The Sun. — 1837-06-17 (London, England)

BEAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN  LIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the City of London—of its immediate Vicinity—and especially of the Northern Districts. SIIEWETH, That your petitioners have heard with much alarm, that a Bill intituied " a Bill for establishing a Cemetery for the Interment of the Dead, Northward of the Metropolis, to be called The Portland Cemetery,'" has already passed through Committee in your Honourable House, and is appointed for the third reading on Friday next. That your Petitioners are surprised to find that the said Bill contains clauses, empowering the Company to enclose Lands in the Parishes of Hampstead and Marylebona, which will enable them to take a portion of Primrose Hill or the Chalcut Estate, and the open fields northward of the Metropolis, over which your Petitioners have, from time immemorial, enjoyed the privileges of rambling and recreation.  That your Petitioners deem the privilege of enjoying such open Fields an hereditary right sacred to themselves, and necessary to the health of the population of the Metropolis and their families. And they respectfully but forcibly beg to appeal to your Honourable House against the Enclosure of any part of -Primrose Hll, known by the name of the Chalcot Estate, or of any other open Fields, over which they, as inhabitants of London, have hitherto enjoyed the privilege of recreation. Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Hon. House, specially against the said Enclosure of Primrose Hill, the Chalcot Estate, or any of the adjacent open Fields northward of the Metropolis and against the said Bill. And that the same may not be read a third time, or may not pass into a law. And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.  EXHIBITION OF FIRE ESCAPES, Sze.—A.n immense concourse of people was collected on the wharf in front of Hungerford-market on Wednesday evening to witness an exhibition of fire-engines and fire-escapes. A compact and powerful engine belonging to St. Katharine's Docks having been put into thorough repair since the late fire, by the builder, Mr. Merryweather, engineer, of Long-acre, was drawn up on the edge of the wharf, and, by means of three lengths of suction pipe, drew a supply from the bosom of father Thames, which it delivered about twelve feet above the flag-staff on the top of the Dolphin, a height of nearly one hundred feet from the ground; and above a hundred feet from the surface of the river, from whence the supply wns drawn. A set of Mr. Merryweather's improved fire-escape ladders having been raised against the -Dolphin, to a height of about forty-five feet, several ascents were made to the great amusement of the lads who were thus lowered, and the satisfaction of the assembled spectators. Among those who took great interest in these performances, we observed the ingenious Captain Manby, Mr. Baddeley, and several other philanthropic and scientific gentlemen.  An extraordinary act of suicide is reported to us as having occurred at the Rutland Arms, Newmarket, on Monday ; the keeper of the tap having been missing, was at length found drowned in a butt of beer containing 500 gallons. He appears to have taken off the Rd and precipitated himself into the butt, the contents of which, having overflowed, led to the discovery. 1t is said that he was behind in his payments through same losses in gambling.—Bury Herald. The depressed state of trade has not extended its influence over the Lierpool and Manchester Railway, the number of passengers who traversed it during the first three months of this year being greater by 10.000 than during the first three months of 1836.—Liverpool Chronicle.  A NEW Wortp.—An official order, published in a New England newspaper, calls upon certain persons to pay up their " behindrnents" (arrears) before the ensuing court day.  On Weanesday night about half-past twelve o'clock, a female respectably dressed threw herself over the parapet of Southwark-bridge into the water : the tide at the time was rather high, and the unfortunate woman immediately sunk, and was seen no more. The body has not been found, The female must have been wandering about the bridge for some hours, as no female passed through the toll during three hours before the time above mentioned,  It is under consideration to dispatch the French mail by pwerful steam-boats from Greenwich every evening at nine o'clock. They will reach Boulogne the following morning about seven o'clock, and the letters will then be delivered in Paris within thirty hours from the time they start from Greenwich.  The general appearance of the grain crops is good throughout the north of Ireland. The only deficiency complained of is in the early sown oats; but, even in these, it is admitted that favourable weather would produce a fair average crop. The potato crop is very promising, so far.— Belfast Whig.  The following singularities in ornithology are stated from the department of the Maine and Loire. At the mints of Halelongue, a large sized crow, having been tamed, was suffered to run in a farm yard with the fowls, and the consequence was the production by one of the hens of a chicken, which partook of the characteristics of both birds. The shape and habits of the young bird were those of the mother, but the Plumage and gait were representative of the father. A goose belonging to the Mayor of Autoigne, lately laid an egg of extraordinary size. On being broken, it was found to inclose a complete smaller egg with a yolk, and perfectly formed shell. The outer egg had two yolks, one at each end, having the inner egg between them.—French Paper.