The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-20 00:00:00

MOVEMENTS OF THE COURT

Previously to the Court taking its departure, on Thursday,
from Claremont for Buckingham Palace, the Queen com-
mended that the mansion should be prepared for the recep-
tion of the Royal Family on Thursday, the 23d intent, on
which day the Court will leave town. Her Majesty's birth-
day will be celebrated at Claremont.
His Majesty the King of Saxony is expected to arrive in
England, upon a visit to her Majesty, either at the end of
this month or the commencement of June. His Majesty
will be received by the Queen, upon his arrival, at Bucking-
ham Palace. In the event of her Majesty's illustrious guest
not reaching this country until after the 29th instant, it is
the Queen's intention to remain at Claremont until the Wed-
nesday in Whitsun week.
The King of Saxony, after remaining a short time at
Buckingham Palace, and spending a few days with her
Majesty, as it is expected, at Windsor Castle, will make a
tour, for some three weeks or a month through the provinces,
which it is not improbable may be extended to the mining
districts in some of the Welsh counties, and also to a portion
of the more southern Scotch counties, including the cities of
Glasgow and Edinburgh.
It is not now expected that the Queen under any circum-
stances will honour the Eton Montem with her presence on
Whit-Tuesday. The expectation is (in the event of the
arrival of the King of Saxony being delayed beyond that
period) that Prince Albert will leave Claremont early on
that morning, take breakfast with the Reverend the Provost
and the authorities of the college, and proceed thence to Salt-
hill, to witness the ceremony of flourishing the flag on the
mount. His Royal Highness will afterwards return to her
Majesty at Claremont.
Notwithstanding that these are at present the arrange-
ments which have been decided upon, the authorities of Eton
College still indulge the hope that (the weather being
favourable, and her Majesty continuing in the enjoyment of
her usual good health) this celebrated triennial festival may
yet be honoured with the presence of the Sovereign.

Tun WEATHER.--A sudden change of tempera-
ture took place on Thursday, when the thermometer fell
nearly twenty degrees lower than it was on the previous
day. The weather still continues cold and boisterous. Last
night the temperature in London was only two degrees above
freezing, and this day, at noon, the thermometer marked
forty-two, being twenty-seven degrees lower than on some
days during the present week.
DEATH CAUSED BY A LUCIFER MATO:I.—Mr.
Wakley on Friday held an inquest at the Lord Portman,
Broadley-terrace, Dorset-square, on the body of Maryanne
Martha Benyon, aged three years and a half. About two
o'clock in the afternoon of Monday week, deceased's sister was
left in charge of deceased and a younger child, whilst her
father and mother went to fetch some linen to wash. The
deceased was playing with her doll near the fender, and all
of a sudden she screamed, and witness then saw her pinafore
in flames. She called up a lodger, and with much difficulty
they were extinguished, but not before the deceased was
burnt about the neck and breast in a frightful manner. The
remains of a lucifer match were found on the floor, and it was
witness's belief that deceased had picked one up, and having
ignited it, the tire caught her clothes. She lingered until
Tuesday evening last, when she expired. Verdict, " Acci-
dental death."

We have reasons for surmising that a new move is
ust about to be made, more startling than any which has
yet occurred in these exciting times. What will be thought
of a new London and Birmingham Railway, guaranteed by
the Great Western and Grand Junction jointly ? Stranger
things have come to pass ; but a few days will make a reve-
lation, and show how well we get into the " secrets of the pri-
son-house."--Railway Record.
SINGULAR DEATH.—On Friday an inquest was held
before Mr. Waklev, M.P., at the Horse and Groom, King-
street, Seven-dialB on the body of William Duncan, aged
forty-eight, who expired on Tuesday last. When the jury
went to view the body they had some difficulty in obtaining
an entrance, as the room was full of company, assembled to
wake the body. It appeared from the evidence that the de-
ceased was in the employ of an undertaker, and resided at
No. 1, New Turnstile. On Tuesday last he hailed an omnibus
from his residence, and placed a coffin on the top, saying to
the driver and conductor, " Here is a coffin for one of us
three." He then got inside. After the omnibus had pro-
ceeded as far as Compton-street, Soho, the conductor looked
at the deceased, and was so much struck with the change in
his countenance that he stopped the vehicle. The deceased
opened the door himself and got down, and then became in-
sensible. He was conveyed into the shop of Mr. Fitzgerald,
a surgeon, in High-street, and placed on a chair, where he
bled profusely at the mouth and nose, and died in about two
minutes, although every effort was made to save him. Mr.
Fitzgerald gave it as his opinion that death was caused by
the rupture of some large artery in the chest, and the jury
returned a verdict of " Natural death."
FRIGIITFUL ACCIDENT.—The Archbishop of Ar-
magh's carriage, on Thursday night, shortly before ten
o'clock, met with and occasioned accidents that, it is to be
feared, will be attended, if not with fatal, at least with very
serious results. It appears that his Grace was proceeding in
his carriage across IN estininster-bridge, when the horses be-
came unmanageable, and dashed off at frightful speed, and in
a moment came in collision with a cab, then with a second,
and lastly with an omnibus, directly in front of Mr. Painter's,
the Horseshoe and Magpie, in Bridge-street. The force with
which the carriage struck these several vehicles caused the
most extensive damage, and the drivers were thrown and se-
riously injured. In the confusion attendant on the sudden-
ness of the accident, it was difficult to obtain a very exact ac-
count of the various injuries that resulted. The Archbishop's
carriage was itself at length thrown over on its side, and the
coachman hurled with great violence from his box. Assis-
tance was immediately at hand, and his Grace was taken out
at the window. It proved, fortunately, that the Archbishop
. was not injured, though mueh alarmeci. His coachman, and,
as was stated, some others who had also received injuries from
the accident, were taken immediately to the hospital.
STRANGE DEATH.—On Thursday Mr. J. Payne,
Deputy Coroner for London and Southwark, held an Inquest
at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the body of James Brown,
aged 29, a journeyman tailor. It appeared by the evidence
of Henry Blundell, a waiter at a beer-shop, No. 70, Leather-
lane, that on Saturday fortnight deceased called on him, and
they began to play at a game called " puff the dart." The
game is played with a long needle inserted worsted
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hreat. t strongly to putt it with greater fbrce afterwards, he
swallowed it, and asked witness what he should do ? Witness
took deceased to the hospital, and one of the surgeonss exa-
mined his throat, but could not feel the dart, anda 41
could do nothing for him then. After OM deceased was
taken home! and 1,4 040 I,ly. Airy Tuesda walker, wno could not ex-
tract The 'craft tad eventually, on Y week, he returned
to the Hospital, and was admitted next day as an in-door
patient. Everything was done to extract the nece4 but
•success; and he died 011 TITO3/4110ociay ikrK.Bel
without
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and mortiged, e't cimAliy Cola,
;044179 *if of 144 0444, or tuig t eve been aggra-
vated through having swallowed the needle, which, if swallow-
ed, must have passed through the body. The disease of the lungs
was the cause of death. Verdict, " Accidental death."
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(6.10.
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1771—and the Grand Duchess Dowager of Mecklenburg
Schwerin—born February 28, 1803—has been revived, and
gaiug credit iu our Weer circloa,

EXETER HALL PETS.
(From Punch.)
Religion, like fancy, has her peculiar favourites.
Ladies and gentlemeh have, among the various heathen,
their pet proselytes, just as among birds and dogs they
have their pet macaws, their pet poodles. It is an
adage old as truth—whose register of birth was not lost
at the flood—that the human heart must love something ;
hence, beautiful is it, in this balmy month of May, to
see crowds of lovers—spiritual lovers we mean—as-
cending the chrystal steps of Exeter Hall, to testify
their affection for the benighted sons and daughters of
earth thousands and thousands of miles away.
Elastic, indeed, are human heart-strings, for they
stretch from pole to pole. Indeed, with many of the
worthy people of Exeter Hall, distance is essential to
love. Just as connoisseurs take, a backward step truly to-
consider the beauties of a picture, do many of these good
folks require distance to see the miseries of human nature
through an attractive medium. They have no taste for
the destitution of the alley that abuts upon their dwell-
ing-place, but how they glow—how they kindle at the
misery somewhere in Africa ! Familiarity truly begets
contempt. The famishing shoe-binder or sempstress is
a homely common-place ; the benighted Chinese an
exotic darling. With some folks sympathy, like Madeira,
is all the better fur a sea voyage.
We have said that proselyte-mongers have their spe-
cial pets ; among them, the Hebrew people bear a great
price. Hence, as was shown at a late meeting, upwards
of 25,000/. are annually subscribed for the conversion of
the Jews at Jerusalem, Hebron, Beyrout, Constan-
tinople, Smyrna, and we know not at how many other
places promising in apostacy. We must confess, we
should like to see a fair balance-sheet of this account.
We should like to know the exact number of converted
Hebrews, that we.,,might arrive at something like the
market-price of a renegade Jew. We own it ;we more
than fear that he is a great luxury ; a bird of Paradise
of exceeding cost. Hence, we confess it, we would have
our gentle countrywomen retrench their outlay on the
foreign curiosity, that they might better afford to buy
up somewhat of the misery produced at home.
A day or two after the meeting was held of these be-
nevolent people whose hearts yearn for the Jews in Sa-
pet and Strasburgh, there appeared in the papers—but
then the tragedy happened at No. 1, Angel-court, Long-
acre, not a quarter of a mile from Exeter Hall—an ac-
count of the death of one Mary Wall, aged 35. She
died famished. J'ohn Bitton, of St. Martin's Work-
house, testified as follows :

" On opening the door of a room on the ground floor,
or, more properly speaking, a lumber room, there being
no floor to it, he found the deceased lying on her face on
the earth, her body covered with shavings, and her head
resting on part of an old basket similar to a wine•merchant's
hamper. She was groaning, and seemedlquite insensible."
Mr. Leonard, surgeon to the out-door poor of St.
Martin's, deposed :—" On being taken to the workhouse,
remedies were used to restore animation ; but she never
rallied, and died within twenty-four hours after. The
place where deceased &ph emitted a most noisome
smell from the quantity of decayed garden-stuff. On
making a post mortem examination, he found inflam-
mation of both lungs, which no doubt arose from the
non-application for medical assistance ; which, together
with her not receiving any domestic comforts, and lying
on the bare and cold ground alone and neglected, pro-
duced extreme exhaustion, of which she died."
_ _ _

It must, however, he allowed that the death of the
woman was doubtless accelerated by her determination
not to go into the workhouse ; nevertheless, had we
societies as actively benevolent in the Angel-courts of
London and our great towns as in Constantinople and
Smyrna—had we home missionaries of charity to tempt
the foetid dangers of Seven Dials and Spitalfields, could
these scenes of horror be enacted ? But then there is
this bar to the zeal of the philanthropic—both Seven
Dials and Spitaifields are close at hand ; they are real,
tang►ble foulness ; the eye turns from them—the nostril
shrinks at them ; whilst what a picturesqueness invests
Constantinople—what a halo of beauty does distance
cast about Jerusalem !

Again ; consider the great difference between the
objects to be succoured. The dwellers of English
lanes and alleys are common, vulgar things ; creatures
of foul and violent speech ; commonplace in their very
rags and ghastliness. But the Jews—the spiritually
forlorn of Jerusalem. Oh, the evangelical imagination
clothes them with the mystic beauty of the place ; up-
lifts and sublimates them by the magic of re-
ligious fervour, and the very tatters of the He-
brew become rareand beautiful as Joseph's coat of many
colours. And so, soft-hearted ladies and gentlemen,
rapt by the forlornness of the far-off Jew, write their
cheques, or put their money in the plate, too deliciously
possessed by the sweet apostate in the distance ever to
dream of the famishing Christian at their right hand.
Could we but transport our destitute population to
China or to Africa, we have no doubt that many English
Samaritans would then be marvellously piteous of them.
Oh, ye miserable Christians, who hunger and waste un-
visited in English lanes and cellars—why are ye not Jews,
glorified by distance, dwelling at Beyrout and Hebron ?
On the last meeting of the Society in question, the
Bishop of Winchester preached a sermon. Eloquent no
doubt was the discourse ; heart-touching, pocket-pene-
trating. We would, however, that his Grace—if only
for one round—would visit the Angel-courts of London :
the pilgrimage might, we think, give an impetus to the
sluggish imaginations of those who think that true
misery, real mental darkness, is only to be found, like
their fine hyson, in a far country.
Allowing, however, that it is necessary to the apo-
plectic philanthropy of some folks to bleed their purses
for the heathen, we think that at least the Jews might
be left as they are until every other unbeliever should be
converted.

Here, Madam—you who at the last meeting in-
vested five pounds in apostate Jews—here is a map of
the world. Cast your eye over it. Here is the poor
Esquirnaux doomed to whale-blubber and a soul-blight-
ing creed —here the Red Man—here the Hottentot—
here the New Zealander—here people on people, and
tribe on tribe, all in utmost darkness. Enlighten them,
and then, if you will, begin with the Hebrew. Mean
while, for ourselves—we confess it—we have more than
a sneaking respect for a people who had Moses for a
leader and a law-giver. We rarely meet a long-bearded
Rabbi that he does not carry our thoughts to the plains
of Mamre—to the first patriarchs of the first nation.
And ye, who would convert the Jews, first copy the
Jew's great virtue—first take care of your own
poor; feed and clothe them, and then, if you will, with
the superfluity make proselytes of the Hebrew. Mean-
while, with misery wasting thousands of our fellow-
Christians at our very doors, we hold the subscription of
large sums of money for, at best, the questionable con-
version of the Jew, as the offering of a miserable, morbid
egetism; and should still think so of the purpose, though
the whole bench of Bishops wagged their silver tongues
in aid of it.