The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

INFANTRY.

RAILROAD EXTRAORDINARY.—We learn from au-
thority, which we cannot distrust, that a plan of railway is
now in active contemplation, and in highly influential hands,
which bids fair to be one of the most imposing adventures of
this adventurous era. It is one which, if accomplished (and
we see no reason to doubt its practicability), must create im-
mense interest in these districts, where it is calculated to work
a sort of revolution in commerce. It has been already ascer-
tained by Mr. Pease and others, tbat coals may be carried by
railway under arrangements most benelicial to all parties.
This being the case, it is proposed to complete a double line of
railway from Newcastle to the metropolis for the carriage of
goods only; these goods being coals chiefly upwards, and
miscellaneous packages downwards. As this line would
exclude passengers, great speed is not an object. The
coals would be delivered in a condition far superior
to that which goes by sea, and the metropolitan market
would by this means he regularly supplied, at all times, with
superior coals, on terms that would hardly vary, and which
would be lower than any that London has yet seen. We
have been favoured with an outline of some of the calcula-
tions for this scheme. As to the cost of the railway we can-
not judge. It is estimated, however, at somewhat above
four millions, and it is proposed to obtain a subscribed capital
of five millions to meet all contingencies. The consumption
of coal, in London alone, is about 4,000,000 tons annually.
The carriage upon three millions tons of coal, alone, would
yield a handsome profit, even at rates very low indeed. As
far as the coal trade of Northumberland and Durham is con-
cerned, a transit like this, if once effected, would be a great
safeguard. They might thenceforward defy all competition,
and. enjoy a fmonopoly of the supply of the metropolis.
We look with great interest for further details as to the gigan-
tic undertaking.—Tyne Mercury.
DENDRE VALLEY RAILWAY AND CANAL COMPANY.
—The Directors of this Company, which connects both by
rail and canal some of the most important towns in Belgium,
will shortly publish their report. The estimation in which
this line has stood, is fully shown by the fact that the shares
have always been at a premium. The operations have been
commenced, and are in active progress, and junctions with
the State lilies may be expected to be announced. The ad-
vantage of rail and canal carriage is very important for the
peculiar traffic of this district.
SMALL DEBTS ACT.—A very numerous meeting
of the Commissioners of the Court of Requests for the dis-
trict, which comprises upwards of 20 parishes, was convened
on Thursday, at the Court-house, at Greenwich, to take into
consideration the provisions of the Small Debts Act, and to
discuss the propriety and necessity of appealing to the Queen
in Council to extend the provisions of the Act to this Court.
Mr. B. Carter was called to the chair; and in consequence of
the Court-house not affording sufficient accommodation for
the large number of Commissioners present, an adjournment
took place to the concert-room of the Admiral Hardy Tavern,
Clarence-street. Mr. Talmadge moved a resolution, express..
ing the opinion of the meeting, that it was desirable that the
powers and provisions of the Act 8 and 9 Victoria, c. 127,
should be fully extended to this Court, and the district under
its jurisdiction ; and that a memorial be prepared to her
Majesty in Council, praying her Majesty to enlarge the juris-
diction of this Court for the recovery of all debts, demands,
and damages not exceeding 20/. This resolution was carried
unanimously, and the meeting then separated.
At the large stock fairs of Balla, county Mayo, and
Athleague, county Roscommon, the prices were uncommonly
high, and everything changed hands
A SECOND CROP or BEANS.—We have been shown
a quantity of beans, part of a second crop grown in a garden
on Greenhill, belonging to Mr. Williajn Stalswortb, of Quay-
street. The beans sown were of the broad Windsor sort, and
the first early crop, which was a good one, having been picked,
the stalks were cut off about three inches above the ground,
and the roots suffered to remain. The result was that they
sprouted out again, and are now yielding a second crop far
more abundant than the first. The pods are large and par-
ticularly well corned. This is a fact well worthy the atten-
tion of agriculturists.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
ARRIVAL OF OXEN AND SHEEP FROM HOLLAND.—On
Thursday morning three large Dutch steam-vessels
arrived in the river Thames from Holland, having on board
225 oxen, and between 400 and 500 sheep, which during
the day were landed, and numbers of them which were
consigned to the principal carcase butchers in Newgate-
market, were driven there ; the others are for sate at
Smithfield-market. The residue of the ships' cargoes
consisted of various sorts of fruits. There were some
hundreds of bushels of walnuts, which had been pur-
chased for dealers in Covent-garden-market ; they are
remarkably fine and large.
GLASGOW PIG-IRON TRADE.—SEPT. 30.—Much
inquiry and large purchases have been made these few days
past, at advancing prices ; 3,000 tons have to-day been sold
at 90s. nett cash. The trade have been surprised at several
extensive Liverpool firms becoming purchasers at 90s. nett,
some of whom had lately been sellers at 60s. to 70s. These
transactions are nowlooked on as done with aview to " bear"
the market. We quote the price at 905., with an upward.
tendency.—Glasgow National.
THE WEATHER.—During the last few days we
have had a foretaste of winter. From Saturday night till
Monday morning we experienced a succession of ,stormy
blasts from the south-west, accompanied by hail showers of
unwonted severity, which rendered it unsafe for any one to
be out of doors during their prevalence. Such was the vio-
lence of the storm that it sent the hail against the windows
in exposed situations with a force that threatened to demo-
lish every pane of glass. In the upper districts of the county,
where unfortunately the greater part of the grain is still
out, the stooks were laid totally prostrate, and the uncut
crop has suffered considerably from the deluge of rain that
fell. This backward turn of the weather, it is to be feared,
may endanger the safety of many parcels of crop in late lying
places. The storm, we perceive, has been extensive in its
range. Last night the gale returned with unabated fury, and
to-day is cold and wet.—Ayr Observer.
FOREIGN FRUIT, CATTLE, &C.—The General
Steam Navigation Company's ship Countess of Lonsdale,
which arrived from Hamburgh within this day or two,
brought, in addition to 21 oxen in good condition, 765 sieves
of plums, 65& sieves of the same, and 110 baskets of other
descriptions of fruit, and a large quantity of seeds, plants,
and other produce. The Sir Edward Banks also brought
18 cases of live poultry, a large quantity of eggs, &c. The
same Company's ship Soho, from Antwerp on Monday,
brought the large number of considerably more than 2,000
packages of ripe walnuts, a large quantity of ripe pears, &c.
The Columbine, from Rotterdam, which arrived at the
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, on the same day, brought 5
oxen, 19 cows, the large number of 240 sheep, a large quan-
tity of yeast, cheese, and a variety of every description of
Dutch produce. Neither this vessel nor the Company's ship
James Watt, which arrived at the St. Katharine's Wharf
on the same day, from Havre, brought any fruit of either
description; so that it would appear that the importations
of ripe fruit, consisting of plums, pears, &c., from Holland
and France, have, in a great measure, ceased for the season.
The fruit from these places was the first in the markets, and
now they"give place to Hamburgh, from which a later crop
of ripe fruit is now arriving, and Belgium, which is very pro-
lific in the produce of walnuts—a scarcity elsewhere—and
froni which country large quantities, as will be seen, arrive,
which are of excellent quality, and completely supply our
markets with the article. We understand that the crop of
English walnuts this year is generally bad, in consequence of
the great quantity of humid and wet weather which has been
so prevalent, and that the samples of this nut of home
growth, which are generally considered very superior to, are
this year completely beaten by, those brought from Belgium
and other parts of the Continent. Our walnut season should
now be at its height, whereas there has as yet scarcely any
been seen in the markets or elsewhere. The walnuts brought
from abroad are imported in the husk—for which an allow-
ance is made by the revenue officers at the time of landing,
by mutual agreement or experiment, ,according to the wish
MOST IMPORTANT TO BILLIARD TABLE KEEPERS.
—TheGaines and Wagersßill has passed in such aform, that
all billiard table-keepers, not licensed victuallers, and resi-
dent elsewhere than in Middlesex and Surrey, will be obliged
to shut up their rooms after the 10th of October instant until
October 1846, or until Parliament in its wisdom, can pass a
short Act to releive them. By the 15th section, billiard
table-keepers are to apply for licenses in a similar manner,
and give similar notice to licensed victuallers; but, owing
to the measure not having become law till some time after
these notices ought to have been given, it is impossible for
them to comply, except in the counties of Middlesex and
Surrey, where the licensing day occurs in April instead of
August. By the 11 th section, the Act is to come into ope-
ration as to all, except those resident in th, counties of Mid -
dlesex and Surrey, on the 10th of October; and each billiard
table-keeper will be liable to a penalty of ten pounds a day
for keeping his table open without a license. This is a great
piece of injustice, inflicted by cramming the work ofSiti
months' legislation into as many days, and the only
mode
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billiard table-keepers in the country can adopt to save them
selves, will be to make arrangements with a licensed Vle-s
W allets and remove the table toe
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licensed inn. TI
case wow
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in the 10th section—" Am near thereto as the
a110w”.....-do not help the matter, as it is quite clear they
only relate to the form of notice to be given
. bi•justices'
clerks, of the licensing days, mutatis mutand trorcester-
shire Chronicle.
The youthful Hon. Win. F. Forbes, who his just
succeeded Mr. Herbert Wilson, as Page of Honour to her Ma-
jesty, is son of Viscountess Forbes, Woman of the Bedchamber to
the Queen,

Ist Battalion Ist Royals,]Depot, Nenagh—Captain Ormsby
will take the command of the depot companies when Major
Deane, K. 11., embarks for the West Indies, to join the ser-
vice companies. Seven boys are ordered to embark at Cork
with the draft of 1 lieutenant, 1 sergeant, and 40 rank and
file now on the march to Cork, where they will arrive on
the 6th October, for embarkation, when the armed party of
1 subaltern, 1 sergeant, and 12 rank and file, together with
the supernumerary men in waiting, will return to Nenagh,
and join their head-quarters. Captain Mein is in command
of the company stationed at Borrisokane.
sth Northumberland Fusiliers, Enniskillen—Col. Suther-
land and Major Johnson are on leave of absence, and Captain
Guy is commanding at head-quartet*.
19th (Ist York, North Riding), Depot, Carlow.—Officers
present at head-quarters :—Major Simpson, commanding;
Captains Sir M. A. H. Tute, Bart., and Cally ; Lieutenants
Kerr (depot paymaster) and Jennings ; Ensigns Moore
(depot adjutant) and Braddell. Effective strength of two
companies and head-quarters :-1 acting sergeant-major, 7
sergeants, 5 drummers, and 107 rank and file. At Castle
Comer :—Two companies consisting of Captain Deacon,
Lieutenants Ellerman and Warden, Ensign Skeete, 4 ser-
geants, 1 drummer, and 80:rank and file. Recruiting at
Salisbury, Lieutenant Cochrane. Recruiting elsewhere :-
1 sergeant and 8 rank and file. Sick at Chatham :-
4 privates. Officers :—Ensign Harris, to 7th October, and
Quarter-Master Hinelay, to the 31st October. Assistant-
Surgeon Lingmore joined head• quarters of the depot from
leave of absence on the Ist of October.
Desertion. We regret to hear that several men belong-
ing to the 33d Regiment, lying at this place, have lately
deserted. Some of them have been taken and brought back,
while others have escaped. These men have received bounty,
and have been clothed, fed, and brought hither at the ex-
pense of the British Government, to which they have sworn
allegiance; it is very wrong for them to desert, and especially
galling to all British subjects, as most of those who get off
immediately enlist in the American service, and would, in the
event of a war with that country, fight against us. It is,
therefore, clearly the duty of every inhabitant of New Bruns-
wick to assist the military authorities in recapturing these
misguided men, and in returning them to head-quarters.—
Fredericton Loyalist.
35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment, Depot, Charles Fort, Kin-
sale—A recruiting party is ordered to march for Cork, there
to embark per steam-vessel for London, to be stationed.
Major Deedes is commanding the depot companies at head-
quarters.
38th Depot, Londonderry—Major Lowth has joined head-
quarters from leave of absence, and taken the command.
Major Campbell and Captain Smith have embarked for the
service companies in the West Indies.
The new Royal Marine Barracks are to be lighted with gas,
and provision is to be made for the expense in the next naval
estimates.
77th Regiment—At the Kingston Races a serious row and
fight took place on the ground between the soldiers of the
garrison and the populace. How the quarrel began it is
difficult to ascertain, but it soon became general, and a severe
skrimmage was the consequence. The soldiers of the 71st,
with the exception of a small piquet on duty, were without
their side arms, or very bloody would have been the conse-
quence. A few only of the 82d were present ; they had no
side arms. Seeing the row, such of the officers as had
not left the course, among whom was Mr. Hamilton, the
adjutant, immediately interfered, and with some difficulty
got the men off the ground into the public road, and were
marching them homewards, when the populaee followed and
pelted them with stones. Mr. Hamilton was severely hurt,
and obliged to be taken tp a neighbouring house. Seeing
their officer thus treated the soldiers rushed back to the
ground, and a much severer engagement commenced, which
continued for a long while, in spite of all endeavours to
stop it. It lasted until Major Denny sent out a detachment
of the 71st Regiment under arms, who restored order,
brought away the wounded men, and made many prisoners,
who, at the time we are writing, are in custody at the Court-
house, waiting an examination. The number of men hurt
on both sides is said to be large, but none are killed.
The above hastily-written sketch is probably incorrect in
many particulars, but it is the best we can furnish.—Mont real
paper.
88th (Connaught Rangers) Depot, Boyle—Ensign Gore is
ordered to hold himself in readiness to embark with the draft
of 1 captain, 1 sergeant, and 60 rank and file. and 6 boys,
now on the line of march to Dublin, where they will arrive,
October 8, to embark per steam-vessel for Cork. The
draft of the Rifle Brigade, Ist battalion in Dublin, will em-
bark with this draft,
STAFF—Major-General 11. Wyndham has returned to his
residence at the Royal Barracks, Dublin, from his seat,
Cockermouth Castle, Cumberland, from leave of absence,
and resumed the command of the Dublin district. Co-
lonel John Spink, K.H., Assistant Quartermaster-General,
Dublin, has proceeded to England on a month's leave of
absence.

THE WAR OF THE STREETS.—A sort of civil
war has lately been raging with tremendous violence be-
tween the paviours and the populace. The great scene of
contention has been Fleet-street, which ought in future to
be called Therrnopylw, for never was that famous pass more
stoutly defended than the thoroughfare between Temple-bar
and Ludgate-hill, within the 1 ast fortnight. The paviours
took possession of the ground unexpectedly in the course of a
single night, and by the next day they had thrown up
strong fortifications of bricks, behind which they stubbornly
resisted the approach of the enemy. The populace were soon
on the spot with their heavy luggage omnibuses, with which
an attempt was made to force a passage; but the paviours
had taken their measures so effectually, that Fleet-street was
utterly impassable. Baffled in this attempt, the populace
turned their horses' beads up Fetter-lane ; and some made an
effort to penetrate into the City by cutting across•the heights
of Holborn ; but here, again, they met with the most obsti-
nate resistance from the paviour party, who had contrived
to gain possession of all the principle metropolitan passes at
the same moment. Some of the unfortunate victims hoping
to make good their retreat, fell back towards the west, in-
tending to escape along Piccadilly; but even here the
paviours were found to have made themselves masters of the
passage, which they barred against every one. In this
dilemma the populace, finding the City in the hands of the
paviours, had no other course than to surrender at discretion.
We have not heard what has been the result of the conflict,
but from the number of horses we saw down, and vehicles
overturned, it is certain that an enormous loss has been sus-
, tained by the populace.—Punch.
SUICIDE.—On Tuesday, as two young women
were passing along a field near Haverstock-hill, Hampstead,
they discovered in a corner thereof a man, to all appearance
dead, lying upon the grass. "They communicated the fact
shortly afterwards to a gentleman whom they met, and on
his "repairing to the spot he found the dead body, still
warm, of a person apparently .not more than twenty-five or
thirty years of age. A quantity of blood had flowed from
his mouth, and in each hand was a brass-barrelled pistol, one
of which had evidently been recently discharged, and the
other was loaded with powder and ball. Some constables of
the S division speedily arrived and removed the deceased on
a stretcher, to the Load of Hay public-house. He was
dressed in a blue jacket, blue cap, striped waistcoat, and
dark trousers, and in his pockets were a few silver and
copper French coins, of but trifling value. There were no
papers upon him by which any information could be gained
with regard to his name or address. He had moustachios
and very large whiskers, and it is supposed that he is a
Frenchman.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON
ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY LINE.—On Monday evening Mr.
Payne, the Coroner, held an inquest at the Board-room of
Guy's Hospital, on the body of Charles Hill, aged 36, who
met his death from injuries which he had received from one of
the waggon trains passing over his legs while employed as a
labourer on the London and Croydon Atmospheric line now
in the course of formation. Mr. John Braxton, the house
surgeon, deposed that the deceased was brought in between
twelve and one o'clock on Monday night. He saw him the
instant lie was admitted. The deceased was suffering
severely from a compound fracture of the right ankle and
foot. He was suffering severely from collapse ; stimulants
were administered, and he rallied a little. About two o'clock
Mr. B. Cooper was sent for, who took off the left leg below
the knee, and a portion of the right foot. After this the
deceased became very weak, and he died about nine o'clock
in the morning. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental
Death.
EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF A DEAF/ BODY.
—An inquest was held on Wednesday, before C. J. Carttar,
Esq., at the Eight Bells, Church-street, Greenwich, on the
body of Edward Redcliff, seaman on board the Thomas,
Captain Brewer, of Bideford, who was accidentally drowned
by falling off the foregaff, in Bugsby's Hole, on Friday, the
19th ult. The only feature of importance in this case was
the evidence of Police sergeant George Lessor, 22 R, who
deposed that on Saturday evening last, his attention was
called to the body of the deceased, which was fastened to a
pile in the river in Bugsby's Hole, by a cord fastened round
his neck. There was' 'a strong flood tide at the time, and
had he not got the half on shore, in a short period the head
would, from the force of the tide, have been separated from
the trunk. • Witness had heard that the body had been first
discovered by some person connected with the Harbour-
master's Office, who had fastened it to the pile and there left
it. Evidence was then given as to the cause of the accident,
when the jury returned 4 verdict of " Accidentally drowned."
MELANCHOLY EyjsmT.—The following fatal acci-
dent occurred on Tuesday last near the village of Failford,
whereby a much respected individual has been deprived
of life. Mr. Robert Welsh, gardener and overseer to the Mar-
quis of Bute, at Dumfries House, in company with Mr. Bryce
Martin, Knockterra, having left home in a gig for the pur-
pose of visiting some friends, were on their return about eight
o'clock in the evening, and were proceeding to call upon Mr.
Hunter, farmer in Coilsholm. When about to enter the road
leading to the farm, the horse, which•was going at a smart
pace, took the turn too narrowly, and the gig coming in con-
tact with some obstacle, both gentlemen were suddenly
thrown out of the vehicle. Mr. Bryce soon recovered from
the effects of his fall; but Mr. Welsh was instantaneously
killed, having, it is supposed, been pitched upon his head,
which caused a dislocation of the neck.—Ayr Observer.
The day before yesterday, a young man, dressed
like a workman, jumped into the basin of the garden of the
Palais Royal, crying out that he wanted to bathe. A ser-
geant de ville soon came up, and -called on him to come
out, but this the man refused, going from one side of the
basin to the other to avoid the functionary. At last, the
sergeant, seeing that th,e bather heldiiloshead for a lengtltihoef
time under the water, got alarms , and jumped iti,to,
iiti-
basin also. It was full time, fur the Man was alrueadll‘Eau
sensible. lie was taken to the postitor: the Ch
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The commissary of the quarter gaveVders to have him kept
in custody for :the present, on the grto;_isn,,,,dt!at his mind is
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of the importer—which insures their delivery in a fresh state.
The herring season has fairly commenced. On
Friday and Saturday the Brighton boats, forty in number,
brought a considerable quantity ashore, which sold at about
I ls. the long hundred. They were hawked about the streets
at tpwEelAcTeßa sFhßilolimndT.tßErrigileLt.LnoGr Guardian,
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Mr. Foster's naill, The deceased was at work at
when a brick wall, near where he was working,
fell down upon bile. The biicks were removed as soon as possible,
hut the deceased was quite dead ; there was a large quantity of
iron ore and other hard materials against the wall, but not more
than usual. Verdict—" Accidental death."—Wolverkampton
Chronicle.
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