The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-22 00:00:00

ucceeded in catching hold of a part of her dress,
and, with the assistance of a gentleman, who very
fortunately happened to come up oat the instant,
they, after much difficulty, got her out. She was in a
state of perfect insensibility, and was directly taken to
St. Thomas's Hospital, where, by promptly applying the
usual means of producing resuscitation, she was, after
considerable
perseverance, brought to a state of conscious-
ness. It appears that her name is Charlotte Baldwin,
and her age between 19 and 20. She had been living
as housemaid in the family of Mr. Osman, of No. 9,
Brownlow- street, Holborn, bookseller, and left her situa-
tion on Saturday last, and returned home to her parents,
who are living at No. 1, Primrose alley, Bankside, South-
wark. On Wednesday morning she had some angry
words with her mother, and left home then determining,
as she herself states, to commit suicide.
Coach ACCIDENT.—On Monday night, at ten
o'clock, as the Eagle coach was proceeding on its journey to
Dover, when opposite to the Red Lion Inn, Shobter's-hill, a
heavy crash was heard. The driver stopped his horses, and it
was then discovered that the springs and body and part of the
carriage were broken. The Eagle, it appears from the state-
ment of one of the guards, was laden with nearly four tons of
bullicn on its way to the Continent. For the due security of
the property two guards had been directed to accompany it to
Dover. '1 here were no passengers, the coach having been
hired expressly for the better security of the precious fare. A
messenger on horseback was immediately dispatched to the Bell
and Crown, Holborn, for another coach, which retarded the
journey full three hours. The accident is attributed to the
overloading the coach.
COLLEGE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS.—The annual dis-
tribution of prizes at this Institution took place on Wednesday
at the College at Putney, in Surrey, upon which occasion the
Duke of t3uccleuch, the President, occupied the chair. His
Grace was supported by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, the Earl of Devon, the Hon. R. E. Howard, Sir C.
Lemon, Admiral Sir R. Otway, Sir A. M'Nab, Sir I. Brunel,
Archdeacon Robinson, Colonel Landmann, C.E. ; Major-
General Wright, General Alexander, Mr. H. Hughes, Mr. S.
Dobree, Mr. Page, C.E. ; Mr. Field C. E. ; Mr. Whiteman,
&c. The Earl of Devon, after a tew introductory remarks,
read the annual address of the Council. This document com-
menced by congratulating the patrons and friends of the Insti-
tution on the improved state of the College, accompanied with
the expression of a conviction of its increasing prosperity.
It then proceeded thus—" The Institution during the past
year has had to contend with many and great obstacles
to its progress—obstacles of so serious a nature as
for a time to have threatened the destruction of the
College, but which have happily been overcome, and the
Council, regarding the Institution as a national object,
have been encouraged to persevere in their labours, and
have the gratification to state that their exertions have been
repaid by the daily increasing support of the public, and the
general good conduct of the students. The Council have to
announce that at the ensuing session the Professor of Natural
Philosophy will commence his course of lectures; that the de-
partment for civil engineering and construction will be so en-
larged as to enable the Professor to carry out his course with
a series of practical experiments ; that, in consequence of the
munificent donation of the President, his Grace the Duke of
Iluceleuch, of a six-horse condensing engine, the works in the
machinery department will he continued with increased facility;
that the report of the Professor of Chemistry being highly
favourable, it is in contemplation to enlarge the course ; that in
the department of geology, the surveying operations will be
continued with unabated industry, and that the same attention
will be paid to the other branches of study." The Noble
Chairman then distributed the prizes which had been awarded
by the
.professors and heads of the respective departments, to
the various candidates. The Duke of Cambridge and the Noble
Chairman expressed the satisfaction they had derived from the
official reports which had been made by the professors of the
different departments, with regard to the progress in their studies
and the good conduct of the scholars of the institution.
Mr. G. A.-Hamilton is canvassing the electors of
Dublin University in anticipation of Mr. Sergeant Jack-
son's elevation to the Bench. Mr. Shaw is not a can-
didate for the vacant judgeship, and would not, were it
offered him, accept it—at least so says the Dublin Mail.
It is stated by another Dublin paper that Mr. T. B. C.
Smith, son of the late Baron of the Irish Exchequer, is
likely to be the new Solicitor-General, if he can get into
Parliament.
DOVER, JULY 20.—The steam-boat from Bou-
logne this morning, the Sir William Wallace, was fallen in
with this afternoon by the French packet from Calais, having
one engine out of order, and unable to steam; she landed here
about 60 passengers. The Sir William Wallace was in sight
about six or seven miles from Dover, under sail.
MANSLAUGHTER.—The adjourned inquest was held
on the body of Bridget Holloway, supposed to have been mur-
dered by Dennis Clement, at the -Little Crown, East-lane,
Greenwich, on Wednesday. The only additional evidence
was that of Mrs. Susan M. Matthews, who swore that she, on
the night of Sunday, the 10th of July, saw the prisoner Dennis
Clement on the stairs leading to the room of the deceased, and
that she knew the voice of the deceased, and heard her say
" you have done for me; now you have killed me;" and Cle-
ment replied, "it serves you right." I heard the cries of
murder a quarter of an hour before Clement came down stairs.
The Jury, after the summing up of Mr. Cutter, the Coroner,
returned a verdict of .‘ Manslaughter" against Clement; and
all the witnesses were bound over to prosecute at the next Cen-
tral Criminal Court.
TRUE HEROISM AT PAISLEY—On Tuesday after-
noon, between four and five o'clock, a little boy, belonging to
the keeper of the Paisley Prison, who had been amusing himself
about the bank of the river, a little above the Sneddon-bridge,
fell into the water, and, a strong current running at the time, he
was soon swept through one of the arches, and appeared on the
lower side. A man of the name of Wm. Straine, hearing of the
accident, ran to the place where the unfortunate little fellow was
passing, and, accoutred as he was with a pair of heavily-nailed
shoes, plunged in to his rescue. After endeavouring to bring him
to the side he was obliged to relinquish the task, feeling his strength
exhausted, but, alas ! before reaching it, he sank himself, over-
powered by the weight of his own habiliments. By this time
a young lad of the name of Mills, with great intrepidity, came
forward and rushed into the stream, with the view of saving
the boy, who was still floating on the surface, on his back,
with outstretched arms, and, after attempting to save him
in vain, was himself, to all the spectators, evidently in peril.
. A minute or two more and all would have been over with the
first boy at least, if not with the heroic Mills, when a man bi-
longing to that quarter of the town, by name Hugh M'Arthur,
came forward and dashed into the element, which was
now about to swallow another victim. He is a strong
muscular fellow, and was not long until he reached the first boy,
seized him by the hair with his teeth, held out his brawny arm
to lend assistance to the other, and in a twinkling, with the aid
of a pole, which had by this time been procured, soon landed the
two youths on terra firma. But there was one in whom, by
this time, all animation had ceased, and the man M'Arthur was
too much exhausted to go to the bottom and pick up his corpse.
Another daring spirit, however, was at hand, and at once volun-
teered to perform the task, and was not long in bringing to the
bank the victim to the best impulses of hinnanity.—Renfretv-
shire Reformer.
On the last Sunday in June, while the Church of
Peter, at Florence, was crowded with people attending
high mass, a heavy bench was suddenly thrown down
with a loud crash, which was re-echoed many times
from the high and vaulted roof, creating an alarm-
ing sensation, which was increased into a general
:error by simultaneous cries from several voices
that the roof was falling down. In the panic 'every
one rushed to the doors, struggling with such violence
to get out, that numbers were severely injured, and left
senseless on the ground. This was the effect proposed
by those who created the confusion, viz., a band of
thieves, believed to have come from Leghorn, who took
advantage of it to commit ass immense number of
robberies, and who not only drew the rings from the
fingers of those whom they attacked, but brutally tore
out the earrings from the ears of the female part of the
congregation. The thieves made their escape with a
valuable booty.
A letter from Geneva, 14th inst., says :—Our new
Government, though scarcely constituted, has already
been involved in difficulties. The Municipal Council of
the Commune of Vcrsoix, formerly French, having
decided to sell by auction the ground of the
old church, and of the cemetery belonging
thereto, and having received the authorization of the
Council of State, a band of fanatics assembled, and
inspired the buyers, with such terrors, that the sale did
not take place. This scene of disorder, which took
place six days ago, remains unpunished, although the
principal author is well known. The Government,
being resolved that the law shall be enforced, is to send
a strong detachment of gendarmerie to the municipal
authorities of Versoix on the day on which the ground
is to be put up for sale. A report is current that the
King of Prussia is to visit his principality of Neufchatel,
and some of the other cantons, incog., before the summer
is over."
A numerous deputation of gentlemen connected
with the northern part of the principality of Wales had
a long interviewon on Wednesday with Sir R. Peel and
the Earl of Lincoln, in Downing-street, on the subject
of the Welsh Landowners' Memorial. Amongst the
deputation were Earl Powis, Lord Clive, the Hon. R.
Clive, Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Mr. Richard Richards,
M.P., Mr. W. B. Hughes, M.P., Mr. J. R. Ormsby
Gore, ALP., Colonel Vaughan, W. P. Richards, Esq.,
William Jones, Esq., and several other gentlemen.
We quote the following from the Univers :—The
Catholic Archbishop of Sydney—M. Polding, of the
Order of Benedictines—having come to Paris from
Come, and remained here a short time, set out on Mon-
day for England, whence, in September, he will return to
Douay, where there is a College of English Benedictines.
The Pope has built the town of Sydney into a metro-
polis, and created Archbishop Polding Apostolic Vicar
of the whole country, with the exception of such parts as
are intrusted already to other vicars, over whom he will
be metropolitan. Hobart Town is made a Bishop's See,
and its Prelate will be a suffragan of Sydney, being at
the same time Apostolic Vicar of South Australia.
BLACK GAME.—Black grouse is more abundant
in the various inclosures of the New Forest, in Hamp-
shire, this year, than it has been known to have been for
some years past. This circumstance may in some mea-
sure be attributed to the favourable state of the weather
during the breeding season, but more so to the vigilance
of the forest-keepers, who have succeeded in defeating
the netting practices of the poachers upon the young
packs when they were little more than half grown.
The little picturesque village of Lyndhurst, situated in
the very centre of the new Forest, is already occupied
by a fed' straggling sportsmen, awaiting with anxiety
the 12th proximo. The birds are well up in condition,
and strong on the wing, and excellent sport is antici-
pated, more especially by two or three octogenarian
sportsmen, who find it less tedious and toilsome to them
to traverse the
.gentle " heather " slopes of the New
Forest than it is to "plod their weary way" over the
more rugged ".muirs of the north."
The Sud of Marseilles gives the following account
of the late eclipse, as seen in that latitude under circum-
stances so much more favourable than in Paris:—" At 56
minutes 50 seconds past 5 in the morning the sun's disk
was completely veiled by the moon's orb, andleft the earth
in obscurity. The transition from light to nocturnal dark-
ness was so sudden, that it drew an astonishing accla-
mation of surprise from 4,000 spectators, collected on
the Coline Bonaparte. The domestic birds, and a
great many of the quadrupeds, were observed to
show signs of terror, and to hide themselves in
their retreats. A certain number of stars appeared
in the firmament, .which to the east and west was
illuminated by a small luminous fringe. A keen cold
was felt during the obscuration, which lasted two
minutes ; at the end of that time, the brightness instan-
taneously re-appeared, ami filled
.the whole immensity
of the heavens. No idea can be formed of the mag-
nificence of the spectacle."