The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

LLOYDS' SHIPPING

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LeNnoN, APRIL 7.—Wind this day at neon, N. E.
URAL, Ay:: tr. N.E., Northurn-
berla.nk China ; ht,r Tip
Quiver, Mediterranean; Edarti, liarnytt, tiihraltar.
l.tvrarooh, Aran, 6.--Wind, Iynazio, Sicily.
1•1;Itl, linen Prebli., New Orleans; Liverpoo!, Josephine, and
Ohio, New York ; Alexander \Vise, Alontreal ; Britannia (s),
Halifax ; Warren, Africa; Charleston, Canton; Johnstone, Cal-
cutta ; Portland to Bombay; Robert Finnie, Lima; Undaunted,
Buenos Ayres; Nautilus, Rio; Vesto, Batavia; Superb, Ja-
maica ' • Stirling, Savannah ; Colombo, Boston ; Princess Vic-
toria, Quebec ; Jessamine, Newfoundland. The Scotland,
bound to New York, is ashore near Egremont.
OFF THE WIGHT, Aram 6.--Ocean, N. Bedford, Amster-
dam ; Vestal, Moxey, Malta.

PORTSMOUTH, Aran 6.—Wind E.N.E., fresh breeze.—
Arrd. Apurade packet, Hemmett, Porto Rico, sld. Feb. 24.
PLYMOUTIJ, Aram 6.—Wind N. E.—Sld. Great Britain
Willis.

OFF ST. DAvID'S HEAD, APRIL 6. --Australia, Sydney.
Coax, APRIL 4.—514. Simeon, Hardy, Earbadoes.
WELLs, APRIL 6.—The Severn steamer, of Dublin,
from Liverpool, was ashore on the I,Wolpack Sand,
yesterday, but got off the following tide and proceeded.
AlLLiroan, APRIL 4.—The Elva, Botson, from Lynn to
Drogheda, is discharging, the cargo being heated.
HULL, APRIL 6.—The Khan, Caroline, from Shields to
Copenhagen, was abandoned at sea on the 27th ult., having
nine feet of water in her hold; crew saved. Sld. Jesora,
Constantinople.

COWES, APRIL 6.—Arrd. Vestal, Aloxey, Malta.

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VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Joseph Albino, :Liverpool to
Malta, 14th ult., off Cape 'Trafalgar ; Highlander, of London,
24th, lat. 4'2, lon. 14 ; Harriet and Jesse, Antwerp to Charles-
ton, 26th, lat. 42, lon. 12, by the Sally, arrived in the Creek.
Mary, of Shoreham, for St. Michael's, 21st ult., lat. 41, lon.
15, by the Daisy, arrived in the Creek. Veerennung, Ba-
tavia to Amsterdam, 27th ult., lat. 49 N., lon. 10 W., by the
Nehaleunia, arrived in the 'react. Maria, Rotgaus, Amster-
dam to Surinam, lat. 48 N., lon. 8 W., by the Hendrika Jus-
tint, arrived in the Texel.

MONTROSE BURGIIS.—We are glad to learn that a
very general feeling in favour of the return of Mr. Hume pre-
vaits in the Montrese district of burghs. A strong p oof of
this has been afforded by the independent electors of Forfar,
which is alike creditable to themselves and to the object of
their choice. On the Ist inst. they assembled at a public meet-
ing in the Town. hall, Provost Boath in the Chair, and una-
Odsiously agreed to invite Mr. Hume on the following
terms;—" That this meeting agree to support Mr. Hume;
and, considering his very long and faithful public services in the
cause of the people, they think it their duty to put him to no
trouble in regard to a personal canvass, or to unnecessary ex-
penses, so far as the constituency of Forfar are concerned ;
and to further these objects, the electors present, who agree to
this resolution, shall sign a declaration to that effect, and also a
requisition to Mr. Hume to become a candidate. That a Com-
mittee be appointed to wait upon those of the electors not pre-
sent, for the purpose of requesting them to sign the declaration
and requisition; and that the requisitio be forwarded to Mr,
flume by the first mail, if signed by a majority of the electors.
That the Committee appointed, continue in existence until Mr.
Hume's resolution is known; and that afterwards, if thought
necessary, they shall continue to act to secure his return.
That they have power to add to their number." The Com-
mittee consisted of the Provost, Magistrates, and principal in-
habitants, who immediately proceeded with the requisition,
and in a very short time obtained the signatures of 172 of their
number, being a majority of the whole registered electors of
the burgh. Similar steps, we hear, are being adopted in the
other burghs.—Scotsman.
TARIFF AND INCOME TAX.—MEETING OF FARMERS.
—A meeting of farmers, and others belonging to the county,
interested in the measures affecting agriculture, proposed by
Sir Robert Peel, was held yesterday in Paxton's large room,
Royal Exchange, Sir Alexander M. Gibson in the Chair. They
adapted resolutions, condemning the alteration in the Corn-
laws, the regulations for importing cattle, the increased duties
on linseed cake (which is said to he another mistske of the
tariff printer), and an income tax.—Ayr Observer.
1V e deeply regret, and we are sure that our
readers will join in our feelings, to record the death, at Hard-.
wick Hall, on Tuesday last, of John Cottingham, Esq., for many
years agent to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.—Derbyshire
Chronicle.
NEW THEATRICAL FUND.—It is not, we believe,
generally known that the benevolent funds connected with
Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres are rigidly limited
to those actors who have for a certain number of seasons been
attached to one or other of those establishments, and no one
is allowed to participate in their objects whose salaries have
been below a given amount. To obviate this, the members of
the Queen's Theatre have formed an Institution, called " The
Queen's Theatrical Provident Fund," and which is liberaly
thrown open to all members of the theatrical profession, se-
curing to them in the decline of life, or when incapacitated by
age or accident, a refuge from destitution and the bitterness of
dependence on others for casual support. We understand this
meritorious Institution is going on most prosperously, and that
the originators may succeed in their praiseworthy endeavours
we sincerely desire ; nor do we the less warmly hope that the
wealthy will forward their subscriptions in order to affect this
desirable object, by which a number of persons will be saved
from want whe have, in one shape or other, contributed to the
amusement cf a large portion of the public.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 4.-IV-ell-informed persons
affirm that a numerous list of promotions in the Army will
shortly appear. We are assured that among the projects of law
'Thigh the Government is preparing, there is one respecting the
construction of an iron railway, from Maestricht to the Prussian
frontier, with a branch to the coal mines of Perterade.
Lord Stanley has refused to recommend the ces-
sion of the sovereignty of the Chatham Islands to the town of
Hamburgh, and has attached them as dependencies to the Go-
vernment of New Zealand.
We are happy to state, on the authority of a private
letter to a highly respectable house in this town, dated the
19th of February, two days later than the published accounts,
that " the hopes entertained, in reference to the safety of
the prisoners at Cabool, were rather brightening."—Liverpool
Courier.
PICCADILLY IMPROVEMENTS.—The Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, it is said, have decided on limiting the
improvements consequent on the removal of the Ranger's lodge
in the Green Park, to the formation of a gravel walk, in con-
tinuation of the present one from Hyde Park-corner, and the
substitution of an iron railing and dwarf wall, instead of the
present blank wall. There is no intention of erecting a terrace
from Hyde Park-corner to Devonshire House, on the site of the
Green Park.
THE ABDUCTION CASE.—Samuel Martin Copeland,
the individual who has figured in the abduction case at Liver-
pool as Mr. Martin, has been arrested on a charge of conspiring
with others to defraud Miss Crellin of a sum of money. Miss
Crellin was examined at the Liverpool Police-court on Tues-
day, and stated that the prisoner was the Mr. Martin who had
received from her 2501., and who had made proposals of mar-
riage to her. She afterwards ascertained that he was a mar-
ried man. The prisoner was remanded till Friday, when he
will be brought up with the rest.
We have heard that Lord Belhaven will now cease
to represent her Majesty in the meetings of the General As-
sembly, and that either Lord Arbuthnot or Lord Stratnallan
will be the new Lord High Commissioner.—Glasgow Courier.
DARING ROBBERY AT SHOOTER'S lIILL.—On
Tuesday night, about half-past eight o'clock, two swell cracks-
men drove up to the Bull Inn, and alighted from a one-horse
chaise, and it is supposed a third was with them, as three
were subsequently seen together. The two first went into
the bar parlour and got into Conversation with some respect-
able gentlemen from Either; and ordered some brandy and
water. They had not left the Bull many minutes when Mrs.
Welborne sent the servant girl up-stairs for the key of the
bar-door (a half one, which shuts with a spring lock, and
which had, no doubt, been forced to by the villains on their
departure), when she immediately returned in a state of great
alarm, as she discovered that all the drawers and a writing
desk had been plundered of plate and money to the amount
of 301., and also a number of articles of jewellery belonging
to the landladies, Sirs. Francis and Mrs. Welborne. No time
was to be lost, and upon an application being made to the post-
master at the Red Lion, who has express horses in continual
readiness theffoerw
njournals,William Love, his foreman,
scoundrels towards London, whilst another mounted horseman
was sent in the opposite direction. Love came up with them
near the Green Alan turnpike-gate in the Kent-road, where a
sharp encounter took place, but being overpowered, the thieves
effected their escape. However he succeeded in securing the
horse and chaise, which he brought back to the Greenwich
police-station. These landladies are much respected in the
neighbourhood, and have had a hard winter to struggle through,
at a high rent, which makes their loss of the more serious con-
sequence to them.
SUICIDE BY A TRADESMAN.—Wednesday evening
Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Hope, Jewry-street, Ald-
gate, on view of the body of James Garrard, aged 67. Sarah
Howell, of 5, Cock-court, Jewry-street, stated she had
been acquainted with deceased upwards of two years.
He was a carpenter, and occupied the house next door
but one to witness. Deceased's wife died a few years
since, and from that period deceased had suffered under
the utmost despondency. Witness had kept house for
deceased ever since his wife's death. She found deceased
suspended by a rope round his neck from a beam that runs
along the roof of the coal-cellar. John Walker, shopman to
Mr. Curtis, Jewry-street, butcher, stated that deceased had
become greatly altered since the death of his wife, with whom
he had lived nearly 40 years, and to whom he was greatly
attached. The Jury returned a verdict—" That deceased
committed self-destruction while labouring under temporary
insanity."

EXTRAORDINARY INQUEST.—An unfortunate man
was found dead with a copy of Punch in his hand. It was proved
that he had been reading a number of that publication, when
he was seized with a fit of laughter, followed by a splitting of
' the sides, which soon terminated fatally. Medical aid was im-
mediately called in, and the sufferer was wrapped in
sheets of the Morning Herald, which are generally recom-
mended in such cases as equal to wet blankets ; but
the unhappy subscriber gave his last laugh, and expired with a
convulsive grin upon every feature. A long investigation took
place as to the treatment the patient had been submitted to,
and the Coroner thought that if the application of the Herald
had been earlier, it might have saved the man's life. The Jury,
after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of Justifiable
Split-the-side, with a deodand of threepence on the number of
Punch that occasioned theaceident.—Puri-r&
The following deplorable accident occurred a few
days ago at the Lying-in Hospital in the rue de la Bourbe
A young woman intrusted with the care of the new-born infants
until they were sent away to the wet-nurses, being obliged to
supply them night and day with milk from biberons (bottles
made on purpose) became so worn out by her constant watch-
ing, that, in order to gain a few hours' sleep, she boiled a
poppy-head in the milk she was to give the babies in the early
part of the night. The soporific took effect, and, having no
dread of the consequences, the young nurse lay down in her
clethes, ready to get up again at the first cry. She, however,
did not awake till the sun was up ; sure; ised that she had
been left quiet so long, she went to look at her numerous
charges, and found them still sound asleep. This long dura-
tion of repose, knowing what she had administered, alarmed
her, and she took every means she could to rouse them. All
these being in vain, she felt a conviction that she had killed
them. With a courage and self-devotion which was scarcely
to be expeeted from one in the position in which she had
placed herself, she hastened to the medical officers in the
establishment, and candidly told them what she had done.
Every remedy was immediately resorted to, and happily eight
out of the nine infants who were under the influence of the
narcotic were revived, but the last, which was only :_l6 hours
old, was irrecoverable. An investigation took place, but the
poor girl was £0 distresied at what had happened, and at the
same time bore such an excellent character for the persever-
ing humanito with which she had long exercised Ler delicate
and arduous duties, so that she wys held up as an example to
others in whom similar trust was placed, that the magistrates
considered it to be a simple act of imprudence, and would not
submit her to prosecution.
SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR ROSS MAIION.—Sir ROSS
Mahon died suddenly this morning, at his residence, in Ste-
phen's•green. He was to have attended the Garrison Steeple
Chase this day ; but when the party with whom he was to pro-
ceed called at his house, they learned the afflicting circum-
stances of the sudden demise of the young baronet. Sir Ross
Mahon was a Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles, and one of the
Aides-de-Camp of the Lord-Lieutenant.—Dublin Paper.