The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-22 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado sugar, for the
week ending, March 18,1845, is 355. 111,4 d. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From Friday Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 15th day of
March, 1845.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ...... 29,14.8,060 Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,9134,900
Gold coin and bul-
lion 13,102,753
Silver bullion.-- 2,045,307

£29,148,060
M.

£29,148,060
[ARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
I, 1845.

Dated the 20th day of

BANNING DI
Proprietors' capital 14,553,000
Rest
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings
banks, Commis-
sionersofNational

;PARTMENT.

Government secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 11,836,377
Notes 9,451,385
Gold and silver
coin 796,521

Debt, and divi-
dend accounts) 6,451,283
Other deposits 9,994,572
Seven day and other
bills

£35,558,662

M. MAI
Dated the 20th day of March

£35,558,662
R,SHALL, Chief Cashier.
4 1845.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l read in your paper of yesterday a letter,
signed " Charles Sibley, 20, Yore-street." There are
several Vere- streets in London, and I do not know which
it is. May I, therefore, trouble you with the inclosed
sovereign to transmit to that gentleman, which is a
trouble I hope you will not think too great on such an
occasion.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, F. 11.
Swansea, Tuesday Evening.
[The sovereign has been forwarded, and we shall be
happy to forward a hundred more for such a truly cha-
ritable purpose.—ED. Sun.]

THE PREMIER'S DREAM.
(From Punch.)
Scene, Downing-street, the PREMIER, in the garb of
RICHARD THE THIRD, on a sofa, with a tapestried
window at the back.
(Six figures are seen ifo pass at the back, each of which in
turn addresses the PREMIER.)
FIRST FIGURE (a small Tradesman).
Let my approach your soul with anguish fill,
See my small profits, my exhausted till;
Fed thou the pain which now my bosom racks,
A wretched victim to your income-tax.
SECOND FIGURE ( a briefless Ba?rister).
Another martyr, Peel, behold in me,
Without a brief—almost without a fee ;
Briefless I am, but so would not appear;
I pay the tax on what I do not clear.
THIRD FIGURE (a lean curate).
Alas!
.you've made me feel what I endure;
Mine is a wound, but not without a cure.
Out of that cure an income-tax I give;
If I've no living, how am I to live?
FOURTH FIGURE (a half-pay Captain).
Peel, my allowance could not be well shorter ;
To my half-pay why will you give no quarter ?
FIFTH FIGURE-.-(a poor Widow).
Why dig your hands into poor widow's purses
But, with the widow's sevenpence, take her curses.
SIXTH FIGURE (a poor Artist).
E'en the poor artist is compelled to give
Out of the means on which he scarce can live.
'Tis hard the income-tax on him to lay,
Whom even princely patrons poorly pay.
[The figures all vanish, the PREMIER
stark up, rushes to thefront of the stage,
looks round, and sees nothing.
THE PREMIER.
'Twas but an idle vision fill'd my brain:
Shadows, avauntl lionEßT's himself again.
[He begins making some calculations
about the Sugar Duties, and the scene
closes in.]

FUNERAL OF PROFESSOR DANIELL. - Thursday
morning, at ten o'clock, the remains of the late highly-
respected and much-lamented Professor Daniell, of
King's College, were removed from the deceased's resi-
dence at Norwood, for interment in the family vault be
neath Norwood Church. The funeral, at the special re-
quest of the deceased's relatives, was strictly private.
The hearse, drawn by four horses, was followed by two
mourning coaches, each drawn by four horses, contain-
ing the relatives and friends of the deceased gentleman.
Numbers of the inhabitants of Norwood out of respect
followed the procession.
We understand that the marriage of the Right
Hon. Lord Gifford with Miss Berkeley, daughter of our
lion. and Gallant Representative, Captain M.. F. F. Ber-
keley, R.N., will take place early in the ensuing month,
and that a family party will shortly assemble at the Ridge
on the happy occasion.—GloucesterJournal,

The following letter, describing some remarkable
appearances of the sun, which have been recently ob-
Belied, recently appeared in a Morning Contempo-
Sir,—l write to inform you of a most extraor-
Ciliary phenomenon which has to-day been observed
at Cambridge ; and I do so because, although the
el eat is one which must interest the scientific world
to a very high degree, yet the results of the minute
observations made by the Plumian Professor will not
be completed for some days; and I thought that, in
the mean while, the results of my own observations
might not be unacceptable.
" The morning was beautifully fine and the sky
cloudless, if we except a few cirro-cumuli in the
S.S.E„ which appeared like thin pieces of white gauze
floating in the sky, scarcely a breath of air stirring,
About twenty-five minutes past ten my attention
was drawn to the sun, which, though apparently un-
clouded, seemed to shine with less than usual lustre,
and his rays appeared slightly tinged with green.
"I immediately put on the dark glass of my achro •
matic telescope, and with a power of about forty,
directed the instrument to the sun's centre. I here
saw distinctly a small dark spot, surrounded succes-
sively by violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red
rings, separated by comparatively dark rings, and be-
yond the exterior red ring the same recurred in the
same order, but the colours then were much more
faint, and at last hardly visible. This appearance in-
creased in intensity until five minutes past eleven,
after which the colours began to fade, and exactly at
twelve all trace of colour disappeared. However, I
continued my observations, and soon found that the
phenomena had not concluded, for the colours now
began to return in a reversed order—i.e., at the sun's
centre was now a spot of purely white light, and
each colour was replaced by its complementary one ;
and, most astonishing to relate, this appearance of
the sun's disc increased in intensity of colour until
five minutes before one, and then began to fade,
vanishing completely at 35 minutes past two, after
which every thing resumed its ordinary appearance,
and nothing more could be discerned unusual through-
out the day.
" A few words respecting the causes of this extra-
ordinary phenomenon. It is well known that if two
convex lenses of small curvature be placed in con-
tact, and a pencil of sunlight be allowed to fall upon
them, that the appearance presented by the reflected
rays is that of a dark spot surrounded by coloured
rings, from blue to red ; and that the transmitted
light exhibits a bright spot surrounded by rings of
the complementary colours, which are commonly
known as Newton's rings.'
" Now, if two thin films of vapour, extremely near
together, passed between the sun's disc and the eye
of an observer, the scientific reader will immediately
see that the transmitted rays might produce the ap-
pearance I have described as taking place after twelve
o'clock ; but to produce that observed before twelve,
the rays reflected from the earth by these two films
of vapour must have been again reflected by a third
film, and thus brought to the eye in a manner some-
what analogous to that in which the mock sun is
formed. As this third film moved away the pheno-
menon must vary, and at last disappear, and the sun's
transmitted rays now reaching the eye without any
reflection, would change the appearance to that ob-
served from twelve o'clock to half-past two.
" I cannot, however, yet explain why the periods
of maximum brightness should be equidistant from
noon, as I am at a loss to know what functions the
sun's hour angle the motions of these laminm of
vapour could be.
" The correctness of the above hypothesis is re-
markably confirmed by micrometical admeasure-
ments which I took off the angular magnitudes of the
red and violet rings. I found these tQ be nearly in
the ratio of 43 to 30—i. e., nearly in the
ratio of the square roots of the lengths of the un-
dulations corresponding to red and violet rays, which
is exactly what ought to be the case if my hypothesis
is correct.* N.
"The colours in the -spectrum before noon were
fainter than those observed afterwards ; and some
light must be lost by the second reflection : if my
hypothesis be correct, this is another remarkable con-
firmation of its truth. I have written the above in
great haste, which I hope you will excuse.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" THEODORE F. ELLIS.
"Trinity College, Cambridge,
Sunday, March 9."
* See Airy 's "Mathematical Tracts," p. 296, last
edition, where it is proved that if 0 be the diameter of
any one of Newton's rings, and the corresponding undu-
lation, that a 2 varies as x, and p varies as ix, for dif-
ferent coloured rays.

VIGILANT POLICE.
(From Young England.)
"Indeed, the watch ought to offend no man; and it is an
offence to stay a man against his will."—Much Ado about
Nothing.
One of the most singular circumstances connected
with the Hampstead tragedy was brought to light at the
examination before the magistrates at Marylebone Po-
lice-office, on Tuesday. A police-constable, who had
been previously examined, came forward to add some-
thing to his testimony which he had before omitted,
and which it appears was brought to his recollection by
a voluntary statement made by the prisoner llocker to
another policeman in his cell, to the effect that he had
given a shilling to the constable in charge of the corpse
of Delarue.

A policeman finds an individual at a short distance
from the body of the murdered man ; this unknown man
" having a cloak very much muffled about his head," with
a most unaccountable spirit of benevolence offers to
treat the policeman, that he had never spoken
to before, with a little brandy—yet the suspicions of the
amiable officer were not aroused ! The mysterious man
then took a shilling out of his pocket, and asked the po-
liceman to get some brandy with it. What did the con-
stable do?—arrest the man offering him money under such
circumstances? No. Baldock merely replied, "I must not
take it. I am not allowed to do so." The stranger
pressed him again; and the vigilant functionary took the
Alining, and " had no further conversation with the man,
and did not see where or when he left." All this seems
most unaccountable. It was plainly the duty of the
policeman to have detained, as a witness, the man
wlso was in the neighbourhood when the
murder was committed ; and if he had reasoned
for a moment on the motives which could have
induced a strange man in such a place to offer him a
bribe, he would certainly not have allowed him to walk
off without seeing where he went to, or when he left.
Yet the papers are constantly taking of the vigilance of
our police !

THE TRACTARIANS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin, —Here and there, in general society, you meet with
men who say they think people are exceedingly silly to dis-
turb themselves about the attempts of the Tractarians ; that
their revival of obsolete observances is a matter of in-
difference; and, in short, that we should do just as well
under the Romish as under the Protestant system. I
would ask such men, if they ever travelled beyond
their own provincial frontier,—whether it ever occurred to
them to contrast, for instance, Ireland, with England, Italy
with Holland, Bohemia with Prussia, or the Catholic cantons
of Switzerland with the Reformed ones ? If they have tra-
velled, or even read books of travels with common attention,
they must have found that, while Protestant countries generally
present an aspect of comparative prosperity and enlighten-
ment, the great masses of the people of those lands in which
the Roman Catholic religion is predominant., are sunk in
sloth, ignorance, superstition, poverty, and sensuality. This
appears to me a fact worth remarking, and I say—Beware,
then, of the Tractarians, who assuredly would, if they could,
drag us back to medieval darkness, and make us the blind
slaves of a wily and arrogant priesthood.
I should add, that I have nothing whatever to say
against individual Roman Catholics. I am acquainted with
but few, and these are, I believe, estimable men.
I am, Sir, yours with much respect,
Exeter, March 15, 1845. NOTATOR.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ESSEX.—Thursday, shortly
before eight o'clock, a very destructive fire broke out
upon the extensive premises belonging to Air. lloperoft,
lamp-black and colour manufacturer, situate at Strat-
ford, Essex, near Barrow-bridge. The flames, when
first perceived, were raging furiously in the lamp-black
factory, a building 70 feet long by 25 feet wide. The
stock being of an easily ignitable character, not many
minutes elapsed before the flames broke through the
roof. With all speed intelligence of the outbreak was
furnished to the engine stations in town by a mounted
police-officer. During the time thus occupied, the inha-
bitants brought a private engine to the scene,
but owing
to the firm hold the fire bad already obtained, it at owe
became apparent that nothing could prevent the entire
contents of the building from falling a prey to the fury
of the flames. Engines from Jeffrey and Wellelose.
square stations were quick in arriving, and owing to the
exertions of the firemen and inhabitants the flames were
eventually extinguished—not, however, until the whol
of the stock in the manufactory was consumed, and the
roof burned off. The origin of the fire has been traced
to the accidental ignition of some spirit. Unfortunately
Mr. iloperoft is uninsured.
=MR. B. WOOD, M.P.—lt is with satisfaction that
we are enabled to state that the veteran Member for
SDuthwark is considerably improved in health, and that
he has lately been able to enjoy carriage exercise. He
still remains at his country seat, near Elthara, Kent.

DOMESTIC POULTV.
(From the Gardeners' Chronick)44-
Amidst the various projects, suggested for the
benefit of the rural population, we hail with satisfac-
tion the announcement from the Zoological Society of
London, of the intention of the Council to encourage
an Exhibition of Domestic Poultry at the Gardens in
the Regent's Park, in the course of the ensuing
summer. The little attention at present paid to the
rearing of poultry in England is too plainly shown
by the fact that more than two hundred and fifty
millions of eggs were imported from the Con-
tinent in 1641, 1842 and 1843 ; and, more-
over, that in the two latter years duty was paid
on the importation of live and dead poultry to the
value of 600,0001. Surely, this ought to stimulate
us to be stirring, and if possible to promote the rear-
ing of poultry, one of the modes of doing which may
be anticipated to be the improvement of their breeds.
Thirty years ago six sorts of fowls only were es-
teemed—namely, Ist, the game ; 2.d, the white or Eng-
lish ; 3d, the black or Poland ; 4th, the Dorking ; sth,
the large or shakebag ; and Gth, the Malay breed.
The case is now altered. Our space does not
at present permit our enlarging on this sub-
ject farther than to quote one instance of
farm management, as regards poultry, mentioned
by Mr. Arthur Young, as practised by Mr. Boys,
of Kent :—" The labourers' wives and families who

live on Mr. Boys' farm do the whole; he supplies
them with what offal corn is necessary, and they re-
turn Mrs. Boys the grown fowls ready for market,
at 3d. each; Gd. for turkeys and geese; and 3d. for
ducks ; and the account, well kept, states a profit of
20/. a year, after all the expenses are paid and the
family well supplied; and she has, likewise,
all the eggs without any paymekt. This is
a system equally beneficial to the people who
undertake it and to the farmer." This plan
is still followed in some parts of England,
where circumstances render it practicable. It is in
the belief that it will tend to promote such and simi-
lar arrangements that we augur well of the proposed
measure, and anticipate that part at least of the four
or five hundred thousand pounds, at present paid
every year to our neighbours, may be usefully em-
ployed at home, to the benefit of the farmer, and the
employment and profit of the family of the cottager.