The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-18 00:00:00

Old Duty at 1 12-20 d. per lb 140,322 17 2,1- 12-20
New Duty at 4 8-20 d. per lb 103,716 17 11-1 8.20
Additional Duty of 5 per cent
per Act 3 Victoria, c. 17

12,201 0 Oi.

£256,240 15 21
G. F. COTTRELL, Accountant-General.
Excise-office, London, 16th November, 1844.

LATEST FROM CHINA.

Letters have been received overland, from her
Majesty's ship Iris, 26, Captain G. R. Mundy, dated
Hong-Kong, July 31. The Agincourt, 72, Captain
H. Bruce, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas
Cochrane, was lying there, in company with the
Minden, hospital-ship, Captain Quin, which ship was
to be paid off in a few days, and the officers and crew,
it was reported, would be sent home in the Pelican.
The Wolverine, 16, Commander Clifford, it was ex-
pected, would take a second instalment of the Chinese
ransom to Singapore, to be forwarded by the Harle-
quin, 16, Commander the Hon. George Hastings,
which ship may be expected to arrive in England
about the end of January or beginning of February.
A court-martial had been held on Lieutenant James
B.. Kinsman, of the Wolverine, on charges of drun-
kenness, which being proved, he has been dismissed
the service. The commands in the East were to be
divided, that of the China forces to remain under
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the East
Indies to be under a Commodore, supposed Captain
Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., of the Fox.—Devonport
Independent.

THE FIRE AT WEST BERGHOLT.—APPREHEN..
810 N OF THE INCENDIARY.-011 Friday a man named
Enoch Bibby was taken before the magistrates of Col-
chester, charged on suspicion with having set fire to the
premises at West Bergholt Hall, the property of Mr. J.
Round, M.P., in the occupation of Mr. Ward. The
prisoner was in Mr. Ward's employ, and had, it ap-
peared, been seen by one of the police, near one of the
barns, with a candle and lantern, without being able to
give any satisfactory account of himself. He had also
said, while the fire was raging—" This is the way to get
Ward's old beer out." Mr. Ward had just at this time
sent some beer out to the men who were helping to ex-
tinguish the flames. At the house of the prisoner s
grandmother was found a part of an old stuff curtain,
which exactly corresponded with a piece of stuff, found
partially burnt, in the farm-yard, and the prisoner had
first denied and afterwards admitted that he had been at
his grandmother's on the Sunday. The prisoner denied
all knowledge of the cause of the fire ; but the circum-
stances stated in the evidence appeared of so suspicious
a character that the magistrate remanded him until
Monday next.—Abridged from the Chelmsford Chronicle.
CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS BY RAILWAT.---A. Cir-
cular to the Railway Companies has been issued from
the War-office, referring to the Act of last Session
which renders it obligatory on the proprietors of several
existing and all future railways authorised by or re-
quiring further powers from Parliament, to convey the
military, their baggage, &c., at fixed rates, and stating
that the Secratary-at-War considers it proper that the
existing contracts with the railway companies for the
conveyance of her Majesty's troops should be revised,
and that, if possible, the rates of charge and general
terms for their conveyance should be the same upon all
the railways in the United Kingom. The circular ex-
presses an opinion that the rates fixed by the Act will
" afford adequate remuneration for the service per-
formed ;" and an early answer is requested, as to whether
the company addressed, if not coming under the Act
will consent to these terms.—Railway Record.
SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED A FFECTION.—An
inquest was on Friday held at Brompton, on the body of
a soldier of the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself
while on duty in his sentry-box, in Chatham Dockyard.
The mother of a girl whom the deceased had desired to
marry stated that on the morning ho committed the
dreadful act she had told him it was of no use his seek.
ing her daughter, for that she was about to be married
to another man. The deceased, she said, shed tears.
She told him it was of no use his fretting—she thought
nothing about him. Ile said, " Let who will have her,
I hope the Lord will bless her." The girl herself was
examined, and said that she had never given him any
encouragement. The deceased's comrades deposed to
some recent expressions of his strongly indicative of
espair. The verdict was—" Temporary insanity."
LOCAL LEGISLATION.—Friday's Gazette, amidst
the now usual host of railway notices, informs us
that the Corporation of London are about to apply
for amended powers for improving the navigation
of the Thames westward of London-bridge, and
that a railway is projected, to commence at
Richmond, by a junction with a " certain intended
railway, called, or to be called, the Richmond and
West-end Junction Railway," and to terminate at
Staines, passing through Twickenham, laleworth, Hamp-
ton, &c. Further, it appears to be designed that the
present thoroughfare for carriages, horses, &c., along
the eastern side of Lincoln's Inn-fields shall be stopped
up, and a new footway formed " of the width of twenty
feet," on the same side, in lieu thereof ; the residue of
the present road to be " annexed to the gardens and
ground" of the society.
ELECTRICAL TELEGRAPHS IN FRANCE.—The Mi-
nister of the Interior has just appointed a Special Com-
mission to report on the advantages of the system of
electrical telegraphs, and the possibility of their appli-
cation. The Minister had previously directed M. Al-
phonse Foy, the administrator in chief of the telegraphic
department, and two of the principal employes, to inspect
the model of Mr. Bain's electrical telegraph, which has
been for some time privately exhibited in Paris.
We are happy in being enabled to state, as we be-
lieve we may do on competent authority, that the
Benchers of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn,
and the Benchcrs of the Honourable Society of Gray's
Inn, have instituted an inquiry into the alleged malprac-
tices at the bar of Messrs. Pyke, Crouch, and Farren.
For the present we abstain from all remark.—Chronicle.