The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

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The
Royal Family were all taken their usual airings to-din'.
The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Prince of Oldenbourg,
attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel
of the Castle. The Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and
the domestic household, also attended the service. The Hon.
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
t is Imperial Highnesss the Prince Peter of Oldenbourg
left the Castle soon after one o'clock for town, attended by
his Aide-de-Camp, Captain Muchanoff.
His Royal Highness Prince George arrived at his residence
in St. James's Palace on Saturday evening' from a visit to
her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Whitley Coitrt, Worces-
tershire.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-offite
'tom the Governor of Sierra Leone. • •

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 4 —Considerable disappointment is ex-
pressed in the political circles in Ireland at the total ab-
sence of all allusion either to the new Colleges Bill or
to the national system of education in the recent charge
of the Archbishop of Armagh.
Belfast will be selected for the site of the new Ulster
College.

O'donnor, the inspector of detective police in Dublin,
whose outrageous conduct has been frequently the sub-
ject of comment, has been dkanissed from his situation.
MIIRDER.—On Tuesday evening, the 30th ult., between
the hours of eight and nine o'clock, four fellows, all of
whom were armed with bludgeons, entered the house of
a man named Sheedy of Garranbeg, about seven miles
from Nenagh. Michael Hill, the victim in this case,
with others, was sitting round the fire at the time.
On the party entering they threw something on the fire
which completely darkened the house ; they then com-
menced belabouring unfortunate Hill till they left him,
as they conceived, dead. On the first blow being given,
the persons who were sitting round the fire ran away.
The deceased was afterwards removed to his own house,
which is next door to the oze in which he had been
beaten, and where he expired the following morning.
The cause assigned for this daring act is that the de-
ceased refused to allow his brother to marry a young
woman with whom an intimacy had existed.
On Thursday an inquest was held on the body by
James Carroll, Esq., Coroner. Joseph Tabuteau, Esq.,
S.M. ; Captain Pollock, R.M. ; and John Lewis, Esq.,
were present. There was but one witness examined,
who deposed to nothing more than what is narrated in
the preceding paragraph.
Edward Kitson, of Nenagh, Esq., M.D., made a post
mortem examination of the body of deceased, and found
the left side of the head completely smashed in, and the
left arm very much contused, and which must have
caused almost instantaneous death.
The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against
some persons at present unknown."
Four fellows were taken up on suspicion.
On the same day the steward of the Her. Mr. Butsen
was shot at Ballinasloe, and a poor car driver was mur-
dered in the county of Monaghan by three villains with
whom he had remonstrated fur insulting a female. This
was also on Tuesday.

FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE TREA-
SURY.—This morning about seven o'clock a most fearful oc-
currence took place at the works now going on at the Trea-
sury and the other Government offices. The men were just
about to commence their work at the top of the building,
which is sixty or seventy feet from the ground, when one of
the masons, named George Wildey, living at 51, St. George's-
road, Southwark, by some means slipped from the roof, and
fell with dreadful violence the whole height, being in his
fall struck with great force against the stupendous scaffold-
! ing which is erected all round the offices. He was picked up
and conveyed on a shutter to the Westminster Hospital,
where it was found he had expired as he was being taken.
Nearly all his ribs were broken, his left arm and leg, and
there appears to be considerable injury on the head. This is
the first accident of a serious character that has occurred at
these works.
YORK, SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 4.—The rain
has been falling in torrents for three days, with but little in-
termission. There has been another slip on the Scarborough
line ; fortunately it happened with a ballast train. Last
night's train could not get nearer to Scarborough than Mel-
ton. An engine that had been sent from Scarborough to
bring it forward got off the line, in consequence of some re-
pairs that were taking place, the men not being made aware
that an engine might be expected; consequently, the nine
o'clock train could not leave Scarborough this morning.
There was an immense number of passengers, and a great
deal of grumbling, in the station. One lady insisted that
she must go, for she had spent all her money in Scarborough
except what would merely pay her fare. One of the officials
administered consolation by telling her that it would be
better fur her to starve a while than get her neck broken.
A gentleman insisted on their going because his gig was
waiting for him at York. Another lady said that she had been
so long away from her babies, that they must take her to York.
The powers, however, were immoveable—the train could
nut start till twelve, and perhaps not even then. Among
the disappointed was Mr. Wilson, the vocalist, who, having
to sing in Ilarrogate this evening, immediately took a post-
chaise and left Scarborough. The train started at half-past
twelve, and took many passengers away; but the line is sadly
damaged by the rain, and the embankment,in many places,
washed away to such an extent as is anytlnng but pleasant
for passengers to look .upon. The country is all under
water from the excess of rain that has fallen. There is a
great deal of cons out yet, many fields of which are floating
in water. They are tardy in this quarter in their harvest
operations. A few days ago I saw a field of wheat dead
ripe, with two men and a boy only to reap it ! The scene at
blaiten last night was harassing in the extreme. The pas-
sengers had to sit in the carriage for two hours, the train not
being able to move, and at last they wended their way, as
well as they could, to Mallon, where accommodation was
anxiously sought after for the night. Everything that could
be done for the comfort of the passengers under the circum-
stances was zealously performed by the clerks and other offi-
cials at Mahon station. Such accidents, however, should
not happen.—From a Correspondent.
The Quarterly Accounts of the Revenue will
again be before the public on Saturday next, the 11th inst.
Of course the precise amounts cannot be known until the
returns are finally made up ; but we feel that we may fairly
anticipate a very large deficiency under the head of Cus-
toms as compared with the corresponding quarter of the
preceding year, owing to the extensive reduction in the
sugar duties, and the _other alterations in the tariff. In
addition to these causes of a deficiency in the quarterly
customs receipts, it should be borne in mind that in 1844
duties were paid on a,very large quantity of forsign corn,
amounting to about 460,000 quarters, while the quantity in
1845 is under 80,000 quarters. We shall be much surprised,
however, if the Excise returns do not exhibit a far ditferent
result, for information derived from various sources assures
us that this branch of the public revenue is steadily ad
vancing, notwithstanding the abolition of the glass and
auction duties, which together produced about .1,000,000/.
per annum. Should our information prove correct, as we
have little doubt it will, what gratifying evidence it will
afford of the improving condition of the country, of the in-
creased.employment, prosperity, and comforts of the people;
for on this point the consumption of excisable articles has
ever been deemed perhaps the surest test. On all the other
items of the public revenue we may safely anticipate a gene-
ral, though not very extensive improvement.—Observer.
LASCAR SEAMEN.—The Merchant Seamen's Act
passed last session, which obliges captains or owners of ves-
sels trading to and from the East Indies—who may take a
number of the natives or Lascars on board to navigate the
vessel, or assist in doing so, in room of the regular seamen
who may have become diseased, sick, or dead, in places
abroad, in consequence of the heat or unhealthiness of the
climate—to keep them after their arrival in the British port,
both in food and clothing, and also provide them with room
in the same or another vessel, in order to enable them to
return to their native country, is beginning to manifest itself,
and the merits of the provisions made for the benefit of the
poor foreigners, who were formerly in many Instances dis-
charged after their arrival, or as soon as their cervices could
be dispensed with, to wander about the streets 'in a state of
extreme destitution and suffering, and beCome a burden and
disgrace to the country, are already very apparent. Notwith-
standing the very great number of vessels ;Which have
arrived in this port from the East' Indies and other hot
climates, where it is necessary for captains to avail themselves
of the services of these poor natives, within the last few days
not a single Lascar is to be seen in the streets, wandering
about in search of food and other necessaries, as used so often
to be the case, and which was so much to be deplored. The

men are in every instance retained on board and victualled
according to the usual ship's rations and customs of their
native country. So striking a proof of the usefulness of the
Act alluded to and its beneficial results, now that it is Tully
r in operation, cannot be too much appreciated by every cha-
i ritable and honourably disposed person. .
MARYLEBONR VESTRY. Last :Satuirday, • Mr.
Flood, the vestry clerk, read the report of the auditors ap-
pointed to examine the income and expenditure of the work-
' house, which was extremely satisfactory, and stated that in
evary department of the workhouse the utmost attention
~. was paid to the comforts, health, and happiness of the in-
mates, who themselves acknowledged witli gratitude their
treatment. Mr. Flood then road a communication from
the directors and guardians of the poor, ceoUpiiiiing their
reply to the Poo:-law Commissioners, ,who i expressed a
determination to unite Marylebone with other parishes in
the erection of district asylums. The directors and guar-
dians stated that the extent of the parish:and its population
of 140,000, entitled it to an exemption from the proposed
union, and that the Commissioners
possessed a discretionary
power to exclude it, and that even the Act of Parliament
implied that Marylebone, and all other parishes, possessing
means to provide for the destitute and houseless, should n
b be
.
thenfor
badde-
nounced
T inducementshey
lazy vagabonds to migrate from agricultural
characters and
excluded from. a uniowitahs othersam apnayrish
districts to cities and towns ; and in conclusio , stated that
the oath which they had taken as directors a d guardians
, ,
of the poor to maintain the local government f the parish
prevented them submitting to the piroylosed union ; but
that if the Poorl-aw Commissioners insi ed pon asylumst
fur the destitute being erected, independent, f the work-
house, that they would build them in
.thei own parish.
Messrs. Gomme, Michie, Wilson, Hodgkinson
and Calder,
spoke in the highest terms of this- 4 aisle and '
unan-
swerable document," and also in the ' mils -unqualified
aofdatphteedd,iarenedtorsentaenredaguuaprliatfeof
manner condemned the proposed planof di •
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Louis Philippe drove into Paris from . Cloud on
Friday, and granted audiences to several perso s. His Ma-
jesty appeared to enjoy excellent health.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Surrrixt.--Yesterday tnorTifnithe Queen walked
accompanying the Prince in the garden chair to Frogruore
norise, to pay an early visit to her ,Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent.

The Royal Family were taken their accustomed airings
yesterday within the precincts-of the Castle.
Their Imperial Highnesses the Prince and Princess Peter
of Oldenbourg arrived at the Castle ye:sterday. His Ex-
cellency the Baron de ißrunow and the Earl of Aberdeen
also arrived yesterday.
The Princess, after partaking of luncheon with her Ma-
jesty, left the Castle on her return to town, attended by
Mademoiselle Barteinuft, Dame d'Honneur. Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent came to the Castle to visit the
Queen, and joined the royal party at luncheon. His Imperial
Highness remained to . dinner, as also his aide-de-camp,
Captain Muchanoff.
Prince Peter of Oldenbourg visited the royal stables, and,
after viewing the establishment, ,returned to the Castle. His
Imperial Highness was attended by .Colonels Bowles and
Bouverie, and his aide-de-camp.
The royal dinner party' yesterday ineluded Mr. George
Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
The band of the 2d Regiment. of Life Gil-n.(6 was in at-
tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band after-
wards attended at the Castle and pertbrrntel the remainder of
the evening.
This morning the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Prince of
Oldenbourg, went in a pony carriage to the royal gardens at
Frogmore before church.