The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received•on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to
each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer
thandise:—
Week
ended

Name of Railway.

Total.
X. s. d.

May 11 Arbroath and Forfar
103 9 q
11 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,321 3 9
10 Birmingham and Gloucester 2,147 14 3
11 Brandling Junction 564 12 4
10 Chester and Birkenhead 547 17 4
14 Dublin and Kingstown 1,049 18 5
12 Dundee and Arbroath 234 1 6i
11 Durham and Sunderland 243 6 9
fl Edinburgh and Glasgow 2,412 15 11
12 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,371 15 1
11 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 2,064 5 10
11 Glasgow and Greenock B6B 18 8
11 Grand Junction 7,534 4 10
11 Great North of England 1,315 19 9
12 Great Western
10 Liverpool and Manchester
11 London and Birmingham
12 London and Blackwall 1,044 9 0
11 London and Brighton
14 London and Croydon
16 London and Greenwich 854 12 2
12 London and South Western .......
• 9 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 755 11 9
11 Manchester and Birmingham 3,144 3 6
11 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 5,766 5 3
11 Midland Counties • 2,582 12 2
11 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,383 4 7
12 Newcastle and North Shields 299 5 0
11 North Midland
10 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,272 12 0
7 Paris and Orleans 5,885 4 0
13 Paris and Rouen 6,145 0 0
16 Preston and Wyre 299 9 4
11 Sheffield and Manchester 612 15 8
16 South Eastern
11 Taff Vale
12 Ulster 531 1 2
4 Yarmouth and Norwich ....... ...... „.. 269 16 0
11 York and North Midland

SALE of MR. JEREMIAH HARMAN'S
COLLECTION OF PICTURES.

Messrs. Christie and Manson's auction rooms, were yester-
day literally thronged , with noblemen and gentlemen, at-
tracted by the sale of the very celebrated collection of! pic-
tures, late the property of Mr. Jeremiah Harman, de-
ceased. The Duke of Cleveland, Sir Robert Peel, Earl
Powys ; Lords Grosvenor, Hawarden, Radstock, and Nor-
manton •, the Duchess of Sutherland, and a large number
of other distinguished individuals, visited the rooms during
the morning.
The catalogue for the day enumerated only about 50
subjects, and the amount realised by this portion of the
collection—by far the least valuable—was 8,7711. ss. The
following were among the lots chiefly calling for remark.
The prices are in each case annexed, but, with few excep-
tions, the names attached are those of the dealers. who
purchased on commission :—Lot 8. Ecce Homo, by Correg •
gio, 82 gltineas, Stewart. Lot 10. A Palace on the Grand
Canal, by Canaletti, 105 guineas, Neueuhays. Lot 17. A
Dead Hare and Partridges, by Weenix, 91 guineas, Emery.
Lot 21. His Own Portrait, by Vandyck, 100 guineas, Ste-
venson. Lot 23. Portrait of a Jewish Rabbi seated, a cloak
thrown round llim, and a velvet cap on his head, formerly in
the Duke of Argyle's collection. This beautiful subject was,
after a sharp competition, secured by Mr. Farrer, of War-
dour-street, for 410 guineas. Lot 26. Portrait of a gentle-
man, by Vandyck, 63 guineas, Yates. Lot 27. A river
scene in Guelderland, by Van der Neer, excited much'inte-
rest, and was bought by Lord Normanton, for 325 guineas.
Lot 28. Portrait of Ann Carr Countess of Bedford,. by
Vandyck, 75 guineas, Morant. Lot 30. A Group of four
Cows, two of them standing and two of them lying down,
by Cuyp, realised 400 guineas, and was purchased by Mr.
Baker. Lot 34. His own Portrait, by Gerard Dou, 125
guineas, Mr. Seguier. Lot 36. A Virgin and Child, by
Rubens, 50 guineas, Mordant. Lot 37. The Morning Gun,
a sea piece, by W. Van de Velde, 198 guineas, Stewart.
Lot 38. The elevation of the Cross, the original de-
sign for the—altar-piece of the church of St. Walburge,
at Antwerp, by Rubens. This was the first public work of
the master after his return from Italy. After an animated
bidding, which lasted several minutes, this magnificent pic-
ture was purchased by Mr. Buchanan (for Mr. Halford, it
was said) for 750 guineas. Lot 30. Peasants watering their
Cattle at a Fountain, by John and Andrew Both, 162
guineas, Busland. Lot 40. A Dead Cock and other Birds,
by Weenix, 73 guineas, Ward. Lot 42. A View from
the shore, looking out to sea, while under the influence
of a strong breeze, accompanied with squalls of rain,
by Ludolph Backhyzen, 515 guineas, Farrar. Lot 43.
A. Flemish Village, by Teniers, 120 guineas, Buchanan.
Lot 45. A View in the Appenines, by Salvator Rosa, 570
guineas, ditto. Lot 46. La Queuronille a Ider, by Karl du
Jardin, 360 guinea?, Buchanan. Lot 47. Figures unloading
Merchandise from a Waggon, by Wouvermans, 250 gui-
neas, Neuenhuys. Lot 48. La Petit Canards, a sequestered
woody scene, by Jacob Ruysdael, 360 guineas, Busland.
Lot 49. A party of Gipsies assembled in a Cavern, by Te-.

niers, 131 guineas, Lloyd. Lot 50. A Hall of Cavaliers, at
a blacksmith's shop, which is formed in a rock, by Bergbenl,
220 guineas, Neuenhuys. Lot 51. The Virgin seated, itolu.
ing a book, with the infant on her knee, before whom St-
Franois is kneeling, 88 guineas, Morant. Lot 52. The
Ascension of the Virgin, a chalk drawing, for the high altar
of Antwerp cathedral, 200 guineas, Buchanan. Lot
_5.3;
The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, by Claude, 2t"
guineas, Lloyd. Lot 54. View of Rome from the Ponta
Molle, 310 guineas, Norton. Lot 55. Dover Harbour, with
vessels in a breeze, by R. Reinagle, 113 guineas, Wilkin-
son. Lot 56. Byron's Dream, the celebrated picture by
Eastlake, sold for 210 guineas ' • and the beautiful subject by ,
the same clever artist, so well known to all connoisseurs as
" A Roman Peasant with his Wife and Child," was purchased
for 265 guineas, by Mr. Pennell. The sale lasted from one
until nearly five o clock.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS,

(Prom the foga and Proceeding: of the House qj Com:nosh)
IPRIDAY, MAY 17.
CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.—(IN THE COMMITTEE')

Schedule :
Coffee of, and from Foreign Countries, the lb.
Duty proposed
Afterwards, Duty proposed
Motion made, and Question put, " That the Duty esiz
Coffee of and from Foreign Parts be, the lb. 4d." The Com-
mittee divided :

MINORITY—AYES, 28. •
Aldam, William Hawes, B. Roebuck, J. A.
Bannerman, A. Humphery, J.: Seale, Sir J.liclul
Barnard, E. G. Marsland H. Thornely. Thomas. •
Bowring, Dr. Mitcalfe, Henry •Villiers, Charles r
Bright, John Mitchell, T. A.
Brotherton, Joseph Morrison, James
Browne, W. O'Connell, Maurice
Busfeild, W. Philips, G. R. T
Christie, W. D. Warburton,
atinenriai :
Philips, Mark Ewart, Wiliam ~ii
Gibson, T. M. Phillpotts, John F. Ricardo, John
(hanger, T. C. Plumridge, Captain

MAJORITY—NOES, 79.
Antrobus, Edmund Forbes,William Miles 'William
Arbuthnott, Hugh Forman, T. Seaton Nicha :High ti ita
Arkwright, George Gasket!, J. M. Oswald, Alexand
Baird, William . Gladstone, W. E. Palmer, R.
Baring. F. T. Godson, Richard Peel, Sir Robat
Baring, T. Goulburn, Henry Pigot, D. R.
Bateson, Thomas Graham Sir J. Pusey, P. R.
Borthwick, Peter Grimsdit"ch, Thomas Ramsay, W. „no
Botfield, Beriah Halford, H. Rushbrooke, Cow*" ••
Boyd, John Hams,: E A. J. Sheppard, Thetas, •
Cardwell, Edward Henley, J. W. Smith, T. B. C__st„,
Cayley, E. S. Hinde, J. H. Smollett, Aleldw•••••r
Chapman, Aaron Hope, Charlie Somerset, Lord o'l'
Chttwode, Sir John Hope, G. W. , Stanley, Lord
Clayton, Rice R. Howard, P. H. Stewart, P. M. •
( live, E. B. Ingestre, Lord Stewart, John
Cripps, W. Inglis, Sir R. H.
Dalrymple, Captain Johnstone, Hope TSili'tetsoing
er, HenryF. )1:;ck
Darner Colonel Jones, Theobald 'French, Sir Frea•
Darby, George Kemble, Henry Vane, Lord FL i
i
Denison, E rt. Krattchbull, Sir E. Vivian. John Sit
Dickinson, F. H. Langston, J. H.' Welieiley, Lord..
Divett. E. Lincoln, Earl of Wood, Colonel 1'
Dundas, Hon. J. C. Lockhart, William .
East, James Buller BP Geachy, F. A. !Russ& _
Escott, Bickham M'Neill, Duncan Clerk, Sir Georg
Farnham, E. B. Marsham, Viscount Pringle, Aiello'.,
Flower, Sitjames Malik, Hon. Fox
Eg.)
STAMP DUTIES BILL.—(IN THE COMMITT-- ,

Schedule :
Third Paragraph (And where the same shall exceed the rati:
of twenty shillings per centum, and shall not exceed the rs
of thirty shillings per centum on the sum insured, one shillintii
Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " and she_all
exceed the rate of thirty shillings per eenturn:"—Qugipf
put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand Pe'•
the Schedule :" The Committee divided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 69.
Acland. Sir T. D Drummond, H. H. Marsham if iscoUo
Antrobus, Edmund buncombe, A. Martin, C. Wor
lit'
Bailey, Joseph, jun. Escott, Bichkam -Mundy, Ed.
ljaillie, Colonel H. Flower, Sir James Nicholl, J. ...
Baird, William Forbes, William O'Brien, A. 3. ..
Bankes, George Gardner, J. D. Peel, Hon. Sit ...
Beckett, William Gaskell, J. M. Plumptre, J. r•
Bentinck, Lord G Gladstone, - Captain Rashleigh, Web
Blackbunie, J. I. Gordon, Captain Shaw, F.
Bolder°, 'H. G. Goulburn, Henry . Sibthorp, Colonel
Boyd, John Graham, Sir James Smith, T. Ba , '
Brisco, Musgrave Greenall, Peter Sisuillett, A. a. •
Broadley, Henry Grim.ditch, Thomas Somerset, Lord '"
Bruce, Lord E. Grogan, Edward Stanley, Lord 4. .
Buckley, Edmund Hamilton, W. J. Sutton, Hon. 11
Burrell, Sir C. M. Henley, .1. Werner Thesiger. F.
Cardwell, Edward Hepburn, Sir T. B. Trotter., J.l
Clive, R. H. Hussey, Ambrose Vesey, Ishoinsi
Ccrry, Hon. Henry Johnstone, Hope Wortley, Jae. Tool,
Courtenat, Viscount Lincoln, Earl of Wortley. Hon.
"
Cripps, William Lockhart, William Young, John
tiarby, George M'Geachy, F. A. *rattails. p
Dickinson, FH. Mackenzie, W. F. Clerk, Sir Geor_ig`er
Douglas, Sir C. . M‘Neill, Duncan Pringle, Alexaw

MINORITY—NOES, 22.
&Mani, W. Martin, John
Maule, Hon Fax
Duncan, George Mitcalfe, Heenry Williams, W.
Elphinstone, Howard Morris, David Talbot.
Warburton,
_i
Ind... . r
... B.
... , ,
Brotherton, J.
Wyse, Thotase'
h.wart, W. O'Ferrall, R. M.
Granger,:Thomas C. Philips, M. Mug&
attbevf Hodgson. Richard Sandon, Lord Forger, M
Huhse, Joseph Scholeeld, Joshua Bowing, Dr.
Hutt, W. Stuart, Lord J.

CONFESSION OF A MURDER COQ"

MITTED NINE YEARS AGO.
(From the Essex Standard.)
A report having been circulated in Colchester that a eetir:.
of Polstead, at present in the East Indies, had been alto
hended for having committed a murder nine or ten to.
back, and for which an innocent man was hung, we
ascertained the following particulars : of
On Monday morning last, Sir Josh- R '
Bar.

tg tasL, Joshua ~owlet', —,,A;vek
Stoke-by-Nayland, received a communication from L't.
Dear, of the 21st Regiment of Fusiliers, stationed in the 1'87,8
Indies, with the copy of the Court of Inquiry on a e A
which has caused a great sensation in that regiment,•„o
short time back a young man of the name of Wl"' 0,1
Towns, a native of Polstead, whilst on guard, ineutitia
to one of his comrades that he was most miserable or
wretched, and was determined on committee suicide, a
else (pointing to a filo of guns which were piled toget,„,ll it
opposite them) he must shoot one of his officers, or NO"' t
, tha
some deed in order that he might be hung, and t
justice might be satisfied. His comrade advised Ini°,,,jot
get consolation from the minister of his persuasion ' ;pri
at this period of their conversation three other sld°l7,ii
came up and inquired what it was that preyed so bet' be
upon his mind. He then told them, that nine years ar;o
went out poaching in Hintlesham Wood; that he nuirdelit,
the gamekeeper; and that an innocent man was hung '
f°10:0
and he was present at the execution, with James Hill', ° rot
same regiment. He added, that he had not been able to
for some time ; and also stated that he saw both the 101:434
his dreams, and was haunted by their visions day and 11'
till death would be welcome to him in any shape. Air
A court of inquiry followed, and the, soldiers severullY.,;ot
posed to the confession of the prisoner, who made no atte; f,tl
to contradict them. Colonel Dear wrote for informatioics.
the subject to Sir Joshua Rowley, who placed the corall.irot
tion in the hands of his brother, Charles Rowley, Es'F' ° f tbe
Bergholt, as the murder was committed in the division uote,
county for which that gentleman is a most active rnegist
Thus—

" Murder may pass unpunished for a time,
But tardy Justice still o'ertakes the crime;
And oft a speedier pain the guilty feels :
The hue and cry of Heaven pursues him at his heelo9.
It appears that, about nine, years ago, the gamekeeP,ergoe
his assistant, in the service of Miss Lloyd, of Ilhitile.;bee
Hall, heard a party of poachers in the preserves, ap" ,ip tea
they got there, finding only three poachers, they att,e,li-eketi
to take them into custody; but they were violently aa'.." bst-
by the poachers, and Byant Green, the gamekeeper
barously murdered, his skull being literally dashed AA
by a blow struck with a gun, which was left behind. sod A
ward was offered for the discovery of the in ~,
urdere:r'wg
man of the name of. Chalker, ali reach polisher, ths
Ipswich, was apprehended on the charge. At his trio till'
gun was distinctly proved to have been his, as ire" hg
dog which accompanied the poachers, and it was,
°furt ki4
proved that he was seen in the neighbourhood, !lII' up
before the fatal affray took place. The evidence, I" „utali..
calculated to throw strong suspicion upon Chalker, wssirdotO
of a circumstantial character, and it was a matter 0 tea'
whether the Government of he day would allow his.e, see'
tion to take place. However, in accordance with 0.1 106
tence, the prisoner suffered the extreme penalty of te!,,tbo
at Ipswich, protesting his innocence of the murder f, 01
last, but acknowledging having been one of the Pll.l
poachers.
We are informed that Green, the keeper, left aWI 004
a large family, as was also the case with Chalker.

goiVertiSeir
MODESTY AND PIETY.—The following - lobe,
ment appears in a Manchester paper :—" To Draper's
,e
Warehousemen, &c.—Wanted, towards btfetiso`"
ence
end of April, by an eminently pious young man, of
regularlywsidheorahbasiybeexenperigebnreerdaltloy,tha:seiataboavtieenbrasanaschseiss,t;sccnietr::t
manager, salesman, or traveller. The advertiser is t!„,isbl!
four years of age, possessed of excellent health, sol'e"grel
disposition, good ability, extensive knowledge of tbei
Scriptural doctrines, strictly evangelical, and would ito, J
of immense advantage in assisting to advance the el°:
reign of the Messiah's kingdom, amidst all the ellievi
ecclesiastical opposition so prevalent amongst the 11;1,4 011
the earth in thestflatter agitating times. Testirooinistel-
,
references to several eminent evangelical dissenting La per
and members of the Gospel, as well as to the former ,tdevel
sent employers, of the most strict and satisfactorYatron sp-
as to character and ability, with portrait, may would „t•
plication. No objections to town or country, and
willing to conform to the rules of a liberal Church °r biros°
ing family, holding evangelical principles, and loa,„e0, prt
generally useful. A house favourable to evangeot'ung
byterian, or independent Church principles, alibr
efstd°"'
manent employment, and progressive advancement of
preferred."
~pn len°
A GOOD DAY'S WORK.—A legal 5- - t
eakfas 'tic>
on
Colchester left that town, after very early br lot
to
Wednesday morning, by the mail train for Wanvlsgtott
he reached by eleven o'clock, and went on to Leao;est
complete his business, where he had twenty mhrill'e goy'. „ja
view with the respected Dr. Marsh and his son, 11,ondoll,„'4
Tilson Marsh. Our traveller then returned t°
Coventry, and reached town by six o'clock r•3lgourg a° 0
kept three appointments during a stay of two late tea
half, returned to Colchester by the mail train to a 4 the dal
eleven o'clock, after which he finished the labours of to
by communicating through the same night's UP In'Jfe
,‘• ve?
friends at Leamington Warwick, and London, tine tr 0,0,„
val and the result of his journey. The distance'in Lont:00,
led in twenty hours, besides the pedestrian tour I 00_
was as follows :—From his house in Colchester_et°_.mto.Go!,
fifty-two miles ; Shoreditch to Euston-square,
.ItowL'esoortio,
ventry ninety-four; to Warwick (posting), to
eikur °Shall('
ton, two ; to Coventry, ten ; to London, ninety
ditch, four ;to Colchester, fifty-two ; three nu'" to
twenty-two. —Essex Standard.
dine 810°W
OFFICIAL CHANGE.—Sir Henry -ar vir ---
India as Governor-General, and Sir James W
GI to the •
pected the appointment, goes for the presen .
ill,
Punch. -
Accrnzivr.—On Monday last the
_rd Leig ,
Henry Leigh of Trinity College, son of t-,4o___lfp froni_,oo
Stoneleigh Abbey, near Leamington, was to_tf... esncusiro..
horse near Six-Mile Bottom, and received a severArst 0P ig
of the brain, from which serious results were
trended. We are, however, happy to learntisl;,aet „isu
toll "-
progressing towards recovery in a very sa
0'""
—Cambridge Chronicle. y A COO'S-cord',
DEATH FROM CONTAMINATION
at tio
poor woman named Owen, residing •
d to " la}} out
Colchester, was, a short time since, engage
entering foe'
corpse of a man for interment, and on
scratched her be roe
,of the deceased for that purpose, slightly
.to , duty, 5 - in'
with the latch. Having performed' the reqeeuta ue
_awful.? or
turned home, and shortly after her hand be is'id 'I of
flamed, which increased so much that macinetertbe weeks
tained. The fatal poison had, however, r_
for several Wee,
life, and, after lingering in great agony_. _
died a few days ago.—Essex Standard. StoOP!.,,
HARROROUGH...—AN UNCLAIMED_
Inn'
this
~170
person unknown, left a horse at the Angel ad,..,,rtisetld by
on April fair day, and although it has been 901 -
ntly it vir eor
person has come forth to own it, eonseg con ,i,uesor,
auction, by Mr. Foster, at twelve o'clock, I
guineas.

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