The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-20 00:00:00

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A yacht club, to be called The Royal Victoria Yacht Club ,
is shortly to be established at Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Eight caulkers, with their apprentices, have been sent from
Sheerness to Woolwich Dock-yard, to caulk the bottom of
the Tremendous, 50 guns, formerly ordered to be broke up,
but found so excellent in her timbers as to be again fitted
for sea.

The prize given by the Emperor of Russia for the Ascot
Races, has been submitted to her Majesty and Prince Albert.
It is a copy in silver of the statue of Peter the Great, at St.
Petersburgh, and has been executed under the immediate
superintendence of Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister,
and the Earl of Rosslyn, Master of the Buckhounds.
We are happy to hear that Lord Melbourne has wonder-
fully improved during his residence at Brocket• hall. His
' Lordship has to far regained his health as to be able to
take walking exercise, and contemplated retaining to town
yesterday.
The Lord Bishop of Exeter has collated the Rev. Edward
Charles Harington, M.A., to the prebendal stall in the Ca-
thedral Church of Exeter, void by the consecration of the
Rev. John Medley, D.D., as Bishop of Fredericton.
Mr. Coleman, the inventor of the nolian attachment, on
his return from this country to America, a few weeks ago,
was seized with a virulent attack of measles, which carried
him off in the prime of life.
The novelty of a day's performance by the Histrionics oc-
curred on blonday at the St. James's Theatre, in favour of
the funds of the Distressed Needlewomen's Societv. The
bill consisted of Charles the Second, The Spitalfields.rVeaver,
and Bombastes Furiosb; in the course of the performances
the French song of " Le Postilion de M'ame Ablon," was
sung by Mr. Birton, in whose features many must have re-
cognized those of a popular author.
The Master and Felicia s of Trinity College, Cambridge,
have appointed the Rev. J. W. Blakesley, M.A., Fellow and
Tutor of that Society, to the vicarage of Ware. The new
incumbent is opposed to the innovating spirit which has kept
this parish in a ferment during the, lasi two years.
Several of the master sawyers of Glasgow and neighbour-
hood have agreed to the increase of wages asked by their
workmen, and a number of the men have again resumed
their wonted employment.
A rehearsal of the fifth concert of ancient music took
place yesterday morning, preparatory to the performance to-
mcrrow, which will be under the direction of the Duke of
Wellington, who has made a very fine selection of sterling com-
positions. The principal singers were Madame Caradori,
Mdlle. Vera, and Mdlle. Brambilla, Staudigl, Hawkins,
Machin, and Herr Pisckek: the latter made a very great im-
pression at the rehearsal, in two solos, and in a duet from
Fidelio, with Staudigl. The -only director present was the
Earl of Cawdor, but there was a very numerous assemblage
of the subscribers.

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.—The friends of
temperance, constituting the " National Society," held their snot.
versary meeting at Exeter-hall last evening. The body of the
room, as well as the platform, was well filled, the members of the
Society of Friends forming a considerable proportion of the audi-
tory. The chair was taken shortly after six o'clock by Mr. S.
Bowley, during the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. J. Gurney, who
arrived and occupied that post at a later period of the meeting.
The Secretary, Mr. Compton, read a number of letters from
various well-known advocates of temperance who were unable to
attend, and then submitted the third annual report of the Society, in
which was introduced a letter from Father Mathew, addressed to
the Secretary, and reporting the progress of the cause in Ireland.
In reference to the exertions recently made to extricate him from
his embarrassment, he wrote, " Whilst I feel myself overwhelmed
with the weight of your bounty, I am perfectly convinced that it is
not on me, but in the sacred cause of temperance, that this muni.
Scent donation has been bestowed. Circumstances to which it is
unnecessary to allude, have rendered the subscriptions in Ireland
comparatively small, and for the sum of 8,3001. I am principally
indebted to the high-minded generous people of England...
Father Mathew concluded his letter by the following allusion to
his affairs :—" Having some time since, by the sacrifice of per_
coral and family property, by insurances and other securities, raised
money to pay the medal manufacturers (my only creditors),
the above sum will enable me to extricate myself from all my eme
barrassments, and place myself in the same position in which I
stood before I entered on the temperance mission." The report
presented a variety of statistics showing the active labours of the
temperance missionaries, but the accounts exhibited a small balanee
against the society. The meeting was addressed at length by Mr.
Buckingham, Mr. S. C. Hall, Rev. Jabez Burns, Mr. Collins, Mr.
Heyworth, Dr. Oxley, Mr. H. Vincent (who was received with
more than ordinary enthusiasm), Mr. J. Collings, of Philadelphia,
Mr. Mackerrow, Mr. Livesey, Mr. Teare, Mr. Logan, &c. The
resolutions were of the usual character, expressing confidence in
the proceedings of the national as well as the provincial associa.
tions, thanks to God for the success attending their exertions, and
proposing measures to insure accurate returns from all parts of the
globe of the real progress of teetotalism thneigh the medium of
agents. After the passing of the first resolution, a collection was
made in the room in a way rendering evasion almost impossible.
On a signal being given from the chair, the collectors sprang up
from their seats in all parts of the hall, and in less than ten minutes
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of 501. by the chairman, and some others equally liberal from the
chief occupants of the platform. The proceedings throughout
were of the most orderly character, and did not terminate until
nearly eleven o'clock.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The Erebus, Captain
Sir John Franklin, and the Terror, Captain Crozier, discovery
vessels, left Greenhithe yesterday for their destination. Each ship
has been supplied with 200 tin cylinders, for the purpose of hold.
ing papers, which are to be thrown overboard, with the statement
of the longitude, and other particulars worthy of record, written
in six different languages, and the parties finding them are re.
quested to forward the information to the Admiralty.
HE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—A writer in
the Art Union has drawn attention to a number of asserted heraldic
blunders which appear on the exterior of the new Houses of Par-
liament. He states that many of the shields are charged with de-
vices copied from coins of various Sovereigns, which were never
intended to represent arms, and that it would be as reasonable to
take .4. George and the Dragon for the arms of George IV. as to
adopt those devices for the arms of the monarch on whose coinage
they appear. He points out, too, amongst other objections, that
supporters hare been assigned to every Sovereign, beginning with
the Conqueror, though it is known that supporters were not used
by the Kings of England till the reign of Richard 11., 300 years
after the Conquest. _ _

THE MAILS. SOUTH A IMPTON, MAY 19. —The
Oriental Company's steam-ship the Montrose, Captain Wilson, ar-
rived in the docks this morning from Gibraltar, which place she
left on the 9th is:stant, Cadiz 10th, Lisbon 13th, Oporto and
Vigo 14th, and Corunna 15th. The mails were sent to London
by the nine o'clock train. The Montrose has 59 passengers, and a
full cargo of fruit. The Great Liverpool will sail to-morrow with
the East India and China mails, via Alexandria, also passengers,
and a large cargo of bale goods, &c.
BOULOGNE, MAY 18.—An alarm took place at the
English chapel here, during the celebration of Divine set vice,
which occasioned some personal injury, and was very near causing
loss of life. While the minister was preaching, the cord of one of

the sashes gave way, and the lead weight made a noise which gave
rise to an impressicu that the gallery was falling. A great number
of persons rushed for the door, amid screams from the women and
children, and some twenty or thirty were thrown down and tram.
pled upon. Several ladies and children were injured, though not
seriously, in the struggles upon the floor; some fainted, and wer
taken to neighbouring houses; and the sermon was abruptl
urinated. The alarm, indeed, was so general that oar of tile
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