The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-10 00:00:00

AND FOOT GUARDS

" Humbly showeth,--
" That the recent charter granted to the Royal College of
Surgeons of England, a copy of which was lately laid on the
table of your Hon. House, presses with peculiar severity on
the officers of their department, nearly the whole of whom
are by it deprived of those privileges they have hitherto en-
joyed, in consequence of an undue precedency granted to
surgeons in civil life, whilst they will also be deprived in
future of the hope of succeeding to offices of honour and profit
in the College, whatever may be their ability, or the eminence
they may have acquired in the service of their country.
" Your petitioners now appeal to your Honouable House,
in full confidence that their claims will be fully and favour-
ably considered. _ _

atour petitioners, whenever employed in the service of
their country, either at home or abroad, have always endea-
voured faithfully to discharge the duties of their station,
and have used every exertion to improve the practice of their
profession.
" Your petitioners respectfully, but earnestly, submit that
they should not, in consequence of being
public service, be considered to have forfeited by any subse-
Cquent enactment, their civil rights as Members of the Royal
College of Surgeons. employed in the
"Your petitioners humbly pray that your lion. House
will not confirm any measure depriving them of their hitherto
acknowledged rights and privileges, without giving them an
opportunity of being heard by themselves or counsel, either
at the bar of your Honourable House, or in such other way as
your Honourable House may please to direct.
"_And your petitioners will ever pray."

THE
HERRING TRADE.
ABERDEEN.--We are sorry to say that the fishing here
continues very indifferent. Some of the boats have had four,
six, or ten crane occasionally; but others have frequently re-
turned clean ; and a good may of the boats have gone else-
where to fish.

PETERHEAD, AUG. 6.—The number of boats 401 fishing
here ; average on Saturday last, 30i crans each boat.
BANFF, AUG. 6.—The July fishing this season has fallen
far short of 1843. There have been a few pretty good shoals
during last week. The average up to this date may be
stated as under—viz., Banff and Whitehills, 25 barrels per
boat ; Macduff, 20 to 25 ; and Gardenstown, 35 to 40.
FRASERBURGII, AUG. 6.—Our herring fishing proceeds but
very poorly. Little was done last week,
owing to the un-
settled weather; and this week the prospects are clouded by
the same cause. The wind has gone out far to eastward, and
to this date will not exceed 28 crans 280 boats.
it looks quite stormy. The total average for this season up

A correspondent on whom we place reliance assures
us that land is certainly in the ascendant. • The other
day n farm near to Hemel Hempstead was sold, and be a
country practitioner, at near forty years' purchase. There
is a property contiguous to it, which was announced
in our columns yesterday, by Mr. George Robins.
It includes an ancient mansion and 300 acres of land,
with a tenant whose family have numbered one whole
century upon it ; there are ornamental woods, extending
to 50 acres ; and Our friend the knight of the hammer
facetiously observes in his announcement, that it will be
in accordance with good judgment to have them grubbed
up, and substitute crops of wheat and barley, concluding
thus—" A farmer does not need the luxury of woodland
scene? y to interfere with his more important avocations."
THE CONVICT DALALAS.—The convict Dalmas has
been removed, by order of the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, from the Millbank Penitentiary to
the Insane Ward of Bethlem Hospital, there to be con-
fined during her Majesty's pleasure as a lunatic. The
reports of the medical gentlemen who have daily visited
I)almas since his incarceration in the Penitentiary, leave
but little or any doubt of his insanity.
LYCEUM THEATRE.—The following is a list of the
distinguished fashionables who have visited this theatre
Stanhope,
eoeduby rgl-: and during the week :—The Duke of Rutland, the Duchess
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Countess of Wemyss
of Bedford, Duchess of Leinater, the Countess of Glen-
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Malcolm,
Lord A. Lennox,
Lord and Lady Macdonald, Lord Paget, Lord George
Loftus, Lord Viscount Dillon, Lord Viscount Canta-
onb,i
Sir
Canta-
lupe, Lord Dorchester, Lord Gardner. Lord Rendle-
sham, Earl and Countess of Harrington, Lady Joddrell,
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' Lord Ranelagh, Sir George Hayter, Sir
Lady Pocock, Sir J. Campbell, Sir Walter
BlaSuiieYrGeorge Barclay, Count Mataxa, Sir Henry
Webb, Mildmay, Hon. LeicesterandeMrs.
Colonel Anson and family; Hon. A. Dun-
combe, Major Bulkeley., Hon. Mrs. Douglas, Hon.
Fitzroy Stanhope, Captain Cariton, Mr, Ramsden, Hon.
Mr. Lascelles, Major White, Captain Cartwright, George
Wombwell, Esq., Mr. Drummond, Mr. Beaumont, Mr.
Calder Mr. Knatchhull, Captain Cole, Mr. Truelock,
Lady liinloch, Lord Eliot, Lord Suffield, &e.. &e.
FAITHFUL LABOURERS REWARDED.—At the death
of Mr. Lawrence Wilkin, a wealthy farmer, of Barrow-
upon-Humber, his property was left to his sister, a
maiden lady, who is lately dead—and by her will, to
thirteen of her brother's farm, labourers she has left four
acres (to some seven) of most excellent land, adjoining
the road from New Holland Ferry, to Thornton Curtis,
and Boston. On those allotments the labourers are
building very neat and tiled cottages, adding to each
extensive garden. The rest of the inclosure is in a very
an
high state of cultivation.—Doncaster Gazette.
ACCIDENT ON THE ARTIFICIAL ICE.—On Friday
evening last an accident, attended by serious consequences,
occurred upon the sheet of artificial ice at the Mechanics'
Institution. As Mr. S. Campbell, of the Albion News-room
and Temperance Hotel, Great Charlotte-street, was pro-
ceeding down the glacier, or inclined place, he came in con-
tact with the projections representing rocks. His right foot
was jammed in between two of them, and, as he was passing
along at a rapid rate, the sudden jerk caused his body to
where the nece.s-
turn quickly round, and broke his leg. a little above the
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COURT OF ALDERMEN.

HER MAJESTY.

Yesterday a Court was held for the purpose of con-
sidering an address to her Majesty on the birth of a
Prince. Although the season of the year was parti-
cularly unfavourable to the assembling of the mem-
bers of the Corporation, the Lord Mayor had not
been in the chair four minutes when it was an-
nounced that a Court was made.

Stranger i having been ordered to withdraw, Alder-
man BROWN moved, we were given to understand,
after a few words expressive of the high gratification
the Court felt at the happy event which more fully
secured the hope of a long succession to the present
Royal Family, that a humble and dutiful address be
presented to her Majesty on the subject.—(Cheers.)
Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, which
was carried amidst acclamations. An address was
then drawn tip and unanimously agreed to. The
Court was then opened.