The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-19 00:00:00

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT'S.

The proposed improvements at the West-end are to
commence at lady-day, or as soon after that period as
possible. The line of Coventry;street, through Cran-
bourne-alley, will be continued;-inid a vast number of
houses on the Marquis of Salisbury's' estate will be pulled
down. The line of the intended new street will' be com-
menced in Castle-street, Long-acre, where the houses'will
be first pulled down.
ELECTIONEERING.
Sir Charles Lemon has now positively announced him-
self a candidate for West Cornwall; the requisition was
signed by 1,700 electors, besides whom there are many
who have given promises to vote.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A strong snow-storm and wind drove no less than 14
vessels ashore on Thursday upon the Sunderland coast.
The damage they sustained is great, and two of the crews
were saved by the life-boat
From the report, read at the meeting of the Royal
Naval BenevolehtSeciety -on Monday, it appeared that the
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receipts and disbursements left a clear balance of 7281.
3s. 4d.
.General Scott, of Malleny, the 'Oldest officer in the
British army, attained his 97th year on Thursday last,
which was celebrated by a dinner at Balerno. He is five
years the senior of even Lord
Lynedoch, and has served
in most quarters of the globe.
LAW AND POLICE.
The new Police-court in Bow-street was opened on
Monday for the despatch of business. It is very comme-
dions, and forms an agreeable contrast to the old, ill-
ventilated, dark, and confined chamber so long the chief
police-office of the metropolis.
At Clerkenwell, James- La wall, aced 42, was charged
with having deserted and cruelly treated his wife and
children. It appeared that the poor woman, who refused
to enter the workhouse, was in a dying state through
starvation, ancrthough she had three young children in
the hovel in which she lived crying for bread, the hus-
band would make no exertions to provide for them. He
was committed to the House of Correction to be kept at
hard labour for a month.
Two starved farm labourers, who came from Ashford,
Kent, were brought before Mr. Rawlinson, at Maryle-
bone, charged with stealing a quartern loaf. On en-
tering a baker's shop one of them asked for a " big one,"
broke it in two, handed one-half to his hungry comrade,
and both commenced eating it with great. avidity. They
had no money, could-get no work, and took the bread to
save themselves from starvation. They were remanded.
Two men were charged at Lambeth street with driv-
ing a gig at a furious rate on Sunday night along the:East
India Dock Road. .The_horse, it appeared, in attempting
to clear a. sidebar, got entangled and broke its legs- in
two or three plum The men were both intoxicated,

and one was fined ss. for being drunk, and the other 2/.
for furious driving.
At Union-hall, William Yates, charged with com-
mitting between thirty and fort/frauds on charitable
institutions and private individuals, was committed for
trial.

FINE ARTS. ,
Wood-carving, which has been long in neglect, is re-
viving in France, and some highly-wrought specimens
now adorn the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and
the porch of St. Germain des Pres.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Mr. Conder has invented a new " Messenger propel-
ling engine," the uses of which are likely to be important
on railways. The species of propulsion which distinguishes
it, will entirely supersede the machinery which is always
at work on the Blackwall and other railways, where 18
miles of rope are constantly being wound and unwound.
The French Government have already appointed a Com-
mission to examine the engine, with a view to adapt it to
the new lines of road in France.