ; Daviscn's West Hanky; ; 4alt
Tanfield, 14s 6d ; llasting's llartley, 16s ;
16s 6d; Nelson's West Hartley, 16s 6d ; .:Nesv l'epnfied,
14s 6d ; Ord's Redheugh, 14s ; Old Tanfehl,
,r 4; 6d ;-Eavens-
worth West Hartley, 16s ; Tatitield _lts 6A.; ,Tpwnley,
15s ; Taylor's West HartleS!, 1.5 s 94 ; Hikrtrey, 16s ;
West Tyne Main, 14s ; West Wylam, 15$ dd ; Wylam,l6s.
Wall's-end—Heaton, 17s ; New Walker, 15s 6d ; - New
March, 15s 6d ; Urpeth, 16s; Wharncliffe, ;
17s 6d ; Braddyll's Hetton, 193; East Hetton,- 64 Haswell,
193 6d ; Hougball, lis ; Hetton, 19S; Hylton, 16S 6d-; Lamb-
ton, .194; North Hetton Lyons, 17s; Richmond, 17s;. Rus-
sell's Hetton, 18s 6d; Stewart's, 19s; Caradoc, 19s ;
17s 6d; -Leasingthorne, 18s; South Kelloe, 17s ; Trimdon,
18s ;, Adelaide, 17s 9d ; Brown's Deanery, -16 s 9d ; Eden
HaftlePool;lss ; Fox, 163 6d ; Gordon, 15; 3d ; 'South ,Pur
ham: lts*l ; Sektnour Tees, 17s; Tees, 18s 3d ; Tennant, 16S ;
Anthracite, 20s; Cowpen Hartley, 16s; Hartley, 15s 6d;
Lewiss Merthyr, 21s 6d ; Sidney's Hartley, 16s ; West
Hartley Netherton, 16s 6d.—Ships arrived since last day, 68.

We hear a strange rumour that Mr. Ward was
married on Tuesday last, first, by a Romish priest, and after-
wards by an English clergyman. If this be true, the public
will naturally ask, which of the contracting parties held the
marriage by an English clergyman to be insufficient? The
lady is said to be herself a daughter of a dignitary of the
Church of England. Could it be her intention to deny the
validity of her parent's orders? But if the scruple was Mr-
Ward's own, then we have surely fresh cause to ask, why
does ha still affect to be a member of the Church of England?

—Herald. •
RAPID TRAVELLING.—We understand that swift
trains are likely to be started very shortly, which will per-
form the distance from London to Liverpool, and from Liver-
pool to London, in six hours. The present idea is that these
trains should leave London and Liverpool about three o'clock
r.st., thus giving parties time to get through a good day's
business, and conveying them a couple of hundred miles, in
either direction, by nine o'clock in the evening—Liverpool
paper.
ASYLUM FOR AGED FREEMASONS.—A special ge-
neral meeting of the Governors of the Asylum for Aged and
Decayed Freemasons, was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge -
street, last night, Brother Dr. Crucefix in the chair, for the
purpose of electing five new trustees to the Institution by
direction of the Court of Chancery, consequent on the re-
moval of Mr. Henry Rowe, and the resignation of the other
four trustees. The following noblemen and gentlemen were
unanimously elected :—Lord Southampton, Lord Aboyne, the
Hon. Col. Anson. Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, F.R.S., and
Dr. Crucefix. _

COURT- MARTIAL AT CHATHAM.—Yesterday MOM.'
ing, at eleven o'clock, a Court-martial assembled, of which
Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly was President, to try Sergeant
Edward Jenkins, one of the staff-sergeants at the Invalid
Depot, Casemate Barracks, Gillingham, upon the following
charges :—First charge—for disgraceful conduct in having.
at St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, between the Ist of Ocon toof ber,
1844, and the 31st of January, 1845, purloined portions
certain coals, being Government stores issued to the Quarter-
master-Sergeant, Peter Burke, for the service of the Invalid
DepOt at Chatham, aforesaid. Second charge—for having at
the place, and between the days mentioned in the first charge,
aided and abetted in the purloining of portions of the before-
mentioned coals. The prisoner, who was professionally as-
sisted by Mr. Jeffery, of Maidstone, pleaded not guilty. From
the number of witnesses to be produced, it is expected the
trial will occupy the Court several days. It will be recol-
lected that the above prisoner was tried at the last assizes at
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on the same charge that he is now taking his trial or, and,
after a patient investigation, the magistrates dismissed the
complaint, and the prisoner was discharged. The trial ex-
cites considerable interest.

THE PRESIDENT'S OATH.--It is not generally
known—and the touching circumstance ought to be published
to the whole world—that the Bible on which Mr. Polk took
the Presidential oath was very handsomely bound for the
purpose in the skin of a negro.—Punch.
DEATH OF ANOTHER SON OF THE EARL 01
lIAREWOOD.—The Hon. Algernon Lascelles, the fourth son
of this nobleman, died on Friday night last, at Harewood
House, in his seventeenth year, after a severe attack of
typhus fever. A few days ago we announced the decease of
the Hon. Alfred Lascelles, brother of the above, both
which events have plunged the family in the deepest distress.
The remains of the Hon. Algernon Lascelles were interred in
Harewood Church on Monday morning last at nine o'clock.
The funeral was strictly private, none being present but the
family, and a few members of the household. The Earl and
Countess of Harewood, with ther family, have removed for
the present into the North of England.
A TARIFF BANQUET.—We understand that during
the Easter holidays Sir Robert Peel gave an experimental
entertainment, founded on the last new tariff, to the poor in •
his immediate neighbourhood. The provisions included most
of the luxuries on which the duty has just been repealed,
and the hospitable board groaned beneath the weight of
whale's tins, fustic, and other similar dainties, which the
Premier's policy has rendered accessible to his poorer coun-
trymen. Besides this munificent repast, every poor family
was allowed two pounds of beef•wood, four ounces of divi-
divi, a couple of hoofs, a quarter of a pound of bees'-wax,
and a quart of generous sanguis draconis to wash them down
with. We understand that the Premier will endeavour to in-
troduce fustic as an article of general consumption among
the labourers on his estate, and will distribute ginseng to all
who `will pledge themselves to eat it. These are real proofs
of what Sir Robert Peel has done for the poor man by the
new tariff.—Punch.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE:7-11e soirée
which was given last night by the President and Council of
this Institute, at their rooms, in George-street, was fashion-
ably attended. The tables were loaded with books, pritHits,
and objects of vertu • and Miss Steele and Miss Lucombe
contributed a variety of singing. Mr. Buckingham's native
urbanity of manner, and his attention to the- comfort
and
enjoyment both of guests and members make these re-union
extremely agreeable. There is an aristocratic style iny
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