The Sun. — 1846-10-01 (London, England)

WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL. After a tedious and toilgme day's labour, the workmen engaged at Constitution-hill, yesterday, succeeded in safely placing this groat statue on its pedestal. Up to three o'clock, they were engaged in making all the necessary arrangements, preparing all the machinery, regulating the tackle, windlasses, &c., and properly affixing the ropes and cable slings by hich the immense mass was to be perpendicularly raised to the desired height. The ascent was accordingly commenced a little after that hour, and although Mr. Green, in the Nassau balloon, has often done the distance in &second, he could hardly accomplish it more surely. However, four hours had nearly elapsed before the statue had attained the requisite elevation, during which it hung like Mahomet's coffin, 'twixt heaven and earth, in, as it seemed to the minds of the spectators, a rather perilous position. Meantime the shades of evening were gathering round, and subsequently night fell in, and it appeased as though an adjournment of the proceedings sine die had occurred. The moon soon after rose, and though clouded in the commencement of her career, shone as brilliantly as a young moon could, about half-past eight. The riggers, who had for some time disappeared from the scaffolding, now again began to mount the ladders and " man the yards," and soon after, the large moveable platform aloft, on which were the windlasses by which the statue was carried up, commenced its horizontal locomotive efforts, and before nine o'clock the platform, statue, and all, had been backed westward, and the precious burden fairly landed on its proposed site. Having viewed it then through the various disadvantages of imperfect moonlight, and intervening ropes and spars, we are the more confirmed in our impression that, so far from the statue being too large in its proportions for the arch, if anything, the arch is too large for the statue. But we honestly think the public will agree when a proper time and opportunity for judging have been allowed, that there could not be found in London a more magnificent position for such a noble work of art as that which the triumphal arch on Constitution-hill affords for the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington. A great concourse of visitors during the day, and to a late hour of the night, thronged the neighbourhood of Hyde Park-corner ; and indeed the end of the Green Park, near Grosvenor-place, presented more the appearance of a fair than anything else.  SUICIDE AND DROWNlNG.—Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, the following melancholy occurrence took place off Chelsea, resulting in the death of two human beings. It appears that at the time just named a decently dressed young woman was observed walking on the banks of the river in a desponding state, when suddenly she jumped into the river. The act being seen by a young man of the name of Payne, who worked near the spot, he plunged into the water after her and succeeded in catching hold of her, but she struggled so fiercely that they both got out of their depth. Payne appeared to let go his hold, and the unfortunate woman disappeared. The man struggled hard to reach the shore, but in vain, and before assistance arrived he had sank, and shared the same fate as the female he had endeavoured to save. The bodies could not be found, it being nearly dusk at the time. THE DAGENHAM MuRDER.---Since the verdict in the above affair was returned, a number of active and intelligent officers of the police force have held frequent communications on the necessity of adopting further measures to secure, if possible, the apprehension of the parties implicated in the brutal murder of poor Clarke. The result was, that the leaders in the movement forwarded to Scotland-yard a memorial expressive of their anxiety to procure a united expression of the sympathy of the force, by a general subseription for the purpose of offering a further rewad d for the discovery of the actors in the late tragedy at Dagenham, and requesting the opinion of the Commissioners as to the legality of such a course. A favourable answer was returned in reply, and the subscription is now in course of collection. To facilitate it, printed forms have been conveyed to all the station and sectionhous es. spondedto alacrity; that the sergeants will agree to a contribution of ss. and the subordinates 2s. 6d. each, sums which, when the numerical strength of the force is considered, cannot fail to secure a munificent amount.  IN.—Yesterday the New York packet-ship Westminster, Captain lf. R. Hovey, one of the regular liners, left the St. Katharine Docks with 30 emigrants on , board, chiefly small farmers from the home counties and 2.000 boxes of manufactured tin. This vessel will leave Portsmouth for New York to-morrow morning. A