The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-12 00:00:00

MOIVEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The new docks at Newport, Monmouthshire, which
Include, it is said, the largest lock in Europe or Asia,
Were opened yesterday, in the presence of 25,000 per-
The event was celebrated by a public dinner.
The Governors of the Royal Free Hospital for the
aestitute sick, in Greville-street, held their quarterly
Meeting yesterday. During this period the number
of patients has been 4,914, and the receipts for the
same time upwards of 4201.
The window duty for the twelve towns which con-
tribute the largest amount—viz. Liverpool, Bath,
;Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, Plymouth, Birming-
ham, Clifton, Leeds, Cheltenham, Norwich, and.New-
' stle-on-Tyne, amounts, by the' last return, to
160,739/.
!A deputation of the hotel-keepers and licensed vic-
uallers
bOrO at Brighton, presented a memorial to the
Wereugh _ •
gistrates on Monday, stating that there
others for Ala
103 licensed houses open, and a number of
se the sale of beer : transfers of licenses in con-
rquence incessantly occur, and the memorialists
prayed that, in future, licenses should be refused, ex-
A,Pt hc.: houses were 300 yards apart ; to which the
~-laiP.trates agreed. Many are at present within a
few feet of each other.
PVISLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
A Committee, consisting of about fifty Dissenting
Ministers, meet daily, we understand, at the Congre-
gational Library, in Bloomfield-street, to take mea-
sures for opposing the Bill of Mr. Mackinnon for the
premoval of the interment of the dead from towns.
reY do not object to the closing of many revolting
aecs spoken of; but merely to the closing of those
our.2l,en.tionssuch objections do not exist, and better re-
tp might be effected.
LAW AND POLICE.
Me of the Masters in Chancery are reported as
about to retire, on their privilege of length of service.
A
letter-earrier, named William Russell, was
%barged yesterday at Bow-street, with stealing a let-
the' containing a sovereign and a half, the property of
postmaster-General. The prisoner declined say-
g anYthing in his defence, and was remanded for
w,ek.
,Matilda Ann Layell, the young lady who was
ged on Friday last with being concerned with her
and
in uttering a forged bill of exchange for 1001.,
:g for which offence the latter had been transported
I),t ven years,
t was again brought up for re-exami-
vion at
Lambeth-street yesterday. The evidence
c," en did not establish the charge, and the prisoner
ladmitted to bail, to appear again on Tuesday.
road r• Daniel Boast, a surgeon, residing in the Kent-
utt as
prisoner charged at Union-hall, yesterday, with
wa
a forged bill of exchange for 34/. 16s. The
F44tr s held to bail, to answer the charge at the
`ai Criminal Court.
THEATRICAL.
SSI Kenneth, daughter of Mr. Kenneth, the the-
Rorl has lately made her debut in the musical
ti, at Boulogne, and her execution is said to in -
hopes for the future.
Finny fet, Ellsler has arrived at Vienna, and is as much
Sash wn country a, her s she was in the United
o
the 28th • She.
danced at the Karnthnerthor theatre on
ult
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
D lier Majesty, on the morning of her departure from
o„nlinond Castle, presented Lady Willoughby
Thestresby with a bracelet richly set with diamonds, of
Ills Serene
workmanship.
415 Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of
ecklenburgh Strelitz arrived in town yesterday
kal Kew.
Lo
lev i_Td Stanley has left Drayton Manor for Knows-
, Lancashire.
Grange
and Lady Ashburton have returned to the
In,Re, Hants, from Bath House.
for he Dowager Lady Ellenborough arrived in Strat-
1-place on Monday.
th;e non. Colonel C. Cavendish has returned to
ngton-gardens from a tour.
left la Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
Generalital:7 Castle, on his return to town.
Sir H. King, Bart., has left town on a tour.
Colonel ley streetand Mrs. Maonberly have arrived in Berke-
, from Bright.
to Y-asterday the Lord Bishop of London met a se-
nd
athedral Portion of the clergy of his diocese at St. Paul's
alarming
An misCELMANEOUS.
accident befel Sir William Geary, on
tilhursd
„ }ellast, at Oxonheath, Maitlstone. It appears
ne over a glass-screen, which
.was broken to
o'feetl,es, and large fragment of which divided a branch
kftrvearotid artery in his neck. A Swiss present
to compressed the wound till medical aid arrived.d
Para)° of blood produced entire. inanition, an
fre'Bl3 succeeded. On Sunday, in answer to the
retromd.
et iednriries, it stated only that he had not
The
Awl work of clearing away, the wrecks of the
Thai„,° and the Waterwitch, winch were sunk in thed
by --es about five years since, will be commence
the kl)tain Fisher, R.N., in May next. Downes,
of St
ver, ha
. has Fisher,
surveyed them for the purposes
stxpilosion.
4uiearChaatvhiendgral has been again re-opened to the
undergone a thorough cleansing.
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INTELLIG ENC-E•
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AA
V ENT COURT—(T
The lis
insolvent, wb t
z RENRY RARDINGRAM.
WRS-;:llendad been
HIS DAY.)
zetil this day,
Arnizances, and not liberated upon bail
appearing,
Registrar upon his
Aelr;, NYOODRUEFE said he appeared on behalf of
• inith, ho
.p merchant, o. c Wandsworth. This
gentleman's object originally was not se
e4uße the •
n-
lestioc in.solvent to be remanded, as to have an 1
much. to
a Person, ion into be
transactions between him and_
nl,,_ named Lyall, who was at present possessed
to i'. "i 8 Property, and he (the insolvent) in order,
wa frustrate this aid off the retaining creditor, and
nu s now at lamp Under those circumstances _ i
i:_, ent applied that the petition might not be di_s-
tinsar.ged,
i4lve,n order to keep the arrest still over the
nt, and that an assignee might be appointed.
/Aka Lion: Commissioner BOWEN acceded-to the first ap-
but refused at present to appoint an
assignee.
IN nig MESSRS. PRILLIPS•
perril,_ e insolvents who were members of the Jewish
si, 1-lasion and carried on extensive business at 129,
,Irrcdi,
as china and glass manufacturers, were.
FePtnt:ed ,
,b y A Ir. Nicholls, on behalf of the Companion
seve 7 "InPany, of Messrs. Loyd and Co., and f other creditors.
co4ll.tey rather a lengthened investigation the
.Learned
disci nssiener declared the insolvents entitled to their
Aiirge.

11313
LESEX QUARTER SESSIONS
The s (THIS DAY.)
before Mr. Sessions Sessions commenced this morning
of xga Sergeant ADAMS, Chairman, and a bench
1,14'1 gistrates. The chief business fixed for this day
s_
verthe hearing of appeals in parochial cases.
tl7_ al which stood upon the paper were postponed,
_enpa.rties not being prepared, and others that were
Ivsetinto contained no new points.
.......ThrAnATION OF CHILDREN FROM THEIR MOTHERS.
case was the principal question involved in the
8,. (3r St. Leonard, Sh editch against Christchurch,
pitaifiep Or ,
Ilrird. us. The latter parish had removed to St. Leo-
-0 B workhouse under an order from the Magistrates,
Jamesvy ehildren, John Sullivan, aged four years, and
horooullivan, aged 16 months, they having been
e
'II
Par6l,. Long-alley, Shoreditch, which is within th
oare Against this order the officers of
_St. Leo-
of t 'laPpealed, on the ground that the children were
Inoten:Aer age, and could not be separated from the
to gpli-r' whom the parish of Christchurch had power
bao,Piti to Ireland with her family, if she and her hu!.i-
trig... cad
no settlement in that parish or elsewhere in
I d.
Ordekrr . zaDERGAST appeared in support of the
and read the examination of the wi e,
_wh_o
.
sh re that she was born and marriedin Ireland
but (1,1 d not know where her husband was horn,
fah she had heard that he was born in a
th:rnlinegrit.
4ettle hospital, and therefore had no legal
The Learned Gentleman contended
wes. *under these circumstances the children who
par'.e,_ legitimate, belonged unquestionably to the
that
in which they were born. As to the argument
be children within the years of nurture could not
par
se
Net, ated from the mother, he read a case in which
cot,- eParation was enforced two years ago in the
four of Queen's Bench. In that case a child of only
hot nth s, old was separated from the mother, and
tliato Ireland.
t fter a very long discussion, the CHAIRMAN said
in Prendergast's argument would not serve him
of ,11," COUrt of Queen's Bench. It was the opinion
quash Court, therefore, that the order must be
the ed, and the parish of Christchurch take back
children.
Ti

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SoREVAILING SICKNESS.—The unhealthiness of
I,4,,jatn, of which the reports of the Registrars last
-' Have given such melancholy and striking proofs,
the extended its influence to the higher, as well as to,
the lower classes of society. At Sir Robert Peel's
iii:srehduice of Austria was so indisposed that a
p,-;3ng.er was sent to Chatsworth to put off his lm-
qt 'al Iligh ness s visit to the Duke of Devonshire.
and rannu Hall his Excellency the Russian Ambas-
Nit)! was likewise taken so ill as to require his re-
day immediatelv to town for advice. The next
likeuls Serene Highness the Prince Esterhazy was
moved wise attacked with severe indisposition, and,s_
at once to town. To show the extent to l,h_ish.
tin ss has prevailed even in one single class of d
ttuelitedeypersonages, we have only to add that his
the French Ambassador, after paying his
11,1,7)ects to her Majesty at Windsor,- was attacked by
ro,.ejn its severest form. Serious illness from this
saf aPpear to prevail amongst the higher orders. of