The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-03 00:00:00

AND ,POZIC-D.

The celebrated Running Rein Case was commenced in the
Court of Exchequer before Baron Alderson. The utmost in-
terest was manifested by the sporting world in the proceed •
ing,a, and the Court was crowded to excess. The proceedings
occupied the whole of the day, but terminated at an early
hour this morning, by the jury returning a verdict for the
defendant, Colonel Peel, establishing the right of Orlando to
draw the stakes of the Derby.
The session of the Central Criminal Court commenced on
Monday at the Old Bailey. There are only eighty prisoners
for trial, but some of the charges are of a serious character.
In the Old Court, Christopher Watling, 53, a person holding
a subordinate situation in the Excise, was indicted for steal-
ing two ounces and a half of tobacco, value 6d., the property
of the London Dock Company. The jury returned a verdict
of Guilty, and the prisoner was ordered to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for twelve months.
John Salteill, alias John Alfred de Salteill, aged 22, de-
scribed as a glass-merchant, was indicted at the same Court
for feloniously marrying, on the 18th May, 1843, one Jane
Harris, and that on the 16th May he married, at the church
of West llam, Harriet Bates Dayison, his first wife, Jane,
being then and now living. A peculiar feature of the case
was, that the first wife knew that the man was going to
marry the second woman, and the second wife knew that he
had been married before. It seemed to be a quiet arrange-
ment between all three of them. The prisoner was sen-
tenced to one month's imprisonment.
The Middlesex sessions commenced on Monday in Hicks's
hall, Clerkenwell-green. The calendar contained the name:,
of 53 prisoners for trial, 17 of whom were indicted for felony,
awl 36 for assault and misdemeanours. The Court sat until
five o'clock, and disposed of a number of cases, few of which
were of any interest.
A savage fellow, named William Cressingham, a grocer in
Watling-street, was charged, at the Mansion-house, with
ill-treated
his brutally beaten, and otherwise abused and
his wife. He was required to find good bail.
John Leonard Bird, a young man, iu the service of Messrs.
Ward, Sturt, and Sharpe. of Wood-street, warehousemen, was
charged, at Guildhall, with robbing his employers to a con-
siderable extent. He was committed for trial.
A rather fine-looking woman, between thirty and forty
years of age, who gave her name Rosa Louisa Parry, was
charged at Queen-square with creating a disturbance, and
breaking a window, at the residence of Mark Blake, Esq.,
M.P. for Mayo county. Defendant, in answer to the charge,
said that she had been living for some years under the pro-
tection of a gentleman named Somers, who had recently de-
serted her, and whom she was very desirous of seeing. She
had no means whatever of supporting herself. She was told
that this was no reason why she should break another per-
son's windows. Having promised not to repeat the offence,
she was discharged.
John Cass, a gentleman's coachman, was sent to prison for
twenty-one days from Marlboreugh•street, for having as-
saulted a police-constable in the execution of his duty at the
opera on Saturday last.

C OVUM -1. ILSE XO7O AIMS.
The King of Saxony and suite were expected to arrive
in Edinburgh on Saturday, en route for the Highlands.
The Duchess of Gloucester honoured the Dowager Lady
Feveraham with her company at dinner, on Monday evening,
at her Ladyship's house in Arlington street. The following
were invited to meet her Royal Highness :—The Duke and
Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl and Countess of Dartmouth,
the Earl and Countess of Eldon, Lord and Lady Sherborne,
Mr. and Lady Caroline Duneombe, Colonel and Lady North,
Sir Edward -Disbrowe, Mr. Neville Grenville, Sir Frederick
Trench, and the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Glou-
cester.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensberry have arrived
at nuance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Scotland.
The Hon. Henry Elliot, son of the Earl of Minto, left town
on Saturday for St. Petersburgb, where he is appointed
attaché to the new ambassador, the Hon. J. A. D. Bloomfield.
A matrimonial alliance is said to be on the tapis between
Sir William Molesworth, Bart., of Pencarrow, late M.P. for
Cornwall, and the accomplished relict of a wealthy commoner.
The ceremony is expected to take place the week after next.
ZdISOMMLANEOZTS.
The proclamation of banns, the celebration within canoni-
cal hours, and the keeping of a register, will be the chief pro-
visions of the new Presbyterian Marriage Bill.
It is stated that Earl de Grey is to leave Dublin on the
13th of July, and that Lord Heytesbury is to arrive at the
Castle on the 16th.
The accounts from the hop districts of Kent are favourable ;
though complaints are heard here and there in many dis-
tricts, they are growing fast, and looking well.

THE EXHIBITION IN WESTMINSTER lllLL.—Mon-
day the exhibition of works of art contained in this edifice
was opened to the public on payment of one shilling each.
From an early hour until nearly dusk there was a continued
succession of visitors, among whom were many of the aris-
tocracy. The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Hall alone
during the morning, and spent some time in examining the
collection. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine
Villiers, Viscount Sandon, the Earl of Courtoun, and many
others of the nobility, were present at the same time ; and
during the day no less than 1,500 persons paid for admission
at the doors—a fact on which the Commissioners cannot fail
to congratulate themselves, evidencing as it does so great a
degree of interest in the exhibition on the part of the public.
LIVERPOOL MAIL TRAINS.—On and after Friday
next the London mail train, now leaving Lime-street at eight
o'clock in the evening, will leave at a quarter-past. The
object of this change, which is made by order of the Post-
master-General, is to accelerate the mail.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUL! I.—The Peninsular Com-
pany's steam-ship Montrose arrived in the Docksfrom Gibral-
tar this day, at half-past one o'clock, and landed the Penin-
sular and other mails, which ;were immediately dispatched
by a special train to London. The Montrose left Gibraltar
on the 23d of June, Cadiz 24th, Lisbon 26th, Vigo 27th.
lowing passengers :—Mr. Preaux, Mr. Crosby, Mr. Morgan,
Her cargo consists of fruit and Spanish hams, and the fol-
Mrs. and Miss Durnford, Mr. Fisher, Mr. liussi, Mr. Kerby,
Mr. Eller Mr. Edwards, Mr. I. Moody, Mr. Greeham, Mrs
Coster, Mrs. Waggernee, Mr. and Mrs. Jose V'd Margallero,
and Mrs. Broughton. Her Majesty's steamer Warspite,
Captain Wallis, and two foreign steamers were at Gibraltar ;
at Cadiz two French brigs of war; at Lisbon the French brig
of war Volage, a Prussian corvette, and the usual Portuguese
squadron. The Lady Mary Wood, Captain Cooper, will leave
for Alexandria on the 3d instant, and take out the India and
China mails. The Royal West India packet the Clyde will take
her departure to-morrow with the Mexican and West India
mails. A very fine ship, the Cairo, arrived in the Docks yes-
terday, from whence she will sail on the 3d instant with a
large number of emigrants for Canada, &c.
COLONIAL BANK.— Yesterday the Half-yearly
General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company
was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to
receive the report of the Corporation, and for the elec-
tion of new officers. Mr. Irving having taken the chair
the report was read, and a long discussion ensued upon
the propriety of its adoption. Several shareholders
complained of the expenses which the salaries to the
various agents and the Board of Directors entailed upon
the Company. Mr. Gurney, a proprietor, defended the
Board of Directors, and said that the salary they re-
ceived, namely, 1001. per annum, WAS a very moderate
sum to award to each member. With respect to the
agents' salaries he thought it was
essential that they
should maintain a respectable status in the several lo-
calities where they were stationed. A very stormy dis-
cussion ensued with respect to the adoption of the re-
port, which eventually terminated by agreeing to the
Chairman's motion that it be adopted. A vote of thanks
was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting
separated.
A letter from Rome states that the Pope is about
to canonise the late Princess Borghese, the daughter of the
Earl of Shrewsbury, who died four years ago. She cannot,
however, be recognised as a saint until a century has elapsed
from the time of her death.
Macready, who has of late been playing at New
York to good houses, is expected to return home either at
the end of the present month, or early in August, after an ab-
sence of about twelve months.
DRIED STRAWBERRIES.---Last summer, by way of
experiment, when strawberries were plentiful, I attached
threads to their stalks, and hung up a few which were over-
ripe to dry. I placed them inside a window facing the south,
where they have remained from June last until the present
time (March 28). They have just been tasted, and the re-
sult is most satisfactory. That sweet refreshing acid which
is peculiar to the strawberry in full perfection ; the flavour of
the fruit, without any watery taste, is delicious; it dissolves
in the mouth as slowly as a lozenge, and it is infinitely
superior to the raisin, which so soon brings on a feeling of
satiety. The strawberry thus dried is a stomachic. The ex-
periment may be tried when the fruit is so ripe as to be
scarcely worth gathering, without any further expense or
trouble than being hung up.
A LONG FACT.—There is a manufacturer in Pud-
sey who has lately got an order for eight miles and a quarter
of cloth. He bas already executed a few miles of the order.
—Leeds Mercury.
RATS.—If they are troublesome, sprinkle un-
slacked lime in their holes and about where they congregate,
and they will depart without fail. This is more simple than
a trap.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, arrived at Buckingham Palace at twenty
minutes before twelve o'clock yesterday, in a carriage
and four, escorted by a party of Lancers, from Clare-
mont. _

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Alice were in the next carriage •
And the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting,
Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, and Major-
General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry to Prince Albert,
occupied another carriage and four.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received by the
Maids of Honour, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Earls of War-
wick and Morton, Lords in Waiting, the Marquis of
Granby, Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert, the Master
of the Household, the Hon. Captain Hood, Groom in
Waiting, and Colonels Buckley and Bouverie, Equerries
in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a Meeting of the Commission for pro-
moting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-build-
ing the Palace of Westminster.
The Commissioners present were Viscount Palmer-
ston, Lord Ashburton, Mr. Henry Gaily Knight, Mr.
Benjamin Hawes, Mr. George Vivian, Mr. Thomas
Wyse, Lord Mahon, and the Right Hon. T. B. Ma-.
caulay.
The Prince arrived at Gwydyr House shortly before
three o'clock.

The meet.irg broke up at six o'clock.
The Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Mar-
chioness of Douro as the Lady in Waiting on the
Queen. The Earl of Morton and Captain the Hon.
Alexander Nelson Hood have succeeded the Earl of
Warwick and Captain Meynell as the Lord and Groom
in Waiting to her Majesty.
Colonel Buckley has relieved Colonel Arbuthnot in
the duties of Equerry in Waiting to the Queen ; and
Colonel Bouverie hus relieved Major-General Sir Ed-
ward Bowater as the Equerry in Waiting to Prince
Albert. • _

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, at Cam-
bridge House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
the Nobleman and Gentleman's Catch Club with his
company at dinner yesterday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and the Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Italian
opera with their presence last evening.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign-
office. The Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Whamliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Earl of
Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and Lord Granville
Somerset. The Council sat an hour.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
meeting yesterday afternoon, at their office in Whitehall-
place. There were present, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Durham, the
Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop
of Ely, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff,
the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Rochester, the
Bishop of Worcester, the Earl of L'esborough, the Earl
of Harrowby, and the Dean of Westminster.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar. _

The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland had a dinner
party on Monday at her residence in Seymour-place.

THE SALADIN.

The following is a copy of the official documents re-
lating to the wreck of, and piracy on board, the barque
Saladin, the detailed particulars of which appeared a thy
or two since :

" Admiralty, July 1, 1844.
" Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to transmit to you, for the information
of the Committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's, the
accompanying copy of a letter and its inclosure from
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, relative to the wreck
of, and piracy on board, the barque Saladin.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) " JOHN BARROW.
" To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's."
(COPY.)
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Commissioners
I was informed by Mr. M. Tobin, the agent of Lloyd's
at this port, that the barque Saladin, bound to London
from Valparaiso, had been run on shore and wrecked,
near Country Harbour, on this coast, under circum-
stances that gave strong grounds for suspicion that an
act of piracy had been committed, and, in the course of
the day, I was applied to by the Marshal of the Vice-
Admiralty Court to afford him assistance in securing the
property and apprehending the crew.
"I accordingly directed Lieutenant Bulman to receive
the Marshal's deputy, and the agent for Lloyd's, on
board the Fair Rosamond, and proceed to Country Har-
bour for that purpose. I inclose the report of his pro-
ceedings.
" Upon the examination of the prisoners (six in num-
ber) it was quite apparent that there were the strongest
grounds for suspicion, and they have all since confessed
that it was at the instigation of a man named Fielding,
who was formerly master of a ship, which had been
seized at Valparaiso, and who was a passenger on board.
The master, two mates, and three others of the crew
were murdered. That Fielding and his son, a boy of 15,
were afterwards put to death, in consequence of an
attempt on his part to get rid of two men, who had been
the principal actors in the murder of the master and
others ; and that the ship was run on shore as already
mentioned.

" It it intended to admit two of the six men who were
not at all engaged in the murder of the master and the
crew as witnesses, and bring the other prisoners to trial
here. I have, &c.,
(Signed) " CHARLES ADAM,
Vice-Adrairal and Commander-in Chief.
"To Hon. Sidney Herbert, &c., &c., M.P."
(copy.)

"11. M. schooner Fair Rosamond, Halifax, June 3.
" Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that, in
obedience to your orders, I sailed from Halifax on the
morning of the 28th ult. Calms and fog obliged me to
anchor off the Thrum Cap buoy on the 29th. At 1
A.M., a breeze from the northward springing up, I
immediately weighed, and at 8 P.M., reached Cape St.
Mary, where I hove to, and the next morning, anchored
at Harbour Island, it blowing then very hard at
N.W. In the afternoon, the weather moderating,
I dispatched the boat under the orders of Mr.
F. Willis, with the Deputy Marshal of the Vice-Admi-
ralty Court, and the Hon. Mr. Tobin, Lloyd's agent, to
Mr. Archibald, the magistrate in Country Harbour, a
distance of twenty miles, where the specie and crew of
the vessel were. On the following morning they re-
turned, bringing the treasure and six sailors of the Sala-
din. I visited the wreck. She appears to be about 250
tons, and by the bills of lading found, had a cargo
composed of 80 tons of copper in bars, 10,000 dollars,
and 13 bars of silver ; the remainder in guano ; the
latter is completely saturated with salt water, and
rendered useless as a manure. Of the treasure all has
been secured with the exception of 707 dollars.
and 461. 7s. 6d. British money. 740 bags of coffee have
been saved, and sent off to Halifax, and the remainder
(165) will, no doubt, be got out of the vessel as soon as
the guano is washed away. Scuttles hove been cut for
the purpose. All the furniture and rigging are also
landed. She is only a stone's throw from the beach. On
Saturday, the Ist instant, when the weather cleared up,
I weighed anchor and sailed for this port, and now beg
to report my arrival. I have, &c.
(Signed) " A. G. BULMAN.
" Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief."

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—In consequence of the indispo-
sition of Mr. Justice Erskine, Mr. Sergeant Atcherley has
been appointed to go the Oxford Circuit along with Lord
Chief Justice Tindal.

STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Tuesday last the
workmen employed in erecting a new gallery in Harbo-
rough church, on making an opening in the massive
stone wall on the south side of the nave, to support the
beam of the gallery, discovered in the very centre of the
wall a pigeon's egg, quite entire. How it could have got
there is a matter not easily to be accounted for ; and, as
that portion of the fabric does not appear to have been
disturbed since its erection many centuries ago, it pro-
bably was deposited there at that period, and has, by
being thus carefully excluded from the atmosphere, been
preserved uninjured through so many generations.—
Northampton Herald.
PUBLIC PARKS.--A meeting, to be held on the Bth
of August, has been called by the mayor, on a requisition
most respectably signed, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of establishing " public parks, walks, and play-
grounds," in the neighbourhood of this populous town. We
have already expressed our opinion, that some provision for
the recreation of the labouring classes is most urgently de-
manded by considerations, not only of philanthropy, but also
of mere policy. Crime can neier be so effectually restrained
as by provi ling innocent employment for the hours of re-
creation ; and surely there is no manner in which the opera-
tive, who is confined for so many hours in a close atmosphere,
can so rationally spend his leisure time as in taking exercise
in the open air. We rejoice, therefore, to see that the atten-
tion of some of our leading townsmen has at length been
called to the subject ; and we fervently hope that the meet-
ing may lead to some good practical result.—Manchester
Guardian. _ _

STORM AT LYONS.—Lyons and its environs were
visited in the night of the 24th by a storm of extraordinary
violence ; the rain fell in torrents, and the hail was so large,
that in several houses nearly all the windows were broken.
In and near the Palace Louis XVIII. several trees were
broken, and more than 300 birds, which were killed by the
hail, were found on the ground the next morning. In the
Faubourg of the Croix Sousse the damage was very great,
and some buildings are said to have been destroyed by the
wind and rain. Many of the crops near Lyons are entirely
ruined.

INCENDIARISM.—We hear that there are nine pri-
soners at our gaol on charges of arson, and one for
sending threatening letters ; at Ipswich gaol ten for
arson, and two for sending threatening letters ; at Bee-
des House of Correction four prisoners for arson, and
one for threatening to burn, waiting for trial at the next
assizes. The following persons have been committed
during the week for trial at the Cambridge Assizes, on
charges of arson—viz., Robert Murrell, John Robinson,
Samuel Baker, Joseph 1)orrall, and George Fairhead, by
J. S. Tharp and J. I)obede, Esqrs., charged with having,
on the 14th instant, at Snailwell, set fire to a haulm rick,
the property of James Gittus. These men are railway
labourers, and strangers to the county. William Fuller
and Robert Munson, of Burwell, labourers, by the same
magistrates, charged with having, on the Bth instant, at
Burwell, set fire to a stack of straw, the property of
Charles Phillips, Gent.—Bury Post.
A field of rye was cut at Marsons Lafitte, in the
neighbourhood of Paris, on Tuesday last. The Paris papers
say that there is no instance as() early a harvest fur upwards
of 25 years.