The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-22 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Lord Mayor has issued csrds for a grand dinner
at the Mansion-house for the 24th inst., to which many
of the leading nobility have been invited.
On Thursday next the Desed, of Felicien David,
which has created an immense sensation at Paris, is to be
performed at the Opera House.
The Hoxne Union, in Suffolk, last week unanimously
decided to petition against the Settlement Bill ; and on
Tuesday the Desswade Union, in Norfolk, by a large
majority (above 30 against 5) came to the same decision.
These two unions join the Wangford Union; the Hoxne
also touches the Blythin Union. The Braintree Union,
in Essex, and the Steyning Union, in Sussex, are to con-
sider the question this week.
The Judges' Chambers were closed yesterday (Good
Friday) only. Mr. Baron Rolfe, the vacation
Judge, will sit as usual to-day, and Monday and
Tuesday next, notwithstanding the whole of the Common
Law offices will be closed. Very great inconvenience
arises both to the public and the profession in conse-
quence of the closing of those offices at the present, the
busiest, period of the assize business.
On Thursday, Mr. Bedford, the new Deputy Coroner
for the City of Westminster, was sworn into office be-
fore the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, in the Jeru-
salem Chamber of the Abbey. Mr. Bedford held his
first inquest at the Red Lion, Princes-street, West-
minster, on the body of a child named Charles Hurd,
aged three years, who, while left alone for a few minutes,
set fire to his clothes, and died from the consequent in-
juries soon after its admission into 'Westminster Hos-
pital. Verdict—" Accidental death."
On Thursday afternoon, between the hours of one and
two, the inhabitants of Clapham-common were surprised
by the outbreak of a fire upon a portion of Clapham-
common known as Battersea Manor. It originated in
one of the plantations of furze, the property of Earl
Spencer, and before it could be extinguished nearly two
acres of furze, very thick, and some eight feet high, were
consumed. A number of workmen, with a strong
muster of police belonging to the V division, hastened to
the scene of conflagration, and set to work in cutting a
roadway, in which they succeeded, and thereby pre-
vented the flames from making greater havoc. It is
believed that the fire was the work of some evil-dis-
posed person.

DREADFUL SUICIDE IN BATTERSEA-FIELDS.---OD
Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock, Thomas Edley,
of Lordship's-place, Chelsea, and another man, who
were out shooting in Battersea-fields, discovered the
body of a man, who from his dress appeared to be a
butcher, lying in a ditch inclosing the grounds of Mr.
Popart, a market-gardener. The body lay on its right
side, and the head was almost severed from it. Close
to the side of the deceased lay an open razor, smeared
with blood. The police were made acquainted with the
circumstance, and removed the body upon a stretcher
to the Prince's Head, when it was immediately recog-
nised as that of Charles Martin, foreman to Miss Wood,
a butchet, in Battersea. Doctors Connor and Lyons
were called in, but they declared that death had taken
place many hours previously, and were of opinion that
the wound was self-inflicted. It appears from Miss
Wood's statement, that the deceased left the shop on
Tuesday night to return home to his dwelling in Ca-
mera-square, Chelsea, and from that time she had seen
nothing of him. He was a man of temperate habits,
and strictly honest. What motive could induce deceased
to commit the rash act will probably ever remain a
mystery ; he had no family to maintain, and enjoyed
the respect of every person, high and low, in Battersea.
SALMON FISHING.—The fishing in the northern
friths and rivers continues unsuccessful. Takes are few
and far between, and when they do occur they are
meagre in the extreme. The fishing on the Conan is
somewhat improving, but on the Beauly only two salmon
were caught during the whole of last week. At Alnes
beach stake-net two clean fish were lately caught,
weighing 91b. each. An English nobleman, who had
been angling for a week on the Garry (which is allowed
to be one of the best rivers in the north), captured only
seven salmon during that time.—lnverness Courier.