The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

MONTHLY BELLE A.S'SEMBLEE.

The usual variety of romantic tales and poetical
effusions contributes to make the fourth number of
this Magazine as entertaining as its predecessors. It
contains a very passable engraving of a young female;
representative of " Adoration."

•
NEWTON ST. CYRES..--FATAL ACCIDENT.—A me-
lancholy accident occurred early fCSterday (Thursday)
morning, at the mangane7•e mines of J. Quicke, Esq.,
near this place, by which two labourers were killed,
third escaping as if by miracle. About five o'clock yes-
terday morning, Mr. Pope, a hat-maker, residing nem
the " Fine Oak," was awoke by cries of distress ; and or
proceeding to the spot, he found a man just escaping
from the mouth of the alit of the mine, who informet'
him that, as himself and two others were at work at flu
other end of the lateral shaft, the water suddenly burst
in upon them, carrying him the whole length of the alit
to its mouth, whence he had just escaped. Mr. Pope, of
proceeding to the mouth of the adit, saw the body of on(
of the unfortunate sufferers in the water, entangle('
between a wheelbarrow and one of these upright timbers.
He immediately procured assistance, and extricated the
body, but life was extinct. About ten minutes after-
wards, the body of the other man was found farther u;
the adit, also entangled in timbers.—The names of the
unfortunate deceased are John Crump and John Barnes.
John Crump was about twenty-five years of age, and had
been married only twelve months. John Barnes has left
a wife and four children to deplore the untimely loss.
The bodies now await a coroner a inquest —Exeter Ga:.
TUB LATE EARL OF .111uNsTmt"s GRAND. ATIIER.
(FR! .lil A CORRESPONDENT.)—The father. of Mrs. Jordan
was Francis Bland, Esq. He died at Dever, on his way
to France. Mrs. Jordan was his natural daughter, but
he left two children by his wife, the late Colonel
Bland, of Killarney, and Mrs. lieWson, relict of the Rev.
Robert liewson, of Kilcolman, Kerry. Sir P. Lumm,
B,art., his cousin, erected a monument to his memory in
the church of Killarney.

SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF
DEFORMITIES of the L IM BS.

Mr. Amesbury- has introduced very successful
,nodes of treating deformities, &c. it appears from
his work, entitled " Practical Remarks on Deformi-
t:c.s, Weakness, and Stitiness of the Spine, Chest,
and Limbs," that in some cases of knock-knee, or in-
]:n ee, the limbs may be straightened by his. plan in
two
,or three days, without operation, and without
producing pain. It requires, however, some months
to perl?,,,t the restoration of the parts. The following
iveli ease, copied from the sS'alisbury artd.Win-
che,4,T Jim,•;ial, is illustrative of this treatment :

To THE EDITOR. Of THE " SALISI.ITEX AND WINCHES-

TER JOURNAL,

• The Parsonage House, Amesbury, Wiltshire.
Sir,—l send you the following letter, as a testi-
mony to Mr. Amesbury's new mode of treating. de-
-I;ifinities r.f the limbs. and.if you should be pleased
to give it insertion in your Journal, the subject of it
may not be uninteresting to some of your readers.
My fourta son, now eleven years of age, wis from
h!s infancy rather an unhealthy child, and at an early
period Wft3 the subject of great weakness in his ankles
and legs. As he grew, this weakness increased to
distortion, and he became • what is commonly called
very knock -kneed-so much so, indeed, that it was
evident he would be a cripple for life, if some means
were not speedily adopted to stay the-progress of the
deformity. An eminent surgeon in the country,
George Sampson, Esq., recommended me to take him
to Joseph Amesbury, Esq., a surgeon in London. I
did so accordingly, in August, 1839, the boy being
then nine years old.. At this time, when standing up
with his kness together, the ankles, instead of touch-
ing each other, were eight inches asunder. Upon
examination, Mr. Amesbury pronounced the case to
be a bad one of its land, but still curable. He di-
rected the use of his leg-supports, which he procured,
and shoeS of a particular construction, and that fric-
tion should be applied to the affected parts, promising
me that, if his instructions were strictly attended to,
the evil would be removed in the course of two years.
The instructions have been strictly attended to, and
the promise more than fulfilled; the deformity having
been cured within eighteen months, and the leg-sup-
ports having been since worn only until the muscles
and other parts,should have fully recovered their pro-
per tone and strength. The boy paid his last visit to
Jr. Amesbury about ten days since, and returned
home last week free and unfettered, in high health
and spirits, with as good a pair of legs as I could
wish him.

During the first year and a half he visited
Amesbury occasionally, and, with the exception of the
short absences when he was in town, for the purpose
of being seen by Mr. A., he has been at home, suffer,-
ing no pain, and scarcely any inconvenience, from the
treatment prescribed, growing rapidly in height, and
in perfect good health.
Sir Edmund and Lady Antrobus, Hyde Park-
corner, Piccadilly, Londob, most kindly took charge
of the little patient, on the occasion of his several visits
to Mr.. Amesbury; and, I doubt not, will be. happy to
bear testimony to that gentleman's' successful treat-
ment of this case.—l have the honour to be, Sir,-

Your most obedient servant,
FULMAR WM. FOWLE.

ARMY.

Ships ordered for survey by the East India Company,
to convey troops to either Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay,
as the Company may direct, they giving-the owners no-
tice of the ships' destination three days previous to the
embarkntiou of the troops :
Glenswelty 632 tons.
Royal Cossort 529
Thomas Lowry 409
Triton 492
. Brooke 677

Glene
Helen Thompson 544
York
Nith
Lady Feversham
Ida
Elizabeth
Charles Kerr
Orbit .
Beulah

430
.159
570
463
749
578

They are to sail by the 12th or 15th instant. The Com-
pally may detain the ships at the usual rate of demur-
rage, while the owners are this, time liable to double the
usual penalty for delay on their part. The vessels are
also to proceed direct to the port of destination, and are
not to call anywhere on their passage out (accident of
course excepted).
The ships Albion, Captain Smith, and the Lord
Brougham, have been accepted •by the Admiralty to
convey about 350 troops from Cork to Quebec. The
thriller ship was employed on this service in 1840 and
last year.

The Louisa, Captain Jackson, and the Dumfries,
Captain Thompson, have also been accepted by the Ad-
miralty for the conveyance of stores to Hong Kong ibr.
the use of the troops in China.
'About 70 ships were offered to the India Company ;
it is expected they will speedily require as large a num-
ber as have non been accepted. The troops to embark in
the middle of this month are 3,000 in number, and
3,000 more will soon fMow.

RESTRICTIONS ON THE IMPOR-
TATION OF FOOD.

A requisition, of which the following is a copy, has
been received by theiord•Mayor :
" We; the undersigned, members of the Court of Com-
mon Council,• request pair Lordship will convene a
Court of Common Council at art early date fur the pur-
pose of considering the propriety of addressing
the Queen on • the distressed state of the people, and
praying her Majesty to adopt all constitutional means for
alleviating such distress by the mmoval of restrictions on
the importation of food."
The requisition was signed by 80 of the most re-
spectable and influential members of the Court., and his
Lordship fixed Tuesday next for the' discussion, which
is to be commenced by Mr. Taylor, the new member for
Farringdon Without. It is said that the whole subject
of the condition of the country, and the proposition of
the Minister to meet the difficulties by an income tax,
will be introduced. •

CIIURCH•RATES-ST. LUKE'S,
MIDDLESEX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN

Sin,—St. Barnabas, King-square, was formerly a
chapel of ease, and while so, was allowed a sum of
about 144/.155. Gd. per annum (for wine,l2l. Bs. 6d.
bread, 1 ls. 3d. ; gas, 121. 12s. ; candles, 21. 2s. ; up-
holstery, 31. 19s. 3d.; glazier's work, Cl. 9s. ld.;
smith's Si. 15s. ; plumber's
.work, 2/. 3s. 5d.;
carpenter'swork,lrork, ss. 6d; turnery articles, 19s. 6d. ;
bookb:nding, 345. 6d. ; ,officer to maintain order,
5/. ; water-rates, 30s. ; organ-blower, 50s. ; in-
cidents per chapel-keeper, 71. lls. ; sexton,
32/. •, orgnnist, 301. ; pew-opener, 101. ; clock
winder and cleaner, 41. 4s). But this chapel
has had within the last four months a district assigned
to it, and in the same Gazette St. Paul, Bunhill-row,
is also announced as a district church. To the credit
of St. Paul, they have never applied for assistance ;
but St. Barnabas, having previously had those several
items paid by the parish, again applied to have the
same allowance continued, notwithstanding the St.
Barnabas' gentlemen had claimed the dues arising
from a funeral in the vault, and when the church-
ardens demanded them on the part of the parish, it
was refused.

Therefore, it is thought that as St. Barnabas claimed
all they had a right to do by law, that the parish
ought not to pay more than the law will compel
them. The parishioners who entertained this opinion
got up the following requisition :
"To take into consideration the propriety of dig-
Countenancing the allowances to St. Barnabas, in con-
sequence of its having been recently made a district
church." _ _ _

This requisition was placed on the notice of the
day, and discussed, and the result was that those al-
low nces should be continued, upon which a ballot.
was 'derrianded, and, the Vestry determined the demand
for the ballot 'ShOuld be printed, accompanied by a
letter from the Ilev. Gentleman of St. Barnabas, and
circulated through the whole parish.
I cannot close this without saying the • opposition
is only against the rate, and not against the Rev.
Gentleman, whom. I sincerely believe lives in the es-
teem of every parishioner.
My object in sending you these particulars, is in
the hope you will use your influence in calling upon
the parishioners to resist this demand, assert their
right, or they must submit to such degradation as
they will not be likely ever to shake oft

The poll by ballot commenced this day, and con-
tinues on Thursday from ten to four, and Friday at
ten and closes at five.—Yours, &c.,

March 30, 1842.

HOWITT,
202, Whitecross-street.

MASONIC N AVM. AND MILITARY COMMANDERS.—
The M. W. G. M. of S,:otland, Lord Frederick Fitzela-
rence, has been appointed Commander of the Forces in
North Britain, vice Lord Greenock, also a Freemason.
What would the recent military authorities in Ireland
have said, to behokl the Head of the Staff in Scotland
also acting as the Head of the Craft, presiding over its
Lodges., and anxious to promote its prosperity ? Among
the distinguished military men who are members of the
Masonic Fraternity, is Sir Thomas Graham—Lord Lyne-
'loch, the hero of many a hard-fought tight. This gal-
lant veteran, now in his 93(1 year, was initiated, when a
voting man, in the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge of
I::,linburgh. He is probably the oldest member alive.
The present Admiral Onunaney was likewise initiated in
the same Lodge; as was also Sir 1). L. Gihnour,
:in officer who distingnished himself itr the Spanish cam-
paign. In truth, most of the chief Commanders who
served under the illustrious Brother, the Duke of
Wellington, were comrades of the Craft ; vulelicit, the
late General the Earl of Dalhousie, the present Marquis
44' Tweedale, Lord Coinbermere, Lord Lynedoch, &c.
Sir John Moore was also a Scottish Allison. The im
mortal Nelson a member of the English Craft.—Free-
masons' Quarterly Revieu? for April.
At Malmesbury Taster Pair, on Monday, about
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e 0 o header
a f.nfVisleal 1,040 sheep, 280 pigs, and 20 horses
1r e, and the general opinion seemed to
ere
be that the sale was heavy and the buyers few.