The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon.
Miss Mitchell, Maid of Honour in Waiting, visited the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and remained to lunch
with Her Majesty and Prince Albert.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
afternoon in an open carriage and four. Colonel Arbuthnot
and Colonel Bouverie, the Equerries in Waiting, attended on
horseback.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback
yesterdan attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales. the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing yesterday
morning in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Monsieur Dedel, the Netherlands Minister;
the Duke de Sotomayer, Spanish Minister, and the Duchess
de Sotomayer, the Duke de Broglie, the Prince de Broglie,
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Duchess of Northum-
berland, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Talbot, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, the Countess Wratislaw, Lord George
Lennox, Lord and Lady Claude Hamilton, and the Hon. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. The band of the Grenadier
Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following
pieces : _ _ _

Pot pourri, "Lucia di Lammermoor"—Donizetti.
Waltz," Die Wietern,"—Kuhner.

Theme, with variations—Streck

Walzer, " Nachtfalter "—Baijsre.
Polka, ". Redouten"—Baijere.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, left town at twenty minutes before eleven o'clock, yes-
terday morning, in a carriage and four, for her residence,
Frogmore House, near Windsor. Her Royal Highness re-
turned to Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past six o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of
Baden, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder, Miss Gte-
ville, and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein, dined with her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday evening, at Marlbo-
rough -House. A select party were present to meet the Royal
Duchess.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz took
a drive yesterday morning to Kew, returning to Cambridge
House in the afternoon.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended
by Baron Knesebeck, dined yesterday evening with the
officers of the Life Guards, in the Regent's Park Barracks.
Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign Office.
The President of the Board of Trade and the Vice-Presi-
dent had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial Office,
from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

SIGHT AND HEARING TESTIMONIALS.
39, ALDEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. - General
Browne Clayton feels desirous to express the comfort
and advantage he has derived at his advanced age of 70
years, and after two years' trial, from the use of Messrs.
S. and B. Solomons newly invented Spectacles. Their
valuable inventions fully merit the patronage they have
received. Address, Adlington-hall, Lancashire.
Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone bete,s to Say that
the Spectacles he has now had some time in use, have
fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S. and B.
Solcinms as to their excellence, and having found so
much comfort and advantage from their use, far prefer-
able to every other kind of glasses. 13, Norfolk-street,
Park. lane.—The Hon. George Cavendish, to Messrs. S.
and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, op-
posite the York Hotel. Gentlemen, I approve very much
of the Spectacles I purchased from you ; I have made
use if glasses for many years, and never met with any
to enable me to see equal to yours, and with less incon-
veldt:n.lo to my eyes. Yours obediently, G. Cavendish
Leixlip t..!astle, Ireland.—lmproved Achromatic Teles-
copes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c., of the same kind
of lenses, to surpass any ever yet invented.—The
Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Invincible Operator Voice
Conductor, Sound Magnifiers for deaf persons, give im-
med; ite relief to old standing extreme cases of deaf
- Caution. Messrs. S. and B. Solomozis, Opticians
Je A wrists, are not in any way connected with a person
ti: same name in their immediate neighbourhood.
)1- in any part of the country. To prevent mistakes,
6.3 cautious and observe—only to be had at 39, .Albe-
marle-street, Piccadilly opposite the York Hotel.

TUE Cam.Er ANUFACTURE.—Notwithstanding
the great improvement that has taken place within the
last few years iu the designs and colouring of our carpet
manufacture, and the successful introduction of two new
patent fabrics, both of which possess considerable me;ir,
and are highly creditable to the taste and ingenuity of
the inventors, Mr. Whyteck of Edinburgh and Mr.
Templeton of Glasgow, the periodical exhibition which
took place last year at Paris she% ed that we were still
far behind the celebrated manufactures of Aubusson and
the Gobelins. It must be understood that our remarks
apply only to the more costly description of carpets
which are purchased by sovereigns, nobility, and those
who have wealth and taste to appreciate those exqui-
sitely beautiful productions. In the manufacture or
Brussels and velvet carpeting in breadths, ee bell ye
that our manufactures as far surpass the French as theirs
do ours in the deseripti, us of carp-t before referred to,
and cannot but feel some degree of surprise tha: in this
the rickeit country in the world, and that in which ma-
nufacturing enterprise has been most fully developed, no
stronger efforts should have been made to rival their x-
cellence. The fact that the principal manufactory in
France is partly supported by contributions from Go-
vernment (the Gobelins, as is generally known, being
entirely a Government establishment) coupled with the
great cost of designs—the difficulty of finding artists of
taste and ability is give their attention to the manufac-
ture, and the slow return for the capital invested—are
causes which have doubtless deterred our manufacturers,
who love the profitable more than the beautiful, from
entering into competition with the foreign fabric. It is
with pleasure that we have learned that this interesting
manufacture is about to be established in London by
Messrs. Jackson arid Graham upon an improved method
of their own invention ; and we may add, that the well-
known taste and enterprise of the firm are a guarantee
that it will be carried to a successful issue.

GIG ACClDENT.—Thursday afternoon, about four
o'clock, a serious accident occurred to Mr. Joseph Partridge,
a medical gentleman, residing in Duke-street, Bloomsbury-
square. It appears that Mr. Partridge was on his return
from visiting a patient, when, near Ebury-street; Pimlico,
the bearing rein broke, and the horse, a very spirited animal,
became totally unmanageable, and went off at a terrific pace
in the direction of the Vauxhall road. It is supposed that
Mr. Partridge became alarmed, and in endeavouring to
alight at the back of the gig, fell with extreme violence on
his head. The horse was stopped nearly opposite the Royal
Standard public-house, having stunned himself against the
wall of the main sewer. Mr. Partridge was conveyed into
Mr. Cotton's, a surgeon, labouring under a concussion of the
brain, and, after some time, was conveyed to his home with
slight hopes of recovery.

ALARMING FIRE ATA LucirzaFAcroar.---Thursday
night, shortly before eleven o'clock, a fire broke out upon the
premises in the occupation of Mr. Graham, lucifer match
manufacturer, in Rook's-yard, Queen-street, Mile-end New
Town. The parish engine, with that from Wellclose-square
brigade station, were quickly on the spot, followed by an-
other belonging to the London Hospital, with the brigade
engine from Jeffery-square, with Mr. Crookland, the chief
officer of the district. The firemen at once set to work most
vigorously, and with the aid of the neighbours, they suc-
ceeded, after much trouble, in extinguishing the flames, not,
however, until a great quantity of the stock, together with
the racks and work benches were destroyed, a portion of the
roof, and the centre windows burned, and other damage done
by fire and water. The origin of the fire is not precisely
known, but it is supposed to have been caused from a piece
of the roof being blown down by the high wind, and falling
upon a pile of matches, caused them to ignite. Unfortu-
nately the proprietor was not insured. A few years since,
one of Mr. Graham's workmen was killed whilst preparing
the composition for some lucifer matches, in Primrose-street,
Bishopsgate.
,THE GAME-LAWS. The calendar containing a
description of the offenders confined in Nottinghamshire
House of Correction, as laid before the Quarter Sessions last
week, shows that nearly one-fourth are under the game-laws;

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON
THE SHEFFIELD AND ASHTON RAILWAY-
ASHTON, MONDAY.—The inquest upon nine of the bodies
recovered from the ruins of the arches at the Ashton branch,
of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway is appointed to take
place this afternoon. Since Saturday four other bodies be-
sides those whose names we give have been rescued.
The inquest will be held at the Commercial Hotel, Ashton,
the coroners for Cheshire and Lancashire sitting at the Wile
time in the same room. There is but little doubt that the in:
quest will be adjourned. Five of the bodies are at present at
a small public, house on the Lancashire side of the river, an
four on the Cheshire side.
The extent of the loss of life cannot yet be fully stated;
upwards of 100 men, and a large number of horses, have been
engaged during the whole of the day in removing the fallen
materials, and up to nine o'clock last night four more have
been found buried in the ruins, making in all twelve, of whoa'
nine were killed on the spot. The remain'ng three were
taken out alive, but two of them are so severely injured that
very little hopes are entertained of their recovery. They are
all lying at adjoining public-houses, awaiting the coroners
inquest.
A number of the bodies being found on the Cheshire
of the river, and the remainder on the Lancashire side, the„
investigation will, of course, be conducted by the coroners fa'
the two districts, Mr. W. S. Rutter and Mr. C. Hudson. Frew
the best possible information to be obtained, there are fron;
18 to 20 persons killed, most of whom are single men. Th
names of those who have been found dead are :
George
Collier, 45; James Bradbury, 26; John Cox, 35; Refryßogers, 27; George Smith, 30; Samuel Smith (brother 0
George), 26 ; Adam Nowell, 20; William Leonard, 30, single
men ; Abraham Nowell, 47, father of Adam Nowell, who has
left a wife and four children. side
Taken out alive—Charles Critchley, Richard Critchley,
and Thomas Brown.

Throughout the whole of yesterday many thousands 01
people have been continually crowding to the scene of the
accident, but by the exertions of the 56th Regiment of Tot,
assisted by the police force, under the direction of Mr. Little'
the special high constable of Hyde, the greatest order Iles
been maintained. Mr. Robert Newton, of the Ashton poll;
was also in attendance, with a number of his men, on
Lancashire side of the river. There is still much speculation
as to the cause of the accident, but in the absence of
official report from some scientific and practical man itwe
impossible to convey an accurate idea of the cause. '
have made every possible inquiry, and will give the fac";
as we have found them, and leave the public to come toehe!:
own conclusions until an investigation has been completg_
There were nine arches, which formed the viaduct over the
river Tame and the valley through which it runs. Thcsc_
arches were supported by piers of 28 feet long, 4 feet 6 incho,
thick at the spring of the arch, and 6 feet 6 inches thick 1
the base. The span of each arch was 30 feet, and a rise fro°
the spring of 7 feet 6 inches. They were all built of 4°°_,
got in the neighbourhood, which is said to be of good quaiikr
Some of the piers were founded on rock, and others .ufel
what appeared to be solid clay.
These are the facts so far as relates to the workmanshiPj
but it is much to be desired that a very searching innyl
should be instituted. There is one circumstance wine' f
said to have very much affected the arches, viz., the state °f
the property over which they were erected. For sever
L:
miles round the whole country is undermined by collier;
many of which are said to come within a short distance °f,,t;
surface. There are numerous places in the vicinity ew'cdl
have sunk many feet, and by so doing have done 10,,
damage to property of every description. In one field B.t
joining Wharf-street, about 50 yards from the line of 11'1 i
way, there are evident marks of sinking, some parts of 111
have fallen in three or four feet. In many other place's s
the neighbourhood similar sinkings of the earth have take,.
place, and many of the buildings are perfectly curved fill";
this cause. There appears to be little doubt but that the
third arch, from the abatement on the Ashton side, was " a
first to give way, as by a close inspection it will be foil%
that the piers of this arch fell towards each other, the °he
arches on the eastern side falling towards the west,
other six on the western side falling towards the east. ' hie
large quantities of fine clay have been got from beneath t
• - verl
part of the country, the stratum of which is within a oe
short distance of the surface. One of these drift-waYel fet
way some short time ago, and the walls which were bud °r
the purpose of carrying the line over the Peak-forest 'JB'
sunk several feet, and of course had to be taken down, Btlhje
the foundations piled or filled up with clay and soil to
depth of 45 feet. fa 0
It is to be hoped that the real facts of the case, as '7est,
they can be ascertained, will be produced on the blithe
which it is well known is the wish of the company and
contractors.
There were not less than from 15,000 to 20,000 r
congregated near the scene of the sad catastrophe. aniretri
The amount of damage is estimated at 4,0001.

1011
DOVER, Aram 21.—The Overland East,1
his
mail (Calcutta) consisting of fourteen cases, arrived too
day from Boulogne, by the Ondine steam-vessel. The abto
steam-vessel, in crossing from Dover to Boulogne en ►e,
preceding da, passed close to a vessel lying un her broads' ra
She had no mainmast, but Tier foremast and buwsprit',_ /1,.0
still standing, with all the sails attached, and one ane"%is
her bows. The Ondine, un returning irom Boulogne
day, again passed close to the same wreck, and viLieh.
supposed to be a large Dutch galliut. The wreck e",,, ti,
the immediate track of vessels passing to and from the CO'"
nent, and lying about ten miles S. and lay W. of Dovere°t-
the N.E. end of the Ridge shoal. The Britannia st". —ux-
has been since sent out in quest of the wreck, fur the Pr on
pose, if possible, of getting hold of her and towing he
shore out of the fair way of the navigation.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE DOVER RA1LWA,,,,,11,
Another inquest was held by Mr. Carter at the `'S'i'll rood
Croydon-common, on the body of a labouring min n:,4111
William Davis, who was killed upon the Dover Erills„v„" )8 of
Friday morning. It appeared that the deceased Iva' "n-oar
the men employed upon the works at present goir',:pose Of
the Croydon and Brighton Junction liae, for the snip and
carrying out the asmoaphcric principle of loconvatt°7:4oeii,
he was returning to his work from dinner about che ° -iron
at the time a down train to Brighton and an
up train
Dover were passing upon the line. The deceased w3s Iva of
ing between the up rails, and it is supposed that the noisei r
the down train prevented him from hearing the other, oci
although he was repeatedly called to he took no notice, grif
the engine struck him to the ground, the wheels passed eve,
him, and lie was almost instantly crushed to death. Net `-or
slightest blame appeared to attach to the guard, driver' ,4
any person connected with the train, and the jury return
a verdict of "Accidental Death."
Y)13101
RE-INTERMENT OF THE REMAINS OF THE ---
OF SUSSEX.—Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, the Lord Chasetbe"",ii;
Earl Delawarr, and the executors of his late Royal Highness
Duke of Sussex, attended by several of the Directors of the 1:„.
sal-green Cemetery, superintended the removal of the cool
taining the remains of his Royal Highness from the cataconl4o
which it was originally deposited to the mausoleum just erected i 0
its reception. The coffin was raised on the funeral altar s'l7,
the chapel, and from thence conveyed with all due ceremony ti be
final resting. place. The ceremony was strictly private. It Wet s
remembered that shortly after the demise of his Royal Iligh„nry of
splendid mausoleum was proposed to be erected to the Inetn7od
the Puke by the Freemasons of England, of which, ancient but
honourable order his Royal Highness was the Grandmaster,
in accordance with the wishes expressed by the Duchess °f.,;„-cer
ness, and other members of the family of the illustrious .1— ent
that intention has been abandoned, and the present ro°°°:tesi
has been erected at their own private expense. The ,pot r'e,
c•r-
as the situation for this monument is the centre of the. :he
miler grass plat immediately in front of the chapel, 39,,at
upper end of the cemetery. The tomb consists ofa capacioui
or chamber, into which the royal remains will soon be trans°
it 0.
from beneath the chapel, where they now rest. The •Sulttecti
deep square excavation, sufficiently capacious to contain 00-fing,
or twenty calls, Sagged at the bottom with Yorkshire Ps: jer
and surrounded by brick walls, of immense thickness, the Sis
surface being covered with a smooth facing of cement• me
brick-work forms the resting-place for five stones, which arLtiittich
the entire of the above ground-work of the monument, and - the
are of grey Aberdeen granite. The four stones which form in
walls of the monument are each rather more than fourteen feet to
length, and about tweiteet in height and thickness. The" are
,„
be surmounted by the crowning stone, which has the
..0s
0
attached to it all ready for lifting, an enormous block of the This
granite, weighing, it is estimated, upwards of three tons.
stone, like the others, is without the slightest inscription, 7ito
men% or device of any kind, with the exception, however, °„tire
upper surface being slightly bevelled off at the sides. The e"
height of the monument does not exceed four feet. It !;:gunt.
rounded by fourteen pillarr, each three feet six inches it' t'"the
quite plain, and composed of the same species of granite "•

monument, but connected with each other by chains.
STORNOWAY, APRIL 10.—Preparatiuns are 1113
oar.
here already for the early herring fishing, which clot
mences next mouth. The curers who were here:„eot
year have engaged their old stances, and an ern" 'sot
curer from the east coast has also taken a stance.
or seven sloops, from the Clyde, are comingto fib
with their own boats, two of which fished their 0.
cargoes last year in three weeks, at the adjoinlnq
harbour of Cromore. A number of boats have already arrice".
from the east coast, and they are at present successfully' pt ril
secuting the cod and ling tisitimr. They will remain T.,
about the middle of May, when the het-ring fishing ccr„;
mences. John Scobie, Esq., factor of the island, isleiv
boevery encouragement to curers and fishermen.At
lately built an excellent store and curing she'bi ,
Cromore, and he is at present building another at BaY-10;
there is also a space of ground laid off at the latter place _,O
drying nets Fishermen who intend coming here this sToni
should be made aware that the size of net required is 1r
34 to 35 meshes per yard. —lnverness Courier. Monk-
Three females died last week in the parish of d
ber6
wearmouth, Sunderland, whose united ages nut°
two hundred and sixty years.
the
The Exeter Gazette, of Saturday, contradicts
report that Sir William Follett is about to resign his office.

BIBTHB.
On the 16th inst., at Grove-hill-terrace, Camberwell-0"4
Mrs. James Hastie, of a son. f
garVel
On the 19th inst., at Worthing, Sussex,the lady
Morris, Esq., pf a daughter.
rrhoMo
On the 20th inst., at Regent-square, the wife of
Walker, Esq., of a aughter. gar'
On the 20th inst., the wife of Charles Woolley, Esq"
pur-street, of a son.
On the 2lst inst., at Sydenham. common, Kent, Mrs
of a son.
On the 20th inst., the lady of Dr. Spurgin, ,of Gaildfad-
street, Russell-square, of a daughter.

MAIED.
On the 12th inst at St. PancrRR
as Church, Middlesex, rr
J.
r,
Inman, to Louisa Maria, second daughter of Charles FoWle
Esq., late of Staplegrove, Somerset. the
On the 17th inst„ at Buckland, Monachorum, Dev 18-
Rev. John Williams, Rector of Wigginton, Oxon, to e,' "
tian, daughter of T. Gill, Esq., M.P., of Buckland Abbe:4o,
On the 12th inst., at Clapham, Mr. Richards, of Lamb
Mary Wenham, eldest daughter of Mr. James Fairbairg
of Clapham •rise.

DIED.
On the 9th inst., at Ostend, James Henry Horatioo,oonilk.Ys°)l
Norfolk'
of the Rev. W. H. Tudor, Rector of Syderstone, wen%
On the 12th inst., Joseph Stainton, Esq., of Biggers
in the county of Lanark. Jag°
On the 12th inst., Frances, widow of the late Mr.
Death, of Waltham Abbey, Essex.
ye of th°
On the 13th inst., at Oxford, Mary Charlotte, w
Rev. R. J. Spraager, M.A.
reetehlr'
On the 16th Inst., at Belvidere, Cannington, Some
Catherine, relict of the late J. Poole, Esq.
On the 16th inst., at Ashburton, Mr. Johnstone. ,co..
O n the 17th inst„ at Dulwich, Harriet Agnes, wife 64
tain Plumridge, R.N.
On the 18th inst., Mr. Robert Laws, of the King of per
mark Tavern, Wapping.
e of C•
On the 18th inst., near Tunbridge-wells, Louisa, Wll.
P. Cay, Esq., late of Tunstal Lodge, Durham.
lf ' e of,
On the 18th inst., at Hatton-garden, Mary, vi
Richard Durant Cumming.
On the 19th inst., Milward, son of William Berdget4 Zi44
Old Broad-street.

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