The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-09 00:00:00

1,11.1747 111 VD POLICE,

On Saturday last a fire broke out in one of the trucks of the
goods train on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, while
passing through Defford and Eckington. As the velocity in-
creased the fire spread to four other trucks, and property to the
amount of about 7001. was burnt. The trucks belonged to the
Grand Junction Company, and were laden with Manchester
goods. A spark falling from the chimney is supposed to have
caused the fire, which was extinguished by water at Eckington.
Queen Christina of Spain removed for the summer to the
Chateau of Malmaison, on Monday last. Her Majesty caused
all the emblems which reeilled Napoleon and Josephine to be
preserved and carefully repaired.
A serious accident happened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway on Tuesday, by contact of two trains, by which one
passed over the other, and three persons were injured, the first
having his legs broken.

THE JEWS OF DAMASCUS.
Extract from a letter from an English traveller, dated
Damascus, June 5, 1842, addressed to Sir M. Montefiore:
" I received visits from the principal Jews of the city,
the Harraris, Farlthis, &c., &c., and returned them.
"In the houses of the ews of Damascus there is an
appearance of well-doing, and in their persons and man-
ners there is an air of good breeding and cleanliness
which pleased me much. I have heard from their own
mouths the details of their horrible sufferings, but now
thank God, they enjoy much respect and consideration,
and are happy. hie three brothers Harrari, who are
under British protection, hare, at the instigation of our
worthy and intelligent Consul, Mr. Wood, emancipated
the slices who were in their possession, and are doing their
best to cause the other Jews of Damascus to do the same
act. r think they will succeed.

CHURCH-RATES.

UNSEEMLY CONDUCT OF THE ARCHDEACON

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OF HALIFAX.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
The past week has been signalised in Halifax by one of those
contests, no less disgraceful to the Church than injurious to
its interests—the attempt to enforce a Church-rate.
fast year the Church party carried a rate of lid. in the
pound without opposition. Encouraged by this success, they
have this year waxed bold enough to attempt to levy a rate, out
of which various adornments of the Church were intended to
be defrayed—such as covering the oak-painted doors with crim-
son cloth, &c. The rate was refused by a large majority at
the meeting of rate-payers, when a poll was demanded by the
Church party, which has been kept open three days—the Arch-
deacon himself being present in the poll-room nearly all the
time—a fact of which the intending voters were made duly
aware, yetthis strange exercise of the influence of the Vicar was
not enough. He even interfered by asking the anti-rate voters
various questions, and in some eases threatened them with a
citation into the Ecclesiastical Court, which threat he has
since publicly declared it his intention to carry into effect. The
result of the poll declared on 111,,nday gives a majority of 1,0:20
against the ra,e. Surely the " greatest enemies of the Church '
are those of her own house."

COW, ES, ISLE OF
(Fnom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
July 1. Resolution schooner, Duke of Rutland, from South-
ampton ' • Merlin schooner, Wm. Lyon, Esq., from Ports-
mouth; Fanny cutter, Sir Edward Scott, Bart., from Antwerp.
2d. Medina eutter, Captain F. Holcome, R. H. A., from
Jersey.
4th. Forest-fly cutter, Wm. Hornby, Esq., from Hamble.
6th. Intrepid cutter, Earl of Tyrconnel, from Guernsey.
7th. Alidge cutter, John Petra, Esq., from Portsmouth.
SAILINGS.
July 1. Corsair cutter, John Congrave, Esq., for Guernsey;
Intrepid cutter, Earl of Tyrconnel, for ditto; Breeze yawl,
'f homas Legh, Esq., for Ramsgate.
6th. Resolution schooner, Duke of Rutland, on a cruise to
the westward.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Jack-o'. Lantern, Hawk, Merlin, Flirt, Bril.
liant, Camilla, Harriet.
Cutters—Nautilus, Hebe, Forest-fly, Phebe, Nymph, Arrow
Charm, Talisman, Medina, Will o'-the-Wisp, Intrepid, Midge.
Yawls—Kestrel, 202 tons; Alarm, 193 tons.
We believe we may state as a positive fact that her Majesty
the , Queen Dowager has taken Hambro' Castle for three
months : she will find a hearty welcome in the Isle of Wight ;
may its mild air prove beneficial to her health.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES AND OTHER SESSIONAL RESULTS

AND ADJUDICATIONS.

The sessions terminated on Thursday after an unusually short
sitting. Subjoined are the sentences passed on the prisoners,
many of whom were tried and convicted at the June sessions.
BA /it E NT. —1 he following were sentenced to be trans-
ported keyond the seas :
For Life—Wm. Simonds and Thomas Whetherstreet (for
rape).

For Fifteen Years—.-. John Gardner, Ann Brown, F. Hunt,
J. Fry, T. Robertson, Wm. Gordon, Charles Jones, Michael
M'Key, Chas. Platt, Robt. Trotter.
For Fourteen Years—Francis Divine.
For Ten Years—David Crane, Edward Jones, T. Lawson,
J. Henderson, C. Kellew, J. Slattern, Henry Thompson,
W. Wilkinson.

For Seven Years—Elizabeth M'lntosh, otherwise Mary
Freeman, Elizabeth Martin, J. Carty, S. Parsons, W. Ball, J.
Holland, C. Mamell, J. Titmarsh, J. Oliphant, R. Riddles-
dale, J. Brovrn, W. Keate.

IMPRISONMENT.—The under-mentioned were sentenced to
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the Houses of Cor-
rection for the counties wherein their offences were alleged to
have been committed :

For Two Years—John Smith.

For Eighteen Months—Thomas White.
For One Year—Ellen Long, C. Ryland, J. Morley, J.
Brown. Ellen Hutchins, C. Ryford, F. Allendale, J. Callaway,
Eliza Wilkins.
F. r Nine Months—Thomas Stern, J. Cooper, W. Postan,
J. Riley, Fred. Bensted, George Jones, William Townley,
Henry Hills, W. Avery, William Rust, Eliza Smith.
For Eight Months—J. T. Brown.
For Six Months—Nat. Beazley, M. Robinson, Allred
Griffiths, F. Stagg, J. Sullivan, Ann Morris, William Weaver,
J. Sanders, Emma Fair, W. Walker, A. Priestly, Henry
Pearse, J. Wood, C. Junes, G. Green, Sarah Gray, Margaret
Tigari, Maria Preston, Henry Thomas, Martha Hubbard,
Samuel Gibbs, J. Stagg, Elizabeth Dale, Henry Davis, J.
Wood, John White.

For Four Months—Abraham Morgan, S. Spiers, J. Pedder,
G. Jones, C. J. Jones, Catherine Ford, Alexander Simmonds,
Catherine Packer, J. Trail, R. Sindon, Ann Wood, J. Beamish.
For Three Months—Charles Parker, Charles Ford, J Ryan,
J. Jones, C. 1. enis, Ann Buller, J. M‘Gann, J. Ryan, J.
Cripps, Mary Smith, B. Price, F. Grove, J. Knight, George
Smith, H. Stamforth.
For Two Months—W. Sims, Frederick Gladden, R. Smith,
P. Daly, Mary Skeen, H. Joyce, J. Murdock (and whipped),
Ann Murray, J. Parry.
For One Month—W. Whitelock, Mary Harting, Mary
Hickey, Julia Spicer, Henrietta Campbell.
Seventeen were sentenced to imprisonment in Newgate for
fourteen days and under.
Tetenty-seven were acquitted by the petit Jury. -
Eight were discharged by proclamation.
Twenty-one confessed judgment by pleading guilty.
Several were traversed or remanded to the next sessions;
others were ordered to be privately whipped, and the judgment
of some was respited.
The Court at ►ts rising adjourned to Monday the 2')d of
August next.

IMPORTANT TO CREDITORS UNDER BANKRUPTS'
ESTATES.—The Commissioners of the Court of liankrupty
are, we understand, immediately about to cancel all dividend
cheques, now in the hands of the official assignees which are
above six months old. New cheques will be i,sued from time
to time on the application of the parties entitled; but as this
may be attended with some difficulty during the long vacation,
and cspecialy while he accountant's office is elOsed, creditors
will du well to claim their dividends without further delay.
CosvlcT PRAxcis.—So great Was the secrecy
observed in the removal of the abovQ convict from Newgate,
that scarcely any of the officials were aware of the fact until
some time after he had left. The Grand Jury, on terminating
their labours on Wednesday, requested permission to see him,
when they were informed that he had actually left the prison,
and was on his way to Gosport. The answer was considered
by several persons as a polite mode of declining to make Fran-
cis the subject of an exhibition similar to those which have been
recently so much complained of ; but it is now quite certain
that he had leftsome hours previously. It was on Thursday stated
that on the arrival of Francis at Gosport he was placed on '
hoard the York, bound to Australia. This was a mistake, the
York is one of the general receiving ships, and Francis will b
draughted into the first vessel carrying out convicts to Norfolk
lblane;

The Report of the visiting Justicesstates the e number of pri-
soners now in the Howe of Correction at 1,093; in the New
Prison in Middlesex, 119.

The Commission for the County of Clare As4zes, was opened
at Ennis on Saturday, when Baron Richards delivered his
charge to the Grand Jury, relative to the provision riots, and
the homicides connected therewith, in which thirty-eight
policemen and two officers are implicated. The Jury have,
by the last news, entered on investigation of the case.

R. X :a F 3.
The intended sale of the Cardinal Fesch's rich collection of
pictures shortly to take place at Rome, will, it is expected,
attract thither a crowd of the most eminent amateurs from all
parts of Europe.

I.i.'III2ATEY AND SCXENTIFXC.
The process of saturating wood with metallic solutions, such
as oxide of iron, has of late been found to render it perfectly
uninflammable. Pieces of Canadian fir, thus impregnated, are
now placed on a fierce coke fire, and become only hot, and
scarcely charred.
A human skull has lately been found in a stone coffin near
the " standing stones at Lundin," at Sunny Braes, in Scotlat.d.
The latter are believed to have been pat up f,,r memorials of
Scottish or Danish nobles slain in the battle between Habba,
brother to the King of Denmark, and Constantine 11., in the
year 874. The skull is supposed to be one of these heroes.
COUIVr-r.EISILION.III3I,E.
The Earl and Countess of Shannon are entertaining com-
pany at their splendid seat, Castle Martyr, Ireland.
The approaching marriage of the Earl of Bective, eldest son
of the Marquis of Headfort, to Miss Thompson, daughter and
heiress of Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., is fixed to take
place on 'I hursday, 20th inst. The bridegroom elect is in his
20th year, the bride in her 18th.
Lord Rtbblesdale is completing his scholastic studies at Der-
king, previous to his entering the Universi y.
The Duke de Guiche, son of the Duke de Grammont, and
nephew of Count. D'Orsay, has arrived in London.
The Earl of Fingall left London on Sunday last for Antwerp
and the Rhine.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The magnificent Fitzwilliam hal given at the Cambridge
Installation on Wednesday, for the benefit of the Adden-
brooke Hospital, attracted visitors from 40 and 50 miles off.
Upwards of 1,724 persons were present. The expenses of
the ball cost 1,2001., and the profits of the hospital are esti-
mated at 700/.