The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-01 00:00:00

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GRATIS.

Mr. Benjamin Dodd deposed that he was a colliery viewer, and
had examined the rope. It was in a very bad state, and appeare
to have been in use a long timt. The ro,,e was a four-strande
one, two strands joined in some places, and in others three strands
In several parts the stitching was gone altogether. It often hap-
pened that ropes were worn on the edges, but seldom on the free
as that was. Wimess would not allow any men of his to go dawn
upou such a rope. Considered that it must have been in a dan-
gerous state for some time past.

George Hall, foreman to Messrs. Terret and Sou, gave similar
testimony. They very often had better rope brought into their yard
as old junk.

The jury returned a verdict of" Accidental death, with a deodaad
of 1001. on the rope."

ROBBERY BY SERVANTS.
TO 7HE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- .
Sin,—ln your report of the trial of Ann Craft, you repre-
sent the Its corder, in his summing up to the jury, to have
add, eased them in these terms :—" The principal matter for
the jury to inquire jut would be, whether the articles were
taken with a felonious intention, or whether they were not lather
abstracted because they were of no use to the jimily." This is
a very serious ipso Alit of the Recorder. Is a servant to be
at liberty to appropriate to herself with impunity such cloth-
ing of the master, mistress, or children, that she may deem
unlit for further use? I have heard of masters and mis-
tresss giving worn garments to their servants, but tl:is is the
first -time I ever heard of servants being allowed to take them
without leave or license, and such taking not being deemed
thieving. This dictum of the Recorder is a most serious one
Er families, and it ought to be either satisfactorily supported
as a legal decision, or it ought to be most clearly re;:,;
I am, Sir, yours &c.,
A :FATIIER OF A FA All
Ilfracombe, Oct. 29, 1845.

HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS.—It IS now the Gth
day of October, and we have the authority of many respect-
able physicians for believing that there has not been a real
genuine case of yellow fever in the city this season. It i 3
now rendered nearly certain that we shall not have any.
The weather has been rainy, cold, and disagreeable for two
or three days, but yesterday it cleared off, leaving tie at-
mosphere delightfally cool and bracing. The city is believed
to be perfectly healthy, with the exception of f light colds,
and perhaps an occasional instance of ordinary fever. Ab-
sentee;, whether acclimated or not, may hurry home as fast
as thee wish. The business season is opening under very fa-
vourable prospects. The number of buildings erected during
the summer and still going on is unusually great; and yet,
judging from appearances, the new dwelling-houses and
stores will not supply the demand. Strangers are beginning
to rush into the city, so that we anticipate a lively winter.—
Tropic, Oct. 6.
THE PROVISION MARKET.—In the list of itriportS
of a single week into two of the secondary ports of Great
Britain, we find the following edumeration, which certainly
shows no want of food for either man or quadruped :
Bt istol Presentment.—ht the Otto Ferdinand, from Dantzic,
W. Player, 1,300 quarters of wheat.—ln the Yerkshire, from
Quebec, 2 barrels of wheat flour.—ln the Ayrihire, from
ditto. 1,000 barrels of flour.—ln the Margaret, from St. Kitt's,
5 casks of pickles, 1,000 cocoa nuts, tamarinds, kc.—ln
the Sabrina, from Cork, 6 boxes of eggs; 48 barrels of
white and 23 of black oats, 10 bales of bacon ; 150 barrels
of black oats; 25 bags of coarse flour; 10 firkins of butter;
1 cask of fiams ; 22 bales of bacon ; 4 boxes of eggs ; 60 bar-
rels of black oats; 6 boxes of eggs; 1 chest of poultry ;
1 cask of honey ; 4 cases of eggs; 150 sacks of oats ; 20 sacks
of oatmeal ; 1 cask of whisky ; 15 casks of porter; 2 casks of
lard ; 42 boxes of eggs and fish ' • 30 head of cattle; 112 pigs.
—ln the Osprey, from Waterford, 80 barrels of black oats ; 10
sacks of barley ; 19 chests of poultry ; 20 firkins of butter ; 29
chests and 3 cases of poultry ; 1 crib of live ditto ; 1 hampers
and 1 case of wine ; 420 sacks of oats • 125 bales of bacon ;
casks of lard ; 90 pigs.—ln the Shamrock, from Dublin, 50
hogsheads, 10 barrels, 150 kilderkins of Guinness and Co.'s
extra stout; 7 casks of bottled wine; 33 sacks of malt; 33
sacks of meal ; 4 casks of whisky ; 3 barrels of ale ; likewise
pigs.—In the Friends, from Dungarvan, 80 pigs.--Li
the Heroine, from Dung: roan, 200 pigs.—ln the John and
Mary, from Dungarvan, 120 pigs —ln the Nora Creina, from
Waterford, 50 sacks of black oats; 25 packs of poultry; 1
crib of live ditto; 50 firkins of butter; 19 chests of poultry;
20 firkins of butter; 85 bales of bacon; 1 case of eggs; 6
hogsheads and 1 firkin of porter; 59 pigs.—ln the lonia,
from Youghal, 75'pigs.—In the Kate, from Cork, 200 firkins
of butter; 128 barrels and 132 sacks of oats; 50 firkins of
butter.—ln the Landshipping, from Waterford, 900 barrels
of oats, 40 sacks of barley. But we have not room suffi-
cient to enumerate the whole. Let us then take Liverpool:
—From the north and south of Europe the import consists
of 3,202 quarters of wheat and 600 quarters of beans; and
from Canada and the United States of 463 quarters of wheat
and 5,084 barrels of flour.—Hereford Journal.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL BREDIN.—We re-
gret to record the death of Major-General Andrew Bredin, of the
Royal Artillery, which took place on Wednesday last at liis resi-
dence, at Fox hill, Plumpstead.common. The deceased officer,
who was in the 74th year of his age, received his commission as
lieutenant on the 9th September, 1794; captain, 6th July, 1798 ;
brevet major, 25th July, 1810; regimental major, 12th June,
1813 ; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 17th Oct, 1823 ; regimental
colonel, 28th July, 1834; and major-general, 23d Nov.. 1841.
Previous to joining the Royal Regiment of Artillery he beta,. gtd
to the Royal Irish Artillery, and joined the service from that bet.
gade. His services are stated to be as follows :—He was at the
capture of Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia, under Sir lia'ph
Abercrombie, and also served in the Peninsula. He retired from
the corps on attaining the rank of major.general. His body will
be interred to-day (Saturday) with military honours.
FALL DOWN A PIT SHAFT.—An inquest v,LIF, pc 1,1
on Tuesday, at Low Meorsley, on the-body of John Brown, ag. d
28 years; a hewer in the North Hetton colliery, who, having on
the day previous descended the pit as far as the main coal seam,
was about to make a signal for the breaksman to lower the cage
further down the shaft, when he slipped and fell to the bottom, a
depth of about forty-fathoms.- He fell into the water at the bottom
of the shaft, and it was obliged to be pumped out before deceased's
body could be recovered ; he was quite dead when found. Ver-
dict, " Accidental death."—Durham Advertiser.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Lieut.-Col. Gore Brown., has
relieved Lieut.-Col. Scott in command of the Athlone district, Ire-
land. Col. Scott has held the command since Octob-r, 1840.
Capt. Mee and Major Lock's companies of Royal Artille. y are
shortly expected to arrive at Woolwich from Halifax and New
Brunswick. They embarked from Canada on the 6th of October,
in the Baretto, Jun., transport ship.

SINGULAR AFFAIR.—it wes recently stated that a
Mr. Smith, the proprietor of a house called the Hope, in Black-
moor-street, Drury-lane, had found a number of coins and papers,
written and printed, relating to the rising in 1745, and which were
alleged to have been found in a picture of Jack Sheppard and his
mother, Mr. SMith having purchased them of Mr. Coole, an auc-
tioneer, at a sale at the Bell, Willesden. Mr. Smith, having sold
the paintings, made arrangements to send the papers to the Mu-
seum. On Thursday a respectable, middle. aged man, accompanied
by two gentlemen, called upon the landlord, and desired to see the
paintings, which being shown to him, he immediately declared
them io be his property, asserting that he knew of the existence of
the papers, they having bean with I& family upwards of seventy
years ; that he had left them in the care of his brother-in-law, the
proprietor of the Bell, Willesden, about four years since, he having
obtained a situation in the Custom.house, Dublin; that, upon
his return to London a short time back, he cou!d learn no
tidings of his brother or his property until he accidentally saw
the paragraph in the papers. This statement being corroborated
by his two companions, he demanded the paintings to be
given up to him. This Mr. Smith refused to do, he having sold
them to Mr. C. H. Merivale for 97 guineas; it was ultimately
arranged to send for Mr. Merivale, when the latter declared him-
self so satisfied with Mr. Burdwell's statement, that he consented
to give up the property. Mr. Smith immediately expressed his
willingness to do so with the paintings, but the papers had never
been sold, and he should not part with them. The conduct of
Burdwel here became very violent; he declared the documents
were invaluable; that there were several letters among►t them
written by the Pretender with the pen he wrote with the night
before the battle of Culloden, and many other articles not pub-
lished in the pa-.ers ; ultimately Mr. Smith was compelled to call in
the police, and have him removed. Yesterday evening Mr. Smith
was served with legal proceedings by Mr. Burdwell's solicitor,
and as Mr. Smith purposes resisting the claim, Jack Sheppard and
the Pretender, after a rest of a hundred years, will figure in a
court of justice.

'THE GAME-LAWS.—Numbers of gnmPlcef.Ters,
when they inform, look more to the pelf they may get (in the way
of half penalty) than a duty towards their employers. Many
have been heard to say, when they knew a person could pay, that
he would pay rather than go to gaol ; meaning, therapy, they
should pocket by the information. Again, when a small penalty
has been inflicted, in cases where the penalty and costs have Lean
paid, the keepers have growled because they only got so little, and
that it was "but poor encouragement to inform." These are
well known truths, and show that the iniquitous game-laws are a
premium to perjury, for who doubts that many keepers over-rate
facts in order to obtain a conviction, and something of
penalties.—( Front a Correspondent).
IHE HARVEST IN SOUTH PRUSSIA.—A letter
from Posen informs Its, that although the favourable prospects of the
early part of the year had not beets fulfilled, the harvest there may
still be considered on the whole as pretty good, there not only being;
a sufficiency of corn housed for home use, but also a consideralkie
surplus for exportation. The letter says:—" S, ring corn has n‘,t
turned out so well as was anticipated, and we shall have only enough
for our own wants. The deficiency, however, so far as cen,rfiS

oats, will in a great measure be replaced by the universAlly ride
bay-crop. Oil seeds have everywhere failed. Of fruit, of all
there is the greatest abundance ; and we have cause to fe:.lr the
breaking ont of cholera or other diseases attendant on over-indul-
gence in fruit. In the neighbouring kingdom of Poland, the har-
vest is likewise about an average one, and, as here, the potato crop
is very satisthetory, although on wet and heavy soils there has been
a partial Milure The prices of cereals throughout this part of
Prussia are high, though nut excessively so."—iirtgsburg Gaceite.
The Duchess of Sutherland, and the Lath, s
Leve-
son Gower, after inching a brief stay at Trentham, will join the
Noble Dake and the Marquis of Stafford at Duurobln
whence they proceed, in company with the latter, to Itoscneath, on
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn.

PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.—The large nutrlwr of
Parliamentary notice,: requiring to be posted up on the dim, It do. pi
throughout the county, is chin.' profitable employment to
,
gentlemen. Such an array of documents and pi-climatical in :,:!:o'll-
- them to the doors of the village church on the Sabbath
quite a sensation among some o! our rural population, who, r,t
localities have seldom been invaded by those prafessionali,.--.lr,
Übserrer.

AT WALTON CASTLE, SOMERSETSElRE.—in-
telligence was received at Bristol on Sunday evening that an exteu-
sive fire was raging in the farmyard of Walton Castle, the le sideta,
of Mr. Crayburne, on the Somersetshire coast. Several el:elute, In
connexion with the lire insurance companies were immediately beee,,l
and dispatched to the spot, but the distance being considere:le they
did not arrive till about eleven o'clock at night, by which time rro-
perty to a considerable amount had been destroyed. The fro was
first discovered about half past four, cc from that to five eedeck,
among the ricks, with which the farmyard was thickly ereuded.
An alarm was promptly given, the servants and neighbours 24,4,!11-
bled, and all that could be dolle to arrest the progress of the flames
was done: The materials wet e, however, of too intlamutable
nature f a the Me to yield to any ordinary efforts for its supPro,' on,
and it spread from rick to rick. Fortunately the 'Wind was in at direction
which blew the flames andsparks off from the buildings,otherwi" the
result might have been tar more disastrous ; as It was, the devour-
ing element was not subdued until six valuable ricks - three of corn
and three of hay—had Leen completely destroyed. The
fire,
some, is supposed to have been the work of incendiaries, .his
Fuppesi ion is centrally believed to tic incorrect. The owner of the
property re fors the loss to a more probable, cause,---spontanteus
cenilmstion. The Walton Castle cstate belongs to •Mr. W. Miles,
M.l'., for West Somerset.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—By a _ arnen.ary
paper just issued, an account is given of all joint-stock ceetl,,,,k.
registered limier the Art 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110. It appears it et of
0-Amelia, existing. before September last there were 965, at..; eor
foreign operations. Of the total number 105 were railway coin.
panics. From the Ist of November to the 7th. of June last 355 were
provisionally registered, and 17 for foreign operations. Of the 355 ios
maw, as 252 were railway companies, and 11 others for foreign opera-
tions. Between the 9th and 30th of June 57 railways were rogL-
tered. For a provisional registration a fee of 51. is paid. After all
expenses, the Registrar-General had in hand a balanceof 1,2941.65. 2d.
It seems, fresh the amount of fees received, that flow the Ist of
Norember to the 31st of December, 5901. was received for provisional.
registration ; from the Ist of January to the 31st of March, 310:: ;
andor Istieo sat,
re l
ofgkgatiiltoonpe 7th of Juno, 7831. ; pk aiag a total
r
of 1,61)01. The return extenoo to 163
pales,