The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-24 00:00:00

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Ensign the Hon. Ernest Curzon, 52d Light Infantry, by the
Earl Howe.
Sub-Lieut. H. D. Streatfeild, on his appointment to the Ist
Life Guards, by Viscount Combermere.
Lieut. Montgomery Campbell, Madras Army, ;by the Earl of

Bandon.
Lieut. Robert Edward Smith, Royal Bucks or King's Own
Regiment of Militia, by Lord Carrington.
Lieut. Walter Kirby, 29th Regiment, on his return from fo-
reign service, by General Lord Strafford, G. C.B.
Lieut. Charles Wallace, 25th Regiment, on his promotion and
return from China, by his father, Col. Robert Wallace, K. H.
Major Jelf Sharp, on his appointment as Deputy-Lieutenant
for Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salisbury.
Colonel Sir Joseph Thackwell, K.C.B. and K. IL, 3d,
King's own Light Dragoons, on his nomination to be Knight
Commander of the Bath, and return from India, by Lieut.-
General Lord Charles Manners.
Captain Oliver, Royal Horse Guards, on promotion, by the
Marquis of Anglesey.
Major Lucas and Mr. A. G. Roberts, by the Duke of Buck-
ingham.
Mr. Head and Mr. Frederick Garnett, by Sir F. Head.
Ensigns Newmarch and J. Crofton, by Sir F. Smith.
Mr. Gaussen and Mr. Frederick Gausaen, by the Earl of
Enniskillen.
tieutenant Hotham, by Lord Iloiharn.
Lieutenants G. A. Young and W. T. Granville, by Sir H.
Bayley.
Lieut.-Colonel Clarke and Lieutenant B. Walshe, by Sir T
Arbuthnot.
Lieutenants W. L. Meason and G. B. Jennings, by Sir W.
Eustace.
Captain F. A. Wetherall and Lieut. A. Aitken, by the Fey.
J. Anderson.
Messrs. W. H. Gibson and C. R. Gibson, by Col. Douglas.
Captain De Butts and Lieutenant De utts, by their father,
Sir A. De Butts.
Mal or T. T. Pears, on being appointed C.B. ; Captain J. L.
Barrow and Lieut. R. R. Litle, on their return from. China,
by Lord Saltoun.
Capt. H. B. Dickinson, Lieut. W. Bridges, and Ensign T.
Pakenham, on their appointments. by Sir H. Pakenham.
Lieutenants Rodney, Holliday, and Lennox, on their promo-
- lion, by Lord G. Lennox.
Col. H. P. Burn, and Major A. Roberts, on their return
• from India, and Captain G. F. Simpson, by Lord Ellen-
borough.
Col. Priaulx, on appointment as A.D.C. for the Guernsey
Militia ; Capt. C. Mackenzie, on return from India, and
Professor A. Koelliker, by Sir J. Graham.
Captains Jenkins and 11. Jackson, and Lieut. F. Grantham,
on return from China, by Col. Weare.
:Messrs. Woodcock and Coleman, Aldermen of Norwich, by

Lord Douro.
Messrs. T. Galton and Spooner, M.P., and Rev. J. Spooner,
_ .

by Lord Lyttelton.
. Mr. E. Thornton, on appointment to the Mexican Mission;
Mr. E. Porter and Capt. B. Gordon, on his appointment,
by Lord Aberdeen.
Lieut.-Col. Ord on promotion, Captains Sandham on appoint,
ment, Tireman, F. Mein on promotion, Neville, Lieutenants
Thompson on returu from foreign service, Robinson on pro-
motion, and Mr. J. Little, by Sir G. Murray.
Messrs. J. Fraser, A. M. Sutherland, and Acworth, on their
return from India: Colonel J. Holborn, Lieut.-Colonel
Capon, Major Sotheby, Captain G. A. Tulloch, and G.
Anderson, on their return from India; Captain Sir Robert
Oliver, R.N., on receiving the honour of Knighthood, and
return from India ; Lieutenants A. J. Cattle, N. C. Macleod,
J. S. Kembull, J. M. Montagne, and Ensign E. Elderton,
on their return from India, by Lord Ripon.
Messrs. W. Gray and Egerton, Lieut.-General Sir F. Adam,
on return from abroad ; Major-Generals Nicol, Sir H. King,
Sir H. Pakenham, and Bell, on their appointments; Lieut.-
Colonel Lord W. Poulet, on return from Canada ; Captain
Langshavr, and Lieut. De Honey, on his appointment, by
the Duke of Wellington.
Admiral Sir J. West.snking, appointed Commander-in-Chief at
Plymouth ; Commanders Claxton, E. Crouch, Dyke, and
Robert Mann, W. Kendall, E. S. Sotheby' and C. J. Feather-
stone, on their promotion ; Captains M. Dixon, on his ap-
pointment ; H. Seymour, on promotion ; Sotheby, Lieuts,
J. Tottenham on promotion, and return from Africa, and
Hasken, by Lord Haddington.
The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour of
pre eating addresses and petitions to her Majesty :
The Earl of Powis—From the clergy and laity of Manches,
ter, in the county of Lancashire, " entreating her Majesty to
consider that the immediate consequences of this measure has
already been to deprive Manchester of a bishop during the last
ten years,_ and its future effects must be to inflict the same in-
jury on North Wales for ever."
From the dean and chapter, the archdeacons, the rural deans,
and the clergy of the diocese of St. Asaph, with 175 signatures,
in the district of North Wales.
From the archdeacon and clergy of the archdeaconry of
Shropshire, in the diocese of Lichfield, in the county of
Shropshire.
From • the clergy of the archdeaconry of Exeter, in the
county of Devon.
From the rural dean and clergy of the deanery of Dyffryn
Cluyd, in the diocese of Bangor and county of Denbigh. ,
From the rural dean and clergy of the rural deanery of
Pontesbury, in the diocese of Hereford and county of Salop.
From the rural dean and clergy of the deanery of Ludlow,
n the diocese of Hereford and county of Salop.
Prom the clergy and deanery of Cirencester, in the diocese of
Gloucester and Bristol and county of Gloucester.
From the clergy of the rural deanery of Woodleigh, is thot
archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter.
From the rural dean and clergy of the rural deanery of
Arllechwedd, in the county of Bangor.
From the clergy of the deanery of Dursley.
From the rural dean and clergy of the western portion of the
deanery of Pontesbury, in the diocese of Hereford.
From natives of Wales, resident in London.
From the grand,jury of the county of Montgomery.
From the inhabitants of the parish of West Felton, in the
county of Salop.
From the inhabitants of the parish of Ellesmere, in the
county of Salop.
From the inhabitants of the parish of Great Ness, in the
county of Salop.
From the inhabitants of the township of Dudleston in the
parish of Ellesmere and county of Salop.
From the inhabitants of the parish of Ruyton in the Eleven
Towns, in the county of Salop.
From the inhabitants of the parish of Badger, in the county
of Salop.
From the rector, churchwardens, and inhabitants of the
parish of Llanghanfal, in the diocese of Bangor, and county of
Denbigh.
From the rector, churchwarden, and inhabitants of the parish
of Hampton Bishop, in the county of Hereford.
From the minister and inhabitants of the parish of St. Chad,
Shrewsbury.
From the inhabitants of the parish of Shiffnal, in the county
of Salop.
From the rector, the churchwardens, and the parishioners of
the parish of Derwen, in the diocese of Bangor, and county of
Denbigh.
From the churchwardens and inhabitants of the parish of
Llambedr, in the county of Denbigh.
From the rector, the curate, the churchwardens, and pa-
rishioners of the parish of Llanelidan, in the diocese of Bangor,
and county of Denbigh.
From the inhabitants of the parish of Henllan, county of
Denbigh, and diocese of St. Asapb.
From the inhabitants of the city of Chester.
From the mayor, aldermen, councillors, and inhabitants of
the borough of Ruthin.
From the vicar, curates, churchwardens, and inhabitants of
the parish of Llanfair, Dyffryn, Clwyd, iu the diocese of
Bangor.
From the rector, churchwardens, and inhabitants of the
parish of Efenechtyd, in the county of Denbigh.
From the rector, the curate, the churchwardens, and inhabi-
tants of the parish of Clocaenog, in the county of Denbigb.l
From the vicar, the curate, churchwardens, and other in-
habitants of the united parishes of Llanywya and Gyffylling in
the county of Denbigh.
From the rector, churchwardens, and inhabitants of the
parish of Llangwyfan, D. C., in the county of Denbigh.
From the curate, the churchwardens, and inhabitants of the
parish of Llandyrrog, in the diocese of Bangor. Praying her
Majesty's sanction that so much of the Act of the 6th and 7th
William IV, which relates to the union of the sees of St:
Asaph and Bangor may be repealed, and that Parliament may
be enabled to take such measures as may be deemed expedient
to preserve unimpaired the constitution of the Church in North
Wales.
Bishop of Bangor, from the dean and chapter of Bangor,
the clergy of the county of Anglesey, the clergy of the deanery
of Llyn, the inhabitants of Lanthalader, praying her Majesty to
be graciously pleased, in the exercise of her royal prerogative?
to signify her consent to the progress of such measures as may
be submitted to Parliament for repealing so much of the Act
6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 77, as provides for the union of the sees
of St. Asaph and Bangor.
Bishop of Hereford, with an address against the union of tl4
sees of Bangor and St. Asaph.
• Mr. Charles Wynne, Sheriff for the county of Denbigh,
accompanied by Ma. Mainwaring, M.P., with a county
address, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to
allow a Bill to be brought into Parliament for the repeal of an
Act that united the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.
Mr. Mainwaring, M.P., presented two addresses with similar
" prayers from the grand jurors assembled at the Spring Assizes,
1845, and at the quarter sessions in March, 1845.
Mr. Wynne was presented by the Hon. William Begot.
Mr. Marsh, Deputy Mayor of Great Yarmouth, with an
- address of congratulation to her Majesty on the birth of the
Prince Alfred. Mr. Marsh was presented by Mr. Will.
shire, M.P.
Mr. John Betts, Sheriff of the City of Norwich, accom-
panied by Mr. Henry Woodcock and Mr. George Lorick Cole.:
- man, Aldermen, of congratulation on the birth of another
Prince, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Norwich.
Mr. Betts was presented by the Marquis of Douro.
• After the Levee, her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by
the royal suite, returned to Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent had a dinner party
yesterday at her residence Clarence House, St. James's.
The company consisted of their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Diachess of Cambridge, their Royal Highnesses the Here-
ditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-
Strelitz, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipp,
etahl, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar'
Mons. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister ; Count Kielmann-
segge, the Hanoverian Minister • theDelawarr, the Earl and
Duke and Duchess of
Buccleuch, the Earl and Countess
Countess of Jersey, the Earl and Countess
sstheofEDluselhrroyusiien,
Baron d'Arnini, Lard and Lady Beauv
Waiting to the Duke of Cambridge, Lady Annae Maria Dawson,
the Countess Wratislaw, and Colonel Sir
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent George Coupes
art ds
evening party. Her Majesty .rid Prince Albert (attended by
the Royal Suite), and the Royal Family, were
The following Concert was performed at present.
House,
during the evening, in the presence of the Illustrious Circle
Fantasia, Pianoforte, Madame Dulcken—Thalberg,
Aria, Neapolitana—Signor Laislache.
Aria, " L'amor sun mi f e beats," (Roberto Devereux)
Madame Grisi—Donizetti.
Adelaida, Signor Mario—Beethoven.
Aria, ." Si lo sento," (Fausto), Miss Birch— Spohr.
Quartuor, " Ecco quel fiero istante " _ Mesdames Grisi ei
Birch, Signori Mario t Lablache—Costa.
Duo. "to carrel," Madame Grisi et Signor Lablaehe—
Mercadante.
Lieder Ohnd Worte Tarantella, Pianoforte, Madame Dulcken
—Mendelssohn, Chioppen.
Preghiera, "'Ave Maria," Signor Mario—Schubert.
Aria, (Manon Lescant) Miss Birch—Balfe.
Duo, "Un tenero cuore," (Roberto Devereux), Madame
Grisi et Signor Mario—Donizetti.
Preghiera, " Dall tuo stelato soglis, (Mosi), Mesdames Grisi
- et Birch, Signori Mario et Lablache.—Rossini.

CAUTION.—A man of the name of Robert Ward
(or at least calling himself so) is travelling about Suffolk
with a petition, stating that ho has lost two horses by
death, and begging the contributions of the benevolent
in order that he may be enabled to replace them. A
number of signatures were attached to the one he showed
at Ipswich; some of them have proved to be forgeries,
and we warn the public against such an impostor.
Should any of our readers happen of him, we should re-
commend them to put a label on his back and direct him
to the police, at Ipswich, at whose hands he would be
o-ure to get some cheap faro and loding.—lpswich
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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

IXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
TRIAL AT BAR.-THE GREAT DISTILLERY CASE

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. GEORGE SMITH.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
After an absence of four hours, the jury returned, and their
names having been called over, the first witness called was
Robert Button, sworn and examined by the SOLICITOR-
GENERAL—I am a supervisor of Excise, and I was, on the
6th July, 1843, appointed to survey the distillery of Mr.
Smith. I was not ordered to survey the rectifying-house.
I was on the 18th August ordered to assist Mr. Drinkwater in
taking the drip of the receiver. There was a difference of
I.loth, or equal to 14 gallons of proof spirits. I also ex-
amined the cover of the spirit receiver. I had been simi-
larly experieneed for five years; and I found that the pro-
duce of the wash in Mr. Smith's distillery was less than in
other distilleries. I was on duty on 15th Oct., 1843,
on his premises. I examined the liquor pumps
which were placed near the feints receiver. I
saw the suction-pipe of one of the pumps- laid in the direc-
tion of the sewer. I took three or four samples of the wash
that had been distilled about the time I noticed this. I re•
member the morning of the 13th December, 1843. I went
to the spirit receiver on that occasion. I had
a lamp with me, and I went to the cover of
the spirit receiver. I observed boards round the suction-
pipe; one of the boards was fastened with two nails, but I
removed it. I found a hole. The hole was not there when
I first examined the place on the 18th of August. I found
the men about the premises then, and one of t hem followed me
into the street. I gave information of what I had seen to Mr.
Drinkwater, and he and I examined it at ten o'clock on
the same morning. From two o'clock, when I saw the hole
for the first time, till ten, I had been strictly watching it. The
boards were in the same state at ten, and they were removed in
Mr. Drinkwater's presence. There was a charge taken of
the spirits on that night, and there was an excess of stock
of twenty-eight gallons and a fraction. The excess was
seized by Mr. Drinkwater. The nails were new that
joined the moveable board. The hole in the top of
the spirit receiver had the appearance of being
newly cut. The spirit is pumped from the receiver into the
vat by a suction pipe. The suction pipe always remains in
the spirit receiver. The covering board is fastened on with
white lead. The pumps are locked by the Excise. The hole
appeared to be partly cut with a saw and partly by a gouge.
There was no white lead round the hole that had
been newly cut. The dimensions of that hole were
seven inches by two inches and five-tenths. The spirit
store is immediately above that part of the receiver where
the hole was discovered. A suction pipe could be in-
troduced from the spirit store to the hole in the receiver,
Stock is taken in the store ; it generally takes place once a fort-
night, but sometimes once a week. The spirit warehouse is
generally kept locked by the distiller himself. I never found
an increase in the stock, with that single exception.
I recollect Mr. Drinkwater telling Mr. George
Smith of the hole he had discovered in the
spirit receiver. Mr. Smith replied it was the greatest
piece of intelligence he had ever heard of. Ile also took a
letter from his pocket, saying that he had received an anony-
mous letter, which informed him that his men had been rub-
bing him. Ido not remember his saying anything more. I
pointed out the hole to Mr. Gill, the foreman, V. ho was pre-
sent with Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith remarked that the pails
had been rusted off. Mr. Gill remarked that the spirits
might have floated and wrenched •the boards off. It
would require a great deal of water to float
the spirit receiver. I was on duty there a
considerable time, and I never knew of the spirit receiver
floating. If it had done so, I must have known it. The
dipping-rod is fixed in a socket, and always at the same
point. If, therefore, the receiver had floated, it must have
thrown the rod out of its place. I watched the
distillery, assisted by two officers of the Excise,
named Wallace and Dibble. It was during the
seventh distilling period, commencing the 7th January,
1844, and ending on the 15th of the same month, I found
an increase over the produce of the former periods of 981
gallons.
Mr. KELLY thought that as these particulars were of a
complicated nature it would be better for Drinkwater to
enter upon the whole of that evidence.
Examination of witness continued—The watch was only
partial, by examining the premises. I did not watch during
the eighth distilling period, but I received orders to watch
strictly during the ninth distilling period. I was as-
sisted by the same officers, and by one or two
others. I also with them watched the tenth period.
During the eighth period there was a deficiency.
On the 9th and 10th there was an excess greater than upon
the 7th period. On the 7th of March, 1844, I took charge
of the premises in the absence of Mr. Drinkwater. There
were recurring disputes on every charge about the dip of the
receiver. I took the drip, and I found two- tenths incor-
rect upon the drip, or twenty-nine gallons gained on
every charge. I found the valves in the pump of the
spirit receiver loose, and water could be let through. Before
I took the drip the Surveyor-General had ordered a lock to
be put upon the suction .pipe. . Mr. Smith was not
present when I found the increase upon the drip.
He was present when the dip was taken ; on
that occasion there was an increase in the dip.
Mr. Smith remarked that it had occurred from the water
falling back through the pump. The pump was afterwards
unscrewed and examined. One of the valves was deficient
altogether. I went afterwards on the 15th of June and
examined the top of the spirit receiver with a
lamp. I discovered there another hole which I
had not seen before. It was stopped with a wooden
plug. It appeared fresh as if recently aut. The
hole was circular, and about 1% inch in diameter. It did not
arise from a knot in the wood. I am positive the hole was
not there on my last examination. When I discovered the
hole I tried it with a dipping-rod, and it would not go in. It
could not, therefore, be an old dipping bole. The dipping
holes are generally square, not circular. I had not charge of
the rectifying premises till the 7th March, 1844. The stock
there is taken once in six weeks. The strength of the
sweetening spirit is declared by the trade. The recti-
fying house is not open at night. On the 14th of October
I went with Cameron, Franklin, and Drinkwater to the
rectifying premises. I observed some water running into
the still-heads, and some questions were put to Mr.
Whitehead on the subject. I went round to the dis-
tillery, and turned the cocks of the liquor vats.
I cut off the stock-cock. I turned on water
again, and went back to the rectifying house. I found
there Cameron and Mr. James Scott Smith in conversation.
The water was then running on the still leads. I returned
with Franklin to the distillery, and showed him how
I had turned the water off. On the succeeding day
I was at the distillery with the same person. I saw
Mr. George Smith. Mr. Cameron asked if there
was any connexion between the distillery and the
rectifying house except the open trough ? Mr. Smith said
"Do you wish to catch me, Mr. Cameron, I scorn such
ways." Mr. Cameron then said " I don't wish to.catch you,
but I dare say your brother told you about the water-pipe
yesterday." Mr. Smith then said that there was a water-
pipe to his house and to the gallery over the way, as well as
to every house in the parish. On the 17th Oct. the surveying-
general examiners attended on the premises, and on that
day men were employed to raise the ground. I traced the
pipes from the distillery to the rectifying house. In the pipe
going across the street there is a stop-cock, which can cut off
the connexion. There was a box upon it, bearing the initials
of the East London Water-Works. I saw the pipe uncovered
towards the granaries. There was no communication between
the pipe and the company's main. There was no other com-
munication, excepting with the pipe which led from the
tanks in the distillery. I was not aware of this communi-
cation between the distillerp and the rectifying house until
the ground was opened. the pipes were not in the entries
returned by Mr. Smith. On the 22d October I was made
to pass spirits between the distillery and the rectifying house.
The largest store vat in the distillery is No. 8, and the pipe
which runs along the top supplies the vats from the spirit
receiver. There is a sink opposite No. 8 vat. I assisted in
stopping the communications to the branches along the pipe.
The first experiment was by placing a small tub of water
above the sink, and that was acted on by means of a
syphon, which reduced the water immediately. It was then
proposed to substitute water for spirits, and a connexion
was effected between No. 8 vat and the pipe over the sink.
There was a screwed cock on the pipe at the sink, and
another on the pipe at the vat. The quantity of spirits in the
vat was ascertained to be 7,399 gallons in bulk, 13-4 per cent.
above proof,which would give 8,390 ands fraction proof spirits.
In the court e of the evening I went round to the rectifying
premises, and on receiving information from Mr. Drinkwater,
that all was ready, I took the dip of No. 17 vat, and found it
in bulk 67 9-10 gallons above proof. The cock was turned
by Drinkwater. Water run for ten minutes, and then spirits
commenced to run, weak at first, but at last they ran 11 per
cent. overproof. Mr. Cartwright caught samples, and
handed them to us. The first dip I took after the spirit
had ceased running was 27 inches. The whole quantity run
was 700 gallons of proof spirits. It took us about an hour to
run that quantity. Rectifiers use water, or, as it is terme(A,
spirit, for reducing their liquors. We afterwards run water
through the pipe until it no longer tasted of spirits. Five
minutes would be sufficient to do away with all taste of
spirits.
The witness was about to be cross-examined by Mr. Fitzroy
Kelly, when
The LORD CHIEF BARON said it was time the case should
be adjourned until to-morrow.
The Court then rose about five o'clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES
(THIS DAY.) .

THE BELFAST AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition )
The room was then cleared, and upon our re-admission,
Ths CHAIR.HAN said the Committee having deliberated
upon the points of the arguments regarding the clause, they
considered that the corporation of Belfast were entitled to
some security for the protection of their dues. The parties
of course would understand that the Committee did not agree
to the insertion of the clause, but they were in favour of the
principle. They hoped the parties would mutually agree on
such a clause, which, while it would confer no fresh powers
upon the corporation, would secure therm against parties
evading the harbour dues.
Mr. ALEXANDER thought such a clause would be ex-
tremely difficult to frame. There were several persons now
entitled to land goods, millers and others, below the limits
of the port, and how those persons were to be protected he
was at a loss to know.
Mr. GREGG said the difficulty would be overcome by a
point being fixed, say two miles from the port ; at all events,
those now entitled to land goods would not be disturbed in
their privileges.
The other clauses were then agreed to, and the Committee
adjourned the further heating on the corporation protection
clause
till twelve o'clock to-morrow. The Committee rose at
three o'clock. •

Committee, Group T.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. Barton, who was employed to take the traffic across
the bridge, was next called—lie was engaged for two weeks.
The following was the result for the first week, being from
March 24 to March 29, the time being from seven o'clock in
the morning till seven o'clock in the evening:—For the week,
foot-passengers, 25,730 ; two-horse carriages, 116 ; one-horse
carriages, 776 ; men on horseback, 612 ; passengers in
carriages, 1,690 ; carts and waggons, 560 ; horses in
waggons, 914 ; horses, 216 ; oxen, 52 ; sheep, 1,687.
The foot passengers that passed on the Tuesday were 3,485 ;
and on Friday, the market day, 6,782. On a fair day, April
the 10th, the foot passengers were 7,747 ; sheep, 4,282
oxen, 401 _ _

Mr Jackson, surgeon accoucheur, followed, but nothing of
material importance was elicited in his evidence.
Mr. Hopkinson, surgeon, and Mayor of Stamford, ex-
amined—lie thought that the railway crossing the
street would have the effect of driving many parties from the
town, esp( cially those who lived in the St. Martin's suburb,
which the line cut off from the main part of the town of
Stamford.
Mr. Haycock, a resident of Stamford, said there were
six fairs and live cattle markets annually held in the town.
Two of the faire lasted two days, the others 0110 day each.