The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-27 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

latr Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

WOREIGN.

The Queen of the French, the Count de Paris, the
Duke and Duchess de Nemours, the Duke de Montpen-
sier' and the Duchess d'Aumale, attended vespers on
Sunday evening at the church of Saint loch.
The Minister of Marine informed the Chamber on
Monday, that the Bill relative to the organisation of the
transatlantic line of steam-packets would be shortly pre-
sented by the Minister of Finance.
Admiral Baudin, Maritime Prefect of Toulon, has ar-
rived in Paris. He comes as delegate from one of the
French colonies.
A letter from Toulon states that the Asmodee steam-
frigate will leave that port on the 4th of next month for
Marseilles, to take on board his Royal Highness the
Duke de Montpensier for Algiers.
The Spanish Government intends to send into France,
Germany, Belgium, and England, a certain number of
railroad and canal engineers, to study the different con-
structions.
A Limoges journal announces the death in that town
of M. de Saint Leger, a rich miser, who had for many
years been remarkable for his sordid avarice. Ho had
considerable landed property and large sums invested in
the funds ; and in his house, after his death, more than
100,000 f. have been discovered buried or concealed in .
various places. Ile dressed like a beggar, and when his
personal effects were sold off by auction his wardrobe
fetched sixty centimes.
The investments into the savings' banks of Paris on
the 23d and 24th inst. amounted to 562,415 F., and the re-
imbursements to 900,000 f.
A letter from Bayonne states that on Good Friday
there was found in the poor's box of the hospital of St.
Leon, a stock receipt for 110,000 f., giving an annual divi-
dend of 4,600 f., with an anonymous note, announcing
that it was for the benefit of the hospital.
The Universal German Gazdt; has the following
under the head of Berlin, March 18 :—" There is no
longer any talk of the diplomatic negotiations about the
acknowledgment of the Queen of Spain on the part of the
Northern Powers, insurmountable difficulties having
arisen."
A Malta journal publishes a letter, dated 26th ult.,
from Monestier, in the Regency of Tunis, giving an
account of an affair which had' ust occurred there. A
native of Tunis, who at Malta had embraced the Chris-
tian religion, having arrived at Monesticr in an English
trader, the Cadi seized him, and it was with difficulty
that he escaped death at the hands of the excited popu-
lace. The English Consul at Susa having been apprised
of what was going oa by an English sailor, went to the
spot, and, having insisted upon the release of the min,
he was set at liberty, and an apology was made by the
Cadi.

LAW AND POLION.
In the case of France v. Dawson, tried at Oxford
before Mr. Baron Platt, the jury found for the plaintiff,
damages 251. This was an action brought by the father
of a servant girl, who had lived with the defendant
Dawson (the governor of the Salop county gaol) to re-
cover 251.. 61. of which was for maintaining an illegiti-
mate child, of which Dawson is the father, and has
acknowledged his paternity aforetime by different pay-
ments, being the alleged seducer of the plaintiff's
daughter. In his defence, the defendant attempted to
cast imputations on the character of the girl. This un-
manly proceeding, however, availed him nothing.
At Worship-street two young men, named William
Carter and David Herbert, were charged with having
been concerned with another man, not In custody, in
committing a. violent and unprovblted.assauTt upon Mr.
S. Vincent Phillips, a clerk in the Bank of England, re-
siding at Barnsbury-park, Islington, and also with the
commission of other outrages. The prisoners had been
amusing themselves with throwing stones at the passen-
gers in Shepherd-and-Shepherdess-fields, and on any
remonstrance being made, they knocked down the re-
monstrant. Several females had suffered by the vio-
lence. Herbert was fined los., or a fortnight's impri-
sonment ; Carter was fined 205., or a month's imprison-

ment.
James Ward,-tt lad 15 years old, one of three young
urchins who were amusing themselves with throwing
stable-dung at persons passing through Golden-lane, was
fined ss. at Guildhall for wilful damage done to a me-
chanic's best coat, and being unable to pay, he was com-
mitted to Bridewell for 14 days to be kept on bread and
water.
Esther Gilbert, 19 years of age, charged with com-
mitting several robberies whilst in service as house-
maid in the family of Lionel 01liver, Esq., of Wimble-
don-common, wdiTully committed from Wandsworth.

• COURT_FASHIONABLE.
The P 0.4 says it is now arranged that the Court will
leave Windsor for the Isle of Wight on Saturday next.
The various reports which have been circulated for
some time past, calculated to lead the nation shortly to ex-
pect an increase in the Royal Family, are totally without
foundation.
Yesterday a new anthem, composed by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, was rehearsed for the first time in St.
George's Hall. The Queen's private band and the choir
of St. George's were in attendance. Her Majesty and
the Prince came into the Hall, and his Royal Highness,
after the first trial, picked out a few errors in the instru-
mental department. The anthem, on being tried over
again, proved to be perfect. The Queen then commanded
it to he played over once more, and was much delighted
with the composition and the mann.T in which it was per-
formed. This anthem, entitled "Out of the deep have I
called thee," is acknowledged by a number of the first-
rate judges who were present to be the chef d'oeuvre of the
Prince's compositions.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A very beautiful communion chalice was given last
week to the church at Hampton-upon-Tbames by the
incumbent. The following inscription is engraved upon
the pedestal;—" Presented to the Parish Church of St.
Mary, Rampton, by the Rev. Edward Johnston, M.A.,
Vicar. Easter, 1545."
The pending prosecutions by the City against the
merchants and other non-freemen have been removed
from the City courts into the Court of Queen's Bench,
where they will undergo discussion in the course of a
few weeks on behalf of the associated non-freemen.

Oa Wednesday morning the body of a young man,
dressed in a blue Guernsey frock, light waistcoat, dark
trowsers, and high shoes, was found floating in the river
Thames off Blackwall stairs. He is supposed to be one
of the persons who, about six weeks ago, while proceed-
ing to Billingsgate-market with a cargo of fish, was run
down in Barking Reach, and four individuals were
drowned. The others were picked up soon afterwards.
On Saturday afternoon, one of those fellows denomi-
nated "area sneaks, who are ever on the watch when
s( rvants leave the kitchen, stole down the area-steps of
Mr. Ellison's residence, No. 9, Half Moon-street, and
succeded in carrying off some silver forks, two salt-
spoons, two silver sauce ladles, a soup ladle, a gravy
spoon, and a pair of sugar tongs. The plate had the
crest of an eagle's head with a coronet.
There is every prospect of the old Tower ditch being
added to the list of public walks at the east end of the
town during the summer, and considerable activity is
displayed in gravelling it, a solid foundation having been
laid, and the drainage being very perfect. It will not
be attempted to make a plantation, for which the nature
of the subsoil quite unfits it, and the vegetation will be
confined to a few flower-beds. The foundations for the
new barracks in the interior have made but little pro.
gress, although, in addition to the ordinary labourers,
100 soldiers are daily employed (Ai the works, for which
they receive an extra payment of 101 per day.
On Wednesday morning, .Tames, alias Jem Crow,
aged twenty-eight years, terminated his existence by
hanging himself. It appears that the deceased, who had
kept a cheesemonger's shop in Walworth-street, Cam-
berwell, had latterly become very jealous of his wife,
and in consequence lived very unhappily- He had spoken
of letting his shop, and intended to have proceeded to
town yesterday for the purpose of advertising it. He
came down stairs at seven o'clock, and was seen in his
shop about twenty minutes afterwards, but at eight o'clock
he was discovered in the water-closet suspended with a
cord. He was instantly cut down, and medical aid called
in, but it was too late.

THE LATE FATAL EXPLOSION
AT BLACKWALL.
CONCLUSION OF THE CORONER'S INQUIRY.
Yesterday forenoon, the adjourned Coroner's inquest
on the bodies of Jonathan Smith, Richard Grimes,
George Chapman, and William Neale, who lost
their lives by the late boiler explosion at INlessrs.
Samuda's factory, at Blackwall, was renewed and
concluded, at the Town-hall, Poplar, before Mr.
Baker. The depositions of the witnesses (fifteen
in number), who were examined at the preview inquiries
on the body of Thomas Wright, another of the sufferers,
for whose death a verdict of manslaughter has already
been recorded against Mr. Lowe, the chief engineer,
having been read over by, the Coroner, he briefly addressed
the jury, and recommended them to return a similar ver-
dict in each case. This they unanimously agreed upon,
and after the inquisition had been signed, the foreman
handed in the following addenda:—
" The jury cannot close this investigation without ex-
pressing their opinion, that the application of low
pressure boilers to high pressure purposes is highly dan-
gerous, and ought to be prohibited by law. And they
aro further of opinion that the important facts elicited in
this inquiry should be laid before her Majesty's Govern-
ment, in the hope that some legislative enactment may
be adopted whereby, if possible, to prevent that fearful
destruction of human life which arises under the present
imperfect system."
The CORONER observed that the suggestions of the
jury were very valuable, and he would not fail in for-
warding them to the proper quarter. The witnesses
were then bound over to appear at the ensuing sessions
of the Central Criminal Court, and the five warrants
were placed in the hands of the police for the apprehen
sion of Mr. Lowe and his committal to Newgate.„

TIIE ADMIRAL'S GOOD SERVICE PENSION.—The
Earl of Haddington has conferred the Admiral's Good
Service pension of 3001. per annum, which reverted to
his Lordship's patronage by the decease of Vice-Admiral
Sir T. Baker, on Vice-Admiral of the Blue Henry Hill.
This Gallant Otliccr, who entered the navy in 1787, was
midshipman of the Phoenix in her action with the French
ship Resobi, in the East'lndies, in 1791 ; and subs-
(ineptly distinguished himself in the West Indies. He
was Lieutenant of the Zebra at the reduction of the
French islands there ; and was warmly engaged on
shore in their capture, He served with the storming
parties on a great many occasion°, and particularly in
storming Fort Royal, Martinique, in 1794. In the fol.
lowing year he was engaged in quelling an insurrection
at St. Vincent's. In thataffair he was severely wounded,
and had a pension of .25,0/. per iiniium granted to him for
‘iitomid4 in 1415. Herald.