The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-01 00:00:00

COURT-rAsmozvAnx.E.

The Queen will have a concert at Buckingham Palace on Mon.
day next.

The Queen Dowager has issued cards of invitation for a grand
soiree and concert at Marlborough House, on Monday next,- the
sth May.
The Duchess of Kent intends to give a grand ball at Clarence
House, St. James's, on Friday, the 9th.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have issued cards for a
grand dinner nt Montague House, on the 9th inst.
The French Ambassador gave a magnificent banquet last evening
at the French Embassy, in honour of the fete of the King of the
French, to most of the Foreign Ministers and the principal mem-
bers of the Government. 'lire only toasts given were that of his
Maje• ty Louis Philippe, and that of our gracious Sovereign Queen
Victoria.

The Archbishop of York gave a grand banquet at his mansion in
Grosvenor-square, to the directors of the Concerts of Ancient
Music, the Archbishop being the director for the evening. The
Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured
the Archbishop with their presence upon the occasion.
Lady Brougham had a soiree at her Ladyship's mansion in
Grafton-street, which was attended, among others, by the following
members of the fashionable world :—Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the French Ambassador and the Duke de Broglie, the
Spanish Ambassador, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess
Dictrichsten, the Russian Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the
Hanoverian Minister, the Dutch Minister, the American Minister
and Mrs. and Miss Everett, the Bavarian Minister, the Duke of
Richmond, &c.
The meeting at Almack's, which was the last of the first sub.
scription, was very numerously attended. The second subscription
commences on Wednesday.
MISCELLANEOUS. _ .

The debate in the House of Lords on the subject of the admis-
sion of the public to the condemned sermon in Newgate, has caused
some stir in the City. The Sheriffs take upon themselves the en-
tire responsibility of what has occurred, and are ready to justify all
they have tone whenever they may be called upon.
The Bill introduced by the Duke of Richmond into the House
of Lords, on Tuesday night, on the subject of spirit licences in
Scotland, granted to the keepers of turnpike.gates, is entitled a
Bill " for repealing so much of an Act passed in the first and
second year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the
Fourch, entitled An Act for amending and making more effectual
the Laws concerning Turnpike-roads in £cotland,' as relates to the
powers of Justices to grant licences to Tacksmen of Tolls, &c."
The Bill was presented by the Noble Duke, and read a first time.
No day has yet been fixed for the next stage of this Bill.
From a return issued yesterday, by order of the House of Lords,
it appears that the amount of the bank-notes in circulation in
Scotland, in 1842, was, on an average, 2,820,726/. The average
of 1843 was 2,731.7701.; and of 1844, 2,950,7041. Some months
the amount exceeds 3,500;000/. ; but the averages of the years
were as above stated.

Miss Davenport is suffering from a severe and dangerous attack
of bronchitis, and it is feared th,t it will be some time before she
is enabled to resume her professional duties.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of
101., sent by some person unknown, in a note dated the 30th of
On Tuesday morning, as a man in the employ of Mr. Bryant,
master carman, was loading his waggon with bags of sugar, at the
back or B warehouse, in the St. Katharine's Docks, two of the
bags, while in the act of being lowered from the loophole, slipped
from the sling, and falling, broke the poor fellow's leg. He was
instantly removed, in a state of great suffering, to the London
Hospital.
A too often successful trick is now playing off in and about Lon-
don by a seafaring-looking man, who, finding from gossiping neigh-
bours, any one who has dear relatives abroad, immediately goes to
him, and pretending that he has just arrived from that country, re-
presents that he was charged with a box or some other small package
from the distant relative, which was detained on landing at Liverpool
by the Custom-house, on account of same duties on cargo, and
stating that he is about to return to that place to rejoin his ship,
proffers his services to pay the charges, if the party will only ad-
vance him the money. And as most persons are anxions to have
any memorial from a dear friend abroad, the impostor succeeds,
in many instances, in obtaining money and causing great disap-
pointment.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—We believe that we
can state with almost a certainty, that there is no foundation for
the paragraph which appeared in the Globe of last night, and
copied into some of the morning papers to-day, respecting it being
the intention of Earl Lonsdale, the Earl of Liverpool, and the
Marquis of Exeter to resign office, in consequence of not agreeing
with the increased grant to Maynooth. We understand no such
ininuation nas Uects .1.7 f. tho Noblemen alluded to.—Herald.

,
PEEBLES-SHIRE I.4LECTIoN.-1:11e election fur Pce-
bles-sl.ire is fixed to take place at Peebles, on Monday next, the sth
inst. There is not to be any opposition to Mr. Mackenzie, on the
part of the Conservatives. The Liberals applied to Sir James
Forrest, late provost of Edinburgh (who. it will be remembered,
allowed her Majesty on her first visit to Scotland to steal a march
upon him by reclining too long on his pillow one morning), to be-
come a candidate ; but Sir James, it seems, declined to exchange
the privacy of domestic life for the dubious honours of a county re-
presentative.— Herald.
THE FINE ARTS.—Yesterday, the fifth and last
day's sale of Mr. Henry Rice's collection of pictures and drawings
took place at Messrs. Christie and Manson's. Lot No. 894,
" Cellini p'esenting a censer to the Pope," an original painting
by Sir David Wilkie, which was presented to Mr. Rice, was, after
a spirited competition, knocked down for 705 guineas.
LIABILITILS OF AN EDITOR.—Lord Denman has
laid down the law recently, that an editor has no right to insert
any paragraph before he has ascertained " that the assertion made
in it is absolutely true." So then, in the case of the late disco-
veries made by the Earl of Rosse's telescope, an editor ought to
have proceeded to the different planets mentioned before he inserted
any statement respecting them. According to Lord Denman, the
Man in the Moon and Orion would both recover swinging da-
mages from almost every editor in the United Kingdom for the
reflections cast by the Earl's telescope on their characters as planets.
—Punch.

bUICIDE OF T 111.3 CAPTAIN OF A DANISH SHIP.—
Yesterday the captain of the Danish brig Betsy, whose name is at
present unknown, committed suicide by cutting his throat while in
a warm bath, at the bath establishment in Tower-street.
TURN-OUT IN THE GLASS TRADE.—'I he workmen
at the principal glass-bottle manufactory at Warrington have turned
out for an advance of wages. They at present receive more than
twice the usual rate of wages paid to artisans in this country, but
they hope to obtain more now Lhat the duty has been taken aft' all
kinds or glace. As the proprietors of the glass-works in question
have a six months' stock of bottles on hand, they care very little
how long the men stay out, except for the sake of the inferior class
of workmen, such as cr ste-makers, who are dependent on the
progress of the manufacture for their daily bread.—Livcrpool
Times.

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.-200 ACRES OF
PLANTATION CONSUMED.—One of the largest fires that has been
known to occur in Cornwall for many years happened en Friday,
about noon, in the parish of Boconner, in that county, adjacent
to the park of the Hon. G. Fortescue. It originated amongst some
loose furze on a large heath. By the falling of a quantity of burn-
ing peat, and owing to the dried condition of the furze, the flames

spread with great rapidity in all directions. The surrounding
domains being evidently in great danger, about 250 labourers were
engaged to stop the fire. They immediately attempted to check
its career by cutting down the shrubs, but this they speedily found
was of no avail, for before they could remove it it ignited. The
conflagration is described to have been one of an awful character;
and at one time great fears were entertained for the safety of
Broodock Church and the park. Atter it had raged for several
hours, destroying near 200 acres of plantation, it was subdued by
digging a deep trench. The eropeity bdovged to the Hon. (I.
POP*.

DUTCH MAIL.
ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 6.—On the 21st of last month a
dreadful affair took place at Darnietta, which has no
parallel, except in the times of the most cruel persecu-
tions of the Christians. I add a detailed account which
will certainly be read in Europe with horror and indig-
nation. This melancholy event has excited indignation
among the Europeans living in Egypt, and anxiety and
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populationiofi3es'ances for the abolition of slavery,
European Governments, which have
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of the Christians living in the East,
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consul, sent Achsnet Pasha to Damietta to investigate
the affair, but without waiting fur his report, sentenced
Ali Bey, the governor of that town to five years' im-
prisonment in the Castle of Abouker, and to a fine of
5,000 piastres (500 florins), to be paid immediately, for
the benefit of the victims, and for the confiscation of his
property, from which an immunity for them is to be
taken : the guilty shieks and ulemas are banished to
Tantah, which is in fact no punishment at all. It is ex-
pected that Mehemet Ali will set out from Craico this
week for Lower Egypt, and then come to this city.
DAMIETTA, MARCH 21.--I take up my pen under the
painful impression made by the melancholy scenes
which have passed before my eyes, because I consider it
my duty as a Christian to paint to you in a few words
the disgraceful scenes I have witnessed.
'I he Mussulman population of Damietta is the most
fanatical and intolerant in all Egypt. Four or five
times as numerous as all the Christians of different
nations together, they see with the bitterest the
flags of Europe flying on their walls, and commerce, pro-
sperity, and wealth concentrated in the houses of the
men who are appointed by Christian sovereigns to be
their representatives in this town. The wretches do not
inc:eed venture directly to attack the persons or the
property of our agents, because they are under the pro-
tection of our flags, but they wreak their vengeance on
the innocent defenceless Rajas for all the evil that they
would willingly but dare not do to us, and favoured by
the innate hatred of the highest authority in the coun-
try to everything that bears the name of Christian, they
lose no opportunity to make them feel the power of the
majority. Since I have resided in this city I have fre-
quently witnessed the of the Governor of
Damietta towards all who do not profess the religion of
Mahornet. In August last year, a schismatic Greek,
named Zucharia, under the protection of Eng-
land, died. He was a man highly respected
as well for his character as his extensive
commercial connexion. On account of the great
distance of the burying-ground, and the oppressive
heat, the relations of the deceased thought it their duty
to have the funeral procession accompanied by eight
water-carriers. As soon as the Governor was in-
formed of this, he sent for these men, reproached them in
language the most insulting towards the Christians, for
having carried water at the funeral of an infidel, and
concluded by ordering them to be bastinadoed (100 blows
to each, and to their leader 200). As the Divan is in
the centre of the Christian market, all those horrors
were perpetrated under the windows of the Consular
agents, as it were in defiance of the flag of England.
Very lately, two miserable men of bad character, an
American and a captain, renounced their faith; these op-
portunities are eagerly laid hold of by the inhabitants of
the town and the Turkish authorities, to give vent to
their hatred of the Christians. The latter completed his
apostacy hardly a fortnight ago. He was of Manjurah,
and in order to excite attention had endeavoured to in•
gratiate himself with his new associates, and for
other reasons to gain the favour of the Minister of War,
ho was then at Manjurah, where he still is. But as
Achnset Pacha did not show any inclination to favour
his views, he came to Damietta, surrounded by an ap-
plauding multitude ; he has solemnly abjured his faith,
and the mob paraded the whole day about the Christian
quarters. It is hardly necessary to observe that such
scenes never pass without a smaller or larger number of
Christians being insulted and beaten ; even our Con-
sular agents, with their families, are obliged, on each
occasion, to remain quietly at home, if they would not ex-
pose themselves to insult. I could mention many similar
facts, but I hasten to relate the unhappy affair which is
the immediate object of my writing.
For some time past the hatred of the Governor to the
Consular agents mat,ifested itself by continually increas-
ing exertions. Every day he brought forward new
and groundless clematis and pretensions with re-
gard to the prcteges, and even subjects of the
several consulates. I believe that several reports have
been made on the subject. Our agents opposed in some
measure by the Vis hie; tier, but this only increased the
anger of the Bey, and the ill will of the people and of the
Shiks increased in the same manner. Now came the
anniversary of the Prophet's birth shy; this day in their
eyes required a victim, and according to custom they
sought for one, not among those whom they most hated,
but among those who like the ass in the fable have no
protection except their innocence and helplessness. A
poor Captain, above 60 years old, with a white beard,
worked in an establishment for peeling rice; he got into
a quarrel with an ass driver employed in the same es-
tablishment. After a short altercation the latter went to
the Governor and accused the other of having ridiculed
religion and the rrophet. Without further ceremony
he was immediately seized by Rawasser and brought be-
fore the Mehkeinch. This so called court of justice,
the President of which is Ali Cofasia, the
Great Shiek of Damietta, heard the evidence
of the ass-driver, and of another fellow who had joined
him, and caused the unfortunate Captain to receive in the
first instance 500 blows with date staves, which were
bought with his own money—so it is said the law re-
quires. The poor fellow, so mangled, and loaded with
chains, was conveyed to the dungeon. Yesterday, the
birth-day of the Prophet, all the shieks repaired soon
after sun-rise to the governor in the divan. The dis-
cussions were then carried on with closed doors, and a
report was spread that the question was put whether the
prisoner should not be burnt alive. But fear of exciting
too much the anger of the Viceroy deterred the as-
sembly from carrying this proposal into effect ; they,
therefore, resolved that the poor prisoner should receive
another thousand blows with the staves, should be
gagged, and with two dogs bound fast at the sides, be
placed on a buffalo, with his face to the tail, and so be car-
ried through the whole town. A frightful scene ensued.
After he received 1,000 blows on his back and soles of
his feet he was placed as above stated on the animal's
back. But this was not enough; they tied a wooden
cross to his back, and on his breast a tablet, on which
was inscribed the sentence, surrounded with threats
against the Christians. After covering his face and his
whole body with the most disgusting filth, the vile pro-
cession, consisting of several thousads of the refuse of
the population, proceeded directly across the quarter of
the Christians, then by the Bazaars through the chief
streets of the town, amidst the incessant savage cries of
the mob. I will not attempt to describe the torments
of the unhappy sufferer during the six hours that he
was so carried about the town. I have not the courage
to do so. I only observe that the furious multitude only
vied in treating him in the most cruel and contemptuous
manner. Though a shawl was bound round his neck,
the two ends of which were held by a man, one on each
side of the buffalo, he fell off four or five times
like a dead body. At the harbour, about a hundred
steps from the divan of the Governor, a man
brushwho v‘
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boiling
back, the mob loudly applauding. The houses of the
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the procession passed by • the windows of the Sardinian
and American vice-consuls were broken ; the shop of
its. und. r Ennlish —,e
fered great injury ; and, in the course of the day, above
twenty persons were more or less ill treated. But enough,
and more than enough of the melancholy picture, to show
to what a pitch the shameless fury of these wretches is
raised, and how, by the connivance of the authorities, it
has reached the highest paroxysm.—Augsburg Gazette,
April 24.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 27.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General yesterday, the project of
law relative to the collection of the direct taxes was
agreed to, after some discussion, by a majority of 41
to 12.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 28.—The Second Chamber of the
States-General, in its sitting to-day, agreed to the project
T
of law respecting the Mint, by a majority of 36 to 18. he debates on the law on expropriation for the public
benefit was fixed for Wednesday next.
It is said that their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess will make a journey, during the summer, to Hol-
land, Prussia, and Austria.
the Queen has caused
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 27.—We regret to learn that a
stblieghinttiennddiesdP°vsjitsii°tnofofthheereloluajretsttoy be deferred for a fort-
night. We are happy, however, to add, that her Ma-
jesty's indisposition is not so serious as to prevent his
Majesty from coining here for a couple of days.

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It appears from official returns made to the Rail-
way Department of the Board of Trade, on the subject
of the various accidents that occurred on the several
railways of the kingdom, that, during the year 1844, 84
individuals were killed by such accidents. In addition,
in the same year, there were 102 who were more or less
injured upon the different lines. Returns have also been
made to the same authorities, showing the number of
accidents during the fir,t quarter of the present year,
ending the 31st ult. It thence appears that there have
been, during that period, 22 persorw, tilled by railway
accidents, besides 17 injuries thereby

''WE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY l, 1845.