The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A numerous deputation of the occupiers of land in
East Sussex having waited on Sir Charles Lamb, to ex-
press the opinions and wishes of the yeomanry on the
subject of the repeal of the malt duty, and also having
urged the necessity of convening a public meeting for
the further expression of their sentiments, bir Charles
Lamb has courteously consented to take the chair, at a
meeting to be holden at the George Inn, Battle, at ono
o'clock precisely, on Friday, the 28th inst.
On Saturday a Parliamentary paper was issued, show-
ing the number of certificates annually taken out by
attorneys and solicitors practising in England and Wales
from Easter Term, 1833, to the present time, and the
gross annual amount of stamp duties paid during the
period upon certificates. In Easter Term, 1834, there
were 9,450 certificates taken out, which produced a
revenue of 81,1881. The certificates taken out to the
Eth of March instant numbered 10,120, and the sum
realised the: efrom was 89,222/.

Owing to the inclement state of the weather during
the whole of Sunday, the various steam-boats plying
between London, Gravesend, and Greenwich, as also
the Chelsea and Putney boats, were wholly deserted,
notwithstanding it was Easter Sunday, a day looked for-
ward to at these places as a general harvest ; the few
passengers that were carried being only those whose
business compelled them to proceed, there being a total
absence of holiday visitors.
The amount of damage caused by the late fire at the
Apothecaries' Hall, Liverpool, is not likely to exceed
12,0001., instead of 50,0001. as has been stated.
On Saturday afternoon, between twelve and one
o'clock, a fire broke out in one of the offices attached to
the Admiralty, Somerset-house, which at one time threat •
ened to prove of serious consequences. By the prompt
exertions of the officials connected with the building it
was eating lished without doing any serious damage ur-
ther than what was caused by the water. Several en-
gines were quickly upon the spot, but their services were
not requieed. Overheating one of the flues, it is believed,
was the cause of the accident.

The grocers in the poorer districts of the metropolis are
competing to give the public the fullest benefit in the re-
duction of the price of sugar. In most shops in
Drur -lane and Clare-market moist sugar is sold as low
as 3id. and 4d. per lb., and refined sugar at 7d. A
similar reduction has taken place in the eastern districts
of town.

The New Customs Bill, repealing the duties on a
large number of articles which have previously been sub-
ject to duty, and reducing the duties on several others,
came into operation on Saturday morning at the Custom-
house, in pursuance of instructions issued to the several
departments on the previous Thursday. A great num-
ber of free entries were passed in consequence for goods
which have for a considerable time been housed in the
bonded warehouses, but which are now free of duty, and
the officers of the warehousing department will no doubt
be very busy for a time, until the goods on hand, now
declared to be free of duty, are all delivered, when it is
expected that the bulk of the free goods imported from
the present time will be delivered direct from the quay
at the side of the importing vessel, thus doing away with
the necessity of placing them at all in the bonded ware-
houses, and thereby relieving the warehousing depart-
ment of a great portion of the duty which at present de-
volves upon it, though of course adding in proportion to
the landing department.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN THE UXDRIDGE•ROAD.—OH
Saturday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a
serious gig accident occurred to Mr. James Hibbert, a
gentleman residing near Ealing. It appears that Mr.
Hibbert was proceeding to London in his gig, accom-
panied by his groom ; on arriving at a short distance
from Acton, the horse suddenly became restive and un-
manageable, occasioned by a butcher driving a horse and
cart at a furious gallop past Mr.lHibbert'shorse. Every
endeavour was used by that gentleman and the groom to
arrest the progress of the animal, but without effect. Mr.
Hibbert, to avoid being thrown out of the gig, leaped
from it, falling upon his back, and severely injured his
spine. The groom, after a short time, succeeded in
stopping the horse without further mischief. Mr. Hib-
bert was conveyed to his residence.

The Hon. William Fraser died on Friday morning,
at Lord Saltoun's town residence, in Great Cumberland-
street. The deceased was second son of Alexander, 15th
Lord Saltoun, and the present Dowager Lady Saltoun.
He was born the 12th Oct. 1791, and married, the 9th
April, 1818, Miss Elizabeth Graham Grant, second
daughter of Mr. David M'Dowall Grant, by whom he
leaves issue a family of 11 children. The deceased was
only brother and heir presumptive of the Gallant Major-
General Lord Saltoun. Mr. Alexander Fraser, eldest
son of the deceased, now in his 25th year, becomes by
his father's death heir presumptive to that ancient
Scotch barony.
BLACKBURN.—SIR ROBERT PEEL.--The Com-
mittee appointed to carry into effect the anniversary
ball in aid of the funds of the Mechanics' Institution
have received 101. from Sir R. Peel.—PresSon Chronielc

Mr. John Drummond Hay, son of the late Consul-
General at Tangiers, is to succeed his father in that
office. Mr. John Drummond Hay has been actively em-
ployed of late in assisting his father, and more particu-
larly during the recent hostile transactions between
France and the Emperor, and, having previously resided
for some time in Morocco, he has become intimately Se-
quaiuted with the language and character of its people.

COURT CIRCULAR. Ail'
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince
took their accustomed early walk in the Horne-PO.4d
the pleasure grounds adjoining the Castle. At rto
her Majesty and his Royal Highness, attended bj.i
Hon. Miss Hamilton, the Earl of Hardwieke, and
General Sir Edward Bowater, rode out on hersebse
some time in the Great Park
th. clO
The Prince of Wales, e Princess Royal, Itsc,;,
Princess Alice, were taken an airing in the Roue' a,,)
The Hcn. Colonel Grey left the Castle for town
morning, and returned in the evening to dinner. d
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albertvi!
out in a pony phaeton. The Viscountess Canning, itco
in Waiting, and the Hon. Misses Stanley and 110Car14
Maids of Honour in Waiting, followed in a "
and four. IsAr
The Royal Family were taken an airing this
noon.
nig
The royal dinner-party at the Castle this e‘.g 1,01
eluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Anna Maria Dawson, and the Countess Wratislaw.4l,is
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge .1c 13se
residence at Kew yesterday, to honour Viscount d,
rington with a visit at his seat, Beckett house, Pisri
doThe n, Berks. ; • a ti3e
Grand Duchess Stephanie, of Baden, v.sqe isco
Duchess of Inverness yesterday at Kensington :5,0
In the evening his Royal Highness visited the W 3
and Marchioness of Douglas in Connaught Place.
Jet
Mr. James Busby had an interview with Lord Stit
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
NORTHAMPTON HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Napier
6 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Lord Saltoun
7 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Discord
7 to 1 agst Mr. Berrington's Father Mathew
8 to 1 agst Mr. Hook's Bastion
10 to 1 agat Mr. W. Sadler's Sparsholt
Even between the first four and the field.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. eao4
5 to 2 laid, to a small sum, against Idas, and 20 to 1 a.
his winning this and the Derby.
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst the Irish lot
11 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria
12 to I agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract
13 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's The Era
35 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland
40 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Portrait—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen—taken.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Patriot
3000 to 36 agst Mr. Armstong's Extravaganza--ta,keoll;l3,
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Liutott's Cabin boy—t. and in,•
DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Forth's lot
14 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas
16 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-way—taker
40 to 1 agat Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—takn
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Fuzbos—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Titmouse—taken
1000 to 10 agst Mr. D. Cooke's Yellow Boy—taken
1000 to 8 agst Lord Warwick's Roebuck—taken no,
500 even on the field agst Alarm, Idas, KedgeljoleglL
Clear-the-way, Miss Whip c, Newsmonger, Pantasa, „,,bob
and Titmouse. Offers to take 1,000 to 45 about vi
colt, and 40 to 1 about the Laird-o'Cockpen.
The attendance was thin, and business so flat,
scarce t°
-e
many of the principal favourites altogether, as sc.
deserve the quotations we have given. wig
We are authorised to state that there will be no •
He° this year.
1111111MIMMINE „ A DS,
ADVANTAGES OF RAILR":"-gorri'
There was a strange contrast between lut• 1005
son's speech on Thursday night and there s°detall'
introduced by it. The speech was excellent;,st are
ing almost as fully as it is possible to detail, entry
b;rt
the infinite advantages promised to the on 1) ust,ll;
railroads, while the resolutions were such as
en
adopted, retard perhaps indefinitely the reali.ss, eles'
these advantages. We have often reflected wit'acre or
sure upon the manifold benefits, whether for,Pe the
for war, which the country must derive Iric;ut,
universal adoption of the rail way system ; toe eel
confess, that Mr. Morrison's speech opened s°,,o„
and gratifying views to us : we will mention e or
First, the extension of our fisheries, the largneopiej
tion to the food and the employment of thejcipalPi
as well as to our naval strength, to be 01"cip.slet;
from a source from which no one ever an
anything of the kind. The seas that sarof the
Great Britain, " that principal gold thine„oturidel
Dutch," as iey were called nearly tor° are, '
ago by Sir Josiah Child—the British seas
rto
tb
fisheries, perfectly inexhaustible ; yet 11°
e 1604,,
produce of those seas—produce that, if nre tbs"
would feed all Europe, has supplied little ra° oticib°
an article of luxury to the rich at home, and ,st,ll
of commerce with a few nations of the snuL" veer,
could not be carried inland with the celeriti
andsary for its wholesome use, except at an exPe sod of
placed is beyond the reach of the humbler he 0,
even the middle classes; hence the nutaeoe?
fishermen and fishing-boats employed, rovelif
during the herring fishery, has been comPa rice 0,
small ; another cause of enhancing the Pole 0`
this, certainly not the least wholesome atintioing
food, and preventing the habit of its use 0," can
among the people. By railroad, however, nlof es;
be carried in a state of perfect freshness from
tremity of the island to its very central lowa tb.
we can at once see how rapidly will exten,sbole'
consumption of this savoury and eminently neatly
some kind of food, cooked more rapidly, more en
and wore economically than any other, w"ter6t"(
learn that in so populous a place as Manche? htb
of the best quality has been reduced to one-eleot ip
its former price, reduced to a price equi°,l, pound
household consumption to about three pence 'aro,
of the best butcher's meat. As the habit of hiar
ing fish grows, the numbers of fishermen and„ te
boats will be multiplied, and in this way I'd" f
'
tended broadly the basis of the naval pnwer,°h, o°,o
,land, concurrently with a great increase to Doe ebalo
fart of her people. We can see no gap i `this ie
of causes and effects ; but we repeat it o
et
benefit from railroads foreseen by few, if hya,ni.if
11111 e next advantage from railroads—scarcely,
ail-appreciated—is the circulation of lab?tirthat t"
bag proceeded to some extent ; but it is 1311, od;
operation of the benefit is not yet perfect 3 ``
atood, or we should not hear men saY, ss'l3°
san the labourer tales advantage of railroausb'y
it wonl4 cost him to travel 200 °r,
skoapest mode nearly 17a. P" The ciretthove,
labour, to be expected or to be desired', or 11.71
does net contemplate journeys of 100 Mileftlicijoid;
allies, or more than 10 or 20 miles to the.rolnasa
labourer. Labour may circulate to anY I oterniii
extent, and'yet the labourer not leave hissreo,„
cottage twenty miles behind him. Let recl%l
what we mean by an example :—There idsenisod
are
dant supply of labour, say at Dover; it supply efto
labour in London ; while the demand sa, the pr°c3oo
eqpni in the intermediate places. This 15 AltoVnef
by which the balance between Dover angeltile
will be redressed. Without tearing Men fool
from old associations, and withdrawing theln‘aroed bf
protection and support of a good charactert;ed, let
their former conduct, London will be supPtedst Clo;
say, from Croydon; the deficiency thus creel.
_ea fr
_a
don supplied from Reigate, Reigate reitnlo7'tlie
Tunbridge, until Dover shall have found an taps
a vacancy created for its surplus labour. ;`,:doire.,
that railroads will not only provide a Inea?..eroe
lation of labour amply sufficient in all exu-_,,,,rti01,
but also render this practice of moderate eTr'l7,oottio
custom among the people that will, in fact, Prhee
adjust the supply to the demand. '" of t, the
advantages, from the adoption generaqies 001_4
road intercourse, the improvement of fisher,„erobe,_rich
circulation of labour, are, it is to be relth sa,,
mere additions to the other advantages ws'd,,,otSlif,
the public are familiar; but they are to
of inappreciable value. 'We must now Borne
Morrison's resolutions, which, so far Li.r ;cis
sponding with his acknowledgment
timable importance of the promotion o:he develeort,
would impose severe restrictions upon di lanconthera
ment of this great element of social a from tiof
by limiting the profits to be derived tot
to their promoters. Mr. Morrison's_...,,'„tion,tberi
however, rests upon the unfounded assu"'r
tit°n 01"
wherever there is no parallel comp; assadiell
must be monopoly and extortiown.hou; 6t.rocioaael
tion is, as we have intimated,
in many cases; eminently so in thee color is
railroads. There will always be t." i„eetApol•
tion of what we may call the moral vas con'big
cases where men are not under an abrm_"inipos_'ohrie
sion to move from place to place, and it 1.!,. the ril'
to suppose that any considerable portion."_;l,
can be compelled absolutely to locum
not o'ooo9
road travelling is made dear, men wiliVe woo a
that must be the inevitable result. t 0,0133,ei1ia;
four or five journeys made for one t.n05..d fir ell
toe,
dozen years ap,o, merely because ma !ild of bor
is so much less expensive of mone)r.,`„n coach the
which in England is money's., worth, tr..o, ttP,en
yelling; but let the railroad companies ortidord
their P,
Sept
twofold expense of travelling to the old ,beir „erl1l
journeys will be reduced to a fifth ct
visl,"ba
number as the inevitable effect of the no,r3
rnubile oite
competition. This is the security tsneecurity
against excessive charges, and it is a
sufficient.—Herald.

101,S1

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before the Queen the revised proceedings 0 t, v/
Court-martial, held at Montreal, Canada 31 faelit C'
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19th of July, 1844, and continued by 11,-°L;rl3Asilttil°r)".
together with the decision of the Court on its r ;e4tnt—ge
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