The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 4.—Considerable disappointment is ex-
pressed in the political circles in Ireland at the total ab-
sence of all allusion either to the new Colleges Bill or
to the national system of education in the recent charge
of the Archbishop of Armagh.
Belfast will be selected for the site of the new Ulster
College.

O'Connor, the inspector of detective police in Dublin,
whose outrageous conduct has been frequently the sub-
jet of comment, has been dismissed from his situation.
bfURDER.—On Tuesday evening, the 30th ult., between
the hours of eight and nine o'clock, four fellows, all of
whom were armed with bludgeons, entered the house of
a man named Sheedy of Garranbeg, about seven miles
from Nenagh. Michael Hill, the victim in this case,
with others, was sitting round the fire at the time.
On the party entering they threw something on the fire
which completely darkened the house ; they then com-
menced belabouring unfortunate Hill till they left him,
as they conceived, ad. On the first blow being given,
the persons who were sitting round the fire ran away.
The deceased was afterwards removed to his own house,
which is next door to the °me in which he had been
beaten, and where he expired the following morning.
The cause assigned for this daring act is that the de-
ceased refused to allow his brother to marry a young
woman with whom an intimacy had existed.
On Thursday an inquest was held on the body by
James Carroll, Esq , Coroner. Joseph Tabuteau, Esq ,
S.M. ; Captain Pollock, R.M. • and John Lewis, Esq ,
5.1., were present. There was but one witness examined,
who deposed to nothing more than what is narrated in
the preceding paragraph.
Edward Kitson, of Nenagh, Esq., made a po,t
moqern examination of the body of deceased, and found
the left side of the head completely smashed in, and the
left arm very much contused, and which must have
caused almost instantaneous death.
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against
some persons at present unknown."
Four fellows were taken up on suspicion.
On the same day the steward of the Rev. Mr. Butsen
was shot at Ballinaslee, and a poor ear driver was mur-
dered in the county of Monaghan by three villains with
whom he had remonstrated for insulting a female. This
was aho on Tue:day.

FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE TRE/1-
SURY.—This morning about seven o'clock a most fearful oc-
currence took place at the works now going on at the Trea-
sury' and the other Government offices. The men were just
about to commence their work at the top of the building,
which is sixty or seventy feet from the ground, when one of
the masons, named George Wildey, living at 51, St. George's-
road, tiondtwark, by some means slipped from the roof, and
fell with dreadful violence the whole height, being in his
fall struck with great force against the stupendous scaffold-
ing which is erected all round the offices. He was picked up
and conveyed on a shutter to the Westminster Hospital,
where it was found he had expired as he was being taken.
Nearly all his ribs were broken, his left arm and 'leg, and
there appears to be considerable injury on the head. This is
the first accident of a serious character that has occurred at
these works.

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YORK, SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 4.—The rain
has been falling in torrents for three days, with but little in-
termission, There has been another slip on the Scarborough
line ; fortunately it happened with a ballast train. Last
night's train could not get nearer to Scarborough than Mel-
ton. An engine that had been sent from Scarborough to
bring it forward got off the line, in consequence of some re-
pairs that were taking place, the men not being made aware
that an engine might be expected; consequently, the nine
o'clocit train could not leave Scarborough this morning.
There was an Immense number of passengers, and a great
deal of grumbling, in the station. One lady insisted that
she musrgo, for she n ent all her money in Scarborough
for One of the officials
except what would merely pay Ili,.it would be
administered consolation by telling her
better for her to starve a whiie than get her neck eat
A gentleman insisted on their going because his gig was
waiting for him at York. Another lady said that she had been
so long away from her babies, that they must take her to York.
The powers, however, were immoveable—the train could
not start till twelve, and perhaps not even then. Among
the disappointed was Mr. Wilson, the vocalist, who, having
to sing in Harrogate this ettening, immediately took a post-
chaise and left Scarborough. The train started at half-past
twelve, and took many passengers away ; but the line Is sadly
damaged by the rain, and the embankment, in many places,
washed away to such an extent as is anything but pleasant
for passengers to look upon. The country is all under
water from the excess of rain that has fallen. There is a
great deal of cora out yet, many fields of which are floating
in water. They are tardy in this quarter in their harvest
operations- A few days ago I saw a field of wheat dead
ripe, with two men and a boy only to reap it I The scene at
Malton last night was harassing in the extreme. The pas-
;engers had to sit in the carriage for two hours, the train not
being able to move, and at last they wended their way, as
well as they could, to Malton, where accommodation was
anxiously sought after for the night. Everything that could
be done for the comfort of the passengers under the circum-
stances was zealously performed by the clerks and other offi-
cials at Melton station. Such accidents, however, should
not happen.—Front a Correspondent. .
The Quarterly Accounts of the Revenue will
again be before the public on Saturday next, the llth inst.
Of course the precise amounts cannot be known until the
returns are finally made up ; but we feel that we may fairly
anticipate a very large deficiency under the head of Cus •
toms as compared with the corresponding quarter of the
preceding year, owing to the extensive reduction in the
sugar duties, and the other alterations in the tariff. In
addition to these causes of a deficiency in the quarterly
customs receipts, it should be borne in mind that in 1844
duties were paid on a very large quantity of foreign corn,
amounting to about 450,000 quarters, while the quantity in
1845 is under 80,000 quarters. We shall be much surprised,
however, if the Excise returns do not exhibit a far different
result, for information derived from various sources assures
us that this branch of the public revenue is steadily ad
vancing, notwithstanding the abolition of the glass and
auction duties, which together produced about 1,000,000/.
per annum. Should our information prove correct, as we
have little doubt it will, what gratifying evidence it will
afford of the improving condition of the country, of the in-
creased employment, prosperity, and comforts of the people;
for on this point the consumption of excisable articles has
ever.been deemed perhaps the surest test. On all the other
items of the public revenue we may safely anticipate a gene-
ral, though not very extensive improvement.—Observer.
LASCAR SEAMEN.—The Merchant Seamen's Act
passed last session, which obliges captains or owners of ves-
sels trading to and from the East Indies—who may take a
number of the natives or Lascars on board to navigate the
vessel, or assist in doing so, in room of the regular seamen
who may have become diseased, sick, or dead, in places
abroad, in consequence of the heat or unhealthiness of the
climate—to keep them after their arrival in the British port,
both in food and clothing, and also provide them with room
in the same or another vessel, in order to enable them to
return to their native country, is beginning to manifest itself,
and the merits of the provisions made for the benefit of the
poor foreigners, who were formerly in many instances dis-
charged after their arrival, or as soon as their services could
be dispensed with, to wander about the streets in a state of
' extreme destitution and suffering, and become a burden and
disgrace to the country, are already very apparent. Notwith-
standing the very great number of vessels which have
arrived in this port from the East Indies and other hot
climates, where it is necessary for captains to avail themselves
of the services of these poor natives, within the last few days
not a single Lascar is to be seen in the streets, wandering
about in search of food and other necessaries, as used so often
to be the case, and which was so much to be deplored. The
men are in every instance retained on board and victualled
according to the usual ship's rations and customs of their
native country. So striking a proof of the usefulness of the
Act alluded to and its beneficial results, now that it is rully
in operation, cannot be too much appreciated by every cha-
ritable and honourably disposed person.
MARYLEBONE VESTRY. Last Saturday, Mr.
Flood, the vestry clerk, read the report of the auditors ap-
pointed to examine the income and expenditure of the work-
house, which was extremely satisfactory, and stated that in
every department of the workhouse the utmost attention
was paid to the comforts, health, and happiness of the in-
mates, who themselves acknowledged with gratitude their
treatment. Mr. Flood then road a communication from
the directors and guardians of the poor, containing their
reply to the Poor-law Commissioners, who expressed a
determination to unite Marylebone with other parishes in
the erection of district asylums. The directors and guar-
dians stated that the extent of the parish and its population
of 140,000, entitled it to an exemption from the proposed
union, and that the Commissioners possessed a discretionary
power to exclude 'it, and that even the Act of Parliament
implied that Marylebone, and all other parishes possessing
means to provide for the destitute and houseless, should be
excluded from a union with other parishes. They then de-
nounced district asylums as so many inducements for bad
characters and lazy vagabonds to migrate from agricultural
districts to cities and towns ; and in conclusion, stated that
the oath which they had taken as directors and guardians
of the poor to maintain the local government of the parish
prevented them submitting to the proposed union ; but
that if the Poorl-aw Commissioners insisted upon asylums
for the destitute being erected, independent of the work-
house, that they would build them in their own parish.
Messrs. Gomme, Michie, Wilson, Hodgkinson, and Calder,
spoke in the highest terms of this " able and unan-
swerable document," and also in the most unqualified
manner condemned the proposed plan of district asylums.
The answer of the directors and guardians of the poor was
received and adopted and entered upon the minutes of the vestry.
ON STARCH FROM DISEASED POTATOES.—It iS
desirable that no delay should take place in communicating
to the unfortunate possessors of diseased crops of potatoes a
use to which they may be applied advantageously. I have
very recently had an opportunity of being present at a mi-
croscopical examination of the structure of the bad potatoes,
made by Dr. Paget and Mr. L Anthony, both of Caius Col-
lege, Cambridge, in which it was observed that the globules
of starch were not at all injured by the fungus which was
destroying the other parts of the potato. It immediately
occurred to those gentlemen that good starch might be pre-
pared from the bad potatoes. They, accordingly, obtained
some of the very worst potatoes that could be got at Cam-
bride., and, by reducing them to a pulp, and then washing
it, they were successful in obtaining the starch in quite as
good a state as any that could have been made from
potatoes in the most healthy state. This seems to be a very
valuable fact, as it shows that some good use may be made
of even those potatoes in which the disease has made great
progress, and which have become unfit for food, owing to the
decay of the vegetable tissue, and the spreading of the fun-
gus. I see that Mr. Berkeley has observed that the globules
of starch are uninjured; we may, therefore, probably con-
clude that such is always the case, and that crops apparently
only fit to be destroyed may now be converted to use. I need
say nothing concerning the many valuable purposes to which.
potato starch may be applied, nor the mode of preparing it,
as they are well known—better, probably, to must of your
readers than to me.—C. C. Rabington, St. John's College,
Cambridge.
NOTTINGHAM GOOSE FAIR.—Our great October
fair commenced on Thursday, under unfavourable auspices,
the weather having changed to set rain, which began at a
very early hour in the morning, and continued through the
whole of the day. Everything being uncomfortable, few
persons ventured into the market-place, except such as were
compelled by business. The cheese fair was not very large,
and for the best old cheese, 655. were demanded ; for new
milk, from 58s. to 60s. ; and for second quality, from 30s. to
455. Mr. Palmer, of Sandiacre, whose dairy has obtained
such deserved repute, -sold 12 cwt. at 645. each in the morn-
ing. Stilton cheese, 9d. per lb. The show of horses, in
Calah's close, was large i goA hoiSes'commanded high term,
but inferior hacks were next to unialeable at any price. We
have seers the cattle fair (this year held on Burton Leys and
the adjoining field), muck larger: there were, however, some
very prime beasts and -stirks, which sold somewhat lower.
The show of onions was good, and they sold at from lOd. to
Is. per peck.—Nottingham Review.
Louis Philippe drove into Paris from St. Cloud on
Friday, and granted audiences to several persons. His Ma-
jesty appeared to enjoy excellent health.

EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF
FORGERY.
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Two foreigners, the one named Kmit 8011, aged 29,
and the other Peter Schmidt, aged 38, were brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor, on Saturday, in the custody of
John and Daniel Forrester, the officers, charged by Mr.
Kearsey, of the house of Huges, Kearsey, and Morti-
mer, solicitors of the Norwegian Consul, with having
committed a most serious offence—viz., being in posses-
sion of papers containing forgeries of the bank-notes of
Norway.
Mr. Kearsey, in detailing the circumstances, stated
that it was impossible to conjecture what extent of mis-
chief would have been perpetrated if the prisoners had
not been detected in making the necessary preparations
for carrying their iniquitous scheme into execution.
Mr. F. J. Wightman, of No. 9, Little Queen-
street, Holborn, engraver, stated that Knut 801 l
celled at his office on the 27th of September, and
brought a packet which he said contained paints,
and in it appeared some article of ornamental
workmanship. 801 l expressed a wish to have ar
exact fac-simile of the ornamental work engraved on
copper-plate, and gave particular instructions that every
fine line should be precisely the same as the original
produced. Witness worked the order, and 801 l called on
the Tuesday evening and received the plate, and wished
for an impression on paper. As the printer was gone,
witness told him that he should have an impression next
day. On Thursday morning 801 l called again, got
an impression, and took the plate, for which
he paid a guinea. In the afternoon of the same
day, 801 l called again, and said the lion's nose in
the embellishments was too sharp, the paper was
too dark, and the impression too strong. He wished
some corrections to be made. Witness made the re-
quired alterations, and 801 l was to call on Friday morn-
ing. 801 l at that interview gave witness en order for
three brass stamps with projecting letters, and deposited
11. with him, desiring him to be very particular. The
price witness was to have was 41., and 801 l said he should
have several other things for witness to do, and he
hoped witness would do them well. When witness saw
" Nore•e'es Bank " on some of the pieces of paper which
801 l had given him to copy, and that money was con-
cerned, he suspected that something was wrong, and he
communicated with the Norwegian Consul on the sub-
ject. He amend( d the plate according to the order he
received, and 801 l was satisfied with the performance.
Witness next saw him that Saturday morning, when he
called for the plate, and was takes into custody. Wit-
ness believed he had seen the two prisoners together,
but could not swear to Schmidt.

Daniel Forrester, the offictr, stated that he, in com-
pany with his brother, went that morning to Mr. Wight-
man's house, and looked through the window in the par
lour into the shop, when 801 l was there. Witness then
came by a private door into the street, leaving his
brother in the parlour, and saw the prisoner Schmidt
looking in at Evans's, the printseller's window,
in Little Queen-street. When 801 l came out ot
the shop he was joined by Schmidt, and they
crossed the street and went into Great Queen-street,
leading to Lincoln's Inn. 801 l appeared to take some-
thing from his side-pocket, and when witness approached
closer to them he observed a brown paper parcel in
Bell's hand. In that brown paper was a plate, and
witness immediately took hold of the plate, and as
801 l strongly resisted, witness's hand was cut with
the edge of the plate. Subsequently witness found
in Boll's pocketbook four pieces of paper, which
are imitations of certain portions of an original
Norwegian bank-note. 801 l said he lived at
No. 34, Gloucester-street, Queen-square, wrote down:
that address, and Schmidt wrote down ditto, ditto. Wit-
ness afterwards went to the address, and was shown the
room in which the prisoners slept, and in which them
were two beds. He there found a bunch of keys, one ot
opened a shaving-case, in part of which he put his
hand upon;,iece of a Norwegian bank-note,.and a little
bit of paper.
Mr. Kearsey said the morsel of paper producod by the
officer would be found, in the future investigation, Lo lat)
of great importance.
Wm. Thomas Newell stated that he was in the employ-
ment of Mr. T. H. Saunders, Cloak-lane, stationer and
paper-manufacturer. He had seen both prisoners be
fore ; he first saw 801 l on the 10th of September. 801 l
called with a feniale,who said that she came to interpret:
for him, as he did not understand the language. Bolit
produced patterns or specimens of an article, anti!
asked whether witness could imitate them. He replier...
that he could. The patterns were in white paper,
and appended to them was a piece of pink
paper, the colour of ordinary blotting paper, in which
colour 801 l said the fac-similes were to be done. Vi itnesa
told him the order would require time, and he was tt
call next day to know the expense. He did call on th.e.
11th. Witness gave him the plate, and he agreed to pay
41. 10s. for the moulds, and sixty shillings a reany
for five reams, or 2,400 sheets. [lt appeared that each
of the sheets would constitute a spurious note for 100
dollars, or about 251. in English money.] Witness pro-
ceeded—Boll gave him 5Z on account. The whole were to
be ready in fourteen days. 801 l called on the 27th of Sep-
tember, but was informed the paper was not ready. Ore
the following Tuesday he called again, and stated'
to the witness that there was an error in the water-
mark, which must be corrected. He then ordered the
CI in the water-mark to be altered into a C, and
marked the paper as he wished this alteration to be
made. Witness told him the paper was useless at
that rate, and must be paid for and he adtrittel
it and consented. 801 l called again on the ensuing,
Thursday to know if the mould was ready, and
said witness must proceed immediately with 1,300, onit
he expressed a desire for another alteration, and pointed
out an extremely minute one, stating at the same times
that the colour of the paper was not exact, and that the
paper itself was too stout. 801 l upon that occasion
handed to witness a small bit of paper as a sample,
which he told witness must be taken particular care o',.
and be returned. 801 l then paid 10/. on account, wrote
down the name of 8011, and gave witness an order fox--
1,300 sheets, to be ready by the next Thursday.
Daniel Forrester here stated that he told 8011, upon
taking him into custody, that he must account to the
Norwegian Consul why he got the plate engraved, arse
Bull replied that he had met a Mr. Santag offlamburgh
at a cafe, who had given him the order to get the
engraving done. He did not know where Mr. Santag
lived.

Mr. William Sot tu, of No. 2, Crosby-square,Vice- Con&
for Norway stated that he had been resident in Norway
and in Sweden. He was in the habit of having in his pos-
session Norwegian notes. The currency money was
principally in paper. The notes of different amounts
were printed or engraved on differently coloured
paper. The four dollar note was upon white paper,
and was simple looking. The ten dollar note was
upon yellow paper. The fifty dollar note was
upon green paper, and the 100 dollar note was
upon pink paper, resembling blotting-paper in colnur.
These notes necessarily changed colour by passing
through a variety of hands. Witness could speak as
to the authenticity of an original Norwegian note.
From his official position he was acquainted with the
royal arms of Norway. They consisted of a shield sur-
mounted by a crown, upon which was anon rampant„with
a crown on his head and a battle-axe in his paws, in theact
of striking. [Here the witness identified the arms of Nor-
way on a genuine note of that country.] From his know-
lege of the laws of Norway, he could state that the pos-
session of an imitation of the genuine note was an offence
punishable by its laws.—(The witness here produced tho
code of Norwegian laws, from which he stated it was
evident the offence was most heavily punished.)
Mr. Kearsey then requested that the Lord Mayor
would remand the prisoners for some days.
They both expressed a hope that the remand wuld not
be for any length of time, as they were both very anxious
to be at ilamburgh next week.—Remanded.

THE HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY.—There is every
probability of an addition to the Royal Family of England
in the course of the ensuing spring. This important national
event is expected to take place about the month of March at
April next.

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY IN THE SERPENTINE.--
On Saturday forenoon a protracted inquiry was held before
Mr. Bedford, the coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at
the Malpas Arms Tavern, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square.
touching the death of a female apparently about eieLlatert
years of age, whose body was found in the Serpentine Rivet .
ruder the following circumstances :—The jury having been
sworn, proceeded with the coroner to the dead house of S*..
George's workhouse, in Mount-street, to view the both;
which was that of a fine made young woman, and dressed
as follows:—White straw bonnet, trimmed with pink and
white ribbon, a drab shawl with red figured border, lila :
coloured gown, her linen was marked "M.A. E. I." She had
a mole on her left cheek, dark hair, and hazel eves. The
jury having viewed the body, returned to the inquest-roonr,
when the following evidence was adduced :—Robett
Sinclair, one of the boatmen belonging to the Royale
Humane Society, deposed that on Friday morning, about
half-past six o'clock, whilst he was proceeding along the.
northern side of the Serpentine River, to attend to Ur.:
bathers, he saw a bonnet and shawl lying en one of this
seats. Witness raised an alarm, jumped into a boat auci
commenced dragging near the spot, and after about twc
minutes succeeded in finding the body of the deceased,.
Witness rowed to the receiving-house with the body, era
Wve it in charge to Mr. Williams, the superintendent.
itness had since searched the place where the bonnet and
shawl were found, but could not find anything to lead to heir
identity. A verdict of Found Drowned was ultimately re
corded. The body lies at St. George's workhouse, Mount-
street, Grosvenor-square, for identification.
THE PRINCE CONSORT'S SALE OF LIVE STOCK.--..
A large portion of the live stock, fatted by Prince Albert on
the Flemish and Norfolk farms, near Windsor, and in Windsor
Home Park, have just been selected by Major-Gener uL
Wemyss to be disposed of in the course of the present month,
by public auction. The stock comprises between 300 and
400 Southdown wethers and ewes, upwards of 50 short
horned cows and heifers, and 25 Shetlands and Highlanders.
Various store stock and horses belonging to the Prince will
also be disposed of at the same time.
Theatricals seem to be in a very flourishing condi-
tion in America. The Keane had just concluded an engage-
ment at the Park Theatre, which had brought more money to
the house than had been taken for years. They were
gone to Philadelphia. The New York papers also speak its
very high terms of the talents of a young English lady, Miss
Fanny Gordon, who has made a most successful debdt at the.
Park, and had appeared with great success in several of Ves-
tris's characters.

CHURCH RATES IN LEAMINGTON.—The deter,
mined resistance offered by some of our fellow-townsmen
to the payment of church-rates, has, we regret to siato.
compelled the parochial authorities to seize the goods of
the resisting individuals. The unpleasant step was taken on
Thursday last, and, in one instance—that of a respectable
tradesman living in Regent-street—attracted together a
large concourse of spectators. In each case, and we believe
there were six altogether, goods were removed from the
houses of the defaulters.—Leamington Courier.
'TEMPLE CHURCH.—Yesterday, this church, after
being closed for a month, during which period .nde--
a thorough cleansing, was re opened for
The Rev. Mr. Robertson officiated.

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