The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-05 00:00:00

7,1,104

PA tUS O ST. PANCRAS.
THE CASE OF MOORE v. PIES.—TILE PAVING AND
WATER-RATES.—A public meeting, with reference to the
above-mentioned case, was held last evening, at Lawson's As'
sembly-rooms, Gower-street ; Mr. Corry in the chair.
The CIIHIRMAN having addressed the meeting, •
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Mr. DOUGLAS rose to move the first re,,oluticn. He
that about three years ago Mr. Moore, the then clerk of 9
Southampton Paving Trust, said that he had lost a Out!
501. of paid money, at the Parliamentary Committee Roout"
where he had been transacting business on the part of the Curt!;
missioners of Trust. Mr Pike, one of the Commissioners,Pa,
some questions to him as to where he received it, and whetbs.l
it was in gold or in notes,. all which questions he refused 0
answer.—( Hear.) Mr. Pike followed up the inquiries, bowel's
which gave rise to diputes with the other Commissioners, w;10
had persecuted him ever since.—(Hear, and groans.)
years ago a rate was levied by the Commissioners for one lea!:
which was not legal, it being usual only to levy a rate fur slb
months. Many of the poorer rate-payers were unable to PI
the rate for a whole year at once, and were therefore diefranci
chised —( Groans,) It was on this account that Mr. Pike ha
opposed the rate, and refused to pay it himself. The proper
course for the Commissioners to take was to distrain for tbef
amount, but, instead of that, they sued for it in the Court °
Requests, and by means of various objections they carried ti!
ease from one Court to another, till it finally came before II
Court of Exchequer, where a decision was given in fse°11:(10
the Trust, as regarded a minor part of the debt. The actin
was for 3/. I6s. Bd. ; the 31. being for the lighting and pag.o
rate, and the remainder for the water rate. The wot.
that the water rate was legal, but the paving rate was
Thus, although the decision was actually in favour of the 4
fendant, yet it threw upon him the expense of the action. I,le,i'
costs demanded were 1071., which, being taxed, were redo
a.
to 501. If the Commissioners had lost the cause, the regt'e-0
ing 57!. must have been paid, and the whole would have 0`-
at the expense of the rate-payers.—(Groans. )
The resolution was seconded by Mr. MINER. tO
Several other persons addressed the meeting to the to
effect, and the resolution was read by the CHAIRMAN. it ;of
to the effect that the meeting highly condemned the conduc.o
the Commissioners in taking the expensive process of litigatlvir:
and that they, the meeting, pledged themselves to assist
Pike in the liquidation of the debt.
The resolution passed almost unanimously.
Other resolutions were then passed, and a Committee to re;
ceive subscriptions was appointed. Several sums of 0315
were handed in and acknowledged,. and the meeting seParl"
about ten o'clock.

VAUXHALL GARDENS.
NIGHT ASCENT OF MR. GREEN IN IV'
BALLOON. feat
Last night this aerial voyageur undertook the peril.-
of a night ascent in his balloon from Vauxhall Gardeps'itotO
playing fireworks of a novel and extraordinal7 descriptioe
the car of his frail machine.
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The occasion of this bold and daring adventure was ter
brated by a grand gala, in which all the resources of the,e° tbe
lishment were brought into requisition to render thefeleot
most brilliant of the season. The efforts of the manligto
yte
proved successful, the gardens being crowded by an
ima ye-
assemblage, including several persons of high rank en
tinction.
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The Messrs. Adams have also been making extensive - ar
tions in their splendid model, al fresco, of the TeloPer
Honan, which has given it a most imposing effect. The Pops
liar character of this exhibition reflects the greatest credit ;lid
those rising young artists—we should say it is the most Weticei
production since the famed Waterloo. We likewise ti°
some very promising scenery, by the same artists, is The
Rotunda Theatre, in Mr. Almar's ballet of Old Vaushall'oger
new drop at the period of Queen Anne, introducing Sir iter
de Conroy. and other characters of the day, forms a very
eating picture.
The balloon selected by G f ion Wal

seiecte oy Mr. ,reen for the occasi. bsi
Albion, formerly the property of Mr. Hampton. Since. ices,
been in the possession of Mr. Green, he has considersbtor
larged it and materially improved it both in shape and con
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tion. It will now contain 26,000 cubic feet of gas, and
sixty feet in height.
Mr. Darby, the pyrotechnist, and artist to the garden!, .61
the entire arrangement of the fireworks, the comportnbeit
which, as well as the construction of the machinery f
discharge, was effected under his personal direction. ite
The frame on which were the fireworks was suspen?
to s
the car by a line of about seventy feet in length, attachea_reso
swivel, so that it might spin freely in the air, and thus int.A
the effect cf the pyrotechnic display. The frame consisted
three conjunct wheels, the radius of each being six f,eet,
si
the circumference of the entire frame thirty.six i_eeorsss
the separation between each wheel fifteen inches. 51' be 04s
was provided with a regulating winch in the car, so that 40 s 3
enabled to wind up or lower the frame with the fireworks
pleasure. gerbli
The fireworks consisted of variegated lights, Baba!!
with les pat etoiles,"coloured Roman candles, French Je
eget
Chinese streams of fire, concluding with an enormous b° u 4
set
coloured fires.
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With respect to the ignition of this ponderous Prorso
combination, a number of suggestions were made to Mr•d, 1,01
and among others the percussion system was recommends pia!,
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the veteran expressed his determination to adopt his_ °,oinole7
of lighting the fireworks from the car by means of „jecss
lucifer match, to ignite a fusee connected with the slslot'4l
on the frame, and the lowering it by the windlass, 'nersl es.
match burning for about a minute previous to the ge
plosion of the fireworks. Greer
The car having been attached to the balloon, 1:1.0r. of Ye;
previously deposited in it his barometer, a large leflef about
culiar construction, his compass, map, a guide-lite hundred
thousand feet, grapnel, and between two and ti;;vorks, Ir•stie
weight of ballast in bags; the frame, with the 0 „event
to P
then affixed to the car, great care being taken he vatic!'
position being reversed' from the horizontal to t"., f in a nin,
in the case of Madame Blanchard, who lost her 0° reverse f
ascent at Paris, the frame, by an accident, becoming: stead.
and the fireworks consequently playing into the ca.r_inensued•
beneath the balloon, ignited the silk and an explosion
After the arrangement of the usual preliminaries,
usiolicitr
Green entered the car alone, havingbeen treerveislorl to allh°o
by the Earl of Munster and Lord
him Georgeut Mr. Green felt itm,
those noblemen to accompany -to decline
°`'
duty, on account of the hazardous adventure,
honour.
At eleven o'clock the signal for ascent was given.
Green immediately seized the " liberating iron" with onebV
and lighting the fusee with the other, the ascent took rd,
amidst the cheers of the assembled thousands outside thefii
dens and of the company within. The fireworks in stie
seconds became discharged, and a more brilliant aerial 11s4/1
technic exhibition was never witnessed. The balloon t""
northerly direction.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDtte'l
Yesterday the proprietor of these romantic gardens fliealer‘
his numerous visitors with a series of entertainments, 'OO the
estiog as they were diverting. Prompted by loyalty'
occasion of the return of the natal day of the Prince ° of t""
Mr. Tyler, to signalize the event, presented specifla"
sports and pastimes of " Merrie Englande," in the 01°q°,,.nellt °
From what we read about these, and the spirited enact-20er
them in the Surrey Zoologiedl Gardens yesterday, °rib althj'
tors must have been highly distinguished for their love °!,,
ful jolity; and to this day the famous names of WM'. Made
and Friar Tuck carry the imagination br.ck to the wsble
and brake of Sherwood's royal forest. The redlodall'
characters just named figured in the mimic scene YCS fres°
with the utmost success. In addition to their Single
were, the Maypole Dance, the manly games of flies
stick and Quarter-staff, those formidable weapons whie":t bl°f
dexterously used by our sturdy ancestors, were even a m"
an armed man—jumping in sacks, creating roars of laugh,ter;7ot
ling-matches and archery; as though these were not suweiaill
attract crowds and delight them, there was the never' nt
source of merriment, our old friend Punch, an eneatyPiull-00`,1
real Gipsies, stalls and tents as at a country fair : an vier
though far from least, the picture town of " Auld °rill'
illuminated. The whole concluded with a more the.' rice
narily grand display of fire-works. Between the perforil;lld
the fine band of the Royal Artillery, added to the u°r'forle'
band of the establishment, enhanced the scene by the Peil were
ante of several of the most popular pieces of music, whied forthexecuted in a first. rate manner. The gardens pours t
with
their charms with additional beauty, and were redolen..ooes'
" Hawthorn buds and sweet eglantine, and garlands 0' 'and
They were crowded to excess with a very fashionable corer
COMMENCEMENT of the OYS-
S EASON. Ist
Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, the sale of ortearelbera
the season commenced at Billingsgate, but the r odr

who obtain oysters surreptitiously from 'the bedswl;eres.nti'i
fishermen had laid them at great expen.se and trouble, ny'e
cipated the legal opening of the season by supplying fa:
the shell-fish shops with the luxury a week or ten iritYo sr
The demand, as usual, on the " first day of oysters, dojo,
plied to the 4th of August, was very great, the atti‘:,l3,,
but
of dealers numerous, and the oysters of good quaili",ll4 Ll 3
the supply was below the average. Soon after miu'l° to v-a
Sunday, the vendors of " real natives" (which are 0,0, sa
had till the second week in September, though every " 1:01$'
stall announced them) began pouring into the markeit, and
day-light several thousand persons were assemblet, 'roof
double line of carts and other vehicles reached from t"'bure"'
along Lower Thames-street, Fish-street-hill, to Graces Mr•
street. The most admirable arrangements were made wci
Goldham, the clerk of the market, to prevent robberies ar;soee
fusion, and a strong force of the City police were in atteriue 13il;
carry out the arrangements. As all who were assembled
phicb
lingsgate were not expected to be honest, boards, on f your
were painted in legible characters, " Take care
the
01°
pockets," were fixed in various places. The name t to the
of every smack was also painted on boards, and fix6„,itierl9
riving of each vessel, which effectually prevented tee
on the dealers, and Mr. Goldham himself sat in his OW-", 030"
as arbitrator, to adjust disputes, which he did with 3 court;
celerity as the Judge of the ancient Pie-poudred deal el
and saved my Lord Mayor and Aldermen a goo °pee
trouble in the course of the day. The hatches ranee
while the clock was striking six, and the sale ,ssithf,
with great briskness and regularity, and proceeded(
out a fight, without a row, and without the lass
be
a-dozen fish-venders in the river. Mr. Goldham has e asi°
reformed Billingsgate, and some other place ought tO
BilljPglt
ciated with everything that is low and vulgar, a'_es,els $
gate was wont to be. There were fifty sail ef„,;_itstsble'
market from the Isle of Sheppy, Rochester,
_"".ed
Colchester, and Milton. The " commons" Pr"cidu:ite for,
los. to 16s. per bushel Welsh 18s. to IL ; natiif,;
a very small and delicious oyster, equal to the
_ fayourl.!:
I/. 10s. The supply of " Cheyney Rocks," 0,0 /VI
oyster, which is included among the commons, ,sters
oFnrantheee,
good. It may not be generally known that the Qi Jersey,
Falmouth, Kent and Essexand nctohaesrt s
places,are b
and
dg
when fattened, for the London market. Oysters)
the bane
r
scarcer than they used to be, which is attributable b. ,e pet
ful practice of selling them out of season. Ther
check tbe._
the regulation of the oyster fisheries will, it
hoPester beC15.1,!;
evil, and prevent the wholesale robberies of the cq,_,sse toont".o
the benefit of the London shell fishmongers duringat"",,iiiogitobj
when they ought not to be eaten. The measurea t s
busiie" The
is doubled, as regards oysters, every peck being me deer'
they are measured out by regularly
supply at Ilungerford-market was very inconsicl
tO those
se.
sisted of only four sail. The prices were atr ed
httakefnromnairi_
ang,suicot:
Billiogsgate. In the evening Mr. Goldham rep
for this day's supply. appointediera.
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Commodore:Cha
TthHeE
CCiiiinielsNeErSaEnslotmANSOM ,
brought to England by the Cambrian, 0 the
C. 8., was forwarded from Gosport by a special train, noicothte.
The
Treasury department, and a guard of the Bth•
South-re Western Railway, under the care of Mr. CooPteori
he whole of the ransom, consisting of 2,000,0°°
liegituen jlhich
were deposited in 500 boxes, and weighing about 62 7 ig, tort
sent by the train. On their arrival they were placetakep t°
ecte-,
waggons, each drawn by four horses, when they were x A
the Mint. There is another portion of Sycee silver e 11
which will be the last of the ...,...YeS-
ransom.
FOREIGN MA ILS.—POST- OFFICE N ogee rid Privy
terday the following notice appeared at the chief cared:leen will
cipal receiving-houses : —Peninsular Mails.—The Jain, Ali"
sail from Southampton with the mails for Lisbon,'l,oal.
deira, and Gibraltar on the morning, of the ith inst. (,Thuo,,, tolg
Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres :—Her .51'e'e'ewitill):
dollarsi::
wo
Swift, from Falmouth, with the mails of the sth (th's Joa'"
CeYl4l"' ea
The next mail for the Mediterranean, Egypt, he
and China, via Marseilles, will be dispatched fro'
the evening of the 7th of August (Thursdal)