The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-21 00:00:00

Preston and Wyre

Sheffield and Manchester•• • • • • • •
South Eastern.• •. • • • • •••• • • •

TatT Vale ........ .

Ulster . ........

Yarmouth and Norwich • • • • •• • . . .
York and North Midland . • . . • • • ....

717
5,330
1,292

573
4,682
782

354
2,729

357
::2,261

QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)

PROOICES V. ROCKET.

In this case, which was argued very fully on Saturday last, Mr.
Watson, Q.C., appeared to show cause why the rule prayed for by
the defendant should be made absolute. The great question in
the case was a construction under the new Attorneys' Act. The
declaration alleged work and labour done as an attorney, and
the plea stated that no bill had been delivered before the
commencement of the suit, as by the statute required. The replica-
tion set forth that a bill had been delivered without alleging
" according to the statute." Mr. Watson wholly relied upon the
fact that the bill had not been delivered according to the statute.
Mr. Brookes, the attorney and plaintiff in the case, performed con.
veyancing business for Mr. Bocket, a bill for which before the
passing of the 6th and 7th Vie. was not taxable. He sent in his
bill, but not signed, and the Act referred to, which the Learned
Counsel contended was retrospective, declared it should be so. As
the delivery of the bill, which took place a month before the Act
was passed, was not good, it could not now be taxed. The Learned
Counsel went on to argue for his view of the case, but the argu.
ments were technical arid of no public interest.
The COURT postponed judgment.

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A FRENCH LADY.-
Yesterday a French lady was brought in a cab to Guy's Hospital,
who, it was stated, had attempted to commit suicide, by throwing
herself from the window of the third flour of a boarding-house at St.
Mary-at-hill. Mr. Brown, of the Blue Anchor Tavern, St. Mary.
at.hill, who accompanied the female to the hospital, stated that
about ten o'clock on the previous night she arrived at his hotel in
a cab, and, producing a card of his, said she had received it from
a friend of his at Dublin, from which city she had just arrived by a
steamer, and that she had no money, but was on her way to Bou.
logne to her mother. She had friends in London, from whom
she was to receive some money on the next day.
Mr. Brown consented, upon such a representation, to
accommodate her, and she was furnished with tea and
a bed. Soon after she had retired to rest, Mr. Brown's
attention was attracted by hearigg a most unaccountable
noise proceeding from her bed-room. On going thither, to ascer-
tain the cause, he saw her sitting on the sill• of the window. As
soon as she was aware of his presence she instantaneously leaped
into the yard beneath, from a height of about forty feet. In her
descent she alighted upon the skylight of a kitchen, which, being
covered with a wire-guard, she rebounded Into the area. Being
stunned with the fall, means were promptly taken to ascertain
the injuries she had received, and she was ultimately taken to the
above hospital, where Mr. Coulton, the house.surgeon, rendered
her every assistance, and, most astonishing as it may appear, from
a fall of such a height, the only injury she has snstained is a con-
tusion of the right knee. Notwithstanding her assertion that she
had got no money about her, upon examining a reticule which
she had in her hand when picked up, it was found that there was
8/, in gold and 225. in silver. The infatuated woman maintains a
most profound silence as to the motive which has induced her to
commit such a rash act.

ISLE OF WIGHT RAILWAY.—A large and respecta-
ble meeting of parties opposed to the carrying out of this line took
place at the Green Dragon Inn, Newport, on Wednesday. Sir 11.
Simeon was called to the chair. On opening the business of the
meeting a letter was put into his hands by Mr. Tootall, one of the
promoters of the measure, which he read to the meeting. The
meeting was then addressed by gentlemen from all parts of the
island, particularly from Ryde, Yarmouth, Cowes, Newport, and
Ventnor ; they all described the feelings of the inhabitants of those
parts to be decidedly against the undertaking, and expressed their
determination to oppose it. They considered it uncalled for and
worse than useless, as they had no produce but lambs and lace to
export, and little but coals to import; there was no thoroughfare;
it was like a street without one end to it, people could ride up one
side, and to get out must ride down the other ; for six months in
the year there were not six persons in a clay passing between Cowes
and Ventnor, and for three months not three. A requisition was
signed to the Sheriff of the Isle of Wight to call a public meeting
of the landowners and ratepayers of the island at Newport on
Thursday next.

ODD PHENOMENON.—A most curious phenomenon
has for some months past been observed on the surface of the Wear,
near to Framwellgate-bridge, in this city; we allude to the con-
stant rising from the bed of the river, both above and below the
bridge, of a quantity of gas. Whence it comes seems to puzzle
the most scientific men, and in the absence of information which
might be relied on, rumour attributes it to openings from the
workings of some old collieries, or from a subterranean passage
which formerly connected Finchale Abbey with Durham Cathedral.
Whatever may be the cause, it is quite certain that the gas which
rises in bubbles through the water, notwithstanding the length of
time it has continued to escape, rather increases than diminishes in
quantity.—Durham Advertiser.
LEGAL GARDENERS.—We ui.derstand that the
benchers of Lincon's Inn will publish a gardening book in accord-
ance with the complete revolution they have lately efFected in the
art of horticulture. They have been laying out new squares with
trees, removed after forty years' growth, into a soil of stone, brick,
and rubbish, thinly overlaid with mould to the depth of ten inches.
lhe trees are said to be in full bearing ; and if they will bear
such treatment as this, they will undoubtedly bear anything. The
ol.eration of moving trees of forty years' standing has seldom been
tried with success, but we understand that the benchers of Liu.
coin's Inn have caused writs of certiorari to be duginall over the '
square, because a certiorari will removed a case— anwhy not a
tree t—in nearly all ite branches..--punch.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE-
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FIUDAY.
NORTIICINIBERLAND PLATE.-6 to I agst (
Lif:rhtn3.ng t.),
7 to 1 agst Inheritress (t.), 8 to 1 agst Pagan (t.), 10 to 1
agst Queen of Tyne, 10 to 1 agst Little John, 3 yrs, 10 to 1
agst Coheiress (t.), 15 to 1 agst Porto Bello (t.), 20 1 agst
Badinage (t.), 20 to 1 agst Best of Three, 20 to 1 agst or
thurnberland, and 2 to 1 agst Dawson's lot (t.).
ST. LEGER.-20 to 1 agst The Baron (t.), 20 to 1 agst
Connaught Ranger (t.).
DERBT.-33 to 1 agst Brocardo (t.)
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE MEETING.—THURSDAY.
ENTRIES FOR PLATES, &c.

MONDAY.
The Maiden Plate of 501.
Bretwalda, 3 yrs—Sunset, 4 yrs—br f by St. Martin, dam
Ebor, 3 yrs—Lady Emily, 3 yrs—Stittenham, 3 yrs---
l'oll of \\rapping, 3 yrs—Firemaster, 3 yrs—Periwinkle,
4 yrs—Agriculture, 4 yrs—Sailor, 5 yrs—and Milden, 3 yrs.
TUESDAY.
The Queen's Plate, for 3 yrs old and upwards.
Bretwalda, 3 yrs—Comical Boy, 3 yrs—St. Martin filly',
3 yrs—Ladv Emily, 3 yrs—Miss Burns, 5 vr,____Jinglepot,
3 yrs—Lightning, 4 yrs—Poussin, 5 yrs-13est of Three,
4 yrs—lnheritress, 5 yrs—Trueboy, 5 yrs—Agriculture, 5 yrs
—Cataract, 5 yrs—Dog Billy, 4 yrs—Milden, 3 yrs—Pun"
jaub, 3 yrs—Lady Flora, aged.
TI I URSDAY.
The Royal Victoria Whip Stakes.
Saul, aged—f by St. Martin, 3 yrs—Celeste, 4
Wapping, 3 yrs—The Bashaw, 5 yrs—Firemaster, 3 Yrs--
Periwinkle, 4 yrs—f by Physician out of Venus, 3 Yrs--
Zoroaster, aged—The Bat, 6 yrs—Lady Flora, aged.
Sister
Arrivals—The Bat, Lara, Flagon, Milden, Dog Billy,
to Coheiress, Crikey, Billy, Fair Star, Punjaub, Lucy, and Bre-
vit y. yre—pall of
Gomm-ow) Cur.—No alteration in the weights, except ill,
Weatherbit, who will have to carry 7st 41b, on accoutit
winning at Ascot.
E ORLANDO AND The
RUNNING REIN' TRIAL.-- decla-
ration of sums won or saved by the verdict in the above
trial, and on which an assessment will be made fur the pur-
pose of paying the extra costs incurred by Colonel Peel, con:
siderabl exceed 30,000/. • and as large additions are exp
y ected
from the other winners b'y bets, sweeps, or lotteries, the per
centage to be contributed by the several parties, we have ne
doubt, will be very small.

THE DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF TILE
The annual fete chanipetre for the support and increase
attr;
funds by which the benevolent objects of this institution are co..
out, and its benefit made more general to the poorer classes
tetoine!
metropolis, took place on Thursday in the grounds of the Coun
arq
Zichy Ferraris, in the Regent's-park, the abode of the late 31
..und
of Hertford. The attractions to the fete were numerotlos:ose.
amongst them was the fineness of the weather, which, in ,stity.
rating with the zeal of the visitors for the welfare of thelsocal
tion, and with the love which most persons have for g'—hroughf
and instrumental music and for a fashionable promenaderrt Co.
a large assemblage of visitors to the grounds. The On ce, De
titled of the performances of Madame Dulcken and oefrot
Meyer on the pianoforte, of Mademoiselle Schloss,
hf itiforth,
harp), the Distin Family, Madame Dorus Gras, Miss
Mr. Ransford, Mr. D. W. King, Madame Eugenie Garciao,:tev'
Harrison, Miss Messent, Miss M. B. Hawes, M. Vieße Guards
Signor Brizzi, Miss Frierdel, Mr. Weiss, &C. Sr It Guards
acted as conductor. The band of the Ist Regiment of Li!• The
was also present, and played some well-selected sausic_te _ the
grounds at five o'clock bore a very animated appearance f io.
number of the company and the general gaiety of the scerle,anner
deed, nothing could have been better conducted or ißeanti _bars
more satisfactory to the feelings of the visitors. Fr°nl
tb
tionnihave
assembled it is fair to infer that the funds of the institu,
te it wo
received important aid, and that the views of those 's,' w'f„nsurate
rounded some years ago will be carried out with comet
success. rOVOS
ROBBERY OF Two THOUSAND AND FOlts s went the
FROM A DISTILLER.—On Monday night, while Mr. Co°,,,gow lo
extensive distiller at Fintry, was on his way home frein,,eut twenlY
his gig, and when near the top of Carepsies Moor, 3%0,, who
minutes past eleven o'clock, he was attacked 11 tw°3oa a large
copped his gig and robbed him of his pocket.beo
f" violence to
sum of money. We have not heard the extent ot under.
which the unfortunate gentleman was subjected, bud with Wad'
stood that the pocket-book—a black leather one, t.e .04 old nine'
tape—contained, besides some accounts and other po'cb, twentr
&J., the following bank-notes :—Twelve
for 10041cseeeh, bes
le
three notes for '2Ol. each, fifty-two notes for 6
,ruesdaYeen
several small notes, deast
. vp tOney bad b
making in all 2,040/
no trace of the highwaymen or any part a the 'nu
discover
Theed. weather coess- "
Paris has been lyelY °ltrY
for some days. On Tuesday the thermometer in
shade No to
the
snot by
87. On Wednesday, however, showers of rain, 3CC°InP
thunder storm, reduced the temperature considerahlY• r
BoWle Iho
BELGIUM AND TIIE RlllNE.—Captain steer,' ° s
and Mts. Bowyer, the Honourable Mr. and
)1".
Captain a.
Company's steato'
Stanley, Esq., with several servants and two carriages; Reed, and
Mr. Morse, Mrs. Harriet Coleman and familY ; Dr: zackwall'
Captain Powell, embarked yesterday morning
pier, on board the General Steam Navigation
ship Soho, for Antwerp. band $t
Mr. Mountain, formerly leader of the seed
Covent-garden Theatre for many years, died on tlie Ithi'r; popular
seventy-eight. He survived Mrs. MOUNiAiD, OnCe 3 band
01 a
singer, four years, and belonged to the Philharrnonic
few seasons back. NaVigt"
Batowrori, JUNE 19.—The General Stearn
Arrived
tion Company's packet Magnet, Captain Henry Cheessnaolii, ate the
at the Chain-pier this morning from Dieppe' balinge
th
passage in seven hours, and landed the Duke de Poix, A tette.
de Noailles, Lord Clinton, and Major-General i‘PLeoel• the
front Lord Cowley, our Ambassador at Paris, was brouglitite 'cow-
packet to Mr. P. Black, the French consul and agent of
etntaa tie
parry here, directing him to forward the luggage ni.„!h ,„„say the
Poix and the Couutess de Noailles without delay. les" „Jerrefruintut
Company's packet Menai, Captain Goodburn, arrived
with about fifty passengers, including Admiral Baudin, naval erse of
of the Prince de Joinville, who is come over for the Fury of
inspecting Captain Taylor's coating breakwater, three sec
uci
which are moored a little to the westward of this town. very
FURTHER DISCLOSURES ON THE TURF. ---A wit
numerous meeting of the members of the Jockey Clehordo.
place at their rooms in Old Burlington-street, on Sat
„ieot
the 7th, for the purpose of taking into consideration a state-ace-
suomitteo to we...us Id.. iCtwall, an influential proprietor °I rrati*
horses. This statement, it is now understood, involved a coo' /
nication made to Mr. Etwall, in the year 1840, by John P
eiii;
jun., the jockey, by which it was imputed that a gentlensao 'r
in
well known in the betting circles had gone down to Winches te
iv,
disguise, and had there offered him the sum of 1,0001. to
.Puhts
the Melody colt, the property of Mr. Etwall, then training '1;0j
father's stables, and which in all probability he would be pos
upon to ride in the forthcoming race for the Der* a it
communication was made under the seal of secrecy' the
would seem that Mr. Etwall took no further notiee °meet.
circmstance uil immeiaelafter the late EPsevahlt
ing,u when by soment means
s tits oozed out that young •1°- Lord
had divulged the circumstance to sonic other person.
George Bentinck, to whose knowledge the affair camas
ant
interview with Mr. Etwall, asked him whether there estates,
truth in the story told ? Mr. Etwall, in replY, iso.". bit
declared that he had no intention o referring the
as disclosure had been made to othersf , he had ntoo difficultY:onetir
plaining what had actually taken place, as far as lie john
v/35r psi
concerned, and we believe he then described that which
,tvea
tr
had stated to him. As such a disclosure necessarily inv
Jake,'
character of the party alluded to (who is a member of Dap
Club-rooms et Newmarket), as well as the veracity Of j°" by 10
it was deemed expedient that the matter should be taken "
Jockey Club, and on Saturday week, as already stated, g. r•
totter
appeared before that body and made his staternent• Tile tha
was at once communicated to the gentleman most intereste`..oetion
inquiry, and he promptly expressed a desire to meet the cf
as quickly as possible. For this purpose, another Ineet,
Jockey Club was appointed to take place on FridaY' at Were
issued parties interested were to be heard, and sunarne" er
also to John Day, and others to be in attendaneJoci4
Saturday, therefore, the following members of
tbuerlington;
Club assembled at their rooms in Ois, ,15.teter, tn„
street :—The Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of 1--,4 Ansel
Marquis of Nortnanby, Earl Stradbroke, the HOD. Colon%
the Hon. Captain Rous, the Hon. C. Greville,
we believe some others. Mr. Etwall was also pre'ent"„ long 011 y,
tleman over whom the cloud of suspense has hung 1-sts Gal
likewise in attendance. The witnesses summoned were,rh inslupe.
Mr. Wreford, John Day, sen., and John Day, J"a• )1r• Gee,
was private. Mr. Etwall having made his statemen,t,he wit state,
Mr. Wreford, and the two Days were examined• oter-sts
his Oujoho
were then withdrawn, and the accused submitted
•
ment, accompanied by letters written to him by Youngaln Und.chre
This led to the father and son being re-called, and egeweied,
Mr. Sherrocii/ gets.
e
going examination. The investigation being thus c,n,, the eat,uhe
Club proceeded to consider the facts before them. of
of those facts we arc ignorant ; but, upon the concoe'sunaerstauel
inquiry, which lasted from one till half-past six, noeratie,n to
that the result was "a complete and unequivocal ex'
referr to
eu
the gentleman against whom the foul charge al Vs • urried
s adjo eye'
had been made." The members of the Club bay' of the
Tuesday next, when they meet to consider the wholerspeoaceo•
and to consider in what form their sentence shall be Pr'
raft'
Observer. Old t°
PRICE OF GoLn.—The premium on g., of 3 of
is 19 per mille, which, at the English Mint Pi'-,,bang-ipg
10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives aunt esliort bedon
25 63 ; and the exchange at Paris on London, yone of
25 75, it follows that gold is 0.47 per cent• clearetrile''' price d
than in I'aris. By advices from Haniburgl,l, mint Pri,,aeoge
gold is 4371/2 per mark, which, at the Englis" c",:a;4lt
31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives "; Lond°;pt.
00.157
perfcw
of 13 1 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh
short being 13 124 it follows that gold is
course °Li tli°
dearer in London titan in Hantburgh. The t.;
eiog
change at New York on London is 110 per 41eriCa 43 pat
par of exchange between England and is 0. Nei*
109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchankte..,e
cent. in favour of England. But the quoted eNe...tie'7est
iv
York being for bills at sixty days' sight, the 1"
lie added to the above difference. Aic.r /301.
DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A SER° a ay' gel
the St. Ge:r the
GRENADIER GUARDS TIIROUCII JEALOUSY.---
ford, coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at :h vievr
Canteen, St. George's Barracks, Charing-cross, eirvot, flaltered
body of Thomas Dutten, aged twenty-seven oow
au
corporal in the Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards' 0 ao want,
in the above barracks, deposed that the deceasdedy vcoorinloiolf
sergeant. About half past six o'clock Yc'ter 3hesiePt,_,,Clec aSeis
nest; saw the deceased in the barrack-room, where oerti. P
his firelcck. "Witness asked him if he was for for a
ft of
replied " No, he was going to St. John's-wood oneas,,/the ey:Heels.
In less than half a minute afterwards witness h,
.rri",, 00 h braisevtt
fire-arms, and on turning round he saw deceased JYL(e/ shot
itoDert
Witness immediately ran to him, and saw that hietitNe•deo. of sSos
with his musket through his head. lie IH4' q the 000
Cooper, a comrade of deceased, stated that in poe •
sir
vemleer, 1843, deceased had been married withourtrnt"sersic
of his commanding officer. The wife continued
treated hYS riot
.s well r_,
was r
deceased used to visit her, where he that n ~„proPe,
master. Subsequently he complained to wnll--., that ao
satisfied with his wife's conduct, as he
connexion existed between her and her Gash%. on hls,„ttings
euspecte,s /0 pcsteiu• to
last he went upon furlough, taking his wife with nor 710", t, pia
to the regiment, she went to live with her relati es
oicetinn ")
ham. A short time since lie received a csannro eteraaVotcli
17th Y child tan
wife that she should be in London on the d C „at,'
told witness he would never see her, as she Irbil gores also
he did not believe to be his own. On SundaY he
..0 atter;:', also
he had but three days to live. He had been q:
".1 battalion'
se
ioi
since his marriage. Mr. Judd, surgeon to
wk-it ,o pirces 'said jse;
back part of deceased's head had been blo t
instautaneous death. Captain and Adjutant:J.:4n, end W:_rdiet
,_t
ceased had been nearly eight years in the bat
_ttan,' comes
of remarkably good character. The :nal." sot from "
Temporary derangement, brought on by 11 t
causes." the Goveca tot:a
THE SEAL- OFFlCE.—YeSterday // IS pro Pee
sred, 4is
Bill to abolish the Seal-office was printed.
to be eon and
tic
the end of the present year the office sh°,iity of s43l.ii, se%l
that the Duke of Grafton be paid an annuity last of JO %ter, e
orbs the the ma t°
eXciternw
deputy, John Pimlott, 300/. a.year.sealed bY be pal .
the writs of the respective Courts are
ofteii e to. efoo too:,
otitit/ ear. t_oontlitse
the same. The annuity to the Duke of 6, continued the W.,/
him during t.is life, and at his decease to Ise
to time to such persons as would have "co's' „ecetve °rtes. „Patent,
profits, and advantages of the said office the let
10t
Comptroller of the Seal of the said Courts
the use
as if the same had not been abolishedbY this 11%6141 ,00 ijol3.
EXTRAORDINARY LONiGEVITY.e
Sedhnil On"
th folloWs:
two months six persons have died in
whose united ages amounted to 5:9 Years' ory POP'
two 85 each ; ens 81; one J>7; and on.