The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-31 00:00:00

RRIVAL OF TiIE CALEDONIA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDICESD AL—The Caledonia steam-
-814, Captain Lott, which sailed from Boston on
the 16th, and from Halifax on the 18th, reached the
Mersey this morning. Her advices from the United
States are seven days later than those which came to
hand on Monday by the Patrick Henry. The Cale-
donia brings upwards of seventy passengers.
The excitement of the Presidential election con-
tinues. It is said that the " native American" party
In New York and elsewhere, have combined with the
Whigs, which strengthens, of course, the position of
Mr. Clay, while, in the same ratio, it weakens that
of his opponent, Mr. Polk. Indeed, it is said, that
the elections so far render Clay's success certain.
Mr. Anson Jones has been elected President of
Texas for the ensuing year. Mr. Jones is said to be
°PPosed to annexation, and favourable to a commer-
cial_ alliance between his country and Great Britain.
(Ihe news of his success seems to have caused some
1:
_lftPpointment amongst the party in the United
States favourable to the reception of Texas into the
t
ni°n• The new President was elected, too, in op-
position to General Burleson, a warm friend of an-
nexation.

A foot-race for a thousand dollars, between a native
and a Lancashire runner, who had come over to con-
test for the prize, had excited considerable stir in the
Yicinity of New York.
Ford, who shot a young man at St. Louis for se-
"tieing his daughter, had been tried for murder, and
acquitted.

A Gazette Extraordinary contains the formal ap-
pointment of Mr. Viger to be President of the Exe-
cutive Council, and of Mr. Sherwood to be Solicitor-
General for Canada East. It seems that under the
new arrangements this latter office does not command
It seat in the Cabinet. The Hon. W. De Bleury,
and the Hon. W. Moffatt, are the Constitutional
candidates for the city of Montreal. The latest par-
ticulars of election movements in Lower Canada is
decidedly favourable to the Constitutional party.
Prom Mexico we learn that President Houston had
addressed a letter to Santa Anna, in reply to the ma-
n‘.ifesto of Governor Woll, which appeared in the
Mexican official paper. Santa Anna had become in-
volved, it is said, in some misunderstanding with the
Chamber of Representatives, and had asked leave to
_retire for a time. General Canligo was spoken of as
being likely to be called to the head of the Govern-
raeut ad interim.
The accounts from Brazil state that vessels of war
'were being actively fitted out, for the purpose, it was
LoPposed, of blockading Monte Video, and preventing
aenos Ayres from taking that place.
The accounts from St. Domingo state that all was
quiet there.
f The Caledonia met the Acadia about twenty miles
leaving
Halifax, the latter entering as the former was
:aivii.og the port.
u
The cotton track in the United States was very
Exchange on London, 1091 to 110; Paris, sf.
22ic• to sf. 21 ic.
Sp

for ORTING EXTRAORDINARY. Within the lasth
bl°lght, John Pickernell, Esq., of Holt Castle,nehle means
'en twice honoured with visits from the
and
tigentelemen . composing the Court at Witley, on
down
bxcursiona. The number of game "broughtnnpreee-
Yof this small party
treretuften,ven in
themostpreserves.
closely
o is
ns'
the watchedpe perhaps,
h fia
rps
occasion, twere us
the slaughter has been handed o
hi, in
it appears that
killed(..tie field, tvrenty-two brace of partridges
and nine pheasants on the ojeigthhet
I;7.ted visit the extraordinary number of twenty
the e Of partridges and three pheasants were killedo_ init..
tri‘earne field ; and a forty-and-a-half brace
half
tf
Picfc'" were " picked up" in two hours and aha . PMr.
pressedernell'a guests (amongst whom was Earl Howe) ex-
iqthth themselves, as may be expected, much pleased
ie., thue excellent sport he had been the means of afford-
') ern.-- Worce tershire Chronicle.
EXTENSION
8 „
N —lt
gh,eB OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATIO .. .
Parr us much pleasure to learn that the requniseitwe
b._ Parka
notices have been given of four
i.-anches from the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, radiating,
into the
iwneitloeinrieLnorr two instances, a considerable distance
of the country. Two of these branches
-
ue the means. of connecting. some very 1
tkort.ant districts in Ayrshire ; and, in addition to
Whichten t
ebrepnritefisintgthe will confer
the
Pasys, they will, localities,alsoeetnhsrtoiutugthe
a certain and profitable source of revenue to the
°lino tdhoeu t
company who intend to carry them intoih
?i3eration, from the immense stores of mineral wealth
Lt,ly will eventually tend to develope. The branches
larall to are as follow :-Ist. A branch from Kil-
lleafrietken,to
ellaoisrtsnencleuch, Old Cumnock, passing by
Sore, Auchinleck, and eCreatriglinee, to old Mauchline,
bdocltounm,
Tabranch from the above line at Mauchline, to pa2sds.bAy
rbolton, St. Quivox, and to join the Glasgow and
Ayr line at Prestwick. 3d. A branch from the main line
at Leigh Hillington Paisley, to pass by Levern and
. ,
Eastwood, terminating at Barrhead, Neilston. 4. A
huriiruarnleeht,
Pfreoim the last mentioned branch, to diverge at
sley, and to terminate at Nitshill Copperas
" L'rks---ilyr Observer.
.k.r:ZTESIVE ROBBERIES AT HAVERHILL AND ITS
''E hnotrahooD.—A short time since it was discovered
teat the warehouse& of Messrs. Gurteen and Son, frock
rmakers and manufacturers of this town, had been
ontered by the use of skeleton keys, and property to a
.14
usidnerrteliebnle, amount removed. By the exertions of Mr.
named
e and ir, jun., with the able assistance of constables
Choi Llagger, three notorious characters,
biek es Barnard, William " Tosh" Briggs, and John
avi„ "son, "ere taken into custody; also three others,, atobiZere notorious receivers, namely, George .. Crroap'..
tin- Solil (of Clare), Charles Causton (of West . h t
44, —A Inb s Suffolk), and Charles Cracknell (of Wit ers-
sv,,r ), the whole of whom on Fridaym laßst.
8 , eonmaitted by the Rev. W. Mayd and q.ert for trial at the next Quarter Sessions at Bury
their dniunthc. As the gang has been carryingt ex-
their
nefarious transactions for months
" by
g almost from Sudbury to Peterborough, and,
pi,o, °,rganised system of plunder, and the means em-
toal for entering places without any traces left, it is
bo fear
thated naany parties were sufferers, as it is repdorted
rtiis
.sneveral persons in the town and neighbourhoo are
stolenl'lt and property to an immense amount has beeh
T . . Charles Barnard, leader of the gang in these
'4ll, it is supposed, formerly came from Norwich, and
J°
short time since he entered the town of Haverhill as a
ii°,,tirulleYtnan painter, in which capacity he was employed
al'il `"Le"srs- Gurteen and Son, and whilst working for
the he obtained a thorough knowledge of the premises
tiold the mode of fastening the doors. There are others
tni:licated in the transaction not yet in custody, but it is
4,47Y,e hoPed justice will speedily overtake them.—Cam-
‘"e Advertiser.
ItonatELL.—An inquest was held on the 17th inst.,
ltirthe Abergavenny Arms, on the body of Mary Ann,
killed of John Green, labourer, who was accidentally
iled by her own son. It appeared that Maurice Green,
thet
son, had got upon a ladder the preceding morning
ho
gather come grapes growing upon the outside of the
°use. He was upon the topmost step of the ladder,
holding the upper- boughs of the vine in his left hand,
and cutting off the grapes with his right, when the nails
by Which the boughs were held gave way, and he fell
hackvvards upon his mother, alighting upon her head
and stomach. The boy was not injured, but the mother
fainted away. She was taken into the house, and me-
dical assistance obtained ; but she died the same day.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."—
,The
Guardian.
FATAL °amines ACCIDENT.—Mr. Payne held an
inquest list evening, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on
the body of James Williams, aged nine, son of a Dutch
clock-maker, of 14, Dorset-street, Spitalfields. It ap-
peared by the evidence of Mr. John Perriton, of No. 1,
White Conduit-street, afternoon last, Pentonville, that on Monday
house as he was passing by the St. Luke's Work-
, City-road, he saw a large crowd of persons in the
road assembled, thinking the Queen would return from
the Exchange that way, to travel to Windsor by the
Great Western Railway, and some of them were throw-
ing apples and pears to a number of female paupers who
w urni were looking over the workhouse wall. Witness, on
tng round saw the omnibus pass over deceased's
Oftbody. Another witness said he saw deceased running
piece of broken apple, and in so doing he slipped,
or was pushed down by another boy, and fell forward
before the near fare-wheel of the vehicle, which went
over his head. The witness said that the omnibus, a
Paddington one, was going slowly towards Islington,
that the driver pulled up instantly, and could not have
prevented the accident. The father of the child who
saw the accident, said no blame whatsoever attached to the
driver of the omnibus. Air. Ree a surgeon of th Ci-
road, dressed deceased's
wounds,, frightful and fate al ones
at the back of the head, and sent him instantly to the
hospital, in which he died immediately he was admitted.
Verdict, " Accidental death."
aImoCOAL TRADE.—The coal trade is at present active,
st beyond example, the number of cargoes shipped
r
long exceeding the proportion of former years. The
strike is, of course, aiding to this demand.—Tyne
Mercury.
WEST BROMWICH.—THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.--The
Pitmen in this neighbourhood, we are glad to hear, have
returned to their work, at the old rates of wages— Wor-
ceatershire Chronicle,

IS THERE ONE LAW FOR. THE
RICH AND ANOTHER FOR THE POOR ?
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
:yifc,—The following cases were reported in The Sun
of ;:_;aturday last—both prisoners were described as
moving in the same class of life :
THANES POLICE-OFFICE, 'UNION-HALL POLIC E- OFFICE,
OCT. 25, 1844. OCT. 25, 1844.
(Before Mr. Ballantine.) (Before Mr. Traill.)
Donald Wilkinson was Edward Faithful was
charged with assaulting, charged with assaulting,
with intent, &c., Sarah Au- with intent, &c , Alice:Sarah
derson, aged 14 (a servant Nott, aged 17 (daughter of
of all-work), committed for a retired tradesman), com-
trial, but admitted to bail, mitted fortrial,but admitted
himself in security for 401., to bail, himself in security
and two other parties for fur 5001., and two other par-
-20/ each.—Total amount of ties for 2501. each.—Total
bail, 801. amount of bail, 1,000/.
Your police report does not give a satisfactory state-
ment to account for the apparent discrepancy in the
amount of bail required in the two cases. Will you be
kind enough to favour your readers with a solution of
that which, at present, appears to be, Sir,
Ilfracombe, Oct. 28, 1844. AN ENIGMA ?

Accounts from Kensington Palace announce the
death of the lion. Aliss Wynyard, who, it will be recol-
lected, was for many years bedchamber- woman and con-
stant companion of her late Royal Highness Princess
Augusta. The deceased, who was in her 71st year, was
third daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Wynyard.
She was deservedly esteemed by the whole of the Bova'
Family, and apartments were allotted to her in Ken-
sington Palace shortly after the death of the Princess
Augusta.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed eleven o'clock
on Saturday morning next, to signify her Majesty's ap-
probation of the Lord Mayor elect; afterwards the Lord
Chancellor will give to the Judges, &c , the usual first
day of term breakfast. Each ceremony will take place
at his Lordship's residence in George-street.
THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.—LEASES.—A corre-
spondent informs us that Lord Weston lets about 50
acres at Kelvedon, in Essex, worth, to farm, 255. to 30s.
per acre, at 41. to Si. per acre, in half acres or acres. A
piece at Dedham-heath is let to poor people at 41. per
acre, worth 12s. Lord Stanley (says our correspondent)
recommends long leases. His Canada Corn Bill, last
year, brought in 25,000 barrels of flour and 20,000
Lushels of wheat : this year about 400,000 barrels of
flour and 300,000 bushels of wheat; and I think the quan-
tity will be doubled for some years to come. Much will
be smuggled, and lower the prices, it at this time only
paying ,•;;10i- per barrel ; while he and his Tory friends
tell the farmers they are protected with a duty of 20s.
per quarter. Who would take a lease with the present
prospects ?
ON THE OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.--
And the Royal Exchange was opened. The Queen was
feasted in all queenly glory. The sons of Commerce—
that is, the elder sons—did all that in their pockets lay
to honour and be honoured. Her Majesty looked around
her, and saw hundreds of men with the revenues of
princes, and all paid by trade. She saw, as we have
said, the elder sons of Commerce in the triumph, and
flush, and fulness of their wealth. There they were, in
that magnificent temple reared to their greatness. What
a glorious gathering ! how full and complete the satis-
faction ! Nothing—no tittle—was wanting to the na-
tional triumph. Yes—we think—one thing. It may be
thought sullen, carping in us to suggest a fault. We can
not help it. Even though Laurie deem us cynical, it
shall out. The elder sons of Commerce I And where,
we ask, were the younger ones ; they, the brethren
doomed, with treble toil, to a starveling patri-
mony? Why was there not a deputation—a chosen
few, just one small table full—from the sons of
labour—yea, and from the daughters too? Some score
or so of the toilsome hands, without whom England's
Royal Exchange would be of no more account than a
Temple of the Winds ? Surely it could not have marred
the glory of the picture, but rather—properly disposed—
have blended, an harmonious whole, to have had a few—
just a few—of those whose sweat is, after all, the only
gold of your prince merchant. It would have been
pleasing to see this ; to mark the touching acknowledg-
ment of plethoric wealth to toiling poverty. It was,
doultless, a goodly sight to the Queen to behold the mer-
chants, each the owner of a navy. Would her eye have
frowned had she also seen—as a representative of his
class—one drudging ship-porter, only one, with his equals
in labour, at the lowest table ? We think such a group
would have added finish to the picture; but the Com-
mittee had, doubtless, better judgment. Yet, would such
a homely party have had a use; for, like skeletons at an
Egyptian revel, it might have mutely preached to mer-
chant princes one common humanity. However, at the
opening of the next New Exchange—yes, in the year
2844—a1l this may perhaps be altered.—Punch.
Westminster-bridge is again opened to the public.
The acclivity of the carriage-way has been reduced in
the centre, and the hollows filled up both on the Middle-
sex and Surrey ends, particularly the latter, previously
inclination,
almost dangerous, and it now assumes a gradual
almost as level as -Waterloo-bridge ; while a similar ope-
ration has been performed on the footway, and which,
being now much higher than the road, the foot passen-
gers are protected from danger by strong wooden posts,
through the top of which passes a continuous line of
long iron bars, all danger from falling into the road
being ,thereby prevented.
Mr. Richard Radcliffe, many years Town-clerk of
Liverpool, died on Friday night at Leamington.
DREADFUL DEATH OF A CHILD BY FlRE.—Late
last evening Mr. Higgs held an inquest at St. George's
Hospital, on the body of Abraham NPDonald, aged five
years and a half, whose parent, a widow, resides at
No. 12, James-street, Kensington. It appeared by the
evidence of a man named Walker that, on Tuesday
evening, a little after seven, he was passing through the
above street, when he saw a burning mass rolling on the
pavement, and directly after a child's moans proceeded
from it. lie went to it, and found it to be deceased
with all his clothes on fire, and nearly burned off. With
assistance he extinguished the fire, and the child having
been first seen by 1)r. Merriman, of Kensington-square,
it was removed to that hospital, in which it died in a few
hours. The mother of deceased said she had only left
her room to fetch some beer, and thought the accident
was caused by the child endeavouring to take some pota-
toes from a saucepan on the fire. Verdict, " Accidental
death."
FARTHINGS AND lIALF.XARTHINGS.—It Wa..3 men-
tioned in this paper some months ago, that a coinage of
half-farthings was in preparation ; and we may now
state that a specimen of this new issue from the Mint
has found its way to this quarter. On Saturday last,
the treasurer of a yearly society in town received three
packets from an absent member, one containing four-
penny-pieces, another farthings alone, and the third
half-farthings, the last being all new and beau-
tiful as when issued from the Mint—the whole being
in payment of his dues. The eccentric remit-
tance excited no small merriment amongst the mem-
bers. Although it was done perhaps in jest, it
recalls serious considerations. For a long time past
farthings have been in dissuetude in Dundee, for no
other purpose, apparently, than to saddle purchasers of
provisions and other articles with a serious tax. In all
other places this useful coin is a legal tender, but our
shopkeepers, very knowingly for themselves, have abo-
lished them altogether. The consequences are obvious—
their gain in the course of a single year is immense ; for
a poor man who lays out Is. for his day's provisions loses
about 20. by buying in small quantities. In illustration of
this, a purchaser of a quartern loaf pays 64d., for a half-
quartern he pays 3:}(l.—a farthing going into the baker's
pocket. Salt butter is 9d. per lb, but he who buys a ilb. is
charged 21d., or at the rate of 10d. per lb. Snuff was
formerly lid. per half ounce, it is now lid. to ac-
commodate the retailer. If this inquiry were further
pursued, it would be found, that on many articles is the
farthing exacted. It is really the business of the public
to look into this matter, and no longer submit to be
gulled. Now that half-farthings are issued, let these as
well as farthings be put into circulation, and let the
working man have the full benefit of his hard-won earn-
ings. In England half-farthings are now current, and
in all the towns in Scotland, we believe, except Dundee,
farthings are so. Why should the retailers of this town
be thus allowed to defraud the lieges ?—Dundee
Advertiser.
THE SCOTT MONUMENT.—On Saturday this splen-
did monument of genius was completed by the placing
of its topmost stone on the structure. On its being
fairly placid in its position, the workmen greeted it with
three hearty cheers, and the Union flag was displayed
from it daring the remainder of the day. In the course
of the afternoon a number of the Committee, and other
citizens, went to the top, hoisted up through the main
scaffolding by the steam engine. A bottle of brandy was
also drawn up, and the firss glass dedieated to this chef
d'oeuvre of architecture—" The Monument to Sir Walter
Scott." The building is now 200 feet from the level of
Princes-street, and about 5 feet above the spire of St.
Andrew's Church. It has been entirely built by six
masons, four of whom have been employed upon it from
first to last. The joiner work of the main scaffolding,
which has been much admired, was put up under the
direction of Mr. Lhind, the contractor, by one man.
There has not been the slightest accident during the
whole progress of the building ; and in the course of a
few days a considerable part of the scaffolding will be
taken down. There is still much to be done, however,
before the monument is completely out of the bands of
the builders. In connexion with this subject, we may
mention that the vessel at Leith, which contains the
marble block for the Scott statue, was on Saturday
brought up to Mr. Maxton'.i yard.—Edinburgh Ad
vertiser.
DANGEROUS BITE FROM A RAT. -- Yesterday
morning, about three o'clock, the family of Mr. Roderick,
the proprietor of an ale and stout- house, at the corner of
Southwark-bridge-road and Union-street, %ere much
alarmed owing to one of his children and himself being
severely bitten during the night by a rat. The child, a
little girl about three years old, was lying in a cot ad-
joining her father's bed. The latter heard the child
scream several times in the night, and exclaim " Don't."
The latter being uneasy for some time was taken into
her father's bed, where she also kept on crying for some
time. About three o'clock Mr. Roderick was awoke by
something biting his fore-finger on his right hand, in a
dreadful manner. He immediately got up, and having
procured a light, found the bed clothes covered with
blood, which was flowing from one of the child s ears,
which was dreadfully bitten, as was also his own finger.
On searching the bed an immense rat was discovered,
which after some trouble was destroyed. Both the
wounds on the child's ear and Mr. Roderick's finger are
in a very painful state.
THE EXCHANGE BELLS. —The smallest (or highest
toned) bell in the tower of the Royal Exchange is B
flat, and not E fiat, so printed by mistake on Monday.
The actual compass is from E flat, third space in the
bass, to B flat, on the third line in the treble stave,
comprising twelve notes of the diatonic scale, in the
key of E flat, with A natural and D flat in addition, as
accidental or casual notes, so as to render the chime ca-
pable of playing tunes in the keys of E, B or A fiat.