The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-20 00:00:00

ESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS
_ Preliminary surveys are now in course of progress
fur the purpose of ascertaining the best route for a
nevi street direct from Westminster to Pimlico, and
near to the. Great Western road, as the new line pro-
-I)°__sed by the Government surveyors does not appear
'4. satisfactory to the inhabitants as they could
being, in fact, only a slight modification
,of
.e
.line known some years since as Rigby Wason s.
Int% line starts from Abingdon-street, and takes a
aoutherly course up to the Vauxhall-bridge-road, so
ti ~
or ,"t, in fact, it really leaves all the notorious " slums
westminster quite unscathed. It is true to a certain
"tent that a pretty good clearance of worthless houses
:till be made in the neighbourhood of Palmer's Village,
6 which it is proposed that the new Government
It will
should pass; so far, perhaps, it may be well, as
4 4.;i1l enable the Commissioners to effect their so-
11d' improvements" at a trifing expense, when
, it'
'lnPared to the amount of capital required to perfect
141 new competing line, as now being surveyed.
it76rs• Chawner and Pennethorne,' the surveyors
tinithe Woods and Forests, have been for some
e Past eccupied very busily on this matter,
oeipally in ascertaining the Yalue of the pro-
tetrtY through which the line is to pass ; we say their
t, e, because as the Woods and Forests surveyors,
vie have a very prominent pia to play in it—buti
luta have they or the Commissioners thrown the n-
ve,anta of Westminster overboard, as if their con-
f' no
con-
fence were o
consequence, or as if the
"‘improvement of Westminster were not
j,„°_lBl,Y intended by the Government at all ?
id_ the line intended merely as an accommoda-
lin-road for Members of Parliament who happen to
he''' south of Vauxhal-bridge-road, for the especial
e(tclmodation of the fashionables of Eaton and Bel-
Pe-squares, or for the particular gratification of the
Reuis of Westminster, whose property in that di-
-111 already so enormously increased in value,
I,il, 1°
thebe rendered still more valuable ? 'Why are not
aid interests and wishes of the inhabitants con-
tiotered
, Are the " slums" of Westminster too re-
Acov.en' of filth and dust to receive the visits of the
are Vr°rs employed under the Woods and Forests, or
tri these gentlemen unaware of the mass of poverty,
and wretchedness, accumulated and ac-
terlulating on the property of the Dean and Chap-
The Builder.

1,440110111 t OE REFUGE IN THE FRITH OF Fo!LTH.--
to Understand that the proposal of a harbour of refuge
i rthe
1141, Shipping on the east coast of Scotland,to
,
`-e vicinity of Granton, has been for somne time
nuanrtdeerr.
It'enusideration ofmany influential parties i this
_q
favors able
we hear, has been rece:vedeninahtlehde, minosat
1-,,--4.,4°1e manner, and we hope to be .
11191-.7 snort time, to discuss it in its several bearmgos, as
4zibject is one of the very greatest importance.ntb the
wititeusercial classes and the public generally.—Edinburgh
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...tualsT
ant,ea MY SCHOOLS AT SHEFFIELD.—LOs whichrdWh
arei-iar-
l/
40 the first stone of the new school
'''',.,hurtcht° be erected in connexion with St. George's
Shekel' at the corner of Broad lane and Beet-street,
VC', on Thursday last.
abilities Understand that a fair English danseuse, whose
fenzlidmind personal attractions have rendered her a.
Zse•eia„e rival to the foreign artistes who are nowen
leh- - a' urury-lane, was not forthcoming on Saturday,
fair called upon to sustain her part. Report says that
rii,___o:e, with a gallant captain, has proceeded on a
Wu_a.F.. to Gretna.—Post.
P PROFESSION.—At the last meeting
of tb.,4
members of the Medical Protection Assembly,
, akley, M.P., moved, and it was carried undantoi-
.3-°4llY:—" That Dr. Jordan Lynch be requeste
cferi a correspondence immediately with the presidents
associations
throughoutsecies of the principal medical
the country, requesting to be informeetd..
-whether they are desirous that there should be a me
1,11,1! of medical delegates in London, and at what period
v3'oonsider that it would be most convenient or most
bileful for them to assemble." The object of the pro-
Posed meeting of delegates is to consider the propriety
f
Of taking some immediate and decisive steps with r
e
erence to Sir James Graham's Bill for the regulation of
szePcal practice.
a
LORD 13YRON'S MONUMENT.—
12. r Byron, excluded from the sacred
precinctsof Ken-
Th°rwldsen's statue
of West-
ninster, is about to be erected in the cemetery
641-green.—Literary Gazette.
HER MAJESTY'S BUCK-HOUNDS.--A field, con-
sisting of not more than forty or fifty
horsemen,
the nicet, on Monday morning, at B attended
reemhill-hut. A
beautiful stag, which went away in excellent style, upon
inguted on the waste, made for Chobham,
Meeterossing the Bagshot-road, near the Pelican, on to High
Meech and Sunninghill, when it doubled to the right
Mr.Forbes' plantations to Old Windsor-common,
.and thence to Blacknest. Here, for some time, the stag
was " mobbed" by the yokels of the neighbourhood, and
headed in every direction to the great annoyance of the
field. After doubling for Sunninghill and again back to
Nacknest, it was run into and killed close to the Wheat-
liilst af, at Virginia Water, after a run, from, first to last,
0 an hour and a half.
DRESSING WOUNDS AND ULCERS.—Dr. Langier's
hew method consists in applying on the surface of the
found or ulcer a solution of gum arabic, and on it a bit
goldbeater'a skin ; thus dressed, a wound an inch in
in diameter was reduced in the space of eight days to
one-third or one-sixth of an inch in extent. Cicatrisa-
lion took place so rapidly that the granulations, covered
!bith a thin epidermis, were as numerous and visible as
wound p ronefive, but.coald be touched without causing pain. .
uced A b
amputation of the breast, highly in-
flamed, abut four a half inches in length, and one r
and a half Ui breadth, under this treatment healed
a-
PidlY, anti
proposes applying
Purulent secretion did not take place. He
tat:on of the thigh.this method to a
mes.ound left by ampu-
Medical Tiw
of Tlae Earl of Dartmouth has presented a donation
-n guineas to the Birmingham Lying-in Hospital. l'hi e celebrated fox-hounds of Mr. Machell, of
I,o'l'o.Y-bridge, have run no fewer than thirteen foxes
14 season, ten of which they succeeded in capturing.
_. 44, LAD COMMITTED FOR MANSLAUGHTTAR.—A
uioronitehnLi
quest was held on Monday, before A. H.
:Igl-"' "r"cla at the Lamb and Cottage, on the body of
wet Pritchard, a lad, whose parentes reside at
instant' Richmond-terrace, Widcombe. On the 2d
is --nts as deceased and his brother George, who
colt:beout two years older, were quarrelling, in the
brothersOf the dispute, deceased threw a hatchet at his
earne hitting him with it upon his 'shoulder. He bed-
striii,!'ll., ged, seized an auger, and hurled it at decease.
penet-,Lnini on the inside of the, right thigh, which it
Wound' to the depth of an inch and a halt; and left
ha
wide. the surface of which was a quarter of an inc
diatel rofuse bleeding ens-aed, and the lad was Mate-
/V Y "liveYed to Mr. Lloyd's, surgeon, where the
was dressed.
ii„nuatolln.(einstna
The brother George was taken
-""Y lot the offence, and brought before the
RiStrates •
an con on tb,e 4th instant, but was discharged,.
biro. Per
,e.rtiN3 of his brother not appearing against
his woos -ne 6th instant, the sufferer was removed by
11,1,;eased byd
was d- -er to the United Hospital, when the wound
e
the house surgeon, who prescribed t
the is,a,,,l'Y me icine, and desired his mother to confine
Contrary to his bed, and not to bring him there again.
;4_4 the ilia
directions, however, the mother took her
hospital on the following Saturday, when she
`vim again desired to take him home and keep him in
brought °n
Sunda'', about two o'clock, the lad was
jawsh to the hospital for the third time, his neck and
of tin, "ing become stiff, and the usual symptoms
alkas or
o m
Gel , ock-jaw, beginning t anifest them-
. Deceased was then bled,
Egeeetting better
, till after seven o'clock, when his mouth
and appeared to be
..."1_ arne nearly closed, after which he was unable to take
'leoYrli.urishment. He remained in this state till Monday
rnpeet ing, about nine o'clock, when death ensued. A
the
inquest
examination being deemed necessary,
when tit w"
adjourned till Tuesday afternoon,
the ~„,,,
~ house surgeon gave it as his opinion that
Whicii-lihnaud Plrodd.
ezeadsles thigh had induced tetanus,
Coroner,
in custod L death. The brother, who was
Coroner, declined Y',..mtving been cautioned by the after about half antoluns
clict of "Manslaughter'''. sanY statement, 'and the jury,
deliberation, returned a vei-
l; acctrdingly committed against George Pritchard, who
tasste.......Bath Herald, to take his trial at the next
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL-GARDENS. On Monday the
:Itoyal Zoological-gardens received two boa constrictors,
~whaeinch wool. sent to this institution from Demerara in the
'%/l cairn, by the Edinburgh Auxiliary Zoological Society
there,,.or.dThese serpents are most beautiful specimens of their
t. able species. When they arrived they were quite
zeal but but the application of heat soon revived them, and
t noeoy are now very lively and active. Yesterday after-
n. n a South American tiger, brought by the Cherokee
ze Greenock, as a present to the same society, also ar-
rived at the as
It is a magnificent animal. At
Vie first sight it rnig7ht be taken for a ]
differ handsome
,eopard, but on nearer examination the ence from
that animal is evident and strikin
g. .Its spots are ar-
ranged in very marked squares and
bands, which have the
pearance of stripes ; hence we suppose it is called
842 after the tiger. It is the great jagguar of South
America, and is as fierce and powerful, and as much
feared in the fore of
4 that country, as the tiger
.in the jungles of Asia. It is a ver rare an in
o,:r collections. Too much praise cannot he bestoimalwed'
upon the cap:ain of the Cherokee for his care and at-
tention to the animal during its long voyage. Thanks
t(, him, it is in the finest health and
condition, and one
of the chief ornaments of the menagerie. These pre-
f.ientations are most seasonable, and cannot fail to excite
the frequenter:, of the gardens, not only admiration
for the spe inlet's, but a peculiar interest on account of
their generous donors.—Edinburgh IVitness.
DURHAM UNIVERSITY.—A Professorship of Ger-
man has been founded in this University, to which Herr
LOwenberg has been appointed.
THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DEATH,--
1 Mr.
Vakley and the jury re-assembled at Mr. Olney s, the
Silver Cup, Cromer-street, to further prosecute the in-
Wry respecting the death of Mr. Henry Williams, aged
thirty-eight, managing clerk to a solicitor, residing at
N°. 8, Constitution-row, Gray's Inn-road, whose death
Was occasioned by the point of some blunt instrument
being thrust into his left eye. After a long inquiry, the
Coroner cleared the court of strangers, and examined at
considerable length in private Inspector Barton and the
. various police-officers seriatim. The Court having been
• closed for above an hour, the jury broke up without any I
verdict being formally delivered, but it was understood
That they had made a general return, and that the
votoner h
T„ se ad clirccted the closest privacy, for the pur-
of seeing whether any party absconded, in
.shim
event, he stated, he would issue his warrant for thh
I.tyPrehension of the suspected person, and then reopee ,
eIll? inquiry. The deceased has left a widow and tight
lldreu,