The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

position."

It will be recollected that some weeks since we
published an extract of a letter from St. Petersburgh
containing some observations on the manners of certain
members of the Imperial Family, which some of our
contemporaries, without the slightest hesitation, and
without the slightest knowledge, pronounced to be un-
founded. We referred, as a rnattwr of course, to our
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correspondent, although convinced of his correctness,
and have received his reply, re-affirming all that he had
stated, hut adding that the .Consort of the Imperial
Crown Prince had not yet taken her departure for

Munich.—Times.
TRIAL FOR TILE GLASGOW BANK ROBBERY.—The
trial of Robert Smith, lately teller in the Glasgow and
Ship Bank, and James Wishart, wine and spirit dealer
in Glasgow, who were accused of abstracting and con-
verting to their own uses upwards of 10,7001, came on
before the High Court of Justiciary on Wednesday last.
The charges against them broke down upon the infor-
mality of the proceeding•, and they were obliged to bo
served with new criminal letters, which was accordingly
done the instant of their dismissal upon the old indict

went.
DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM BEATTY, M.D.—We re-
gret to announce that Sir William Beatty, M. 1)., F.R.S.,
late Physician to her Majesty's Fleet and Greenwich
Hospital, died at an early hour this morning, at his re-
sidence in York-street, Portman-square. He had served
his country long and faithfully in all climes, and had
the melancholy duty of being officially present at the
death of his distinguished commander, the Hero of Tra-
falgar. It may be justly said of Sir William Beatty
that his whole professional life seemed to accord with
the sentiment expressed in Nelson's last and ever me-
, morable signal to the fleet.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT TIT CLEANING WINDOWS.—
Yesterday morning, between 8 and 9 o'clock, Thomas
Madden, between forty and fifty years of ago, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Broome, of Marylebone-lane, Oxford-street;
linen-draper, while standing outside cleaning one of the
first-floor windows, slipped, and fell on to the footway
pavement in the street. Hs was severely injured, having
received a concussion of the brain, and was directly
taken to Middlesex Hospital, where he remains is a pre-
carious state.
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREETS.—MF. Wiikley
yesterday held an inquest at the Mother Redcap, High-
street, Camden-town, on the body of Thomas Overton,
aged fifty-six, a carpenter in the employ of Mr. Allen,
builder, of Camden-terrace, It appeared that on Tuesday
morning the deceased came to his work as usual at six
o'clock, went home to breakfast, and returned in his
usual state of health, and was laughing and joking. About
eleven o'clock he went with George Scalding, the car-
man, to some new houses, building on St. James's-ter-
race, Kentish-town-road. Scadding went up to the
door, and, turning round, said, " There's no knocker
here, Thomas. Overton replied, " No, there isn't, in-
deed," and instantly exclaimed, "Lord, have mercy upon
me—George, I'm a dead man." Scalding caught him
whilst falling, and sat him on the step of the door, and
Mr. Curtis, surgeon, was sent for, but deceased was dead
in half a minute. Verdict—" Natural death."
SHOCKING RESULT OF A PETTY PROSECUTION.—
It will be recollected that in our police intelligence a few
weeks ago we mentioned the case of a woman, who, with
an infant in her arms, was committed to prison for cut-
ting a small quantity of birch at Bosbury, the damage
which she did being valued at one halfpenny. We un-
derstand that the child died in prison on Sunday last.,
and that the mother stated at the inquest that it was her
belief the child died in consequence of a cold which it
caught in the Ledbury Lock.up House. -The wonder is
that many inquests have not been the consequence of
confiningprisoners in such a damp and filthy den.-- Mg,
cesterahire Chronicle.
Goon FRIDAY.—This being the anniversary of our
Saviour's crucifixion is the most solemn fast of the
Christian church. The cross-bun, however. has long
ceased-in England to be the morsel by which the severity
of the last days of Lent wet: mitigated. In the old time
Lent was not " inure honoured in the breach than the
observance." We find from the household book of the
Duke of Northumberland, which was kept ih1512, that
throughout Lent, " beginning at Shrovetide and ending
at Easter," the breakfast (a great meal in an ancient
family) consisted, " for my Lord and my Lady," of " two
pieces of salt fish, four herrings, or a dish of sprats," in-
stead of the customany allowance at other Setitions of
" half a chine of mutton or a chine of beef ;" and the
food of a Lenten supper was equally meagre. The
transgressors of Lent were subject to eccleciastical
cipline. Strype, in his " Memorials," records that a
man did penance at St. Paul's Cross in 1555 for attempt-
ing to sell two pigs ready dressed during the fast.
EAMPTON••COURT PALACB.—WC are authorized to
state that two new picture-rooms in Hampton-court
Palace, in addition to those already shown to the public,
will be opened on Easter Monday next. We understand
that these rooms contain some interesting and valuable
pictures, • and also that some very fine ones have been
added to the already extensive collection in the palace.
A new arrangement of the pictures has also taken pltice
and some ancient tapestries have now been brought
forward, which cannot fail of interesting every lever of
the fine arts.
On the 6th instant, says the Toulonnais, as a
painter, who had emigrated to Algiers was travelling in
search of employment, he got enveloped in a (knee fog,
near Ben Ackoun, on his way to 1)ely Ibrahim. His
attention was suddenly roused by a loud roar, which at
first he took fur the lowing of an ox iu one of the in-
closures ; Init, on its being repeated, he found himself
face to face with a monstrous lion. The poor painter,
though more dead than alive with terror, retained suffi-
cient presence of mind to brave the animal with his
shouts, and, thus acting on the known nature of the
beast, put him to flight. Having communicated his ad-
venture to M. Dumartin, the laud-surveyor at Dely Ibra-
him, that gentleman, with permission of the colonel in
command of the garrison, went out with about thirty
officers and soldiers in Chace of the lion, but did not fall
in with it. A day or two afterwards the same animal
was seen at Elbier, near Algiers, and a general bettue
was contemplated to relieve the Country from this un-
welcome intruder, and of several others who have come
down to the plain of Mitidjah, since it was deserted by
the. Arabs.
Goon FitipAY.—A Correspondent calls attention
to the ancient saying—
When our Lady falls in our Lord's lap,
Then let England beware a mishap.
Now, thiewear, Ladyday and Good Friday both fall on
the same day ! The old ladies, therefore, are trembliet
with fear.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
Thusrday morning a dreadful accident occurred to
Edward Rogers, a young man, seventeen years of age, in
the employ of Mr. Barber, snuff-grinder, Church-street,
Bethnal-green. The unfortunate young was doing
something to a steam-engine, when one of the sleeves of
lateslL rsHE.7n.
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his shirt suddenly was drawn into thdeaim machinery, and
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before he could extricate it his hand an.
fully fractured up to the elbow.
HON. Miss.
relict of
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Major Erskine, brother to the late John F. Erskine,
died st Edinburgh on Thursday tennight.
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