The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-06 00:00:00

SCOTCH ACTS OF PARLIAO

The following is a list of the Acts affecting_ 6?.°P.lf.
which hare passed during the last session of Vara"
They are as follow:
1. Act for consolidating in one Act certain prof
usually inserted in Acts authorising the taking o'
for undertakings of a public nature in Scotland. :0
2. Act to facilitate the transmission and extinct;
Heritable Securities for Debt in Scotland.
3. Act to simplify the form, and diminish °III'
pense, of obtaining infeftment in Heritable FroPe'
Scotland. 1104(
4. Act fur amending the laws concerning Hig
Bridges, and Ferries in Scotland, and the makl°fo
maintaining thereof, by Statute Service, and by the
version of Statute Service into money.
5. Act to regulate the issue of Bank Notes i°
land.
6. Act for amending an Act for making provo
Parish Schoolmasters in Scotland.
7. Act to amend the Law of Arrestment of
Scotland.
8. Act for the amendment and better admin,l- F
of the laws relating to the Relief of the Poor I°
land.

EXETER RAILWAY MARKET.—North Devon, fi
21 prem. ; Exeter and Yeovil, Ito prem. ; Exoterto
sham, and Exmouth, to a ; Exeter and Creditonsf
share ; Eastern Counties, 211.
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—Frorn 1810 to 1.-
bridge cost in repairs 83,0971. 6s. 91d. From 1t3.38;
the amount was 82,6611., and a further sum of 52,8 to
required for further works. The property belonging
bridge only realises 7,4641. lls. 8,21. a year.
Mr. Stanton, M.P., has contradicted the refOt
he is about to retire from the representation of Stroud'
~ of
FATAL ACCIDENT AT HORNSEY.—OD MAU.-s ot
G. J. Mills held an inquest at the Nightingale, ll° I,
th:. body of James Bondy, aged fifty-two, a bricklayer,'"
at Nightingale-place. On Monday night last deceasod
was determined on getting drunk, and did so. 11ovotiO
six next morninc, he went to his work at a house ere°,
Maynard-street, Crouch-end, and whilst walking aloligosi
and tinning a party wall in front of the building, he °l
hold of the wall and fell a depth of eight feet to the e
and then rolled into a tank six feet deep, nearly killinfeo
who was at work in it. Deceased was taken out in or
and died of concussion of the brain eight hours after t
Verdict, .‘ Accidental death."
SUICIDE FROM DlSTRESS.—Thursday ril• bn
held an i,squest at the King's Arms Kingsland, on the,A
William Blackman, aged 64, a labourer. The decease Vi
at No. 6, Abbot. street, Kingsland, and had for a sucolii
years been employed on the road by the highway 01
Hackney parish, until about five weeks since, when he eti
charged, without any ostensible cause. The derelib'ot
made repeated applications to the board for work, intij
been unsuccessful, which had so pressed upon his n), 4trA
for some time past he had been in a low and despon"i„-
On Wednesday night he returned home, having gow,i
the whole day to get some work, and went to bed. .0°.14
up the next morning at his usual time, his landlaciti,
alarmed, mid having in vain called to him throughPrs
door, she sent for a police-constable, who broke the a to ;
when the deceased was found hanging by a rope fe off
the bed-post, quite dead and cold. Verdict—., Tette
sang ity."
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WATER-DRINKER.—OD Thursday rnall a ,jef

John Herber, living in East-street, Regent's Parks Uls orl
for a wager of 203. to drink a pail of water (four gallonorps'il
half an hour, which he accomplished, drinking it bliereilix
a time till he had swallowed the whole. He then des "
flog
he would drink 12 pints of beer in as many minutes ie
however, seemed to doubt it, and that part of his Per'o
was dispensed with. 0%
FREEMASONRY.— On Wednesday everil
crowded meeting of the members of the Grand Lode
Order of Freemasons was held in their splendid hafl
Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's oofft),
at which the Chairman (in the absence of the Earl
land, Grand Master), Mr. Rowland Alston, Provioria ctig')
Master for the county of Essex, presented, b direoci
her Grace the Duchess of Inverness, to the Free'",„ooo,
England, the magnificent candelabrum which had beiligl9l
eight years since presented by that body to his Royal terfi
the late lamented Duke of Sussex, while Grand mode?
Chairman, in doing so, pronounced an eloquent eule,erlY
the character and virtues of the illustrious deceaseuj
and adverted to the great loss the craft had sustainevirlio
demise, and handed in an appropriate letter from able
of Inverness soliciting their acceptance of so valuablee
and it was also stated that her Grace had directed ,I.gbio./
labra to be purchased at the sale of his Royal P„jotoliir
effects, at the cost of 5001., with a view to its reibe
t°oo,
The valuable and highly-prized relic was received bYI
ing with the deepest enthusiasm, and it is unders a`;lieti
general meeting of the fraternity will be promptly ejo to
the purpose of passing an appropriate tribute of than
Duchess of Inverness. ;4isOteh4
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A curious
arisen in connexion with the wagers laid as to the WO' •v e
this sessel would perform the voyage to New York' a
days seems to have been generally the period selecie if tt,
betters; and the question now is, whether the HrOvegleep;;
reckoned by the ordinary mode of computation or b, c?,
ing the actual time of sailing according to the sb'Pai 1111)
meter. By one method, the length of the voyage vg%fba;f
than fifteen days, by the other it will be more. s t
Great Britain sailed from Liverpool on the 26th a y
P. at. ; she arrived at New York on the 10th of the Delo
three, r. m. There is a slight difference in seal„,e,°,,,
counts, but this appears to be the correct one. 11 joefoAreOli,
hid
tween port and port, according to dates, would, t tof ye tiji
14 days 23 hours. But New York is 74 degrees wes Oto el
with, which is equal in time to 4 hours 56 minutes.
ijo
leek,
ference between Liverpool and Greenwich is lite, 0e
minutes, whirl', deducted from 4 hours 56 11111100140
4 hours 44 minutes to be added to the 14 days 23 " the ;of
ing the real time which, the vessel took to pFrfornilit;
15 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes. It is a nice f°ol thee)
should certainly say that the fifteen days" take" thee)
of the wagers, meant fitteen days of twenty-four. tot
and taking the difference of longitude into accouvar.,l,,s
did not make the passage in fifteen of such dais' •
Courier.