The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-08 00:00:00

COMM-- PAZZIONAL2III.Ii

The Doke and Duchess of Bedford are entertaining a
large p:ir yat Woburn Abbey. Lord and Lady Francis
Russell, Lord and Lady Charles Russell, are among the
circle. The Marquis of Tavistock is in town.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro have left
Hatfield house, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury,
and are gone to visit the Duke of Wellington at Strath-
firldsaye.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are still at Eg-
lioton Castle, surrounded by a large circle of friend,.
The Noble Earl frequently enjoys the vigorous pastime
of curling, on the ponds which his Lordship has had
recently constructed at Eglinton Castle.
Earl Cadogan has arrived OR a visit to Lieutenant-
General Sir Edward an.l Lady Harrison, at Oakley
Park, near Eye, from Mr. Charles Drummond's, New-
sells, llerts. The Hon. Captain Cadogan has departed
for the eolith' ent. The Countess and the Ladies Au-
gusta and Honoria Cadogan are still at Queensberry
lbouse.

The Countess of Beauchamp has arrived in Portman-
square from Madresfield Court, Worcestershire.
Viscount and Viscountess Camden have been enter-
taining a large party at Barham Court, during the
Christmas fortnight.
Lord and Lady Combermere are expect( d to arrive
in Belgrave-Square to-morrow from Combermere Abbey,
Cher,hire, for the season.

Lori Langdale, Master of the Rolls, and Lady Lang.
dale and fan_ ily have been passing the recess at Temple-
ton House, Roehampton.

aILISONIZZAL.NNIOUS.

The Liverpool Times says the young wheat looks very
beautiful in that part of the country, now that the frost
is gone. It does not seem to have been at all injured
by the severe weather.
Yesterday afternoon, shortly before two o'clock, the
tide was unusually high, and o erfiowed the banks in
several places. Many of the cellars and kitchens in the
vicinity of Barclay's brewery, St. Saviour's Church,
Southwark, Tooley-street, Ilotherhithe, and Wapping,
were deluged. At London-bridge the river stood 29 feet
deep. . . .

Lord and Lady Leigh will shortly receive a large ac-
cession to the number of their present visitors at Stone-
leigh Abbey, to celebrate the coming of age of their
eldest son, the lion. William Henry Leigh, who attains
his majority on the 17th inst., when great festivities will
take place in honour of the auspicious event, it being
intended that all classes of the numerous tenantry shall
participate in the same on this happy occasion.
A young American, who is travelling in Europe,
gravely announces in a letter that Professor Van Gras-
selbach, of Stockholm, has brought to a state of perfec
tion the art of producing a torpor in the system by the
application of cold, of degrees of intensity proceeding
from less to greater, so as to cause the human body to
become perfectly torpid, in which state it may remain
for a hundred or a thousand years, and then be awakened
to a new existence.

The iron trade of South Staffordshire is in a most
prosperous condition at the present -time. Several large
works, which have been for a long time standing still,
are gradually getting into operation throughout the dis-
trict. Indeed, so brisk has every department of the
trade become throughout the Staffordshire district, that
the masters have advanced their price ten shillings per
ton, thus raising the value of iron to the same standard
as before the recent fall. The Welsh trade has also
partaken of a similar improvement, and is considerably
advanced.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF WATCHES AND JEWEL-
LERY.—Yesterday information was forwarded to the
metropolitan and City police that, on the night of
Friday last, the premises of Mr. Griffith Davies, of
Dolgelly, Merionethshire, watch and clock maker, were
broken into, and the following property stolen there-
from, viz :—One hundred silver watches, which had been
sent to be repaired; eight new silver watches, a lady's
gold watch, about forty gold 18edding rings, a large
quantity of gold seals and watch keys, and a gold watch
case without works, besides other gold and silver articles
to a large amount.
TAXES ON SUCCESSION TO PROPERTY ABROAD.—
Yesterday a Parliamentary paper extending to 33 pages
was printed, containing the correspondence which has
recently taken place relating to taxes or duties imposed
on succession to property, after death, in foreign coun-
tries. In April the Earl of Aberdeen, as Foreign Secre-
tary, addressed a circular to the British ambassadors
and other diplomatic officers abroad stating, that her
Majesty had been graciously pleased to comply with an
address of the House of Commons to the effect that her
Majesty would procure a statement of the rate or scale
of any taxes or duties imposed (either by the Govern-
ment or by municipalities) on succession to property
after death; stating also, whether in such taxes or duties
any distinction was made in such foreign countries be-
tween real and personal property ; and likewise a state-
ment of the annual amount received from such taxes or
duties. The document was ordered to be printed on the
motion of Mr. Elphinstone, the Member for Lewes, and
affords informatio❑ on the subject to which it relates.
Returns have been received from Austria, Bavaria,
Belgium, Denmark, France, Frankfort, Greece, Ham-
burgh, Hanover, Hesse Cassel, Holland, Prussia, Sar-
dinia, Saxony, Sicily, Sweden, Switzerland, Texas, Tus-
cany, United States, and Wurtetnburg. The last return
was made as late as the 14th of August. It appears that
in Texas there are no taxes or duties imposed either by
the Government or by municipalities of the kited; and in

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the United States that the taxes mentioned do not form
a part of the general revenue.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH BY POlSON.—Yesterday Mr.
Baker held an inquest at the Jolly Butcher, Stoke New-
ington, on the body of John Poole, aged 19, a shoe-
maker, who is supposed to have poisoned himstlf. It
appeared that the deceased was in the employment of
Mr. Smith, shoemaker, Church-street, Stoke Newington.
lie had formed an attachment to a young woman, a rela-
tion, and to whom he believed he was under an engage-
ment to be married. About two months ago she mar-
ried another person ; after which a great change was
perceptible in the deceased's manner. He used to com-
plain that his head would split in two; and he frequently
sat by himself, in a dejected way. Last Sunday evening
he was in company with a shopman of his employer's,
when he was taking some pills, which:he said were com-
posed of opium. The shopman left him for a few
minutes, and soon after Iho was heard moaning heavily.
The deceased was then found by him in a state of
stupor. Mr. Killich, a surgeon, was called in, who said
that deceased was suffering from the effects of some
narcotic poison, and it was discovered that he had taken
fifteen opium pills, which the medical gentleman said
contained twenty-five grains of crude opium, five of
which were sufficient to destroy life. Verdict—" That
the deceased died from taking a quantity of opium pills,
but that there was not sufficient evidence to show whether
he took them for the purpose of destroying life."
MYSTERIOUS WINDOW-BREAKING AT HACKNEY.—
The efforts of the officer engaged in detecting the au-
thors of the mischievous attack upon the windows in the
house of Mr. Hulloh, chemist, London-fields, have at
length proved successful. While engaged in watching
one morning last week, Francis, N 227, observed the
girl throw several stones at her mistress, at the same
time loudly expressing her indignation at the act. In
the evening of the same day, Clarke, N 223, the other
officer engaged in the affair, detected a son of Mr.
Hulloh, a lad ten years of age, in the act of throwing
stones at the windows. These facts were communicated
to Mr. Hulloh, who regarded them as incredible. Mea-
sures for removing the girl and lad during the next day
were, however, suggested and acceded to, and the win-
dows were, as might have been expected, unmolested.
Mr. Hulloh then confronted the two mischievous agents,
when the girl admitted that she had been the prime
mover in the attack. Her detail of the schemes resorted
to in order to baffle the police, showed that she possessed
extraordinary cunning. She broke several of the win-
dows from the inside, at the same time dropping a stone,
which she directly picked up and conveyed to the po-
lice. Her only reason for the malicious destruction of
her employer's property was a dislike to the situation of
the house. The placing of stones in the plum-pudding,
breaking the pan, &c., were all the work of her mischief.
The lad admitted his share in the transaction, for which
the girl had given him trifling sums of money. To the
regret of the inhabitants, many of whom have laboured
under suspicion, Mr. Hulloh has declined to prosecute
the girl, now discharged, owing to the lad's participation
in her conduct.

INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF LICENSED VICTUAL-
LERS.-A special meeting of the Governor and Com-
mittee of Management was held yesterday at their
School-house, Kennington-lane, for the purpose of elect-
ing the Governor of the Corporation for the year en-
suing. The qualification fur the above honourable office
is vested in the three trustees who have severally served
in that capacity for two years, and who may be in
business as licensed victuallers when the election
takes place. On the present occasion the three gen-
tlemen who had served as trustees for that period
were Messrs. Hughes, Stowell, and Burrell. but the
last-named gentleman now being out of business,
was consequently ineligible. The contest was.
therefore, between Messrs. Hughes and Stowell,
and the latter gentleman, having the majority of votes,
was declared by the Governor, Mr. Wicker, duly elected
to the office of Governor of the Corporation for the
forthcoming year. Mr, Stowell, the Governor elect,
briefly returned his acknowledgments for the honour
conferred upon him by his colleagues, and assured them
that he would use his utmost endeavours to maintain the
efficiency of the institution, and to economise its funds.
Mr, Hughes, although unsuccessful, said that he should
still continue his exertions for the benefit of the society.
The Governor elect was warmly congratulated upon his
success by his colleagues, and the contest was of a most
praiseworthy and friendly character, both of the compe-
titors evincing a laudable desire to coalesce in their ex-
ertions to advance the great object for which the society
was established,

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MUNIFICENT BECLUM.—The late Dr. Cotgrave,
who recently died at his residence, Gregg-green, near
Henley-on-Thames, has left 2,0001 to the Chester In-
firmary, 1,000/. to the Westminster Hospital, and 500/.
to the Berkshire Hospital. The deceased was surgeon
to her Majesty's forces, and served thirty years in the
35th Regiment, and accompanied that fine corps to
Holland, Malta, Calabria, and Egypt.
Lady Caroline Neeld has joined the family circle
assembled on a visit to the Earl of Shaftesbury, at St.
Giles's House, Dorset. The Countess of Warwick, who
has been for some time in rather delicate health, is, we
are happy to state, improving. The Noble Earl is ex-
pected to join her Ladyship at Warwick Castle next
week, when his duties as Lord in Waiting on her Ma-
jesty expire.
Lail Fitzbardinge, and the Hon. Craven Ber y
haze respeetive'y made handsome donation: t( the find
for the raiief oi the unemployed poor at Cheltenham. The
sum already subscribed amounts to upwards of 6001.