The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

riatelhgent direction, and he could fully add to that
nwn humble assurances that it was so ; there
*as none more so in London. The members of it
there not to be found now here, now there. No !
b.e! Were also at their work.—(Hear, hear.) He
;Redleave, then, to move that the report and
;Red
just read be approved of, adopted, and
ntered on the minutes for the use of the members,
and for general circulation.
r.WALLEN seconded the resolution, and it
raa carried unanimously.
Mr. SOWTER proposed that the thanks and con-
!ratulations of the meeting be given to the Chairman
and Directors on the successful labours of the past year.
MASON seconded the resolution, which was
alio carried.
tfir. CROFTS rose, on the part of himself and his
l:ther Directors, to return their best thanks for
It resolution which had just been passed.
h: Would be their best reward for past exertions, and
I;,;Werful incentive for the future. The main success
the Institution, as had been well observed, was
hl, owing to the sound principle on which
had been based, and to the unanimity
zthat reigned universally in the Court. That was
inr ninth anniversary, and, in that time they
Z:,n only lost two of their original Directors,
I,,,._,that, in fact, the same hands, the same
and the same hearts, if he might say
~02 were at work for the success of the Institution
.4'w as at its original opening. They hoped to
kifiet them on many future ,such occasions, and he
tiruatel that the Institution would go on increasing
giant strength until it took its place with the
?It in the City of London.—(Loud cheers.)
SCRIJTTON proposed a vote of thanks to the
t"heal directors for their efficient assistance. It was
r'anded by Mr. Smyth, and Drs. Conquest and
Ln returned thanks.
th:Thanks were also accorded to the other officers of
Institution, and to the chairman, and the meeting
broke up.

FLANDERS MAIL.
lia
118.8 ELS, DEC. 18.—The Moniteur Beige publishes
to.d"Y a law of the 9th, by which, independently of the
167 of credit allowed by the law of the 30th December,
44? 18th February, 29th May, and 30th June, 1844,
4,lti°llal credit is given to the War Department of
30>000f., which makes the expense of that depart-
trt for the year amount to 28,130,000 f. The advan-
Zof the new line of steamers between Ostnd and
th 'et' has become inestimable since the cold has closed
tSchelde.
Tae Antwerpen did not leave yesterday. The Soho
tit
not leave to-day. The Princess Mary cannot be
o
PPed by any obstacle.
o_l4i. 1 letter from Antwerp, of the 12th, says :—" The
eldt is fuller of floating ice than it has yet been ; the
et4d,eontinues, and the sky is perfectly clear."
toketk'orological Observations at the Royal Observe-
Lt?' at Brussels.—The cold, which decreased yesterday,
become more intense to-day :
Centrigrade Therm.
Dee. 11. at Noon 6.3
Two o'clock
Four o'clock
Eight o'clo:%k
Midnight 10.2
Eight o'clock
It Noon
OtnitißßELS, DEC. 13.—At the commencement of the
tii
g of the Chamber to-day, the Minister of the Inte-
211tid on the table all the documents relative to the
• between Belgium and the Zollverein. On the
litiT" of the Minister of the Interior the debate on his
t;et will commence immediately after the close of the
Areseti discussion.
tae Outinber then proceeded in the debate on the
ti'V with the Zollverein. The general debate was not
°sed to-d
9:y.
elite e Ministers of the Interior and of Public Works
red into a long discussion on the commercial policy
ithtte Government, and on the effects of the convention
jirussia, but the debate will be resumed to-morrow,
t-itu'Elboungne having announced that he intended to
q,,;: into a thorough examinaijon of the treaty.
4,"ue Senate in its sitting yesterday commenced the de-
tii‘e 011 the budget of ways and means. To-day it dis-
448ed the project of law on the budget of the public
thokk The project of law, giving an additional credit for
uudget of the rear 1844, was agreed to, as was like-
bu,iget ot the ways and means.
"e cold hal abated. To -day, the 13th, it was—
Centrigrade Therm.
At midnight
Pour o'clock
Eight o'clock 8 deg. 7
Noon 4 deg. 7
Two o'clock
Attu, jj _ELGIAN FUNDS.--Bansms,
Dsa 13.
2% per Cent., ...... ....... ........
Loan, Five per Cent. ....... ... ...•••••
'f Thirty Millions, Four per Cc_nnt..• .. • ... ••••• 779
Three per Ce t
Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ... ......... _
..... 10%

1844
".. _ •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
"ty, 180, Four per Cent. •103
Societ, -- 1832., ............... lO2
of of Ceenneree, Four and a 'Half per Cent
Janie 01 jr', My. per Cent 54
...immossa7l. .. •••••••••••••••••••••••
Papers, Dec. 14.
iAUSTRIAN FU 3.—VuourA, DEC: 6.
Fite per luurreirse Cente• ..... ... 111egh
Fire.
r.,
••••••• 15C
..................... ......... •
Ditto, 1839 .....
•Ah_Zetserhitzfs Loan
—"fletoc,:ne Z.eifung, Dec. 10.

R' YTxAOItY>I+VARY DEATH.—On Friday last Wil•
t..„Mann, ag,ad 16, died suddenly at Kidderminster in
Cmcalled the t•.:arah and Jane, which was on its way
Cm Tipton to Oloncester by he Worcestershire and
rf_fordshire Cana:, before medical assistance could be
t
ii:faned. At the inquest held on the body at the Phea-
AZt Inn on Saturday, before Mr. W. S. P. Hughes, corn-
it appeared from t:•_‘e evidence of Mr. Cornelius
Coos Philbrick, surgeon, that he was called to attend
hir hoy on Friday, about a quarter before 1 P.M. and that
tkeare he could arrive, the lad had expired. Mr. Philbrick
" a post' mortem examination of the body, and found
he abdoman filled with fluid that had escaped
a hole in the stomach, about two inches from
lb' gullet, on the left-hand side. He found in the sto-
3„eeh a large round worm, about a foot long. The sto-
-41eh th
at roughout its entire surface presented appearances
likdailammation. He gave it as his opinion that death
10.fesulted from the perforation, which was the effect of
tuation, probably produced by the presence of the
-m• The father of the boy stated that he was taken
pith violeta vomiting on the Sunday night previous,
that on Monday he applied to a druggist at Wol-
kailloipton, who furnished medicine, which gave no re-
d The boat was on its 'journey from Sunday till
Y, 80 that there was no opportunity of obtaining
medical advice till it reached Kidderminster, when the
forl'; event took place. The jury returned a verdict of
D'i'd by the visitation of God."— Worcester Herald.
ThL4l% ARRIVAL or THE LONDON MAIL.—On
teiliraday the London mail did not arrive until fifteen
a., IniteS after twelve o'clock, owing to a heavy fall of
dal
between Chudleigh and Ashburton ; and on Fri..
hilt, the mail was two hours and a half behind its time,
Thn.flaequence of an accident having happened to the
01.;:" spring of the engine when about ten miles this side
—Devonport Independent.
VET,"
-ANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—FIVE LIVES LOST.--
ill' have this week to record another fearful accident
eros'aing that dangerous reef of rocks called the
llridge" by which five unfortunate beings have met
with 44; an untimely end. Between the hours of eleven
`•
,_ twelve o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, a
lexTrolan's boat, containing five persons, was proceeding
Ramoaze to the Dmdalus frigate, lying in the
Ind) and when crossing the ,bridge, under sail, the
•
th bl owing strongly, by same means she upset, and
• aliole party were precipitated into the water. The
leeist was noticed by W. Walker, Esq., Queen's
svgihour Master, who immediately proceeded to the spot
boat, and succeeded in picking up a sergeant of
th," marines, named Skinner, whom he conveyed with the
i7oat promptitude on board the Firebrand steamer,
in Barnpool, but the poor fellow survived only an
b4r and a half. The other bodies have not yet been
eked up. They are supposed to be two w
Thos
gns
thin to this town, and two seamen of the Dtedalus.
14 ig e third accident which has occurred within the
tt few months in this dangerous locality, and all have
o attewded with a frightful loss of life.—Devenpert
lidePendent.
aslant A RELIC AT DROITWICH.—Our neighbours of this
saline borough, it would seem, abound so in
n
the
and things of " days lang syne," that, as in
l ease of most other articles with which the market
chances
to be overstocked, they set a diminished value
Poll them. The writer of this, on the occasion of a re-
Zot visit to the Town-hall of Droitwich, observing near
fire-Place a singular• looking metal vessel, in which
ti re deposited the municipal coals, made a closer inspec-
and found that it was one of the ancient Winchester
I Z
oi "els sent down by Queen Elizabeth's Government to
corporate towns as the standard measure for regu-
'Lag periodically the market measures. It is made of
i't:YPeT, is circular in shape, and stands on feet ; around
11 an inscription in Latin—" Elizabeth. Queen of Great
13 "tltio France, and Ireland," and the date is 1601. It
is
excellent preservation, notwithstanding the un-
favourable circumstances through which it has passed to
• its present undignified use ; and ought at once to be
care of, or presented to the Worcestershire
useum. There was no further use for the article, it
would seem, after the passing of the law which appointed
i,,
sPectors of weights and measures ; it was then kicked
":!out the market for many years, and was finally rescued
go through the ignoble duties of a coal-hod. The
first statutea relating to measures is in Richard 1., 1197,
whichl appoints an individual in every county, city, and
.rough,
"gh, to supervise the assize, or standard of weights
MO measures; and by the 16th of Charles I. salt was
eolva.uanded to be sold by measure, and not by weight ;
and at; the duty was formerly paid to the Government
‘1j)013 Irv,. ry bushel of salt made at Droitwich, the Deems •
sltlY will be manifest of having a standard in the Ex-
ei equer-liou.se (as the Town-hall was until recently
tailed), whereiii these duties wer Joure aid and registered,
the " collectors's of the Crown.—na/.
.m.P A.TAL ACCIDENT.—A waterman, called Miller,
on Monday afternoon Last, whilst plying in the harbour;
accidentally slipped oneof his paddles overboard, and in
endeavouring to regain it, ale weight of his body heeled
Hie boat on her side, and precipitated the poor fellow into
the water. The accident was observed by the seamen on
board one of the ships in ordinary, but assistance was
unavailing, as the body never rose after its immersion. It
I'lB picked up in a short time by the exertions of an
.0
Meer of her Majesty's ship Stag.—Devonport Inde-
-Pendent.

43itt. Wit Al*tl:-ptuton.

" Who runs may read."

I.O.IZEIGN.
On Thursday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of the French received the British Ambassador,
Lord Cowley, the Ministers of Brazil, Bavaria, and Hol-
land, the Charge d'Affaires of Spain, Baron de Bour-
queney, the President of the Chamber of Peers, Marshal
Duke de Reggio, Marshal Count Molitor, Count de Per-
thuis, Baron Girod (de l'Ain), M. Casimir Pettier, M.
Vatry, and M. Lavalette.
The Duke d'Auinale, with his young bride, arrived at
the Tuileries on Friday afternoon, and were received
at the foot of the staircase of the Palace in the most af-
fectionate manner by the whole of the Royal Family
assembled, including the King and Queen of the Bel-
gians. At seven o'clock there was a grand dinner of
150 covers, and all the windows of the Tuileries were
in a blaze of light. The Prince de Joinville had also
arrived. The King and Queen are, therefore, sur-
rounded by the whole of their family, forming perhaps
the most happy domestic circle in France, and we
believe a model of good order and morality to the rest of
the nation.
A Council of Ministers was held on Thursday at the
Tuileries, at which the King presided.
Some of the journals state that the Paris and Ver-
sailles Company (right bank) have agreed with Pro-
fessor Wheatstone for the establishment of his system of
electrical telegraph on the whole of their line.
The Journal des Debats announces that the six
months' interest on the Spanish Three per Cents. will be
paid in Paris, by M. Pillet, Will, and Co., from the Ist
of January next.
A complete change of weather has taken place at
Paris. On Friday night a thaw commenced and con-
tinued during Saturday.
The Minister of Public Worship has addressed a cir-
cular to the French Bishops, stating that, having been
applied to by one of their body to know whether, as the
fete of the Ascension and that of Louis Philippe tall, for
the year 1845, on the same day, they are to be celebrated
at the same time, he had to reply that he saw no reason
why this should not take place, the ceremonies usual on
the King's fete in no way interfering with the service in-
cidental to the Ascension.
A prosecution against M. Mangin, chief editor of the
National de Quest of Nantes, founded upon an article
entitled "De la Richesse du Clergd d Nantes," was
tried on the 9th before the Court of Assizes in that
city. The charges were, outrage in turning into deri-
sion the Catholic religion, legally recognised in France;
of exciting animosity between different classes of so-
ciety, and endeavouring to disturb the public peace by
exciting the animosity of the citizens against one class
of society. The jury, however, returned a general ver-
dict of not guilty upon all the counts, and M. Mangin
was discharged.
The Sud of Marseilles states that on the Bth there
was the heaviest fall of snow in that city that has been
recorded for a hundred years. The snow was nearly 50
sentimetres (about 20 inches English) in depth.
3.1LV7 AND PDXACIS.
The Commission for the town and county of Notting-
ham was opened on Saturday before Mr. Juitice Patte-
son. The Grand Jury, at a late hour, ignored the bill
against Lightfoot and Raven.
At Liverpool, George Evans was convicted of the
murder of Jane Millon, at Hulme, in tlt borough of
Manchester, on the 14th of August last, and sentenced to
death.
Alfred Hawke and Thomas Woolhouse, who had been
out on bail, were charged at York with having, at
Sheffield, thrown some explosive substance into the
dwelling-house of Joseph Almond, with intent to murder
or do him some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor,
on being examined, would not swear to the prisoners;
the case was accordingly at once abandoned, and his
Lordship intimated that he should not allow the prose-
cutor's costs.
At Bury St. Edmund's, Mary Sheming, aged 51, was
convicted of the wilful murder of John Sheming, a male
infant child, the natural son of Caroline Sheming. The
Learned Judge, in most feeling and impressive lan-
guage, passed upon the wretched culprit the awful sen-
tence of death.
COUNT— r.11.811X07,11.33M32.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caro-
line Leveson Gower were to have arrived at Trentham
Hall, Staffordshire, on Saturday last, from Holkar Hall,
the Earl of Burlington's seat, near Bilnethorpe, where
they have been staying since their departure from the
Dowager Lady Blantyre's seat, near Edinburgh.
The Duke of Cleveland has left St. James's-square, on
his return to join the Duchess and Lady Augusta Pau-
lett at Baby Castle, Durham.
The Duke of Rutland has left town on his return to
Belvoir Castle, where the Noble Duke will shortly re-
ceive a succession of visitors.
The Duke of Devonshire entertained a party at dinner
on Friday lust, at Devonshire House.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby returned
to the Clarendon Hotel, on Saturday, from a visit to Vis-
count Melbourne, at Brocket
The Marquis of Anglesey on Friday left Uxbridge
House for Beaudesert, Staffordshire, the Noble and Gal-
lant Marquis having come to town solely to attend the
chapter of the order of the Garter.
Earl and Countess De Grey left St. James's-square on
Saturday last for Wrest Park, Beds. Earl and Countess
Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, and a select party
go to Wrest Park to pass the approaching Christmas.
_ _ . .

The Marquis and Marchioness 9f Bath, Lord Harry

Thyane, Viscount Dungarvan, Sir G. and Lady
ton, Lady Johnstone, Hon. Mr. Boyle, and Colonel and
Mrs. Daly, are amongst the latest arrivals at Bath.
Earl Cadogan left Piccadilly on Saturday for Leaming-
ton Spa, from whence the Earl goes to Beaudesert, on a
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey. The
Countess and Ladies Cadogan remain in town.
The Earl of Powis has returned to Powis Castle, near
Welshpool, to join the Countess and family, who hare
arrived there from Wynustay, Sir W. W. Wynn's seat.
ratitsc;o2,4...ganelatcarse.
At the meeting of the Agricultural Protection Society,
y,
held on baturday, at their rooms, Hanover-square,
Hudson read the report, from which it appeared that a
large amount of arrears in subscriptions had been dis-
charged during the last half year, and steps had been
taken for ,facilitating future collections. Since the last
half yearly meeting, upwards of 300 members had been
elected, and the society now consisted of 97 life
governors, 208 annual governors, 6,037 members, 470
life members, and 15 honorary members, making a total
of 6,827 members on the list of the society at the present

time.
The Commissioners of Woods and Forests are about
to proceed with the erection, in New Palace-pard, of
temporary Committee-rooms for the :Members of the
House of Commons, and of courts for the Vice-Chan-
cellors. They will be erected in immediate contiguity
with Westminster Hall.
There are in France, says one of the journals, 3,500 ac-
tors , ,900'actresses, andl6,ooo individuals attached in one
way or other to the theatres, making a total of 22,000
persons living upon the budget of Thalia and Melpo-
mene, which is estimated at 30,000,000 E
On Saturday evening, the 7th inst., about 7 o'clock,
as Mr. Thomas M‘Kire, of Grangemore, barony of Tire-
ragh, and county of Sligo, was returning home from Sligo,
on horseback, two shots were fired at him on the mail
coach road, about midway between Ballysodare and the
chapel of Currowna ; the first ball hit him on the right
side of the head at the back of his ear, knocked off his
hat, and cut the skin to the bone; the second ball marked
him on the right eyebrow.
On Saturday night the West-end Institution for the
Nightly Relief of the Houseless Poor, which is situated
in Market-street, Edgewareroad, was, for the first time,
opened dingo he reception of inmates, and which is capable
of afforg accommodation for about 200 men, women,
and children, who have their separate wards.
The Rev. Dr. M'Caul, Rector of St. Ethelburga,
Bishopgate, and Professor of Hebrew in King's Coloflege,
London, halibut been appointed a prebendary St.
Paul's, read himself in on Sunday, at the close of the
afternoon service.

IMPROPRIETY OF LINING WELLS WITH BRIE,._
_Two or three pieces of common brick were steeped f
our
days days in a basinful of distilled water ; the water
then decanted off and examined by various chemical
tests. It was immiscible with soap, struck a lively
green with syrup of violets, yvas rendered slightly lac-
tescent by the volatile alkali, and quite milky by the
fixed alkali and a solution of saccharine impropriety
experiment affords a. striking proof of of
lining wells with bricks, which cannot fail of rendering
the water hard and unwholesome.—The Builder.
There has just been discovered in the neighbour-
hood of Bonn the skeleton of a monstrous crocodile, dif-
fering in its conformation from all the species now
known. These animals differ from each other according
to the countries which they inhabit. Those of the Nile
bear no great resemblance to either the caimans of
America or the aniTals seen in the Ganges. It would
sewn that in the antideluvian ages the Rhine also had
its peculiar species.
ARRIVAL OF GIBRALTAR MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON,
DEC. 15.—The Oriental Company's steam- ship Pachte
arrived this mornin, aandt half-lanpded the Peninsular and
ast ten o'clock, in the
docks, from Gibraltgar,
Mediterranean mails, which will be forwarded to London
by the mail train to-morrow mo.rning. Her dates are—
Gibraltar, 7th instant ; Cadiz, Bth ; Lisbon, 10th ;
Oporto and Farg
o 1 11th. The Pacha has eight passengers
and a small carg of fruit.. The Braganza, one of the
Oriental steam -ship., arrived at the new quarantine sta-
tion early this morning, from
. Constantinople, with a full
cargo of silk. Site left Gibraltar on the 7th instant.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY IN THE TOWER .—On Sa-
turday forenoon the men employed for soiree time past
removing the remains of those interred in the burying
ground on the north side of the parade, in the Tower,
preparatory to the erection of new barrack!, were not a
little surprised, whilst pursuing their operations, to come
upon a coffin, the contents of which consisted entirely of
The dust, not a particle of human bone being visible.
The outside coffin, which was made of wood and had
brass handles, contained a leaden one, in which was a
shell filled with saw dust, and nothing else. The coffin
had been in the ground 61 years,
.the date being ecer-
tamped from the plate on the
.exterior coffin. This bays,
terious discovery has occasioned much gossip in the
Tower, and numerous are the surpises as to the disposa
n-
-1
of the body, which to a certamty never bad be en i
terred, and consequently the funeral, as well p tile
burial service, must haveW been a
-CLBANn solem mockery Satur-
.
ACCIDENT Fltolll INDOWING.--OB
day afternoon a young woman, in the service of Mr.
Chivors, Church-street, Hackney, while on a ladder
cleaning the landing-window, suddenly fell to the
ground. in On being picked up her right arm was found
broken two places and her body.severely injured.