The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-17 00:00:00

ROYAL AGUICULTURAL SOCIETY
ENGLAND. . AO
StnumsaultY, JULY 15.—The exhibition of the gO3-1 , oil
cultural Society of England for the present year was opened s'
,s this
place this morning. The number of exhibitors of impleniele"
year is 90. Later'
The implements consist chiefly of carts, chaff and hal c- stet
churns, crushers, cultivators, dibbling machines, drills, fences, t 0,..
grain-bruisers, harrows, hay machines, horse hoes and rac°',,loos;
mellers, hurdles, land and drill pressers, brick, pipe, and tiledmocel.
mills, oil-cake breakers, iron subsoil, swing, wheel, Told
laneous ploughs ; pumps, rick-stands, rollers, searir' ;tanit,'
machines, steam-engines, thrashing machines, troughs, ' 010
cutters, weighing and winnowing machines, wheels, and ,"„itled.
of 200 other miscellaneous articles, which have not been e's"-thet
oat t .•tot,
The general impression upon survey of the whole is,
is less novelty of Invention than in some preceding yeerli.bu„ their
the manufacturers have made great progress in improieoo,
former inventions, and particularly as respects simplifYinguoil.
and rendering them more generally accessible as well es 4.
We must not omit to mention that one of the most interestlb`o
hibitions in the yard is that of seeds and dried grasses, et. hi sad
upwards of 350 kinds arc exhibited by Messrs. George Gib--
Co., Hyde Park corner. '1 Ungine".
The judges of the implements were—Mr. Parkes. Civt soft
London ; Mr. Wm. Bennett, Bedfordshire; Mr.
W 1',19."„" ' out •
Northamptonshire ; Mr. C. Burness, Bedfordshire ; 4
waite, Yorkshi ; nd Mr. .
the stewardsre were Mr. SheHlley,aseldine Maresfield Park, Verdeld' a'
Mr. Humphrey Gibbs, Brompton Lodge, Old Brompton.
SEIZURE OF AN EXTENSIVS
DISTILLERY. 2ide bl
Yesterday afternoon a seizure of a large distillery Wasarle Olt
several revenue officers in Hertford-place, Globe-road,
.-I:tioie
and the parties connected with the concern were at the PM! It,
captured. In the rear of this distillery is an open
aiderable extent, and between this field and the rear of the
mess`
in Hertford-place is a piece of ground containing three ,„,„,f,
dwelling-houses, sheds, boiler-house, steam-engine, and bulflorThe
in which it appears illicit distillation has been carried oe °OOO
last six months, and the revenue defrauded W an ere, viso
amount. The approach to the premises from Hertford-Pa,,sgtb,
by a narrow-covered pathway, about one hundred feet Car r sad
SI Clirbte;
ero
at the end of which there is a door, with the words
Sims" painted thereon, in large letters. There is Oct, gates
trance to the premises from the field ; and a pair of larg. tbe
inclosed_..oo,3
about sixteen feet in width and nine feet Mgt).
premises in this direction, :and the gates were oniidrrt,
field oif:0,0
at intervals for the ingress and egress of a horse anA elrat
which was kept by the fictitious firm of Carter ee, spe
who professed to carry on the business of glue, °l;s;a tb!
naptha makers. The workmen and their families inhabnoe s'
dwelling-houses on the premises. Yesterday,
Information, a Custem-house officer, named Coleby Atki° for $
conga° 0 Ds'
via, applied to Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police.coUrte;oteil
search-warrant to enter the premises, which aes iTin,,tfiesr4
granted ; and having obtained the assistance of two e%Ol-tios,sef'
named Cartwright and Wallace, and Thomas Fora, P°',.essSe
geant 27 K, and Pierce, Stair, and Forsyth, constables ofl.oo/
division, he repaired to the place. The police and oae of tbecrotieo
officers having becen judiciously posted to prevent any of th.o.oot°
making their escape, Davis and Cartwright obtained t
o'pers'
the premises by stratagem, and found the distillery in ellh. os,ci
tion. They immediately captured four men, who gave
ti"-Virs'i
of John Jones, John Watson, Thomas Welsh, aeu bialtr
Dicken, who made a show of resistance ; on which DOD, el polir6
his pistols; and having opened the gates and admitted t_he„ torts
the men quietly surrendered, and were
wallyimmediate DO" NOS
Thames Police-court, when Mr. Broderip, who thtls4ll;
the bench, directed that they should be detained tretil*,74lllo;
Davis informed the Magistrate that he had seized the nova" of "
distillery he had ever seen in London, and an inspeetic7as OP
place fully bore out his statement. It appears everlth e
conducted on a large scale. 7 here were four stills and 81°1°0°
tifier in full operation, with fires under the whole of thefa'i tOt
stills were working off strong spirits, and in a vat senic:,
ground the officers discovered upwards of 400 gallons, an Ito dot,'
pected that as much more would be worked off from ihe..„." P',
ing the night. The upper floor of the building een7,bilskir
large vats, filled with upwards of 1,200 gallons of wash ; .0 .L.'"
the time the officers entered, was in a state of ferrnerdn: 3:
the whole of which the officers intend to convert into 11)°!0- 03. AP
operations appear to have been conducted in a very `°c en sac Sc
ner, and not like the ordinary private stills. There W 7-006
hydrometers, and other instruments on the premises, Ototer,""
pose of testing the strength and quality of the spirits. a 0001%4
of the stills, rectified spirits, and materials is upwards ef A".looreS,
It is an extraordinary fact, that some time ago Davis „'Jilere„ol
a quantity of materials, a still, and a rectifier, but whicis" 001:.
fixed, on the premises of a gentleman at Islington. -tlo
empowered to seize them, but be managed to cut his e',., ,,/°
knife on some of the materials, and he found the sante t
o.7gee
the name still upon them, yesterday, on the preen
vied Carter and Sims.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUI",i.WI:
SIR,-It is rumoured that the new debutanjeesi,"
Georgiana Smithson, who appeared at the “ertej'l
Theatre, with so much eclat, and mentioned so desop,
by you, though styled the pupil of Madame Ver,-0316ril
only been with her three %seeks. Being a studen' socio
lam certain no professor could bring "ifie,oo44
high cultivation in that time, therefore it is ey'"„forts
G. S. has been tutored by an able master, esdst08;111
trained in the modern art of singing, ere she bu t"A
pupil of Mad. Feron, and, as I am anxious that her
instructor should be known, I trust you will c,°°0011!of
to give publicity to this,for the benefit of yetinbalit
and the public.—l have the honour to be, '"

obedient sk-rvant,
July 16, 1845.

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THE AERONAUT COMASCRI.—This en,
ascended from Constantinople in a balloon, in hone°, ves
occasion of the marriage of the Sultan's sister, has 5°,44
heard of, although by the latest accounts, thirteen` ll ; A ,Steil
Messengers dispatched in the direction in which, rsi,e. CroAl
wind blew at the time, it was supposed he would have 7 retiooti
have returned without any tidings of him. A reP°:,:loo°
confirmation, had, however, got abroad that a body of .74000" A"
answering to his description, and the remnants of a ',i§froti
been picked up on the Danube. Some, who have theballoe°oo4
to be the creditors of M. Comaschi, and to whom tbe,. 00, oil
been specially hypothecated as a security, go the tenet" orit'l
that he has purposely steered a wide course to elude Woo rjr
debts, especially as he increased these latter on thee° ° rts
and took measures for providing himself with P3°./eicentiO
mans to secure assistance wherever he might effect hi'
11
ABOLITION OF FEES IN CRIMINAL CASSnaS. spaor'
introduced by Mr. Bickham Escott, Sir James Grah4—,..
1.) uncan, -- tor runner securing the rtants of aecoo— c.
abolishing certain fees in criminal courts,' is noW I" ; gectierof
progress through the House of Commons. The thire:i otictiot
cites " that the plea of not guilty is the free, and
of
conditional right of every subject of this realm accused 't !di
or misdemeanor," and enacts that hereafter "it shall
for any officer of any court of criminal jurisdiction lo the tll
r
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or for any °t;spyy
l
whatsoever, to take or demand from any person accused booreitr
or misdemeanor any fee or payment whatsoever, either 00,
or after trial, or before, at, or after any summary Prre.hse tit
fore one or more justice or justices of the peace, other
..ce, of
proper and legal fine as the said court, or justice or Mti l 00305 t
peace, before whom such person shall have been tried or,opellt)
convicted, are or shall be authorised to impose as PtT!„ll4
the offence for which such person shall have been a le" - 'emr

guilty, or summarily convicted."
A PS d
id IPe
ACCIDENT IN PICCADILLY.—On Weal-- dto
ve
noon, as an elderly female, named Gosden, ladY's"°101'100
colonel Cuff, of Norfolk.street, Park.lane, was crossued 1,
dill). at the corner of St. James's-street, she was lnuc 00'0
eleY
and sevo rely injured by the horses of Sir H. Cholm 40 4
the coach.an having been unable to pull up suddenli ° .01 ig, 1
of the alipne.v state of the wood pavement, which bou:4l# fold
wetted. The trwses trampled upon her, but the 10' ,ipProt,
nately did not tonal her. She bled a good deal, but nod ifolo
taken into Mr. Hoby , shop, and received prompt IrLecien hi)
ment, she at last so far ro.overed as to admit of being 'sodl° )1
Sr Henry, who was in the L•rriage, alighted, and 0(1,400
regret at the accident. The cnchman was not at all to
pulled up as soon as he could.
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The Honourable the East India Comp f er.,,t
their annual white-bait dinner at the We,.. India Dock 40"
Monday last. A sumptuous dinner, with ti— most COitil
was provided on the occasion. filPl
BRITISH MANUFACTURES.—If there ate ,igs i
more home-made pictures ie the National Gallerr. 10,501;
Clerkenwell Holbein, which has been sold at a dead 10. la
the collection may appropriately be called
English, painted by themselves."—Punch. 0 it°lo
A report of the proceedings of the Guians, r0:01
Agricultural and Commercial Society " for their first yo.",fpri
March 18, has been received. It shows great attention:o'oy
the different means of agricultural improvement, the inaPo, ff
tivation in sugar being the principal object kept in 19444 i
total quantity of sugar exported from the colony in
..,,clif:o
313,999 hogsheads; the total quantity of rum, 11,706 Pu'sopo
and of molasses, 21,677 puncheons. Of coffee the elli
.4
1,490,7371 b. .., IP;
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—We lear.n.sl
a generally well-informed quarter, that Parliament irn,
rogued either on the sth or 7th of the ensuing month...." 0
" Picture.
co
Paper. ` , Ithere°
MORAL INFLUENCE OF EXECUTIONS. 1"
for).l
ye bin ?"—" Why, to see the cove 'ung, to be sure."--P leOF,O
A sword fish, measuring three metres in DO% '1
including the sword, which is a metre long, and weig :0014,
kilogrammes, was washed ashore in a dying state, frog'
otoe
few days ago, near Bayonne, and taken to that place for P #
hibition. , et
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DlV‘i„ 19;014
STANTINE or RUSSIA.—This illustrious personage, about 00..,
a pleasure tour in the Mediterranean, arrived at Conllool9
from Odessa, on the 18th of June, in the Russian stag'o 01,"
Bessarabia, and, though holding the rank of Vice-Ad "it
assumed, with a view, it is pretended, of keeping do tb ►, 00
ment of the Greek population, the humble incognito of
-001)
lieutenant, studiously shunning public honours, in tl'efolifi;
salutes, guards of honour, and so forth. Strange to sal, op
the less he has courted public attention the more it has bee 4
upon him, as well by the Sultan as by the Greeks. 3
UNFOUNDED CHARGE AGAINST A MIDWIFE' 04
terday Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Hat ~0 J
Hatton-wall, on the body of Eliza Sims, aged 37, wife °',,,,i
vender in the above street. The inquest was held in 00;615
of its having been communicated to the Coroner that &Gt ,f i
died in childbirth, from improper treatment on the part.,°4
wife, named Potts, belonging to a public charity. Mr. xece
surgeon, of Hatton.garden, who had opened the body of Pei/
said she died from exhaustion resulting from chronic dia°lo6*
liver and kidneys, produced by previous habits of intorno i
Verdict, Natural Death. PI
EXCISE DUTIES ON SPIRITS, CHANNEL ISL Alta
This Bill proposes that the following duties should be cits' 1,/
all spirits of the nature or quality of plain British spirtt,ed
factured or distilled in the islands of Guernsey, Jerseys ii,go.'t
•r Sark, and imported thence into the United Kingdoni: 406!
gallon of such spirits of the strength of hydrometer I'l*
ascertained by Sykes's hydrometer, imported into England,o lit
in proportion for any greater degree of strength or 01 DO,i
or less quantity; 4s. 10d. per gallon of such spirits of
porj
strength imported into Scotland; and 3s. 6d. per 101140
ported into Ireland from any of the said islands. These seve:,
tervailing duties are to be under the management of the tite,
goners of Excise. Spirits of the nature of plain British aPip,
manufacture of any of the above.mentioned Channel 103°04
ported into the United Kingdom, are to be den/a:110' f
British spirits, and imported under the same regulations d
as spirits removed from Scotland or Ireland, and to the I
tions of the Customs, as to certificates of produce, &c,14
when so imported they are to be dealt with as spirits th",„iii
facture of that part of the United Kingdom into 01 sr
ported. Plain spirits, the manufacture of the island: 4d/
said, are to be made from the same materials as in the Unit ti
dom, and the certificate of produce is to certfy the semesoefi
pain of forfeiture for any false certificate. Spirits of the 114 ei
British brandy or compounds (made in these islands), are 0".„41
imported into the United Kingdom, on pain of penaltiel
'1 1"
feiture ; and the Act is to commence from August 8 (as pr/
)
proposed), on all prohibited spirits which have been imported,
,`that date and are now in bond.
A bomb shell was found on Wednesday nightpitlii:
excavation at Barrack street, near the site of the old 10.00,
partly filled with powder and iron missiles. This cniubtOppl
probably fired at the seige of Limerick in 1690, but did 10i
plode. On trial yesterday the powder was found to retail' ,41
structive force, and the shell is nearly the size of a roets
Litnerich Chronicle, Tuly 12.