The Sun. — 1848-01-03 (London, England)

APRIL. 1. John Platts executed for murder, at Derby. 2. (Good Friday). The Bogue forts, and several others in the river Pe-Kiang, taken from the Chinese by a British force. 5. The new docks and park at Birkenhead publicly opened with great ceremony and festivities, in the presence of Viscount Morpetb, Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. Nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy persons  visited the I3ritish Museum. 6. The New Royal Italian Opera at Corent-Garden opened. 9. The foundation stone of the Edinburgh station of the Caledonian Railway laid with ,Maiunie  honours. 11. (Low Sunday). The annual French steeple chase took place on the road between Paris and (Jr. leans, in the presence of 30,000 persons. 12. Destructive tire at the New Small Debts Court, in the Edgware-road, London. 14. The House of Commons rejected thy proposed Roman Catholic Relief Bill, by a majority of 158 to 119, the Prime Minister and several members of the Cabinet being in the minority. 15. The Peers of the United Kingdom assembled for the first time in the new House of Lords. 17. Catherine Foster executed at Bury St. Edmunds, for the murder of her husband by poison. 18. Two severe shocks of an earthquake felt at Trinidad. 20. Fifty-eight houses, including several valuable public buildings, the Episcopal Seminary, school, tribunals, &T., destroyed by tire, at Rominick, in Moldavia. 21. Dr. Shirley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, died, in his fiftieth year, three mouhs only after his con eecration.  [PRICE 51).  - The anniversary of the foundation of the city celebrated with great solemnity at Rome, a grand banquet taking place in the baths of Titus, near the Coliseum, attended by 800 guests, and upwards of 20,000 spectators. 22. Brandeston Hall, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, recently purchased by Mr. Austin, Q.C., entirely destroyed by fire. 23. The extensive power-loom factory of Messrs. Ferguson bya which d C o. , calamity of Mile-ends a l s wasl s aov occasioned 20,0001., and 300 persons wore thrown out of employment. 24. Alarming food riots at Stettin, in Prussia, during GN' burned o down, which the mob were fired upon by the military, when two persons were killed and several wounded. 25. A five-shilling piece of Charles 11. sold by suction in London, at Colonel Durant's sale, for 155/. - The Duke of Argyll died at Inverary Castle, Scotland, in his seventieth year. 26. Fire occasioned by a cinder from the engine on a railway train, destroying, at the village of Stoke Canon, near Exeter, thirty-two out of sixty houses, including the New Inn, school-room, vicarage, and a ladies' seminary, 27. Lord Cowley, brother of the Duke of Wellington, formerly British Ambassador at Vienna, and afterwards at Paris, died, aged 74. 28. The emigrant ship Exmouth, bound from Londonderry for Quebec, wrecked on the coast of Islay, when the captain, crew, and passengers, amounting to 251 persons, were all lost, excepting only three sailors. 29. Grand banquet given to Richard Cobden, Esq., NI.P., at Florence, in honour of Free Trade. 30. The Archduke Charles of Austria, uncle to the Emperor, died at Vienna, in his 76th year. - Samuel Crummer executed at Lifford, Ireland, for the murder of his father.