The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-17 00:00:00

Two men, named Rowe and Creed, were fined 403.
each by the Gravesend Magistrates for " touting."
At the Thames Police-court, Cornelius Mahony,
coal whipper, 1N brought fore :sir.
charge of violently assaulting Charles Cottrell, a turn-
cock in the employ of the East London Waterworks
Company, and Charles Smith, a fireman belonging to
the London Fire-brigade Establishment, who is attached
to the School-house-lane station, in Ratcliff. It appeared
that the prisoner's premises were on fire, and that he
had endeavoured, by assaulting the complainants, to pre-
vent them from extinguishing the flames. He was coin-
bitted for trial.

COUILT-PA.SECIONABLE.
This is the birth-day of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, who completes her fifty-eight year.
The Duchess will receive the congratulations of her
august relatives at Frogmore on the return of the day,
and her Royal Highness's tradesmen will, it is expected,
illuminate their houses.
The Duke of Wellington will give a grand dinner this
evening, at Apsley House, to his Royal High Prince
William of Prussia, the foreign corps diplomat'que' &c.
The Austrian Count Amsperg, accompanied by his
son and the preceptor to the youthful Count, arrived at
the Clarendon Hotel the day before yesterday from Ger-
maay.
Lord Ravensworth arrived at Ravensworth Castle en
Thursday evening.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The locksmiths of Walsall, Wolverhampton, Willen •
hall, and neighbourhood, numbering about 300 persons,
have turned out for an advance of five per cent. on their
wages.
The Earl of Galloway has forwarded the sum of 100
guineas in aid of the fund of the Hospital for Consump-
tion and Disease of the Chest, at Brompton.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews have signed an en-
gagement at the Surrey Theatre, where they will appear
the second week in September.
Baythorne Bridge, which divides the counties of Essex
and Suffolk, and which has been in a dangerous state for
some time, is now being repaired by the county ; it is to
be widened four feet. _ _

The Ceres, from Flushing, has been brought into
Kingstown harbour, by the Prince Albert, revenue
cruiser, having been captured, after a chase of two hours,
off the Leg of Man. She had on board 110 bales of
tobacco. It is stated that the captain and some of the
crew had escaped in a boat before the capture.
The St. Louis Reveille gives an account of the catch-
ing of two deer in the Mississippi, lately, by the steamer
Diana Vernon. They were swimming side by side—the
pilot gave chase, and they were soon noosed and hauled
on board to feed the passengers on.
Accounts from the Moors state that sport there has
been excellent and birds plentiful and strong on the
wing. Colonel Lowther bagged sixteen brace on the
12th of August, and Sir George Musgrave brought down
twenty five brace.
In some parts of Kent a great number of Irish reap-
ers are busily employed in getting in the harvest : last
Year scarcely any came over from the sister isle, in con-
sequence of Mr. O'Connell's vigorous agitation for repeal
and repeated summonses to his countrymen to attend
his meetings.

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~.,..GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The Grand Junc-
tion Company, in announcing a change of trains, add,
that " arrangements are in progress for attaching second-
class carriages to the fast trains, for reducing the fares,
and for adding a cheap train for the poorer classes."
We rejoice to see this powerful company adopting so
liberal a course of policy. We have no doubt whatever
that it will benefit them even in a pecuniary point of
view.—Railway Record.
CAPE or GOOD HOPE, MAY 16, 1844.—The
Death of Lady D'Urban last year, at the Cape of Good
"lope, was deeply and sincerely regretted by the people
Of that colony, who have erected a public monument to
her memory, in St. George's Church, Cape-town, bear-
ing the following inscription :—" To commemorate the
excellence and benevolence which so eminently distin-
guished the character of Lady D'Llrban, the wife of
Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, G.C.8., &c.,
late Governor of this colony, this monument of public
respect and esteem, as also a school-house for the Female
School of Industry at Wy-nberg, founded by Lady D'Ur-
ban in 1836, and constantly fostered and superintended
by her until her decease, have been erected by the inha.-
Ibitants of the Cape of Good Hope as the fittest monument
of one who, while adorning the high circles of society,
unceasingly sought to relieve and educate the poor, and
to exemplify the superior virtues and practice of a
Christian life. Obit August 23, 1843, ortat sixty-three
ears. ' Blessed are they who remember the 'poor.
Blessed are they whom the poor remember with a
blessing.' " •
NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD REGATTA. The
regatta commences this day (Thursday), and there is
every Prospect of its being of a first-rate description.
The prizes which the successful competitors are to re-
re are of a very chaste and costly description, and
Workmanship of them has been divided between
Messrs, Reid and Messrs. Lister, of this town. A mas-
sive and beautifully, carved tankard with a moveable lid,
,of the value of 10/., is to be awarded to the winner of
the skiff race, and eight goblets, value 31. each, of ele-
gent but varying designs, to the winners of the four and
two-oared boat races. These have been manufactured
by Messrs. Lister. Reid and Sons have prepared a set of
five silver cups, elaborately chased, value 51. each, and a
set of silver medals, ornamented with the union border
(rose, thistle, and shamrock), to reward the exertions of
the gentlemen amateurs who shall compete in the four-
-oared race. All these prize •gifts bear the inscription,
Newcastle and Gateshead Regatta, 1844."—Newcastle
Advertiser.

EXTENSIVE IMPORTATION OF GROUSE.—Yesterday
morning the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Com-
pany's steam-ship Perth, Captain John Spink, arrived at
deer moorings off Here's steam packet wharf, Wapping,
from Dundee, with a considerable number of passengers
and an extensive cargo. She brought upwards of
boxes of grouse, whiciz were principally rifled on the
Perthshire hills and moors, where the sport is said to be
Prosecuted with great success. Most of the boxes were
'directed to members of the nobility at present in town.
Very few were for dealers in game. The steam-ship
Duchess of Sutherland, from Inverness, Rapid, from
'Berwick, and Royal Victoria, from Leith, have also
Wought large quantities of grouse to the metropolis.
...PROPHET WROE'S ROBBERY.—INNOCENT PARTIES
TRA,NSPORTED.—Our readers will remember that about
two years ago, the house of Prophet Wroe was broken
Into, and a silver watch stolen ; also, that three men,
called Benjamin and John Pickersgill and James Rams-
den, were tried for the robbery at the York Assizes, in
August, 1842, and transported for ten years. It now
aPPears, however, that the men were in no manner con-
nected with the robbery, and are perfectly innocent of it.
This information has been obtained from James Hudson,
new a convict at York Castle, who has made a voluntary
,Coilfesinn,
sioento the governor of the castle, by which it ap-
:Pears that the robbery was committed by himself and five
Other
whose names he gives ; he details the pro-
t...„‘'edings on the night of the robbery, and what was done
wit. h. the property. We trust our magistrates will take
Incaoures by which these innocent men will be restored
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their homes, and their families again made happy.—
Wak. "field Journal.
Its, LWAY TRAFFIC.—The recipts of twenty Rail-
'Way Co.napanies for the last four weeks are, in the ag-
gregate, greater by upwards of 50,0001. than those of
the corresvonding period of last year.—Railway Record.
LOSS OF AdNOTHER WAR STEAMER: Her Majesty's
at earner Stromboli, under the command of the Hon.
t Iward Plunkett, when on her passage from Cork to the
lies in the mouth of' Bantry Bay, on the coast of Kerry.
0 .all appearance she is greatly damaged ; but at pre-
'sent .the precise nature of the injury which she has sus-
t,pued cannot be stated with any degree of certainty.
The Tartarus and Hecate steamers, which speedily came
lie her assistance, have made the greatest efforts to get
off the reef% but we regret to state without the
slightest success. Both these vessels have since been
engaged in landing all her guns and ammunition on
ear Island, which is situated near the shore. In addi-
-011 to this the entire of her machinery, it is feared, will
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ts'uate to be taken out, with great loss of time, before she
`4lll be set afloat. From the total failure of the efforts
1111' 'de to extricate her, it is the general opinion among
, er‘ lens competent to judge that she is firmly grooved
nsr
"Z the rocks. of course Captain Plunkett will be
brought to a court-martia; for this unfortunate affair.
1.111: SAFETY BEACON ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—
‘APtain Bullock will leave Woolwich to day in the new
trveying steam-vessel the Porcupine, and proceed to the
"'us, for the purpose of making the necessary ar-
rangements for the erection of his safety beacon (which
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iilas run down by a Dutch vessel a short time since) on
e Goodwin Sands. It is expected that every prepara-
tionfor planting it on the Goodwins will be completed
;7the 28th instant., when the spring tides will have set
Captain Bullock has also received instructions from
th.e Lords of the Admiralty to place on the same sands
experimentally
one of Mr. James Steward's ponderous-
footed_ beacons, in order that its capability to stand the
itTin—d and waves may be fairly tested.
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d Ricicor.--MALToN AGAINST LEEDS.—On Mon-
ay and Tuesday last, the second match for the grand
sweepstakes of 80 sous., was played on the York cricket
ground between: two elevens of the Melton and Leeds
with
Wiisatse
which ended jn favour of the latter at one innings,
r;eirynotches to spaf,?. The attendance of spectators
numerous, and the match created considerable
Test amongst the lovers of cric;:eting*
MOTHER OF THE LATE MR.
be IRE
__ausena, the Irish vocalist,
h__ learned with regret that the mother of the late Mr.
BArriai.---It will
is in reduced circums!ancews,iitnh
quence of the death of her grand-daughter,
"'lora the pension settled upon Mr. Banim by Geyer
Meat ceased, Sir R. Peel not deeming hirnselfjustified to
it to the author's mother, for whom a public
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"e,„ iption is now being made in Ireland.
,_4IIE WEATHER IN FRANCE.—A friend at Versailles
~us writes, under date of August 12 :—" The weather
!,t,lethis part of the world has been very broken, and as
the next six weeks will be the time for the grapes ripen-
ing,_ the people are becoming alarmed for the vintage as
well as for the harvest generally There is not much corn
cut, and that which is cut is mostly. lying under the rain
eTold."—D
leeked. A great deal of rain has fallen I..:2:re—in
short,is it is constantly coming down, and the atmosphere
uldin Evening Post.
_jj:PniROVE.MENT IN RAILWAY PROPERTY.---The itn-
pt
,e'ce ent in the market price of shares within the last
two months has been upwards of 60 per cent. Some
Ile shares have improved in a much higher ratio.
Thus
the Birmingham and Gloucester have risen about
11
0 pes' cent, the Sheffield and Manchester 140, and the
Preston nand Wyre 160 per cent.—Railway Record.
A
CLEvOR BOY.—A farmer's wife, in speaking of
the smartness, aptness, and intelligence of her son, a lad
six years old, to ;.% lady acquaintance, said, «He can read
nciaently in any part of the Bible, repeat the whole Cate-
and weed onions as well as his father." " Yes,
mother," added the young hopeful, " and yesterday I
_..111!.ed Ned Rawson, throwed the cat into the well, and
'stole old Hinckley's gimlet."—American Paper.