The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-13 00:00:00

TERRACE TOWN

PIER. PIER.
Star Company, with 5 boats 100,916
,uunuondCompany, with 6 boats ,— 95,444
Vackwall Company, with 3 boats
,sons of Thames Company, with 2 boats — 91,356
4.ag,,, le Company, with 2 boats _ I l .647
~k
The
Company, with 2 boats ...... 8,374 8,6k--7
Lae Corporation Tug - 96

186,589 145,150

,„errace
iePirer, with 9 boats...
'Own P, with 11 boats and the Corporation Tug 145,150

Balance in favour of the Terrace Pier, during
the month of June 41,439

•
Gross Number of Passenger 5.....
-
,r, • Of which
o and from Blackwell 209,571
40 and from Hungerford Market 1
Waterloo-bridge
Old Swan ... 122,161
London-bridge -
and other places through the P 001... J
_

331,739

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.--- The accouche-
-4,4 eat of our beloved Sovereign is expected to take place at
veryearly period, and every necessary preparation for the
v"Pteious event has been made accordingly. Her Majesty
ioas extremely desirous of remaining in London some days
~Ager, in order that the trade of the metropolis might not
',uer from the absence of the Court, but her Majesty's me-
dical advisers were urgent that the journey to Windsor should
not be further delayed.
C Q!logneulcw. TRAVELLING.—(Extract of' a letter dated
Monday evening, July B.)—The rapidity of travel-
"ug between this place and London is now wonderful in the
extreme. I left the Tower yesterday at eleven o'clock, and
ere I actually am on the second evening at Cologne on the
'thine; there has besides been nothing like " hot haste " in
the matter ; on the contrary, everything has been done
quietly and comfortably. You are aware that I embarked
on board the steamer Antwerpen, having been assured at the
orifice in London that we should arrive at Antwerp on Mon-
es: morning in ample time for the railway train for Cologne.
This promise was repeated to me on board by the comman-
,der, Captain Jackson, and I certainly was not misled. We
landed before eight o'clock, and all Of our passengers who
wished to do so, and they were certainly almost the whole
(including many persons of high rank), got away by the
train, and reached Cologne with me, after about thirty hours'
travelling. Who would have believed this even ten years ago ?
LINCOLN'S INN, JULY 11.—At twelve o'clock this
day the Courts of Chancery were honoured with a visit by.
the Nabob of Surat, attended by his suite. The Nabob pro-
ceeded, firstly, to the Vice-Chaucellor of England's Court,
and, then to the Court of the Lord Chancellor, attended by, a
"lrge body of individuals who had speedily assembled to make
notepersonal inspection of " a very good-looking fellow," as
of the young barristers termed his Asiatic Highness—
certainly▪ che is a princely-looking personage, and his features
het very fine cast. Upon the Nabob approaching the
vritku, the Lord Chancellor rose and exchanged salutations
h2,_ him, and he continued with his suite seated on the
ilrUa a considerable time. At the time the Prince entered
the Lord Chancellor's Court, Mr. Dyce Sombre's " business.
fps"" Under discussion, and however interesting "strange
• the in that case were toe rather crowded court, the visit
Indian Prince Was more so, judicial equanimity was
disturbed, the whole bar simultaneously "moved," even seats
Were mounted by short personages, the ushers " hushed" in
Vaal, and the Nabob, in fact, continued in possession of the
Court till his departure, when business again proceeded in its
Usual dull ,;end monotonous course.
EXTRAOROXN ART gTEAM-BOAT EXPEDITION.—FIVO
wee, ago Messrs. pitchburn and Mare, the iron steam-boat
t"
"ciers et Blackwall, at whose manufactory eight of those
fast iron steamers, called Waterman, were made, received
an order to build another steamer for the Watermen's Steam
Packet Company without delay, and entered into an engage-
Neat to complete her ready for the conveyance of passengers
in live weeks. The plans and drawings were at once made
by Diteliburn and Mare's draughtsmen, the keel laid down,
'Ganders, shipwrights, joiners, carpenters, and others set to
"Prerk4 and on Saterdey evening last, at half-past five o'clock
--four weeks and four days only after the order was given
and the ke4l prepared, the new steamer, which is called
Waterman No. 12, was launched, and conveyed to Deptford
to have her enguses and machinery fitted in her. Messrs.
I'eun and Son, of Greenwleb, having, in the same space of
t,,,izne, made and finished two Oseillating engines, of sixteen
"°"&e power each, with boilers and machinery. At ten
Minutes before five o'clock on Monday evening, and twenty-
four hours before the expiration of the five weeks, the steam
!iras up for the first time, and away started the vessel down
n'ne river at a tremendous speed, to the surprise of every one.
she is capable of carrying 050 passengers in safety, and is
a very handsome vessel a her gja.ss. The engines are very
neat and turned out in perfect style, and in a way that re-
fleets great credit on Messrs. Penn and Bon who have fitted
no less than 100 of our river steamers. Waterman No. 12
6414 A tn4nces running between Woolwich, Greanwich, and the
Pier 10-day. The fare to Greenwich has been
reduced to 44., in consequence of the low price charged by
in▪ e Gravesend stesaissers.
THE EEEIHITIOV fist WESTMINSTER HALL.—The-
success which has attended the exhibition of the works of
49.41pture and specimens of fresco paintings recently opened
itusireetininster Hall, has far exceeded the most sanguine
ez ions of the Commissioners, to whom the public are
ladebted for it, and affords satisfactory proof of a growing
taste for the fine s.yte among the people generally. During
the first week of Ake exhibition being thrown open the
Weather was extremely nny'svourable, notwithstanding which
ft/4 hall was never so poorly 410 as during the same period
.411, the eertoon exhibition fast year, The attendance since
m,onday last has been still more numerous, ajld the result
▪ ga4er fftremely satisfactory. On Wednesday his
Royal Highness pro4*. Albert presided, for the last time this
. oeason, at a meeting ce Commissioners at Gwydyr House,
011 which occasion some •iipfssftant arrangements in con-
LeXien with the subject of fine arts %vele unanimously agreed to.
Without professing to be minutely accurate with regard to
these arrangements, which in all probability will eeme be-
fLore the public
the
an official form before many days, it may
be-
be stated that the Commissioners had judged it right, after a
carefulexamination of the spegimens of fresco painting sent
in for exhilslaim, by the various 4Ffists, to select six indi-
viduals from wag the whole num-ha, and enoomission them
to commence works on given subjects immetliaLely, The
euramissioners, however, unwilling to confine the practice of
-the art to a few hands, have unanimously agreed to invite
the competition of other artists not inoluded among the six
fle,kae.„, ted individuals, under conditions which are not yet finally
err*ked on. The names of the six artists have Bat yet
zailspi,reck, 44 they will no doubt be made known in the
4.7,anie of a few days: • The exhibition will be thrown open to
•'-e Public gratuitously 4,4 11,on4ay next.
„ThrIIE WESTMINaTEIt 101“1-1414tc HOSPITAL:-.
annual general meeting of the governors en 4 friends of
1"41e Akticire charity took place on Thursday in the bnar4,400113 of
the hospital at Charing-cross. His Grace the Duke of Bieht
'40941 was antipanced to preside ; but in the unavoidable eh,
• acne()flag Grac fl
e, of.e. ollond, one of the Vice-Presidents,
was tailed to the ~cheih The secretary read the report,
which stated the gross receipts for the past year to be
672/. 13s. 10d., and the expenditure 6811. 16s. 9d., leaving
the Instiii;tion in debt to the amount of 14/. 140. Id. The
- ffttitial report showed that during the year 1843 the insdeor
lei,
h 44 been 151, and the out.tioor patients 3,738,
' deNg t,0441.8f0.9 ; of these, one operation was for ex-
• te'Patlon of the eye, 41 ref :ataract, and seven for 'ln trti'
.:11 Pupil. Of the 81 epemtipo.l".: cataract 76 were toms
p!t4ly successful, two partially so, end :Lree failed from
ti,',Priinlation. The seven operations for artiflolel pupil were
Pplrecti, Since' the. Ibundation of the hospital 02,224
Is3lOnt4 had participated in its benefits, of which number
cases of cataract had been successfully treated. The
tireport having been adepted a list of subscriptions were read,
El thanks -bet d the • •
separated. rig passe to chairman, the meeting
CA N
PTAI WARNER'S INVISIBLE SHELL.—The
• lowing7sir isaneXtract of a letter read at Lloyd's yesterday :
m
requested by Captain Warner to acquaint you,
for the i
informationa
of the subscribers in general, that an ex-
Periment of his invisible shell against a ship will take place
off Brighton on Saturday next, the 13th inst. between
twelve and one o'clock.-1 am, &c. ,
(Signed)
T°W Dolisoni Esq.-Lloyd's."

" G. L. BRITTFS.