The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

VICE-REGAL COURT.

The Lord-Lieutenant entertained the following party
at dinner Saturday :—Earl and Countess of Donough-
more, Countess of Glengall, Colonel A. White (Wood-
lands), lion. Miss A'Court, Mrs. Forster, Mr. and Mrs.
Corkran, Captain Larcom, Mr. Hussey, Colonel Bowles,
Mr. A'Court, and Mr. Daly, aide-de-camp in waiting.
Lieutenant Edmund Peel, of the 11th, or Prince
Albert's Own Hussars, has been appointed aide-de-camp
to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord Tullamore,
Lieutenant Featherstone, and Mr. Robert Peel Dawson,
have also been attached to the staff of his Excellency
Lord Heytesbury.
CHRISTMAS BENEVOLENCE.

Lord Carew, with the same kindness which has al-
ways marked his private character, has, in the hand-
somest manner, sent 201. to the Right Rev. 1)r. Foran,
101 of which is for the Sisters of Charity, and 101. more
to be distributed amongst the poor.— Waterford Chro-
nicle.

Lord Dunally, since his return to his mansion at Kit-
boy, is acting with more than usual indulgence to his
numerous tenantry. Both his Lordship and his amiable
lady, whose heart is full of the purest tenderness and
charity, are busily engaged just now in distributing
clothes, blankets, &c., amongst the poor, without dis-
tinction—thus mitigating, in countless instances, th©
rigours of the season, and bringing comfort to the
cheerless heart of many a creature.—Tipperary Vin-
dicator.

In addition to large quantities of beef and other pro-
visions, with a large sum of money, Lady Headley has,
this winter, distributed substantial clothing to upwards
of six hundred families in the neighbourhood of Aghadoe
and Killarney.
Rev. J. Hally, P.P., Gammonsfield, acknowledges the
receipt of 51. for the poor, from Captain Osborne, M.P.,
of Newtown Anner.— Tipperary Free Press.

ACCIDENT ON THE NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAlL-
war.—The course of this line has been suddenly inter-
rupted by the falling in of the tunnel between the Riding-
miil and Corbridge•stations. It appears the Com•
pany were engaged in widening the tunnels in order to
form a double line of railway, it having been originally
made siugle in this part, and the props put in having
been insufficient to support the superincumbent mass, it
fell in suddenly ou Saturday last, only a few minutes
after the passage of a train. Fortunately no lives were
lost, but the injury done to the works is so great as com-
pletely to interrupt the traffic on the line. In conse•
quence, the trains from Newcastle to Carlisle now stop
at the Riding•mill-station, where the passengers are
transferred to omnibuses, and luggage to waggons, in
which they are conveyed by the turnpike-road to the Cor-
bridge-station, where they again get upon the line. Pas-
sengers and goods from Carlisle to Newcastle leave the
line at Corbridge and join it again at Riding-mill. The
accident, as a matter of course, is causing great incon-
venience to the railway .Company, and some time must
elapse ere the line can be again opened throughout.
GREAT SA SHAM FIRES.—On Saturday last, the
prisoners Jeremiah Head and William Martin wore ex-
amined before the Rev. S. H. Alderson and J. H.
Eleigham, Esq., charged with setting tire to three stacks
belonging to Mr. Samuel Silverston, farmer, of that
parish, on the night of the 14th of November last, and
both prisoners were fully committed for trial to the next
assizes.—lpswich Express.
On Tuesday night an open boat, containing se7enty?
nine tubs of spirits, I v ing ashore on the Maplin Saud,
was seised by the officers of the Crouch fever etiut
guard station, and conveyed to the Custem-house,
Malden, by the Onyx revenue cruiser ; the smugglers,
owing, it is supposed to their having missed their course
in the fog, had abandoned their cargo, taking with them
the oars, sails, .4c., of the boat.—. Essex Herald.