The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-28 00:00:00

IVIISCELX.P.NEOTIS.

The Commissioners of Customs have received a letter from
Mr. Cardwell, one of the Secretaries to the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Treasury, to the effect that he had been com-
manded by their Lordships to state to the Board that infor-
mation had been received from various quarters of the preva-
lence of an infectious disorder among cattle, in several parts
of the Continent, and to desire that they would give direc-
tions to their officers carefully to examine any cattle imported
into this country, and in the event of their appearing to be
infected with any disorder, not to permit them to be landed
without inspection and report as to their soundness, by some
competent person, and to report the circumstances immedi-
ately to the Board.

The monument which was subscribed for by the friends of
the late Dr. Arnold has been for some time in the chapel at
Rugby. It was executed in Caen stone by Mr. John
Thomas; the figure is recumbent, under a rich Gothic ca-
nopy, and has given so much satisfaction t* the Committee
that they have rewarded the artist with 100/. beyond the sum
agreed upon.
On Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, the
tower of Brodie!: Castle, near Arran, fell with a terrible crash.
The old Castle had been injured by the late storms, and seve-
ral of the lintels had been rent. Workmen were employed in
repairing the damage, no fewer than sixteen being working
on it on Saturday last. Providentially the fall was during
the time when no one was about if.

On Wednesday morning, about seven o'clock, as police;.
constable No. 72, belonging to the G division, was on duty
in Red Lion-square, he observed a bundle lying in the en-
closure; he got over the railings, and, having opened it.
found a fine female infant, dead, wrapped up in a common
stuff apron. The constable immediately removed the body
to St. Giles's workhouse, to await a coroner's inquest.
Lord Albert Conyngham, the President of the Archxologi-
cal Association. has resigned his position as the head of that
association. A public meeting of the society is about to be
held, in consequence of some unpleasant squabbles in the com-
mittee.

LAW INTELLIGE.NCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 27.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Sir F. POLLOCK and a Special Jury.)
AIgINTOSH V. THE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
On the part of the plaintiff, thedelay was attributed to the non.
delivery of the rails ; but on that of the defendants that cause was
denied, it being asserted that the rails were kept back purposely, as
the plaintiff was not forward enough to require them—a state of
things which they candidly enough attributed, not to the negligence
of the plaintiff, but to the state of the weather and ground, over
which he could have no eontrol.
Sir F. Poccoca having summed up the evidence,

The jury, at half past 6 o'clock, returned a verdict for the plain.
tiff' for 8,9121. Is. 10d., being the full amount of his demand to-
gether with interest.

THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE for March begins
with a capital Ingoldsby Legend—one of the most
amusing of those very clever pleasantries their author
has given to the public. It bears the title of " The
Blasphemer's Warning, a Lay of St. Ronawold." A
paper, called " Born under the Dog Star," by Angus B.
Reach. will also help the reader to many a hearty laugh.
"An Excursion up the Oronooko," from the extremely
picturesque
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by 11. Walt.r D'Arcy, is equally worthy of a perusal,
and describes a part of the world still more interesting.
"Conversations in the National Gallery," evidently pro-
ceeds from some one well acquainted with art. The
author of "Peter Priggins" furnishes a new znd ludi-
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" The Talleyrand Papers" are again full of clever de-
lineations of one of the most extraordinary men that
ever existed.•
HUNG ERFORD SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—The half-
yearly meeting of the proprietors was held
yesterday, at the offices,
in Villiers-street-21fr. C. Ifawes in the chair. Mier some prelimi-
nary business, the Secretary read the report of the Directors, in which
they announced to the Proprietors that they had resolved to open the
bridge to the public on the 24th of. March, being Easter-Monday, and
that for the four weeks following the passage should be free. Ily the
22d of April every part of the {volts win be finished, when, in ac-
cordance with the resolutions of the general mee.ing of the Pt 0-
prietors, held on the 15th day of February, last year, the Directors
have fixed the toll to be collected at one half-penny for each pas-
senger. An objection was taken to the propriety of throwing open
the bridge to the public for four weeks, on the ground that the novelty
of the stricture would induce a large number of persons to pass over
it for some time after its opening, and that, consequently, considerable
profit would ariao therefrom for division among the Shareholders.
It was explained that altlioegh the bridge would be iu a condition fiir
the public to pass over it on the 24th of Mardi, yet that it would be
Impossible to fix the toll-gates and tell-tales by that time ; and that
the proposed four weeks' gratuitous use cf the bridge would be a
benefit and gratification to thousands, and not result in any pecu-
niary injury to the. Shareholders. The Shareholders, however, per-
sisted in their determination to oppose the recommendation of the
Directors, and a resolution was passed to the effect that the bridge
should not be opened till it was in a fit state for toll to be taken.
and that the toll be a halfpenny. It was next resolved that the
plan of issuing return tickets be postponed for the consideration of the
next meeting. The report of the Directors thus amended, and the
engineer's report, and statement of accounts, were then adopted.
GOLDEN HINT T'l TRADESMEN.—A man of the
world, who keeps an early purl-house in Tottenham-eottrf-road,
assures us he has avoided
servirg on juries by the following simple
method:—t, .II lent the beadle, whO came with a summons five years
the stun of f.,e , and, strange to say, he has never seen
the braille since.—Pump.
The annual match between the Universities of
Cambridge and Oxford is fixed to come off on Saturday, the ?4 of
March, on the Thames, from Putney. to Mc flake.