The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

:~, I ~, INDIAN NEWS, SINDE. Letters have reached us from Kurrachee to the 16th salt., containing a good deal of valuable intelligence. tome portion of the news has already been laid before the reader through different channels and in a different shape. One of our correspondents, who emphatically cha racterises Sinde " the land o f death and desola tion," affords us some particulars relative to the lament %ble effects of cholera in her Majesty's 86th, which it is Well worth our while to transcribe. He observes that the unfortunate regiment in question is very nearly destroyed, and that it will take a long time to renovate it at all. On the 14th of June the disease broke out in its ranks with such violencz that on the following day UPWards of 70 men were buried, 60 on the 16th, and 54 on the 17th, making a total of 184 men in three days ! The loss up to the date of our friend's letter was as I'ollo :-- S ergeaats Corporals Drummers Privates Women Children ... 218 Total ... •• • 276 There were, besides between 70 and 80 in hospital. All the staff sergeants had ' died, with the exception of the luart ernraster-sergeant and armourer. The re g i ment had lost its sergeant-major, band sergeant, paymaster's clerk, orderly room clerk, ma' ter tailor, schoolmalter aergerant, and hospital sergeant; a sad blow to this un fortunate corps. Strange to say, those who fell victims to the scourge were principally the finest, strongest, and the most powerful men in the regiment; the weak men, and patients who were in hospital, almost all recovered. Of: thirty-four grenadiers who died in four days, the average height was a fraction:more or less then six feet; in fact, the front rank of that company had been mown dow n as if by a chain shut, Nine of the band had died. I\7o fresh cases had occurred since the 12th, when three were admitted, one of which proved fatal. The weather had improved, but pas still very hot. It was corn toted that at least 9,000 natives had died in and about urrachee. The F.'usiliers and Rifles had lost altogether between 90 and 1.00 men each, the 12th Native Infantry about 80 or 9 1 ,a- the Beloochee battalion upwards of tlOO. The 3d, ' Native Infantry had been more for ate, havi.aig lo s t on l y • a b out 50 men, but the disease had not yet left them. Only three officers in all had died, viz., Captain Seton, of the Fusiliers. Lieutenant Lie Dawson, of the 12th Native Infantry; try-; and Govermor's nephew, Captain J. M. Ne.pier. The conduct ()f the officers of her Majesty's 86th, during 1 the dreg dful scenes that took place while the pestilence lasted, is described to have been most exemplary. From ta ernin g to ni g h t they were constantly in the hospital, esdeavonring to keep up the spirits of the men, who were enthusiastic in their expression s of gratitude for I,l!ch attention. Many of the unhappy sufferers are said , have expired without pain ; they merely complained °' being sick, lay down, and died ! One of our inform- IT',B states that it was more like a plague than anything e, so rapid and awful was the mortality—so in aorable the Angel of Death. 1,1 is supposed, as stated /33 ' Us on Monday, the scarcity and badness of the f' t h e procurable at Kurrachee were the chief cause of the malignity of the cholera. `.,`'The congregating," says a Coorrresponclent, " such an immense force of Europeans at evera nd perpetrated—particularly during the hot season, 01 thweithl two regirnenta under canvas. The resources P the e°rlsequ'mace was, that for a month before the pestileur broke vat, nothing but common carrion fore b. PurehPs..xl in the bazaar. The food, there and re, given to ithe and although, ht . men was of the worst description, ad it been better cholera would still have appeared; yet the want of proper nourishment predis posed,.the et want to the mortality w e s i. finitelya greater than it otherwise would have bineean.v.r.2ue proof of this is to be found in the es cape, ~ornptarmaetiayseuire, of the officers, who of course procured r wholesome food, and out of 180, only six were Jt ked Napier) having been in such 'sae. aOssatea:teooffofa'4ni3,llokuihi e n a d ( l , C t h a : o p t o a r e i l ud viously, that the slightest di have C'arried him off. The circum stance of her Ala iesty'!. 86th having suffered t aatrrie:ter_ extent than the other regiments, is to be Si-hthe' they had been more than two ea u r ted to the fact ad—had been stationed at ll3er.absada. u duarinhgalfthire hot season of 1844, where they buried in one month tpwards of 20 men, struck dead by the s n a.nd had returned to Kurrachee in August more ulik—and invalids than working men. They had marched' 1,290 /tiles to Bhawulpore and back, were near4LferoaurcrhYmonths under canvas, and on their arrival at Ii !seristead of being placed in the barracks the a 'heed' foinr-. }, vacated, and to the occupation of which their long and arduous march certainly entitled them, they had been again tents. Their eaonnastitutions, previously weakened by the climate the rr.arch, could not bear up against the disease, and the mortality amongst them was consequently more than double that of any other regiment. The survivors seemed, on parade, more like patients discharged from a fever hospital than the soldiers of probably the finest rlegilnent (certainly in point of men) that ever landed in ' ln dia. Had the corps be sent t Bomba or Poonah, previou s t o t h e close of the en season— o and for y which there i s was plenty of time ---all the horrors it has sustained, all& th e d readtul loss it has suffered, mi g h t h ave been sparedit. Colonel Derinzey, we regret to hear, has been ex.ceed ingly ill ever s i nce the cholera broke out, anal it is doubted whether he will be able to do duty with the 86th again." . A. correspondent mentions that Sir Cilarles Napier had a meeting of all the medical men at Government house on the 16th, for the purpose• of inspecting and examining the different articles e.,i beer, brandy, Ite., Riven to the men. The result is not stated, Th e men had been previously restricted to two drachms of arrack Per diem, which, as a matter of course, had produced much grumbling. Ilea Majesty's 17th at Sakkur were very sickly. They Were to start from that place for Kurrachee on the Ist insan One of our letters remarks :—" Should the cholera catch them on the way, they will be annihilated as thf.ar strength is completely prostrated from the effects of ';ile tremendous heat." Supplies of all sorts were, it i 3 needless to say, extremely scarce and dear, and the lack of the necessaries of life was likely to be still further increased on the arrival of the 17th. "E re 1 0ng, ,, says a correspondent, " the Commissariat folks assure us we shall be obliged to eat one another !"—Bontbay Tele graph, August 5. There is considerable excitement amongst the troops in Sinde, who expect, as a Bengal army 6 is t be a sembled on the banks of the rivers Sutlejand Beoss,thasi they will be called on to move this season to Bhawulpore in the same manner as they did last year. The prospect of the capture of Mooltan is sufficiently encouraging. That city will soon form one of the chief British entrepOts in the west of India.—Gentleman't, Gazette, August 18. LAHORE JULY 21.—., PIJNJAt , Hera N un d , Vakeel of Sirdar Shere Singh, Nizam of Peshawur, intimated to the Sir kar that the fort of Attock had, from time immemorial, been subject to the Governor of Peshawur; that on a late occasion Alousdah Singh had been appointed to the charge of that fort, in supersession of the former Tha nadar; that his master Shere Singh had rendered essen tial services to the Sirkar during the period of the rebel lion of Prir.ce Peshora Singh; that on a late occasion his judicie,ua arrangements had restored tranquillity in the YeP,zoofzaie country and secured the approbation of the criuntry ; and that if the irkar were now willing to a:knowledge these facts and s reward his services, all he a c kn owledge was that the fort of Attock should be con tine,Jd under his charge, declaring that rather than his l'ii'shes should not be complied with he would resign his "Eno at Peshawur. Raja Lall Sing was displeased nt this abrupt declaration, and la marked that if Shere Singh did not wish to remain at Peshawur he would shoitly be recalled, but that for the present kousdah Singh 7:nottld be installed Thanadar of Attock. Ps'kee Deeal represented that some disputes had arisen ne'',,ween Futteh Khan, Tawanah, Futteh Khan, Lon, an d Shere Mahomed Khan, in consequence of the terri tory of Mutta, Tawanah, i n which the two last had al- Is 'aYs had a share with the first, having been entirely .nlade over to Futteh Khan, Tawanah, and that it was 'nLettrabent on the Sirkar to make some arrangement in t uts matter, either to take entire charg e of the territory, or divid e it equitably, as otherwise bloodshot would be the certain consequence of the present disputes. Hear ing all this, Its; a Lill Singh ordered that a purwannah take be 'addressed to Misr Ameerchund, with orders to ~--" Pefi•session of the territory by his own K ho rd e ars, and ~o s efid. tay,the Kardars of Futteh Khan to La ao r . De T wan Raja Lall Singh, Sirdar Tej Singh, d .iwatt Nath had a long conference regarding wh t i h ch e vkgheer of Sirdar Runjoor Singh, consequent on they summoned Khan Singh Majeeteea. On the conclusion of the interview with the latter, I) Nee na Nath was desired to send for Runjoor Singh, andin e xplain t o hi m in an amicable manner the situation Which he stood, and propose certain terms for his ac ceptance, informing him at the same time that if these were not agreeable more adopted. It i s not known tring sent measures would be what has been the determina tion of the Sirdar. en directed The D u f terees of the cavalry had d ay of be eir disto pay up the di scharged Suwars to the soever, thmissal, and to m a k e no deductions what- Jettv 22.—Raja Lall Singh stated to the people as sembled at the Durbar, that he had received a letter from the battalions of Sirdar Khan Singh, Roussah, declaring that they would no longer remain in the service of the Sirkar, and demanding their discharge and payment of all the arrears due to them, An urzee arrived at the aame time from Goordut Singh, remonstrating R gairtst the Ge ne raley which the whole of his artillery had been made over to General Elahee Buldish, representing that his being thus deprived of his artillery was a great slur on him, and declaring that if the order were not rescinded he would resip,-n his command. This Matter had no sooner been h eard than ootee tha t his mast er had frequently applied f or a ll the Pape rs connected with the territory along th e new fron tier, but that no attention had been li on, and th a t i t was im paid to hi s requisi possible for him t o proceed in his sarvey unless thes e d ocuments were furnished. Raja tall Singh promised his attention to the matter on the morrow. Sirdar Sultan Mahomed Khan, Barrukzie, be ing present, stated before the Sirkar that Futteh I than, T awannah, was a faithful servant to the Sirkar, that Futteh Khan, Lon, and Shere Mahomed were his Personal enemies ; that their representations were of the mo st interested description, and that if the territory lately in dispute were not left entirely to the manage- Inent of the Tawattnah, there was no chance of tran quillity prevailing amongst the people. Raja Lall Singh NW, that as 'he best way to put an end to the dis- Ptites, the Sirkar had resumed the country, but if, on eXstnination it were found that the Sirdar's re- Presentations were correct, the territory should be again made over to Futteh Khan. Assa nund, agent to the Dewan Moolraj, Nizam . of Mooltan, who had gone to the agent of the Governor- General, to represent the situation in which his master was placed, has returned to Lahore. He was received at the Durbar, presented a nuzzur of five retries and had a long private conference with. Raja Lan Singh. It is reported that he has brought letters from the Bri tish authorities to Raja Lall Singh, to the effect that the Raja had much better leave matters as they were in '2" really due t o th e Si r k ar, '~Mooltan, taking only what w and leaving all form; accounts to be settled by the Ma haraja himself when he should be capable of managing his own affairs. I cannot say how far this may be true, but it is stated that the communication of Assanund had a sensible effect on Raja Lail Singh, who appeared to rise from the conference greatly dispirited. He imme diately sent for Lalla Jussmull, the Mooltan Vakeel at Lahore, and held a long conference with him. It was then ordered that a purwannah should be addressed to Dewan Moolraj containing assurances of the gooodwill of the Sirkar! The Suwars of the Moohajeea Dhera, who had gone to the agent of the Governor-General, have returned, and the Dufterees have since received ire structions to pay them. JULY 23.—Another purwannah was this day ordered to be written to Dewan Moolraj, stating that accounts had been received in Lahore of some disturbances having taken place in certain parts of Mooltan, consequent on the careless nature of his government, and that he should devote his immediate attention to the putting down of the same, conducting himself in all respects as a faithful servant of the Sirkar. He was at the same time in formed that the matters in dispute between the Sirkar and himself would be speedily brought to a favourable issue, and that his Vakeel Jussmull should be made fully aware of everything. A news-letter has arrived from the camp of Misr Bhugwan Singh, in which it is stated that he had deputed a detachment under Khuzan Singh, Chajeea, towards Munkera, to take charge of that fort, and to settle the country in its neigh bourhood. The letter further went on to say, that when the Chajeea had arrived within a few koss of Munkera, the Killedar intimated his intention of offering resistance, being supported by a party sent by Dewan Moolraj to his assistance. Khuzan Singh hearing this halted where he was, and wrote to the Misr fr'7 further in s t ruc ti ons . Th e Mis r s. bade him remain. on his pre sen t groun d t ill f urther ordeßaja Lef i Singh, hearing this, dispatched a pur wannah to Ytisr Bhugwan Singh, stating that as there was eery prospect of the disputes with Moolraj being s 7,eedily adjusted in an amicable manner, he must desire Khuzan Singh to retire some distance pending further instructions. Sirdar Heera Singh has received the title deeds of the Goojranwallah Jagheer. The Vakeel of Tej Chund, Kardar, represented that Sirdar Heera Singh had seized two or three Sirkaree villages, a matter in which the Kardar did not think proper to interfere. Hurput Rae, the Sirkar's Vakeel, was immediately sent for, asked to meet the accusation, and desired to write to his master to give up the villages immediately. Dewan Deena Nath this day produced a number of office papers bearing the seals of Maharaja Runjeet Singh, Kurruck Singh, and Shere Singh, and recommended that they should be forwarded to the British authorities, which was done forthwith. Sirdar Tej Singh repre sented that General Sultan Maimood had requested his intercession respecting a jagheer, on which one of 10,000 rupees was bestowed on him.—Delhi Gazette, Aug. 1. Our Lahore letters are more eventful than usual. We regret to hear that her Majesty's 80th Foot have lost several men from apoplexy, and that the Artillery also have suffered. A medical friend tell us, that the European soldiers expose themselves too frequently to the influence of the midday sun, which at this season of the year is more powerful perhaps than at any other, and that in many cases th ese d ea th s are thereto attributable. The sepoys were very healthy at Lahore, and on the whole the officers bear the climate well. The heat is described as intense at times. We are told that the bulk . of the Seikh army is scat tered over the country round about Umritser and Lahore, ready to concentrate the moment we cross the river, should that ever take place. Meantime all is still, and the neighbourhood is as quiet as could be wished. The hordes of Akhalees, who came for their back pay, were very orderly and well behaved, and by no means clamorous or turbulent. Lall Singh at first wanted to put them off, if not set aside their claims by intimida tion, but he evidently found that that would not do, and so resorted to other means to appease them. What these means were our letters do not say, but we are told the " immortal" ones have dispersed.: It is ascertained that a few only of the Seikh soldiers went to Jummoo; some are located for the present at Peshaw , ' and others have taken up their abode in Mool tan, but the bulk still hover on or near the Ravee. It is generally "believed"- in Lahore, that in October the forces will move into camp outside the city, and that after an interval, which, according to circumstances, may be longer or shorter, they will march into the doab, and there await whatever duty fate may design for fulfilment. For our own part we fear, and we have reason to do so, that a subsidiary force will be organised in the Punjaub! For the Itanee,and for Lall Si ng h it w ill b e t h e b est thing that cou ld possibly be devised. For the interests of the company, and for the welfare of the people, it will be about-' the worst measure that ever was conceived. One of our correspondents says, that of all the Seikhs, Punjaubees, and men of Hindostan, with whom he has conversed, '° there is not a man who believes Lall Singh .would live a month after the withdrawal of our forces," and that " the universal wish seems to be that we should take the country." We can easily understand the feelings which prompts the expression of this de• sire; but it is unnecessary for us to repeat what we have so often urged, and therefore we return to abstract from our letters the items which have been kindly communi cated unto us. A report prevailed a short time ago, that a very se rious row had taken place at Jummoo, in which some mischief had befallen to Captains Broome and Nichol , son—of what nature was not stated. It turns out, how ever, that the rumour was utterly unfounded. It was communicated to. us at the time it was current, but we had reason to believe it a mere rumour, and therefore suppressed it. o co t n h s e id th er i e n d g a he eLoanhgohr ought t t o h a h t a y L e a ling S n g i n h r d e i c d e not vn g e x a - t aet i l t Y i d s court the Killedar of Kote Kangra, and presenting him with a horse. A friend at Lahore had heard that and hi all at loggerhead s i n C au b u l. T he Arneer quarrelled, it was sa id, an d the latter was off s sonhad to Belc h ara. Other letters, dated 29th ult., speak of a skirmish having taken place between the Seikh troops and those belonging to the Dewan Moolraj, of Mooltan, in which the former were defeated with the loss of some guns. The Mooltan troops were Affghans There has also been a fight in the fiazaree country, between Maharaja Ghoolab Singh's troops and the Zemindars, in which the latter are said to have been victorious, and to have de stroyed between 1,500 to 2,000 of the Maharaja's sol diers.—lllefussilite, August 4. A letter from Pesth, in Hungary, of the 23d ult., states from Alscut, the summer residence of the Arch duke Palatine, that his Imperial Highness has been attacked by an indisposition which causes great alarm. We understand that a department of the Govern ment, hitherto carried 'n under a chief, is for the future to be managed by the same chief, assisted by a board cf unpaid commissioners: The names of the latter we are not yet at liberty to disclose ; but, if we mistake not, they will throw'a very curious light on the present state of parties in this country.—Post. SUICIDE nr A SERVANT GIRL.—On Wednesday forenoon a servant girl in Fettes-row, Edinburgh, cut her throat with a razor, and that so effectually as to cause almost instantaneous death. DEATH OF SIR CIIIIIALES WOLSELEY, BART.—This venerable Baronet expired on the 3d instant, at his seat Wolseley Hall, Staffordshire, aged 78. He was the head of one of our oldest Saxon families, and during his long career had ever been the champion of the people and stauch advocate of civil and religious liberty and pro gress. His political connexion with Birmingha m , and his consequent p rosecut i on b y the Government of that day are still familiar. As a landlord, he was much be loved and respected. Ilis title and estates devolve on his only son, the present Sir Charles Wo.seley, who married the daughter and co-heiress of the late Nicholas Selby, Esq., of Acton House and Biddlestone. The worthy Baronet also leaves two daughters, the eldest married to the Marquis de Lousada de San Miniato, and the youngest to Marmaduke Salvin, Esq., Burn Hall, Durham. THE HOMAOPATHIC TREATMENT.—An inquest was held on Saturday, at the Weaver's Arms, John's row, Goswell-street, on the body of Mary Hopkins, aged 64, the wife of a sawyer, living at No. 7, Hull street, who was alleged to have died from strangulated hernia, owing to improper treatment on the homoeopathic system. It appeared that Mr. H. P. Ree, the parish surgeon, had attended and prescribed for the deceased, but that his medicines had been neglected, and Mr. Millard, a homoeopathic doctor, had administered to the deceased a portion of a white powder in water. Mr. Ree had intended to perform an operation. Mr. Farrant, a surgeon, made a post mortem examination, and said h e considered th e conduct pursued by Mr. Millard highly improper. Mr. Ree had ceased to become responsible, or to act further, when his advice was interfered with. Verdict, " Natural death from strangulated hernia." SERIOUS ACCIDENT BY M ACHINERT.—On Satur day, between five and six o'clock, the following frightful occurrence happened at Mr. W. H. Cox's, printer, of Ni. 5, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. It ap pears that at the period alluded to George Heinson, a n g man was e aboutnga engaged n a ty t three- work the h e employmentprintingemployment o roots, f you and off the block of the inner cylinder he en iCnotxa,king deavoured to lay hold of the bar, when his hand got jammed in the machinery, and, but for timely assist ance afforded, the most appalling consequences must have ensued. The poor fellow, when extricated, was taken to King's College Hospital, and placed un d er the charge of Mr. Smith, the house-surgeon, who con sidered that amputation must be resorted to. MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.---We have this week seen in the garden of Captain H. L. K Gwynne, Pont garreg Cottage, a beautiful crop of green peas in full bearing. This and many other instancesarien Journal. testif3 . the mildness of the present season.—Car m arthen REDUCTION OF FARES ON THE LANCASTER 14/NE. —The reduction of the railway fares between Preston and Lancaster, is at last accomplished. The charges are now—first-cla ss , 4 5 . ; secon d, 2 s . 6d. ; third-class, ls. Bd. The public are indebted for this reduction to the new competition of the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail way Company, who have obtained the power of travel ling over the Lancaster and Preston Railway. This company have adopt: d at the onset a moderate scale of fares, which the old Lancaster and Preston Company, in self-defence, have been compelled to imitate. We have now thirteen trains a day from Preston to I•An caster, and vice versa, instead of seven, as formerly, and the rare spectacle of two opposition companies on the Mlle line.—Liverpool Mail. COURT cißcuLAg,.. WINDSOR, MoNnAi , .—The Queen and Prince Albeit walked this morning on the terrace of the Castle. The Royal ranirly took an airing this morning, ac companied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, on the ter race and grounds adjacent to the Castle. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. Lord Waterpark and Colonel Seymour were in attendance on the Prince. . Viscount and Vieount,oss rallcland; raid Lord and Lady Bloomfield left the Castle to-day. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Baroness de Speth, the Marquis of I)ownshire, Viscount Can ning, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courteney. The band of the Scots Fusileer Guards attend during dinner. her Majesty's private band afterwards attend at the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and his Serene High ness Prince Frederick of Hesse, accompanied by Mrs. De Burgh, honoured the performance at the Lyceum Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. Kis Royal Highness Prince George has left town for Ireland. Prince Callimaki, the Turkish Minister, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday last. His Excellency the Portuguese Minister transacted business, yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Sir Edmund Head and Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing- street. Edib Effendi, the Turkish Chargé d'Affaires, took his departure for Constantinople, on Saturday last, on board the steamer Tagus. Mr. and the lion. Emily Pennefather have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Upper Belgrave•street, from Ireland. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL• BRUSSELS, OCT. I.—Her Majesty the Queen, the Duke of Brabant, the Count de Flanders, the Princess Charlotte, and their attendants, left Lacken this morn ing, about six o'clock, for Paris. At the southern terminus they took their seats in the royal carriage in which they were to proceed to St. Cloud, where the royal family of France are at present residing. The following confirms the intelligence which we gave yesterday of a meeting of the manufacturers of Ghent, for the purpose of maintaining a moderate protection in favour of national manufacture. The cotton manufacturers of Ghent, at a meeting which took place the day before yesterday, appointed a committee to make a report on the several questions which the society of the partisans of a free trade has just proposed. The new entre* of the city of Brussels, which is to be opened to-day, the Ist of October, has already cost 1,040,000 francs. This sum has 13( en paid out of the credit voted by the municipal council in the years 1842, 1843, 1845, and 1846. Four years have sufficed for the erection of this gigantic building. The labours of the harvest, and the fine weather which we have enjoyed for some days, still keeps the peasants employed in the field. Accordingly, the markets of the capital are not so well supplied, and this naturally causes a rise in the prices. We have received from Poperinghe further informa tion respecting the hop gathering, which is now entirely terminated. We have already stated that there are very few years so favourable as the present. The value of the hops produced at Poperinghe may be estimated, without exaggeration, at a million and a half pounds, and that of the neighbouring communes at half a million. In ordinary years the produce is scarcely a million at Poperinghe. Reckoning the value of the present crop at the average price of only 50 francs per hundred pounds, the cultivation of hops will have pro duced the sum of a million francs to the inhabitants of Poperinghe and its vicinity. A letter from St. Petersburgh states that the works on the railway to Moscow are proceeding rapidly, and that this grand communication will probably be opened in 1847. BRUSSELS, OCT. 2.—During the storm on Monday last, a servant of Count A. De Beaufort, returning to the Chateau of Mielmont, at Onoz, near Namur, on taking hold of the chain of the bell, was killed on the spot by a violent explosion of the electricity accumulated on the chain. The electric fluid then passed into the kitchen, but without causing any damage. A lady who was in the kitchen at the moment of the explosion was not af fected by it. During the first nine months of this year, there arrived in the port of Antwerp (coming from sea), with various cargoes, 1,719 ships, not including 4 English yachts, the schooner Louisa Maria, a Belgian ship com ing from Holland by the inland waters, and 5 new ships launched within the same period. During the first nine months of 1845, only 1,358 ships arrived at Antwerp, so that the difference in favour of 1846 is 392 ships. In 1845, 203 Belgian ships arrived at Antwerp, and in 1846 there entered during the same period only 188—dif ference, 15. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussELs, OcT. 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • . • • .• • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent•... Ditto Three per Cent.. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto, ditto,lB4o • • • • • • •• • • 100% Ditto,ditto,lB42 ••• • • • ••••• • • • • 102% Ditto, 1844. • ••• • • .••••• • • • • • •• • 99 1 ,f, Ditto, 1836... • • • • • • • • • • • • • 9G Ditto, 1838 . • .••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • .. 7314 Ditto of the City, 1832 Ditto, 1843 .......... ..... •••• •• 99 y 4 Bank of Belgium ••••• • •• • • • ••••• • • • • 930 •Brassels Papers, Oct. 3. HAMBURGU BORSENHALLE, OCT. 2. Bills. Money, kustrian 5 per Cents .• Bank Shares ............ •• •• • • .• • • • . 1570 Anglo-Russian Loan ........ •••• • • • • 108 107% Russian 5 per Cent., Hanob. Certificate. 101 Ditto Ist series Inscription .......• .... 102 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 9634 Ditto, in Certificate.. ••••.••• • • • • •• • • 97 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •••• .• 9014 Ditto Stieglitz •• -•••• • • • • • ••••• • • •• 884 Spanish New 5 per Cent • ••••••••• •• • • 18% 184 Ditto 3 per Cent .••••••.• • • • • • •• • • 32 Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent.. Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 58% Ditto 3 per Cent. Polish New 4 per Cent. L oan, 1844.... 79% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• • • 85% National Bank Shares• • DUTCH FIJNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 29. Money. Bills Actual Debt, *4 per Cent •• ••••.• • .. 59% 59 3 4, Ditto, 3 per Cent • Ditto, 4 per Cent.... •••••••• • • •• •. 944 94% Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent. .. ... 8934 90 Commercial Company, 4% per Cent •• 174 174% East India Loan, 4 per Cent— .• ••• • •• Exchange on London, at sight .• • . ~, Two months... •••••• • • • • • • 12 12 On Ilamburgh, at sight .... 35 75 Two months... •••••• • " • ". 35 43 On Paris . •...••. • • • • • • • 56 75 -Dutch P Two months. —•••••• • • • • • • 56 2i apers, Sept. 30. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 26. 5 per Cent. Meta11ique5.......... •••• • • • • 110!B 4 per Cent. ditto ............ • • • . • • ••• • • • 100 1 4 3 per Cent. ditto .• ...........• ••.•• • • • • • 72 Loan, 1834.• ........... • • • • • • • • • •• .. 157 Ditto, 1839 - - • • ... 12 7 Bank Shares ...... ....... .......• • • • •• • • • ... 1564 Esterhazy's Loan ........ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE TATTE RSALL'S—YEsTEnDA Y . The advance of the Terrier was the only movement of any consequence in the Cesarewitch betting —from 20 to 1 he sprung to 14 to 1, leaving off second favourite, and with several " enquiring friends." Tom Tullock was steady at 7 to 1, but the Baron and Jonathan Wild, who figured so conspicuously in the quotations last week, were sadly at a discount, nor were Sir Tatton Sykes or Sting in any de mand. The general betting extended over a large field of horses, but was in small amounts, and without any other feature worth speaking of. THE GESABEWITCH STAKES. 7 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Tom Tullock—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. Croekford's Terrier—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Mytton's The Baron—tak en 16 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Wigrarn's Kesheng—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting 20 to 1 agst Lord W. Powlett's Fort William 25 to 1 agst Mr. Parr's Dulcet—taken, and aft. offd. 25 to 1 agst Sir J. B. Mill's Giantess 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren—taken 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Khondooz 25 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's nd Flahowlagh—taken 28 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Glossy 34 to 1 agst Lor4l Eglint4Ki's Plaudit 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Sis. to Pergularia 33 to 1 agst Mr. Pemberton's Tugnet 35 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moor's Wofdog—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. B Green's The Conjuror—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Mytton's Sorella 50 to 1 agst Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Col. Anson's lago—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair 25 to 1 agst Mr. Roll's Evenus 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Khondooz 40 to 1 agst Mr. Pemberton's Best Bower. DERBY. 40 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Bingham—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Liberator—taken 40 to 1 agst M. Bowes's Lunedale—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter—taken. CRICKET. CLARKE AND BUTLER V. HUNT AND BALDWINSON.— This was the return match between these parties, and as in the instance of the preceding contest, terminated in favour of the Manchester players. Indeed the two men of Nottingham did not stand any chance throughout. It was played on the ground of the Manchester Club, Moss-lane, about three miles out of the town—the self same spot whereon the late England and Manchester match came off. The innings were as follows :-180 balls, 125 hits for 10 runs ; 117 balls, 74 hits for 12 runs. Manchester hence won by 66 runs. CHALLENGE TO Mn. A. Mrrix.—Whilst this gentle man was playing his match with Mr. Felix, at Bromley, he received a challenge from Hunt, of Manchester, to the effect that he would play him at single wicket for 50/. a-side. Mr. Mynn, however, had previously determined not to play any more matches after that with Mr. Felix during the present year, and consequently forwarded a reply to that effect, accompanied with an intimation, that next season he should be willing to play him for any sum from 1001. to 5001. a-side. SURREY V. MIDDLESEX.—This match was played on Moulsey Hurst, a spot which many years since, espe cially in the earlier part of Lord F. Beauclerk's career— indk ?d, it was at this place that his Lordship madp his public ericketing debut —was that whereon most of the county of Surrey conflicts were fought ; and conse quently, to those who lived in those days the present watch was one of much interest. Surrey, as in days of yore, were the victors upon the first innings, and when night put a close to the game, they had nine wickets to go down for eleven runs. The works on the Chester and Shrewsbury line have been completed as far as Ituabon. The directors have announced its opening to that town for this month. _ - ELECTION OF LOll.O MAYOit, CLOSE OF THE SIXTH DAY'S POLL. The interest taken in this election by the Livery of London seems to increase as it approaches the con clusion of the poll. The Livery have done their work manfully, and have placed Alderman Wood in a posi tion from which no one can entertain any doubt of his suctiecs. Bills and placards around the Guilhall are as thick, Id use a domtilon phraski, its hlaCkbeeriot. We cannot refrain from selecting the following from amongst them:— " Livery of London —Who is it that now stands for ward to oppose you and Alderman Wood? No less a man than Mr. Anderton. Now read his own opinion of Alderman Wood in 1844:—' I have for some years watched the worthy Alderman as a private individual, as a magistrate, and as a professional man, and I will defy any one to put a finger upon any one act dishonourable to him, either as a magistrate, a solicitor, or a private individual. In all the relations of life there is not a single Oct which bis enemies have ever pointed against him. No man has performed the several duties of the Corporation with more credit or honour.' Come up then to the hustings and poll for Alderman Wood." At three o'clock the poll closed, and at half-past three the following was announced to be the state of the poll: Mr. Alderman Wood Sir George Carroll Mr. Alderman Hooper 2BB Mr. Alderman Moon Mr. Alderman Farncomb . The announcement was received with great cheering. Mr.BENNOCII then came forward to address the Livery' and, after pass ig a high eulogium on Alderman Wood, concluded by stating that had he adopted the course that many would have done, and, in fact, that many had done, instead of being stigmatised, he would have been praised.—(Cheers.) Mr. WILKINSON then came forward to address the Livery, and in a most humourous speech, in which the Court of Aldermen was not spared, and the Livery in structed how to perform their duty, he called upon every man present to perform his duty, and secure the election of Alderman Wood. Mr. Alderman WOOD then came forward to address the Livery, and was received with the most enthusiastic cheers. He again, in the most positive terms, denied the charges that bad been made against him, entered most fully into the statements that had been made by Mr. Anderton, and concluded by calling upon the Livery to support him and their own independence. After some observations from Mr. Holt, the Court adjourned to this morning at nine o'clock. MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION. A memorial has been addressed to Lord Palmerston by Mr. Turner, the president of the Commercial Asso ciation, on the subject of the recent disturbances at Canton, which, with the reply, we subjoin : (Copy.) " Manchester Commercial Association, September 25, 1846, " My Lord,—The directors of this association, by let ters received from China per the last mail, have been solicited to co-operate in calling the attention of her Majesty's Government to the serious outrages which have been recently committed against the persons and property of British subjects in Canton by the native po pulation ; and to point out the necessity which exists of guarding against a recurrence of similar disturbances, by the presence of a British ship of war in the imme diate neighbourhood. " The association, however, judging from what has already transpired in the public prints, doubt not that your Lordship is in possession of full details, and that the matter receives your careful consideration. " They, therefore, only deem it necessary (as parties having a deep personal interest in the subject) to express their anxious hope that her Majesty's Government will adopt immediate steps to afford greater security to the lives and properties of British subjects in the Chinese empire.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's most obedient servant, (Signed) "J. ASPINALL TURNER, President. " The Right Hon. the Viscount Palmerston, &c. &c., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London." " Foreign-office, October 1, 1846. " Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston, to ac knowledge the receipt of the letter dated the 25th ult., si g ned by you on behalf of the Man c h ester C ommerc i a l Association, referring to the late disturbances at Canton, and requesting that further protection may be afforded to her Majesty's subjects residing in China ; and I am to state to you in reply, that her Majesty's Government will not fail to take such measures in this respect as will insure, so far as it is in their power, a full protection to the lives and properties of British subjects.—l am, sir, your most obedient humble servant, " H. M. ADDINGTON. " J. Aspinall Turner, Esq., Manchester." In reply to a memorial to the Board of Trade, praying for interference on behalf of the merchants at Gibraltar, the following letter has been received : " Office of Committee l of it' Oct. Privy Council for Trade, " Sir,—l am directed by the lords of the committee of Privy Council for Trade, to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial of the directors of the Manchester Com mercial Association (addressed to Lord Clarendon). praying for the interference of her Majesty's Government on behalf of the merchants of Gibraltar, to free them from the injurious position in which they are at present placed in their dealings with Spain ; and I am to acquaint you, for the information of the said directors, that my lords have brought the subject under the consideration of Lord Palmerston, with the view to her Majesty's Mi nister in Spain being instructed to bring this matter under the favourable consideration of the Spanish Go vernment.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, "J. A. Turner, Esq. " J. MACGREGOR. Manchester Commercial Association." STATE OF TRADE. MANCTIESTER.—Since the arrival of the Britannia steamer, and the check which the accounts by her have given to the cotton speculation, our market has been quiet, but without any change in prices. BRADFORD.—WO(I..—This branch of the trade is still inactive. The spinners evince no disposition to buy, except on the narrowest scale possible. In prices we do Not hear of any change. Yarns.—The business doing to-day is an average of several Reeks past ; but still the prices are anything but profitable to the spin ners, who complain of the great disproportion between the price of wool and the current rate for yarns! Pieces.—There is hardly so much business doing as in the beginning of the month just ended ; yet there is no great complaining. Chcqued Orleans and Coburgs are flatter ; Orleans and plain Paramattas more inquired for, and steady in prices. HUDDERSFIELD.—Our market on Tuesday was with out animation ; indeed, it may be said to be flatter than last week. Some fancy cloth manufacturers have re ceived orders, but not to the extent they bad reason to anticipate. Wools are much the same in price, but sales cannot be made, although they are up in the London markets. In the warehouses there is not much doing. LEEDS.—We have no better account to give of Tues day's market than of preceding ones. The demand continues slack, and profits are very small on all the business actually done. LEICESTER.—A steady business continues doing in the warehouses ; the demand for wrought hose is espe cially good. Worsted yarns and wools are without alte ration. Owing to the rise in cotton wools, notice of an advance of one shilling per bundle on cotton yarn has been given by some of the spinners, to take place frem the Ist of the month. NOTTINGHAM. LACE.— The market continues in nearly the same stat e as l ast week, b ot h in demand and price. Plain nets are tolerably act i ve : quillings of some kinds have been inquired about more than for some weeks past ; lever fancies, good patterns, and suit able widths, have been selling to a moderate extent. The best platts are fair sale. Yarns are rather more freely supplied ; prices remained much as they were. Advances in the selling value of lace goods can scarcely be anticipated this side of Christmas ; though, from the present favourable state of stocks, we do not antici pate any reduction in the interval, and. with the new year our goods are not unlikely further to improve in price. Hosiery Trade.—We are very much gratified to learn, that by the arrival of the steam-packet Britannia, very large orders have arrived in this town fur almost every description of hosiery goods. CATTLE LurouTs.--September 25th, ex Hamburgh from Hamburgh, 30 oxen, 6 calves, and 18 pigs; 28th, ex Emerald Isle, from Rotterdam, 67 oxen, 6 calves, and 22 sheep; 28th, ex Transit, from llamburgh, 35 oxen, and four calves; 28th, ex Archimedes, 10 oxen ; 29th, ex Queen of Scotland, 73 oxen and 36 pigs. —Hull Airertiser. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT WAUDDY.—We extremely regret to have to record this . week one of th e most extensive conflagrations of farm prope r ty w hi c h has taken place in the East Riding of Yorkshire for very many years. The sufferer is Mr. James Watson, of Waudby, about ten miles to the west of Hull, and four east from South Cave, a gentleman who has long been known throughout England and on th e C ont i nent, for the superior character of his horned cattle and sheep. There appears to be not the slightest doubt that this great destruction of property is the w or k o f an incen diary. Fourteen stacks, containing the wh o l e o f t h e wheat and hay, and nearly the entire crops of an exten sive farm, were enveloped and surrounded by roaring flames. The large oat stack had bee n removed, and the further progress of the fire in that dire c ti on arrested. It was between three and four o'clock when the fire might be said to be thoroughly mastered, and the fear of its further extension at an end, but twelve h ours a f terwards, thick columns of smoke were s .tillaseending, an d th e re mainder of the hay stack occasionally burst out into flames, and that of the wheat was a dense mass of in tense red-hot fire, from which in places incessant flames arose. It was affecting to loolt upon the destruction of so much valuable food for mar, and provender for cattle. The loss in money value is, we believe, about 2,0001., but this is far from being the total mischief.—Leeds In telligencer. TRANSFER OF LICENSES.—ST. CLEMENT DANES, AND ST. PAUL, COVENT-GAREEN, OCT. 3.—St Clement Danes:—Bull's Head, Vereetreet—Abraham Davies applied to have the license of tliis house transferred from William Struttle Hawker. Tlie magistr a t es , a f ter proo f of various documents, decided to allow the transfer. Bunch of Grapes, Newcastle-court—Edward Brown to Samuel Carr. Hope, Blackmoo.-street—Charles Southby Weaver to John North. Three Tuns, Clement's Inn passage—George Shaw to William Knight. Castle, Portugal-street —to John Eirerson and William Ford, executors of Edward Ford, deceased, the late occupier. St. Paul, Covent-garden:—White Swan, Chandos-stre, t —John Philip Freeston to Junes Ball. Globe, Bow street—Thomas Jackson to Villiam Humphreys. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Holcroft's old comedy of the Deserted Dciiigiitef was reN:ved here last evening, under the name of The Steward, and it met with great and deserved success; a sueceas owing entirely , to the talents and the exertions of the actors for tne cc fiedy itself is the veriest common-place imaginable. As to the plot, to, make use of the expression of a French gentleman who was ,resent, bi t trhe is thoroughly conversant in English dramatic literature, c'etail tres hien pour le temps lorsque on l' a invente, mais c'est poarri maintenant. It is altogether " used up. " Item (admirably acted by Farren) is the rascally Steward of Mordent (Mr. Stuart), the guar dian of Cheveril (Mr. Hudson), a fine, high spirited, dashing young fellow, the husband of Lady Ann (Mrs. Clifford), a sentimental lady of fashion, and the father of Joanna (Miss Julia Bennett), the deserted daughter of a former marriage. Old Item, knowing that Joanna is legitimate, has placed her with his cousin, Mrs. Penfold (Mrs. Stanley), and, to secure to himself Mordent's property, would fain marry the innocent Joanna. Lennox, a roue friend of Mordent, seeks her as a mistress, and Cheveril seeks her as a wife. The complications arising from the preten sions of these three furnish forth the love-plot of the comedy. Item has a nephew, Clement (Mr. Braid), a paragon of virtue and a tool ; Grime (Mr. Tilbury), a paragon of vice, in whose name he advances money, at a most usurious rate, to Mordent, and who appears in the character of " the remorseless creditor ;" but the remorseless creditor and the unjust steward quarrel as to the sharing of the plunder. Their quarrel is overheard by the virtuous country firm-bailiff, Jonathan Winter (Mr. Webster), Mor dent's eyes are consequently opened, and Item hav ing left a pocket book, containing " a full, true and particular account of all his villanies," on a table, which pocket-book, through the in tervention of Clement falls into the hands of Mordent, justice is done to all parties—that is to say, Mordent is restored to his estates ; Lady Ann, who is somewhat jealous of "a mysterious lady," is re stored to her peace of mind, inasmuch as the said mysterious lady turns out to be her husband's daughter, and not his lady-love ; the daughter is re stored to her rank and to her lover, Cheveril, who has frequently met her as an unknown beauty in the Green Park ; and Item and Grimes are left to save Jack Ketch trouble by executing speedy judgment on themselves. In this outline of the plot, we have omitted to mention one character, which has nothing to do with the plot, but yet which contributes materially to the success of the play, Sarsnet, Lady Ann's lady's-maid, which was ad mirably acted by Mrs. Glover. The comedy was very strongly cast. Stuart, as Mordent, was full of energy and power, and Mrs. Clifford, as Lady Ann, was most artistical. Webster's Jonathan Winter was an honest, warm-hearted countryman, acted to the life—acted as Webster only can act it. Hudson, as Cheveril, was full of life and buoyancy ; but we would just hint to him that it is not necessary to make every gentleman an Irishman, and that to speak through the nose is a great defect. Is Mr. Hudson a great snuff-taker ? From the tone of his voice we suspect he is ; if so, let him leave off the bad habit, and his voice will then recover that resonance in which at present it is lamentably deficient. Miss Julia Bennett made a most interesting heroine, and Mr. Braid, as Clement, exhibited great judgment. The character of the piece, however, was Farren's Item. It was perfection. Why does not Mr. I'arren try the character of Sir Giles Overreach ? His success would be certain. It is a cognate character to that of Item, and in the same proportion that Massenger is superior to Holcroft, would Farren's Sir Giles be superior to his Item. He would give us a perfectly new reading of Massenger ; but we are inclined to believe that his reading would be more correct than that of his predecessors. ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. This favourite place of public amusement, which has been for some time closed, was last night opened as a Casino for Promenade Concerts and Dancing, under the direction of M. Laurent, jun., when the following open ing address was delivered by Mr. Alfred Ormonde : " Ladies and Gentlemen, I am deputed by the manage ment to return their sincere thanks for the patronage you have so liberally bestowed this evening, and I also take the opportunity of saying a few words in respect of the future arrangements of this establishment. It will ' be unnecessary on my part to enter into any professions of a general nature ; suffice it to say, that it .i be the earnest endeavour of the proprietors of this Casino' (of which they have the responsible charge) to maintain it in so efficient a condition in every respect as shall render it an attractive source of intellectual and refined recreation, worthy the community I have the honour of addressing. In pur suance of this object, they confidently believe that it will give general satisfaction to state that they have en tered into arrangements with the best available musical talent in the metropolis, thereby enabling the lovers of music to listen to the compositions of the great masters with that Eclat to which they are entitled. The orchestra has, therefore, been strengthened in every department, without incurring the sacrifice of the entire effect to the prominence of one or two performers. The want of an establishment similar to the Concerts Valentino, in Paris, and the Casinos which are to be found through out Italy, Belgium, and Germany, has long been the subject of remark among the many strangers who visit this vast metropolis, and the projectors of this entertain ment, recognising the growing importance which at taches to public amusements, have determined to devote their energies to the progress and improvement of music and la danse. Public amusements, such as the theatre, concert-room, and kindred institutions afford, are not to be suppressed ; nor, with all deference to those who think differently, does it appear desirable that they should be. Far from objecting to them the lively hope of the philanthropist is to see them made ' unobjec tionable, and the proprietors of this Casino sufficiently recognise their indestructibility to induce them to labour for their improvement and defence. Their first attention will be to endeavour to remove all prejudice that might possibly exist against entertainments of this description, bearing in mind that a generous public are ever ready to encourage the efforts of caterers for their amusement, as long as they are conducted with taste, propriety, and judgment. I may remark that M. Laurent, sen., was the first to introduce promenade concerts in this country, and his example was immediately followed by a host of imitators, and I think I may venture to assert that my friend M. Laurent, jun., first gave a popularity to that beautiful instrument, the Cornopean. Till to-night I was not aware our friend was a devoted disciple of Terpsi chore, as well as Apollo, yet he still retains his post to preside o'er the muse of the many twinkling feet. In short, to quote Byron— The fiddlers trembled as he looked around, In fear of some false note's detected flaw, The prima donna's heart would bound, Dreading the deep damnation of his bah.' Sophrana, basso, even contra .alto Wished him five fathoms beneath the Rialto. In thus quoting, I do not for a moment imagine his musical friends wish him to descend so low in the world, and I have no doubt they, as well as you, will join with me in wishing that he may long occupy his present pro minent position, cheered and encouraged by the plau dits of a liberal and enlightened public." The entertainments we were glad to see were patron ised by a numerous audience. The ship Pomona, of and from St. John's, New Brunswick, was abandoned 22d ult., in lat. 46, long. 41, in a sinking condition ; 19 of the crew were taken off by the Patrick Henry, Delano, arrived at this port, and the others by the Nova Scotia, of Yarmouth, N.S., which was lying by the Pomona, and which had lost top-gallant masts, jib-boom, sails, and deck load in the gale of the 19th ult. THE NEW RIVER COMPANY.—On Sunday, by order of the board of directors of the New River Company, the plugs connected with the mains throughout the dis trict that receives the supply of water from that source, were pulled up, the object for such a course being stated to be to allow a rapid flow of water in order to cleanse the pipes, a great length of new pipes having been laid down. A MAN DESTROYED IN A FURNACE.—At seven o'clock last Sunday morning an accident of the most serious and horrific description took place at the New port works. T. Jones, one of the young men engaged as assistant filler, while throwing a basket full of cinders into the furnace, by some means or other overbalanced himself, and fell into the funnel of this heated crucible, and in about three minutes was entirely consumed. The materials in the furnace were not more than five feet below the level of the charging plate. The blast was immediately thrown off ; yet, notwithstanding every effort to save the unfortunate sufferer, not a fragment of the body could be found. No person can state positively how it occurred ; but it is generelly supposed that the basket must have caught in a portion of his clothes, or in one of the leather handcuffs, and that the sudden con cussion caused by throwing the basket of materials into the furnace, jerked him in. It is very remarkable how this family has been afflicted with accidents of a lament able description. The former husband of the mother was burnt to death from an explosion of liquid iron a one of the neighbouring works. The present husband, or father of the deceased lost an eye, and narrowly es caped a similar fate from a similar cause. Some time ago one of his brothers was most awfully burnt to death on a cinder tip ; and another brother had his foot burnt. —,Monmouthshire Merlin. TUE JEws IN JAMAICA.—Our Jewish fellow countrymen are placed on a more equitable footing in Jamaica than in any other part of the British domi nions. By an Act of the Legislature, passed during the government of the late Lord Metcalfe, they are ad mitted to the full rights of citizenship in every respect. The consequence is, that no section of the community is more distinguished for its efforts to promote education and charities. There is a Jewish and General Literary and Scientific Institution at Kingston, which appears to display more activity and general talent than any similar society on the island. Mr. Joseph Aaron, a young gen tleman of abilities and acquirements, lately delivered the second of a course of lectures on the " _Poetry and Fine Arts of the ancient Greeks," and Mr. Venelryes has announced a lecture on " Capital Punishments." The Despatch, of 13th August, mentions that at a ladies' bazaar 7001. had been produced towards the support of two Jewish schools. From the same paper we learn that at a meeting of the vestry of the Spanish and Por tuguese synagogue, the Rev. A. Mendes was elected assistant minister and English preacher to that congre gation. INSTRUCTIONS TO INSPECTING OFFICERS EMPLOYED ON PUBLIC WORKS IN IRELAND. Office of Public Works, Sept. 24, 1846. Sir,—The Comtniesioners of Public Works have ap pointed you to act as Inspecting Officer of all arrange ments connected with the relief of the destitute in the The town of will be your head-quarters, and the place to which all official letters will be ad dressed, unless another post-town shall be named by you. When travelling from place to place, you will regularly inform the secretary of the post town to which your letter should ba addressed. It will be your duty to attend all meetings of the Ex traordir ary Presentment Sessions under the 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 107, and to assist with your advice in re gard to works which shall be undertaken within any barony for the relief of the destitute. It is not intended that the works should be confined to roads, as any work which can fairly be considered of a public nature may be undertaken ; but such as would tend to the permanent improvement of the surrounding district, and which may be expected to be productive, should be preferred. As it may frequently happen that, by the execution of such works, proprietors of some of the adjoining lands will be more directly benefited than others, it would ap pear to be but reasonable, under such circumstances, that the proprietors, the leaseholders, or the occupants, as the case may be, of such lands, should contribute towards the work in proportion to the benefit they derive from it, over and above the amount of the baronial assess ment for the work as one of relief ; and it will be right, in such cases, that you communicate your opinion to the Presentment Sessions, if called on to do so. In recom mending any new work to be undertaken, the Commis sioners depend, in a great degree, on your judgment and prudence. You will perceive, by the printed instructions from the Lord-Lieutenant, that you are constituted an official member of every Relief Committee in the county. An important part of your duty in attending those Com mittees will be the scrutinising the names of persons re commended as destitute. Hitherto the lists supplied by the Relief Committees occasionally contained the names of persons who should have been rejected ; it will be your duty, by every means in your power, to check the lists and strike out such names as, from the information you may collect, should be rejected, at least for the present ; this will be a difficult and disagreeable office, and in cases of doubt, it will be desirable that you should consult the magis trates assembled at Extraordinary Presentment Ses sions ; but unless the names iu the list be scrutinised, no system or regularity can be preserved. When labourers are required for any work, you will ascertain the number from the county surveyor, civil engineer, or surveyor in charge of the barony or dis trict, and you will give tickets to those who are to be employed on each work, which will be presented to the person in charge of it. I am directed to inform you, it is the wish of the Commissioners that you should make frequent inspec tion of the several works which may from time to time be in operation throughout the district, and report to them your opinion relative to each. The works intended to be executed in the have been placed under the several superintendence of and assistants have been named under the direction of each of those gentlemen. You will communicate personally or by letter, as occa sion may require, with those gentlemen, and it is the Board's particular desire, that a cordial feeling and un derstanding should exist between you and the engineers, whose duty it will be to execute the works. An important part of your duty will be to assist them with your advice on such points as may require it, and in every way to facilitate their operations. It is Rot intended that it should control the detail of the work; but, should it occur to you in your visits, that an alteration, either in the works themselves, or in the system of conducting them, should be made, you will di rect the attention of the engineer to the subject, aad state fully what appears to you to be desirable. It is expected that a fair day's work will be given for a fair day's pay; and as a check upon idleness, where it exists, it should be advisable that the engineer should return only one-fourth or one-half day for such persons, in proportion to the work performed, and this applicable to all works in which day labourers are employe.'. Every exertion must be used by the engineer and surveyor to introduce the system of task-work, to be un dertaken by separate gangs of men, who will select their own ganger, but who must be able to write and keep accounts, and who will be responsible for the tools en trusted to him. Young men should be employed at excavations and wheeling, and old men in breaking stones, or in making fences, and, if handy, in building the dry walls for small gullets required for draining. You will be very particular in your inspections, to as certain whether the labourers have been regularly paid, and if you receive any complaints of irregularities, im mediate inquiry should be made, calling on the pay clerk to explain the cause of such irregularity, and if you are not satisfied with his statement, you should re fer the matter to the paymaster of the district whose office is established at and whose special duty is to look after the particular branch, checking the pay list, and seeing the amounts are re gularly transmitted to the pay clerk. The rule laid down by the Board is, that payments sbould be made once in every week, and at no longer in tervals. The Board requests that you will dispatch by post, so as to be in Dublin every Monday morning, a report of your proceedings during the past week, in which you will state the (lay of the week-and month on which you visited any Relief Committee, or particular work, with any observations you may think it necessary to offer, so as to afford the fullest information as to the state of the works, and the progress that has been made. JOS. C. WALKER, Sec. TO THE ENGINEERS EMPLOYED ON PUBLIC WORKS IN IRELAND. Office of Public Works, Sept. 24, 1846. Sir,----The Commissioners of Public Works have ap pointed you to lay out and take the general super. intendence of all the works in the district, which may be finally approved under the Act of the 9th and 10th Vic., chap. 107, a copy of which is here with sent. As it is important that public works should be laid out and approved by the Extraordinary Presentment Ses sions, and receive the sanction of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, previously to their being actu ally required to afford employment to the destitute, you will acquaint the magistrates, &c., at sessions, that you have received orders to afford them every assistance in your power ; and although you may not yet have had time to lay out or estimate for any works, that you will use every exertion to effect the object, both in regard to repairs or improvements on existing lines of road, or the construction of new roads, or such other public works as the members of the Extraordinary Presentment Sessions may approve. It is not intended that the works should be confined to roads, as any work which can fairly be considered of a public nature may be undertaken, but such as would tend to the permanent improvement of the surrounding dis trict, and which may be expected to be reproductive, should be preferred. As it may frequently happen that, by the execution of such works, proprietors of some of the adjoining lands will be more directly benefited than others, it would ap pear but reasonable, under such circumstances, that the proprietors, the leaseholders, or the occupants, as the case may be, of such lands, should cjntribute towards the work, in proportion to the benefit they derive from it, over and above the amount of the baronial assessment for the work as one of relief; and it will be right, in such ies, that you trnmunicate your opinion to the Present ment Sessions, if called on to do so. In commencing any work, care should be taken to divide it into small lots, each of which is to be le:, by task, or by measurement, to a gang of men, to be com posed, as the case may be, of from ten to twelve, to be headed by a working ganger, who is to receive one shil ling in the pound in addition to his portion of the earn ing of the gang during the month, but payment in the way of subsistence, must be made at the end of each week. As the works are undertaken for the employ ment of the destitute poor, every exertion must be made to exclude all persons who have any other means of sup port than the employment offered on the public works. To assist in this department, the inspecting officer in charge of the district will give tickets to the destitute persons, and you will employ as many as may be required to execute the work without crowding each other. It will be desirable to employ the young men at exca vations and barrow work, and the old men and boys at breaking stones. Old men may also be employed in making fences, and, when handy, in building dry walls for drains or fences. It will be your duty to ascertain that the several as sistants placed under your direction execute the duties entrusted to them, with zeal and success. The Com missioners hold you responsible for all, and authorise you to suspend from duty any of the assistaiats who dis obey orders, who may be inattentive to their duty, or who may commit any irregularity or act of insubordi nation, until the determination of the Board respecting them has been received by you, or by the inspecting officer in charge of the district. You will communicate personally or by letter, as oc casion may require, with these gentlemen, and it is the Board's particular desire, that a cordial feeling and understanding should exist between you and the engi neers, whose duty it will be to execute the works. An important part of your duty will be to assist them with your advice on such points as may require it, and in every way to facilitate their operations. In regard to overseers (stewards) it is of importance that none should be employed in the neighbourhood of their own dwellings, or even in the surrounding district, and you are not to do so unless by special permission of this Board. It will be bettrr to increase the salary of a good overseer, than retain him within the reach of local influence. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, JOS. C. WALKER, Secretary. Sir Robert and Lady reel have arrived at Drayton Manor, from town, after visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Right Han. Baronet's mansion in White hall-gardens is undergoing a course of thorough ref a r. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.--A melancholy occurrence, which has thrown a family into the deepest distress, took place in this neighbourhood (Ware) on Thursday morning last. Mr. W. Gopsill was strolling in his or chard with a loaded double-barreled fowling-piece, and being attracted by a very large apple on one of the trees, he incautiously tried to knock it down with the butt end, holding the barrels in his hands, in a direct line with his body. It is supposed that a small branch of the tree raised the hammer, and caused the fatal dis charge. The whole contents were lodged in the abdo men, creating a frightful external laceration. Two me dical men were promptly in attendance, but in spite of their unremitting attention, he lingered in extreme agony throughout the afternoon, and expired a b out h a lf • past ten.—ll Word Mercury. DISTRESS IN IRELAND, INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FORMATION AND GUIDANCE OF COMMITTEES FOR RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN IRELAND, CONSEQUENT ON THE FAILURE OF THE POTATO CROP IN 1846_:- 1. The Relief Act recently passed, 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 107, directs that when the public works, fur which it provides, become requisite in any barony, extraordinary present sessions are to be assembled. 2. The lieutenant of the cmnty will be requested to divide every such barony into convenient districts, for the action to relief Committees ; each district to consist of at least two parishes, and the exact limits to be ac curately defined. 3. For the districts so formed, the lieutenant will then be pleased to constitute relief Committees : or to re assemble any Committees which may have administered relief funds within these districts, during the period ended on the 15th of August : and to forward to the Commissary-General a return of the districts and of the chairman and secretary (both of whom he will appoint) of eleb Committee. 4. When Committees which have had relief funds are to be re-assembled, some modification of the rule, as to the extent of districts, may be necessary for removing local objections ; but, under all circumstances, it will be indispensable that the relief districts shall be within the boundary of the barony, half-barony, or lesser di vision, for which relief works are required. 5. The Relief Committees (whether newly consti tuted or re-assembled) are to consist only of the follow ing functionaries and public offic( rs:— The lieutenant or vier-lieutenant of the county. Magistrates d,puted by each b e n c h o f petty sessions in the barony, half-barony, or lesser division, for which presentment sessions shall be convened, not exceeding two from each bench. The resident magistrate in the barony division for which the presentment sessions shall be held. The principal clergyman of each chinch (Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Presbyterian), offi„aating in each parish in the district. The Chairman of the Poor-law union, compri,ing the whole or greater part of the barony division for which the presentment sessions shall be held. The principal constabulary officer in such barony division. The principal coast-guard officer where available. Officers acting under the Commissary-General, and principal officer in the barony acting under the Board of Wort s, to be ex-qtficio members. 6. As, during the past season, central Committees were formed in certain districts, there will be no objtc tion to the continuance of this plan, if their operation should appear to the lieutenants of counties more desi rable, keeping the arrangements within the barony boundaries, which is indispensable. 7. Each Committee should hold periodical meetings at the place most convenient for the members and the object. Minutes of each day's ploceedings are to be kept in a book supplied by the Commissary-General for that purpose, as also for corresponcence and ac counts. 8. Three members of a Committee to form a quornm. 9. The balance remaining of each relief fund of the period closed on the 15th of August to be at the disposal of the new or re-assembled Committee of the district for widoh the fund shall have been created. The treasurer to be reappointed. 10. All other Committees on forming relief fint's, to appoint treasurers. 11. Correspondence between the Committees and her Majesty's Government to be carried on through the Commissary-General ; and it is earnestly requested, with a view of facilitating public business, that individual members of the Committees will communicate their sug gestions or objects of inquiry, at meetings of the Com mittees, to be conveyed to the Commissary-General if considered necessary, so that the corresponaenee may be carried on only by the chairman or secretary of Committee. 12. Applications with respect to public works, and correspondence on matters incident to them, should be addressed to the Board of Works. 13. The attention of each Committee should be pri marily given to the provisions of the Relief Act, recently passed (9 and 10 Vic , cap. 107), as it prescribes the mode in which relief is to be afforded by employment on public works. 14. The Commissary-General will supply each Com mittee with copies of the following Acts and papers : ks Thousand AcAt c 9 t a 9 n a d nd lo lo .vi V e. i , c c , a c p a . p l . 0 1 4 0 , 7, g f .r o a r nt ßef in l g i e F i i ir ft o; Dis tricts. Pounds in aid of Public Wo rks of utilit y for Poor Act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 101, to authorise the advance of One Million Poulids for the Improvement of Land by Works of Drainage in Ireland. The Drainage Acts, 5 and 6 Vic., cap. 89-8 and 9 Vic., cap. 56—and 9 vie., cap. 4 ; and where necessary the Fishery Piers Act, 9 Vic., cap. 3. Treasury Minute of the 31st of August, 1846. Papers on the Drainage of Land. Papers on the use of Indian Corn and Meal. 15. A most important duty of the members of the Relief Committees will be, to promote by their influence and example, improvements in husbandry, the drainage of land, and reelaimin7, of wastes. _ 16. The employmtnt provided by law must be of a public nature ; and the owners and occupiers of land in Ireland are, by the Act 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 107, charged with the expense of such works as a;e indis pens)bly necessary for the subsistence of the destitute poor. 17. The Government has also afforded many facilities towards the general agricultural improvement of Ireland by drainage, not only of the uncultivated, tot also of the large proportion of imperfectly cultivated land ; and abundant means have been placed for this purpose at the disposal of the landowners, more favourable then here tofore both as to the rate of interest and the period of repayment. 18. When public works of relief are to be executed, the several Relief Committees in the barony are supply to the officers of the Board of Works appointed to con duct them, lists of persons requiring relief by mploy ment, made up from registries of applicants fur relic;; in the following order, and not containing a greater number of persons than the officers of works shall propose to employ from each relief division of the barony, having regard to the extent of the labouring population requir ing relief in such division :- 1. Persons destitute of means of support, who have the largest families wholly depending on them. 2. Persons with smaller families wholly depending on them. 3. All other persons requiring employment on public works, for whose support it is actually necessary. 19. A book for the registry of applicants for employ ment will be supplied to each Committee. As the ap plications are received, inquiry should be made to ascer tain the real condition of every applicant, lied none should be registered but such as shall appear to be in actual necessity of relief, having no other resource or means of acquiring subsistence, than employment on public works. 20. When lists of applicants are supplied to the officers of the Board of Works, they will issue work tick, is to the p?rsons who are to be employed; and when the lists shall net contain all the applicants registered, this should be stated at foot, giving there the number still requiring employment. The lists to be revised from time to time, et the discretion of the Committees. 21. The Relict Committees are not to interfere with the execution of the works, or with the officers or stewards; but it will be at all times open to them to draw the attent on of the Board of Works to any occur ' rences in relation to the works which in the opinion of the Committee are deserving of COlideralion. 22. It is not to be desired thei, Relief Committees should carry on works of relief of the description for which provision is made in the Act 9 and 10 Vic., c. 107. All such works should be submitted for the considera tion of the baronial sessions, and if sanctioned, they must be executed only by the Board of Works. 23. When Committees are compelled by circumstances to provide employment from funds at their own disposal, it should be limited to small works of local utility; and they should not give a higher rate of wages, nor exact a seialler quantum of labour, in any work so carried on by them, than is given or required upoe works carried on under the superintendence of the Beard of Works. Such works should be carried on by Committees only to the extent to which private employee nt is proved not to be available. The persons !-o employed should be paid for their labour in proportion to the work ac tually done, and not by any composition in lieu of wages. 24. The means of providing food for the labouring population, in lieu of the potato crops lost, are filly explained in the Treasury Minute of the 31st August. The importation of foreign grain is most properly left exclusively to private enterprise ; and, to a certain extent, the distribution, as well as the introduction, is let t to the same agency. 25. Donations in aid of subscriptions will be made let his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, which may amount to one-half of the am( ant sub en het;. ai,:l c l,i.red at the disposal of the Cernmittee: , ;:h t it g accord - ing to the circumstances and the Utglee uldistre:s to be relieved. 26. On applying for a donation, it will be necessary to transmit to the Commissary-General a list of the subscriptions actually collected ; but the contributions from charity funds of any kind should not be included, or in any way mixed up with the personal subscriptions. 27. A certificate to the following effect should bo . a ffi xed to each ui e list of Committee anci subscriptions,lia s igned by the se cretary chairman f or the time being We certify that all the subscriptions set forth in this list have been collected and paid to the treasurer of the Relief Commttee, and that there is not included in it any sum contributed from funds applicable to charitab:e purposes. It is not necessary that the treasurer's receipts should be transmitted to the Commissary-General ; they will be called for by the commisariat office r, who will be di rected to issue the donation. 28. The relief fund f wined of the balance remaining from the past period, subscriptions for the present period, any other contributions obtained, and the Lord-Lieu tenant's donation, will be applicable only to the following purposes : Tt e o sr r eb)or i , :tek : gls rrelief,ty or cl e rll. Providing supplies of Indian corn, or Indi a n corn meal, or other food, for sale. 2. A phhee t f f n a d c by contingent expenses employment., if f of he n ece s t sar Y C . 3. 0 m - mittee, including remuneration f o r the services of " 29. correspondence, papers, and accounts of the Relief Committees, should at all times be open to the inspection o f G overnmen t officers, who will be ap pointed to visit each baron', and who shy uld be fur nished with copies of any documents or accounts they may require. Detailed accounts of receipts and expen diture in the form of an accouut current, should be kept ; and certified copies of then* will be required after the 15th of August, 1847. W. STANLEY, Secretary. Commissariat Relief. Office, Dubliu Castle, September 24, 1846. Tllit SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 55_1846.