The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
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Sin,—An Old Subscriter would be muach obliged by
-hers in your next paper to the following questions :
Cas6-,-413, has been allotted shares and signed the deed of
a railway companyi (whcsc„4,4 is not obtained), which scrip
he has sold.

Query ko. I—lf the Company do not obtain their Act,
and the expenses exceed the deposits, who are liable for the
further amount incurred—the directors and allottees, or the
directors only ?—[The allottees, as by signing the contract
the undertake to pay all further calls.]
Query No 2—lf the Act be obtained, are the Company
bound to register the holder of the scrip as proprietor, whether
a man of straw or not ?—[No ; they may, if they like, fall back
on the original allottee.]
Query No. 3—lf the scrip holder be registered does the
further liability of A.B. absolutely cease, or does it only
cease until the registered holder has gone through the Ga-
zr te?—[The liability ceases when the scrip holder is
registered.]
Query No. 4—lf there be several further transfers and regis-
trations of change of holders, and the then holder be put
through the Gazette, can the Company bold A.B. the ori-
ginal allottee liable? Or, must they not first put through
the Gazette the previously registered holders, in the order in
which they have been registered ?—[A.B. is the only party
liable until the Act is obtained.]

At Greenwich Police. court yesterday, Richard
Folly, aged 15 years, apprentice to Mr. Landels, of Bride-
' court, Fleet-street, was brought up for final examination at.
this office. It will be recollected that the prisoner was;
charged some days ago with forging two cheques in the
name of Mai or and Wallace upon Messrs. Barclay and Co.,
the bankers, of Lombard-street. The case was clearly proved
against the prisoner, who was fully committed for trial. A
letter from the prisoner to his brother-in-law, written while
he was in Maidstorie gaol, which was intercepted by the
governor, fully admitted his guilt, and exonerated his fellow-
apprentice from any participation in it.
RAILWAY EXCITEMENT.—Two persons, in the dress
of officers of the buildings about the Stock Exchange, applied
to the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house for information as
to the manner in which they should proceed to clear away
the enormous crowds of jobbers and stags, who thronged the
interior of the Auction Mart. It was, they said, quite use-
less in any of the servants of the concern to address them.
They only gave the names of their attorneys, or treated the
requests to leave the place with contempt. The Lord Mayor
said that he could not interfere, as the persons spoken of did
not commit obstructions in the streets or thoroughfares. The
officers departed evidently disappointed.
RIOT AT CHARLTON FAlR.—About nine &Clock
on Tuesday night the •isitors to Charlton fair were much annoyed
and alarmed by the appearance of nearly two hundred of thecadeta,
attired in various disguises, some armed with cudgels, who com-
menced attacking several persons indiscriminately. They were
partially resisted by a body of ropernakers and some few others,
who were, however, speedily put to flight, many of them taking
shelter in the Crown and Anchor booth, into which the cadets at-
tempted to force an entrance, but being foiled in this, they delibe.
rattly smashed the whole of the exterior illuminated devices. A
body of the police endeavoured to arrest their riotous and destruc.
live progress, but without effect, and they further proceeded to
damage and destroy several gingerbread and other stalls. A party
of the artillery were sent for, which the rioters having ascertained,
contrived very prudently to make their retreat before the military
had arrived. About five years since a similar disturbance took
place, from which period, it is understood, the cadets, until this
occasion, have not been allowed to visit the above ancient suburban
fair.

THE LONG VACATION.—The long vacation, in
legal phraseology, " will cease and determine" on Thursday next,
the 24th inst. Since the 10th of August there has been a legal
cessation, except in some trifling matters, in law proceedings.
Term begins on Monday week, as the 2d of November, the ap.
pointed day, falls this year on a Sunday.
A VETERAN.—A Spanish journal notices the
existence of a veteran of the army of Spain, who was born in
1731, and consequently is now 114 years of age. He remained
in the army till he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and
afterwards received his discharge. In 1815, when 84 years old,
he married a young woman of 21, by whom he has one child, aged
21. He is said to be still so strong and active that no one would
think him to be more than 70. His only infirmity is total deafness.
ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN POORE.—We regret to
state that a severe accident befel Captain Poore, of the 15th Hus-
sars, yesterday afternoon. While riding on the Loose.road, the
gallant captain's horse stumbled, fell, and rolling over him, caused
a severe injury on the head, and a fracture of the leg in two places.
The unfortunate gentleman was immediately carried to his resi.
dence, and was placed under the care of Dr. Gordon.—Maidstoni
Journal.

NOVEL FRAUD—We wish to caution the public
against a parcel of fellows, the number of whom is unknown, who
have for some time been going about the country carrying on
their deceptive practices with, in many instances, a considerable
amount of success. The mode in which this novel and impudent
system of fraud is managed is the following :—One or more of
these rascals manage by some means to make themselves ac-
quainted with the fact of parties having friends or relations living
abroad in distant climes, and in some instances even obtain pos.
session of the actual whereabouts of the parties abroad, their
names, and even the town or place wherein they dwell. This
is no sooner accomplished, and which in some instances must
be a very difficult task, than one of them repairs to the
party here, mostly a person in humble, if not straightened, cir-
cumstances, to whom a present of any kind in the shape of
edibles or otherwise is of much importance, and states that
a parcel has arrived by a ship from their, relatives, men-
tioning fully the names, residence, &c., of them, in order better
to deceive the person, and for the time disarm suspicion, and that
it is lying in the baggage warehouse of either of the docks in Lon-
don, waiting the payment of the proper duties due thereon, and
the dock charges, freightage, and other expenses, at the same
time proffering his servicos to pay the whole and posses& the party
of it, if, as may be expected, a certain sum of money be advanced
to reimburse him for the outlay which he will thereby incur.
This being generally proffered in the seeming kindliest manner,
the fraud succeeds in many cases, and the party of course
finds to his or her cost that lie or she has been duped, and that
no such package, so directed, is in existence. An instance
of this was discovered a few days since at one of the great
outports, where a party receiving such a piece of informs-
tian did not fortunately accede to the money portion of the
bargain, but made his application to the proper authorities, and
the collector of the revenue, wisely suspectit.g the fraud, advised
the party to wait until a communication could be made to the
department at which the party said the package was deposited,
when of course it was found that no such package existed, and the
attempted fraud cn the individual made at once evident. The
practice of these fellows is to state that they receive their informa-
tion from the mate of the vessel, mentioning a fictitious name both
respecting the man and ship. It is firmly to be hoped that, after
this caution, the fellows will have no further opportunity afforded
them of pursuing their vile practices, which have for their object
the plunder of those who arc ill able to spare it, and the excitement
of feelings of a private and Mini!), nature, which are raised in the
most cruel and heartless manner only to be deceived and dis-
appointed.

MORE lIIRDSHIP.—An Act was passed during
last session of Parliament, allowing parties who had formerly com-
pounded upon their as•essed taxes to renew their contracts, and
authorising parties who have not hitherto compounded to do so
before the sth of next April. This Act will impose much in.
creased trouble on surveyors, clerks to commissioners, and asses-
sors but not a syllable is there in the Act granting any one of
those officers a single farthing for their increased trouble, Is this
the way, Sir Robert, that you expect officials to perform their
duties cheerfully ? What Would you say to be thus served P This
is a" second edition" of the inadequate allowance under the In.
come-tax Act.

THE POTATO CROP IN ITANOVER.—The potato
disease has not, as far as is at present known, done much injury in
this country, perhaps owing to the sandy nature of the soil; the
export, however, is forbidden to those provinces bordering on Hol-
land where the damage done is very great.
EXPORT OF:POTATOES.— Considerable bustle pre-
vailed at Dundee harbour last week in shipping potatoes for the
Continent. Various vessels were loading with this staple produce,
and it is probable that several more will be put in requisition for
the same traffic.—Cakdonian Mercury.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—NEGLECT or A ROAD
CONTILACTOR.—Yesterday afternoon, an inquest was held
before Mr. St. Clair Bedford, Coroner for Westminster, at the
George, Wardour-street, Soho, on the body of Mr. Alfred
Richard Harrison, aged 30, silversmith and jeweller, of
Pickett-street, Strand, whose death occurred under the
following melancholy circumstances. George Hill, tailor,
No. 9, Donne-terrace, Hackney, stated that about ten o'clock
on the night of Saturday, the 4th instant, he was walking
along Portland-place, Clapton, when, hearing a shout
from behind, he looked back, and saw a gentleman (who
proved to be the deceased) on horseback coining along, and
the rider at that time seemed to be righting himself in his
saddle. Presently the gentleman passed him, and had
only proceeded a few yards before his horse stumbled over
some dirt in the road, and he was thrown head foremost to
the ground. Witness, on the accident occurring, went up to
the deceased, and asked him if he was hurt, but receiving no
answer, he raised au alarm, and assistance arriving, deceased.
who was found to be insensible, was carried to Mr. Hovell's.
surgeon (in the neighbourhood), and from thence home
to his friends in Wardour-street. By the Coroner: The
road had been taken up to repair the sewers, and the
mound of dirt over which deceased's horse fell was between
three and four yards from the pathway, and about eighteen,
inches in height. There was no light to warn any
person of danger, but on the other side of the heap of dirt.
there would have been plenty of room to have passed.
The horse, when witness first saw it, he should judge
was going at the rate of from ten to twelve miles an
hour. Deceased seemed to have perfect control over it..
There was a gas lamp about 30 yards from where the
accident happened, but it did not show a light on the spot.
Mr. J. ItloncritY Amott, surgeon, No. 2, Burlington-street,.
said, that he attended the deceased from the sth instant
till his death, on Saturday last, at his brother's, a gold-
' smith, &c.. in Wardour-street. On first seeing him he was
labouring under concussion of the brain, and paralysis
of the which injuries caused his death. It further
appearing
left side,
thatde subsequent to the accident to deceased.
others, though not of a serious nature had occurred, and:
that the road was considered to be in a very dangerous state,
The jury, many of whom felt inclined to return a verdict of
manslaughter against the contractor of the roads, under the
commissioners of sewers (Mr. Crooks), eventually ad-
journed the inquiry, which lasted four hours, till Friday
next. _

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LOCIICARRON.—The recent gales had the effect of
driving the herrings into this loch, in which the takes are
now very numerous. On Friday night the small boats ave-
raged 24 emits, and prices fell from 18s. to 9s. per cran fresh.
In Lochcarron and Loch Torridon herrings make a long star
when they once enter, which is owing to the narrow entrance
to these large lakes, and the strong tide which conse-
quently runs at that entrance. The prospects of the fishing
have considerably revived by this circumstance—the fisher-
men are again looking cheerful—the ennui which lately
lowered over them has tied, and given place to the bustle u;-..
a good herring fishing.—Ross-shire Advertiser.
SINGULAR TRAIT OF HONESTY.—III the course ot
Saturday, a shop-boy was sent to the bank with a 201. note
to get it changed into small notes, the which having got, he
put them for safety into the crown of his bonnet. As he
was passing along Ingram-street, a sudden gust of wind
blew off his bonnet, and the notes took flight in various di-.
rections. The boy stood aghast, and, as was nature:.
shrieked in despair of his ever recovering a single note; butt
fortunately for him, and as displaying a trait of honest):
highly commendable to the denizens of Glasgow, various
parties, who had ran in pursuit of the stray notes, came, one
by one, till at length he was put in possession of the whol4
1 twenty.—Glasgow Argus.
THE LATE SHIPWRECKS AT WICK.—The Britisti
Fishery Society have incurred penalties to the amount of 700..
bylnot having a life-boat at Wick, as required by Act of hulk.
ment. This sum will be demanded for behoof of the 'eurvivirl
sufferers.—Aberdeen Herald. .

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ORANGE MANIFESTO.
"TO THE PROTESTANTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
"In a season of great danger and trial, under much ob-
loquy and manifold provocations, we have deter mined to appeal

to you.
" Welsk you to hear us calmly, and to give to our case
your earnest and practical consideration, not led away by
vague prejudices and hasty judgments.
" There are some who use towards es the language of con-
tempt and insult, and others who exhibit to our cause only
apathy or impatience; and there are too many who are pro-
fessors of Protestantism, but who object but feebly even to
the religious tenets of the Church of Rome.
"We address not such as these•—•AVC expect no sympathy
from them ; but we appeal to those millions of our fellow-
countrymen who are still willing to maintain their protest
against Rome, and to uphold the religion of the Reformation.
"We feel that our cause is good, and that we can prove
it to be so • that our principles are true, and our conclusions
sound ; further, that the means we desire to aiopt for
the defence of our cause are not only necessary and effectual,
but righteous, legal, and constitutional.
" But to our success and safety it is essential that the good
will and cordial aid of British Protestants should be engaged
in our behalf ; and that their sober and solemn attention
should be given to the question -of Irish Protestantism, and
the peculiar position of the Irish Protestants.
"It is our belief that the true principles of the reformed
faith are nowhere more ardently -loved, or more soundly
maintained than in Ireland; and we mournfully believe and
fear that our fall would be felt throughout Christendom as
a blow to the cause of truth.
"I)o not look on our interests as remotely, but as very in-
timarely connected with your own ; and when yon read our
address, cast off all such impressions as may have been made
upon you by the levity, the unfairness, the bitterness, and
the scorn which have hitherto been too often manifested
towards this important question.
" No proof is needed of the eager support that was given
by lesh Protestants to the present Administration on their
accession to power. There were, indeed, misgivings amongst
some sagacious observers of events ; but the greater number
buried the past in oblivion, and again trusted those who
before had disappointed them. While there was then, as
there is now, no disposition whatever on the part of the
Protestants of Ireland to co-operate with the Government in
a truly liberal and conciliatory course towards their Roman
Catholic countrymen, and no desire to withhold from them
the advantages of civil equality, it was hoped and believed
that a Conservative Government would have endeavoured to
remedy and reverse the ruinous policy of their predecessors,
as regarded this part of the empire: that they would not
have encouraged the advancement of the Church of Rome;
but, guarding against its encroachments, that they would
have befriended the Protestant cause, and zealously consulted
its interests that, in questions relating to religion and
education in Ireland, due regard would have been paid to the
principles of Scriptural instruction, and to the claims of that
reformed faith which is interwoven with the Constitution, re-
cognised by the laws, and is the corner-stone of the British
monarchy.
" Such were our expectations. We challenge the most
moderate to point out in the policy of the present Administra-
tion any signs of affection to the Protestant cause, or any
symptoms of resistance or discouragement to the march of the
Church of Rome.
" in the face of the remonstrances of more than a million
of British Protestants, theeltoman Catholic College of May-
nooth has been permanently endowed; the conscientious ob-
jections of Protestants to the national system of education
have been disregarded ; and a peremptory refusal has been
given to the reasonable petition of a large body of the nobi-
lity, gentry, and clergy of Ireland for aid to instruct the
children of the Protestant poor in a manner conformable to
their faith.
" Whatever may be the judgment of the people of Great
Britain as to the merits of the Irish scheme of national edu-
cation, differing so much from that of England, few of them
will deny that the scruples of those who regard Scripture as
an essential part of education ought. to be provided for as
carefully as the scruples of those who claim the authority to
exclude it.
" We are, therefore, compelled to the startling conclusion,
by manifold proofs, that the policy of the Minister is to at-
tempt to govern Ireland by means of the Roman Catholic
party, and to secure their influence and co-operation by con-
tinued concessions.
" We cannot but apprehend, therefore, that heavier blows
and greater discoursgements are still in store for us,—that
there may yet be a more direct violation of the Constitution,
as, for instance, by the endowment of the clergy and Church
of Rome--and that, from the policy of the Government, the
maintenance of the Established Church in Ireland, although
a fundamental article of the union, may be seriously en-
dangered.
" But there are ether and obvious causes of deep anxiety
- to Irish Protestants; they find themselves encompassed by a
wide-spread and fearful conspiracy, and our fair country has
been made notorious amongst the nations of Europe as a land
of blood and crime: the perpetrator of the foulest murder
escapes into triumphant security, and the arm of the law is
utterly powerless.
" We will not dwell upon this fact; but we earnestly be-
seech you, in forming an estimate of the conduct and circum-
stances of an Irish Protestant, to give full room and weight
to this sad and horrible ingredient.
" To associate firmly and peacefully, in the earnest spirit
of men who feel the importance of religious truth, and with
the cordial loyalty which renders full obedience to the law,
has been the thought, and is the wish, of the Protestants of
Ireland ; let your judgment as to this desire be deliberate and
impartial.
" We have confidence in that veneration for constitutional
liberty which makes an Englishman jealously watchful over
the right of free expression of political opinions. We remind
you that the very first indication of a wish to unite for an
object we held to be legal, conservative, and religious, has
been met by the Government with an act both" arbitrary and
harsh. In the late dismissal of magistrates all consideration
of their object has been discarded, and a principle established,
that to unite for a legal and Protestant purpose, and to unite
for an object illegal and unconstitutional, shall incur an equal
penalty, ar.d must be treated alike.
" how far is this principle to be pushed? Are we to un-
derstand that all Irish magistrates are prohibited from being
connected with any association, or any movement of a poli-
tical nature ?
" If so, any Government of the day may convert the magis-
tracy into a body of political partisans. Would such a course
be pursued or submitted to in England?
We cannot believe that a cause so righteous as ours, and
so momentoulf,o the destinies of this great empire, can be
wanting in support from the people of Great Britain. How-
ever this may be, we despair not;. the truth of God, which
we desire to uphold, teaches us not to fear, for there is no re-
straint with Him—' to save by many or by few.'
" To our Protestant brethren in Ireland we would now
address a few words :—Undoubted loyalty has ever distin-
guished you as a faithful Protestant people. We trust you
would not stoop from your high position to seek aid from any
source which the spirit of the laws and Constitution forbids
or condemns. We need not urge you, we hope, against
weakening your union by administering oath«, or using secret
signs, a system which modern sedition has promoted, and the
• law has denounced.
" The friends of that faith which you profess intently and
anxiously observe, whilst your enemies as keenly watch your
every movement, one act of disobedience to the laws by the
humblest individual amongst you reacts upon the character
of the Irish Protestant, and gives occasson to the enemy to
malign our glorious cause. It is ours and yours; our interests
are vitally identified with yours, and one member cannot suffer
without an influence upon the rest.
" We are conscious of the severe trials which many of von
suffer—the state of insecurity and restlessness which the evil
policy of man has generated by the discouragernerft of the
good and loyal, and the encouragement ' of the bold and the
bad.' Be calm and united ,confident that your principles can
never perish.
" You can wield lawful weapons with all the confidence of
men who know their cause isrighteous. The great consti-
tutional arena is the House of Commons ; and therefore
every energy should be exerted to secure, to the utmost, a
faithful representation of your principles in Parliament. If
the registries are neglected, your political influence is para-
lysed; if perseveringly attended to, some, perhaps much,
benefit may arise. We therefore earnestly implore you not
to be deceived, or persuaded to abandon the battle of the
registry. Political privilege involves political responsibility,
and your neglect or apathy is triumph to the foe.
" You have, under every difficulty, the assurance that the
darkest cloud with which human tyranny can overshadow
you cannot obscure the bright bow of Christian hope, nor
obstruct the voice which ever invites you to hear Him who is
our peace. England cannot abandon you without sacrificing
her Protestantism, and forsaking her GoJ.
" RODEN, Chairman."

John Bowes, Esq., M.P., has been appointed grand-
master of the Freemasons of the province of Durham.
John Barneby, Esq., M.P., has resigned the cbair-
manship of the Herefordshire quarter sessions, in consequence
of- his health not permitting him longer to discharge the
ditties of that office.
The Duke of Suthierland, Marquis of Stafford,
Mr. Loch, &c , left Dunrobin on Wednesday last for Loch-
inver, where they intend to spend a week at the Duke's
beautiful house of Lochinver. Few spots in the north could
lie selected of such an agreeable nature. The house. stands
majestically on the banks of the loch, surrounded by towering
hills of the most picturesque appearance. In time of storms
from the west, the rolling of the waves is grand to behold,
and in time of fine weather the whole scenery is delightful.
—Ross- shire Advertiser.
PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. HUDSON.—The public
dinner in honour of Mr. Hudson's return for Sunderland was
to take place on Tuesday, in the Polytechnic Hall of the
Athenaeum, in that town. Preparations on an extensive
scale had been made for some days previously, and it is said
that not less than 400/. has been expended in fitting up and
ornamenting the building. The room, which is the largest
in the borough, will not accommodate the number who have
applied for tickets, although the price is one guinea each.
The tickets were sold on Monday, at a premium of 11., and as
high as 1/. 10s. Mr. J. J. Wright, Mr. Hudson's most in-
fluential supporter at the election, is to preside, and Mr. R.
Sporr, his seconder at the nomination, is to take the vice.
chair. Among the speakers will be Lord Seaham, Mr. M.
Bell, M.P., Sir John -Lowther, M.P., Mr. Hodgson Hinde,
M.P., the Rev. Dr. Townsend, canon of Durham, and several
local gentlemen, whose names are as yet unknown to fame.
The list of toasts includes the healths of the Duke of Wel-
lington, Sir Robert Peel, and her Majesty's Ministers Mr.
Hinde, and the Conservatives of Newcastle; Mr. Bell, and
the Conservatives of Northumberland, with others of a like
description. The ball is to take place on the following even•
ing, at which the Marchioness of Londonderry is expected to
be present. Mr. Hudson and her Ladyship will probably
lead off the ball. A sumptuous supper will be served at
twelve o'clock. The Hon. Member is a gutst of Mr. C.
Bramwell, of Hendon House.
THE LATE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.--A
committee in behalf of Bendigo has been formed to raise a
sn3scription to defend the action now pending between Gaunt
awl the stakeholder.
THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE ROYAL ARSENAL

The Board of Ordnance hava ordered that the son of the late
Michael Purcell, who lost his life by the late explosion in the
Royal Laboratory department of the Royal Arsenal, shall be
entered as a boy in the storekeeper's department, at a salary
of six shillings a week. The Board, however, do not re-
cuire that he shall attend work until he is fourteen years of
age. He is now only ten years of age, and is at present
under the care of Mr. P. Fogarty, landlord of the Duchess of
Wellington, Green's-end, by whom he will be placed in the
Roman Catholic school, at Somers Town. No communica-
tion has been yet received from the Lords of the Treasury
relative to the allowance to the widows and families of the
other unfortunate ram, so that the paragraph which appeared
in some of the morning papers, a few days since, is altogether
false.

Mr. D. C. Aloylan, recently elected Judge Assessor
or Westminster, under the Small Debts Act, has been confirmed
n the appointment by the Secretary of State for the Home Depart.
meat.
SIR. WILLIAM MOLESWORTII.—A paragraph has
sippeered in some of the papers, stating that the Hon. Member
for
SoUtherric was seriously indisposed. On inquiry in Lowneles.
.squire, Pimlico, it was stated that Sir William bad been for a short
tiMepligh.ly indisposed, but was so far recovered that he was ex.
pectadtia Walltalabis seat, Fencarrow, Cornwall, in tjae course
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