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

ARRIVAL OF TILE CALEDONIA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—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 00 Monday by the Patrick Henry. The Cale-
"°°l3 brings upwards of seventy passengers.
The excitement of the Presidential election con-
It is said that the " native American" party
in New York and elsewhere, have combined with the
:fhigs, which strengthens, of course, the position of
74
:,.4r,_'.ClB3', while, in the same ratio, it weakens that
-4" opponent, Mr. Polk. Indeed, it is said, that
the elections so far render Clay's success certain.
Air. 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.
The news of his success seems to have caused some
disappointment, amongst the party in the United
loitates favourable to the reception of Texas into the
°I". The new President was elected, too, in op-
Position to General Burleson, a warm friend of an-
nexation,
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
vicinity of New York.
Ford, who shot a young man at St. Louis fur se-
ac
"ing his daughter, had been tried for murder, and
quitted.
Gazette Extraordinary contains the formal ap-
Do intraent of Mr. Viger to be President of the Exe-
cutive Council, and of Mr. Sherwood to be Solicitor-
C'eneral for Canada East. It seems that under the
new arrangements this latter office does not command
at seat in the Cabinet. The Hon. W. De Bleury,
cad. the Hon. W. Moffatt, are the Constitutional
decidedly favourable to the Constitutional party.
rora Mexico we learn that President Houston had
addressed a letter to Santa Anna, in reply to the ma-
Westa f
0 Governor Woll, which appeared in the
vs'iezican official paper. Santa Anna had become in-
volved, it is said, in some misunderstanding with the
Chamber of Representatives, and had asked leave to
fur a time. General Canligo was spoken of as
being likely to be called to the head of the Govern-
tient ad interim.
Thebeing
ccounts from Brazil state that vessels of war
actively fitted out, for the purpose, it was
isitilWe PPosed, of blockading Monte Video, and preventing
11,Zos Ayres fro% taking that place.
4•11 e accounts from St. Domingo state that all was
(Net there.
t_ The Caledonia met the Acadia about twenty miles
rm. Ralifax, the latter entering as the former was
"4,ing the port.
he cotton trade in the United States was very
2dull, Exchange on London, 1091 to 110; Paris, sf.
le*e* t° sf, 2lie.
Sp

fo •
OIITING EXTRAORDINARY. Within
tl has
rtMght J h P. k 41 Esq of Holt Case,
t ,un ic erill , •9 the last
en twice honoured with visits from the noblemeirl 14d gentlemen composing the Court at Witley, shoot.,bs excursions. The number of game
own by this small party is, perhaps, unsperreves.
•11., return of the
dented even in the most closely watched " brought
l'lfom this, it appears slaughter
the
that
has u bteheen
fihandedrstpereeLowieues:.
kiii'elle field, twenty-two brace of partudgnese_ . e se,o,s4, and nine pheasants on the oc_catswioenty! tn
eight
I,tt.euu visit the extraordinary number of the a_il partridges and three pheasants werekigedpain-
trid4arae field ; and a forty-and-a-half brace _of r
l'id,' were " picked up" in two hours and a half . AZ._
pressol;l4l,Pa guests (amongst whom was Earl Howe)
wiul
ti, elves,ues as may be expected, much rleased
ino. them,` port he had been the means of afford-
s. ,eal,,,__ ~,, . . .
Etrt iv port
Chr onwte.
requisite
x,Riavrels, 'N81" OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATION.—It
us much pleasure to learn that the
four
new
branches notices have been given
i,_ 0 es from the Glasgow and Ayr Railway,n
will beinto the
.0 ne or two in t considerable distance
branches
in
s ances, a
these
of the country. Two of radiating,
very int-
the means of connecting °
tPhortant districts in Ayrshire ; and, shrai.e.additien to
which benefit the will confer on the localities through
eae-tc'eehrtatihneYaniss, th
.11,
no doubt, also constitute
enterprising companysource. who in
profietyblwi of revenue to
into
mineral wealth
th iti, from the immense stores of .
mi y will eventuall }low to d velop
uded to are y _ e
branch from Kil-
i,a___,as f :-Ist. A
by
e. The branches
Ric'uut to Horsecleuch, Old Cumnock, passing,.
e
arton, Galston, Craigie Tarbolton, Mauch me,
oore s •
branch
, tiuchinleck, and Catrine, to old Cumnock. 2d. A
I:Etrfrom the above line at Mauchline, to pass by
bolton, St. Quivox, and to join the Glasgow and
Ayr line at Prestwick. 3d. A branch from the main line
atr, La; a
h Wit'
1 ington, Paisley, to pass by Lavern and
ir;astsvood, terminating at Barrhead, Neilston. 4. A
iJoancli from the last mentioned branch, to diverge at
7-tv rlet, Paisley, and to terminate at Nitshill Copperas
barP*----44Yr Observer.
~,,:e4_OXTENSIVE ROBBERIES AT HAVERHILL AND ITS_
lit alt the "RooD.—A short time since it was discovered
enter
makers e warehouses of Messrs. Gurteen and Son, frock
.and manufacturers of this town, bad been
LeGurtdee,
eons, , by the use of skeleton keys, and property toi a
-,-,.
_merable amount removed. By the exertions of Ir.
jun., with the able assistance of constables
eharlen -areaer, three notorious characters, named
t 5..,.. s rd, William " Tosh" Briggs, and John
N,,Zokewnesron, ere taken into custody; also three others,
,
itc,bius e notorious receivers,
ting, p (of Clare), Charles Causton (of Wes . h Is-
namely, George ‘t‘ Crrep_
field, -11"fisii), and Charles Cracknell (of Wit er Were
er, 0 u), the whole of whom on Friday
last
BYer fort "tatiiitted by the Rev. W. Mayd and r
s zi rial at the next Quarter Sessions at. Bury
their Inuad• As the gang has been carrying on
teridi,, nefarious transactions for months past, e.x-
their"g almost from Sudbury to Peterborough, and, by
pio,
_Oirganised System of plunder, and the means
iteru-s
to ,J:i for entering places without any trac.es. left,i
t,
Ito feared a
several 'the neighbourhood are
many parties were sufferers, as it is reported
zeissin persons in town and
844 Zi and property to an immense amount s beeh
these
~. Charles Barnard, leader of the gang in
h, and
at art,..io
ti t
.is supposed, formerly came from Norwich,
as a
journre time since he entered the town of Haverhill
1 •ed
hy Re_raan painter, in which capacity he was em
P:3for
the,, he Gurteen and Son, and whilst working
4a3 thee obtained a thorough knowledge of the premises
it„li_ Mode of fastening the doors. There are otherstis
to rbecated. in the transaction not yet in custody, butciam.
• hoped justice will speedily overtake them.—Cam-
at Advertiser.
It°bll VA, . --An inquest was held on the 17th inst.,
at the Abergavenn Arms, on the body of Mary Ann,
wife of John Green, labourer, who was accidentally
th"ed by her own son. It appeared that Maurice Green,
t e 8011, had got upon a ladder the preceding morning
iti:i gather s.oine grapes growing upon the outside of the
house, lie was upon the topmost step of the ladder,
°Ting' the upper boughs of the vine in his left hand,
andi cutting off the grapes with his right, when the nails
,1 which the boughs were held gave way, and be fell
backwards upon his mother, alighting upon her head
bad stomach. The boy was not injured, but the mother
mi away. She was taken into the house, and me-
di died' assistance obtained ; but she died the same day.
me-
t •
h e jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."-
-uriYillon Guardian.
in E'ALTAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.—Mr. Payne held an
quest Litt 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, Pentonville, that on Monday
afternoon last, as he was passing by the St. Luke's Work-
assembled City- road, he saw a lar,ge crowd of persons in the
road assembled, thinking the Queen would return from
the E
xchange that way; to travel to Windsor by the
Great
ingeat Western Railway, and some of them were throw-
apples and pears to a number of female paupers who
ere looking over the workhouse wall. Witness, on
turning round saw the omnibus pass over deceased's
edY. Another witness said he saw deceased running
after a piece of broken apple, and in so doing he slipped,
°r was pushed down by another boy, and fell forward
before the near fore-wheel of the vehicle, which went
,;vermedia head. The witness said that the omnibus, a
gton one, wasoin
g that the driver g slowly towards Islington,
prev ulled up instantly, and could not have
ented p
the accident. The father of the child who
s_Etvlr the accident, saidno blame whatsoever attached to the
driver of the omnibus. Mr. Ree, a surgeon of the City-
road, dressed deceased's wounds, frightful and fatal ones
at the back of the In-ad, and sent him instantly to the
hospital, in which he died immediately he was admitted.
Verdict, " Accidental death."
.1 COAL TRADE.—The coal trade is at present active,
farst beyond example, the number of cargoes shipped
1 exceeding the proportion of former years. The
'''tig strike is fcourse, aiding to this demand.—Tyne
411-__ , 0 mercury,
IVEs.r 13aoscwicu.—TnE Carzunts' STRIKE.—The
pitmen in this neighbourhood, we are glad to hear, have
cestershire
rettrted to theirwork, at the old rates of wages—Wor-
Chronicle. •

VS THERE ONE
RICH AND ANOTHE
TO THE EIHTO,
SfE.,—The following cases
of Saturday last—both pri
moving in the sawe class of I
TIIA.3II:S POLICE-OFFICE, UNION-HALL POLICE-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 An- i with intent, &c , Alice:Sarah
derson, aged 14 (a servant Nott, aged 17 (daughter of
of all-work), committed for a retired tradesman), corn-
trial, but admitted to bail, mated fortrial, butadmitted
himself. in security for 401., to bail, himself in security
and two other parties for for 5001., and two other par-
-201. 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 ?

LAW FOR THE
,11. FOI THE POOR ?
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were reported in The Sun
isoners were described as

Accounts from Kensington Palace announce the
death of the Hon. Miss 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 Royal
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.
TII E ALLOTMENT S YSTEM.---L EA SES.—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 51. 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)
commends 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 ‘5lOl 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
so dangerous, and it now assumes a gradual inclination,
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
Liverpoel, 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 al‘Donald, 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 lie saw a burning mass rolling on the
pavement, and directly after a child's moans proceeded
from it. He 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 Dr. 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. Verdibt, " Accidental
death."
FARTHINGS AND HALI,FARTHINGS.—It was 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, hale 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 2d. by buying in small quantities. In illustration of
this, a purchaser of a quartern loaf pays 61d., for a half-
quartern he pays 31d.—a farthing going inte the baker's
pocket. Salt butter is 9d. per lb, but he who buys a is
charged 2;kd., 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 Duudee,
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 placed in its position, the workmen greeted it with
three hearty cheers, and the Union flag was displayed
from it during 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 hands 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's 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, were 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 dreadfiilly 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 i 3 B
flat, and not E flat, 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.