The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-28 00:00:00

with Hospital, and not, as has. been sr-- '
of the Admiralty. All ' Ithe Lords
SUMMARY OF NEWSI. the patrons.- a_avincrs.'ill-a7tuv°ere formerly
or the la—ta-t EarCof Derwentwater, are
gift of the Cotan:iissloners of Greenwich Hospital;
in it.
tad navy chaplains are eligible to hold then".
Lord Petre has distributed a quantity of beef attiring
the poor of Ingatestone and In grave, Essex.
The Lord tishop of the Isle of Man held a confirma-
tion is, St. .Mary's Chapel, Castletown, on Sunday week.
and preached in the evening. His Lordship also visited
the national schools morning and afternoon; addressed
the teachers of the Sunday-school, and visited the gaol
of Castle Rtishen, from two to three o'clock.
The building well known as Bonner's-hall, an ir.te-
resting object of architectural antiquity at the east end
of the metropolis, the materials of la hich were sold on
Monday last, is nearly levelled with the ground. A
road 60 feet broad has bean marked out from opposite
the Greyhovnd Tavern, Old Ford-lane, to the Regent's
Canal, across the fields known as Bonner's Fields, which
will form the chief entrance, to be surrounded by villas
of an improved and uniform order of architecture.
From hence the commencement of the park will be by a
handsome iron suspension bridge across the canal.
The sixth and last of the first series of musical soirees
given by the Society of British Musicians during the
present season occurred last night. The attendance was
more crowded than on any previous occasion.
The subscription for Tollington Park new Church,
Hornsey, rapidly increases. The Metropolis Church
Fund have given 1,0001., and, amongst a long list of con-
tributions, are the Rev. Mr. Venn 2001., Captain Parry
301., Thomas Dickinson, Esq., 211., Messrs. Bedgood and
Johnson 101 10s. each, H. F. Richardson, Esq. 101. 10s.,
Lord Northampton (per Mr. H. F. Richardson, 501, &c.

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rentizacEsr.
On Tuesday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received Generals Schneider and
Llelet, the Marquis de Radpont, the Counts de St. Priest,
„katolet, do Montesquiou, and do Grave, the Viscount de
...44-njuinais, the Baron de Vanden], and MM. Raguet
Fvuld, and Lebrun.
Cunin Gridaine, wife of the Minister of Com-
received a sprain a few days ago, which will
qblige.her to remain in an incumbent posture for some

The Minister of the Marine has just decreed a gold
medal to Captain Chausse, as a reward for his conduct in
April last, when in command 'of Le Cygne, in the port of
Aux Cayes (Hayti), at the time of the invasion of that
Piaoe by the revolted negroes of the interior, and on
Which occasion he gave refuge on• borrd his vessel to
450 women and children, who took refuge from the ex-
esses of the infuriated negroes.
We read in the Constitutionnel—" The Prince de
4oinville, it appears, has not renounced the intention of
taking the Princess to H 3 lees, for the benefit of the cli
; for it is said that apartments have been taken for
their Royal Highnesses, that furniture has been sent off,
*ad that they will take their departure for the island on
January %5."
akece of the Ahl4 de I'Er6e died on Saturday last in
1414tiopital Necker.
lir. David Salornons has arrived in Paris.
The Chamber of Commerce of Boulogne has addressed
a memorial to the Minister of Commerce, recommending
that the Government should reduce the charge now made
for Passports to foreign countries to that for passports to
till* interior of France, and also permit the mayors of
,owns to grant passports for foreign countries, as they
2if no those for the interior. Should this recommenda-
a he complied with, very great delay will be saved to
Prsons in the provinces, who cannot now obtain a pass-
Port for a foreign country without passing through many
"rolls formalities.
he Globe says:—" The negotiations between the
Cabinet of Vienna and the Porte, concerning a revision
af the existing treaties of commerce :and navigation, are
rag on very slowly, the Porte having constant recourse
b,subterfuges, and every expedient to delay bringing
l'aela2 to a conclusion. We have credible information,
lawever, eclat the new treaty of commerce between the
forte and Russia is concluded, and contains stipulations
ePr favourable to the last-named nation.
Y4our correspondent at Turin," says the Presse,
writes that on the 7th inst., about eighty men, gen-
darmes, forest-keepers, and officers of the Customs, in-
Ned the territory of Sardinia with warrants to arrest
Sardinians charged with coming and cutting wood in the
re'rett of the Chartreuse. Six or seven of these men
*e.;'B seized, bound, and carried by force to Grenoble, in
;The of the protests of the Sardinian authorities. The
Cabinet of Turin has sent remonstrances to the French
Government; against this violation of territory. The
Government has not yet received sufficient information
-enable it to give any answer. It is probable, neverthe
less,; that satisfactory explanations will be shortly given
44164:ying the conduct of the French authorities."
Colonel Kuggenbugler, one of the chiefs of the late
jan'!arrection at Lucerne, died a few days ago at Lena-
tilk!g, in the canton of Argau, ;of an illness arising from
" fatigue and privations which he sustained iu arriving
ft, the icene of conflict, and his subsequent grief at the
*, .e
of the outbreak.
,Letters from the frontiers of Catalonia of the 17th
"Jteember state that the cold was at that time more
Lev.ere in that province than has ever been remembered.
4,4 courier from Puycerda had not been able to pro-
tO with his dispatches, and the conductor of the mail
ad been obliged to leave it at Rivas on account of the
APth of the snow, and convey the letters on foot. A
ter from Vich of the 14th also states that the winter
l',now mare severe than can be remembered by the oldest
Ni in that part of the country. The thermometer was
Fahrenheit).
to 13 degrees of Reaumur (2.75 above zero of
lathrenheit).
A correspondent at Bologna writes, 14th inst. :
now has been falling incessantly for a week, and in
atich quantity that the streets are blocked up. Several
Intl; of houses have sunk under the weight, and some
livers in the neighbourhood have been swelled above
their banks."
1, The monument to the memory of Lucien Bonaparte,
Orince of Canino, intrusted to the chisel of the cele-
ted 3e_ulptor Pampaloni, of Florence, is nearly finished.
I
tie formed out of a block of the most beautiful and
Perfect white marble from the Monte Altissimo de Ser-
'avezza. It comprises eight figures in alto-relieve,
trouped with great harmony, and supporting an urn, in
hich the remains of the deceased are to be deposited.
Count Gonfalonieri, formerly chief of the Carbonari
In the Austrian S ates of Italy, who, after passing the
at years of his life as a prisoner in the fortress of
ielberg, was pardoned by the Emperor, is now living
~home, and, having entirely abandoned politics, passes
%,.._l5 time in a critical examination of the ancient monu-
, 'Mt& of the city.
tter from Rome states that the Pope gave audience
_t° he agents of several Belgian bankers, who have offered
to
furnish him immediately with a loan of a million and
half of Roman crowns (about seven millions and a half
feanca):
"We learn from Christina (Norway) that, on the 3d
-inst., a sharp shock of earthquake was felt in several
parts
housesof that province. The windows of most of the
were broken, the furniture was injured, and se
"era' slight buildings were thrown down. The shock
Rioted more than a minute and a half, and was accom-
-IPanied by a rumbling noise.
A Vienna letter of the 19th states that a Russian ship
tad recently captured on the coast of the Tscherkesses a
Turkish vessel, laden with English arms and ammunition
Tor the mountaineers of the Caucasus.
The Ring of Hanover, says a German journal, has or-
tiered that a monument similar to that of Queen Louisa
Prussia, and which will cost 200,000 dialers (760,000
e), shall be erected in honour of his late Queen, in
'rent of the Palace of Herrenhausen, near his capital.
f A remarkably fine Pyrenean dog, which has been sent
Pau to London, as a present to Queen Vi ctoria, has
Alt Passed through Paris. The animal is only nine
f%onths old, but stands about three feet four inches Eng-
k..ll. Ile is entirely white except the head, which is

COURSE OF EXCHAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 25 95
Hamburgh M.B. 13131
Altona l3 13A
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25
Frankfort on Maine l2l

GE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn .. 3O 50
Genoa
Milan
Venico .
Naples ..•
.
Palermo, t,e• oz 1155
Lisbon s3i
Oporto.. s3i
Rio Janeir•
Bahia 24
Buenos A y,
NewYoik.::-..dyssight
Philadtirbie
.11J LLION PER 07.
Foreign ili,A,bars...£3 17 9
Tortuga.: G•ld Coin 3 17 5
New Dl'u .... 0 0 0
New Diva 0 4 9t
Silver in 151. rs 0 4 11i

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7

Vienna, effee. fi.3 M 954
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 364

Cadiz

Bilbao 36

Barcelona 36

Seville —

A few days ago a youth aged 21, named Alex-
andre Richard, who is connected with some of the first
families in the Morbihan, but whose conduct has been
for some time exceedingly irregular, was tried by the
Court of Assizes of that department, for the murder of
a female named Pouty, who kept a shop at Vannes, and
with whom he had entertained intimate relations. The
victim was found in her bed, stabbed in twenty-one places,
and Richard was seen, according to the evidence of one of
the witnesses, leaving her house in the dead of the
night of the murder. It was shown that he was the
father of a child borne by the female, and there was rea-
son to believe that he was desirous of putting an end to
the connexion between them. It was also shown that
the murder could not have been committed by robbers,
as nothing was taken from the house. The evidence
was altogether circumstantial, but the jury found the
prisoner guilty, declaring, however, that the murder was
without premeditation. The sentence, therefore, was
only ten years' imprisonment with hard labour.
MALICIOUS AND MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.-,—On
Tuesday last some evil disposed person broke several
squares of glass in the house of Mr. Hullah, chemist, of
John-street, London-fields; and although the most
rigid inquiry took place, nothing satisfactory could be
learned. The attack being shortly afterwards re-
peated, information was forwarded to the police-station,
and Inspector Cooper dispatched several officers, who
were stationed in and about the house, and notwith-
standing their presence, large stones were hurled with
effect at the back windows, which command a view of
the brick-field adjacent to the canal. Every stratagem
which ingenuity and experience could devise was re-
sorted to by Sergeant Han kes, and Francis, 221, a
detective officer, but without success. On Christmas-
day the disgraceful annoyance recommenced, and about
two o'clock a joyous looking plum-pudding, which was
placed in the back kitchen to cool, was deeply indented
by stony missiles, safely lodged in its sides. Attention
was then especially directed to the rear of the house, and
instantly the attack upon the front was renewed with
vigour. The officers then made for the front, where they
found their lookers-out at their post, but heard no tidings
of the mysterious agent of destruction, when suddenly
a large earthenware pan, full of water, was dashed
into atoms at the back. Every effort to discover the
malicious gang continued to prove unavailing, and, in
consequence, Mr. Hullah is obliged to close his shep, to
preserve his large variegated colour-bottles, the destruc-
tiou of which, from the inflammable nature or their con-
tents, might be attended with serious consequences. An
opinion prevails that the stones are thrown from a sling,
or fired from a gun. The door-lamp, which was broken,
is removed. The aff ir is altogether" mysterious," and
admits of a variety of conjectures and interpretations, but
of the facts, verified by the police, there is no doubt.
FIRE AT A UNION WORKIIOUSIL—At a late hour
on Thursday night information was received at the
principal insurance-offices in the City of a very serious
fire having occurred on Tuesday morning at the Ban-
bury Union Workhouse, which was not sobdoed until
considerable damage was done to the building. The re-
port states, that at about a quarter to six o'clock on the
above-mentioned morning, one of the paupers was pass-
ing through the oakum-room with a lighted candle to
the master's bed-room, when, through some unfortunate
circumstance, she stumbled and fell to the ground, the
candle falling amongst some oakum which lay on the
floor, and which almost instantaneously became ignited.
The alarm was instantly given throughout the
establishment, and, as may be supposed, the most
prompt measures were adopted in order to check
the flames. The building is of great height, and the
apartments in which the fire originated was in the very
centre on the uppermost floor, immediately beneath a
cupola tower. The engines of the town, and those be-
longing to Neithrop, at the onset of the fire were sent
for, and quickly arrived ; but in the meanwhile the de-
structive element had made its way through the roof,
and fired the cupola, where the bells were kept, which,
being in the middle of the building, and contiguous to
the three wings, the utmost apprehensions were felt for
the safety of the house---in fact, its destruction at that
juncture appeared almost inevitable. In about half an
hour after the discovery the tower and bells fell in with
a loud crash ; and the flames were still raging with much
violence. The roof of the north-east wing caught flm
The persons in charge of the engines, however, acted with
considerable skill, and the fire being prevented from ex-
tending to the two other wings, all their exertions were
directed to the preservation of the north-east one ; and
the fire was at last got under, the wing having been
saved with the exception of the top part of the roof and
upper floor. There upwards of 300 paupers in the
house at the tint',, the scene that arose among them was
of a most distressing character. Nearly the whole of
then: being in bed and locked in their rooms, their
eicreams were piercing in the extreme, and many libe-
rated themselves by breaking open the doors, The first
object of the authorities on the alarm being given was
to remove the aged and infirm inmates to the more dis-
tant parts of the establishment, out of danger, which
was effected by carrying them in blankets. A special
court of guardians has been held respecting the fire,
and they are clearly of opinion that it arose from acci-
dent. The workhouse is insured in the Guardian Fire-
office for 4,5001.

SWAT AD POLIC3II.
k At the Mansion-house ad
man, named Benjamin Lam-
ueurn, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged by
the Directors of the Commercial and General Life Insur-
"ee Office with having forged a bill of exchange for the
kilLYlnen t of 150 L, with intent to defraud the Company.
e charge was clearly established and the prisoner was
...R
"ußlMitted for trial.
f A young man, named Robert Hewens, habited like a
$0w-street,
labourer, was brought before Mr. Jardine at
charged with having committed a violent and
.provoked assault upon Mr. Thomas Cave Wilkinson,
at Grapes, Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The pri%
'eer had entered the prosecutor's house and demanded a
Christmas-box, and on the prosecutor's refusal to comply
With his demand, he bad assaulted him. The prisoner
/11% committed for fourteen days.
'Richard Davis, a cab driver, charged at Clerken*ell
Pllth being drunk, and having assaulted Mr. Moses
,kees, his employer, of Bowling-green-lane, Cle,:kenwell,
has fined Si. or two months' imprisonment, rand his
li-
:Q,use was suspended for three months.
Thomas York was brought up in cwitody at Maryle-
e upon the following charge :—Qn the previous night
TPrisoner created a great distr.rbance at the Queen's
heatre, by singing, standing veon the seats, and dancing
14 a style which he denomituued the " Polka." He was
14 length ejected from the, honse, and he then violently
11.41aulted Bedford, one of the officers of the theatre, by
`triking him several tr..emendous blows upon the face. A
constable of the B dlyision was called on to assist, and
ter much trouble he (prisoner) was cons eyed to the
61:410n-house. The prisoner was fined 40s. ; in default
Payment one month's imprisonment.
rtAt the Thames Police-court Alexander Taylor, the
1",.1ef mate of the ship Brooksby, from Manilla, now
frig in the West India Docks, for assaulting Captain
ones rsetts Thomson, the commander of the same
t!!"1, Under very aggravated circumstances, was sen-
w7teed 'to pay a fine of Si. The defendant had quarreled
thethe steward of the ship, and was attempting tot
uCe lin], when the Captain interfered to separate
h."l, upon which defendant knocked him down with a

FIRES LAST NIGHT.—An alarming fire broke out
at a late hour last evening, upon the extensive ware.
houses belonging to Mr. Lewis Woolf, china dealer, 215,
Wapping High-street. The premises, which have a
spacious river frontage of about one hundred feet, are
situate a few yards below Ring Edward stairs, and, at
the time of the outbreak, were well stocked with goods,
the proprietor having shortly before housed a consider-
able quantity, which bad been brought up from the
potteries. The discovery of the fire was made by a lad
who was passing along the shore. He immediately gave
information, and, upon entering the warehouse, it was
discovered that three crates were burning rapidly, and
that the flames had reached the joists and girders of the
first floor, which was nearly burned through. The
engines from Wellclose-square, Jeffery-square, andother
stations of the brigade, quickly arrived, as did also the
West of England from the Waterloo-road, and the fire was
extinguished, but not before several feet of the flooring
in the central part of the kuilding were cut away, and
considerable damage done to the stock. Contents in-
sured in the Sun; building supposed to be covered by a
policy in the Globe fire-office. Just as the engines bad
returned from the above fire, information was received
by Mr. Brookland, of Jeffery-square, that another had
broken out in the cooperage and workshops in the occu-
pation of Mr. W. Beal, 1, Lower Chapman-street) Cote=
mercial-road. The fire was not extinguished, before a
considerable quantity of staves of hard wood were de-
stroyed, and the roof of the shed burned off, Cooperage
not insured 5 building, unknown. The origin of the fire
not accounted for.
TROTTING MATCH FOR FIVTIt POUNDS ASIDE.—
The trotting match between Mr. Vanderstein's pony
(The Wonder) and Mr. Griffin's pony (Merry Legs)
came off at the Rosemary Branch ground. The con-
testing distance was two miles in harness. Much betting
took place among the "sorting nobs," The Wonder
being the favourite at ti to 4. The horses, harnessed to
match carts were driven up to the starting mark, and
immediately commenced the race, Wonder Asking the
lead. One mile was completed in three minutes and
fourteen seconds. The horses kept nearly together
during the whole of the distance, tied trotted in very ad-
mirable style. On the approach to the winning goal
they struggled for victory, when finally the race ter-
minated by Merry Legs coming in the winner by two
lengths, after one of the finest trotting races ever wit-
nessed. From the great celebrity of the ponies as first-
rate trotters, and the sporting notoriety of their owners,
much interest was manifested, and large sums of money
changed hands.

b COMM— FASIZIONA2I3.II.
t Excellency Baron Brunnow left town on Thursday
orjyra3
ten Manor, on a visit to Sir R. Peel.
fo"32l:_en Palochay arrived yesterday at Miyart's Hotel,
liungary.
ti,„„adY Dorer and the Hon. Misses Agar Ellis have ar-
'ut 01x a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland,
litTre:itham Hall, Staffordshire, from the Earl of Bur-
pne., Hockar Hall, Lancashire.
lieAg,ord and Lady Francis Gordon left Farrance's Hotel,
grave-street, yesterday morning, for Dublin Castle.

111Z1110EZZIAMBOUNI.
•
4, circular has been issued from the Stamp office, to
the district distributors and sub-distributors directing a
I'duction in the charges for all blank forms for docu-
',ems to which stamps are attached, to take place from
std after the sth of January, 1845. These reductions
a,"111 he a source of great saving to professional and com-
trreial men. For parchment, such skins as are now
-4,rged at Bd., will henceforth be 6d. ; those at is. Bd.,
Al those at 25., Is. 6d.; those at 45., 3s. 2d. ; and the
er3 in proportion. For paper, folio post is reduced
°IA 2s. to Is. F 6d., and Is. according to quality, demy aer from 2d. to Id. per sheet ; and bonds, bills of
lie& marriage licenses, transfers, and protests, from
A to. id. and id. per sheet.
~_lPotig the costly presents st by the Emperor. of
.1414 to Sir Robert and Lady Feel was a superb chins
anS . •
NPlece of Siberian jasper.
gu,, less than sixteen couples were united " for weal
wo in Colchester, on Wednesday last, the 25th inst.
sae of Society for relieving Destitution has. placed the
geThof 1001. with each of the resident incumbents of
itelienfl-Frcen parish during this inclement season.
potato °I a very extensive nature in coals, bread, and
tfi,t
the e s, and a seasonable donation of blankets, was
q!nited for Christmas, throughout the whole of
irtrict.
the st
Rectory of G reystead, Northumberland, vacant
ve
re death of the Rev. George Rennell, is one of the
in th"t'riQa which were created by Act of Parliament,
burti: Sear 1811, when the extensive parish of Simon-
/.)._04 the confiscated estates of the unfortunate Earl
thteZ.,entwater was divided. Previous to the division
who elritual cure was forty miles in length. Clergymen
eligible been chaplains in the Royal Navy are only
of th„._te' bepresented to these rectories, and the whole
are in the gift of the Commissioners of Green-

THE SUCCESSOR TO SIR CHARLES ADAM.--ViCE-
Admiral Sir Francis William Austen, K.C.8., is ap-
pointed to succeed Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam,
K.C.8., as commander in chief of the North American
and \Vest Indian station. Sir F. Austen's date of enter-
ing the navy is 1786, and he became a post-captain in
1800, to which rank he attained while in command of
the Peterel sloop of war, for performing many gallant
exploits in the Mediterranean in the year preceding, and
particularly for the capture of La Ligurienne from under
a battery near Marseilles. He subsequently commanded
the Canopus at St. Domingo. The gallant commander
in chief hoists his flag'in the Vindictive, 50; frigate. -
Portsmouth.