The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.

Accounts from Alexandria, of the 9th inst., state that
➢Mehemet Ali had been residing at Cairo for some weeks past,
and intended in a few days proceeding on a visit to the lower
provinces, and thence to Alexandria for the summer. On
the evening of the 3d it blew a terrific gale of wind at that
place.
Reports from Syria had been received of the plague having
broken out at Jerusalem, and that the number of deaths is
40 a day.

The following is the distribution of the British vessels of
war in the Mediterranean :—At Malta—The Formidable 84,
bearing the flag of Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, the Commander-
in-Chief ; Ceylon 12, receiving-ship, hearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, second in command, and super-
intendent of Malta dock-yard ; Amazon 26, Snake 16. Locust
war-steamer, Beacon and Bonetta surveying vessels. At Gib-
raltar, the Scout 18, Flamer and Medba war-steamers. On her
way from Malta to Barcelona, the Devastation war-steamer.
At Corfu, the Orestes 18. At the Piraeus of Athens—the
Tyne 28, and Geyser war-steamer. At Smyrna—L'Aigle
24. At Constantinople—the Virago and Hecla war-steamers ;
and at Beyrout the Warspite 50.
The Courrier du Havre mentions that the French Govern-
ment intended to seize on the Sooloo Islands, situate be-
tween Borneo and Mindanao, and to form in them an esta-
blishment similar to that of the Marquesas and Otaheite.
Lieutenant-General Count Gazan, Peer of France, died
last week at Grasse, in the Var.
The Paris journal, L'UnivPrse, boasts that the Society of
the Jesuits is, at the present moment, more flourishing than
at any former period, and that their number throughout
Europe, and especially in France, has increased within the
last year to an extraordinary extent. From a census taken
in March last, there were upwards of a thousand more Je-
suits in France, than at the corresponding period of the pre-
ceding year.
The programme for the public entertainments in celebra-
tion of the King's fete, on the Ist of May, have been approved
of by the Minister of the Interior. They are precisely the
same as those of last year.
The Gazette des Tribunaux states that a prosecution is
contemplated against the member of the Chamber of Peers
and the Deputy who lately fought a duel, and that permission
to this effect, as regards the Deputy, will probably be applied
for to the Chamber of Deputies, as without that no legal pro.
ceedings can be taken.
The Minister of Public Instruction, in compliance with the
recommendation of M. Charles Ledru, the Advocate, has
nominated the nephew of the late M. Armand Carrel to a
bursarship at the college of Henry IV.
The Sud of Marseilles states that the Duke and Duchess
of Salerno, parents of the Duchess d'Aumale, are expected to
arrive there shortly, on their way to Paris, accompanied by
the Count de Trapani, brother of the King of Naples.
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At the Brentford sessions, George Mathews, a young man,
was fully committed to take his trial on five charges of for -
gery. He had forged the names of several tradesmen of
Brentford, and obtained sums varying from 5/. to 6/. at
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, Charing-cross.
Thomas Marrs, the late secretary of a benefit society at
Bermondsey, was charged at Southwark Police-court, with
breaking open the box containing a portion of the society's
funds, with which he absconded. The prisoner denied the
charge, and in accounting for his sudden flight to Ireland
immediately after the robbery, he said that the stewards
lent him some of the funds of the society, and that being
unable to refund the same on the day he expected, he went
away, not wishimg to meet the members of the society until
he was in a situation to repay the money.—He was remanded.
At Marylebone, John Thomas Potter, an omnibus driver,
in the employ of Mr. Brewer, proprietor of a Bayswater
omnibus. was charged by Alfred Norton, another omnibus
proprietor, upon two summonses, each of them for the offence
of furious driving. Both cases were proved, and the defendant
was in one case lined 40s. and in the other 20s.
At Lambeth Mr. Benjamin Myers, a tailor, carrying on
business at No. 72. Oxford-street, was charged before Mr.
Henry with furious driving, and running over George Jones,
a child of four years of age, by which the latter was so
seriously injured that its life is at present in great danger.
From the evidence it appeared, that on Sunday afternoon,
about four o'clock, the prisoner, while driving along the New
Cut in a gig at a furious rate, knocked down the child, who
received serious injuries by the horse trampling upon him.
The prisoner said he should have pulled up the moment the
accident happened, but the fact was that his horse became
so alarmed at the noise made by the persons present, that he
became quite unmanageable. He was remanded for a week,
but at the same time admitted to bail for his appearance on
Monday next,
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
The Duke of Devonshire left town for the Continent on
Saturday.
At her Majesty's next drawing-room, on the sth of May,
Lady Blanche Somerset, daughter of the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, is expected to make her debut.
Major-General Sir Hercules and Lady Pakenham and Miss
Pakenham are daily expected in town from the Government
House, Portsmouth.
Lord Guernsey has arrived at the Earl of Aylesbury's re-
sidence in Grosvenor-street from a tour.
The Earl of Meath has left his seat, Kilruddey, for Dublin.
The Hon. Lady Williams Wynn and Miss Wynn arrived
in town on Monday last from Copenhagen. Sir Henry W.
Wynn, her Majesty's Envoy at that Court, is expected in
about a fortnight, on leave of absence.
VIISCEIMAIMMOUS.

The river steamers this day were gaily decorated with
flags in bonenr of her Majesty's visit to Blackwall, to see the
Great Britain steam-ship. The day has been most favour-
able for the royal visit.
The debts of the Duke of Sussex have all been paid with
but two exceptions—the first is a bond given to Mademoiselle
d'Este for 10,000/., and the second is the account of his Royal

Highness's legal executor, which amounts to a consideradble
sum, owing to the great expense incurred in the adjustment
and settlement of all claims upon the estate of the Duke.
Mr. Bowes, Member for South Durham, in reply to an
application from some of his Wesleyan constituents to vote
against the Maynooth grant, says he had always supported
the grant, and must be consistent. He concludes his letter in
these words :—" If I am to forfeit the confidence of those I
have now for some years had the honour of representing, I
could not wish to do so on any fairer ground than that of my
remaining the consistent advocate of religious toleration."
On Monday evening a meeting of the subscribers to the De
Beauvoir National Schools was held in the school -room, " to
take into consideration certain allegations lately made in a
court of justice in Mr. ➢lonckton's case, which seriously affect
the character both of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, the master and
mistress of the above schools." Mr. Alexander Rayson in
the chair. On the motion of Mr. Lake, solicitor to R. Benyon
De Beauvoir, Esq., it was resolved to appoint a Committee to
investigate the matter.

Yesterday a meeting of the Royal Naval Benevolent So-
ciety was held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-
street, to distribute grants to distressed applicants. Amongst
the members present were Admiral Sir E. Codrington, Ad-
miral Dundas, Admiral Hawker, Admiral Lord Radstock,
Commanders Houghton, Gray, Tyte, Marshall, and many
other gallant officers. Captain Dickenson was in the chair.
From the financial statement it appeared that, including the
balance remaining from the last audit, the receipts since the
previous quarterly meeting amounted to 1,580/. The sum of
5031. had been distributed in relief, and deducting other dis-
bursements, a balance of 9711. was left in the hands of the
treasurer. A further sum of 500/. in the whole was now
awarded to other applicants. Thanks were then given to the
chairman, and the meeting separated.
Sir John Edward Swinburne, Bart., and the gentlemen
forming the Committee of the Artists' Benevolent Fund, have
presented their late secretary, Mr. Martin, librarian to his
Grace the Duke of Bedford, with a valuable silver inkstand,
in testimony of their sense of his services to that Institu-
tion. The subscription to defray the cost was confined to
the members of the Committee.
Mr. Galliot, the gentleman who, with Mr. Bevan, the so-
licitor of the Old Jewrv, conducted Tawell's defence, had
several interviews with Mrs. Tavel], at Berkhampstead,
during the past week, for the purpose, it is stated, of making
representations to the Home Secretary not to interfere with
the possession, by the Rev. Mr. Cox, of Tawell's confession.
It seems now pretty clear that the contents of the document
will not met the public eye, till the books and manuscripts
of Mr. Cox may hereafter be transferred to other hands.
Yesterday forenoon information was received from Bow-
street at the several police stations throughout the metropolis,
that between Sunday week and Thursday some person or
persons feloniously broke and entered, and also endeavoured
to set on fire the parish church of West Wycombe, in Buck-
inghamshire, from which was stolen a gilt chain attached to
the pulpit. A reward of 50f; has been offered by the parish
authorities to any person giving such information as may lead
to the apprehension and conviction of the offender, and a
further reward of a similar amount has been offered by the

Home Secretary for such evidence as may lead to the dis-
covery and conviction of the parties. The Government has
also offered to pardon any accomplice (except the person or
persons who actually attempted to set fire to the said church),
who shall come forward and give such evidence as shall lead

to the same result.
We are happy to find that a church for the sailors of the
port of London is about to be established, and that this mea-
sure has received the sanction and support of the highest au-
thorities in Church and State. The First Lord of the Admi.
ralty is to fill the chair at the meeting to be held in the City,
and the Bishop of London will propose the first resolution.
The church is to be built near the London and St. Katherine
Docks, where there is, throughout the year, a daily average
of five hundred sail of vessels ; and though their crews do not
live on board, yet hundreds of them board and lodge in the
immediate locality. The sittings in the church will be en-
tirely free, and we trust this great undertaking will receive a
large share of public support : it is intended for a class of
men who have great claims on the nation, and whose reli-
gious interests have been hitherto grossly neglected.
It is rumoured, and it is said on good authority, that a dis-
covery has been made by one of the Customs' officers, of a
captain of a vessel which has recently arrived in the port,
having possessed the keeper (V a public-house or tavern, in
the neighbourhood of the docks, of about 101bs. of cigars,
which were Ile surplus or unexpended stores of the ship, and
which the said captain had obtained on condition that the
cigars in question were for his own private use, and not for
sale or merchandise, he having made a declaration to that
effect previously to having obtained their delivery. It is
supposed that the officer must have acted upon information
in the matter. If the rumour be correct, the captain has,
of course, made a false declaration, and thereby obtained
the cigars surreptitiously, and it will be a question whether
he will not be liable to proceedings for a fraud on the re-
venue, in addition to the actual seizure of the goods which
has taken place.
Yesterday evening, at half-past six o'clock, an explosion
of gas occurred on the premises of Messrs. Avery and Moore,
silkmercers and haberdashers, No. 171, Tottenham-court-
road. It appears that one of the shop-nen was engaged
lighting one of the gas burnings in the shop-window, when
on applying the light, the gas momentarily exploded with
great violence, the flame communicating to a quantity of
valuable goods in the window. Every exertion was used to
extinguish the flames, but without effect, the fire making
rapid progress. The fire-engines and brigademen were sent
fur from Crown-street, Wells .street, Oxford-street, and their
exertions happily succeeded in extinguishing the flames.
The stock and premises are insured in the Sun Fire-office.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MISS BYNG'S COACHMAN.—
Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Red Lion, Clarges.
street, Piccadilly, on the body of Aaron Carman, aged 54 years.
Sarah Carman, widow of deceased, said he lrAd been coachman to
Miss Byng, of Charles-street, Berkeley-square, upwards of twenty
years. On Thursday morning last he felt himself Unwell, but in
consequence of witness being away from home, he did not speak
of it to any one until witness's return in the evening. Deceased
then went to bed and partook of some brandy.and.water. In
about an hcur he said he was very ill, and requested medical aid
to be sent for. Mr. Davis, of Curzon-street, promptly attended,
who administered stimulating medicines to deceased, but he died in
about an hour. Mr. Davis attributed death to rupture of some
blood-vessels in the region of the heart, or disease of that organ.
Natural death.!'