The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-17 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

(Further Extracts from the American Papers.)
ATLANTIC STEAM SHIPS AGAIN.—On authority,
we now inform the public, that the terminus of the
Columbia, Caledonia, Acadia, and Britannia, hereto-
fore known as the Cunard steamers, is to be changed
from Boston to this city. It is stated that the pioneer
of the line will make her appearance in our beautiful
bay early next spring. This important change is no
more than what we expected. It is plain to the
meanest capacity that this city is far superior as a
terminus, for a line of steamers like the above, than
Boston, or any other seaport on the American coast.
This alteration in the route of these steam-ships will,
of course, be strongly opposed by the Bostonians.
One of their papers has already come out with an ar-
ticle denying a great many facts set forth by us, and
asserting to the truth of a great many falsehoods set
forth by themselves.—New York Herald.
DAY or JUDGMENT.—Joe Miller, the prophet, the
grandson of Joe Miller, the jester, opens his budget
to-morrow at Newark, to prove that the day of judg-
ment takes place the 23d of April next, and no post-
ponement on account of the weather.
Tne SHIPPING INTEILESTS.—Why do not the de-
pressed shipping interest in New York, including
ship-holders, shipowners, sailors, and stevedores, call
a public meeting to consider what are the causes of
the decay in their business ?
Quica. PASSAGES.—Three
in remarkably short passages from Europe : the.
Ville de Lyon, Captain Stoddard' , and Angelique, Cap-
tain Brewer, in twenty-one days, and tire Westmin-
ster, Captain Atwood, in nineteen days. Where are
the steam-ships ? Our packet-ships are takini, the
steam out of theinboilers.

FORGERY IN BOSTON.—Forgeries of cheques and
notes are again getting to be most alarmingly fre-
nent We have had three or four in this city within
(I •
a week. In Pennsylvania recently, two or three fe-
male forgers have been detected ; and in Boston they
are beginning the same game. Oliver W. Blake was
arrested in Boston, Thursday afternoon last, for
forging the name of Wm. Whiting to a cheque on the
Merchants' Bank for 700 dollars.
FIRST FRUITS OF THE TREATY.—The Bangor
Whig states that a number of the citizens of Maine
are making preparations to engage in the lumber
busines.s on the Aroostook and Fish Rivers, this win-
'r This movement is attributable to the free navi-
gation of the St. John's River, secured by the recent
treaty-between Great Britain and this country.

THEATRICALS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Braham and his son are on their way to New York,
after a most successful tour through Upper and Lower
Canada. They will probably pass the winter :n the
Havannah and the British West India Islands.
Several singers are in New York. Mr. and Mrs.
Seguin, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Knight, &c., all appear at
the Park in the new musical drama of MOWS in
Egypt, accompanied by nearly one hundred choristers.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins and Billy Williams also appear
in it.
• Coleste has returned to the Bowery to play a fare-
well ene,agement. Neither her sister nor daughter
Will return to Europe with-her; Celeste. leaves New
York on the 18th of November for-England, wh'ere
she will resume her engagement at the Haymarket, .

In Philadelphia, Forrest is playing Jack Cade, but
does not draw very well. Richings, Miss Ayres, &c.,
are at the Chesnut.

Hackett is doing nothing. Hill is lecturing all over
New England, and holds forth somewhere every night
except Sundays.

A SQUEERS' AFFAIR.

Four youths, very indifferently attired, applied at
the Hull police-office on Saturday, for assistance to
enable them to get to London. On being questioned
by the Magistrates, they stated that they had run
away from school, at Winton, near Kirkby Stephen,
in Westmorland, kept by Mr. Twycross, in con-
sequence of ill-treatment. They all stated that
they were not half fed, nor allowed to write to
their friends, except what the master dictated.
They had walked from Winton to Selby, and thence
had taken the packet to this town. One shilling
and sixpence was the whole sum they could muster
on setting out upon their journey, but they had re-
ceived assistance from the authorities of several places
at which they halted. William Griffiths, one of the
youths, said he was seventeen years of age, and had
been at the school seven years. It was two years
since he had seen any of his friends. He did not
know where his parents resided. His father is a
bookseller and stationer in London. He knew
the residence of bis grandmother.—William G.
Wright, said his father was a lawyer at Temple-
bar. He had been at the school two years, and had
not seen or heard anything of his parents
during that time. Thomas Wilson said his father
was a lawyer in the Strand; had been at the school
six years, and had not seen or heard anything
of his parents or friends during that time.—Thomas
Forbes said he had no father; he had been five
years at school ; but had not received any letter from
his mother during the last two years.—A lodging-
house keeper, said she had kept the applicants
for three nights ; they had remained in the house
durinc, the day, and had conducted themselves in an
orderly manner. She thought that half-a-crown
would not more than compensate her for what she
had done for the lads.—The Mayor ordered 3s. to be
given her from the poor-box.—The Magistrates then
subscribed towards defraying the expenses of the
youths to London, and the deficiency to be provided
from the poor-box.—The Mayor also said he would
go down to the agents for the London packet which
was to sail that afternoon, and make the best bargain
he could for their passage. The boys had gone by
way of Ripon.—Huil Rockingham.

PREVENTION OF SPONTANEOUS

COMBUSTION AT SEA.

A letter has been received at Lloyd's from their
agent at Sydney, addressed to W. Dobson, Esq., en-
closing certain suggestions by a Dr. Wm. Bland, on
the subject of spontaneous combustion of wool ships,
and submitting a certain plan for its prevention. The
whole is too voluminous for insertion, but the follow-
ing will be found to be the substance.
The Doctor suggests as a preventative, the use of
carbonic acid gas, as its specific gravity and so-
lubility
.in atmospheric air does not prevent its sub-
siding in that fluid, and remaining unmixed even
under extensive exposure to its-action. With regard
to what substance would best afford the supply of
gas required, he states that about 4001bs. of carbonate
of lime in the form of whitening, chalk, the poorer
marbles and lime stone, yield about 1801bs.
of carbonic acid gas, nd more than sufficient to fill a
space of 20,000 cubic feet, or 500 tons, by measure-
ment ; that the admixture of one part of carbonic
acid gas to four of atmospheric air, will prevent or
extinguish combustion. The mode of application he
advises, is to have a cask for each hold, placed on
the keelson, perforated in the upper third of it, each
about an inch in diameter, the lower two-thirds to be
lined internally with lead. Into the head of each cask
a metallic tube, of about an inch in diameter, to be
fixed, leading from the deck, the whole length of
each tube to be protected by a strong casing of wood.
Each cask to be provided with the requisite quantity
of whitening, and when required foruse pour do wn,by
means of the tube, the requisite quantity of sulphuric
acid, diluted in the proportion of about one of the
acid to four or five of water, when the carbonic acid
gas would disperse along the vessel, and replace all
atmospheric air.

BANKRUPTCY COURT—NEW JUDGE.--Vice-Chan-
cellor Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, was, shortly before
two o'clock to-day, sworn in before the Lord Chan-
cellor in. the Court of Chancery, as Chief Justice of
the Court of Bankruptcy. Her Majesty's letters
patent were read, by which his Honour is invested
with all the rights and authority of the office, but
without receiving any additional salary. The patent
directs that his Honour is to be admitted to the office
without the payment of any fees or fines whatever,
and also states that the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Ers-
kine, late Chief Justice in Bankruptcy,'had formally
resigned that office. After hii honour had taken the
oaths, the Lord Chancellor presented him with his
patent of office.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 16.—Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
M.P., arrived here last night from Dublin, in order
to be present at the annual dinner of the Catholic
Benevolent Association this evening, it being an-
nounced that he will take the chair. To-morrow
evening he will address the Repealers at the Music
Hall, and on Friday will take Dart in the proceedings
of the " Free Trade Festival," to be held in theßoyal
Amphitheatre, on which occasion the 'attendance is
expected to be from 4,000 to 5,000.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—We are enabled to
state that it is now determined upon, that the office
of Commissioner of the Insolvent Court, vacant by
the death of Mr. Commissioner Bowen, is not to be
fillekuy. -

A NOTORIOUS GANG OF SWINDLERS.—At Guild-
hall, this day, two men, named Homer and Moore,
were placed at the bar before Sir Peter Laurie,
charged with being concerned with a man named
Clark, who is at present at large, with defrauding
several tradesmen of property to the amount of seve-
ral hundred pounds. The Justice-room was crowded
with persons who have been duped. In each case a
reference was given to a person said to be named
Hamer, who turns out to be a man of straw. Sir
Peter said he was determined to do all in his power
to break up the notorious gang of swindlers, with
which London at present abounded. The prisoners
were again remanded.
PROPOSED RAIEWAYS.—A survey 13 now in pro-
gress for the construction of a line of railway to pass
thrcugh the towns of Greenwich, Woolwich, Graves-
end, and Rochester, terminating at the town of Maid-
stone.' Surveys have lately been made for a line of
railway from Oxford, to join the Great Western at
Wallingford ; also for a branch line 'to join the Ayles-
bury railway—thus opening' a direct eornuitmication
between Oxford and London: .

NEW SOUTH WALES.—A brutal attack with fire-
arms had been made. by a party of Europeans upon
a number of aborigines, whom they had surprised
sleeping in a tea-tree scrub, in the Portland Bay
district. Three females and a child had been mur-
dered, and a fourth female wounded. Pie Govern-
ment Gazette offers a reward of 1001., or, in the case
of a convict, a free pardon and passage to England,
for the detection of the offenders.—Liverpool Courier.
ALARMING ACCIDENT AT PERMARSIL-011 the sth
inst., several lads having procured a hollow piece of
iron, plugged it up atone end for the purpose of mak-
ing a cannon, and whilst in the act of ramming into
it a charge of gunpowder, stones, and rusty nails, it
burst, and struck one person on the head, causing a
considerable flow of blood ; another bystander received
a wound in the side close to the heart, and a third
was injured in the abdomen. A spark, caused by the
friction of the stoneliSed in loading, it is supposed,
occasioned the explosion. —Es sex Herald.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
have returned to Eaton Hall, near Chester, from Hal-
kin Castle, Flintshire. The improvements and em-
bellishments at Grosvenor House, by the removal of
the mansions lately occupied by the. United States
Minister and Lord Trimlestown, have a'ready com-
menced, the workmen having nearly razed those
edifices to the ground. _

REMOVAL OF THE INDICTMENTS AGAINST TAB
CHARTISTS TO THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—WO
understand that, on Monday last, all the sixty defen-
dants indicted at the late Special -Commission at
Liverpool and who then traversed to the next !A.3-
sizes, were served with summonses of a merely for-
mal nature, the terms of which, we understand, not
a little puzzled some of them, as they were therein
required " to come before her Majesty on the 15th
November instant, wheresoever her Majesty should
be in England." As her Majesty is now at
Walmer Castle, near Dover, the appearance of
some of the defendants there would no doubt
cause considerable surprise. We know that some
of them seriously contemplated the necessity of
surrendering in person, in London ; while others, we
believe, have instructed a London: attorney to put in.
an appearance for them. We believe the legal effect
of this is merely to give the parties formal notice that
the indictments against them have been removed, by
the Attorney-General, from Lancashire and
,Cheshire,
into the Court of Queen's Bench. In this case, there-
fore, in all probability, neither personal surrender nor
appearance by attorney will be requisite- ; and the re-
pewal of the bell, if necessary at all, will very likely
be taken in the country, under an order of the Court.
—Manchester Guardian'.
- It was stated a few days ago that four of the regis-
trars of the Court of Bankruptcy were to.go into the
country to assist in 'putting the new bankrupt law into
operation in the district courts. Two of them only,
however, are gone, Mr. Parry and Mr. Campbell. Alr
Parry is commissioned to go to Birmingham, and Mr.
Campbell to Liverpool, and we suppose that he wil
j,ef tvhueblicChancellor's
by
establiisshliikuely
a
uniformity g
also go to Manchester and Leeds, as occasion may re-
quire. This arrangement
to be '
extremely
of practicemelYuseful to
throughout the different courts.
The lion. F. Curzon takes Mr. Parry's duties in
London.