The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-01 00:00:00

forAdn A msterdam letter announces the landing of the machine
raining the lake of Haarlem. It was constructed at the
foundry of Messrs. Harvey and Co., at Hayle, Cornwall, is
1.2 English feet square, and weighs 31,0001 b.
From Venice we learn that the works on the railroad, be-
tween that city and Milan, are being carried perseveringly on,
and that the Government has just allowed the importation of
400 tons of English iron at half the impoged duty.
So abject is the condition in which the State pensioners of
Spain are left, that an old colonel on the retired list, who
lived at Tarragona, died lately in such destitution, that his
body received the interment of a pauper.
COM:LT— PAS TA itlr)tv MM.
The Court is expected to return to Buckingham Palace to-
Morrow afternoon, from Claremont.
The Earl of Delawarr, as Lord Chamberlain, at the com-
mand, of her Majesty, has issued invitations fi r a grand
dinner on Thursday next.
The Duchess of Gent will return to this country on Mon-
day next, on the morning of which day she will embark at
Ostend on board the Princess Alice, Dover mail packet,
Master Commander L Smithett, who is ordered to Ostend
oa the 7th to be in readiness. The Princess Alice wili laud
her Royal Highness at Woolwich.
Preparations are in progress at Cambridge House for the
reception of their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, who are to ar-
trihirveeon Thursday next, to remain some weeks on a visit to
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Grand Duchess (Princess Augusta of Cambridge) comes
expressly to stay it, is said, until the close of September,
with her illustrious parents.
tThe Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch give a grand enter-
tinment, on the lOti inst., to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester; and on the 12th a similar banquet to
'Meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cainbridge.
The Earl and Countess of Essex were honoured by the
company of a select and brilliant circle of the nobility at
Cas6hiobury Park, near Watford, Hefts, on Saturday last.
11 Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, Duchess de Coigny
and Madlle. Coigny, Countess of Jersey and Lady Clemen-
tna Villiers, Earl of Mansfield, Lady Lyndhurst and Hon.
the C°Frederick Pley, Hon. and lady Elizabeth Villiers,
Bev. John Massey Stanley, Viscount Cantalupe, Lord
Forester •••••
, Lux. Spencer de Horsey and Miss de Horsey, &c..
Were among the visitors.
The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, and Dowager
,lountess of Leicester arrived at Longford M.P.dall, the Dowager
uotinteses seat in Derbyshire, on Tuesday, where they pur-
P°;rresiding some weeks, before going to Scotland.
str: j 1 and Countess de Grey are not expected to arrive in
rnon "lee's-square, from Dublin Castle, until the end of the
akt_l3_ as it is. understood to be
.his Lordship's intention to
liis 7 snort sojourn at Buxton NI, ells, en route from Ireland.
~.ordsh• •
fordshire ip will afterwards visit his seat, Brest Park, Bed-
B •
Lord ,aring Wail, M.P., received his Excellency M. Dedel,
vt. J.ady Ashburton, and Hon. Miss Baring, Lord and
Sir '""ala Eliot, Lard and Lady Methuen, Lady Morgan.
John
Vivian Cam Hobliouse, Mrs. Mildmsy, Mr. and Mrs
dine , Mr. Barrington, Mr. Ward, and a select party at
ier on Thursday last, at the honour gentleman's
house n Berkeley-square.
Ills Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, th French Ambas
sador, Jett Hertford House last evening for Dover, on his way
to Paris. His Excellency's conge is limited to the Ist of Sep-
tember, when the Ambassador will return accompanied b%
the Countess de St. Aulaire.

MX CEX.I..AIG Z 111"*A.
Joe Smith, the Mormonite, is a candidate for the Presidency
of the United States, and is said to have a better chance
thai,
Jack Tyler."
The annual distribution of prizes to the students of thy
-Last India Company's College at Haileybury, near Hertford,
took place on Friday last, attended as usual by a deputation
from the Court of Directors.
The Directors ofthe London and Birmingham Railway
Vle
given instructions that the eleven o'clock a.m. down
the day 'kuPof the at Harrow ons. Thursday next, July the 4th, being
spee che
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has dismissed Mr. Cornelius
"Brien. from the magistracy, for presiding at a meeting to
exprhs sympathy for Mr. O'Connell.
h 'A Glasgow paper says Mr. James Rodger, butcher, of Ayr.
,as let two acres of illoway• croft (for which he pays his
landlady 21. an acre) to the committee of the Burns's festival,
for one day's use, for 201. The national enthusiasm will be
oet..ificial to one individual, at all events.
friend 1501
Vincent Fitzpatrick has received from an anonymous
1501. towards the payment of O'Connell's fine of 2,0001.
cilia
tur• Corbally, M.P. for Meath, refuses to attend at Con-
hall instead instead of the House of Commons, upon the
summons of some of his constituents. This act of insubordi-
couin°t"ill
, most likely insure him his dismissal from the
s representation.
64 W„. on.
near," says the Bury Post, "that there are nine pri-
ain7trharat turnaol on the charges of arson, and one for send-
reCtiOlateng
tWo for letters ; at Ipswich gaol, ten for arson, ano
bending threatening letters ; at Beccles house of cor-
, four prisoners for arsn, and one for threatening to
"'" Waiting for trial at theo next assizes.

On Saturday
RESPITE OF DALMAS.
afternoon Mr. Kean, the Governor of Horse-
lMonger-lane Gaol, together with Mr. Under Sheriff Abbott,
itaited upon Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, at the
e!ne-°llice, relative to the execution of this criminal,
placethis day, at nine o
place
the High Sheriff of the county had appointed to take
Ill.ght, or 'clock. Up to a late period on Friday
even 90 late as Saturday noon, there was not the
Blighted expectation of a reprieve. On Friday afternoon
the convict had made up his mind for the worst, and ex-
pressed himself ready for the change which awaited him.
tThhe Under-Sheriff and the Governor of the prison arrived at
e 11°113°llice about three o'clock, and had an interview
with Sir James Graham, the result of which was that the
Rome Secretary undertook to grant a respite to the convict
until this day iv ek.
We u d - e .
afford
n erstand that this respite has been granted in order
lois time for the completing certain inquiries respecting
case, which are still pending.
Ott Saturday afternoon the final interview took place
~b.e,st'!„en palmas and his daughters, which was of a heart-
Parted, fully
"""Ing description, and the unhappy young. women de-
granted, 'which wa3
impressed that they had taken their last fare-
Well of their only surviving parent. On the respite being
placed in the hands of Mr. Kean, the
li_overnor, that gentleman, accompanied with the chaplai,i
or rho prison, together with the surgeon, immediately went
from the office of the Secretary of State to the county gaol,
'where they arrived about six o'clock, and proceeded to the
p°rt• of the
Z).,,itenined cell, to announce the intelligence to the convict.
Tas at this period was busily employed in reading some
Sacred Scriptures, recommended to his atten
ti__Ll by the chaplain. The convict rose at the entrance of
respite le gentlemen into his cell, and when the intelligence of a
tii,„Ortas carefully and considerately conveyed to him
was- e'o:' the medium of the chaplain and t:-.P 4overnor, it
1_
inevulent that it was totally unexpect, :, anti tor a Jew
buo nts he waB
completely totally
but finally ex-
E raedasted I*.gratitude to those gentlemen for the interest they
respite
,aken in his behalf. Mr. Kean also c4ilied this act of the
pite to be conveyed to the daughters.

SHEFFIELD, SUNDA.T MORNING, EIGHT O'CLOCK.—
FIRE AT LORD WHARYCLIFFE'S FARM, WORTLEY lIALL.
About one o'clock this
morning
press a large corn stack, in the
stack-yard at Wortley Hall, was dil fire. An ex •
was sent off to Sheffield, distant S onl
miles for the
fire-engines, which arrivetabout three o'clock. Owing to the
Calmness of the night, and the great exertions of the tenants
of his Lordship and the inhabitants generally, the fire was
confined to.one stack, containing
Supposed to be the work of an iabout sixty quarters. It is
ncendiary . Lord Wharncliffe
has rn d
a e himself very unpopular in the West Riding for his
advocacy of the new poor-laws. SUDDEN DEATH OP A WATERLOO-BRIDGE TOLL-
CoLLEcron.—Last night Caleb Tilt, atoll-collector
Waterloo-bridge Company, was busily engaged in taking
money. on the lower Surrey side of the bridge, when and-
of the
elenly he was noticed to fall back on his seat. Having been
removed to the toll-house Mr. Cooke, a surgeon, was in
ProMpt attendance, when a large quantity of blood was taken
from Tilt's arm, but he never afterwards rallied, and
having been procured by Constable Goose, No. 160 L, he was
conveyed home, where, after two or three hours he expired,
a cab
it is supposed, in an apoplectic fit. The deceased had been
in his situation since the opening of the bridge.
THE CONVICTS BARBER AND FLETCHER. —TI-E
subjoined document, forming a declaration of the innocence
of Barber by his fellow-convict Fletcher, has been submitted
to us for publication by Mr. Braman, of Verulam-buildings,
the Solicitor on behalf of Barber in the late trials. It ap-
pears to be a complete and apparently truthful exculpation
on behalf of Fletcher of his supposed participation in the will
forgeriti and their attendant frauds; and is made at a time
I'dlen disguise or falsehood would be vain and additionally
,ePnvin Barber and Fletcher are now both on board the
iet-ellip Agincourt, lying off Woolwich, and will sail on
name is
aesd”' next for their destination. The witness whose
convict verse to the paper is, we believe, an officer of
the convict-vesse :
" June 28.
belief, William
"I solemnly declare that, to the best of my knowledge and
Henry Barber had no guilty knowledge that
the will of Anne Slack was a forgery, or that it was other-
wise than a legitimate and proper matter of business. As
such it was introduced by n:e to hint, as stated in my first
examination at the 3lansion-house. And I further declare,
that to my knowledge and belief he had no guilty knowledge
of either of the cases which have recently formed the subject
of indictment. I make this declaration with nu other motive
than to do an act of justice to Mr. Barber is far as lies in my
POWer.
" FLE
as. (Wit•DDSB) " MATTHEW lIALLJOSHUA CUTTIHSBTCHER. "
Vberrver.