The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-26 00:00:00

OPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The project of still further facilitating the intercourse between Europe and India, by means of a railway across the Isthmus of Suez, is resumed ; and hopes are still entertained of its being put into a train for an early accomplishment of the important deal n. The late Mr. Galloway—whose influence with the Pacha of Egypt was employed for the purposes of advancing practical , science in that country, and for improving the knowledge and civilisation of its inhabitants—had obtained the consent and direc tion of that potentate to commence the work. That gentleman made a visit to this country to contract for and procure the necessary materials for the par pose. Thirty miles of rails were transmitted to the neighbourhood of the spot on which the plan was to be executed, when Mr. Galloway's premature and lamented death put a stop to the design. The greater portion of the rails are still on the spot—the line is one entire level—and not a foot of land would require to be purchased. The Pacha is known to be favourable to the project. The intuitive perception of what is calculated to advance the in terests and promote the greatness of his country, for which the Pacha of Egypt is justly celebrated, na turally inclines him to regard with favour a project which would render one of the most barren spots in his Pachalic a source of increased wealth to his trea sury, and of rising greatness to his administration of its affairs. The number of passengers who during the last year passed to and from India by the Overland route, was 3,000; the number in the coming year is esti mated at nearly 4,000. This number does not, how ever, include the hosts of pilgrims who, at stated periods, travel to and from Mecca, nor the mer chapts of the Levant, who join their caravans for trade and safety. The time saved by the pro jected line of rail across the Isthmus of Suez would be twenty-four hours. From the commence ment of the new year a mail will be dispatched from and to India every fortnight, instead of, as at present, every month ; therefore the time actually saved—to say nothing of the diminished inconveni ence and anxiety to each passenger, and to those wait ing. for communications by each mail—would be forty-eight dayi in the year, or nearly one-seventh of the time consumed in the passages by the Over land route, to and from India, in each year. The political and commercial advantages -which this country would derive from the increased facilities of communication with India, with a railway across the Isthmus of Suez would ensure, are too obvious to require notice. The principal question which sug gests itself is, what prevents the work from being im• mediately undertaken ? If the Pacha be favourable to the scheme—the materials on the spot—the pro posed line a dead level, therefore requiring but a trifling outlay of capital in wages to lay down the rails—and the land itself a desert, having no proprie tor to exact an exorbitant price for the purchase— what impediment exists ? The answer is one that illustrates the mischievous influence which the French Ministers possess over the imbecile mind of our Foreign Secretary. France—whose jealousies are ever active where English interests can be foiled, and whose vigilance strongly contrasts with the inertness and proneness to concession by which the foreign policy of England has been characterised under the administration of Lord Aberdeen—has, it seems, expressed dissatisfactio n w ith th e proposed plan, as likely to give to England a preponderating influence in Egypt and Turkey ; and a pretext for maintain ing an establishment which, though professedly com mercial, may be converted into a military occupa tion. This objection—though destitute of even the force which a barely possible contingency might im part, and utterly unworthy, as it is, of being enter tained fora moment in a serious correspondence—is re garded with gravity by our Foreign Minister 1 The convenience of our commerce, and the other public and private interests which are involved in effecting a secure and expeditious intercourse with India and the East, are therefore made to bend before the genius of France ; which has acquired an unprece dented ascendency in the councils of England. STANDARD.—We have carefully avoided any iriterfereace with the dispute which has been so long pending between Mr. Alderman Gibbsand his fellow parishioners, because, has Southey has it— " Men soon live down, Evil or good report, if undeserved." We shall, therefore, content ourselves with a brief reference to the article which appears in another column on the subject. Various charges have, in the cour se o f th e l as t year , b een brought against Mr. Gibbs, some of them with a v irulence which could only have had its origin in personal malice. With one exception, the whole of these imputa tions have been satisfactorily disposed of; and it is, therefore, but fair to infer that there may have been as mach misrepresentation at work on that as on the rest. The only remaining question is now under investigation before a competent tri bunal; and if the result should prove, as we antici pate, favourable to the Alderman, he will, indeed, have good reason to pronounce himself an ill-used man. We are, however, constrained to add, noimithstanding the explanations of our corres pondent, that in any event he will stand in debted for a great part of the annoyance he has experienced to his obstinacy in refusing to recognise the right of his fellow-parishioners to examine his accounts. Every parishioner has a moral, if not a legal, right to know what becomes of the funds he has helped to supply, and considering that the Alderman's accounts appear to have been kept with the greatest regularity, it is the more difficult to understand the motive of his refusal; unless it may have arisen from the irritation which a man of notoriously upright character feels when he becomes the object of an unfounded imputation. For ourselves, had our accounts been demanded, however, impertinently, we would rather have hung them on the parish pump for the inspection of every passer by, than have contested the right to inspect them, because of any technical informality in the application. This, however, is a mere matter of taste—we might, perhaps, say of temper—with which we have nothing to do. Unless we are to presume that the select vestry is composed of gentlemen capable of acting corruptly, auditing accounts for which the proper vouchers have not beep supplied, we are unable to understand the principle on which the outcry against Mr. Alderman Gibbs is still continued; but looking at the several attempts to injure him by the publication of forged reports of the pre tended decision of the Court of Chancery, and forged apologies from himself, we become inclined to doubt if he is not the victim of a persecution dictated by the most sinister and unmanly motives, and destined to deprive him of the honours, to which by long, no less than by arduous service, he appears to be entitled. WARD OF PORTSOKEN. ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. Sheriff MooN had never asked one of the Jewish persuasion to vote for him.—(Loud cries of " You have," and much uproar.) His friends had heard the opposing candidem's friends, and he trusted that the same courtesy wouJ be extended to himself now . A ga i n h e repeate d .that e had felt that no gentleman of that persuasion ought to rote for him, and he had therefore not asked them to do so. It might be thought dishonour. able if he had.—(Tremendous confusion.) Let them recollect that Mr. Sealys had already gone out of the field.(Cries of " YoU'r ' bought him.") But so anxious was ho (Sheriff MOOn)tci prevent confusion in the ward that he assured one &lid all of them that he went to every person over whonifie had any influence, and begged of them to come forward on this occasion. This showed at least that he was not desirous of coming among them unless cordially accepted by them; and further, he could assure them, and he believed that his friend Mr. Salo - mons would give him credit for it, that he was as desirous of meeting with him in the most friendly spirit in, the. course of that contest as he had been before. He 'had met that gentleman in the streets, and he had said to him. " Sir, if you will qualify yourself by signing the 'declaration, I will at once resign my pretensions.-- (Great uproar") He repeated it that it might not be misunderstood.—(Confusion, and cries of " Off, off.") N'T;PCd of Mr. Salomons to state whether he would qualify and take the declaration, when of course he would go out of the field instantly.—(Cries of " You have no right to p u t suc h a question.") He called upon Mr. Salomons to say whether he had not done so? Let him answer that question.—(Cries of " No, no," " Off, off.") He would now a dd ress them about himself and his own qualification. He ca me f orward as a man of equally in dependent principles as Mr. Salomons. Some said " You wi ll ge t a Tory." But he came forward without any political feeling, because that was not a political office. His principles were to preserve everythin g goo d an d re form everything bad. — ( Oh, oh.") He had the honour of having been many ears a tradesman, and they all knew the necessity of character to a tradesman in that commer cial city. He had for many years represented the ward in whieh he yet resided, and ;the best way to ascertain the character of any ma p was to do so in his own imme diate neighbourhood; but he hoped that the character he had sustained was not merely confined to that locality. When put up on a pinnacle in the Common-hall, no ()tie dared to throw a stone at him.—(Cheers, and roars of laughter.) Why had he come forward then, because he had a family rising up, whose very existence depended-on the c har ac t er o f th e i r f a ther.- 7 (enntinued laughter.) In his intercourse through life, be had endeavoured to do his duty, not only as man of business, but as a parent. He could assure them that be wished to treat Mr. Salomons with all the ahivalric spirit, so necessary in contests of that nature. If the election fell upon his opponent no man would shake him by the hand with more good spirit, with more good feeling than he would himself— (Cheers)—and if on the other band, he were the success ful candidate he felt sure that that gentleman would greet him in private society as he had hitherto done.— (Continued cheering.) He had made up his mind not to enlarge. but to bring the little he had to say to a conclu sion. He would simply say to ,those who had supported him that he begged to tender his best thanks to those g9t!emen who had mmained neutral—who were waning to see who would present themselves; he would : Bay that he hoped they would be attached to the side he was now advocating.—(Cheers, and cries of " Oh, oh.") To those who were opposed to him he said, "If you have promised Mr. Salomons your vote, vote for him; if for Mr. Scales, vote for him."—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and " You've bought him.") One gentleman; says— " You've bought Mr. Scale's over." He simply denied it. He thought that sufficient. He denied it.—(Cries of "So you would anything.") If ho should have the honour of being returned by them, he would endeavour to do his duty. He would endeavour, by ev2i y means, to uphold the ptivileges which every Alderman ought to uphold—(Loud and continued laughter)—and to support the interests with which they were immedi ately associated. He did not come into that ward to ob tain pecuniary advantages. He had qualified himself to obtain the honour which he now solicited at their hands. All the advantages, and there were many, attached to the office, with one single exception—that of making his own son a Governor of Christ's Hospital—all other ad vantages he would give to his constitueuts.—(Mr. Sheriff Moon resumed his seat amidst mingled cheers and hisses.) Mr. D. SaLomoNs said he was perhaps over sanguine, but it appeared to him that in the addresses of the mover and seconder, and of the worthy candidate him self, there had been a sad lack of confidence of suc cess. He did not like Mr. Sheriff Moon to speak of the forbearance of the electors. He had stated, and he would state again, that in any question with which he might be concerned, he would not suffer religious preju dices to interfere, nor would he make any question which interested the country at large a religious question ; and he spoke it with all courtesy, that he hardly thought Mr. Sheriff Moon, in canvassing the electors of that ward had not appealed to the Jewish persuasion. If he had not done so—(Cries of "He did ; he called upon me")—certainly his friends had been less scrupulous. Then something had been said respecting chivalry, but he thought it right and just when men aspired to a public office that their conduct should be rigidly scanned, in order to see if the past would give any warranty for their future actions. One other word about the chivalry alluded to. They might see by the remnants of pas quinades, placards, lampoons, and other election witticisms that were there exhibited, that how ever much of warm feeling might have been shown during the contest, it would require some stretch of the imagination to designate it as in any way chivalrous.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He did not mean to charge Mr. Sheriff Moon personally with that, but he merely wished to show the chivalrous courtesy with which he had been greeted during the progress of that election.—(Cheers.) But let them now go forward. —(Hear, hear.) On this occasion it was proper, although it looked rather like personal vanity, that he should speak a little of himself, and of the personal quali fications that prompted him to offer himself as a candi date for their suffrages ; and he did expect that more would have been said by Mr. Sheriff Moon, and by his friends, of his personal qualifications, and of their supe riority to his own. He did not say that they had done so. He said only that they ought, because that after all was the only question for the consideration of the ward; one candidate had withdrawn, two were yet left, and they were that day met for the purpose of discussing their individual merits, in order to choose the most fit for the office of Alderman of that ward. He was most astonished to hear one gentleman allude to his (Mr. Salomons') commercial connections in that City.— (Hear, hear.) Something was said of the screw being applied—it was an insult alike to himself and to the voters. He had heard of such a term at elections, where if a tradesman did not vote as required, the great man's custom was withdrawn, but that could not apply to him. His boast was, that his parents—his an cestors had, for upwards of a century, lived not a stone's throw from that place. Through three genera tions they were Englishmen and tradesmen, and not a word could be brought against any of them, reflecting the slightest stain upon his honour or honesty, so as to render him (Mr. Salomons) their descendant, unfit to represent that ward, or the City of London—(Cheers) --in any capacity.—(Continued cheers.) Some observations had been made with regard to his having stood and been re turned for the Ward of Aldgate, some nine years back. He had been, however, and they there all knew it, re jected by the Court of Aldermen on a technical ground. It was quite true that Mr. Sheriff Moon, on the day of the issuing of the precept, met him in the street as de scribed, and said that if he did as had been stated he should withdraw his own pretensions. He (Mr. Salo mons) thought the thing too ludicrous to be serious, and answered accordingly. He believed that his reply was, that it was not usual for one candidate to ask another a question. Having thus no ticed Mr. Moon's question, he should proceed. The speaker then referred to his being elected Sheriff of the City of London, and the pride he felt at having me rited the thanks of the Livery in that capacity. The Court of Aldermen, they were aware, did not sanction innovation. Many there might remember what impedi ments were placed in the way of those of the Jewish persuasion when they wished to obtain the liberty of the City, but those times existed no longer. He had occasion to be a day or two ago at Maidstone on a very interest ing occasion, and he was gratified by a remark of Mr. Alderman Lucas, who officiated for the Lord Mayor, that they must yield to the pressure of the times and to circumstances.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The speaker then detailed in happy and forcible language the various offices he had been called to by the past and present Governments—to the fact that he was then High Sheriff of Kent and a magistrate in Sussex. Ho also referred to the present Premier's hav ing conferred the commission of :the peace upon seve ral gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion, and to the fact that an illustrious (he might call him) individual then present, Sir Moses Monteftore, had been made by the Duke of Wellington a magistrate of the Cinque Ports.— (Immense cheering.) He came before them as a per fectly fit and proper candidate. He brought in his hand the recommendations necessary to prove his qualifica tions; and not for himself only did he thus then contend. It was a question of principle. Let them have confidence in him, and they would break the last link in the chain of bigotry.—(Loud and continued cheering.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded an eloquent address amid much acclamation. After a few words from Sir MOSEB MONTEFICHIE, the Lord Mayor took the show of hands, and decided that the majority was in favour of D. Salomons, Esq. A poll was then demanded, and the Lord Mayor fixed from two to half-past four that day, from nine to eleven to-day, and on Friday from twelve till four for taking the votes. _ _ ---.....—. The electors then dispersed shortly before two o'clock. The state of the polling at the close of the poll this day was— Salomons Bl Moon 57 Majority for Salomons —24 AGAIN SIR ANDREW AGNEW. (From the Examiner.) Sir Andrew Agnew has had the impertinence to admonish the Queen as to the observance of the Sab bath. The lecture is conveyed in a letter to Lord Aberdeen, which we must suppose his Lordship must have seen the propriety of returning to the writer. The foolish knight declares that Scotland is " a strict Sabbath-observing country, in the true scrip tural sense of the word"—the whole question between it and England being, which is the true scriptural sense of the word, and some of the highest authori ties regarding the Mosaic observance of the Sabbath as contrary to the precepts of the New Testament. The Pharisee's letter deals in that free and familiar use of holy names and references which is highly profane, and in one place he presumes to pray that " the Sabbath may be a sign between God and her Majesty, whereby her Majesty may know that He is the Lord her God." As the Sabbath here meant is the strict Scotch Sabbath, the direct impli cation is, that when her Majesty does not observe that Sabbath, she betrays that she does not know her God. The insolence, the spiritual conceit, the puritanical cant, the presumption, the profaneness of all this are on a par. There is one characteristic trait of wordliness in the epistle. After having assigned all godliness to Scotland, the Pharisee intimates plainly enough that the example of the Court may one way or the other influence the habits of the people, thereby implying that the holding of the asserted scriptural rule is so slight on the minds of the people, or the influence of a Court so much stronger than the scriptural autho rity, that the custom of ages might be shaken by the passing spectacle of a deviation from it in great per sonages. He writes, indeed, of " the overwhelm ing moral influence of the example of the Court." And is the moral influence so " overwhelming" in " a Sabbath-observing country in the true scriptural sense of the word ?" lie thus does the people of Scot land the injustice of supposing that there is not amongst them a moral and a religious authority superior to any example of a court. But this incon sistency is the consequence of the sycophancy which is as natural to this sort of character, as its insolence and presumption, and the Pharisee, however auda ciously he may aspire to heaven, is never long without creeping on his belly to some earthly idol. SIR ANDREW AGNEW AND TIIE QUEEN.—This pharasaical coxcomb has had the impertinence to for ward an address to Lord Aberdeen at Blair Athol, containing a lecture to the Queen upon the mode in which she should spend the Sabbath day in Scotland ! We shall next have the Total Abstinence Society, we presume, forwarding an address to her Majesty incul cating habits of temperance I The one, we are sure, would be as appropriate as the other. Is there no end to this man's follyl—Scotsman. STATE or TRADE.—The market continues in the same state as last week ; the demand both for goods and yarn being moderate, but prices, with some trifling ex ceptions, tolerably steady.—Manchester Guardian. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT, 23. —There has been but a dull market to-day. Flannels of good quality have been very little inquired for ; the demand having been for those of a coarser kind. There has also been very little activity in the wool market, and there is much diversity of opinion amongst the manufacturers, whether the next move in the price of this article will be up or down.—Manchester Guardian. A HIGHLAND Dom.—A labourer on the Lancas ter and Carlisle Railway, while digging, a few days ago, steel work, discovered the remains work, though very much o n f ea a r R th i e gh o l l a d n r d o d ad irk on . S T h h e e p rusted and corroded, retains its original dimensions, and around the defence work for the hand there still re mains the coil of silver wire with which the handle seems to have been mounted. It is m os t lik e ly th e relic of some Highland chieftain of 1745. —Carlisle Journal. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. NEW ZEALAND. Report from the Select Committee on New Zealand, with the Minutes of Proceedings. (Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed 29th J u ly, 1844. No. 556. Amended copy of Parliamentary Paper, No. 556, delivered on 10th August.) We have very recently printed in The Sun the nineteen important resolutions agreed to, after many divisions, by this Committee, on the important matters submitted to their consideration. The case being one of entire novelty, as to what may be termed the es sential characteristics of colonial relations necessary to establish a claim of military protection by the mother country to the settlers or colonists, or those who are assumed to be such, we reprint the entire report. " The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the state of the colony of New Zealand ; and into the proceedings of the New Zealand Company,' and to report the Minutes of Evidence, and their opinion thereon to the House, and to whom two petitions were referred; have considered the matters to them re ferred, and agreed to the following report : " The duty assigned to your Committee of in quiring ' into the state of the colony of New Zealand, and into the proceedings of the New Zealand Com pany, and of reporting their opinion thereupon to the House,' they have found to be one of no ordinary difficulty and delicacy. An attempt at colonisation upon a very great scale, and of the success of which high expectations had been formed, has hitherto failed to realise the sanguine hopes of its projectors; instead of obtaining those advantages on which they had confidently reckoned as a reward for their enter prise and the privations to which they have submitted, a large body of British settlers are at this moment in a situation giving ground for very serious anxiety, while the lives of several of their number, have been unfortunately sacrificed; these unhappy results have moreover been connected with differences which have arisen not only between the settlers and the colonial authorities, but also between the New Zealand Com pany (which reckons among its members many gen tlemen of high station and respectability) and the Executive Government at home. Under such cir cumstances, it will be obvious that a very heavy and very unusual responsibility is thrown upon your Com mittee when they are called upon to express an opinion as to the causes of a state of things so greatly to be lamented ; and though we have endeavoured to execute this task to the best of our judgment, we submit the result of our deliberations with much diffidence to the House, and the more so because the evidence before us, oral and documentary, is so ex ceedingly voluminous, that we feel it would have re quired much more time than was at our disposal to have digested it as thoroughly as we could have wished. " It appears to your Committee that the difficulties now experienced in New Zealand are mainly to be attributed to the fact, that in the measures which have been taken for establishing a British colony in these islands, those rules as to the mode in which colonization ought to be conducted, which have been drawn from reason and from experience, have not been sufficiently attended to. When it was first pro posed to establish New Zealand as a British colony dependent upon New South Wales, Sir George Gipps, the governor of the latter, in a very able address, laid down the following principles as those on which he had framed the Bill, which it was his duty to submit to his legislative council for the regu lation of the infant colony of New Zealand The Bill is founded,' he said, upon two or three general principles, which, until I heard them here contro verted, I thought were fully admitted, and indeed received as political axioms. The first is, that the uncivilised inhabitants of any country have but a qualified dominion over it, or a right of occupancy only ; and that, until they establish amongst them selves a settled form of government, and subjugate the ground to their own uses, by the cultivation of it, they cannot grant to individuals not of their own tribe any portion of it, for the simple reason that they have not themselves any individual property in it. Secondly, that if a settlement be made in any such country by a civilised power, the right of pre-emption of the soil, or in other words, the right of extinguishing the native title, is exclusively in the government of that power, and cannot be enjoyed by individuals without the consent of their Government. The third principle is, that neither individuals, nor bodies of men belonging to any nation, can form colonies, except with the con sent, and under the direction and control of their own Government; and that from any settlement which they may form without the consent of their Govern ment, they may be ousted. This is simply to say, as far as Englishmen are concerned, that colonies cannot be formed without the consent of the Crown.' " Referring to the speech of Sir George Gipps for the argument in support of these rules, it may be observed, that, with reference to New Zealand, they were, to a certain extent, infringed by the irregular settlement of British subjects on the shores of these islands, which began many years ago • but they seem to have been first openly and delibrately departed from, when an attempt was made by the New Zealand Company to establish a colony, not only without the sanction, but in direct defiance of the authority of the Crown. This attempt led at once to a violation of the law by the first settlers entering into a voluntary agreement for the establishment of an authority by which they hoped, in the absence of any legitimate power, to maintain order amongst themselves. The illegality of this arrangement was pointed out to the Company by the then Secretary of State; but the expe dition sent out to found, what was to be, in fact though unauthorised, a British colony, had already sailed. It is to be regretted that more decisive measures were not adopted for preventing the sailing of the expedi tion under these circumstances, since it appears im portant, with reference to the future, to observe, that such unauthorised attempts at colonisation cannot be permitted without leading to the most serious incon venience. When large numbers of British subjects have established themselves in distant regions, inha bited only by barbarous tribes, it is impossible for her Majesty's Government to leave them exposed without protection to the dangers which their own rashness may draw down upon them, or to allow them to exercise, without control, and perhaps to abuse the power which their superior civilisation gives them over the rude natives of the soil. Hence every new establishment of this kind involves a new demand upon the military and naval resources of the empire; but the undue multiplication of such demands must occasion a very heavy burden on the nation, and it therefore follows that enterprises of colonisation should only be entered upon with the sanction and under the authority of the Government. In this in stance the irregular and precipitate mode of sending ont the settlers had the unfortunate effect of placing these settlers, and the agents of the New Zealand Company, from the very outset, on unfriendly terms with the officer whom her Majesty's Government found it necessary immediately to dispatch from Eng land for the purpose of establishing the authority of the Crown in the islands of New Zealand ; and there can be no doubt that this want of a good understand ing between those whose cordial co-operation with each other was so essential to the welfare of the newly-established colony, has been one of the main causes of the difficulties with which it has had to con tend. In order to avert these difficulties which were soon seen to be likely to arise, a Charter of Incorpo ration was afterwards granted to the New Zealand Company, with the hope of placing that body in friendly relations with her Majesty's Government; but this attempt was defeated, partly by the jealousies created between the respective servants of the Crown and of the Company, by the error originally com mitted by the latter; partly by other causes of diffi culty which afterwards arose. These are chiefly to be traced to the means which were adopted for esta blishing the authority of the Crown in New Zealand. " The sovereignty over these islands had, at an earlier period, been formally disclaimed, and their indepen dence had been distinctly recognised, both by the Crown and by Parliament. This course had been pursued because it was considered (and by no means upoti light grounds) that it was not advisable to ex tend British dominion in these distant regions; but in adopting this policy it was overlooked, both by the advisers of the Crown and by Parliament, that it was impossible to check the tide of emigration which set so strongly towards the shores of New Zealand, and that the regular establishment of British power was the only practicable mode of guarding against the evils which could not fail to follow from permitting a large number of Europeans to settle among its un civilised inhabitants, without being subject to any le gitimate authority or control. Looking back at what was then done, with the light to be drawn from sub sequent experience, there is no room to doubt that it would have been far better if British dominion over these islands had been asserted as early as 1832, or even 182.5 ; but a different policy having been at that time pursued, it was considered, in the year 1839, when Captain Hobson was sent out, that the diffi culties which had thus been created could only be got rid of by obtaining from the natives their assent to the extension of the authority of the British Crown over New Zealand. Acting under the instructions he had received, Captain Hobson, therefore, immediately on his arrival in New Zealand, at the beginning of the year 1840, concluded, with a large number of the chiefs of the Northern Island, a treaty known by the name of the treaty of Waitangi, by which, in return for their acknowledgment of British sovereignty, they were promised protection, and guaranteed in the pos session of all lands held by them individually or col lectively. The evidence laid before your Committee has led them to the conclusion that the step thus taken, though a natural consequence of previous errors of policy, was a wrong one. It would have been much better if no formal treaty whatever had been made, since it is clear that the natives were in capable of comprehending the real force and meaning of such a transaction ; and it therefore amounted to little more than a legai fiction, though it has already in practice proved to be a very inconvenient one, and is likely to be still more so hereafter. The sove reignty over the Northern Island might have been at once assumed, without this mere nominal treaty, on the ground of prior discovery, and on that of the absolute necessity of establishing the authority of the British Crown for the protection of the natives them selves, when so large a number of British subjects had irregularly settled themselves in these islands, as to make it indispensable to provide some means of maintaining good order amongst them. This was the course actually pursued with respect to the Middle and Southern Islands, to which the treaty of Wai tangi does not even nominally extend; and there is every reason to presume that, owing to the strong de ' sire the natives are admitted to have entertained for the security to be derived from the protection of the British Government, and for the advantages of a safe and well-regulated intercourse with a civilised people, there would have been no great difficulty in obtain ing their acquiescence in the assumpti on o f sove reignty than in gaining their consent to the conclusion of the treaty ; while the treaty has been attended with the double disadvantage, first, that its terms are am biguous, and, in the sense in which they have been understood, highly inconvenient; and next, that it has created a doubt which could not otherwise have existed, and which, though not, in the opinion of your Committee, well-founded, has been felt and has prac tically been attended with very injurious results, whether those tribes which were not parties to it are even now subject to the authority of the Crown. "Your Committee have observed that the terms of the treaty are ambiguous, and in the sense in which they have been understood, have been highly incon venient, in this we refer principally to the stipulations it contains with respect to the right of property in land. The information which has been laid before us, shows that these stipulations, and the subsequent pro ceedings of the Governor founded upon them, have firmly established in the minds of the natives notions, which they had then but very recently been taught to entertain, of their having a proprietory title of great value to land not actually occupied; and there is every reason to believe that, if a decided course had at that time been adopted, it would not have been diffi cult to have made the natives understand that, while they were to be secured in the undisturbed enjoy ment of the land they actually occupied, and of what ever further quantity they might really want for their own use, all the unoccupied territory of the islands was to vest in the Crown by virtue of the sovereignty that had been assumed. " Your Committee have already mentioned, that it is one of the fundamental principles of colonial law and policy, which they believe to have been correctly laid down by Sir G. Gipps, that 'the uncivilised in habitants of any country have but a qualified do minion over it or a right of occupancy only ; and that until they establish amongst themselves a settled form of government, and subjugate the ground to their own uses by the cultivation of it, they cannot grant to in dividuals not of their own tribe any portion of it, for the simple reason, that they have not themselves any individual property in it.' Unfortunately the original instructions given to Captain Hobson, when he was sent out for the purpose of establishing British do minion in New Zealand, were not sufficiently precise upon this most important point; they contained di rections as to the manner in which he was to proceed in purchasing land from the natives, and they did not (as your Committee think that they ought to have done) clearly lay down the rule that sovereignty being established, all unoccupied lands would forth with vest in the Crown, and that, except in virtue of grants from the Crown, no valid title to land could be established by Europeans. This mode of framing the instructions seems to have led the first Governor into the error of acting throughout upon the assump tion that no part of the extensive and unoccupied ter ritory of New Zealand was to be considered as belong ing to the Crown, or available under its authority for the purposes of settlement, until first regularly sold by the natives : this is not indeed distinctly stated in the treaty of Waitangi; had it been so, this treaty would probably have been attended with less injurious con sequences than it actually has been, since in that case there can be little doubt that it would have been at once disallowed by her Majesty's Government; at least it is clear that the treaty could not have been understood either by the Governor of New South Wales or by the Secretary of State, in the sense put upon it by Captain Hobson, since both expressed their approbation of it, though the former had pre viously laid down the very different principle upon this subject already quoted ; and the then Secretary of State, Lord John Russell, after he had received and approved of the treaty, adopted in the most formal and authentic manner the views of Sir George Gipps. By the advice of Lord John Russell, in the month of December, 1840, a charter passed the great seal, by which New Zealand was erected into a sepa rate and independent colony; and this charter was transmitted, together with instructions under the Royal Sign Manual, to the Governor, Captain Hob. son. In this charter and instructions, actual occu pation and enjoyment' are clearly pointed out as alone establishing a right of property in land in the natives - and the rule is laid down that all other land s must b e considered as vested in the Crown, in virtue of the sovereignty that had been assumed, and that they must be dealt with accordingly. The treaty of Waitangi (which had previously reached England and been approved), it may therefore fairly be as sumed, must, when this charter and the instructions which accompanied it were forwarded to the colony, have been understood as bearing a meaning not incon sistent with the terms in which they are couched. The lands held collectively,' of which the possession was guaranteed to the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand, must, therefore, have been regarded as the lands actually occupied by them, and cultivated in d w l ic h principles of , consistently common by a tribe, in the manner frequently prac tised, and the forests as those actually used for cutting , timber. wi ' t ` h This is heinterpretation an the ancientcolonial law as laid down by Sir George Gipps, and consistently also with the terms of the charter of the colony and of the royal instructions to the Governor, the ought to have been put upon the treaty ; had it been so, the most serious of the evils which have since arisen would have been avoided. If native rights to the ownership of land had only been admitted when arising from occupation, there would have been no difficulty in giving at once to the settlers secure and quiet possession of the land they required, and they would thus have been able to begin without delay and in earnest the work of reclaiming and cultivating the unoccupied soil. The proceedings of the Commis sioners appointed to inquire into the claims to land would also then have been short and simple ; they would have to inquire merely whether lands actually occupied by natives had been fairly sold to settlers by the occupants, and with respect to wild lands, whether Europeans claiming to have purchased them had done so at such a price, or had incurred such an expense in respect of them, as to give to the supposed purchasers not a right to the lands (for they could not derive a title from parties who did not them selves possess one), but a claim on the consideration of the Crown to have granted to them as an indul gence more or less, according to circumstances, of the lands they had nominally purchased. With respect to the New Zealand Company, as the extent of land to which they were entitled had been already settled by a special agreement with the Government and the award of Mr. Pennington, they would at once have been put in possession of all that very large portion of the land on which they proposed establishing set tlements which was previously wild and unoccupied; and the question to be determined by the Commis• sioners would have reduced itself to that of whether those inconsiderable portions of land actually occu pied and enjoyed' by natives had been fairly sold by the occupants —a question the decision of which, one way or the other, would have been comparatively unimportant?' (TO DB CONTINUED.) MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the of the Registrar - General:— The Tableis iesued from the Office 21th of Sep.tember;llB44." Weekly Total. Average o: Five Years, CAUSES OF DEATH. ....., —... Epidemie,Endemic,and Contagious Diseases 250 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lOB 111 Di sease s of the Lungs, an d other Organsof Respiration ............... 192 286 Diseases piseeses of ef thethe Brain,Blood-vesselslleartaNndervesand Senses 23 21 Di seas es of the Stoma c h, Li ver, an d ot h er 131 157 Organs of Digestion .. Diseases of the Kidneys, S te Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. lO 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 5 6 Di se ase of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 45 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 854 942 Deaths from all Causes... 857 946 DEATHS PROM VIE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER THE ABOVE HEADS. ' ----- Weekly Average Total. of Fiva Years. Consumption ..... .....,..... 124 147 Scarlatina B7 34 Pneumonia ...... .... 37 79 Dropsy ..... .. .. 32 35 Hooping Cough l4 33 Typhus ............... 33 31 Small Pox 37 15 Disease of the Heart Measles ... ...................... 18 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the B ra i n 8 9 Diarrhoea.. ....... .. Sudden Deaths 3 15 DISTRICTS. West 128 138 North ...... . Central .. East lB3 207 South 230 242 -- Total .... ..... ... ...... ~. 857 946 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Yesterday a Jew, named Abraham Myers, late keeper of a saloon in Great Windmill-street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Maltby, charged with having wilfully wounded Mr. Robert Clayard, livery stable keeper, Lisle-street, Leicester-square. It appeared from the evidence that Clayard and Myers were in the habit of meeting at the house of Mr. J. Banks, the Crown, Cranborne-passage, Lei cester-square. On Tuesday evening they met as usual, together with several other persons. Some altercation took place between the prisoner and Cla yard, and blows were exchanged. This occurred in front of the bar about 7 o'clock. An apparent recon ciliation afterwards took place; and all parties went into the parlour, where general conversation was car ried on, without any reference to what had occurred in the bar. About 9 o'clock Myers went out, re questing some one to take care of his great-coat till his return. Having been absent ten or twelve minutes Myers resumed his seat, and no apparent change had taken place in his demeanour. Clayard, who was sitting in a chair at the opposite end of the room to Myers, addressed the latter, saying in a familiar tone, "Come, come, Aby, there should be no ani mosity between us, here is my hand, and with it my heart," at the same time extending his right hand. Myers, without the slightest hesitation rose from his seat, and approaching Clayard, took hold of the ex tended hand with his own left hand, and then said, " I freely accept your hand, but I'll have your heart's blood ;" and suddenly drew from his coat pocket a large butcher's knife, and made a desperate lunge at his in tended victim. Clayard caught sight of the weapon, and, in order to turn the point from his side, to which it was directed, seized the knife with his left hand, when Myers violently drew it through the hand, cut ting through the ball of the thumb in the most danger ous manner. Myers again raised the knife, and re peating his threat, made a second stab, which inflicted a flesh wound just above the left breast. The fact of Clayard being seated in a chair enabled him to throw himself backward, and to this may be attributed his fortunate escape, for the prisoner's determined pur pose was evident to all present, who interposed as speedily as possible. The prisoner then dropped the knife, and was making his escape from the house, but was stopped by a waiter, and given into custody. A surgeon was fetched to the wounded man without loss of time, and after the blood was somewhat stanched, he was carefully conveyed home. Yesterday the policeman who took charge of the prisoner handed to the magistrate a certificate from the medical attendant, which was to the effect that the present removal of the wounded man would be unad visable. Mr. Smallwood, solicitor, who was present to watch the case on the part of the prisoner, did not at all in terfere in the proceedings, nor offer any opposition to the magistrate's determination to remand the prisoner, who was accordingly put back till Saturday next. The knife with which the attempt was made was exhibited in court. It is nearly a new one, and of the largest size b u t c h ers use, b e i ng altogether from eighteen to twenty inches long. WORSHIP -STREET. Yesterday James Lewis, a shoemaker, and Sarah Hayman, a woman with whom he cohabited, were brought up before Mr. Broughton, charged with deserting their male infant, a child six weeks old, in the public streets, whereby it had become chargeable to the Spitalfields Union, and since died in that work house. It will be recollected that the infant, which was rolled up in a bundle of dirty rags, was found at ten o'clock at night, on the 31st of May last, lying upon the flag -stones in Henry-street, Commercial-road, by a married woman, named Mary Gray, who took it to her own house that night, and on the following morning delivered it to the parish authorities, at the workhouse. At the former examination, the infant, which was exceedingly ill, was produced by a work house nurse, and several of the witnesses then in attendance distinctly swore to it as being the child of which the female prisoner had been delivered, and identified also the clothing upon it as belonging to Hayman. It was now intimated to the magistrate that the unfortunate child had expired in the work house at four o'clock in the morning of the 20th inst. and that a coroner's inquest had returned a verdict of "Died from natural causes." Mr. Ross, the surgeon of the Shadwell and Wap ping district of the Stepney Union, said that the child was brought to the workhouse on the Ist of June, at which time it was in good health, but that in a month afterwards it was attacked with diarrhoea, from which for a short time it rallied; but a second attack took place, and it then expired. He did not think that the exposure of the child had produced the disease which caused its death. Mr. BROUGHTON then inquired whether the police man who had the case in hand had succeeded in ob taining any information with respect to the other child; of which it had been proved at the last exami nation that the female prisoner was in a state of preg nancy with when she absconded from the work house on the 15th of August, 1842, and which it was suspected the prisoners had disposed of by unfair means, as they so positively refused to give any ac count of it ? Hams, 248 K, replied in the affirmative, and called the following witnesses : Elizabeth Laws, living at 21, Brown's-lane, Spital fields, stated that at the latter end of August, 1842, the prisoners, who were accompanied by a little boy, two years old, hired apartments in her house, and that in about a week afterwards the female prisoner gave birth to a male child, which was full-grown and perfectly healthy. The prisoner had no baby-linen ready, and she (witness) supplied her with it. About a month after that the prisoners left her house clandestinely, taking with them the child in question, and upon witness going up into the room they had occupied, she found every article of child's clothing she had lent the prisoner left behind them, and hang ing upon a line. She had never seen anything of either of the prisoners since. Maria Ridley, a midwife, proved having attended the female prisoner at her accouchement on the 26th of August, 1842, when she was delivered of a re markably fine male child, which was both full-grown and in every respect in perfect health. Diana Still, of No. 12, Sebright-street, Bethnal green-road, stated that in September, 1842, the pri soners engaged an unfurnished room in her house. They were accompanied by a little boy, about two or three years of age. The woman appeared in a very weak state, as if she had just got up from a confine ment, but she had no baby with her, nor did she make any allusion whatever to having had one. They left about five months afterwards, having been ordered to quit by witness's husband, in consequence of their cruel treatment towards the little boy. The prisoners had been frequently in the habit of going out for hours together, leaving the poor child shut up in a deal box, and locking the door :of the room after them. The child frequently remained ao locked up till mid night, when the prisoners generally returned and re leased it. Mrs. Laws here stated, that while the prisoners lodged at her house, they were guilty of similar in stances of cruelty towards the boy, whom they were repeatedly in the habit, when they went out, of shut ting up in one of the drawers of a chest in their room till their return. Hams, the officer, stated that he had ascertained from Mr. Lawrance, a master shoemaker at Cam bridge-heath, Hackney, for whom the male prisoner had formerly worked, that a young man who had lodged in the same house with the prisoners in Brown's-lane had been to his (Mr. Lawrance's) house, and made frequent inquiries of him to ascertain the prisoners' address, declaring that if he could only discover it, he would instantly give them both into custody for destroying the life of their child. He (Hams) in consequence had been using exertions to find this young man, but had not been able as yet to ;do so. He had traced the prisoners to a lodging in a house at the back of Shoreditch Church, which they occupied before they lodged at Mrs. Still's, where they went without the infant of which the female prisoner had been so re cently delivered, and there he lost all further trace of their movements; but he hoped he should succeed in finding the young man, who, no doubt, could give important information. Mr. BROUGHTON said as the evidence of the medical officer absolved the prisoners from the charge of (*using the death of the child which had died in the workhouse, they would now, as far as regarded that child, be only sent to take their trials for deserting the infant; but with respect to the other child, of which it had been proved that the female prisoner had been delivered two years ago, its fate was wrapped in such mystery, that nothing could remove the suspicion at taching to both prisoners, but a full and candid reve lation on their part. Would the male prisoner give this explanation ? Male prisoner—l could very easily do so, if I chose, but I decline saying any thing about it at this court. The female prisoner remained silent. Mr. BROUGHTON said, in that case, he could not think of parting with them as yet; he should send them both back to prison to enable the police to make further inquiries into the matter, and endeavour to ascertain the fate of the missing infant, if possible. The depositions of the witnesses were then taken in the first charge, on which the prisoners were com mitted for trial, and they were remanded to answer the second. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday George James, a dissolute-looking lad, about fifteen or sixteen years of age, was charged with highway robbery under the following curious circumstances : Henry Morton, a very intelligent boy, fifteen years old, but short for his age, stated that he was bred to the sea, and had gone two or three short voyages. On his return from the last of these he went home to his father, who resides at Cheltenham, in Gloucester shire, taking with him 14, which was all he had been ► able to save up. He found that his father had been some time out of employment, and tendered him the money, but the poor man, not being able to niake any provision for the lad, gave it back to him again, tell ing him to go to London, and procure another ship. He consequently came to town about a fortnight since, and lived as sparingly as he could upon the sovereign whilst looking out for a ship. On Tuesday evening, whilst he was talking to a lad at the St. Katherine's dock, the prisoner and another, who overheard him inquiring after a ship, came up and addressed him. They then moved a little away and whispered after which the prisoner again addressed him, and said he could procure him a ship, but it would not do for the whole four of them to go to the captain, who would blow them up. Complainant, who promised the pri soner a shilling in the event of his procuring him a ship, proceeded with him and his compani©n towards Black wall, where they took him to a shed near the Gun, and asked him where was his money, to which he made n o answer. Upon this, the prisoner took a blue kerchief with white spots from his pocket, and tied it round the complainant's mouth, threatening if he called out, to stifle him. The other lad then put his hand into com plainant's pocket, and took all the money he had— namely, four shillings, 6d. in halfpence, and six far things. They then ran away, and he pursued them, calling out, " Stop thi e f." The prisoner was subse quently caught by a constable, hut the other had got away. Police-constable Davies, 94 K, hearing the cry of " Stop thief;" pursued the prisoner, who, in the true artful dodge style, also called out " Stop thief," at the top of his voice. When arrested, he cried out, " Oh, Sir, it was not me ; it was a shipmate of mine." Witness asked him what his shipmate had done ? to which the prisoner, pointing to complainant, replied, he had robbed the boy of Us. 6d. The complainant then came up, and, addressing the prisoner, said, " You have done sufficient to transport you, as you and your mate have robbed me of 55." He, at the same time, added, " What did you tie the handker chief round my mouth for ?" To which the prisoner replied, " What if I did ? I did not think any harm of it ; but I dare say we shall overtake my shipmate, and find whether he has your money." The prisoner was then taken to the station-house, and on being searched nothing was found on him but a spotted blue kerchief, the same with which the prisoner's mouth was tied up. The prisoner said he knew nothing more of the matter, except that the lad who was with him offered to take complainant and introduce him to his captain. They went together, and on coming to Blackwall, the other boy, of whom he knew nothing, except hearing from him that he ran away from his parents, thrust his hand in complainant's pocket and ran away. He (prisoner) pursued and overtook the boy, but he succeeded in getting away again. Davies, the constable, here stepped forward, and said the prisoner told him he and the other lad came from St. Alban's together, and slept at the Holborn Union on Monday night. Mr. BRODERIP said, that if the boy's statement was true, the case deserved attention and he should be looked after. He would remand the prisoner until Tuesday next, and in the mean time it was pro bable that the other lad would be apprehended. Inspector Rutt, who seemed much interested in the lad's case, said he would see to a full provision in the interim. Mr. BRODERIP commended the boy to his care, ex pressing the fullest reliance on his humanity. The case excited the deepest interest, owing to the youth of all the parties involved, and the more than ordinary intelligence which the poor little fellow dish played throughout the inquiry. Mr. Leadley, the junior clerk, undertook to write to Gloucestershire, to test the accuracy of his state ment ; and The MAGISTRATE assured the lad, that if his story proved true, no pains should be spared to provide him with a ship, and furnish him with an equipment. BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HAS TINGS RAILWAY. The first General Meeting of the Directors and Shareholders in this Company was held yesterday afternoon, pursuant to the terms of the Act of Par liament, at the terminus of the London and Brighton Railway, London-bridge. 'Wm. Nash, Esq., took the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that the contracts for the works had been entered into at a sum below the Parliamentary estimate. The con tractor had agreed to take a portion of the contract money in shares in the Company. The Directors were happy to announce that they had received the cordial co-operation of the landowners on the line —more particularly that of the Earl of Chichester, Lord Gage, and Col. Trevor, who had, in the most generous manner, presented the Company with the sum of 5001., to be applied towards the preliminary expenses. The Directors observed, with regret, the continued determination of the South-Eastern Com pany to contest for the traffic to Hastings with this Company. The Brighton Company had agreed to take up 1,400 shares in the Company, and it had still been found necessary to issue 2,100 shares more. A, proposition had been received from the Brighton Company, to take up any number of shares not ex ceeding 3,000, provided the option were given them of taking the line, when completed, at 4 per cent. on the estimate cost of 475,0001. The report was re ceived and adopted. A resolution was then passed, authorising the Di rectors to cause surveys to be made for a line passing through Rye, to join the South-Eastern Railway, at or near to Ashford, and for a line between Lewes and the Brighton Railway, in a north-westerly direction, with a view of materially shortening the distance be tween London and Hastings. A vote of thanks was passed to Lord Chichester, Lord Gage, and Col. Trevor. The meeting was then made special, to confirm the proposition of the Brighton Company, which having been done, the meeting separated. NEW AND VEXATIOUS REGULA TION AT THE CUSTOM-HOUE. We have received a letter, inserted elsewhere, and signed a " London Merchant," on a new regulation in the Customs' department, which calls for the atten tion of the commercial public, and, in our opinion, for vigorous remonstrances against the continuance of this novel annoyance to trade. Our mercantile readers are aware that in case of export of exciseable articles on which a drawback of the duty is allowed, it has long been the practice for the merchant to send notice to the Export office of his intention to pack excised goods on which the drawback was to be claimed, when an officer was sent to his premises to superintend and certify the packing, on whose report and certificate the goods were passed at the Custom-house without further molestation. By the new regulation, this con venient and proper practice is to be discontinued, and such goods are to be sent down to the quays, where the searcher can only perform his office of as certaining the amount of drawback to be allowed by opening the packages and examining the contents, which are then to be repacked by the labourers of the Custom-house. The bare enunciation of the fact will suffice to convince our commercial friends of the loss, detriment, and iniquity, implicated in the new practice. The answer to remonstrances on the innovotion—as remonstrances on such a matter must be loud and frequent—is, that the change has been made by order of the Lords of the Treasury. We do not affect to dive so far into the arcane of official tactics as to pretend to know in what depart ment the first move towards the pernicious change had its origin —whether it ' was suggested to the Treasury by the Customs, or whether it sprung from the board of supreme finance. But it is evident to our mind that the new regulation has been put into operation through pure ignorance of the nature and requirements of " packing" for over-sea transit. It surely could not have been known by those from whom the order emanated, that the business of packing goods was an art—an employ ment of skill and knowledge ; and that every distinct kind of goods demanded its peculiar care, arrange ment, and contrivance to fit it for sea voyages ;—that every trade, in fact, had its own system for packing its particular wares;—that the safety and durability of goods on a voyage depended mainly on the skill and care in packing them;—that the costs and charges of transport were much affected by the mode of packing ;—that many goods were so compressed by immense mechanical force, that no unassisted human power could reduce them into the same compass, in the event of a pre mature release from the compression of the packer. All this and much more regarding the commercial importance of the 'art of packing, should have been well considered by the Government authorities be fore they undertook to issue an order which went to contravene the especial care of traders for the se curity of their goods—to nullify all their cost and labour in packing, and to leave a large amount of our exported manufactures to damage, mutilation, and almost certain destruction, under the opening and repacking of a set of unskilled, careless, undi rected, Custom-house labourers. It is manifest to all practical men, that the new regulation cannot be persisted in, unless in every Custom-house in the kingdom there be set up a regular packer's establishment, with all the implements, sur rounded by all the skill and special knowledge called for in every particular branch of the export trade in excise goods. The concoctors of the new regulation, whether Lords of the Treasury or Commissioners of Customs, did not, we are convinced, foresee the serious derangements to our commercial pursuits, the great danger of damage to our expert produce, which it in volves. We trust, therefore, that the authorities will at once see the necessity of abandoning such a vexa tious and absurd rule; and not wait until merchant exporters shall be driven to try whether in our courts ofjustice they cannot obtain redress for d amage sus tained by the ill-advised and arbitrary administration of a public fiscal board,—Journal of Commerce. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. NOTICE TO MARINERS. ADDITIONAL BEACON BUOY ON THE SCAli r REEF. Admiralty, Sept. 24, 1844. am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the Committee for Managing the _Affairs of Lloyd's, a copy of a dispatch from the Britisill Consul at Elsinore, reporting the establishment of an additional Beacon Buoy on the Seaw Reef.—l am, Sir, &c., (Signed) JOHN BARROW. Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. (COPY.) Elsinore, Sept. 12, 1844. My Lord,—l have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith inclosed, a translation of a notice issued by the General Board of Customs and Trade at Copenhagen, dated the 10th instaut, making known that -an additional Beacon Buoy has been laid down at the S. E. extremity of the Scaw Reef, which will be out du ring the winter, and in case it should be carried away by the ice, it will be replaced by another as soon as circuw' stances shall permit.—l have, &c. (Signed) HENRY GEORGE KUTER'• The Earl of Aberdeen, &c., &c., K.C. (TRANSLATION.) In order to mark the reef which projects from the point of the Seaw, a Beacon Buoy was some time back laid down at its N.E. extremity, which lies in four and a halt fathoms water, in the direction W. by S. of the Lighthouse and the Old Church Steeple, both in one line, and was furnished with three brooms. In addition to the foregoing, another Beacon Buoy has now been laid down at the S.E. extremity of the reef, in four fathoms water, the Lighthouse bearing W.N.W., and the old Skrugen Church. Steeple W. This Beacon Buoy is provided with only two brooms, and will, in the same manner as the first-mentioned buoy, lie out during the, winter ; and should it be carr i e d away b y t h e i ce , it will be replaeed by another as soon as circumstances may permit. General Board of Customs and Trade, Sept. 10, 1‘44. LIGHT ON BRUSTERORT, BETWEEN PILLAU AND MEMEL. Royal Prussian General Consulate, London' September 25, 1844. Sir,—l am directed by his Prussian Majesty's De: partment for Foreign Affairs to aoquant you that it is intended to erect on B rus t eror t, a pro j ect i ng po i n t of land between Pellau and Memel, a revolving light of the second class, upon Fresnel's plan ; but as the building cannot be finished for some considerable time, it has been deemed necessary to renew the North Beacon at Brus terort, which was burned down in September, 1842, and to give the Sea Light there an improved construction. I beg to inclose you a translation of a notice to marl' ners, which has been published in the Continental pa pers. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant. (Signed) B. IIEBETER, Prussian Consul-General. Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. (coPr.) The Sea Light exhibited on Bristerort has been im; proved so as to show two fixed lights, the position and elevation being the same as the former, and visible in clear weather at a distance of about 21 German miles, within 101 degrees of the horizon, namely, from W. t° N. by N.N.E. (query, if from W. to N. by E. round b y North.) Both lights will b e ex hibi te d for the first tim e on the evening of the Ist of O c t o b er , 1844, a nd kep t burning from sunset to sunrise through the year. NEW LIFE-BOAT.-A new and extraordinary life-boatt is being built upon the diagonal principle, by the Pat erl . Kamptulicon and Flooring C om p any , near bridge, the planks of whi c h are compose d o f I n dia rubbe r and ground cork. Its sp ec ifi c grav i ty i s sta t e d to b e , two-thirds lighter than oak, and f rom w hi c h i t i s believe d the boat is incapable of bei ng bil ge d or sun k. 11 8 5 r , length 34 feet, and breadth 11 f ee t, i s copper faste n ., h and pulls twelve oars; has two l ugg sa il s , an d s t e ers wit h either a rudder or oar. Th e B e l g i an G overnm ent directed three to be built for th a t coas t. Waterloo LIFE 11/ THE TURN OF !—CURE EXTRAORDINARY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—A resp ec t a bl e woman , aged 4.1 named Graham, residing in S co tl an d- roa d, Liverpe% was in the most critical and d angerous s t a te for Din months, being sometimes almost choked with Ol e g:: with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart, t i , (l) ,bi; they with a general derangem en t an d d e bility 0" whole system. Her life w as i n th e grea t es t dang l e r when she commenced the use of these miraculous which restored her to the highest state of health in fo r weeks. They are the finest medicine in the world o females of all ages. Sold (also Holloway's Ointm ent) at Professor Holloway's Est a bli s h ment , 244, St i , 7 i ll (where advice may be had gratis), and by alnW s .t respectable medicine vendors th r o ug h ou t the Clvtos world. PAISLEY.—STATE OF TRADE.—Trade Still )Con tinues brisk, and all hand are employed. This "four applies to the whole of the different branches c' e - inate manufacture. The neighbouring villages also pnr,L i ,,cng in this agreeable state of things. In the neighn",, se town of Johnstone, cotton-spinning has not bee all brisk for a good many years. The old rail ls ,„,„ 6l No busy, and some new ones are in course of erec"',, a lly doubt, wages are small, but provisions are ° nu- a ils cheap and of excellent quality—so that the poor In mo circumstances must be conside ra bly i m p ro ved.--Gla s g y National. THE CASE OF TIIE SOLDIER'S WIFE.—On Fridq last Mrs. Dynan and her child sailed from the Prince Dock in the Mary Somerville, for Calcutta. Before lean' ing she waited on Messrs. Taylor, Potter, and Co., aa" thanked them for their kindness in having afforded be t a free passage to her husband. She also expressed al deepest gratitude to the numerous parties in Liverr ° , l who had interested themselves in her behalf and ros e her from a state of friendlessness and destitution to one f of comparative happiness. Her joy at the prose s S h e speedily meeting her husband was unbounded. F`', occupies an excellent berth on board, and everythibt that can minister to her comfort along the vor i g e dies been kindly provided for her by those benevolent laand and gentlemen who, from the first, took so protai se ne,2t,,.. active a part in making pr ov i s i on f or h er neeePd e-. Liverpool Albion. A tor of THE GAME-LAWS IN FRANCE.—A cOu tic tional the Messageries floy a l es a pp eare d b e f ore t he C° r , re p c s boot- Police on Saturday, on a ch arge o f h av i ng b e fore '"" bas ket ing season was opened, brought on his diligenc e a wogs from Nantes containing t wo ra bbit s . F or t h e defell e ,L the alleged that the basket was mar k e d " f ow l s ," and the diligence company had no right to examine w— ta in parcels committed to its charge did or did net con need that, in addition, the shooti ng season had eernin e for at Nantes at the time the rabbits were transmitted. lig the accusation the King's Ad voca t e a rgued th at , n et court had nothing to do with th e measur es taken that, taken by the company to insure a p ro per observance of roe law, and that it was not the locality from which the g_e . it was dispatched, but that to which it was sent, wb The was necessary to have the shooting season oPel l 'd bits court found the defendant guilty, and condernn e „,ible to 501. fine and costs, making the company resP a " for its pay knOW ment. SACRED TOAST.—Jackson of Exeter, as well bie for his literary as his musical talents, and rema rk Alb for the readiness of his wit, being called upon at s e ryir• lic dinner for a toast, said, "I have great plea,s u r e ' yea Chairman, in complying with your command, and g t : tra ant the opening words of the third P s alm." The ch at idea, astounded at the apparent inappropriateness of q tt e e, gr. stopped the mu s ician short, by e x claiming, " for 16 Jackson ! the beginning of a psalm do you glv e n . es t a convivial toast?" " Yes, Sir; unless you will 11 / 10 iCal better, I give you Lord liow."—Dramatical and Review. Sydney Smith, in arguing against the hor r . ° ll r in ° - f some Christians at the tho ug ht o f i n dulging eY ell em i bling nocent pleasures, speaks of them as "anda tr • - n ° at the idea of being entertained, thinking Christian safe who is not dull." BIRTHS. Dins O. On the 17th inst., in College-pl ace , Camden-toivn, "'-' Everest; ot a daughter. On the 23d inst., Mrs. Richard Walford, street, Bedford-square, of a daughter. John 6 On the 23d inst., at Twickenham, Middlesex, Mrs. Moore, of a daughter. Afro George On the 231 inst., at Croom's-bill, Greenwich , • the lady the daughter. N.' - ott s, t°B On 22d • tin., at the Rectory, Fledborough, -,-. lady of the Rev. Augustus Fitzgerald, of a son. vcrilisil l On the 23d inst., at Lacock, the wife of the Rev. T' i ~„u o i t er. ft . Beckett, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford, of a "" Airs- ‘.." On the 23d • inst., at Liverpool-terrace, Islingto n, M. Boycs, of a son. . Stock er ' J a nie- On the ' 24th instat Guy's H • ~ of a son. r - tic l" On the 24th inst., the lady of Samuel iirre- crd ' Oxford- square, Hyde-park, of a daughter. of Charlotte- 1 — On MARRIED the 24th inst., at th * e parish church, St• .9 Henry Tufnell, Esq m p Byng, second 9 • ~ to the Hon. Frances daughter f ' • o General Lord Strafford, G.C.B. road , On the 24th ' inst., at St. John' Church, Waterloo s y S der i' Sy der, Esq., M.D., of Upper Stamford.stree , h . tto , Ann, ,fourth daughter of the late Sdd 5Cl.' W 1 h ' J. P. tu , Suffolk. On the 24th inst., Captain Suckling ,eldest °f High' W. B. Su ' t daughter wood Lodge, Ro "'sew, Hants, Elizabeth, eldes of the late J. Barry, > to R u ssell-squ are ' arry, sq.,L f 0. Montague-street, nisoil , On the 24th inst., at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. Den .. bir• of Gray's lnn, to Jane Weston, daughter of the late he —4th inst, at Upton, Bucks, Slater, of Bi inh only garylebone., Ell to On t 9 a" Caroline,• relict of Captain John Crockett, of Chins. Th o m , On the 24th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, M. Smith F ' —sq. , to Eliza Isabella, daughter of lir. Steven Esq., of Hampstead-road. ---.....--- John Carter, ~ On the 23d inst., Lady E DIED llen, wife of J. W. Fano, Esq . ' (:)f Sldrborn Lode, Oxfordshire. On the 14th inst ,W. Bryant, Esq., l a te of Reigate, urre34 BrOisntoti, g h a el e 6 d th l9 i . nst., at Dover, izaleth And d erson , erson9 of of Cher ham, youngest daughter of the late Rev. W. Mt On the 19th inst., at Vevey, canton de Vaud, Switzerind, Nathan Dunn, Esq. On the 20th inst., John Willis, Esq. , of Woodnesborough, Kent, aged 79. Briggs, O n Royal t a N I Nightingale-cva le, m; Hampstea d-road , Woolwich, Jos e P li Mi O ss n L t o h u e is 2 a 3d Ma in ry, st. u , u at , M orning ton-place, On the 24th inst. Geor g e Wilford Bulkley9 Esq •' Chelsea. cd On the 24th inst., Edwin Hills, Esq., of Cl ont-terra arew Pentonville, aged 56. anie l On the 22d 't ' ins ~ in Upper Grosvenor-street, Seth Fenn, Esq., aged 65. • • Jro On the 23d inst., at Brixton-place, Brixton, Wilhara Browne, Esq., aged 38. - - -r" of soli tor, -- - • Lonelon: Printed and Published by MURDO No. 112, Strand, Printer , at Th e Sus Office, 140,_, et Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy'n th e Cotum Middlesex, Thursday, September 26,1 554• 0- R ' 142 7 So At Sr Pars—par Star 081 A .! 4.1 R2T. the lust lando4 the broken _---_____... VALWAB ST, NI The IN( 11 3 . 1 R as 6 .ober, at Exceedh THE A M tailo4 krt of the locality as 21 *Incom4 ll kbe, Is eo This le, boa l onage-hou THE GI including ' terllfOrt. Partleula the " Ca o x f o eorent.garc TO ar I%I[ ES. SC te retiring Pkblie AUC the City of n Tw e l ve . ol VERY and s Cf-acting, jo o • n "lt: l: t i e:hi:Ne whol e inni p :PPe l tawsr a ul t nnh . cti copyi l , 4 nd smithy, 41 te assortmi titr ietY of n 11 ' 1 ; ta. The lots r It tainguee. r tio ..„_neerS, iiii, ---___ Aoiticu _ . 111, 41t 4 h 'Iasti . whi 4 tet Medli to r . t 'Cativ o 4.,.."1t0r -"` t xtensi gitiZ,V thee o t wr aerdte ' l l' the '4 41 1b. 4 Neal aPPl}7i 40 1 °Id 1 , 11 44 4 . - it l at ' by 44 It% MK . 46 *%ll4lllit THE SUN, LONDOIT, THURSDAY ETNNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1844.