The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 30.

An address of congratulation, on,the escape of her
Majesty from assassination, from the Governor, Council,
and Assembly of Barbadoes, having been transmitted
for presentation to his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
has been presented by the Marquis of Exeter to his
Royal Highness, who was pleased to receive the same
very graciously.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 13.
17th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon
G. Anderson, from the 75th Foot, to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Cooper, deceased, Dec. 13.
Ist Regiment of Foot—G. G. Ewart, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Wells, promoted, Dec. 13.
11th Foot—Lieut. A. Cockburn to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Norris, who retires ; Ensign 0. F. L.
Ward to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cockburn ;
J. R. T. H. Parker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Ward, Dec. 13.
17th Foot—Lieutenant C. Sewers, from the 69th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, Tice Croxon, who exchanges,
Dec. 13.

31st Foot—Lucius J. French, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Raitt, appointed to the 96th Foot,
Dec. 13.

34th Foot—Breret Lieut.-Col. C. C. P. Mair, from
half-pay unattached, to be Major, rice C. B. Brisbane,
who exchanges, Dec. 13 ; Captain J. J. Best to be
Major, by purchase, vice Mair, who retires, Dec. 13 ;
Lieut. F. IL Lang to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Best ; Ensign J. T. Still, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Lang ; E. W. Sitwell, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Still. Dec. 13.

69th Foot—Lieut. B. J. Croxon, from the 17th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Sawers, who exchanges, Dec. 13.
70th Foot—Captain G. F. Paschal, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Captain, repaying the difference, vice
Brevet Major L. Grmme, whose appointment has been
cancelled, Dec. 13.
75th Foot—R. Lewins, M.D., to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Anderson, appointed to the 17th Light Dra-
goons, Dec. 13.

81st Foot—Lieut.-Gen. Sir M. C. O'Connell to be Co-
lonel, vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Waters, deceased, Dec. 6.

95th Foot--Lieut. A. T. Heyland to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Maxwell, who retires; Ensign J. H.
Carew to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Heyland,
Dec. 13.

96th Foot—Lieut. E. W. Scovell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice De Meuron, who retires ; Ensign R.. M.
Lambert to be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Scovell ;
Ensign W. F. Baits, from the 31st Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Lambert, Dec. 13.

BREVET—Lieutenant-Colonel Sir H. Floyd, Bart., on
half-pay Unattached. to be Colonel in the Army, June
28, 1838 ; Capt. G. F. Paschal, of the 70th Foot, to be
Major in the Army, Nov. 23, 1841.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire.
Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—G. M.
Cunninghame, Gent., to be Cornet, vice W. A. Cun-
inghame, resigned, Dec. 6.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 10, 1842.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Martin
Cooper, of Bishop Wearmouth, in the county of Dur-
ham, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High
Court of Chancery.
The following places have been duly registered for
solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant, to the Act of the
6th and 7th William IV., cap. 85 :
Mulberry-gardens Chapel, Pell-street, St. George's in
the East.
St. Margaret's Chapel, Norwich.
Baptist Chapel, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
BANKRUPTS.

WILLIAM HENRY BREWER, bookseller, Rams-
gate, to surrender, Dec. 22, at eleven, and Jan. 20, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
Belcher, official assignee; Bigg, Southampton-buildings,
Holborn; Wightwick, Ramsgate.
JAMES CLARKE CRESPIN, shipping agent, East-
cheap, City, Dec. 21, at eleven, and Jan. 17, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Gibson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street; Nicholson and Parker,
Throgmorton-street..
THOMAS WILEMAN, hosier, Earl Shelton, Lei-
cestershire, Dec. 22, and Jan. 16, at one, at the Bir-
mingham District Court of Bankruptcy. Bittleston,
official assignee, Birmingham ; F. and 11. Palmer, Mitre-
court Chambers, Temple, London ; Cowdell, jun., Hink-
ley, Leicestershire ; Smith, Birmingham.
JOHN TOWRY BURGON, wholesale hardware-
man, Bucklersbury, London, Dec. 21, at one, and Jan.
17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-
street. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ;
Lewis, Clement's-lane, City.
WALTER OLIVER, upholsterer, Maidstone, Dec.
17, at two, and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street. Groom, Abchurch -lane, Lom-
bard-street, official assignee ; Palmer, France, and Pal-
mer, Bedford-row ; King, Maidstone.
THOMAS CASTLE, innkeeper, Newbury, Dec. 20,
at two, and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basinghall-street. Johnson, official assignee, Basuighall-
street ; Abbott and Arney, New Inn, Strand.
JOHN VINCENT, pawnbroker, Redditch, ‘yorFes-
tershire, Dec. 22, at two, and Jan. 19,at one at the Birming-
ham District Court of Bankruptcy. Bittleston, official
l, at
eleven,,nßankruptcy.
assignee, Birmingham ; Browning, Tardebigg.
THOMAS WATSON, tailor, Great Driffield, York-
shire,
Districts Dee.
Court 24,
oarn dJa Jan. 3
shire, Dec. 23, and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee,
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Leeds ; Jennings and Conyer, Great llffield.
GEORGE COTTAM and WILLIAM OSBURN,
ju
Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Wilson, Southampton-
street, Bloomsbury, London ; Payne, Eddison, and Ford,
Leeds.
jun. wine
a t the merchants,
Leed

HENRY ROGERS, coach proprietor, Thetford, Suf-
folk, Dec. 22, at two, and Jan. 24, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Edwards, Fre-
derick's-place, Old Jewry, official assignee ; White and
Borrett, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; Freestone, Norwich.
JAMES CLEMENTS MUMFORD, grocer, Jubilee-
place, Mile-end-road, Dec. 19, at half-past eleven, and
Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basing-
hall-street. Pennell, official assignee ; Armstrong and
Jones South-square, Gray's Inn, London.
WILLIAM PYE, builder, Brompton, Dec. 29, at
half-past twelve, and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Basinghall-street. Turquand, official as-
signee, Copthall-buildings ; Richardson, Smith, and
Jones, Golden-square.
SAMUEL BINDLEY LINES, grocer, Oldbury,
Shropshire, Dec. 21, and Jan. 7, at half-past eleven.
at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Rawlins, Bir-
mingham.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
M. Danks, carpet warehouseman, Hatton-garden, Jan.
3, at twelve—C. Daly, bookseller, Red Lion-square, Jan.
3, at one—T. Treherne, upholsterer, Oxford-street, Jan.
3. at two.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
W. MacLeod, merchant, Coleman-street-building,
Jan. 3—W. Chapman and C. M. Woodyer, coal mer-
chants, Wapping, Jan. 3—C. Savin and E. Le Roy,
artificial flower manufacturers, Berners-strect, Middlesex
Hospital, Jan. 3—C. Hamond, Italian
Jan. 3_j. warehouseman,
Great Surrey-street, Biackfriars-road ,
Pid-
geon, laceman, Birmingham, Jan. 3—W. Holmes, silk
gauze manufacturer, Friday-street, Cheapside, Jan. 3
i'. Baker, merchant, Mark-lane, City, Jan. 3—J. Rad-
ford, upholsterer, Tiverton, Devonshire, Jan. 13—J.
Drew, jun., grocer, Weymouth, Dorsetsbire, Jan. 13—
W. Langmead, banker, Teignmouth, Devonshire, Jan. 10
Shyn, hotel keeper, Liverpool, Jan. 9—W. Kerri-
son, glass merchant, Southampton, Jan. 7 J. T.
Bowden. woollen draper, Addle. street, City, Jan. 7—A.
M. Terry, confectioner, New Broad-street, Jan.
J. Smith, wine merchant, Hertford, Jan. 4—J. H. Clark
and H. C. Farrow, wine merchants, King William-
street, Jan. 13—D. Bidinead, warehouseman, Bread-
street, Cheapside, Jan. 14—J. Strutt, lodging-house
keeper, Argyle-street, Argyle-square, Jan. 10—J. P.
Thirkell, farmer, Cranbrook, Kent, Jan. 17—A. Cross-
field, scrivener, Whitechapel-road, Jan. 19—G. Green-
well, J. B. 1). Dearberg. and W. Whitehall, silk manu-
facturers, Fore-street. Jan. 10—J. Whitfield, carpet
warehouseman, Bisstpesrtr egymWouitthho,u
jt,anJ.an7._lol—v.
Rwo.thlierhaLma,lndPr°arpter, Shoreditch, Jan. 5—J. Wightman,
silk printer, Old Jewry, Jan. 5—J. liaggar, oilman,
Brighton-place, Brixton-road, Jan. s—' Starie, car-
penter, Cutler-street, Houndaditch, Jan. 5—J. urnie,
merchant, Tokenhouse-yard, City,4B2:3—Ja. Simmons,

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Bain and R. Rankine, drapers, Haslingden, Lanca-
shire—G. Gilbert and T. Tayspill, land agents, Colches-
ter—G. IL and L. H. Haslewood, Foreign Stock Agents,
Angel-court, Throgmorton-street—M. Patterson and
W. E. G. Wilson, surgeons, Wardour-street, Soho—J.
Bateman and J. Ryder, woollen printers, Leeds—J.
Adamson, jun., J. West, H. Pearson, and B. Sugden,
common carriers, Bradford. Yorkshire (so far as regards
J. Adamson and B. Sugden)—J. West, H. Pearson, and
J. Adamson, jun., wharfingers, Selby, Yorkshire (so far
as regards J. Adamson)—T. Smith and M. Leeson,
coachmakers, Liverpool—E. and T. Woolley, ship
brokers, Rood-lane City—T. Hogg and R. Todd,
nurserymen, Loughborough, Leicestershire—G. Reece
and J. Embleton, painters, Manchester—H. and F. Hey-
cock, wool merchants, Leeds—E. S. and W. C. Herring,
tea dealers, New-road, St. Pancras—G. A. Kidd and J.
Dawson, Sierra Leone—P. and T. J. Coupland, mer-
chants, Manchester—W. Allen and W. Wilson, coal
merchants, New Malton, Yorkshire—J. Taylor, B. Law,
and T. M'Entegart, brokers, Liverpool—L. Pearson R.
Barnes, and J. Pearson, tanners, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(so far as regards R. Barnes).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
ROBERT RENTOUL, potato merchant, Newport,
Fifeshire, Dec. 22 and Jan. 12, at one, at Mac Nab's Inn,
Cupar-Fife.

FOOT-RACE ON BLACKHEATH.

BETWEEN MAXFIELD, THE " NORTH STAR," AND
Glr A ZLET, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE " STAR OF
KENT," FOR 251. A-SlDE.—This match, which has
created a great sensation in the sporting circles, came
off on Monday, from the seventh mile-stone, near the
Earl Moira, at the bottom of Shooter's-hill, to the
sixth mile-stone on Blackheath. The hour fixed for
the performance of the match s was two o'clock, but
long before the time not less than 5,000 persons had
assembled. At half-past two precisely, the men ap-
peared at the starting-post, accompanied by their
.backers, when Mr. Dean, the landlord of the Fish-
mongers' Arms, Lewisham-road, gave the signal for
starting, and both men went off at a topping pace,
which was kept up throughout the distance ; the
" North Star" heading his man by about seven yards,
which he kept up to the end of the race, frequently
turning to his opponent with an invitation to
" come a-head " it he could, and won with perfect
ease. The distance was performed in five minutes
and ten seconds. It. was quite apparent that the
winner could have accomplished the distance
in much less time had he been pressed. It was " a
race-horse to an old hunter." The heath was like
Hyde-park on a review day. At the close of the
race there could not have been less than 8,000 per-
sons from Greenwich and Woolwich, Deptford, Lee,
Eltham, and all the other points adjacent; and it was
the opinion of the best informed persons that there
never were so many people assembled on Blackheath
on any one occasion. The men ran in the middle of
the road, which was somewhat heavy, in consequence
of the wet. The equipages were very numerous,
consisting of gigs, phaetons, tax-carts, job carriages,
saddle-horses, &c. The road was kept in admirable
order, and no police were on the spot to mar the
sport. Beth were even at starting, but immediately
after changed to 6 and 8 to 4 on the North Star.
North Star is a fine-looking young man, sft. 10in.,
and Gazley is lift. Bin. Gazley looked pale, and not
in his usually fine condition. There was a very large
sprinkle of the sporting gentlemen from London, who
returned to town highly delighted with the result of
the sport, having carried off considerable sums won
from the Kentish folks.

We felt it our duty to notice the extreme dissatis-
faction felt by many of the City Reformers, at the
uncalled-for manner in which the Lord Mayor, at his
inaug"ural dinner, proclaimed himself to be a follower
of the Tory Premier. We mentioned at the time the
surmises of some of his Lordship's guests as to his
motives for thus flinging among them the firebrand of
politics, upon an occasion usually held sacred from the
intrusion of party allusions. We have since received
a letter from a member of the Reform Club,-inform-
ing us that Mr. Alderman Humphery bad been twice
proposed as a candidate for admission into that Club,
and had been twice black-balled. It is not for m to say
how far the Lord Mayor, smarting under these repeated
rejections from an association of Reformers, may not
have made up his mind to propitiate the influence of
Sir Robert Peel, towards obtaining-his entry into the
Carlton.—Sunday Paper.
LORD MORPETIL-It has been stated in a para-
graph, which originated (we believe) with the Shef-
field Iris, that Lord Morpeth was preparing a .work
on the subject of the United States. We may say
with confidence that there is no ground for the state-
ment.—Leeds Mercury.
REDUCTION or RENTS.—Messrs. John and James
Fenton, owners of the townships of Dutton and Rib-
chester, at their last rent-day generously made a re-
duction of twenty per cent. upon the amount of
their rentals. This reduction was unsolicited.—Bolton
Free Press.

BOULOGNE V. CALAIS.—We have been favoured by
the Mayor of Boulogne with a statement, from which
it appears, that during the week ending the Bth of
December, 500 passengers embarked, or disembarked,
at Boulogne, while only 193 passed through Calais.
THE UNIVERSITY PEEL CLUIL—We regret to
learn that there is now as little prospect as ever of
Political Associations being banished from Glasgow
College. We feel it our duty to state that this is to
be attributed entirely to the perverse determination of
its present members to attempt the re-organization of
the Peel Club, which has ever been the promoter of
that spirit of factious animosity, which, we are sorry
to say, has of late years been so prevalent among the
students. The Liberals lately proposed to the Con-
servatives the dissolution of their, respective Associa-
tions, considering that, from their decided superiority
at the last two Rectorial elections, their proposition
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would be readily accepted by the opposite party ; but,
contrary to
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aware of the circumstances of the-case, none of the
Conservative gentlemen of the city will give their
countenance to the Peel Club, since, if they do, with
them will rest the responsibility of all those rancorous
feelings which such Associations must
University.—Glasgow Argus.
DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.—
On Monday Mr. Gill held an inquest at the King's
Head, King-street, Park-lane, on the body of Sarah
Wheeler; aged 39. It appeared that the deceased had
held the situation of cook, in the service of Mr. Bod-
dington for the last three Years. She suffered much
from spasms and indigestion, and was, in the habit of
taking laudanum to alleviate her suffetings, but which
was unknown until Friday night last by her fellow-
servants. After eating her superthat evening she
complained of being sick, and became very ill. The
housemaid gave her an emetic, consisting of mustard
and warm water, but without effect. Mr. Sawyer,
surgeon, of Park-street, was then sent for, and pro-
nounced deceased labouring under the effects of
laudanum, which she afterwards admitted, and said
she had not taken it to destroy life, but to remove her
pain. She was bled, and the stomach pump and other
remedies were applied, but she never recovered, and
died on Saturday afternoon. Two phials, one empty
and the other half full of laudanum, were found in
her room. Verdict, " Died from the effects of an over-
dose of laudanum, imprudently taken."
FATAL ACCIDENT AT CARN BREA MINES.---We
have very great pain in having to announce the occur-
rence of an accident at these mines, attended with loss
of life to one of the miners, and very serious bodily
injuries to a great many others; besides a destruction
of property variously estimated at from 8001. to
1,0001., the principal part of which loss all falls, we
understand, upon the labouring men. There was a
large shed on the mine, in which the men change
their clothes previous to going
under ground, and
again when they leave work. The apartment was
about 150 feet long and 12 feet wide, within the walls ;
but as there was a row of lockers, or cupboards, on
in
each side of about two feet
depth,
the shed was
narrowed to eight feet. There were nearly 400 of
these cupboards, in which the miners d_ up
their wearing apparel, tools, candles, and powder.
On Wednesday • morning, about forty or fifty
men were in the place, preparing for going- under
ground, when a young man of the name of John
Waters, whose locker was very near the door
was pouring out gunpowder from a quarter of a hun-
dred cask into a small canister, which he was to carry
under ground, his candle, which he had stuck upon
the iron pipe above him, fell, or dropped a spark upon
the powder, and produced a terrible explosion. Waters
appears to have been shattered so much, that when
hid remains were collected it was only from the cer-
tainty that no other person was missing that they
could be known to be his. His father, who had been
standing near him, was also so much injured by the
explosion, that it was doubtful if he would live to
reach his home in Crowan Church-town, where he
was immediately removed. The explosion appears
to have set the lockers on both sides of the house in-
stantly in a blaze; and as there was distributed among
them upwards of 10 cwt. of gunpowder, and a very
large quantity of candles, the flames spread rapidly,
occasioning a constant succession of explosions, which
might be heard for several miles around. Several of
the men in endeavouring to escape were terribly mu-
tilated.— West Briton.

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