The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—ln reading the debate on the auction licence,
I was much surprised to find no Member advocating
the general interest of the revenue, and which appeared
to me so very clear—which is that the duty or license
for cities or boroughs should be fifteen pounds, and all
others places seven pounds ten shillings. It would insure
the greatest revenue, as I feel confident that not one less
would be taken out in the cities and boroughs, but a
great falling off in the country places would be the conse-
quence of one uniform charge; but reducing it half would
insure a continuance of the same number in the country,
which is a great convenience to the rural districts. It
may be observed that the agriculturists would par-
ticularly feel the benefit of the continuance of the ap-
praser's separate license, as nine times out of ten farmers
are called in for the valuation bet Ween farmers when
there is an exchange of tenants, they understanding the
nature of it much better than an auctioneer.
Ripon, April 12. A FARMER.

GLASS MANUFACTURE.
Concurrently with the abolition of the duties on glass,
recent improvements are likely to give an extraordinary
impulse to the manufacture of it, and to cause the ma-
terial to be employed for the fabrication of a variety of
articles it has hitherto never been applied to, and even
of many which require strength and solidity—the specific
gravity of glass being very great (about half that of cast
iron)—consequently when used in thick masses it is not
liable to accidental injury. To afford one instance of
its applicability to novel purposes, we may mention the
employment of glass of deep and brilliant golden hue for
frames to small or moderate sized pictures ; also for
ornaments in friezes or cornices, capitals of columns and
pilasters, and a variety of decorations now executed in
gilding—one very obvious advantage over the last-men-
tioned mode being durability, owing to the impossibility
of fading or tarnishing. We do not say that the effect
would be so precisely the same that the eye could not
distinguish between ornaments cast in gold-coloured
glass, and those coated by a surface of actual guilding,
yet the beauty of the one mode might be fully equal to
that of the other, although with a difference. So far,
then, new resources seem to be " opened up," as the
Scotch say, to decorators.

Looking. to a more immediate and obvious purpose of
architectural embellishment by means of the material, we
have been struck by the decidedly great improvement that
has lately been introduced into the manufacture of or-
namental patterns in coloured glass for windows by the
Messrs. Powell, of Temple- street, Fleet-street, one which
for its superior economy no less than its intrinsic excellence
isincontestably preferable to that produced according to
the usual process. Instead of being traced on the glass and
burnt-in of a darker or nearly opaque colour, the pat-
terns on diapered glass may now, in consequence of
Messrs. Powell's invention, be cast in the glass itself
by a single operation—an improvement analogous to that
of printing compared with manuscript. The pattern is
.thus produced in relief, or actually embossed on one
side of the glass, whereby is not only greater accuracy
and uniformity of outline obtained, but also a peculiar
and singularly beautiful effect; for, owing to the refrac-
tion of the light, a sort of gem-like, flickering brilliancy
takes place, productive of richness, without any sort of
gaudiness. Of course such glass is monochrome; but
although each quarel or pane is only of a single colour,
the different panes may be of different hues, and also of
different shapes and sizes, so that any combination of
patterns and colours can be introduced into the general
design of windows so executed. Besides its obvious
value for " painted windows," where the entire aperture
is to be so filled in, this embossed coloured glass is so
admirably adapted for window blinds (inasmuch as,
while highly ornamental within, they could most effec-
tually serve as a screen from without), that it would not
be a matter of surprise were blinds of the kind shortly to
come into vogue. Embossed glass is further susceptible
of variety of colour, for we observed one specimen at
Messrs. Powell's show-room, in which smaller pieces of
different hues were inlaid into certain parts of the pat-
tern, so that it had the appearance of being studded with
gems; whereas large masses of the more intense col ours
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This invention is about to be employed in the decora-
tion of the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAT.—The board
have just determined on a further reduction of the fares.
The following are the prices to which the fares are reduced
on the whole distance from London to Birmingham. The
fares to the intermediate stations are. reduced in proportion.
By express train and daily mail, 275. ; mixed and Ist class
and trains,—the Ist class 235., the 2d class 17s. ; mixed
stopping trains,—lst class 205., the 3d 14s. On the Ist of
May they commence their fast trains, running to and from
Birmingham in three houss. These fare-reducing measures
evince an unequivocal desire, on the part of the Birmingham
board to serve the public interests as liberally and well as
they do their shareholders; that they do not wish to grasp
too much for the one, at the expense of the other. Having
secured a large traffic, which produces equally large profits,
they arm determined to pursue a moderate and just course,
by giving the public the advantage of any increased traffic
by a nearly proportionate reduction of the tariff. We
cannot
applaud this spirit too highly, feeling convinced that
while it is generous towards the public, it is the best means
of securing to a large establishment, like the Birmingham, a
firm and lasting foundation.—Railway Journal
A gallant instance of intrepidity and courage was
displayed on Wednesday se'nnight, by George Soper, of
Exe-lane. Walking up the banks of the river, on the
Exwick side, he saw two children, who had just rolled
into the water from a steep bank, and at once plunged
in to their rescue. Although it was ten feet deep at the
spot, he succeeded in getting them both out. The chil-
dren, who belonged to a navigator, working not far off,
had wandered away to gather primroses, and rolled into
the deep water. The father expressed his gratitude.
We have no doubt that the Humane Society will give a
more substantial acknowledgment.— Wester* Times.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS

FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.

TUESDAY, Arum 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Wolverhampton Lille).
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway ( Worcester Deviation).
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Branch and
Cheltenham Extension).
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Extension,
Stoke Branch, and Midland Junction).
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.
Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester
Railways.
Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway.
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment.
Staines and Richmond Railway.
London and South-Western Railway (Epsom Branch).
THUD, APRIL .
Diss and Colchester Junction Railway.l7
Direct Northern Railway (No. 1).
Bristol and Gloucester Railway.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18.
Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to bfullingar and
Athlone).
Midland Railways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester, and
Bristol and Gloucester Railways Purchase).
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TICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
FRIDAY, APRIL 11.
Diss and Colchester Junction Railway Committee on
petition, adjourned from Monday 14th till Thursday, April 17.
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,—Committee on
petition, adjourned till Wednesday, April 16.
Bristol and Gloucester Railway,—Committee on petition,
adjourned till Thursday, April 17.
Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to Muflinger
and Athlone),—Committee on petition, adjourned till Friday,
April 18.
Direct Northern Railway (No. I),—Committee on peti-
tion, postponed from Monday- 14th till Thursday, April 17.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon-
day, April 21, at twelve.
Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Cohie Extension
Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Bristol and Gloucester Railway (So. 2),—Committee on
petition, Tuesday, April 22.
Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway,--Com-
mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway,—Com-
mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough),—Committee
on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway,—Committee on
Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (Shipley to Colne),
—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Barnsley Junction Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday,
April 21, at twelve.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway,—Committee on
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch),—
Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
Leeds and Dewsbury Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon-
day, April 21, at twelve.
Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway,—Committee OR
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
West Yorkshire Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday,
April 21, at twelve.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday,
April.'l, at twelve.
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Committee
on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment,—
Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till
Wednesday, April 16.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway,—
Second reading, Tuesday, April 15.
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway,—Committee on
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway,--c pmmittee o s•:,
Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at {were., .
Belfast and Ballymena Railway,-Coininittee on Bill,
Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Manchester and Leeds (Burnley Branch and Oldham and
Heywood Branches Extension) Railway,—Committee on
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
twLynn and Ely,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at
elve.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier (No. 1),--
Committee on petition, postponed sine die.
Staines and Richmond Railway,—Committee on petition,
postponed from Monday 14th till Wednesday, April 16.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Wolverhampton Line) Rail
way,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th
till Tuesday, April 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation) Rail-
way,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th
till Tuesday, April 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Branch and Chel-
tenham Extension) Railway,—Committee on petition, post-
poned from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Gloucester Extension, Stoke
Branch, and Midland Junction) Railway,—Committee on
petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15.
London and South- Western (Epsom Branch) Railway,—
Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till
Wednesday, April 16.
Midland Railways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester, and
Bristol and Gloucester Railways Purchase),—Committee on
petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Friday, April 18.

MURDER OF A CHILD AT
HAMPSTEAD.
On Saturday afternoon a jury was ernpannelled before
Mr. T. Wakley, at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern,
Hampstead, in the same room in which the inquest was
held on the late Mr. Delarue, to inquire into the death
of a male child.
The jury comprised several of the gentlemen who
were on the inquest above referred to.
Police-constable Alexander Mackay, 197 S, stated
that about half-past five o'clock in the morning of the
7th inst., he was on duty in Hampstead-road, near
Sinton's nursery, between Haverstock-terrace and the
Load of Hay, and in a ditch passing along the edge of
the nursery and the main road, he discovered the body
of the deceased. It was perfectly dressed in the clothes
produced to the jury. They consisted of the usual
children's clothing, of the finest texture. The flannel
was quite new, and edged with silk. The under clothing
was of fine cambric, and the cap had a rich lace border.
The body was wrapped in two diaper towels, and sown
up in an old dark green child's cloak. He conveyed
the body to the station-house, where it was seen by the
surgeon.
Mr. Daniel Gower, surgeon, of Hampstead, deposed
that when he first saw the deceased its nose was much
flattened, and there was a mucous issuing from the
mouth and nostrils. He had since made a post moltern
examination. The umbilical cord had been properly
tied, and its appearance, together with other circum-
stances, indicated that it had lived several days. The
lungs oated, and there was every other symptom to
prove this. There was no mark of violence on the per-
son, or any poison in the stomach. The brain presented
a very vascular appearance, and there was a good deal
of fluid blood on its surface. He was decidedly of opi-
nion that the deceased had died from some kind of suffo-
cation, and, from the mucous issuing from the mouth
and nostrils, it was his his opinion that the suffocation
was by drowning.
The CORONER said, after this evidence, he thought
there could not be a doubt upon the mind of any one
that the case was one of wilful murder, although they
had no proof whatever of who the parties were that
committed it.
The jury acquiesced, and at once returned a verdict
of " Wilful murder against some person or persons un-
known."

Mr. WAKLEY then remarked he was in the Court of
the Old Bailey on Friday night, and heard Hocker's
statement and the sentence passed upon him, and he
could assure the jury that Rocker exhibited all the cool-
ness he displayed when in that room at the inquest; in-
deed he was as unmoved as the table before him. The
judge was ten thousand times more moved than Hooker
was. He seemed completely bound up in vanity, but he
hoped the sense of his awful situation would soon have
the effect of removing the film from his eyes, and enable
him to see his position more clearly than he at present
appeared to do. He acknowledged the writing of the
letter signed " Caroline," and from the very outset of the
case he believed he had done so.
A juror remarked that Hocker's statement with re-
spect to his covering himself with blood in a slaughter-
house at Hampstead was absurd. There was no
slaughter-house that was not kept under lock and key.

FIRST QUARTER'S REVENUE OF THE RAILWAYS.----
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and Birkenhead, 3,000/. to the Edinburgh and Glasgow,
3,400/. to the Glasgow and Ayr, 3,000/, to the London and
Blackwell, 9,000/, to the London and Croydon, 3,500/. to the
Manchester and Birmingham, 3,7001. to the Newcastle and
Carlisle. Of the lines not opened last year, we have oa the
Yarmouth and Norwich at present an increase of 26/. per
week, and on the Newcastle and Darlington an increase at
the rate of 2001. per week. Some of these amounts are
effected by ex.tensioas of the line, &c., but the greater part
arise solely from the steadily increasing trade of the court.-
try.—Railway Chronicle.
DEATH OF THE EARL OF ABERGAVENNye+-The
Earl of Abergavenny died at his seat, Eridge Cattle, near
Tunbridge Wells, on Friday night, in the 56th year of his
age. The family of Nevill is of high antiquity, having de-
scended from Gilbert de Nevill, a Norman chieftain, who is
said to have been Admiral to William the Conqueror. Its
members have been distinguished for their prowess in the
field, their talents in the senate, and their eloquence in de-
bate. They have occupied the highest stations in England,
six having been Lords Chancellor, two Archbishops of York,
and one Archbishop of Durham, and their names are associ-
ated with the brightest periods of our history. The late Earl
was never married, and his only surviving brother, the Hon.
and Rev. Wm. Nevill, vicar of Frant and Biding, Kent, suc-
ceeds to the title and estates.

Sir Robert Peel had a Parliamentary dinner on
Saturday last, at the family residence in Whitehall-gardens,
when the following Members of the House of Commons dined
with the Right Hon. Baronet :—The Marquis of Douro,
Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Barrington, the Right lion.
Charles E. Law, Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart., Sir James
Flower, Bart., Sir Howard Douglas, Mr. Allis, Mr. Broad-
ley, Mr. Brewnrigg, Mr. Copeland, Mr. Beckett Denison,
Mr. Dugdale, Mr. Tatton Egerton, Mr. Escott, Mr. Forman,
Mr. Ileneage, Mr. Ambrose Hussey, Mr. Thomas Hussey,
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, &c, General Arbuthnot and Mr. Col-
quhoun were unavoidably prevented from dining with Lb*
Right Hon. Baronet.

The Hungerford Suspension-bridge it is now stated,
is to be open to the public on the 18th inst.
The Subscription for Bishop Medley's New Bruns.
wick Cathedral does not get on so fast as was ex-
pected, and appeals in various shapes are being made
on the pockets of the Puseyites ; with what success we
are unable to say.—Western Times.