The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-28 00:00:00

Lord Provost was authorised to sign the proposed
memorial to the Board of Trade in favour of the Cale-
donian line.—Scotsman.
IRISH LINES.

ULSTER.—The traffic on this railway (twenty. five
miles opened) was, for the week ending January 19,
1845 :--Passengers, 9,683 ; amount, 3441. Bs. 10d. ;
goods (gross receipts), 229/.55. 10d. ; total 573/. 14s. Bd.
Corresponding week of last year :—Passengers. 9,405 ;
amount, 3131. 9s. 2d. ; goods, 2741. 3s. 2d. ; total 5871.
12s. 4d.
YOUGHAL, MIDLETON, COVE, ♦ND CORK..—At a public
meeting held at Cove, a few days ago, the following gen-
tlemen were appointed a committee to represent " Cove
and the Great Island :"—The Hon. Robert Hare, J.P. ;
Sampson T. W. French, J.P. ; Thomas Stubbs, J.P. ;
Edward Millett, J.P. ; Robert Holmes, J.P. ; Bartho-
lomew Verling ; Philip Scott. Mr. Verling to act on
all occasions as secretary to the committee.

CHILD FOUND IN PEMBROKE COLLEGE GARDEN,
CAMBRIDGE.—On Thursday evening, at six o'clock, an
inquest was holden before Mr. Cooper, at the Bell Inn,
Butolph-lane, on the body of an infant found in the
garden of Pembroke College. The following evidence
was advanced:—James Charles—l am gardener to
Pembroke College. On Monday morning about
eight o'clock, I found the child at the end of the college
garden, next to the Tennis Court-road, wrapped in
a white petticoat and pinner ; it was lying about a yard
from the wall. I had not been to that part of the garden
since the Tuesday or Wednesday preceding. I went to
that part of the garden in consequence of dreams which
I had on Saturday and Sunday night. I dreamt twice
on Saturday night, and once on Sunday night, that I saw
a female throw a child over the college garden. I dreamt I
was in the Tennis Court-road, and that she was there also.
A surgeon who examined the body gave it as his opi-
nion that the child had been born alive. Mr. R.
Fergusson, a Fellow of Pembroke College
was in the Fellows' garden on Sunday last, with Mr.
Stokes, who is also a Fellow of the College. I did
not see a bundle in white lying there. I think if there
had been we must have seen it, but I did not go close
to the spot where I am informed the child was found ;
I was within about fifteen yards of that spot. I was in
the garden from half-past one till two. The jury re-
turned a verdict to the effect that the child was born
alive, but there was no evidence to show how it came by
its death, or how it was placed where it was found.—
Abridged from the Cambridge Chronicle.
COMMITTAL OF Two YOUNG FARMERS FOR
POACHING.—On Friday last, the 17th instant, Thomas
and Henry Cumberland, farmers, living near Newtown,
Linford, were charged at the County Office, Leicester,
before T. Pares and I. Hodgson, Esqs., with night poach-
ing in the preserves of the Earl of Stamford, on Thursday
night. Joseph Harrison, a watcher, said—l was
lying in Blake Hay Wood last night, about half-past
seven o'clock, when I heard somebody down in the
woe l for some time. They came nearer to me. I lay
down, and two men, whom I knew to be defendants,
passed me. I went and fetched Branston and Greasley,
and came back with them in half an hour, when I
heard more than one shot from an air-gun. De-
fendants came up by us and did not see us. We let
them pass, and then seized them and took them
to Linford, whre we searched them, and found on
Henry the key and pump of an air-gun. John
Branston, a keeper, said that after one of the air-gun
shots, a pheasant flew past. Defendants strug-
gled and got away, after being first taken. At Beck's
house (where they were searched) Thomas said he was
not the shooter, Henry was. J:mes Beck said,
" When at my house, defendant Thomas wished Har-
rison to go out, as he (defendant) had something to
say to me. Harrison went out, and left me and
Thomas alone. Thomas then asked me to unbotton his
coat, as his arm was hurt. I did so, and found under
it the air-gun now produced. He wished me to lay it
away. I did so. It was then loaded with ball."
The defendant Thomas said to the bench that he be-
lieved the truth had been told, with two or three trifling
exceptions. He had never been in the wood, arid never
struck any one. His brother Henry said that he was in
the wood, and had shot at some pigeons, when, as he was
going home peaceably, Branston and the others came on
them, and boat them unmercifully. The defendants were
sentenced, Henry to three months' hard labour, and
Thomas to to o months.—Leicester Chronicle.
liourms ON A RAILWAY.—On Wednesday last
the hounds of Lord Gifford, in Gloucestershire, which
had met in the morning, at Minety Pond, were placed
in the utmost jeopardy between Cirencester and Swin-
don. The fox had crossed the railway, and the hounds
had come to a check upon the very rails, when the cry of
" a train ! a train !" that made every one shudder, was
heard, and a passenger train seen to be, as it were, bear-
ing down upon the pack with its usual velocity. The
alarm whistle gave its wild scream to show that the en-
gine driver was aware of what was inevitable, but it was
evident that, if the hounds could not be extricated by
removal, the pace of the train could not be slacked to
preserve them In an instant one of the whips was upon
the line, and by the greatest effort the hounds were pre-
served, though the last of the pack that quitted the rail
was so near one of the wheels of the engine, that for a
time it was supposed to have been destroyed.—North-
arapton Herald.
We had hoped that the evil spirit of incendiarism
was laid in this district by the numerous detections and
convictions which have taken place, but we regret
to have to announce two more fires in the vicinity
of this town. On Saturday night, between twelve
and one o'clock, the premises of Mr. Harrison, of
Timwarth, were discovered to be on fire, and
notwithstanding the most praiseworthy exertions, two
barns, two stables, a granary, cow-house with three
cows and a calf, and from 200 to 300 coombs of corn,
chiefly barley, were destroyed. One barn and the
de riling- house, «hich were in considerable danger
were preserved by covering the former with blankets
and pulling down a part of a building adjoining
to the latter. Mr. Harrison is amply protected by
insurance ; but the alarm to his family, and to one in
a delicate state of health, was very distressn.g, and makes
the character of the act the more diabolical. The build-
ings, belonging to the Rev. E. R. Benyon, were also in-
sured. On Sunday night a stack of beans on the lands
of Mr. Gapp, of Walsham, standing alone, was destroyed
by fire.—Bury Post.
FLUCTUATIONS IN THE PRICE OF RAILWAY SHARES.
—From the share-table recently issued by Mr. Wat-
son, of Glasgow, some curious particulars of fluctua-
tions in the prices of shares may be gathered. Thus
on the Bth of January, 1838, the shares of the Grea
Western Railway were at 12 premium ; at the cor-
responding period of 1832 they were at 13 pre-
mium ; in 1840 they had sunk to 1 premium ;
in 1841 they again rose to 31 premium ; in 1842 they
were 224 ; 1843, 26i ; 1844, 32 ; and this year, on the
same day, they had advanced to 87 premium. They are
now much higher. The Liverpool and Manchester have
shown the following fluctuations as to premium :-1838,
97 ; 1839, 104 ; 1840, 85 ; 1841, 86 ; 1i42, 96 ; 1843,
91 ; 1844, 130 ; and 1845, 117. London and Birming-
ham fluctuated from the lowest point of 61 premium
(in 1840) to the highest (in 1844) of 137. The most
remarkable case is the York and North Midland, the
shares of which in 1838 were at 2 discount, and
rose by almast regular steps to 56 premium (on a
501. share) in 1845. The South-Western have in the
same period risen from 12 discount to about 47 pre-
mium on 391. shares. The Great North of England
were' in 1838 marked " no price ;" in 1840 they were
at 25 discount ; in 1843 at 41 discount ; whereas in
1845 they were 47 premium on 1001. paid. The
Manchester and Leeds shares, on the Bth of January of
the same seven years, have stood thus:-1 premium ;
201 premium ; 10 premium ; 12 premium ; par ; 2 pre-
mium ; 31 premium ; 55 premium. The largest ad-
vance during 1844, was in Great North of England, 611.;
and the greatest decrease in Liverpool and Manchester
and York and North Midland, 141.—Railway Record.
INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTS.— On Saturday
evening a general meeting of the members of the Insti-
tute of the Fine Arts took place in the theatre of the
Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, G. R. Ward,
Esq., in the chair. Mr. Bass proposed a resolution,
" That a vote of thanks be given by the Institute to the
trustees of the Harcourt bequest, in having, in the com-
petition which had recently taken place with respect to
the design for an altar-piece for St. James's church,
Bermondsey, selected artists as judges of works of art."
No less than sixty-seven large sketches as designs had
been sent in by different artists, the aggregate cost of
which could not have been less than 2,000/. After some
opposition by Mr. Foggo, who objected to the selection
being made by artists, as liable to intrigue, the motion
was carried. The Secretary announced that the Council
had decided on holding conversational meetings on every
alternate Saturday, at which members were requested to
attend with their books, prints, &c., of interest.
EXTRAORDINARY ATTACK UPON Two CHILDREN
BY a RAT.—The following extraordinary circumstance
took place at Wandsworth a few days since, and has
created some sensation. On Thursday evening Mr.
I larrington, a tobacconist in the High-street, was sitting
in the shop parlour with his wife, when they were
alarmed by the screams of the children, who had been
put to bed some time previously. They hastened up
stairs, and were astonished at seeing the head and right
hand of their youngest child, a girl about six years of
age, bleeding. The other girl, who is eight years old,
was also crying, and presently shrieked out " something
is biting my toe." Mr. Harrington perceiving some-
thing move under the bed-clothes, instantly grasped it,
and from the squeaking that ensued he conjectured
it was a rat. Ile held it in one position until he was
satisfied that suffocation had taken place. Mi. Harring-
ton afterwards turned down the bed-clothes and drew
forth an enormous rat quite dead. Its teeth were of im-
mense size, and quite capable of doing fatal injury to the
children, had it been undisturbed. The youngest child
stated that she was awakened by the rat biting her head,
and, fancying it was her guinea-pig, she put up her hand
to drive it away, when it buried its teeth deeper into
her head, and also bit her hand. The rat had evidently
got beneath the bed-clothes to hide itself. How it came
into the bed-room is a mystery; the room, as indeed was
the house, was strictly examined, but no rats' holes could
be discovered. It is supposed that it came in at the
front door from an opposite sewer, and asscended the
stairs immediately. The eldest girl was only slightly
bitten on one of the toes.
ALTERATIONS IN THE COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—
On Saturday Mr. Commissioner Goulburn presided in
the Court previously occupied by Mr. Commissioner
Fonblanque, who in futuro will hold his sittings in the
'none where the late Sir C. F. Williams held his Court.
Mr. Commissioner Evans, as the senior Commissioner,
will be the Chief Commissioner.
onL Leamington
Thursday
ATTEMPT TO R
evening Ron BANK.—An attempt was made
last to force open the Warwick and
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the " locks, bolts, and bars," were too strong,
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ball happening on the
thieves an excellent opportunity to accomplish their pur-
pQbe.—Biratingham Journal.

THE SL N, LONDON,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The following requisition is circulated
at Oxford ; and our readers will also find in our ad-
vertisement columns a notice on the same subject :
" To THE REV. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND THE
MEMBERS OF THE HEBDOMADAL BOARD.
" We, the undersigned Members of Convocation, re-
spectfully but earnestly request that you will take imme-
diate measures for submitting to the Convocation about
to assemble on the 13th of February next, a resolution
conveying the formal censure of the University upon the
principles inculcated in the 90th number of the ' Tracts
for the Times,' and a solemn repudiation of the modes
of interpreting the Thirty-nine Articles therein sug-
gested.
" We consider such a censure on the part of the
University imperatively called for, and peculiarly ap-
propriate to the important occasion already referred to;
inasmuch as we cannot but recognise in Mr. War l's
Ideal of a Christian Church,' a legitimate development
of the principles of Tract 90, and a practical exhibition
of the pernicious effects which must necessarily result
from their adoption."
We consider this a mode of proceeding much more
proper than that which was originally proposed by the
Heads of Houses. The plain matter of fact is, that Mr.
Ward threw out a boastful challenge to the Church and
the University ; declared himself devoted to the Papal
See; declared the Church he belongs to " radically and
vitally corrupt" ever since separated from that see—and
boasted of the impunity with which he had hitherto
been allowed to do all this, and of the principle of inter-
pretation of the Articles which admitted of his doing
it—interpretation, namely, in a " non-natural sense."
Now, this purposely offensive proceeding was some-
thing exceedingly different from any ordinary latitude
of construction of the Thirty-nine Articles. It was an
open pronunciamento (in Spanish-American phrase)
against the whole constitution of the Church and Uni-
versities, as established and privileged by law. It must
be evident that if such a standard of religious revolu-
tion were followed, its followers would at once place
themselves on an opposite basis to that upon which the
Legislature and the laity have concurred in placing
the Church of England. They would place them-
selves on a basis on which they cannot consistently
stand, separate from Rome—whereas the claim of
the Church of England to its present position
depends unquestionably on its continuing to re-
fuse recognition to Romish supremacy. All this
has been rendered perfectly clear by the publica-
tion of Mr. Ward. That gentleman has, in fact, let
the cat out of the bag ; he has openly thrown off his
moral allegiance to English authority, and as cpenly
professed his " devotion" to that of a foreign see.
We understand that the less headstrong portion cf
the Itomanising party are disposed to let him suffer
for having sprung their mine thus prematurely.
But in our view Mr. Ward's fate is not the question.
The proceedings of the University must be aimed
(if at any object) at declaring its own prin-
ciples. The main question before it is not whether
Mr. Ward personally merits degradation. We, for
our part, should be strongly against anything resem-
bling a privilegium ; and besides, with all Mr.
Ward's arrogance, ignorance, and presumption—we
like his explicitness much better than the studied
reserves of his precursors in that school. What (or
whether anything) should be done to Mr. Ward
is one (and the minor) question. Another, and
the more important one, is what the University
should say to his book. The University had placed
him in that order of her members who are looked to
as teachers of youth. Does the University recog-
nise as moral and admissible such principles of teach-
ing as he applies to the Articles ? Are not such prin-
ciples (legitimately developed from the notorious
Tract 90) worthy " the noble and glorious company
of St. Ignatius" rather than Protestant England ? Is
the University desirous of ranking with that noble
and gloriofis company in public estimation ? Let the
University be sure of this—it is Oxford that is upon
trial—much rather than Mr. Ward. Whether that
gentleman keep his degree and fellowship is of com-
parative unimportance. Our humble judgment,
expressed from the first, is to let him keep them.
We love no ex post facto laws. If Mr. Ward's
contempt and abhorrence of everything as at present
established—if his devotion and veneration for the
popedom—do not disgust him from continuing to de-
rive income from institutions which he spurns—as
being national—nor induce him to join the Church
which alone he reveres as Catholic —we should leave him
unmolestedly to repose in his taste and logic—and fel-
lowship. But the University will sink to Mr. Ward's
level, if it allows itself to be suspected of retaining
Articles, to be signed "in a non-natural sense." Let
it dispense with signature of Articles altogether, or
let it declare their non-natural signature the immoral
thing it is. Or, let it accept tacitly for its own the
doctrine of Tract 90 and Mr. Ward.

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
last a labouring man, named Thomas George, met with
his death at Pull Court, near Tewkesbury, under the
following circumstances :—The deceased, in company
with other labourers, was felling some timber on the es-
tate of J. E. Dowdeswell, Esq., and a rope had been
fastened to an elm tree for the purpose of pulling it
down in a particular direction. The tree, however, fell
in a contrary direction to that intended, and in pulling
the rope caught against another tree, which caused the
deceased to be jerked forward a distance of fifteen yards,
his head striking in his fall violently against the trunk
of another tree, and killing him on the spot. The de-
ceased ‘s as thirty-three years of age, and has left a
widow and four children.— Worcester Journal.
MIRACULOUS EscarE.—On Monday evening, as
the five o'clock train was proceeding from Brockley
Whins to South Shields, a female passenger, in a state
of intoxication, leaped off the top of one of the car-
riages, the train at the moment proceeding at full speed.
As soon as it could be effected, the engine was stopped,
and a person dispatched to look after the woman. Oa
the arrival of the train at Shields, medical aid was pro-
cured; and the return train proceeded up the line at a
slow place, a man being placed on the look-out at each
side of the engine. Fortunately, and to the astonish
ment of all parties, the woman had been enabled to
scramble back-, with assistance, to the station, having
escaped with only a severe contusion of the knee.—Tyne
Mercury.
ROBBERY AT BRENTWOOD, AND CAPTURE OF THE
THIEVES.—About ten o'clock on Monday night, Mr.
John Ward, plumber and glazier, of Brentwood, gave
information to Superintendent Coulson, that a quan-
tity of new lead had been stolen from his shop,
and at the same time named parties whom he suspected
had committed the theft. The Superintendent dis-
patched Watson and Tomlinson, in plain clothes, who,
being on the look-out, before twelve o'clock the same
night, saw George Nevitt, the suspected party, and
two women, loading a cart with rags and bones. Nevitt
drove the horse and cart out of Brentwood, towards
London, when the officers followed, and after they had
got a short distance stopped the horse, and examined the
contents of the cart, in which they found a quantity of
lead answering the description of that Mr. Ward had
lost. The men were taken to the station, whore the lead
was identified by Mr. Ward. Search was next made for
a man named Fewell, who was likewise apprehended.
On comparing the shoes of the prisoners with marks in
sand upon the floor in Mr. Ward's shop, they were
proved to correspond. They were then taken before the
Rev, J. Pearson, by whom they were committed for trial
at the next sessions. The cart and horse being hired,
they were delivered to the owner.—Cheltnford Chronicle
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—NARROW ESCAPE.—Thurs-
day evening, about twonty minutes past six o'clock, as
the workmen in the employment of Messrs. Blackhall
and Scott, comb manufacturers, 21, New-street, were
quietly engaged at their labours, they were suddenly
alarmed by the descent of a large stone, 341bs. weight,
right down through the roof of the manufactory into the
midst of them. The chair on which one of the men was
seated was splintered into several pieces, and yet, strange
to say, the man himself escaped unhurt. The only injury
sustained was by a little girl, whose face was slightly
hurt by a fragment of the stone. On inquiry, it turned
out that this unlooked-for visitation was occasioned by
the blasting operations in the Calton-hill tunnel, upwards
of 200 yards distant. It was also ascertained that several
larger stones had struck the front of Mr. Ruthven's house,
No. 23, and that another had shattered the pavement in
front. It is amazing, though very gratifying, to think
that no one was killed. This, we regret to say, is not the
first accident that has occurred at this tunnel.—Scotsman
SUICIDE AT TIIE DUKE OF NORTHUMF ILAND.S.-

A man named Hollick, in the service of Mr. Hughes,
upholsterer, of Piccadilly, and who was employed with
others in preparing the mansion of the Duke of North-
timberland for the reception of the family, was on Sa-
turday morning discovered by his fellow-workmen to
have committed suicide by hanging himself in one of
the water-closets. For some days past the deceased had
been labouring under a depression of spirits, but he had
frequently expressed the greatest abhorrence at persons
committing suicide.
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY.--.—We are
glad to barn that the eminent contractors, Messrs.
Brassy, Mackenzie, and Stephenson, have taken the
whole of the works on this line, and at a sum which will
make the total cost of the undertaking unexampled in
cheapness.—Railway Record.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.—We are
assured, on good authority, that Viscount Sandon, M.P.
for Liverpool, is to succeed the Earl of St. Germans at
Dublin. The Noble Viscount came rather unexpectedly
to town from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, where his
Lordship was passing the winter with his father, the
Earl of Harrowby, and a family circle. On Friday after-
noon the Noble Viscount, as will be seen by the Court
Circular, waited upon Sir Robert Peel, and was engaged
in a protracted interview with the Right Hon. Baronet.
Amongst the rumours with respect to the appointment
of Lord Eliot's successor, it is said that Sir Thomas
Fremantle is likely to be selected.—Morning Paper.
SUBMARINE FORESTS.—The stormy weather of
November had the effect of laying bare in the bay of
Mont St. Michel several trees in perfect preservation,
and amongst others an oak more than thirty feet in
length. In the course of the past summer some work-
men, in sinking a well on the property of M. Jallaud, of
Beauvoir, met with a layer of timber, and leaves reduced
almost to the state of turf. These remains, as well as
those which are frequently taken up from the marshes
of Dol, evidently come from the ancient forest of Seicy,
which tradition states to have been overwhelmed by the
Sea at the commencement of the ninth century.
The new Church Extension Fund
-already exceeds
11,000/., and is rapidly increasing.