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

THE BANKERS' MAGAZINE.

This really useful and ably edited manual for—not
alone the "Bankers," but—for the whole monetary, com-
mercial, and trading interests of this country, continues
to maintain its high reputation. There is a curious de-
tail in the opening paper, of " Frauds with Policies of
Assurance," which we need scarcely commend to the
best attention of those institutions that trade upon the
probabilities of human life."

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE
MAGAZINE.

The present number contains the introductory chapter
of " Memoirs of a Smuggler called the Rob Roy of the
West," which promises to be a tale of stirring adven-
tures. Captain Hippesley continues his interesting re-
miniscences of the " War of Succession in Portugal," and
Captain O'Connor furnishes some valuable information
in the continuation of his "Narrative of his Services in
Western Africa." Percy St. John's tale of the " Gold
Mines of Saba" is concluded in the present number,
which, in addition, contains several valuable papers on
professional topics.

WEST RIDING RAlLWAYS.—Yesterday (Friday)
a meeting of the Representatives of the West Yorkshire,
West Riding, and Manchester and Leeds Railway Companies,
was held at the offices of the former in Halifax. The meeting
was protracted to a late hour, and we understand that an ar-
rangement was come to, which we hope will prove satisfactory
to all parties. That the town of Halifax will reap immense
advantages from this friendly arrangement we have not the
slightest doubt.—Halifax Guardian.
DARING ROBBERY AT THE TRAFALGAR TAVERN,
GREENWlCH.—lnformation has been forwarded to the police-
station of the R division of a most daring robbery having been
committed at the house of Mr. Hart, of the Trafalgar Tavern,
where a quantity of valuable plate was carriod off by the
thieves, and from the systematic manner in whichit was ac-
complished, leaves no doubt that they were regular crasksmen
from the metropolis.
PROHIBITION OF HORSE-RACING IN WINDSOR
GREAT PARK.—Several trotting and galloping matches (and
some for large stakes) having recently taken place in Queen
Anne's Ride, Windsor Great Park, to the great injury of the
turf, in consequence of the great number of persons, in vehicles
of all descriptions arid on horseback, who have attended them,
it has just been determined by the Right Hon. Sir William
Fremantle, the Deputy Ranger, to prohibit them for the future.
SACRILEGE BY A PARISH CLERK.--.A man of some
pretensions to respectability, and who with his father had been
parish clerk of Warton, near Bromyard, has just been com-
mitted to Worcester county goal to take his trial on charge of
stealing the silver chalice used in the administration of the holy
sacrament, from the parish chest. The affair was detected in
the following manner :—On Wednesday last the accused offered
a chalice lid for sale at the shop of Hr. Skarratt, silversmith,
of Worcester, as old silver, it being much bruised and dis-
coloured from old age (the date upon the silver was 1615).
Mr. Skarratt was not satisfied that all was right, and took
Jones before the magistrate, and they, not deeming his ex-
planation satisfactory, instituted further inquiries, the result of
which has been his committal on the charge of sacrilege. One
of the churchwardens (Mr. Perkins), on searching the parish
chest on Friday, missed both chalice and lid, and identified the
lid offered by the prisoner for sale as belonging to the parish.
The prisoner's defence to the charge is, that he has had the
chalice lid in his possession eight years; and that he found it
in the parish chest amongst some rubbish, when it was quite
black from want of use.

'TIE GAME-LAWS. —At the petty sessions at
Buckingham, on Saturday last, William White, a decent and
venerable-looking man, of Preston Bissett, was charged before
the Rev. Messrs. Eyre, Andrews, and Baynes, the magistrates
present, by George Bridger, one of the Duke of Buckingham's
gamekeepers, with having used a dog for the destruction of
game. It appeared that the defendant obtains a scanty living
by rat-catching ; that when on the public road leading from
Hillsden to Three Bridge Mill, accompanied by three dogs,
two of them tied together and the other loose, the latter dog
went into the ditch and brought out and killed " a leveret as
big as a kitten." White acknowledged this, and strongly ex-
pressed his regret at being before " the gentlemen." He said
that he had caught rats for forty years, and never was up be-
fore the justices before ; that he had a wife and five children,
and had a difficult matter to get bread for them in an honest
way. He put in for the inspection of the magistrates a written
testimonial of good character. It was numerously and re-
spectably signed. The magistrates ordered him to pay 18s.,
and in default fourteen days' imprisonment. He begged for
and succeeded in obtaining time to pay the fine.
CHILD MURDER. WINDSOR, MONDAY. This
afternoon an inquest was held in the borough gaol, before
Thomas Marlin, Esq., the coroner for Windsor, and a highly
respectable jury, on the body of a new-born male infant, which
was found dead in the privy attached to the residence of Mr.
Charles Alder, in Spring-gardens, on Friday last. The ser-
vant of Mr. Alder, a young girl named Susan Douglas, be-
tween 20 and 21 years of age, who had given birth to the in-
fant, is in custody of the gaoler. The inquiry lasted nearly
five hours. After a careful investigation the jury returned a
verdict of wilful murder against Susan Douglas. She will be
removed to Reading to take her trial at the next Berkshire
assizes. The girl, a native of Wokingham, states the father
of the infant to be an old man named Day, who died at Wind-
sor about three weeks since, at the advanced age of between
70 and 80 years.
Within the last few days no less than 500 horses
have been sent for sale to Aldridge's Repository, owing to the
further opening of the Northern and Eastern Railway, from
Bishop's Storttord by way of Ely and Thetford to Norwich,
and the consequent discontinuance of the running of the coaches.
DOWAGER BARONESS ARUNDEL.—Probate of the
will of the Right Hon. Mary Anne Arundel, Dowager Baroness
Arundel of Wardour, widow of James Evered, tenth Lord
Arundel, was proved on the 113th ult., by the executors, the
Rev. Moses Furlong and the Rev. Peter Hutton, clerks. Per-
sonal estate sworn under 25,000/. She directs her executors
to invest 1,0001., and to apply the interest in the education of
one student at Prior Park College, to be named by the Roman
Catholic Bishop of the western district of England. She also
directs that 3,0001. shall be invested, the interest to be pale. to
her servants, John Doughty and his wife, and continued to
the survivor. The residue of her property she bequeaths :o
the Rev. Moses Furlong, formerly of Prier Park College. The
will is dated Nov. 30, 1842. Her Ladyship was formerly re-
siding at Prior Park, near Bath, but latterly at Loughborough,
in the county of Leicester.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The prospects
of the harvest are beginning to occasion general uneasiness.
The weather during the whole of the month of July has been
most ungenial ; and unless a speedy change take place the crops
will be Injured to a fearful extent. They are already ex-
tremely backward, and under any circumstances the harvest
must be late.—lpswich Express.